Chapter 29 Chapter 4 Dong Zhuo's Solo Court Cao Cao Recruits Soldiers (4)

Yuan Shu stayed in the capital for fear of being killed by Dong Zhuo, so he threw away his position as rear general and stayed in Nanyang. Dong Zhuo was not a relative, nor an eunuch, nor a Confucian scholar, nor a wealthy family.None of this is false.He is a toubob from Xiliang, and he completely maintains the demeanor of a robber.He listened to other people's words and chose Confucian scholars and famous scholars, but he didn't know how to deal with these people at all.But he has great tricks for his soldiers and the soldiers who have joined him before and after to make them happy.He not only acquiesced, but sometimes even condoned them to rob beauties and property.Luoyang, the capital at that time, was the most prosperous big city, where the relatives of the emperor, the nobles and the rich lived.Street after street is full of "high-rise buildings" of wealthy gentlemen.Every household has gold and silver treasures.As soon as Dong Zhuo's soldiers went in, they wanted women to have women, and treasures to have treasures.

In the name of checking household registration and maintaining public order, the soldiers broke into people's homes, robbed and raped wantonly. Dong Zhuo inspected and accepted the items and beauties brought back by the soldiers.Dong Zhuo chose what he liked and kept some, and the rest belonged to the soldiers.The soldiers were all happy, and they all praised Dong Xiangguo for his loyalty. Dong Zhuo heard that Empress Dowager He was buried with Emperor Han Ling, and there were many rare treasures in the big tomb.He said: "It's a pity that the treasures are buried in the ground. It's better to take them out." He ordered the soldiers to dig up the big grave and take all the treasures away.

What's more, Dong Zhuo sometimes blatantly spent the night in the palace, sleeping with those beautiful maids and princesses at will.No one in the palace dared to say "no". One day, Dong Zhuo led his troops out of the city and arrived in the area of ​​Yangcheng, just in time for a temple fair there, where he saw men and women, very lively.On a whim, Dong Zhuo had an idea, so he ordered all the people who were going to the temple fair to be taken down. The men were killed, their heads were cut off, and hung on both sides of the chariot; the women were confiscated as slaves and sent back to the city.

Dong Zhuo and his party marched back to the capital in a mighty manner, claiming that they had killed the enemy and returned to the court, and won a complete victory. After this catastrophe in Luoyang, the generals who originally held military power died or fled.Even if the original troops stationed in Sili District either surrendered to Dong Zhuo's group or fled Sili District.Therefore, apart from Dong Zhuo's own cronies, there is really no one who can be in charge of the military and political work in Luoyang City.But in order to improve the prestige of the new regime and win more support, the new Luoyang military and political chief must be a popular young general.

After repeated discussions and exchanges of opinions with several ministers, Dong Zhuo found a recognized only suitable candidate, which was Cao Cao, who was the former captain of the Dian Military Academy. When Dong Zhuo's Xiliang army entered Luoyang, Cao Cao was commanding his troops to rebuild the dilapidated palace and walls in the palace, and collect the corpses everywhere one by one.His mind was heavy, his face was blue, and the upheaval and carnage he had witnessed was too much for him to bear.He often asked himself, why is the basic conscience of a person completely lost in those in power? The wicked should be punished, but why are so many innocent people implicated? Especially those eunuchs who are still young. Apart from hard work and service, there is not enough rest, so how could they participate in any "conspiracy"? They may not even understand what a conspiracy is.However, they still could not escape the fate of being massacred.Perhaps their impoverished parents in the countryside are still looking forward to the day when their eunuch's son will bring them some hope and good news back home!

Indeed, Cao Cao was influenced by his grandfather Cao Teng on this point.It was his grandfather who told him that the family backgrounds of young eunuchs were all very bitter.Rich people, who is willing to send their children to the palace to be eunuchs? It is from this point that Cao Cao sympathizes with those little Huangmen.Therefore, it is not unreasonable for those anti-eunuchs to accuse Cao Cao of sympathizing with eunuchs.However, they generally said that Cao Cao sympathized with the eunuchs, but it was wrong. Cao Cao did not sympathize with those eunuchs who took power and did evil. On the contrary, they hated them very much;

And now, no matter the guilty or the innocent, all died tragically. How could he not lament for this? And feel sorry for the indiscriminate behavior of the massacre. What's more serious is that with the occurrence of this bloody coup, Dong Zhuo's Xiliang army took the opportunity to enter Beijing, and showed off their power in the capital, conniving at the sergeant's chaos, which made people feel even more worried. Although Cao Cao didn't know Dong Zhuo well, he was well aware of the chaos in front of him. The entry of any foreign army was a serious threat to the imperial court. If it was not handled properly, it might lead to civil war.

Sure enough, sooner or later, the Young Emperor was dismissed, Ding Yuan was murdered, and Yuan Shao went into exile. Cao Cao knew that the disaster would surely fall on him sooner or later, so he had to think about what he should do. According to his analysis, Dong Zhuo's power is very powerful at present, and no one can contend with it. After Ding Yuan's death, Lv Bu defected, and Dong Zhuo almost dominated the world.For quite a long time, Luoyang will not be peaceful.As a court general, Cao Cao could not avoid his relationship with Dong Zhuo no matter what. How could Dong Zhuo, who is rough and domineering, tolerate Cao Cao's principles of life? Once the two sides come into contact, there will be sparks, and any spark may ignite the fire.He obviously couldn't stay in Luoyang for a long time, but he still hasn't decided when to leave here.

However, he had to be fully prepared so that he would not be caught off guard. First, Cao Cao asked his father Cao Song to leave the capital Luoyang.He said to his father: "Leaving Luoyang is to avoid disaster, and the sooner you leave, the better." But Cao Song couldn't let go of the huge family property in the capital, and said that he had to sell it before leaving. Cao Cao was so angry and funny, he thought to himself: Life is at stake, so what's the use of wealth! However, his father, who loves money like his life, would never listen to his reasoning.Cao Cao had no choice but to urge his father to sell and deal with it quickly, and leave Beijing as soon as possible.

In order to prevent accidents, Cao Cao called Cao Hong again and whispered to him: "You will leave Beijing today and return to your hometown of Peiguoqiao in a hurry, and secretly move your family to live in another place. You must make sure that no one will know about it... " Cao Hong took the order to leave, and Cao Cao sent someone to help his father deal with the miscellaneous matters of selling the family property, so that he could leave as soon as possible. After this arrangement, Cao Cao was a little more stable, but he was still vigilant about all aspects of information every day.

Sure enough, within a few days, Cao Cao received Dong Zhuo's invitation to serve as the captain of Xiaoqi, asking him to be in charge of all the imperial guards in Luoyang. Cao Cao was not a diehard loyalist of the Emperor of Han. What he cared about was social order and major events in the world, especially the rise and fall of the country and nation.Therefore, he strongly disagreed with Dong Zhuo's arbitrary destruction of the court.He knew very well that he was single and weak. Although he had quite a high reputation in Luoyang City, it was just a false name, and it was meaningless in political struggles.He thought of Li Ying's death back then, wasn't it a lesson learned by Tie?