After the Yellow Turban Rebellion was quelled, the Eastern Han court entered a short period of stability, and Yuan Shao also actively advised He Jin to help him expand his power against the eunuch group led by the "Ten Standing Servants".

However, due to the protection of Emperor Ling, even if He Jin received the support of Yuan Shao and others, he still could not gain the upper hand in the confrontation with the eunuchs, and Yuan Shao chose to wait, but some people couldn't wait.

If you want to deal with the eunuchs, you must deal with the Ling Emperor, which is a hurdle that many people can't cross at that time, so no matter how the eunuchs mess around, as long as the Ling Emperor is still there, they can't be eliminated.

Since this is the case, then simply let the dazed and incompetent Spirit Emperor step down, if there is no "east wind", then it is good to create a "east wind".

In the fifth year of Zhongping (188), Jizhou Mu Wang Fen, Nanyang Xu You, Peiguo Zhou Jing, Chen Fan's son Chen Yi and the famous warlock Xiangkai of the Qingzhou Plain at that time began to plot to remove Emperor Ling and set up the Marquis of Hefei as the emperor.

Jizhou Assassin Wang Fen is one of the "Eight Kitchens", forced to go into exile and hide for 19 years because of the second party rebellion, and was oppressed by eunuchs. Later, the amnesty was granted to the world, the party was lifted, and Wang Fen was also reinstated, and was sent to Jizhou to serve as the assassin of Jizhou, and to govern the source of the Yellow Turban Army and Taiping Dao. After taking office, Wang Fen accepted the displaced people, pacified the rebellion, governed the army, and quickly settled Jizhou.

Chen Yi is the son of the original Taifu Chen Fan, in the first year of Jianning (168), the eunuch group first got rid of Dou Wu and Chen Fan, Chen Fan's friend Zhu Zhen risked his life to hide Chen Yi so that Chen Yi escaped, after the incident, Zhu Zhen's family was arrested, but he himself was still tight-lipped under torture, and finally let Chen Yi escape safely. After Emperor Ling was relieved of the party's control, Chen Yi was also reinstated.

Xu You was friendly with Yuan Shao and Cao Cao when he was young, and he himself was very hostile to the eunuchs, so he was soon co-opted by Wang Fen.

Zhou Jing has relatively few records in history, and only roughly understands that he is a native of Peiguo.

Xiangkai is a famous scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and in the era of Emperor Heng, he once wrote a book to criticize the eunuchs for disorderly government, pointing directly at Emperor Heng.

In the fourth year of Zhongping (187), Chen Yi and Xiangkai went to Wang Fen to visit the house, and Xiangkai said to the two: "Recently, the celestial phenomena have shown that they are not conducive to the eunuchs, and the Yellow Gate and Chang Shi may really be exterminated this time." ”

Wang Fen and Chen Yi were both overjoyed, and Wang Fen even said: "If this is really the case, I would like to be a pioneer." ”

In this way, Wang Fen and others kicked off the prelude to the action, Wang Fen and Chen Yi began to mingle with Xu You, Zhou Jing and others who had the same ambition, as well as the local heroes in Jizhou, but found that they could not bypass Emperor Ling no matter what, and they decided to abolish Emperor Ling of Han first, and then support the Hou of Hefei, who was not deeply connected with the eunuchs, as the emperor, and completely beat the ten permanent servants.

In order to enhance their strength, they also successively co-opted Cao Cao, Tao Qiuhong, Hua Xin and others, but they were unsuccessful.

Tao Qiuhong and Hua Xin are both famous people in the plains, among which Tao Qiuhong was originally ready to agree to Wang Fen, but Hua Xin said: "Such a major event as abolishing the emperor makes even Yi Yin and Huo Guang feel difficult. Wang Fen has a rough temperament and is not good at military affairs, this matter will definitely not succeed, and it may also harm the clan. Don't get involved! Tao Qiuhong was dissuaded.

Cao Cao even wrote a letter to reject Wang Fen and others, and his letter was very clear.

Cao Cao said: "This matter of abolishing the emperor is the most ominous in the world.

In ancient times, only Yi Yin and Huo Guang had the power to weigh success or failure, calculate the importance and then execute. Yi Yin is sincere and loyal, and according to the power of the prime minister, he is above the hundred officials, so the abolition of the emperor will be completed and the abolition will be completed. When he arrived at Huo Guang, he first received the heavy responsibility of the first emperor to trust the country, and by virtue of the status of the royal family, and with the weight of the queen mother, and the general trend of the concentricity of the ministers outside, plus the king of Changyi did not take the throne for a long time, there were no noble and favored people, and there was a lack of officials in the court, and his words could only be expressed through his attendants, so Huo Guang's strategy was implemented cheaply and quickly, and the completion of the matter was like destroying the withering and decaying.

Now you only see the ease of success of the ancients, but you do not see the current difficulties clearly. Think about it, what is the difference between you and the Seven Kings Rebellion? How is the status of the Marquis of Hefei compared to Liu Wei, the king of Wu, and Liu Wu, the king of Chu? And what you are doing now is an extraordinary thing, and it is not dangerous to hope to achieve great things according to your wishes! ”

It can be seen from this that Cao Cao, Tao Qiuhong, Hua Xin and others rejected Wang Fen not because they still supported Emperor Ling of Han, but because they thought that Wang Fen and others' actions did not have the possibility of success.

At that time, although Emperor Ling's faint and incompetent was known to the world, the majesty of the emperor was still inviolable, and the difficulty of directly challenging the emperor was still unimaginable to ordinary people in that era, and the bravery of Wang Fen and others could also be said to be stupid.

Historically, the actions of Wang Fen and others were not successful in the end.

On the one hand, because Wang Fen and others lacked the necessary manpower, and on the other hand, there was no good time, so they waited mostly at the beginning.

Until the time came to the fifth year of Zhongping (188), this year Emperor Ling was ready to go back to the old house of Hejian Country in Jizhou, Wang Fen and others took this matter as a rare opportunity, so Wang Fen wrote a letter to use the excuse of the Black Mountain thieves to invade the county, thus obtaining the military power, ready to use this opportunity to remove Emperor Ling.

But Wang Fen's actions are likely to have been seen by some well-intentioned people long ago, so they persuaded Emperor Ling with the help of the Taishi official who was in charge of the sky and the ephemeris, thinking that there was red qi in the north at that time, which was a great omen, and said that there were people in the north who were playing a conspiracy and it was not suitable to go north, so Emperor Ling gave up the idea of going north to go back to his hometown for safety.

Later, Emperor Ling not only ordered Wang Fen to stop the army, but also recruited him into Beijing, Wang Fen knew that his plan had failed, and committed suicide in panic and fear, Xu You and others also fled, and the actions of the radical faction of the party were aborted.

In that era, if you wanted to defeat the eunuchs, you had to defeat the Ling Emperor first, but the Ling Emperor was the emperor and was difficult to defeat, so the eunuchs were often invincible.

But Emperor Ling will always die, a dead person can no longer continue to protect the eunuchs, Wang Fen did not wait for this day, but He Jin and Yuan Shao waited, and waited for the "east wind" they needed.

Although Wang Fen did not succeed, this does not mean that Xiangkai's prediction was wrong, and the good days of Huangmen and Chang Shi are indeed not long.