After the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the prestige of the Han family was frustrated, and power was needed, and the local armies organized their own forces, and the struggle between the eunuch Shi Chang and his cousin He Jin also intensified. Finally, in the first year of the Yonghan Dynasty (189), after the death of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, the eunuchs of the relatives fought again, and He Jin was killed.

Although He Jin's general Yuan Shao led his troops into the palace to kill the eunuchs, the emperor Liu Wei and his younger brother Liu Xie were held hostage by the eunuchs and out of the palace, and then Dong Zhuo, who was summoned into Beijing by He Jin and prepared to crusade against the eunuchs, was preemptively found and controlled.

Dong Zhuo wanted to depose the young emperor Liu Wei and proclaim his brother Liu Xie, the king of Chen Liu, as emperor, so he used a strategy to strengthen his own power, and eradicate the opponents, booby-trapping Ding Yuan to seize his soldiers and horses, and forcing away the opponents Yuan Shao. After everything was ready, it was convenient to depose the young emperor as the king of Hongnong on the day of Jiaxu in September, and push Liu Xie as the emperor to dedicate to the emperor, and on the day of Bingzi, he killed the Empress Dowager He and became the actual controller of the Han family and served as the prime minister.

He carried out a reign of terror in Luoyang, conniving at the rape and plundering of soldiers, and even the royal family, princesses, and palace people were not spared.

In the first month of the first year of Chuping (190), the heroes from all over the country raised troops and played the banner of fighting against Dong, and the battle against Dong broke out. (To be continued.) )