何苗 / He Miao (late Han)
Hanji 918 backfills He Miao’s family origin before his 187-189 military and palace roles. The episode places him in 何真’s household with 何皇后 / 何太后 and 何进, making his later He-family position a product of Empress He’s elevation and 刘辩’s birth rather than a standalone office career.
Hanji 937 gives He Miao an earlier 187 CE military-credit layer before the later He-family palace crisis. After thieves at Yingyang kill the Zhongmou county magistrate, He Miao suppresses them as Henan yin and is appointed chariot-and-cavalry general.
Hanji 944 backfills He Miao before the later palace-killing aftermath. The episode says he is 何太后’s half-brother from the He-family field, originally surnamed Zhu, and that he has already accepted benefits from the eunuch side alongside 武阳君.
In this source, He Miao’s importance is political obstruction. He helps persuade the dowager that 何进’s anti-eunuch plan is really an attempt to monopolize power, making him part of the family-interest channel that protects the 十常侍 before Hanji 946 turns the same family conflict into lethal blame.
Hanji 946 gives He Miao’s living death scene before Hanji 947-948’s troop-transfer and corpse-humiliation branches. After 何进 is killed and the anti-eunuch retaliation begins, 吴匡 blames He Miao for failing to support He Jin, stirs soldiers’ anger, and kills him with 董旻.
That scene makes the He-family collapse internal as well as external. Revenge against the 十常侍 does not stabilize the He side; it redirects into suspicion, making He Miao a casualty of the same 宫廷政变暴力级联 that begins with He Jin’s head.
Hanji 947 gives He Miao’s force a pre-liquidation role before the corpse-humiliation branch in Hanji 948. The source says troops formerly attached to He Miao, like those of 何进, go over to 董卓 after Dong Zhuo’s staged buildup in 洛阳.
That transfer makes the later posthumous punishment more intelligible: Dong Zhuo has already converted parts of the He-family military residue into his own control before using He Miao’s body as a warning.
何苗 / He Miao (late Han) enters the wiki through Hanji 948 as a He-family figure whose corpse becomes part of 董卓’s intimidation campaign after the forced replacement of 刘辩 / 弘农王. The episode says Dong Zhuo has He Miao’s coffin opened, his body cut apart, and the remains discarded publicly.
His role is posthumous but politically meaningful. Dong Zhuo’s treatment of He Miao and the killing of 武阳君 warn the court that the previous He-family succession base has no protection left. The source reads this as a display of force meant to make officials comply after the deposition.
Connections
- Hanji 918, 何真, 何皇后 / 何太后, 何进, and 刘辩 / 弘农王 - He-family origin and outer-relative prehistory.
- Hanji 937 and 汉灵帝 - 187 CE suppression of Yingyang thieves and appointment as chariot-and-cavalry general.
- Hanji 944, 何太后, 武阳君, 何进, and 十常侍 - eunuch-linked benefit channel and obstruction before the purge attempt.
- Hanji 946, 何进, 吴匡, 董旻, 十常侍, and 宫廷政变暴力级联 - He-family infighting after the anti-eunuch revenge begins.
- Hanji 947, 何进, 董卓, 洛阳, and 军力声势表演 - He-family troop transfer before the later posthumous warning.
- 董卓 - powerholder who uses He Miao’s corpse as a warning.
- 何太后, 何进, and 武阳君 - He-family field dismantled after the deposition.
- 刘辩 / 弘农王 - ruler associated with the He-family succession base.
- 胁迫式废立 - deposition sequence in which the posthumous violence functions as enforcement.