The fifth year of Jianning, the eighth day of the third month. The earth, which had been peaceful, shook because of the death of a man.

Taifu Hu Guangxue! Just when Liu Hong, the son of heaven, was planning to make great efforts, Taifu Hu Guang suddenly passed away!

This frightened the ministers of the DPRK and China! In fact, Hu Guang is 82 years old this year, and he can be regarded as the end of his life.

But the position he holds is special, not only when he is the prince of the court, but also under one person, above ten thousand. At the same time, he also consul general.

Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, in view of the fact that the power of the Western Han Dynasty fell to the noble ministers, tried his best to concentrate power on the monarch and handed over all confidential matters to Shangshu, so as to restrain the three dukes.

As a result, the authority of Shangshu was increased. Because the official office of Shangshu is in the palace forbidden, it is called Taige, so it is called Shangshutai.

The Eastern Han Dynasty Shangshutai was extremely powerful, issuing both edicts and government decrees. Not only the courtiers were elected, but they were supervised by Shang Shutai.

It also has the right to picket, impeach, and pawn hundreds of officials; and even participated in the deliberations and decision-making of major national political affairs, which had a major impact on the government of the DPRK.

However, although the power of Shangshutai is heavy, but the position of the Taiwan official is humble, and the chief Shangshu Ling is not more than a thousand stones, and he is still under Jiuqing.

However, after the Eastern Han Dynasty and the emperor, many young monarchs were weak lords, and the real power was often held by relatives and eunuchs. Although the three dukes had to obey Shangshu's orders, Shangshu was often swayed by relatives and eunuchs with greater real power.

Now although the Ten Standing Servants are quite favored by Liu Hong, the Son of Heaven, Cao Jie and the others do not dare to be too presumptuous, after all, there is still Taifu Hu Guang pressing on it.

Now that Hu Guang is gone, all of a sudden, the sergeants and ministers of the court seem to have lost their backbone. In the past, the eunuchs suppressed the scholars, but because Hu Guang mediated it, they didn't worry too much.

Everyone in the world says: ignore everything and ask Bo Shi, there is Hu Gong in the middle of the world. is talking about Taifu Hu Guang, which shows his status among the officials of the scholar clan.

Since Hu Guang entered the court when Emperor An, he acted in the golden mean, constantly maneuvering between relatives, eunuchs and scholars, and went through the six emperors of An, Shun, Chong, Quality, Huan and Ling.

When his relative Liang Ji was in power, if it weren't for Hu Guang's forbearance of humiliation, impartiality, and refusal to act for the tiger, I don't know how many upright officials would have been persecuted.

Later, the eunuch was in power, and outsiders all said that Hu Guangrou was a charming eunuch and kept the throne, but if it wasn't for him to uphold justice in the court, I don't know how many innocent people died unjustly, and the world of this Han Dynasty still doesn't know what the chaos has become.

If today's son is young and is deceived and fooled by the eunuchs, Hu Guang is even more willing to change the status quo, but the eunuchs are powerful, and only by uniting others can they have a competitive strength.

Hu Guang originally planned to find a suitable opportunity to let the empress dowager Dou Miao, who had lost power, return to Changle Palace and suppress the eunuchs, but who would have thought that the Son of Heaven would take his biological mother to live in Changle Palace, so that his plan would fall through.

I wanted to figure it out slowly, but the eunuchs framed in front of the Son of Heaven all day long, becoming more and more alienated from the Queen Mother. I'm afraid that if it continues like this, the world will be a mess by eunuchs.

I never thought that the will of heaven would make people, and the natural disasters that occurred one after another last year made Liu Hong, the son of heaven, also begin to alienate the eunuchs and work hard to govern them.

Even the relationship with the Empress Dowager Dou has also eased, and on October 1 of last year, when the Empress Dowager Dou was born, he personally led hundreds of officials to congratulate the Empress Dowager Dou on her birthday.

This made all the officials of the court see hope, but they didn't expect that when the situation was very good, Hu Guang passed away.

This caught them off guard and raised concerns about their future future. Therefore, when Liu Hong, the son of heaven, held a court meeting to discuss the aftermath of Taifu Hu Guang, there was silence in the Deyang Palace.

"What etiquette do you think the imperial court should use to bury the Taifu?" Liu Hong asked with grief. When he succeeded to the throne, he had just turned 12 years old, and at that time, the Taifu Chen Fan, the generals Dou Wu and Situ Huguang participated in the Shangshu Shi.

Soon after, Dou Wu Chen Fan failed to kill the eunuchs, so the imperial court ordered Hu Guang to replace Chen Fan as the eunuch, and the general record of Shangshu affairs.

Hu Guang was well-read and pedantic about the Five Classics, which had a profound influence on him. And Taifu is not like other ministers, forcing him to do things he doesn't like.

Liu Hong lost his father when he was a child, and he also treated the earnest and seductive Hu Guang as an elder in his heart. Now that the death of Taifu Hu Guang is not a big blow to Liu Hong, the son of heaven.

At this time, Cai Yong, the speaker of the council, came out of the column and said: "Your Majesty, Taifu is in charge, leading people with virtue, handsome with himself, loyal and solemn, and strong with shame." People are pleased, heaven is happy, scholars are encouraged to be in the public court, and the people are persuaded to act in private homes. Hui ink lingers and is beautiful, the whip is simple and abandoned, and if the virtue is declared, the strictness is powerful, and the generosity is a blessing and self. Five are secretaries, seven are in phase, one is one servant, one is Si Nong, one is Taifu, and one is Sikong, two are Situ and Tejin, and three are Taichang and Taiwei. Guangfu VI, more than 30 years. Its governance is also, through the water spring in the run, the soil in the crops, the training of the five products in the Qunli, the rational people in the region, Yao Sanchen in the mixed yuan, the six and the emperor, Fu Shengde in the young chong. Cai Yong is worthy of reading poetry and books, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he amazed the hundreds of officials in the hall.

But Cai Yong didn't care about everyone's reactions, and continued to speak: "Since the Han Dynasty, Dingchen Yuanfu, Lao Gong Laocheng, Xun was Wanfang, and Lu ended up, and there was no one like a prince. The ministers thought that the imperial court should bury Duke Hu with the courtesy of the princes. In fact, Cai Yong said these words with selfish intentions.

He was erudite and knowledgeable when he was a teenager and studied under Hu Guang. Naturally, I hope that the teacher will have a great honor after his death.

Because of Hu Guang's death, everyone is now in danger, and they are worried that the Ten Standing Servants will retaliate against them in the future, and no one is willing to come forward and raise objections.

Therefore, Liu Hong thought for a while, and then ordered: "Order the five senses Zhonglang to hold the festival book, give Taifu and Anle Township Hou Yin Ribbon, give the coffin of Zinan in the East Garden, send a person to supervise the funeral, and build a cemetery for him in the original mausoleum of Emperor Guangwu, nicknamed "Wengong", and one of his descendants is Langzhong. "With such a high standard of posthumous gifts and funerals, since the rise of the Eastern Han Dynasty, no one can compare with Hu Guang.

In the past, there must have been many people who objected, but now they don't have that mind, so all the officials bowed together and said: "Your Majesty Shengming!" After arranging Hu Guang's affairs, the Son of Heaven asked again: "Taifu Xue has passed away, and the post of Lu Shangshu is recorded, do you have any suggestions?" When it was first placed, it was called "Lingshang Shushi".

Lu Shang Shushi is not an independent official position, and is often held by other officials. It is the interference of outsiders in the affairs of Shang Shutai.

At the beginning of Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty, the general Huo Guang was in power, and Jin Riyan and Shangguan Ji jointly led the Shangshu affairs, which was the beginning of this official.

In the eighteenth year of Yongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne at the beginning of the reign, and Zhao Xi and Mu Rong of Taifu recorded Shangshu Shishi, and used \"record\" to replace \"leader\" from here.

Recorded as the meaning of the Commander-in-General. The clerkies and consuls are similar, but the positions of authority are more important. After that, every emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty ascended the throne, and often recorded Shangshu with three dukes, generals, and Taifu.

According to convention, one of the three people, Taiwei Li Xian, Sikong Zongju, and Situ Xu Xu, is most likely to hold this position concurrently.

In the face of such tempting power, the officials were no longer silent, and they all opened their mouths to fight for their superiors.

"The minister thought that Li Xian, the heart of Xian Tian, the heart of the heavens to educate, the turbidity to promote the clean, for the national reward, covered with the heart of billions of trillions, the beauty of Yi Shuo, Zhao Deng, Pi Xian, announced in the bottom. In this position. ”

"But the old minister thinks that he is a commonplace, generous and benevolent, overburdened with broadness, researching the Tao and knowing opportunities, exhausting reason, and the legacy of all sages, civil and military affairs, and there is no comprehensiveness. In this position. ”

"The minister thinks that Situ Xu Xu is generous enough to accommodate the public, gentle enough to settle things, resolute enough to be violent, and benevolent enough to persuade the vulgar. I can do this and this. ”…… Wu Yong looked at the hundreds of officials and ministers in front of him, and he really wanted to laugh.

Forming parties for personal gain and suppressing dissidents seems to have been the practice of Chinese officialdom for thousands of years. These people are afraid of someone's brilliant talent, so they don't have a chance to throw himself into the world.

In fact, feudal dynasties all use villains to contain and balance loyal ministers and talents, after all, not all of them have talents and high abilities.

is very jealous of the virtuous ministers, and finally took them away. This is a common problem of the old dynasties, a group of powerful ministers, and relatives of the emperor.

After all, Jiangshan is what this group of people thinks, it belongs to their private family, what do you want to do to accumulate merit and popularity?

The exclusion of talents and the appointment of villains are also driven by the royal road of the feudal dynasties of the past dynasties. The so-called royal road is that he has the final say, you are right, hehe~!

There is no need to list examples one by one, after all, there are such typical characters in all dynasties. This is also the fundamental reason why the successive feudal dynasties were corrupt and their decrees were not enlightened, which hindered the development of technology, and the people were still backward in science and technology, and the people were oppressed and exploited by them for thousands of years.

So it is not surprising that they will eventually sink themselves in the era of history, after all, the way they exist is unscientific, inhumane, uncivilized and in fact barbaric and brutal, and it also brings the word unspoken rules.

"Let's do this today, and then we will discuss it later!" Liu Hong waved his hand with some interest, and then asked the confessor to announce his retreat from the court.

In the next few days, the imperial court has been busy with Hu Guang's funeral. On the day of the burial in April, Hu Guang's deceased officials, including hundreds of people from the father-in-law, secretary, doctor, doctor, and Yilang, all wore mourning clothes to the funeral.

The time soon came, and in May, the Son of Heaven summoned the ministers to discuss the name of the year, and it was set as Xiping. Xi, hot, blazing, bright.

The peaceful one is for peace, and it means peace in the prosperous world. Since then, for the first year of Xiping, Jianning is no more.

Liu Hong, the Son of Heaven, originally wanted to reassure the people of the world that he was working hard to change the situation.

But anyone with a discerning eye can see that this world is probably only getting more and more chaotic. Wu Yong often follows the Son of Heaven, which can be said to be deeply experienced, and he always feels that there is an undercurrent that is fueling something.

"How many years can this peaceful and prosperous Han Dynasty last?" Wu Yong's mood is really sad and sad.

The worry is that there are no upright ministers in the court who are famous all over the world, and they are shocked. The worry is that I am still young, and I don't know how to be alone.