Chapter 129: King of Eastern Wude

The dragon scales are directly touched by the official, and the tiger's den is shot at Ningguan. ------Northern song dynasty. Wang Anshi "Sending Jiang Ning Peng to Que"

It is said that in the east of Chang'an City, Dong Zhuojun's soldiers pressed the border, Hua Xiong, Gao Shun, Fan Chou, and Zhang Ji were all tiger generals in the world. Weiyang Palace has more than 1,000 soldiers defended by the Han Dynasty general Gai Xun; Bocai's army guarded Tongguan and delayed the enemy's movements; The mountains outside the north city are reckless, and there is Lu Zhi guarding the town, and the wolf smoke is the signal in case of trouble; Outside the west city, there are Huangfu Song and Sun Jian to resist the rebels, and Zhong Jian leads the army to guard the city tower; The southern city wall is guarded by 3,000 people led by Gan Ning and Pan Jun; Facing the strong troops in the east, the remaining more than 4,000 soldiers led by Huang Gai, Xun You, Zhao Hong and others guarded the town, all kinds of materials and equipment to defend the city up and down the city tower, and temporarily recruited all kinds of porters, men and other logistics personnel in the city, everything has been properly arranged, even if Dong Zhuobing is strong, to break a strong city like Chang'an, I am afraid it will take a year and a half. At that time, Zhao Yun's First Blue Dragon Army had already arrived, leaving Dong Zhuojun without returning.

Chen Long has read the Three Kingdoms, how can he not know the most important serial plan in Dong Zhuo's rebellion. Now Lu Bu has killed his father-in-law Ding Yuan and returned to Dong Zhuo; Wang Yun groveled and was reused by Dong Zhuo; Cai Yong was talented, and was recruited by Dong Zhuoqiang as a sacrificial wine, and moved his official several times in January. To trigger the serial plan that separates Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu, it seems that there is still a catalyst left.

In Chen Long's heart, he has always wanted to trigger the serial plan as soon as possible. Wang Yun and his people must not be used by Dong Zhuo, but now that the two emperors are facing each other, history has been greatly rewritten, who knows that Wang Yun will not be recognized by Dong Zhuo before using the serial scheme, and his head is different? At that time, everything could only rely on hard power and Dong Zhuo's death, which was a result that Chen Long was very unwilling to see.

Therefore, the serial plan must be staged as soon as possible, so that Lu Bu, a stupid boy, can personally end up his new father-in-law. At that time, Liu Xie, supported by Dong Zhuo, either became a puppet of other separatist forces, or became a ghost under Lu Bu's sword, in short, without Dong Zhuo's strong strength, coupled with the imminent outbreak of the Central Plains War between the separatist forces, he finally achieved unification through the strength of Lingling.

Chang'an, as the most important stronghold in the Central Plains in the future, will definitely follow Xun You's ideas and incorporate the Yongliang two states in the rear and even Hanzhong and Yizhou into its own territory. Ping Han Sui, Poqiang people, descending Ma Teng, and Dingwuwei, if these battles can be won, at least they can occupy one of the three points in the world.

The remaining part of the world's three points depends on the wrestling between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, the wrestling between Liu Bei and Liu Biao, and the wrestling between Sun Jian and Yuan Shu. His ideal state is to occupy most of Jingzhou, Jiaozhou, Yizhou, Liangzhou, Yongzhou and Chang'an, and close to Luoyang and Nanyang; At that time, the confrontation with the remaining major military blocs was the key moment for the unification of the world.

Returning to Luoyang in front of him, Chen Long drew up a plan to enter Luoyang in disguise, pretend to take refuge in Dong Zhuo, and urge Wang Yun to set up a series of schemes. Xun You heard that this plan was wonderful, and he admired it in his heart, and suggested to the lord that he dress up as the "King of Eastern Wude" Yan Baihu.

Yan Baihu is a thief, tall, and lives in Wu County, thousands of miles away from Luoyang, and few court officials know his appearance, which is the best cover.

At that moment, Xun You relied on the memory of a glance to guide Chen Long to put on makeup. Chen Long scattered his black hair, knotted it into a thin braid, hung it down to the front of his forehead and the back of his head, tied a black hero turban, blocked the iconic sword eyebrows, and deepened the eye sockets with eye ointment, and the complexion was dark black, mixed with a little red spots, and some thick powder was smeared around the bridge of the nose, which made the bridge of the nose look much more rounded. The lips were smeared with cyan, which appeared to lose their blood, adding a hint of dark complexion.

After Chen Long finished cleaning up according to Xun You's guidance, Xun You laughed and said, "Congratulations to King De of Eastern Wu, there is nothing Dong Zhuo can do about such a wonderful technique." It's just a little bit of a beard. Lu Chang next to him also secretly snickered, and Chen Long said: "I am Yan Baihu, and you are Yan Yu." Lu Chang hurriedly stopped his smile and said that the eldest brother obeyed.

Chen Long said to Xun You again: "I don't shave my beard for half a month, but I can also have a beard." Said to Lu Chang: "You are responsible for selecting some special team members, more than a dozen people, preparing the clothes of the Wu people, and pretending to be our guards." When Baihu and his younger brother went to Beijing, they didn't have a single guard, which aroused suspicion. ”

Lu Chang obeyed the order, muttering about what the Wu people's clothes were like, and went to the East Market to purchase. In the next half month, the Bocai army has been relying on natural danger to resist Dong Zhuo's heavy troops in Tongguan, and gradually unable to resist, and has sent someone to inform Chang'an City that he is about to abandon Tongguan and return to Chang'an.

Chen Long wore a big beard and knew that Dong Zhuojun was about to come to the city, and the time had come for him to go to Luoyang. Early in the morning, he dressed up in disguise, bid farewell to Xun You, Huang Gai and other generals, hid in the carriage and walked out of the south gate of Chang'an, and went straight to the road to Wancheng. This is Chen Long's caution, afraid that he will encounter Dong Zhuo's ambush soldiers by land halfway, so he simply takes a detour, first to Wancheng and then north to Luoyang, so that Jia Xu and his ilk will not be suspicious.

Lu Chang selected fourteen special forces attachés, a total of sixteen people along with the lord and himself, and marched to Luoyang City half a month later. Chen Long looked at this unusually familiar Luoyang City, and sighed in his heart, he hid his identity and returned to Luoyang again, and the death of the brutal Dong Zhuo was not far off.

In the past month, Dong Zhuo's life has been very leisurely, using Liu Xie, a puppet, to frequently issue edicts, and he has already leaned towards the government and the opposition. At the daily court meeting, Dong Zhuo sat on Liu Xie's side, Lu Bu stood behind Dong Zhuo with a halberd in his hand, and if he was a little unsatisfactory, he rewarded the disobedient minister with a halberd, and the entire court, including Emperor Han Xian, was trembling, lest Dong Zhuo's strange eyes sweep to him.

Dong Zhuo, together with Situ Huang Wan and others, carried a guillotine to the court and wrote a bloody letter, demanding the rehabilitation of Chen Fan and Dou Wu, who were politically identified as traitors during the September coup d'état in the first year of Jianning, as well as many party members who were arrested and killed in the "Second Party Rebellion" the following year. Liu Xie played one by one, restored the titles of Chen Fan and others, and promoted their children and grandchildren to officials according to Dong Zhuo's intentions.

Dong Zhuo also took advantage of the burial of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty and opened the Wenling Tomb to steal the treasures in it. Relying on the prestige of the army, he indulged the soldiers to rob the rich in Luoyang City, loot property, and rape women, and the people complained, and families with daughters did not dare to let their daughters go out.

Dong Zhuo was still a small official, and he didn't inform Liu Xie, so he simply worshiped himself as the prime minister, sealed the marquis, and had the privilege of "entering the court and going to the palace with a sword", although Liu Xie hated it in his heart, but he was helpless, and since then Dong Zhuo's power in the court has been in full swing. Dong Zhuo named his mother "Chiyang Jun", set up orders, Cheng, family officials, and all chickens and dogs ascended to heaven.

Dong Zhuo had a cruel personality and was good at using criminal law to establish authority, and even dug He Miao's body out of the grave* and threw it in the garden. Zhou Hui, the son of Zhou Zhong, the great Si Nong, heard that something had happened in Luoyang and rushed back to Luoyang to visit his father, but when Dong Zhuo saw Zhou Hui, he thought he was hateful and disgusted with him, so he sent troops to rob him directly.

Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Wei Zi, Zhang Yang and others all began to recruit troops and horses in the local area, trying to resist Dong Zhuo's rule, and Dongjun Taishou Qiaomao even forged the Three Gong documents and distributed them to the state and county governments, stating Dong Zhuo's crimes, calling on all localities to raise troops against Dong and support the throne of Chang'an Liu Biao. Dong Zhuo was furious and appointed Li Ru, who had just escaped from Lingling, as the Zhongshu Order, to assist Huaxiong's army and attack Chang'an day and night, intending to eliminate Liu Wei and cut off the political attempts of Qiao Mao and other anti-Dong coalition forces.

It was in this form that Chen Long disguised himself as Yan Baihu of Wu County, and in the name of seeking to meet Dong Zhuo, Xiangguo, he presented eighteen pearls of the East China Sea. These eighteen southern pearls, all the size of a dragon's eye, each pearl is round and jade, glowing and colorful, it is really a rare treasure, which was copied by Chen Long from the tribute of the Chang'an Palace, and happened to be a meeting gift from Yan Baihu to Dong Zhuo.

Dong Zhuo was overjoyed after receiving the gift, and appointed Yan Baihu as the Marquis of Wucheng, the general of Annan, and the commander of Wu County. The next morning, Yan Baihu in front of the ministers, detailed his admiration for Dong Xiangguo, so he traveled thousands of miles to come to Luoyang to worship, and said that Dong Zhuoshi was a good minister to save the world. Dong Zhuo was overjoyed, thinking that his reputation had spread all over the world, and he became more and more arrogant, and he didn't take Liu Xie in his eyes at all.

At this moment, Yan Baihu became a celebrity in front of Dong Zhuo's eyes, Dong Zhuo rewarded him with a mansion, and those who tend to be inflammatory. Yan Baihu deliberately befriended Lu Bu, Cai Yong and Wang Yun, and became Dong Zhuo's confidants for a while. Dong Zhuo ordered Xu Rong to lead the troops to guard the Tiger Pass, Li Dao and Guo Yan to guard Luoyang, Wei Xu and Hou Cheng to guard the first line of the Yellow River, Zhang Liao and Zang Ba to guard the southern suburbs, and Sili to the area. Dong Zhuo was addicted to wine all day long, his body became more and more obese, and his body was gradually hollowed out.

On this day, it was Cai Yong's turn to be the east, claiming that the Luoyang Poetry Conference would be held. Dong Zhuo, Lu Bu and other martial artists, although they don't know a few big characters and can't be interested at all, but Cai Yong is a great Confucian and a romantic poet, Dong Zhuo has to reluctantly make it difficult, and he also shows that he attaches importance to the way of Confucius and Mencius. Moreover, I heard that Cai Yan, the eldest lady of the Cai family, Cai Wenji, happened to be the eighteenth birthday, and Cai Yong intended to let his beloved daughter compete with the world's talents at the poetry meeting.

On the day of the poetry meeting, Dong Zhuo wore Xiangguo court clothes, with Lu Bu on the left and Jia Xu on the right, surrounded by Niu Fu, Dong Yue, Li Su, Duan Xuan and other guards, as well as chief of staff Liu Ai, Zheng Tai and other literati. Of course, Chen Long was also invited, Shi Shiran followed Dong Zhuo, and behind him was Yan Yu, played by Lu Chang, who guarded him tightly.

The ancients valued literature and admired the style of a gentleman, so although war was inevitable, etiquette and music could not be abolished. In particular, the scholar class and the scholar class are high-level literati, such as Cao Cao, Liu Yu, Yuan Shu, Kong Rong, Tao Qian, etc., although the martial arts are extraordinary, but the literary poetry is also a moment of splendor. In particular, Cao Cao's four-character poems can be described as famous in all directions. His son Cao Zhi's "Luo Shen Fu" is even more famous.

The poetry meeting was held in the large garden of Cai Yong's mansion, and some two-story small buildings were set around the garden, and elegant seats were set up on the second floor for Dong Zhuo and his staff to watch the grand event. There are small bridges and flowing water in the garden, and winding paths are set up, and at this time, there are many young and handsome people from all over the world, who are full of poetry and books. There are also those who came because they admired Miss Cai, and they all stretched their necks and waited for Cai Yan to appear.

Cai Yong read aloud some of the rules of the poetry club, nothing more than what the title and rhyme were, and announced the start of the poetry club. Everyone watched the beautiful scenery in the courtyard, twisted their eyebrows and beat their chests to hold back poetry there, and suddenly someone shouted: "Where is Miss Wenji?" Everyone laughed, it turned out that they were all here for Cai Wenji.

Dong Zhuo was also interested, thinking that Cai Yan must be a famous beauty, so he stared at Cai Yong with a lewd smile and said, "Uncle, my Zuo Zhonglang General, why do you hide your daughter so tightly?" Hurry up and invite Miss Cai Wenji, so that these young people can relieve the pain of admiration. ”