Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 309 Wang Situ (Eleventh)

four months later
Six years of youth (189 years)
Luo Yang
North palace
"Xie'er, come here."

The sickly emperor Liu Hong took the little hand of the prince Liu Xie. He didn't expect that he would be unable to hold on so soon, so he never made up his mind to establish a prince.

At the beginning, Dou's relatives supported him as the emperor because of his poor health.

Originally in poor health, but still indulging in sex, he is naturally a short-lived ghost.

When he was dying, he only wanted his favorite prince Liu Xie to be the emperor.

As for whether this is in line with etiquette, does it matter?

I am the country!

The world is mine!

Don't even I need to follow the etiquette?
"Father." The prince Liu Xie stood beside the emperor Liu Hong, carrying out the last tenderness between father and son.

Emperor Liu Hong stroked the little head of Prince Xie, and then asked Jian Shuo, "Jian Shuo, has Dong Zhuo handed over his military power?"

"Your Majesty, Dong Zhuo accepted the imperial court's appointment of him as governor of the state, but he refused to return the military power to the imperial court." Jian Shuo replied.

Now, he is the emperor's most trusted person.

As the emperor became more and more unable to support himself, the rest of the Zhongchang servants also looked for new masters for themselves. Some cooperated with the general He Jin, such as Zhang Rang, and some chose to remain neutral and sit on the sidelines, such as Zhao Zhong.

Emperor Liu Hong's father and mother both chose to betray him at the most critical moment, which disappointed Liu Hong.

"Whoever messes up the world must be the Yuan family." Emperor Liu Hong coughed and said unwillingly.

Even now, he can't control the court.

General He Jin was in the same gang as the Yuan family, Zhang Rang, the Zhongchang servant, is now cooperating with He Jin, and Dong Zhuo, who controls the military power, is the dog of the Yuan family, and most of the scholars in the world have a good relationship with the Yuan family.

No matter how you look at it, the Yuan family is the biggest threat to the imperial power, and it is the target that Liu Hong must target.

"Yuan family, what a plan, you have arranged Dong Zhuo's pawn so early to erode my military power!" Liu Hong was furious, trembling all over. He had fought against the nobles all his life, and started fighting against the nobles as soon as he became emperor. , in the end, the gentry still won.

"We must prevent the Yuan family from usurping the throne!" Before dying, Emperor Liu Hong kept telling Jian Shuo.

In order to cut off the wings of the Yuan family, he made a lot of efforts. Among them, he promoted Dong Zhuo, the dog raised by the Yuan family.

As for this Bingzhou Mu, it was actually a few months ago that Liu Yan, a member of the clan of the Han Dynasty, suggested to him that he should appoint a son of the clan or a family loyal to the court as a Fangzhou Mu, so as to solve the continuous problem of troublesome people.

"Abolish history and establish animal husbandry, and one side will be stable."

"If Shi Limu is not abolished, the big man will be finished now. If Shi Limu is abolished, the big man can survive for more than ten years. Your Majesty, you should understand this truth."

Under such persuasion, Emperor Liu Hong agreed to abolish history and establish animal husbandry.

Under the circumstances at that time, the imperial court had no other choice. If Shi Limu was not abolished, the great Han would probably die in the successive peasant uprisings and foreign enemy invasions. It would be better to abolish Shi Limu and let the state herds suppress the troublesome people and let the state herds resist foreign enemies. , In this way, the Han court can last for more than ten years. After more than ten years, maybe a miracle will happen?
After all, no one can tell what will happen next.

Believe in the wisdom of future generations, and believe that our descendants can solve various problems caused by the abolition of history and establishment of animal husbandry.

Many times, when a person makes a decision, it doesn't necessarily mean that he likes the decision, or that he is stupid, but that he simply has no choice.

"Your Majesty..." Jian Shuo knelt on the ground, he had just entered the palace not long ago, his strength was weak, and he was not in the same camp as Zhang Rang and others.

"We must...let Li Xie'er be the emperor!" Emperor Liu Hong wrote an imperial decree at the last moment of his life, establishing the prince Xie as the crown prince.

Halfway through writing, he coughed up a mouthful of black blood, fell to the ground and died, and passed away.

"Father!"

"His Majesty!"

The emperor died suddenly, and Jian Shuo immediately realized the seriousness of the problem, so he quickly grabbed the imperial decree, took the little hand of the prince Xie and said, "Your Highness, let's go to the Queen Mother (Empress Dowager Dong) and ask her to preside over the enthronement for you." He Jin must not let He Jin get ahead of the ceremony!"

"I want to accompany my father." Liu Xie was crying. At this moment, he was not interested in the throne, he just wanted to talk and chat with his father.

"This..." Jian Shuo didn't know what to do, but he thought that only he and the prince Liu Xie knew about the emperor's death, so he didn't worry about it for the time being.

However, outside the palace, Zhang Rang and others saw that Jian Shuo hadn't left the palace for a long time, so they secretly guessed that the emperor had died, so he ordered a little eunuch beside him: "Leave the palace quickly and inform the general, saying that your majesty may have passed away." After death, let the general rush into the palace to defend the prince and preside over the enthronement ceremony, and we must not let the Empress Dowager Dong take the lead."

Before the emperor died, the eunuchs were all in the same group, serving the emperor with all their heart and soul.

But with the death of the emperor, the eunuchs began to find their own way out. Zhang Rang, the Zhongchang servant, thought that as long as he hugged the thigh of the general He Jin, he could sit back and relax.

……

Soon after
"His Majesty!"

"Why did you leave me, my concubine is willing to drive the crane west instead of you!"

"Royal father! Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-"

Emperor Liu Hong's two princes and several princesses were crying, as was his queen He Shi.

"A country cannot be without a king for a day, please let the eldest son of the emperor ascend the throne!" Amidst the false cries of the crowd, He Jin stood up and supported his nephew Liu Bian to be the emperor.

This is a common practice. This kind of thing has been staged in Dahan countless times. Everyone is used to it, thinking that it is not much different from the previous relatives establishing the emperor.

"The eldest son of the emperor is invited to be the emperor!" All the ministers, including Situ Yuan Kui, Taichang Wang Yun and others followed the trend.

This is not the first time Yuan Kai has experienced this kind of thing, nor is it the first time for Wang Yun.

According to the characteristics of the Han Dynasty, the next step should be for the foreign relatives to clean up the eunuchs, killing the disobedient eunuchs and leaving only the obedient eunuchs, thus entering the era of foreign relatives in power, such as the general Liang Ji.

Then after a few years, the emperor grew up, supported the new eunuchs who entered the palace, and at the same time rebelled against those eunuchs who had taken refuge with their relatives, and finally found an opportunity to overthrow their relatives, thus entering the era of eunuchs in power, such as Zhongchang servant Cao Jie.

After that, when the emperor died, the new relatives took power again, and began to cleanse the eunuchs again... Such an endless cycle.

In the process of this infinite cycle, the imperial court imposed more and more miscellaneous taxes, the land annexation of the gentry became more and more serious, the life of the people became more and more miserable, and the invasion of foreign enemies became more and more frequent. Finally, when the conflicts accumulated to a certain point, another peace broke out. unrest on this scale.

Because this kind of thing has happened too many times, everyone has an inertial thinking, thinking that the next ten years must be the era of General He Jin.

Wang Yun is ready to please He Jin just like Wang Guang pleases Liang Ji.

……

Half a month later
Hadong-gun

"The emperor died?"

The newly appointed Bingzhou Mu Dong Zhuo felt an impulse in his heart when he received the news, but he held back in the end.

"Continue to wait and see what happens, as long as you have soldiers in your hands, you can always find opportunities."

"I, Dong Zhuo, also rely on being correct in order to be promoted to rank, and even go down in history."

At this moment, Dong Zhuo still had no thought of betraying the Yuan family, but just wanted to stand in line in the turmoil that might occur during the change of imperial power, relying on standing in the right line to improve his power, so that he can become a marquis and so on.

After all, the last time his relative Dou Wu fought to the death with the eunuch Cao Jie, Dong Zhuo was promoted to the captaincy of Shu County only by standing in line correctly.

In many cases, it is better to stand in line and be correct once than to work hard for a lifetime.

After being cheated several times by the court and being forced to take the blame for the children of the family several times, Dong Zhuo no longer fully believed in the court and the family. What he believed in most now was the military power in his hand.

(End of this chapter)