However, he said that after Ma Yuan died, his family did not dare to transport him back to his hometown for burial, so he could only buy a few acres of land in the west of Luoyang City for a hasty burial. Ma Yuan's friends did not dare to go to mourn, and the situation was very bleak. After the burial of Ma Yuan, Ma Yuan's nephew Ma Yan accompanied Ma Yuan's wife and children to the court to plead guilty. After Ma Yuan's wife Lin knew what was going on, she wrote to the emperor six times to redress her grievances, and her words were poignant. Liu Xiu then ordered Ma Yuan to be buried and sent Ma Yuan's youngest daughter to his son's harem.

The horse girl gradually grew up, seven feet two inches long, slim and elegant, curling flowers, a beautiful glowing and slender hair, combed into a big bun is still more than enough, and then the ends of the hair around the bun three turns without remaining hair. The horse girl is not jealous or fierce, and she is salty and safe up and down. When Emperor Ming did not ascend the throne, he was already favored abnormally, and he was registered as a noble person after inheriting the unification. Yongping became the queen in the second year. Coincidentally, at the same time as the image of Yuntai and the post, Liu Cang, the king of Dongping, went to Yuntai to view the map, but he did not see the remains of Ma Yuan, so he turned to Emperor Ming and said: "Why don't you paint the portrait of General Fubo?" Emperor Ming smiled but did not answer. Emperor Ming's meaning Ma Yuan is the queen's father, which is inconvenient to include and save others from arguing. In fact, if you don't avoid relatives, why not?

After Liu Ying committed suicide, Emperor Ming refused to let go and wantonly became a big deal. Cases have been filed one after another, and they have not been tried for several years.

From the capital to the prefecture and county, from relatives to servants, thousands of people were sentenced to death and exiled, and thousands more were imprisoned.

Liu Ying once copied a book of famous people in the world, and Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty found that it had the name of Yin Xing, the Taishou of Wu County, so he ordered the arrest of more than 500 officials under Yin Xing.

Empress Ma was familiar with Confucian classics and history books when she was a teenager, and knew that this matter was not trivial, and she also understood the excessively strict character of Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty, so she had an in-depth chat with Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty.

Queen Ma felt that those innocent people were very pitiful, and she shed tears as she spoke.

After hearing this, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty got up in his clothes and walked around the palace.

After much consideration, he believed that Empress Ma was reasonable, and personally went to Luoyang Prison for interrogation and released more than 1,000 people.

Liu Zhuang was very strict with the officials below, because Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu had a high prestige, so he was more lenient with ministers when he was governed, and Emperor Ming was not as authoritative as his father, and it was not enough to rely on his prestige to control his father's old ministers, so he was very harsh on officials.

Yao Song was so frightened that he got under the bed, and Emperor Han Ming shouted angrily: "You get out of here!" ”

Yao Song said under the bed:

"The Son of Heaven is powerful but not angry, the princes are solemn and elegant, I haven't heard of any emperor beating people."

Only then did Emperor Ming lose his anger and pardon him.

Emperor Ming strictly ordered the concubine's family not to be a marquis to participate in politics, and he also took precautions against noble relatives and heroes. During his reign, his uncles were no more than Jiuqing. Princess Guantao wanted to ask for a Lang official for his son, but Liu Zhuang would rather give his nephew 10 million yuan than agree. Minister Yan Zhang is outstanding in learning and outstanding in his work, but because his sister is a harem concubine, Liu Zhuang insisted on not promoting Yan Zhang in order not to break the rule that his relatives do not participate in politics.

But at the same time, Liu Zhuang appointed the founding father Deng Yu as the grand master, and his younger brother Liu Cang, the king of Dongping, as the hussar general, and Zhao Xi, the imperial lieutenant of the Guangwu Dynasty, retained his original position, so that the meritorious heroes, clans, and bureaucrats had their own political representatives; At the same time, he treated his biological mother Empress Dowager Yin and his half-mother Guo Shengtong very respectfully and equally, and won praise from his relatives and subordinates.

We understand Emperor Ming's blow to the clan, if he does not cut off the hand of the clan to the imperial power, Emperor Ming will face a catastrophe.

But Queen Ma's suppression of the Ma clan made many people unable to understand.

The so-called one person ascends to heaven, Queen Ma's family, especially Queen Ma's three elder brothers, are eager to rely on Queen Ma to become an official and become a knight, glory and wealth.

But although Empress Ma often exchanged family and state affairs with Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty, she never mentioned the private affairs of her mother's family.

This made Emperor Han Ming admire her very much, in fact, this is also an important reason why Emperor Han Ming agreed to make her queen.

Queen Ma has never had children, and her sister Ma Jiang's daughter Jia Shi also chose a concubine and gave birth to a boy. In order to make Ma the queen, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty came forward to let her raise his niece's son Liu Wei, who was later Emperor Zhang.

Jia is Jia Fu's granddaughter, although Jia Fu and Liu Xiu did not form a family of children, but his granddaughter became a noble man of Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty, and the two nephews and aunts served a husband and raised a son, this relationship is a bit chaotic, I don't know what to call each other. Later, Jia Fu's great-grandson Jia Jian became the son-in-law of Emperor He, and once again added chaos to the chaos, and no one could figure out the generation.

When Empress Ma was still a nobleman, she recommended women to Emperor Han Ming on the grounds that Emperor Han Ming did not have many heirs. If someone is liked by Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty, Ma will elevate that person's treatment. Such a generous woman, which man doesn't like it.

Under the concept of "re-raising and not rebirth", Queen Ma treated her adopted son "with all her heart, and she was more tired than born". In other words, they are more attentive than ordinary parents raising their own children.

Queen Ma loves Liu Wei as her own, raises her very diligently, and says left and right: "Women don't have to worry if they don't have children, but after they give birth, they have to worry that they don't love enough and don't raise them well." ”

Of course, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty also often taught Liu Wei in person.

Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty liked Confucianism and required Liu Wei to be familiar with the Confucian classics, and sometimes gave lectures to Liu Wei.

Liu Wei studied the Confucianism advocated by his father, and at the same time eliminated his father's strictness and became a benevolent monarch.

Emperor Ming's family has never been entangled in "childless" or "biological", but has devoted themselves to the growth of children, and the final result is unexpectedly good.

Emperor Ming and Empress Ma raised their children together, fought against the tearing of the big family together, and created a rare affection for the emperor and queen together.

When the history books evaluated Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty's attitude towards Empress Ma, he used the word "pampering".

These two words are intriguing, this is a combination of love and respect, which is extremely rare under the feudal imperial power, and this is precisely the attitude of Queen Ma towards Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty.

Although the relationship between the emperor and the queen is very good, there are also many beauties in the harem of Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty.

Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty's favorite concubine was the Yin noble, that is, the niece of his mother, the Empress Dowager Yin.

Moreover, the Yin nobleman gave birth to a son Liu Chang to Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty. Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty favored the Yin nobles, so Liu Chang got more food than the other princes.

However, when Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty faced the candidate for the successor, he did not speak for the Yin nobles, but handed over the matter to the Empress Dowager Yin. The Empress Dowager Yin made a decision at that time:

"Ma Guiren's Deguan harem, that's her."

Why didn't the Queen Mother choose her niece and choose a nobleman?

It turned out that there was a big event in the Yin family in the second year of Yongping. Yin Lihua's younger brother Yin Feng, the son of Yin Qi, married Liu Xiu's daughter, Princess Liyi. This princess of Liyi is jealous, but Yin Feng is not easy to mess with, and the young couple will not let anyone. Finally one day in the second year of Yongping, Yin Feng clicked Princess Liyi.

Now the matter is big, not only Yin Feng himself was killed, but his parents were also forced to commit suicide. This incident makes people feel that the Yin family has produced a queen mother and emperor in their own family, so they don't even pay attention to the princess. Under such circumstances, the Empress Dowager naturally did not dare to let her niece be the queen anymore.

Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty likes to play, like singing and dancing, but Queen Ma likes to do needlework, likes to read, and has no interest in music at all.

Queen Ma has always been very frugal, she does not wear gorgeous silk clothes, but wears untrimmed coarse cloth clothes all day long. Even when the concubines and princesses came to visit, Queen Ma received them in simple clothes, and said, "This fabric is easy to color, so it's good to use it to make clothes." ”

Once Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty led a group of palace people and officials to visit the garden, and everyone said that Queen Ma should also be invited.

Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty smiled and said, "The one in my family is not good to play, but he is not happy to come." ”

Queen Ma's self-denial is not for others to see, most of it is from the heart. Reality tells Queen Ma that her high position and power are temporary, and one day her family will be ruined. The Ma family is like this, and so is the Yin family. has no power or power, at least you can eat and wear without worrying about eternal health.

What's more, Queen Ma also knew in her heart that Emperor Han Zhang was not her own son after all.

In the autumn of the eighteenth year of Yongping, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty collapsed in the front hall of the East Palace at the age of forty-eight. The crown prince Liu Wei is the heir to the throne for Emperor Zhang. The first emperor was buried in the Xianjie Mausoleum, the temple number was Xianzong, and the emperor Xiaoming was called the emperor, and the queen was honored as the queen mother.

Liu Zhuang reigned for 18 years, and he strictly adhered to the system of building martial arts and did not exceed it, and his relatives were not allowed to be feudal marquis to interfere in politics, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment to celebrate Chengping.

Liu Zhuang was an emperor who enforced the law very strictly. Whether it is a civil servant or a military general, a high-ranking general or a relative of the emperor, as long as he violates the law, what he is waiting for is the restoration of the legal net.

At the least, he was dismissed from office, sent to exile, or summarily executed.

For Liu Zhuang, the prosperity and development of the entire emperor must be supported by a strong legal system.

Strict punishment and strict law, without discrimination, there are not many such emperors.

But under such a majestic law, will there be unjust, false and wrongful convictions? Will there be innocent people involved? Will it cause panic among the people and hinder the progress of social development?

Liu Wei raised questions about his father, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty, and also raised questions about himself.

History proves that Liu Wei is a good emperor.

He learned from his father's experience and lessons in the excessively strict legal system, and initiated a policy of leniency and leniency.

If Liu Zhuang's governing style is like a majestic mountain, overwhelming people, then Liu Zheng's governing style is like a warm sunshine, which can give you a feeling of spring breeze all the time.

At the beginning of Liu Wei's ascension to the throne, according to the custom, he wanted to reward the brothers of the Empress Dowager Ma, but the Empress Dowager Ma refused. In the summer of the second year, there was a great drought, and someone said: Because Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty did not reward the Empress Dowager's mother's family, he was punished by God. When Emperor Han Zhang heard this, he suspected that Empress Dowager Ma deliberately let others say this. In order to dispel the suspicion of Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty, Empress Dowager Ma specially issued an edict: "Anyone who links the great drought with the relatives of the Ma family who did not reward them is flattering." ”

Empress Dowager Ma strictly controlled her maiden brothers and prevented them from following them, which happened to break the thoughts of the Jia family. Empress Dowager Ma told the Jia family with her actual behavior: You see, I didn't bring any benefits to my mother's family because of raising the emperor, so you don't need to fight.

Without the adopted son of Emperor Zhang of Han, Ma could not have been canonized as empress; If Liu Wei was not Ma's adopted son, he would not have become the crown prince. So neither of them can do without the other.

For the emperor, as long as it does not endanger the imperial power, everything else is easy to say.

Emperor Zhang of Han does not seem to have any special feelings for his biological mother Jia Guiren. If Emperor Han Zhang still had some scruples when Empress Ma was alive, but after Empress Ma died, Emperor Han Zhang did not give her biological mother any honorific title, but only increased her treatment.