Qiu Shiliang
On December 14, Li Xun acted. He had the imperial guard general Han Yue () claim that sweet dews (甘露, "ganlu" in Chinese) had formed on trees on a pomegranate tree outside his headquarters. Then, he had Emperor Wenzong order the eunuchs to examine the sweet dews. When the eunuchs, led by Qiu Shiliang and fellow Shence Army commander Yu Hongzhi (), arrived at the scene, Han's anxiety, as well as sounds of arms clanging, gave away the fact that the soldiers under Han, Wang Fan, and another associate of Li Xun's, Guo Xingyu (), were about to act against the eunuchs. Qiu and the other eunuchs immediately returned to Hanyuan Hall (), where Emperor Wenzong was at the time, and seized Emperor Wenzong, taking him back to the palace. They then mobilized the Shence Armies, and the Shence Armies slaughtered the troops aligned with Li Xun, and then killed a large number of governmental officials, including Li Xun, Wang Ya, Shu Yuanyu, and Jia Su, under the claimed crime that they were planning to overthrow Emperor Wenzong and support Zheng as the new emperor.