kingnovel Chapter 450 Wang Zhaojun
Chapter 450 Wang Zhaojun
In the live broadcast room
Wang Zhaojun felt much better after being comforted by Lin Ke. Xiao Qiao never expected that people in later generations would praise someone so directly, which left her at a loss for words!
After a moment, Lin Ke continued, "Alright, now that the introductions are finished, let's begin. In the Three Kingdoms period, someone was jokingly referred to as 'giving away 100,000.' Which of the following is it?!"
"Cao Cao & Sun Quan..."
At this moment, Cao Cao and Sun Quan, the parties involved in the question, are speechless!
Wang Zhaojun didn't even know much about the Eastern Han Dynasty, let alone the Three Kingdoms period, so she could only make her choice based on her intuition. But what does "sending 100,000" mean? Was it Cao Cao?
Xiao Qiao, however, was not confident enough, so she chose Sun Quan, who was on the same side as Zhou Yu.
Upon seeing this, Lin immediately announced the answer: "The answer to this question is Sun Quan. As for what Sun Shiwan means, we will discuss it together with the Three Kingdoms later."
"Congratulations to Xiao Qiao for winning our prize this time. The rest is the usual."
After finishing answering the questions, Lin Ke turned around and took some things back.
Wang Zhaojun and Xiao Qiao, who were stuffed with a package: People in later generations are truly enthusiastic!
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"Alright, let's officially talk about the period from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms." Lin Ke drank another cup of coconut juice. Ah, it tastes just like the one from my childhood!
"First, let me dedicate a song to Boss Cao." When Lin Ke thought of the Three Kingdoms, the song "Cao Cao" immediately came to mind!
At this moment, people in front of the screen heard the music, making them want to move along with it!
"If you're not a hero, you shouldn't read Romance of the Three Kingdoms."
"If you're a hero, how can you not understand loneliness!"
"Cao Cao didn't mince words; he was single-mindedly focused on taking Jingzhou..."
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After the song ended, Cao Cao in another time and space realized that the song was about him! Later generations really had good eyesight!
Meanwhile, Zhang Fei and others from the other camp expressed their dissatisfaction, asking why no one was singing praises to their elder brother!
People from other timelines have also expressed a desire to have their songs sung about!
That doesn't make sense. Cao Cao was able to use the emperor to command the other warlords, but they didn't!
So, one after another, people voiced their demands in the live stream:
Judy, the Great General Who Conquers the North: All I've ever done is chat with my nephew or play a game of "Nine Clans Elimination" with Fang Xiaoru. Nobody writes about me!
Crown Prince Zhu Biao of the Ming Dynasty: ...
Liu Zhuzhu of the Great Han Dynasty: So, according to that logic, I didn't do anything wrong, I just had people beat up the Xiongnu!
Liu Biao of the Eastern Han Dynasty: If I remember correctly, Jingzhou is mine! How can they be trying to seize it through underhanded means?
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Liu Biao was furious. He didn't like this song at all. How did the Eastern Han Dynasty end and then split into the Three Kingdoms? Where was he?!
Lin Ke glanced at the comments and thought the topic had gone off-topic again. As for Da Ming's song, she played it: "Judy's Happy Song!" Old Zhu was in tears!
Moreover, the focus this time is still the Three Kingdoms period.
So she continued, "As the saying goes, the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was divided into the Three Kingdoms. Let's start from the end of the Han Dynasty."
"The Eastern Han Dynasty was a continuation of the Western Han Dynasty, but in reality, it can also be said to be the beginning of another dynasty."
"When Liu Xiu started his career, he received support from several powerful clans. However, towards the end of his reign, these powerful clans gradually developed into two camps: the aristocratic clans and the commoners."
"Among them, the gentry had a greater say in land and power, especially at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when land annexation intensified and many people were displaced."
There is a saying: "The disaster of the Han Dynasty was caused by Emperor Guangwu's disbanding of the army (from the Military System of Successive Dynasties: Eastern Han Dynasty)."
"The recruitment targets of the Eastern Han Dynasty's conscription system were mostly refugees or unemployed people. I believe that the Song Dynasty had a similar sense of familiarity with this drawback."
Emperor Zhao Kuangyin of the Song Dynasty: ??? He just called it the Eastern Han Dynasty, that's really hurtful…
"As the imperial power weakened in the later period, the drawbacks became more and more obvious. The central standing army was no match for the military strength of local powerful families. In particular, the Eastern Han Dynasty produced a lot of child emperors, which was called the Eastern Han kindergarten!"
Eastern Han Dynasty Kindergarten? Just hearing this name, the emperors and ministers of the early Eastern Han Dynasty knew things were about to turn bad!
They're just kids. Even if they're exceptionally talented, can they possibly beat that group of people?
Eastern Han Dynasty, Guangwu period
Liu Xiu was completely distraught; his face was beyond grim—he was just one step away from crushing his ministers!
The officials below trembled with fear, afraid that someone would make a move and beat them up. This wasn't the first or second time this had happened!
The key point is that his eldest son later learned this trick and would often threaten to beat up his subjects!
What, are they punching bags?
Liu Xiu didn't consider that these people were thinking about this thing; his entire attention was focused on what Lin Ke was talking about regarding the Eastern Han Kindergarten!
He wanted to know exactly what had happened, how the imperial power had fallen into the wrong hands in the late Eastern Han Dynasty!
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Liu Xiu's question was something Liu Che also wanted to ask: What are all these things? How come there are so many children, and the turnover rate is so fast!?
Inside the live stream, Lin Ke took a sip of water to moisten her throat before continuing, "Although the Eastern Han Dynasty had many infant emperors in its later years, it combined three major elements: eunuch interference in politics, the monopolization of power by imperial relatives, and the dominance of powerful ministers."
"In a way, with all three buffs stacked up, it would have been a major problem for any dynasty, but it still managed to hold on for over 190 years!"
"Therefore, being an emperor in the Eastern Han Dynasty, like being a minister in the later Ming Dynasty, was considered a high-risk profession."
"You should know that the average age of all his emperors combined was no more than thirty years old. Even in the Northern Song Dynasty, the average age was forty-eight."
Emperor Zhezong of Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Xu: |_?) He's dragging his feet, just smiles and says nothing!
Zhu Bajie of the Ming Dynasty: ...Is our leader really that difficult to deal with? I think he's actually quite easy to get along with!
Other officials of the Ming Dynasty: ...
"On the other hand, whether it's the maternal relatives or powerful ministers, perhaps it's because eunuchs can't truly become emperors, so they are generally used as a counterbalance."
"However, the Eastern Han Dynasty itself rose to power relying on powerful clans, and by the time of Emperor Ling of Han, the power held by these local powerful clans had become even greater."
"In addition to natural disasters, man-made calamities, political corruption, and heavy taxes, the people bear the brunt of these pressures."
"Ordinary people are starving, and how many of them have died of hunger?"
"Therefore, Emperor Ling of Han also tried to save the Han Dynasty by focusing on suppressing powerful clans, the premise of which was of course to appoint eunuchs to counter those powerful clans."
"For example, the Ten Attendants whom he heavily relied on during his tenure. In fact, before him, the conflict between the aristocratic families and the eunuchs was irreconcilable, and there had been two calamities of the partisan prohibition."
"The second occurrence was due to the eunuchs suppressing aristocratic officials, which ignited the conflict between the two sides, with neither side willing to submit to the other."
"Therefore, the scholar leader Chen Fan joined forces with the maternal relative Dou Wu to get rid of the eunuchs, and then Emperor Ling of Han would continue to be his emperor, but only as a puppet who listened to them."
"However, the classic scene of plotting a crackdown naturally failed because the news was leaked!"
A romantic scholar from the Tang Dynasty: So, it's possible that the seeds of disaster were sown as early as the time of Emperor Guangwu (Liu Xiu)?
The fat crown prince Zhu Gaochi: Eunuchs fighting against the aristocratic families, our Ming Dynasty has a say in this!
Judy, the Grand General Who Conquers the North: You still have the nerve to say that! It was your grandson who started this whole thing!!!
Liu Qi, the Great Chess Master of the Han Dynasty: ...Eunuchs, imperial relatives, powerful ministers—I never imagined that the end of the Han Dynasty would be like this...
Liu Bei: It is my duty to restore the Han Dynasty!
Liu Xiu, the Chosen One of the Great Han Dynasty: The Eastern Han Dynasty has just risen, and it's already time to restore the Han Dynasty?!
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Upon hearing this, people from all different timelines thought to themselves that it was time for them, the common people, to suffer again! They wouldn't have enough to eat, and they didn't even know if they could save their lives!
Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty
Zhu Gaochi had just secretly scrolled through the comments, but little did he know that his father was also watching the live stream!
Instead of entrusting him with government affairs, he was secretly watching the live stream himself!
However, when he thought of his own Ming Dynasty, where imperial power later fell into the wrong hands and eunuchs were also used, he felt a sense of shared misfortune.
At this time, Zhu Di also lamented how powerful the Western Han Dynasty was, only to be usurped by Wang Mang.
Liu Xiu established the Eastern Han Dynasty and allowed the country to recuperate and rebuild. However, just over a hundred years later, the country was plunged into chaos and war again!
Ultimately, you've misunderstood. Not everyone is like Qin Shi Huang, Emperor Wu of Han, Emperor Taizong of Tang, or Emperor Taizu of Song. There's also us!
Oh, I almost forgot, there's also our dad!
In another timeline, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly sneezed: "Which bastard dares to talk behind my back?"
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