Chapter 15 The right to be late

AD 121, February. A news came from the harem that made Emperor Liu Hu feel happy and sad.The good news is that the Empress Dowager Deng is ill, and the illness is not serious; the worry is that the Empress Dowager Deng will suddenly come back to life and live for decades. Liu Hu did some calculations, this year Empress Dowager Deng is forty-one years old, and he is already twenty-eight years old.If Empress Dowager Deng, like the old lady Wang Zhengjun of the Western Han Dynasty, lived to seventy and eighty, and then produced a character like Wang Mang, he would be a puppet on the stage all his life, without thought, without soul, and without tomorrow.

Where is the future of imperial power?The more critical the time, the more nervous.Liu Hu's body and mind were almost pulled together. February 12th.Good news came from the harem again, Empress Dowager Deng couldn't hold her back anymore, if there were no accidents, she wouldn't make it through tonight, and the harem was already preparing for the funeral. On February 13th, the dust settled—Empress Dowager Deng passed away. It's really a millennium wait.Liu Hu's tense nerves finally relaxed.He laughed out loud inwardly, then burst into tears uncontrollably. He laughed, laughing that he lived to the end.No matter how powerful a person is, nothing can be taken away after death. Only the living are the greatest victors.He cried, and cried for fifteen years of youth, all of which were made into the wedding clothes of the Empress Dowager Deng.Fifteen years, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, a dynasty with many short-lived emperors, how could there be a few fifteen years to play with others?

The time for revenge has come. On March 28, Liu Hu sent someone to notify Cai Lun, king of papermaking, to report to Tingwei himself.What is the reason, people did not say, but Lao Cai knew it very well. Back then, when Empress Dowager Dou was in power, he participated in a conspiracy to frame Song Guiren.Song Guiren, the grandmother of Liu Hu.If the nobleman of Song had not died, Liu Hu's father, Liu Qing, would have changed from prince to emperor.Then, he will take over smoothly, so there will be no shameful history of being a cow and a horse for the next fifteen years. Knowing that the consequences would be serious, Cai Lun committed suicide without saying anything.

Once the murder knife is drawn, it must be stained with enough blood before it can be sheathed.Cai Lun is just a piece of cake, and then Xiao Liu will let go of his hands and feet and eat a big meal.And the only ones who are eligible to be served on the table of life and death are the Deng family. In fact, Liu Hu wanted to kill him not because, like Sun Monkey, he was suppressed under the mountain of Empress Dowager Deng for fifteen years.But in the past fifteen years, he was almost abolished by Queen Mother Deng. The reason why Empress Dowager Deng was going to abolish Liu Hu was mainly because Liu Hu didn't learn well, he was extremely evil, and he was a disaster.

In order to prepare a new successor, the Deng family searched everywhere for candidates, and they found two spare tires.One is Liu Yi, the son of Liu Shou, King of Jibei, and the other is Liu Yi, the son of Liu Kai, King of Hejian. Two spare tires, the latter one has a good chance.Because Empress Dowager Deng also specially ordered Liu Yi to be Liu Long's heir.Liu Long was a poor child who was held in the arms of the Empress Dowager Deng and became emperor for eight months, but died before he was three years old. At that time, when Liu Hu heard the news, his heart was completely chilled.

Liu Hu felt so wronged that he couldn't speak.Empress Dowager Deng said that his bad nature is hard to change, evil and impermanent, but it is not the truth.The truth is that Liu Hu has grown up, he is disobedient, and it is not very easy to hold it in his hand. Empress Dowager Deng wants to change it to one that is easy to use. The so-called people in the rivers and lakes cannot help themselves.In fact, it was not that Liu Hu was disobedient, but someone told him that when he grew up, he should stop being a good boy in front of the Queen Mother Deng. These people are government officials from the central government to the local government, the so-called scholar-bureaucrats, the most loyal supporters of the imperial power.

Once, Doctor Dugan called another colleague to write a letter to Queen Mother Deng.Said, Liu Hu has grown up, you should not pinch him like this, you should return the government to the emperor and let him handle government affairs. After reading the memorial, the Empress Dowager Deng sent people to take the two people who didn't know how to write the word "death" to the Golden Temple and kill them on the spot. Culling is the most creative method of killing in China.That is to put people in a big bag, lift a stick and beat them until you die, and then throw them into the wild like throwing garbage.As a precaution, the Queen Mother sent someone to check to see if the two had died completely. It turned out that Dugan had worms in his eyes, and he thought they would die.

Surprisingly, Dugan was not dead, and Mrs. Deng never sent anyone to investigate, so he ran away.For Liu Hu, he almost risked his life.But Liu Hu was even worse. He was dragged into the water and almost wasted. Therefore, in the past fifteen years, it is still light to say that Liu Hu is a puppet.He was like a plucked chicken, standing in the cold wind and rain, trembling in fear, and almost collapsed alive in the trembling. Ten years is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge, but he waited for a full fifteen years. The deeper the pain, the deeper the hatred.The Deng family is still alive, how can Liu Hu heal from the trauma in his heart?Soon, Liu Hu ordered the most mysterious unit in history, that is, the relevant unit to take the initiative to impeach the Deng family.

Then, with a wave of his hand, he drove the Deng family out of Luoyang City, demoted them all to civilians, and confiscated their property.Liu Hu treated Deng Zhi a little more politely, because Deng Zhi had done his best for him fifteen years ago, and then retired and returned home, so he had no chance to participate in the conspiracy to dethrone Liu Hu. Being polite is just a piece of paper, it will be torn if you poke it, and it is useless.Deng Zhi was also sent out of Luoyang City and returned to Fengguo.Soon after, Liu Hu changed the title of Deng Zhi to Luohou, and the territory of the country was now Miluo City, Hunan Province.

In the Han Dynasty, Hunan was a mountainous corner, and Deng Zhi was driven from Henan in the Central Plains to the land of the Southern Barbarians.It can be seen that Liu Hu just wants to torture you in another way.Deng Zhi also understood, and died of a hunger strike together with his son.Then, Deng Zun and other three brothers who had fought with Ren Shang for meritorious service all committed suicide. Just like a big play, the gongs and drums stopped when the play was over. Empress Dowager Deng never dreamed that when she culled her opponents, could she have imagined that the Deng family would have this day?

I think she should have thought of it.Just like Huo Guang back then, he knew what would happen in the future, but none of them could escape the arrangement of fate. The dilemma of this fate is that the dead can never defeat the living. It's like a political renovation, throwing away everything that needs to be lost, and then moving in new furniture.These furniture include: Moupinghou Gengbao, elder brother of aunt Geng Guiren, Yan Xian, brother of Empress Yan Ji of Liu Hu, etc.; eunuchs Jiang Jing and Li Run; nurse Wang Sheng and Wang Sheng's daughter Bo Rong. This group of people were comrades who had been faithfully standing by Liu Hu's side during his most anxious and difficult times.If you study this list carefully, you will find that there are not many people on the list, but they are all epoch-making figures. First of all, since the founding of the Han Dynasty, the relatives in power have always been the uncles from the mother clan, but now it is the turn of the wife clan's brothers-in-law to be on duty.Secondly, for the first time, a woman entered the history of the Han Dynasty as the emperor's secret envoy.And this emperor's secret envoy is Borong, the daughter of Liu Hu's nanny Wang Sheng. Concubine lineage, wife lineage, and nanny lineage, the three sects are inexplicably brought together. It is not that history is too good at joking, but a very serious choice.Liu Hu died early because of his biological mother, so his life memories are the memories of his aunt, nanny and wife. In his opinion, there is no one more reliable than these people.In addition to the above three types of characters, Xiao Liu has not forgotten his loyal supporters.So he sent someone to find Dugan. Old Du Dong had been hiding in Tibet for fifteen years, and he was finally found. Thinking back now, life is not easy, this is what Liu Hu wanted to say most after the Deng Group was destroyed.Life is short, that is the second sentence.Liu Hu decided that he would go out for a stroll, breathe fresh air, and release his suppressed soul. Talking about walking is a word, but it is actually traveling.But we do know one thing, the emperor's travel is different from ordinary people.At the beginning, when Qin Shihuang went out, he was so majestic and majestic all the way.He is majestic, but the people have worked hard, and wherever they go, they will eat up all the GDP. Qin Shihuang made a bad start, which made the later emperors want to compete with him. As a result, the emperor was very happy, but the people couldn't bear it. Compared with Qin Shihuang or later emperors, the emperors of the Han Dynasty were relatively restrained.When the emperor wants to travel, few of them go on the road in order to save face.Liu Xiu, the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was a model figure in this regard. He could go out as much as he could, and he would never waste it. It's a pity that Liu Hu in front of him is so proud that he has forgotten the teachings of his ancestors. Many cases have proved that the more inferior a person is, the more he needs to slap his face to look fat.Liu Hu was kept as a pet in the palace for fifteen years. It would be absolutely nonsense to say that he lived a confident life.Now that he is liberated, he can finally come out of the cage. In order to reflect the value of his existence, the first thing he thinks about is to expand his influence. For the sake of influence, he likes to run around, and first went to the east, which is the so-called east tour. In fact, the East Tour is a very good thing.The emperor, in order to understand the conditions of the people, he must go out more to hear first-hand the sufferings of the people.The problem is, he doesn't go out alone, but with a whole bunch of people. A large group of people doesn't seem to be a problem, the biggest problem is that the group of people led by Liu Hu are very evil in nature.Throughout the Han Dynasty, all within the four seas were thrown into chaos by these people. The so-called incompatibility between good and evil, what is right and what is evil?The right to speak is not in the hands of foreign relatives, nor in the hands of the royal family, let alone in the hands of the gang of eunuchs and women in the harem. It is in the hands of the reader. From the point of view of those people who became officials by studying, in this political arena, the royal family is the most decent, followed by the scholar-bureaucrats.The other sects hold power, but they are not justified, and they belong to the classic evil sect.So for the benefit of the world, two heavyweights, the scholar-officials, stepped forward, ready to sweep away the evildoers for the emperor.