佛祖統紀 35.142

35.142

In the first year of the Jianning reign period, the eunuch Cao Jie sent Zheng Sa to arrest Grand Commandant Chen Fan in the Northern Prison and kill him. Wang Fu, Director of the Yellow Gates, led more than a thousand Imperial Guardsmen to surround General-in-Chief Dou Wu; Wu committed suicide. They seized and executed all of his relatives, clan members, and retainers. The eunuchs detested Li Ying and the others; whenever an imperial edict was issued, they always renewed the prohibitions against the partisans. Cao Jie requested that investigations into the factional intrigue be conducted down to the provinces and commanderies. Li Ying went to the imperial prison and was beaten to death; his disciples and former subordinates were all barred from office. Over a hundred partisans died. For all heroes and scholars of Confucian learning in the realm who possessed conduct and righteousness, the eunuchs pointed to every one of them as partisans. Those who died, were exiled, or were removed and barred from office numbered another six to seven hundred.