Xuande

Chapter 608 Dong Zhuo's Transfer Request

The new ruling team and the new ruling atmosphere need a thorough demonstration.

In addition to the unshakable nature of the empire, everyone also agrees that a serious feat beneficial to the country can be used to demonstrate the ability of the ancient literature school.

Things that the modern literature school cannot solve, and the shame that the modern literature school has brought to the big man, our ancient literature school must completely solve it, and we will be ashamed.

Therefore, no one opposed Liu Bei's suggestion, but there were quite a few people who supported it.

Moreover, the Bingzhou problem is indeed serious, and it is indeed time to solve it. No one can bear the fact that an armed force not controlled by the imperial court can spread its power to the edge of the Yellow River, which is only more than 100 kilometers away from Luoyang.

Coincidentally, at this critical moment, Liu Bei received a personal letter from Dong Zhuo.

The general idea is that Dong Zhuo hopes that Liu Bei can help him transfer back to Luoyang to take up the position instead of staying in Bingzhou. Dong Zhuo feels that the situation in Bingzhou is not stable and his own ability is limited. He is afraid that Bingzhou will make Liu Bei angry. .

Dong Zhuo didn't really want to do this Bingzhou Mu, he wanted to be an official in a safe place.

After reading this letter, Liu Bei thought about it, and felt that Dong Zhuo's side was also interesting, so he wrote back to him.

The general meaning is that you can come back if you want to, but you need credit. There are many people who have made great achievements in this wave, and there are also many people who have not returned to Luoyang. And you were an old official of the Yuan family. I hope you can avoid the limelight. You put it in Bingzhou, returning to Luoyang now is not a good thing for you.

If you really feel that Bingzhou is too dangerous to stay any longer, it’s not impossible. I can help you transfer to Xuzhou to be the governor of Xuzhou, solve the unresolved rebellion in Xuzhou, and then transfer you to Luo with this credit Yang, what do you think?
In other words, if you want, you can stay in Bingzhou. The imperial court is planning to use troops to fight against Bingzhou. If you want, you can launch the first round of attack as a shepherd of Bingzhou and make contributions. Isn't it a good choice?
After Dong Zhuo received Liu Bei's letter, he made some considerations. After weighing the pros and cons, he was very entangled.

It would be great to be able to make contributions in Bingzhou, and he wanted to agree, but after thinking about Gongsun Zan's affairs, he felt that he had no idea.

Yuan's backer was abandoned by him. Liu Bei looked very reliable, but he didn't seem to be so completely reliable. He was not sure if something happened, would Liu Bei abandon him like he abandoned Gongsun Zan.

Currently, Dong Zhuo is quite sensitive politically and cannot bear more political risks.

So after much deliberation, Dong Zhuo decided to give up Bingzhou Mu, and chose the first path, going to Xuzhou to be the governor of Xuzhou.

He no longer cares about state shepherds or governors. Anyway, he mainly went to Xuzhou to fight. After the battle, he went directly to Luoyang. Fortunately, he could get Jiuqing. His qualifications will be unknown in the future. He will stay in Bingzhou and rank The higher the risk, the higher the risk factor.

Right now, it is better to seek stability.

Dong Zhuo, who spent most of his life taking risks to survive, is now getting older, and he no longer pursues excitement, but begins to pursue stability.

And his choice made Liu Bei a little surprised, but he still didn't reject Dong Zhuo, agreed to him, and asked him to take the initiative to ask for a transfer.

At the beginning of November in the first year of Jian'an, the Luoyang court received a request for a transfer from Bingzhou Mu Dong Zhuo. After some research, the Luoyang court—mainly Liu Bei—decided to agree to Dong Zhuo's request.

So he announced to the outside world that Dong Zhuo would be transferred to be the governor of Xuzhou, who would be responsible for the suppression of thieves in Xuzhou.

The former Xuzhou Mu Liu Yan resigned directly because of crimes such as being unfavorable in suppressing thieves, and changing the prefect of the prefecture and the state without asking for instructions.

For the sake of the clan of the Han Dynasty, you will not be punished, but you should stop being an official, go home and pick up your children!
Yes, it's not that Liu Bei is just looking for something to put on Liu Yan's shoes, it's that Liu Yan doesn't follow the rules in his work, and he has exposed too many problems, as long as he catches them, he can deal with them immediately.

From the sixth year of Zhongping, Liu Yan began to fight against a group of Xuzhou Yellow Turban Army. After nearly two years of fighting, there was no result. The fight made Xuzhou unable to produce with peace of mind. All are very dissatisfied with him.

As a result, this guy is not good at fighting the Yellow Turban Army, but he is good at fighting the local tyrants.

Many powerful families in Langya Kingdom, Donghai County, Pengcheng Kingdom and other counties had a bad relationship with him and did not obey his orders, but opposed him instead, so they were exterminated by him on the charge of collaborating with the enemy.

The first time three families were exterminated, the second time six families were exterminated, and the third time was even more ruthless. Ten families of different sizes in Pengcheng Kingdom were directly killed in one pot. The reason was to leak military information and cooperate with the enemy.

Liu Bei was actually a little curious about how this guy dared to just jump like this. The Luoyang court is still there, and he is still there. Xuzhou is not a place with traffic congestion like Yizhou. Xuzhou is the place where the Fourth World War was fought.

Did he take the wrong medicine?
It was only later that Liu Bei noticed that when this guy was cleaning up the local families in Xuzhou on a large scale, it was the time when the Luoyang Rebellion and the Eryuan Rebellion were happening.

At that time, the situation in Luoyang was unstable and Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu were making troubles all over the world. Liu Yan probably thought that the world was about to become unstable and something went wrong, and wanted a place to settle down to ensure his own interests, so he began to exclude dissidents in Xuzhou and practice cronyism. , Without the permission of the court, a prime minister and a prefect were replaced.

Although it is said that the state shepherd does have this power, you have to talk to the central government anyway, and everyone will go through a process to give the central government a little face.

As a result, he didn't care at all, and didn't send a message to the central government at all.

This time Liu Bei returned from the Northern Expedition, the rebellion between the two Yuans was quelled, the prestige of the Luoyang court was greatly shaken, and Liu Yan began to panic.

But at this moment, the local forces are no longer pretending to him, and they are fully moving closer to the Luoyang court. Many people in Xuzhou entrusted their connections to the central government to talk to Liu Bei about this matter.

They followed Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong's lead, and asked them to bring a message, hoping that the central government could personally take action to resolve this matter.

Either change someone to kill the Yellow Turban Army, or your general will personally conquer the Yellow Turban Army. In short, please ask the central government to help us get rid of this bastard Liu Yan. We in Xuzhou really can't afford this bastard to toss over and over again .

The local forces in Xuzhou joined hands and gave Liu Bei a very generous meeting gift, which Liu Bei could not refuse.

Liu Bei has no feelings for Liu Yan. No matter what this guy does, he is not familiar with him. As long as nothing happens, Liu Bei doesn't want to target him. As for the boiling of public grievances, it is not enough to fight the Yellow Turban Army by itself.

Even after this matter was announced in the court, some officials suspected that Liu Yan had the heart of disobedience, and that he had the mentality of supporting the bandits by not destroying the Yellow Turban Army, so they suggested that the Luoyang court ask him for his crimes.

After reaching a consensus in the court, Liu Bei was not relentless, but he didn't do anything wrong, saying that for the sake of the Han family clan, he would be dismissed and demoted to a commoner, and the interrogation would not be necessary for the time being.

The Son of Heaven had just ascended the throne not long ago, and it would be a bit of a joke for the people of the world to question his clan relatives because of these things, and it would easily make the people of the world feel that there was disharmony within the Han Dynasty, which is not a good thing.

So the Luoyang court quickly reached a consensus that Liu Yan's Xuzhou pastoral position was removed, and the title, salary, and all were gone, and the common people went home naked.

Dong Zhuo's transfer was also approved. Dong Zhuo was allowed to take [-] headquarters to Xuzhou to serve as the governor of Xuzhou. He was also a general in charge of suppressing thieves.

After Dong Zhuo's transfer was approved, the post of Governor was vacant.

At this time, some people began to ask the imperial court to appoint competent personnel to serve as the governor of Bingzhou, who was fully responsible for the suppression of bandits and the restoration of Bingzhou.

However, the position of governor of the state is indeed a hot potato.

An old soldier like Dong Zhuo can't handle it, and it will definitely not work to just change it to anyone. No one from all parties is willing to take over this hot potato, so the final decision naturally falls into Liu Bei's hands.

Liu Bei thought for a moment and gave his own suggestion.

Unconventional promotion of the general Shi Manchong as governor of Bingzhou.

He was also transferred to be the prefect of Jincheng County, Liangzhou Military and Horse Commissioner, Tianwei Zhonglang Guan Yu was stationed in Bingzhou, and served as the Military and Horse Commissioner of Bingzhou, so that Man Chong and Guan Yu could cooperate.

(End of this chapter)