灵帝卖官考论

Textual Research on Official Titles Selling in the Reign of Emperor Ling Di

卖官做为一种特殊的选官形式,自秦汉至明清无朝无之,而灵帝卖官因其空前性又时常被世人提及。灵帝朝的现状、灵帝少年遭遇及其生母的影响导致灵帝朝规模空前的卖官现象的产生,如此规模的卖官给灵帝朝带来了严重的后果。

The practice of selling official titles and posts, a special form of selecting officials, dated back to Qin and Han dynasties and lasted to Ming and Qing dynasties. Being unprecedented, such a practice under the reign of Emperor Ling Di was frequently mentioned by public. The situation then in the reign of Ling Di, Ling Di＇s bitter experiences in his childhood as well as the influence from his mother on him were all responsible for the unprecedented scale of selling official titles, which eventualy