Chapter 13 9. Are you coming?

In the year when Dong Zhuo disobeyed and moved to Hedong, he suddenly received a letter from He Jin, the great general of the court. The letter said: "... It is difficult, it is dangerous, and the government is in trouble, and it is difficult to go to the blue sky. Now there are Zhang Rang and others who are serving in the palace and forcing the emperor to call him his father, openly disrupting the country. I He Jin is not talented, at least he has read a few books, and knows that similar things have happened in the past. Can you remember that the Jin State in the early days also fell to this point, thanks to the wise man Zhao Yang, who launched Jinyang's army, Xingshiqinwang, drove away the villains around the king. Now I want to ring the alarm bell in Luoyang, calling for loyal people from all over the world, to join me in Xingshiqinwang, and crusade against the treacherous eunuch Zhang Rang, Dong Zhuo Brother, are you coming?"

"Come or not... This, this..." Dong Zhuo turned the letter over, put it under his nose and sniffed it again and again: "This great general, He Jin, what does he mean by writing this letter?" I asked two counselors to come in and inquire, and only then did I know that something big happened in Luoyang, the capital of the country. In fact, it's not a big deal, but the famous money-making emperor in history, Han Lingdi, was favored by the Lord and died. The most frequently mentioned sentence in the novel is: "Since the Huan-Ling Rebellion..." It means that the poor Eastern Han Empire was destroyed by the partnership of Emperor Han Huan and Emperor Han Ling.During the reign of Emperor Huan of the former Han Dynasty, he blatantly issued a decree to prohibit the marriage of folk women, and his brothers had to choose them one by one first.The cycle and process of this selection must not be shortened. As a result, no man in the world has a wife to marry, and he became angry with the crown, detonating a huge Yellow Turban Rebellion.

Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty died at the age of 36 and had no sons after his death.Everyone found a young Liu Hong in the royal family. This child was only 12 years old, and he became the emperor inexplicably. Although Emperor Han Ling was young, he knew what was good and what was wrong. At the beginning of his accession to the throne, he still wanted to work hard and make a career.At this time, his mother, Empress Dowager Dong, ran over anxiously and said to him: "My dear son, you are now the emperor, hurry up, find a way to get money, you need a lot of money." Little Han Lingdi was extremely confused, and said: "Mother, I am the emperor now, and all the gold, silver and treasures in the world belong to me. Do I still need to make more money?"

Empress Dowager Dong looked up to the sky and sighed: "My child, why are you so careless? The money is obviously in the hands of others, let others spend it, and let others live quickly. How can you say that money is all your nonsense? Poor Baby, you have been taught badly by those bad scholars. My mother told you that money is yours only when it is in your own hands. Hurry up to get money, hurry up, you!" Little Han Lingdi was still struggling desperately: "Mother, the money you mentioned is indeed in the hands of the common people. But these common people are my people. Now that the country is weak, it is like fish in a pond." The son is still young, why not wait for the fish to grow up, and wait for the common people to become rich, and it will not be too late for us to make money."

Empress Dowager Dong said bitterly: "Silly boy, you are so lacking in heart and mind! Don't you know that it's not too late to make money? The sooner you get money and spend it happily, the happier you will be. If you want to procrastinate, I said silly boy, do you want to kill your mother in a hurry?" After Empress Dowager Dong's earnest teachings, the immature Han Lingdi finally embarked on the road of no return for making money.The great eunuchs Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong helped him with ideas. First, they blackmailed the tribute envoys from all over the country, and then set up a government office specializing in selling officials: Xiyuan.Clearly mark the price of all the official positions in the imperial court, and the price is the same.

Emperor Han Ling sold not only vacant official positions, but also appointed officials must pay the full amount before they can continue to take office.At that time, there was Sima Zhi, the prefect of Julu, who was an upright official with noble aspirations.Emperor Hanling admired him very much, so he cut the price of his official position by 50%, and only had to pay three million.Worried that Sima Zhi would have an opinion, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty sent an edict to call Sima Zhi, and the eunuchs did patient and meticulous persuasion work.After work, Sima Zhi went to his post in grief. Walking on the road, the more he thought about it, the more awkward he became. He walked to Mengjin, wrote a letter to Emperor Ling to stop doing this, and then committed suicide by taking poison.

There is also Cui Lie, a famous scholar in Jizhou, who spent five million to buy the post of Situ, who is actually the prime minister of the empire.When he took office, Emperor Ling of Han looked at him, and suddenly felt that he had suffered a great loss, and his heart was extremely unbalanced. He couldn't help but say to others: "It's an old loss, this prime minister could have sold for 10 million." Emperor Han Ling had a beautiful concubine, Cheng Shi, who heard it and said loudly: "Cui Lie is a famous scholar in Jizhou. How could he be a buyer of an official? If I were Cui Lie, I would never spend money to buy this prime minister."

As soon as Cheng's words came out, Cui Lie's reputation was ruined. It doesn't matter if it is destroyed, Emperor Ling of Han made a fortune just as his mother, Empress Dowager Dong, wished.The money obtained by selling officials in the palace was innumerable, and he couldn't let it go, so that Emperor Ling of Han didn't even dare to sleep in the middle of the night, and secretly dug holes in the ground with a small shovel to bury the money. Now we understand why Dong Zhuo dared to refuse his order and not take up the post of Shaofu. The official of the Shaofu also needs money to buy it.Let Dong Zhuo give up his army and spend money to buy a bigger officer, maybe the price will be reduced in a few days.No matter how thoughtless Dong Zhuo was, he would not do such a foolish thing.

When Dong Zhuo refused to spend money to buy Shaofu and moved to Hedong, Han Lingdi died happily in the pile of money.His son Liu Bian, who was 17 years old, succeeded him as the young emperor.At this time, the general He Jin was about to take back the power from the eunuchs, so he issued an order that Dong Zhuo should enter the country as King Qin.