Chapter 7 7. Chang'an Rebellion

Dong Zhuo died, and the government was presided over by Wang Yun. It stands to reason that the world should be peaceful.However, things often don't go the way people expect.We have introduced earlier that Wang Yun is a student who is good at learning from life, but this student is too easy to cock his tail.When Dong Zhuo was around, Wang Yun could still restrain his strong character, deal with it patiently, and deal with it carefully. Once Dong Zhuo was gone, Wang Yun gradually became arrogant. When Dong Zhuo was killed, the celebrity Cai Yong was visiting Wang Yun's house.After hearing the news, Wang Yun couldn't help but let out a sigh, and Wang Yun immediately scolded him: "Dong Zhuo is a traitor and traitor who killed the young master and killed the loyal. You are an important minister of the country, and you have been favored by the Han family for generations. Dong Zhuo was removed, but you grieve for him, you are really a traitor to the Han Dynasty." After finishing his righteous speech, Wang Yun put Cai Yong in prison.

Cai Yong was erudite and talented, and was a well-known scholar at that time. He once compiled "History of Han Dynasty", "Lingdi Ji", and 42 personal biographies. Although most of them were destroyed in the war, there are still more than 100 articles handed down.Cai Yong is also very proficient in calligraphy. According to Zhang Yanyuan in the Tang Dynasty, Cai Yong's calligraphy was taught by a god. Passed on to Wang Xianzhi, Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi, the masters of calligraphy, are his disciples and grandchildren.At that time, Dong Zhuo liked Cai Yong's talent and tried his best to win him over. After being rejected, he gave him two choices, either to be ordered to come to me as an official, or to wait for the family to be exterminated.When Cai Yong heard this, he dared not come, so he served under Dong Zhuo just like Wang Yun.

Cai Yong sighed when he heard the news of Dong Zhuo's death, which is also human nature, but this offended Wang Yun.At that time, Cai Yong was compiling "History of Han Dynasty", so he begged Wang Yun, as long as he was spared to finish writing the book, he would rather accept the punishment of tattooing his face and chopping off his feet.The scholar-bureaucrats and people of insight in the imperial court took pity on Cai Yong's talent and asked Wang Yun to forgive him. Unexpectedly, Wang Yun sternly refused, saying: "Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did not kill Sima Qian, and as a result, there was an extra book of slander in the world. Now if Cai Yong is left Yong, don’t you want another slanderous book to confuse the emperor and slander you and me?” Huang Huang’s "Historical Records", "The swan song of the historian, the Lisao without rhyme", is actually just a "slanderous book" in Wang Yun’s opinion. What else can people say?

In this way, Cai Yong, a talented scholar of a generation, met the King of Hades in such a muddle-headed way.According to historical records, Wang Yun and Cai Yong had talks and debates together. Wang Yun often failed to reason and was defeated by Cai Yong, so he felt jealous and took advantage of Dong Zhuo to kill Cai Yong to vent his personal grievances.No matter what the reason is, killing Cai Yong is a failure, because it is tantamount to sending a signal to those who have followed Dong Zhuo inside and outside the city—your fate is the same as Cai Yong's. As a result, all the scholars and important officials in the city were in danger, and Ma Rixun said angrily: "I am afraid that Wang Yun is about to lose his sons and grandsons. Virtuous people are the lifeblood of the country, and the system and works are the classics of the country. Cut off the meridians and abolish the classics." , how can it last for a long time!" Then, how did the people outside the city react?

When Dong Zhuo was killed, his generals Niu Fu, Li Jue, and Guo Si were being ordered to plunder in Chenliu and other places. When they heard of the changes in Chang'an, they were like frightened birds and panicked.Lu Bu's attitude towards Dong Zhuo's remaining troops was to kill them all to avoid future troubles.Wang Yun showed a rare tolerance, thinking that they were innocent, how could they hurt the innocent.However, when it came to specific handling, Wang Yun was capricious. He first issued an edict to pardon these people, but then felt that it was wrong and withdrew the edict.

The imperial edict on how to deal with Niu Fu and others has not yet been decided, but rumors spread to Liangzhou first, saying that Wang Yun wanted to kill all Liangzhou people.The more Niu Fu and the others thought about it, the more fearful they became. Cai Yong was beheaded because of a trivial incident. He had followed Dong Zhuo for many years, how could he escape this catastrophe? At this moment, Lv Bu made his own claim and sent Li Su to kill Dong Zhuo's son-in-law Niu Fu. Naturally, Niu Fu refused to stand still and fought back, defeating Li Su.But Niu Fu couldn't escape his death in the end, and was killed by his own subordinates.Seeing this situation, Li Jue and Guo Si asked Wang Yun to let them go, but Wang Yun refused.Li Jue and Guo Si were so frightened at this time that they were about to abandon the team and flee back to their hometown.Jia Xu, the later well-known counselor of Cao Cao, gave them advice and said: "You just leave like this. A small official on the way can bring you to justice. It's better to call the army and go to Chang'an to gamble on the outcome. If you fail, you will take control of the government, and if you lose, it will not be too late to run for your life." Li Jue and others suddenly realized when they heard this, and immediately gathered thousands of people to march towards Chang'an.

At this time, Wang Yun didn't realize that the disaster was imminent, so he sent two Liangzhou celebrities to greet Li Jue and others, but there was no consolation in his words, and he kept calling Li Jue and Guo Si "little bastards".As a result, the two envoys not only failed to recruit, but instead took refuge in Li Jue, and even brought a group of people as a meeting gift before leaving.Wang Yun sent Dong Zhuo's former subordinates Hu Zhen and Xu Rong to suppress, but Xu Rong died in battle and Hu Zhen surrendered. In this way, Li Jue and Guo Si recruited and accepted rebels all the way, and the team grew bigger and bigger like a snowball. Originally, it was only a few thousand people, but when they arrived at the city of Chang'an, it had become a hundred thousand troops and surrounded the capital. This also shows that Wang Yun is too unpopular. up.

Only then did Wang Yun and Lu Bu realize that the catastrophe was approaching. Relying on the strongness of Chang'an City, they held on for several months.Unexpectedly, someone in Lv Bu's army rebelled, and Chang'an fell, and Lv Bu fought hard to no avail, so he fled in a hurry, and called Wang Yun to go with him before leaving.At this time, Wang Yun showed his usual courage again, and declined, saying: "It is my lifelong wish to establish a country in Anbang. Even if I can't achieve it, I am willing to die for the country. The emperor is still young and needs my support. When disaster comes, , I ran away by myself and left the emperor behind, I couldn’t bear it. I hope you will go to the Kanto and encourage the princes of the Kanto to care about the emperor!” Lu Bu had no choice but to flee Chang’an by himself and defected to Yuan Shu.

After speaking loudly, Li Jue had already approached the city.Wang Yun was arrested and went to Huangquan with his wife and children. At the age of 56, the chaos in Chang'an finally came to an end.Li Jue and Guo Si reappointed hundreds of officials and took control of the government. After Dong Zhuo's fall, it was time to gather people's hearts and avoid panic, but Wang Yun gave up this opportunity in vain. First, he killed Cai Yong to vent his personal anger, and lost the support of the scholar-officials. Later, he wavered about whether to suppress Dong Zhuo's old troops , Forcibly forced Li Jue and Guo Si onto the road of rebellion.If Wang Yun can focus on the overall situation and deal with it well, Chang'an will not be caught in war again, and the fate of the Eastern Han Dynasty may have a chance to be rewritten.Wang Yun's loyalty to the imperial court and his uprightness are worthy of recognition, but he is self-willed, self-willed, rigid in doing things, not flexible enough, after all, he is not a person who can control the troubled times, so although he has made great contributions to helping the country, he cannot be ranked among the famous ministers.