Chapter 58 3. Infighting

In 190 AD, on February 17, Dong Zhuo officially moved his capital to Chang'an. Dong Zhuo believes that since I can't stay in Luoyang any longer, I can't leave good things to Yuan Shao and other coalition forces.So before moving the capital, they robbed all the rich and powerful people in Luoyang, and robbed them all.Then, millions of people in Luoyang were forced to move to Chang'an. Luoyang is 350 kilometers away from Chang'an, and it has to pass through Xiaoshan, Huashan and other places in the middle.At that time, the means of transportation in the Han Dynasty were backward, and Dong Zhuo could make millions of people reach Chang'an smoothly, and no one would believe it.

Facts have also proved this point. On the road from Luoyang to Chang'an, there are dead people all the way, stretching for hundreds of miles, which is horrible. In order to prevent Yuan Shao's surprise attack, Dong Zhuo stayed behind in Luoyang as planned.Speaking of staying behind, in fact, he was preparing to retreat. He burned all the palaces, large and small, of Luoyang Palace, even the houses and temples. On March 5th, Emperor Liu Xie arrived in Chang'an City under the protection of everyone.The big and small matters in Chang'an are temporarily decided by Situ Wangyun.Dong Zhuo told him, I don't worry if you do something, and do it well.

On March 18th, Dong Zhuo beheaded Yuan Shao's family. Tai Fu Yuan Kui and other members of the whole family, a total of fifty or so people, did not spare any of them. At this moment, God is angry.However, looking around, Yuan Shao was still hesitating not to send troops.He is like a puppet, completely devoid of emotion, only watching in the wind, rain, blood, and endless wailing. Waiting and watching is an attitude, a tragedy of stupidity. At this time, someone couldn't bear it anymore, and immediately jumped up and asked Yuan Shao to send troops. This fierce man is the legendary Cao Cao who would rather let the world down than let the world down on me.He warned Yuan Shao like this, "Our side is leading the righteous soldiers, Dong Zhuo's side is just some thugs, the commanding height of morality is in our hands, the time has come for the heavens to destroy Dong Zhuo, please act quickly."

After Yuan Shao heard this, he didn't shake his head or nod his head, but just remained silent. Seeing that Yuan Shao didn't respond, Cao Cao yelled, "Since you don't want to fight, I will fight myself." After speaking, Cao Cao led his army away without hesitation. However, Cao Cao soon returned to Suanzao, where the coalition forces gathered. He escaped from the desert. He had a fight with Dong Zhuo's general Xu Rong on the front line, and his mount was shot by the opponent's stray arrow, and he almost lost his life.If it hadn't been for his cousin Cao Hong to give him his mount, he would have died on the front line a long time ago.

Cao Cao was suffocated in his heart.It's not because he lost the battle, but because he fought Dong Zhuo at the front line, but when he came back, he saw Yuan Shao singing and dancing every day, so full of peace and harmony. Shuzi!Shuzi is not enough to conspire with him! Cao Cao rushed into the banquet and cursed loudly at the crowd: If you are willing to listen to his suggestion, march into Mengjin (now Mengjin East Yellow River Ferry in Henan Province), guard Aocang, block Taigu Pass, etc.; then go straight to Wuguan and threaten Guanzhong Sanfu In the land of Dong Zhuo, we will have a showdown with Dong Zhuo.Alright, now the coalition forces are wearing the banner of the Division of Justice, and what they are doing is looking for fun. Everyone is holding back and watching from the sidelines.You don't feel ashamed, I feel burned for you.

Originally, Cao Cao started scolding, just to provoke Yuan Shao and others.But after he finished cursing, everyone seemed to be deaf, and no one answered.Seeing all this before him, Cao Cao suddenly realized: These are a bunch of scumbags who failed to succeed and failed. Cao Cao couldn't stand it anymore, turned his head and left.I personally went to Yangzhou, pulled back more than a thousand recruits, and returned to station in Hanoi County. The reason why he came back was firstly to find a chance to fight, and secondly to see how Yuan Shao would deal with this conquest. Sure enough, before long, the coalition forces had a lot of fun inside.

First of all, the coalition forces stayed in place, eating, drinking and having fun all day long, and the food collected was not enough to eat.When there is time to eat, everyone is very happy, and when there is no more wine to drink, everyone is ready to disperse. Then, just as you were about to go your separate ways, the leaders of an army started fighting with each other.One is Liu Dai, governor of Yanzhou, and the other is Qiao Mao, governor of Dongjun County.For some reason, the two disliked each other and fought.As a result, the one surnamed Liu killed the one surnamed Qiao. Looking at all this, no one knew what Yuan Shao was thinking.

A year passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye it was the spring of 1911, and he still stood still, waiting for a chance. But wait a fart, the daylily is already cold. Yuan Shao said, the dish is cold, just reheat it.In order to heat up and prepare to prepare for the war against Dong Zhuo, he made use of his specialty of always giving crooked ideas and proposed a ridiculous plan. Including Yuan Shao, many generals in the Kanto region agreed that Emperor Liu Xie was controlled by Dong Zhuo, and the mountains were high and the rivers were far away, so he didn't know whether he was dead or alive.Instead of fighting for a young and ignorant guy, let's create a new emperor and fight against Dong Zhuo.

To re-establish the emperor, to put it bluntly, is to establish another central government.Who will be the new emperor? Yuan Shao also believed that Liu Yu, the shepherd of Youzhou, had to do this. Liu Yu, courtesy name Bo'an, was a clan member of the Han Dynasty.Among the Liu royal family, he can be regarded as an elite member. As soon as Lao Yuan made this proposal, Lao Cao jumped out and voted against it first.He told Yuan Shao: The reason why we raised troops and everyone in the world responded is that we stand on the side of righteousness.The emperor Liu Xie is not Liu He, so what qualifications do we have to abolish him.The ugly thing is, if you want to set up an emperor, you can play on your own, and I will definitely not respond to you.

Yuan Shao smiled.It doesn't matter if you don't play, Lao Cao, I don't care.What I really care about is whether those two people want to play with me. The two people Yuan Shao was referring to were Yuan Shao's cousin Yuan Shu, and the other was Liu Yu who Yuan Shao was going to push out to take advantage of him.He wrote to Yuan Shu in this way, saying that we are going to follow the precedent of Zhou Bo in the Western Han Dynasty who killed the young master, welcome the acting king Liu Heng, and support Liu Yu as emperor, please support. Yuan Shu smiled when he read the letter.

Yuan Shao is really knowledgeable, he also knows his brothers, and they are doing well now.Yuan Shu, as a rear general, besides controlling the military power, also has the important point that this guy has a lot of food.But Yuan Shao didn't know, they were both Yuan's children, they were on the same boat, Yuan Shu and him were not on the same boat. There is no shame in saying this, Yuan Shu believes that the world is in chaos, just like a chaotic vegetable market, and this is the time when it is most easy to grab meat.His ambition is very big. If he wants to grab the meat, he will also grab the biggest piece. How big is it?Of course it is the big piece that everyone wants to grab - the emperor. Yuan Shu wants to be emperor? Yes, he just wanted to be emperor.And he didn't think about it for a day or two, but he was thinking about it every day, dreaming, waking up, eating, and walking.But all of a sudden, Yuan Shao asked him to support Liu Yu, isn't that nonsense? If it were someone else, Yuan Shu would consider putting on a show and expressing his support, but Liu Yu couldn't.Liu Yu is an elite of the royal family, very popular.If you support him, once the fake show is real and you become the emperor, wouldn't that be your own dream? To say a thousand words and ten thousand words, he absolutely cannot accept this proposal. Yuan Shu wrote back and told Yuan Shao: For the sake of fairness and justice in the world, he resolutely does not accept this proposal. When Yuan Shao saw it, he became anxious, and immediately wrote to Yuan Shu again, and Yuan Shu replied with the same meaning—to let me support you to establish another central government, there is no way. Yuan Shao's head got big.But he patted his head, as if he had another idea.He thought that since Yuan Shu didn't support him, why not understand Liu Yu's thoughts first and make him emperor.As long as Liu Yu is willing to accept, raw rice and cooked rice, look at those who don't plan to support, what else can they say. Having made up his mind, Yuan Shao immediately summoned everyone, wrote a letter of support, and sent someone to Liu Yu with the emperor's title.However, what was depressing was that shortly after the emissary went out excitedly, he came back with a disheartened face. The envoy told Yuan Shao: Liu Yu doesn't like this at all. Yuan Shao asked: What did the surname Liu say? Messenger: He said that the emperor is in trouble, and everyone guarding the state and county should fight against Dong with one heart and serve the royal family. To use this kind of thing that honors him as emperor to mess with him is to insult him. Oh, I see.Since he doesn't want to be the emperor, it should be okay to let him be the chief secretary and replace the emperor with a title. Seeing this, we finally understand why Yuan Shao has always been reluctant to attack Dong Zhuo. Cao Cao always said that our side occupies the moral high ground, we are righteous soldiers, and Dong Zhuo is a thug.This is said lightly, Dong Zhuo is a thug, but he is justified in serving as an official. Do they have such power?of course not. Since there is no right to appoint or remove government officials, what are the high points of the moral system? This was one of Yuan Shao's concerns.Before doing anything, he must find a puppet emperor who has the power to appoint and dismiss employees. Otherwise, no matter how he brags or advertises, he still feels uneasy. But Yuan Shao didn't expect that his calculation was well done, but Liu Yu was not stupid, so he didn't want to be taken advantage of.But now no matter what, we must fight for it. Therefore, Yuan Shao sent someone to lobby Liu Yu again, saying that if he was not the emperor, he could do the job of leading the minister first. Soon, the messenger came back in despair. This time, Liu Yuyu's words were even worse. He warned Yuan Shao not to think of him again.If I was in a hurry, I would go to the Huns as soon as I raised my leg. When Yuan Shao heard this, he suddenly withered into a ball, not daring to push anymore. However, at this time, Yuan Shao heard an exciting news: On February 12, the Han Dynasty government worshiped Dong Zhuo as the Grand Master. Why do you say Yuan Shao was stimulated?You know, since the founding of the Han Dynasty, there have been grand masters, but few grand masters.Rare things are more precious, and those that are rarely seen are because the grand master's status is too noble, and no one can match him. How noble is it?Let's understand the system of the Han Dynasty. In the Han Dynasty, there were Sangongs, and there were also Shang Sangongs who were one level higher than the Sangongs. These were the Taifu, Taishi, and Taibao.Among the three masters, the Grand Master has the highest status.As a minister, being promoted to an official position here is regarded as the peak, but as a person with malicious intentions, he has not yet reached the peak. He is one level higher than the grand master, that is, the emperor. This is what Yuan Shao can't stand the most.Seeing Dong Zhuo soaring into the sky day by day, but he is so unreasonable and weak even to get an official position, there is really nothing he can do to help. I have to say that Yuan Shao is really mediocre, he thinks too much and has too many scruples.But some people didn't care about this, held high the banner of anti-Dong, and pursued and killed Dong Zhuo to the end without hesitation.After Cao Cao, this man is a true hero who is born in the world. We are no strangers to this person, and his name is Sun Jian.