Therefore, with the strong support of the eunuchs for Liu Xie, it reached a stalemate, and neither side could help the other, which finally led to a very chaotic attack on each other within the Han family. This also created development opportunities for the princes of all parties, and if Liu Wei could succeed to the throne in time, these princes would not dare to occupy the land and become kings. ”

"There is chaos in the palace, and the princes outside the palace will definitely seize this opportunity to expand their power. In general, the gradual decline of the development of the Eastern Han Dynasty was not entirely the responsibility of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, and the eunuchs played a huge role in it. ”

"Is Emperor Han Ling not responsible, there is, he and Hu Hai and others are also similar to mediocre emperors, and the eunuchs have swelled to this point It is not for Emperor Han Ling to give it, and there is also the queen mother's coming to power, which has led to the expansion of relatives."

"The reign of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty and his predecessor Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty was the darkest period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and I will not talk much about Liu Zhi here, but mainly about Liu Hong, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty."

"Speaking of Emperor Han Ling, I have to say that he is lucky. Emperor Liu Zhi of Han Huan died at the age of 36, and there were no heirs at that time, and the Empress Dowager Dou at that time chose the 12-year-old Liu Hong in the family, the cousin of Emperor Huan of Han, after Liu Hong succeeded to the throne, because he was too young, or the Empress Dowager Dou came to the court. ”

"After the Empress Dowager Dou came to the court, the people of the Dou clan were on the list of meritorious deeds, and the power of the family leaned inside and outside the court, which was very noble."

"As a eunuch Cao Jie, he was suppressed, but through Zhao Rao, the nurse of the Spirit Emperor, and the palace maids around the Queen Mother, he was courteous to the Queen Mother and won the trust of the Queen Mother."

Chen Fan and Dou Wu were very worried about this. So, a conspiracy was made to get rid of the eunuchs, but the Empress Dowager had been hesitant and forced Chen and Dou to use force to eliminate the eunuchs, but the secret music was known to the eunuchs in advance, provoking the incident. ”

"On the seventh day of the ninth month of the first year of Yongkang, the eunuchs launched a palace coup. They tricked Emperor Ling out to open the way with a sword, closed the palace gate, forced Shangshu to draft an edict, appointed Wang Fu as the Huangmen Order, coerced the Empress Dowager, seized the jade seal, and sent people to arrest Dou Wu and others. ”

Dou Wu was not edicted, and retreated to the army while fighting with his nephew Dou Shao, and gathered thousands of people to guard the capital pavilion. When Chen Fan heard that there was a rebellion, he led more than 80 subordinate officials and students to rush into Chengmingmen with weapons in hand and encountered Wang Fujun. Chen Fan was arrested and sent to Beisi Prison. The eunuch guarding kicked and scolded Chen Fan: "Damn old ghost, see if you can cut our positions and cut our salaries!" "Chen Fan was tortured to death on the same day"

As soon as dawn came, Wang Fu led the Tiger Ben Imperial Forest Army to join the unknown Zhang Huan army that surrounded the General's Mansion. They falsely issued an edict to accuse Dou Wu of rebellion and lure Dou Jun to surrender. Dou Wu and Dou Shao were weak, surrounded by heavy forces, and finally forced to commit suicide. Subsequently, the Dou family's relatives, guests, and in-laws were all killed. He also moved the Empress Dowager Dou to the South Palace, and moved the family of Dou Wu to Rinan. From the secretary of state to the minister, all those recommended by Chen Fan and Dou Wu, as well as their protégés and former subordinates, will be dismissed from office and will never be hired. ”

"The group of eunuchs won the palace coup. After that, Emperor Ling was forced to promote Cao Jie to the rank of captain of Changle, to the title of Marquis of Yang, and to promote Wang Fu to the rank of Zhongchang. Six other meritorious eunuchs and other six people were named liehous, and 11 people were named guannei marquis. As a result, "the small group is ambitious, and the scholars and doctors are all discouraged". ”

"In the first year of Xiping, the Empress Dowager Dou's mother died of illness, and the Empress Dowager became ill and died in Nangong Yuntai on the tenth day of June."

"The dispute over the funeral of the Queen Mother is the end of the contest between relatives and eunuchs, the eunuchs are villains, they don't want to let the Empress Dowager Dou and the emperor be buried together, and they also want to be buried with the ceremony of a nobleman, such a thing is even discussed at the meeting of the minister, it can be seen that Emperor Ling's mediocrity and helplessness. In the court discussion, Zhao Zhong, Cao Jie, Wang Fu and the secretary of state were in the same court, and they used a tone of ridicule and intimidation to argue, which shows how arrogant and domineering the eunuchs are.

"From this time on, until the sixth year of Zhongping when Emperor Ling died, the entire Emperor Ling Dynasty was monopolized by the eunuch power."

"The eunuchs are a dark collective, they also guided the Emperor Lingdi to be promiscuous, and collaborated with the Emperor Lingdi to sell officials in the West Garden, dominating the Emperor Lingdi to drive out the good and help the evil, thus destroying the normal ruling order, rapidly aggravating social contradictions, and finally breaking out the Yellow Turban Uprising on a national scale."

"All mediocre emperors have one characteristic, building a lot of palaces, drinking and merry, and prostitutes frolicking, this Emperor Ling of Han is indeed an emperor who pursues lust and desolation. The most absurd thing is that Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty actually opened an official exchange in the West Garden, clearly marked the price, and openly sold officials. ”

"This uprising was also due to the eunuchs in power, the government was corrupt and dark, corrupt officials were everywhere, and land annexation was very serious. The common people can no longer bear the exploitation and oppression, and have embarked on the road of resistance, and the uprisings in various places have continued year after year, from the first year of Jianning (to the first year of Zhongping, there are no less than a dozen peasant uprisings recorded in historical records. Finally, in the first year of Emperor Ling's Zhongping, a nationwide peasant uprising broke out, the Yellow Turban Uprising led by Zhang Jiao. ”

"There are two significant characteristics of the Eastern Han Dynasty: one is that the power of the Empress Dowager in the dynasty has led to the increasing expansion of the power of foreign relatives, and the interference of foreign relatives in politics has occurred from time to time, and the second is that the young emperor who succeeded to the throne at an early age has no power to rely on, so he can only reuse the eunuchs and his relatives to fight for power, and the two sides have won and lost each other, which is the dispute between the eunuchs in the history of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the fire and struggle of the two groups accompanied almost the entire period in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty."

"In 184, Zhang Jiao, the leader of the Taiping Dao, and his brothers Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao led their followers to launch a popular uprising, known as the Yellow Turban Rebellion, which quickly grew to millions of followers and caused a nationwide war."

"With the emergence of bandits and bandits from various places, the central army of the Han Dynasty was exhausted. The state pastoral system formulated by the Eastern Han Dynasty to solve the Yellow Turban Rebellion opened up a situation of division under the continuous weakening of the imperial court. ”

"In 188, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty died, and the dispute between the eunuchs and eunuchs arose. The eunuch Jian Shuo and others intended to kill the general He Jin, and renamed the crown prince Liu Wei's younger brother Chen Liuwang Liu Xie, but after the Han Shao Emperor Liu Wei succeeded him successfully, He Jin and Yuan Shao and other scholars tried to remove the ten permanent servants headed by Zhang Rang and other eunuchs. He Jin also ordered Dong Zhuo of Liangzhou and Ding Yuan of Bingzhou to lead reinforcements. The eunuchs preemptively killed He Jin before Dong Zhuo's army reached Luoyang. Yuan Shao led the army into the palace in the name of revenge and killed 2,000 eunuchs such as the Ten Standing Attendants. Although the dispute between relatives and eunuchs that had plagued the Eastern Han Dynasty for a hundred years came to an end, it also facilitated Dong Zhuo, who led the army into the capital, to seize the power of the court. ”

"Dong Zhuo wanted to usurp the government after entering Luo, but the situation was not favorable to him at this time, in addition to the many courtiers who questioned and opposed him, and more importantly, the number of troops inside and outside the city was extremely large, far from being able to deter his own troops."