Contribution To Emperor Shun's Restoration
During Emperor An's reign, his various trusted person, including the eunuchs Jiang Jing (江京) and Li Run (李閏) and his wet nurse Wang Sheng (王聖), as well as his wife Empress Yan Ji, effectively ran the imperial administration, and they used this opportunity to corruptly seize for themselves power and wealth. One of the things Jiang and Empress Yan engaged in was to, in 124, falsely accuse the nine-year-old Crown Prince Liu Bao (劉保) of crimes and getting Emperor An to depose him and make him the Prince of Jiyin.
In 125, Emperor An died suddenly, and even though Prince Bao was Emperor An's only son, Empress Yan wanted someone younger to control, and so she made Liu Yi (劉懿), the Marquess of Beixiang, emperor.
When the young emperor became gravely ill later in the year, Sun, who was then a mid-level eunuch, became concerned that Empress Dowager Yan would again bypass Prince Bao, the rightful heir, and so he entered into a conspiracy with a number of other eunuchs. They swore an oath to restore Prince Bao, and several days after the former Marquess of Beixiang died, they made a sudden assault on the palace and welcomed Prince Bao to the palace and proclaimed him emperor (as Emperor Shun). After several days of battling with the empress dowager's faction, the eunuchs led by Sun prevailed, and the Yan clan was slaughtered.
For their contributions to his restoration, Emperor Shun created Sun and 18 of his fellow eunuchs marquesses.
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