The first month of the sixth year of Zhongping in the Han Dynasty (189 AD). ∮ Yan Moxuan ∮ ad-free ∮

The Great Han Kingdom was full of flames and wind and rain, but Luoyang, Kyoto, still spent a happy and peaceful New Year.

From the middle of the lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Son of Heaven and the officials were busy celebrating the New Year, participating in various sacrifices and celebrations, and the government and the opposition were immersed in the joy of the New Year, and there was no difference from previous years, the only difference was that Dong Hou began to appear frequently beside the Son of Heaven. Although Xiao Donghou is only ten years old, he is smart and witty, well-behaved, steady, and polite in dealing with people, so he has been unanimously praised by hundreds of officials. Although the fourteen-year-old Shi Hou was much more handsome than him, Shi Hou's arrogance and willfulness disappointed the ministers. When the Son of Heaven invited the ministers to a banquet on the first day of the first lunar month, he once said with great emotion that Shi Hou not only looked like his mother, but also had the same temperament as his mother, while Dong Hou looked like me, but his temperament was very similar to his mother, gentle and elegant, knowledgeable and courteous, and very likable. If his mother was still alive, he would be very relieved to see Dong Hou so sensible.

The ministers knew it well and did not dare to echo it. The Son of Heaven dotes on Wang Meiren and is still haunted by Wang Meiren's death. He was bent on letting Dong Hou inherit the unification, and the main reason was because of his attachment and guilt to Wang Meiren. As the Son of Heaven of the Great Han Kingdom, he couldn't protect the woman he loved deeply, which stimulated him too much. He wants Dong Hou to inherit the unification, which is nothing more than to make up for his guilt and continue his love for Wang Meiren.

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Son of Heaven summoned Zhao Zhong of Dachangqiu, Zhang Rang, Xiaohuangmen Jian Shuo and others to discuss the establishment of the imperial system. The Son of Heaven wanted to take advantage of the fact that there was no war in northern Xinjiang and when General Zhenbei was stationed in the state and settled in the state, he would solve this matter as soon as possible, so as not to have many dreams at night. Zhao Zhong said that His Majesty should not be in a hurry. Now the ant thief riot in the Qingxu area has not been quelled, and the counterinsurgency in Xiliang is still continuing, and His Majesty may backfire if he presses too hard. The general has no way to live, and if he rebels with the ant thieves, then the army of the general Zhenbei will inevitably go south, and the trouble will be big. Zhang Rang said that at present, although the general and the northern army have gone out, the general still has an army, and it will pose a threat to His Majesty, so we can only wait until the army in the hands of the general is left. There is no threat, it is best to do it at that time, and there will be no worries in the future.

The Son of Heaven said, "When will it be?" Do you have to wait until He Jin defeats the ant thief and loses his army? ”

Jian Shuo said: "The northern army has no food support, how can the general defeat the ant thief?" ”

The Son of Heaven sneered: "We don't pay food, why do you think there will be no food if you enter?" There are many people who don't want him to die. This thing must be fast, until He Jin is cornered, either he rebels, or he commits suicide or is killed, and there is no third way for him to go. ”

Zhao Zhong asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, if you force He Jin to reverse, there will be a lot of trouble." General Zhenbei has an army of more than 100,000 people, and the Hu people and the Yellow Turban Army have them, if ......"

"Hmph......" The Son of Heaven smiled disdainfully, "You can't help but think too highly of He Jin, General Zhenbei can kill him as long as he has 20,000 iron cavalry, where do you want an army of more than 100,000?" ”

"Your Majesty, do you have to force the opposite?"

"If he doesn't fight back, then wait to cut off his head." The Son of Heaven pointed at Zhao Zhong and the others, and said in a cold voice, "You guys sum it up, let's see what reason you can find to abolish the queen." ”

After the Son of Heaven finished speaking, he shook his hand and went to Yongle Palace without looking back. Since the general He Jin left Beijing, the safety of Xiao Donghou has been the top priority in the palace. The Son of Heaven asked Guangluxun Liu Bo and Captain Huben Yuan Shu to strengthen the vigilance of Yongle Palace with the guards, but this is the case, the Son of Heaven is still not at ease. He was worried that Xiao Donghou would suddenly encounter an accident, so he moved his bedroom to the Jiade Hall near Yongle Palace.

Zhao Zhong, Zhang Rang and the others looked at the back of the Son of Heaven gradually moving away, and couldn't help but look at each other, and their hearts were pounding.

"Abolish the Empress?" Zhao Zhong smiled bitterly, "Why does Your Majesty have to force that butcher to rebel?" Why don't you think about it for us? There are so many ways to kill He Jin, why do you have to add chaos to chaos? ”

Zhang Rang frowned and said: "If you force He Jin to rebel, He Jin's henchmen will all jump out, including those who Your Majesty and we don't know, so that Your Majesty can kill them all and kill them all, and from then on, Your Majesty and Xiao Donghou can rest easy." However, in this way, we are in danger. He Jin rebelled, and the leopard was about to lead the army south. He Jin and those party members want to kill us, and the leopards will kill us even more. ”

Jian Shuo hesitated for a moment and asked, "General Zhenbei wants to kill us?" Isn't he also a rebel? Your Majesty will let General Zhenbei kill us? He Jin only has 10,000 people, even if he rebels, can he still kill into the capital with his few men? He Jin can't enter Beijing, how can General Zhenbei's army enter Beijing? General Zhenbei can't enter Beijing, how can he kill us? ”

"You know what?" Zhao Zhong scolded, "Those scholars want to kill us and He Jin, do you know? As long as He Jin rebelled, the Xiyuan Army stationed at the eight passes of Gyeonggi would definitely raise troops in response. Do you think the West Garden Army is really up to you? By that time, He Jin was no longer a rebel, but a banner that held the side of the Qing monarch and entered the capital in addition to the ** She. Why did you think you escaped from the capital because you wanted to avoid trouble? You are really stupid, Your Majesty has driven him to a dead end, what is he still leading his troops out of Beijing for? Isn't it just waiting for the time to raise an army to rebel? Why did he dare to rebel? Because the capital has internal responses, and there are scholars and party members who support him. His Majesty knew that He Jin would rebel, so why did he force him out of the capital? Because His Majesty wants to kill all those who are unfaithful to him. These people are not loyal to Your Majesty now, and they will not be loyal to Xiao Donghou in the future, as long as these people live, Xiao Donghou's country will be unstable, you know? ”

Jian Shuo's heart was extremely shocked, he didn't expect this to be the case at all. The Son of Heaven didn't tell him the truth at all.

"Your Majesty still wants to kill us? When we helped the queen kill Wang Meiren, he was not unwilling to pursue it, but he was worried that we would kill him too, so he endured it until now. At that time, he had just **, and he didn't understand many things, so he had to rely on us to help him with advice. But now it's different, now he understands everything, and he's long since left us aside. Zuo Feng, Bi Lan and Xia Yun, their deaths are all related to the leopard, but His Majesty avoids the important every time, and is unwilling to hold the leopard accountable at all. We should have been wary of this, but we have ignored it. Now it seems that His Majesty has been planning all this today since the day he knew about the leopard. Zhang Rang said with palpitations, "Your Majesty is no longer the child of the past. ”

Zhao Zhong smiled: "You are just suspicious." Your Majesty wants to kill us, it's not a matter of words, how can you wait until today? Don't think nonsense, Your Majesty has to rely on our help for many things for the sake of the emperor, how can he deliberately kill us? He patted Jean's thin shoulder, and continued, "Your Majesty is not that smart. If Your Majesty is smart, he should not trust the leopard. Who was He Jin in the past? What now? Now He Jin has deceived those party members so much that they even forgot their ancestors. Once the leopard enters Beijing, it is very likely that he will listen to the slander of the believers and kill all of us. ”

"Your Majesty will definitely stop the leopard." Jian Shuo said without hesitation.

Zhao Zhong and Zhang Rang glanced at Jian Shuo with contempt. Zhang Rang let out a sneer in his nose and ignored him. Zhao Zhong sneered: "Lord Jian, at that time, in order to invite the leopard and his iron horse back to the northern frontier, what conditions would not be agreed?" Aren't they just a few dozen heads? There are thousands of eunuchs like you and me in the palace, does Your Majesty care about our dozens of heads? ”

There was a hint of fear in Jian Shuo's eyes.

"What about this?" Zhang Rang asked, "Do you want to delay for a while?" ”

"It's going to be delayed." Zhao Zhong said, "There are many ways to kill He Jin, and you don't necessarily have to force him to rebel." Even if it is reversed, it does not necessarily have to be a leopard to go south. In short, we can't let the leopard go south under any circumstances, and we must let him go out of the fortress to fight, and the sooner the better. When He Jin is dead, the emperor is established, and if you don't want us to do it, Your Majesty will kill him. The leopard now commands more than 100,000 troops, and there are tens of thousands of Hu cavalry under his command, and its power has endangered the Han community, and if you don't kill it, you have to kill it. ”

"You don't have to have a leopard going south?" Zhang Rang thought for a while, and suddenly asked, "You mean, let Dong Zhuo go to Hedong?" ”

"Once the leopard fights out of the fortress, there will be no garrison troops in Hedong, so we ask Your Majesty to let Dong Zhuo lead the army to Hedong, and he will go south instead of the leopard." Zhao Zhong touched his chubby chin and hesitated, "What method can be used to get Your Majesty to promise the leopard to fight immediately?" ”

Zhang Rang sighed: "It's too difficult, unless the ant thieves are leveled, the Hu people are closed, and the general's strength is greatly increased." ”

At dusk, He Hao hurriedly walked into Yuan's mansion, accompanied by Xu You and He Jin. He Jin is a famous man in Nanyang, and he has been recruited to the General's Mansion by He Jin for many years. He is He Jin's confidant, and he has been staying in the mansion as a guest secretary to give advice to He Jin, and he is very low-key. Several people walked into the study and exchanged pleasantries with Yuan Kui and Yuan Shao, and immediately got to the point.

After listening to He Jin's narration, Yuan Kui looked at He Hao, who was frowning, and asked in a low voice: "So, the Marquis of Xubu Bone has already agreed?" He believed in the promises of the Great General? ”

He Hao said: "Li Hong has returned to Bingzhou, and in two or three months, he can gather at least 200,000 troops to fight in Sai. In this case, he has to believe even if he doesn't believe it. As long as Shi Hou inherited the unification and the general assisted the government, it was not a trivial matter to recognize him as the great single of the Huns. At present, Li Hong's army is not ready to go out of the fortress, and in the face of the counterattack of the Huns and Xianbei people, he can only defend the pass. ”

Yuan Shao shook his head and said: "Stubbornly guarding the pass is not enough to contain Li Hong's troops, the key is to drive the disaster victims to Bingzhou, so that Li Hong has no time to look south." Ziyuan, have you negotiated with the ant thief? ”

"I have already negotiated with the Yellow Turban leaders of the Black Mountain Chieftain of Baihuanku, and they promised to drive hundreds of thousands of disaster victims to the state and are willing to be appeased, but the conditions they put forward are too harsh." Xu You said worriedly, "I don't think they have the sincerity to be cared for, they are just cheating us out of money and food, and maybe they have other ideas." ”

"Hmph, as long as they are willing to be cared for, sooner or later the hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban Army will be ours." Yuan Shao sneered, "What about Zhang Rao and Xu He in Xuzhou, Sima Ju and Guan Cheng in Qingzhou? Are they willing to be cared for? ”

"Zheng Tai has found Zhang Rao, the big leader of the Yellow Turban Army, and they know each other and have had several interactions in the past. This Zhang Rao is one of Zhang Jiao's eight disciples, who has been lurking in Mount Tai for many years, and this disaster riot was planned by him. This person is very powerful, and he didn't talk to Zheng Tai about being cared for at all, but tried his best to attract Zheng Tai to join the Yellow Turban Army. Zheng Tai's persuasion was ineffective, so he had to come back. Xu You sighed, "This Yellow Turban disaster in the four states of Qingxu and Yanji seems to be unable to be calmed down in a few years." Wanting them to be cared for and obey the command of the general is simply a joke. ”

"It's enough to have the Yellow Turban Army in Montenegro." Yuan Kui waved his hand and said, "When the matter of the emperor is resolved, we will send troops to kill it." We have 30,000 Northern Army and 40,000 Western Garden Army, which is not more than enough to deal with these ant thieves. The key issue at present is to prevent Li Hong from going south, and another problem is to remove Dong Zhuo's military power and control his 20,000 Xiliang army in case of accidents. ”

"To remove Dong Zhuo's military power, you must let Your Majesty know that he and the general are in the same line." He Jin said, "For a long time, the relationship between ** Eunuch and Dong Zhuo has been very close, and they don't know that Dong Zhuo is two-faced. This person first curryed favor with the general, and then came to win over the scholars, and his heart was unpredictable, so it was better to be cautious. I think His Majesty can first recruit him into Beijing as a secretary, and then General Huangfu will control his army. ”

"Your Majesty doesn't trust us right now." Yuan Shao said, "If this matter is raised by the Minister of the Three Princes, it is likely to backfire." ”

"The relationship between He Miao, the general of the cavalry, and Dong Chong, the general of the hussars, has always been good." He Hao smiled, "Let He Miao find an opportunity to reveal it." He Miao is afraid of death, and has been hiding in the house recently and not coming out, everyone has lost a lot of weight, and it is time to come out to breathe. ”

"How to stop Li Hong from going south?" Yuan Kui asked, "If Li Hong's threat is not resolved, the general will not be able to lead his army back to Beijing, and we will not be able to clear the monarch and get rid of the ** and revive the Han Dynasty." What can you guys do? ”

He Hao smiled bitterly: "Although the Marquis of Xubu Gu wants to fight back, and the victims of the disaster will also flock to the state, but these two problems will be solved by Li Hong soon, and they will not be hindered for a few months." We just have to find a way to get him out of the jam. ”

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