In 191 AD, as the anti-Dong Zhuo coalition teetered on the brink of collapse due to internal rivalries and lack of unified command, Yuan Shao and Han Fu proposed a bold political solution: proclaim Liu Yu, Governor of Youzhou, as the new emperor.
In the second and third chapters of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, He Jin and Yuan Shao made a series of erroneous decisions in the critical struggle to eliminate the eunuchs and control imperial power, including exterminating all eunuchs and summoning Dong Zhuo to the capital.