Yuan Shao, the "Marquis of Yi", was a famous minister during the Eastern Han Dynasty. He was born into a family of official eunuchs, and has been an official for several generations since his family's great-grandfather Yuan An. Later, Yuan Shao grew up to be very handsome and handsome, and was repeatedly loved by people in the family. With his own family lineage, he became the mayor of Puyang County at a young age, and he was also very capable.
Yuan Shao was in a period when the eunuch dictatorship was on the rise, and he often suppressed bureaucratic doctors and eunuchs. Yuan Shao said that he was living in seclusion in the city but still secretly helping these people and chivalrous people, and Yuan Shao formed a political group with them for the purpose of opposing the eunuch dictatorship. Later, Yuan Shao's activities attracted the attention of eunuchs, but Yuan Shao was still unfazed.
When the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out in 184, the Eastern Han court was forced to cancel the party ban and grant amnesty to the party members, and Yuan Shao was summoned by the general He Jin. He Jin was a relative of the emperor at that time, so he also had an army in his hands, and He Jin was also very dissatisfied with the eunuch dictatorship. At that time, Yuan Shao also planned to get rid of the eunuchs through He Jin's hand, and He Jin also trusted Yuan Shao, making the relationship between the two very good. In 188 AD, the Eastern Han Court formed a new army in Xiyuan and set up eight lieutenants. Yuan Shao was appointed lieutenant of the Central Military Academy at that time, and Cao Cao was made a lieutenant of the military academy, but the power was in the hands of eunuchs.
In April 189, the Han Ling Emperor was critically ill, but the crown prince was not established. On the issue of succession to the throne, the interests of eunuchs and He Jin were already full of gunpowder after their interests clashed. At that time, the Han Ling Emperor had two sons, Liu Jie and Liu Xie. However, Emperor Hanling disliked Liu Wei's personality very much and wanted to abolish it for a while, but he was worried about the opposition of his courtiers, so he was embarrassed by the matter of the prince. When Jian Shuo and other eunuchs learned of this situation, they used the excuse to remove He Jin's eye nail. At this time, He Jin was also aware of the eunuch's ruse and wanted to fight with Yuan Shao against the eunuch. Soon after the death of Emperor Hanling, Jian Shuo decided to kill He Jin first and then let Liu Xie ascend the throne, so he sent someone to call He into the palace for consultation, but He Jin seized the opportunity and gathered his army outside the palace, but did not enter the palace. Seeing the situation at this time, Jian Shuo was forced to agree to let Liu Wei ascend the throne.
At that time, after Liu Wei ascended the throne, Empress He listened to the government as the empress dowager, and then Yuan Kui and He Jin became auxiliary governments, which was also a victory for the eunuchs by the emperor's relatives and bureaucrats. Jian Shuo was very uneasy about this, so he once again plotted to kill He Jin, but was accused of being ordered by He Jin to be hunted and killed. Later, the eunuchs began to take action against He Jin, and He Jin claimed that he was ill and did not participate in the funeral of emperor Han Ling. Later, Yuan Shao believed that only by killing all the eunuchs could he eliminate the troubles, He Jin reported to Empress He but did not agree, so that He Jin did not dare to go against the empress's wishes and make greater actions.
Later, Empress He's mother, Wu Yangjun, and He Jin's brother He Miao were repeatedly tempted by eunuchs to bribe and seduce, so they obstructed He Jin's plans. Yuan Shao was very anxious when he saw this situation, and he thought that he could mobilize the four fierce generals Hao Jie and lead the army to the capital to advise the empress dowager. Later, He Jin adopted this plan and began to proceed, and when the army approached the Beijing Division, Empress He felt that the situation was serious. She hurriedly removed the eunuchs, and the eunuchs were terrified and begged He Jin to let them go. Later, Yuan Shao advised He Jin to take this opportunity to kill the eunuch, but He Jin still let the eunuch go. Yuan Shao was very reluctant and pretended to be He Jin's military order to arrest the eunuch's family and imprison him.
Later, after the eunuch was removed from his post, he had to take a desperate risk, and used the excuse to enter the palace, luring He into the palace and killing him. When He Jin's subordinates learned that He Jin had been killed, they led the troops into the palace, and the eunuchs fled in a hurry. As a result, the eunuchs who had not yet escaped were killed by He Jin's troops, and then ordered the palace gates to be closed and strictly forbidden to enter and exit, and commanded the army to search for eunuchs in the palace, and all the eunuchs in the palace were annihilated.