I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 208, Yuan Wei's Thoughts, Dong Zhuo, the Blame Hero!

Li Ru looked at Dong Zhuo dumbfounded and said, "General, you are trying to make an enemy of the world's nobles and nobles. This is something that even His Majesty can't do! If you really do this, you will only lose your life in vain. It is impossible for us to fight with you." The whole world is an enemy!"

Dong Zhuo sneered and said, "It's because you haven't understood that the world has changed. Lei Gong's Tengjia Army can become a country by itself, and other states and counties in the Han Dynasty are also in constant war. Several prefects in various places are listening to the imperial court. Now It's time to have power only when you have soldiers, and if the princes of Luoyang City want to keep their power, they must rely on me, Dong Zhuo! It's not the old man who relies on them!"

Then Dong Zhuo rode on his own way: "Order Yang Ding to command the troops here, and after the army has crossed the Yellow River, march towards Luoyang City. Let's rescue Your Majesty first!"

Then Dong Zhuo shouted loudly: "Boys, I will take you to rescue Your Majesty!"

All 3000 soldiers shouted, "Save Your Majesty!"

The army is marching in Luoyang City like a long dragon!
Luoyang City Palace!
Yuan Shu led everyone to continuously attack the imperial palace, and even set fire to the Suzaku Gate, which made Zhang realize that the powerful clan wanted to kill them all, and even dared to do such a thing as attacking the imperial palace to punish the nine clans!
Zhang Rang and others went to the harem to report to Empress Dowager He, saying: "General He Jin's subordinates rebelled and set fire to the Suzaku Gate, and are now attacking the palace!"

Empress He was shocked and said: "Where is the general, you immediately order the general to stop his subordinates!"

Zhang Rang gritted his teeth and said: "The general participated in the rebellion, and has been punished by the servants and others. Please also ask the Queen Mother, Your Majesty will follow the servants and others, and the servants will protect the safety of Your Majesty and the Queen Mother!"

Empress Dowager He couldn't believe it when she heard this: "You killed the general! How dare you kill the general!"

Knowing that this is not the time to explain, Zhang Rang said to his subordinates: "Hurry up and protect Your Majesty, the Queen Mother and King Chen Liu!"

They threatened Empress Dowager He, Young Emperor Liu Bian, and Chenliu King Liu Xie, and hijacked other officials in the palace to flee to the North Palace from Tianqiao Pavilion Road.

At the same time, the Suzaku Gate collapsed in the raging fire.

After opening the gap, Yuan Shu said happily: "It's time to kill the eunuchs! Anyone without a beard is an eunuch, let me kill the eunuchs!"

Soldiers of the Northern Army rushed into the palace under the leadership of Yuan Shu, and there was a sudden roar of killing in the palace. When the soldiers saw someone who looked like an eunuch, they stabbed them with a knife. Soon, more than two thousand eunuchs, big and small, were all killed. The eunuchs Wang, Zhang Gong, Han Kui and Yuan She were killed by Yuan Shu.

At the same time, Yuan Shao and his uncle Yuan Kai falsely preached an imperial decree, summoned Fan Ling and Xu Xiang, these nobles who had defected to the eunuch party, and killed them all.

Wu Kuang and others have always resented He Miao for not agreeing with He Jin, and suspected that he had colluded with the eunuch, so they ordered the army to say: "The one who killed the general was He Miao, the chariot general. The soldiers can avenge the general. ?"

He Jin's subordinates all shed tears and said: "I would like to die to avenge the general!"

So Wu Kuang led his troops to attack and kill He Miao together with Dong Zhuo's younger brother Fengche Duwei Dong Min, and threw his body in the palace garden.

Since then, He's relatives have perished!

On the other side, dozens of middle officials including Zhang Rang and Duan Gui hijacked the emperor, the queen mother, and Liu Xie, king of Chenliu, and fled to the North Palace.

Shang Shu ordered Lu Zhi to stop Zhang Rang and others at the Shang Shutai with decades of famous history!

With a sword in his hand, Lu Zhi yelled loudly: "Zhang Rang doesn't want to bully the king and destroy the clan, so hurry up, Your Majesty!"

Zhang Rang would give up his trump card, and he shouted to his men: "Kill them!"

But Zhang Rang underestimated Lu Zhi. Although he is a great Confucian, he is eight feet tall and can open a three-stone bow with both arms. Hacking, four or five little yellow gates were hacked to death by Lu Zhi!
Encouraged by Lu Zhi, the other officials also rushed towards Zhang Rang and others with high morale!

Zhang Rang was terrified and fled in a hurry.Empress Dowager He desperately broke away from Duan Gui's coercion, and jumped out of the redo window to escape.

Zhang Rang and Duan Gui threatened the emperor and King Chenliu, and threatened the soldiers all the way, telling them to let go of the road. The only surviving Zhonghuangqi rushed to the bank of the Yellow River.

But Lu Zhi also led a large army to constantly surround Zhang Rang and them, and both sides had some scruples, so the stalemate ended like this!
At this moment, there was a thunderous sound of horseshoes, and soon both sides discovered that it was Xiliang cavalry.

"Where is the Son of Heaven, my minister Dong Zhuo came to escort me!"

Zhang Rang was shocked by Dong Zhuo's arrival, and Zhang Rang threatened Dong Zhuo with the emperor, "Don't come here, I will kill the emperor if you come again!"

But Dong Zhuo sneered and said, "Don't you think that if you kill the Son of Heaven, no one in my Han family can become an emperor? It's just a joke. My Han family has tens of thousands of relatives, and I'm afraid that no one will be emperor!"

Zhang Rang said angrily: "Dong Zhuo, the miscellaneous family treats you well. If it weren't for the miscellaneous family, you, a mere man from Xiliang, would be able to pay homage to the former general. If you become a prince of a great man, you will repay your kindness like this!"

Dong Zhuo said indifferently: "I bought this former general with my own money. Everyone trades fairly, so don't talk about kindness! Seeing that we still have a little friendship, I will give you a happy one. You can kill yourself! Old man I will help you contain the corpses."

Zhang Rang and Duan Gui looked pale, knowing that there was no possibility of them surviving, Xiliang people like Dong Zhuo were so cruel that they wouldn't care about His Majesty at all!
Zhang Rang gently let go of the young emperor and kowtowed farewell, "I will bid farewell to Your Majesty, I hope Your Majesty will love and cherish himself."

Immediately, he and Duan Gui threw themselves into the river and died.

Some other eunuchs followed them and jumped into the Yellow River. Since then, the power of the eunuchs in the Han Dynasty has all perished!
Dong Zhuo got off his horse, strode up to the emperor, bowed and saluted: "The former general Dong Zhuo, I pay my respects to Your Majesty. As long as there is another minister today, no one will be able to hurt Your Majesty!"

After finishing speaking, he summoned his soldiers to protect Shao Di and King Chen Liu!
But Lu Zhi stood in front of Dong Zhuo and said, "Your Majesty, we will protect you!"

Dong Zhuo sneered and said, "Your Majesty suffered such a catastrophe. It's not because of your lack of protection that Zhang let them catch His Majesty. Now you have the face to say something to protect Your Majesty. It's shameless!"

He waved back, "Come here, escort His Majesty back to Beijing."

Then they didn't care about Lu Zhi and the others!

Lu Zhi looked at the arrogant and domineering Dong Zhuo and said helplessly, "Teacher is raising tigers to cause trouble!"

Dong Zhuo escorted the young emperor back to the capital.

The emperor pardoned the world, and changed the year name from the first year of Guangxi to the first year of Zhaoning.

Worship the former general Dong Zhuo as Sikong.

Yuan Mansion in Luoyang City!
Yuan Kai invited Zhang Wen, Cui Lie, Ma Rixun, Ding Gong, these important ministers, as well as the big and small family heads of Luoyang City to come to discuss the matter!

Yuan Kai said solemnly: "After the Luoyang coup, all the eunuchs died, but the general also died, and the hussar general He Miao also died. Our long-term wish will be fulfilled in one day, and there will be no more eunuchs and treacherous officials." come to oppress us, and we can govern the country according to our own ideas."

Cui Lie also said happily: "Now that the imperial court eunuchs and relatives have all been removed, the world does not have these two scourges. As long as Huangfu Yizhen kills Lei Gong, the big man will surely prosper again under our leadership!"

Ma Rike also laughed and said: "Finally, there are no eunuchs and relatives in the court, and the government has finally fallen into the hands of gentlemen like us. Give us 10 years, and the big man will definitely return to the prosperous age!"

All the patriarchs present were ecstatic, and some even wept with joy.

No wonder they are so happy. They have been suppressed by eunuchs for decades since Emperor Ling. If Emperor Heng is counted, the time will be even longer. It has been almost 50 years. The mastery of the eunuchs is not their turn to be mastered by the scholars. This time it is finally their turn to stand up and be the masters of the house!

But Yuan Kai didn't smile at all, instead he said with a cold face: "People who have no foresight must have near-term worries. Have you ever thought about the thoughts of the emperor and the queen mother? During the Luoyang mutiny, hundreds of civil and military officials suffered heavy casualties. More than 30 senior officials died, and we have gained the most, have you ever thought that the emperor and the queen mother will view this mutiny in this way?"

Everyone's faces became serious. Although there is no such thing as whoever gains the most and whoever is the murderer in this world, they have such an awareness.Not to mention that the mutiny and the rebellious army attacked the palace and set fire to the palace. This simply stomped the emperor's face on the ground, and no emperor could endure such a thing.

Now the queen mother and the young emperor are still in panic, but when they recover, they will definitely take revenge on everyone.

But there are also many people gloating and wanting to watch the fun.

Of course the emperor and the queen mother will take revenge, and everyone knows who the target of the revenge is!Of course the current Grand Tutor Yuan Kui!
There was no way anyone would make this mutiny the Yuan family too jumpy. Yuan Shu not only attacked the palace, but also set fire to the Suzaku Gate. Yuan Shao killed Hussar General He Miao and killed a large number of officials who had defected to the Eunuch Party.

But even the officials who took refuge in the eunuch party were also officials of the imperial court. Yuan Shao, a school lieutenant worth 2000 shi, dared to kill officials at the level of Sangong and Jiuqing. This could almost be regarded as a rebellion. !

Everyone wanted to push He Jin to kill the eunuchs, but they didn't expect the eunuchs to kill He Jin. Fortunately, the Yuan family jumped out and took the blame. No matter how the emperor and the queen mother retaliate, they will only retaliate against the Yuan family and them. relation!
So many people have the idea of ​​causing disaster, of course they didn't show it, but there are many people who are secretly happy. After all, the Yuan family's fourth generation and third father's giant family is too annoying. There are only three positions for the third father, and your Yuan family occupies it. , other families have no way to occupy it.

And you don't occupy the position once or twice, but you have to occupy the position of the third father in each generation, which makes it impossible for everyone to play happily. Otherwise, if you say four generations and three fathers, how will other families take over?
Now that the Yuan family is going to decline, it is a good thing for other families. The Yuan Clan is a huge and giant clan. Without them in the Han Dynasty, many official positions can be vacated. One step further.

Yuan Kui looked at the faces of the patriarchs and important ministers around him, and he could keenly sense that people like Cui Lie and Zhang Wen who contributed to this mutiny were worried about the revenge of the emperor and queen mother.

But the patriarchs of the small family clan looked a little gloating, they were all waving their flags and shouting, no matter how much they could retaliate, they would not be able to retaliate against them. Anyway, the tall men like Yuan Kai would support them when the sky fell. Even if they couldn't stand it, maybe it was them The first day of the family!
It really is a bunch of mobs!
Yuan Kai knew that they were unreliable. You must know that the power of the nobles is definitely the strongest political force in the Han Dynasty. Whether it is the clan, relatives or eunuchs, even if they add up, they are not as powerful as the powerful.

But the reason why these aristocrats have been suppressed all these years is because their power is too scattered, and they are full of contradictions with each other, and they cannot form a joint force at all. Festival defeat.

On the contrary, it was the Lingdi Danggu that aroused the opposition of the entire big Han family and nobles, and gave them a primitive form of organization, which allowed them to persist under the oppression of imperial power for decades.

But now that the eunuchs and relatives have been completely wiped out, and the organizations that oppressed them no longer exist, the alliance of these elite clans is about to split.

Seeing their expressions, Yuan Kui thought for a while and continued: "When today's son is still underage, the Empress Dowager He is in charge of the government. Who should I rely on? It can't be everyone present!"

Of course it’s impossible. The noble families present at the scene knew after thinking about it. The Empress Dowager He must once again train a group of eunuchs to assist him in handling the government affairs of the court. Empress Dowager He needs it, and the entire palace will soon be filled with eunuchs again!
Isn't this eunuch resurgent again!

The elite clan present realized the importance of the problem. If the eunuch party appeared, their victory would not be temporary. In a few years, Empress Dowager He would launch a new batch of Zhang Rang, and Zhao Zhong would fight with them.

"What should we do? We risked our lives to get rid of the eunuchs. It is impossible to find a way to get rid of the eunuchs after a few years?" Everyone was finally anxious!

"Otherwise, we prohibit castration, the body and skin of the parents, castration is too inhumane!"

But someone immediately retorted: "You want a group of men to enter the palace!"

"Why can't we only recruit female officials, so that there will be no eunuchs!"

But some people still retorted: "There are many affairs in the palace, many of which are not for women to do!"

At this time, the patriarchs of the noble families discovered that as long as there is an emperor, the appearance of eunuchs is indispensable.

Abolish the emperor!Those who have this idea, immediately shake this outrageous idea out of their minds!

He Yong said loudly: "Why can't we force the Empress Dowager He to return to power? The Empress Dowager He is just a woman and has no ability to handle government affairs at all. Entrusting the Dahan's government to her is irresponsible to the Dahan's country. Honorable ministers, don’t you have decades of experience in politics, are you going to lose to Queen Mother He in dealing with government affairs? Why can’t we assist the emperor in handling government affairs!”

"But the queen mother is in charge of the government, which is the ancestral system!"

He Yong said angrily: "How can there be such an ancestral system in my dynasty! Was it set by Emperor Taizu or Emperor Shizu? The law of my big man said that when your majesty is young, the queen mother will come to the court !"

Everyone's eyes lit up, they seemed to be able to kick the Empress Dowager He away from taking charge of the government, especially when the Empress Dowager He still had a grudge against them, it would be safest for them to abolish the Empress Dowager He!

Dante Palace immediately whispered: "I govern the world with filial piety, we are bullying the Queen Mother so much, I am afraid that people in the world will think that we are exercising power, and I am afraid that His Majesty will not let us go after he takes power!"

After being told by Ding Gong, everyone realized that this was simply a knot that couldn't be untied at all.Today they bullied the Empress Dowager He, tomorrow His Majesty must take revenge when he becomes an adult, otherwise everyone in the world will look down on His Majesty, and revenge for their mother is a just thing for a big man, what the Son of Heaven does is just, then they will become evil One side has become a traitor!Such a reputation is unacceptable to any patriarch of a powerful family.

Without a good reputation in the big man, who would be willing to accept their descendants as disciples, and who would recommend their descendants as officials? It can be said that if the reputation in the big man is bad, a family will definitely decline.

He Yong said angrily: "Everyone, if you procrastinate like this, you can solve the problem. Since everyone is worried about revenge, why not take it one step at a time, force the Queen Mother to return to power, depose the young emperor, and re-establish King Chen Liu as the new king. This will solve the crux of the problem. We push The new emperor came to power, and the new emperor and the queen mother had a feud against their mother and son, and now we are helping the new emperor to avenge, it is impossible to retaliate against us again!"

"King Chen Liu is only eight years old now. Empress Dowager Dong and Dong Zhong were killed by He Jin again. He has no relatives, and he has to wait until he is an adult if he wants to rely on eunuchs. In this way, we will have 10 years. With these 10 years , can’t we still govern the world well, and when the time comes, we will return a prosperous age to His Majesty, and everyone can leave their names in history!”

Ma Rixun pointed at He Yong angrily and said: "It's a big treason, how dare you abolish the monarch, my Ma family has been loyal and good for generations, if I don't get together with a treacherous minister like you, I'm not here today!"

Ma Ribin left here after speaking.

At this time, the other patriarchs of the small family also realized that this matter had little to do with them. If the abolition of the monarch was a little careless, the family would be ruined. Huo Guang had a high prestige back then, but after that, he would die and his family would be wiped out. I can't afford to gamble at all, and I don't want to gamble!

So they said to Yuan Kai one by one: "I don't dare to do such a rebellious thing. The Tai Tuo said that I have never been here today, and we haven't heard anything!"

So they ran out of the Yuan Mansion one by one, and if they didn't leave, they would stay and take the blame. They couldn't bear such a big blame for abolishing the monarch!

Now only Yuan Kui, He Yong, Cui Lie and Zhang Wen are left!
Yuan Kai smiled wryly and said: "No wonder I can't fight against the eunuchs. It seems that there are many people, but they are just a group of mobs."

Now everyone here is his own, and Yuan Kai doesn't hide his thoughts anymore. He said to everyone: "I have thought about it, the abolition of the emperor has a great relationship, and we don't have Huo Guang's prestige, and rash actions can only affect us." The family will definitely be retaliated by the new emperor in the future. Therefore, we can only use the hands of others to abolish it, so that we can stay out of it!"

Cui Lie frowned and said, "There are many people involved in the matter of abolishing the establishment. Not only must the prestige be high, but also the power must be high. There are not many people in the whole big man who can do it?"

After speaking, everyone looked at Yuan Wei. He has prestige, power, and has enemies with the new emperor and Queen Mother He, so he is the most suitable for such a thing.

But Yuan Kai refused to do it!Just look at Huo Guang's power when he was alive, but when he died, he would die and his family would be wiped out. Yuan Kai didn't want his family to be so brilliant for a short time!
Yuan Kai said calmly: "There is such a person in Luoyang City now, and he is our new Master Situ Dong!"

"Dong Zhuo?" Cui Lie and the others all exclaimed!
Zhang Wen frowned and said, "Dong Zhuo is old and cunning, why would he do such a thankless thing!"

This is a scapegoat that can crush a family to death, Dong Zhuo will not carry it as long as he is not stupid.

Yuan Kai sneered and said: "Dong Zhuo is very ambitious. Zhang Rang and others made him a former general from a common man in Xiliang, but he betrayed him before he said it! And now he is still stranded in Luoyang City, obviously he is also I want to take over the power of the court!"

Cui Lie said angrily: "He, a warrior, also wants to take over the power of the court, is he worthy? Does he know what government is?"

Yuan Kai said: "It is because he has such great ambitions that he can be used by me. We can cooperate with Dong Zhuo to let him take charge of the government, but he wants to help us abolish the young emperor!"

Zhang Wen worried: "We have tried our best to eliminate the eunuchs and relatives, but now that Dong Zhuo is in power, I am afraid that this is leading the wolf into the house. Dong Zhuo is an out-and-out warlord. Let him control the power of the court. It will fall even more!"

He Yong also said angrily: "We don't do so many things to make wedding dresses for Dong Zhuo! If you don't dare to do it, let me do it. Anyway, I don't have any family! As long as the big man can prosper, I will What is fate!"

Yuan Kai said with a smile: "This old man is just using Dong Zhuo. When Dong Zhuo abolishes the young emperor and the queen mother, we will force him to hand over his power and arrange him to be a state shepherd in Xiliang?"

Zhang Wen was dumbfounded and said: "Dong Zhuo is a warlord, how can you force Ciyang to give up his power? Don't forget that he still has 6 elite troops in his hands. Could it be that you just rely on one mouth to make Dong Zhuo give up all his strength?"

Yuan Kai said with a smile: "What is a 10 army to the current big man? The two armies in the north and south of Luoyang city plus the Xiyuan army alone exceed [-]. With this army, we don't have to worry that Dong Zhuo will not listen. Our order!"

Zhang Wen worried: "Dong Zhuo's 6 army is a frontier army that has been fighting all the year round. It is not comparable to a newly established army like the Xiyuan Army!"

Yuan Kai said confidently: "Liu Bei still has 4 troops in Xiliang, and they are veterans who have experienced many battles. Huangfusong in Jizhou also has 10 elites, and Liu Yu in Youzhou also has 8 elites. More than 30, if Dong Zhuo really doesn't know how to flatter, we have a way to drive him out of Luoyang City!"

(End of this chapter)