Yin and Yang in the Eastern Han Dynasty

The starting point of Romance of the Three Kingdoms is the Yellow Scarf Uprising in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

In the history of China, if a large-scale peasant uprising happened in a dynasty, it would mean that the dynasty was almost finished.

Qin, Han, Tang and Ming were all in their heyday and were invincible in the hands of rebellious farmers.

However, farmers in China are the most honest. If they were not cornered, they would never get up and take risks.

It was the rulers of the imperial dynasty-the fatuous emperor, the corrupt court and the insatiable officials who drove the peasants to the wall.

This is a fast knot: the ruler gave birth to his own grave digger.

The question is, the emperor is an order from heaven. How can he be stupid enough to dig his own grave?

The ancients explained this as: luck.

Every dynasty has some luck. If you run out of luck, even the gods can't be saved.

Tao has dry Kun, qi has yin and yang, and they grow together to nourish everything in the world.

The imbalance between yin and yang is the root of all problems.

Take the human body as an example. Internal heat due to yin deficiency and external cold due to yang deficiency. Yin flourishes and yang declines, which is a cold; Yang flourishes and Yin declines, which means to be angry.

Between Yin and Yang, this change, this change. There are certain ups and downs, but they nourish each other, that is, the cathode is positive and the anode is negative.

Therefore, if you catch a cold, don't be afraid. Take proper medicine and drink plenty of boiled water. In a few days, Yin and Yang will be balanced again, and your body will return to normal.

I'm scared when I'm scared. The fluctuation of yin and yang exceeds a certain degree. Yin can't give birth to Yang, and Yang can't give birth to Yin, which eventually leads to the deficiency of both Yin and Yang and the inability to return to heaven.

For a long time, both the Eastern Han Dynasty and the imperial dynasty encountered the problem of disharmony between Yin and Yang.

To be exact, it is a continuous decline of one yin and one yang.

Where there is an emperor, there is a queen.

China's traditional politics is based on a kind of affection. "Hou" is subordinate to "Emperor", but it holds up half the sky in the pool of Yin and Yang in the palace, which is indispensable.

Especially when the old emperor died, the new emperor ascended the throne, and the queen became the empress dowager, even the empress dowager, her status changed and she became very dominant.

Her family, the so-called consorts, also gained a detached political status, even above the royal family, and became the master of the court-this situation is almost inevitable if the new emperor is very young and listens to his mother.

This dislocation of yin and yang in the palace is a chronic disease in the Eastern Han Dynasty and the root of national unrest.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu strictly guarded against the arrogance of mistresses and the interference of consorts in politics, and clearly stipulated that "all descendants and consorts in the palace are not allowed to seal Hou and go into politics".

Emperor Han and Zhang Han were able to stick to this policy. However, this policy was broken when 10-year-old Emperor Wu ascended the throne, Dou Taihou came to Korea, and his brother Dou Xian was made a general.

Dou's authoritarian time is not long, only four years before and after, which is also a sneeze in the Eastern Han Dynasty. After the death of Han and Emperor, the situation took a turn for the worse.

Han and Emperor died at the age of 27, leaving two sons, the eldest son and the youngest son.

Guo Lai Changjun. By rights, Liu Sheng should inherit the throne. However, Empress Dowager Deng, the widow of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, insisted on being emperor in the name of "illness".

How old was Liu Long then?

Just after 100 days.

Every fool knows what Empress Deng is doing.

Deng Zhi, the elder brother of Empress Dowager Deng, was soon made a knight general, and the other brothers were either appointed as commanders of the samurai regiment or served as assistants. The Deng family mastered the power of the imperial court.

After the death of Emperor Gaozu Liu Long, Empress Dowager Deng made Liu Hu, a royal family aged 13, Emperor Han 'an.

Needless to say, Andy Han is also a puppet.

At this time, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, although Yin flourished and Yang declined, it remained stable. The main reason is that Empress Dowager Deng is quite talented in governing the country. Under her rule, the country is "still full of years" and the contradiction is not prominent.

After the death of Empress Dowager Deng, Emperor Xian of Han came to power, and his wife Yan Hou began to enter the political arena. His brothers are Yan Xian, Yan Jing, Yao Yan and Yan Yan. "Enter the Qing dynasty to ban soldiers" and be in power for a period of time.

After Yan had no children, he instigated Emperor Han 'an to abolish Bao. After the death of Emperor Han 'an, Yan immediately became emperor of the royal family.

Liu Yi, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, was not only a child, but also could not be ill for a long time. He has only been in charge for more than two hundred days, and then he gave a critically ill notice.

Queen Yan is not as clever as Queen Deng, and her brother is not as capable as his brother. After Liu Yi's death, eunuch Sun Cheng and others immediately staged a coup and made Liu Bao the king, namely Han.

Han Shun Di was only 1 1 years old when he ascended the throne.

/kloc-at the age of 0/3, Emperor Shun of Han married Liang Na, the daughter of Liang Shang, a minister, and later made her queen. 17 years later, Han died. Queen Liang has no children, and Liu Bing, the son of Yu Guiren, is the emperor, that is, Emperor Han Chong.

Han Chongdi ascended the throne at the age of 2 and died at the age of 3. State power naturally fell into the hands of Queen Liang's younger brother and General Liang Ji.

The emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty entered the era of Liang dictatorship.

Liang Ji is famous for his domineering in the history of China. After the death of Emperor Chong Han, he and Liang, who was only 8 years old, became emperors. Although young, Liu Zuan, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, was "few but good" and once said that Liang Ji was a "domineering general" in front of ministers. Hearing this, Liang Ji sent someone to poison Emperor Xian's food, which poisoned Emperor Xian and made Herry Liu, who was 15 years old, the Emperor Xian.

Emperor Huan of Han also married Liang Ji's sister and became a queen.

After Liang entered the customs, he was assisted by generals, and the food city occupied 30 thousand households. Even Sun Shou, his wife, made it a title to enjoy the treatment of princess royal. Liang Ji has been in power for more than 20 years. Liang Jia appointed seven people, two generals and as many as 57 provincial and ministerial cadres. His power is so great that he "dares to disobey orders", and even the son of heaven is only "self-respecting, so he can't prepare himself".

In fact, it's not just Han Xiandi? Since the return of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there is almost no emperor who is not a senior official, and there is no emperor who is not a puppet of the queen mother and consorts. The son of heaven once had the dignity of reigning in the world, but he was alive.

It is not easy for these poor emperors to survive, and most of them died young. Those who barely live into their thirties are already old.

The royal genes are already fragile.

The luck of the dynasty has basically run out.

Later, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang had a heart-to-heart talk and talked about the past of the Han Dynasty. "I don't want to sigh about Huan and Ling." In fact, it was a long process that Yin flourished and Yang declined in the Eastern Han Dynasty. By the time of Emperor Huan of Han Dynasty, it had been returned, and there was no cure for the medicine stone. Liu Bei should sigh, at least from the return of the Han Dynasty to the emperor.

That's a sigh-their Liu family has suffered so much injustice over the years!

Avenue becomes a man, and Kun Dao becomes a woman.

In the imperial palace of the Eastern Han Dynasty, eunuchs were often mixed with third parties other than men and women.

This is what we usually call eunuchs.

The eunuch was a man, but his penis was cut off, so he became very strange, neither male nor female.

They are foreign bodies in the world of yin and yang, which is the climax.

But when the imbalance between Yin and Yang reaches a certain level, it pushes from the edge to the center, which plays an unexpected role.

During the Han Dynasty and Emperor Wudi of Han Dynasty, Dou Guifei's family was autocratic. Relying on the eunuch Zheng Zhong, the emperor first designed to capture Dou Xian's henchmen alive, and then cut Dou Xian's rank, forcing him to commit suicide without bloodshed, thus solving the problem of Dou's family. After the emperor, in the battle between Yin and Yang, the eunuch's power began to emerge.

When Emperor Shao of Han Dynasty died, eunuch Sun Cheng conspired with the men of abandoned Prince Liu Bao to launch a coup, killed his consort Yan and made Liu Bao emperor. In order to repay Sun Cheng, Liu Bao, Emperor Shun of Han Dynasty, not only made Sun Hou, but also worshipped him as the captain of the riding team, and promised his adopted son a hereditary title, which set a precedent of "eunuch's adopted son attacked the title after learning about it". The political status of eunuchs has never been so high.

During the period of Emperor Chong, Emperor Zhi and Emperor Huan in Han Dynasty, Liang, the consort, was good at power and reached its peak. Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty actually made some achievements, and made an alliance with five Chinese and Korean attendants (all eunuchs), such as Shan Chao, Tang Heng. /kloc-more than 0/000 imperial soldiers led by eunuchs staged a coup, surrounded the government and wiped out Liang in one fell swoop.

Shan Chao and others sealed Hou on the same day and were called "Five Hou" by the world.

Shan Chao was even named a cycling general, which was a great honor.

Compared with Liang's arrogance and extravagance, Wuhou is even worse. Their brothers are in-laws. "They are all slaughtering states and counties, superior to the people, no different from thieves." The people of the Han Dynasty, sending wolves to meet tigers, were miserable.

After the death of Emperor Huan of Han Dynasty, there were no children. His widow, Dou Taihou Li 12-year-old Liu Hong, was the emperor and a general of Dou Wu, the father of Emperor Gaozu and Dou Taihou.

Dou Wu wanted to eradicate the eunuch power, but Dou Taihou disagreed. The eunuchs got wind of it and, under the leadership of the leader Cao Jie, staged a palace coup, killing Dou Wu and others.

After Cao Jie came to power, he played with Emperor Han Ling and controlled the state affairs. Even the prince could not escape from his clutches. Behind Cao Jie, Zhang Rang, twelve eunuchs and other officials were appointed. They are powerful, disrupting the Chaogang and hurting the people.

In short, the Eastern Han Dynasty was either a consort or a eunuch, and the emperor was just a puppet. After the Yellow Scarf Uprising was pacified, He Jin, the brother of Emperor He of Han Ling, gradually came to power. After the death of Emperor Han Ling, he strongly intervened in the battle for the throne and made Liu Bian, the prince born to Queen He, the emperor of Han Shao.

General Ben is determined to eradicate the eunuch clique. As we all know, his IQ is not enough, but the eunuch took the lead in killing him, which led Dong Zhuo to lead troops to Beijing and monopolize power. Dong Zhuo abolished the Emperor Shaodi of Han Dynasty and made Liu Xie, the younger brother of the Emperor Shaodi of Han Dynasty, as the monarch, in order to contribute to the Han Dynasty. The princes of the world compete for supremacy; The three countries stood firm and began. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Yin and Yang families of the imperial dynasty finally perished in the fire that Dong Zhuo burned Luoyang.