At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, heroes emerged, and it was none other than Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, Zhao Yun, and so on. But when it comes to He Jin, this butcher who relied on his sister to ascend to the high position of the great general, ninety-nine percent of the people will sneer, dismissive, and even label him a stupid person, brain damage number one (Cao Cao once commented that he "Mu monkey and crown belt, know small and seek territory", like a big straw bale). He Jin was ignored by history because he did not succeed in killing the eunuch in the end and was killed by the eunuch. In fact, He Jin's political skills are extremely profound, and he is also good at hiding, and was the first lord to dress up as a pig and eat a tiger at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty (according to the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the starting point of the Three Kingdoms period can be traced back to 184 AD, and He Jin can also be called a pan-Three Kingdoms figure).
In the early stages of killing the eunuch, He Jin easily killed Jian Shuo. Jian Shuo was not an ordinary, ordinary eunuch, but the Han Ling Emperor set up the Lieutenant Colonel of the Eighth Colonel of Xiyuan, although he was a small yellow gate, but he had soldiers on hand, a strong general, or commanded the lieutenants of the various schools, in charge of the various armies, directly under the emperor's command, than the lieutenant of the Chinese military academy, the general Of the Tiger Ben Zhonglang Yuan Shao, the lieutenant of the military academy, and the official position of Cao Cao of the Yanlang, who was larger and more cattle, and was more trusted by the Han Ling Emperor than the great general He Jin, that is, the Han Ling Emperor used to decompose and control the power of foreign relatives He Jin. However, He Jin was helpless when he eliminated the eunuchs who had no soldiers in their hands except Jian Shuo, and he did not know where to start. He Jin's reason for the lack of reckoning was that Zhang Rang and other eunuchs had favored Empress He and himself in the past, and Empress He would not let the eunuchs be killed. This reason is so far-fetched, so far-fetched that the staff are all dumbfounded.
In fact, as long as the social environment and power disputes at that time are sorted out, it is not difficult to see He Jin's true intentions: annei and centralized power. Before and after Emperor Shao of Han, the imperial court involved three kinds of contradictions and four forces, the three contradictions refer to foreign relatives and eunuchs, officials and eunuchs, the He family represented by Empress He and the Dong family represented by Empress Dong; the four forces were eunuchs, officials, he family and Dong family. The supporters behind the four forces, the eunuchs and the Dong family, were the Han Ling Emperor, and the officials and the He family were not supported by the Han Ling Emperor and were suppressed. After the death of Emperor Hanling, the eunuchs and the Dong family lost their strongest supporters and were naturally weakened. Emperor Shao of Han was He Jin's nephew, needless to say He Jin's patron.
Ho Jin Annei and centralization include three meanings.
First unite the officials against the eunuchs and the Dong family.
When Emperor Ling of Han was there, among the foreign relatives, the Strength of the Dong Family was greater than that of the He Family; in the Imperial Yan Dynasty, the strength of the eunuchs was greater than that of the officials. According to common sense, He Jin should choose strong eunuchs instead of weak officials as partners. However, He Jin chose the weak side of the imperial court officials to cooperate, and with the help of Sima Panyin, he seized the best opportunity for the death of the Han Ling Emperor and defeated the eunuchs and the Dong family in one fell swoop, defeating the weak over the strong.
Second, let the eunuchs go and use the eunuchs to eliminate the Dong family.
Emperor Han Ling died, and although the Dong family was weakened, its strength was still there, after all, Empress Dong was still there. It was still a threat to Emperor Shao of Han. To this end, the Dong family must be eradicated. Zhang Rang, one of the ten permanent attendants, persuaded Empress Dong to control the government just to give He Jin the handle to eliminate the Dong family. As a result, after the dove killed Dong, he forced Dong Chong to commit suicide and the Dong family was destroyed.
Finally, the eunuchs were eliminated and officials were bribed to assist the government.
The Dong family was destroyed, and the eunuchs lost their usefulness. Eunuchs were servants of the emperor and the royal family. As long as there is an emperor, there are eunuchs. The eunuchs were gone, and it was a big deal to find a group of people to castrate, and sent them to the palace, and they were a new eunuch. Officials are the people who run the country and the people. Every official has his own value, and this value is to help the emperor govern the government and the opposition, educate the people, and stabilize the world. As a result of the two party battles, the contradiction between officials and eunuchs has been constantly intensifying, reaching the point where you are dead and alive and irreconcilable. For the sake of Emperor Shao of Han, for the sake of the Liu Han Dynasty, and even for his own power, He Jin must have to take advantage of each other's power—eliminate eunuchs and bribe officials to govern the world and govern the people for his nephew Liu Shaodi of Han.
In this way, He Jin wanted to kill eunuchs for a while, not to kill eunuchs for a while, and to kill eunuchs at the same time, that is, to grasp the timing of these killings and not killing, to eradicate in one fell swoop the Dong family that was vying for power with himself, to eliminate the eunuchs who opposed the officials, and to buy the hearts of the officials. If so, He Jin once became a hot person who controlled the politics of the Eastern Han Dynasty.