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He Jin
Eastern Han grand general and brother of Empress He who enthroned his nephew in 189, plotted against the palace eunuchs and called Dong Zhuo's troops to the capital before the eunuchs killed him
In a council hall, a long table holds an unrolled map scroll, a brass-cornered chest and a brush pot, with tall-backed chairs around it and a bronze lamp at the left; a figure stands with their back turned on the balcony at the right, with palace roofs beyond.
Also known as Zi Suigao
He Jin, courtesy name Suigao, came from Wan in Nanyang. His half-sister won the favour of Emperor Ling and was made empress in 180, while he rose to governor of Yingchuan and intendant of Henan. When the Yellow Turbans rose in 184 he was made grand general and camped the palace troops outside Luoyang. On Emperor Ling's death in 189 he eliminated the eunuch Jian Shuo, who planned to enthrone Liu Xie, put his nephew Liu Bian on the throne, and ran the secretariat with the grand tutor Yuan Wei. When the empress dowager rejected his and Yuan Shao's plan to purge the eunuchs, he summoned Dong Zhuo and other generals to march on the capital. That autumn, visiting the dowager, he was ambushed by men of the eunuchs Zhang Rang and Duan Gui, and Qu Mu beheaded him before the Jiade Hall. Yuan Shao then killed more than two thousand eunuchs, and Dong Zhuo's troops entered Luoyang.
Life and times
Dates Birth unknown–189 CE