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Li Wei recounted in detail what happened in Luoyang in the book, Li Wei said that the stability of Luoyang is related to the victory or defeat of the expedition and the safety of northern Xinjiang, and it is the top priority, so I helped Dong Zhuo stabilize the situation in Luoyang as quickly as possible. At present, the imperial system has been changed, the new emperor has ascended the throne, and the situation in Luoyang is gradually improving with the efforts of Lord Taifu Yuan Kui and Lord Sikong Dong Zhuo, and the supply of food and grass for the expeditionary army can be guaranteed conclusively.

In the book, Li Wei carefully analyzed the future development of the situation in Luoyang, and he believed that the political situation in Luoyang would still have great variables for a period of time in the future, and it was very likely that a crisis would break out again.

Li Wei said that deposing the young emperor and forcing the Empress Dowager He to return to power in the dynasty was the fastest, simplest and most effective way to solve the Luoyang crisis, but at that time, after Dong Zhuo quickly controlled the northern army, because he took into account the opposition of Yuan Kui and the ministers of the court, he was worried that he would be spurned by the people of the world, so he did not dare to make up his mind. It wasn't until he got Yuan Kui's acquiescence and the support of the general that he was ruthless. However, on the second day of the new emperor's accession to the throne, the ministers of Luoyang began a great exodus, which was completely unexpected. Since the scholars had connived at and helped Dong Zhuo depose the young emperor, why did they suddenly rebel and flee from Luoyang? The day after the new emperor ascended the throne, dozens of ministers and scholars in Luoyang disappeared in one day, can this be explained simply by a disturbed conscience? This is obviously impossible, the scholars' escape from Luoyang must have been premeditated, but what did Yuan Kui and the scholars want to do?

Dong Zhuo was busy rectifying the 100,000 Northern Army, and he didn't understand the government, so he didn't interfere with Lord Taifu's handling of state affairs for the time being. Taifu Yuan Kui took advantage of this opportunity to release more than a dozen ministers in one day and agreed to the resignations of dozens of ministers, which immediately attracted Dong Zhuo's attention and angered Dong Zhuo. If the famous scholar and Confucian who returned to his hometown criticized him and released heavy officials to support his own army, Dong Zhuo would immediately become a sinner in the world, and he would have to bear all the responsibility for deposing the young emperor, and then he would inevitably be attacked by various states and counties.

The Northern Army had just been merged and rectified, the army was unstable, and the people were panicked, Dong Zhuo did not dare to fall out openly with the scholars in this case, so he immediately pretended to be the edict of the Son of Heaven, first gave death to the Empress Dowager He, and then killed He Miao's body in a coffin, and then killed He Miao's mother Wuyangjun to make flower fertilizer, and his brutality was outrageous. Dong Zhuo just wanted to use this brutality to tell those scholars who were about to plot against him that if he was forced to be in a hurry, he could do anything, and he could even die with the Han Society. When I heard the news, I hurried to stop it, but it was too late, so I had to rescue King Hongnong and imprison him. I found that Dong Zhuo's loss of control had a lot to do with Li Ru's encouragement, and in order to save King Hongnong, I had a fierce dispute with Li Ru. This person has a great influence on Dong Zhuo, but he is suspicious, his eyes are full of hatred, and he is a very dangerous person. I intend to have a chance to clean him up, so that there will be no more harm in the future.

The deposition was not Dong Zhuo's business alone, he had the support of Lord Taifu and the general of the Che Cavalry. It was precisely because of the help of the ministers of the DPRK and China and us that the deposition went very smoothly without any bloodshed. But Lord Taifu and the scholars obviously did not want to bear this charge. They want to put all the charges on Dong Zhuo's head. Your Excellency is now powerful and powerful, and the scholars dare not provoke you, so they have to leave this charge to Dong Zhuo. The purpose of their anger at Dong Zhuo was to make him kill Empress Dowager He and King Hongnong, so that what was originally a deposition of the government and the opposition in order to stabilize the Han Dynasty became the deposition of Dong Zhuo alone, and it was also a bloody dethronement.

The scholars can now stay out of the Luoyang coup, all the sins are Dong Zhuo alone, and everything the scholars did was because of Dong Zhuo's coercion. Dong Zhuo changed from a hero who saved the Luoyang crisis to a rebel who endangered the community, and Lord Taifu and the ministers in the court changed from a rebel who endangered the society to a hero who saved the society. What they have to do now is to make Dong Zhuo submit, either everyone will share the power equally and be safe, or foreign troops will attack Dong Zhuo in all directions. In the eyes of Dong Zhuo and the scholars, the safety of the Han Sheji has become a sharp weapon for them to fight for state authority.

Although Dong Zhuo controlled the Northern Army as quickly as possible before Taifu Yuan Kui, he immediately lost all the advantages that he could hold power alone. Master Taifu and the scholars designed step by step, still firmly controlling the situation in Luoyang. Now, if Dong Zhuo wants to continue to rely on the heavy army in his hand to hold power and do whatever he wants, he will have to face the spurning of the people of the world and the ensuing crusade, and he will become a sinner through the ages, and he will have nothing in the end. Therefore, the wisest thing for him to do was to compromise with the scholars, and both sides would hold their own authority and continue to maintain a stable situation in Luoyang.

Of course, Dong Zhuo was unwilling to give up the authority in vain, he found me, hoping to get the help of the general of the chariot and cavalry, and rule the world with martial arts. He said that he would rather share authority equally with the general than be subject to the scholars. I rejected Dong Zhuo's proposal, not because he had made an irreparable mistake by killing Empress Dowager He, imprisoning King Hongnong, but because we needed a balance of power in Luoyang. If Dong Zhuo is in power alone, with the help of his heavy troops and some soldiers, he will definitely become the biggest enemy who hinders and threatens us in the future, which is too dangerous for the northern Xinjiang. We can't hand over our fate to Dong Zhuo, we urgently need the checks and balances of Luoyang's authority, and we need the confrontation between Dong Zhuo and the scholars.

Master Taifu also found me, hoping that the general could think about the country's society, obey the edict of the first emperor, and be loyal to today. I promised him to temporarily garrison Hangu Pass, and to garrison heavy troops at Fengling and Maojin Ferry, and when the overall situation of Luoyang has been decided, I will withdraw from Hangu Pass. Master Taifu said that Huangfu Song had already marched to Lintong Pass, plus the Hedong Tuntian soldiers of the general of the Che Cavalry, which was enough to threaten Dong Zhuo.

Dong Zhuo was forced by the situation, so he had to compromise with the scholars and share power with Lord Taifu. Dong Zhuo no longer insisted on readjusting the officials who were released from Beijing, and at the same time, with the help of Zhou Yu, Xu Jing and others, he began to recruit celebrities. Dong Zhuo's subordinates are all martial artists, and even a considerable number of them are Hu generals, these people can charge into battle, but they can't govern the country. If Dong Zhuo wanted to gain a foothold in Luoyang and take power, he had to get the help of scholars. There are many celebrities who have been recruited this time, such as Zheng Xuan, Xun Shuang, Shen Tufan, Wang Qian, Chen Ji, Han Rong, Zheng Tai, He Hao and others are among them. Some of these people are famous people from all over the world, some are engaged in the history of the great general He Jin, and some are ministers of the DPRK and China. Like He Hao, Zheng Tai and others, their goal of fleeing Luoyang has been achieved, as long as they have the tacit consent of Lord Taifu, it is not impossible to come back to help Dong Zhuo deal with state affairs. In any case, the revival of the Han Dynasty is still the most urgent desire of every scholar.

Li Wei said, I noticed three things. First, the foreign Beijing officials were all protégés of the Yuan Mansion, and most of them were concentrated in the areas of Sili, Jizhou, Yanzhou, Yuzhou and Nanyang County. Taifu Yuan Kui's arrangement obviously has the intention of inflating his power. In the future, if the scholars force Dong Zhuo out of Luoyang, will it be Yuan Valve who controls Luoyang?

The second is that today's Dong Zhuo is like yesterday's He Jin. Because of the limitations of their own status, they could not get the recognition and sincere help of the scholars, and as a result, once they took over the power of the state, they fell into the contradiction of having to rely on the scholars and having to go toe-to-toe with the scholars. Luoyang was in turmoil, He Jin and ** eunuchs were afraid of death, the Han emperor was replaced, and the scholars played a pivotal role in this, and it can even be said that they have been controlling the situation in Luoyang and the fate of the Han Kingdom. So inferred from He Jin's matter, does the escape of today's Luoyang scholars and Dong Zhuo's compromise indicate the next chaos in Luoyang?

The third thing is that the power of the adults has become a huge force that determines the fate of the Han Kingdom, and this time the Luoyang turmoil can be quelled in the shortest possible time is an example. Now the Han State has three major powers: the Great Man, Dong Zhuo, and the scholars headed by Yuan Kui. Dong Zhuo has just risen in Luoyang, there is no foundation, coupled with the constraints of scholars, there is no need to worry, it is the scholars who can really compete with adults, so should adults reconsider the future of Northern Xinjiang and the safety of the Han Dynasty?

In the book, Li Wei also put forward his own views on the affairs of Hanbei County, and he opposed the inclusion of all Hu people in the Han nationality. Many Hu generals in the original Han army were to be crowned tribal kings this time, these people have made great contributions to the Han Kingdom, and they and their people can certainly become the people of the Great Han. But the tribes of the original Xianbei country are not good, the Huns are not good, especially the Huns, who have suffered the favor of our Han emperor, and they have repeatedly rebelled. At present, this kind of Hu people cannot be included in the Han nationality and enjoy the same treatment as the people of the Han Dynasty. As for the division of counties in Hanbei County, Li Wei disagreed. Li Wei believed that the Hu people were nomadic people with their own living customs, and forcibly dividing the counties to live would inevitably cause dissatisfaction and resistance to the Hu people, so the governance of Hanbei County was still resolved through negotiation after the nine major tribal kings returned to their territories. Li Wei was very much in favor of the establishment of a large city between Hanbei County and Border County, and he suggested that Li Hong could establish a Governor's Mansion to be responsible for this matter. Li Wei said that the businessmen who had close contacts with us in the early days had already received my notice, and they would send people to the border counties in the near future to build cities and trade with each other.

Li Wei specifically mentioned Lu Zhi's matter in the book. The Manchu Dynasty civil and military, hundreds of ministers, only Lu Zhi raised a proposal against deposition in the Jiade Palace, which is very strange. Lu Zhi, who is still the order of Shang Shu, discusses with Master Taifu every day, and he must have participated in the affairs of Luoyang, so why did he suddenly break with Yuan Kui? Why rush out of Beijing? Why go to Jinyang first? Li Wei said, I suspect that he was deliberately sent out of Beijing by Yuan Kui, so that in the future Luoyang would become a person who held high the banner of conquest.

Li Wei said at the end of the letter, I didn't report the Empress Dowager's re-summoning of ** eunuch into the palace in the early stage, mainly because the expeditionary war had just begun, and it was really not appropriate to shake the morale of the army. It's just that I didn't expect the situation in Luoyang to deteriorate sharply with the eunuchization of ** into the palace, and just a few days later, there was a shocking change, which almost caused a catastrophe to the expedition.

After Li Hong read the letter, he urgently summoned Xian Yufu, Yushi, Yang Feng, Tian Yu, and Tian Chou to discuss the matter. Everyone was shocked by what happened in Luoyang, and Xian Yufu couldn't help but exclaim: "My lord, fortunately, I left Zhong Yuan in Hedong, otherwise we would be very dangerous now." ”

Li Hong said: We don't care about things outside northern Xinjiang, just know about it. If Zhong Yuan can't deal with it, he will naturally warn us in advance. The most important thing now is to quickly stabilize Hanbei County and move the Hu people north, so as not to make further chaos in Luoyang, so that we can't take care of the whole thing. The war was left to Xu Rong for the time being, and we went all out to gain a foothold before winter came.

A few days later, the people of the Wuye tribe sent Qianman to the Golden Snow Plain, the Xianbei royal court was re-established, and the Xianbei Kingdom submitted a letter of surrender to the Great Han Kingdom. The marshal Tuoba Tao, who was already the leader of the Tuoba tribe, immediately sent the news of the royal court's surrender to the Han Kingdom to the northern Xianbei tribes and Danhan Mountain.

During this period, the holy decrees of the imperial court were continuously delivered to Jin Xueyuan. There is the edict of the new emperor ascending the throne, the edict of the new emperor appeasing and rewarding the soldiers of the expedition, the edict agreeing to the establishment of Hanbei County played by Li Hong, the edict agreeing to Li Hong's move north to the Hu people, and the edict of conferring the title of the big and small kings of the tribes. The seals and rewards of the kings of the tribes are readily available.

In mid-September, Asamahara.

The Eastern Xianbei Lord Mica finally arrived in Chaotianyuan with 10,000 iron horsemen and a large number of livestock weapons.

In the face of Xu Rong's army of 80,000, Murong Feng was at a loss. Even if Micah came, the iron cavalry of all the tribes together was only 45,000 cavalry, which was not the opponent of the Han army at all.

"Why haven't the people of the Western Xianbei come yet?" Micah asked angrily, "I'm late because I'm a long way away, and I still have to bring so many livestock weapons, but Western Xianbei is only a few hundred miles away from Chaotianyuan, and they just crawled and crawled." ”

The head snorted coldly. Xiong Ba explained in a low voice: "We got the news that Yan Liyou was swallowed by Xu Rong in Liangang Mountain, and all the 10,000 troops were buried in Liangang Mountain, and he only escaped with more than 100 horsemen. ”

"What about the Ritsuri deduction? What about Tuoba Feng?

"Xu Rong drove through the Hump Desert, and he was the first to kill." Xiong Ba lamented, "The Ritsuri deduction has been dead for more than a month, and the Wild Sand Tribe has long since disappeared. Tuoba Feng was wiped out in Changyun Mountain, and the Tuoba clan was gone. ”

"How so?" Micah's eyes widened in disbelief and said, "Although we have suffered consecutive defeats in the past two years, we are not so vulnerable, right?" This is the desert, it is our place, how can the Han army have such a strong strength? ”

"The leopard's iron riders are all Hu warriors, among which there are more than 20,000 Xianbei people, they are familiar with the terrain of the desert, the time of the attack is very sudden, and the attack speed is extremely fast. The strength of Xianbei and Danhan Mountain in the north is weak and unable to cope with the battle, and this battle will be lost no matter how it is fought. The evil rebel gritted his teeth and said, "If we can gather forces to counterattack in the shortest possible time, it is possible to defeat them, but now you see how many men we have gathered?" That old bastard was only a few hundred miles away from us, and he didn't come to assemble or bring us food, so it seemed that he was planning to surrender to the Han Chinese. ”

"When will he arrive? Did the marshal send someone to urge? ”

"He's not coming." Budu even said, "I've already been to Yanran Mountain. Luo Luo said that he only had 20,000 men, and he did not want to face the Han army head-on. In fact, he just wanted to preserve his strength. ”

There was silence in the tent.

After a long time, Kui Tou stood up and said, "I'll go to Yanran Mountain in person." It's okay if he doesn't come, but he has to provide us with food, otherwise, it will be difficult for us to hold on. ”

"Nope." Murong Feng waved his hand and said, "Let's go with the king." ”

"Give up Asatohara?" The head asked, surprised.

"Yes, give up Asahahara." Murong Feng said, "The Han people's attack speed this time was too fast, the tribes of Xianbei and Danhan Mountain in the north did not withdraw, and the army was seriously short of food, so we had to continue to retreat and retreat to the area of Yanran Mountain and Wolf Juxu Mountain." ”

"Evacuate directly to Wolf Juxu?" Xiong Ba looked at Murong Feng dumbfounded, a little incredulous.

"Let's go to Yanran Mountain first, whether the Han army pursues it or not, and we will go to Wolf Juxu a month later." Murong Feng said expressionlessly, "There are not so many livestock in the western Xianbei that can continue to supply the needs of tens of thousands of troops, so we have to send people back immediately, so that the central Xianbei and the eastern Xianbei can send the livestock directly to the Wolf Juxu Mountain." ”

"Dashuai, we don't keep the heavens?" The evil rebel asked desperately, "Dashuai, don't you want to play the Sweat Mountain?" Don't want to be a country of Xianbei? ”

Murong Feng sighed and said slowly: "We have lost all the opportunities, we are passive everywhere, and there is no way other than retreating to preserve our strength and Xu Tu's other strategies." Now we are short of troops and food, and even if we want to fight, we are powerless. ”

"Dashuai, if the troops are insufficient, we can urge Luoluo to be placed again, and if the food is insufficient, we can grab it again, but this Chaotian must not give up." "It's only September," begged the chief, "and it's almost two months before November. If Chaotianyuan is abandoned now, the Han people will be able to fight Wolf Juxu next month. Dashuai, do you want us to be defeated in Ding Ling and avoid trouble in Beihai? ”

Murong Feng nodded solemnly.

"The Han people marched into the desert with an army of more than 100,000 troops, and the supply of grain and grass was very huge, which they simply could not do with their current national strength." Murong Feng said, "You see, what is their purpose by now concentrating all the clans and livestock of Xianbei and Danhan Mountain in the north to the four places of Danhan Mountain, Fuhan Plain, Jinxue Plain and Surrendered City? In addition to not letting us loot, it is more important that they themselves have to eat. Look at it again, 50,000 of the 80,000 Han troops on Chaotian Plain are iron cavalry, and the main force of the Han army's infantry is all stranded in Jinxueyuan and Fuhanyuan, why? Not because they can't go fast, but because they can't supply food and grass anymore. ”

"In that case, why did the marshal give up Chaotianyuan?" The leader asked.

"If the Han army can't completely defeat us, he won't be able to dominate the desert and destroy the Xianbei country, so he can only chase after us." Murong Feng looked at everyone and asked, "The 80,000 army then pursued, how much grain and grass will the Han army consume?" Taking a step back, even if the Han army launched a pursuit with 50,000 iron cavalry, his consumption of grain and grass was very staggering. ”

"As long as we retreat quickly, the Han army will inevitably chase fast, so that when we retreat to Beihai, the Han army will have nothing to eat." Murong Feng said, "As long as we no longer stick to Chaotianyuan, we will grasp the opportunity on the battlefield, and the Han army will fall into passivity." Winter in Beihai comes earlier and faster than here, and it is difficult for the Han people not to die. ”

"Dashuai, twelve years ago, this is how we defeated the Han army, and the leopard has a lesson from the past, and may not be able to hit the plan." Micah whispered, "The Han people's previous conquests of the desert did not necessarily end with the victory of Wolf Juxu, they generally ended with the coming of winter. So I think as long as we stay until winter and the leopard has no food and grass, he will naturally withdraw his troops and return home. ”

"If the Han army is allowed to plunder more than 200,000 of our tribesmen and millions of livestock back to China, the Xianbei country will be finished." Murong Feng said categorically, "We must defeat the Han army and recapture everything they have robbed. ”

The Xianbei people evacuated Chaotianyuan.

Xu Rong quickly reported the news to Li Hong. Li Hong summoned Xian Yufu and others to discuss for a long time, and decided not to pursue for the time being. At present, the situation in Luoyang is unstable, and Hanbei County is complicated, so it is better to take a look. Li Hong hurriedly wrote to Xu Rong, leaving 30,000 iron cavalry to garrison Chaotianyuan, and the rest of the men and horses immediately returned to Fuhan Yuan and Jinxueyuan.

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In mid-September, Luoyang.

Dong Zhuo reused the ministers of the scholar clan and a group of famous scholars and scholars who remained in Luoyang, and he and the Taifu Yuan Kui consulted many times, and successively relocated and recruited more than 70 bureaucrats and scholars. In order to win the trust of the Taifu Yuan Kui and the ministers of the court, Dong Zhuo did not pay a large number of visits to his relatives and subordinates. He only worshipped Dong Yue, Niu Fu, Hu Zhen, Li Su, Bao Hong, and Duan Xuan, the captain of the Northern Army, as Zhonglang generals, and Lu Bu, the captain of Hanoi, and Cao Cao was worshiped as the captain of the cavalry, and many other Xiliang generals were not promoted, but were rewarded.

Dong Zhuo asked to serve as a lieutenant in order to get the military power controlled by Shang Shutai, but now the lieutenant is Liu Yu, and the removal of Liu Yu without any reason is likely to be opposed by Yuan Kui and the ministers and cause unnecessary trouble, so Dong Zhuo has put a lot of thought into this position of lieutenant. He discussed it with Li Ru and decided to play the Son of Heaven and reappoint Liu Yu as the Great Sima.

(Da Sima used to be in charge of military affairs, but he is actually the current Tai Lieutenant.) When Emperor Wu of this dynasty, he changed Taiwei to Da Sima. When mourning the emperor, he changed the imperial doctor to the great Sikong, the prime minister to the great Situ, and the great Sima was called the three dukes. When he arrived at Emperor Guangwu, Da Sikong and Da Situ went to the word "big" and changed Da Sima to Taiwei, and the position of the three princes has been extended to this day and has not changed. At this time, worshipping Liu Yu as the Great Sima is simply nonsense and has no basis. Could it be that there will be four more important ministers in this dynasty? What is Liu Yu? Is he still the third duke? Dong Zhuo's proposal made Taifu Yuan Kui cry and laugh.

On the 12th of September, Sikong Dong Zhuo and Taifu Yuan Kui played to the Son of Heaven, proposing to appoint Liu Yu, the former Tai Lieutenant, as the Great Sima and the title of Marquis of Xiangben, while Sikong Dong Zhuo was reappointed as the Tai Lieutenant and the former general, and was given the Jieyue and Tiger Ben Guards, and was named the Marquis of Yi. Soon, according to the invitation of the two, the Son of Heaven worshiped the servant Yang Biao as Sikong, and worshiped Yuzhou Mu Huang Wan as Situ. So far, the three dukes have reappeared in the court.

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