Great Han Empire

Chapter 245 The situation changes suddenly
General's House.

The general walked into the mansion slowly, bowing his head in thought along the way, his expression in a trance.

The official position of General has not been established since September of the first year of Jianning (AD 168) after the failure of General Dou Wu and Taifu Chen Fan to eradicate the eunuchs in the palace.

Zhongguan Cao Jie, Wang Fu and a group of eunuchs believed that once a foreign relative's important minister served as a general, he would definitely take over the military power.The general is in charge of the country's soldiers and horses, especially the direct control of the Northern Army, which is too much of a threat to them.The lesson of General Dou Wu who almost killed them was too profound.The generals are generally close to the family bureaucrats, and the family bureaucrats hate the middle officials. After a long time, these two forces are combined, and it is possible to hold heavy troops to disrupt the inner palace, kill eunuchs, and take control of the state. Therefore, the middle officials tried their best to advise the emperor not to appoint a general when the country is not at war.

In March of the first year of Zhongping (AD 184), the Yellow Turbans rebelled.After the unanimous proposal of the middle officials and ministers, the Son of Heaven decreed to reset the position of General. He Jin, the elder brother of Empress He and then Yin of Henan Province, was named General, and he was granted the title of Marquis Shen. Lin Wuyingshi garrisoned the army's capital pavilion to suppress the capital.He Jin was appointed as the general at that time.

The general is in his 40s. In recent years, due to his pampering, his burly body has gained weight, and his fair face has become more rounded. He does not look like a mighty general, but more like a gentle and elegant Taixue teacher .

He Jin's family is a small rich man in Wancheng, Nanyang, with a well-to-do family.He Jin is the eldest son at home, and he has been extremely intelligent since he was a child. His father had high hopes for him, hoping that he would study classics and become an official. .

He has read poetry and books since he was a child, and he is quick-witted and well-known in the local area. However, because of his birth, he has not been recommended by the local chief and cannot become Xiaolian.Without the qualifications of filial piety, you cannot go to the capital to pass the class test to become a man, and it is the only way for ordinary scholars to become an official from a man to an official.His father ran around for this, paying for the upper and lower joints, which cost a lot but had little effect.Nanyang is the emperor's hometown of the great Han Dynasty (Emperor Guangwu of this dynasty was from Nanyang), and there are many wealthy families. However, Xiaolian's quota is limited, and there are only one or two a year, so it is impossible for ordinary rich children like him to get his turn.

Someone told his father not to waste his efforts, no matter how much money he gave, he had better find another way.Someone suggested that his father entrust someone to send He Jin to study under some great Confucianists in Nanyang, maybe there is still a bright future.However, the patriarchs of several great Confucian families were unwilling to accept He Jin as a student. They said that it would be detrimental to their reputation to accept a wealthy scholar whose hands were covered with oily and copper stinks.He Jin was very stimulated and vowed to become famous.

The opportunity came.Zhongchang Shi Guo Sheng presided over the selection of concubines for one year, which was called "counting people" in this dynasty.He is also from Nanyang Wancheng, and he was ordered to go to Nanyang to select palace ladies.Through relationships, He Jin bribed Guo Sheng with all his wealth, hoping that Guo Sheng could send his half-sister to the palace.Guo Sheng received He Jin's money and gave him a great help.He Jin's younger sister also entered the imperial palace's Ye Ting as a nobleman because of her beauty, and was favored by the emperor.

When He Jin came to work, he got his wish.He was honored because of his relatives, and he was worshiped as a doctor, then moved to Huben Zhonglang, and then served as the prefect of Yingchuan.Soon, through Guo Sheng, he married his other younger sister to the adopted son of Zhongchang servant Zhang Rang.As a result, He Guiren won the unanimous approval and trust of the eunuchs in the palace.

He Jin's hard work paid off.His younger sister He Guiren gave birth to a little prince for the current emperor, and was immediately canonized as a queen.He Jin was recruited to Beijing, served as a servant, later moved to become a master craftsman, and then moved to Henan Yin, until he became a general.

He Jin knew that the power struggle between North Korea and China was fierce, and he didn't dare to get involved easily. Therefore, in the first few years, he was cautious and kept a certain distance from any force in Beijing. The family brings disaster.It is common for foreign relatives in this dynasty to die unexpectedly because they participated in power struggles.He conscientiously did a good job in government affairs, and was respectful and courteous to all forces. Slowly, he was recognized by Luoyang princes, nobles, middle officials and powerful families, and gradually gained his own power.Even so, he still tried his best to keep a low profile, lest he become a thorn in the eyes of others.

After he became a general, he could no longer hide his edge, and his power was suddenly released.Overnight, the various forces in the court were surprised to find that there was another powerful force in Beijing, a powerful force of foreign relatives.The first to feel threatened were the middle officials.On the contrary, the aristocratic family has a much closer relationship with him.After the party ban was lifted, many ambitious and famous party members and famous celebrities gathered in the General's Mansion, which made the General's power suddenly increase.

Once entering the vortex of power struggle, who can stand alone?
It is understandable that the emperor prefers the little prince Liu Xie, but he suddenly vigorously cultivates his cronies, especially supporting Li Hong, which is a bit wrong.Li Hong is now a hot and powerful military figure in the Han Dynasty.

He remembered that Ji Chou, the captain of Huqiang school, had recommended this person to him last year, and he had argued with a bunch of bureaucrats in court about Li Hongqian's promotion to captain.Unexpectedly, after a lapse of more than a year, the existence of this person actually broke the balance between the various forces in the DPRK and China, and provoked a dispute for the imperial lineage of the Han Dynasty.

As early as when Li Hong was suppressing corruption in Xiliang, the Zhongchang servants Zhao Zhong and Situ Cui Lie repeatedly warned themselves to pay attention to this person.Although my younger sister, who is the queen, and myself were a little worried, we didn't feel any threat.

He and his staff thought of a way to kill Li Hong. They secretly sent Huang Yanxi to Liangzhou to persuade Wang Guo and Han Sui to rebel again. Li Hong's failure was certain when he was short of troops, food and grass.If the counter-insurgency is unfavorable, it is natural to be convicted. After being convicted, it is easy to kill him.They're almost there.But Li Hong's strength made them dumbfounded. This leopard from northern Xinjiang suddenly turned his hands into clouds and rained his hands when he had no chance of winning, and beat the entire Xiliang rebel army to the ground. He was defeated, and he even killed June Jinglei, who had been in western Xinjiang for decades.Things have completely changed.

After the great victory in Xiliang and Li Hong becoming a new generation of famous generals in the Han Dynasty, the dispute over the imperial lineage was finally fully exposed.

The Son of Heaven slapped Liu Bian hard today, just because Liu Bian knocked over his qin platform and broke his qin.That Qin was used by Wang Meiren since she was a child, and the emperor cherished it very much.The emperor was furious and scolded continuously.The queen ran to intercede, but was also scolded by the emperor.The queen has an arrogant personality and likes to be competitive, so she can't suffer from it since she was a child.When she was at home, her brothers and sisters gave way to her, but when she arrived in the palace, this temperament not only did not change, but became worse.Because of her jealousy and fear that she would fall out of favor, she sent someone to poison Wang Meiren to death, offended the emperor, and almost lost her own life, but she did not change her ways, relying on the support of the middle palace, and quarreled with the empress dowager and the emperor, Now it's finally happening.The emperor is going to abolish his son and establish his concubine.

In the morning, He Jin was called into the palace by the queen and heard her cry.He Jin couldn't say anything, so he could only comfort her, but the queen asked He Jin to do one thing, something that would make He Jin fly away.He Jin was terrified and left the palace in a daze,

The general stood in the yard, with his hands behind his back to the sky, and let out a long breath to relieve the depression and distress in his heart.

He worries about the future of himself and his family.In recent years, the sister's bad temper not only has not restrained but has become more and more serious, and has also brought herself and the family into an unpredictable fate.However, this is the case with imperial struggles.If the younger sister is virtuous and gentle, will she be poisoned like Wang Meiren, and her parents and family members will be killed?He can't imagine.Throughout the dynasties, the struggle for imperial power has always been bloody and cruel, either you die or I live.

If he had obeyed his father's last words, started a business honestly at home, and married both younger sisters to ordinary people, would the family have fallen into the current crisis because of this?
He Jin felt sore in his heart and shook his head again and again.If you do business at home, you are a butcher, a butcher who has been abused and insulted.A sad, self-deprecating, helpless smile suddenly appeared at the corner of his mouth.Butcher?When have I been a butcher?But in today's world, there is no one who doesn't say that I was born as a butcher, as if I am a butcher who is standing behind the meat counter in a leather skirt with sleeves rolled up, killing pigs, cutting meat and chopping bones.

He Jin is indeed not a butcher.His family is a gentry.If it is not a nobleman, his sister is not qualified to enter the palace as a palace maid.Before his family made a fortune, he was engaged in the business of raising pigs, killing pigs and selling pigs. After his ancestors got rich, they expanded their businesses and bought land and farms. After several generations, they accumulated a lot of wealth and became a rich man in Nanyang.Otherwise, where did he get the money to bribe Guo Sheng, the regular attendant?That's not a small sum.Who is Zhang Rang?No power, no power, no money, would he marry He Jin?The gentry are forced to make a living to engage in lowly industries, and are generally cast aside by the world. Therefore, although He Jin's family is rich, they are looked down upon by others.His younger sister became the queen, and the whole family enjoyed the glory and wealth because of this, and the world was much more jealous.

Everyone calls He Jin a butcher, He Jin is angry.But so what if he was angry, he couldn't seal the mouths of the people in the world.Later he figured it out, a butcher is a butcher, so Gaozu is still a little hooligan?A hero doesn't ask where he came from.Being a butcher, not only can you make your opponent despise you, but you can also hide your strength better, so that you won't provoke a strong blow from your opponent, which is good for your own development.In addition, he found that a large number of well-known party members and scholars in the world are also from poor backgrounds, or out of sympathy, as long as he sends out an invitation, they come to vote one after another, flocking to it.

He Jin saw his younger brother He Miao approaching in a hurry.He Miao was brought to the He family by He Jin's stepmother.He Miao is in his 30s, not tall, relatively thin, cautious, not assertive, and timid, always following behind his brother.

"Big brother, Lord Zhao, Lord He, Lord Zheng, Lord Xun and several other adults have all arrived in the study."

He Jin nodded slightly.

"Is there anything the Queen can do with Elder Brother?" He Miao asked with a glance at him, "I think Elder Brother looks very bad."

He Jin forced a smile and said, "You'll find out after a while."

(End of this chapter)