( 156 ~ 189)
Working time: 168 ~ 189.
Year of use: Jianning, Xiping, Guanghe and Zhong Ping.
Posthumous title: Emperor Xiaoling
Temple number: none
Burial place: Wenling
Liu Hong was born in 156.
In A.D. 168, Emperor Huan died of illness and was made Emperor, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty.
In A.D. 168, the scholar-bureaucrat group headed by Dou Wu's consorts failed in the power struggle with the eunuch group headed by Erjie Cao, and the eunuch group mastered the state affairs.
In AD 169, the eunuch clique continued to weaken the influence of the scholar-bureaucrat clique and launched the second "party struggle" in the history of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
In A.D. 184, the Yellow Scarf Uprising led by Zhang Jiao broke out and subsequently failed.
In 189, Emperor Han Ling died of illness.
Liu Hong, the Emperor of Spirit, is one of the most famous defeated emperors in the history of China, and also one of the most playful emperors. In terms of corruption, eating, drinking and enjoyment, many emperors of feudal dynasties in China can't beat anyone. As an adult emperor, you should be able to make some achievements, but the spiritual emperor Liu Hong is a special case. However, who told him to live in the late Eastern Han Dynasty when eunuchs were in power? After Liu Hong ascended the throne, the power struggle between the literati group and the eunuch group was in full swing. Finally, the eunuch group won, and Liu Hong's regime was controlled by the eunuch group. As a monarch, Liu Hong might have wanted to be a successful emperor, but the eunuch group stood in front of him like a mountain, and he didn't have a chance to visit it. In a sense, Liu Hong's own throne was also given to him by others. Since we can get him on stage, it is also possible to get him off. Of course, it is impossible for Liu Hong not to know this, so he will buy land as an emperor. This may be his plan for his future. Besides, I didn't inherit the throne properly, so why bother to maintain it? Simply put, it is to spoil it. With such an attitude, Liu Hong made a mess of the huge Eastern Han Dynasty. Shortly after his death, Xian Di Liu of the Eastern Han Dynasty had to live in the fate of being "held by the emperor to make princes".
After the young Liu Hong ascended the throne, the first thing he faced was the party struggle between the scholar-bureaucrat group and the eunuch group. Liu Hong, who is only 12 years old, has had a great influence on his mind and even his life. Since the Han Dynasty and the emperor, the power of the Eastern Han Empire has been in the hands of consorts and eunuchs in turn. In the last years of Emperor Huan, the eunuch group won a temporary victory and became arrogant. After Liu Hong came to power, the scholar-bureaucrat group seemed to see some hope, which came from Dou Taihou's father, Dou Wu, who was appointed as a general, Chen Fan as a teacher and Hu Guang as Stuart, who was in charge of state affairs. So the scholar-bureaucrat group began a struggle with eunuchs for power and profit.
Scholar-bureaucrat group began to take some eunuchs with slight power and notorious evil deeds to offer flags. Then, Dou Wu reported to the Queen Mother and demanded that Cao Jie and other eunuchs be punished. Dou Taihou hesitated, and things dragged on. In August, when Dou Wu tortured eunuchs, he found evidence of eunuchs such as Cao Jie, and decided to take this opportunity to eradicate eunuchs. Cao Jie is very clever. He heard that Dou Wu was going to kill them. He first ran to Lingdi's bedroom and said, "It's noisy outside. Something happened. Please come out of the front hall of the Royal Deyang. " Holding the emperor as a minister and getting the little emperor to his side. So, Cao Jie began all measures aimed at preventing the scholar-bureaucrat group. He ordered the closure of the palace gate and confiscated Jeff's seal for the order; Forcing Shangshutai officials to draft imperial edicts; Hijacking Empress Dowager Cixi, seizing the imperial seal, and immediately arresting Dou Wu. In desperation, he fought into the barracks and killed the eunuch who arrested him. Wang Fu and others heard that Dou Wu resisted arrest and fled, so they gathered guards to guard the south gate of the imperial city.
When Dou Wu saw that the tide was gone, he started to flee, and Wang Fu urged his soldiers to keep up. Dou Wu had no choice but to commit suicide. When Wang Fu sent his troops to attack Dou Wu, Chen Fan got the news, but it was getting late, and Wang Fu ordered him to be arrested and killed.
Take this opportunity, eunuchs push their luck. In A.D. 169, eunuchs played the role of "Party", imprisoned hundreds of people, including Li Tang and Du Mi, and killed them. Three years later, Dou Taihou died, and the eunuchs searched for "party member" again, arresting more than 1,000 people. Four years later, the eunuch group ordered that all party member's lineal disciples, father and son brothers, and relatives within Wufu should be exempted from prison. This is the second time after the first "party exclusion" in A.D. 166.
Young Liu Hong doesn't know how to deal with the power struggle between the scholar-bureaucrat group and the eunuch group. He first became a pawn in the hands of a scholar-bureaucrat, and then was controlled by eunuchs. Looking at a man's head fall to the ground, Liu Hong is still a little scared, because his fate is in the hands of these eunuchs in charge of state affairs, so he will say "Zhang Changshi is my father and Zhao Changshi is my mother". Eunuch became the food and clothing parents of emperor Lao Zi! It seems that this Liu Hong is a clever man. After all, he knows what environment he is in. The above remarks are his self-mockery.
Another cleverness of Liu Hong is that the absurd emperor likes to buy farmland houses. Liu Hongyuan is a marquis with a poor family. Therefore, although he became an emperor, he still felt that he should buy some tenant farmers as he did in the reading pavilion. So, he took the stolen money back to his hometown in Hejian and bought a farmhouse to have a look. There are still some left, which are stored in eunuchs' homes, each with tens of millions.
Liu Hong is too clever. If he had a higher IQ, the Eastern Han Dynasty might still live for a while. But this is the only way out for Liu Hong. For this throne, Liu Hong has always felt that the most important thing is how to spend his life happily. Now it seems that the so-called ancestor of hippies and yuppies is probably the most famous black sheep emperor in the feudal history of China. Let's see how he spends every day in court. He drove the car with four white donkeys, hunched over and drove the car in the imperial garden. The dignitaries followed suit, and for a time the donkey was very popular, and the price soared, and the price of the donkey was the same as that of the yard; He crowned the dogs with the crown of being promoted to be virtuous by civil servants and tied ribbons to amuse them. Such a day, can not be happy!
Emperor Liu Hong doesn't like mountains and rivers, but he likes business. It's a pity that he became emperor. If he can become a businessman, the title of the richest man in Tao Zhugong will give way to him. His business career began in the simulated market in the palace. He set up a market in the harem for ladies-in-waiting to sell things, steal things and fight with each other. He took off his dragon robe, put on the clothes of a businessman, and entertained himself in a restaurant.
After exercising for a while, Liu Hong began to buy and sell things, but his goods were "officials". Historically, the reason for selling an official was that his treasury was almost profligate, but in terms of Liu Hong's personality, this may be another way to make money besides buying a house and land. So, Liu Hong hung up the public price of selling officials in the West Park: 2,000 stone officials, paying 2,000 Wan Wen; Four hundred stone officials, four million essays. County magistrate, county magistrate, bargain face to face. Shortages are good and bad, prices are high and low. If you go to a rich place, pay cash; In poor areas, negotiate the price first and pay twice as much when you arrive. This is public. There are also "black market" transactions: Sangong, 10 million yuan; Qing, 5 million yuan. Except for the position of emperor, other official positions can be bought with money. I'm afraid Liu Hong can't tell how many deals he made when he was emperor. However, he thinks that the least worthwhile deal may be with a man named Cui Lie. This person is a celebrity in Jizhou, and the official is Jiuqing. He paid 5 million yuan through Lingdi's mother and bought a Stuart. On the day when Stuart was trusted, all the officials were complete. Emperor Ling turned to one of his men and whispered, "This official has lost his money. It should be100000 from him! "
As a result of selling officials, those who bought officials exploited the people even more, which made the already sharp class contradictions heated up and triggered a vigorous peasant uprising. In A.D. 184, the Yellow Scarf Uprising led by Zhang Jiao broke out.
Jiangshan is unstable, and the spirit emperor can't bear to run the donkey and hit the dog. He quickly convened a command meeting to study countermeasures. Most civilian military commanders advocate destruction by force. Only Lv Qiang, who once suggested that Lingdi should not engage in private property, suggested releasing "party member" to win over the people. Emperor Ling adopted this suggestion. So Emperor Ling appointed the Queen's younger brother He Jin as a general, commanding the troops to be stationed in eight fortresses around Luoyang to defend the capital. Ren Huangfu Song, the commander-in-chief, led the imperial army to suppress the Yellow Scarf Army in Yingchuan, which posed the greatest threat to Luoyang. Lu Zhi, commander-in-chief of the Northern Army, was sent to Jizhou to suppress the Yellow Scarf Army. After several battles, Yingchuan and Nanyang Yellow Scarf Army lost successively, and Zhang Jiao died.
Emperor Ling was very excited when he heard that the "yellow turban insurrectionary thief" was wiped out, and renamed it "Zhong Ping". On the one hand, he rewarded the soldiers, on the other hand, he took bloody revenge on the insurgents. Thousands of people were killed in every county.
In 189, the 34-year-old Emperor Ling ended his short and absurd life.