Chapter 22 8. There must be great treachery and evil in the court

The flames of Luoyang City shine brightly in the south of the sky.Dong Zhuo, who was rushing towards the capital, saw him and knew something had changed, so he led his troops to the west of the city before dawn.Hearing that Emperor Shaodi had been taken captive to Beimang Mountain, Dong Zhuo rushed to meet him with troops. Although there were only three thousand people brought by Dong Zhuo, all of them were fighters to the death.Among them were many warriors of the Qiang nationality. These warriors were relatively barbaric in appearance. Seeing the young emperor Liu Bian with his thin skin and tender flesh, the warriors' eyes lit up and they gulped.The young emperor Liu Bian was horrified, his soul flew out of the sky, and he cried loudly.

Dong Zhuo asked, "Your Majesty, you are startled." Young Emperor: "Wow, wow, wow." Dong Zhuo: "Your Majesty, who kidnapped you here?" Young Emperor: "Wow, wow, wow." Dong Zhuo: "...Your Majesty, why do you know how to cry and not talk to a woman?" At this time, Shaodi's only younger brother, King Chenliu, rushed out: "General Dong, what happened? He Jin killed the pig. He let the eunuchs kill him, and then his subordinates avenged him and went to the palace... "Five and ten, I told the story again. The 58-year-old Dong Zhuo was listening, and while listening, he looked at the two people carefully.He found that the young emperor Liu Bian was obviously a bit short-sighted, but this Chenliu king Liu Xie was still a sensible child.Moreover, Dong Zhuo had also heard that the biological mother of King Chenliu Liu Xie was the beauty Wang Shi, who was poisoned by Queen He at that time because she gave birth to the prince.In this way, the emperor was obviously wrong. Liu Xie, who is sensible, was pushed aside, and Liu Bian, who was not good enough, was pushed to the throne by his mother's family, which caused chaos in the world.

After discovering this mistake, Dong Zhuo felt a strong impulse to correct the mistake for the court and make Liu Xie the emperor. Lu Simian, a master of Chinese studies, was studying history. When he read this, he once stood up, looked up to the sky and screamed, and said: "Look at this Dong Zhuo, since you are going to disrupt the country, you should keep an incompetent and confused emperor. You say you If you insist on setting up a sensible person as the emperor, wouldn't that be creating trouble for yourself?" However, Master Lu Simian was wrong. Master Lu made a mistake. He mistook the historical interpretation of future generations for history itself.Just like pointing to the moon, the finger is not the moon. The interpretation of history by later generations is just a way for us to understand the laws of human nature, and has nothing to do with history itself.Specifically, later generations regard Dong Zhuo as a traitor who caused trouble for the country, but this simple cognition of facial makeup has nothing to do with Dong Zhuo in history.At least, Dong Zhuo himself never thought so.

For Dong Zhuo, he rushed to the capital, although he had his own plans in his heart, but in his heart, it was absolutely impossible to think like this: I am a big traitor, hurry up, hurry up and mess up the country, hurry up... On the contrary, In Dong Zhuo's heart, he thought that he was the rare loyal and good man in troubled times.You see, he fought bloody battles on the frontier, but the emperor of the imperial city of the capital was chased and fled. It is obvious that those people in the court, even if they are not rich and rich, must be treacherous and sinister.If all the scholars and bureaucrats in the court are loyal ministers... Come on, who has seen loyal ministers chasing the emperor all over the world with a knife?

Therefore, Dong Zhuo believed that there must be great treachery and evil in the court, and it would be strange if there were none! And his trip is for the sake of the country, for the sake of the world, to clear up the demon atmosphere for the imperial court and revive the imperial court. It was based on such a sense of loyalty that Dong Zhuo decided: "Well, this young emperor Liu Bian is really not good enough. If it doesn't work, just replace him!"