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"Hey, is this place interesting?"

"As expected of Luoyang, the capital of my Han Dynasty, even the roads in this city are much wider than other places!"

After a while, the two groups collided like this.

He didn't pay too much attention to Liu Bian who was surrounded by everyone. After Dong Zhuo signaled his generals to be optimistic about Liu Bian, he walked into the city gate alone with great interest and took a look at the scene in the city.

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This... is not the first time he has come to Luoyang.

About four to five years ago, due to some reasons, he was escorted to Luoyang for trial. At that time, Luoyang seemed very different from what it is now.

I don't know if it's Dong Zhuo's illusion... He always feels that this Luoyang City, whether it's street houses or pavilions, seems to be much more refined than the last time he came here.

Even the main road that runs through Luoyang from east to west seems to be wider than before.

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As he walked, memories gradually came to his mind, and Dong Zhuo was also a little lost in thought for a while.

The events of five or six years ago, the events of more than ten years ago, and even the past events of decades ago, all appeared in front of Dong Zhuo's eyes like a slide show.

It was everything that happened that made Dong Zhuo what he is now.Seeing things and thinking about things now makes him, who has entered middle age, start to feel inexplicably sad...

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Speaking of the fate between Dong Zhuo and Luoyang, we have to start from decades ago when Dong Zhuo had just come of age.

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It was still in 146 A.D., which is the first year of the beginning of the century, when Hanzhi Emperor Liu Zuan had just passed away, and Liu Zhi, who was in the line of King Hejian at that time, was selected by General Liang Ji to succeed him.

Dong Junya, a native of Xiliang at that time, gave birth to two children named Dong Zhongying and Dong Shuying when she was serving as the county captain of Lunshi, Yingchuan County, Yuzhou.

This is Dong Zhuo, who was later famous in Xiliang, and his younger brother.

Because of the influence of his father, who was a county lieutenant, Dong Zhuo has been proficient in martial arts since he was a child, and he also generously donated money. It can be said that he is quite popular with his father.

Later, after Dong Junya resigned from office and returned to her hometown, she always took Dong Zhuo by her side.

Since he became an adult, Dong Zhuo has successively served as the official of Longxi County, the governor of Liangzhou, and the governor of Bingzhou, etc., and was recommended by Duan Jiong, the governor of Bingzhou at that time, to enter the court when he was in his 20s .

This is Dong Zhuo's first visit to Luoyang.

Young and frivolous, what he didn't know was that what awaited him was not a bright future, but all kinds of intrigues in the court, all kinds of power strife, and the court controlled by the upper-class family. , the rejection that penetrated deep into the bone marrow...

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In the last years of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo served as the general of the Yulin Army, but within a few years, he was dismissed due to the change of the throne and due to a mistake in standing in the team.

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A few years later, the Xianbei invaded and plundered the frontier, joined hands with the Qiang people, oppressed the Xiongnu tribe at that time, and intended to deter the Han Dynasty.

Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty Liu Hong named Zhang Huan the "General of the Huns Protecting the Huns", responsible for pacifying the wars in Youzhou, Bingzhou, and Liangzhou. Dong Zhuo was promoted by Zhang Huan to be the Sima of the army because of his outstanding ability, and he went out with the army.

After a one-year war, Dong Zhuo led his army to kill the leader of the rebellious Qiang people and defeated more than [-] enemies. Afterwards, he returned to the court with Zhang Huan and was rewarded with [-] pieces of silk for his service.

Not long after, Dong Zhuo was implicated and dismissed because of Zhang Huan's downfall, and the silk he got was distributed to his subordinate officials and soldiers, and he became white again...

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Later, Dong Zhuo successively served as the Guangwu Ling of Yanmen County in Bingzhou, the captain of the northern part of Shu County in Yizhou, and the captain of Wuji in the Western Regions. However, he was repeatedly dismissed because of power strife in the court.

Until this time, the young Dong Zhuo had gradually seen the essence of this big man.

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A few years later, Dong Zhuo worshiped under Situ Yuan Kui, who is now the Grand Tutor Yuan Kui.

Yuan Kui promoted him to be a small official, and later served as the prefect of Hedong County, and then moved to the post of governor of Bingzhou.

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Should he thank Yuan Kui?

Without the existence of Yuan Kai, he would never have been able to change from an ordinary official to a governor of Bingzhou who supervised one side at such a fast speed.

Then should he hate Yuan Wei?

If there is no existence of Yuan Kai... or if there is no rivalry between these family power officials represented by Yuan Kai, maybe it will be a few years earlier, when Dong Zhuo became the general of the Yulin Army, he would not be The court was dismissed.

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In this way, Dong Zhuo had a backer after he joined Yuan Kai's family, and his subsequent career can be said to be smooth.

This allowed Dong Zhuo to see clearly the essence of a big man, and he hated this essence even more.

Until 184 A.D., the Yellow Turban Uprising broke out in various parts of the Han Dynasty. Lu Zhi, the general of Beizhong Lang, was dismissed as a political victim because of the struggle between the official faction of the court and the eunuch faction. Among them, he was in charge of commanding the whole army against Zhang Jiao and the other three brothers.

However, within two months, the imperial court dismissed him as the head coach on the grounds that he was unfavorable in commanding the army and had no military achievements for a long time.

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That's two months!What is enough for two months!

On a large battlefield with tens of thousands of people, such time is not enough to launch a simple military operation, so how can we talk about capturing a city with tens of thousands of people defending it?

Do you really think Dong Zhuo, a general galloping beyond the Great Wall, can't beat the Yellow Turban Bandits?

Chunchun is just farting!

As for those peasants who couldn't hold their weapons securely, one of Dong Zhuo's strong men from Xiliang could beat him ten!

The reason why it seems that an inch of success has not been accomplished is because some trash in the imperial court are fighting each other all day long, holding each other back?

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Until now, recalling that incident back then, Dong Zhuo couldn't help being so angry that his blood pressure soared. He wished he could slap the civil servants in the court twice to let him know what love from the generals faction is.

If it hadn't caught up with the amnesty at the end of December that year, I'm afraid Dong Zhuo would have been exiled to the frontier because of his previous crimes, and even imprisoned in the court for a lifetime!

How can there be any stories about him leading an army to defend against foreign enemies in Liangzhou?

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"Hmph, back then you guys plotted against me, there was nothing I could do..."

"I don't have enough background, so I can only go outside and be manipulated by you powerful officials."

"But now, everything is different!"

Looking back at the officials who were greeting Liu Bian, Dong Zhuo thought bitterly.

"Now that I have entered Luoyang with an army of [-], you civil servants who only quarrel, how can you compare with me?"

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Thinking about it, as far as the current Han court is concerned, there is no one of the ten permanent servants, the spiritual leader Zhang Rang is missing, the military leader Jian Shuo is missing, and the rest are like Duan Gui, Zhao Zhong and others. Died in the chaos of burning Mengjindu led by Ding Yuan...

Today's eunuch power has been weakened to the extreme.

And the other force, the general He Jin?

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He Jin is dead!

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Once the biggest giant in the two imperial courts died, what qualifications would the remaining stragglers have to fight Dong Zhuo?

Why?Is it just based on the so-called literati style?

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To put it harshly, once Zhang Rang and He Jin died, the remaining so-called "power officials" like Wang Yun and Lu Zhi were not worth mentioning in Dong Zhuo's eyes.

If you want force, you don't have force, if you want the right to speak, you don't have the right to speak.

Not to mention anything else, given Dong Zhuo's current status as a hero who protects him, and Liu Bian as a threat in his hand, isn't this the best time for him?

Just let go of your comfort and flex your muscles, you can realize your life aspirations in today's imperial court, and even liquidate those scum who harmed you back then...

Thinking of this, Dong Zhuo felt excited and couldn't restrain himself.

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"what----"

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While he was laughing strangely in a daze, a sharp, even terrifying scream suddenly sounded from the crowd, which also woke up the dazed Dong Zhuo.

Among the bustling officials before, a bright red shot out from the middle, and before it entered Dong Zhuo's field of vision, the wind brought a very familiar smell to him.

It's the stench of blood.

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Narrowing his eyes slightly, Dong Zhuo couldn't help looking in the direction of the voice.

There, Liu Bian was sitting down on the ground with a face full of horror at this moment, his eyes were rounded, as if he had been greatly frightened.

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But... the exclamation just now should not be his.

Dong Zhuo remembered that this guy would only cry when he was in a hurry, even if he screamed, there should be a hint of crying.

If it wasn't him, who would it be?

Dong Zhuo couldn't help but took two steps forward, and made his way to the center of the crowd.

Among the crowd at this moment, a stinky blood was pooling into a small stream, slowly leaving behind.

And the source of the blood...

It was a headless corpse.

The man's head had already flown to nowhere.

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