A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 374: If you misinterpret the scriptures to gain fame, are the healthy people in the world only fair?

Li Su saw that Lu Bu's anger had been aroused, and he got out at the right time and said:

"Haha, please forgive me in advance, don't be angry, and listen to me carefully. It's not because I look down on you. In fact, I came here for another purpose."

"Oh? What's the purpose?"

"Ming Gong Dong Zhuo was born in the border county. He values ​​​​people like you and me who were born in the border county very much. Now that he has heard about Fengxian's martial name from my mouth, he is like a scholar seeing a calligraphy treasure or a general seeing a famous sword. Cherish love.

I also heard that Fengxian failed under Ding Yuan's tent, and I felt deeply regretful every time I thought about it. He immediately ordered me to come with gold orbs, famous swords and horses to recruit virtuous brothers.

Ming Gong said that for a peerless military talent like Fengxian, as long as you are willing to take refuge in him, he will never refuse if you are willing to have a high official, a good salary, a fancy car or a BMW, and if you ask for it, Ming Gong can do it. "

As Lu Bu listened, his eyes gradually shone brightly, and he swept away the previous decline, but then he thought of something: "Oh, it's not that I don't want to take refuge with Dong Gong, it's because in order to keep me, Ding Yuan recognized me as my If the adopted son rebels now, wouldn't it mean that the son has killed his father and may be shamed by everyone in the world?"

Li Su shook his head and persuaded: "No, no, it is said in "Bai Zhuan" that a father treats his son like a treasure, a son treats his father as a god, a king treats his ministers like grass, and his ministers regard him as a thief and bandit.

The son is like a minister, and the father is like a king. In other words, the father treats his son like a piece of grass, and the son should regard his father as a thief. What's more, Ding Yuan is not your biological father, just a foster father.

Knowing that Fengxian's bravery is not that of ordinary people, even if he is a general, why is he incompetent, yet he suppresses you. For many years, you have been just a bookkeeper, and you have been laughed at by the villagers. "

Lu Bu looked at Li Su suspiciously, as if he was confirming whether there was this passage in Bai Chuan and whether it was explained in this way.

But looking at Li Su's serious face, I also thought that Li Su was a man who had read books after all, and he must understand the principles of the sages better than a rough guy like himself, let alone what the Bai family he respected the most said.

Because of Zhenbei General Baima, Lu Bu had a great affection for Bai. Because Lu Bu lost his father when he was young, his mother also passed away not long after.

After the Zhenbei Mansion found out, he was brought into the mansion as a personal soldier, responsible for serving tea and water, washing horses and feeding grass, and he lived past the age of fifteen.

By the time he was fifteen years old, Lu Bu was already quite brave, probably because of his extraordinary talent. At the age of sixteen, Lu Bu was able to defeat ordinary soldiers of Zhenbei Prefecture.

After Baima heard about it, he knew that he was the orphan of the Lu family in Jiuyuan. He immediately accepted him as a personal soldier and personally taught him martial arts, which made his martial arts improve rapidly. By the time he was in his twenties, he had no rivals in Zhenbei Mansion.

By that time, except for the post of General Zhenbei, all other positions in Zhenbei Mansion required military merit and could only be awarded after being reported to the court. Therefore, until he was twenty-five years old, Lu Bu was only a small military prince.

Later, he was recommended by Baima and was recruited by Ding Yuan. With his bravery and military merit, he quickly gained Ding Yuan's attention and accepted him as his adopted son.

Lu Bu, who was young and inexperienced in the world, was tied up by Ding Yuan and became Ding Yuan's tool to earn military achievements. With Lu Bu's bravery, Ding Yuan was quickly promoted to the governor of Bingzhou, and received He Jin's secret order to worship him as a military officer. Lieutenant Meng, together with Lu Bu and other Bingzhou cavalry, stationed in the capital.

After so many years, Ding Yuan's official career was prosperous, but Lu Bu has always been the chief clerk.

While Lu Bu was still thinking, a soldier came outside the tent to report that Ding was in the military camp. It turns out that since Ding Yuan ascended to the throne of King Wu, he rarely returned to the military camp due to too many things and spent most of his time in Luoyang City.

The affairs of the Bingzhou army were handed over to his adopted son Lu Bu. Only Lu Bu could restrain these arrogant and powerful generals in Bingzhou.

Li Su held the wine glass, looked at Lu Bu with a smile and said, "Fengxian, if you really want to defect to Duke Dong, this is your best declaration of surrender."

Lu Bu clearly understood Li Su's allusion and thought about the expectations of the villagers for him. If he died without letting his comrades and generals hear his martial name, it would be even more uncomfortable than killing him.

He stood up suddenly, drank all the wine in one gulp, stared at Li Su with his tiger eyes, and said coldly: "I hope you didn't lie to me, otherwise I will let you know my methods."

After saying that, he picked up the sword on the sword stand and headed towards Ding Yuan's military tent.

At this time, Ding Yuan was checking the account books of these days. It was not that he didn't believe Lu Bu, but that he only believed in himself.

Suddenly a gust of cold wind swayed the candle, and Ding Yuan quickly covered it with his hands to prevent the candle from extinguishing.

Ding Yuan looked up and saw that it was Lu Bu, asking, "Why is my son here?"

Hearing no reply, Ding Yuan looked carefully again and saw Lu Bu with a murderous look on his face and a cold sword in his hand. He asked with some anxiety: "My son, what does this mean?"

Lu Bu looked at Ding Yuan coldly, as if looking at a dead man: "Who is your son? He is just a mediocre man who takes advantage of my force, and he dares to be my father, Lu Bu?"

After saying that, the unbelievable Ding Yuan was beheaded with a sword. The blood spattered on the military tent, which looked so bright red. "Ding Yuan" rolled aside. Lu Bu picked it up and turned around and left the tent.

When the guards saw Lu Bu coming out with his head, they were too frightened to speak. They could only run and shout: "Zhi Jinwu was killed by Lu Bu, Zhi Jinwu was killed by Lu Bu."

Lu Bu did not stop their running, but stood quietly in front of the military tent with his head raised, waiting until all the soldiers arrived.

He threw "Ding Yuan" to the ground and rolled it to the feet of the soldiers in front of him. The soldiers took a few steps back in fear.

Ding Yuan's old troops Cheng Lian, Wei Xu, Hao Meng, Gao Shun and others who arrived at this time all looked at Lu Bu in confusion, wondering what he was doing. However, Lu Bu had always been prestigious in the army, so they did not rush to attack him immediately. He killed, but listened quietly to what he said.

"Old thief Ding Yuan has repeatedly deceived me. He has been like this since Bingzhou. It is obviously the credit of me and all the brothers, but he was greedy and went to Luoyang to eat the popular food and drink spicy food, leaving my brothers and me here alone. How could such a man, who endured hunger and starvation, become our chief general? The former general Dong Zhuo had the merit of rescuing the Emperor. He sent people to win over us because we were from Bingzhou, and gave us many rewards. Gold and silver treasures, what a generous mind this is.

Therefore, I decided to give up Ding Yuan and join Dong Gong. When the time comes, relying on Dong Gong, the brothers will have a better way out, and they can also send more household expenses to their families. Isn't it better than Ding Yuan who followed Shesou? times?
Everyone knows what kind of person I, Lu Bu, am. Even the old thief Ding Yuan cannot tolerate people like me. What future is there for following him?
Anyway, Ding Yuan is dead now. If you want to follow me and serve Dong Gong, please stay. If you don’t want to stay in Luoyang, take off your armor and stomach and leave with only a knife and a mount. , so as not to hurt the friendship between us. "

After listening to Lu Bu's words, Gao Shun and Cheng Lian, who came out of Zhenbei Mansion with Lu Bu, decided on the spot to follow Lu Bu. Seeing this, the other generals such as Wei Xu and Hao Meng also agreed to follow Lu Bu.

However, there were still some people who could not accept the result of killing their general and surrendering to the enemy. They listened to Lu Bu and took off their armor and stomach, carrying only a knife, a horse, and their own belongings, and headed towards Bingzhou.

Fortunately, most people are willing to follow Lu Bu, but only a few, hundreds of people are not willing. They all choose to return to Bingzhou, even if their hometown is very poor.

Dong Zhuo was very happy to hear that Lü Bu had come to serve him. He conferred the title of Cavalry Captain on the spot and promised that when he became the Third Duke, he would appoint Lü Bu as the Zhonglang General.

Lü Bu was very grateful to Dong Zhuo for his generosity and respect. When Dong Zhuo proposed to adopt him as his adopted son, Lü Bu agreed without much thought.

Anyway, he has already killed one adoptive father, and a few more will make no difference. In his heart, except for Baima, who is not a father, but is better than a father, the other adopted fathers, no matter how many he kills, will have no impact on him.

With the help of Lu Bu and the annexation of Ding Yuan's old troops, the entire military power of Luoyang fell into the hands of Dong Zhuo, and Dong Zhuo truly became the uncrowned king of Luoyang.

August 29
In order to appease Dong Zhuo, the imperial court dismissed Liu Hong as Sikong and sent envoys to Xianyang Garden to worship Dong Zhuo as Sikong.

In order to show his power, and Emperor Liu Bian really made Dong Zhuo dislike him, coupled with the legitimacy of his mother, Queen Mother He.

Under Li Ru's suggestion, Dong Zhuo prepared to imitate Huo Guang and depose the emperor.

But the court does not have the final say alone. The most prestigious person in the court now is Tai Fu Bai Ya. If you want to depose the emperor, you must get Bai Ya's consent.

So Dong Zhuo invited Bai Dian, the captain of the Sili School, to Xianyang Garden to discuss the matter of abolishing the establishment. He said that Liu Bianwang was not like the Ming Dynasty, but Liu Xie was smart and smart.

He also dug out a posthumous edict that he had found out somewhere, saying that the late emperor originally wanted to make Liu Xie the emperor, but He Jin and others interfered with it and made Liu Bian the emperor. As a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, he must respect the late emperor's will. .

He also said that if Huo Guang had not deposed Haihunhou, how could Emperor Xuan be resurrected? The scene today is very similar to that of the beginning. For the sake of the Han Dynasty, he wanted the Bai family to help him.

But who was Bai Dian? He had been carefully taught by a century-old political family, and he had experienced the ups and downs of officialdom. He understood Dong Zhuo's thoughts at a glance, refused directly, and proposed to ask his uncle Bai Ya for instructions.

Dong Zhuo heard this and said angrily: "Why don't you decide what's going to happen to me today? Who dares to disobey what I'm doing now? Are you calling Dong Zhuo's sword unfavorable?"

Bai Dian sneered and said: "Isn't Mr. Dong the only one who is strong in the world?"

Then he bowed with his sword and left.

After being taught by Li Ru and Dong Min for many days, Dong Zhuo naturally knew the prestige and status of Bai Dian and the Bai family in the world and the court, so he had no choice but to let him go.

Later, Dong Zhuo found his grand master Yuan Wei. Unexpectedly, Yuan Wei agreed, expressed his support for his actions, and was willing to work with him to overthrow Bai Ya, the stumbling block in front of him.

August 30

On the way back to the mansion, Bai Ya was collided by soldiers and horses from Xiliang. His already old and frail body, which was in his eighties, was suddenly frightened and he fell ill.

Dong Zhuo took advantage of this to propose the abolition of Li Li at the court meeting, and took Huo Guang's incident as an example to extend his life to Tian Yannian (anyone who opposed it would be executed immediately).

Among the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, only Shangshu Lu Zhi, Zhi Jinwu Yuan Shao, and Sili Xiaowei Bai Dian opposed it.

Facing the great scholar Lu Zhi's words, Dong Zhuo was speechless. With Yuan Shao, who also had the background of the Fourth Generation and Three Dukes, and Bai Dian of the Evergreen Bai family, Dong Zhuo returned depressed.

When he returned to the mansion, he wanted to send troops immediately to capture and execute these three people. However, he was dissuaded by Cai Yong and Peng Bo, famous people in the government.

After Lu Zhi and the others returned to the mansion, they knew that Luoyang could no longer stay, so they abandoned their official positions and fled. After Bai Dian also visited Bai Ya, under his instruction, he ran to Qingzhou to find his nephew Bai Xing.

September st

Without the obstruction of Lu Zhi and three others, Dong Zhuo relied on his power and killed several ministers with no background. Under the auspices of Shangshu Ding Gong, he presided over the dethroning ceremony in the front hall of Chongde.

Grand Master Yuan Wei personally helped Liu Bian down from the throne, removed the jade seal ribbon from his body and handed it to Liu Xie, then helped Liu Xie sit on the throne and officially ascended the throne.

Dong Zhuo then asked the minister to read out the policy and impeach Empress Dowager He for causing the death of Empress Dowager Dong, and moved her to Yong'an Palace.

September
Queen Mother He was poisoned and died. Dong Zhuo did not allow the court to hold a funeral for the Empress Dowager, but allowed Liu Xie to go to Fengchang Pavilion in Luoyang City to express condolences. The ministers were only allowed to wear white clothes in court for three days.

(End of this chapter)