August 29, afternoon, Changqiu Palace.

Dong Zhuo took the deposed Son of Heaven to meet the Queen Mother.

Looking at the glamorous Empress Dowager He, Dong Zhuo's blood boiled instantly, and his eyes looked directly at Empress Dowager He.

This woman is the queen mother of the world, she is so beautiful, she has no shortage of women in her life, but there is no one who can compare to this woman. I heard that she is in her thirties? But this doesn't look like a woman in her thirties at all, but like a cardamom young woman, which is too tempting.

But thinking of the letter from someone Kou Zhun brought, Dong Zhuo was like being poured down by a basin of cold water, extinguishing the flame that had just burned.

How did that person know that he might have a heart for Empress Dowager He? Thinking of warning yourself in advance? Hmph, that person is really hypocritical, obviously he fell in love with the beautiful Empress Dowager He, and said that the first emperor was kind to him, and he must ensure the safety of his widow and descendants.

Thinking of this, Dong Zhuo couldn't help but sneer at someone.

This person is naturally the hussar general Li Yi. Li Yi not only asked Kou Zhun to go south to Luoyang, but also brought a letter from him.

In the letter, Li Yi said that Dong Zhuo can do everything he wants, and he will not stop him, but there must be a bottom line, that is, the personal safety of the concubines and children of Emperor Ling of Han must be guaranteed, otherwise even if he goes to the ends of the earth, he will inevitably be crushed to ashes.

Dong Zhuo's heart was very angry about Li Yi's threat of Chiguoguo, but he had to forcibly endure it. Because Li Yi has the strength to say such cruel words, even if in the past few months, Li Yi fought with the Xianbei people on the grassland, and his strength was greatly damaged, Dong Zhuo did not dare to disobey him.

Thinking about the people who have fallen at Li Yi's feet all these years, Dong Zhuo can't help but feel a chill down his spine. Whether it is Zhang Jiao, or Liaodong Zhuhu, Wuhuan, Xiongnu, and the Xianbei people who have just been eliminated by Li Yi. The power they possess is far from being comparable to that of him Dong Zhuo.

Empress Dowager He didn't know what Dong Zhuo was thinking, let alone that she was almost about to be ravaged and defiled by the big fat man in front of her, she was already six gods and no master for the current situation, and she didn't know why things developed like this.

Now that the general is dead, and the lieutenants in the palace are also dead, the inner and outer courts of the Han Dynasty are all the world of scholars, why are the Taifu and the ministers in the court still not satisfied? Why depose the Son of Heaven. Forcing yourself to return to power?

Empress Dowager He asked in a trembling voice, "What about Taifu?" ”

"Taifu has been tired for days and has fallen ill." Dong Zhuo pretended to be respectful and replied.

Empress Dowager He asked again: "Where are the ministers of Jiuqing and Zhuqing?" This palace wants to see them? ”

Dong Zhuo said unhurriedly: "They are waiting for the Empress Dowager's decree in the Jiade Palace. ”

Empress Dowager He was suddenly discouraged, tears fell like rain, and she cried loudly: "Why did Taifu betray the Great Han Kingdom? Why did the ministers betray the Great Han Kingdom? ”

Dong Zhuo sneered: "The ministers are loyal to the Great Han Kingdom, how can they betray it?" The first emperor returned to heaven for more than three months, and the Great Han Kingdom was in a desperate situation, who did this? If the ministers don't turn the tide, the Han Kingdom will be gone, and the 400-year foundation of our Han Dynasty will be turned into powder in an instant. The minister implored the Queen Mother to issue an order immediately. deposed the Son of Heaven and returned to power. ”

Empress Dowager He was grief-stricken and hid her face and wept bitterly.

Dong Zhuo's expression was fierce, and he played again in a loud voice: "The minister implores the Queen Mother to make a decree quickly." ”

Empress Dowager He was frightened by Dong Zhuo's roar. Involuntarily screamed: "Come on, come on." ”

There is no one, not a single middle yellow door, they are long dead.

Dong Zhuo slowly stood up. took out a holy decree that had been prepared from his bosom, and said with a cold face: "The minister implores the queen mother to stamp the seal on this holy decree, so as not to miss state affairs." ”

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August 30th. Garter Hall.

The palace is heavily armoured inside and outside, and hundreds of officials in the Jiade Hall gather.

Empress Dowager He, the Son of Heaven and King Chen Liuwang were panicked and trembling. Taifu Yuan Kui was as calm as water, Sikong Dong Zhuo was happy and excited, and the civil and military officials were exhausted and in good spirits.

Sikong Dong Zhuo first read out the "Abolition of the Young Emperor": "The young emperor is frivolous, without the majesty that the emperor should have, during the mourning period, he is lazy and lazy, and his bad morality has been clearly known to the world, and his obscene behavior has been known, and what he did seriously insulted the artifact and the temple. The Queen Mother has no way to teach, and there is no virtue of motherhood, which makes the society desolate. The collapse of the Empress Dowager Yongle is still confusing to this day. The path of the Three Principles established by heaven and earth has been flawed, and this is a great sin. …… The emperor was deposed as the king of Hongnong, and the empress dowager returned to the dynasty. ”

Dong Zhuo asked: "Do you have any objections?" ”

The ministers were silent.

Shangshu Ding Gong then applied the righteousness of the "Spring and Autumn Period" to confirm the rationality of deposing the young emperor and supporting the new emperor, and used many celestial phenomena and examples to illustrate the correctness of supporting Liu Xie, the king of Chen Liu, as the new emperor of the Han Dynasty.

Dong Zhuo asked again: "Do you have any objections?" ”

The ministers were silent.

Shangshu He Hao immediately read out the edict of the Empress Dowager, deposed the young emperor Liu Wei, and established Liu Xie, the king of Chenliu, as the new emperor of the Han Dynasty.

Taifu Yuan Kui took off the seal ribbon worn by the young emperor Liu Bian, and presented it to Liu Xie, the king of Chenliu, and then helped Liu Bian, the king of Hongnong, to go down to the palace and proclaim himself to Liu Xie, who was sitting in the north.

The two brothers looked at each other and wept. Empress Dowager He choked and sobbed and was in pain. The ministers were miserable.

The ministers paid homage to the new emperor, and the new emperor ascended the throne.

Shangshu He Hao announced the edict of the Son of Heaven, granted amnesty to the world, and changed the year name to Yonghan.

Dong Zhuo made a decision, saying that the Empress Dowager He forced the Empress Dowager to return to the vassal kingdom shortly after the first emperor returned to heaven, causing the Empress Dowager to die of anxiety and grief, violating the etiquette of her daughter-in-law and respecting her mother-in-law, and should be punished.

Dong Zhuo asked: "Do you have any objections?" ”

The ministers were silent.

Shangshu Han Fu then read out the empress dowager's edict.

The Son of Heaven issued an edict to pardon the Queen Mother's unfilial piety and move the Queen Mother to live in Yongle Palace.

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September of the first year of the Yonghan Dynasty of the Great Han Kingdom (189 AD).

On the first day of September, Luoyang.

On this day, the Luoyang officials, who had a premonition that the mountain rain was coming, began a great escape.

The big and small bureaucrats and celebrities in Beijing resigned one after another, and even left their seals and ribbons and fled. Yuan Shao, Lu Zhi, Xun Shuang, Wang Qian, Shen Tu and others disappeared in Luoyang in the blink of an eye.

On this day, Sikong Dong Zhuo was busy reorganizing the 100,000 Northern Army and preparing to divide his troops to garrison Gyeonggi Baguan and Luoyang City.

At the same time, the Son of Heaven issued an order to repatriate the soldiers of Tuntian in Bingzhou, and ordered Wang Kuang, the Taishou of Hanoi, the Taishou Qiao Mao of Dongjun, and Bao Xin, the cavalry commander, to lead their troops and horses back to the prefecture and county.

On this day, Taifu Yuan Kui was busy with his foreign duties as an official in Beijing.

Foreign appointments are another way for bureaucrats to take refuge. In fact, the foreign appointees are not really officials, their destination is their hometown, everyone knows about this, and they just know each other.

Shangshu Han Fu is the pastor of Jizhou, Liu Dai is the pastor of Yanzhou, Zhang Miao, the captain of the cavalry, is the Taishou of Chen Liu, Kong Ling is the pastor of Yuzhou, and Zhang Zhi is the Taishou of Nanyang.

Zhijin Wu Ding Yuan was also among them, and he was appointed Taishan Taishou. Dong Zhuo really wanted to kill this disobedient man who dared to lead the army to attack him and give the scholars a warning, but Ding Yuan had a lot of troops in his hands, strong combat power, and two sworn friends, Wang Kuang, the Taishou of Hanoi, and Bao Xin, the prime minister of Jibei, were helping on the side, so he hesitated again and again, but he still did not dare to take action against Ding Yuan.

In this way, Ding Yuan, who should have been used by Dong Zhuo to kill chickens and monkeys, escaped with his life.

Later, Li Yi, who was on the prairie, was speechless for a long time when he heard the news. The so-called one drink and one peck, it is not predestined, this sentence is really reasonable. He snatched away several of Ding Yuan's capable generals, whether it was Lu Bu, Zhang Liao and Gao Shun, they are now all generals under his command, and only Song Xian and Hou Cheng, who he looked down on, were left under Ding Yuan.

His behavior of digging into the wall undoubtedly greatly weakened Ding Yuan's strength, but it also allowed him to get away with his life. If Lu Bu was still under his command, who knew if he would follow in the footsteps of his previous life and be cut down by Lu Bu?

Also spared her life was Empress Dowager He, because of Li Yi's letter to Dong Zhuo, she avoided the fate of being poisoned by Dong Zhuo under the pretext of causing He Jin's death, and was still under house arrest in Yongle Palace.

However, her brother He Miao was not so lucky, and he was dug up by Dong Zhuo and his body was dismembered. Also not spared was Empress Dowager He's mother Wuyangjun, who was killed by Dong Zhuo and abandoned her body in the Yuan, and no one even collected her body.

In addition, Shangshu Xu Jing was also among the foreign appointments, and he was originally arranged to be the Taishou of Bajun, but he did not make the trip, and he was left by Dong Zhuo to be the middle of the imperial history, helping Shangshu Ling Zhou Bi to rebuild Shangshutai.

On this day, the Son of Heaven issued an edict appointing the sons of officials at and below the central government as Lang Guan, in order to fill the positions originally held by eunuchs and serve the emperor in the palace.

On September 12, Sikong Dong Zhuo and Taifu Yuan Kui presented a performance 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 former general, and was given the title of Jieyue and Tiger Ben Guard, and was named the Marquis of He. 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.

Dong Zhuo gradually took control of Luoyang, he was complacent, and his personal desires and hopes gradually swelled, and he saw that the rich and noble mansions in the city were continuous, the families were solid, and the gold and silk properties were innumerable, so he indulged his soldiers and implemented the so-called "prison" movement. These soldiers killed people everywhere and set fires, raped silver women, looted materials, and made the entire Luoyang City restless and complaining.

When Dong Zhuojun entered Luoyang, Cao Cao was also in the capital, and he had a certain amount of military power in his hands. In the process of expanding his troops and collecting military power, Dong Zhuo also wanted to eat Cao Cao by luring him to his advantage. But Cao Cao saw through Dong Zhuo's conspiracy, refused to cooperate with him, and fled Luoyang without saying goodbye.

Zhang Wen, the guard captain, once served as a lieutenant, and he was extremely dissatisfied with Dong Zhuo's arrogant, barbaric and cruel behavior. Dong Zhuo also regarded Zhang Wen as a thorn in his side, and in order to get rid of this major trouble, Dong Zhuo spread rumors in the court, slandering Zhang Wen and Yuan Shu for a long time to collude against the imperial court. Soon, he flogged Zhang Wen on the charge of "trumped-up".

Under Dong Zhuo's coercion and conspiracy, his rivals and many loyal ministers in the court were either forced to flee or eliminated by eradication.

Dong Zhuo's wanton manipulation of power and indiscriminate killing of innocent people aroused strong indignation and opposition from the vast number of officials and people. (To be continued.) )