Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 17 Dong Zhuo and the Scholar's Honeymoon Period
All the people in the bathroom knelt on the ground, except Liu Xie, who was holding a bath towel in his hands, and berated Fang Qiu. Anyone who didn't know the truth would really think that the imperial power of the Han Dynasty was shining, and the emperor of the Han Dynasty was arbitrary.But in fact, Liu Xie was extremely worried at this time, and he had already been thinking non-stop: Dong Pangpang, please speak up quickly... If you don't speak again, Leng Shouguang's life will really be explained here! .

Yes, in the face of Leng Shouguang, who has known each other for a very short time, but everything is toward him.Liu Xie would not want to kill him unless his mind was flooded, but Dong Zhuo's light glance just now clearly showed that he had already become suspicious of Leng Shouguang. The dead don't know.

The only thing Liu Xie is looking forward to now is that Fatty Dong has some of the political methods he has learned in the past two years.Naturally, Liu Xie didn't expect that the hypocritical sympathy between the two just now would make Dong Zhuo let his life go. What he expected was that Dong Zhuo knew a little about the necessary compromises in political games.

Now the facts are very clear, he Dong Zhuo can no longer play a single hand to abolish the establishment.And the little emperor in front of him seems to be hooking up with those pigs and monkeys in the Kanto. If Dong Zhuo wants to figure out what this little emperor is doing, and even ask him to be quiet and not cause trouble for himself, he will naturally need to pay a little bit cost.Now, Liu Xie has issued his own request, and it depends on whether Dong Zhuo can understand it and whether he wants it.

Changed to the later Cao Cao, Liu Xie felt that Boss Cao would definitely agree to this kind of thing without saying a word.But for Dong Zhuo, he really couldn't guarantee it. After all, no matter what he said, Fatty Dong had military power that Liu Xie couldn't shake, and he himself didn't have Cao Cao's mind and forbearance.If this fat man really puts the Han Dynasty on the opposite side of his heart, then Liu Xie has nothing to do except cry and grab the ground.

Fortunately, Liu Xie made the right bet at this step, he really underestimated Dong Zhuo.Just when those guards with ax and ax were also walking towards Leng Shouguang with hesitant steps, Dong Zhuo's swollen dead fish eyes turned around twice before he raised his head and said to Liu Xie: "Your Majesty, this little yellow gate is also Worried about His Majesty's safety, although he acted in a panic, his loyalty is commendable, and it is much better than those regular servants in introspection back then. I dare to beg Your Majesty, for this reason, can you spare his life?"

Liu Xie, who finally heard this, breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't dare to learn the tricks that the emperor of the Song Dynasty and his courtiers later counted. He quickly pretended to be aggrieved and said: " Since the Grand Master begged for you, I have to give the Grand Master face. However, the death penalty can be avoided, but the living crime cannot be forgiven, if you drag it on, you can be whipped twenty times!"

Liu Xie had already thought about the number of whipping twenty.Although he didn't know how severe the punishment in the Han Dynasty was.However, judging from the fact that the [-]th board in the later dynasties could kill and maim people, the number of [-] should be just enough to not hurt Leng Shouguang's muscles and bones, but also to make the narrow-minded Dong Zhuo vent his anger.

After getting the order, Su Wei dragged Leng Shouguang out, and so far Leng Shouguang remained silent without saying a word.Looking at Leng Shouguang with a dejected and aggrieved face.Liu Xie almost had the urge to cry: After serving Dong Zhuo, a drunk, it seemed that he had to comfort the little eunuch who was hurt in his heart.I don't want to sleep peacefully tonight... Being the emperor is such a coward, and I am so aggrieved!

But as soon as he took his eyes off Leng Shouguang, Liu Xie turned around and saw Dong Zhuo's dead fish eyes with seven points of anger, two points of impatience, and one point of resentment.He knew that Dong Zhuo was waiting for his statement, but the problem was, he had just crossed over and hadn't even figured out a clue, so how could he write a letter of guarantee to you Fatty Dong?

It seems that you have to continue to fool, and you have to be very technical.

"Grand Master, I was born in the harem since I was a child, and grew up in the hands of women. Apart from those Confucian classics, all I heard were rumors about scholars who were proud and loyal to the country. Listening to what the Grand Master said today, those It seems that the scholar-officials are not as described in the book?..." Liu Xie offered a bottle of wine to Dong Zhuoxu, and dared to let Dong Zhuo continue to drink at this time, Liu Xie felt that he was really courageous.

That's right, his move to deal with Dong Zhuo by retreating is obviously a good idea.After Dong Zhuo sat down again, he was not as angry as before, but after hearing Liu Xie's words, he immediately became agitated again, and regardless of the fullness of his stomach, he drank another bottle of wine and said indignantly: "Your Majesty, Don't be deceived by those hypocrites! These people are the best at this. No matter how cruel and treacherous they are behind the scenes, they will always look upright and upright on the surface. A certain family was also deceived by their appearance back then. That's why it ended up like this! Your Majesty knows..."

Of course Liu Xie didn't know, but he knew that it was time for Fatty Dong to complain again.So, he immediately put on a sympathetic face, seduced Fatty Dong with a pair of eager eyes, and continued to listen to these secrets that have been misunderstood by people for nearly a thousand years and are about to decay into ashes.

According to what Dong Zhuo said, when he was thinking of being in charge of the government alone, he had already taken the initiative to win over Yuan Shao. After all, the Yuan family was a scholar leader, and if he could win over, he would not be afraid that other scholars would not submit.So he discussed with Yuan Shao his plan of "abolishing the young emperor and establishing the king of Chenliu", but Yuan Shao flatly rejected it; And go, fled to Jizhou.

The first time Dong Zhuo condescended to cooperate with scholars, he ended up with a hot face and a cold ass, which made Dong Zhuo very distressed-how can he let the scholars cooperate with him?

At this moment, scholars Zhou Yan and Wu Qiong took the initiative to seek refuge.Zhou Wei was the Shangshu at that time, and Wu Qiong was the school lieutenant of the city gate at that time. The official positions were not very big, but this was enough to make Dong Zhuo happy-after all, some scholars took the initiative to cooperate with him!The two of them persuaded Dong Zhuo to reform politics and promote famous people in the world to win the popularity of the people. This was in Dong Zhuo's arms, so Dong Zhuo entrusted them to implement it (there is no way not to entrust, Dong Zhuo has no prestige among scholars).They also recommended Shangshu Zhengtai and Changshi He Yong to participate, and Dong Zhuo agreed without thinking.

So with the strong support of Dong Zhuo, these four people began to organize a new Eastern Han government in full swing.Under their recommendation, celebrities such as Xun Shuang, Chen Ji, and Han Rong were recruited into the court.Xun Shuang was appointed as Sikong, Chen Ji's five-official general, and Han Rong's Dahonglu.Dong Zhuo also recruited scholars Cai Yong, Huang Wan, and Yang Biao, making Cai Yong his servant, Huang Wan his situ and Yang Biao his sikong.

Xun Shuang, Xun Yu's uncle, was a prominent family in Yingchuan County. In his early years, he abandoned his official position and lived in seclusion by the banks of the Han River.Huang Wan was the grandson of former Situ Huang Qiong, who came from a famous family.Yang Biao was even worse, not to mention Cai Yong and Yang Biao, their weight was no less than the first two.So for a while, scholars and celebrities ranked high, and the court atmosphere was one of the new ones.

Among them, Dong Zhuo couldn't wait to cooperate with the scholars. For example, when he recruited Cai Yong as an official, he simply used force to coerce him, but then he did not hesitate to award rewards, showing the utmost benevolence and righteousness.Another example is that he recruited Xun Shuang as an official, and Xun Shuang also took office because of fear. Dong Zhuo named him Guangluxun (this is one of the "Nine Qings") on his way to the court. In three days, he was promoted to Sikong, one of the three princes.

During this period, in order to express his sincerity in cooperating with the scholars, Dong Zhuo also fulfilled the two long-standing wishes of the scholar group: first, after all the eunuchs were killed, he used the children of Gongqing as Lang officials to make up for the vacancies of eunuchs, and served in the intrauterine.In this way, the scholar class has since then had a stable ladder for advancement.This was the goal that the scholars longed for when Dou Wu and Chen Fan tried to kill the eunuchs in [-], but it was in vain because of Dou Wu's failure; He Jin was killed, but it was not realized, but now Dong Zhuo, a warrior, has achieved it.

The second is to lead the Sangong and other ministers to write a letter, requesting to retry the cases of Chen Fan, Dou Wu and party members, restore their titles, send envoys to mourn their tombs, and promote their descendants as officials.It is to rehabilitate the wronged Dou Wu, Chen Fan and the imprisoned party members. This is also the goal of the scholars' long-term struggle, and now Dong Zhuo has realized it.

It can be said that during this period, Dong Zhuo and the scholar class were just like newly married young couples, their love was as bright as spring flowers, and the honeymoon period was even sweeter.It's just unexpected that in this gluey love, the scholar group planted a poison that penetrated into the bone marrow in this tenderness!
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