The great man will live forever

Chapter 318 Cao Cao in History

When Lu Bu took Ding Yuan's head to see Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhuo was naturally overjoyed.

Immediately, Lu Bu knelt down and said, "Bu has been wandering for half his life and has never met his master. If you don't abandon me, I would like to be your adopted father!"

"Haha!" Dong Zhuo laughed loudly, "I have to say that you are really a hero sent by heaven. My son, please get up quickly."

Lu Bu kowtowed and said solemnly, "My adoptive father is here. From now on, my son will follow his adoptive father through fire and water. He will do whatever it takes to help his adoptive father and achieve great things together."

"Haha, I've got you first, so why worry about the big thing failing?"

"My son, I will grant you the title of Cavalry Captain, Zhonglang General, and Dutinghou!"

"Thank you stepfather!"

"Give me golden armor and brocade robes!"

"Tomorrow, my adoptive father will gather all the ministers to discuss the dethronement and establishment of the emperor."

"The child is willing to protect his adoptive father."

In one thought, heaven and hell could not be more different than this.

Yuan Shao's inner thoughts: "Damn, I wouldn't have pretended if I had known it. Dong Zhuo, an old dog, used to be my Yuan family's dog, and now he bites people. Most of the guards around him are his. What if he takes action? Can he win?" "

But in just one or two months, she was almost reduced to a disgusting person who could be manipulated by others, and she might even face the threat of life and death at any time.

"Huh, everything in the world depends on the emperor and all the loyal ministers. What if you are just a usurper?"

Dong Zhuo dug up He Miao's coffin, took out the body, dismembered it, chopped it into segments, and threw them on the roadside. He also killed He Miao's mother, Wuyang Jun, and threw the body in Zhiyuan against the hedge wall...

Everyone, look at you, look at me. No one dared to resist for a while. Lu Bu led his men with swords to guard Dong Zhuo. Who the hell dares to resist?

Several people next to Yuan Shao also quickly stopped him.

So, he moved Queen Mother He to Yong'an Palace. He granted amnesty to the world and changed the reign name from Zhaoning to Yonghan.

Yuan Wei took off the seal ribbon worn by the young emperor Liu Bian and presented it to Chenliu King Liu Xie. Then he helped Hongnong King Liu Bian to go down to the palace and proclaimed his vassal to Liu Xie who was sitting in the north.

Both sides are looking for a way down the stairs.

Dong Zhuo also pointed out: "The Empress Dowager He once forced her mother-in-law, the Empress Dowager Dong, to make her die of worry, which violated the etiquette of a daughter-in-law's filial piety to her mother-in-law."

Yuan Shao was actually riding a tiger that was unable to get off, so why not Dong Zhuo?

Of course, Dong Zhuo was not all reckless, he still knew how to win people's hearts.

Not only that, he also carried out a series of actions. In November, Dong Zhuo became the prime minister.

On the third day of September, Dong Zhuo killed Queen Mother He with poison. Officials at the ministerial level and below do not wear mourning clothes. When attending funerals, they only wear white clothes.

He grabbed Dong Zhuo,

"Choke!" Yuan Shao pulled out his sword and said, "My sword is not bad at all."

He asked the emperor to issue an edict to appoint the sons of ministers and lower officials as Lang Guan to fill the positions originally held by eunuchs and serve the emperor in the palace.

Lu Zhi, the minister, went on to say: "In the past, Taijia was not established, and Changyi committed more than a thousand crimes, so it was necessary to abolish it. Today, the people are rich in the Spring and Autumn Period, and their actions are not unethical. It is not the same as before."

At this time, Queen Mother He felt extremely regretful. If she had been more decisive and killed the eunuchs directly, or removed He Jin's military power and reused the eunuchs, there would not have been the consequences now.

"Original!"

At the same time, he led Sangong and other ministers to write a letter, requesting that the cases of Chen Fan, Dou Wu and party members be re-examined, that their titles should be restored, envoys sent to pay homage to their graves, and their descendants promoted to officials...

Yuan Shao put down his sword, handed over to several people, and then turned around and left.

Anyway, both sides can neither take action nor withdraw now, otherwise it will be too embarrassing.

"promise!"

The edict said: "The emperor is in mourning. He has no son-in-law, and his majesty is not that of a human king. He is now deposed as King Hongnong and established as King Chenliu."

Fortunately, Li Ru, who was on the side, saw it and quickly came to practice Tai Chi. "The matter is still undecided, so don't kill rashly."

"I order you to take more than a thousand soldiers to guard your adoptive father."

Everyone held their breath for a while and continued to look at me and me. In fact, some of them were panicking.

Dong Zhuo's mind moved: "The fourth and third princes of the Yuan family, most of the imperial court belongs to them. I have just entered Luoyang, and I don't have much control over it at all. If he takes the lead in the rebellion, do I have any chance of winning?"

The next day, Dong Zhuo issued an order to the ministers. He sat high on it and said with a smile, "You, the lord of the world, should be wise. Every time I think of Emperor Ling, it makes people angry!

Now that the emperor is weak, he cannot worship the ancestral temple and be the master of the world. Now I want to follow the story of Yi Yin and Huo Guang, depose the young emperor as King Hongnong, and install King Chenliu in his place. Anyone who refuses to follow will be killed! "

Empress Dowager He choked with tears and all the ministers were sad, but no one dared to speak.

A month or two ago, she was the most majestic person in the Han Dynasty. She spoke of the Constitution of Heaven and held power in her hands. She was the Queen Mother of the Han Empire.

Reluctantly, Dong Zhuo chose to settle the matter.

Good guy, he got straight to the point as soon as he came in, without any extraneous information.

"Do you want to die?"

In 188 AD, on the first day of September, Dong Zhuo summoned hundreds of officials in the front hall of Chongde and threatened Empress Dowager He to issue an edict to depose the young emperor Liu Bian.

"Brush!" Dong Zhuo's face changed wildly, he pulled out the sword with a "choking" sound, and said viciously, "Do you want to test whether my sword is sharp?"

Dong Zhuo was furious and was about to kill Lu Zhi. Cai Yong interceded for Lu Zhi. Peng Bo, the Yilang, also dissuaded Dong Zhuo and said: "Lu Shangshu is a great scholar in the world and is the most popular among people. If he is killed first, the world will be shocked."

At this time, Yuan Shao stood up and said, "Today, the imperial court has decided that the purpose of calling you and others to the capital is to assist the emperor and stabilize the people. However, you have repeatedly tried to depose the legitimate chief and establish a concubine. Isn't this a deliberate rebellion?"

He rebuked Dong Zhuo without hesitation. At this moment, Dong Zhuo's face changed and he shouted, "The world's affairs are mine. I am doing it now. Who dares to disobey?"

A person's power is determined by a long road, and people's hearts are determined by time. Even if he does well at first, his character determines his destiny.

At first he may have listened to the advice of Li Ru and others, but seeing how easily he could be below one person and above ten thousand people, as if the world was under his control, he began to drift away and his true nature was exposed.

Dong Zhuo was inherently cruel. Once he took control of the government, he would control all the country's armed forces and the treasures in the treasury. He would be powerful in the world and his desires would have no end.

He said to the guests at his door: "My appearance is noble and supreme!"

Shi Yushi disturbed Long Zongjin when he met Dong Zhuo to report the matter. He did not take off his sword and was immediately beaten to death...

At that time, there were many royal relatives in Luoyang City. Their mansions faced each other, and every house was filled with gold and silver treasures.

Dong Zhuo allowed his soldiers to break into their inner houses, seize property, rape and kidnap women, not shying away from the royal authority.

It makes people panic and makes people live in danger.

Let’s break down what Dong Zhuo did when he entered Luoyang. First of all, he deposed the emperor without any reason. It is understandable that he wanted to establish his prestige.

Secondly, it is understandable that he poisoned the deposed emperor Liu Bian, the Queen Mother He and the Queen Mother's mother in order to avoid future troubles.

Finally, he acted arbitrarily and allowed soldiers to rape women and rob property in Luoyang City, which greatly lost the support of the people.

Yuan Shao was so frightened that he ran away long ago. He hung the talisman of Captain Sili on the upper east gate, left Luoyang and fled to Jizhou.

After Dong Zhuo gained power, he probably remembered that Yuan Shao had drawn a sword against him, and became angry. He offered a reward for Yuan Shao's capture, and pressed him hard.

Zhou Ao, Wu Qiong and others tried to persuade Dong Zhuo, saying: "It is beyond the reach of others to abolish and establish a major event.

Yuan Shao was not up to par and ran away in fear because he had no other ambitions.

If you buy it urgently now, it will definitely change.

In the fourth generation of Yuan's Shuen, his disciples and former officials were all over the world. If he recruited heroes and Jie to gather his disciples, and heroes emerged as a result, then Shandong would not belong to the public.

It is better to pardon him and worship him as a county governor. I will be happy to be exempted from the crime, and I will be safe. "Dong Zhuo nodded in agreement and paid homage to Yuan Shaobo Hai, the governor, and the title of Marquis of the Countryside. He never imagined that this was letting the tiger return to the mountain.

Later, Dong Zhuo continued to do what he regretted, and made Yuan Shu the general of the rear and Cao Cao the captain of the heroic cavalry.

Yuan Shu was afraid of Dong Zhuo and fled to Nanyang. If Yuan Shu was afraid, wouldn't others be afraid?

Cao Cao also changed his name and fled eastward back to his hometown.

Good guy, this Dong Zhuo was so angry that his face turned red, and he was furious, "A bastard is not worthy of conspiracy! I ordered the arrest of Yuan Shu and Cao Cao."

When Cao Cao passed through Zhongmu County, the pavilion chief suspected that his origin was unknown, so he got up and sent him to the county.

At that time, the county had received an official document from Dong Zhuo ordering the arrest of Cao Cao. Only the meritorious Cao Cao knew in his heart that he was Cao Cao. He believed that the world was in chaos and heroes should not be arrested, so he suggested to the county magistrate that Cao Cao be released.

This time, Cao Cao almost failed to achieve his great cause and died halfway.

Therefore, all people who can succeed must have good luck.

Cao Cao returned to Chenliu County, sold his property, and assembled an army of five thousand men.

Probably because Cao Cao is one of the three protagonists, the story about Cao Cao's assassination of Dong Zhuo in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

In the novel, Cao Cao had great trust in Dong Zhuo at that time and could freely enter and exit Dong's mansion.

Therefore, Cao Cao conspired with Wang Yun to use Cao Cao's position to enter Dong's mansion, and with the help of Wang Yun's family's seven-star sword, he broke Dong Zhuo's personal soft armor and prepared to kill him.

However, the assassination failed and Cao Cao had to flee Luoyang and was hunted by Dong Zhuo...

Unfortunately, romance is romance and history is history. Cao Cao did not assassinate Dong Zhuo.

But in history, someone did assassinate Dong Zhuo.

"Book of the Later Han Dynasty" records: Fu, named Deyu, was from Wufang, Runan. He is resolute in nature, brave and righteous, and possesses both strength and ability.

Angry at Zhuo's viciousness, he is determined to kill him with his own hands, so he wears a sword in his court uniform to see Zhuo.

After Fu finished speaking, he resigned. Zhuo Qi sent him to He and touched his back with his hand. Fu Yin stabbed him with a knife, but missed.

Zhuo Zizhi was able to escape, and he hurriedly shouted to the left and right to kill him, but he shouted loudly: "The captives want to rebel!"

Fu Dayan said: "I wish I could destroy the traitors in the city to thank heaven and earth!"

He died before finishing his words...

It was precisely because of this assassination that Dong Zhuo began to wear close-fitting soft armor and was escorted by armored soldiers when he went out. From then on, his safety protection became more thorough.

Wu Fu once held the positions of Shizhong, Henan Yin and Yueqi Xiaowei.

When Dong Zhuo launched a rebellion and all officials were panicked, Fu wore light armor.

He hid the knife in his court uniform and tried to find an opportunity to assassinate Dong Zhuo.

Zhuo noticed Fu's intention. After he sent Fu to Hezhong, Fu immediately pulled out a knife and stabbed Dong Zhuo.

However, Zhuo Li was so powerful that Fu failed in his assassination and was arrested on the spot...

There is also a chapter in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" where it is said that the magistrate of Zhongmu County at that time was Chen Gong. He also hated Dong Zhuo and admired Cao Cao as a hero, so he staged a "capture and release of Cao".

At night, Chen Gong quietly released Cao Cao, resigned, and expressed his willingness to follow Cao Cao to eradicate Dong Zhuo and restore the Han Dynasty.

Immediately, Cao Cao and Chen Gong fled together and passed by Lu Boshe's house at night.

This Lu Boshe was a good friend of Cao Cao's father, so something unfortunate happened.

Cao Cao heard the sound of sharpening knives in the backyard, and heard someone whispering, suspecting that the Lu family wanted to harm him.

So he decided to strike first and killed all eight members of the Lu family.

After the killing was completed, it was later discovered that the wrong person had been killed. It turned out that the Lu family wanted to kill a pig to entertain them.

The two fled in a hurry, and met Lu Boxe on the way back from buying wine. Cao Cao was afraid that Lu Boxe would see his family members killed after returning home, and then report to the officials to arrest Cao Cao.

So, Cao Cao did not stop doing anything, raised his sword and killed Lu Boshe as well.

At that time, Chen Gong angrily accused Cao Mengde of being cruel, selfish, unkind, and unjust, and from then on he cut off his robe and parted ways with Cao Cao.

Cao Cao said the words that have been passed down to future generations: "I would rather let the world down than let the world down me!"

In fact, these are also problematic. At this time, Chen Gong was not a county magistrate at all, and if he wanted to release Cao Cao, he would not choose such a method at all.

In real history, when Cao Cao was appointed governor of Dongjun, Chen Gong became an official.

In the third year of Chuping (192), Chen Gong used diplomatic means to capture Yanzhou for Cao Cao.

At that time, Yanzhou was in a state of ownerlessness due to the death of the governor Liu Dai in the battle with the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army.

Moreover, Chen Gong won the support of Jibei Prime Minister Bao Xin for Cao Cao...

It can be said that Chen Gong played a very important role in the rise of Cao Cao.

The reason why Chen Gong turned against Cao Cao was not because Cao Cao killed Lu Boxe. Cao Cao did not kill Lu Boxe.

As for whether Cao Cao killed other members of Lu Boshe's family, this is historically contradictory.

There is no record in Chen Shou's "Three Kingdoms: Chronicles of Emperor Wu". In the remaining three versions, Chen Gong was not present.

"Book of Wei" says: "Taizu Yizhuo was bound to be defeated eventually, so he refused to bow down and fled back to his hometown. He rode several times to his old friend Chenggao Lu Boshe;

When Bo She was away, his son and the guests robbed Taizu and took away horses and other things. Taizu killed several people with his sword. "

This record is that the sons and guests of Lu Boshe's family acted first. Cao Cao's killing was a legitimate defense.

This "Book of Wei" was written by people from the Wei state, and there may be some glorification and bias towards Cao Cao.

"Shiyu" says: "Taizu visited Boshe. When Boshe went out, all his five sons were there to prepare the guests and host the ceremony.

Taizu thought he had betrayed Zhuo's fate, and suspected that he had his own agenda. He killed eight people with his sword and left at night. "

This was manslaughter.

Sun Sheng's "Miscellaneous Notes" said: "When Taizu heard the sound of his food utensils, he thought it was for his own benefit, so he killed him at night.

Then he said sadly: I would rather betray others than others betray me!

Go ahead! "

But these "Miscellaneous Notes" are a bit biased towards unofficial history.

Therefore, it is possible for Cao Cao to kill Lu Boxe's family, but it is impossible to kill Lu Boxe.

The reason why Chen Gong parted ways with him was not only due to personality issues, but actually the biggest issue was interests.

After Cao Cao came to power, he violently attacked the Yanzhou nobles and killed Bian Rang, a famous Yanzhou scholar, and others.

Bian Rang was a good friend of Chen Gong and an important figure among the Yanzhou gentry.

Cao Cao's actions caused dissatisfaction among the entire Yanzhou gentry. As the leader of the Yanzhou gentry, Chen Gong naturally would not let it go with Cao Cao.

As a result, the Yanzhou nobles united against Cao Cao, welcomed Lu Bu into Yanzhou, and almost destroyed Cao Cao.

Chen Gong supported Cao Cao at first, but he actually wanted to expand the interests of his Chen family. However, Cao Cao did not care about wealthy families or ordinary people, and he would kill when he should.

Of course, Cao Cao also killed people who shouldn't be killed. This is Cao Cao!

(End of this chapter)