A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 328 Yangjia New System
However, this matter was discovered by Liu Bao's wet nurse Song E. She immediately joined forces with Sun Cheng and others from the Zhonghuang clan and agreed to discuss and establish Liu Bao as emperor.

Not long after, the news reached Liu Bao. Liu Bao was still hesitating. Yuan Ke, the Prime Minister of Jiyin, said: "The position of prince was originally yours, but it was deprived of it by the Queen Mother's design. Now they want to usher in other princes." When he became emperor, all he wanted was to continue his power.

Are you now prevented from even mourning the late emperor? If their plan succeeds, is there any way for you to survive? And it is precisely because they knew this reason and their ambitions that the ministers did not agree to the edict for Liu Yi to ascend the throne. This is the reason why they are all waiting for you.

During the reign of the late Emperor, you have seen with your own eyes how the Queen Mother's relatives, Wang Sheng and others disrupted the government. They squandered the hundreds of millions of money and food in the treasury. If it hadn't been for the decades of accumulation by the previous emperors, , this big man has already been on fire.

For your own sake and for the sake of the big man, please don’t hesitate, we are willing to be the vanguard for you. "

Under the persuasion of Yuan Ke and the ministers of Jiyin beside him, Liu Bao finally made up his mind.

November 4th

At night, the sky will turn bright soon.

When Jiang Jing, Liu An, Chen Da and others walked to the palace gate and were about to set off, nineteen eunuchs including Sun Cheng of the Zhonghuang Gate worked together to kill them at the palace gate and opened the palace gate. Liu Bao and others waiting outside the door welcomed him into the palace.

Under the protection of everyone, Liu Bao came to Emperor An's spirit and ascended the throne as Emperor An's eldest son. All the ministers knelt down to support him. Seeing this, Queen Mother Yan knew that there was nothing she could do to save her life, so she had to leave sadly. Waiting for Liu Bao's disposal.

Sun Cheng and other nineteen eunuchs were awarded the title of "Nineteen Marquis" because of their meritorious service.

After Liu Bao ascended the throne, the next day, he killed all the Yan family's relatives and their party members who were rebellious. He also moved the Queen Mother Yan to live in a palace far away from the center of power, and all her family members were sent to Bijing County on the border.

Later, an edict was issued: In response to Empress Dowager Deng's kindness and sympathy for Deng Zhao's innocence, he issued an edict to restore Deng Zhao's clan members to the imperial court and appointed twelve of Deng Zhao's relatives as doctors.

At the same time, Taiwei Yang Zhen, who was falsely accused and died during the reign of Emperor An, was vindicated against Zhaoxue and reburied with ceremony.

Situ Yuan Chang was dismissed, and Yuan Ke, the Prime Minister of Jiyin, was appointed Situ. However, Yuan Tang, the son of Yuan Chang, was promoted to one of the nine ministers.

Liu Bao's series of actions were quickly recognized by the ministers. The blocked government orders since Emperor An began to be implemented smoothly, and Liu Bao's orders were well implemented.

The first year of Yongjian
Liu Bao officially began to exercise his own rights. Since he ascended the throne through eunuchs, he paid special attention to eunuchs and appointed several of the most loyal eunuchs around him as Zhongchangshi.

The rank of Zhongchang Shi is equivalent to two thousand stones, and most of them are eunuchs. They can convey edicts and handle documents for the emperor, and have great power.

Yu Xu was a disciple of Legalism. He was a serious, honest man with an upright character. He was a practitioner of both Legalism and Confucianism. He was recommended by Taiwei Bai Zhi to serve as a doctor. He later served as the magistrate of Xiuwu County and the prefect of Wudu. At the beginning of the year, he took over as the school captain of Sili.

Zhang Fang, the Standing Attendant, abused his power and accepted bribes by virtue of his position. Every time Yu Xu broke the law against powerful people, he was prosecuted according to law. However, the memorials he submitted were often withheld by Zhang Fang and were not allowed to be reported.

After many times, Yu Xu became so angry that he tied himself up and went to see Tingwei.

After Zhang Fang heard about it, he was deeply afraid that his story would be exposed, so he rushed to Liu Bao, knelt on the ground and cried out for injustice. His posture was so miserable that tears and snot flew from his nose. The sadness of his injustice made Liu Bao's heart soften all of a sudden. Come down, after all, it is the person who has been with you since childhood.

"Your Majesty, I have never done anything that violates Han law. This Yu Xu must have looked down on me because I am an eunuch. How can I have the heart to enjoy wealth and honor if I have no descendants?"

This slave has been above Your Majesty all her life. Only when Your Majesty is well can this slave be better. If Your Majesty is unhappy, how can this slave survive?
Those ministers have always looked down on imperfect people like slaves. They want to make His Majesty independent and make Him only at their mercy. Therefore, they want to kill all the slaves. Their hearts are really cruel.

If handing over the slave can save His Majesty's face with the foreign ministers, then the slave will have no regrets even if he dies. It's just a pity that the slave cannot accompany His Majesty. The slave is unwilling to accept it. The slave still wants to accompany His Majesty until a hundred years from now. ah.

Woo woo woo..."

"Zhang Daban, don't cry. Since you have never done this, I will not let others wrongly accuse you. Don't worry, you are my servant. I will never forgive anyone who dares to wrongly accuse you."

So Liu Bao immediately ordered that Yu Xu be sent to serve in Zuoxiao.

When the eunuchs Sun Cheng, Zhang Xian, Meng Shu, Ma Guo and other nineteen princes learned that Yu Xu had been convicted of loyalty, they immediately went to the palace to avenge Yu Xu's injustice.

Although the Nineteenth Marquis was a eunuch, he was upright and loyal. He always held himself to extremely high moral standards, hoping to change the world's image of eunuchs as treacherous and money-grubbing villains.

So this time is their chance to prove themselves. After the Nineteenth Marquis met with Liu Bao, he angrily scolded him in front of Zhang Fang for losing His Majesty's face and using Liu Bao's trust to seek benefits for himself. This made the world think of Liu Bao.

But when Zhang Fang asked them to produce evidence of his corruption and seizure of memorials, they could not produce it, and then they suffered miserably in front of Liu Bao.

It is said that the Nineteenth Marquis has repeatedly relied on the merits of supporting the emperor to succeed to the throne, often cursing him, and favoring him. He is like the master of the palace. Now he is helping outsiders deal with Liu Bao. He must have colluded with officials from other dynasties. Together, this is extremely dangerous for His Majesty.

When Liu Bao heard this, he was furious. He dismissed Sun Cheng and other nineteen princes from their official positions on the spot, and sent all nineteen princes to their fiefdoms.

Three months later, Yu Xu's son Yu Kai, after receiving advice from an expert, and more than a hundred imperial students, holding banners, went to Gao Fan, another wise and well-known Zhongchang servant who was well-known both inside and outside the court. He kowtowed to him and shed blood, complained about Yu Xu's grievances, and handed over all the evidence he had found in the past few days.

Gao Fan then explained the matter to Liu Bao. Liu Bao suddenly realized that he had been deceived, so he immediately ordered Zhang Fang, the official of Zhongchang, to be exiled to the border area, and his accomplices Jia Lang and others were either executed or deposed, and were released on the same day. Got Yu Xu.

The second year of Yongjian
Liu Bao recognized his wet nurse Song E for her meritorious service, so he granted Song E the title of Lord of Shanyang, granting him a settlement of 5,000 households.

In the same year, Banyong, the governor of the Western Regions, conquered the Yanqi Kingdom in the Western Regions, and then seventeen other countries including Qiuci, Shule, Yutan, and Shache came to express their vassalage.

Ban Yong is the son of Ban Chao. Due to the political chaos after the death of Emperor He, the expelled Northern Xiongnu occupied part of the Wusun Kingdom. They joined forces with Cheshi and other countries to launch attacks on the Han Dynasty's Liangzhou many times, threatening the Han Dynasty in Liangzhou. State rule.

Many countries in the Western Regions took the opportunity to break away from the rule of the Han Dynasty. By this time, Ban Chao had also passed away. Although Ren Shang, the former military governor, had experience in protecting the Northern Xiongnu, the Western Regions were different from the Northern Desert. He was besieged Shule City many times. The Han Dynasty had no choice but to abolish the Protectorate again.

When Emperor He ascended the throne, Empress Dowager Deng came to the court to listen to the government, and the political situation of the Han Dynasty was stable. Some courtiers proposed to close Yumen Pass again and abandon the Western Regions.

But in the end, Empress Dowager Deng followed the advice of the Dunhuang governor Zhang Jue and the court lieutenant Chen Zhong, increased troops to maintain her rule over the Western Regions, and appointed Ban Chao's eldest son Ban Yong as the chief historian of the Western Regions. He led 500 prisoners and stationed them in Liuzhong of the Western Regions.

After arriving in the Western Region, Ban Yong quickly conquered the Cheshi Kingdom and continued to conquer other countries. It is only now that the entire Western Region has been calmed down again.

Therefore, Liu Bao established the Western Regions Changshifu, with Ban Yong as the chief historian, to control the countries in the Western Regions.

Yongjian three years
Liu Bao felt deeply that he had wrongly blamed the Nineteenth Marquis, and was grateful for their contribution to protecting loyal ministers, so he recalled them to Luoyang, the capital.

The first year of Yangjia (the fifth year of Yongjian)
Liu Baocai appointed Liang Yu as his queen.

In the same year, Liu Bao was dissatisfied with the current imperial examination system. He believed that after hundreds of years of development, the imperial examination system could no longer meet the court's needs for recruiting talents. Moreover, in recent years, the talents selected from various places were even more mixed, which made him extremely dissatisfied. , ordered the Chancellor to draft a reform charter.

November

Shangshu ordered Zuo Xiong to submit a letter to Liu Bao titled "Report to the Imperial Court on Selecting Good Scholars to Replace Chen Shu". The key point was that the original process of only recommendation was changed to one in which the Xiaolian recommended by each county every year needed to go to Luoyang to participate. The examination of filial piety and integrity was held uniformly by Shangshutai.

Only Xiaolian who passed the exam could be appointed to an official position by the imperial court. Those who failed the exam would return the same way. The candidates had to prepare their own travel expenses, food and accommodation, and the imperial court would not bear the expenses of the candidates.

Not only that, if the Xiaolian recommended by the county fails to pass the examination, it will also affect the court's examination of the county chiefs every three years, and affect the promotion of the prefect and the prime minister.

After Liu Bao read it carefully, he thought it was very reasonable, and immediately promulgated the law through an edict to form a custom, which gave the inspection and examination system a completely new look.

Although an examination system has been added to the examination system, most of the filial and honest candidates recommended by prefectures and counties every year are from wealthy families, and few are from poor families.

The second year of Yangjia
Earthquakes, landslides, and fires occurred in many places around the world.

Since the Han people believed in the Five Elements theory and proverbs, once a disaster occurred, it was easy to blame the emperor and ministers. If someone said that the disaster occurred because the emperor was unethical, the emperor would have to punish himself.

If it is pinned on a minister, the minister will be dismissed from office.

Therefore, Liu Bao was very worried and asked the court officials about countermeasures. Li Gu, the imperial censor, took the opportunity to write a letter urging Liu Bao to send his wet nurse Song E out of the palace and return to his home. Virtuous eunuchs accompany you.

After Liu Bao read his countermeasures, he adopted most of them, and immediately sent the wet nurse Song E out of the palace and placed her in the mansion. All the regular servants kowtowed to apologize, so "the court was solemn."

(End of this chapter)