A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 372: Unresolved and ultimately blamed, the downcast phoenix is ​​worse than a chicken
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August

Under the instructions of He Jin, Wei Dingyuan, the commander of Wu Meng, began to set fire to the city. Since Mengjin, Pingyin, Hejin and other places were not far from Luoyang, the firelight made the city red. The people and officials in the city all said that this was a fire. Kill the eunuchs.

At this time, He Jin continued to persuade Queen Mother He to comply with public opinion and kill the eunuchs. But Queen Mother He still disagreed.

On the contrary, He Jin's younger brother He Jin was bribed by eunuchs many times. Henan Yin and Chariot General He Miao came to persuade He Jin:
"Brother, please don't forget that in the beginning, our family came all the way from Nanyang. We were originally poor and humble, but we relied on the wealth we obtained from the palace.

The affairs of the country are not easy! The poured water cannot be taken back. We should think carefully and maintain a friendly relationship with the palace, so that we can live up to the friendship that they helped us in the first place! "

He Miao's words made He Jin hesitate again. Is it useful for him to obey the wishes of the scholar-bureaucrats and kill the eunuchs?
In order not to regret it, He Jin was ready to wait, so he sent an admonishment to the official Zhong Shao to dissuade Dong Zhuo's tribe, which was not far from Luoyang, to return to Hedong County to attack the exiled Xiongnu Chanyu Yufuluo.

But he was about to arrive in Luoyang. Gold, silver, jewelry, silks and satins everywhere were waving to him, so how could he stop? It is better to seize this opportunity, enter Luoyang, control the capital with troops, and control the world.

So Dong Zhuo ostensibly agreed to plant Shao, but his soldiers still moved closer to Luoyang, and kept writing letters to defend their actions, and soon entered Henan Yin.

Yuan Shu, who learned of the news that He Jin was trying to dissuade Dong Zhuo from going to the capital, immediately went to He Jin and said, "Why does the general look forward and look back? Don't you know that the arrow has to be fired when the arrow is on the string? Everything has been started now, even if you want him to stop, general." , is also impossible.

Even if you are unwilling to stop all this, according to the character of eunuchs who hold grudges, if they know that you have thought about killing them, general, they will definitely try their best to get rid of you for the sake of their own future.

There can only be two situations at this time, that is, the eunuch dies and the general lives, or the general dies and the eunuch lives. There will never be a second situation. For the sake of your own life, general, please be firmer. "

He Jin listened to Yuan Shu's words and decided to launch a coup again. He ordered Bai Dian, the captain of the Sili School, to hold the talisman and break it with special orders; Wang Yun, who was engaged in Zhonglang, was appointed as Henan Yin.

Here, Dong Zhuo continued to threaten Luoyang, causing the Queen Mother He to fall into extreme panic. She had to agree to issue an edict to remove the eunuchs and let them all return to their homes to wait for the final disposition, leaving only those who were usually close to He Jin. Guard the province.

Seeing that his goal was about to be achieved, He Jin decided not to let Dong Zhuo continue to advance, so he sent Zhong Shao out of the city to labor and asked Dong Zhuo to withdraw his troops again.

The prosperous Luoyang City was right in front of him. Dong Zhuo didn't want to go back to the miserable days before, so he ordered his soldiers to come forward and threaten Zhong Shao. Zhong Shao was furious and scolded Dong Zhuo on the spot for wanting to rebel. If he persisted in going his own way, he would be waiting for him. They are the swords and guns of the Xiyuan Army.

Dong Zhuo, who was scolded by the traitor, knew that he was wrong and woke up from the scolding. If he persisted, the Xiyuan Army would probably rush out. After all, he only had 5,000 men, so he led his army to retreat westward to Luoyang City, twenty miles away. He went to the Sunset Pavilion outside and continued to watch the situation in the city.

Under the instruction of Empress Dowager He, the eunuchs such as the Changshi Xiaohuangmen all went to He Jin to plead guilty and wanted to hear what He Jin would do with him.

He Jin looked at these eunuchs kneeling on the ground. Is this the feeling of an emperor? So he said to them:
"The world is in turmoil now, and it is precisely because of the harm done by the princes! Now that Dong Zhuo is coming soon, why don't you princes go back to their respective countries and return to their hometowns as soon as possible?"

Yuan Shao on the side saw that all the eunuchs in the palace had arrived and it was a good time to eradicate them in one fell swoop. He kept urging He Jin to execute them here. However, no matter how he persuaded, He Jin believed that these people came here only because they obeyed the Queen Mother He's words. Here, the Queen Mother cannot be trapped in injustice, so it is not allowed.

Reluctantly, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shuyi discussed and decided to write letters to various states and counties, falsely conveying He Jin's intentions and asking them to arrest the eunuch's relatives, in order to force the eunuch himself to turn against He Jin.

Because He Jin had been planning for so long, not only was the matter leaked, but the eunuchs were also afraid that He Jin would kill them all according to the original plan, so they wanted to strike first.

But now they have all been dismissed from their official positions, and even expelled from the palace. If they want to act, they need to restore their positions, which is easier in the palace.

Because they had an old relationship with Queen Mother He and Wuyang Jun, the mother of He Jin and He Miao, Zhang Rang's daughter-in-law was Wuyang Jun's daughter and Queen Mother He's sister.

Therefore, Zhang Rang and others asked Wuyang Jun to tell the Queen Mother He: "The old ministers and others are guilty and have voluntarily returned to their hometowns to live in the country. However, all brides among the people should return home after getting married.

I think that I have received many favors from the world, and now I have to stay away from the palace. I am really reluctant to leave. I request to enter the palace again so that I can temporarily see the Queen Mother and Her Majesty, and then go back. In this way, even if I die, there will be no regrets. . "

Empress Dowager He thought the situation was excusable, so she issued an edict ordering all the regular attendants to return to the palace. August 25
All the ministers from the Xiaohuangmen came back to the palace for confinement. This made He Jin think that the Queen Mother had regretted it again and was afraid that the eunuchs would rise again, so he decided to follow the advice of Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao without hesitation.

He decided to enter the palace in person, and asked Queen Mother He to agree to kill all the eunuchs below the standing attendants, and selected three ministers to enter the palace to guard the eunuchs' houses in case of accidents.

Because he was afraid that the eunuchs would kill He Jin when he entered the palace alone, after deciding to kill the eunuchs, He Jin began to complain of illness and no longer entered the palace. Even when the coffin of Emperor Ling entered the mausoleum, he did not bury it. Avoid being assassinated.

Now He Jin was suddenly not afraid of assassination and entered the palace himself, causing the eunuchs to fall into extreme panic and spread rumors among themselves:
"The general excused himself from mourning because he was ill. He didn't attend the funeral. Now he suddenly comes to the palace. What does he want to do? Has the Dou family incident happened again?"

Zhang Rang and others sent people to eavesdrop on the conversation between He Jin and the Queen Mother He. Knowing He Jin's final decision, they led dozens of people, including Duan Gui and Bi Lan, to secretly enter through the side door with weapons and ambush Jiade. temple.

When He Jin came out, he pretended to be the Queen Mother and summoned him again. When He Jin entered the palace, Zhang Rang and others surrounded him and asked:
"The chaos in the world is not only our fault. The late Emperor once had a disagreement with the Queen Mother and almost wanted to depose the Queen Mother. It was we who cried to save her. Each of us gave tens of millions of our wealth as gifts to please the late Emperor. This is what we thought It's just relying on your He family's portal.

Now it would be too much to kill our relatives, right? You said that the palace is filthy and filthy, so we would like to ask, who are the loyal and honest people below the ministers? "

After saying this, He Jin was hacked to death by the eunuchs' swords. Seeing that He Jin was dead, Zhang Rang, Duan Gui and others tried to use the imperial edict to appoint the late Taiwei Fan Ling as the Sili school attaché and Xu Xiang as the Henan Yin to purge He Jin's remaining party and scholar-bureaucrats.

However, Xun Yu, the Minister of Hucao who was on duty at the Shangshutai, received this edict and suspected that it was false. He said to them: "Please invite the general to come out and discuss it together."

Seeing that they could not coax him, they hoped that Xun Yu would be frightened by He Jin's head, so they threw He Jin's head to Xun Yu: "He Jin has rebelled and has been killed."

However, Xun Yu was not frightened. Instead, he ordered the Chancellery to be on alert, and then spread the news of He Jin's death out of the palace.

When Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Cao Cao, Wu Kuang, Zhang Zhang and others heard about He Jin's death, they were afraid that the eunuchs would rely on the Queen Mother He to take power and then purge them afterwards. Therefore, they took the opportunity to lead their troops to rush into the palace gate and enter the palace to seek revenge. Trying to kill all the eunuchs, the palace was in chaos.

The soldiers who entered ruthlessly killed all the eunuchs and maids they saw. Wu Kuang even revealed to Wu Kuang, his colleague Fengche Captain Dong Min (Dong Zhuo's younger brother), that the one who killed He Jin was also his younger brother. He Miao, He Miao was killed together.

August
The killings in the palace lasted all night, and the eunuchs resisted continuously. Finally, they could no longer resist, so they entered the Changle Palace, the palace of the Queen Mother, and reported to the Queen Mother He, lying that the general's subordinates were plotting rebellion.
He took the opportunity to threaten Empress Dowager He, Emperor Liu Bian, the renamed Chenliu King Liu Xie, and provincial officials, and hijacked them to escape from the overpass pavilion road between the North and South Palaces to the Deyang Hall of the North Palace.

August 27
The angry He Jin tribe will continue to attack the Beigong under the influence of various forces. Zhang Rang, Duan Gui and others are trapped in the Beigong due to the pursuit of troops, with nothing to do. After discussion, they decided to take only the emperors Liu Bian and Chen Liu Xie, the remaining king, and a few dozen people walked out of the valley gate.

When the rebels invaded the Beigong, they only saw the Queen Mother He and a few subordinate officials. The emperor and King Chenliu were nowhere to be found. The court officials knew that they were in trouble, so they began to look around.

After nightfall, Zhang Rang and other people arrived at Xiaopingjin, a ferry on the Yellow River in the north of Luoyang.

None of the six jade seals used by the emperor were carried with him, and no ministers followed him. Only Lu Zhi, the minister, and Minggong from central Henan Province arrived at the bank of the Yellow River at night to look for the emperor, and met the disgraced Liu Bian and his party.

Mingong led his cavalry to catch up at dawn. After Liu Bian was coerced for a day and night, he was hungry and thirsty. Min Gong killed the sheep and went up. At this time, Lu Zhi turned around and sternly rebuked Zhang Rang and others for causing harm to the country and government, and hacked several eunuchs to death with a sword.

Zhang Rang and others were frightened and knew that their death was coming, so they bowed their hands to Liu Bian with tears, kowtowed in farewell, and then threw themselves into the river.

After a short rest, Lu Zhi and Mingong discussed. In order to prevent any accidents, the two of them went separate ways. Lu Zhi led the cavalry and a group of entourage and palace officials who had followed the emperor out of the palace, and took another road to divert the rebels. .

Mingong, on the other hand, supported Liu Bian and King Chenliu alone, and followed the dim light of fireflies in the night, walking southward from the path.

Lu Zhi didn't talk about it, but only talked about Mingong. After walking for several miles, the three of them finally got a cart from a commoner's house. After the three of them took the cart to Luoshe, they got off the car and rested for a while. , prepare to spend the night here.

At dawn the next day, the three of them found two more horses. Liu Bian rode one alone, and King Chenliu and Min Gong rode one together. They headed south from Luoshe, and then gradually some officials came to join them.

(End of this chapter)