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Chapter 522 Dong Zhuo's solicitation

"I joined forces with Dong Zhuo. Can you believe this?"

Su Yao did not answer Zhong Yao's question, but asked a question in return.

Seeing Su Yao's attitude, Zhong Yao sighed:
"In fact, after everyone found out that the prince had withdrawn his family from the capital, they began to come to their senses."

"But the incident happened suddenly, and Dong Zhuo's words were so firm and convincing."

"In addition, he had a large army at his disposal, and the officials were powerless to resist in a hurry. Many officials were forced to abandon their posts and leave."

Before Zhong Yao finished speaking, Qian Zhao snorted coldly:
"I'm afraid what Yuan Chang said is not very appropriate."

"Why do I hear you trying to shift the blame onto the Lord?"

"To be honest, Dong Zhuo is a disciple of the Yuan family. They deliberately invited him here. Now that he has caused such a disaster, the Grand Tutor should commit suicide to apologize to the world!"

Zhong Yao's face was cold and he had nothing to say. Xun Yu took the opportunity to continue the conversation:
"Don't be angry, Zijing."

"Yuan Chang will never raise an army to punish anyone from now on."

"In my opinion, this is probably more of a test by the officials in the capital. They are worried that you will be lured and used by Dong Zhuo."

Zhong Yao's expression finally changed slightly after hearing his thoughts revealed. His expression turned red.

"Since your debut, you have taken it as your duty to protect the people of the world. You will never associate with such a traitorous person."

"However, I still want to ask about this matter. Now that the capital has undergone a drastic change, your Excellency has kept his troops at Yique and not taken any action. What exactly is your intention?"

After Zhong Yao said this, everyone who had just spoken for Su Yao stopped talking and turned their eyes to Su Yao. This Lord Su was really too patient.

This question is probably a common question among all those who have ambitions for the world today.

Not only Dong Zhuo in the capital was extremely concerned, but even the other dignitaries and Su Yao's subordinates had such questions.

However, Su Yao still looked indifferent. Not only did he not answer, but he asked again:

"I would like to ask you, what do you think of Dong Zhuo's sudden dethronement and taking control of the capital?"

"Everyone, tell me the truth. Don't play tricks on me."

Su Yao asked this question, but he was not asking it on purpose.

Instead, he suddenly realized that his previous way of playing the game without paying much attention to it seemed to have overlooked Dong Zhuo.

This person was really generous and able to win people's hearts. After this sudden change, even in his team, there were many people who supported Dong Zhuo.

Yes, Dong Zhuo was generous enough.

This is also the reason why Zhong Yao came in a hurry.

After Dong Zhuo seized power in the country, he promoted himself to Grand Marshal, General of the Front, and gave him additional military authority, the right to use axes and halberds, and the title of Huben, and further conferred him the title of Marquis of Mei. However, he did not, as Su Yao had imagined, sleep in the dragon bed at night, party every night, and cause great suffering to the people of Luoyang City.
This guy, on the contrary, issued a series of ambitious decrees one after another?
This not only made Su Yao, who was fast-forwarding time here and waiting for Dong Zhuo to disrupt the capital, a little confused and worried about whether he was stuck. The nobles in the capital who opposed Dong Zhuo were also worried, fearing that Dong Zhuo would gain a firm foothold.

After all, Dong Zhuo's new policies were no longer just the first three major changes a new official made upon taking office.

He really looks like a capable person, and the political qualities he displays make it hard to imagine that he is just a frontier warrior who only knows how to fight and kill.

For example, although Dong Zhuo almost wiped out the He family's forces, he showed considerable goodwill towards other famous families in the capital and local princes.

Before Zhong Yao came this time, Dong Zhuo promoted Su Yao on the basis of the previous promotions of General Wei and Governor of Qingzhou given to Su Yao by the Yuan family!
Dong Zhuo just waved his hand:
"Marquis Su, from now on you will be the General of the Cavalry. Let's work together to protect the Han Dynasty."

That’s right, the General of Cavalry is the one who served as Huo Qubing in the past. He holds the same rank as one of the Three Dukes, and like the General of Chariots and Cavalry, he has an important title and a government office. It is a military position second only to the general.

Compared with Emperor Lingdi who was stingy, Dong Zhuo was extremely generous by going all out in one go.

Moreover, not only that, Dong Zhuo even gave Su Yao several places for commendation on the grounds of Su Yao's great victory in Liaodong, allowing him to reward his soldiers and generals at his own discretion.

It has to be said that this move indeed won considerable military support. Not only did Dian Wei nod secretly, but Lu Bu also smiled happily when he heard it, and said frankly that Dong Gong was still as generous as ever, and he had seen his style in Bingzhou in the past.

However, Su Yao is not the only one who is special.

In addition to Su Yao, Dong Zhuo, a member of the Han royal family, was not left out. Because of his contribution in killing Zhang Chun and stabilizing Youzhou, Liu Yu, a relative of the royal family, was directly conferred the title of Grand Marshal.

Su Yao and Liu Yu received great rewards, and he did not forget the princes from other places.

In addition to Huangfu Song in Liangzhou who was recalled to serve as the city gate captain due to personal grudges, Huang Wan, the governor of Yuzhou, was promoted to the Three Dukes, and Zhu Jun in Henei was promoted to the governor of Henan. The most important thing was that Han Sui and Ma Teng in Xiliang were both sent edicts to recruit them, asking everyone to work together to build a harmonious Han Dynasty.
In addition, there were hundreds of officials in the capital, such as Taizhong Daifu, Linjin Hou Yang Biao was promoted to Three Dukes, Wang Yun was appointed Taifu, Liu Dai was appointed Yanzhou Governor, Kong Rong was appointed Yuzhou Governor, Zhang Zi was appointed Nanyang Prefect, and so on.

He even did not bear a grudge against the person who escaped, and rewarded him in return for evil.

For example, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and Wang Kuang, who fled one after another, were appointed by him as the prefect of Bohai, the prefect of Dongjun and the prefect of Henei respectively.

What's even more outrageous is that Dong Zhuo did something that He Jin didn't do when he was in power.

That is to redress those who suffered unjust treatment due to the eunuchs’ scourge in the past!

This guy, this performance, this quality.

Is this the amateur overlord Dong Zhuo???

It has to be said that this move made many people who were dissatisfied with his dethronement and enthronement become fond of him.

For example, the famous scholars Cai Yong, Xun Shuang, Chen Ji and others, after some hesitation and crying out to the heavens, finally surrendered and took up their official positions.

At that time, many people were even speculating whether this was Dong Zhuo's intention, his staff's intention, or even Taifu Yuan Wei's intention?
However, no matter what, Dong Zhuo's new policies made his opponents feel uneasy.

Especially since Su Yao had already stayed in Yique for more than half a month, and was even openly eating the military rations sent from Luoyang by Dong Zhuo and others, this really made people scratch their heads.

If Dong Zhuo's plan of granting official titles and distributing them in order to win people's hearts really worked, then wouldn't the opposition's little tricks be like a mantis trying to stop a chariot and be inappropriate?
This was a mutual test. Everyone was testing Su Yao's attitude, and Su Yao was also testing their thoughts.

Because, Su Yao also found that in addition to Lu Bu and others who were tempted, in his advisory group, except for Qian Zhao who firmly opposed because of the chaos caused by the death of his teacher in Luoyang, the attitudes of Wang Ling and Xun Yu also became somewhat subtle.
(End of this chapter)