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Let's talk about the new month's updates. As we all know, today is the twenty-third day of the lunar month, and the New Year is less than a week away. And this time is undoubtedly the busiest time of the year, and Snow Love is no exception. In order not to break the change during the Chinese New Year, Xue Lian had to leave a little manuscript.

However, because of the continuous outbreak last month, Xue Lian did not have even a single word of manuscript, after all, it was really difficult to update 95 chapters of nearly 300,000 words in 17 days. Therefore, in the next few days, it will definitely not be possible to break out more than five watches a day like last month, and it may only be possible to guarantee two watches a day, I hope you can understand.

Moreover, after the New Year, Snow Love may not be able to explode like that anymore. After all, after the New Year, you have to start working, and Xue Lian has to start working. The results of this book are so poor that it is certainly impossible to support your family by codewords.

Of course, Xue Lian will not give up this book, and everyone can rest assured. Let me tell you about Xue Lian's plan, according to the original setting, this book is divided into the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Northern Hu Expedition, the princes fighting for Dong, the heroes competing for the deer, the world is divided into three parts, the Central Plains is unified, and the hegemony of Huaxia A total of seven scripts, and each script includes seven volumes of 42 to 440,000 words, and the total number of words in this book will be 2.9 million to 3 million.

I hope you will support Xue Lian a lot, so that Xue Lian can successfully complete this book according to the plan.

Finally, today is Chinese New Year's Eve, and I wish you all a good New Year in advance.

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The Son of Heaven's favor for Li Yi is obvious, who is so generous now and desperately sends money to the Son of Heaven?

Liu Yu said something that he didn't like at this time, it was purely self-inflicted. What's more, Liu Yu didn't want to raise any objections at all, in his heart, he had always regarded Li Yi as his protégé and his own person. So Liu Yu said without thinking: "Your Majesty Shengming." The former general put down the rebellion in Liaodong and worked hard and made great achievements, so he should be rewarded. ”

The Son of Heaven stared at Liu Yu seriously, and he was a little creepy.

It's not that he doesn't understand the mind of the Son of Heaven, but the mind of the Son of Heaven is really appalling and thrilling, there are many such things in history, wasn't that time a bloody storm and a river of blood?

Liu Yu didn't dare to think about it, whether it was from the perspective of the country or the life of his own clan, this kind of thing could not be sticky. As long as it's sticky. Whether it is a loser or a winner, how many people are not in a different place in the end, exterminating the Nine Clans?

Abolishing the heirs and establishing a concubine is itself a violation of the law of the Han Dynasty and is not tolerated between heaven and earth, which is a great rebellion. This kind of thing is never allowed even in the ordinary gate valve family, and those who have different intentions will be punished by family law, let alone in the royal family.

Liu Yu felt that the Son of Heaven in front of him was not only joking with the life of the little prince Liu Xie, but also joking with his mother Empress Dowager Dong and the family of Empress Dowager Dong. is even joking about the social structure of the Han Kingdom. The Son of Heaven even dared to do such a thing.

The Son of Heaven looked at Liu Yu with mixed feelings.

He understands the heart of being a courtier. While glory and wealth are tempting, life is more important.

With the same words, he tested Yang Ci one after another. asked Zhao Zhong, asked Huangfu Song, and even asked Xiao Huangmen Jian Shuo, who he was very fond of recently, but no one answered him. Everyone talked about him left and right. A look of ignorance.

Only the old lady Yang Ci, the teacher of the Son of Heaven, he was in the last month. That is, before he died, he made a note and said a lot of vague words, but the meaning was obvious, and he advised His Majesty to dispel this idea.

But the Son of Heaven didn't think so.

Wang Meiren's death woke up this mediocre and confused person. He didn't care very much about Wang Meiren's death, but found that he was not the Son of Heaven at all, he had no right to do whatever he wanted, and he was an idiot who was called "the Son of Heaven".

He was twenty-six years old.

He began to re-examine and think about the power in his hands, and finally he came to the conclusion that he had no rights himself, and that his rights were taken away by the eunuchs, relatives and ministers around him.

This dynasty since the Guangwu Emperor, lasted more than 200 years, among the 14 emperors, there were 9 under the age of 15 who ascended the throne, the youngest was the Emperor Yan, who was born only 100 days before becoming the emperor.

When the young emperor ascended the throne, he could not personally manage the affairs of the court, and the queen mother was usually in charge of the court. The queen mothers had limited abilities and couldn't trust others, so they had to reuse their families to handle political affairs.

The young empress dowagers let their fathers and brothers serve as auxiliary ministers, controlling the military and political power, and gradually formed a situation of dictatorship over their relatives.

From the fourth generation of the emperor and the emperor Liu Zhao of this dynasty, the eunuchs gradually increased their power from simply serving the emperor to conveying the emperor's edicts and mastering documents because they were often close to the emperor.

When the young emperor became an adult, he had to be pro-government and in power, and they could only rely on the closest eunuchs around them to launch a palace coup d'état, knock out the forces of their relatives, and seize power, so the situation of the eunuch dictatorship was formed.

When the emperor died, his mother and his father and brother elected the young crown prince as the emperor, and his relatives seized power from the eunuchs, so there was a situation of dictatorship of foreign relatives.

When the young emperor grew up, he relied on eunuchs to fight his relatives.

As a result, there was a turbulent situation in which relatives and eunuchs alternated in power and usurped power with each other.

Because many emperors after Emperor Xiaohe died at an early age, such as Emperor Yan's reign was only nine months, the young emperor was only eight months, Emperor Chong was only five months, Emperor Qiandi was only seven months, and the abolished emperor was only five months, so that the struggle between relatives and eunuchs was more intense.

Whether it is a relative or a eunuch, the emperor is a puppet and can only be at the mercy of one of these two forces.

But no matter how these two forces manipulate the dynasty, another force of the Han Dynasty that will never collapse has been stubbornly and unswervingly pushing the Han Dynasty forward, which is the gate valve family.

The clans absolutely rejected eunuchs. The reason for the rejection of eunuchs is very simple, in the eyes of the gate lord family, eunuchs do not have personality, but are just slaves who hold brooms and serve lamps in the heavenly womb. Between the monarch and the minister, there is the righteousness of the society at all, and the real courtier should be the minister of the community, not the private minister of the Son of Heaven, so the king must not be rude to the minister. The courtiers could go to the king, but not the eunuchs.

The bureaucrats of the clan also rejected their relatives, but the relatives were all from the clan of the gatekeepers, which caused them to be inextricably linked. At a certain time, the bureaucrats of the clan often joined forces with their relatives to deal with the eunuchs in the palace.

However, there is one thing that the bureaucrats from the gatekeeper family will never understand. When the eunuchs first intervened in court politics, they were not bent on getting along with the bureaucrats.

The Son of Heaven, who was imprisoned in the palace by the bureaucrats of the world with various systems and rituals, from time to time wanted to extend his ears, eyes, hands and siblings to the wider world outside the palace, he wanted to do whatever he wanted, and he wanted to directly intervene in the government controlled and manipulated by the bureaucrats.

However. The Son of Heaven could not take back the rights that had been seized by his relatives, and he was imprisoned by the rules and precepts of the bureaucrats of the world, what should he do? How does he survive?

The Son of Heaven could only rely on the eunuchs for the rights he had lost. If the Son of Heaven does not rely on these handwright people around him, even if he stands up to the sky, he will be at a loss, and he will really become a humble name that he hangs on his lips all day long.

In addition, there is another important reason why the Son of Heaven relies on eunuchs, that is, the personal relationship between the Son of Heaven and the eunuchs. The master and the slave have been together day and night for more than ten years. Even for decades, the relationship between them, if not the most sincere, is not something that can be replaced by the noble but cold morality of the righteousness of the monarch and the minister.

Five years ago, when the eunuchs tried their best to instigate the Son of Heaven to appoint He Gui as the queen. The eunuchs had a purpose. Because they don't want to ornate a woman from the gate lord clan as the queen, so as not to have a powerful general like Liang Yi and Dou Wu, which will pose a threat to their survival.

Empress He is a native of Nanyang. Coming from a humble background, her family has been a butcher for generations. When Queen He entered the palace, she also relied on the help of eunuchs.

The palace maid must be from a good family. But the He family is cheap and unqualified.

Guo Sheng, a fellow countryman of Empress He, presided over the selection of concubines that year, which was called "counting people" in this dynasty. After accepting a heavy bribe from the He family, he brought the beauty of the He family into the palace.

Soon, she relied on her own posture to enter the Yeting Palace.

In the palace, the palace maid at that time, the He family, who is now Queen He, has a harder backstage, that is, Zhang Rang, the middle servant, because Queen He's sister is married to Zhang Changshou's adopted son.

However, there was one thing that the eunuchs overlooked, and that was that Empress He also had a half-brother named He Jin. He sells meat with a butcher's knife every day, but he has been praying in his heart that his sister can be pampered.

After his father's death, He Jin took it upon himself to bribe the eunuchs and sent his sister to the palace of the Han Dynasty, intending to get ahead.

The sky lived up to his wishes, and his sister was finally favored and was named a nobleman. He Jin immediately threw away the butcher knife and turned over and became a relative of the emperor. He was first worshiped as Langzhong, then moved to Huben as a general, and then served as Yingchuan Taishou.

On the day of the queen's canonization, He Jin was summoned to Beijing to worship as a servant, a master craftsman, and Henan Yin.

Probably because his background was too low, the eunuchs did not take the opportunity to kill him as they did with the Empress Dowager's brother Dong Chong, but the eunuchs forgot that his lowliness was different from other lowliness: he was a butcher.

Now, He Jin's power is suppressed by the eunuchs and the bureaucrats of the clan, although he is in charge of the northern army, but has not yet threatened the eunuchs and the clan, so the three forces are in a delicate state of balance, restraining each other, and using each other, vaguely becoming a full momentum, among which the power of the eunuchs is the largest.

Their balance of power directly caused the fall of the Son of Heaven's power, and the Son of Heaven just wanted to take a little power back, but he had nowhere to go.

The Son of Heaven knew in his heart, but he dared to be angry but did not dare to speak. He remembered that when the great general Dou Wu and the Taifu Chen Fan plotted to punish the eunuchs, the situation was very good. At that time, the general mastered the five battalions of the Northern Army, the Yulin Army, the Tiger Ben Army, and even the Huangmen Order who commanded the Zhonghuangmen were all Dou Wu's people, and everyone thought that it was foolproof.

However, the eunuchs such as Cao Jie, Huangmen Ling Wang Fu and others turned the clouds and rain overnight, but instead hunted and killed the Taifu Chen Fan and the general Dou Wu, uprooting the two factions, and even the Empress Dowager Dou was forced to hand over the seal and enter the cold palace.

Empress Dowager Dou said a very cautionary sentence at that time, people who flatter are not loyal.

But who are the loyal ministers? The Son of Heaven also faced the same problem.

When he wanted to depose the queen and kill the queen, although the lieutenants knelt on the ground and tried to admonish him, to put it bluntly, it was a threat. made a stiffen, forced the eunuch to a dead end, and in the end, maybe the Son of Heaven died in vain.

The Son of Heaven has lived in the palace for a long time, so he naturally knows the trick. As long as he doesn't drive a certain force to a dead end, it doesn't matter how he eats and drinks, how absurd things he does, or even beats people, scolds people, or kills people.

This time Liaodong put down the rebellion, the Son of Heaven suddenly took control of the initiative in the court with the help of Li Yi's strength, he struck a hard blow to the tripartite forces, quietly supported his clansmen, and skillfully left a way for the tripartite forces to live, and finally made a lot of money. (To be continued.) )