Yuan Shao looked at Liu Biao and said, "Brother Jingsheng, I will take the order of the Son of Heaven to worship you as the pastor of Jingzhou, and I will take office immediately." ”

Liu Biao glanced at Yuan Shao in surprise and said, "Originally, the highway had already sent someone to take office, and I would go to ...... again."

"What is the order of the highway? Can his command be compared to the Son of Heaven's command? Yuan Shao sneered, "You don't want to go to Jiangling, the Jingzhou Governance Office, but go directly to Xiangyang to find Kuaiyue." ”

Liu Biao realized.

"Nanyang has been occupied by the highway, and he won't let you lead Jingzhou, so you have to sneak all the way to Xiangyang to find Kuai Yue for help." Yuan Shao said, "After the general was killed, Kuai Yue was disheartened and went home, but as an old friend for many years, he will definitely be obligated to help us when we need him the most." ”

"There is also Cai Mao, the former captain of Changshui, whose family is the first gate valve in Xiangyang, and his power is extremely huge. We used to be friends with him, and although we haven't seen each other for many years, he is definitely willing to help with this favor. His family lives on the Hanshui River Continent, which is eight miles away from Xiangyang, and there are hundreds of guests at home, all of whom are good at martial arts. After you arrive in Xiangyang, as long as you get the help of the two of them, it is equivalent to getting the support of all the gate lords in Xiangyang. ”

"After Yuan Shu occupies Luoyang, you immediately take back Nanyang and control the seven counties of Jingzhou." Yuan Shao smiled and said, "Yuan Highway is a mediocre talent, and it is barely possible to attack Luoyang, but to expect him to attack Chang'an and eradicate Dong thieves is simply a pipe dream, so there are some things we must do ourselves, and we must not expect others." ”

After Chen Lin and Liu Biao left the camp one after another, Yuan Shao ordered the army to stop the attack.

Yuan Shao recognized Zhang Yang. When Zhang Yang first entered the Xiyuan Army to serve as a military commander, Yuan Shao was entrusted by the general He Jin and personally recommended him to Jian Shuo. Zhang Yang came to thank him several times for this. Able to climb the big tree of Yuan Valve. Of course, Zhang Yang couldn't ask for it. It's just that none of them thought that two years later, the two would face off on the battlefield and become enemies of life and death.

Yuan Shao personally wrote a letter to persuade Zhang Yang to surrender. Dong Zhuo has gone to Chang'an, what are you still fighting? Do you trust me or Dong Zhuo?

Feng Ji volunteered. Take this letter into the city and persuade him to surrender.

Zhang Yang's army ran out of food and grass, and the reinforcements had been waiting for a long time, and they were already desperate.

Yuan Shao immediately rectified the military horses and Chen Bing Huanghe.

………………

In early 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.

See Emperor Fu Song in the imperial history. Dong Zhuo said very apologetically: "Brother Yizhen, please forgive me for the matter in 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. If you talk about war, Dong Zhuo thinks that he is no worse than Huangfu Song, but if you talk about governing the country. Dong Zhuo still admires Huangfu Song very much.

In that year, the Yellow Turban riot and Gyeonggi were in an emergency. The society was turbulent, 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 and said, "We want to solve today's crisis." It depends on whether Xiangguo can faithfully assist the Son of Heaven and rule the world with virtue. If Xiangguo still can't give up the harsh punishment and strict law, bloody killings, and even wantonly trample on the laws of the Han Dynasty, and do misdeeds. The consequences ......"

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 Xiangguo 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 Li Yi's checks and balances? I am the minister of the Han Kingdom, holding the authority of the world, holding 200,000 male soldiers, and I am subject to a martial artist, and I am a rebel and arbitrary ****, and I am powerless to save it when I see the society overturned, and I am also an auxiliary minister? I really can't go back? ”

Huangfu Song looked at him intently, shook his head again and again, and said seriously: "I'm not perfunctory to you, now there is really only this way." ”

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 this kind of external checks and balances suggested by Li Yi can solve the temporary chaos of war, 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 once said this suggestion in a letter to Li Yi, but Li Yi 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 Yi and the scholars in the court, that is, Dong Zhuo has to make huge concessions.

Huangfu Song said: "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 masters in the world, and they knew when to check and balance power, when to monopolize power, and when to delegate power appropriately. 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. Huang Fu Song's method is reasonable, if the Xiang Guo in the court today is Huang Fu Song, then this method can indeed save the current crisis, but unfortunately, today's Xiang Guo is him Dong Zhuo, no one believes him, including Huang Fu Song himself. So why did Huangfu Song make this suggestion?

Dong Zhuo smiled and asked, "Can Brother Yizhen be specific?" ”

Huangfu Song said: "Unite with Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu to strike at Li Yi." ”

Huangfu Song explained: "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 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 Xiangguo do when he left Zhu Jun in Luoyang? Is it really because you can gain Li Yi's trust? Sangkook clearly has another purpose. Xiangguo must know that Zhu Jun does not approve of the northern Xinjiang's approach at all, and he will do everything possible to destroy the checks and balances, and Xiangguo wants to use Zhu Jun to destroy the checks and balances, so as to effectively contain the northern Xinjiang. ”

In addition, Xiangguo also wanted to use Zhu Jun's various practices to provoke Li Yi, provoke a struggle between the northern Xinjiang and the Kwantung princes, and force Li Yi to turn against Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and others, and greatly weaken the strength of the northern Xinjiang. However, this strategy of Xiangguo can only be an emergency, not a complete solution to the crisis. ”

"In order to completely resolve the crisis, Xiangguo 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 Yi will hold Luoyang at all costs. ”

"As long as the two sides fight in Luoyang, Li Yi'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 Yi will fall into the mud of Luoyang and cannot extricate himself. What is especially important is that as soon as the Luoyang War was completed, Xiangguo quietly transferred the current crisis to Li Yi, and Xiangguo could quickly take the initiative. ”

"Xiangguo and Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu join forces, and they will definitely have to make big concessions, but this concession is worth it. As a result, Xiangguo could obtain food and materials from various prefectures and counties, and 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 Huangfu Song said, Dong Zhuo wanted to contain and attack Li Yi. 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 now I would have been buried in a mass grave at the foot of Beibi Mountain like He Jin.

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, strike at Li Yi's power, 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 and Li Yi will be killed 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 Xiangguo is loyal to the country, this matter is not difficult." (To be continued.) )

PS: I was so tired after writing the book last night that I forgot to release it regularly, and I only sent it out now, forgive me.