In 5 AD, Emperor Ping was already 14 years old.

Seeing Emperor Ping growing up day by day, Wang Mang felt uncomfortable and died.

In order to control Liu Hanjiangshan, Wang Mang paid too much!

When Emperor Wai died, I arranged for Emperor Ping, who was only 9 years old, to ascend the throne, just to see that he was easy to bully.

I did not hesitate to sacrifice my biological son Wang Yu and his wife, Wang Li, Wang Ren and other close relatives, and did not hesitate to risk the infamy of the eternal to eradicate Emperor Ping's biological mother

The queen's family power did not hesitate to bury tens of thousands of lives to create Lu Kuan's unjust prison, and did not hesitate to marry her underage daughter to one I will get rid of sooner or later

The guy is in charge of: to be in charge of the country, and I am the only one!

However, Emperor Ping's child is growing up day by day, and no one can cover it.

Wang Mang watched Emperor Ping grow up day by day, I don't know if it was because of his weakness or what the reason, he always felt that Emperor Ping was dissatisfied with him, and the fear in his heart gradually spread

Open up. So, he decided to speed up the pace of intrigue.

In 5 AD, Wang Mang was also 50 years old, and there was a sense of urgency in his heart that time was approaching step by step.

It was the winter of that year, Emperor Ping fell ill.

Wang Mang thinks that a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity has come. He was determined to seize this opportunity and get rid of this thorn in his side.

The best way to eliminate dissidents is to eliminate him from the **, whether he is a close relative or someone else.

This is Wang Mang's philosophy of life.

This time, he was determined to kill Emperor Ping and fool the world.

Wang Mang wants to act in a play seriously. He pretended to be a gesture and held a prayer ceremony, asking God to bless Emperor Ping with safety, saying that if someone had to die, he would die

He was willing to die in place of Emperor Ping. Then, he hid the speech (cewen) in the front hall, and told everyone not to tell Emperor Ping about it.

On the other hand, he took advantage of the opportunity of Layue's "pepper wine" to celebrate his birthday, and poisoned the wine ("put it in the medicinal wine"), and Emperor Ping drank it and died.

Afterwards, he brought the business skills of the highest level of hypocrites into full play: the announcement of a state funeral, a national amnesty, and any work of more than 600 stones

The ministry has to mourn for Emperor Ping for 3 years.

At this time, the descendants of Liu Han, Emperor Yuan's lineage has been cut off, but from Emperor Xuan, it is still flourishing, and only his surviving great-grandson is the king

There were 5 more, and 48 were the princes. According to the system at that time, it was easy to choose a few of them to be emperors.

However, Wang Mang saw that they had all grown up and it must be inconvenient to control, so he canceled their candidacies on the grounds that they were equal

The emperors have the same generation, and "brothers must not be the next to each other".

In fact, this reason is pure nonsense, since there have been national dynasties, it is not uncommon for a brother to end up with a brother.

For example, the 3rd generation Taikang and the 4th generation Zhongkang of the Xia Dynasty, the 8th generation of Xiaojia, the 9th generation of Yongji and the 10th generation of Dawu of the Shang Dynasty, and the 6th generation of Gongwang and the 8th generation of Xiao in the Western Zhou Dynasty

Wang, the 8th generation of Kuang Wang Ban of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the 9th generation of Ding Wang Yu, as well as the 2nd Emperor Hui Liu Ying and the 4th Emperor Wen Liu Heng of this dynasty, are all elder brothers and younger brothers

Dry.

Wang Mang's mouth contains Tianxian, his mouth is big, and he is whatever he says.

He chose Liu Ying, who was only 2 years old, as emperor from among Emperor Xuan's great-great-grandchildren, on the grounds that the child had a good face ("Bu Xiang is the most auspicious").

In fact, everyone on the earth knows that holding a 2-year-old child and putting it on the first brother's throne, the person holding the child can play as much as he wants.

By this time, Wang Mang's use of cadres, including important cadres such as the emperor, had entered a state of playing with intrigue tricks as he pleased

, which fully fulfills a couplet:

Shanglian: If you say you can do it, you can do it, and you can do it if you can; Downlink: If you say no, you can't do it, and you can't do it.

Horizontal batch: If you don't accept it, you can't do it.

At this time, Meng Tong, the magistrate of Wugong County (now part of Shaanxi), was cleaning a well and dug out a white stone with a line of red characters written on it:

"Sue An Han Gongmang as the emperor".

Wang Mang arranged for his henchmen to immediately report this major discovery to the Empress Dowager.

Wang Zhengjun was very angry when he heard this, and said:

"This is ridiculous, playing the world, absolutely not!"

(This is a slander against the world and cannot be carried out).

Taifu Wang Shun is Wang Mang's confidant, and when he saw this, he hurriedly advised Wang Zhengjun:

"Since this is the case, there is no way, Wang Mang has power and authority, what he wants to do, no one can stop him now. But Wang Mang has nothing else

Meaning, I just want to be a regent, so as to strengthen my power and make the people of the world completely obey him, which is also for the country and for the work. ”

When Wang Zhengjun heard this, he realized that his nephew was already fledgling and deep-rooted, and it was impossible to stop him. As long as he doesn't put the Han family

Jiang Shan changed his surname, whatever he tossed.

Alas! My son can't help my grandfather, not to mention that I'm his aunt!

So, she reluctantly ordered Wang Mang to "live in the photo".

Wang Mang's regent, that is, "the emperor's affairs", unceremoniously listened to the government on behalf of the Han Dynasty's emperor, changed the era name to "Ju Regent", and established Liu Ying as the emperor

The crown prince, the son-in-law. His subjects called him "Emperor Regent", and he was known as "False Emperor" in history.

At this time, Wang Mang also respected Emperor Ping's queen Wang (that is, Wang Mang's own daughter) as the queen mother.

I don't know if you can see it, Wang Mang poisoned his son-in-law (Emperor Ping), respected his daughter as the queen mother, hung up his son-in-law's nephew (Liu Ying), and acted as the emperor himself.

The generations are all in chaos.

Wang Mang studied "The Book of Rites" under his teacher in his early years, and always said that he would be called Zhou Li, and he kept saying that he was the highest level of hypocrite

An important condition for the job title.

However, now he can't care so much in order to grab the big position.

No matter what, at this time, Wang Mang held totalitarian power, and his work and life were all about the emperor's etiquette, and the position of the first brother was already within reach.