Hou Lan, originally a rogue in the city, wanted to fly huang Tengda and lacked real talent and practical learning, so he had to become a eunuch and enter the palace. With his rhetoric, he won the favor of the court and was also favored by the emperor. In the early years of Emperor Huan's reign (147), he climbed to the high position of Zhongchang Shi. Zhongchang's identity was the capital of Hou Lan's bribery, and within a few years, his property had become the richest upstart in the Capital Division with tens of thousands of dollars.
When Emperor Shun was nine years old, he said a sentence that Liang Ji said "Bao Hu", and he was poisoned by Liang Ji. Emperor Zhongzhong found Liu Zhilai, the son of Liu Yi the Marquis of Liwu, to replace him as Emperor Huan. At this time, Empress Dowager Liang was in the ascendant, and her foreign relative Liang Ji was monopolistic and arbitrary, rejecting dissidents, and acting perversely. Some upright officials, such as Li Gu and Du Qiao, were imprisoned and executed for upholding justice.
During the Yanxi period (158-167), peasant uprisings rose throughout the country. The imperial court has been conquering the west for many years, and the huge expenditure of military expenditure has overwhelmed the eastern Han court. In the third year of Yanxi (160), the imperial court was forced to issue an edict to temporarily borrow the official Feng Lu and stop paying salaries. Subsequently, he levied taxes on the prince's food and sold his officials and knights to maintain the expenses of the imperial court. When Hou Lan saw these circumstances, he immediately handed over the stolen property, took out more than 5,000 silk horses, was greatly rewarded by Emperor Huan, and gave Hou Lan the title of Marquis of Guannei.
Hou Lan had a fellow villager named Duan Jue, and the two often colluded together to do all the bad things in the world. Hou Lan appeared as a marquis, and together with Duan Jue planned to plunder land in Jibei, build gorgeous manors, and raise a large number of fierce slaves and shameless disciples. These villains were originally bold and arrogant, relying on Hou Lan's power, and even more unscrupulously, in addition to brutally invading the local residents, they also openly robbed merchants and merchants, killing people and goods, and were more ferocious and violent than bandits and robbers.
Jibei Xiang Teng Yan was the official Gongzhi Gengjie, upright and honest. Seeing that there are many social contradictions, Zhi is committed to clarifying the filth and sweeping away the demonic atmosphere. When Hou Lan's fierce slaves did evil in his area, he made elaborate arrangements and strictly ordered all the servants to go out and arrest all these evildoers and imprison them with lightning speed. And dozens of murderers who were so angry that they were so angry that they were immediately beheaded. Some of the remaining slaves and doormen were lost and scattered.
In order to take revenge on Teng Yan, Hou Lan used other things to complain to the emperor: Teng Yanju was violent and murderous; he often slaughtered innocents because of small things. He was only making a name for himself and ignoring the benevolent government of the imperial court. Emperor Huan loved vanity the most, did not know the facts, believed that Teng Yan's actions were smearing him in the face, and without any consideration, dismissed Teng Yan from his post, and arrested and imprisoned him, and severely punished him.
Hou Lan relied on the emperor's favor and made his relatives and friends high officials. His brother Hou Shanben was a philistine who was able to hold an important position in the history of Yizhou's assassination, causing countless families in Yizhou to be destroyed and made a ghost in prison.
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Nanyang was an economically developed region, and at the same time, it was also the hometown of the royal family and had inextricable relations with the Beijing Division. Zhang Fan, a giant merchant in Wancheng, was a close relative of Emperor Huan's favorite, with a family of tens of thousands of gold, a generous eunuch, and a married Marquis, seeking a high-ranking official position. The Zhang Fan family relied on official position and wealth, fished and meated civilians, and suffered thousands of victims. The magistrates, fearful of Hou Lan's obscenity, pretended to be deaf and dumb in their various unlawful crimes, and did not dare to interrogate them.
After being sent here to serve as Taishou, the Hongnong people were determined to revive gangji. As soon as he took office, he asked Cen Hui, a famous scholar at the time, to take up the important position of Gong Cao and entrusted the administration of the whole county. Zhang Fan and his henchmen were immediately arrested, and Zhang Fan's family hurriedly brought a large amount of money to the Beijing Division, and through Hou Lan, prompted the government to issue a general amnesty order. When Cen Hui learned the news, he suggested that Cheng Yan kill Zhang Fan before the Holy Will was read. After reading the edict of amnesty, Cen Hui explained: This is a pardon for criminals who were previously in the case, and from now on, they are not included in the pardon. He recaptured More than 200 of Zhang Fan's guests, clans, and henchmen and sentenced them to death, beheading them first and then playing them later. These very decisive measures once again dealt a severe blow to the social foundation of Hou Lan's forces in Nanyang. Hou Lan's rescue failed, causing Zhang Fan's wife to write a letter accusing Tai Shou Chengyan of being blind to the law of the land and killing indiscriminately against his will. Coupled with Hou Lan's fire, Aiji cried from the side, and Emperor Huan was furious and rushed to arrest Cheng Yan and go to prison. Cheng Yan's prison affairs immediately became the focus of the struggle between the courtiers and the yuxing disciples and eunuchs. The eunuchs and courtiers believed that Cheng Yan and others had disobeyed the royal law, and that their crimes were not forgiven, and that they should be beheaded and abandoned. The upright courtiers rescued them one after another, and the lieutenants Chen Fan and Sikong Liu Mao jointly advised cheng yan to be spared. Fu Jie ordered Cai Yan, Liu Yu, and others to also express their request to save Cheng Yao, and in spite of themselves, they were dismissed from their posts by Hou Lan and driven out of the imperial court. Hou Lan also ordered the arrest of Cen Hui and Zhang Mu, who changed their names and surnames, changed their clothes, and fled and hid in the Qilu Mountains, where relatives and friends competed for cover, prepared for hardships, and survived the disaster.
Hou Lan's mother lived in Dongfang County, and had always oppressed the government, brutalized the people, and was also a local hegemon. In 165, Taishou Zhai Chao hired Zhang Jian as the governor of the eastern region, and Hou Lan's hometown was within his jurisdiction. Zhang Jian was not afraid of power and was quite famous at that time. The masses who were persecuted by Hou Lan's mother and son met this good official and came to file a complaint and seek redress. Zhang Jian played the extravagant and indulgent crimes of Hou Lan's mother and son to the imperial court, and requested that Hou Lan's mother and son be exterminated.
When Zhang Jian was appointed as the postmaster of the eastern region, Hou Lan had already sent people to monitor Zhang Jian's every move. This impeachmental table was intercepted and destroyed by Hou Lan's men in the transmission of the above submission.
After Zhang Jian played the imperial court, he did not get half an echo, knowing that Hou Lan was obstructing it. Therefore, Zhang Jian directly led the messengers directly to the Hou Mansion, announced the crime of Hou Lan's mother and son in the name of the magistrate, confiscated all the property that had come from corruption and perverted the law, and arrested his clan party guests. Zhang Jian also arrested Hou Lan's mother and immediately executed her. A small inspector destroyed the home of the giant crocodile in The DPRK and the mother, which was a major event that shocked the world at that time.
In order to avenge his family's murder of his mother, Hou Lan falsely accused Taishan Taishou Yuan Kang of cheating the imperial court and arrested Yuan Kang and imprisoned him. Hou Lan felt that this was not an ideal way to take revenge, after all, the evidence was insufficient, and it was not easy to put people to death. Moreover, he had many enemies, and the revenge was too slow. He came up with a clever way to put the other party on the list of hook parties and form a party against the imperial court. As long as they meet once and say a word between them, they can become ironclad evidence, and they can be connected at will without more evidence. Even if the other party is neither greedy nor perverted the law, it will not alleviate the sins of the partisans in the slightest.
Hou Lan instructed Zhu Huan to write a letter accusing Zhang Jian of colluding with the party with twenty-four people from the same county to endanger the sheji. Causing the imperial court to attach great importance to it, the emperor issued an edict to arrest Zhang Jian and others, and did everything possible to eliminate evil and show no mercy.
Zhang Jian had already put aside the misfortunes of life and death, but refused to tie his hands in front of the eunuchs. He had a friendship with Lu Guokong and fled to the Kong family. Coinciding with Kong Bao's absence, his younger brother Kong Rong, who was only sixteen years old at this time, hid Zhang Jian in his home. Unexpectedly, the news was revealed, and they quickly transferred Zhang Jian elsewhere, and when the officials came to arrest them, they were already empty, so they took Kong Shimen back to the official office for strict interrogation.
Zhang Jian fled to Donglai and hid in Li Du's home, and When Waihuang County ordered Mao Qin to follow him with soldiers, Li Du invited him to sit down and said lightly: "Zhang Jian fled, how dare I take him in, I am not here." But he was indeed falsely accused, so why was he guilty? But he is a righteous man all over the world. If you really met him here, would you be able to bear to take him? Mao Qin stood up and gently shook Li Duyue: "Yu Boyu is ashamed to be a gentleman, and he wants to do the benevolent and righteous things of the world personally." Li Du smiled bitterly and said, "Then give you half of it," Mao Qin sighed and left. Li Dushe's family escorted Zhang Jian to the home of Beihai Ziran, then entered the Yuyang Realm, and finally escaped from the eunuch's clutches.
Zhang Jian's escape has gone through hardships and dangers. Because of his noble integrity and selfless and fearless feats, he won the respect of the people of the whole country, and every time he went to a place, he looked at the door and surrendered, and he did not risk the crime of harboring The Chin. Everywhere he went, he was admitted to prison, dozens of families were cursed, and the clan was pro-party and implicated and destroyed. The chaos and the disaster of thousands of families, the county and county are broken. Despite such a grim situation, the people were still not afraid of obscenity, and they tried their best to help each other, and there were heroic stories of fighting for death, reflecting the people's incomparable hatred of the eunuch politics represented by Hou Lan and the sympathy of the benevolent people who fought against this evil force.
Hou Lan's crazy desire to persecute the people never ends, and he believes that although a group of opponents released from prison in previous years have all been dismissed from office, they will not be able to live comfortably in their old age. In October of the second year of Jianning (169), Hou Lan instructed people to accuse former Sikong Yufang and Taifu Dumi, Li Bing of Changle Shaofu, Lieutenant Zhu Yu of Si Li, Taishou Basu of Yingchuan, Taishou Weilang of Hanoi, Taishou Zhai Chao of Shanyang, Pei Xiang Xunyu, Liu Ru, Fan Huan, and others, and arrested and imprisoned, and tracked down and interrogated. When Dumi heard the news, he was not willing to be humiliated by the hands of the castration party and committed suicide by drinking medicine. Someone advised Li Ping to flee quickly, and Li Bing said, "I am sixty years old, and I have a life and death. "Took the initiative to go to prison and was tortured to death. Jing Gu, the son of Shi Jingyi, was Li Bing's protégé, and Jing Gu's name was omitted from the record, so he declared himself to be Li Bing's party and exempted him from official duties for the people. Governor Wu of Runan, who was ordered by the edict to go to Zhengqiang to arrest Fan Huan, closed the door in the transmission house, and wept on the bed with the edict in his arms, so ashamed that he did not dare to come out to see people. Fan Huan heard this and automatically walked into the prison. The county commander was shocked to see this, and while saying: "The world is big, please go far away and fly high, don't fall into the tiger's mouth", while untying the official seal, ready to accompany Fan Huan to flee to other places, but Fan Huan shook his head and did not agree.
Hou Lan framed more than a hundred of these well-known people in the sea, and they died in prison one after another, and their protégés were all imprisoned. The nobles and their Confucians, who had nothing to do with them, were all referred to as party members. Hou Lan was not satisfied with this, so he ordered a large-scale reporting of the hook party throughout the country, and the prefectures and counties adhered to the will, rushed to spark, and included more unrelated people in the hook party, and six or seven people were killed and arrested.
This blood-stained and tragic historical tragedy was initiated by Hou Lan and was also presided over and directed by him. It was precisely because of his meritorious deeds in harming people that Cao Jie was promoted to the rank of Changle Tai servant, promoted to the rank of Knight, and his arrogance was even more arrogant, but people posted anonymous lubu denouncing him on the Suzaku Gate, denouncing his indiscriminate killing of party members for their ferocity and viciousness, the resentment of the world, and the desire of everyone to eat his flesh. In May of the first year of Xiping (172), a struggle for power and profit occurred among the eunuchs, and some people played Hou Lan, arbitrarily raped, and extravagant and extravagant. The Ling Emperor sent people to collect his seals, and Hou Lan saw that the general trend had gone, and he made too many enemies in his life, and he had a hundred grievances, so he took poison and committed suicide, ending his life of sin. Hou Lan's forces that had been entrenched in the court for decades also collapsed and vanished, and a group of his fox and dog parties were all deposed and driven out of the Capital Division.