I, Liu Bian, the hero

Chapter 77
Instigating second uncle He Miao to take the opportunity to sweep Fengche Duwei Dong Min out of Henan Yinfu, this can be said to let Liu Bian get rid of a heartache.

After all, in history, it was Wu Kuang and Dong Min who 'tacitly' joined forces to get rid of He Miao.

Wu Kuang killed He Miao because He Miao hated him. Wu Kuang thought to himself that he could not become He Miao's favored person like he was when he was with He Jin. Instead of just fading out of the power circle, it would be better to kill He Miao and go to Yuan Shao or Yuan Shu——In his view, as long as He Jin and He Miao died, the Han court would naturally be ruled by the Yuan family.

As Dong Zhuo's younger brother, Dong Min is no less secretive than Wu Kuang, but he is not thinking of Yuan, but his elder brother Dong Zhuo.

So he turned against Wu Kuang, accusing Wu Kuang of "He Miao colluded with the eunuch and killed his own brother", and tacitly killed He Miao with the latter, and at the same time sent someone to notify his brother.

At that time, Dong Zhuo was stationed in Chang'an—in fact, even Zheng Tai persuaded He Jin, saying that Dong Zhuo was too ambitious to take part in such a big event as eradicating eunuchs, but Yuan Shao tried his best to persuade He Jin to call Dong Zhuo to Beijing. The reason was simple. Dong Zhuo was showing He Jin At the same time, he did not forget to show his kindness to Yuan Shi, which made Yuan Shao mistakenly think that Dong Zhuo was his side's help.

Facts proved that Yuan Shao was too headstrong and conceited. After the death of Erhe, Luoyang was in chaos. Dong Zhuo hurried from Chang'an to Luoyang under the reminder and urging of his younger brother Dong Min. He took advantage of the profits and stole everything. The He family and the Yuan family all lost, and Dong Zhuo won alone.

If Wu Kuang met not Dong Min, but a general who was loyal to the He family and He Miao, history might be rewritten.

Because of this, Liu Bian has always secretly regarded Dong Min as a malignant tumor under He Miao's subordinates, no less than He Jin's malignant tumor Yuan Shao. Now that he has the opportunity to sweep Dong Min out, Liu Bian is naturally happy.

And the one who was more happy than him was undoubtedly Hussar General Dong Zhong.

He privately discussed with his clan brother Dong Cheng: "I don't know why there is a rift between the two today, maybe we can win over He Miao?"

Dong Cheng was very speechless after hearing this, and thought that even if He Miao had a quarrel with his brother He Jin, he wouldn't join forces with political enemies to endanger his brother, right?
But Dong Zhong was very confident for some reason, and said to Dong Cheng: "I don't know, He Miao's surname is Zhu. Although He Miao and He Miao have the name of brothers, they are actually different fathers and mothers..."

Dong Chenggang was brought here by Dong Zhong, he didn't want to offend his clan brothers, and considering that it would be okay to try, he agreed.

Therefore, Dong Zhong sent his confidants to relieve He Miao privately.

The result is self-evident, the confidant he sent just revealed his intention after seeing He Miao, but He Miao sternly shouted back.

Afterwards, He Miao told Liu Bian about this matter, and Liu Bian was also a little speechless about Dong Zhong's brain circuit—even if He Miao was not the real He family, the relationship with He Jin was not too close, but he and his mother were very close. The relationship between Lord Wuyang and his sister Empress He cannot be faked. Why did Dong Zhong think he could instigate He Miao?
Furthermore, not to mention the current relationship between Liu Bian and He Miao, even in history, He Miao would not help outsiders deal with his own nephew.

This kind of person will definitely be cleaned up by Yuan Shao if he doesn't help.

After thinking for a while, Liu Bian secretly summoned Shangshu Changshi Qumu, explained the matter briefly, and then told the latter: "...I am afraid that Dong Zhong will become angry and be unfavorable to my second uncle. If this is the case, you must clearly remind him, No matter how much he targets my second uncle, it is impossible to dismiss my second uncle from his official position, it will only anger my second uncle; moreover, his current enemy is the Yuan family, as long as the authority of the Yuan family is reduced, the general will be eliminated an arm."

"I obey." Qu Mu followed the order and left.

Facts have proved that according to Liu's argument, Dong Zhong failed to win over He Miao, so he became furious and gathered Dong Cheng, Sun Zhang, and Qu Mu in Yongle Palace to discuss in private, discussing how to take revenge on He Miao.

It is worth mentioning that unless the person appointed as a spy is determined, he will often compare the two sides one by one secretly. If the conditions of the party being spied are better than their own, it is not impossible for the spy to turn back.

But looking at Dong Zhong who was furious and angry, Qu Mu couldn't bear the slightest thought of betrayal.

In his opinion, Dong's branch is far behind Shi Hou in various aspects, especially the comparison between Dong Zhong and Liu Bian himself. The more he gets along with Dong Zhong and others, the more Qu Mu can see the gap between the two sides.

Keeping Liu Bian's advice in mind, he dissuaded him solemnly: "It's a great thing for the two of you to have a rift. Why should the Hussars hate He Miao because he didn't want to betray He? Hussars don't forget, even if He Miao doesn't He is close to He Jin, but he is Empress He's elder brother and Shi Hou's uncle, no matter what, he will never love Dong Hou."

Dong Cheng who was at the side raised his eyebrows - this was exactly what he wanted to say that day.

Seeing that Dong Zhong's face was pale, Qu Mu continued to persuade: "The most urgent thing is to target the Yuan family. If we can weaken the power of the Yuan family, it is equivalent to cutting off He Jin's arm. If there is a rift between He Miao and his brother, it is a big deal. Good thing, why offend him again?"

Dong nodded his head, and then asked Ji Yu Qumu: "The original intention of me wooing He Miao was to tell him to secretly order Ding Yuan to slow down the suppression of bandits, and to take the opportunity to keep Meng Yi's army in Hedong, so that the court would be unable to go to you. Nanping rebelled, but He Miao refused to be friendly with me, so what can I do?"

Qu Mu had already received advice from Liu Bian, and said with a smile when he heard the words: "The hussars are confused, why did you ask He Miao for this matter? Look for Dong Min....As far as our family knows, He Jin The sergeants at the banquet never thought that Dong Min would question He Miao during the banquet, complaining that He Miao should not agree with Shi Hou's intention to make Ding Yuan replace his brother Dong Zhuo as the governor of Hedong....There are still many Dong Zhuo's old troops in Hedong Ding Yuan's subordinates participated in the siege and suppression of the Baibo bandits. You can tell from Dong Min's attitude that these people must be very dissatisfied with this matter. Hussars only need to secretly send someone to win over Dong Min, make a promise, and instigate Dong Min to contact Dong Zhuo's old troops in Hedong Tell them to deliberately neglect the bandits, why use the hands of He Miao and Ding Yuan?"

"Congratulations, Servant!"

Dong Zhong was overwhelmed with admiration, and even Dong Cheng, Sun Zhang and others looked at Qu Mu differently.

"Don't dare."

Qu Mu bowed his head and cupped his hands to pretend to be humble, but in fact he wanted to cover up his contempt towards these people.

A group of idiots who Shihou held as pawns but didn't know it!
For the next two days, Dong Zhong and others closely followed He Jin, He Miao, and Dong Min. When they learned that He Miao had rejected He Jin's request and resolutely refused to resume Dong Min's official position, Dong Zhong was overjoyed and ordered his younger brother Dong Cheng went to contact Dong Min.

Just at this time, Dong Min was also depressed. He didn't expect that He Miao would lose his official position because of his complaints, and he didn't expect that He Miao was so firm that he wouldn't even obey He Jin's orders, so that he obeyed He Jin's orders. Captain Che, now he can only be reduced to an idler in the General's Mansion.

On this day, when he was getting drunk in a restaurant in the city, Dong Cheng approached him and affectionately called him his brother.

Dong Min's surname is Dong, and Dong Cheng's surname is also Dong, but one is from Longxi County and the other is from Hejian County, but the name of Dong is the same. In addition, Dong Cheng intends to get close, and the two sides quickly became acquainted.

During this period, Dong Cheng naturally did not forget to hint to Dong Min: "My brother, Huqi, is also quite resentful that your brother lost his post as governor of Hedong. How can a ten-year-old boy have the right to dictate in the temple? Since He Jin can't make brother Returning to the original post, why don't Xiaowei Dong persuade Brother Ling to join the Queen Mother and assist Marquis Dong together? I can't write two words of Dong in one stroke, we are our own family."

Not to mention, Dong Min was quite dissatisfied with He Jin's inability to make He Miao submit to Fan Yi, and was also quite moved by Dong Cheng's win-win, but when he compared the power gap between He and Dong, he immediately dismissed this idea.

Of course, he didn't reject Dong Cheng, but spoke very vaguely - after all, maybe Dong Zhong will be used in the future?
Dong Cheng also guessed this point, and didn't care about Dong Min's prevarication, and told Dong Min his intention in a low voice, that is, let Dong Zhuo's old troops in Hedong deliberately drag Ding Yuan down.

As soon as Dong Min heard this, he realized that Dong Zhong and others were really targeting Yuan Shi, but what does this have to do with his brother?
Especially when Dong Cheng promised to try his best to restore the original official positions of his two brothers.

Therefore, the two reached a tacit agreement in private, and Dong Cheng went back to repeat his orders to Dong, while Dong Min wrote to his elder brother Dong Zhuo on the one hand, and on the other hand wrote to his elder brother's son-in-law Niu Fu, ordering him to deliberately drag Ding Yuan down.

To tell the truth, Dong Zhuo’s former troops headed by Niu Fu were currently under Ding Yuan’s tent, and they were not dedicated. Now that he was instructed by Dong Min, he became more and more wanton. When Ding Yuan asked him to suppress the enemy, he procrastinated. Ladi led his soldiers to search for a random mountain, and spent more than ten days in vain, but naturally they didn't even see a shadow of the Baibo thief.

So blatantly, Ding Yuan's subordinates are not fools, how could they not see it?

No, Zhang Liao and Zhang Yang, the generals under Ding Yuan's command, saw it.

Regardless of the surnames of both of them Zhang, Zhang Liao is from the noble family of Mayi, Yanmen County, Bingzhou, while Zhang Yang is from the noble family of Yunzhong County, Bingzhou. They are comparable, but they are the most favored generals under Ding Yuan's command.

But even though both Zhang Liao and Zhang Yang urged Ding Yuan to punish Niu Fu severely, Ding Yuan did not listen, and shook his head and said, "The governor of Hedong was originally Dong Zhuo, and it was Marquis Shi who hated Dong Zhuo and forced the general to transfer me to each other. As far as I know If I punish Niu Fu, Dong Zhuo's former troops will definitely sue the general, and He Yin's situation will definitely become more and more embarrassing."

Zhang Liao and Zhang Yang had no choice but to give up, and honestly led the army to hunt down the thieves.

Fortunately, Zhonglang General Meng Yi did not dare to intervene in the open and secret struggles in the court. Since Emperor Ling sent him to hunt for thieves, he would feel at ease to hunt for thieves.

Ding Yuan, Zhang Liao, and Zhang Yang received Meng Yi's new force, and their momentum rose sharply.

During this period, the former Changsha prefect Wang Kuang was transferred to Hanoi as the prefect. As He Jin's subordinate and Yuan Shao's friend, Wang Kuang naturally wholeheartedly assisted Hedong in conquering the Baibo bandits after taking office, which gave Ding Yuanfang another strong support.

With the help of the two forces, even though Niu Fu, Dong Zhuo's former army, deliberately neglected the opportunity to fight, the situation gradually developed in favor of the imperial army.

On June [-]th, the three armies of Ding Yuan, Meng Yi, and Wang Kuang gathered in the Linfen area of ​​​​Hedong, together with [-] troops, to encircle and suppress Baibo Valley.

Guo Tai, the leader of the Baibo army, led Zhang Feng, Han Xian, Li Le, Hu Cai and others to resist vigorously, but they could not resist the offensive of Zhang Liao, Zhang Yang, and Huang Gai.

The two sides fought for several days, and the Baibo army was defeated and fled into the Baibo Valley, trying to take advantage of the complex terrain of the valley to resist the army.

　On the 16th when the community was closed, there were still vegetables, but no instant noodles——
　　
　
(End of this chapter)