Chapter 2 2. Defending imperial power

Yuan An, the boss of a generation of civil servants, just left with endless sadness and unfulfilled wishes.He vacated the position of Da Situ, and within a month, a new successor was born.This is a smart man, Liu Zhao likes him very much, and his name is Ding Hong. Ding Hong, a native of Dingling, Yingchuan (now north of Wuyang County, Luohe City, Henan Province), has three remarkable places in his life.First of all, he has a good father named Huan Ding, who once participated in the revolution with Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu and was named a marquis.No matter what era you are in, having a good father is like carrying a credit card with you when you go out, it is very reassuring.

Secondly, Ding Hong followed a teacher Niu.His teacher, named Huan Rong, was once the teacher of Emperor Liuzhuang of the Ming Dynasty, and was later named Taifu.Huan Rong is most proficient in "Ouyang Shangshu", and Ding Hong studied with him.After his debut, he was very popular. He started working as a waiter and worked until he was too often.As soon as Yuan An left, he picked up a big bargain and became a great Situ. Third, Ding Hong is a reliable person, whether he is a person or doing things, he is recognized by others.He has a younger brother named Ding Sheng.After his father died, Ding Hong inherited the title, but seeing his younger brother was young and pitiful, he wanted to give his father's title to his younger brother, but after the report was posted, the higher-ups refused to approve it.In desperation, Ding Hong left a letter, telling his younger brother that he was greedy for scriptures and was sick.After writing the letter, he slipped away and went out to study.

When Ding Hong took over Yuan An's burden, he felt a lot of pressure. In the past, the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty relied on Yuan An, but now that Yuan An is gone, who should they rely on?Everyone has no idea.In this case, he is willing to be a good man who bows his head and is willing to be a bully, overcomes all obstacles, and opens a broad road for the officials to do things for the ministers. But now the Dou family in the Han Dynasty overshadows the sky with one hand, and the right to speak has fallen into their hands. The old Jianghu Yuan Anqiong has fought against Dou Xianqiong all his life, isn't he defeated?What ability does Ding Hong have to set the flag and open the way for the ministers?

If you think so, it's not too much.In terms of fame, Ding Hong is not as good as Yuan Anxiang, and in terms of energy, Yuan An is much bigger than Ding Hong.But no one could see that in terms of intelligence, Ding Hong was no worse than Yuan An.Yuan An and Dou Xian are fighting for courage, and Ding Hong is also fighting against Dou Xian, but what he is fighting for is wisdom, the long-standing political wisdom. Ninety-two AD, June 1st. At this time, it was only two months after Yuan An left.Ding Hong swam out of the cave like an old snake that had been hiding in a deep cave for many years.

The so-called three fires for a new official to take office, his first fire is to avenge Yuan An. One Yuan An is gone, and there are tens of thousands of Yuan An who are following him.Ding Hong, who wanted to learn from Yuan An, immediately wrote a letter to Emperor Liu Zhao.The book is very long, and the writing is very weighty, every word is full of fire, which makes Liu Zhao surprised and happy.After reading the memorial, Liu Zhao secretly summoned Ding Hong immediately. What the two talked about, no one knows.However, after the two talked for a while, they immediately became friends. The two hit it off immediately and acted secretly, preparing to completely reshuffle the Han Dynasty.

What kind of letter was this that made the fourteen-year-old Liu Zhao seem to have found a confidant, as if he had received the power of the God of Outer Heaven? Let me tell you, this is a planning letter from a pusher. Liu Zhao was very lonely, and he needed a pusher very much, but Ding Hong took the initiative to send it to his door.This seems to be destined, just like when Liu Bang met Zhang Liang, Liu Bing met Wei Xiang, and Liu Xiu met Deng Yu.Liu Bang had Zhang Liang, who overthrew Xiang Yu; Liu Bing had Wei Xiang, who took care of Huo's relatives; Liu Xiu met Deng Yu, and found the ideal and direction of life.

Whether Liu Zhao can bring down Dou Xian today depends entirely on Ding Hong. It is not a day or two since Liu Zhao wanted to bring down Dou Xian.He is the emperor, but he has been manipulated for many years and cannot move. There is Queen Dou in the harem, and Dou Xian in the front hall. In the Han Dynasty, where is the surname Liu, it is obviously Dou; Dou Xian's horses are all over the world , They are no longer satisfied with showing off their power. It is said that they are secretly gathering to prepare for a palace coup. This year, Liu Zhao was only fourteen years old, just like the sun in the sky, which had just emerged from the clouds, and the morning of life had just begun.But Dou Xian, the big dark cloud, actually thought of driving his morning sun directly into the darkness.

This is not a joke, nor is it sensational. According to Liu Zhao's investigation, Dou Xian's boys are already ready to move. What a terrible conspiracy. There are mainly two groups of people who act as thugs to run errands for Dou Xian, one group is the Queen Mother Dou, headed by Deng Die. We should know about Deng Die, he is a famous pimp.Back then, Empress Dowager Dou favored Liu Chang, and it was he who recommended him. As a result, Dou Xian became jealous and sent someone to kill him, which triggered a strange butterfly effect in the history of the Han Dynasty. Another group of people was trained by Dou Xian, headed by Guo Ju and Guo Huang.Guo Ju is Dou Xian's son-in-law, who was then the Captain of Shesheng; Guo Huang is Guo Ju's father, who was then the Shaofu of Changle.Empress Dowager Dou has been entrenched in Changle Palace for a long time, and Guo Huang serves Empress Dowager Dou, who is loved by thousands of people.In fact, I have said it very implicitly, what is the relationship between being favored by the lonely and lonely Queen Mother Dou?Everyone knows it.

These two groups of people sneaked around all day long, extremely abnormal, but they were targeted by Liu Zhao, who was a big kid. It didn't matter if he kept an eye on it, but he found out an earth-shattering news - the emperor had grown up, and his wings seemed to be hardening, and he was going to get him out before the eagle soared high, and replaced him with a chicken and a duckling. The reason why Ding Hong and Liu Zhao hit it off was that when he, the emperor, was in urgent need, Ding Hong was like a captain of a fire brigade, rushing up with a large basin of water to stand by. In his top-secret letter, Ding Hong told Liu Zhao how to do it: When the Han Dynasty was founded, the Lu family almost robbed the Liu family's imperial power. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the Liu family's imperial power was still taken away by Wang.Why did the Lu family fail to snatch it, but Wang Mang succeeded?

There is only one reason for this—if the enemy is strong, I will be weak, and if I advance against the enemy, I will retreat. So if you are an emperor, if you want to keep your butt in the country, you have to be tough.If the monarch is strong and the minister is weak, the ministers dare not bully you, and whoever dares to bully you, you will beat him to the teeth. Ding Hong awakened the dreamer with a word. Liu Zhao suddenly realized: Liu's imperial power has reached the most dangerous moment. If he wants to survive, he must stand up bravely and fight a life-and-death battle to defend the imperial power with the Dou family.

Thinking of this, Liu Zhao finally knew what to do. Liu Zhao thinks that you, Dou Xian, are so arrogant that you dare not take the emperor as a leader, isn't it because you rely on your large number of people and think I'm young?But you can pull people, so can I. You think I'm young, but I think you are old.Until the end, who dares to say that you are strong and I am weak? Liu Zhao is not fighting alone. To break Dou Xian's dominance of the world, he must invite all the sects to jointly attack. It is a siege, not a crowd.The siege is to do things boldly, Ding Hong is one of them, he is the representative of the scholar-official sect.Then Liu Zhao invited an important sect representative to appear on the stage. No one expected that this person was the prince Liu Qing who had been abandoned for many years. We know that Liu Qing was born to a nobleman in Song Dynasty, and Empress Dowager Dou wanted to take him down.Song Guiren ordered a takeaway of dodder, and Queen Mother Dou said that she cursed with bad intentions and was forced to commit suicide.Afterwards, Empress Dowager Dou blew the pillow wind in Liu Jin's ear again, and Liu Jin came out to say that Liu Qing was mentally ill and was not suitable to be a prince, and deposed him as King of Qinghe. In fact, Liu Qing is not only not mentally ill, but also very normal. Like Liu Zhao, he is also a big guy.After his mother Song Guiren committed suicide, in order to protect himself, he never mentioned the word Song Guiren. Seeing that the child was quite pitiful, his father asked Empress Dowager Dou to adopt him and enjoy the same treatment as Liu Zhao. After Liu Zhao was made emperor, of course Liu Qing couldn't stay with him every day, but they still saw each other often.It is said that the two often talked in secret late at night, discussing academics. No one knew what kind of knowledge was learned from the exchange, and Queen Mother Dou didn't pay any attention to them.But Empress Dowager Dou did not expect that the two cubs she personally fed were growing stronger day by day, and what they had to learn was how to turn against her. However, in order to deal with masters like Queen Dowager Dou who exterminate masters, as well as Jianghu cults such as Dou Xian, one must practice unrivaled magic skills.Liu Zhao invited Liu Qing here mainly to find a secret book of unrivaled magical skills for him. Guess what this secret book is called, it turned out to be "Han Shu" written by Ban Gu. At that time, Ban Gu hadn't finished writing Hanshu, but Liu Zhao didn't have the time and energy to study the whole book.What he was looking for was the biography of his relatives in the "Book of Han", which contained the so-called magical skills that Liu Zhao wanted to learn. After Liu Qing received the task, he secretly borrowed the biography of relatives in "Hanshu" from another royal brother, and sent it to the palace on a dark and stormy night. On that exciting night, Liu Zhao read by candlelight at night and practiced two tricks. One trick is Liu Heng's, and the other trick is Liu Che's.Liu Heng killed his relative Bo Zhao, and Liu Che killed his relative Dou Ying. The steps are clearly written in the biographies of the relatives. At that moment, Liu Zhao was in the dark night, but it seemed that the dawn was right in front of him. The night before dawn is always the most worrying moment.Liu Zhao was like a little tiger hunting in the dark, but at this moment, he suddenly thought that he almost forgot to invite a master sect who had disappeared in the Jianghu for many years. This Jianghu sect is the eunuch in the harem. At that time, the eunuch Shi Xian jumped from the harem to the front stage with a sword in his hand, and he was invincible all over the world. It was a moment of glory.Later, the scholar-bureaucrat sect rose again, united with various masters, and knocked Shi Xian off the cliff.Since then, the eunuch school has completely faded out of the arena, and can only stay in the harem obediently, not daring to move. But now is an extraordinary period, everyone is responsible for beating Dou Xian in groups.So Liu Zhao immediately sent someone to invite the representatives of the eunuchs to a meeting. Liu Zhao invited Zheng Zhong, a leading eunuch.Facts have proved that Liu Zhao did not invite the wrong person, this is a superb master, but also the most dangerous master. In the Western Han Dynasty, Shi Xian only acted fast for a while, and did not play steadily, so the eunuch sect lost its foothold.Zheng Zhong, the eunuch of the Eastern Han Dynasty, became famous all over the world as soon as he appeared on the stage. The eunuch finally gained a firm foothold in the arena. From then on, Jianghu will no longer be that Jianghu.It is easy to invite a god, but it is difficult to send him off, and what's more, the one invited is a god who is full of evil from head to toe.The chaotic rivers and lakes and the bloody fight are about to kick off the cruel prelude. Both are masters, Zheng Zhong is different from Shi Xian.Back then, Shi Xian would mess with anyone who was unhappy, that's why he died so ugly in the end.Zheng Zhongcheng's mansion is extremely deep, with great scheming, and his emotions are invisible.When Dou Xian was looking at all the mountains on the rivers and lakes when he was young, he was like a well-behaved cat, squatting quietly in the harem. Only Liu Zhao discovered the unusualness of this cat.Later he discovered that Zheng Zhong was not a cat, but an obedient hound.The hound is most loyal, and Zheng Zhong is famous for his loyalty and filial piety to the royal family. The scholar-bureaucrats, the royal family, and the eunuchs, the three major sects, have finally arrived. Then, Liu Zhao began to assign work.Zheng Zhong was in charge of monitoring the movements of the harem, and Ding Hong served as the Taiwei, stationed in the south and north palaces.In other words, it is responsible for the safety of the palace. At this time, Liu Zhao did not dare to move.Dawn had not yet broken, and he had to wait patiently.He is waiting for someone. That person is Dou Xian. At this time, Dou Xian was not in Luoyang.To capture the thief, first capture the king. As soon as the king Dou Xian appears, he can kill them all. Soon, Liu Zhao heard an exciting news - Dou Xian was already on his way back to Luoyang. On June 23, Liu Zhao led all the masters to dispatch collectively. First of all, Liu Zhao issued an edict ordering Zhi Jinwu and Field Army Colonel to enter the first level of combat readiness to defend the South and North Palaces and prepare for battle.Then, the gates of the city were closed, and Dou Xian's party members, Deng Die, Guo Ju and his sons were arrested, and they were sent to prison one by one. They were directly executed without interrogation. At this time, Dou Xian also returned to Luoyang City. Liu Zhao sent his servant servant to meet Dou Xian. Without further ado, he handed over Dou Xian's general seal and changed him to the title of Champion.Then, Dou Xian's four Fenghou brothers were sent back to Fengguo at the same time.This is just an illusion, as soon as they returned to Fengguo, the edict ordering suicide arrived. Dou Xian, Dou Jing and other Dou brothers all committed suicide.Then, the authors of "Hanshu" Ban Gu and Taiwei Song You were purged one after another.Ban Gu died in prison, and Song You committed suicide. What a game and a dream.The game is over, the dream wakes up, where did it come from, where does it go, everything returns to zero. This year, on August 15th, Sikong Renkai died of illness. He is better than Yuan An, and finally closed his eyes happily after watching Dou Xian collapse.I believe that Xin Kai has spread the good news to the underground, and the two are already on Huangquan Road, hugging and crying bitterly.