Chapter 835 Chaos
Chang'an was in chaos.
When the armed Liangzhou warriors rushed out of the arsenal, they began to shout:
"Kill all the people in Chang'an and kill the old dog of the court!"
After saying that, these rebels spontaneously rushed to the Gongqing's residence in the city, preparing to rob them.
At this time, Dong Huang changed his plan to attack the palace gate, and instead led more than a thousand armed Liangzhou soldiers to go straight to the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Dong Huang indeed inherited the violent and chaotic genes of the Dong family. Even though he had never rebelled, he could seize the key in the most chaotic moments.
What's the key now? It doesn't mean breaking into the palace and killing the little emperor.
But if Dong Huang wants to win the approval of the largest number of Liangzhou people and Feixiong Army in the city, he must get support from Dong Zhuo.
This was what General Sun had reminded him just now.
In fact, the emperor's messenger was able to break into Dong Huang without any hindrance. This thing is very scary when you think about it. If this man was holding a crossbow, he could kill Dong Huang in one fell swoop.
In Dong Huang's view, the reason why the Liangzhou soldiers on the periphery did not stop this man was probably not because they couldn't, but because they were indifferent.
Maybe it was the words that General Sun Lang said that made him unable to hand over the handwritten letter to the prime minister, which made the warriors who were just a little dazed react.
That is to say, Dong Huang does not seem to have been appointed by the Prime Minister. So isn't this a rebellion against the Prime Minister?
When I think of this, how can these Liangzhou warriors dare to follow you, Dong Huang? I wish you would die in the hands of the emperor's envoys.
If it hadn't been for the role of the people Dong Huang arranged in the arsenal later, Dong Huang might really have been lost under the arsenal.
But fortunately, everything is going for the better.
Now, as long as he leads troops into the Prime Minister's Mansion and forces his uncle to hand over the power to him, the overall situation will be settled.
Thinking of this, Dong Huang led his troops and ran quickly on the emperor's royal road, and he was about to rush to the prime minister's palace.
Suddenly, when Dong Huang led his troops and turned around a street, he suddenly saw that at the other end of the street, his uncle Dong Min was heading towards this end with Bu Qu.
At this time, Dong Huang was confused. Countless thoughts flashed through his mind, until a companion next to him pushed Dong Huang and whispered:
"Dalang, the Dong family has to look at you."
This sentence directly woke Dong Huang up. He looked at his uncle who also had a hesitant look on his face, his eyes almost popped out of his sockets, and he shouted:
"Kill!"
After saying that, he was the first to rush towards Dong Min on the opposite side.
Dong Min also saw Dong Huang. When he saw his nephew charging towards him, he shouted:
"What a beast, I, the Dong family, gave birth to you as a white-eyed wolf!"
After saying that, he took the initiative to draw his bow and shoot at Dong Huang who was running towards him.
Dong Huang faced the arrow and tilted his head slightly. The arrow grazed his cheek, and the sharp arrow feathers scratched a bloody mark on his face.
Dong Huang touched the wound with his hand, then put the bloody finger in his mouth and sucked it, his eyes already showing a cruel light.
Then, Dong Huang threw the horse in his hand directly. The eight-foot-long horse with incomparable power skewered Dong Min's body to the ground.
Dong Min, whose whole body was penetrated by Ma Shan, spit out blood in large mouthfuls. The huge pain made him unable to speak a word.
At this time, he could only watch the rebellious beast rushing over, and then whispered in his ear:
"Old man, I've wanted to hack you to death for a long time, you piece of trash."
After saying this, Dong Huang chopped off Dong Min's head with a knife.
At this time, Dong Min's tribe also wanted to snatch Dong Min, but they were killed and dispersed by Dong Huang's tribe who followed.
In just half a moment, outside the door of the graceful and solemn Prime Minister's Mansion, there was already a river of blood, which was true to Dong Zhuo's words before his death. After his death, there was a forest of bones everywhere.
Carrying his uncle's head in person, Dong Huang slowly walked to the door of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
At this time, the same companion from before once again whispered in Dong Huang’s ear:
"We have no other way out. Go forward, go forward, and get everything from your uncle. Only you, Dong Huang, is the one who inherits his destiny."
After saying that, Dong Huang himself was mumbling:
"Yes, only I, Dong Huang, can inherit all this."
After saying that, he shouted at the door wall:
"Open the wall. The emperor's thieves are trying to kill the entire Dong family. I'm here to save the Prime Minister. Open the door quickly."
After saying this, the closed door of the Prime Minister's Mansion slowly opened, and then several embarrassed and trembling officials came out and knelt down in front of Dong Huang.
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The men had dug up Dong Zhuo's body again, and Dong Huang was sitting on Dong Zhuo's favorite soft couch, watching quietly.
It was already September, but the temperature was still like summer.
Dong Zhuo had only been dead for a day or so, but now he was in a state of decay.
When he was dug out, he was wrapped in a layer of straw mat, and his already fat body became even more swollen, as if juice might burst out with the slightest touch.
The corpse was covered with maggots, and the whole room was filled with a strong corpse stench, but Dong Huang didn't seem to care at all, and moved step by step to the corpse.
Then as everyone screamed, Dong Huang buried his head on Dong Zhuo's body, and then began to suck Dong Zhuo's chest.
He kept sucking and crying.
Such a crazy and disgusting scene immediately broke through the defenses of the generals present, and they all covered their mouths and spat out.
These people also came from the mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and their nerves were already strong enough, but when they saw Dong Huang's appearance and the corpse water flowing from the corners of his mouth, they were still dumbfounded.
Seeing Dong Huang like this, everyone was filled with fear.
Dong Huang didn't know this. He just couldn't live without Dong Zhuo. He never thought that his uncle would die.
At this moment, he turned to look at the crowd, eager to find the companion, but found that no matter how he looked, he could not find him.
But at this time, Bandang's ravings appeared in Dong Huang's ears again, saying:
"Dong Huang, you deserve to be the King of Qin. Not only the King of Qin, but the position of the Emperor should also be yours. So, Dong Huang, go ahead and vent all the anger in your heart boldly."
At this time, Dong Huang finally understood in his heart that there was no companion.
He slowly sat on the soft couch, looked at everyone, and forced a smile:
"Now that my uncle is dead, you all should disperse and run for your lives."
If the generals were just afraid of Dong Huang just now, they were immediately fooled by Dong Huang's words.
What escape route do they have? Now it seemed that Dong Huang was giving up his choice, and everyone became anxious.
First, a few smart ones jumped out and said:
"Those rebels like Li Ru controlled the prime minister and plotted to kill Dalang. The position of the prime minister and the king of Qin should have belonged to Dalang. I support Dalang as the king of Qin."
The generals who came back to their senses also agreed:
"We all support Dalang as King of Qin."
But at this time, Dong Huang still didn't respond.
There was a Liangzhou general in the crowd. Sparks suddenly flashed in his mind and he shouted:
"The Han family has no virtue, and the king of Qin should be the emperor."
After the words fell, everyone was silent, but then everyone said in unison:
"The Han family has no virtue, and the king of Qin should be the emperor."
It wasn't until everyone shouted these words that Dong Huang showed an expression. He looked at everyone with a smile. Before he could say anything more, several generals came in from outside.
These people were Li Meng, Yang Ding and others who had just arrived at the Prime Minister's Mansion in accordance with the Prime Minister's seal. Behind them were a group of generals from the Flying Bear Army.
They squeezed through everyone in the room, and after seeing Dong Zhuo's body, they all took a breath.
Just when Dong Huang had grabbed the Huanshou sword and was preparing for a bloody battle, Li Meng and Yang Ding at the front and the Liangzhou generals behind them all knelt down and shouted:
"The Han family has no virtue, and the king of Qin should be the emperor."
It turned out that these people had already made assumptions in their minds after seeing the bloody scene outside the prime minister's house and seeing Dong Min, the front man of the Dong family, beheaded and thrown on the road.
After they entered the palace and saw the dead Dong Zhuo, these people finally decided to seize this last opportunity to jump on Dong Huang's new ship.
Dong Huang was greatly satisfied with the knowledge of Li Meng, Yang Ding and others. He laughed and then said this to everyone:
"Since he deserves to be the emperor, he should naturally sit where the emperor should sit."
After saying that, Dong Huang took the lead and walked out of the quiet room, followed by the generals.
Half a moment later, more than 8,000 Liangzhou-born Feixiong troops, led by Dong Huang, had assembled and headed straight for the Weiyang Palace in the southwest corner of the city.
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The rebels in the city have gone crazy.
Not all people in Liangzhou believed Dong Huang's lies, saying that the emperor wanted to kill all the people in Liangzhou, but I'm sorry, but all the people in Liangzhou had one idea, and that was to make a fortune.
Don't say that people from Liangzhou have made a fortune after coming to Guanzhong. Those are high-level military generals. Most of the people at the bottom are actually living a better life than before, but that's it.
When Dong Zhuo entered Chang'an, he did not allow his Liangzhou soldiers to loot for the sake of his political image. Later, after the entire Guanzhong was stabilized, these Liangzhou soldiers had no chance to rob.
On weekdays, most of these people would grab local restaurants, but how could there be any profit there? The real big money is always in Chang'an City.
So when Dong Huang shouted the slogan that all the wealth and women in Chang'an City should be distributed to these people, Liangzhou soldiers began to rush to various government offices and residences in the city.
Along the way, whenever they saw someone dressed in beautiful clothes, these rebels wouldn't even ask for their name. They would go up and chop them with a knife and take off their clothes.
The chaos of the crowd made everyone full of courage. They rushed to the royal residences and public houses in groups, burning, killing and looting.
When the rebels rushed to Zhao Wen's house, Zhao Wen's son Zhao Yonggang tried to escape over the wall. Then the soldiers rushed up and cut him into a pulp with random knives.
Although Zhao Wen was a high official, there were not many people in his mansion, and the gate was soon breached.
After the rebels broke in, they immediately ran to the back house because the beauties and silks were there.
All the children of the Zhao family who tried to stop him were blocked in the courtyard and killed, leaving only the women in the house.
Then, there were groups of merrymakers, until there was no one left alive in the mansion, and these rebels wandered aimlessly holding the plundered silks, satins and goldware.
There are scenes like this everywhere in Chang'an. The military disaster in early September seems to have happened right now.
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On September 23, Chang'an was still very hot.
But the entire front hall of Weiyang Palace was so cold that it was chilling.
Just now, the captain who was responsible for guarding the palace gate said that he saw billowing smoke outside the palace and that the city was in chaos.
In fact, what the captain saw was the thick smoke from the West Market in Chang'an being burned by the rebels.
Some of the rebels were looking for sex, but most of them were looking for wealth. And where is the wealthiest place in Chang'an and the easiest place to get it? Naturally, it is the gold market in the west of the city.
Thanks to the stability of Liangzhou, some merchants from the Western Regions who were isolated in Hexi once again brought Western goldware to Chang'an for sale.
Previously, the Liangzhou Army was jealous of the wealth of these businessmen and had often tried to blackmail these people.
But how can anyone do this kind of long-distance transaction? Who doesn’t have upper-level connections? Or it might just be the white gloves of a certain official.
Therefore, when the Liangzhou soldiers at the bottom came to blackmail, they were naturally beaten to death.
As for the middle and high-level Liangzhou generals, they don’t need to tell them, the ministers will naturally give them a share.
So, you and I are both from Liangzhou, but we are different.
But now, Chang'an is in chaos, and the generals in the army have to rely on us poor brothers, so what else can we say? I have to kill all those Hu merchants to get discouraged.
In the end, not only was all the wealth in the gold market robbed, but the entire market was burned down by rioters and a fire.
This almost four-hundred-year-old commercial essence, a great city for the exchange of goods along the Silk Road, was destroyed in one day.
This time the fire not only burned the market, but also spread the fire to Katsura Palace in the south.
Gui Palace is where the royal female family members live. The earlier Gui Palace was destroyed by war after the fall of Xinmang, but it was built again in this dynasty, but the scale was much smaller than that of the previous dynasty.
Later, Emperor Ling came here and expanded it slightly. However, the country's power was limited and many places had not been completed.
But precisely because there were many large trees left in the open space outside, when the fire in the West City burned down, the large trees were directly ignited, and the fire became increasingly uncontrollable.
In fact, the fire is easy to extinguish, but the chaos in the city is difficult to extinguish.
At this time, the Gonggun princes and the emperor himself in the front hall were all a little worried, not knowing how to end this matter.
Due to the lack of information, the young emperor still thought that it was the rebels in the city who were causing trouble, and did not know that the Dong family was already taking action.
Sitting on the throne, Liu Xie always felt frightened.
He had just sent several groups of people out of the palace, but no one had been able to return yet. This made Liu Xie feel that something big had happened outside the palace.
At this moment, Zhao Wen himself felt that the situation must have changed, and he whispered to the emperor:
"We have to send people to Ba Ling and let Hedong soldiers enter the city now."
The emperor looked up at Zhao Wen and hesitated:
"The Hedong soldiers are corrupt, violent and difficult to control. If we let them into the city, I'm afraid the situation will be unmanageable."
It turned out that the emperor himself knew the true situation of the Hedong soldiers. He never wanted to let the Hedong soldiers attack Dong Zhuo, but only used it as a deterrent.
The emperor made sense, but Zhao Wen still insisted:
"Your Majesty, there may be a big trouble outside the palace. We must seize all the troops now. Otherwise, it will be too late and big trouble will happen."
Zhao Wen's words carried great weight on the emperor's side. Liu Xie just thought about it for a moment and nodded in agreement.
And when they were about to notify the Hedong soldiers to enter the city, several yellow gates came running outside, shouting in horror:
"Your Majesty, the troops in Liangzhou are in rebellion. They are attacking the east gate."
After hearing this, the emperor stood up immediately, and then sat down straight again.
While Liu Xie was confused, Zhao Wenze was already shouting:
"Quickly send your brave cavalry out from the south gate to Ba Ling and order the Hedong soldiers to enter the capital!"
"Go quickly!"