Chapter 38 1. Out of control

Whoever God wants to destroy, he must first make him crazy.For Liu Hong, this is not a paradox, but a cruel fact.In 181 AD, Liu Hong was twenty-six years old.There are various indications that this is a person with a long body but no brain. To be harsh, he may be facing a terrible brain necrosis. In the winter of this year, on a whim, Liu Hong did something that stunned the eighteen generations of his ancestors: he even built a commercial street in the harem, and ordered the maids to open shops on the commercial street. Crazy?It's crazy. What's even crazier is yet to come. Now that the harem has become commercialized, the emperor Liu Hong is no longer the leader of a country.He transformed himself and appeared in the commercial street as a businessman.He, the businessman boss, is not a Confucian businessman, nor does he look like a profiteer, but a real nouveau riche. He is drunk now and now, and he often invites maids and eunuchs to drink and have fun in the hotel.

However, the commercial street initiated by Liu Hong does not seem to enjoy any national preferential policies, it is no different from Luoyang Street.There are robberies and thefts here, and of course the Chinese style is short of money, so there is no need to mention it. After Liu Hong finished shopping in the street, he went to the West Park to race the dogs. The so-called West Garden is the Royal Garden.We know that the Han Dynasty was in the hands of Liu Hong, and the finances were tight and the deficit was prominent. It seems that it is not a good way to use the state's money to repair the royal garden.For this reason, the eunuchs came up with a trick for him.

This trick is to attract sponsorship.Didn't Liu Hong openly sell his official position before? Now he has added a rule that anyone who donates money to repair the royal garden can be promoted.Of course, if you have money and don't donate, he also has ways to deal with you. The method is very simple, send eunuchs to get you some materials, impeach you and say that your political performance is not good, and you must be dismissed or arrested.Officials who are dismissed can be sold again, and those who are arrested have to pay money to redeem them if they want to be released from prison.

The land can be sold out, but Liu Hong, an official of the Han Dynasty, cannot be sold out.No matter what kind of official is below the Sangong, the official bought by paying money is not once and for all, but has a certain period of time.For cadres above the ministerial level, if you are lucky, you can work for two more years. If you feel unhappy, you may take office this month, and you can leave within two months. He only guarantees that you can take office, but he doesn't guarantee when you will leave.Is this a tough move?It was so ruthless that it almost brought Liu Xiu up from the ground.

Some people have personally tried the ruthless feeling of being slaughtered by Liu Hong's blackmail.This person is Cao Song, the father of Cao Cao, who was called the traitor in troubled times and the capable minister in the world by people at that time. The three public positions that Liu Hong sold before cost tens of millions of dollars at most.Later, in order to become a Taiwei, Cao Song devoted all his efforts to sponsoring Liu Hong's West Garden project. As a result, he became an official, and he paid a lot of money and goods. It can be said that there are only those who dare not sell, and there is no one who dare not buy.In the years of war and chaos, it is not easy to make hundreds of millions of dollars, but it takes a lot of courage to throw out hundreds of millions of dollars at once.

Of course, Liu Hong made a lot of money by selling the position of Taiwei to Cao Song, but he also sold at a loss.Later, a celebrity named Cui Lie, who was a court captain of the Han Dynasty at that time, went through the back door through Liu Hong's nanny, and became a Situ after only paying five million yuan.On the day Cui Lie took office, Liu Hong led a hundred officials to preside over the appointment ceremony. At the meeting, Liu Hong suddenly said to the left and right: "I really regret selling the position of Situ to Cui Lie. Definitely a deal." Liu Hong's nanny was at the side at the time, and immediately responded after hearing this: "Don't think that you have sold out. Cui Lie is a celebrity in the world, so he doesn't bother to do such things as buying officials. He is looking at my face. The boss is willing to pay five million dollars."

Privatization of state property and commercialization of politics.In short, how can it be a random word. Until one day, Liu Hong finally tossed everything in front of him to the point of no end. History will always remember that this day was a certain day in February in 184 AD.On this day, a famous rebellion in history took place, and its name was the Yellow Turban Uprising. As we all know, the common people in ancient China were easy to coax, they had enough food to eat, and they ensured peace in the world.However, as I saw earlier, Liu Hong only cares about his own life, regardless of the torrential flood, sorry, you don't care about me and I don't care about you anymore.Ever since, the Yellow Turban Uprising started like this.

The leader of the uprising was Zhang Jiao, a native of Julu (now southwest of Ningjin County, Hebei Province). His birth and death dates are unknown. The history of Zhang Jiao's fortune is as follows: in the name of Huang Lao's art, he recruited apprentices everywhere, and over time he established his own family, called "Taiping Dao".As long as people who believe in Taiping Dao come to them for medical treatment, they will all be free of charge, and no registration fee will be charged.The people came here after hearing the news, scrambling to be the first, and how many people even lost their homes and money to follow. The road was full of people, crowded with people, and even trampled to death.The scene was chaotic, but many local governments couldn't help but sigh: Taiping Dao used this to save the people and guide them to do good. What a great achievement this is.

In this way, under Zhang Jiao's advocacy and the deceitful cooperation of the local government, the Taiping Religion swept the world like a spark, and the number of believers reached hundreds of thousands. Taiping, Taiping, this is the eternal dream of the Chinese people.Is the Tao of Taiping really so miraculous that it can safely send suffering beings to the other side of peace and happiness?Disciple Zhang Jiao will tell you honestly that it is not as miraculous as in the legend. If you are lucky, you may achieve happiness. If you are unlucky, you may even lose your life. If you are not an insider, Zhangjiao believers will not tell you this answer.From their point of view, Taipingdao does not charge money for medical treatment. It is no secret why there is no charge. The main reason is that Zhang Jiao’s medical treatment costs are very low. If the labor costs are ignored, there is basically no cost. of.

For those who come to see a doctor, their treatment methods are the same: while listening to your confession, while reciting mantras and drawing symbols.After finishing it, you take the talisman water and go back to eat. If you don’t eat well and are dragged to death by illness, it means that you don’t repent enough and you deserve to die. It’s none of their business.If you are revived after eating the talisman water, it means that your sincerity is enough and Taoism has manifested. Just such a simple method, from east to west, from south to north, the magic stick Zhang Jiao flickered all the way, even the local government was fooled, it seems a bit miraculous to say it is magical.It's just this magic, the magic with absurd tears.

Many local officials are confused, but those high-ranking officials in the central government are not confused at all.When people all over the country were frantically following Zhang Jiao, one year before the uprising broke out, Taiwei Yang Ci had already smelled a strong ominous smell from the air. Yang Ci, courtesy name Boxian, is the grandson of Yang Zhen.Before Yang Qiu killed Wang Fu, Yang Ci's son Yang Biao had done his best.However, the strange thing is that after the eunuch's counterattack was successful, Yang Qiu and the other four were killed, but Yang Biao was alive and well. It is not difficult at all to answer this strange question. In Luoyang City, the Yang family is a century-old, famous and mysterious old shop. Anyone who is familiar with the history of the Three Kingdoms knows that Yuan Shao's family is very powerful, because he has a signboard of four generations and three princes on his head.At that time, it was the Yang family that became famous in Luoyang at the same time as the Yuan family. The Yang family has gone through four generations, four generations and four princes, and all of them rank first among the three princes, Taiwei, and there are more cows than Yuan's family. It is a pity that the Yang family has declined rapidly in Yang Xiu's generation, and only one who was clever and wasted The fate of beheading. Yang Ci wrote a letter to Liu Hong, saying: "The magic stick spreads its horns, deceives the people, does not know how to repent, and the power becomes more and more arrogant. If he is not controlled in time, the world will be disrupted."But to deal with Taiping believers, it is impossible to catch one at a time.The best way is to first issue an edict to let the state and county governments check the population, send the people from all over the place back to their original places, and then arrest the leader of the Taiping sect and cut them down, so that the fire can be extinguished. However, after the memorial was sent up, it was not delivered to Liu Hong. The reason is that the relevant departments put his memorial on hold.Because of this incident, Lao Yang's political future was almost ruined. Although Liu Hong didn't see Yang Ci's memorial, someone still said it again for Yang Ci.This person is Situ Ping and Liu Tao.Before Yang Ci gave Liu Hong the performance, he told Liu Tao the above words, and Liu Tao agreed with both hands, thinking that this was a strategy to subjugate the enemy without fighting. But after Yang Ci's memorial was submitted, Liu Hong didn't respond. Liu Tao decided to play again, warning Liu Hong that Zhang Jiao's deceitful words had reached a serious level, and he must be arrested and killed in time. Otherwise, the consequences will be serious. Liu Hong saw what Liu Tao said, and not only did he not react, but he even felt disgusted.He even issued an imperial edict, telling Liu Tao to annotate "Spring and Autumn" when he has time, and don't tell him to make any Zhangjiao when he has nothing to do. The helmsman has been derelict, and the giant carriage of the Han Dynasty has been driven to the edge of the cliff.A year later, we finally get to see the unforgiving footage of it crashing into the ground.At that moment, it was as tragic as sparks hitting the earth.