Sili Luoyang City West Sunset Pavilion

Although the front army of Dong's army had begun to stop and camp, the troops in the back team continued to continue, and emerged from the horizon of the official road to the west.

The front army stationed in the camp were elite soldiers in the Dong family. The soldiers like wolves and tigers all carried bows and spears, and were covered with helmets and armor. Ordinary soldiers were wearing two crotch armors, while the middle-level military officers were wearing sleeve armor. There was a "sand-sand" sound of friction between the armor. When the sun shone on the armor of these Dong army soldiers, the light reflected and shone brightly.

The elite troops of the front army had already stopped, and the elite cavalry continued to rush out of the middle army and sent commands to all the troops. Among these middle army horses, there were many Qiang and Hu cavalry with round heads and wide faces, high cheeks and deep eyes. They were stout and sat on fast-moving horses. Some were wearing iron armor, while others were only wearing loose leather robes and deerskin hats. The wide trousers around their waists were tightly tied with belts. The bows were hung on both sides of the belts. With the ups and downs of the horses as they rallied, the bow bags and quiveres kept colliding with the knight's legs, but the Qiang and Hu cavalry who were sitting on the horse seemed to have grown on the back of the horse, and their legs were firmly wrapped around the horse's ribs, and their bodies were not shaken at all.

Yan Xing, who was riding a horse in the army, turned his eyes to the elite cavalry of the central army who were speeding past both sides of the road. Although some of the Qiang and Hu cavalry were unkempt and had a messy beard on their faces, Yan Xing knew that this cavalry that did not look good was the elite of Dong Zhuo who relied on the south and north to fight. He was the leader of the nearly 10,000 people in the Dong army. In terms of strength, it was even more than the elite elite of the strong-armored and sharp-armed front-line army.

Li Ru, Yan Xing and his group rushed from Lintao to Hedong, traveling day and night along the way, but it was already mid-June when they arrived at Dong Jun Camp in Puban, Hedong.

During this period, the situation in the court changed dramatically. In April, Jian Shuo first discussed with Zhao Zhong, Guo Sheng and others how to deal with the general He Jin who was in charge of the government. As a result, he was sold to He Jin by Zhao Zhong, Guo Sheng and other eunuchs. He Jin, who was about to avenge his previous murder, got Jian Shuo's crime and immediately ordered the Huangmen to arrest the little Huangmen Jian Shuo and executed him. Naturally, he put all the newly formed imperial guards in Xiyuan under his command.

The eunuchs have never been a solid piece of iron, and it is normal to fight for power and power. In the second year of Guanghe, when Cao Jie fought for power with Wang Fu in the palace, Yang Qiu, who was the Sili Captain, captured and tortured Wang Fu, Cao Jie and other eunuchs watched coldly. When Wang Fu's body was exposed to be in the streets of Luoyang, Cao Jie, who was passing by, saw it, wiped his tears and sighed, "We are the ones who can eat each other, but how can we let Yang Qiu, the evil dog, lick Wang Fu's soup?" So Cao Jie joined forces with other eunuchs to fight against the enemy, and then defeated the Yang Qiu party and avenged Wang Fu.

In the first year of Zhongping, Taiping Dao spread the world and preached all over the world. Most of the nobles and nobles had heard of the teachings. Many of the eunuchs accepted Zhang Jiao's wealth and goods and maintained close contacts with the people of Taiping Dao. However, when Ma Yuanyi's affairs were reported in Luoyang in Tangzhou, other Zhongchangshi also marked a clear distance from Feng Zi, Xu Feng and other eunuchs who were torn from this incident.

The Central Constable Lu Qiang advised the emperor to "punish the greedy people on the left and right, and to pardon the party members, and to predict whether the governor could be allowed to do so." Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and others regarded it as a complete break with the eunuch camp, and they reported Lu Qiang's slander to the emperor, forcing Lu Qiang to go desperate and had to commit suicide at home.

Therefore, when he saw the new emperor ascended the throne, Jian Shuo had lost the most important support of the emperor's trust. Guo Sheng, who was a native of the same county, joined forces with other eunuchs to sell Jian Shuo to He Jin in exchange for the friendship of the He family, the hot relative.

In May, He Jin joined hands with the Three Dukes to report to the emperor, exposing the evidence of Queen Mother Dong selling official positions and titles when he was the late emperor, using public tools for private use, and gathering money into the private treasury of Xiyuan. He ordered Queen Mother Dong to leave Luoyang's capital and also involved the crimes. He sent troops to surround the General's Mansion of the Cavalry to arrest Dong Chong, and to remove his power and force Dong Chong to commit suicide in the mansion.

In June, Empress Dowager Dong, the family, was both hated and afraid of being terminally ill, and died before she could leave Luoyang. After burying the posthumous title of Emperor Xiaoling, in July, He Jin also began to attack the prince Xie, who had been stripped of his own branches and leaves, and changed the title of King Liu Xie to King Chenliu, and determined the title of king and minister, and prepared to let him leave the capital by leaving the country.

In the process of He Jin's faction clearing the old people left by Emperor Xiaoling in the court, almost every month there were personnel changes in the court to varying degrees, and the eunuchs also restrained their wings and did not speak a word. They no longer controlled the government as before. Instead, He Jin, who was allowed to cover up the sky with his own hands, and instead kept flattering the Queen Mother He, who was the lord of the inner palace, was always cursing the heart.

Although Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and others did not deal with He Jin, who trusted the party, they had a close relationship with Empress Dowager He, who had a lot of interactions with eunuchs. At the same time, they also used the wealth they had accumulated over the years to bribe He Jin's half-brother, He Miao, who was the General of the Chariot and Cavalry, and also took charge of some imperial guards, and his mother Wuyang Jun.

The eunuch's curved way of saving the country really worked. Empress Dowager He and her youngest son were in charge of the government affairs. In addition to her mother's brothers He Jin and He Miao, they were the eunuchs who had lived in the deep palace with her for many years. At that time, Emperor Xiaoling and Empress Dowager He, who was still the queen, were disagreements. The emperor planned to depose the queen, but the eunuch advised to dissuade him, which was to eliminate this disaster.

Therefore, Empress Dowager He had a much deeper relationship with the eunuchs around him than those who lived in the outer court and the literati. She continued to leave eunuchs such as Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and others in the palace. Many eunuchs who had climbed onto Empress Dowager He's new tree continued to leverage their own influence on He Miao and Wuyangjun, trying to use them to exert political influence on the general He Jin, who relied on the scholars, so as to achieve the situation where the newly-powered relatives and the eunuchs whose favors were declining in the court.

If the eunuchs had only the opponent of He Jin in the court, then perhaps this method of showing weakness might have succeeded in He Jin. Unfortunately, there are also new leaders of the party members in the court. Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao, who is young and loves a raider, and he also became friends with Zhang Mengzhuo, He Boqiu, Wu Ziqing, Xu Ziyuan, Wu Deyu and others. He used his influence from his four generations and three masters to run for the party members and planned to destroy the powerful eunuch group.

The current good situation is unprecedented since Dou Wu and Chen Fan's defeat and the party and corruption disaster. How could Yuan Shao, who was determined to kill eunuchs, watch He Jin, the general who became a political ally with the party members, stop and reconcile with the eunuchs such as Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong.

Yuan Shao immediately made a comment to He Jin, using Dou Wu's story to alert He Jin, and explain the harm of eunuchs in the court. After hearing Yuan Shao's comments, He Jin immediately decided to continue to stand on the same front with the party members and eliminate the power of the eunuchs who secretly pose the greatest threat to his position. For this reason, he went to the palace to meet Empress Dowager He, requesting the removal of many eunuch positions in the palace, and selecting excellent ones from the three bureaus to supplement them into the palace ban.

Queen Mother He, who was determined to retain eunuchs in the palace, directly rejected He Jin's request. She showed her attitude to her brother face to face.

"The central government commands the ban on provinces. Since ancient times and present, the stories of the Han family cannot be abolished. Moreover, the late emperor has abandoned the world, so how can I deal with the scholars together?"

Note: 1. During the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty: Biography of Cruel Officials", Emperor Shun Emperor Yu was buried, and all officials returned. When Cao Jie saw the corpse of the lord, he sighed and said with tears: "I, Cao, can eat each other, why should I let the dog lick its juice?" He said to all the servants, and now they are all here, so don't go to the house.

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