I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 216, Yuan Clan's Dilemma

In the first year of Chuping (AD 190!) Luoyang City, Yuan Mansion!
At this time, the Yuan Mansion was already somewhat murderous. Ever since Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu rebelled, Dong Zhuo had dispatched his own soldiers to surround the Yuan Mansion. Although Yuan Feng and the others had not been restricted from entering and leaving, the intention of surveillance was very obvious. !

He Yong walked up to Yuan Kui and said, "Teacher, you should hurry up and leave Luoyang City with your family, it's too dangerous for you now!"

Yuan Kai waved his hand and said, "I can't leave now. As soon as I leave Luoyang City, the nobles in Luoyang City will be leaderless. Recently, Dong Zhuo has frequently wooed the nobles in Luoyang City. They have a small feast every three days and a big feast every five days. Some time ago, he re-tried the cases of Chen Fan, Dou Wu and the party members. The descendants of Chen Fan and Dou Wu restored their titles and sent envoys to mourn their graves, which won the hearts of many scholars.

If I leave, there may not be people from the powerful families in Luoyang City who, like Xu Xiang and Fan Ling, joined Dong Zhuo's family for the sake of prosperity and wealth. Then Dong Zhuo's wings will be done, and if he is firmly established in Luoyang, it is impossible for their newly recruited soldiers to be Dong Zhuo's elite opponents! "

Yuan Kai thought for a while and asked: "The most important thing for us now is to let Liu Bei, Huangfusong and Liu Yu join our camp. As long as Liu Bei's 4 troops occupy Chang'an City, Dong Zhuo's retreat will be cut off. .

Huangfusong's elite is the only army that can fight against Dong Zhuo. He must be scruples if he joins our Dong Zhuo, and Liu Yu is highly respected among the clan.

If all three of them join the Dong Dong Alliance, if Dong Zhuo wants to survive, he must go to Xiliang according to our ideas. For the sake of his many years of military service, we can let him become a Liangzhou shepherd and go to Xiliang to retire! "

He Yong said in a low voice: "Although we have contacted them, they seem to disapprove of us raising troops against the imperial court. Judging from their replies, they think Dong Zhuo is just a powerful minister of the great man, and he has not yet reached the point of heinous crimes. Method to remove Dong Zhuo's rights.

Even Huang Fusong said that at Dong Zhuo's age, he wouldn't be able to live for a few years, so it doesn't matter if the big man lets him be in power for a few years. Denounce us, say we are in the world of cholera!I'm afraid that Liu Bei will side with Dong Zhuo, and then we will be in trouble! "

Yuan Kui's face turned ugly when he heard this, he could think of the reaction of the powerful clan, but he didn't think that Liu Bei, Huang Fusong and Liu Yu all disagreed with his method of driving Dong Zhuo away!

Liu Bei has experienced many battles in the past few years. He is the most experienced general among the generals of the Han Dynasty, and the 4 soldiers in his hands are also the most elite soldiers of the Han Dynasty. You can sweep Yuan Shao's coalition forces!

Huangfusong and Dong Zhuo are even fellow villagers. Yuan Kui thought that Huangfusong and Dong Zhuo had a bad relationship and had a good relationship with their Guandong clan, so he would not stand by Dong Zhuo, but now it seems that he was wrong, and Huangfusong also wanted to Want Kansai Wu to take over the power of the big man in the future!
And Liu Yu is the person with the highest prestige in the clan. If he didn't stand by Yuan Shao's side, the Liu clan in the world would only think that Yuan Shao and the others rebelled, so Yuan Shao and the others' legal principles against Dong Zhuo would no longer exist!

In fact, in He Yong's view, Yuan Kui took things for granted. Liu Bei and Liu Yu were not from the aristocracy side. They were clan relatives. How could it be possible to watch Yuan Shao rebel against the imperial court? In the eyes of Liu Bei and Liu Yu, this kind of behavior is even worse than Dong Zhuo. This is already overturning the world of big men.

Moreover, what Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu did a year ago, Liu Bei and Liu Yu did not forget. In their view, Dong Zhuo was just the black glove of the Yuan Clan. Speaking of which, the Yuan Clan would be even more hateful, if they hadn't forced Luoyang City into chaos for their own benefit and killed General He Jun.

Now Dong Zhuo was released in order to let the Yuan Clan escape from the vortex of political battles, and now they want Liu Bei, Liu Yu and Yuan Shao to join forces to deal with Dong Zhuo, which is too good to think.

To be honest, Liu Bei wanted to kill Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu even more!Using the heads of the two brothers can deter the lawless aristocrats of the big man, and let the entire aristocrats of the big man know that the world is still the world of the Liu family.

Huangfusong faced the pressure of the Tengjia Army even more. He now has the energy to divide his troops to deal with Dong Zhuo. What if the Tengjia Army rushes out of Taihang Mountain to attack Jizhou.Judging from the current situation of the big man, they have no way to suppress the Tengjia Army. The army in Huangfusong's hands has suppressed the only chain of the Tengjia Army. He Yong also disagrees with letting Huangfusong deal with Dong Zhuo. After all, they drove Dong Zhuo away for the sake of If the court in charge of the Han Dynasty is overthrown by the Tengjia Army, what is the point of all they do!
Yuan Wei thought for a while and said, "How are the other parties communicating? Are they willing to attack Dong Zhuo?"

He Yong's novel said: "Tao Qian, the governor of Xuzhou, said that Xuzhou had been ravaged by the Yellow Turbans into a piece of white land, and he had no army to join the alliance against Dong Zhuo! Cui Jun, the governor of Qingzhou, also did not agree to send troops to fight against Dong Zhuo, and the powerful clan in Nanyang County, Ying The gentry in Chuanjun are even more unwilling to support the road. They think this is a struggle within our Yuan Clan and has nothing to do with them! As for the gentry in other places who are too far away, they are also perfunctory to us. It seems that they want to watch the fun !"

Yuan Kai stopped talking, it seemed that he was too optimistic about the matter of begging Dong!

He Yong thought for a while and said: "Dong Zhuo doesn't have much bad deeds now. The other aristocrats in the world are watching our jokes, thinking that this war is an internal struggle of our Yuan Clan, and many people even have opinions on us. They think that we have expanded the internal strife to the whole world, affecting the stability of the great man, and think that we are the biggest rebellious ministers of the great man."

It is not wrong to have this kind of thinking. Dong Zhuo and the Yuan Clan are too involved. He became a high-ranking official of 2000 shi because of Yuan Kai's promotion. Although he joined the eunuch party later, Dong Zhuo became the sharp knife to kill the eunuch party. However, Dong Zhuo's entry into Luoyang was also Yuan Shao's order through He Jin, which made everyone suspect that Dong Zhuo was a pawn placed by Yuan Kai in the eunuch party.Not to mention that Dong Zhuo also personally helped Yuan Kai to solve the two major hidden dangers of Emperor Shao and Empress Dowager He. Now that Yuan Kai says that Dong Zhuo is not his, someone must believe it!

Yuan Kui was silent for a long time, this situation obviously exceeded his imagination, now this war has become a war between him, the Yuan Clan and Dong Zhuo, because the people who raised troops to challenge Dong were not his former disciples of the Yuan family, but their relatives and friends Friends, Yuan Kai knows that although the Yuan Clan is the number one clan of the great Han, it is difficult to control the opponents of Dong Zhuo in the northern and southern armies.

If he could not mobilize the power of the noble families in other parts of the Han Dynasty, his Yuan family might be defeated for the first time.The current world is still ruled by big men. Although in Xu Wei's view, big men are already in troubled times, but the impression in people's minds is that it is difficult to get over it all at once. For most of the nobles, big men can still suppress the world. No one dared to take the risk of becoming a big traitor and send troops to intimidate Luoyang. They didn't want Yuan Feng to be blamed!

Although Yuan Feng eliminated the eunuchs and relatives by means of excellent political struggles, and even used Dong Zhuo as a black glove to abolish the young emperor and kill the Queen Mother, although this method and strategy were admired by the world's powerful and noble families, they did not respect him. Yuan Kai was also very afraid, for fear that he would end up being used by Yuan Kai and not making progress!
Moreover, the nobles and clans do not live in harmony. Now there are many nobles and clans who want to pull the Yuan clan down!Many of Yuan Kui's old friends really watched Yuan Clan struggle to survive. If given the chance, they would even want to add insult to injury and bury Tai Yuan Clan directly.

After thinking for a long time, Yuan Kai said seriously: "Dong Zhuo's guilt is not enough. Although Dong Zhuo abolished the young emperor and killed the empress dowager, but in other people's eyes, this is just what the old man did under Dong Zhuo's hands. It rests on my Yuan family. If we want to improve our predicament, we must let the people of the world see Dong Zhuo's true colors, and let Dong Zhuo's actions arouse the anger of the people in the world. We must find a way to reveal Dong Zhuo's true nature. Only people in the world will know that if Dong Zhuo is not eliminated, the world will be restless!"

"Boqiu, Dong Zhuo's temperament is cruel. When the censor harassed Long Zongjin to see Dong Zhuo's report, he didn't take off his sword and was beaten to death immediately. During the coup in Luoyang, Dong Zhuo let his soldiers rush into their inner house and plundered Property, even rape and looting women do not evade the imperial family and national prestige, so that the whole Luoyang city is panicked and precarious.

And Dong Zhuo's overnight stay in the palace must let everyone know, find a way to publicize the Xiliang army's cholera incident in Luoyang City, as long as everyone understands the evil things Dong Zhuo has done.

He Yong nodded and said: "Don't worry, Grand Tutor, within 10 days, Dong Zhuo's evil deeds will definitely spread to the big men!"

They are powerful and noble families who control the entire big man's public opinion circle, so it is easy to spread this news!
After thinking for a while, He Yong said, "I'm afraid these are not enough to make the world angry?"

There is no way, I can only say that the former power ministers of the big man have pulled everyone's bottom line. When Liang Ji became a general, it was not a problem to stay overnight in the palace. He even poisoned Emperor Zhi to death. Compared with Liang Ji's actions, Dong Zhuo's things are nothing at all.

Yuan Kui thought for a while and said, "Think of a way to let Dong Zhuo kill the young emperor, so that no one in the world can tolerate Dong Zhuo as a martial artist."

In the first year of Chuping (AD 190!) Taiyuan County!

As soon as Xu Wei came back, he held a high-level meeting of the entire Rattan Army!
Wang Ge, who presided over the meeting, couldn't help but smiled and said: "Shuai Qu is really a clever plan. He got Dong Zhuo to Luoyang City to go to the cholera tycoon. Now the world's aristocrats can't stand Dong Zhuo continuing to control the power of the tycoon. After Hangu Pass All the states and counties in the east raised troops to attack Dong Zhuo, and they elected Yuan Shao, the prefect of Bohai, as their leader.

Yuan Shao also called himself General Chariot and Cavalry, and all the generals were temporarily awarded official titles. Yuan Shao must have made himself the prime minister of the big man! "

The senior members of the Tengjia Army all laughed and said, "Dong Zhuo has become the Prime Minister, so why would Yuan Shao fight against Dong Zhuo if he didn't become the Prime Minister!"

Wang Ge continued: "Now Yuan Shao and Hanoi prefect Wang Kuang are stationed in Hanoi, and Jizhou Muhan stays in Yecheng to help the coalition forces that crusade against the princes to supply food for the army. Fu got half of it away, and Han Fu took 1000 of the field soldiers in Yecheng with him!"

Zhang Baiqi and the others laughed when they heard this. After Huangfusong came to Jizhou, he was aggressive towards their rattan armor army, either building docks or training soldiers, reclaiming land, and accumulating food and grass.Anyone can tell that Huangfusong is going to fight their Tengjia Army. Now that Yuan Shao and the others have made such a move, half a year of preparation work has been done for nothing. And depending on what Han Fu means, if he continues to fight with Dong Zhuo In the end, he might have done nothing this year!

Wang Ge went on to say: "Now the troops are raised by Yuzhou Inspector Kong Ni's garrison Yingchuan, Yanzhou Inspector Liu Dai, Chenliu County Prefect Zhang Miao, Zhang Miao's younger brother Guangling County Prefect Zhang Chao, Dongjun Prefect Qiao Mao, and Shanyang County Prefect Yuan Yi. , Bao Xin, Minister of Jinbei, and Cao Cao all garrisoned in Suanzao, and later general Yuan Shu garrisoned in Luyang. There are tens of thousands of troops from all walks of life, and their combined army is [-] to [-]. They support Yuan Shao and prepare to defeat the occupying Luoyang city. Dong Zhuo!"

Zhang Baiqi said excitedly: "Shuai Qu, this is a god-sent opportunity. Now the whole big man is killing each other, and they have no energy to deal with us. As long as we defeat Huangfusong in Jizhou, the north of the whole big man will be ours." It's in the bag!"

Xu Wei is also in a good mood. He has waited for several years, not just for this opportunity, but he still said: "The longer the situation drags on, the better for us, everyone should be patient, now is not the time for us to come out, wait for Yuan Shao The best time for us to act is when they and Dong Zhuo are fighting the most intensely!"

"Besides, the 10 army in Huangfusong's hands is not that easy to deal with. It is best to let Dong Zhuo help us deal with this army. Even if Dong Zhuo can't, it would be good if Yuan Shao can dismember the army in Huangfusong's hands!"

Zhang Baiqi said happily: "Shuai Qu's words are justified. No matter for Dong Zhuo or Yuan Shao, the 10 army in Huangfusong's hands is always a decisive force. They will find a way to win Huangfusong. If they can't win them over, they must It will break up Huangfusong's army!"

"Since Yuan Shao raised his army, the big man has been dismembered by Yuan Shao and the others. Now we are no longer facing a complete big Han country, but small princes. Even if Huangfusong can maintain this kind of army, but he With the strength of half of Jizhou, it is impossible to be our opponent."

Wang Yong said: "Now we can't play, is it just to see them fight like this?"

Xu Wei smiled and said: "Of course it's more than that. Dong Zhuo, we have to find a way to help Dong Zhuo. After all, Dong Zhuo is facing the power of the entire Kanto clan. It is impossible for a city of Luoyang to support an army of more than [-]! At this time, we must support Dong Zhuo and let him help us eliminate the upper class nobles in the Han area. If he can kill all the upper class nobles in the Han area, we will be better off with these Implement our system at the local level!"

Wang Ge asked curiously, "If Dong Zhuo wins, aren't we in a cocoon?"

Xu Wei smiled and said: "Although Dong Zhuo has a chance of winning, it is extremely small, because this time he is facing the alliance of the entire Kanto clan, and Dong Zhuo only has the strength of a hundred thousand troops, and even Luoyang City cannot be relied on, because Luoyang City This is the base camp of the Kanto clan. If Dong Zhuo hadn't mastered the hundreds of thousands of troops in advance, Yuan Shao and the others wouldn't even have to rebel. As long as they found a way to stir up the northern and southern armies in Luoyang City to launch another mutiny, it would be enough to kill Dong Zhuo. After all, he The only real confidants in Luoyang City are the 3 Xiliang soldiers he brought over!"

Zhang Baiqi sighed: "From this point of view, Dong Zhuo's ability is not small. He is obviously a foreign army, but he can control the morale of the northern and southern armies so that they will not follow the powerful clan to rebel against Dong Zhuo!"

Xu Wei said with a smile: "He Jin died so badly. As long as Dong Zhuo is not an idiot, he knows that he must seize military power! Dong Zhuo's smartest point is to clear out all the officers of the noble families in the northern and southern armies. The influence of the two armies of the North and the South.

Although Yuan Shao and the others said that Dong Zhuo was heinous, Dong Zhuo hadn't done anything harmful at all at this stage. There were quite a few powerful officials like him among the big men. From the perspective of the soldiers at the bottom, Dong Zhuo had done nothing wrong. How could they Maybe Dong Zhuo's rebellion! "

From Xu Wei's point of view, if Luoyang City was not the domain of powerful and noble families, they would not need to move their capital to Chang'an City with Dong Zhuo's strength. It's a pity that there are too many traitors in Luoyang City, and there are too many powerful and powerful families, so it is not Dong Zhuo's basic situation.

No matter how many troops Dong Zhuo has in his hands, it will be impossible to defend against. If the Patriarch opens the gate of Luoyang City, Dong Zhuo will be stabbed in the back. This is why he set fire to Luoyang City in history, because it can hit the Yuan Clan Strength.

The old man Wang who had not spoken all this time suddenly said: "Shuai Qu, Dong Zhuo's subordinate Li Ru said he wanted to see you?"

Xu Wei said with a smile: "It seems that Dong Zhuo also knows to find a helper! I want to see you!"

Then he laughed and said: "This is our big client. The current Dong Zhuo is not the little prefect of Shangdang County, but the prime minister of the big man, who holds the power and wealth of the whole big man. This time we may You can make a deal worth tens of billions!"

Xu Wei knew that the Han court had no money, but Emperor Ling had money, Empress Dowager Dong had money, the eunuchs had money, the He family had money, and Luoyang City had experienced so much turmoil. There are tens of billions is a breeze!

At this stage, there is no one in the whole world who has more funds than Dong Zhuo!Of course, such a big client has to meet.

At this time, the old man Niu also said: "Shuai Qu, there are many merchants who have come to our Rattan Army's territory during this period, and they all want our weapons and armor. Should we sell them?"

Xu Wei smiled and said, "Is it Yuan Shao's people?"

The old man Niu nodded and said, "It shouldn't be wrong, Yuan Shao and the others are the ones who need so much weapons now!"

Xu Wei said happily: "Of course we sell them, but we can't give them good weapons. We can sell inferior weapons, such as iron knives and ceramic armor, but we can make an agreement with them that we don't need money, but food. Don’t do it if there is no food business! Yuan Shao has several million stones of grain in his hand, let’s help him solve some!”

Xu Wei knows that the world is in chaos, and the price of grain has risen to [-] yuan per shi. If you don't collect more grain, it will be difficult to receive it!
Zhang Baiqi laughed and said, "Shuai Qu is a good suggestion. Maybe Han Fu will sell us the remaining 500 million shi of grain from Huangfusong. When Huangfusong sees the empty granary, maybe Han Fu will be mad at him to death." !"

Wang Ge worried: "Shuai Qu, Yuan Shao and the others are already strong, if we help them like this, won't Dong Zhuo be killed by them?"

Xu Wei smiled and said: "If Dong Zhuo really can't bear it, we will find a way to support them with more supplies. In the future, everyone will estimate the strength of the two sides on the sand table. It is best to let them balance. This is the best for our Tengjia Army." Favorable situation, we are now using them to destroy the old world of big men, so that we can build our new world!"

Sheep's head mountain is still the small pavilion. Li Ru is here to beg for help this time, so prepare a sumptuous meal early and wait for Xu Wei!

Xu Wei led his personal guards here!
Seeing Li Ru clasping his hands, he said: "Mr. Li, General Dong has become the Prime Minister of the country. You must be promoted and get rich, right?"

After finishing speaking, I picked up the chopsticks and ate and drank!
Li Ru also took a sip of the wine glass sadly and said: "The Prime Minister and we are also suffering, and there is no place to explain it. It was not our general who abolished the emperor. At that time, our general was just a small Shangdang. The prefect of the county is not a high ranking in the court."

"Yuan Kai and the Empress Dowager He formed a deadly feud, so we had to join forces with our generals to abolish the emperor and kill the empress dowager. Even other civil and military officials in the court agreed. Otherwise, how could the dethroning be carried out like this? smoothly.

"Yuan Kai and the nobles in Luoyang City just want to borrow a knife to kill people, and our general is that knife. Now our general's reputation is bad, and the matter has been done. Yuan Wei and the others are like hiding their bows. How can it be reasonable!"

"Since our general took over the power of the big man, he has been trying to bring order out of chaos, and what he has done are all good things that benefit the country and the people. Why did we become traitors all of a sudden!"

Xu Wei said with a smile: "I have seen more greedy faces of powerful clansmen than you. What happened to Dong Zhuo is nothing at all. The reason he has ended up now is because he is not one of Yuan Wei and the others. Yuan Wei and the others can accept it." If the eunuch is in power, he can also accept his relatives to be in power, but he alone cannot accept a warrior like Dong Zhuo in power!"

Li Ru wondered: "Why, our general treats Yuan Kui and the others much better than He Jin. Yuan Kai and the others can accept He Jin, why can't they accept the general? Our general was his protégé before anyway!"

(End of this chapter)