Chapter 3 3. Luring wolves into the house

Dong Zhuo was actually summoned to Beijing by Yuan Shao. That's right, it was He Jin who gave the order, but it was Yuan Shao who gave the idea.Yuan Shao came up with this bad idea, originally to blackmail the Empress Dowager He, but also to give He Jin courage, to put it bluntly, to kill with a knife.Unfortunately, this knife is not in Yuan Shao's hands, but Dong Zhuo has long been looking forward to such an edict. Dong Zhuo is an out-and-out Northwest Warlord.This man has extraordinary physical strength and can draw the bow left and right. Since he was a child, he has been in contact with the heroes of the Qiang people. Later, relying on his military achievements, he rose to the top and became the state shepherd of Bingzhou when Emperor Han Ling died.

The state pastor is the military and political chief of a state.In the Eastern Han Dynasty system, the county is the county, and the county is the state.State officials have governors and state pastors.Theoretically speaking, the governor is just a supervisor, but the state pastor has the power of military administration, administration, and finance in one person, which is equivalent to the governor of the Qing Dynasty, and has more authority than the current commander of the military region. This is a great official of the frontier, and also a prince of one party. Therefore, later Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan, including Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of the Shu Han Dynasty, all served or concurrently served as state shepherds.

Dong Zhuo was able to serve as Bingzhou Shepherd, of course because of his strength.Therefore, he did not listen to the court's mercy.The imperial court wanted him to be an official in Beijing, but he refused to go; even more refused to ask him to hand over his military power.What he said was that the soldiers and him were inseparable for a long time, but he had neither scheming nor grand deeds, so he had no choice but to feel ashamed of the emperor! This is of course an excuse.The actual situation is that Dong Zhuo had already seen that the Eastern Han Dynasty was about to die, so he rallied his troops to watch the changes.Therefore, as soon as he received He Jin's order, he knew that the opportunity must not be missed, not only immediately set out on the road, but also issued a righteous declaration.Sophistication and grand deeds are all there in an instant.

With such an abnormal attitude, He Jin, the great general who was born as a butcher, couldn't help being suspicious.His method was to send someone to announce an order to order Dong Zhuo to stop advancing.It's a pity that it's easy to ask God to send God away, so why would Dong Zhuo listen to He Jin?It's just that he saw the awe-inspiring righteousness of the people who came here, so he temporarily stationed troops in the Xiyang Pavilion in the west of Luoyang City. As a result, when the fire in Luoyang City was raging, Dong Zhuo immediately ordered his troops to move out, and met the fleeing little emperor and his escorting officials.

When the little emperor saw Dong Zhuo, he burst into tears. The officials also yelled: The emperor has ordered Dong Zhuo to retreat! Dong Zhuo sneered: As the pillars of the country, the princes cannot rectify the royal family and stabilize the country, causing the emperor to be displaced. What qualifications do you have to say that you should withdraw troops? The ministers looked at each other, but no one answered. So Dong Zhuo rode forward, greeted the emperor, and asked about the situation.The little emperor Liu Bian was crying and crying, speaking incoherently and missing the point.Then ask Liu Xie, the nine-year-old king of Chenliu next to him, and he will give you a fluent answer.

Dong Zhuo laughed.He stretched out his hands and said to Liu Xie: "My lord, I am Dong Zhuo."Come, come, let me hug you and ride my horse back to the palace. Liu Xie declined and rode with Dong Zhuo. It is said that at this time, Dong Zhuo thought of changing the emperor. Of course this is unreliable. Yes, Dong Zhuo is a warlord, but it doesn't mean he has no brains.When he first entered Luoyang, there were actually only three thousand soldiers and horses.So Dong Zhuo let these 3,000 people pretend to go out of the city every night, and then change into military uniforms and march in with great fanfare the next day.

Dong Zhuo successfully fooled. At the same time, he also made an unexpected discovery, that is, those guys in the capital are actually not difficult to deal with.Therefore, Dong Zhuo decided to take a bigger move to establish his unshakable lofty status in one fell swoop. This action is to change the emperor. On September 28, 189 AD (Jiaxu Day, the first day of the ninth month in the lunar calendar), Liu Xie, king of Chenliu, was established as the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty, and was dedicated to the Emperor of the Han Dynasty.Young Emperor Liu Bian was deposed as King Hongnong and was killed four months later.

Dong Zhuo succeeded again. However, this matter is intriguing, because the emperor changed very hastily.It can be said that as soon as Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, he immediately replaced the emperor.So we couldn't help but wonder: what the hell is this guy up to? This is a question that only Dong Zhuo can answer.Perhaps, his idea is very simple: Aren't you all afraid of the emperor and listening to the emperor?If I can even change the emperor, are you afraid that you won't listen to me? What's more, if the young emperor Liu Bian is abolished, the Queen Mother He can be abolished; and Liu Xie has no queen mother who can come to court, and his biological mother, Wang Meiren, has long been poisoned to death by the Queen Mother He.With orphans and no widowed mother, wouldn't the world belong to Dong Zhuo?

It's a pity that Dong Zhuo didn't expect that he would become the target of public criticism.Because in the eyes of orthodox scholar-bureaucrats, the emperor is the foundation of a country, how can it be shaken?Whoever wants to change the emperor casually is a traitor. Therefore, Dong Zhuo's abolition of the establishment was strongly resisted.Dong Zhuo didn't care.He said at the ministerial meeting: When General Huo Guang abolished King Changyi, Da Si Nongtian Yannian spoke with his sword (please refer to the eighth volume of the history of China, "The Empire of Han Wu").It's the same today, if there is disagreement, the military law will do it!

This is really a warlord style. In fact, in all fairness, Dong Zhuo does not consider himself a warlord.He did not enter Luoyang to become a warlord, but to establish a new order.He even knew that he had to rely on the gentry, so he rehabilitated the victims of the party's scourge on a large scale, and appointed a large number of celebrities who were persecuted by eunuchs as officials.The old subordinates he himself brought from the northwest could only serve as junior officers. This is commendable. It's a pity that things backfired, the gentry was not willing to cooperate with him, and he didn't know how to cooperate with the gentry.For example, he wanted to invite Cai Yong, a famous scholar, to come out of the mountain, and Cai Yong said that he was ill.Dong Zhuo's solution was to send someone to tell Cai Yong: I like to destroy families.Cai Yong had no choice but to go to Beijing, where he was finally killed by Wang Yun.

It seems that although Dong Zhuo also wanted to rely on the gentry to rebuild the new order of the empire, he didn't know how to establish the new order, and he didn't play according to the rules.The result was that the new order was not established and the old order was at the end of its life. Chaos in the world is inevitable. In fact, after experiencing the great turmoil mentioned above, neither the relatives nor the eunuchs could relive their old dreams.At this time, if Dong Zhuo was a gentry, or a person acceptable to the gentry, history might be rewritten.It's a pity that Dong Zhuo turned himself into an even more hated object by the gentry.Including many officials appointed and promoted by him, they all became his gravediggers later. At this moment, how should Yuan Shao, who has led the wolf into the house, feel? There is no historical record of Yuan Shao's thoughts, but he did have a confrontation with Dong Zhuo, and the cause was the change of emperor.Although Dong Zhuo is domineering, he also knows that such a big event needs someone to support him.The Yuan family had four generations and three princes, and Yuan Shao's uncle, Yuan Kui, was also the imperial tutor, so Dong Zhuo called Yuan Shao to discuss. Of course Yuan Shao couldn't agree. So Dong Zhuo was furious, put his hand on the sword and cursed: "Stinky boy!Don't I have the final say on world affairs?Who the hell dares to object to what I want to do?You think Dong Zhuo's sword is not fast, don't you? Yuan Shao was also unambiguous.He said: In the whole world, is Master Dong the only one whose sword is fast?After finishing speaking, he also drew out the knife, and left with a long bow. On the same day, Yuan Shao fled the capital and went straight to Jizhou. We also have no way of knowing Yuan Shao's thoughts and moods at the time.Perhaps, this short month of great changes began to make him mature.At least, he should understand one thing: in this period of great turmoil, family status, fame, etc. are useless, only the barrel of a gun is useful.Who holds the gun?warlord.And who is it that makes the central government exist in name only?Also a warlord. Therefore, no matter whether you save yourself or save the country, you have to turn yourself into a warlord. In fact, Yuan Shao did just that.