Liu Xin took Emperor Han Ling and returned to the ground, and on the ground, there was already a group of people surrounding the take-off site before the hot air balloon, looking at the sky. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Liu Xin's eyes were very good, and at first glance, he saw Queen He in the crowd, and Zhang Rang, who was nodding and talking about something beside Queen He.

Of course, what Liu Xin noticed the most was that opposite Queen He, there was a middle-aged woman who looked to be in her thirties, followed by a large number of concubines like stars holding the moon, it was obvious that this was the person Liu Xin was talking about - Empress Dowager Dong.

Because the family history and name of the Empress Dowager Dong have not been introduced in various historical books, some people speculate that the family background of the Empress Dowager Dong may be insignificant, maybe just a commoner, even if it is not a commoner, at most it is only from a small official and a small eunuch family, so the Empress Dowager Dong was only married to Liu Chang (the father of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty), who was only a third-class marquis (that is, the Marquis of Ting) at that time, and in the second year of Yongshou (that is, in 156 AD), the Empress Dowager Dong gave birth to her son Liu Hong.

The father of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, Liu Chang, is a descendant of Liu Wei, the third emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty (it should be a great-grandson in detail), but Liu Chang's thirteen-year-old son Liu Hong was unexpectedly favored by the Dou family, who controlled the central court at that time, and welcomed him to the capital Luoyang, and was proclaimed as the emperor of the Han Dynasty and inherited the unification, but unfortunately Liu Chang had died at this time and could not enjoy the supreme honor brought by his son, and the mother of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, Empress Dowager Dong, was expected to become the queen mother at that time.

However, although his own son became the emperor, the Dong family, who was a "vassal concubine" (Empress Dowager Dong was also the first person in history to become the queen mother as the wife of a vassal king) - was just the wife of a marquis vassal under the emperor, and her status was extremely low among the Han clansmen, and the Empress Dowager Dou at that time was not dead, and she was still sitting in the position of the Empress Dowager, how could the Empress Dowager Dong be able to fight this Empress Dowager Dou.

Therefore, the Empress Dowager Dong at that time could neither go to the capital Luoyang and live a life of infinite scenery, nor could she enjoy the power that the Empress Dowager should have, so she could only continue to stay in the palace...

After Liu Hong ascended the throne in 168 AD, the Empress Dowager Dou Miaodou agreed to posthumously honor her late father Liu Chang as Emperor Xiaoren (only called the emperor, not the emperor, after all, Emperor Han Ling's father was just a small marquis), and his tomb was renamed Shenling, and then called Emperor Han Ling's biological mother Dong as a noble person in Shenyuan, which was also a disguised way to raise a grade for the Empress Dowager Dong at that time...

Next, the then general Dou Wu was killed in the defeat in the struggle with the eunuchs, the power of the relatives represented by the Dou family collapsed, and the Empress Dowager Dou naturally became angry, lost control of the harem, and became a nominal empress dowager, so in the following year, Emperor Ling of Han sent Zhongchang to welcome his mother, the then Shenyuan nobleman Dong entered the palace, and at the same time summoned his uncle Dong Pet to Jingshi, Dong was honored as Empress Xiaoren after entering the palace, and lived in the Nangong Jiade Palace, called Yongle Palace, Therefore, in the history books, the Empress Dowager Dong is also called the Empress Dowager Yongle, and the uncle of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, Dong Pet, worships Jinwu, but later Dong Pet died by himself, wanting to make his sister Empress Dowager Dong the real Empress Dowager, not the so-called queen, but because of the violation of the etiquette law, she was finally imprisoned and executed.

After the death of the previous Empress Dowager Dou Miao, the Empress Dowager Dong officially turned positive, and began to intervene in the government affairs, ordering Emperor Ling of Han to sell officials and ask for goods (so Emperor Ling of Han Dynasty's selling official beard also has half of the credit of Empress Dowager Dong), and pay for his own money, full of halls, and in the fifth year of Zhongping (that is, in 188 AD), Empress Dowager Dong also appointed her brother's son Lieutenant Marquis, Dong Zhong as a hussar general, leading more than 1,000 troops, which is a cross-border behavior, which has attracted the dissatisfaction of many forces.

Therefore, in 189 AD, after the death of Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty, Dong, as the queen mother and grandmother, had a dispute with his daughter-in-law Empress He on the issue of establishing Liu Wei (son of Empress He, Emperor Shao of the Han Dynasty) or Liu Xie (son of Wang Meiren, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty), after all, Liu Xie had been raised by the Empress Dowager Dong after his biological mother Wang Meiren was poisoned by Empress He, so the relationship between Liu Xie and the Empress Dowager Dong was very good.

As a result, Empress He used the power of her brother, the general, He Jin, to make her fourteen-year-old son Liu Wei inherit the emperor's throne. ”

As a result, the Empress Dowager Dong collapsed soon after because of fear, of course, there are also rumors that the Empress Dowager was killed, and it was also poisoned (the statement in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms").

Therefore, Empress Dowager Dong reigned for 22 years, and finally returned to Hejian and was buried with her husband in the Shen Mausoleum.

In addition, there are some historical records that Dong Cheng (an official at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the father-in-law of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, the father of Dong Guiren, was a warlord of the Western Liang system, a general of Dong Zhuo's son-in-law Niu Fu, participated in the Dong Zhuo Rebellion, and Dong Min and Dong Huang were Dong Zhuo's minions, and served as a general of the Che Cavalry, and finally was held accountable for becoming the father-in-law of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, but in the later "Edict of the Cloth and Belt" incident, he was killed by Cao Cao. is the clan of the Empress Dowager Dong, and there should be no kinship between Dong Cheng and the Empress Dowager Dong, just the same surname.

Although the Empress Dowager Dong in history was killed by Empress He, but now Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty is not dead, and the authority of Empress Dowager Dong in the palace is no worse than that of Empress Dowager He, and Empress Dowager Dong's identity and generation are all there, and Empress He does not dare to have a hard fight with Empress Dowager Dong.

Therefore, Queen He, who is now flying in the harem, is also three points shorter in the face of Empress Dowager Dong, and those concubines who were bullied and rejected by Empress He naturally became people in Empress Dowager Dong's camp.

Of course, Queen He's side is not eating dry rice, and a group of concubines have also gathered to work against Empress Dowager Dong.

As a result, these two waves of people stood in clear opposition to each other, but at this time, everyone's eyes were attracted by the hot air balloon that was falling in the sky.

After all, Empress Dowager Dong and Empress He came here, first because they heard that Wang Meizi gave birth to a dragon, they naturally wanted to come over to show their faces and congratulate them, and they were happy because they heard about the hot air balloon, so they also wanted to come over to have a good time and see what they wanted.

As a result, Liu Xin and Emperor Han Ling, who fell from the sky, attracted all the attention of everyone, and Liu Xin naturally chose to retire and let Emperor Han Ling go first.

As soon as Emperor Han Ling got off the hot air balloon, he was surrounded by Empress Dowager Dong and Empress He, asking this and that, the point is why Emperor Han Ling took the risk of his life and went to the sky in a hot air balloon...

Fortunately, Liu Xin has the identity of an immortal master, so he avoided the fate of being criticized by the Empress Dowager Dong and Empress He, and was able to protect himself, standing on the side and watching the fire, watching Emperor Han Ling being preached by the Empress Dowager Dong...

And Emperor Ling of Han was also unbearable, and finally escaped under the pretext of going to see Wang Meiren and Wang Meiren's son.

At this time, Liu Xin noticed a person, a eunuch who was dressed in the same regular service as Zhang Rang, but equipped with a short knife.

Obviously, there is only one Zhongchang attendant in the palace who meets this characteristic.

Jian Shuo was a eunuch in the Eastern Han Dynasty, one of the ten permanent servants, and was deeply favored by Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty.

And Jian Shuo is different from the other ten permanent servants, he is not able to become a permanent attendant by virtue of his whiskers and horses, and he can become a permanent attendant by virtue of his own strength, or the explosive force value, and he is a big outlier in the permanent attendant, so Jian Shuo has a very general relationship with other permanent attendants, and usually lives in the military camp, and is now responsible for leading a Praetorian Guard in the palace, which is very trusted by Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, and can be said to be the third leader in the permanent attendant

In August of the fifth year of Zhongping in history (that is, 188 AD), Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty began to set up the eight captains of the West Garden, and appointed the small yellow gate at that time (although the official position does not sound good, but it is a real power official position, responsible for serving the emperor, receiving Shangshu affairs, going to the inner palace, and passing through the Chinese and foreign countries and the middle palace has been under the public affairs. When the princesses and princesses were sick, they asked them) Jian Shuo as the captain of the upper military academy, Yuan Shao as the lieutenant of the middle army, Bao Hong, the captain of the Tun cavalry, Bao Hong, as the lieutenant of the lower military academy, Cao Cao as the captain of the military academy, Zhao Rong as the left lieutenant of the auxiliary army, Feng Fang as the right lieutenant of the auxiliary army, Xia Mou as the left lieutenant, Chun Yuqiong as the right lieutenant, and finally the unified command of the eighth lieutenant of the West Garden was arranged for Jian Shuo, and no one raised any objections, which shows that Jian Shuo's ability is still very good.

Of course, the reason why Jian Shuo was so reused was because Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty began to pay attention to military affairs since the Yellow Turban Uprising, and Jian Shuo, one of the ten permanent servants, was strong and well-versed in military affairs, so he was trusted by Emperor Ling of Han and granted great military power, and even the general He Jin sometimes had to obey Jian Shuo's command.

And Jian Shuo didn't know why, he was very jealous of the general He Jin, so after commanding the eighth lieutenant of Xiyuan, Jian Shuo and other lieutenants worked together to persuade Emperor Han Ling to send He Jin to the west to conquer Han Sui, and Emperor Han Ling also agreed.

However, He Jin is not a vegetarian, and after secretly learning of Jian Shuo's conspiracy, he asked to send Yuan Shao to Xuzhou and Yanzhou to mobilize troops, and to wait until Yuan Shao came back to carry out the western expedition, so as to delay the trip.

Or because of that incident, after Emperor Han Ling died several sons in a row, he sent the son of Empress He to Liu Bi, who was born to a famous Taoist Shi Ziyi in Luoyang City to raise, so he was called "Shi Hou", and Wang Mei's son Liu Xie, because he was raised by the Empress Dowager Dong herself, was called "Dong Hou", when the ministers asked Emperor Han Ling to set up the prince, Emperor Han Ling felt that Liu Wei was frivolous, lacked prestige, and felt that he owed Wang Meiren, and wanted to make Liu Xie the prince. But before his death, Emperor Ling of Han was hesitant.

So in the sixth year of Zhongping (that is, in 189 AD), Emperor Ling of Han was seriously ill, and finally made up his mind to entrust Liu Xie to Jian Shuo, so that Jian Shuo would support him as the next emperor, so after Emperor Ling of Han died in the Jiade Palace, Jian Shuo was in the palace at that time, and wanted to kill He Jin first, and then set up Liu Xie as the emperor.

So Jian Shuo sent someone to pick up He Jin, saying that he wanted to discuss things with He Jin, He Jin didn't think about it, and immediately went by car, but Jian Shuo's military Sima Pan Yin had already had a friendship with He Jin, and signaled with his eyes when he greeted him, so He Jin understood and immediately drove back to the military camp under his control, and led the army into the official residences of the counties in the capital, claiming that he was sick and no longer entered the palace.

Soon after, because Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty did not leave an edict, so as the eldest son of Liu Wei inherited the throne, because the Han Shaodi was only fourteen years old at that time, so he honored his mother Empress He as the empress dowager, and then the Empress Dowager He presided over the government, amnesty to the world, changed the year name to Guangxi, and named Liu Xi, who was only nine years old at the time, as the king of Bohai, and then appointed Yuan Kui, who was then the general of the queen, as the prince, and the general He Jin jointly presided over the affairs of Shangshu.

At this time, He Jin had already mastered the power of the court, so he began to settle accounts after the autumn, resenting Jian Shuo and wanting to kill himself, so he secretly planned to kill Jian Shuo, and Yuan Shao also persuaded He Jin to kill all the eunuchs through He Jin's cronies Zhang Jin, Fu He Jin because the Yuan family has been a high-ranking official in the past dynasties, and the name of the fourth and third princes is extremely loud, Yuan Shao and his cousin Hu Ben Zhonglang will Yuan Shu is supported by the world's heroes, so He Jin believes and appoints the two brothers of the Yuan family, and widely recruits resourceful people He Yu, More than 20 people, including Xun You and Zheng Tai, a native of Henan, appointed He Yu as the middle marquis of the Northern Army, Xun You as the Huangmen Shilang, and Zheng Tai as the Shangshu, took them all as their confidants, and began to plan how to solve the problem of the ten permanent servants.

At this time, Jian Shuo was suspicious and uneasy, so he wrote to his friends in Zhongchang, Yue Zhong, Song Dian and others, saying, "The two brothers of the general He Jin and He Miao have already controlled the government and acted arbitrarily, and now they are planning with the party members of the world to kill the cronies of the first emperor and eliminate us, just because I command the forbidden army, so I hesitate for the time being, and now we should work together to close the palace gate and arrest He Jin to death." ”

However, there are also traitors among the ten permanent servants, among which Guo Sheng and He Jin are from the same county, Empress Dowager He and He Jin can have such a status today, Guo Sheng has helped a lot, so Guo Sheng feels that He Jin is impossible to do anything to himself, so Guo Sheng and Zhao Zhong and others discussed, rejected Jian Shuo's proposal, and also sent Jian Shuo's letter to He Jin, so at noon, He Jin ordered the arrest of Jian Shuo, put him to death, and put all the forbidden troops under Jian Shuo's command under his command.

Of course, the reason why Liu Xin believes that this person is Jian Shuo is another reason, that is, according to the records of some historical materials, although this Jian Shuo is a eunuch, he still has a black and bright beard, which can be called a beautiful beard with Guan Erye.