In the palace coup d'état in the sixth year of Zhongping (189), Yuan Shao proposed to He Jin to eliminate the eunuchs five times.

For the first time, after the death of Emperor Ling, Yuan Shao thought that the time had come, and decisively asked He Jin to take action to remove the eunuchs, but He Jin was stopped by the Empress Dowager He;

For the second time, after He Jin was hindered and shaken, Yuan Shao advised He Jin again, asking He Jin not to leave any troubles, and to wipe out the eunuchs, which strengthened He Jin's belief in fighting the eunuchs;

The third time, when He Jin had nothing to do, Yuan Shao proposed a military admonition to put pressure on the Empress Dowager He, and He Jin adopted it;

After the initial failure of the fourth military admonition, He Jin's attitude was unclear again, and Yuan Shao decisively threatened He Jin, forced him to delegate power, and accelerated the recruitment of Dong Zhuo;

The last time in the military admonition has been basically successful, after the Empress Dowager He gave up sheltering the eunuchs, Yuan Shao repeatedly asked He Jin to get rid of the eunuchs immediately, but He Jin ignored it, and finally gave the eunuchs a chance to turn the tables.

At that time, as the main mastermind of He Jin, Yuan Shao did everything he could, and Yuan Shao's biggest controversy in this coup was to propose that He Jin recruit foreign generals, which eventually led to Dong Zhuo's chaos, which was considered by many people to be one of the culprits in leading the wolf into the house.

In history, Cao Cao looked down on the actions of He Jin and Yuan Shao, and he said: "There are eunuchs who serve in the palace in ancient and modern times, but the king should not give them great power and favor, so that they can develop to this extent." Since they are to be punished, the first evil should be removed, and only one jailer is sufficient. Why not call up troops from all over the country one after another! If we try to catch them all, the matter will inevitably leak, and I think I will see the failure of this matter. ”

Cao Cao said it simply, but the question was who gave the order to the jailer? How to proceed, does he want to send troops directly to the palace? And why doesn't the king believe in those eunuchs who grew up with them, don't the recent Emperor Heng and Emperor Ling all regard the eunuchs as their own.

Even if the first evil can be controlled for a while, can it be managed for a lifetime? After the Han Dynasty, did the eunuchs do less evil?

But it is indeed risky to recruit troops from all over the country, especially Dong Zhuo. At that time, Dong Zhuo had already refused the call of the imperial court twice in the fifth year of Zhongping (188), and was unwilling to give up his military power.

Yuan Shao is no exception, but Yuan Shao has no choice, Yuan Shao did not propose military advice to He Jin from the beginning, and recruiting foreign generals is also the last way.

Yuan Shao's first two proposals to He Jin were ultimately unsuccessful, and the situation was stalemate, although he did not get the order to crusade against the eunuchs, but in the overall situation, He Jin's faction still controlled the court and the army, and it can be said that they had the upper hand completely, and the eunuchs could only rely on the protection of the Empress Dowager He to survive, and in the case that He Jin did not enter the palace, there was basically no power to fight back.

Maybe someone said that in this case, it is completely okay to wait? Indeed, at this time, He Jin can wait, and he can wait for it, and he can look at the future situation before making the next decision.

But He Jin's wait doesn't mean that Yuan Shao can afford to wait!

As mentioned earlier, Yuan Shao had an important mission by He Jin's side, which was to draw He Jin to the side of the party and scholars, and then fight against the eunuchs together. And He Jin did not have a good impression of the eunuchs at all because of Jian Shuo's affairs, so he would conspire with Yuan Shao and others to deal with the eunuch group led by the "Ten Standing Servants" after the death of Emperor Ling.

But after all, the eunuchs are the kindness of the He family, except for He Jin, most of the He family members are also on the side of the eunuchs, and the eunuchs are a group of shameless creatures who basically have no discipline, as long as He Jin has that meaning, they can make dogs for He Jin in minutes.

So does Yuan Shao dare to wait? Now He Jin is dealing with the eunuchs with them with a breath of resentment, and when He Jin's anger disappears, what will He Jin, who was already indecisive, think?

Yuan Shao could only force He Jin to go one way to the dark, so he could only continue to think of a way. At that time, He Jin couldn't get around the Empress Dowager He against the eunuchs, and the Empress Dowager He and the He clan were close to the eunuchs, so the feelings were soft, and the party and the family must not be able to compare with the eunuchs, so they could only come hard.

Therefore, Yuan Shao proposed military advice to He Jin and recruited many foreign generals, including Dong Zhuo.

But at the beginning, He Jin's military admonition was very powerful, but it was in name only, just trying to scare his sister, but it was seen through by others, and Empress Dowager He was still stubborn in defending the eunuchs and did not retreat.

At this time, He Miao ran over to persuade his elder brother He Jin, telling the eunuchs about their kindness to the He family, hoping that He Jin would wave his hand.

At this time, Yuan Shao played a key role, he directly threatened He Jin, telling him that we had offended the eunuchs miserably, and now let them go, and in the future, the ten permanent servants will have a good life for us.

Now He Jin was really scared, Empress Dowager He was really frightened, and had to give up the eunuch, but she didn't give He Jin a formal order, and He Jin was also stupid, and finally put her life into it.

Judging from the outcome in history, Yuan Shao's behavior is undoubtedly to lure the wolf into the house, but our specific analysis can find that Yuan Shao had done well enough at that time, and the military advice was also successful, after all, the purpose of the military advice was mainly to put pressure on the Empress Dowager He to give up the eunuchs, and this goal was basically achieved.

Moreover, Yuan Shao's request to summon Dong Zhuo to Beijing may not be out of good intentions, Yuan Shao and He Jin may have other plans in this matter. At that time, the authority of the Han court still existed, but Dong Zhuo refused the imperial court's orders twice and refused to hand over the military power, which had already made many big figures in the court uneasy, so it was likely that summoning Dong Zhuo into Beijing would kill two birds with one stone.

And there are not many troops led by Dong Zhuo, if He Jin is still alive, Dong Zhuo is not familiar with the place in Luoyang, and it is difficult to turn over tricks with thousands of troops, and in the case of He Jin controlling everything, it can be said that he has thrown himself into the net.

But there is no if in history, and there is no archive, He Jin was still careless in the end under Yuan Shao's persuasion, giving the eunuchs the only chance to die in Huangquan.

After the party and the scholar group were leaderless, although they finally slaughtered the eunuchs with the blood of revenge, the great turmoil within the court was also a big gift package for the great demon king Dong Zhuo, so that Dong Zhuo could easily control the court and the emperor.

The almost invincible group of eunuchs in the Hengling era was finally completely defeated after the death of the Ling Emperor, but their defeat did not end the darkness, this was just the beginning of a prologue of a great era.