Chapter 56 1. Sin

Lu Zhi ran away, although Dong Zhuo did not catch up, but it did not affect his meeting.This time, in order to prevent complications, he decided to meet with the main leaders of the scholar-bureaucrat group before the meeting to get through their ideological work. In today's Han Dynasty, it is quite difficult to find a real scholar-bureaucrat leader like Yuan An, Yang Zhen, Li Gu, etc. back then.Those who were good were forced to run away, such as Lu Zhi; those who could not escape were recruited, such as Cai Yong; what were the rest?It's just some grass on the wall in the wind, where the wind blows, it will fall.

Before Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, there were no more than two people who dominated the politics of the Han Dynasty.One is He Jin and the other is Yuan Kui.Just like Dou Wu and Chen Fan back then, it was the product of the joint efforts of representatives of foreign relatives and scholar-bureaucrats to deal with eunuchs.Now that He Jin is gone, the only one who can talk is Yuan Kai. Therefore, Dong Zhuo sent someone to Yuan Kai to ask for his opinion on changing the emperor. Yuan Wei had never personally experienced Dong Zhuo's move, but he had already opened his eyes.Asking for opinions is pure nonsense.He is putting on a hot face, and he still wants to stay in Luoyang, so he has to put his old face on it, otherwise you will be the next Yuan Shao and Lu Zhi.

Besides, Yuan Kui is a veteran in official circles.Among Yuan Shao's parents, Yuan Wei was the youngest, but he was promoted the fastest and became the biggest official. What did he rely on?If you think about it, you know, if you don't have the effort to flatter your horse, you will definitely not be able to get along. Therefore, as soon as Yuan Kai saw Dong Zhuo's opinion, he didn't dare to take a second look, and immediately sent someone to report back, saying that he respected Dong Sikong's opinion very much. Dong Zhuo looked at it and smiled.In that case, let's move on to the meeting.

On September 1, Dong Zhuo summoned all the ministers to discuss the matter of abolishing and establishing the emperor.Unlike last time, this meeting was quite a success.Empress Dowager He was forced to have no choice but to depose Liu Bian. Forget it.Dong Zhuo also came up with two ridiculous reasons: one was that when the first emperor Liu Hong passed away, Liu Bian, as a son, did not fulfill his filial piety during the mourning period; He was relieved of his position, downgraded to King Hongnong, and Liu Xie, king of Chenliu, was changed to the emperor. Tigers eat people as soon as they eat them, and they eat them plausibly.I'm depreesed.

The sad atmosphere pervades the palace, and it will not go away for a long time.When Empress Dowager He's edict was announced, Grand Tutor Yuan Kai stepped forward to unseal Liu Bian's emperor's seal and gave it to Liu Xie.Then, supporting Liu Bian, he walked down the steps step by step, turned his head and kowtowed to Liu Xie. Ministers who are holding back their anger, tears, and shame, at this moment, if they were asked to use one word to describe Dong Zhuo's style, what would it be? I think there is a word that should be good-sin. Dong Zhuo was indeed committing crimes.If his crime is a tragedy, then I want to emphasize that the tragedy has only just begun.

After the two children were settled, Dong Zhuo put the knife on the neck of Queen Mother He again.He said to Empress Dowager He: "As the daughter-in-law of Empress Dowager Dong, you actually forced your mother-in-law to death. This is outrageous." After speaking, he forced Empress Dowager He to move. Two days later, on September 3, he sent someone to deliver a cup of poisoned wine to Queen Mother He. After killing Empress Dowager He, Dong Zhuo touched his chest, as if he still had an inexplicable resentment.After thinking about it, he suddenly remembered that there was another person in the He family who owed him, and he hadn't been asked to pay it back yet.But all the members of the He family who could be named were dead, so who else would have trouble with Dong Zhuo?

You may not have thought that the person Dong Zhuo thought of was not a living person, but a dead person.It was He Miao who Yuan Shao encouraged He Jin's subordinates to kill. Why Dong Zhuo hates He Miao, you only need to look back at what happened before, and you will understand immediately.At that time, didn't He Jin send someone to call Dong Zhuo to enter the city? Many literati and bureaucrats in the Han Dynasty strongly opposed it, but He Jin ignored it.Later, He Miao took the initiative to find him and advised him not to be impulsive, and then he calmed down, thinking that recruiting Dong Zhuo into the city was a way to lure a tiger into the house.

Henceforth, the previous scene appeared - Dong Zhuo and his subordinates were recoiled by Zhong Shao, and they withdrew to wait and see. So now Dong Zhuo thinks that He Miao made him restless before he was alive, so he will make him die without a place to bury him.So they sent people to dig up He Miao's grave, chopped up the corpse into several pieces, and threw them away on the roadside for public display. To say that Dong Zhuo is a beast is an insult to the beast, he is just like the one in the legend - the beast is not as good as the beast. Dong Zhuo, who is not as good as a beast, is a failure in life, but his political skills are perfect, and he is unique in the world.He thinks that he should accumulate some merits for doing bad things.So he issued an imperial edict to appoint the children of Sangong and ministerial cadres to fill the vacancy left by the eunuch.

Then, they continued to promote scholar-bureaucrats.In order to make the trick more realistic, he also rehabilitated Dou Wu and Chen Fan, worshiped their descendants as officials, and sent people to sacrifice to these two veterans of the world. On the contrary, almost none of Dong Zhuo's cronies and subordinates came out to be officials, and they were all left by Dong Zhuo as commanders in the army. Dong Zhuo wronged his subordinates, but never wronged himself.In November, the emperor issued an edict to worship Dong Zhuo as the prime minister.Needless to say, I understand that the emperor's edict was a cover, to be precise, Dong Zhuo worshiped himself as the prime minister.

The official position of Xiangguo has been out of use for hundreds of years. Dong Zhuo brought it up again this year. He really has ulterior motives.We know that when the great ancestor Liu Bang founded the country, Xiao He was worshiped as the prime minister, later Cao Can, and the third was Lu Chan of the Lu Pheasant family.After Lu Chan's death, the Xiangguo of the Han Dynasty was worshiped as the prime minister. In this way, Dong Zhuo was the fourth Xiangguo in the Han Dynasty, but what the old Dong wanted was not only the name of the Xiangguo, but also the high-level treatment enjoyed by the Xiangguo.

At that time, Liu Bang compared Han Xin and other generals to meritorious dogs, and Xiao He as a meritorious person, and set him as the number one meritorious official in the founding of the country.In order to let Xiao He deserve his name as the number one, Liu Bang bestowed him with the sword to go to the palace.Later, in order to raise his own status, Wang Mang enjoyed far more treatment than Xiao He. Now, Dong Zhuo has also begun to imitate Wang Mang's tricks.He stipulated that the treatment he enjoyed, in addition to the two that Xiao He had, he added another one--praise without name. Praise is not named, that is, not to write one's name when playing.Of course, if Dong Zhuo is happy, he can sign the memorial as Old Dong, or Dong Xiangguo. Please remember that the three benefits Dong Zhuo enjoys can only be unique.Only the only one is the most noble.If there are people who don't know each other and want to learn, it's over.Unexpectedly, he really met such a person who didn't know the rules. Once, the censor Shi Jin met Dong Zhuo and said that he wanted to report to work.As a result, Dong Zhuo saw that when the censor saw him, he didn't take off the sword on his waist, and was so angry that he smashed him to death with a hammer on the spot. It is very cute that Dong Zhuo wants to pretend to be gentle, I believe Cai Yong has a deep understanding of this.If he was playing hooligans, a real tiger would run to the mountains and hide when he saw him.At this point, Luoyang's royal relatives and nobles are most worried. In December, Dong Zhuo sent troops to Luoyang City and carried out a large-scale robbery.No matter how noble the opponent's status is, as long as the family has a lot of money and a beautiful woman, Dong Zhuo's troops will definitely visit him.So all of a sudden, the atmosphere in Luoyang City was quite scary, and the rich and noble people didn't know if they could live to tomorrow after today. People are lost, who is willing to tie them? Dong Zhuo's hooligan behavior has become the common anger of the whole world.At this time, a massive anti-Dong operation is brewing.Heroes headed by Yuan Shao are gathering rapidly. The wind is howling, the horses are howling, and a crazy storm is coming.