Chapter 32 4. Crazy plans

The good old days of eunuchs were over.This is the consensus of Zhongchang Shi Cao Jie and Wang Fu, and also the consensus of all eunuchs.In the past, they were popular and hot, and they had to be supported by others wherever they went. At any time, someone knocked on their door to bribe them, and smiled and paid for their smiles. Now it's the other way around, they're going to move around, praising their relatives, praising the queen mother, wishing they could all turn into stars, and put the queen mother Dou into the sky like a moon.Empress Dowager Dou is very useful.She was surrounded by the eunuchs' sweet words, and her ears seemed to be filled with honey, and sweet juice came out when she squeezed it.

However, some people saw all this in their eyes, and their hearts became entangled like a knife. They are foreign relatives Dou Wu and Tai Fu Chen Fan.Chen Fan told Dou Wu that when the first emperor Liu Zhi was alive, Cao Jie and Wang Fu stole the power of the country and the world was restless. If they are not eliminated today, it will be a serious disaster in the future. Dou Wu nodded and agreed very much. Seeing Dou Wu nodding his head in unison, Chen Fan jumped up as if possessed by a god, overturned the case, and made a high-five alliance with Dou Wu. However, to get rid of the eunuch, someone needs to cooperate, they are Shang Shuling and others.If they can respond positively, things will go much smoother.So Dou Wu went to Shang Shuling Yin Xun's place to do activities, and soon, there was a reply, saying that such a good thing cannot be done without him, and he can be ordered at any time.

Everything is ready, just an excuse to use the knife.Give an excuse, and the opportunity will come. On May 1, there was a solar eclipse in the sky. Chen Fan told Dou Wu that back then, there was a super eunuch Shi Xian in the Western Han Dynasty, just such a guy, tossed Jianghu master Xiao Wangzhi until his head was broken.Looking at the harem now, there are dozens of eunuchs like Shi Xian. I am already eighty years old, and I would like to help the general get rid of them in my lifetime. Now that the solar eclipse is coming, it is a good time to do it. Dou Wu agreed, and as soon as he finished listening, he went to see his daughter, Queen Mother Dou, without saying a word.

After Dou Wu entered the palace, he told Queen Mother Dou in a gloomy way: "In the Western Han Dynasty, eunuchs were just running errands. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, eunuchs participate in politics and discuss affairs, which has become a cancer of the Han Dynasty. If you want the country to be peaceful, please ask for peace now." Listen to me, take the eunuch and the eunuch's children away in one pot." This is one of the most terrifying conspiracies since the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty.It's crazy. Empress Dowager Dou was terrified when she heard it, and the sweet words of the eunuchs still remained in her ears. Her world is so harmonious and peaceful, but the father is afraid that the world will not be chaotic and will break the precept of killing. Why?Could it be that there is no other way between men than to solve the problem by killing?

In fact, Empress Dowager Dou was not afraid of using the knife, but the old man used the knife too hard.It was as if a cancerous tumor had grown on the leg, and the thigh had to be cut off as well. After a while, Empress Dowager Dou could not calm down. She said to Dou Wu: "Since the founding of the Han Dynasty for more than three hundred years, there have been eunuchs from generation to generation. If they break the law, they can be dragged out and chopped down. But now you say, It's all in one pot, how can you say that?" Empress Dowager Dou is right, she still has a subtext that she didn't say, if the eunuchs are really taken care of, who will run errands in the harem, who will carry the chamber pot, spread the word, flatter and tickle.There are serious consequences for not addressing this issue, and she is very upset.

Faced with Queen Mother Dou's questioning, Dou Wu couldn't answer, and left sullenly. Empress Dowager Dou probably thought that her father would not move until he could not answer this question well.But soon, Dou Wu told her with actions that the murder still had to be done, and the questions that could not be answered could be put on hold temporarily. To capture the thief, the king was captured first. Dou Wu moved very quickly, and arrested Guan Ba, who he thought was a powerful eunuch among the eunuchs. Together with Su Kang and others, he was thrown into prison overnight and beheaded in prison.

The hand raised the knife and fell, and the bleeding was not enough, Dou Wu would not stop there.Dou Wu told Queen Mother Dou that next, he was going to arrest Cao Jie and others, please approve the arrest. As I said before, in the group of eunuchs, Cao Jie, Wang Fu and others are the ones who can say good things about sugar, she seems to have been firmly attached to them, and now to let them disappear is like making her mouth How can I take away the candy I'm eating? Empress Dowager Dou was very entangled, hesitant, and did not approve Dou Wu's plan. This matter was dragged down, and Chen Fan was in a hurry.

Chen Fan gave a performance to Empress Dou, and he said very well: eunuchs Cao Jie, Wang Fu and others, for the chaos of the world, full of civil and military affairs, were under his control.If they are not removed at this time, there will be turmoil in the country. In the end, Chen Fan added: I have already said this, and I ask the Queen Mother to announce my memorial to them, and tell them that I, Chen Fan, want to openly disagree with them. Chen Fan was too confident.He thought that he and Dou Wu already had an absolute advantage, even if the ugly words were thrown out, the eunuchs would not be able to do anything to them.Wrong, dead wrong.Since he was a child, Chen Fan had the world in his heart, and took it as his own responsibility to wipe out the world's evildoers. How could he forget an ancient teaching.This is, the dog jumps over the wall in a hurry.Of course, if you can't jump over the wall, you can only bite back.What's more, it's people, and it's a group of evil eunuchs who are used to rolling on the tip of their knives.

Empress Dowager Dou did not adopt Chen Fan's suggestion.She still said that people can be killed, but not all of them. In the blink of an eye, it was August, and another incredible celestial phenomenon happened. This time it is not a solar eclipse, but Taibaijin invades the Admiral star among the four Fangsu stars, and goes deep into the Taiwei constellation.According to the views of astrologers, Fang Su symbolizes the palace of the emperor in the world, and Taiwei symbolizes the emperor.From this point of view, we can imagine what will happen next. First of all, Liu Yu, a master of astronomy, discovered the ominous celestial phenomena in the sky and wrote to Queen Mother Dou to report the above astrological phenomena.And he said emphatically, there is this celestial phenomenon in the sky, the gate of the palace will be closed, the general and the prime minister will be hurt, and the treacherous villain is around, so you must keep an eye on it.

Then, Liu Yu reported the above phenomena to Dou Wu and Chen Fan, saying that the astrology was disordered and the situation was unfavorable, so if you want to succeed, you should act quickly.When Dou Wu and Chen Fan saw this memorial, an inexplicable chill rose from the soles of their feet and spread throughout their bodies. Both Dou Wu and Chen Fan could see it, and the astronomical phenomenon meant that they might suffer failure.In the dark, they seemed to hear the warning from God that they had already pushed the eunuch into a hurry. If they didn't do anything else, others would put the knife on their own necks.

So Dou Wu and Chen Fan panicked.They acted immediately and laid a net of heaven and earth. The net they set up has an unprecedented level of protection.Sili Xiaowei, Henan Yin, and Luoyang County Magistrate all replaced themselves.These are all matters outside the palace, and then they made detailed arrangements inside the palace, removed the Huangmen order, and sent their cronies Xiao Huangmen Shanbing to take over.Then Xiao Huangmen Shanbing came forward to impeach Changle Shangshu Zheng Sa, was immediately arrested and put in prison. Although Dou Wu's movements were swift, Chen Fan still felt that he was not cruel enough.He told Dou Wu, to deal with something like Zheng Sa, you should kill him right away, what procedure is there for interrogation? Dou Wu smiled and said nothing. Chen Fan only cared about killing people, but he didn't know how much pressure Dou Wu had to bear with his daughter.Empress Dowager Dou has been protecting Cao Jie, Wang Fu and others, interrogating Zheng Sa, just to pry out their faults through his mouth, and then play Queen Dou, requesting arrest. Sure enough, Zheng Sa couldn't stand the torture, and Dou Wu confessed everything he wanted him to do.Shan Bing was responsible for the confession and reported it to Queen Mother Dou through her attendant Liu Yu. But at this moment, something big happened. The reason for the accident was that Dou Wu was very unprofessional in handling the case, and he violated a big taboo of military strategists, and fell into the trick of diverting the tiger away from the mountain.On September 7th, Dou Wu went on vacation and went home from the palace.No one called the tiger, and he went home by himself, which is unbelievable. Anyone with a long memory should remember that when Huo Guang had a bad relationship with Shangguan Jie and other four-person group, the four-person group was waiting for Huo Guang to go home on the day of vacation.As a result, Emperor Zhao didn't fall for the trick, instead he hurriedly summoned Huo Guang into the palace, confronted him on the spot, and the four-member group conspired to go bankrupt ruthlessly. This Dou Wu, at a critical moment, how could he forget the dark story of Huo Guang? The eunuchs had been waiting for this day.The time to decide their life and death is coming. When they heard that Dou Wu had returned home, the eunuch in charge of the memorials immediately reported to Zhu Yu, the history of the five sense organs in Changle. Zhu Yu came to disassemble all of Dou Wu's memorials. When I got up, I greeted Dou Wu's mother. Zhu Yu discovered Dou Wu's conspiracy to wipe out the eunuchs in one go, which is simply unreasonable.Zhu Yu scolded, the eunuch committed a crime and should be dealt with.The problem is that those of us who have never done evil are also punished and exterminated. Is there any reason for this? Yes, is there any reason?It's so compelling that you can't even think about it. All eunuchs, regardless of their official positions, are united as never before.In the middle of the night, they gathered all the able-bodied people, a total of seventeen, just like the five princes in those days, made an alliance with blood, and carried out the anti-Dou Wu to the end. They did not forget one person, that is Emperor Liu Hong. Cao Jie ran to Liu Hong and said, there is a big trouble in the palace, please hurry up to the front hall of Deyang.Liu Hong was timid, and disaster was imminent. This little boy in his early ten years had no idea at all, so Cao Jie had to throw a sword to strengthen his courage, and he ran out staggeringly holding the sword. Immediately afterwards, the eunuch closed the palace gate urgently and called all the officials from the Shangshu Office.Before they understood what was going on, the knife had already reached their necks.The eunuchs told him to write an imperial edict as soon as possible, ordering Wang Fu to be the order of the Huangmen, and to go to the prison to arrest the little Huangmen Shanbing and Yin Xun, the minister. As mentioned earlier, Dou Wu once approached Minister Yin Xun, and he promised to go with him if he had something to do.Before he even got on, things came to him. At this time, Zheng Sa was imprisoned in Beisi Prison, guarded by Shan Bing and Yin Xun for interrogation.When Wang Fu came over, he threw out the imperial edict and read it again, but Shan Bing was unmoved, saying it was a fake and we would not obey your order.Wang Fu was also polite, raised his sword, chopped Shan Bing and Yin Xun on the spot, and rescued Zheng Sa. The next target, they locked the Queen Mother Dou.