fell from the emperor's position to Langzhong, and spent half his life as a puppet
Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty was the last emperor in the history of the Han Dynasty. Influenced by "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Liu Xie is a cowardly and quiet puppet emperor in everyone's minds. In fact, Liu Xie reigned for thirty-one years, as a thirty-one-year-old emperor, Liu Xie's life was full of ups and downs, and the experience could not be said to be great, perhaps because Liu Xie, who was born in the emperor's family, had too much experience, and finally decided to spend the rest of his life with a normal heart.
01.Battle for the throne: He Jin was defeated, Dong Zhuo was victorious.
During the time of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, Wang Bao had a fat grandson named Wang Rong, who was handsome and chic, intelligent, and talented, and was elected to the palace to be a good family, known as a beauty. After Wang Rong entered the palace, Emperor Liu Hong doted on him very much, and soon became pregnant with a dragon, but at that time, Queen He was very jealous, and no one in the harem was afraid of her. Perhaps it was from that time that Liu Xie and He formed a bad relationship.
In the fourth year of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty (181), Wang Mei gave birth to a son, Liu Xie. When Emperor Ling of Han found out, he angrily wanted to get rid of the empress, but only gave up after being persuaded by Cao Jie and other eunuchs. As a result, Liu Xie was given to the Empress Dowager Dong to raise, and Liu Xie was also able to contact the Dong family.
In the end, the selection of the crown prince in the later period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty became a problem, because the eldest son Liu Kui was a well-deserved candidate for the crown prince, but he was raised by Liu Kui's people since he was a child, but he behaved frivolously, which Emperor Ling did not like; And the Queen Mother, who was raised by Liu Kui, behaved dignifiedly, and Emperor Ling liked it very much. Although Liu Hong is loyal to Liu Xie, he inevitably restricts the choice of his eldest son, which makes it difficult for him to choose.
In the sixth year of Zhongping (189), Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty was seriously ill and decided to make Liu Xie the crown prince and entrusted him to the eunuch to become a military captain. After the death of Emperor Ling of Han, Jian Shuo wanted to get rid of the great general He Jin, who posed the greatest threat to Liu Xie's support, but he withdrew his troops under Sima Panyin's warning. Soon, Liu Xie ascended the throne as the king of Bohai, and Jian Shuo was also killed shortly after.
Subsequently, the conflict between He Jin and the eunuchs escalated. He Jin wanted to get rid of Zhang Rang and other eunuchs, while Zhang Rang and others curried favor with Empress Dowager He and saved their lives. At the same time, Yuan Shao suggested taking advantage of the contradiction between the ministers and the eunuchs, summoning all the fierce generals and ministers to raise troops in the capital and forcing the Empress Dowager He to get rid of the eunuchs. After Zhang Rang and the others found out, they killed He Jin first, and in return, Yuan Shao ordered He Jin's subordinates to kill two thousand eunuchs. Zhang Rang, Duan Qi and others were unable to resist and were forced to kidnap Emperor Liu Gong of the Han Dynasty and Liu Xie, the son of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, and escaped from the palace.
When Zhang Rang and Duan Jue took the emperor and the crown prince hostage to flee for their lives, they encountered the Longxi army led by Dong Zhuo. Zhang Rang and others were killed, the emperor and the crown prince returned to the capital, and Dong Zhuo took advantage of the heavy losses of the emperor's relatives and eunuchs to quickly seize control of the government. Dong Zhuo immediately abolished Liu Xie and replaced him with Liu Xie, because Liu Xie's ability was stronger than Liu Wei, and Dong Zhuo ascended the throne angrily.
02.The Prototype of the Puppet: We are full of hope, but we are disappointed.
After Liu Xie ascended the throne, Dong Zhuo established himself as the prime minister, and later served as Taishi Ling, completely controlling the ** regime. As his power grew, Dong Zhuo became ruthless, allowing the army to burn, kill, loot, rape and plunder in Luoyang City, while his harem swarmed and did everything he could, destroying the prosperity of Luoyang City.
In the spring of the first year of Chuping (190)."The princes of the Eighteenth Route crusaded against Dong Zhuo's meeting"broke out, in the name of crusading against Dong Zhuo, the princes of all walks of life across the country took Yuan Shao as the leader of the alliance and besieged Luoyang from the north, east and west. Dong Zhuo was powerless to resist, moved the capital to Chang'an, held Liu Xie hostage, and won the first battle"Kwantung Coalition Army"fell into a situation of struggle for power and profit.
Actually, Liu Xie didn't want to be a puppet, but he couldn't fight Dong Zhuo, who held the military power. When he saw Dong Zhuo because"Kwantung Coalition Army"And when he was forced to withdraw the army, Liu Xie saw a hope. He also thought about returning to Luoyang and relying on the strength of the Kwantung coalition army to get rid of Dong Zhuo's control, and for this reason, Liu Xie sent his clansman Liu He from Guanzhong to ask for help, but he was busy chasing power and interests. Liu Xie's clansman Liu He was also Dong Zhuo's confidant, but Dong Zhuo was busy fighting for power and profit with the Kwantung coalition army, and he didn't take him as the nominal emperor in his eyes at all.
After Liu Xie was disappointed, his ** Wang Yun got rid of Dong Zhuo in the third year of Chuping (192). Subsequently, Wang Yun was appointed as Shang Shuling, and Lü Bu was promoted to General Fenwei, and the two jointly governed the government. During this period, Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty was recognized as the true emperor, but sadly, the career of this rare emperor was very short.
After Wang Yun came to power, due to his indifference and short-sightedness, the situation in Guanzhong was out of control. Lü Bu was defeated, Wang Yun was assassinated, Dong Zhuo's generals Li Dao and Guo Yan successfully controlled Chang'an, and Emperor Xian of Han was reduced to a puppet again. In the second year of Xingping (195), Li Dao and Guo Yan clashed again, and Chang'an was in turmoil. Guo Yan wanted to kidnap Liu Xie to his camp, but Li Wei did not have a high IQ and was used by him.
Li Dao and Guo Yan attacked each other for several months, and Chang'an was almost breached. Soon, Liu Xie, accompanied by Yang Feng, the general of Li Dao's department, and Dong Cheng, the general of the Niu auxiliary department, broke away from the control of Li Dao and Guo Yan, and fled eastward through Hongnong County and Anyi.
03.Puppet career: From the wolf's den to the tiger's mouth, completely transformed into a puppet.
It is not difficult to imagine that when Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty embarked on the road of the Eastern Crusade, he was very forbearant in his heart, both helpless in the face of reality and at a loss for the future. Although he had gotten rid of the control of the Xiliang soldiers at this time, where could he go east? Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty issued an edict, and the princes of King Qin, although they returned to the east at the same time, Luoyang and Chang'an have experienced two changes, whether they can revive the Eastern Han Dynasty by themselves, Liu Xie's heart is actually bottomless.
In the first year of Jian'an (196), Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty returned to the east and met Cao Cao, the assassin of Yanzhou, who came to greet him. We know that Cao Cao greeted Emperor Han Xian because he wanted to take advantage of Emperor Han Xian's imperial position, but Liu Xie did not know Cao Cao's thoughts, since Cao Cao was courteous to him, we speculate that Emperor Han Xian must have been very grateful to Cao Cao at the beginning, which is also one of the important reasons why Liu Xie decided to move the capital to Xuchang and rewarded Cao Cao many times.
At first, Cao Cao struck"Serve the Son of Heaven as an order"When launching a foreign war, Liu Xie may think that this is Cao Cao's means to maintain the authority of the ** court, but as Cao Cao's power continues to grow, Liu Xie began to doubt Cao Cao's motives, and Liu Xie began to doubt Cao Cao's motives, making him realize that he had just come out of the wolf's den and fell into the tiger's mouth. Liu Xie realized that he had just come out of the wolf's den and entered the tiger's mouth.
In the fifth year of Jian'an (200), Liu Xie, who was already very dissatisfied with Cao Cao, ordered Dong Cheng, the father of the Dong nobleman, to issue an order to try to kill Cao Cao in order to get rid of Cao Cao's control. However, Dong Cheng refused to reveal his identity, so Cao Cao killed Dong Cheng and his men. Cloth and belt edict"After the incident broke out, the background between Liu Xie and Cao Cao was completely torn apart, Cao Cao no longer hid his ambitions, and Liu Xie was completely reduced to a puppet.
After the Battle of Chibi, the court ministers loyal to the Han Dynasty rekindled their hopes, realizing that Cao Cao was not invincible. Cao Cao realized that the tide was turning, and tried to prove himself'Innocence', and swore never to usurp the Han and set up his own door; On the other hand, Cao Cao is accelerating his rise to power and status.
From the thirteenth year of Jian'an (208) to the twenty-second year of Jian'an (217), Cao Cao's position changed dramatically almost every two or three years, but in the final analysis, apart from the absence of an emperor title, his status was no different from that of the emperor, and his actual power was much greater than that of the puppet emperor Liu Xie.
During this period, Xun Yu, Geng Yi, Wei Yi, Hou Yin and others all tried to change their ways, but due to the disparity in power, they did not succeed, and the successive failures led to fewer and fewer ministers loyal to the Han family, and Cao Cao's power position became more and more precarious. Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty was powerless and could only watch Empress Fu being killed.
04.Hardship is reduced to merule, and old age is reduced to mevality.
In the twenty-fifth year of Jian'an (220), Cao Cao, the king of Wei, died, and his son Cao Pi ascended the throne. Although Cao Cao reigned for half his life, he never usurped the throne of the Han family, and after Cao Pi ascended the throne, he began to collude with the clan and soon usurped the throne of the Han family, forcing the first emperor Liu Xie to abdicate, and Emperor Xian of Han was demoted to the Duke of Shanyang.
After Cao Pi became emperor, he gave Liu Xie some privileges to serve the Han Dynasty in his fiefdom and build temples to serve the Han Dynasty. However, I think that Liu Xie, who has experienced the ups and downs of life and has been a puppet emperor for more than 30 years after losing the throne, is not so much a loss as a relief and relief.
Therefore, after the fall of Shanyang Gong, Liu Xie abandoned the dignity of the emperor, was willing to share the worries of the people, cultivated the vegetable garden, supported bonsai, and hung the soil"Langzhong", between the mountains and rivers, the heart is far away from the palace of the heavy building, participating in agriculture, visiting the poor and asking about the suffering, deeply loved by the people, and respected by the people as parents. There are many legends circulating.
In March of the second year of Cao Wei Qinglong (234), Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty and Liu Xie, the Duke of Shanyang, died at the age of 53. Upon learning of Liu Xie's death, Emperor Cao Rong of Wei Ming sent ministers to come to offer condolences. In August, Liu Xie was posthumously named Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty and buried in Zhenling.