We read all the lead to present a different history.
There are no Three Kingdoms in history, only because of Chen Shou's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", so historians will refer to the history from the end of the Han Dynasty to the Western Jin Dynasty as the Three Kingdoms in general, when the Three Kingdoms end is relatively clear, the Three Kingdoms are regarded as the end, and when the Three Kingdoms arise, there are many opinions, some people say that from the beginning of the Han Ling Emperor, some people say that since Cao Cao threatened the Son of Heaven to order the princes to start, the editor believes that since Dong Zhuo entered Beijing. In the sixth year of the Han Ling Emperor Zhongping, that is, in 189 AD, in August of that year, Dong Zhuo "met" the Han Shao Emperor Liu Jue at Beimangshan, although the little emperor who fled in a hurry did not have the prestige of the Ninety-Five, and in Dong Zhuo's eyes, this ragged teenager was like a golden cornucopia, and Dong Zhuo's mood to get Liu Zhuo was even more excited than Yuan Shu's getting the Chuanguo Jade Seal. Dong Zhuo led the Western Liang army back to the capital in the name of the emperor, and from this moment on the Han Dynasty had collapsed. After Dong Zhuo entered the capital, he immediately deposed the Young Emperor Liu Xie, and set up Liu Xie's younger brother Liu Xie as emperor, that is, the famous Emperor Xian of Han, why Dong Zhuo deposed the emperor, the reason is very simple, at this time Liu Xie is just an eight-year-old doll, xiao Liu Xie every time he sees a murderous Dong Zhuo, lest he avoid it, this is probably the effect that Dong Zhuo wants.
Of course, Dong Zhuo abolished Liu Xie for a more important reason, to establish authority! Dong Taishi toyed with the emperor between the palms of his hands, and the three princes and nine secretaries in the court were not allowed to silence and obey. Since then, the imperial power of the Han court has only been nominally surnamed Liu, and the actual power is to take turns sitting in Zhuangzhuang, Dong Zhuo sat in Zhuangzhuang for three years, Li Daoguo sat in Zhuangzhuang for four years, and the next twenty-four years was Cao Cao. After Cao Cao, the nominal Han Dynasty also collapsed, and this page of the Han Dynasty can be regarded as a real turn. From this trajectory, the chaos of the Eastern Han Dynasty began with Dong Zhuo, but the chaotic world began with Dong Zhuo, but the chaotic Han people were not Dong Zhuo. In fact, Dong Zhuo was just a fierce tiger, and the consequences of letting a fierce tiger enter the temple of the Eastern Han Dynasty were easy to predict, not so much that Dong Zhuo, the fierce tiger, brought down the Han Dynasty, but rather that the people who let the tiger return to the mountains were the ones who brought the whole Han Dynasty down. Dong Zhuo was originally a warlord of the Western Liang generation, as a state pastor, Dong Zhuo's strength was not the strongest, and there were not a few warlords like Dong Zhuo in the world at that time, and the only difference between Dong Zhuo and them was that Dong Zhuo entered the capital, and other warlords also wanted to enter Beijing, but they had no legitimate reason, and Dong Zhuo had!
Dong Zhuo did not come uninvited, in fact, Dong Zhuo was ordered by the emperor to enter Beijing to suppress thieves, and inviting Dong Zhuo to enter Beijing was not the Young Emperor Liu Zheng, Liu Zhuo was only 13 years old at the time, Dong Zhuo was who he might not understand, and the person who invited Dong Zhuo was the emperor's uncle, the general He Jin. He Jinquan fell to the opposition, and what problem did he have to lure the wolf into the house? This involves a hundred years of struggle between foreign relatives and eunuchs in the Eastern Han Dynasty, as the left and right arm of the Eastern Han Emperor, foreign relatives and eunuchs have always been the two forces of the Han Dynasty Emperor to balance the court, the Emperor is still strong enough to suppress these two forces, once the Emperor is weak, the foreign relatives and eunuchs will inevitably have a fierce fight, after all, power is the best aphrodisiac. After the death of Emperor Ling, the young emperor was still young, and the power of eunuchs during the Ling Emperor period overwhelmed the foreign relatives, and the foreign relatives would inevitably carry out a fierce counterattack as soon as the Ling Emperor died. And He Jin, as the head of the foreign relatives, is not a qualified politician, you must know that He Jin was initially just a pig killer, because of his sister's sake, he was an extremely popular subject, in the struggle between foreign relatives and eunuchs, He Jin did not grasp the situation, the foreign relatives group under the leadership of He Jin carried out an extremely bloody suppression of the eunuchs, the situation was out of control!
Foreign relatives want to suppress eunuchs, and eunuchs can stand in the Eastern Han Dynasty for a hundred years without stopping, I don't know how many times foreign relatives have counterattacked, He Jin wants to eliminate eunuchs in one breath how easy it is. The bayonets of the two sides saw the red ground fighting, and He Jin, in order to seek a quick decision, decided to find helpers outside the capital, so he found Dong Zhuo. Dong Zhuo,the fierce tiger, entered the city, and the two little wolves of the foreign relatives and the eunuchs had no strength to resist, and in the end, the clams competed with each other for profit, the foreign relatives fell, the eunuchs disappeared, and even the Han regime became precarious. In this analysis, the initiator of all this is He Jin, but as the author said earlier, He Jin is just a butcher, all his decisions are not his own thoughts, and the reason why he is dizzy and frequent is all instigated by Yuan Shao! In this turmoil, He Jin made two fatal mistakes, both of which Yuan Shao instigated him to make. One is to brutally suppress the eunuch forces, although the eunuch rebellion has a long history, but after all, only a few eunuchs in power are responsible, most of the eunuchs are not the source of the disaster, but He Jin took a one-size-fits-all approach to exterminate all the eunuchs in Luoyang City, and this idea was Yuan Shao's idea.
According to the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, it is difficult to go against the empress's wishes and those who want to curse her for indulging. Shao thought that the lieutenant was close to the supreme being, and the order to enter and exit was not abolished now, and he would be troubled later. He Jin did not want to disobey the empress dowager's wishes, but only wanted to deal with the eunuchs who were the head of the crime, but Yuan Shao believed that the eunuchs had deep roots and were in the same breath, and if they were not eradicated all at once, there would inevitably be more violent counterattacks in the future! It can be seen from this that He Jin did not want to exhaust the net, he just wanted to kill chickens and monkeys and frighten the eunuch group. Unfortunately, He Jin's ear was soft, and he was so flickered by Yuan Shao that he made up his mind to cut the grass and remove the roots. He Jin was from a humble origin, nor was he a very assertive person, while Yuan Shao on the other side was a disciple of the Shi clan, the fourth and third dukes of the Yuan clan, but the largest shi family clan at that time, with such a background to support, coupled with Yuan Shao himself famous all over the world, He Jin naturally thought that Yuan Benchu was more far-sighted. However, Yuan Shao's bad idea didn't stop there, and another bad idea he came up with made He Jin make a second mistake. The eunuchs fought among themselves, and the foreign relatives gradually became in danger, and seeing that the situation was not good, Yuan Shao once again offered advice and asked He Jin to ask for help from the outside.
The Book of later Han has clouds: Qiu Shao and others also summoned the four fierce generals and Zhu Haojie to the capital to intimidate the empress. Let's go. Yuan Shao suggested that He Jin recruit the four warlords to enter the Capital Qin King to assist the empress dowager in eliminating the eunuchs, and He Jin was deeply impressed, so he picked the nearest warlord Dong Zhuo. In fact, whether it was Dong Zhuo or other warlords, as long as they entered the capital, the result was the same. Foreign relatives and eunuchs could not fight the warlords, the emperor was bound to be hollowed out, and at most other warlords were not as arrogant as Dong Zhuo on the surface. In fact, eunuchs and foreign relatives are all scabies, because they are not armed, their power comes from the imperial power, they are all dependents of the imperial power, and the warlords are different, their power comes from the army, and the imperial power is not necessary for the warlords. He Jin naturally did not understand this truth, but Yuan Shao did not necessarily understand. Looking at Yuan Shao's two bad ideas, sometimes it feels strange, as an old jianghu who has been in the political arena for many years, Yuan Shao cannot be unaware of the consequences of killing eunuchs and bringing troops into Beijing, Yuan Shao knows that he cannot do it, and it makes people feel that he has ulterior motives.
Is Yuan Shao ambitious? Yes, his ambitions may be even greater than Cao Cao's, Cao Cao just wants to be the Duke of Zhou, and Yuan Shao wants to change the dynasty and sit in the world. Yuan Shao used the family power to constantly create his own image of Wei Guangzheng, which he did very well, when the Eighteenth Road Princes jointly discussed Dong Zhuo, everyone supported Yuan Shao as the ally, which showed that Yuan Benchu's prestige was unmatched in the world. Yuan Shao's approach to creating momentum for himself was very similar to That of Wang Mang, who also relied on prestige in seizing power, and the Confucian scholars all over the world proposed that the young emperor and his children and children cede the throne to Wang Mang, which was inseparable from Wang Mang's public image. Yuan Shao's approach was roughly similar to Wang Mang's, making friends with celebrities, spreading kindness, and making himself a wise man. It is difficult to say that Yuan Shao did this without ambition, but unfortunately he could not emulate Wang Mang, after all, the situation was different, and Yuan Shao's strength could not be compared with Wang Mang. However, Wang Mang's entry into the world is not only the way, Yuan Shao has social prestige and political resources, and he can completely establish another mountain, provided that the Eastern Han dynasty must first be collapsed.
Thinking along this line of thought, Yuan Shao had a much better understanding of He Jin's two advances. Yuan Shao did not want to help He Jin, his real purpose was to let the foreign relatives and eunuchs fight among themselves, so that both sides were defeated, and these two pillars fell, and the Han Dynasty only had the last breath left. However, whether it was foreign relatives or eunuchs, they did not want the Han Dynasty to collapse, so they could consume the Han regime, but they could not collapse the Han Dynasty, and the fatal blow was handed over to Dong Zhuo. As soon as Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, Yuan Shao left the capital and became a warlord, and he probably knew very well that he could only rely on warlords to deal with Dong Zhuo, and he could only rely on warlords to change dynasties. Unfortunately, Yuan Shao was an excellent scholar and clan gatekeeper, and it was precisely by rationally using the existing political resources and social prestige that he developed into the most powerful warlord in the world. But he was not a qualified warlord, he was indecisive, nepotistic, and small in temperament, and these character shortcomings were the important reasons why he lost to Cao Cao in the warlord melee. Among the Three Kingdoms, Yuan Shao was obviously a loser, although Yuan Shao's plot was ultimately to make a wedding dress for others, but it is also undeniable that his historical merits cannot be denied, after all, the general trend of the world is not broken, without Yuan Shao breaking the Eastern Han regime, how to establish the newly established Cao Wei, Shu Han, eastern Wu, and how to return the last three families to Jin.