Si Li, the sunset pavilion in the west of the city

Although the marching front army of the Dong army had begun to stop and camp, the men and horses of the rear team continued to emerge from the horizon of the official road to the west. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The front army stationed in the camp was the elite soldiers of the Dong family, and the wolf-like soldiers were all carrying bows and spears, and wearing helmets and armor. Ordinary soldiers wore two crotch armors, while middle-level soldiers were wearing sleeve armor, and there was a sudden sound of "sand" armor leaf friction between stopping, when the sun shone on the armor of these Dong army soldiers, the light reflected and shone brightly.

The elite of the former army has been stationed, and the elite cavalry of the Chinese military horses has also continued to gallop out of the elite cavalry command army departments, these galloping Chinese military horses among them are many round heads and broad faces, high cheeks and deep eyes of the Qiang Hu cavalry, they are stout, sitting on fast galloping horses, some are dressed in iron armor, some are only wearing a loose leather robe, wearing a deerskin hat, the wide trousers around the waist are tightly tied with a belt, bows and arrows are hung on both sides of the belt, with the rhythm of the ups and downs of the horses galloping, the bow bag and quiver constantly collide with the knight's legs, But the Qianghu cavalry sitting on the horse, the lower body seemed to grow on the back of the horse, and the legs firmly covered the horse's ribs, and the body did not waver at all.

Yan Xing, who was riding a horse in the army, set his eyes on these elite cavalry of the Chinese army galloping past from both sides of the road, although some of the Qianghu cavalry were unkempt, and the beard on their faces was messy, like a clump of grass, but Yan Xing knew that this cavalry that did not look good was the elite of Dong Zhuo's expedition to the south and the north, and was the leader of the Dong army's nearly 10,000 horses.

Li Ru, Yan Xing and their entourage, the wind and dust servants rushed to Hedong from Lintao, wearing stars and moons along the way, day and night, but when they arrived at the Dong military camp in Puban, Hedong, it was already mid-June.

During this period, the situation between the DPRK and China changed abruptly. In April, Jian Shuo first discussed with Zhao Zhong, Guo Sheng and others how to deal with He Jin, the general in charge of the government, but was sold to He Jin by Zhao Zhong, Guo Sheng and other eunuchs.

Eunuchs have never been monolithic, and it is also the norm for eunuchs to compete for power with each other. In the second year of Guanghe, Cao Jie was fighting for power with Wang Fu in the palace, so when Yang Qiu, who was then the captain of Si Li, was arrested and tortured Wang Fu, Cao Jie and other eunuchs watched coldly, and waited until Wang Fu's body was exposed on the streets of Luoyang, and Cao Jie, who was passing by, saw it, so he wiped his tears and sighed: "We people can kill each other, but how can we let Yang Qiu, a vicious dog, lick Wang Fu's soup?" So Cao Jie united with other eunuchs to fight the enemy together, and overthrew the Yangqiu party and avenged Wang Fu.

In the first year of Zhongping, Taiping Dao preached the world, preaching in all directions, and there were many high-ranking officials and nobles who heard the teachings, and many of the eunuchs accepted bribes from Zhang Jiao's goods and maintained close contacts with the people of Taiping Dao, but when Ma Yuanyi's matter was reported in Luoyang in Tang Zhou, other Zhongchang attendants also drew a clear distance from the eunuchs such as Feng Yu and Xu Feng who were ripped off by this incident.

And Lu Qiang, the regular servant of the Son of Heaven, admonished the Son of Heaven to "punish the corrupt people on the left and right, amnesty the party members, and whether the history of the assassination is simple, and whether the two thousand stones can be used", which was regarded by Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and others as a complete break with the eunuch camp, and they all played Lu Qiang's slander to the Son of Heaven, forcing Lu Qiang to be cornered and had to commit suicide in anger at home.

Therefore, after seeing the new emperor ascending the throne, Jian Shuo had lost the trust of the Son of Heaven, which was the most important reliance, and Guo Sheng, who was from the same county as He Jin, did not hesitate to sell Jian Shuo to He Jin in exchange for the friendship of the hot relatives of the He family.

In May of the following, He Jin joined hands with the three dukes to play the Son of Heaven, exposing the evidence of the Empress Dowager Dong selling official titles, public weapons for private use, and accumulating money and wealth into the private treasury of Xiyuan during the time of the first emperor, and ordered the Empress Dowager Dong to leave the Luoyang Jingshi in the country, and also collected the charges, sent troops to surround the Hussar General's Mansion and prepare to arrest Dong Chong, relieved him of his power, and forced Dong Chong to commit suicide in the mansion.

In June, Empress Dowager Dong, who had lost her power and family, fell terminally ill in hatred and fear, and passed away before she had time to leave Luoyang. And after burying the Emperor Xiaoling, in July, He Jin also began to act against the prince who had been stripped of the branches and leaves that could be relied on, and changed the title of Liu Xie, the king of Bohai, to the king of Chen Liu, and determined the status of the monarch and minister, preparing to let him leave the capital in the country.

In the process of He Jin's faction sweeping away the old people left by the original Emperor Xiaoling above the court, there are personnel changes of varying degrees in the court almost every month, and the eunuchs also retracted their wings, did not say a word, and no longer controlled the government as before, but let He Jin, who was in the outer court, cover the sky with one hand, and turned to the Empress Dowager He, who has been the master of the inner palace.

Although Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and others did not deal with He Jin, who trusted the party, they had a great relationship with the Empress Dowager He, who had a lot of intersections with the eunuchs, and 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 cavalry at the time, and his mother Wuyangjun, who was also in charge of part of the forbidden army.

The eunuch's way of saving the country really worked, the Empress Dowager He and her young son were in charge of the government for the first time, and in addition to her mother He Jin and He Miao, the two brothers who could rely on her, were the eunuchs who had lived with her in the deep palace for many years.

Therefore, Empress Dowager He's feelings for these eunuchs around her are obviously much deeper than those party members and scholars who live in foreign dynasties, she continued to keep Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and other eunuchs in the palace, and many eunuchs who attached to the new big tree of Empress Dowager He also continued to use their strength to expand their influence to He Miao and Wuyangjun, trying to use them to exert political influence on He Jin, a general who had power in hand and relied on scholars, so as to achieve a situation of reconciliation between the newly powerful relatives and the eunuch camp of the declining grace in the court.

If the opponent of the eunuch in the court is only his relative He Jin's family, then maybe this kind of means of showing weakness in front of the person may succeed in He Jin, but it is a pity that there is still the new leader of the party Yuan Shao in the court today, Yuan Shao is a young and good ranger, and Zhang Mengzhuo, He Boqiu, Wu Ziqing, Xu Ziyuan, Wu Yu and others have become friends, he used the influence of his fourth and third princes to run for the party, trying to destroy the powerful eunuch group.

At present, this kind of good situation is unprecedented since the defeat of Dou Wu and Chen Fan, and the disaster of the party, how could Yuan Shao, who was determined to destroy the eunuchs, watch the general He Jin, who had become a political ally with the party, stop and reconcile with Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and other eunuchs.

Yuan Shao immediately spoke to He Jin, using Dou Wu's story to warn He Jin and explain the harmfulness of eunuchs in the court. After listening to Yuan Shao's words, He Jin immediately decided to continue to stand on the same front with the party and remove the eunuchs who secretly threatened his position the most.

And Empress Dowager He, who had the intention of keeping eunuchs in the palace, directly rejected He Jin's request, and she explained her attitude to her brother face to face.

"The central official commands the forbidden province, from ancient times to the present, the story of the Han family cannot be abolished. And the first emperor abandoned the world, I have no choice but to share things with the scholars! ”

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