Yesterday, it was said that Jian Shuo wrote a letter to the other Zhongchang attendants, intending to be strong first and kill He Jin. However, within the palace ban, it is not a monolith, and at the critical moment, one of the middle waiters Guo Sheng is anti-water.
Earlier, Empress He could be made empress, and Guo Sheng was a powerful and benefactor of He Jin. Moreover, Guo Sheng is still a fellow of Empress He and He Jin, and from this point of view, he does not want He Jin to fall.
Guo Sheng strongly opposed Jian Shuo's proposal and persuaded Zhao Zhong to take the same position as himself, and the situation suddenly became very unfavorable to Jian Shuo, and Jian Shuo suddenly fell into a desperate situation of isolation and helplessness.
Guo Shengyi did not stop and took Jian Shuo's letter directly to He Jin. He Jin was furious and immediately ordered Huang Menling to arrest and kill Jian Shuo and take the forbidden army under him.
Facts have proved that the power struggle within the palace is endless, and the opponents are also coming and going. After solving Jian Shuo, another foreign relative, Dong Zhong, began to fight with He Jin.
Dong Zhong was the nephew of Emperor Ling's biological mother, Empress Dong, who was then a general on horseback. Jian Shuo was killed by He Jin, and the eunuchs inevitably had a cold lip and teeth, so they formed an alliance with Dong Chong to warm each other.
The Eastern Han Dynasty has always had the tradition of harem interference in politics, and according to the generational division, Empress Dong should be the empress dowager. However, she was born as a queen of the clan, not empress dowager Huan, and in contrast, Empress He's status was more respectful.
Therefore, whenever Empress Dong wanted to express some opinion on the government, Empress He blamed her. After several times and three times, Empress Dong became angry and threatened, "The reason why you are arrogant and arrogant is not because of your brother He Jin?" If I ordered the Hussar general Dong Chong to cut off He Jin's head, it was just a show of hands. ”
Some things can be done secretly, and once they are hung up on the lips, they are looking for death. Empress He sneered and turned around to tell Empress Dong what She Jin had said.
He Jin also felt that it was time to clean up Dong Zhong, so he and the three dukes jointly wrote a letter: "Empress Dong sent the former zhongzhong chang attendant Xia Yun and others to collude with the prefectures and counties to loot money, all of which existed in the Yongle Palace where she lived." According to the custom, the queen of the clan could not live in the imperial palace and should be moved to her home country. Empress He immediately approved the recital.
Holding that edict, Empress Dong was dumbfounded, her son's bones were not cold, and she was bullied by her daughter-in-law into such a way.
He Jin then led his troops around Dong Zhong's Hussar General's Mansion, arrested him, and removed him from his post. Dong Zhong knew that he had no way to live and committed suicide in the back hall. Empress Dong was worried and afraid, depressed and died.
Now, He Jin had completely eliminated his political enemies, and recalling that scene of sword and light sword shadow, he couldn't help but be afraid for a while, becoming suspicious and suspicious, and even the Ling Emperor did not participate in the burial, and he did not dare to enter the palace easily.
The tree wanted to be quiet and the wind was not stopping, He Jin did not want to toss it, but the others did not think so, and the family clan represented by Yuan Shao hated the eunuchs to the bone, and they would want to get rid of them quickly.
Yuan Shao persuaded He Jin: "In the past, Dou Wu wanted to eliminate the eunuchs, but the news leaked and he was killed. The main reason for this was that the Forbidden Army had always feared the power of eunuchs, but Dou Wu wanted to use them, so he killed himself. Now, the brothers of the great generals are in charge of the forbidden army, and their subordinates are all handsome and famous soldiers, willing to serve you, and everything is under control. The great general should exterminate the eunuchs in one fell swoop to eliminate the harm to the world, and the future generations will be in this dynasty. ”
He Jin was undecided for a moment, and could not resist Yuan Shao's repeated persuasion, so he entered the palace and consulted with Empress He and proposed to remove all eunuchs below Zhongchang Shi and replace them with lang officials from the three departments.
Empress He was shocked, what? Don't be a eunuch, let a group of men with handles into the palace to serve the emperor? She objected: "Eunuchs have ruled the palace ban, which has been the case since ancient times, and the Han family is no exception." Besides, Emperor Xian had just died, so how could I sit down with a group of foreign ministers to discuss things? This matter cannot be decided! ”
Without the approval of the empress dowager, He Jin wanted to seek second, first killing the most stubborn eunuchs. Yuan Shao still believed that the eunuchs were closest to the empress dowager and the emperor, and the music of the hundred officials had to be passed back and forth through them, and if they were not completely eliminated now, there would be endless troubles in the future.
Just when He Jin hesitated, the eunuchs began to twist into a rope again for their own fate and jointly deal with He Jin. They desperately tried to curry favor with Empress He's mother, Wu Yangjun, and her younger brother He Miao, and repeatedly reminded Empress He: "The great general's unauthorized killing of his right and left vassals will weaken the authority of the state." ”
Although He Jin was his own brother, if he was allowed to kill his cronies in the palace, who would be his son when he grew up? Empress He couldn't help but be wary of He Jin.
Seeing that He Jin was unable to make a decision, Yuan Shao was anxious and said to him again: "It is better to recruit the four fierce generals and let them lead the army to Luoyang, so as to coerce the empress." He Jinxin gladly felt that this plan was feasible.
When he heard that He Jin was preparing to recruit four fierce generals to enter Beijing, chen Lin, the chief bookkeeper, dissuaded: "Killing eunuchs would have been easy and should have been carried out in secret, and now the recruitment of foreign aid with great fanfare will inevitably lead to great chaos." He Jin, whose brain was in the water, did not think so.
When Cao Cao, a lieutenant of the military academy, heard about it, he also laughed: "The existence of eunuchs has been reasonable since ancient times, as long as the emperor does not grant great power, it will not develop to this extent." Since to punish them, all that is needed is to kill the leader, and one jailer is enough, so why gather troops from other places! If you want to kill all the eunuchs now, things will inevitably leak out, and I am sure that this matter will be lost. ”
At that time, Dong Zhuo was stationed in Hedong, closest to Luoyang, and He Jin sent emissaries to let Dong Zhuo force the palace. The attendant Shi Zhengtai was shocked and persuaded: "Dong Zhuo is a strong man, does not pay attention to benevolence, and is insatiable. If the imperial court relied on his support and granted military power, he would do whatever he wanted, threatening the security of the imperial court. As a relative of the emperor and the state, you hold the power of the state, and you can act arbitrarily and arbitrarily, and you really do not need Dong Zhuo's foreign aid. Moreover, the longer things dragged on, the easier it was to change, and Dou Wu's lesson was not far away, and the great general could not be careless. Shangshu Lu Zhi also believed that it was not appropriate to summon Dong Zhuo to Beijing.
Unfortunately, at this time, He Jin was completely confused by Yuan Shao and insisted on using Dong Zhuo's power to coerce the empress. Zheng Tai was indignant, resigned his official position, and said to Xun You before leaving: "He Jin is not a person who can assist." ”
Probably feeling that Dong Zhuo's weight was not enough, He Jin sent his subordinates Wang Kuang and The Riding Governor Bao Xin to Taishan County to recruit soldiers; he also ordered the Eastern Commandery Taishou Bridge to guard Chenggao, and Wu Mengdu Wei Ding Yuan led thousands of people to raid Hexi, burn Mengjin, create chaos, and all threatened to kill the eunuchs.
A ridiculous act of killing eunuchs, under the leadership of He Jin, actually became a national mobilization, can he get his wish? For more information, look at the next breakdown.