何进 / He Jin

Hanji 918 backfills He Jin’s family rise before the 187-189 crisis layers. The episode identifies 何真’s butcher household, Empress He’s palace entry and birth of 刘辩, and Emperor Ling’s summons of He Jin into office as the beginning of the He family’s outer-relative position.

Hanji 931 backfills He Jin before the succession and anti-eunuch crisis. The episode names him with 杨赐 and 袁隗 as a senior figure who helps rescue 王允 after Wang Yun is imprisoned through 张让’s retaliation.

This early notice gives He Jin a narrower role than the later palace-conflict episodes. He is not yet the failed anti-eunuch planner; he appears as a high-status rescuer whose intervention confirms Wang Yun’s political weight inside 汉灵帝’s court.

Hanji 942 backfills He Jin before 汉灵帝’s death and before the later anti-eunuch plans. 蹇硕 and other attendants urge the emperor to send He Jin west against 韩遂, which He Jin reads as a bid to remove him from the capital power center.

He Jin does not refuse directly. He delays by asking 袁绍 to gather troops from 徐州 and 兖州 first, turning a dangerous court order into time-buying maneuvering. This episode therefore gives his later dependence on Yuan Shao and outside-force logic an earlier pre-succession root.

Hanji 943 backfills He Jin before the anti-eunuch planning in Hanji 944. After 汉灵帝 dies without a named heir, 蹇硕 tries to lure He Jin into the palace and kill him before installing Liu Xie, later 汉献帝. 潘隐 warns He Jin, so He Jin survives long enough for 刘辩 / 弘农王 and 何太后 to become the accession center.

The same source makes He Jin the first winner and first escalator in the post-Lingdi succession field. 郭胜 gives him Jian Shuo’s warning letter, He Jin has Jian Shuo killed and absorbs his palace guards, then moves against 董太后 and 董重. This makes his later Hanji 944 problem sharper: He Jin has already used decisive violence against one eunuch and one rival succession camp, but the broader eunuch-court conflict is still unresolved.

Hanji 944 backfills He Jin’s earlier decision trap after 汉灵帝’s death. 袁绍 urges him to eliminate the 十常侍, but 何太后, 何苗, and 武阳君 keep the He-family and eunuch-interest field tied together, while 陈琳 and 曹操 warn that broad mobilization and leaked intent will make the plan fail.

The episode makes He Jin a case of 致命计划泄露风险 before he becomes the later case of outside-force escalation. He has formal position and troops, but his partial approach exposes intent without settling the target, creating the precondition for the wider 外兵入京升级风险 and 死斗局优柔寡断风险 sequence in Hanji 945 and Hanji 946.

Hanji 945 backfills He Jin immediately before the fatal palace entry in Hanji 946. The episode presents him as fixed on 袁绍’s plan to summon outside troops into 洛阳 so that military pressure can force 何太后 to authorize action against the 十常侍.

The source makes He Jin’s failure begin before his death. 郑泰 and 卢植 warn him not to bring 董卓 into the capital, while 陈琳 and 曹操 are named as earlier warning voices. He Jin still mobilizes 王匡, 鲍信, 乔瑁, and 丁原, turning an inner-court problem into 外兵入京升级风险.

Hanji 946 supplies He Jin’s death scene and makes him the central negative case for 死斗局优柔寡断风险. He Jin tries to persuade 何太后 to eliminate the 十常侍, but his delay and reliance on palace procedure leave him exposed to 张让 and 段珪.

The episode says He Jin is lured deeper into the palace under a claimed dowager order and killed by 渠穆. His head then becomes the signal that turns a factional struggle into 宫廷政变暴力级联: forged orders, gate fighting, mass eunuch killing, He-family infighting, imperial flight, and the opening for 董卓 all follow.

Hanji 947 adds the immediate aftermath of He Jin’s death before Hanji 948’s He-family liquidation branch. The power vacuum after his killing lets 董卓 enter the capital field, while troops formerly attached to He Jin soon go over to Dong Zhuo.

This source makes He Jin’s absence active: his failed handling of the eunuch crisis opens the space in which Dong Zhuo can turn the He-family succession base around 刘辩 / 弘农王 into a target.

Hanji 948 backfills He Jin’s central late-Han succession role before the later household-reference branch. The episode says He Jin holds power after 汉灵帝’s death and supports 刘辩 / 弘农王 as emperor; after He Jin is killed, 董卓 enters the power vacuum and turns that He-family-backed succession into a target.

The source matters for He Jin because Dong Zhuo’s deposition is followed by removal of the broader He-family base: 何太后 is poisoned, 何苗 is posthumously humiliated, and 武阳君 is killed. He Jin therefore becomes the absent pivot whose earlier power explains why the family must be neutralized after the deposition.

Hanji 1013 later uses He Jin as the family status marker for 尹夫人, whom the source identifies as his daughter-in-law. The episode does not develop He Jin’s career; it uses the tie to explain why Lady Yin and 何晏 already belong to an elite late-Han household world before their connection to 曹操.

Connections

• Hanji 918, 何真, 何皇后 / 何太后, and 刘辩 / 弘农王 - early He-family rise and He Jin’s entry into office.
• Hanji 931, 王允, 杨赐, 袁隗, and 张让 - early rescue of Wang Yun after the prison retaliation case.
• Hanji 942, 蹇硕, 袁绍, 韩遂, 徐州, and 兖州 - attempted displacement west and He Jin’s delay through outside-troop preparation.
• Hanji 943, 蹇硕, 潘隐, 郭胜, 董太后, 董重, 未定继承人风险, and 继位合法性清洗 - first succession crisis, failed attempt against He Jin, and He-side consolidation.
• Hanji 944, 何太后, 何苗, 武阳君, 陈琳, 曹操, and 致命计划泄露风险 - earlier anti-eunuch planning, family obstruction, and leakage warning.
• Hanji 945, 袁绍, 郑泰, 卢植, 董卓, and 外兵入京升级风险 - outside-troop summons and ignored warnings before the palace trap.
• Hanji 946, 何太后, 十常侍, 张让, 段珪, 渠穆, 死斗局优柔寡断风险, and 宫廷政变暴力级联 - failed anti-eunuch move, palace trap, and killing that opens the Luoyang cascade.
• Hanji 947, 董卓, 刘辩 / 弘农王, and 何苗 - post-He-Jin power vacuum and He-family troop transfer before formal deposition.
• Hanji 948, 刘辩 / 弘农王, 何太后, 何苗, 武阳君, and 胁迫式废立 - succession base and family liquidation after Dong Zhuo’s takeover.
• 尹夫人 - daughter-in-law named in the source.
• 何晏 - child linked to the He household and later to Cao Cao’s household.
• 曹操 - powerholder into whose household Lady Yin and He Yan move in the source’s account.
• 魏晋风度文化后效 - later cultural branch reached through He Yan.