Waves at the end of Han Dynasty

Chapter 37 Dormant
Behind a large rockery garden in the West Garden of Luoyang Imperial Palace, there is a very secret secret passage hidden. There are also some organs and secret rooms in the secret passage. At this time, Liu Hong stood in the largest secret room with his hands behind his back, listening to a gray-robed swordsman. report.

The West Garden was built by Liu Hong for his enjoyment in another time and space, but now because Ouyang Long, a butterfly, was built early in the period of Emperor Huan, its area and structure are even more different.

It is said that the royal family has many secret histories, especially under the rendering of later generations of film and television dramas, all the history related to the emperor has become mysterious and colorful...

But in fact, in the Han Dynasty, the mystery of the emperor was only for the common people and the heads of Guizhou. There were many channels for the gentry Qingliu to learn the information about the royal family they wanted to know, let alone the eunuchs who were next to the emperor.

So it can also be said that although the emperors of the Han Dynasty were high above, no matter how majestic and mysterious on the surface, they were transparent and had no privacy for the smart people below.
This can be said to be a kind of sadness, even when some emperors want to make some changes or so-called outrageous things, they will quickly change from a rich world to a betrayal.
But there are exceptions to everything. Now Liu Hong is one. Almost everyone knows that he lives in the West Garden all day long and ignores the government. But these are the superficial aspects that Liu Hong wants everyone to see.
For many years, he has been pretending to be stupid, and even deceived the eunuchs around him, all for one goal: to let the emperor of the Han Dynasty truly control the world since he started!
At first glance, this slogan doesn't sound very good, and you will feel that there is something wrong with saying it. Are all the emperors before him puppets?Is it as strong as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty or the rule of Wenjing and Guangwu Zhongxing?

Only those who really understand the Han Dynasty will understand the meaning of this sentence.

In ancient feudal dynasties, until the imperial examination system came out, it can actually be said that they ruled the world together with the gentry. No matter how powerful the emperor was, he could only lead the general direction of the country.

At the grassroots level, they can only rely on or let the gentry clan control them, because they have monopolized knowledge and education for a long time, and thus control all kinds of management talents from the bottom up.

Then through various means in the form of Uborg, it finally controlled more and more population, land and other means of production.
Therefore, the number of civil servants under the county magistrates in the Han Dynasty was very small, and the imperial power or the ruling class' decrees and will could only be conveyed and implemented through the tentacles of the gentry for many years. It also happens from time to time that Haoyou's family is ostentatious.
Of course, Liu Hong's predecessors have long been aware of this problem, and have been carrying out reforms to find a solution.

Especially in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, for example, the introduction of checks and balances by foreign relatives and eunuchs, such as the two party imprisonment incidents launched by Liu Hong and his uncle Liu Zhi...

It's just that they all failed in the end, and in another time and space and in the history of later generations, the two of them were both embellished and fabricated by the gentry as licentious, cruel and stupid kings.
Although those evil things are not fabricated out of thin air, I don't think it's that serious
It is a pity that public opinion in the Han Dynasty was in the hands of the gentry class, not the emperor's final say, except for Emperor Xiaowu
One of the functions of respecting Confucianism is to control public opinion. Of course, it also makes Confucianism stronger and stronger. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, the gentry who combined with Confucianism can cover the sky with one hand at the grassroots level...

So, after failing to compete for the right to speak, Liu Zhi, Liu Hong and his nephew were vilified by these Han Dynasty black fans.
After the failure, the handling methods of the uncle and nephew seem to be almost the same, they both entrust power to the eunuch and enjoy themselves in the harem, but in fact they are completely different behind the scenes.

Hengdi Liu Zhi was a little disheartened after the first incident of party imprisonment. Apart from reusing the checks and balances of his ancestors and reusing eunuchs and relatives, he just lay down and handed over the problem to future generations. It is just to create some additional conditions for it.

And the young and vigorous Liu Hong, soon after he came to the throne, made a thunderous move to cut off the powerful minister Dou Wu. He was originally complacent and full of ambitions and thought that he was about to accomplish what his ancestors could not achieve, but he also retreated in the political struggle of the second party imprisonment incident.

However, unlike Liu Zhi, Liu Hong, who had been poured cold water on his head, refused to admit defeat after waking up. Although he hibernated in the West Garden to enjoy himself on the surface, he was actually planning to paralyze everyone secretly.

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Liu Hong listened and unconsciously stretched out his hand to scrape some moss from the gap in the stone wall of a secret room in front of him. After rubbing it for a while, he suddenly pinched it hard and then interrupted the swordsman's report with a "hum": "So , the group of rebels in the south can't stand it anymore?"

"Your Majesty, according to what I have learned from Zijiao, Yang and other places, the Longwei thief should have taken some action. If so...Does Your Majesty need to plan in advance..."

"No need, the thieves have stayed away from Man Island for many years. Even if there is demon wisdom, it is difficult to accomplish anything based on him. The worst thing is to temporarily give him Jiao, Yang and other places. Besides, our plans are all intertwined. It's too small to lose the big!" Liu Hong said in a very deep and gloomy tone, still turning his back to the swordsman without moving.

"Your Majesty, although there are many barbarians in Jiaozhou and Yangzhou, the population is insufficient, and the development is slow...but..." The swordsman obviously did not expect Liu Hong to make such a decision, and wanted to persuade him.

"I said, don't lose the big because of the small. I have endured the hibernation here for more than ten years. How can I not bear it now!? Jiao and Yang are not only full of barbarians, but also the gentry live by the water and control the place , At that time, there must be disputes when the thieves are in power, and when the two are injured, my master will go south, hehe, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?" Liu Hong interrupted again with a wave of his hand.

Speaking of it, Liu Hong was a little surprised that Longwei Mansion started to start trouble so early.

Although they fled to Yizhou for more than [-] years, after all, this was in the Han Dynasty with low productivity. The mountainous islands surrounded by the sea, although the area is slightly larger than Zhuya, but there is not much land suitable for farming. Even if the sea division has plundered the southeast for many years, it should not develop quickly.

Coupled with the protruding Xianbei... the emerging prairie lord who swept across Mobei.

In fact, Liu Hong has been under a lot of pressure this year. These two sudden uneasy factors that will disrupt his grand plan have been disturbing his mind recently. Due to the subtle influence of Shuang, I am afraid that he has long been unable to hold back and interrupted the plan and launched it in advance.
(End of this chapter)