At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were two major power groups in the central part of the Han Dynasty, namely the eunuch group and the foreign relative group. But at the same time, there is also a force that cannot be ignored, that is, the children of officials who have been officials for generations, that is, the N generation of officials, or the children of eunuchs (unlike eunuchs).
In the eyes of the official N generation, eunuchs and foreign relatives are the two major obstacles to their ascension to the throne, if you want to take over the power of the imperial court, you must get rid of these two forces, the best way is to let the eunuchs and foreign relatives compete with each other, and only then can they fish and profit.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling of Han relied on eunuchs to grasp the power of the imperial court, and at the same time supported foreign relatives to balance eunuchs, so they formed a eunuch group represented by the Ten Permanent Attendants and a foreign relative group represented by the great general He Jin.
Because eunuchs are derivatives and weather vanes of the emperor's will, they often play a role of praise and disparity, either good or evil, because of the emperor's character and hobbies.
In the late reign of Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling, they were incompetent and corrupt, and the Ten Constant Attendants relied on imperial power as a blessing in disguise, offending many civil and military officials.
Yuan Shao, who was born into a famous family, saw the weather vane and naturally chose to defect to the great general He Jin, and also secretly designed to pit He Jin and eliminate the eunuch clique in one fell swoop.
Yuan Shao had about three moves to eliminate foreign relatives and eunuch cliques.
The first trick is to incite the wind and ignite the fire.
Since turning to He Jin, Yuan Shao has been fanning the flames, trying to ignite the fuse between the two groups.
After Emperor Ling's death, Jian Shuo, one of the Ten Constant Attendants, wanted to make the young prince Liu Xie emperor, so he wanted to eliminate the crown prince's uncle He Jin and plotted to summon He Jin into the palace, and Sima Panying informed He Jin.
He Jincai escaped the disaster and immediately counterattacked, killing Jian Shuo.
Although He Jin killed a great eunuch, he did not eliminate all the ten permanent attendants. Because the development of the He family was related to the help of the eunuch group, He Jin's sister was elected to the palace and became an empress, which was part of the credit of the eunuchs.
Therefore, He Jinnian was a little hesitant about whether to completely annihilate the eunuch clique in the past, and there was no eunuch clique that was the enemy of him.
However, He Jin's hesitation doomed him to a tragic end of his future murder. 、
Yuan Shao had suggested to He Jin that the eunuch clique be eliminated in one fell swoop, but He Jin's benevolence as a woman forced him to come up with the next move.
The second trick is to lure the wolf into the room.
At this time, Yuan Shao made a bad move, suggesting to He Jin to summon foreign forces into Beijing, so-called killing people with knives, in order to eliminate the Ten Standing Servants clique.
He Jin didn't even think about it, so he adopted Yuan Shao's bad move and issued an announcement to the world, inviting local forces to enter Beijing and helping to engage in ten permanent attendants together.
Who knows, the ten permanent attendants who heard the news fried the pot and hugged each other, while crying to the empress dowager He Shi, while looking for He to enter the palace in the name of the empress dowager, and set up a knife and axe hand in the palace.
He Jin was careless for a moment, and because the empress dowager was his own sister, he entered the palace alone, and as a result, he was killed on the spot by the knife and axe hand.
Yuan Shao's damage move was really damaged enough, first, to force the eunuch to jump the wall and break the net with He Jin; second, to relax He Jin's vigilance, so that He Jin thought that with the help of local forces, he would definitely be able to get rid of the Ten Permanent Attendants.
As a result, Yuan Shao's plan succeeded, and He Jin became the reason for the Wenwu hundred officials to attack the eunuch clique.
The third move is to attack the whole army.
Because He Jin was killed by eunuchs for no reason, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Cao Cao and others, soldiers armed to the teeth, rushed into the palace, slashed and killed as soon as they saw the eunuchs, and at the same time, seeing He Jin's brother He Miao, also shouted that He Miao was a common servant and killed him.
In fact, in this massacre, many innocent eunuchs became cannon fodder, and as long as it was a man with no beard on his face, he became a ghost under Yuan Shao's knife for no reason.
In this palace coup, Yuan Shao's plan succeeded, annihilating the two major power groups of the imperial court in one fell swoop, and the eunuchs and foreign relatives could no longer be a blessing in disguise, and temporarily withdrew from the stage of history.
In this regard, Yuan Shao did a better job than Cao Cao.
Because Cao Cao was a eunuch, he was criticized by others, was designated as a member of the eunuch clique, and was suspected by He Jin and others, so Yuan Shao of the Fourth Dynasty and the Third Duke had more say and eye-catching performance.