My younger brother Lü Fengxian

Chapter 327: Summoning Foreign Troops to Beijing

"Calling in foreign troops to the capital?"

"What does Benchu ​​mean?"

He Jin became excited upon hearing this and immediately continued to ask Yuan Shao.

"Yes, the Queen Mother is very powerful now, and we cannot confront her head-on. If the Queen Mother is determined to protect the Ten Attendants, won't the general have to sit back and watch his enemies run free in the palace?"

Seeing that He Jin had been persuaded, Yuan Shao quickly added.

"Well, what Benchu ​​said is very true."

He Jin was also quite interested when he heard this.

How could he, who started out as a butcher, be a match for Yuan Shao, a noble family with three generations of officials who were well versed in the basics of political power, when it comes to political tactics?

In just a few words, Yuan Shao persuaded him to do something.

After all, the greatest respect for your opponent is to kill him completely.

He Jin was also a veteran of political struggles. Although he was not very capable, he had witnessed the terrifying power of the Ten Attendants many times.

With such a powerful force right next to his bed, He Jin would not be able to sleep peacefully unless he completely eliminated it.

However, although He Jin was stupid and surrounded by people like Yuan Shao who had ulterior motives, he also had some loyal people who served him well.

When Cao Cao heard that He Jin actually believed Yuan Shao's stupid move, he quickly spoke out to stop him.

"General! Wait a minute!"

"Recruiting foreign troops into the capital is a way to cause chaos."

"The imperial court is now weak, and the local governments are becoming more powerful."

"People like Dong Zhuo have already begun to openly disobey the imperial decrees. The imperial court has repeatedly invited him to serve as an official in the capital, but he has repeatedly disobeyed orders."

"If such a rebellious minister is summoned to the capital, it will not be a blessing for the court or the general!"

"Besides, it is easy to invite gods but difficult to send them away. It is easy to summon foreign soldiers to the capital, but after seeing the glamorous world of the capital, it would be extremely difficult to ask them to return to the bitter cold land of the frontier!"

Cao Cao tried to persuade He Jin earnestly, held him back and kept trying to persuade him.

"But if we don't call in foreign troops, how can we get rid of them?"

He Jin couldn't help but fall into distress after hearing this.

"From my perspective, this is an easy matter!"

Cao Cao couldn't help but laugh when he heard this.

"Hmm? What profound ideas does Meng De have to teach me?"

He Jin couldn't help but look sideways when he heard this.

"Although the Ten Eunuchs hold power and wield authority, they are in fact just servants of the Emperor and the Empress Dowager. The court has its own laws to deal with people of such status!"

"General, why do you need to mobilize an army? Just send a jailer!"

Cao Cao smiled.

"One jailer is enough?"

He Jin was stunned when he heard this.

"Yes, there are more than a thousand eunuchs in the palace, and the leaders of the rebellion are only a few of the Ten Eunuchs. Cao believes that we should not implicate too many people, and we only need to kill the rebel leader. When the rest see the Ten Eunuchs destroyed, they will naturally not dare to resist the general!"

Cao Cao quickly affirmed.

"Ok?"

Upon hearing this, He Jin looked up and down at Cao Cao suspiciously, and suddenly burst into laughter.

"Oh!"

"I understand!"

"The reason why Meng De pleaded for the eunuch party is probably because you are also a descendant of eunuchs and are worried about being implicated, right?"

After He Jin finished speaking, he couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"what!"

"you!"

When Cao Cao heard that He Jin had humiliated him in public, he became furious and left the table in anger.

But when he left the General's Mansion, he looked back with deep sorrow, then left with a long sigh.

"He Jin only listened to Yuan Shao's slander and didn't listen to my sincere words."

"This man must be the one who caused cholera in the world!"

After Cao Cao left, Yuan Shao couldn't help but feel relieved.

His plan was almost ruined by Cao Cao.

In order to avoid any more trouble, he repeatedly advised He Jin.

"General, since you have made up your mind, why not issue the imperial edict as soon as possible, so that foreign troops can enter the capital as soon as possible and exterminate the eunuch party!"

He Jin agreed deeply with what he said.

"Benchu's words are very much to my liking. I'll leave this matter to you. You must gather all the troops in the world to the capital!"

"I will obey your orders and will not let you down!"

When Yuan Shao saw that He Jin had fallen into the trap, he couldn't help but smile meaningfully.

As a general, He Jin had the power to command and control all the troops in the world.

Under Yuan Shao's arrangement, the general's edict was quickly flown to various parts of the Han Dynasty.

……

"Hmm? Are you summoning me to the capital?"

"What a joke! I am free and easy in Yizhou. Why should I go to the imperial capital to serve others as a subject?"

"Don't go!"

In the Yizhou prefect's mansion, Liu Yan threw away the imperial edict delivered by Zhang Lu from Hanzhong, snorted coldly, and ignored it.

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"The situation in the capital is treacherous and unpredictable. I should guard Xuzhou carefully and not get involved in this mess!"

In the Xuzhou Governor's Mansion, Tao Qian hesitated for a long time holding the imperial edict in his hand. Finally, he chose to give up this edict with an uncertain future, claiming to be ill and refusing to accept it.

……

"Haha, just as Sixiao expected, the imperial court really sent an envoy to order me to lead troops into the capital."

"Well, I haven't been to Luoyang for a long time. It's a good opportunity for me to go visit the teacher with Sixiao."

After Gongsun Zan, the governor of Youzhou, glanced at the imperial edict in his hand, he thought of his teacher Lu Zhi and couldn't help but smile.

……

"Hahahaha!"

"He Jin, this mediocre person, actually ordered me to lead troops into the capital!"

"Now that the ruler is young and the country is in doubt, Luoyang is short of troops. This is a godsend opportunity!"

"I must seize this opportunity and make our Dong family further developed so that we will no longer be looked down upon and ignored by the Guandong nobles!"

In the Liangzhou Mu Mansion, Dong Zhuo laughed heartily after handing the imperial edict in his hand to the chief military advisor and son-in-law Li Ru beside him.

"My lord, we cannot miss this opportunity. We should quickly march eastward and reach Luoyang before the other princes to seize the initiative!"

After Li Ru finished his moves in two or three moves, he excitedly advised Dong Zhuo again and again.

"Wen You is right. I will lead the vanguard and march ahead first. I will order Dong Min to lead the rear army and lead the army to advance slowly!"

Dong Zhuo nodded repeatedly upon hearing this, and without taking a rest, he immediately started to make arrangements.

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"My lord, He Jin actually wants to recruit foreign troops like us to enter the capital to kill the Ten Eunuchs. This is a ridiculous plan that seeks a distant goal instead of a near one!"

"He Jin is so incompetent. When all the strong troops gather near Luoyang, how can he easily issue orders even though he is a general?"

"For now, we should take the initiative and use our elite light troops to gain a foothold in Luoyang first, and then wait and see what happens!"

In Bingzhou Mufu, Chen Gong and Tian Feng hurriedly came in hand in hand, holding the imperial edict. "Well, what the two military advisors said is very true. I will lead 5,000 light cavalry to Luoyang first today!"

"Mr. Yuan Hao is the military advisor. Wen Tai asks you to stay in Bingzhou and command the follow-up troops to enter Luoyang!"

Upon hearing this, Lu Yi couldn't help but nod repeatedly.

Although he had the advantage of being a prophet, he could not act smoothly without the edict in his hand.

Now that he had the imperial edict in hand, he naturally had an excuse and reason to dispatch troops to Luoyang.

Fortunately, although Lu Yi could not act first rashly, he had made complete preparations. The baggage, food, weapons, and armor of the 50,000 Bingzhou cavalry were all available. Even the 100,000 auxiliary troops who were specially arranged in advance in case Bingzhou was empty when the main army went out were basically in place. When the 50,000 Bingzhou cavalry followed Lu Yi to Luoyang, they could naturally take over the defense of Bingzhou, so as not to leave the old nest empty and leave loopholes for the enemy.

If you play the Empty City Strategy well, you are awesome; if you play it badly, you are stupid.

Lu Yi is not going to be this idiot.

……

Just when the princes of the world received the imperial edict and took different actions.

General He Jin, who was in Luoyang City, also began the final mobilization meeting before the elimination of the Ten Eunuchs.

"This great general has ordered the foreign troops from all directions to enter the capital and eliminate the Ten Eunuchs."

"Among them, Dong Zhuo is the closest, and his attitude is the most positive."

"Dong Zhuo has 200,000 soldiers under his command, and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is also the strongest in the world. If Dong Zhuo is by his side, it will be easy to wipe out the Ten Attendants!"

While He Jin was reporting to the ministers on the latest progress of the operation to eliminate the Ten Attendants, he was also feeling very happy and proud.

It was as if he had already seen the future where the Ten Eunuchs would be beheaded at his feet.

"General, this plan is inappropriate!"

"Foreign troops entering the capital may disturb the ancestral temple, which is a bad omen!"

Upon seeing this, the great scholar Zheng Tai stepped forward and tried to dissuade He Jin.

"Humph, you are just a pedantic scholar, not capable of planning great things!"

He Jin snorted coldly when he heard this and scoffed at Zheng Tai's warning.

"Even if the general wants to summon foreign troops into the capital, he must not summon Dong Zhuo!"

"I have known Dong Zhuo for a long time. He looks kind but is cruel at heart. He is vicious and has repeatedly disobeyed orders. He is definitely not a loyal minister."

"Now he has 200,000 soldiers under his command, and his military might is enormous. If we leave him in the capital, I'm afraid the capital will be in turmoil and the court will be terrified!"

Seeing this, Lu Zhi hurried forward and tried to persuade him.

"You all have the views of scholars!"

"I have made up my mind, so don't say anything more!"

However, He Jin was dissatisfied with the advice of Zheng Tai and Lu Zhi. He snorted coldly, went back home with a lot of anger, and ignored these officials who opposed him everywhere.

……

Just as He Jin was leaving in anger, the Ten Attendants inside the Luoyang Palace also learned of He Jin's plan.

They knew that the foreign troops from various states and counties were about to arrive in Luoyang, and He Jin's action was intended to take their own lives.

Seeing this, the Ten Eunuchs were terrified and felt a tremendous hatred towards He Jin.

"He Jin keeps forcing me, it's really too presumptuous!"

"Even if we, the Ten Eunuchs, have no merit, we have worked hard. Without our help, how could the He family be so rich and powerful now?"

"Earlier, after the Dong family was destroyed, we, the Ten Eunuchs, had already killed Jian Shuo and sincerely surrendered to the He family."

"But He Jin still can't forget us and wants to get rid of us as soon as possible. Such an ungrateful and unjust person is not worthy of being a son!"

Zhang Ran glanced at his colleague who was cursing He Jin unconsciously and snorted coldly.

"Now that it has come to this critical moment, no matter how much you curse, can you curse He Jin to death?"

When everyone heard Zhang Rang's words, they thought he seemed confident and hurried forward to ask him.

"I wonder if Brother Zhang has any good plan to help us get through this disaster?"

"There is a way, right?"

"It just depends on whether you dare to do it!"

Zhao Zhong, who was standing by, had already known Zhang Rang's plan in advance, so he asked in a deep voice.

"Oh, at this critical moment of life and death, is there anything you dare not do? Brother Zhang, Brother Zhao, please tell me now!"

After hearing this, everyone was too busy to care about anything else and started to urge him on.

"He Jin and I, the ten eunuchs, are in a state of war to the death!"

"Either I die or he dies!"

"Rather than waiting for the foreign troops to arrive in Luoyang and for us to be powerless to resist, we should take advantage of the opportunity now to lure him into the palace and kill him!"

"Then, we will control the emperor and the empress dowager, falsely convey the imperial edict, and cut off communication between the inside and the outside."

"In this way, the emperor cannot leave, and the ministers cannot enter."

"He Jin has just passed away, and the ministers are leaderless and can only become a pile of scattered sand."

"Then we will send a message in the name of the emperor to the foreign troops to return to their original positions. In this way, not only will He Jin's great enemy be destroyed, but the emperor and the empress dowager will also fall into our hands."

"From now on, all imperial edicts will be issued by you and me. Doesn't that mean that all power in the world belongs to you and me?"

Zhang Rang's words made the Ten Eunuchs' eyes light up.

"But killing the ministers and holding the Emperor and Empress Dowager hostage are serious matters. If there is a mistake, I am afraid I will be doomed!"

However, some people expressed their concerns and looked hesitant.

"It's already this time. The knife is on our necks. If we just sit back, we'll die. If we fight back, we'll die too. Why are we so hesitant?"

After Zhao Zhong's final encouragement, the hesitation of the Ten Attendants was finally dispelled, and they all agreed to accomplish great things together.

"The best plan now is to trick He Jin into the palace first."

"We will first ask to see the Queen Mother and ask her to order He to enter the palace, and then we can make plans!"

Zhang Rang looked at everyone with an extremely gloomy gaze.

"That's it!"

Everyone nodded again and again.

"We are in imminent danger, please save our lives, Queen Mother!"

A moment later, outside Empress Dowager He's bedroom, the Ten Eunuchs knelt together, pounding their heads and crying.

"what happened again?"

Empress Dowager He was disturbed from her nap by the Ten Attendants and asked with some annoyance.

"We heard that the general ordered foreign troops to enter the capital in order to harm us."

"Please Queen Mother, please help me save my life!"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Rang and others immediately crawled to Empress Dowager He and cried.

"You guys!"

"I told you to be more respectful to the general. If not, how could we be in trouble today?"

Empress Dowager He shook her head helplessly and complained.

"How about this, I'll write a letter, and you guys prepare some money and gifts, and go to the general's house to apologize, and the matter will be over."

Although Empress Dowager He had some tricks, they were all intrigues in the harem. She had not yet clearly understood the real and cruel political struggle of life and death, so she did not realize the seriousness of the matter at the moment. She thought that all she had to do was to get the Ten Attendants to submit to He Jin as she had done before.

How could she know that her brother was bent on getting rid of the Ten Attendants and taking all the power into his own hands.

If the Ten Eunuchs were asked to apologize at this time, I am afraid that they would be beheaded as soon as they leave the palace.

However, Zhang Rang had much more experience in political intrigue than Empress Dowager He, and upon hearing this, he immediately stepped forward and continued to cry.

"The general hates us to the core. If we come to apologize, I'm afraid we'll be crushed into dust!"

"It would be fine if I died, but it would bring shame to your reputation. Please invite the general to the palace so that we can apologize to him in person."

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(End of this chapter)