Chapter 108: Yuan Benchu Strikes Again
On this day, Cui Jun and Shi Tao also spent the most unforgettable day of their lives in this very inconspicuous house.
Many years later, they will be very glad that they followed Xu Shu to this private house on this day.
When they get old, they will tell their grandchildren that when your grandfather saw him, he saw that he was extraordinary......
Cui Jun and Shi Tao and Xu Shu would come to Zhao Hui's house together every day, and then have two meals here, and return to their homes when it was dark.
On the surface, Zhao Hui chatted with these three people every day, but Zhang Wang and Liao Hua would go out every day, and when they came back, they handed over the paper with various characters in their hands to Zhao Hui.
Although he didn't go out all day long, Zhao Hui knew the situation in Luoyang City well.
The captain of the army, Jian Shuo, who was in charge of the Luoyang Forbidden Army, was dead, and the hussar general Dong Chong was also dead.
In Luoyang City, it is already a situation where He Jin's family is dominant.
But the scholars led by Yuan Shao were still unwilling to let go of Zhang Rang and other eunuchs.
is still persuading He Jin to cut the grass and eradicate the eunuchs to prevent future troubles.
But just as Guo Sheng, Zhang Rang and others thought, He Jin didn't want to do anything to Zhang Rang and others after killing Jian Shuo.
First of all, the reason for her sister Empress Dowager He, Empress Dowager He wants to listen to the government, and she also needs the support of these eunuchs.
If these eunuchs were killed, Empress Dowager He would also have no rights in her hands except in the name of a queen mother.
And Zhang Rang and others quickly fell to the side of the Empress Dowager He after Liu Hong's death, and they also needed the protection of the Empress Dowager He.
Empress Dowager He and these eunuchs are interdependent, and neither can lose the other.
As a relative, He Jin wanted to integrate into the scholars, so that the He family could also become a member of the family.
Empress Dowager He was close to the eunuchs, and the general He Jin was close to Yuan Shao Cao Cao and others, and regarded Yuan Shao Cao Cao as his right-hand man.
Although the power leans towards the government and the opposition, in the court, He Jin also respects the scholars headed by Taifu Yuan Kui.
In the face of the continuous persuasion and killing of the eunuchs led by Yuan Shao, He Jin did not want to stand on the opposite side of the scholars, and he also did not want to kill the remaining eunuchs in his heart, so he could only continue to shirk it with various reasons.
Today he said that he could not find a reason to kill Zhang Rang and others, and tomorrow he said that Empress Dowager He did not allow him to kill Zhang Rang and others.
But He Jin overestimated himself too much, who is his right-hand man now? It is Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, these two are the best two of the next generation of scholars.
He Jin thought that by keeping these two people by his side, he was tantamount to subduing the scholar. He Jin can completely reconcile the contradictions between the scholars and the eunuchs in the middle, and it is best that everyone is harmonious and live a good life together in the end.
His ideas are wonderful.
But how could his talent and ability be able to suppress Yuan Shao and Cao Cao.
In the face of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao's pressing step by step, He Jin could not refuse with righteous words, and only showed his hesitation in front of the scholars, thinking that he could drag it over.
But how did He Jin know, he hesitated in front of the scholars, and he was also looked at by Zhang Rang and others.
Although Zhang Rang and the others said that they were toothless tigers now, they didn't even hear a little news outside the palace.
Originally, Zhang Rang and others had hope for He Jin, thinking that He Jin would not really kill all the eunuchs. But now He Jin looked hesitant like this, which made Zhang Rang and the others very insecure.
I don't know when He Jin won't be able to withstand the pressure of the scholars, so he rushed into the palace with the soldiers and killed them all.
The closer He Jin got to the scholar, the more hesitant he was in this matter, the more Zhang Rang Zhao Zhong and others felt insecure, and even his fellow countryman Guo Sheng did not have the confidence he had before.
He Jin hesitated, and the ten permanent servants were like frightened birds, trembling every day.
They can back down, but they won't sit still.
He Jin couldn't get through, Zhao Zhong, Zhang Rang and others not only relied on the Empress Dowager He, but also began to keep in touch with He Jin's mother Wuyangjun, as well as He Jin's younger brother, He Miao, the general of the Che Cavalry.
Unlike He Jin, He Miao preferred to be close to eunuchs.
Because he could feel that he was not recognized by the scholars. They were originally just the sons of a humble butcher, but because there was a queen in the family, and they were all the way to the top, on the surface the sergeant doctor was polite to them, but under the politeness, it was alienation and contempt.
In He Miao's opinion, their He family should be even more united with the eunuchs and resist the scholars together.
He Jin's mother is just an old woman who doesn't have much knowledge, unlike He Jin and He Miao's brothers, who have been up and down in officialdom for more than ten years.
After receiving the eunuch's gold and silver treasures, he immediately called He Jin and scolded He Jin for being ungrateful, so that He Jin had no heart to kill the eunuch.
He Jin didn't want to kill the eunuchs, he just wanted to find a balance between the eunuchs and the scholars, and when he faced his mother Wuyangjun, he naturally agreed.
But He Jin agreed to his mother Wuyangjun here, and Yuan Shao and Cao Cao became more and more dissatisfied.
Although both of them are now He Jin's subordinates, the family forces behind the two are there, and in the face of the pressure of the two, He Jin does not dare to refuse directly.
And Yuan Shao and Cao Cao also saw that He Jin didn't dare to kill the eunuchs, but he didn't want to, and he was deliberately shirking.
With He Jin's ruthless and decisive decision to kill the military academy captain Jian Shuo and the hussar general Dong Chong, if he really wanted to kill Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and others, how could he give up because of other people's pleas.
It's nothing more than He Jin thinks that Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and others, these eunuchs have no threat to him now. On the contrary, it can be used to balance the treatment of scholars, so that scholars and eunuchs are attached to him.
He Jin is good at profiting on both sides, he is not the Son of Heaven, but he is no different from the Son of Heaven, and he really makes the Han Dynasty a hall of his words.
With the wisdom of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, he hesitated in the face of He Jin's push, and naturally saw He Jin's purpose.
And Yuan Shao will not stop there.
If He Jin really succeeded, wouldn't he Yuan Shao always have to live under a pig killer in the future.
Is this possible? What has he Yuan Shao been asking for in the past fifteen years?
Yuan Shao said to Cao Cao and others: "The Queen Mother and Wuyang Jun guarantee the eunuch party, the general is in the way, and it is not good to attack the eunuch party, we can let the Taishou in various places express their condemnation of the eunuch party, and the queen mother is angry when she sees the world, so it is naturally not good to protect the eunuch party." ”
Yuan Shao wanted to use these means to force He Jinzao to make up his mind.
When Yuan Shao was arranging, in addition to contacting those Taishou, he also specially instructed the bigwigs who held military power in various places to let them write together, and asked them to use the banner of the Qing monarch's side.
If they don't get rid of the Ten Standing Servants, they will lead a large army to Luoyang and get rid of the Ten Standing Servants by themselves, so as to avoid the recurrence of the Ling Emperor Hengdi Rebellion and make the people of the world miserable.