Chapter 32 4. The Last Eunuch

Yuan Shao heaved a long sigh of relief after learning that the emperor was safe and sound.In his entire plan, the safety of the emperor is the key link. Once something happens to the emperor, it will not end, and he may turn from a loyal minister who turned the tide to a sinner through the ages.Now the emperor returned to the palace safely.His uncle was killed, his mother was injured, and everyone around him died one by one. This fourteen-year-old boy felt the fear he had never experienced before. Fortunately, the emperor himself was not injured. Yuan Shao felt complacent.There were many accidents in the plan, but it turned out for the best, because He Jin died and so did the eunuchs.

For a long time, the lingering pain in the hearts of the scholars was that eunuchs exercised power, and their relatives were in power. Now, in just a few days, these two mountains have been pushed aside. According to research, the eunuch system existed in the Zhou Dynasty, but at the beginning it was limited to being a guard, cleaning, and serving as an orderly.This group of people does not have a high level of cultural literacy, plus they have physical disabilities and no status, so they have a strong sense of inferiority. The rise of eunuchs began in the Qin Dynasty, and there was a person in this industry who made his colleagues proud, Zhao Gao.Zhao Gao was trusted by Qin Shihuang precisely because of the weakness of eunuchs: no heir and humbleness.

There are some emperors in history who only like to use those who have no descendants, not only eunuchs, but for ordinary scholars, if they have no descendants, these emperors will be particularly fond of them.People without descendants have relatively small ambitions, relatively weak forces, and are easy to control. The eunuch's lowliness determines that even if he holds great power and responds to every call, he still cannot stand proudly in the hall of morality.So throughout the ancient times, there were mutinies, peaceful evolution, and forced abdication. In these activities, eunuchs were usually accomplices, never masterminds, because they would not have the ambition to become emperors due to their childless characteristics. .

The only eunuch emperor in history is said to be Cao Cao's grandfather Cao Teng, who was ratified by his great-grandson Cao Pi after he became emperor.For the king, eunuchs are less threatening than scholars even if they have exclusive power.Therefore, eunuchs are more likely to be reused, especially in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The marriage system of the royal family in the Eastern Han Dynasty was a bit problematic. It only selected aristocratic families and heroes to marry after marriage, resulting in the emergence of several powerful foreign relatives.The foreign relatives served as the commander-in-chief (general) of the armed forces, and the empress dowager's imperial title system was staged in turn in the Eastern Han Dynasty. To perform these plays well, it is inseparable from the cooperation of the eunuchs.

Eunuchs can easily climb to high positions or even the pinnacle of power. They are a group of guys who lack profound education and moral accumulation. Expressed as eager for quick success and contempt for morality and ethics. They have lived in the one-acre three-point land in the palace for a long time, and all they can see when they look up is a small piece of sky. The small living area and short-sightedness make them look stupid and narrow-minded. They have no integrity, because in a place like the harem, people with integrity cannot survive. They are a group of people full of low self-esteem, and are more likely to arouse hatred and repetition.

The Eastern Han Empire has been played by this group of people for hundreds of years.Although there have been talented and moral people like Cai Lun and Lu Qiang among them, generally speaking, this is a small group that has brought disaster to the country and the people. Everything will be reversed, and everything will eventually come to an end.With the death of a group of famous eunuchs such as Zhang Rang, Duan, and Zhao Zhong in just a few days, this group will temporarily withdraw from the center of the historical stage.The eunuch system will still exist, but the eunuch dictatorship is gone for the time being.

Yuan Shao believed that all of this was due to him.If history is fair, it must be written down! Now, Yuan Shao is thinking about how to clean up the mess.First of all, we must settle down the foreign soldiers who came from all walks of life, including Dong Zhuo, Wang Kuang, Qiao Mao, Bao Xin, Ding Yuan and others.Dong Zhuo is not so easy to handle. Although this person is an "old official of the Yuan family", he seems to have poor political morality and ambitions, so he has to be coaxed to do it. Hou or something, let him continue to stay in Liangzhou to fight the Qiang people. Other things are much easier to handle.Uncle Yuan Kui's signboard still needs to be used. The group of people I have recruited over the years, whether military or literary, just come in handy.In the absence of relatives and eunuchs, the big man will definitely go on the right track, and he is the minister of Zhongxing, who is as famous in history as Chen Ping, Xiao He, and Huo Guang.

Perhaps up to this moment Yuan Shao was still thinking that the above are realistic, and they are the future that can be grasped absolutely.