After the Spirit Monarch became an adult, he set up the West Garden for his own enjoyment. The Spirit Monarch used the income from selling his official position to build the West Garden.
Lu Qiang, the constant attendant, remonstrated,"All the property in the world belongs to Your Majesty. Why divide it between public and private?”The Spirit Emperor did not listen.
The policy of selling official positions continued until the death of the Spirit Monarch.
In the fifth year of Zhongping (Year 188), the Spirit Emperor accepted Taichang Liu Yan's suggestion and replaced the Prefecture Overseer. This was known as the Abolition of History and the Establishment of Overseer. Appointed Liu Yan as Yizhou Mu, Huang Wan as Yuzhou Mu; In the same year, Liu Yu was appointed as the herdsman of Youzhou. The result was the formation of warlords in various places. After the prefecture overseers, including Liu Yan, took office, they were basically no longer under the control of the court.
In the eighth month of the fifth year of Zhongping (Year 188), the Ling Emperor set up the Eight Commanders of the West Garden with Jian Shuo of the Yellow Gate as the commander to restrict the military power of the Great General He Jin.
In the sixth year of Xiping (177 years), Xia Yu, the commander of the Wuhuan, requested to crusade against the Xianbei. Tian Yan, the commander of the Qiang, who was punished for his crime, requested to atone for his sins through Wang Fu, who agreed to the crusade.
In August of the same year, Emperor Ling sent Xia Yu to lead the army out of Gaoliu County, Tian Yan to lead the army out of Yunzhong County, and Zang Min to lead the Southern Xiongnu Tu Te Ruo Shi to chase Chanyu out of Yanmen County. Each led more than 10,000 cavalry to attack more than 2,000 miles beyond the Great Wall.
The leader of Xianbei, Tan Shihuai, ordered his three subordinates to lead their troops to fight. Xia Yu and others were defeated and abandoned their seals and baggage. They each led dozens of people to escape. They were summoned back to prison by prison carts and were deposed as civilians after redemption.
In March of the fourth year of Xiping (175), Emperor Ling ordered the Confucian masters to correct the words of the Five Classics according to the suggestions of Yang Ci, Cai Yong, Ma Riqi, Li Xun, and others. He also ordered Cai Yong to write in ancient Chinese, seal script, and official script, and carved them on stone tablets and erected them outside the Imperial College so that later Confucian scholars and juniors would use them as standards.
When the stele was first erected, there were more than a thousand carriages coming to watch, copy, and copy every day, filling the streets and alleys. The carving of the Xiping Stone Scripture provided scholars with a model for Confucian classics and created a precedent for the stone scriptures of the past dynasties in the Celestial Dynasty. It inspired the invention of the hammering method and indirectly influenced the invention of printing.
In the first year of Guanghe (178 years), Emperor Ling established Hongdu School and hung the portraits of Confucius and his 72 disciples in it. In this school, they weren't studying the Confucian classics. In fact, they were discussing subjects that the Spirit Emperor was interested in, such as Ci Fu and calligraphy.
The Spirit Emperor put the students of Hongdu School in important positions. They were appointed as provincial governors, ministers, attendants, and even marquises. The Confucian scholars of the Imperial College often despised these people and refused to associate with them.
Hongdu School was very prosperous for a while, with as many as a thousand students, but it did not last long. It ended with the decline of the Han Dynasty due to the fierce attacks of the aristocrats and the Yellow Turban Uprising.
Hongdu School was not only the earliest college in China, but also the earliest art college in the world. In the Han Dynasty, where Confucianism was the only thing that was respected, it was a great contribution to education to change the old concept of Confucian classics as the only educational content and to promote the study of art.
It recruited the children of commoners to enter schools, breaking through the monopoly of the aristocrats and the landlord class on schools, giving commoners the opportunity to display their talents, which was also meaningful for progress.
The emergence of Hongdu School opened the way for the imperial examinations and the establishment of various specialized schools in the Tang Dynasty.
The Spirit Monarch himself stayed in the inner palace and racked his brains to try out new ways to have fun. There were no donkeys in the inner palace. A small yellow door that was good at ingratiating himself carefully selected four donkeys from outside the palace.
After the Spirit Emperor saw him, he loved him like a treasure and drove a small car to play in the palace every day. At first, he found a driver to drive the carriage, but after a few days, he decided to drive it himself. When the news of the emperor driving a donkey cart spread to the inner palace, many bureaucrats and scholar-bureaucrats in the capital competed to imitate it as a fashion. For a time, the price of donkeys among the people rose sharply. Just as the capital was filled with the smoke and dust raised by the donkey cart, the Spirit Monarch lost interest in the donkey cart again.
Some eunuchs were ingenious. They dressed the dog up, wearing a crown, wearing court clothes, and wearing a ribbon. They swayed and went to court. When the Spirit Monarch recognized that it was a dog, he couldn't help but clap his hands and laugh, praising,""What a dog official." Although all the civil and military officials in the court felt extremely humiliated, they did not dare to say anything.
The Spirit Emperor had imitated the streets, markets, shops, and stalls in the rear palace. He had some of the palace maids and concubines pretend to be merchants and peddlers, while others pretended to be customers. There were also some who pretended to be singers and monkeys.
He himself wore the clothes of a merchant and pretended to be a merchant selling goods. He walked around this man-made market, drank and had fun in the hotel, or quarreled with the shop owners and customers, fighting and fighting. It was very lively. The Spirit Monarch was having a lot of fun here.
The goods in the shop were all rare treasures that had been plundered. Greedy palace maids and concubines stole them one after another. There were even secret fights between them over how much they stole. However, the Spirit Monarch did not know about this at all.
In the third year of Zhongping (186 years), Emperor Ling of Han built 1,000 houses in the West Garden. He asked people to pick green moss and cover the steps, drawing the canal water around the doorsteps and circulating it everywhere. In the canal, there were lotus flowers from the southern country. The flowers were as big as a cover and more than ten feet tall. The lotus leaves were spread at night and curled during the day. There were four lotus flowers growing on one stem, called "Ye Shu Lotus".
And because this lotus only opened its leaves after the moon came out, the moon god named it Wangshu, so it was also called "Wangshu Lotus". In this fairy-like garden, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty ordered the palace maids to take off their clothes and play.
Sometimes when he was happy, he would take off his clothes and mingle with them. Therefore, he named this garden the " Naked Tour Pavilion."
Emperor Ling once dreamed that Emperor Huan of Han was angry and said,"What crime did Empress Song commit? You listened to the evil words of those evil people and caused her to die? Bo Sea King Liu Kui had been demoted and killed. Now, Concubine Song and Liu Kui are complaining in heaven. God is furious, and your sins are difficult to save.”The content of this dream was very clear.
After Liu Hong woke up, he was very panicked. He told Xu Yong, the left supervisor of Yu Lin, about this matter and said,"What kind of ominous sign is this? Can you get rid of it?" Xu Yong replied," Empress Song inherited the throne together with the Emperor. She came to the world as a mother. Over the years, all the people in the four seas have been educated by her. I have never heard of any mistakes or bad voices. However, the emperor listened to slanderous and jealous words, causing her to suffer innocent crimes, be killed, and bring disaster to her family. All the ministers and concubines complained and lamented.
Liu Kui, the king of Bo Sea, was the younger brother of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty. He had never made any mistakes in handling the matter of enfeoffment and serving the court as a vassal. His Majesty had not verified and examined the matter before adding the crime and killing him. Once upon a time, the Marquis of Jin dreamed of a big evil ghost with long hair reaching the ground because the Marquis of Jin had killed the ancestor of the evil ghost.
The morality between heaven and earth is clear, and ghosts and gods are difficult to deceive. They should be buried together so that the wronged souls can rest in peace. He wanted the exiled relatives of Empress Song to return to their hometown and restore the title of King Bo Hai, in order to eliminate the blame that had been caused.”Liu Hong did not listen to Xu Yong's advice and passed away not long after.
Xue Ying once commented on Liu Hong: "The Han Dynasty was revived, but as for Yanping, the cause of the world was damaged. Chong Zhi's throne was short, Emperor Xiaohuan had no heir, his mother was in power, and treacherous officials were in power. Emperor Xiaoling ascended the throne as a vassal, inherited the throne as a vassal, and did not care about the ancestral temple and the destiny of heaven. On the loss of the light of the sun, moon and stars, on the loss of the hope of hundreds of millions of people. At that time, titles and clothes were everywhere, and the official position was obtained by bribery. From the public marquis Qing Shi to the soap-slave, promoted to the official rank, all with money, killing innocent people, destroying loyal people; Flattery and flattery are by his side, and outspoken words are not heard. Therefore, wise men and wise men have no place to live, and loyal and honest people are excluded from the lower position. As a result, the evil men swarmed up, the defense was destroyed, the barbarians invaded together, and the thieves boiled. Small cities are connected to each other, and large cities are connected to each other. The household registration was in turmoil, and everyone wanted to make trouble. At that time, there was no emperor. It happened that Emperor Ling died, thieves came one after another, and his descendants lived in the palace. After the fire was destroyed, there was no master in the suburbs, and the danger arose from the emperor and spread to China. Isn't it painful to make the capital into ruins and the sea depressed?”
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