#何进不死是不是就没有三国了 #
I believe that people who know a little about history know that the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the rebellion of Dong Zhuo are the fuse, and all of this seems to be the responsibility of He Jin.
After the death of the Han Ling Emperor, according to the will of the Han Ling Emperor, the throne was inherited by the Han Shao Emperor. However, the throne of Emperor Shao of Han was not stable, at least the mess left by Emperor Han Ling was really not something that Emperor Shao of Han could solve as a child. For example, the conflict between the Han Dynasty scholar and foreign relatives, as well as the eunuch clique, the Han Shao Emperor really could not grasp it.
At that time, the foreign general He Jin held a lot of power in the imperial court. In order to eliminate the eunuch clique, He Jin asked Dong Zhuo to lead an army into the capital Qinwang. And the eunuch clique also murdered He Jin out of the mentality of trapping the beast. This gave Dong Zhuo more reason to lead a large army into Luoyang— in the name of eradicating the eunuch clique. After Dong Zhuo's army entered Beijing, the Eastern Han court was soon controlled by Dong Zhuo. Dong Zhuo also subsequently deposed The Young Emperor of Han and replaced him with Emperor Xian of Han as emperor. In fact, from the time Dong Zhuo deposed the Young Emperor of Han, the authority of the Eastern Han court was no longer there, and thus fell into a state of extinction in name only.
The reason is simple: after Dong Zhuo deposed The Shao Emperor of Han, all the princes of the world expressed that they only recognized The Shao Emperor of Han as the monarch of the Eastern Han Court, and did not recognize the legitimacy of the Han Xiandi. Even one of the slogans of the princes against Dong Zhuo was to restore the throne of Emperor Shao of Han. Of course, Dong Zhuo, as a military general, handled Emperor Shao of Han with a simple result: direct execution. This is also equivalent to cutting off the possibility of the princes restoring the throne of Emperor Shao of Han - which means that the Son of Heaven recognized by the princes of the world is dead, and the throne of Emperor Xian of Han seems to be somewhat illegitimate. Therefore, at this time, the Eastern Han Court, at the moment when Emperor Xian of Han ascended the throne, had already existed in name only.
Therefore, there is such a statement: that is, the Eastern Han Dynasty court existed in name only after Dong Zhuo's rebellion, and He Jin had to occupy a great responsibility. After all, it was not because He Jin led Dong Zhuo's army into Beijing, and there would be no Dong Zhuo rebellion in the Eastern Han Dynasty, but I personally felt that the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty really could not be completely blamed on Dong Zhuo. In other words: even if Dong Zhuo did not make trouble, the Eastern Han Dynasty would still perish.
The reason is simple: the eastern Han court fell into a state of corruption of officials long before the reign of The Second Emperor Huanling. Each of the powerful forces has its own influence on one side. The raids on the localities by the imperial court and Haoqiang led to the misery of the people,especially during the reign of Emperor Huan of Han, and the entire Eastern Han Dynasty was on the eve of an all-out peasant war. In such a big environment, the Yellow Turban Uprising broke out.
The Han Ling Emperor, the head of the Eastern Han Court, was deeply helpless in the face of the peasant army: the Han Ling Emperor had no choice but to mobilize a powerful organization to suppress the peasant army. In fact, Liu Bei participated in the process of suppressing the peasant army, accumulated contacts, and planted a sprout for the later division of the party.
Moreover, in the face of the peasant uprising, the Han Ling Emperor also had to announce the decentralization of power to the localities - if the suppression of the peasant revolt was completely dependent on the unified command of the Han Ling Emperor's imperial court, it would undoubtedly miss the warplane and cause the Eastern Han Court to suffer losses. To this end, the Han Ling Emperor had no choice but to adopt the minister's suggestion and establish a "state pastoral system"—that is, to establish a "state pastoral" in each state under the heavens, and to control the military and political power of a state. The advantage of this system is that the local government can quickly integrate financial and human resources to deal with the peasant army, and the effectiveness of suppressing the peasant army has been unprecedentedly improved, but the disadvantage is that it is easy for the Eastern Han court to delegate authority, but it is difficult to recycle it.
Therefore, in the later period of the reign of Emperor Hanling, the situation of local division had already appeared. Even if He Jin and Dong Zhuo did not mess with each other, the Eastern Han court would have fallen into decline because it gradually lost control of the local area. In the midst of fire, there will naturally be new forces that will be reunited many years later.