In the middle of November of the first year of the Yonghan Dynasty of the Great Han Kingdom, Luoyang.

The Son of Heaven decreed that Dong Zhuo should be worshiped as the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, praise and worship the nameless, enter the dynasty without trending, go to the palace with a sword, and respect the favor.

At the same time, Dong Zhuo ordered the establishment of ancient literature and scriptures as an official school, and set up five doctors, "Zhou Li", "Zuo Chuan", "Gu Liang", "Ancient Literature and Shangshu", and "Mao Shi", to show the imperial court's recognition of ancient literature and classics.

This action caused chaos among the Taixue students, and the two sides immediately clashed, and then the conflict turned into bloodshed.

Yuan Kui's protégés have many disciples, and they are vigorous, and they have been hit the hardest.

By the time Xuanfan, the captain of Sili, arrived at Taixue with the guards to disperse the troublemakers, dozens of them had already fallen on the ground.

It's a big deal.

The students of Taixue were not afraid, they rushed out of Taixue, formed a mighty procession, shouted all the way, and went straight to the North Palace. They knelt in a black area outside the gate of the North Palace, and begged the Son of Heaven with tears in their eyes to immediately abolish the ancient scriptures and ban the ancient scriptures. Some of the beings still parade around the city. There was chaos in the city of Luoyang.

Yang Feng and Yang Qin of Yang Valve, Fu Wan of Fu Valve, Cui Lie of Cui Valve, Chong Fu of Chong Valve, Zhang Wen of Zhang Valve, Wang Qian of Wang Valve, and many other family members of the gate valve family in Beijing rushed to the gate of the North Palace one after another to support the doctors of literature and scripture and all the students, and many other clans such as Liu Hong, Liu Ting, Liu Bo, Liu Biao, etc., who were powerful members of the royal family in Beijing, rushed to help. For a while, the momentum outside the gate of the North Palace was amazing, and the roar was like a tide, and the atmosphere in Luoyang City suddenly became tense.

The Son of Heaven and many ministers were terrified. Dong Zhuo was unmoved and calm. He ordered the Eighth Lieutenant of the Northern Army to be dispatched immediately, and each leader was stationed at the Eight Passes of Gyeonggi. Zhonglang General Dong Yue led 10,000 troops back to Chang'an to garrison, Zhonglang General Duan Xuan led 10,000 troops to garrison Tongguan, and Zhonglang General Niu Fu led 10,000 troops to garrison Hangu Pass. Captain Xuan Fan of Si Li, Yin Wangyun of Henan, and Captain Wu Qiong of Chengmen each led the guards to inspect Luoyang City to prevent anyone from taking the opportunity to make trouble and harm the people.

As for the famous people and great Confucians, let them make trouble, and make trouble as much as they want.

However. Dong Zhuo underestimated the strength of the scholars.

A few days later, Confucian scholars from Yin and Hongnong counties in Henan gathered in Luoyang, and Luoyang's opposition to the study of ancient scriptures as official learning became higher and stronger. The Confucian scholars of Chang'an and Sanfu also began to march in Chang'an City, and attacked the Jingzhao Yin Mansion several times, and Jingzhao Yin Dong Min was assassinated while driving away the troublesome Confucian scholars, and almost lost his life.

At the same time, Confucian scholars from the prefectures and counties where the edict of the Son of Heaven reached also gathered at the yamen of the county government to petition, but there were few Confucian scholars in these places, and they generally mainly petitioned and debated. Unlike the Confucian scholars in Luoyang and Chang'an, they have an undying posture.

But even so, the governors of various prefectures and counties still wrote one after another, and Qiao Mao, the Taishou of the Middle East County, directly aimed the spearhead at Dong Zhuo, the prime minister, and angrily accused him of abusing power to harm the country, vainly changing the ancestral system, and should be blamed and dismissed.

With Qiao Mao's performance, the government and the opposition scolded Dong Zhuo at the same time almost overnight, and the Confucian scholars in Luoyang gritted their teeth. I couldn't wait to eat him alive, and asked Dong Zhuo to resign from his post and go back to Xiliang's shouts resounded throughout Luoyang City.

Dong Zhuo ordered Zhonglang to lead Guo Yan and Hu Zhen into the city and surround Taixue and all the gate lord families who participated in the Beigong petition. Ordered Captain Hu Ben Li Dao and Captain Hu Qi Fan Chou to lead the army to drive away the doctors, scholars and scholars gathered outside the gate of the North Palace. If there is any disobedience to the order, they will be arrested immediately.

However, the "drive" in Dong Zhuo's military order turned into "hunting" in the mouths of Li Dao and Fan Chou, and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry rushed into Luoyang City at night. A bloody massacre unfolded.

Overnight, Taixue had five doctors and more than 3,000 students. Dozens of celebrities and Confucians have become dead souls under the knife. There are seventeen mansions in Luoyang City that have become tombs, the emperor's relatives, the family of gate valves, the people of Xiliang who arrest and kill whom, and the thick blood permeates the sky over Luoyang City.

The bloody slaughter made Luoyang quiet for a while. In the cold wind, the cry under the north mountain is particularly poignant and miserable, and the harsh winter is quietly coming.

All the clans who participated in the petition outside the gate of the North Palace were implicated in the rebellion of the clan without exception, the mansion was besieged, and the head of the family was ordered to submit a petition for guilt. Many ministers were dismissed from their official posts because of this matter, and they went home to think about it behind closed doors. Many famous scholars and scholars who were stranded in Beijing were forcibly repatriated to their hometowns. Taixue suspended his studies, and the students of Taixue were forcibly driven out of Beijing by the soldiers of the Northern Army.

After Jingzhao Yin Dong Min received the holy decree of the Son of Heaven and the urgent letter of Dong Zhuo of Xiangguo, he immediately launched a soft and hard persuasion and expulsion against the gate lord clan and the great Confucians of Chang'an City. More than a dozen gate lords were besieged, more than a hundred Confucian scholars who behaved excessively were arrested, and Chang'an City gradually returned to normal.

After more than ten days of petitions, Dong Zhuo forcibly suppressed the petition tide of Confucian scholars in today's literature and scriptures.

At the same time, the news of Dong Zhuo, the lord of Xiangguo, slaughtering tens of thousands of Confucian scholars, bloodbathing the Suzaku Gate of the North Palace, and killing dozens of clan ministers began to spread in Gyeonggi, and then quickly spread to various prefectures and counties.

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December of the sixth year of Zhongping of the Great Han Dynasty (189 AD).

At the beginning of this month, the Son of Heaven issued an edict to abolish the three numbers of Guangxi, Zhaoning, and Yonghan, and still call this year the sixth year of Zhongping.

At the same time, in the distant Shan Yu Court, the great discussions on various affairs in northern Xinjiang were carried out in three big tents at the same time, and different regional governors gathered every day to discuss different matters, and the debate was very fierce and the progress was very fast.

The division of the territories of the Hu tribes in the desert, the establishment of counties, the mutual markets with the inner counties, and the Hu cavalry recruitment system were all established. The kings of all tribes and tribes wear Han official uniforms and ribbons in accordance with the laws of the Han Dynasty.

After many discussions with the county magistrates, the county magistrates were able to negotiate with each other about the tuntian, animal husbandry, and mutual markets, the preparation for the construction of horse husbandry, and the resettlement of the disaster victims, and finally a more specific operation plan was formulated.

With the efforts of Guoyuan, Wang Xiu and others, many difficult matters have also been solved.

Li Yi ordered the construction of a martyr's platform at the foot of Tianshou Mountain in the northern suburbs of Jicheng to comfort the soul of the Han Dynasty. At the same time, it was ordered that Tianshou Mountain be used as a cemetery for the fallen soldiers, and the bones of all the fallen soldiers would be buried in this cemetery.

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In December of the sixth year of the Han Dynasty, Yecheng, Jizhou, was wrapped in silver makeup.

In the lobby of the post house where Yuan Shao temporarily lived, Yuan Shao sat in the middle, surrounded by Liu Biao, Qiao Mao, Xu You, Guo Tu, Feng Ji, Chen Lin, Chun Yuqiong, etc.

Liu Biao has been here for two days, and the bag that Yuan Kui asked him to bring to Yuan Shao contained a document to discuss Dong Weiwen.

According to the agreement, after Yuan Shao got this document, he should immediately pass it to various states and counties, and then Qiao Mao, the son of the former Taiwei Qiao Xuan, the Taishou of Dongjun, raised the banner of asking for Dong and announced to the people of the world that he was asking for Dong Yuanwen, but this document has not been sent out yet.

Let Qiao Mao take the lead in raising the banner of Dong Daqi, which Yuan Kui decided after careful consideration. Since it was quite unpredictable to gather soldiers and horses from various prefectures and counties to coerce Luoyang, Yuan Kui did not plan to let his family members jump out first and provoke the fire, so as not to endanger the safety of himself and the Yuan forces living in Luoyang.

If he is arrested by Dong Zhuo, the development of the matter will not be under his control. Yuan Kui had to ensure that he could always control the development of the situation, so he chose Qiao Mao, who had an extremely close relationship with Yuan Kui.

At present, among the officials in various states and counties, if you talk about family background, in addition to Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, Qiao Mao is the most prominent.

After the former Taiwei Qiao Xuan died of illness in the first year of Zhongping, the Qiao family moved back to Yuzhou Liangguo. In order to escape the war, Qiao Yu, the son of Qiao's family, moved to Wancheng, Yangzhou with his clansmen, and his son Qiao Mao was opened in the Sangong Mansion.

Qiao Xuan successively served as the prime minister of Qi, Hanyang Taishou, Duliao General, and later Jiuqing until Taiwei, who had great influence in the military and political circles of the Han Dynasty and many protégés.

Qiao Xuan has a strong temperament, a humble and thrifty corporal, and there has never been a big official among his children's relatives because of his relationship. When Qiao Xuan died, his family had no home and no funeral, and he was praised by the world.

If the descendants of such a high-ranking family raise the banner of fighting against Dong, they will certainly be unanimously supported by the government and the opposition, and the letter of courting Dong Weiwen announced by him will also be recognized and trusted by scholars from all over the country, which will be of great benefit to raising troops to coerce Luoyang.

Secondly, Qiao Xuan had several fatalities, but they were all saved by Yuan Valve, and the Qiao family owed the Yuan family a favor, and it was impossible not to agree.

Qiao Xuanshao was the Gongcao of Suiyang County, and he exposed Chen Xiangyangchang's corruption to Zhou Jing, the assassin of Yuzhou. Zhou Jing appreciated him very much, so he sent him to Chen (now Huaiyang) to investigate. Qiao Xuan to Chen, hunted all the guests of Yangchang, and investigated Yangchang's crimes.

The general Liang Ji had a close relationship with Yangchang, and after hearing the news, he hurriedly sent someone with a decree to save him. Zhou Jing was frightened and urgently ordered Qiao Xuan to return to Suiyang.

Qiao Xuan was not afraid, he took the holy decree in one hand and killed Yang Chang with the other. Qiao Xuan was convicted for this. Yuan Tang, who was a lieutenant at the time, admired Qiao Xuan very much, rescued him, and recommended him as the left lieutenant of Luoyang.

Later, Liang Yi's younger brother Henan Yin Liang did not suspect that in order to vent his personal anger, he framed Qiao Xuan for violating the law and arrested him. Yuan Tang came forward again to rescue Qiao Xuan and sent someone to send him back to his hometown. After the general Liang Yi was killed, Qiao Xuan began to rise to prominence.

Qiao Mao was reluctant to be this up-and-coming bird at first. If this thing succeeds, Dong Zhuo loses his authority, and of course he is the first to take the lead, but if he fails, he will be finished. Yuan Kui later promised him that if it was successful, he would ask the Son of Heaven to worship him as the third duke. Qiao Mao immediately decided to take on the important task of revitalizing the Han Dynasty.

The reason why the text was not sent out was because the last sentence on the text made Yuan Shao and others at a loss.

The last sentence was temporarily added by Yuan Kui, which means that when today's son is supported by Dong Zhuo, after the traitors are eradicated, he will depose today's son and help Liu Wei, the king of Hongnong, to re-ascend the throne.

Why is that? At that time, everyone knew the reason for the deposition of Liu Bian, the king of Hongnong, and now that he said so, didn't he slap himself in the mouth? And the deposition of today's son will definitely anger the hussar general, isn't this forcing the hussar general to join forces with Dong Zhuo? What is the intention of Taifu to make this inevitable defeat? (To be continued.) )