Empress Dong and Empress He, as the mother and wife of Liu Hong, the Emperor of Hanling, the two mothers-in-law and daughter-in-law have been making trouble over the succession of the two princes. Empress He's own son, Liu Wei, was made crown prince, and it seemed logical to inherit the throne. Empress Dong wanted to succeed the crown prince named Liu Xie, who was born to Wang Meiren. After Wang Mei gave birth to Liu Xie, he competed with Empress He for the wind and jealousy and wanted to ascend to the throne, but as a result, he was poisoned by Empress He, and the crown prince Liu Xie has always followed Empress Dong, and Emperor Liu Hong has always favored Liu Xie and wants to let him succeed to the throne. As a result, Empress Dong and Empress He's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, as well as the two families and ten eunuchs behind them, launched a life-and-death struggle for the succession of the two princes and for the selfish interests of their respective camps.
A few years after the Suppression of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, when Liu Hong, the Emperor of Hanling, was critically ill, he listened to the words of the eunuch and leader of the Janissaries who had always been favored, and wanted to remove Empress He's brother, the uncle of the state, and the general He Jin, xuanjin into the palace, so that Liu Xie could succeed to the throne. He Jin, who was about to meet the emperor at the palace gate, received the news that the eunuchs were going to harm him, turned back to the palace, was furious, and discussed with a group of ministers such as Yuan Shao, a lieutenant of the Si Li Colonel, and Cao Cao, a lieutenant of the Military Academy, to get rid of the ten eunuchs. As they were deliberating, they received the news that the emperor had died and that the eunuchs were secretly mourning and wanted to correct the edict announcing that he had entered the palace and was removed. He Jin listened to Cao Cao's suggestion that cao first let the crown prince Liu Wei succeed to the throne, and then kill ten eunuchs, and led 5,000 elite soldiers and ministers, dressed in ma dai filial piety, into the palace to support Liu Wei to formally ascend the throne, and was known as Emperor Shao of Han. After the matter was revealed, Zhang Rang and other eunuchs, in order to protect themselves, seized on the weakness of the great general He Jin,Shao's inconclusiveness, took advantage of Empress He's psychology that they had helped her ascend to the throne, pushed everything on Jian Shuo's head, killed him as a substitute ghost, and took Jian Shuo's head to Empress He to intercede, so that He Jin spared them and temporarily escaped a disaster. Yuan Shao advised him to cut the grass and remove the roots, but He Jin also ignored it, and with the benevolence of a woman, he personally laid the disaster of killing himself.
The first round of the two camps of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law and the ten eunuchs seemed to win the side of Empress He's brothers and sisters, but the mother-in-law Empress Dong and the eunuchs were not willing to concede defeat, and a bigger contest began again. Under the advice of the eunuchs for Empress Dong, Empress Dong bowed to the government, made Liu Xie the Prince of Chen Liu, made her brother Dong Chong the general of the Hussars, and let Zhang Rang and other eunuchs jointly manage the government and balance empress He's camp with the separation of powers. Of course, Empress He did not do it, and persuaded Empress Dong with the old affairs of the Han Dynasty that Had been beheaded by Lü Hou's monopoly, and the two fiercely scolded each other and were persuaded by the eunuchs. After consulting with his brother He Jin, He Jin and the Three Dukes expelled Empress Dong from the palace and sent her back to her hometown in Hejian, and then sent a forbidden army to surround the residence of Empress Dong's brother Dong Zhong, confiscated the official seal of the general of the Hussars, and forced her to break it. Zhang Rang and Duan Jue and a group of eunuchs, seeing that Empress Dong's army had been abolished, used gold and silver treasures to bribe He Jin's brother He Miao and his mother WuYangjun to make them intercede with Empress He, and they were favored again, and they escaped the disaster for a while. Soon, He Jin secretly sent someone to kill Empress Dong with poisoned wine.
This contest between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law again ended with a complete victory on the daughter-in-law's side. However, the He family twice spared the ten permanent eunuchs, but they ignited the fire of burning themselves, and also pushed the Han Dynasty to the edge of the cliff of disintegration.
The hidden eunuchs were not idle, they caught He Jin poisoning Andi Dong Empress Dowager to make a fuss, which in turn increased He Jin's determination to kill the eunuchs, and the eunuchs knew about it and then ran to bribe their brother He Miao to intercede with Empress He, and Empress He Jin was once again unsuccessful in his attempts to make a statement about He Jin, and He Jin had no claim. At this time, Yuan Shao, a lieutenant colonel, suggested that troops be transferred from outside to Beijing to force Empress He to agree to kill the eunuchs. He Jin thought that this plan was brilliant, and did not heed the advice of the master Bo Chen Lin and the lieutenant Cao Cao of the Military Academy, and recruited Shi Dongzhuo, who had an army of 200,000, into the outside of the capital. Dong Zhuo already harbored the heart of a rich wolf, and had already coveted the Han Room Sheji, waiting for such an opportunity. At the suggestion of the strategist Li Ru, he took the opportunity to give the emperor a table, to lead the army to eliminate the eunuchs for the imperial court, and to get a justified disguise for his wolf ambitions. Zheng Tai, Lu Zhi, and other ministers advised He Jin not to lure the wolf into the room, and did not listen, and Zheng, Lu, and most of the imperial court ministers resigned. With such a big movement, Zhang Rang and other eunuchs naturally would not sit still, and they summoned He Jin into the palace under the pretext of Empress He's summons and killed him. When entering the palace, the lord Bo Chen Lin and others were dissuaded, He Jin still insisted on going his own way, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao had to choose 500 elite soldiers each to be led by Yuan Shao's younger brother Yuan Shu, and together they followed He into the palace gate, but they were stopped and failed to enter the palace. Seeing that He Jin was killed, he rushed into the palace and killed the eunuchs, Duan Jue kidnapped Empress He and was saved by Lu Zhi, but zhang Rang and Duan Jue abducted the Han Shao Emperor Liu Wei and Chen Liu Wang Liu Xie fled to the Northern Mountains and were chased and killed. Emperor Shao of Han and King Liu of Chen were also escorted into the capital of Luoyang by Dong Zhuo, who had rushed to the rescue.
After entering Beijing, Dong Zhuo took the soldiers and horses of He Jin's brothers to the fullest, and used the trick to bribe Lü Bu rang to kill his righteous father, Jingzhou stabbed Shi Dingyuan, and adopted Lü Bu as a righteous son. After that, he was even more fearless, forcibly cut off dissidents, deposed the Han Shao Emperor Liu Xie, and established the nine-year-old Chen Liu Wang Liu Xie as emperor, known in history as the Han Xiandi, and himself became the Xiangguo, monopolizing power and dominating the Capital Division. Not long after Empress He and her son Emperor Shao of Han and daughter-in-law Tang Fei were trapped in the Yong'an Palace, they were also killed by Dong Zhuo as an excuse. Empress He herself was pushed downstairs by Dong Zhuo's military master Li Ru and fell to her death, her son was poisoned by alcohol, and her daughter-in-law was hanged by a samurai, all buried outside Luoyang, with a tragic ending.
At this point, this struggle between the empress's mother-in-law and the eunuchs came to a tragic end, but it triggered a scuffle between Dong Zhuo and the crowds of heroes chasing the deer in the Central Plains, and a greater bloody rain was about to strike, and the Han Dynasty was already in turmoil and crumbling.