Emperor Hui of Han (210 BC–188 BC) was the second emperor of the Han Dynasty in China.
Emperor Hui's wife was Empress Zhang Yan (張嫣), a niece of his by his sister Princess Luyuan; their marriage was the result of insistence by Empress Dowager Lü and was a childless one.
Emperor Hui died in the autumn of 188 BC of an unspecified illness.
The army reform of Emperor Wudi lead to the stationing of garrisons throughout the empire, in the capitals of the commanderies (jun é¡), from 111 on the standing army was organized in eight commanderies (xiaowei æ ¡å°).
Emperor Wudi had the obsession to be cursed by witchcraft and to be the victim of political plots of the feudal princes and their consultants ("clients" binke 賓客, "wandering knights" youxia éä¿ ).
A state as large as HanChina after the expansion to the west, south and northeast (see next chapter) lacked junior staff for the many civil offices in the capital and throughout the empire.
Their explorations, and China's success against the Xiongnu, brought an exchange of envoys between China and states to the west, and it opened for the Chinese the 4000-mile trade route that would become known as the Silk Road.
China's prosperity had risen under Hedi (between the years 88 to 106), and the court of Hedi had become in size and luxury equal to the courts of previous Hanemperors.
Emperor Ling died in 188 or 189, at the age of thirty-three, while military governors were clinging to the greater independence that they had acquired during the war against the Yellow Turbans.
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In the Han Dynasty, the Huns (known as Xiongnu by the Chinese) threatened the expanding Chinese Empire from the north.
The Han Empire expanded in the west almost to the borders of eastern Europe and in the northeast to Korea.
The pattern of the rise and fall of Han was to be repeated in later dynasties.
The Han dynasty, after which the members of the ethnic majority in China, the "Han Chinesepeople of Han," are named, was notable also for its military prowess.
Emperor Wu decided that Taoism was no longer suitable for China, and officially declared China to be a Confucian state; however, like the emperors before him, he combined Legalist methods with the ConfucianismConfucian ideal.
Han court officials who attempted to strip lands out of the landlords faced such enormous resistance that their policies would never be put in to place.
During the 200 years of the Western Han Dynasty (206BC-8AD), Chang'an City was the capital all along, acting as the national political, economic and cultural center.
EmperorHuidi ordered to construct the city walls right after he ascended to the throne.
In the early Han Dynasty, emperors used the palace to receive officials and EmperorHuidi changed it into the residential palace for the queen mother.
Han Dynasty's notable deeds would be the restoration of Confucianism as the creed for ruling the nation.
HanEmperor Gaozu continued the practice of General Xiang Yu by conferring kingships to non-Liu generals and ministers.
For many years until the age of 70, he had petitioned time and again with HanEmperor for permission to return to China proper for retirement, and his request was not approved till he asked his historian sister relay a message to the emperor for mercy.
China's cities were soon flooded with western traders and the goods they brought.
The Emperors placed on the throne during this period included six year old Pingdi, and two year old Ruzi.
The Western Han dynasty was defeated and the capital was moved east to Luoyang.
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Revered in China during his lifetime in a way not easy for non-Chinese to understand, he was enormously influential around the world as well.
It is essentially a corridor running from the upper Yellow River in the east, along the verge between the Tibetan plateau on the one hand and the Gobi desert on the other, to the edge of the Xinjiang wastes in the west.
It formed with the encouragement of China, which needed a buffer zone between itself and the then-aggressive Tibetans, but Nan Chao soon became expansionist in it's own right, and proved to be a considerable threat to China at times.
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However, within two years the boy, after learning that his true mother had been executed, was heard to say: "When I become emperor I will know what to do." When the empress's spies reported the words spoken by the young emperor she had him murdered and another puppet set in his place.
The empress ruled a prosperous empire for eight years through the six successive child emperors that she installed on the throne before dying of a mysterious illness.
Rumor said her death was the result of a curse from one of her late husband's concubines, who was horribly mutilated and tortured according to the empress's precise instructions.
In the end, different members of the Han imperial clan were also fighting one another for the right to be the man who restores the Han dynasty.
Han wudi was never referred that way while he was alive and nor did any other emperor in Chinese history starting from the Han........
Similarly, all the other "Han"emperors who competed with Liu Xiu, like Liu Penzi and Liu Yong, were not recognised by the Eastern Han as being of the Han, even if they were members of the imperial clan.
The king of Qi said:" Han is our ally and since Qin has attacked her we must go to her rescue." But his minister Tian-chen Su disagreed saying: "Your majesty's planning is faulty.
After the first emperor died he conspired with the chief minister Li Si to dispose of the legitimate heir to the throne and install a weak and corrupt puppet emperor Huhei.
The emperor was under Zhao Gao’s control to such a degree that he believed he was going insane and that the stag really was a horse.
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When the emperor ordered his army to pull back, the disguised Jin troops began to incite panic by spreading the rumor that Qin was withdrawing in defeat and that Jin was in hot pursuit.
The lady replied that her uncle was ill. The emperor said: "I wonder if he is courting death?" When Li Yuan heard this he was certain that if he obeyed the summons to court he would never return.
The city was surrounded and the emperor considered committing suicide when he was stopped by a eunuch who told him that his grandfather, the emperor Hong Wu, had left a chest in his care with orders that should any great crisis occur to threaten the dynasty then the reigning emperor should open the chest.
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This idea that nature provides natural feedback in response to the Emperor's or government's whim, is a kind of theistic belief, similar to theistic theories of prayer as a concrete device reaching a concrete figure.
Han Feizi was a prince from the royal family of the Han kingdom.
Han Wud-di also normalized the currency, and established monopolies in the salt and iron works to stabilize supply.
Han, Wei, Shu, Wu, and Jin Officer, Strategist, and Ruler Biographies
I hope to one day present you with biographies for all of the rulers (written by myself or others like Jonathan Wu), but for now the basic ruler information provided will do.
- Han Gaohou (Liu Zhi) (Empress Dowager Lü) 187 - 180 BC
