Chapter 154: Prelude
Liu Wei ascended the throne as the emperor with the support of He Jin, and respected his mother, Empress He, as the empress dowager. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Due to Liu Wei's young age, Empress Dowager He came to the dynasty to weigh the system. Announced the amnesty of the world and changed the yuan to Guangxi. The nine-year-old imperial brother Liu Xie was named the king of Bohai. After the seal, the general Yuan Kui was the Taifu, and the general He Jin recorded the same book.
In the general's mansion, Luo Gan came to see He Jin, and it happened that Yuan Shao was also at He Jin's place.
"I've seen my first brother." After Luo Gan greeted He Jin, he saluted Yuan Shao again.
"Non-fish is polite, some time ago, he killed Jian Shuo, but non-fish is very heroic." Although Yuan Shao may not be able to afford Luo Gan in his heart, he is in front of others. Yuan Shao still showed great manners and etiquette.
After Yuan Shao greeted Luo Gan, he said to He Jin: "The ten permanent servants in the palace have been in power for a long time, and they are more courteous than the Empress Dowager Yongle. It is advisable for generals to select virtuous and virtuous people more clearly, tidy up the world, and eliminate troubles for the country. ”
When Luo Gan heard this, his heart moved, obviously Yuan Shao wanted to see those eunuchs such as the ten permanent servants get rid of them. see
Yuan Shao was born into a family. The contradiction with the eunuch is about to reach its peak
According to Luo Gan's visit to Luoyang, he observed the political situation of the court and his own understanding of some history. The political power of the court in the Eastern Han Dynasty was mainly divided into three major forces, one was the eunuch group, and now it was mainly the palace Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and other permanent servants.
The other is the foreign relative forces, and the foreign relatives forces are headed by the general He Jin. But there is also He Miao, the general of the cavalry, although this person is not very powerful, but he is also a general of the cavalry. In addition, there is the hussar general Dong Chong.
The relationship between the general He Miao and the general He Jin was not very good. In fact, He Jin and He Miao are not brothers. He Jin and Empress Dowager He are half-brothers and sisters, and He Miao and Empress Dowager He are half-brothers and sisters.
That is, after He Jin's mother died, his father He Zhen continued to marry a woman, and this woman gave birth to He Zhen to the current Empress Dowager He, and He Miao was the son born to that woman before. His surname was Zhu, and he later changed it to He Miao. As for the hussar general Dong Chong, he is the nephew of the current Empress Dowager Dong, who was given the title by the Empress Dowager Dong to strengthen her own power, and her own strength is not as good as that of the He brothers, and she does not have much military power in her hands.
The third-party forces are naturally the scholar group, that is, those ministers in the court, the big families and others. It is represented by Runan Yuan's and Hongnong's Yang's.
Luo Gan saw that Yuan Shao had been pushing He Jin to get rid of the eunuch group, but he was not surprised. In fact, the politics of this era revolve around imperial power. It's just that bureaucrats like Yuan Shao have their own roots, and they derive power from the emperor, but they don't rely entirely on the emperor. They have their own prestige and influence, and thus gain power.
The power of the relatives and the eunuch group comes directly from the imperial power, the emperor uses the bureaucracy to govern the world, and there are relatives to restrain the bureaucracy, but the power of the relatives threatens the emperor, and the emperor uses the eunuch group around him to suppress the relatives. But in turn, there is a eunuch dictatorship.
As a result, the politics of the Eastern Han Dynasty was that relatives and eunuchs took turns to dictate power and suppress each other. Basically, a son of heaven and a courtier, an emperor and a wave of relatives and eunuchs. But the bureaucratic ministers will not, although those ministers may not be officials for a long time, but their families can.
Yuan Shao's family is the fourth generation and the third duke, and now the family has wanted to completely get rid of the eunuch group.
Luo Gan saw that He Jin was a little hesitant when he heard Yuan Shao's words, and thought that the task he received was to get rid of the Ten Standing Servants. hurriedly admonished: "General, that Zhang Rang and the others, although they are the generals of Guishun." But if they gain the trust of the new emperor, and the general is now in power, I am afraid that it will be detrimental to the public. ”
Exactly, Fei Yu has a point. The general and the ten permanent servants have been fighting for many years, and now the Empress Dowager Dong has reused her nephew Dong Zhong as the hussar general, and let Zhang Rang and others intervene in the government affairs, which is obviously from the prince. It is necessary to strike first and kill the eunuchs to get rid of future troubles. Yuan Shao said solemnly.
In fact, He Jin also felt that the eunuchs in the palace were close to him on the surface, but they were still slowly fighting for their power in secret.
"Okay, I'll enter the palace and ask for an order to kill the eunuch." He Jin said that he went into the palace to find the Empress Dowager He, after all, the emperor was young and the Empress Dowager was in power.
"Feiyu seems to want to kill the eunuch?" Yuan Shao asked with a smile.
"Hehe, the Ten Standing Servants confuse the chaotic dynasty, they should have been eliminated a long time ago, and the court should be swept away to stabilize the world." Luo Gan's eyes rolled, and he said awe-inspiringly.
Anyway, the Ten Standing Servants are really not a good thing for the people of the world, and it is also beneficial for them to get rid of them, it is best for the Luoyang court to be chaotic and the authority to plummet, so that they can fish in troubled waters. And Yuan Shao has been preparing for many years to get rid of the eunuch group, so he naturally wants to show his attitude in front of him.
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In the palace, He Jin approached the Empress Dowager He to discuss getting rid of the ten permanent attendants. However, the basic political level of being the queen mother in the Eastern Han Dynasty was not too bad, at least in terms of political level, among the queen mothers of the past dynasties, the queen mother of this dynasty was the most powerful. Although there are more powerful queen mothers in other dynasties, only one or two at most, and the queen mothers of the Eastern Han Dynasty are basically very powerful, and many queen mothers can interfere in court politics.
Several emperors of the Eastern Han Dynasty succeeded to the throne at a young age, and most of the people who acted for power were the queen mother, who used her relatives to control the government.
"General, if all the eunuchs are removed, who will deal with the ministers of the family with us? When the time comes, you and I will be toyed with by those ministers. And the eunuch system is handed down by the emperors of the past dynasties, and now the first emperor has just gone, and you are going to kill the ministers of the left and right, how does the world see you? I will not allow you to kill Zhang and let them. They are on our side. This is the harem, so the general should go home. Empress Dowager He said.
He Jin saw that the Queen Mother was not allowed, so he had no choice but to return to the General's Mansion.
Empress Dowager He looked at the back of He Jin leaving, her face was gloomy, and she thought to herself: "If there is no restraint from the Ten Standing Servants and others, He Jin will overthrow the emperor, and my majesty will not exist!" He Jin has too much power and is arbitrary. I need to be careful, don't let him use my son as a puppet. ”
In fact, Empress Dowager He did not allow He Jin to kill the Ten Standing Attendants, which was basically to maintain the emperor's power and her own power. After all, no matter how great the power of the eunuch is, it depends on the emperor, if the emperor wants to get rid of the eunuch, it is not difficult, but it is difficult to deal with the powerful ministers, and it is difficult to be abolished by the powerful ministers.
It was some time again.
Luo Gan is either shopping in Luoyang on weekdays, or has time to observe the terrain of Luoyang, the terrain of the imperial palace, and some surrounding geographical terrain. If something unexpected happens, it's easy to deal with it, such as running away so that you don't get lost.
Of course, Luo Gan came to Luoyang to visit Lu Zhi, and on weekdays, in addition to the General's Mansion, he went to Lu Zhi's house to visit his teacher.
While asking Lu Zhi for teaching, he also asked for advice about the court.
Although He Jin did not get the permission of the Empress Dowager He and was not able to get rid of the ten permanent servants, in the past few days, the imperial court was still full of spirit and undercurrents. The general He Jin and the cavalry general He Miao forced the hussar general Dong Zhong to death. Divide up all the soldiers and horses in his hands.
and also drove the Empress Dowager Dong out of the palace, on the grounds that the Empress Dowager Dong was originally a concubine, and it was after her son Emperor Han Ling succeeded to the throne from the princes that she was crowned the queen, and then the queen mother. Now that Emperor Han Ling is dead, according to the rules, she should go back to the country between the rivers.
It didn't take long for the Empress Dowager Dong to die, rumors spread and the situation was tense! (To be continued.) )