Three Kingdoms, at the beginning of the game, recognize the thief as the father, hit the spectacle,

Until nightfall, Lu Zhi did not wait for the news that Dong Zhuo's troops had left the city.

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"Report-"

"No, it's not good! General, something serious happened!"

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When he was thinking, why not go to Wang Yun's mansion tomorrow to ask him, a messenger suddenly rushed into his tent in a panic.

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"It's not good, General! Wang Situ ordered me to send a letter to you, that Dong Zhuo actually indulged his Xiliang soldiers and horses today, and wantonly plundered rich merchants and aristocratic families in Luoyang City. Many families have already suffered disaster!"

"What's more, anyone who intends to resist, no matter men, women, old or young, will be killed by Dong Zhuo's soldiers. Anyone who has a female family member will be taken away and distributed to the soldiers under his command as wives!"

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"General, now the whole Luoyang has become a mess, and everyone in the aristocratic family is worried and panicked. Come out of the palace with me to have a look!"

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Chapter 70 Disaster in Luoyang

"At that time, Sikong Dong Zhuo sent troops to loot the rich merchants and common people in Luoyang, killing and injuring no one. Later generations also called it 'Dong Zhuo's Rebellion'."

-"Book of the Later Han Dynasty"

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It is a pity that in the end, Lu Zhi still failed to find an opportunity to completely eliminate the scourge of Dong Zhuo.

When he led his army out of the West Garden and rushed to the streets of Luoyang, Dong Zhuo had already grabbed his things and returned to the camp.

Even because all the rebels had been killed by Dong Zhuo's family, and the rest were afraid of Dong Zhuo's power, no one even dared to speak ill of Dong Zhuo when Lu Zhi saw those victims.

Yes, as long as all the courageous ones are killed, no one will come to trouble him - this point has been fully verified by Dong Zhuo long ago when he was in contact with the rebels of many ethnic minorities in Xiliang.

And when Lu Zhi angrily raised his sword and went to Dong Zhuo's Xiliang army camp, ready to confront Dong Zhuo one by one, Dong Zhuo's soldiers even declared that these people were all lawbreakers, and Dong Zhuo was just Order to investigate these guys?

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"Lu Shangshu, my lord, as a Sikong, he has the responsibility of supervising all officials and rectifying the court."

"Those aristocratic businessmen now wantonly deceive their superiors and subordinates, despise the imperial power, bribe all officials, and even unite with local officials to oppress the local people!"

"My lord, today he is going to search the property of these people and check the bribery incident."

"There are witnesses and material evidences for this matter, and my lord is acting in accordance with the law. Why do you say that Luoyang is in trouble?"

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Dong Zhuo had already expected Lu Zhi's visit.

Therefore, when Li Ru appeared in front of Lu Zhi, he made a combination of punches, which immediately rendered Lu Zhi speechless.

That's right, who is Dong Zhuo? He is Sikong!

Leaving aside whether his position as Sikong is justified or not, but it is said that he did not make any mistakes in investigating the matter of the aristocratic family today.

This is Lu Zhi's shortcoming.

As a Confucian general, he still likes to reason with others.

Now that Dong Zhuo had really reasoned with him, he lost the will to continue confronting Dong Zhuo.

What if what Dong Zhuo said is true?

What if these aristocratic families really bribed officials and deceived their superiors?

Didn't he, Lu Zhi, do something wrong instead?

This advance and retreat made Lu Zhi freeze on the spot.

Later, when Li Que, Guo Si and other generals appeared in front of Lu Zhi one by one, Mr. Shangshu finally retreated in his heart.

Even if he had a reason to attack Dong Zhuo today, with these guys like door gods standing here, it would be very difficult for him to succeed.

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"Four second-rate military generals, each with strong momentum and long blood..."

"This Xiliang is so remote, how come there are so few rare warriors?"

Looking at Li Que and others, Lu Zhi couldn't help but secretly startled.

On the one hand, he was shocked that Dong Zhuo had recruited four generals in a remote place like Liangzhou, and on the other hand, he was a little surprised that as a veteran, he had never heard of these people.

In other words, in Liangzhou, in the entire Han Dynasty, there are still many outstanding generals who have not been discovered and recommended by the court.

When the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, if there were so few fierce generals to help, how could the big Han fight so hard?

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As for the general named Hua Xiong...

Lu Zhi couldn't see through him.

Since he couldn't see through it with his strength, it meant that the opponent was at least a top-notch fighter, and might even be stronger than Lu Zhi.

If there was such a general to help back then, how could Zhang Bao and his fellow have been so arrogant in front of him, Huangfusong and Zhu Jun for so long?

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As soon as these people appeared on the stage, firstly, it made Lu Zhi completely give up the idea of ​​attacking Dong Zhuo, and secondly, it also made him a little annoyed: what kind of messy things have been investigated by this big man's investigation system?

Could it be that the foundation of this big man is really rotten from the inside to the outside as Dong Zhuo said?

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After thinking about this, although he was still a little upset, Lu Zhi finally did not choose to clash with these people outside the Xiliang Army's camp, and left here with a trace of sadness.

As for those officials who Dong Zhuojun called "corrupt and accepting bribes", they were naturally sent to court early by the other party.

You must know that although the Jiuqing of the Han Dynasty are nominally subordinates of Situ, the head of the hundred officials, in actual work, the Sangong Mansions are each in charge of the members of the three Jiuqing.

For example, Tingwei Mansion, which is in charge of the prison, is under the jurisdiction of Sikong.

Now, these officials themselves have been imprisoned, and all their family assets have been confiscated by Dong Zhuo, leaving no evidence for Lu Zhi to investigate.

As for those rich merchants, they simply pulled out carrots and brought out mud, and Dong Zhuo took it with them...

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On the other hand, while Li Ru was persuading Lu Zhi to leave, Dong Zhuo had a good check today and was checking today's harvest with all the accountants under him.

Now that the quarrel with the imperial court had become like this, the treasury of the big man would naturally not be able to eat half of the money, food, and grass confiscated by him, and Dong Zhuo kept it all in his own hands.

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"Hey, there are so many?!"

"A small official with six hundred shi in a big man actually has nearly a thousand taels of gold in his home?"

"And this second-class family who once served as a governor and two county magistrates in his family has thousands of slaves and more than ten thousand stones of grain?"

"This Luoyang Beijing official's family is so rich!?"

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In his own Sikong Mansion, Dong Zhuo couldn't help being extremely surprised when he saw the accounts that were constantly being counted and handed in.

It was really hard for him to understand how a small official with little power could be so corrupt.

As far as this Wanshi's food is handed over to him, it will even be enough for the [-] elite soldiers under his command to eat for more than half a month!

And that thousand taels of gold, placed in the Western Regions, is nearly a thousand war horses, or tens of thousands of sets of good armor and weapons.

Such an asset, which was extremely valuable in the eyes of his "Xiliang Governor", was actually accumulated by the six hundred shi officials in less than ten years after checking by the accountant.

Such behavior really made him feel a little uncomfortable inside.

At the same time, Dong Zhuo's trust in the whole big man has dropped to freezing point.

Whether it is the emperor of the Han Dynasty, the hundreds of officials of the Han Dynasty, or the thousands of big and small families of the Han Dynasty, they are all of the same breed. Everyone is an obstacle to the progress of this dynasty.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a bug that sucks human blood.

On the contrary, in the frontier, soldiers are frozen to death every year because of insufficient cotton coats.

Those officials who really do things for the people will either be assimilated in such an environment, or they will be squeezed out just like he used to be.

Even those merchants who were once somewhat innocent in his eyes are now labeled as accomplices by Dong Zhuo.

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Chapter 71 Everything has its beginning and end, and everything has its beginning and end

Don't you see, Dong Zhuo raided three rich local merchants in Luoyang within a day today, and as a result, at least [-] shi of grain were pulled out from the warehouses of their respective homes.

Not to mention that the food was for the soldiers under his command, in previous years, it was enough to support even a small war!

But even though they were not short of food, these merchants still did not put the food on the market, but chose to hoard the goods and raise the price of food.

This led to a soaring increase in grain prices throughout Luoyang, and everyone panicked and desperately bought and stockpiled grain.

After some looting, according to Dong Zhuo's previous investigation in Luoyang, just because of their behavior, at least thousands of poor people starved to death directly, and tens of thousands fell into severe famine.

As a harvest, according to Li Ru's estimation, when they raise the price of grain to the peak, they only need to open a warehouse to release grain, and they can instantly obtain a profit that is more than ten times the cost.

The price of all this is nothing more than tens of thousands of insignificant human lives...

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Fortunately, the price of food has not yet reached its peak, and these merchants were directly promoted by Dong Zhuo.

The harvested food, as well as the wealth they had accumulated over the years, all went into Dong Zhuo's hands.

At the moment, Dong Zhuo didn't talk nonsense, so he gave instructions to the accountants for tomorrow's work.

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When the sun gradually rose the next day, several porridge sheds for charity appeared quietly outside Luoyang City.In addition, a lot of food was transported away overnight and directly transported to the land of Sanfu in Chang'an, and distributed to the refugees in various places in the form of charity.