However, it was said that Wang Mang was Wang Man's second son, the word Jujun, and Wang Man died early. At that time, the Wang family was in its prime, and the children of the five marquis knew that the entertainment was poor and luxurious. Only Wang Mang is pure, simple in life, and humble. He also learned the scriptures from Peiren Chen Shen, studied diligently and inquisitively, and his clothes were the same as those of the Han scholars. He served his mother and widowed sister-in-law, raised his brother's widowed son, and behaved in strict manners. He befriended the wise men externally and served his uncle internally, and was very thoughtful. When Wang Feng was sick, Wang Mang was sick, and he couldn't untie his clothes for several months, and the medicine must be tasted first, which attracted Wang Feng's great pity. Before his death, Wang Feng asked his sister Wang Zhengjun to take care of Wang Mang. And Wang Shang directly proposed to divide his own mining for Wang Mang to be sealed. At that time, celebrities Dai Chong, Jin She, Chen Tang and others also asked for Wang Mang's title. Emperor Cheng worshiped Wang Mang as Huangmenlang, and moved the official to shoot the captain. In May of the first year of Yongshi, Wang Mang was appointed as the new marquis of the new capital, and he worshiped Doctor Guanglu.

After Wang Mang became a marquis, he treated people more and more humbly, often distributed his money to doormen and commoners, and even sold horse-drawn carriages to help the poor, and was deeply loved by the people. The celebrities of the government and the opposition praised Wang Mang, and Wang Mang's reputation even surpassed that of his powerful uncles.

Once Wang Mang's mother was sick, and the officials all went to visit, and at this time a woman came out in simple clothes and cloth knots, everyone thought that she was a servant of Wang Mang's family, and in the end, unexpectedly, this person was actually Wang Mang's wife.

Wang Mang once privately bought a maid and hid it at home, intending to accept her as a concubine. If it is a common thing for the ancients to take concubines, not to mention the noble relatives and marquises, it is regarded as a proper thing. Who knew that someone had already found out about it.

Seeing the news leaking, Wang Mang hurriedly changed his plan and said to everyone: "General Zhu Ziyuan has no children, and this maid was bought for him." So he gave the maid to Zhu Bo on the same day.

Zhu Ziyuan has a concubine, Wang Mang is a bit hypocritical, if you like it, you like it, why give it to others?

Chun Yuchang is Wang Mang's cousin, the nephew of the Queen Mother, that is, the son of the Queen Mother's sister, whose status surpasses Wang Mang, and has contributed to Zhao Feiyan as the queen, and is deeply trusted by Emperor Cheng. After Empress Xu was deposed, she lived in Changding Palace. Xu abolished's sister has been widowed at home because her husband Long Sihou has died. The lustful Chun Yuchang actually "fornicated" with her and married her as a "little wife". In view of Chun Yuchang's power, Xu abolished Chun Yuchang's power through his sister, hoping that he would intercede for himself in front of Emperor Cheng and get back together. Chun Yuchang knew that although Empress Xu had no power after being deposed, she must have a lot of private wealth hidden, which was an excellent opportunity to induce bribes. So he promised her that he would intercede for him in front of Emperor Cheng, and promised to persuade Emperor Cheng to make her the "Queen of Zuo". Xu abolished the truth and bribed Chun Yuchang at all costs. For more than a year, Chun Yuchang deceived Xu after the abolition of money and clothing up to "more than 100,000", and he used these bribes to indulge in the lust of concubines and live a shameless life.

Chun Yuchang, who is not greedy enough, still wants to continue to deceive, and does not want to "catch cicadas with praying mantis, and yellow finches behind". A catastrophe is quietly looming.

Wang Mang secretly collected evidence of Chun Yuchang's crime in order to bring down his competitors in his career, and when he learned that Chun Yuchang had an affair with the sister of the abolished queen and lured Xu Yuchang into many bribes, Wang Mang hurriedly reported to the queen mother.

When the queen mother heard this, she was very angry and immediately reported it to the emperor. Emperor Cheng was suspicious, but under the pressure of the Queen Mother, he had to remove Chun Yuchang from his official position and ask him to leave the capital and return to the feudal country.

In the eyes of others, this kind of punishment is too light, but Chun Yuchang feels that he has been hit hard. The dismissal of officials and the appointment of the country means that the former power will be lost, and Chun Yuchang cannot accept the reality, and he will make a final effort to turn the tide. But in the end, he was self-defeating, and instead hastened his own demise.

Hongyang Marquis Wang Li is the emperor's uncle, and he has long wanted to assist the government, but he never got his wish. Wang Li suspected that Chun Yuchang was a ghost in front of Emperor Cheng. Therefore, the feud between the two is very deep. Now that Chun Yu has been exempted from the government for a long time, Wang Li should be happy. Who knew that Chun Yuchang gave him a lot of jewels and asked Wang Li to intercede with the emperor to take back his fate. Wang Li was touched by those dazzling treasures, so he ignored his previous suspicions and asked to stay for a long time.

Wang Li actually interceded for Chun Yuchang, and this abnormal behavior aroused Emperor Cheng's suspicions. So he ordered Chun Yuchang to be arrested and imprisoned for investigation. Chun Yuchang confessed to his crime of "insulting Changding Palace (referring to the abolition of Xu Hou) and plotting to establish Queen Zuo". According to the laws of the Han Dynasty, this is a crime of "great rebellion". Emperor Cheng issued an edict to kill him in prison.

However, Emperor Cheng saw that Sister Feiyan could not have children herself, and did not allow others to give birth to children for him, and then thought that he was more than forty years old, even if he was willing to have no queen because of Sister Zhao, but the throne could not be succeeded by no one, so he had the intention of establishing an heir. However, the heir must be selected by the nearest brother and nephew. There were only two people closest to Emperor Cheng that day: one was Liu Xing, the king of Zhongshan, who was the son of Emperor Feng Zhaoyi, and was the younger brother of Emperor Cheng; One is Liu Xin, the king of Dingtao, the grandson of Emperor Fu Zhaoyi, the son of Liu Kang, the king of Dingtao, and the nephew of Emperor Cheng. After Liu Kang's death, Liu Xin became the heir. Now that Emperor Cheng wants to establish an heir, he still thinks that Liu Xin, the king of Dingtao, is the most appropriate.

One day Emperor Cheng had nothing to do in the afternoon, he went to the Hede Young Concubine Pavilion for dinner and lodging, and did not know how to entertain at night, and when it came to dawn, Zhao Hede got up first, and Emperor Cheng also sat up, only to tie the garter belt, and suddenly fell down on the bed, and returned to the yin without saying a word. Hede couldn't even speak, pressed his hand slightly, and couldn't help but look flustered, and hurriedly ordered the inner servant to summon the imperial doctor. By the time the medical officer looked at him, he was already dead, so he had to report to the Queen Mother and dignitaries inside and outside. The queen mother hurriedly looked at her, kissed the emperor's body muscles as cold as ice, of course, she cried loudly, and the queen Zhao Feiyan and others went to the market one after another, and they also cried together. and the public mourning, that is, with Wang Mang and other cooking mourning.

Emperor Cheng was originally strong and burly, like a dignified son of heaven, but he was overly happy and sad, and he died at the age of forty-five.

The Empress Dowager felt that Emperor Cheng was not sick and died bizarrely, and when the news spread outside, everyone felt suspicious, so she issued an edict to the great Sima Wang Mang and Prime Minister Kong Guang to find out the emperor's illness with a court order. Someone has already reported this information to Zhao Hede.

Although Zhao Hede did not poison Emperor Cheng, he thought that he had killed many children in the harem in the past, and now that the Empress Dowager sent the minister to investigate, he expected that he would inevitably be held responsible. After muttering for a long time, he felt that there was no other way but death, so he summoned his servants and maidservants to give rewards, and died by himself. A wisp of fragrant soul finally caught up with the ghost gate and went to find Emperor Cheng.

Wang Mang and Kong Guang were ordered by the Empress Dowager to investigate the matter together. learned that Emperor Cheng was indeed a violent escape, not murdered, and saw that Zhao Hede committed suicide, so he repeated the situation of the Queen Mother as a dismissal. The ministers were edicted by the Empress Dowager to invite the crown prince Liu Xin to take the throne of the emperor, which was to mourn the emperor.

Emperor Liu Xin is the grandson of Emperor Yuan and the nephew of Emperor Cheng of Han. Liu Xin's father died when he was 3 years old, and he inherited the throne as the king of Dingtao, and was raised by his grandmother, the Empress Dowager Fu.

Emperor Mourning respected the Queen Mother as the Empress Dowager, and Zhao Feiyan as the Empress Dowager. Emperor Mourning personally saw Emperor Cheng's arrogance and extravagance and the dictatorship of his relatives, and he disagreed in his heart. This time, he took the throne and was thrifty and took over the power of political affairs. For a while, people were convinced. When the queen mother learned of the meaning of mourning the emperor, she thought that her mother and brother and nephew had been ruling for a long time, and now her grandson has inherited it, and he also has a foreign family, which is not easier to talk than when she became an emperor.

Wang Mang received the edict, that is, he wrote a book to beg for bones. Emperor Wai knew that it was the Empress Dowager's instructions, so he issued an edict to keep him. He also ordered Prime Minister Kong Guang, Dasikong He Wu, Zuo General Shi Dan, and Wei Wei Fu Xi to play to the Queen Mother: "The emperor is very sad when he hears that Sima has resigned. If the great Sima does not look at things, the emperor will not dare to listen to the government. When the queen mother heard about it, she issued an edict ordering Wang Mang to serve as before.

One day, Emperor Mourning placed wine in Weiyang Palace, and invited the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother Zhao, the Queen Mother Fu, the Queen Mother Ding and many royal relatives. In advance, people arranged for the banquet to lay out seats, and the queen mother was naturally in the center. The inner order thought that the Empress Dowager Fu was the grandmother of the lord and had the same status as the Empress Dowager, so he set up a seat near the Empress Dowager and prepared a place for the Empress Dowager Fu to sit. After the arrangement was completed, everyone had not yet entered the table, but Wang Mang came first.

Wang Mang saw that Emperor Wai respected the Empress Dowager Fu and the Empress Dowager Ding, and worshiped foreign officials, and expected that the Empress Dowager Fu would be honored as one with the Empress Dowager, and that the power of the future would be above the Empress Dowager, so he was unhappy. This time there was a banquet in the palace, and the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother Fu were seated together, Wang Mang thought of the first floor of the seat, and did not know how to arrange it, so he came to inspect it for a week. At that time, he was angry when he saw this situation, so he summoned the inner commander and reproached him sharply: "The Empress Dowager Dingtao is a concubine, how can she sit with the Supreme?" "Drink and set up a seat elsewhere. Wang Mang saw that everyone had finished moving their seats, and then he walked out of breath.

When it was time to take the table, Emperor Mourning and the Queen Mother, Empress Dowager Zhao, Ding Ji and other relatives of the emperor had already arrived, and only the Empress Dowager Fu was not alone. The Emperor of Mourning had to be left to her. Then I respectfully invited the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother Zhao and others to sit at the table, and passed everyone to sit together. Everyone present that day felt that Empress Dowager Fu must be angry if she didn't come for no reason, and everyone was secretly suspicious. As the old saying goes: "If a person goes to the corner, he is not happy to sit down". Everyone at this banquet had a ghost in their hearts, so they broke up unhappily.

Empress Dowager Fu is not sick and has nothing important, why didn't she come? It turned out that someone saw Wang Mang ordering someone to move their seats that day, and they rushed to report to the Empress Dowager Fu first. Empress Dowager Fu was very happy because his grandson became the emperor and invited her to drink today. I got up early in the morning and finished dressing up, put on a dress, and was about to get up and go, when I heard about it and almost died of anger. scolded Wang Mang for doing a lot of things, and repeatedly opposed me, and today he dared to send me to sit aside, obviously with the intention of insulting, if I was in a hurry to discuss it, and hindered the presence of the queen mother, I simply didn't go. Empress Dowager Fu was pondering, Emperor Mourning sent someone to urge, and Empress Dowager Fu drank the order to thank her. The messenger came several times in a row, but was refused. Early the next morning, Empress Dowager Fu rushed to Weiyang Palace, saw Emperor Wai and told him, and said that Wang Mang deceived people too much, and immediately forced Emperor Wai to reprimand him to vent this hatred. Emperor Wai had no choice but to agree. Wang Mang was also very well-informed, and after hearing the words of the Empress Dowager Fu, he expected that he would not be able to see him, so he wrote and resigned. Emperor Wai wished that Wang Mang would retire, and issued an edict to give him 500 catties of gold, and the chariot and horse were resigned. Although Wang Mang was dismissed from office, public opinion praised him for a while. Emperor Wai also issued an edict to seal Wang Mang's 350 households, which were specially entered, and specially placed the Yellow Gate as a messenger, giving meals once every ten days.

On the same day, the position of Da Sima was about to appoint people from other families, and Wang Mang went to the throne, and Emperor Wai promoted General Zuo Shi Dan to Da Sima.

However, it was said that Emperor Cheng appointed a foreign dictatorship, and the children of the Wang family were extremely arrogant, and the ministers were afraid of the Wang family's power and did not dare to correct it. Now that Wang Mang has stepped down from power, Ding and Fu are doing things, and Si Li Xie Guang knows the emperor's intentions, so he wrote a letter of impeachment:

Quyang Marquis Wanggen, the third generation of the five generals in power, the world is full of spoils, the first house of Dazhi to watch the hunting, the upper and lower places the wine and dance. No one is courteous, and it is disrespectful.

This performance was on the top, and Emperor Mourning saw the natural agreement. So he issued an edict and said: "The first emperor treated Wang Gen and Wang Guo very kindly, and now he should have done it again; However, Wang Gen once established the policy of the society, and now he is lenient to the country. The king was exempted from being a concubine and returned to his hometown. All those recommended by Wang Gen and Wang Shang as officials are dismissed. "Wang's power declined.

Empress Dowager Fu then made a blessing, those who obeyed it were awarded without merit, and those who rebelled were punished without guilt. There is even a group of villains who took advantage of this to invite merit and make a living, and many big prisons were raised, and the first person to suffer was Feng Zhaoyi. Feng Zhaoyi and Empress Dowager Fu were colleagues of Emperor Yuan, and were favored, because they were celibate as bears, Emperor Yuan was doubly respectful. Empress Dowager Fu was ashamed of herself, so she hated it. and Feng Zhaoyi followed his son Liu Xing to the country, as the queen mother of Zhongshan, Liu Xing married the daughter of his uncle Feng Shen as the queen, and had two daughters without children. Liu Xingbei Nawei Ji had a son named Jizi. In the first year of Emperor Suihe, Liu Xing fell ill and died. He was only two years old, and he became king. Who knows, but he has a disease, and whenever he has an attack, he sees that he is restless day and night. Feng Zhaoyi is only one grandson, and he especially cherishes raising him personally, because he is sick, he sends gods and witches to pray for him. When Emperor Wai ascended the throne, he heard that the King of Zhongshan was ill, and Zhang You, a special envoy of Zhonglang, led the doctor to visit him. Zhang You was ordered to lead the doctors to Zhongshan, and Feng Zhaoyi saw that it was a person sent by the imperial court, and received him with courtesy, and did not dare to slack off. He brought the healer into the palace to see the sick and take medicine.

Zhang Youji was ordered by Emperor Mourning to lead a doctor to treat the disease, and he needed to be cured before he could return to Beijing to recover his life. However, the disease did not work for a while, so he temporarily lived in Zhongshan. Unexpectedly, Zhongshan Wang's illness had not yet recovered, and Zhang Youzhi's illness flare-up again, which caused a catastrophe. It turned out that Zhang You was suffering from mental illness, and whenever the illness occurred, he often changed his normality, and he recovered as an ordinary person. This time in Zhongshan for a while, bored for a long time, I can't help but start homesickness, my heart is depressed and anxious to return to Beijing, so I caused the old illness to be angry for no reason, so I packed my luggage and went back to Beijing. Feng Zhaoyi didn't know why, so he had to let him go back.

Zhang You returned to Chang'an all the way and reported to the palace gate. When Emperor Wai saw him return, there was no edict to summon him, and he did not get the news that King Zhongshan had recovered from his illness, so he ordered Shangshu to question him.

Who knew that Zhang You returned to Beijing because of an attack of madness, and when the illness occurred, he couldn't help it, so he returned to Beijing on his own in a daze. As soon as he arrived in Beijing, he gradually recovered. It's also inexplicable when I think about it. Now being questioned by Shangshu, Fang Wu committed a crime. If you do it according to the law, you will inevitably go to prison and suffer crimes; If it is true that he is mentally ill, I am afraid that it will be difficult to keep his official position, Zhang You was anxious for a while, but in order to exonerate himself, he did not care about others, so he falsely said that the Queen Mother of Zhongshan sent witches to curse the Lord and the Empress Dowager Fu, so he rushed back to denounce. Shang Shu recorded a confession and heard the mourning of the emperor. Emperor Wai didn't believe it yet, but was informed by the Empress Dowager Fu. Empress Dowager Fu has always hated Feng Zhaoyi, and now when she is in power, she is looking for something to vent her anger, and when she heard that this matter is really like a fire, she was furious, and immediately forced Emperor Mourning to send Yu Shi Ding Xuan to investigate.

Ding Xuan was ordered to arrest more than 100 people, including Zhongshan officials and palace people, as well as Feng's Kundi relatives, as soon as he arrived in Zhongshan, regardless of whether he was true or not, and imprisoned them in Luoyang, Wei County, and Julu. Ding Xuan was originally the younger brother and nephew of the Empress Dowager Ding, and he was in the same breath as the Fu family, and now he was ordered to handle the case, so he naturally wanted to contribute to the Empress Dowager Fu, so he transferred the people in prison out for interrogation one by one. Helplessly, Feng Zhaoyi didn't have anything to curse, so Ding Xuan interrogated for dozens of days in a row, but it didn't have the slightest effect. Seeing that Ding Xuan couldn't figure out, Empress Dowager Fu was eager to take revenge, but she was afraid of missing the opportunity, so she ordered Shi Li to interrogate with her.

When Shi Li was leaving, Empress Dowager Fu personally advised, and the words of the instructions were not elaborated. Shi Li secretly laughed at Ding Xuan's uselessness. When he arrived in Zhongshan, Ding Xuan transferred the case file. Shi Li didn't care about it, and tortured him to force him to confess, killing dozens of people in a row, but there was no confession. In the end, there was a witch Liu Wu who was tortured, but he had to falsely say that Feng Zhaoyi ordered him to curse the Lord and the Empress Dowager Fu. Shi Li got a confession, and he was overjoyed. On the one hand, he heard about the mourning emperor, and on the other hand, he summoned Feng Zhaoyi to personally question.

Feng Zhaoyi naturally refused to be convinced. Shi Li refuted her, but had to say: "On that day, Xiong General deserved to be celibate in the hall, how brave he was!" How cowardly is it that you dare not admit to committing this great crime today? Feng Zhaoyi saw that Shi Li's words were not on the topic, so he ignored it. and returned to the palace after the trial, Feng Zhaoyi said to the left and right: "When Xiong is the current affairs of the first emperor, and it is the language of the palace, how can the officials know about it?" From this point of view, it is clear that he deliberately framed me to show his credit. I have nowhere to show my grievances today, but I feel clean when I die. Feng Zhaoyi said that he would take poison and die. After a while, Shi Lizuo reported to Beijing, and there was a division to ask Feng Zhaoyi to be punished. Emperor Mourning couldn't bear it, and issued an edict to abolish him as a concubine. Before the edict was issued, Feng Zhaoyi was dead, and the emperor ordered a funeral with the gift of the queen mother.

On the same day, Feng's case came out, and everyone said that they were wronged, alarming a direct minister, this person's surname is Sun Mingbao, the word is strict, he is a native of Yanling, Yingchuan, and now the lawsuit is subordinate. Empress Dowager Fu was furious when she saw it: "The emperor placed Si Li's official to manage me, but now the Feng family's rebellion has been understood, Si Li is deliberately picky, intending to oppose me, so he will just punish me." When Emperor Decay saw that his grandmother was angry, he sent Sun Bao to prison. There was a scholar next to him who shot Tang Lin to save him, and the emperor blamed his friends and degraded him to Dunhuang Yuze obstacles. When Fu Xi was the great Sima, he saw that the Empress Dowager Fu was holding Emperor Wai hostage and deposing his ministers, and he fought hard for Emperor Wai. Emperor Wai turned to the Empress Dowager Fu to intercede, so he pardoned Sun Bao and was released from prison and restored to his official position. There is a priest who asks Feng Zhaoyi's younger siblings to sit together to commit the crime, and there are 17 people who died in the Feng family. Zhang Youyin was the first to denounce, gave the title of Marquis of Guannei, and promoted Shi Li to be the servant of the middle prince. It is also a strange news that a mental illness is sealed because of the onset of the disease.