Empress Dowager Deng Suili, a baby born just over a hundred days ago, became emperor, and obviously did not go up the road of "supporting and protecting the young lord", otherwise why would she skip the older Liu Sheng. In fact, as soon as Emperor Liu Long ascended the throne, she was already preparing for this.
Previously, because it was not easy for Emperor Liu Zhao to seize power, he needed someone to support him in the capital, and he was still young, so he left his brothers in Beijing and did not let them take the throne according to the rules of the King of the Han Dynasty; but now that Deng Sui came to power, these little uncles were of course obstructive, so on the third day after the end of the funeral of the emperor in the spring of the first year of Yanping, the imperial court ordered the kings to leave the capital and take the country.
However, Deng Sui secretly left behind a person—Liu Qing, the son of Liu Qing, the King of Qinghe, and Liu Hu, who was thirteen years old at the time. Liu Qing had been crown prince, and had made a great effort in the coup d'état against Emperor He, and both Emperor He and Deng Sui treated him differently, so in order to "prepare" for Emperor Huan, Deng Sui left Liu Hu and his mother-in-law Geng Ji in the Qinghe mansion (Han system, the princely states have a national residence in the capital).
Then soon, Emperor Yan did not "live up" to Deng Sui's expectations, as his nickname showed, in the autumn of that year, Xin Di was "martyred", reigned for eight months, and even did not yet reach the age of one, is the most veritable tool person among the emperors so far.
The next night, Deng Sui and his brothers The Che riding generals Deng Xiao (邓骘) and Hu BenZhonglang (虎贲中郎) made a decision to imprison Deng Hu and take Liu Hu into the palace overnight, and immediately recruited a group of courtiers into the palace, and right in front of Emperor Daxing's coffin, liu Hu was made emperor, emperor of Han Xiao'an.
Of course, the thirteen-year-old Emperor An naturally could not personally govern, and it was still "ruled by Deng Sui"!
From Deng Sui's series of operations, it can be seen that she is much more shrewd than Empress Dowager Dou. Empress Dou thought that a teenage child with the emperor could not turn the sky, but she did not expect that the emperor was a black swan, and really let him turn the plate to the limit! And Deng Sui skipped Liu Sheng, even if Liu Sheng at this time was smaller than the Emperor Hedi at that time, the probability of another genius child was almost zero, deng Sui would not gamble - because if you want to not roll over, the safest way is of course not to drive at all! Babies who are only 100 days old are absolutely safe!
And after Emperor Yan's death, Deng Sui would never choose Liu Sheng, who had been skipped by himself, then in this state, Hedi would be equivalent to "the heir"! Since the conclusion put forward by Deng Sui that "Liu Sheng has a chronic disease and cannot be emperor" has been recognized by the courtiers when he was emperor, deng Sui can continue to use this as an excuse to once again abandon Liu Sheng and choose to succeed to the throne with the emperor's nephew.
At the same time, it is still because of Liu Sheng's existence, the legitimacy of Emperor An's succession to the throne is not stable, because in the eyes of many people, the reason for "chronic disease" is a reason when there is a choice, but it is not a reason when there is only one son of the former emperor - well, perhaps because of the obscene power of the Deng family, no one dares to raise objections, but the family behind Emperor An does not dare to gamble on this. Moreover, even if none of the courtiers dared to make a noise, but emperor He's nephew was not only Emperor An, you can go up, why can't others go up? If you annoy Deng Sui, it is really a matter of minutes for her to change the emperor. Therefore, Emperor An and his family could only cling to Deng Sui's thighs.
When Emperor He was alive, Deng Sui was like a white lotus, and as a result, his husband just swallowed his breath, Deng Sui showed such an old and spicy wrist, in order to seize power, he did not hesitate to give the throne of Emperor He to Emperor He's brother's family, if he and Emperor Quan knew, they did not know what to think.
Then what's even better is that Emperor An's legitimate father, Liu Qing, the Prince of Qinghe, also "薨" just right in the winter and December of that year!
In the previous analysis, although Deng Suili and emperor's nephew had various benefits for her, they also had to face a problem - what about the child's father? You know, although Liu Qing is no longer Emperor An's father in name, as long as Emperor An is not a fool, it is naturally self-evident who he recognizes as his father. When Liu Xin, the mourning emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, succeeded Emperor Liu Xiao, his own father was already dead, but he still set off a big storm of "deliberative etiquette" in the middle of the dynasty, not to mention that Liu Qing was a living father? And don't forget, Liu Qing himself was also a prince! As long as Liu Qing was alive, it was impossible not to let him influence Emperor An and then mix with the government!
But it is such a "coincidence", Liu Qing died so crisply at this juncture, a hundred.
The political opponent who posed the greatest threat to Deng Sui was so easily wiped out.
This really can't help but make people think of it!
Has anyone expressed dissatisfaction with Deng Sui's series of operations? - There are still some. Just one year after Emperor An's succession, in the autumn of the first year of the YongChu Dynasty, Sikong Zhouzhang plotted to close the palace gates, and the brothers deng and the great Changqiu Zhengzhong and Zhongchang attendant Cai Lun kidnapped Shangshu, wrote an edict to abolish Deng Sui, made Emperor An the Distant King, and replaced Liu Sheng, who had been made the King of Pingyuan, as emperor. But the matter was revealed, and in november of that year, Ding Hai and Zhou Zhang committed suicide.
That's it.