Chapter Ninety-Four: Please Kill the Eunuch
Emperor Ling of Han is actually the great-great-grandson of Emperor Zhang of Han, hereditary Emperor Jietinghou, and his family has always been poor. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoMaybe it's because I was poor when I was a child, and Emperor Ling of Han has always wanted to gather the wealth of the world for his own private collection. Under the influence of this 'peculiar' mentality, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty ordered his subordinates to build a Wanjin Hall in the West Garden, and moved the state property and money hidden by Si Nong into the hall as their own private storage. He also ordered the counties and states to pay tribute every year, and each time the official who received the envoy ordered the envoy to pay the 'guide fee', and the money obtained was kept private, and was divided into the hands of the eunuchs, with tens of millions of people per person, and after repairing the ten thousand gold halls, they were moved into the hall for storage. Soon after, Emperor Ling bought a field in Hejian County, and the temple was set up in Yudi, and he was afraid that the local money would not be exhausted.
A.D. 184 is the first year of the fourth year of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty 'Zhongping'.
The vigorous Yellow Turban Uprising set off by Zhang Jiao, the head of the Taiping Dao, was surrounded and suppressed by the Han Dynasty with all his might, and Zhang Jiao still failed to survive a year despite his countless efforts.
However, although the Yellow Turban Rebellion failed, the Eastern Han court did not learn any lessons from this incident. Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty still favored the group of eunuchs led by Zhang Rang, and the Xiyuan Selling Office was still 'sending' a new batch of corrupt officials to various states and counties in the world. The victims and poor people in various places were temporarily afraid of the might of the army of the Han Dynasty and did not dare to act rashly, but the seed of 'hatred' had already taken root in their hearts, and when time was watered and the right time was right, the evil fruit called 'revenge' would inevitably be delivered to the mouths of those corrupt officials and corrupt officials.
In February of the second year of Zhongping (185), a fire broke out in Luoyang, the capital division, and the southern palace of the imperial city was burned down in the fire. Among the eunuchs, Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong persuaded Emperor Ling to increase taxes on the world's acres of land to repair the palace room and cast bronze people. So Emperor Ling ordered the world to increase taxes of ten yuan per mu of land in addition to the normal rent to help the royal family build a palace. He also sent various prefectures and counties to donate timber and aragonite to transport the Beijing division. The eunuch Zhang Rang and the others naturally did not think about Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty wholeheartedly, the reason why they promoted these things behind the scenes was to take advantage of the trust of Emperor Han Ling in himself and others, and secretly earn a huge amount of 'windfall' with the convenience of their positions.
And just when Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty and Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and other eunuchs were thinking of ideas to seek the wealth of the people in the world, Xiliangqiang Hu Beigong Boyu was carrying Bian Zhang, Han Sui and others all the way to the land of Sanfu, Xijing Chang'an City was shocked a day, and the left-behind officials sent three waves of messengers to Luoyang every day for help.
"How unfortunate I am, I just quelled the Yellow Turban Rebellion of the demon Zhang Jiao before, and now there are Xiliangqiang Hu barbarians who have raised troops to make a rebellion. Now that these Qiang people have attacked the land of Sanfu, do you have a strategy to retreat from the enemy? Emperor Han Ling supported his forehead with his hand, trying to relieve the swollen forehead with the pressure of his hand.
Situ Chen Tan stepped out of the train and said: "The thief chief Beigong Boyu is just a Qiang Huer, and he has also raised troops and rebelled several times before, but he was easily suppressed by Chen Yi, the Taishou of Jincheng. The reason why the thief chief Beigong Boyu was able to fight all the way this time, and even captured the important places of Jincheng in one fell swoop, was actually because of the help of Xiliang celebrities Bian Zhang and Han Sui. Although Bian Zhangchen didn't know him, Han Sui had come to Luoyang to deal with official business, so the minister had known him.
In September of the first year of Guanghe, Jincheng's predecessor Taishou Yin Hua died in office, Han Sui because he was Yin Hua's former official, so he and Jiang Ying and others chased Yin Hua's body to Yaoqiu for burial, and published a stone to commemorate Yin Hua's life and exploits. Later, Han Sui came to Luoyang to handle Yin Hua's handover of Jincheng Taishou's official duties, but because he failed to pay enough bribes to Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and other eunuchs, he was embarrassed by Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and others.
Your Majesty, you can imagine how a person like Han Sui who values love and righteousness would fall into the Qiang barbarian army if he had to do so? According to the minister's understanding, the reason why Han Sui was attached to the thief chieftain Beigong Boyu's army was because he was coerced by Beigong Boyu's army, and secondly, he wanted to use the hands of Beigong Boyu to eradicate Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and other eunuchs. If His Majesty can take advantage of the fact that Beigong Boyu's army has not yet invaded Sanfu, he will behead Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and other eunuch scourges. According to the minister's opinion, then Han Sui will inevitably repent, and will no longer help Beigong Boyu with a plan, and when the army arrives, it will be easy to break the thief! ”
As soon as Situ Chen Tan's words fell, Liu Tao, a counselor, came out to play: "Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and other eunuchs took advantage of the opportunity to get close to Your Majesty, and confused Your Majesty's heart with evil words.
The minister tasted and recited the "poem", as for the labor of the wild goose in the wilderness, the matter of mourning and blocking, every time he sighed, he sighed in the novella. Listen to the sound of the husband's hunger and labor, even more than the song. Is it to pursue the worries of the four women, starting from this? Seeing the meaning of the white horse, he wandered around the camp and couldn't sleep. Fu Nian now the land is vast and cannot be cultivated, and the people have nothing to eat.
The group of small competitions, the position of the country, the eagle raises the world, the black copy seeks to be full, swallows the muscles and bones, and releases. Honest fear that there are servants and poor craftsmen, starting between the board buildings, throwing pounds and arms, climbing high and shouting, so that the people of grievances respond to the clouds, the eight directions fall apart, and the fish stains in the middle of summer. Although the money of square feet. How can there be salvation! Its danger is like the top of the ox, the end of the silk, so the poet cares about it, and the one who spouts out of the tears is also. Please ask Your Majesty to accept the words of Situ, collect and behead Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and other eunuchs, abolish the land of selling officials in the West Garden, and reduce or exempt the land tax of the people of the world. In this way, the people will be determined that the country will be safe, and it will be easy to break through it! ”
Seeing that some people took the lead in initiating a condemnation of the eunuchs, the civil and military officials present came out one after another to speak out and spontaneously joined the ranks of denouncing the eunuchs and eunuchs.
Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and other eunuchs who were standing beside Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty were still thinking about how to come up with some new ways to make money, and as a result, a court meeting to discuss the strategy of breaking the thief actually became a trial meeting for his own people under the leadership of Situ Chen Tan. Seeing that the hundreds of military officials below were excited, Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong hurriedly knelt down at the feet of Emperor Han Ling.
Liu Hong looked at the hundreds of civil and military officials in the hall, and the anger in his heart was almost to the limit of patience.
Do you really think Liu Hong doesn't understand anything? Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong, and Zhao Hong were eunuchs with incomplete limbs, and all their rights were completely given by their own emperor. Anyone else in the world who holds great power may have different hearts, except for these eunuchs with incomplete limbs, because no matter how great their power is, those civil and military families cannot accept a eunuch to become the supreme son of heaven.
On the contrary, no matter how loyal the civil and military officials below are, once they are given the opportunity, they will not hesitate to kick out their own emperor and ascend to the supreme throne they have coveted for a long time. This is not that Liu Hong was too suspicious at all, when Wang Mang did not usurp the performance was far better than these people, at that time Wang Mang was humble and frugal to let Corporal Lixian, but as a result, this filial piety queen Wang Zhengjun's nephew and relatives of the Han family were plotting to usurp the throne when the Han Dynasty was at its weakest. If it weren't for the fact that there was a man of great talent like Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu at that time, the hundreds of rivers and mountains that the Han Dynasty had left behind would inevitably fall into the hands of Wang Mang.
'Zhang Rang and the others are my most powerful subordinates, and killing Zhang Rang and the others is like cutting off my siblings, and the conspiracy of these civil and military officials must not be allowed to succeed! ’