Chapter 53 2. Countdown to the eunuch's death

The mountain rain is about to come and the wind is all over the building. In Luoyang City, which is like a dangerous building, the wind blows He Jin's heart like a puff.For a while the east wind was blowing, saying that he wanted to kill the eunuch, and for a while the west wind was blowing, saying don't be impulsive, impulsiveness is the devil, which made him dizzy and kept turning in the wind, without direction. At this time, Yuan Shao came. Facts have fully proved that Yuan Shao, the angry youth, was also dazzled by impulsive blood.Isn't killing a eunuch a matter of using a knife?As long as He Jin blew his whistle, the man surnamed Yuan rushed in and killed him, but he still needed foreign aid.

It's fine to ask for foreign aid, but Dong Zhuo was specially invited. Hurting others and benefiting oneself is really hurting the family.If you lose too much, you become stupid. Yuan Shao seems to want to be stupid all the way down this road.As soon as he heard that He Jin had sent Dong Zhuo away on the way, he immediately came to question him. Yuan Shao threatened He Jin, "The knife is out of its sheath and the water is boiling, yet you still dare not strike? Don't forget how Dou Wu died in the first place." When it comes to death, He Jin seems to have the courage again.He said to Yuan Shao: "Okay, I will give you the privilege to kill first and play later."

Immediately afterwards, He Jin appointed Yuan Shao as the captain of Sili. If you have a long memory, you know that the official position of Captain Sili is terrible.Except for the emperor, he dared to arrest any official, no matter how big he was, and even chopped it up immediately.Obviously, Yuan Shao was pushed to the position of Captain Sili for the purpose of catching people and killing people. In fact, this is not the best.In order to let Yuan Shao have room to fully develop, He Jin specially gave him a gift - the talisman festival. It needs to be explained that during the Western Han Dynasty, when Sili captains went out to arrest people, they were generally virtuous.Later, Emperor Liu Xun of the Han Yuan Dynasty, who believed in Confucianism and was lenient in politics, suddenly confiscated the talisman festival.Two hundred years have passed since then, and none of the Sili captains of the Han Dynasty held festivals.

Today, He Jin specially gave Yuan Shao a talisman festival, which means that there will be a super big hunt. However, He Jin didn't expect that he finally sent Zhong Shao to drive Dong Zhuo away, and Yuan Shao suddenly missed that guy again.While Yuan Shao sent someone to monitor the eunuch's movements, he also sent information to Dong Zhuo, asking him to give the Empress Dowager He another performance. This time, Yuan Shao made a ruthless move for Dong Zhuo.He asked Dong Zhuo to tell Empress Dowager He in the memorial that if he was not allowed to kill the eunuchs again, he would lead his troops to the imperial palace in Luoyang City.

Many years ago, Jiang Taigong was fishing by himself with a straight hook by the river, and he caught Zhou Wenwang, the great virtuous king.Today, Dong Zhuo also cast a long line to catch a big fish, He Jin swallowed the hook and spit out the bait and ran away, now it was Yuan Shao's turn to eat the hook again, his heart was beyond description. Dong Zhuo listened to Yuan Shao's plan and played to Empress Dowager He again.Soon the news came that the Empress Dowager He was afraid. The helpless Empress Dowager He almost dismissed all the eunuchs in the palace, and then told them that from now on, you will be laid-off people, and you should go back to your hometown to make a living.

After hearing this, the eunuchs couldn't help but feel sad. These people eunuched themselves and ran to the palace to make a living because of their hard lives.For many years, the imperial palace has been their home, just like fish cannot live without water.All of a sudden, telling them all to return to their hometown is like asking a fish to jump out of the water. The eunuchs thought about it, and with a glimmer of hope, they collectively petitioned to see He Jin. They met He Jin together and said, they have committed a lot of crimes, and today they know that they are wrong, may the general forgive, now our heads are placed in front of you, as long as you give us a way out, everything is at your command.

When He Jin heard this, his heart felt infinitely sad.He said to the eunuchs like this: "You have committed too many sins, and I can't stand it. Dong Zhuo is about to enter the city, why don't you go back to your hometown?" He Jin's implication seems to be that he wants to let the eunuchs live, and he doesn't want to catch them all. However, what He Jin said was overheard by Yuan Shao's spy sent to monitor the eunuchs, and immediately reported it.Upon hearing this, Yuan Shao rushed to see He Jin. Yuan Shao told He Jin: "The eunuchs must be wiped out."

He Jin said: "Eunuchs can be killed, just kill a few bosses, but I am opposed to killing them all." Yuan Shao was very surprised, why He Jin changed his appearance every day, and changed faster than the weather.However, after thinking about it, he also guessed what He Jin was thinking.Among the group of eunuchs, quite a few were He Jin's cronies. He Jin spoke for the eunuchs in order to protect the supporters of the He family.For example, Guo Sheng is one of them. Yuan Shao couldn't agree with He Jin, so he had to leave silently.He told He Jin, even though I don't agree with your actions, I will still follow your orders.

In fact, Yuan Shao's words were also a lie.After bidding farewell to He Jin, he secretly ordered the state and county governments to arrest the eunuch's family members. Yuan Shao's action was too big.Soon, the news spread, and the eunuchs in the palace knew that their lives were hanging by a thread, and the end was coming. Among these eunuchs, the one with the most sense of doom is the ten or so regular attendants.Among the dozen or so regular servants, Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong were the most flustered.These two old guys still have self-knowledge. They usually commit too many crimes, and now they know that they are going to be finished.

With a glimmer of hope, Zhang Rang asked someone to intercede. Zhang Rang's daughter-in-law is the younger sister of Empress Dowager He.When the matter came to an end, Zhang Zhang didn't care about any etiquette, and the father-in-law knelt down in front of his daughter-in-law and kowtowed and said, "I'm an old man, I should go back to my hometown, but I'm used to staying in the palace, so tell me to leave immediately." It, how can I adapt to it. Please tell the queen mother, give me another chance, let me go to the palace to serve the queen mother and the emperor, even for one day, I will be satisfied, and even if I die in the future, I will have no complaints or regrets."

If you don't burn incense and hug Buddha's feet temporarily, how can there be so many Buddha's feet in the world? Although Zhang Rang's daughter-in-law is not Buddhist, she still has the opportunity to speak for her father-in-law.She hurried to intercede with her mother Wuyang Jun.Lord Wuyang went to find his daughter Queen Mother He again, but Queen Mother He couldn't resist, so she ordered Zhang Rang and others to stay in the palace and continue to work. Who said that kowtow is useless, isn't this just hugging Buddha's feet? If Zhang Rang thinks this way, then he is too happy.The real crisis has just begun.At this time, He Jin heard that the old sister had summoned all the Zhongchang attendants into the palace, and immediately ran to request that all the Zhongchang attendants be dragged out and beheaded. Partition walls have ears.As soon as He Jin came, Zhang Rang sent someone to eavesdrop, and the conspiracy was completely exposed. Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong never expected that they sold their brother Jian Shuo for He Jin before.Well now, they were sold by He Jin again, and they were sold so silently and ruthlessly. They all thought that the idea of ​​killing eunuchs was a bad idea thought up by Yuan Shao and Dong Zhuo, but they didn't expect that the real mastermind behind the scenes was General He Jin. I was so angry that the eunuchs were all angry. They decided to rebel.At this time He Jin had not yet left the palace, Zhang Rang led dozens of people, each equipped with weapons, sneaked into the palace to ambush. At this time, He Jinxiu came to the palace.Zhang Rang, who had been waiting for a long time, went forward and told He Jin: "The empress dowager has something to do, and I want you to go back and have a good talk." When He Jin heard this, he didn't think too much, and followed Zhang Rang back. He Jin is screwed. When He Jin entered the eunuch's ambush circle, Zhang Rang stopped suddenly and shouted loudly: "He Jin, do you remember that when the Empress Dowager He poisoned Wang Meiren, the first emperor planned to abolish her, and we eunuchs begged for mercy?" , Donate money and work hard to keep the position of Empress He in your family. Now that you hold a lot of power, you want to tear down the bridge and slaughter all the eunuchs when you cross the river, isn't it a bit cruel?" It's not harsh, it's simply too cruel. At this time, a eunuch was so angry that he drew his sword and shouted: "Zhang Changshi, why are you talking so much nonsense to this kind of person?" After speaking, the other party struck down with his sword, and He Jin was killed on the spot. He Jin really failed.Cao Mengde's crow's mouth is really not ordinary. However, the eunuch's killing of He Jin does not mean that he has succeeded.The most powerful opponent in their destiny is not He Jin, but the angry youth Yuan Shao.Before Yuan Shao got rid of them, they couldn't even think about escaping from Luoyang City. Of course Zhang Rang understood this truth.The next thing he has to do is to seize military power.He wrote two edicts on the spot, appointing Fan Ling, who was a Taiwei at the time, as the captain of Sili, and appointed Xu Xiang, the Shaofu, as Yin of Henan. After finishing writing, Zhang Rang sent Zhonghuangmen to take the edict to the Shangshu Office and asked them to send it out. We know that this fashionable book office is not within the control of eunuchs, and Shangshu Lu Zhi is a staunch anti-eunuchist. When Huang Men handed over the edict to the Shangshu Office, they didn't quite believe that it was written by He Jin, so they said: "Please ask General He Jin to come out, we have something to discuss." It's already this time, what are you talking about.The Zhonghuang Gate directly threw He Jin's head in front of the officials of the Shangshu Office, and shouted: "The He Jin you want is here. He attempted to rebel, and we have already killed him." At this time, there was a commotion outside the palace. The person yelling outside is He Jin's subordinate officer.They were in charge of guarding He Jin, but after waiting for a long time, they heard news from inside that He Jin had been executed.So they all hacked at the palace gate with their knives, ready to attack. Hearing the shouts of the army outside, the palace was tense.All the eunuchs held weapons, held their breath, and guarded the palace gate strictly.Everyone's faces were full of death, and they had already prepared for the worst. At this time, it was getting late.The night is dark and the wind is high, which is a good time to kill.Suddenly, someone ordered to set fire to prepare to burn the palace. It was Yuan Shao's cousin Yuan Shu who gave the order.Yuan Shu teamed up with He Jin's generals to completely surround the palace. They set fire to force Zhang Rang out. When Zhang Rang saw it, he immediately led his people to run to the harem. How will the dog react when it is cornered?Either jump off the wall, or bite people in reverse; the gangster was chased by the police, either jumping off a building, or taking hostages as a threat. Zhang Rang, who was in a hurry, thought of this trick at this time-hijacking Queen Mother He. Zhang Rang rushed to the palace and told Queen Mother He that General He had rebelled against him and was attacking the Shangshu Office. Please follow us. As a result, Queen Mother He was kidnapped by Zhang Rang and left.Accompanying her were Emperor Liu Bian and Chen Liu Wang Liu Xie. Yuan Shu burned the South Palace, and Zhang Rang led his people to flee to the North Palace.Connecting the North Palace and the South Palace is a double-decker avenue in the air.Just as they were running away, a fierce man chased after him with a spear. To Empress Dowager He's surprise, the person chasing after her was Shang Shu Lu Zhi. We know that Lu Zhi is a man of strong stature and has been a general. If such a man really wanted to chase him down and kill him, it would be a terrible thing for the eunuchs.However, Lu Zhi chased after him for a long time, but still failed to catch up with the eunuch. Because the eunuchs are running in the air, he is chasing on the ground. Anyone who is familiar with the Three Kingdoms knows that Zhang Fei's loud roar on the Changban slope scared off the enemy.Later generations don't know that Lu Zhi's voice is comparable to Zhang Fei's.He chased after him, and suddenly raised his head and roared at the eunuch who was supporting Queen Mother He. The man was stunned. Lu Zhi yelled again, demanding to be released.Lu Zhi's thunderous roar made the eunuchs startled and terrified, so they had to let Empress Dowager He go.Empress Dowager He reacted very quickly, turning over and jumping off the two-storey building. Lu Zhicai rescued Empress Dowager He, when Yuan Shao and others also rushed over. When Yuan Shao arrived, the first thing he did was to kill Fan Ling and Xu Xiang.These two people were recruited by Zhang Rang to act as a facade, and they became scapegoats in a blink of an eye. Then Yuan Shao had to clear another obstacle, that was He Jin's younger brother He Miao.Yuan Shao knew that one of the reasons why He Jin was hesitant to kill the eunuch was that He Miao had received money from the eunuch and said many things that were not conducive to the conspiracy.Now, it's time to kick him out. So Yuan Shao personally went to He Jin's army to fan the flames, saying that it was He Miao who killed He Jin.Hearing this, everyone wept angrily and dragged He Miao out to chop him up. With all worries removed, he can finally concentrate on hunting down eunuchs. Zhang Rang led his people to hide in the North Palace, but they couldn't hide from Yuan Shao.Not long after, Yuan Shao attacked the North Palace.As soon as he entered the North Palace, he closed the palace gate and carried out a carpet-like hunting in the palace. What was even more frightening was that Yuan Shao gave an order that anyone who saw no beards on their faces would be chopped off. The ancients loved to grow beards, this is a habit.Back then, Gaozu Liu Bang was proud of his beard.Some scholars often shake their heads and shake their heads when they are reading, stroking their beards and reciting at the same time, so happy. But what we want to explain is that eunuchs don't grow beards, but it doesn't mean that all men except eunuchs have beards.Yuan Shao's ruthless order boiled down to one sentence—it is better to kill a thousand by mistake than to miss one. I think many eunuchs who died under Yuan Shao's knife cried out in the ground: Why didn't they give birth sooner or later, and they happened to be in the same era as Yuan Shao, what a fate. All the eunuchs in the North Palace, old or young, were killed, and Yuan Shao even gave a special nod to the eunuchs. There were more than 2,000 eunuchs in total. Yuan Shao counted the number of people not only because he wanted to know how many people he had killed, but also to see if any fish slipped through the net.After counting for a long time, he suddenly realized that several big fish had escaped. The biggest fish is Zhang Rang. On the evening of August 27th, Zhang Rang and others hijacked Liu Bian and Liu Xie. A group of dozens of people secretly sneaked out of the city from the east gate in the north of Luoyang, ran all the way north, and fled to the Yellow River Ferry in the middle of the night. As long as they cross the Yellow River, they will be saved.But at this time, someone refused to let him cross the river.Zhang Rang's stumbling block was Lu Zhi, who had saved Empress Dowager He before.Along with Lu Zhi, there was also an official from the Luoyang City Government, named Ming Gong. Two people, against dozens of people, okay? Don't worry, they can't escape.Lu Zhi didn't even need to do anything, Min Gong rushed forward and killed several people.He said to Zhang Rang, "Do you want to finish it yourself, or do you want me to do it to you?" Zhang Rang knew that his death was imminent.He cupped his hands, knelt down and kowtowed to Liu Bian, and said, "Your Majesty, I'm gone, please take care." After speaking, he jumped into the Yellow River and drowned to death. The sky is above, and the Yellow River is the proof.The eunuch politics that had disturbed the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years finally came to a huge end with Zhang Rang's tragic jump. The first eunuch era in Chinese history came to a tragic end.