Volume 6 Separate Calculations] Chapter 307 Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty Died -

In the early summer of the ninth year of Zhongping, the Son of Heaven who was hiding in the Chang'an Palace, Liu Hong, the twelfth emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was thirty-six years old, and the fire of life gradually weakened.

The turmoil in Luoyang City in the first year of Zhongping, although it did not take the life of Emperor Ling, really frightened this faint monarch who liked to watch the palace nv wear open crotch k-, so that he made the decision to lose the imperial power to his son, who was only nine years old, and fled to the western capital Chang'an without hesitation.

Although the crown prince Liu Bian at that time was only in charge of the country, and major affairs in the court and China could only be decided after the announcement of the consent of the emperor of Chang'an, many ministers surrounded the prince tightly and defended the majesty and power of the prince with strength and fists.

Under the strong conquest of the three military tycoons in the DPRK and China and the sudden force of Zhao Xing of the annexed state, it took less than three years to be pacified, and in the next six years, although there were plagues that patronized the north of the Han Dynasty from time to time, they were all blocked north of the Yellow River. The Han Dynasty has a vast land and resources, with fourteen states, and the four northern states are not as rich in production and densely populated as the regions south of the Yellow River, so the death of people and the plague cannot shake the foundation of the Han Dynasty.

On the surface, the foundation of the Han Dynasty has not been shaken, and it has even become more and more stable. All this is due to the fact that when Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty moved west to Chang'an, he took away his fathers and mothers who he thought were loyal and reliable, such as Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong, and in fact, he took away a large number of disasters to the country and the people, so that the civil and military officials in Luoyang had a stage to display their talents. These rotten people, whose bodies are damaged and cannot revive the majesty of men, in addition to amusing the emperor, have played the role of gravediggers of the Han Dynasty from the very beginning.

Liu Bei's promotion of Zhong Xuan, Chen Qun, Du Ji, Chen Lin, Chen Zhen, Deng Zhi, Yang Yi and others are all talented and capable officials, although they are not in a very prominent high position, but they are really changing the already rotten situation of the Han Dynasty, just like a group of hard-working masons, constantly repairing a big house that is about to collapse. Although it is not a demolition and reconstruction, replacing a few beams and erecting a few columns can make the house much stronger, which greatly delays the time of the collapse of the house.

The governors in various places are now in power, and they are worried about being annexed by other forces, so they try their best to develop the people's livelihood and economy within the force, and expand the armament war compared to Saidi, and for a while it has become an unsolvable situation of "whoever makes the first move will die first, and whoever does not do it will wait for death", and the key to breaking the situation is in the hands of Guanglu Emperor Fu Song, Wei Wei Zhu Jun and Tingwei Lu Zhi.

The imperial army stationed in the Sili area has now reached 200,000 people, as long as these three bigwigs join forces to crusade against the forces of a certain state, they only need to use the banner of the Son of Heaven to entangle a few little brothers, and the whole army is four or five hundred thousand, and it is still a matter of a snap of a finger to destroy whom. Of course, it may be more troublesome to clean up and merge Zhao Xing, but it will only drag on for a long time.

Looking at the current situation, there is really a possibility of war between the imperial court and the state, and both sides are currently restraining and waiting.

For the above-mentioned complex and treacherous situation in the world, the civil and military officials in the eastern capital Luoyang are all paying attention, but Liu Hong, the emperor of the Han Dynasty who should be most concerned about this matter, does not care. There is only one thing that makes him very satisfied, that is, in the nine years in Chang'an City, he has been fortunate to wear countless open crotch K-underground palace NV, although the quality of his seeds is very ordinary, but in the case of large-scale sowing, he still harvested three sons and four NV.

In this way, in addition to leaving the crown prince Liu Ban and the prince Liu Xie, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty unexpectedly left a few more princes, namely the third son Liu Rong, the fourth son Liu Qian (m-n), and the youngest son Liu Khotan (ti-n. There are many dragon sons and grandchildren, which is not necessarily a good thing, especially the more little princes who don't understand, the easier it is to be taken advantage of. At least that's what Zhao Xing, who is far away in Bingzhou, thinks.

The idea of coercing the Son of Heaven to order not to be subordinate is ancient, and it is not Lao Cao's patent. At present, at least three forces are staring at several little princes in Chang'an, namely Dong Zhuo, the general of Zhenxi near Chang'an, Sima Fang of Yizhou, and Zhao Xing of Bingzhou.

Dong Zhuo wanted to control the little prince in his hands, and the idea was naturally given by his son-in-law Li Ru. Li Ru suggested that Dong Zhuo control the western capital of Chang'an, and firmly grasp several little princes in his hands, so that after the Ling Emperor curled his hair in the future, he could put pressure on the eastern capital, and he would have a lot of benefits.

Sima Fang stared at several little princes, mainly worried that once Emperor Ling died, the crown prince of Luoyang would take office, and the bigwigs in the court would reduce the authority of the Sima family, and even transfer the Sima family back to the Sili region. If that is the case, wouldn't the Sima family have been working hard in Shuzhong for nearly ten years to make wedding clothes for others? Therefore, the Sima family wants to take advantage of Emperor Ling's burp, at least n-ng to return a prince to Shuzhong, and in the future, they will simply support the prince to be the king of Shu, and the court will have no way to take them.

Zhao Xing stared at a few little princes, naturally worried that Dong Zhuo and others would take advantage of Emperor Ling's return to the west and take the opportunity to snatch away a few M-O children, and in the future, they would use the banner of orthodoxy to make a fortune. At the same time, Zhao Xing also wanted to grab a piece of the royal label in his hands and lay a chess piece for the future against Luoyang.

Zhao Xing, Dong Zhuo, and Sima Jia can see this kind of political struggle clearly, and the bigwigs in Luoyang can also see it clearly. Naturally, the princes can't be killed, especially the royalist faction with heavy troops, they can support Liu Bian's ascension to the throne, but they will definitely not help Liu Bian to kill his siblings. The reason for this is very mysterious to analyze.

Everyone is now silently waiting for a news to come, that is, Liu Hong, who was hollowed out by the wine S-, when will he die.

On the seventh day of the fifth month of the ninth year of Zhongping, Zhang Rang, the great eunuch who was waiting beside Emperor Ling, was telling a joke to Emperor Ling, who was lying on the dragon couch, and when he turned around, he found that Emperor Ling had fallen asleep, so he got up and pinched the quilt for the emperor. The Spirit Emperor, who was leaning on the hand of the deputy of the chu-ng couch, tilted his head into Zhang Rang's arms.

Zhang Rang probed Liu Hong's snort with his hand and found that the emperor had lost his breath, so he howled: "The Son of Heaven is gone!"

All of a sudden, the palace lu-n was in a ball, and the imperial doctors, palace nv, and sh-guards were busy lu-n.

The news of the emperor's death soon reached Luoyang, and the ministers of the court seemed to hear the starting pistol, and they all immediately moved, and began to calculate openly and covertly, trying their best to reap a large amount of benefits when the old emperor died and the new emperor ascended the throne.

The spies gathered in Chang'an City, without waiting for the people in the palace to send a message to Luoyang to rush out of Chang'an City, had already received a tip-off, and began to act one step in advance.

Hou Cheng, Hua Weiguo and others, who had been lurking in Chang'an City for more than half a year, immediately gathered their men after receiving the urgent report of the little eunuch Sanshun (see chapter 257 of the volume), and prepared to implement the plan of "saving Beibi" that Jīng had arranged for several years.

The plan is a good plan, but who came up with this broken name? Why is it so ugly! Of course, the name was given by the leading brother, is there any meaning, except for Zhao Xing, no one can guess it.