The news of Wu Kuang's assassination of Cao Jie's death spread throughout Luoyang City within a few days, but everyone thought that the assassin's name was Wu Khotan, a native of Yanzhou Chenliu.

The people who really know that his name is Wu Kuang are none other than He Jin, Yang Qiu, Shi Ziyi, and Liu Bian, and among these four people, the most depressed because of Wu Kuang's death is Liu Bian, who has the weakest relationship with him.

The reason for Liu Kuang's depression is actually very simple, that is, Wu Kuang should not have died at this point in time, as far as he knows, Wu Kuang is going to live to the era of the princes, and his son Wu Ban is the humerus general who is called Wei Yan in the late Shu Han Dynasty, that is a man who is tough and strong Sima Yi and has just won, but all this, because Wu Kuang died in front of him, it is impossible to reappear.

Because of his own planning, calculations, or deliberately favoring a certain historical figure, which led to the early departure of more heroes or even the vain sacrifice of innocent lives, Liu Wei had the first self-doubt since coming to this world.

That's right, because he is Liu Wei, he doesn't want to die at the age of fourteen, but this is the reason for other lives to die because of him? Although he knows a lot of things that will happen in the future, what is in front of him is not a game that can be filed and deleted, but a piece of fresh life!

Liu Bian thought of the person who left "Luo Shen Fu" and Cao Zhi's name, this person appeared quietly, and left quietly, is it reminding himself of something, or is there really Wang Mang crossing over, Liu Xiu's plane, Liu Biao in this era is Wang Mang, and that person is Liu Xiu?

If this is the case, then what is the point of Liu Wei's current efforts? But now is not the time for Liu Wei to think about whether it makes sense.

Wu Kuang's actions, a total of thirty and three killings, twenty or thirty wounded, although it is a batch of armor with a knife to fight with bare hands, but this battle loss ratio is also extremely amazing, but the matter has not ended because Wu Kuang's head died.

The emperor knew about this and was furious. Although Cao Mang was shocked to wonder why someone would do this as Wu Khotan, how could he miss this great opportunity, pretend to be public and private, and wantonly plunder, for a while, Chen stayed to the people, up to the wealthy family, and everyone heard that Cao changed color and was miserable.

In addition, Cao Jieben's prestige after Wang Fu was weakened, and it was difficult to be the head of the eunuch. After this incident, his people gathered the ten permanent servants and the Yellow Gate, brought the corpse of the thirty-three Yellow Gate and the body of Wu Kuang and the East Gate of Luoyang, wept incessantly, wiped away tears and said: "We can kill each other, but how can we call such a thief to slaughter us?" All the yellow doors burst into tears, whipping Wu Kuang's corpse, they were the same enemy, and Cao Jie was the head of the eunuch.

Shi Ziyi later informed He Jin of Yangqiu, the two of them cried and couldn't speak, He Jin regretted it even more, so he swore a heavy oath and decided to punish the eunuch, since then He Jin's prestige has risen greatly, and the scholar group and the foreign relatives group are headed by Yangqiu He Jin, forming a political alliance for the purpose of punishing the eunuch, and the power is unprecedentedly strong.

In order to balance the strength of the scholars and eunuchs, Emperor Liu Hong actually worshiped Cao Jie as the Shangshu Order and led the Shangshutai. It is necessary to know that in order to weaken the power of the prime minister and consolidate the imperial power, Emperor Wu set up internal court officials and appointed Shaofu Shangshu to deal with the world's chapters, which involved the national political center. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Shang Shuling had great powers and was one of the "three solitary sittings".

The emperor's appointment of Cao Jie this time obviously found that the foreign relatives led by He Jin were obviously moving closer to the scholars, so Cao Jie naturally could not let go of this excellent opportunity, and in a few months, he completed the purge of the six chief officials of Shangshutai and their subordinate Lang officials and Lingshi. All of a sudden, the entire Shangshutai was full of eunuch forces, and the ministers were not allowed to approach the emperor's side.

In the second half of the third year of Guanghe (180 AD), it was an extremely dark few months for the scholars, Wu Kuang's assassination of Cao Jie was a fuse, but a blow missed, causing Cao Jie to use the imperial power to suddenly counterattack and control the center, Emperor Liu Hong simply let it go, ignore the government and politics, indulge in the West Garden all day long, and live an extremely extravagant and debauched life.

Also because of Wu Kuang's death, subtle structural changes have also taken place within the He family. It is mainly manifested in the comprehensive confrontation between the eunuch forces dominated by Empress He and He Miao, the captain of the Yue cavalry, and the eunuch forces dominated by He Jin, who served in the middle. On the one hand, the mother and the younger uncle, and on the other hand, the eldest uncle, such a confrontation is not intended to be carried out in the way of controlling Liu Wei or relying on Liu Wei.

In the fourth year of Guanghe (181 AD), which lasted five years, the Han Empire finally ushered in another prince besides Liu Wei, Liu Xie.

Liu Xie's birth is actually quite bumpy from a realistic point of view, since Wang Fu died as a sinner, Wang Meiren in the harem is equivalent to completely losing the support of the eunuchs, plus Queen He's character is obedient and jealous, Wang Meiren has always been afraid, but after finding out that she was pregnant with an heir, she took abortion pills in order to lose the fetus and save her life.

It's just that I don't want Liu Xie's vitality to be extremely tenacious, Wang Meiren's large amount of medicine not only did not have the slightest impact on him, but made it grow more and more healthily, until the fetus was formed, Emperor Liu Hong knew about it, and took extra care of it, He Guiren finally lost the opportunity and could not use his means to murder the prince.

Liu Wei is quite ambivalent about Liu Xie's smooth birth in terms of mentality.

Liu Xie's birth means that there must be two legal successors to the future emperor, so in case Dong Zhuo enters Luo again, according to the historical process, whether it is himself or Liu Xie, there will always be one who will be abolished or killed as the object of his authority, if the object of killing is Liu Wei himself, of course he is unwilling, all his efforts from the moment he was born are to live in this troubled world, and the first difficulty in living is not to be killed by Dong Zhuo. It's cruel to work hard for fourteen years and then repeat the mistakes of the past.

But what if the target of the killing is Liu Xie? Liu Bian's argument is still difficult to accept in the end. After all, he is the upright Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty in later generations, and in Liu Bian's opinion, this poor child is really too innocent.

Since the incident has happened, there is only one fundamental way to prevent himself from dying at the age of fourteen, or to prevent Liu Xie from becoming his scapegoat, which is to prevent Dong Zhuo from entering Luo, or in other words, to kill Dong Zhuo directly before he enters Luo, but now Dong Zhuo is in which corner Liu Wei does not know. Since this is the case, then we can only retreat to the next best thing, follow the old path of the old little emperors, and support our relatives.

For Liu Wei, there are only two relatives, one is He Jin and the other is He Miao.

To choose from these two people, Liu Wei will naturally choose He Jin without a doubt, and Liu Wei's choice also represents Shi Ziyi's choice, so that Queen He and He Miao will actually lose their natural advantages when they compete or cling to Liu Wei, and the fundamental strength of the eunuch group will also be shaken.

After all, the rights of eunuchs are nothing more than an extension of imperial power in the final analysis, and eunuchs can be empty-sighted, and they are nothing more than the emperor's tolerance or even disguised support, so when eunuchs lose the protection of the emperor, they must only be greeted by a dead end.

And the current situation is that in everyone's opinion, the prince Liu Wei is the future emperor, and the future emperor chooses He Jin, that is, he makes it clear that he wants to give up the eunuchs, so if the eunuchs want to live, the only way is not to let Liu Wei become the emperor, which was not possible before, but now there is a clear candidate, Liu Xie.

As a result, the eunuch group, which had been united for a short time, was instantly divided into several factions.

One faction is the pro-Liu Debate force represented by Cao Jie and Shi Ziyi, this faction is actually not entangled in the choice of Queen He, He Miao and He Jin, they simply choose Liu Debate, Shi Ziyi has such a choice, needless to say, but Cao Jie has his deep meaning.

Since the end of the Chinese New Year this year, Cao Jie can already feel that his body is gradually failing, he is a very smart person, and he knows that if he wants the continuation of the family, he must choose Liu Wei, the reason is very simple. In his opinion, Liu Biao is wise, far-sighted, and a person who can achieve great things, although Liu Xie can't say that he must not be smart, but after all, he is just a newborn baby, for Cao Jie, the current form is still as he said to Liu Bian in Yong'an Palace two years ago, he has no choice.

Although Liu Wei stood in the team of the eunuchs regardless of it, but Cao Jieyi's dying person, it is no longer important to him whether to punish the eunuch or not, the continuation of the family is the focus of his consideration, even if Cao Poshi and Cao Mang are holding butcher knives in the future, and kill their colleagues and eunuch friends now, what does it matter? As he said, in this palace, what kind of friendship can there be?

Therefore, Cao Jie's choice is actually a very pragmatic and inevitable result, and the opposite is the pro-Liu Xie forces with Zhao Zhong, Zhang Rang, and Jian Tu as the core.

The motive of this force is even more pure, Liu Wei wants to punish the eunuch, if he becomes the emperor, he will definitely die and have no place to be buried, then only by supporting this little prince who has no position is the only way to live, as for offending Queen He and He Miao, it is not worth mentioning.

In addition to this, there is also a third force emerging in the eunuch group.

This force is very special, they neither rely on Liu Wei nor rely on Liu Xie, they are the eunuch forces with Empress He and He Miao as the core dependents. In their opinion, the current situation is actually very simple, the political position is not important, the most important thing is to do their own work, as a yellow gate and a permanent servant, that is, to serve the queen and the emperor well, although Liu Wei is bent on punishing the eunuchs, but for them, if they seek the protection of the queen, can the future emperor still give his own mother and son? In the end, this is the Han Dynasty, governing the country with filial piety, how could Liu Wei not know? Therefore, it may be the best choice to respond to all changes with the same, neither offending fellow eunuchs nor offending the eunuch forces head-on.

The prince Liu Xie may never have imagined in his life that his birth would turn the political center of the world so upside down.

In the autumn of the same year, Cao Jie Cao Hanfeng, the eunuch leader who served the third emperor, finally ran out of oil and died at home in Luoyang.