In the sixth year of Zhongping, or the first year of Guangxi, on May 24th, just as the sun turned west, Zhang Rang received a message from He Miao.

After hearing the message, the attendants gathered in Zhang Rang's mansion were almost in despair...of course they would be in despair. In fact, as early as Ding Yuan burned Meng Jin, Dong Zhuo wrote a letter to punish the eunuchs, and the Queen Mother He drove them back.

After returning home, these people have become desperate and regretful.

Looking back now, the last thing they should do is betray Jian Shuo. Jian Shuo's military power is actually their biggest reliance.

However, in desperation, these people also made other preparations. In fact, as early as the day Gongsun Xun's memorial announcing his victory arrived in Luoyang, these people began to reconnect. Because at that time, Zhang Rang and others had already reacted.

The compromise is destined to be meaningless.

After all, once Gongsun Xun, an unreasonable man, leads his troops south, no one can protect them, not even He Jin.

Therefore, we must resist.

And Yuan Shao's harm to his family this time only forced them to further make up their minds... If they didn't resist desperately, not only would their lives be at risk, but their families would also be implicated. So what's there to worry about?

On the afternoon of May 24th, Zhang Rang left the secret room and went to the side courtyard to visit his daughter-in-law He. She was the same father and sister as He Jin, the same mother and sister as He Miao, and the same father and mother as the Queen Mother He.

sister.

As soon as he saw the He family, Zhang Rang, as the father-in-law, knelt down and kowtowed. He had only one request, that is, to invite his daughter-in-law to see the Queen Mother He, and to allow them, such as regular servants, to enter the palace through the Huangmen and serve the Queen Mother.

, the new emperor had two days, because they knew that they were "not worthy of the general", so they prepared to return home.

How had He ever seen such a battle? He agreed almost immediately and entered the palace immediately.

On the evening of May 24th, all the regular attendants returned to the palace from Huangmen.

At the same time, He Jin finally figured out the current situation after being reminded by He Yong, Feng Ji and others.

On the morning of May 25th, He Jin met Wang Kuang, one of the recruiting leaders he sent out. The latter recruited thousands of soldiers and stationed them twenty miles outside the city. He himself led hundreds of elites among them and entered directly.

Arrive in Luozhong.

The appearance of this person made He Suigao overjoyed.

On May 25th, at noon, He Jin received an order from the Queen Mother, asking him to go to the Jiade Hall to discuss matters. However, He Suigao, who had just learned of the arrival of his troops, did not take it seriously and went straight to the Jiade Hall in the Nangong Palace.

One more thing to say here is that the Jiade Hall is the main hall of the Nangong. It is the place where the emperor works and rests daily. It is also the place where the imperial meetings are held. It is very close to the Chancellery. The Nangong was renovated after the fire that day, and it is indeed magnificent.

However, even if he went to the Jiade Hall in Nangong, even though the leader of the Nangong Tiger Ben Army was now Yuan Shu, He Jin was still prepared. He greeted Yuan Shu in advance, and also went to the Shangshu Desk and greeted the ministers there.

The guards and other ministers then walked to the Jiade Hall in a hurry.

In the afternoon, the brother and sister met in the palace, and the result was the same as before. He asked his brother to let the Shi Changshi go, while He Jin asked his sister not to defend these people anymore... It's just that today they just had more troops in hand, and yesterday they

Because of this, He Miao broke up with each other. He Jin's back was extremely straight, and his words were also rushed.

In his words, he wanted to kill the ten regular servants!

The brother and sister broke up unhappy, but He Jin did not leave the palace. Instead, he went to the minister's desk and discussed political affairs with the ministers until evening before he prepared to leave the palace.

"General!" Gongsun Yue came to the chancellor's desk with a document in hand, but he bumped into He Jin who was about to leave the palace.

"Wen Chao hasn't been to my house for a long time!" He Jin naturally smiled when he saw Gongsun Yue. "How about it? Do you have free time today?"

"The General's invitation, Yue Yue naturally did not dare to refuse." Gongsun Yue immediately chuckled and replied, "I will definitely bother you in the evening."

He Suigao laughed more and more when he heard this, holding the instrument knife on his waist: "In one month, everything will be settled, your brother will also come to Luozhong, we can relax and get together at any time. But now, after working hard for days, I want to drink

I don’t dare to indulge in even a glass of wine.”

Gongsun Yue couldn't help laughing.

"I won't delay your work." Seeing this, He Jin raised his knife and walked away. "Don't forget to come over tonight."

Gongsun Yue bowed to see him off.

Seeing He Jin was about to turn around, the Huangmen Minister's heart moved. He suddenly remembered something and called out to him again: "General!"

"What's the matter?" He Jin, who happened to be walking beside a Tiger Warrior warrior, turned around and asked without paying attention.

"My brother sent me a private message, asking me to remind you, unless you have to, don't enter the North Palace easily before the matter is completed!" Gongsun Yue said seriously. "Especially since the eunuch re-entered the North Palace yesterday, you must be even more careful.

Already."

"I understand." He Jin nodded immediately. "How could I be so stupid?"

After saying this, the two of them turned around, one headed towards the center stage, the other towards the outside of the palace.

However, before Gongsun Yue entered the central platform and He Jin had not turned around, suddenly a young man from the Huangmen hurried over, then rushed to He Jin and knelt down: "General! The Queen Mother has an edict, please go back to the Jiade Hall.

trip."

He Jin sneered, but didn't take it seriously, and went to Jiade Palace again. At the same time, Gongsun Yue, who heard such words throughout the whole process, didn't pay attention, but continued to send his documents... After all, Jiade Palace

It's right next to the Chancellor's Desk, and this is the South Palace, not the North Palace!

The North Palace is the residence of the emperor and the harem, and is the foundation of the eunuchs, but the South Palace is not the home of the eunuchs! There is the Yushitai and the Shangshutai, and Tongtuo Street is separated by a wall. Across the street are various official temples and yamen.

It was full of people from He Jin.

Even in the South Palace, next to the Jiade Hall, the general and the scholars had a common stronghold.

That's right, it's the Shangshutai that Gongsun Yue is about to enter.

At this moment, the Huben army in Nangong was under the control of Yuan Shu, and the guards at the Shangshu table were replaced early by their confidants. They only listened to the greetings of the general who recorded the Shangshu affairs and the Grand Tutor Yuan Wei.

In such a situation, how can we not go to the Jiade Hall next to it?

In fact, He Jin had already been there once at noon, and had a quarrel with his sister there. At this time, the Queen Mother summoned her again, either to continue the quarrel or to simply give in... What couldn't she go?

Just like that, on the evening of August 25th, General He came to His Majesty Jiade Palace again. According to etiquette, he needed to take off his shoes and take off his sword at the banquet area in front of the palace. However, as soon as he sat down, he only took off his shoes.

Only, he suddenly discovered that dozens of eunuchs holding sharp swords suddenly appeared around him.

The leaders were Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong, Duan Gui and others whose hair had already turned gray.

The two sides looked at each other in silence, and at this point, no words were needed. But in the silence, He Jin suddenly stood up, tried to escape from the palace with only one shoe on... As long as he escaped to the middle stage, he could still be saved.

More than a dozen eunuchs showed no mercy. They all swarmed forward and rained down swords. However, He Jin was stabbed several times, but he still rushed out of the prison and came to His Highness. However, he had been stabbed several times.

Unable to support him, Qumu of Zhonghuangmen, who was the supervisor of Shangfang, rushed to His Highness, killed him with a knife, and then cut off his head.

General He Jin, who was in charge of Luozhong and even the balance of the world, died.

To be fair, this killing was beyond everyone's expectations. Not to mention He Jin himself, if Gongsun Xun or even Gongsun Auntie were here, I am afraid they would be at a loss when faced with such a situation... You know, for a long time, Gongsun Auntie, this third person, would be at a loss.

Baodao always thought that the palace where He entered and died was the palace. Later, after learning about the Nangong and the North Palace, he took it for granted that it was the North Palace.

Even Gongsun Xun, who had raised chickens in the Nangong Shangshutai for a while, was like this. He had long subconsciously believed that General He would die in the North Palace.

But in fact, whether in the present or in the history of another time and space, He Jin died in Nangong, in the Jiade Hall, which is very close to the Chancellery.

Moreover, this death was not enough to be called a coup, but more like an assassination, because even if He Jin died, Nangong was still not there, or not entirely under the control of the eunuchs.

After He Jin was killed, the eunuchs divided their forces into two groups. On one group, Zhao Zhong, who had served as the Great Changqiu, naturally came forward to contact the old troops of the Huben Army and blockade the palace gate in the name of the Queen Mother; on the other group,

However, Zhang Rang, Duan Gui and others eagerly drafted a fake edict, appointed Xu Xiang, a pro-eunuch clan, as Henan Yin, and Fan Ling as Sili Xiaowei, and took He Jin's head to the Chancellor's Desk to deliver the edict.

However, both sides suffered setbacks!

For He Jin, the Huben troops were unreliable, but for the eunuchs, the Huben troops were equally unreliable. Most of the Huben troops chose to follow Zhao Zhong and immediately blocked the palace gate, but there were still many Huben troops who chose to immediately

He fled and went to deliver the news outside the palace. He Jin's confidants Wu Kuang and others who were waiting on Tongtuo Street outside Nangong immediately learned about He Jin's death. They immediately made a noise and tried to enter Nangong, but were stopped by the tiger soldiers who were loyal to the eunuchs.

He was stopped in front of the palace gate.

At the central office, Lu Zhi, Cao Shangshu of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, also had doubts immediately after receiving the white-board edict passed by the eunuchs... because this appointment could not have come from the hands of He Jin and Yuan Wei, who recorded the Shangshu affairs. Originally,

The ministers were preparing to leave home. After a brief discussion, the minister realized that something big was going to happen, so he immediately sealed the doors and windows of the minister's desk and began to draw his sword to guard them.

"Where is the general?" After everything was ready, Lu Zhi immediately came out of the center stage to ask.

What greeted him was He Jin's head, which was thrown in from the yellow gate.

The scene was stunned for a moment, and many of the young ministers who followed Lu Zhi were eclipsed. But Lu Zhi only glanced at it, and quickly grabbed the weapon from the guard of the Huben Army who was still at a loss next to him. Gongsun Yue also sighed deeply when he saw this.

tone, and then also took the weapon from the guard to defend Lu Zhi.

This time it was Zhang Rang's turn to be at a loss. They had experienced so many hardships, but this was the first time they saw a serious scholar, a famous Confucian scholar in the country, showing their weapons in front of them.

In desperation, Zhang Rang and others ordered a strong attack on Zhongtai.

However, due to the unreliability of the Huben army and because Wu Kuang and others were still in front of the palace gate, Zhang Rang, who was short of troops, could only let the eunuchs move forward with swords. The middle stage was originally a high-stage palace, so they were in a stalemate and could not enter.

On the evening of May 25th, General Yuan Shu of Huben Zhonglang received a report from some of his subordinates. In other words, Yuan knew the death of the general before everyone else.

Yuan Wei was at a loss when he heard the report. In a hurry, he could only invite his three nephews to discuss it in his courtyard.

"Uncle, what do you mean?" When Yuan Shao heard this, he was panicked for the first time, but soon, for some reason, he suddenly tightened his grip on the handle of the knife in his waist, and his tone actually became calmer.

.

"I don't know." Yuan Wei responded blankly. "I'm asking you, now that the general is suddenly killed, what can you and I do?"

"How is the situation in Nangong?" Yuan Shao asked Yuan Shu with all his strength.

"I don't know." Yuan Shu's forehead was covered with sweat, but he could still answer. "Most of the Tiger and Ben troops stayed in place and followed Zhao Zhong's order to block the palace gate, but a small half came to look for me, and then they listened.

It seems that there is also a stalemate in China and Taiwan..."

"Where is Wu Kuang?" Yuan Shao suddenly interrupted and asked. "Where is Wu Kuang, the most loyal to the general, now? Has he escaped?"
To be continued...