Liu Xin said with some doubts: "Your Majesty, I really don't understand, didn't this Hou Lan really die in the first party disaster?" ”

Emperor Han Ling smiled, nodded, and said: "Of course, not only is this Hou Lan not dead, but Cao Jie and Chen Fan are not dead!" ”

Liu Xin was shocked, this is a big news, Liu Xin hurriedly looked at the booklet and found that the names of Chen Fan and others were indeed in the booklet!

Liu Xin raised his eyebrows, looked at Emperor Han Ling with an unbelievable look, and said, "Your Majesty, do you mean that these two disasters of the party are a big show?!" ”

Emperor Han Ling smiled, nodded and said, "Of course, Old Chen, come here." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Emperor Han Ling said to an old eunuch outside the Huxin Pavilion.

The old man nodded, walked in with a smile, and said, "I've seen Your Majesty, I've seen the prince, and I'm in Xia Chenfan!" ”

Liu Xin was taken aback again, immediately stood up, and saluted Chen Fan instead, "I've seen Chen Lao in my later life!" ”

Liu Xinke respects the old man Chen Fan very much, after all, Chen Fan can be said to be an important old minister in the late Han Dynasty, and if he doesn't sweep a house, why sweep the world is Chen Fan, and Chen Fan's ability is beyond doubt, because Chen Fan has served in various official positions in the Han Dynasty, large and small, and is an out-and-out Han old minister.

At this moment, Emperor Han Ling called another person in, "Cao Jie, Wang Fu, you all come in." ”

Liu Xin looked back, and two more elderly eunuchs walked in, nodded to Emperor Han Ling and himself, and saluted.

Obviously, these two eunuchs are the predecessors of the Ten Standing Servants - Cao Jie and Wang Fu.

Cao Jie, the word Hanfeng, Nanyang Xinsavage, Cao Jie was originally a native of Wei County, and the family held a senior official position of 2,000 stones for generations, so Cao Jie was also regarded as a second generation of officials, so in the early years of Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty, Cao Jie was promoted to the position of riding in the West Garden, and was promoted to the small yellow gate, and during the period of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty, Cao Jie was promoted to the rank of Zhongchang Servant and Captain of the Che.

In the first year of Jianning (that is, in 168 AD), Cao Jie led a total of 1,000 people from Zhonghuangmen, Huben and Yulin to the north to meet Emperor Ling of Han, and accompanied Emperor Ling of Han to enter the palace by car. Therefore, after Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne, with Cao Jie's participation in the calculation, Cao Jie was named the Marquis of Chang'an, with 600 households.

In the early days of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Dou was in power, so the father of the Empress Dowager Dou, the general Dou Wu, discussed with the Taifu Chen Fan to kill the eunuchs, so on the seventh day of the ninth month of the first year of Jianning (that is, 168 AD), Cao Jie and Changle Wuguan Shi Zhu Yu, Congguan Shi Gongpu, Zhang Liang, Zhonghuangmen Wang Zun, Changle Confidant Teng is and other seventeen people, jointly falsely claimed the emperor's edict, appointed the then Changle Food Supervisor Wang Fu as the Huangmen Order, and led the troops to kill the Taifu Chen Fan, the general Dou Wu and Shangshu Ling Yin Xun, Liu Yu in the service, and Feng Shu, the captain of the Tun Cavalry, And exterminated all of them, after this incident, Cao Jie was promoted to the captain of Changle, changed the title of Yuyang Marquis, and increased the number of food towns by 3,000.

In the second year of Jianning (that is, 169 AD), Cao Jie was seriously ill at that time, so Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty issued an edict to appoint him as the general of the chariot cavalry (what kind of ghost logic is this), so after more than 100 days, Cao Jie recovered from his illness, and handed over the seal of the chariot cavalry general, and removed himself from the position of chariot general, but he still served as a regular attendant, and the official position was specially advanced, and he was transferred to Dachangqiu soon after.

So then in the first year of Xiping (that is, in 172 AD), the Empress Dowager Dou died of illness, and I don't know who wrote on the Zhuque Que: "The world is in turmoil, Cao Jie and Wang Fu imprisoned and killed the Empress Dowager, and the Chang Hou Lan killed many party members. ”

Therefore, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty issued an edict to Liu Meng, the lieutenant of Sili, asking him to be responsible for the pursuit and report once every ten days, but Liu Meng thought that the words in the slander book were very upright and did not want to catch it too tightly. After that, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty appointed Duan Cheng in the imperial history to replace Liu Meng, and Duan Cheng began to hunt down criminals everywhere because of the lessons of the past, so that he arrested the students of Taixue and studied abroad, and as a result, nearly 1,000 people were imprisoned.

At this time, Cao Jie and others had always resented Liu Meng, so they asked Duan Cheng to denounce Liu Meng with other things, and as a result, Liu Meng was sentenced to work in Zuo Colonel to atone for his crimes, but most of the ministers of the court spoke for Liu Meng, so he was exempted from punishment, and later the bus recruited him again.

Speaking of which, I have to mention that the same as Huangfu Gui, it is collectively known as Liangzhou Sanming ("Liangzhou Sanming" refers to the three outstanding military generals who also belonged to the ancient Liangzhou people at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty: Huangfu Gui, Zhang Huan and Duan Cheng. Because the Huangfu rule word Weiming, Zhang Huan's word Ranming, and Duan Cheng's word Jiming. Because the three of them all have the word "Ming", and they all made great contributions to the governance of Qiang almost at the same time, so at that time, "the Beijing division was called 'Liangzhou Sanming' cloud." These three people have had outstanding achievements in the Qiang War, and they are also very prestigious among the Qiang people. However, the three men were divided into two camps when it came to suppression. Huangfu Gui and Zhang Huan agreed with Fu, while Duan Cheng agreed with Fu. Duan Gong of the paragraph.

Duan Cheng, a native of Wuwei Guzang in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the great-grandson of Duan Huizong from the Western Regions, learned the bow when he was young, had a literary and military wisdom, and was filial piety at the beginning, and more than ten years after the border of the Western Regions.

In the second year of Yanxi (that is, in 159 AD), the eight kinds of Qiang of Xiqiang, such as Burn Dang, Burn He, Dang Frying, and Le Sister, attacked Jincheng Fortress, and were defeated by Duan Cheng, and the Qiang people attacked Zhangye County in the next year, and Duan Cheng went out of the fortress for more than 2,000 miles, pursued the enemy for more than 40 days, and defeated the Qiang people at Jishi Mountain.

So in the winter of the sixth year of Yanxi, Duan Cheng was reinstated as the captain of the Qiang guard, and the Qiang of Yunnan heard that Duan Cheng had arrived, and everyone fell, and the next year Duan Cheng broke the Qiang such as Dang Fried and Sister Le.

In the first year of Yongkang (that is, in 167 AD), but when Panqiang rebelled and attacked Zhangye County, he was defeated by Duan Cheng, and Xiqiang was finally pacified.

In the spring of the first year of Jianning (that is, 168 A.D.), Duan Cheng attacked the first zero Qiang, and fought with the first zero Qiang in Fengyi Mountain, the Qiang army retreated, beheading more than 8,000 ranks, so Duan Cheng was worshiped as the Qiang general.

In the summer of the same year, Duan Cheng pursued the Qiang people out of the bridge gate, led the light soldiers to travel more than 200 miles day and night, to Luyanze, Luochuan, and Lingxian Shui, and defeated the Qiang Datun army in succession, and in the Lingwu Valley, and Duan Cheng took the lead, no one dared to be the queen of his palace, so the Qiang people were defeated by Duan Cheng, and then Duan Cheng began to chase for three days and three nights, the soldiers grew cocoons under their feet, until Jingyang was settled, and the Qiang people finally fled into Hanyang Mountain and gathered in Fanting Mountain; As a result, Fanting Mountain was broken by Duan Cheng, and the Qiang people gathered in the Shooting Tiger Valley, and Duan Cheng built a fence in Xixian County to cover it.

In the second year of Jianning (that is, in 169 AD), Dongqiang was defeated by Duan Cheng.

Therefore, Duan Cheng repeatedly broke the Qiang army, fought 180 times, and killed nearly 40,000 people, so Emperor Ling of Han was an official to a captain.

However, Duan Cheng was not guaranteed in the evening after all, and finally took refuge in the eunuch forces, worked for the eunuch forces, and became a lackey...

And in October 172 AD, Cao Jie and Wang Fu and others together falsely accused Emperor Huan of Han Huan's younger brother Bohai King Liu Kui of rebellion, so on the sixth day of the first month of October, Liu Kui and his wife committed suicide for this, and finally because of this merit were sealed twelve people with eunuch power, Wang Fu was named the champion marquis, Cao Jie was also added to the food of 4,600 households, and the previous seal together there were 7,600 households (this is very difficult in the late Han Dynasty), and finally Cao Jie's father, brothers, sons and nephews all became ministers, school captains, state pastors, county magistrates, The power is all over the world, which is also the origin of the eunuchs' families who began to become officials.

When Cao Jie's younger brother Cao Poshi served as the captain of the Yue Cavalry, there was a captain in the Yue Cavalry camp, his wife was beautiful, Cao Poshi asked the captain for his wife, the captain did not dare to disobey, but his wife resolutely refused to go, so he committed suicide, and the leopard in the tube, it can be seen that Cao Jie's family is absurd and tyrannical, most of them.

In the second year of Guanghe (that is, in 179 AD), Cao Jie served as Shangshuling, and in the fourth year of Guanghe (that is, in 181), Cao Jie died, and Emperor Ling of Han posthumously awarded him as a chariot general.

Therefore, it stands to reason that Cao Jie should have died this year, but when Liu Xin looked at Cao Jie's current appearance, he could be described as red-faced, and he was not a dying person at first glance...

And Wang Fu next to Cao Jie is another eunuch.

However, Wang Fu's reputation is much better than Cao Jie, because Wang Fu pardoned most of the scholars in the first party disaster, so he also won a lot of reputation for himself, but later Wang Fu was attached to Cao Jie and did a lot of bad things.

Liu Xin saw Cao Jie, Wang Fu, and Chen Fan standing together, talking and laughing, and couldn't help but look a little dazed, I didn't expect these three people to come together, it seems that this big scene of Emperor Han Ling is really exciting!

So, Liu Xin said to Emperor Han Ling with some curiosity: "Your Majesty, you and those who have "died" are "alive" by your side, I am very curious. ”

Emperor Han Ling smiled and said to Liu Xin: "Now in the palace, there is actually another person, this person is named Li Ying, you should know the prince." ”

Liu Xin smiled, Li Ying himself must know, after all, Li Ying is the uncrowned king of the students

Li Ying, the word Yuanli. A native of Xiangcheng, Yingchuan, he was a famous scholar and politician in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Li Ying was born in a well-dressed family, his grandfather Li Xiu, and his father Li Yi were all officials, so Li Ying was raised as filial piety very early, successively served as Qingzhou, Yuyang, and Shu County Taishou, and affirmed the decree during his tenure, and then transferred to the Wuhuan school captain, to the second year of Yongshou (that is, 156 AD), Xianbei Kou plundered the clouds, Li Ying was appointed as the general of Zhengdu Liao, and in the second year of Yanxi (that is, 159 AD), Li Ying was Henan Yin, exposing the crime of Wanling surnamed Yang Yuanqun, but was framed for sitting on the crime, punished as the left school, As a result, the lieutenant of Sili should be informed, and the superior interceded for Li Ying and others, and was exempted from punishment. From then on, Li Ying began to serve as the lieutenant of the school, and traveled with the Tai student Guo Tai and others, jointly opposed the eunuchs' monopoly, and committed to correcting the traitors, so Li Ying gradually became the "model of the world" in the minds of the Tai students, so some people were proud to have been received by Li Ying and regarded as "climbing the dragon gate".

Since Li Ying's fame has grown, and his friends Chen Fan, Du Mi, Wang Chang and others are also admired by intellectuals, so Tai students regard them as the embodiment of justice and knowledge, and also make up a slip for them: "The world's model Li Yuanli (Li Ying), not afraid of the strong Chen Zhongju (Chen Fan), the world's handsome Wang Shumao (Wang Chang)." ", also known as Li Ying and Du Mi as "Li and Du", much earlier than Li Bai and Du Fu.

In the ninth year of Yanxi (that is, 166 years), Zhang Cheng's disciple Jian Xiu accused Li Ying and others of forming a party, "a communist party", "slandering the imperial court, and suspecting customs", so Emperor Huan of Han imprisoned Li Ying and others in Beisi Prison, Zhulian reached more than 200 people, and later Dou Wu and others, who were still relatives, came to the rescue, and Emperor Huan of Han pardoned Li Ying, but he was not allowed to be an official, living in Yangcheng, known as the first disaster of the party.

In other words, the real power of the Eastern Han Dynasty, since the Han Dynasty and the emperor began to be held by relatives and eunuchs for a long time, most of the official positions from the central to the local government are occupied by them, the general bureaucrats have no power, can not do things according to their own wishes, the official career is full of thorns, as for the lower level of scholars who try to become officials is even more impassable, they are full of grievances, the implementation of Confucius's "see the good as if you can't, see the bad as if you explore the soup" motto, to them think that the good people, they recommend each other, combined; They hated all those who were evil in their eyes.

Therefore, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the upright bureaucrats in the court, the celebrities in the opposition and the Tai students of the Beijing division were combined, and the authoritarian relatives and eunuchs were regarded as enemies. These people are knowledgeable, educated, not afraid of risks, not afraid of the strong, not afraid of high-ranking officials, do not depreciate the current politics, all of them are sharp and profound, no one is not afraid of this kind of "clear discussion", especially in the opposition celebrities and students often sign a joint petition to interfere in the government affairs, such as in the first year of Jianhe (that is, in 147 AD), because Li Gu and Du Qiao opposed their relatives Liang Ji and went to prison, Li Gu's students Wang Tuo and Zhao Cheng and dozens of others respectively wrote a petition to save people, the first year of Yongxing (that is, 153 years), Zhu Mu, the assassin of Jizhou, severely punished the local eunuch forces who did evil, so he offended the eunuchs in power and was imprisoned by Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty, which aroused thousands of people led by Liu Tao, a student of Tai, to write a letter outside the palace gate to complain, forcing the emperor to release Zhu Mu, so there were 30,000 students in Luoyang City, the capital at that time, and they were combined with innocent bureaucrats and celebrities, and their power was not small.

Later, when Li Ying was the lieutenant of the school, Li Ying still enforced the law and did not avoid **, at that time he was already a eunuch favored by Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty, and now Zhang Shuo, the younger brother of Zhang Rang, served as the county commander of Yewang, relying on his brother's power, greedy and cruel, doing all kinds of evil, and even killing pregnant women for fun, was arrested by Li Ying, so he absconded to the house of Zhang Rang, the master of Beijing, and hid in the "joint pillar".

So Zhang Rang could only sue Emperor Huan of Han, and Emperor Huan of Han asked Li Ying why he didn't play first and then behead?

And Li Ying replied, "In the past, Confucius was the secretary of the Lu State, and he was punished for seven days after taking office. It has been ten days since the minister arrived today before he killed Zhang Shuo, and I thought that I would be guilty of my untimely removal of harm, but I didn't expect that I would be convicted of executing Zhang Shuo in time. I know very well that I have caused trouble because of this, and the time of death is approaching, so I ask the emperor to let me live for another five days, get rid of the culprit, and then the emperor will cook me with Ding, and I am willing. ”

Li Ying's wise and courageous answer made Emperor Huan unable to answer, so he had to say to Zhang Rang: "This is your brother's sin, what's wrong with Si Li?" ”

Legend has it that since then, the eunuchs of all sizes did not dare to straighten their waists when walking, did not dare to speak in a rough voice, and did not dare to go out of the palace to play during the holidays. ”

It can be seen how famous Li Ying was at that time.