At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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Yang Biao and Huang Wan were persuaded, and the two who strongly opposed it at the beginning were persuaded.

Seeing that Dong Zhuo really killed someone, the two of them didn't want to die in vain, so they came to apologize to Dong Zhuo.

Dong Zhuo dismissed them and did not kill them. Instead, he appointed Guang Luxun and Zhao Qian as Taiwei, and his servant Wang Yun as Situ, and continued to be in charge of Shangshutai.

Before that, Dong Zhuo also used an edict to recruit Huangfusong, who led 3 troops near Chang'an, to the capital.

Huangfusong was leading troops near Chang'an at that time to fight against the rebels in Liangzhou. He had more than 3 recruited soldiers with combat experience, and his forces were very strong.

Therefore, Gai Xun, a staff member around Huangfusong, from Liangzhou, persuaded Huangfusong to attack Dong Zhuo.

Gai Xun was born in a Liangzhou family and had a good reputation in Liangzhou. He was very dissatisfied with Dong Zhuo's behavior, so he persuaded Huangfusong to seek bandits, secure the country, and seek a ten thousand princes.

Huangfusong was first-rate in war, but third-rate in politics. Like Zhu Jun, as a famous general in the dynasty, the older he got, the less he wanted to make troubles, and the less courage he lacked.

Faced with this situation, Huangfusong said that he attacked Luoyang with his ministers to defeat the emperor. He did not dare to bear the consequences of defeating the emperor with his ministers, so he left the army to take up his post in Luoyang.

His army was naturally accepted by Dong Zhuo in ecstasy.

Dong Zhuo appointed Huangfusong as the school captain of the city gate, but because of the conflict with Huangfusong, he sent someone to frame Huangfusong to get him.

Fortunately, Huangfu Song's son, Huangfu Jianshou, had a good relationship with Dong Zhuo. After begging with tears, Dong Zhuo let Huangfu Song go. After Huangfu Song escaped, he lost his courage and became a quail completely.

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Dong Zhuo didn't spend a little effort to get rid of his biggest worries, and with more troops, he suddenly became more confident.

So on February [-]th, under the deterrence of strong troops, the policy of moving the capital to Chang'an was confirmed.

On February [-], Emperor Liu Xie set off for Chang'an.

On March [-], the emperor and a large number of officials arrived in Chang'an, which lasted eighteen days.

During this move to move the capital, a large number of books from Lantai of the Central Library were transferred to Chang’an. Due to the heavy rain, the road was muddy and difficult to navigate. Half of the books were discarded and burned, and the rest were sorted by Situ Wangyun. tidy.

Dong Zhuo also ordered the army to drive Li Shu and the big households to Chang'an, and they were not allowed to stay in Luoyang, and most of those who did not want to go were killed.

During this period, Dong Zhuo also ordered his soldiers to plunder uncooperative scholars and wealthy households in an aboveboard manner, and even sent people to steal the tomb of the first emperor and dig up treasures, making Luoyang a mess.

At that time, Dong Zhuo stayed in Luoyang and stationed troops in Bi Guiyuan to defend against the anti-Dong coalition forces. The internal and external affairs of the Chang'an court were all handled by Wang Yun.

Because Wang Yun was born in Bingzhou and did not belong to the Kwantung Scholars Group, Wang Yun was supported by Dong Zhuo.

Moreover, because Dong Zhuo had once served as the governor of Bingzhou and shepherd of Bingzhou, Dong Zhuo was even more confidant to Wang Yun, and he had no barriers or doubts about him.

As for whether Wang Yun has the same heart-to-heart relationship with Dong Zhuo, it's really hard to say.

During this period, Wang Yun was the actual controller of the Chang'an court, while Dong Zhuo arranged to fight against the Kwantung Allied Forces in Luoyang.

In order to establish his prestige, and even more to attack the confidence of the Kwantung Allied Forces, Dong Zhuo, who had grown in strength after the expansion of the army, made a decision that shocked and frightened everyone.

Kill Yuan Kui.

Being targeted by the whole world, Dong Zhuo's once good sense of self collapsed completely, and the wise Dong Zhuo created with illusions has completely died. Now that they have decided not to die with Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhuo simply let himself go.

All the things he had done were overthrown, all the self-restraints that had been in the past disappeared, all the generals under his command were promoted to nobles, and the people from Liangzhou were vigorously promoted and appointed, while the people from Kanto suppressed them with all their strength, humiliated and killed wantonly.

In order to retaliate, Dong Zhuo simply killed Yuan Kai.

In addition to Yuan Kui, there is also the eldest son of the Yuan family, Yuan Ji.

Dong Zhuo personally ordered the family members and the future family members, together with more than [-] members of the family, to be beheaded.

Yuan Kui did not believe that this decision was made by Dong Zhuo to the end of his life, thinking that it was the private behavior of Chang'an's traitor, and shouted until his death that he wanted to see Dong Zhuo, wanted to see Dong Zhuo.

Then he was beheaded with a knife.

On March [-]th, the first year of Chuping, Yuan's more than fifty headless corpses violently irritated everyone in the Chang'an court.

Everyone was silent, and for a while they all lay down in front of Dong Zhuo and shivered.

Under the dual monarchy, Yuan Kai is equivalent to Dong Zhuo's personal monarch. The superiority and inferiority of the monarch and ministers are all forgotten, and the superiority and inferiority of the upper and lower are completely forgotten. The kindness of promotion is also thrown away. All his back roads.

Of course, Yuan Wei and Yuan Ji were pulled on the back.

The reason was naturally that Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu raised troops against him.

Yuan Kai felt confident that Dong Zhuo would not dare to kill him even at the last moment, so he stayed in the capital to buy time for Yuan Shu and others to raise troops.

As a result, I never expected that since the establishment of this set of rules, in nearly two hundred years, the first person who dared to kill his leader appeared.

Dong Zhuo Dong Zhongying, a person who does not follow the rules.

People who do not follow the rules and break the rules are hated and feared by everyone.

No one knows what such a madman can do.

The emperor was terrified, the ministers trembled, and within Dong Zhuo's sphere of influence, the Kwantung scholars were silent, trembling like a sparrow in front of an eagle, completely frightened by Dong Zhuo's tyranny.

Dong Zhuo dared to kill anyone, not just commoners and Li Shu, he dared to kill anyone, without discrimination!

Dong Zhuo's desire for revenge was extremely strong. Killing Yuan Kai made him let out a breath of anger. Seeing those Kwantung scholars who used to be arrogant and domineering in front of him, kneeling pale and trembling in front of him, he felt that he was very accomplished. feel.

The happiness brought by this sense of accomplishment is even happier than the happiness touted by scholars, it is double the happiness!

Dong Zhuo was addicted to this kind of happiness.

After Yuan Wei's death, the life of the celebrities in the Guandong became even more difficult.

Of course, life has not been easy for the royal family.

Dong Zhuo began to enter and exit the palace openly, without any hindrance, and he was not polite to the maids around the emperor, and indulged the officers and soldiers under his command to insult the scholars with strange and harsh laws, plundered the rich and powerful, and robbed property and women to satisfy them. their own desires.

They trembled under Dong Zhuo's threat.

The seeds of resistance also began to germinate at this time.

Then everyone in the world knew that Dong Zhuo had killed Yuan Kai!

Kill Yuan Wei, who is the fourth generation and the third father!

Together with Yuan Ji, the heir of the Yuan family, they killed all of them, leaving none of the more than 50 people, old and young, men and women, not even servants.

The Kwantung Allied Forces were struck by thunder.

The unruly Dong Zhuo made the celebrities at a loss, and they couldn't help but set their sights on Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao is the most ideal candidate for alliance leader in everyone's mind.

And now that the family members have been killed, the country's hatred and the family's hatred are counted together, and no one will question it anymore. Yuan Shao is the backbone of everyone, the leader of everyone.

The celebrities automatically ignored Yuan Shu and focused their attention on Yuan Shao, finding an excellent reason for themselves not to attack first, staying in Suanzao and continuing to wait and see the situation, waiting for Yuan Shao's movements.

The news of Yuan Kai and Yuan Ji's killing reached Yuan Shao's ears, and Yuan Shao fainted on the spot as if struck by lightning.

The surrounding subordinates were in chaos.

After he finally woke up, the crying was heart-piercing and earth-shattering.

Afterwards, all of Yuan Shao's men and horses wore white turbans, and all the generals put on white cloaks. Yuan Shao himself even wore white helmets and white armor, and took an oath of revenge in Yecheng.

He led Mu Hanfu of Jizhou, Wang Kuang, the prefect of Hanoi County, Zhang Yang, the former general of the general, Cui Jun, the prefect of Hexi County in Bingzhou, Yufulo, the exiled Shan Yufulo of the Southern Huns, and ten prefects of Jizhou to make an oath in Yecheng.

Following the Suanzao oath, Yuan Shao also swore an oath in Yecheng, vowing to attack Dong Zhuo and avenge his uncle and brother who died innocently.

"Tie Dong killed my dearest relative, and also killed the master, this hatred is irreconcilable!"

At the covenant ceremony, Yuan Shao showed his sorrow without omission, and then he called himself a chariot general, and grandiosely gave the title of general to the other princes who challenged Dong Lianjun.

As a result, the Dong Lianjun all over the world raised the banner of the Yuan family one after another, wanting to avenge the respected but unfortunately martyred Grand Tutor Yuan Kui of the fourth generation and third father of the Yuan family.

The behavior of discussing Dong Lianjun is more legal and reasonable.

Soldiers from all walks of life swarmed up under the banner of avenging the Yuan family and seeking Dong, and it was a joy to sing and dance on the stage of history.

Yuan Shu also got the news, and after being shocked, he was overjoyed.

To be honest, Yuan Shu himself felt that he shouldn't feel surprised at this time, it would be too heartless, but the huge surge of joy is not under Yuan Shu's control at all!

Yuan Kui is dead, Yuan Ji is dead, and the current person in power and the first in line of succession is dead. Then, the head of the Yuan family is not me, the second in line of succession?

Yuan Shu was suddenly overwhelmed by the huge surprise. When he finally woke up, he found that the situation was not as simple as he thought.

No, obviously I am already the head of the Yuan family, the uncrowned king, why the gang of princes have not come to me to proclaim their ministers to me, how can they still surround Yuan Shao?

I have inherited everything from the Yuan family, it is me, not Yuan Shao, why don't you come to curry favor with me, but Yuan Shao?

Isn't that right?

You are not mistaken, are you?

He is the concubine, I am the legitimate son, I am the orthodox heir of the Yuan family!

Yuan Shu was a little confused about the situation for a while.

But it doesn't matter, because the general environment has not changed, and people all over the world are united around Yuan Shao, with Yuan Shao as the backbone and the mocking monster, using the banner of the Yuan family to satisfy their own selfish desires openly.

Guo Peng was still inspecting various places in Qingzhou, encouraging farming, and arranging more refugees to join the queue for farming, but he still did not send troops.

He didn't intend to arrive in Suanzao prematurely, and it didn't make any sense to brag about each other with those celebrities.

Instead of going to Suanzao and bragging with them, it's better to stay in Qingzhou and manage the farming affairs in person. Food is the most important thing.

Now is not the time to enter the army.

So just go later, anyway, there are plenty of excuses to crusade against the Yellow Turbans, and no one can say no.

So Guo Peng was making overall plans for farming, while waiting for the response from the clan members.

In April, after deciding to join the Allied Army against Dong, Guo Peng also wrote to the governor of Youzhou and his old senior clan member, inviting him to join the battle against Dong.

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At this point, history has changed.

Liu Yu was still an official in the court and was restricted by Dong Zhuo, and Youzhou was actually under the control of Guo Peng's old superior clan members.

After Guo Peng left, in order to stabilize the local situation, the clan members began to appoint Gongsun Zan, who was brave and good at fighting and had a close relationship with Guo Peng, as Guo Peng's replacement.

The clan members promoted Gongsun Zan many times, and also praised him as General Fenwu because of his military exploits.

This time, after receiving the appeal against thieves from Qiao Mao and Yuan Shao, the clan members were still a little hesitant and didn't want to get involved in this matter, but after Guo Peng's letter was delivered, the clan members began to think carefully.

Guo Peng said in the letter that discussing Dong is something that everyone in the world wants to do. If you don't want to be criticized by people in the world, you'd better join this queue.

Standing in a team is a very meaningful thing, and the end of the two not helping each other can only be that the inside and outside are not human.

The Zong members finally decided to send troops to join the allied army against Dong according to Guo Peng's statement, so in mid-May, the Zong members sent Gongsun Zan to lead [-] cavalry south to join the army against Dong.

As for where to join, the clan members and Gongsun Zan were very clear. Of course, they would go to Qingzhou to meet Guo Peng first.

So Gongsun Zan quickly led his troops and set off towards Qingzhou, intending to join Guo Peng and go to Suanzao together.

The clan members continued to sit in Youzhou.

Guo Peng's plan is in order here, and Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu's side are also making emergency preparations for the formation of the army, preparing food, grass and military equipment, etc.

Yuan Shao was fine, but Han Fu was taken advantage of and provided him with food, grass and weapons, Yuan Shu was not so lucky.

He was just a post-general, without any territory, and occupied some land in Nanyang County. After getting funding from the Yuan family to pull up the team, he still felt that his strength was not enough, so he imposed violent taxes on the local area, forced Li Shu to serve as soldiers, and robbed them of their property and food. Own.

However, Yuan Shu's actions naturally aroused great displeasure with Nanyang prefect Zhang Zi.

Expropriation and extortion on my territory, plundering household registration, what is this?

Zhang Zi repeatedly sent people to make solemn representations to Yuan Shu, but he was still unable to restrain Yuan Shu's behavior, but it also brought some troubles to Yuan Shu, which made Yuan Shu very annoyed.

At the same time, the three counties of Changsha, Guiyang, and Lingling led by Sun Jian, the tiger from the east of the Yangtze River, were marching.

When marching to the jurisdiction of Wuling County, Cao Yin, the prefect of Wuling, met with Sun Jian.

The action to seek Dong was bustling, and many careerists found the possibility of expanding their power to realize their selfish desires, so they started to act one after another. Jingzhou Governor Wang Rui was one of them.

Nominally, there was no superior-subordinate relationship between the governor and the prefect. Although by the end of the Han Dynasty, the governor was actually the chief official of a state, there was still no superior-subordinate relationship with the prefect in name.

The state shepherd is the superior of the prefect.