十常侍 / Ten Attendants (late Han)
Hanji 943 adds the pre-Hanji-944 fracture inside the broader eunuch field. 蹇硕 tries to rally 赵忠 and other palace attendants against 何进, but 郭胜 rejects the proposal and hands the letter to He Jin.
This source therefore keeps the eunuch bloc from looking mechanically unified. Eunuch access and proximity are still dangerous, but factional debts and He-family ties can split the channel before Hanji 944-946 show the later Ten Attendants crisis hardening into mutual destruction.
Hanji 944 backfills the faction’s protection before the later dismissal and counterattack. The source says 何太后 relies on eunuchs for palace affairs and remembers their earlier protection after the 王美人 poisoning crisis, while 武阳君 and 何苗 are tied to eunuch benefits.
The group is therefore not protected only by office. It sits inside a palace and family-interest network that makes 何进’s partial anti-eunuch proposal hard to execute and makes leaked intent dangerous before Hanji 945 shows the faction being dismissed and then reentering.
Hanji 945 backfills the Ten Attendants before their Hanji 946 counterattack. 何进 and 袁绍 use outside-force pressure and jiajie authority to force 何太后 to dismiss many regular palace attendants and lesser eunuchs, but He Jin does not execute them when they come to submit.
The episode shows the group as endangered but still connected. 张让 uses family and palace channels through 武阳君 to obtain reentry, so dismissal does not end the faction’s access. This makes Hanji 945 the access-recovery prelude to Hanji 946’s 宫廷政变暴力级联.
十常侍 / Ten Attendants (late Han) enters the wiki through Hanji 946 as the palace eunuch bloc targeted by 何进 after 汉灵帝’s death. The episode does not give a full institutional history; it uses the group as the organized inner-court faction around 张让, 段珪, and 赵忠.
The group matters because palace access lets it move faster than its outside enemies. Zhang Rang and Duan Gui learn He Jin’s plan, lure him under a claimed 何太后 order, kill him, and briefly attempt to reset offices through forged appointments. The same access fails once armed retaliation begins: Yuan-family and He-family troops storm the palace, eunuchs are killed indiscriminately, and the surviving inner-court actors flee toward 小平津 with 刘辩 / 弘农王 and Liu Xie / 汉献帝.
The source treats the Ten Attendants’ end as a mutual-destruction prelude rather than a clean restoration. Killing the eunuchs does not restore court order; it creates the vacuum that 董卓 exploits in Hanji 947.
Connections
- Hanji 943, 蹇硕, 赵忠, 郭胜, and 何进 - pre-Hanji-944 eunuch-channel fracture around Jian Shuo’s failed appeal.
- Hanji 944, 何太后, 何苗, 武阳君, 何进, and 致命计划泄露风险 - pre-dismissal interest network and exposed anti-eunuch planning.
- Hanji 945, 何进, 袁绍, 张让, 武阳君, and 外兵入京升级风险 - dismissal, spared submission, and reentry before the killing.
- 张让, 段珪, and 赵忠 - named figures in the source’s eunuch bloc.
- 何进 and 何太后 - outside powerholder and queen mother around whom the conflict turns.
- 宫廷接触垄断, 死斗局优柔寡断风险, and 宫廷政变暴力级联 - concepts sharpened by the episode.
- 刘辩 / 弘农王, 汉献帝, 闵贡, and 小平津 - imperial flight and eunuch collapse.
- 董卓 - beneficiary of the power vacuum.