Chapter 1 Danger lurks in the fourth quarter At the beginning of April, Dong Zhuo arrived in Chang'an. Hundreds of officials greeted each other thirty miles away from Chang'an City.

Dong Zhuo dismounted and greeted everyone one by one, exchanging hard work. Seeing Emperor Fu Song in the imperial history, Dong Zhuo said very apologetically: "Brother Yizhen, please forgive me for the matter of Luoyang, I also have a last resort, I hope you can understand." Huangfu Song laughed.

On the way back to the city, Dong Zhuo specially invited Huangfu Song to share a car with him to consult a solution to the Gyeonggi crisis.

When it comes to fighting, Dong Zhuo thinks that he is no worse than Huangfu Song, but when it comes to governing the country, Dong Zhuo still admires Huangfu Song very much.

In that year, the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Gyeonggi was in an emergency, and the society was in turmoil, and the first emperor urgently summoned Huangfu Song to ask for advice. Huangfu Song was not in a hurry and offered four counterinsurgency strategies.

Later facts proved that if the first emperor had obeyed the advice of Huangfu Song at that time, the society might have been stable long ago.

Huangfu Song sighed,

"To solve today's crisis, it depends on whether the adults can faithfully assist the Son of Heaven and rule the world with virtue. If the adults still can't give up the harsh punishment and the law, bloody killings, and even wantonly trample on the laws of the Han Dynasty and act recklessly, the consequences will ......" Huangfu Song looked at Dong Zhuo with a smile on his face and continued,

"In the history of the previous dynasty, examples of this kind of defeat abound, and adults should be very clear." Dong Zhuo waved his hand and said helplessly: "Rule the world with virtue? I want to rule the world by virtue, but I have to save my life first, right? If I can't even secure my own life, what country will I govern? Brother Yizhen, I sincerely ask for advice, so don't use this kind of words to perfunctory me. You all know the current situation, why I returned to Chang'an so early, you can probably guess a few points. I've reached a dead end, and there's no going back. Do you think I really want to go back to Chang'an? Am I really willing to accept the checks and balances of the leopard? I am the minister of the Han Kingdom, holding the authority of the world, and holding 100,000 soldiers, but I was subject to a martial artist, and was arbitrarily humiliated by a group of rebels, and I was unable to save it when I saw the society overturned. I really can't go back? Huangfu Song looked at him intently, shaking his head again and again,

"I'm not perfunctory to you, there's really only one way now." Huangfu Song then went on to elaborate on the consequences of the tripartite checks and balances.

Northern Xinjiang is left and right, one family is dominant, and its strength is getting stronger and stronger. Guanzhong was trapped, controlled by others, and became poorer and poorer.

The states and counties lost their restraints, their power swelled, and the alliance was bound to dissolve. The final result is the decline of imperial power, the collapse of Guanzhong, the conquest of states and counties, and the loss of control of checks and balances in northern Xinjiang and the desperate situation of survival.

Although the external checks and balances suggested by the leopard can solve the chaos of war for a while, it is indeed a plan to destroy the country.

The result will be endless disasters. Huang Fu Song proposed his own internal checks and balances. He had said this suggestion in a letter to Li Hong, but Li Hong did not listen to him.

Instead, they went the opposite way and embarked on a fundamentally opposite path. The internal checks and balances are the tripartite checks and balances of power between Dong Zhuo, Li Hong, and the scholars in the court, that is, Dong Zhuo has to make huge concessions.

Huangfu Song said that the most fundamental reason why Zhou Gong, Yi Yin, and Huo Guang were able to successfully assist the young emperor in governing the world was not because of their prestige and power, but because they were all the most powerful power masters in the world, and they knew when to check and balance power, when to monopolize power, and when to appropriately delegate power.

Governing the country and fighting a war are sometimes very similar, and it is necessary to quickly formulate a decisive strategy to return the greatest victory at the lowest cost according to different situations, and today's decisive strategy is internal checks and balances.

Dong Zhuo pondered for a long time. Huangfu Song's method is reasonable, if today's Xiangguo Lord in the court is Huangfu Song, then this method can indeed save the current crisis, but unfortunately, today's Xiangguo Lord is Dong Zhuo, no one believes him, including Huangfu Song himself.

So why did Huangfu Song make this suggestion? Dong Zhuo smiled and asked, "Can Brother Yizhen be specific?" ”

"Unite with Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu to strike at Li Hong." Huangfu Song explained that Lord Xiangguo withdrew from Luoyang, and it seemed that he had temporarily gotten rid of the crisis and controlled the initiative, but in fact, he had sent himself into a desperate situation and gave up the initiative to Northern Xinjiang.

Once the problems of the disaster victims, the tuntian, and the border areas of northern Xinjiang are solved, and his strength has greatly increased, he can do whatever he wants, whether it is to fight Chang'an or occupy Luoyang, it is a matter of effort, so the most urgent problem at present is to restrain northern Xinjiang.

What did the adults do with Zhu Jun in Luoyang? Is it really because Zhu Jun's children are all in Northern Xinjiang and can gain Li Hong's trust?

The adults obviously have other purposes. The adults must know that Zhu Jun does not approve of the Northern Xinjiang approach at all, and he will do everything possible to destroy the checks and balances, and the adults want to use Zhu Jun to destroy the checks and balances, so as to effectively contain the Northern Frontier.

In addition, the adults also wanted to use Zhu Jun's various practices to provoke Li Hong, provoke internal strife in Northern Xinjiang, force Li Hong and Li Wei, Zhu Mu and others to turn against each other, and greatly weaken the strength of Northern Xinjiang.

Without Li Wei, Li Hong is equivalent to breaking an arm and becoming a three-legged lame leopard.

However, this strategy of the adults can only be used for emergencies, and cannot completely solve the crisis. In order to completely solve the crisis, the adults must unite with Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu and encourage them to capture Luoyang.

The key to external checks and balances is Luoyang, no one can enter Luoyang, and whoever enters Luoyang, the checks and balances will be broken, so Li Hong will hold Luoyang at all costs.

As long as the two sides fight in Luoyang, Li Hong's pressure will become greater and greater, and the loss of troops and food in northern Xinjiang will also become greater and greater, and northern Xinjiang will become difficult and precarious, and Li Hong will fall into the mud of Luoyang and cannot extricate himself.

What is especially important is that with the Luoyang war, the adults quietly passed on the current crisis to Li Hong, and the adults can quickly take the initiative.

The Lord and Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu will definitely have to make a big concession, but this concession is worth it. As a result, the lord could receive food and supplies from various prefectures and counties, and he could quickly restore the great damage suffered by the imperial court due to the expedition to the desert.

The imperial court has strength, the Son of Heaven has power, at that time, whether it is northern Xinjiang or various prefectures and counties, forced by the power of the Han Dynasty, they can only bow their heads and confess.

In this way, internal checks and balances can be quickly realized, and the social system can be quickly stabilized because of the adult's natural indulgence.

Dong Zhuo was not interested in the bright prospects described by Huangfu Song, he was interested in shaking hands with Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu.

As Huang Fu Song said, Dong Zhuo in order to contain and combat the leopard. Before leaving Luoyang, he ordered the killing of Yuan Kui's family, hoping to provoke Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu to launch a fierce attack on Luoyang.

At the same time, in order to create an opportunity for both sides to attack, he deliberately left Zhu Jun. It's just that what he didn't expect was that his method turned out to be a prerequisite for transferring the crisis, controlling the initiative, and transforming external checks and balances into internal checks and balances.

He was a little proud, and he admired Huangfu Song even more, but he didn't have confidence in uniting Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, and he was even more reluctant to cede authority.

The disaster of Luoyang is vivid, if he didn't take over the power in time. I'm afraid that he would have been buried in a mass grave at the foot of Beibi Mountain like He Jin now.

It is true that there is a need for checks and balances on the court, but it is a check and balance between ministers, not a checks and balances between ministers uniting and working against themselves.

Huangfu Song first persuaded himself to rule the country with virtue, and then threw out this suggestion. It is nothing more than wanting to weaken his power, fight the power of the leopard, support Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and other scholars, and then wait for the Son of Heaven to grow up in the future, govern, and when the time is ripe, he will kill himself and the leopard as rebels and thieves.

Dong Zhuo secretly scolded a few words, his face was full of admiration, and he praised him repeatedly. Then he asked: "Brother Yizhen, at this time, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu will be willing to ask the Son of Heaven for their guilt?" I think it's hard. Huangfu Song arched his hand and said: "As long as the adults are loyal to the country, this matter is not difficult." === Dong Zhuo met with the Son of Heaven, and then discussed the government with the ministers of the Three Princes and the ministers of Shangshutai, and returned to the Xiangguo Mansion late at night.

He summoned Liu Ai and Tian Yi overnight and told Huangfu Song's suggestion,

"Let's put aside the matter of internal checks and balances, what we need now is food, and to solve the food problem, we will use the leopard and the rebels to wait for the opportunity to appease the rebels when they are entangled in Luoyang. What do you think should be done about this? Liu Ai and Tian Yi greatly admired Huang Fu Song's suggestion.

Liu Aizan said: "Lord Huangfu is indeed a pillar of the country. If the leopard had gotten this strategy from Lord Huangfu as early as the first lunar month, and then he had made up his mind to give up the northern frontier, then today's Luoyang would be the three of you, the hussar general, and Yuan Kui would have shared the authority, and my Han Sheji would not have been in today's crisis......" Dong Zhuo scolded dissatisfiedly: "What do you mean? Huangfu Song wants me to die, can't you see it? Tian Yi smiled bitterly: "There is a hussar general in the court, and the lord is as stable as Mount Tai, no matter what, it will not be like today......" He shook his head regretfully, and continued,

"Although Lord Huangfu didn't say how to appease Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, in fact, his meaning is already very clear." Dong Zhuo looked at him suspiciously,

"Shuping, say quickly, what are you doing around ***?"

"Lord Huangfu is saying this now, because he is very sure that we can appease Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu." Tian Yi said,

"The reason is the ant thief rebellion that broke out in the four prefectures of Qing, Yan, Xu, and Hebei. According to our information, the scale of this rebellion is very large, with millions of people participating, and the Black Mountain ant thieves have also descended from the mountain, and its harm and scope are not much different from the rebellion that broke out in the first year of Zhongping. If the states and counties fail to kill in time, the consequences are very terrible. In the winter of this year, if the ant thieves are not settled, Yuan Shao and they will not say that they will attack Luoyang, and even they themselves will have to find a place to survive, and what is more serious is that if the northern Xinjiang collapses because of this, the hussar general is bound to raise a large army, including tens of thousands of Hu iron horsemen on the desert, and go south to quell the rebellion together. Everyone has nothing to eat, what if you don't fight? At that time, it is not a question of whether the Dahan Sheji can survive or not, but that the Dahan Sheji does not exist at all, and the Dahan is gone. ”

"Whether it's Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Han Fu, Kong Ling, they raised troops to rebel not for the sake of Sheji, but for the interests of the gate valve family, their ultimate goal is for power, but once Sheji is gone, where is there still power?" Tian Yi twisted his short beard and said very confidently,

"Now with the strength of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, they can't capture Luoyang, and after a long time, they will definitely resent Li Hong, and their rear is full of war, and the situation is very critical, so the rebels will fall into a dilemma, and internal division will become inevitable. At this time, as long as the Son of Heaven uses the excuse of quelling the ant thief rebellion and defending the society as an excuse, he will definitely succeed. Dong Zhuo suddenly realized.

Tian Yi continued: "As long as Han Fu, Qiao Mao, and Kong Ling agree to join forces with us to suppress Li Hong, then even if they are appeased, we can not only pardon their crimes, but also give them the rank and rank of knight, so that the food problem will be solved." Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are without these people, what are the two of them playing? Even if Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are unwilling to be appeased and unwilling to return to Beijing, we will pardon them and give them the same official promotion, but in this way, the rebellious faces of the two will undoubtedly be exposed, and they will be blamed by the people of the world. ”

"We can also take this opportunity to appease Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu by dividing them into discord and making them suspicious of each other, so that in the future, adults can easily control the power balance in the court." Liu Ai smiled,

"When we return to Luoyang a few months later, maybe they're all gone." Dong Zhuo laughed,

"How can there be such a cheap thing, you think it is too beautiful." Then he said worriedly,

"Even if we succeed in appeasing us, how can we force Li Hong to give up the tripartite checks and balances, accept our suggestion, and return to the DPRK to take up his post? This leopard is not easy to tame. ”

"How did the adults forget the big Sima Liu Yu and Lord Liu?" Liu Ai reminded.

"If you don't say it, I really forgot." Dong Zhuo said with a smile,

"He ran too far." === A few days later, the Son of Heaven issued an order to worship the great Sima Liu Yu as the Taifu, and immediately rushed to Chang'an to take up his post after receiving the order.

The Son of Heaven issued an order to lead the military with the hussar general Li Hong, who was temporarily stationed in Jinyang to take charge of the military affairs in northern Xinjiang.

The Son of Heaven issued an order to take Han Rong, Shaofu Yin Xun, Zhijin Wu Hu Wuban, Wu Xun, the master craftsman, and Wang Huan, the captain of the Yue Cavalry, as the envoys to appease Yuan Shao, Wang Kuang, Han Fu, Qiao Mao, Zhang Miao and others in Jizhou, Yanzhou, Hanoi and other places, hoping that they would put the community first, immediately call off the army, and each led his troops to quell the rebellion in the territory.

The Son of Heaven issued an edict to take Zongzheng Ma Riyan, Emperor Fu Song and Shangshu Ling Ding Gong as the envoys to appease Yuan Shu, Kong Ling, Li Min, Sun Jian and others in Nanyang, Yingchuan and other places.

At the same time, the Son of Heaven decreed that in the future, the general Yuan Shu would also lead Nanyang Taishou, and worship Sun Jian as the general of the captives. The Son of Heaven decreed, because Yizhou Mu Liu Yan sent food to the imperial court in time, which greatly solved the grain shortage in Guanzhong, and the hard work was high, so he was specially awarded his title and food, and worshiped his son Liu Fan as the general of Zuo Zhonglang, Liu Dan as the imperial history of the Zhishu, and Liu Zhang as the captain of Fengche.

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