Chapter 570
Liang Ji planned to execute Li Gu and Du Qiao, but Emperor Han Huan would definitely not let him get his wish, and Emperor Han Huan had already regarded Li Gu and Du Qiao as teammates, and he could help him overthrow Liang Ji's teammates. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Therefore, Emperor Huan of Han took advantage of the time he was the emperor to infiltrate the prison, found Li Gu and Du Qiao, and performed a trick to get rid of the golden cicada, arranged two criminals who were similar in size and appearance to Li Gu and Du Qiao, replaced Li Gu and Du Qiao, and then let the two criminals hang themselves.
When the news of "Li Gu" and "Du Qiao" hanging themselves in prison reached the palace, Emperor Han Huan pretended to be very angry, saying that Li Gu and Du Qiao died too easily, so he asked Liang Ji to send someone to throw the corpses of "Li Gu" and "Du Qiao" on the road outside Luoyang to whip the corpses to relieve his hatred.
Liang Ji saw that Emperor Han Huan was so angry, and felt in his heart that this was an opportunity, an opportunity for Emperor Han Huan to take the blame for himself, so Liang Ji immediately agreed to Emperor Han Huan's suggestion and sent someone to carry out Emperor Han Huan's order.
So, Emperor Han Huan's plan succeeded, because the corpse after being whipped was naturally unrecognizable, so Liang Ji didn't think about it so much, thinking that Li Gu and Du Qiao were really dead, but they didn't know that Li Gu and Du Qiao had been taken to the palace by Emperor Han Huan, incarnated as the two eunuchs of Emperor Han Huan, and began to become Emperor Han Huan's staff.
After all, at this time, Li Gu and Du Qiao both knew that it was basically impossible to deal with Liang Ji through formal means.
Therefore, Li Gu and Du Qiao persuaded Emperor Han Huan to deal with Liang Ji step by step, and asked Emperor Han Huan to unite all the forces against Liang Ji as much as possible, even if it was a eunuch, and Li Gu also recommended a friend of his to Emperor Han Huan, a friend who was forced by Liang Ji to go incognito and retreat to the mountains-Cui Qi.
In fact, Liang Ji wanted to monopolize the power of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and he was already known when he was Henan Yin, and the famous scribe Cui Qi at that time had made a "Wai Qi Zhen" to persuade Liang Ji, but Liang Ji was indifferent, and later Liang Ji insisted on going his own way, inheriting his father's position as a general, so Cui Qi did "White Bird Fu" to ridicule it.
In the end, Liang Ji was very angry when he saw it, and asked Cui Qi sharply: "Inside and outside the court, there are so many officials, is it my most hateful?" Why are you stabbing me with such fierce words? ā
As a result, Cui Qi replied: "The historical Guan Zhong is like each other and is willing to listen to different opinions, Xiao He helps Liu Bang rule the world and encourages people to speak up." Now the general's family has been in the position of assistant for generations, and the heavy responsibilities of He Yiyin and Zhou Gong are not virtuous, not virtuous, blocking the way of speech, clamping down on the mouth, reversing black and white, and blinding the emperor, just like Zhao Gao pointing to a deer as a horse. Liang Ji was speechless, so he had to send him home, but Liang Ji naturally couldn't hold back his anger.
So soon after, Liang Ji appointed Cui Qi as the commander of Linji County, Cui Qi of course knew that Liang Ji was a weasel to give a New Year's greeting to the chicken-uneasy and kind, so this promotion was not a good thing for him, so he abandoned the official and lived in seclusion, but Liang Ji still refused to let Cui Qi go, so he sent an assassin to assassinate him secretly, but the assassin saw Cui Qi farming in the field, and took out a book to read when he was resting, so the assassin said to him movingly: "The general secretly sent me to assassinate you; I think you are a sage, and you can't bear to do it, so run away! I ran away! ā
So Cui Qi died immediately, but Liang Ji's henchmen were tightly arranged, so Cui Qi found Li Gu, who was still a lieutenant at the time, and Li Gu hid Cui Qi, so now, Li Gu is ready to arrange Cui Qi as the envoy of Emperor Huan of Han outside the palace.
As for the attitude towards Liang Ji, Du Qiao made a suggestion to Emperor Han Ling, after all, the reason why Emperor Han Huan was able to ascend the throne of the emperor was because of Liang Ji's support, so Du Qiao asked Emperor Han Huan to reward Liang Ji for his "meritorious service" and curry favor with Liang Ji at all costs, so that Liang Ji would not be suspicious of Emperor Han Huan, and would not be a black hand against Emperor Han Huan.
Therefore, Emperor Han Huan, under Du Qiao's suggestion, can be said to have a request for Liang Ji, and it can be said that Emperor Han Huan's courtesy to Liang Ji at that time surpassed Xiao He; The breadth of the fiefdom surpassed that of Deng Yu; The reward is more generous than Huo Guang, and it can be said that Liang Ji has received more favors than all the fathers since the Han Dynasty.
But despite this, Liang Ji is still a little "unhappy", why is this? Because what Liang Ji wants is power, more and greater power, with power, why worry about not having good courtesy, not wide land, and not rich wealth?
Li Gu and Du Qiao saw this, so they asked Emperor Han Huan to avoid his edge, and delegated power to Liang Ji on the grounds that he was still young and lacked ability.
So, Liang Ji began to be obsessed with power, and the big and small powers of the court were caught in his hands, and it can be said that everything is very small, and all the big and small officials asked him for instructions, and he was responsible for making decisions, so that the palace was full of his cronies inside and outside, and even the little things about the emperor's daily life, he had to ask, and he attached more importance to the promotion of officials, and all those who were promoted must first go to him to thank him for his resignation, as for whether the emperor went there or not, that was second.
Although Emperor Han Huan was very angry about this, he knew that he couldn't afford to provoke Liang Ji now, so he could only continue to recuperate at the suggestion of Li Gu and Du Qiao.
At that time, there was an official named Wu Shu, the new commander of Wan County, went to Liang Ji to resign, and Wan County is the most prosperous place in Nanyang, there are many Liang Ji's guests and cronies, so Liang Ji asked Wu Shu to take more care of his clan party guests, and Wu Shu was an upright good official, and after he arrived, he killed dozens of guilty people among Liang Ji's guests, so Liang Ji hated him, and later Liang Ji summoned him to Fuzhong under the pretext of promoting Wu Shu to Jingzhou Thorn History, As a result, he poisoned the wine, but before that, Cui Qi, who learned about it, knew that Liang Ji would do this, so he informed Wu Shu in advance and bought off the poisoner, so Wu Shu "faked his death" in the car on the way home and became Cui Qi's subordinates to jointly protect and recruit those who were framed by Liang Ji.
The Eastern Han Dynasty's relatives were arbitrary, and Liang Ji was not the only one, but Liang Ji's arbitrariness was more than any of his relatives, so everyone who saw it was "sideways and gnashing their teeth", most people dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, of course, there were also individual people who ate leopard gall, dared to stand up and speak up, Yuan Shu was one of them.
Yuan Zhi served as a lieutenant official in Lang when he was young, and he was very angry when he saw Liang Ji so "ferocious", and he couldn't help but write to the emperor, pointing out that the imperial court had "divided the power of the ministers", and suggested that the general Liang Ji "retire after success" and go home to recuperate, otherwise it will be difficult for the lord to "take care of his body", and also proposed to "remove the crime of slander and open the mouth of the world".
As a result, this twist and turn naturally fell into the hands of Liang Ji, so he immediately sent someone to arrest Yuan Zhu, Yuan Zhi changed his name and fled, and faked his death under the pretext of illness, formed a corpse with pu grass, and buried him in a coffin, but still could not cover the ears and eyes of Liang Ji's secret agent, when Liang Ji found out, he secretly sent someone to catch Yuan Zhu and wanted to beat him to death, but it turned out that Cui Qi bought Liang Ji's men and saved Yuan Zhi who was dying.
During the period when Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty delegated power to Liang Ji, it can be said that the villain gained power, the brave were killed, and the wise retreated, so those who were in power in the court could not be said to be good people at all, even if there were a few, they could not play a role, so we can imagine how dark and corrupt the Eastern Han Dynasty controlled by Liang Ji was.
So when Liang Ji was in power, the Eastern Han Dynasty was nominally the Liu family, but in fact the Liang family, it can really be said that Liang Ji became a general, and the cats and dogs of the Liang family all ascended to heaven.
For example, Liang Ji's son Liang Yin, also known as Hu Gou, is sixteen years old, has no virtue, no talent, no ignorance, and is very ugly, but Liang Ji hinted that his subordinates recommended Liang Yin as Henan Yin, wearing an official robe and hat, crooked, walking on the road, the people who saw it just laughed secretly, but they were helpless.
And Liang Ji's wife is called Sun Shou, a very charming woman, judging from the records in the history books, she can also be called a strange one through the ages. Her eyebrows are thin and crooked, and the underside of her eyes is painted with red rouge, as if she has just cried, the black hair is coiled on one side, and a pair of feet seem to be unable to support the constantly twisting body when she walks, and the facial muscles of her cheeks seem to twitch painfully when she laughs, and she shows a mouthful of yellow teeth, but this is also an alternative beauty in the eyes of those decadent upper-class wealthy women at that time, but this is also a morbid and stimulating beauty, at least Liang Ji was "seduced" by her.
At that time, Liang Ji didn't even pay attention to the emperor, but he was only afraid of his wife Sun Shou, because Sun Shou had a special ability to subdue Liang Ji, so that he favored her and was afraid of her, and cultivated Liang's forces in Liangji, but Sun Shou was also supporting his own Sun's forces.
Later, Liang Ji was already an emperor without a crown, rich in the world, with 30,000 households, as a result, Sun Shou also had to compare with his husband, was crowned a king, food and rent, and earned 50 million yuan a year, and Liang Ji's private life was debauched, Sun Shou was also debauched, she had an affair with Liang Ji's favored "prison slave" Qin Gong, but she interfered with Liang Ji's private life in the spirit of female jealousy, so Liang Ji had an affair with his beautiful girlfriend at the time, Sun Shou learned that he sent someone to catch the friendship period, pull his hair, shave his face, and hit the board, Even to make trouble in the imperial court, this also made Emperor Han Huan find an opportunity, under the advice of Li Gu and Du Qiao, Emperor Han Huan was clearly making peace with the mud, but in fact he was provoking the relationship between Liang Ji and himself, and the fight between Liang and Sun.
As a result, the struggle between Liang Ji and his wife became more and more serious, and the day of the fall of Liang's rule was getting closer.
In the second year of Yanxi, Empress Liang died, at this time Emperor Huan was twenty-eight years old, and he had endured for more than ten years, and with the support of Li Gu and others, he secretly established a network of relationships and recruited many people of insight, but if he wanted to deal with Liang Ji, these people of insight had no way, so Li Gu suggested that Emperor Huan of Han take advantage of this opportunity to use the hands of eunuchs to get rid of Liang Ji.
So, Emperor Han Huan found an opportunity to pull his most trusted eunuch Tang Heng into the toilet alone and asked, "Is there anyone in the court who is wrong with the Liang family?" ā
Tang Heng replied: "Shan Chao, Zuo Qi, Xu Huang, and Gu Ying are all angry at the Liang family's tyranny. ā
So, Emperor Huan of Han immediately found Shan Chao and Zuo Qi into the secret room, and said to them: "The general Liang Ji family controls the government, the palace is controlled by them both inside and outside, and the ministers are all under their command, I want to get rid of them, what do you think?" ā
Shan Chao and the others are also smart people, and immediately replied: "The Liang family is a traitor of the country, and it should have been eliminated a long time ago, but the subordinates are weak in intelligence and strength, so I don't know what the saint means?" ā
Emperor Han Huan naturally knew what they meant, so he continued: "I have already thought about it, you only need to plot it well, and then you can carry it out. ā
As a result, Emperor Han Huan successfully found the knife bearer, even if the plan failed, Emperor Han Huan could put the blame on these eunuchs.
It was at this time that Liang Ji sent someone to kill Deng Xiang, the father of the noble Deng Meng (well, this is indeed a woman's name), and after Deng Xiang's death, his wife Feng Xuan married Liang Ji, who was the uncle of Liang Ji's wife, Sun Shou.
In addition, Deng Meng at that time was favored by Emperor Huan and was promoted to a nobleman, so in order to consolidate his power, Liang Ji recognized Deng Meng as a woman and asked her to change her surname to Liang.
But Liang Ji was afraid that after Deng Meng's family gained power, he would avenge Deng Xiang or fight against the Liang family like the Sun family, so he first killed Deng Meng's sister's husband, the then Yilang Bingzun, and later Liang Ji wanted to kill Deng Meng's mother Feng Xuan.
As a result, after the incident, Feng Xuan, who escaped, reported Liang Ji to Emperor Han Huan, so Li Gu and Du Qiao thought that the time had come, so that Emperor Han Huan could send eunuchs Shan Chao, Gu Yuan, Tang Heng, Zuo Qi, Xu Huang and other five people to lead troops to besiege Liang Ji's house, plus Cui Qi and others arranged undercover agents to directly catch Liang Ji, and Liang Ji's son Liang Yin, and then all the members of the Liang family and his wife Sun family were wiped out, regardless of the eldest and younger, and all the Liang Ji's family property was confiscated and auctioned by the official family, with a total price of more than 300 billion yuan. For the use of the imperial court, it can be worth half of the tax rent in the world at that time, which shows that Liang Ji really deserves it and dies happily.
However, after killing Liang Ji, Emperor Han Huan was not happy for long, and he discovered a serious problem, that is, those eunuchs stood up and made trouble again.