Chapter 307 Dong Zhuo’s Disaster
Li Nian continued: "In times of peace, the governor can rely on the central government to maintain his authority, but when the world is in chaos, the central government's control over local areas is greatly weakened, and the governor naturally loses the authority he should have. ”
"The backstage of the governor is the central court. When the central government loses power, the prefect who holds the real power can certainly not take them seriously."
This model of the Eastern Han Dynasty was good in peacetime. It was conducive to the central government's supervision and control of local areas, and it would not create emperors who would enfeoff territories. After all, the governor only had supervisory power, but did not have the power of military administration of a state. He did not rely on the central government to do so. Endorsement cannot suppress the local governor.
But once the world enters turmoil, the disadvantages will be reflected, and it will be difficult for the governors who do not have military administrative power to exercise their power of supervision.
"After the Yellow Turban Uprising in the Eastern Han Dynasty, although the king was not destroyed, the world was in chaos. The central authority of the Eastern Han Dynasty was not as good as before, and the authority of the governor was also weakened."
To put it bluntly, the governors themselves have no real power and rely entirely on the support of the central government. If the central government cannot support them, their waists will naturally not be straight...
"Some people in later generations thought that Liu Yan's proposal to 'abolish history and establish animal husbandry' was hidden selfishness and bad intentions, but in fact it was a helpless choice."
"Perhaps Liu Yan does have some selfish motives, but as a member of the Eastern Han clan, he should want to keep the Eastern Han Dynasty alive. There is no reason to want the Eastern Han Dynasty to perish."
"'Abolish history and establish animal husbandry' means to abolish the prefectural governor and reestablish the prefectural governor who was used in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The prefectural governor is the highest military and administrative officer in a state. In fact, it is the prefectural governor who has been given real power."
The First Emperor said: "But doing this will give the state pastor great power. If time goes on, the princes will definitely rise together and the warlords will separate themselves!"
Li Nian nodded and said: "That's true, but Liu Hong has no better choice. He can only do this first."
From the perspective of later generations, some behaviors of historical figures will be considered stupid. However, if you carefully analyze them in their time, you will find that they sometimes did not have much choice.
"At least abolishing history and establishing animal husbandry will stabilize the world's chaos and prevent it from collapsing in an instant. Moreover, if the state pastors in each state use more clan members and important ministers loyal to the Eastern Han Dynasty, even if the state pastors have different intentions in the future, there is still a chance that their flesh will rot in the pot. , maybe one of the clans will succeed, and the power of Guangwu will bring peace to the world again, and the Eastern Han Dynasty will be revived again!"
The First Emperor nodded, thinking that this should be Liu Yan and Liu Hong's idea. From a theoretical perspective, this idea did have a chance to come true.
Li Nian changed the subject: "Unfortunately, things did not develop like this, but instead became a chaos that affected tens of millions of people and spanned decades!"
The story of the Three Kingdoms of the Eastern Han Dynasty is indeed wonderful, but behind it is a lot of bones. When the Three Kingdoms came to an end, the world was empty, and how many people had died?
"In April of the sixth year of Zhongping, Liu Hong passed away at the age of thirty-four. His posthumous title was Emperor Xiaoling. This is not a good posthumous title. 'Ling' refers to the absurdity of his reign."
"Liu Hong was also an Eastern Han emperor who died in his prime. He also left behind the same problems as his predecessors. For example, he failed to cultivate a good successor and left a lot of problems for the eunuchs and relatives in the harem to interfere in politics. He died a hundred times. But after his death, the Eastern Han Dynasty became lively!”
No, this person just said that the eunuchs were able to participate in politics because of the king, and all other powers were tied to Liu Hong. Now that Liu Hong is dead, the eunuchs should also have lost their power, and they should be eliminated by several other forces. Yes, how come there are still eunuchs involved in politics?
Moreover, the eunuchs involved in politics in this sentence should still be Liu Hongshi's group of eunuchs.
Meng Tian immediately asked: "Liu Hong is dead, how can the eunuch still be involved in politics?"
Li Niandao: "Because they found a new master, Liu Hong's queen, and the last Queen Lingsi of the 'Six Queens' came to the court, but this one's level is not too high. Her son is Liu Bian, the young emperor of Han Dynasty , the monarch of the Eastern Han Dynasty who came to the throne after Liu Hong's death, and his elder brother was the general He Jin. "
"Theoretically, she and He Jin should join forces as brother and sister to control the government together. Even if there is a conflict, they should first eliminate the foreign enemies and then settle the scores. However, the actual situation is that she and He Jin fell out."
"She believed that Liu Hong was dead and her son was already the emperor. Not only was He Jin no longer a help to her, but he was an obstacle to her taking control of the court and monopolizing power. Therefore, she accepted the surrender of Shi Changshi and wanted to use Shi Shi to take advantage of her. He often served as a check and balance to He Jin and his courtiers.”
"At this time, the ten permanent servants lost their backer Liu Hong and were in urgent need of a new one. They surrendered to the Queen Mother He and bribed the Queen Mother He's mother and younger brother. As a result, the two sides put aside their previous differences and hit it off."
"And He Jin is about the same level as his sister. After Liu Hong died, He Jin thought he could gain more power in the court. Unexpectedly, he was blocked by his sister, who even appointed a eunuch who had a grudge against him. . How can He Jin endure it?”
"So, he adopted a strategy that was quite stupid in hindsight. At that time, although He Jin was a general, his troops had no advantage over the Queen Mother He and the Shi Changshi, so Yuan Shao, the captain of the Sili School, came up with a plan. Since Luoyang If we don’t have enough troops and generals, why not send troops from the local area to Beijing?”
The First Emperor said: "If the soldiers transferred to the capital are loyal to He Jin, this plan is indeed feasible. However, if the soldiers transferred to the capital have different ambitions, it will cause great disaster! If Yuan Shao is not stupid, then there is something else. The troops transferred to the capital must be related to the plan. ”
Li Niandao: "Your Majesty is wise! It is unknown why Yuan Shao presented this timepiece to He Jin. However, the soldiers transferred to the capital are really related to him, or to be precise, related to the Yuan family from which he was born."
"Yuan Shao was born in the Yuan family in Runan, and the Yuan family was the top famous family in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. It occupied the position of the third Duke for four generations, and its disciples and former officials were all over the world. It can be said that its reputation was only lower than that of the Eastern Han clan. However, the power of the Eastern Han clan was uneven and could not be concentrated. , even worse than the Yuan family.”
"The soldier Yuan Shao proposed to He Jin to transfer to Luoyang was Dong Zhuo, the governor of Bingzhou. This person can also be regarded as an old official of the Yuan family. Therefore, Yuan Shao believed that Dong Zhuo's entry into the capital, no matter what the consequences would be for He Jin, the Yuan family should treat him well anyway."
"It's a pity that Yuan Shao thought wrong. At this time, Dong Zhuo is no longer a pawn who relied on Yuan's family before, but a tiger with sharp claws and teeth. Yuan's reins can no longer restrain him."
Li Nian believed that Yuan Shao sent Dong Zhuo to Beijing not because he wanted to use Dong Zhuo to cause chaos in the world and get rid of Yuan Ji, as in the conspiracy theory. He did not expect that Dong Zhuo also had a treason in his head and did not want to listen to Yuan's family. I decided to go solo on my own.
Yuan Shao definitely wanted to profit from it, but he didn't think so long-term. He probably thought that letting Dong Zhuo in would be beneficial to the Yuan family. Who knows that Dong Zhuo didn't play the cards he wanted.
"He Jin agreed to Yuan Shao's plan and summoned Dong Zhuo, the governor of the state, to the capital. He used Dong Zhuo's elite to put pressure on the Queen Mother He so that he could eliminate the eunuchs and control the power of the government."
"However, He Jin's plan was not secret, and his plot to kill the eunuchs was leaked, and it was known to the Shichangshi. He Jin wanted to kill them and did not give them any way to survive. Of course, the Shichangshi would resist. Even at this time, the victory is guaranteed. It is still in the hands of He Jin, but He Jin is not only secretive, but also very ambitious. He thinks that the overall situation has been decided and it will be difficult for the ten permanent servants to stand up, so he swaggers into the palace. "
"This unexpected accident happened. When He Jin entered the palace, he was ambushed and killed by Shi Changshi!"
Meng Tian commented disdainfully: "He is negligent and arrogant in his plans. He deserves to die! Is this person worthy of being a general of the Eastern Han Dynasty?" Li Nian said with a smile: "He Jin can become a general mainly because of his status as a relative, not because of his talents. How much ability. When Yuan Shao proposed to let Dong Zhuo and others enter the capital, many people actually warned him that Dong Zhuo might be in trouble if he entered the capital, but He Jin was stubborn. "
"But even if He Jin survives, it will be difficult to restrain the coming Dong Zhuo. A few days after He Jin's death, Dong Zhuo led his army to Luoyang. Dong Zhuo was extremely ambitious and cruel. After he arrived in Luoyang, he immediately gathered other troops and Strengthen your own strength.”
"The armies left behind by He Jin and his brother He Miao after their deaths were all under Dong Zhuo's orders; Dong Zhuo also lured Lu Bu to kill Ding Yuan, who was also summoned to Luoyang by He Jin, and annexed his army."
"This Lu Bu is also a great celebrity who has been passed down to later generations. He is known as 'Lü Bu among men and the red rabbit among horses'. In terms of personal martial arts, he is considered to be the strongest general in the late Eastern Han Dynasty! Although there is 'Lü Bu among men,' With comments like "The Red Rabbit in the Horse", Lu Bu has a bad reputation. ”
Originally hearing "Lu Bu among men, Red Rabbit among horses", the First Emperor and the three of them thought that this was an indomitable and extraordinary general. Unexpectedly, his reputation was not very good, but these three people were more interested.
The First Emperor asked curiously: "Why does Lu Bu have such a bad reputation?"
Li Nian smiled and said: "'Lü Bu is among men, and the red rabbit is among horses.' There is also a sentence called 'Fang Tian's painted halberd, dedicated to stabbing his adoptive father.' The red rabbit horse is Lu Bu's mount, and Fang Tian's painted halberd is Lu Bu's weapon. This person is strong in martial arts, but in the eyes of many people, his character is not very good.”
"Because every time he goes to a new club, he often takes the head of his old club with him!"
This character is indeed worthy of consideration. Even if he defected to a new club, he actually wanted to take the head of his old club with him.
"Lü Bu was originally a general under Ding Yuan, and Ding Yuan treated him very affectionately. However, Lü Bu was seduced by Dong Zhuo. According to the novel, Dong Zhuo used red rabbits and horses to lure Lü Bu into betraying Ding Yuan."
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"Ding Yuan never thought that Lu Bu would kill him, and he was unprepared for Lu Bu. Lu Bu took advantage of his unpreparedness, killed Ding Yuan in one fell swoop, and dedicated his head to Dong Zhuo. Ding Yuan was portrayed as Lu Bu's number one in the novel This is the first time Lu Bu stabbed his adoptive father!”
"Specialized in stabbing the adoptive father" must have stabbed several people, and Lu Bu killed Ding Yuan and went to Dong Zhuo. Is it possible that Dong Zhuo was also stabbed by Lu Bu, and also for the sake of another adoptive father?
Thinking of this, the three people of the First Emperor looked strange. Sure enough, as they thought, Li Nian said again: "Lü Bu is tall and mighty, and has great martial arts, so he is called 'Lü Bu among men'. Dong Zhuo saw He was so happy that he and Lu Bu vowed to be father and son."
"Later, Dong Zhuo was also killed by Lu Bu. In the romance story, Lu Bu and Dong Zhuo turned against each other because of the beauty serial scheme set up by Situ Wang Yun and his adopted daughter Diao Chan."
"Diao Chan is one of the four beauties in ancient China. Each of the four beauties has a special allusion, namely 'Shenyu', 'Luoyan', 'Closing Moon', and 'Shameful Flower'.
"'Chen Yu' refers to the beautiful Xi Shi who was given by King Gou Jian of Yue to King Wu Fu Cha; 'Luo Yan' refers to Wang Zhaojun who was sent by Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty to marry the Southern Huns during the Western Han Dynasty; and 'Close Moon' refers to Diao Chan. 'Shameful Flower' refers to Yang Yuhuan, the imperial concubine of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty."
"Among the four beauties, only Diao Chan has no precise record in history. It should be fictionalized by the author of the romance novel. However, there are records of the affair between Lu Bu and Dong Zhuo's maid."
Although this Diao Chan does not exist, the other three do exist. Unfortunately, one is in the past and the other two are in the future. They are not in the era of Da Qin and cannot be seen.
Li Nian returned the topic to Dong Zhuo: "After gathering the troops of Ding Yuan and others, Dong Zhuo became the strongest in Luoyang. Seeing that the army of Luoyang was almost under his control, Dong Zhuo's ambition began to be exposed, and he deposed the Young Emperor of Han Liu Bian made Liu Xie, the other son of Emperor Ling, the emperor and poisoned the Queen Mother He. "
"Due to the large number of troops in his hands, others could not do anything to Dong Zhuo. Dong Zhuo was suddenly in power. He stayed in the palace at night, raped princesses and maids, wantonly killed ministers and relatives, and allowed his soldiers to loot and rape women in Luoyang City..." < br>
Listening to Dong Zhuo's affairs, the First Emperor raised his eyebrows and asked: "What happened to Yuan Shao, who gave Dong Zhuo the idea to enter the capital?"
Li Niandao said: "Not long after Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang, Yuan Shao discovered that Dong Zhuo, an evil tiger, was not under the control of the Yuan family. If he continued to stay in Luoyang, he might be harmed by Dong Zhuo, so he escaped early with Yuan Shu, another son of the Yuan family."
Meng Tian sneered and said: "He ran too fast, but it was a pity that the people of Luoyang were left to suffer!"
The culprit ran away, leaving a group of people who did not make mistakes to suffer Dong Zhuo's disaster. This world does not pay attention to the longevity of good people, nor does it pay attention to justice. It may be late, but it will never be absent.
In many cases, it is actually "golden belts for killing people and setting fires, but no corpses for repairing bridges and roads", and "good people often have difficulty dying well, and evil people enjoy their old age."
Li Niandao: "Due to Dong Zhuo's perverse behavior in Luoyang, many people who are not in Luoyang are recruiting troops in various places to prepare to confront Dong Zhuo and to restore Liu Bian's throne."
"Dong Zhuo did something in this situation. He poisoned Liu Bian. He thought that as long as Liu Bian was killed, these people would have no banner. Who knows, even without Liu Bian, these people would still Against him.”
"So after Dong Zhuo killed Liu Bian, the anti-Dong wave did not subside. On the contrary, more people joined it. In the first year of Chuping, the prefectures and counties in Guandong elected Yuan Shao as the leader of the alliance and led the army to attack Dong Zhuo."
"In this case, Dong Zhuo also realized that he had made people angry, so he decided to do one thing - move the capital. The capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty was Luoyang, not Chang'an, the capital of the Western Han Dynasty. Dong Zhuo planned to move from Luoyang to Chang'an so that he could To avoid the edge of the anti-Dong coalition, and since Chang'an is close to Liangzhou, almost all of his elite troops come from Xiliang."
"During the capital move, Dong Zhuo still did not engage in human affairs. In order to allow the people of Luoyang to move to Chang'an, he burned houses, made the people homeless, and used the army to drive them away. He also burned the palaces and offices in Luoyang, and ordered Lu Bu to rob the tombs of emperors and ministers. Get the treasures from the tomb ”
This Dong Zhuo was completely following his own will and acted arbitrarily, doing whatever he wanted without thinking about the consequences at all. After he acted arbitrarily like this, he had no chance to win the world again.
But I heard from Li Nian that Dong Zhuo was killed by Lu Bu, who "specialized in stabbing his adoptive father", which means that the anti-Dong coalition forces failed to do anything to Dong Zhuo.
However, this is not surprising. In the past, the six-nation coalition conquered Qin, but it was not that it failed to defeat the Qin Dynasty. The more people participating, it does not necessarily mean greater strength. On the contrary, it may not be possible, because everyone in the alliance has their own selfish motives. , but cannot concentrate the power in one place.
This is probably the case for the anti-Dong coalition.
(End of chapter)