Sima Yi, who was enjoying the cool air in the backyard of Chengdu's Taifu Mansion to cool off from the heat, couldn't help but sneeze loudly, "Ah!"

Hou Ji, who was playing with the flowers and plants in the garden, turned around and said in a somewhat old voice: "Master, how about I ask them to bring you some clothes to put on."

Sima Yi smiled and waved his hand and said: "As people get older, they are no longer useful. They can't even enjoy the coolness of this midsummer. They can't compare to what they used to be. No matter how well maintained they are, that's all. Just ask them to get something thinner.

Come here with your clothes."

Hou Ji straightened up and ordered the maid who was standing not far away. After thinking about it, he came to Sima Yi and said with a smile: "Maybe the master has been scolded. If you look at the health of the master, the master's health has been very good these days."

Every day is getting better."

Sima Yi smiled bitterly and said: "Even if your health is getting better day by day, it will only last a few years. After all, time is not forgiving!"......

Under the guidance of Ma Jun, Cao Shuang carefully inspected the various processes of papermaking in the Luoyang fortress. After thinking for a while, he said: "The Eastern Han Dynasty is short of horses. With them, the Huns, Qiang and other foreign tribes who surrendered each time moved to Xiliang and other places.

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The move of the capital from Chang'an in the Western Han Dynasty to today's Luoyang also has a lot to do with it. After all, if you can't even control large horse breeding places like Xiliang, how many horses can there be?

The consequence of their doing this is that even today, Xiliang and other places cannot be completely settled, and there are rebellions by the Qiang people from time to time. This move has really caused disaster for a hundred years!"

From the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was destined that the phenomenon of exclusive power by relatives would appear later. Although Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu himself was a declining royal family,

But he is also a landlord class. His subordinates are not like butchers, dealers, mourners, coachmen, etc. like Liu Bang's subordinates. Liu Xiu's subordinates are all from various famous families and powerful landlords.

After the founding of the country, these heroes handed over their power and returned to their fiefdoms to enjoy their blessings. Family clans began to rise. Rich families were able to monopolize abundant resources, obtain high-ranking officials through their family background and reputation, and control the channels for ordinary people to rise.

Later, the "Four Generations and Three Dukes" of the Yuan Shao family also emerged in this environment.

Those heroes and their descendants married their daughters into the royal family. Once he could inherit the throne, the queen's natal family could take over the power. Different emperors have different relatives, and the replacement of relatives from generation to generation is also accompanied by bloodshed. This is what a dynasty means.

Severe internal friction.

Throughout the Eastern Han Dynasty, except for Dou Xian who helped the country solve border troubles, almost no relatives made contributions to the country. All of them were arrogant, domineering, and corrupt. Even Dou Xian himself was such a person. This shows the darkness of the politics of relatives.

Even the disease of eunuch dictatorship was caused by foreign relatives. The foreign relatives had too much power and threatened the emperor. The emperor wanted to protect himself, so he could only appoint eunuchs to check and balance the foreign relatives. This gave the eunuchs too much power, which in the end further intensified internal strife.

In comparison, the Western Han Dynasty was more powerful than the Eastern Han Dynasty because there was not so much internal friction in the Western Han Dynasty.

The difference in names between the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty comes from the different locations of the capitals. The capital in the west is Chang'an and the capital in the east is Luoyang. In fact, from the map, the distance between Chang'an and Luoyang is not that far.

However, the reason why the capital was chosen in these two places is not simple, and it reflects the wisdom of the ancients.

When reading the history of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, you will see that the terms "Shandong" and "Shanxi" have different meanings from today's. They do not refer to the provincial capital.

Instead, it refers to the Weishan Mountain and Hangu Pass as the boundary. The later Qin Kingdom was to the west of the dividing line and was called Shanxi. The later Qi, Chu, Yan, Zhao, Wei, and Han Kingdoms were to the west of the dividing line and were called the Six Kingdoms of Shandong.

From ancient times to the present, not only are the differences between north and south relatively large, but the differences between east and west are even more obvious.

In the upper reaches of the Yellow River in the west, the folk customs are strong and the people are martial. Moreover, there are many ethnic minority tribes or political regimes around this area. They do not recognize each other and the Han regimes, and there are often frictions. Therefore, the military power to establish regimes here is relatively strong.

The middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River have a comfortable climate, flat terrain, rich resources, and are suitable for farming. They are also economically and culturally developed areas, which are conducive to people living and working in peace and contentment. The political power established in this area is relatively wealthy.

On the eve of the founding of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, originally planned to make Luoyang the capital, but his advisers, Zhang Liang, Lou Jing and others kept persuading Liu Bang to make Chang'an the capital.

When Lou Jing answered Liu Bang's reasons, he said: "The land of Qin is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and it is thought to be solid with four obstacles."

As a country that is very stable, guarding Hangu Pass can stop the enemy. Expanding eastward is like grabbing the throat of the world and hitting it on the back.

Later, before the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, this idea was adopted to capture Chang'an, stabilize Guanzhong, and then advance eastward with overwhelming momentum, and finally conquer the world. It shows that making Chang'an the capital played an important role in the prosperity of the Western Han Dynasty.

After the Western Han Dynasty established its capital in Chang'an, Liu Bang ordered that the upper class, such as intellectuals, wealthy families, and descendants of the Six Kingdoms from the East, move to Guanzhong.

Emperor Jing of Han, Emperor Wu of Han, Emperor Zhao of Han, Emperor Xuan of Han, Emperor Cheng of Han and other Han Dynasty monarchs all moved people to the Guanzhong area under various names. They moved not only people, but also wealth, culture, and ideas.

Combining the advanced economic culture of the East with the powerful military strength of the West not only promoted the vigorous development of the economy and culture, but also laid a solid foundation and support for sending troops to expand the territory, fight against the Xiongnu, and stabilize the border. The strength of the Han Dynasty

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Later, due to Wang Mang's usurpation of power, the world was in chaos. After Liu Xiu conquered the world and pacified the world, the problem of establishing the capital was placed in front of him.

What is different from the early days of the Western Han Dynasty is that when Liu Bang entered Guanzhong, it could be said that he did not lose any blood. There were almost no excessive losses in the Guanzhong area. It had a population base and an economic base.

In the early days of the Eastern Han Dynasty, due to the rebellion of the Red Eyebrow and Green Forest Army, the Chang'an area was dilapidated and the population was depleted, making it unsuitable to serve as a capital, so Liu Xiu and his ministers decided to make Luoyang the capital.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! As Liu Xiu and his son worked hard to govern, the Eastern Han Dynasty relied on the superior geographical conditions of Shandong, and the politics, economy, and culture continued to recover and gradually became stronger.

However, because the Guanzhong region is no longer the capital, its development has stagnated or even retreated, and the northwest region has gradually become sparsely populated.

However, at that time, due to the Western Han Dynasty's vigorous attacks on the Xiongnu, the threat from the Xiongnu to the Han Dynasty's borders continued to decrease. Later, his relative, Dou Xian, led an army to attack the Xiongnu, and made an immortal contribution to Shi Yanran, which completely destroyed the Han Dynasty.

Get rid of the threat of the Huns.

Due to the implementation of the peace policy, the Southern Xiongnu became vassals of the Han Dynasty.

This also caused the Eastern Han Dynasty to move the surrendered ethnic minority tribes to the northwest region every year. After moving to this place, because it was far away from the capital, the management of this area was also relaxed, and even the Western Regions that the Han Dynasty had managed for decades were given to

It was abandoned, communication with the West was cut off, and it could no longer supply enough horses for the empire.

Because the imperial court did not pay attention to the northwest region, warlords appeared in the northwest region. Dong Zhuo, who later disrupted the world, was the warlord of Liangzhou. Finally, the Eastern Han Dynasty fell to eunuchs, the dictatorship of foreign relatives, and warlords fighting.

The main reason for the destruction of the Eastern Han Dynasty was the dictatorship of the eunuchs, the dictatorship of the foreign relatives, and the struggle between the emperor, the eunuchs, and the foreign relatives, which caused serious internal strife, and finally the Yellow Turban Uprising broke out and the warlords fought.

In the Western Han Dynasty, this problem basically did not exist. There were no eunuchs who could influence politics in the entire Western Han Dynasty. Although relatives held power,
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