Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 15 Patriotic Dong Zhuo
In the general perception of Liu Xie and the general public in later generations, those scholar-bureaucrats in ancient times were all saints with glorious coats.They uphold the Confucian philosophy, they are loyal to the imperial court, morality is supreme, and they can throw their heads and blood for the well-being of the common people in the world, and they have no regrets even if they die nine times.

But the facts heard from Dong Zhuo's mouth now don't seem to be the case.

"Your Majesty, you don't know the reaction of these scholar-bureaucrats to the abolition of the establishment, but you should remember the reaction of the Manchu officials when a certain family proposed to move the capital to Chang'an?" When Liu Xie was still shocked by the previous suspicion, Dong Zhuo Youyou floated out a very meaningful sentence, which immediately made Liu Xie's thoughts flow.

What Dong Zhuo said was that the Kwantung heroes raised troops to challenge Dong Zhuo, and Dong Zhuo discussed moving the capital to avoid disaster.At that time, Liu Xie was already the emperor of today, so he naturally remembered that the incident caused a disturbance in the court and was strongly opposed by the literati and bureaucrats.Successively Henan Yin Zhujun, Situ Yang Biao, Taiwei Huang Wan, Chengmen Xiaowei Wu Qiong, Dujun Xiaowei Zhou Yu and others risked their lives to persuade them.For this reason, Dong Zhuo also dismissed Yang Biao and Huang Wan, and executed Wu Qiong, Zhou Yu and others. At this time, the resistance of the scholar-bureaucrats and Dong Zhuo's silence when he abolished the young emperor were completely different.

From this point of view, these scholar-bureaucrats were not afraid of death, nor were they afraid of Dong Zhuo's force.But why did they react so completely differently to these two major events that also shook the foundation of the Han Dynasty?

Liu Xie's brain has become a mess at this time, and the secrets behind the scenes of history are too gloomy. He, a modern person with only the IQ of the director of the rural village committee, can't guess it.However, just when he was about to give up dejectedly, he saw the playful light in Dong Zhuo's eyes, which instantly opened up the shackles in his brain, and he understood the reason for all this.

Someone once said that to understand history, one must bring individuals into it, and only with a mentality of "sympathy for understanding" can one understand what people did at that time.Although the environment and ideas of the times are changing with each passing day, human nature has remained unchanged for thousands of years. There is no difference in human nature between the scholar-bureaucrats of the Han Dynasty and the modern people 800 years later.

Anyone or any group does anything, there are causes and consequences.Jumping out of these two incidents, we can see that the scholar-bureaucrat class has actually been struggling with one thing before this.

Judging from the entire history of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the class of scholar-bureaucrats has always been in a very weak position.Although they have the idea of ​​governing the country and the well-being of the people, they also have the determination to seek the well-being of the common people, but there must be a prerequisite for realizing this idea, that is, they need the support of a powerful imperial power to improve politics.

However, the imperial court at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was simply a pitiful and ridiculous farce. The two forces of foreign relatives and eunuchs took turns to play the leading role on the stage of power, crowding out the aspiring scholar-bureaucrat group from the sidelines.Especially the eunuch group has a natural hatred for scholar-bureaucrats.Scholars rose up to fight, and as a result, they encountered two "disasters of party imprisonment". More than 100 people died tragically in prison, and 700 to [-] people were imprisoned for life and could not be officials.

From then on, the scholars hated the eunuch to the bone, and they couldn't tolerate it.Therefore, Yuan Shao, the leader of the scholar-bureaucrat group, used He Jin's butcher's knife to kill the eunuch.It can be said that the scholar-bureaucrats did a good job in this last fight, but it is a pity that they did not expect that at the moment when the relatives and eunuchs died together, Dong Zhuo, a foreign warrior, seized their fruits vigorously and vigorously.

Just as Dong Zhuo abolished the emperor in order to gain the maximum benefit, the literati and bureaucrats had an ambiguous attitude towards the abolition of the emperor in order to safeguard their interests.The reason why they were silent when Dong Zhuo abolished the Young Emperor was probably because they were worried about retaliation by the Young Emperor and Empress Dowager He.

At the beginning, they were the ones who instigated General He Jin to kill the eunuch, but He Jin was killed by the eunuch, and they couldn't absolve himself of the blame for He Jin's death, this is one of them;

Empress Dowager He has always favored the eunuchs, but after He Jin's death, the scholar-bureaucrats drove out the eunuchs to exterminate them. I am afraid that the Empress Dowager He will not tolerate them. This is the second.

Even if Dong Zhuo did not implement the abolition of the establishment, if the scholar-bureaucrats were in power, they would probably have to take certain actions.And when Dong Zhuo moved the capital, he fought because after the capital was moved, the scholar-bureaucrats would be isolated and helpless, lose their roots, and become fish on the chopping board. It would be even more difficult for the scholar-officials to gain power.For the last glimmer of hope for the scholars to take power, they had to rise up and fight.

So when Emperor Shao was abolished and King Chenliu was established, there was such an unexpected scene: Yuan Kui untied the emperor's seal ribbon to honor King Chenliu, helped King Hongnong go down to the palace, and became a minister in the north.The Empress Dowager was crying, and all the ministers were sad, but none dared to speak.It turned out to be the leader of the scholar group, Yuan Kai, who was the assistant minister at the time, personally carried out the procedure of abolishing the establishment! ——This is a compromise made by the scholar group to Dong Zhuo considering its own interests.

Therefore, when Dong Zhuo was about to move the capital to Chang'an, they wrote a letter to the death, impassioned, and faced the murderous Dong Zhuo, they could even sacrifice their lives-this was the most helpless cry of the scholar group on the verge of despair.

As a result, Liu Xie finally had the most real understanding of this era.He no longer has preconceived hatred for Dong Zhuo, nor does he have expectations for the scholar-bureaucrat group with a long reputation.The only thing he wants to know now is how to optimize the compromise of the imperial power under his buttocks among Dong Zhuo and the scholar-bureaucrat group...

Therefore, he must understand what happened between Dong Zhuo and the scholar-bureaucrat at this time, so that whenever Dong Zhuo mentioned the scholar-bureaucrat, he would involuntarily reveal the resentment that he wanted to kill and then quickly!

"Grand Master, I really can't figure it out. Since those scholar-officials could urinate in the same pot with the Grand Master when it came to abolishing the emperor, why didn't the Grand Master take the initiative to connect with him? If so, the Grand Master is in charge of the military, and the scholar-bureaucrats Manage the government, everyone gets what he wants, the world will be clean and the world will be clean. I can also rule by this, and leave a good name for future generations?"

"Your Majesty, what does your Majesty think that a certain family brought only three thousand soldiers and rushed thousands of miles to Luoyang? The Han Dynasty court sold officials and nobles, killed dissidents, extorted money, and the people were in dire straits. Why did this family not see it in their eyes and feel pain in their hearts?" Dong Zhuo said here. At that time, there was involuntarily a trace of nostalgia in his tone, as well as an indescribable self-mockery: "A certain family also knows that those warriors from Liangzhou cannot handle the government affairs. They are all good hands, but when it comes to dealing with paperwork every day and handling all kinds of tedious government affairs, politics is a very technical profession. Son!"

"A certain family has planned several times, even risking the world's disgrace and abolishing the emperor, in exchange for the current situation. Naturally, it is also to clean up the filth in the court and find a place for the people in the head of Guizhou to settle down." Dong Zhuo said this sentence weakly , obviously his dream has been shattered: "A certain family has shown favor to those scholar-bureaucrats more than once, but does your majesty know what a certain family got in exchange?"

Liu Xie involuntarily put down the wine bottle in his hand, once again immersed in Dong Zhuo's secrets.Hearing from the mouth of the demon king who was rated as a disaster in the Han Dynasty in history, he also had a side of reforming politics and caring for the common people, which really made Liu Xie feel weird, but also a little more embarrassing.After all, as Dong Zhuo said, if he can be on the front line with the scholar-bureaucrats, the Han Dynasty may not have ushered in a new life.

"The exchange from a certain family is a complete betrayal!" Dong Zhuo suddenly drank the cold wine in the bottle, then threw the wine bottles in the bath, and roared angrily: "Those scholars who think of themselves as noble, they don't look down on me as a warrior! In their eyes, a certain family is the same as that pig butcher He Jin, a reckless man who is so vulgar and troubled the world! It's ridiculous that a certain family doesn't know it at all, and they still think that those scholar-bureaucrats are really gentlemen who care about the common people. They are a group of villainous people who can only play scheming tricks!"

After saying this sentence, Dong Zhuo was obviously very drunk, and he didn't even care about Liu Xie's status as the emperor of the Han Dynasty.Pulling Liu Xie in front of him, staring at his blood-red sad and angry eyes, and spraying a mouth full of stench, he yelled at Liu Xie: "Your Majesty, did you know that the Kwantung Allied Forces are these literati who borrowed the power of a certain family to fight against you?" They came out! They all lied to a certain family and used the official and military power given to them by the certain family to oppose me!"

And Liu Xie, who was suddenly carried in the air by the furious Dong Zhuo, never imagined that in history, the Kwantung Allied Forces' crusade against Dong Zhuo would be such a shocking reversal!Such an earth-shattering inside story made him even forget that his own life was in Dong Zhuo's hands at this time. The head is definitely not harder than those bluestones by the bathing pool.

Moreover, Dong Zhuo's next sentence also showed that he had every reason to do so: "Your Majesty, in the court today, you actually learned all the details of Yufulo, the Southern Huns. Are you also talking to those shameless villains?" In general, using a certain company?!"

Dong Zhuo showed his fierceness, and he could not help but increase the strength of Liu Xie's hand under the influence of alcohol!

(End of this chapter)