Playing chess, Chen Mo is also familiar with the road, in the past, he was in a different realm with Lu Zhi, and he was pressed by Lu Zhi, but after he was familiar with the routine, he was fighting for brain power and energy, at this point, Chen Mo can crush all the people whose chess skills are almost or even higher than him today.

After all, most of those who have reached the level of specialization evaluated by the system immortals are more than half a hundred years old, and even if they are good, their energy can't keep up.

Lu Zhi is both civil and military, even if he is old, but his spirit is also sufficient, in the face of Chen Mo's stubborn fighting, he still wins more and loses less, but although Cai Yong's chess skills are comparable to Lu Zhi, in terms of energy, he obviously can't compare with Lu Zhi.

Halfway through the chessboard, it was obvious that I couldn't keep up with the rhythm.

Chen Mo also felt that he was a little invincible, and after losing more than half of the game, he took the initiative to admit defeat and saluted Cai Yong: "Mr. Bo's chess skills are not as good as the game." ”

"But if it continues, the old man will probably lose." Cai Yong shook his head helplessly, it's better to be young.

"What do you think about the matter of the captain?" Cai Yong suddenly asked while collecting his son.

Chen Mo raised his head, frowned, and began to guess in his heart that these two people would not be lobbyists who were fooled by Wang Yun, right?

"Dong Gong is a person, and he doesn't want to make more comments, but now the luck of the Han family is tied to his body, and the Han family is now suffering from internal and external troubles, and it is really difficult to go through twists and turns." Chen Mo thought about it and said directly.

He didn't want these people to make trouble anymore, although he knew that it was impossible, Dong Zhuo was indeed a little out of line during this time, at the end of September, the Empress Dowager He was buried, and he took the opportunity to run away from the royal tomb, which is undoubtedly a big crime in the eyes of many people, but Chen Mo knows that this is also helpless.

Now in the land of Beijing, there were originally 30,000 forbidden troops in Luoyang, and Dong Zhuo successively transferred nearly 50,000 Xiliang elite soldiers and 80,000 elite soldiers from Xiliang. How does Nam Yin make offerings? And the states and counties have shirked and refused to pay taxes for various reasons this year, and they have been intercepted by the states and counties, and Dong Zhuo is now able to control the government, that is, he has enough force to deter him, so there must be no problems with military rations and salaries.

In addition, the officials of the DPRK and China, not to mention the three princes and nine kings, Chen Mo, the lieutenant of the division, actually received 1,200 yuan per year, and at his level, Luoyang, including the generals under Dong Zhuo, has more than 30.

Guanzhong's taxes can still be collected now, and the national support in the past has become the current state plus one county support, how can it be afforded?

Dong Zhuo doesn't want his own money, but his officials can't be less, he now wants to win over the scholars, regardless of whether the other party is sincere to him, but once this is broken, there will also be many people who are dissatisfied.

Planing the emperor's mausoleum must be a big crime, but for the imperial court to operate normally, it is not enough to say it, it is necessary to ask for money, so even if Chen Mo is ignored by Dong Zhuo at this moment and rejected by the scholars, he still hopes to maintain the current stability, as long as it is stabilized, the taxes of Yuzhou and Yanzhou can be handled, at least the operation of the imperial court is no problem.

Wang Yun secretly calculated, especially for the purpose, but most scholars, even if they followed Wang Yun to push Dong Zhuo down, there was actually no benefit to be gained at all, and it was even worse than now.

But the problem is that there are very few people who can see this problem clearly, and those who can see it clearly are either silent or fueling the flames for their own purposes, and if this court continues like this, it will collapse sooner or later.

As for whether Dong Zhuo himself did it during this period, or what is his character? Chen Mo doesn't want to evaluate, it's meaningless, many things, everyone only looks at the results and doesn't ask the reason.

Cai Yong paused, shook his head and sighed: "There are countless scholars in Luoyang, but there are not many who can see it as clearly as the captain. ”

The atmosphere became a little depressing, and the gurgling piano sound surrounded like flowing water, as if to ease the oppressive atmosphere between the three of them, Chen Mo sighed, and saluted the two: "Disturb the two, and the last general will leave first." ”

Cai Yong and Xun Shuang got up separately when they heard this, and Cai Yong reluctantly smiled: "If the captain needs it, you can come to find the old man." ”

Chen Mo nodded, Cai Yong is a great Confucian in the world, Dong Zhuo is quite dependent on Cai Yong, there are some things that Chen Mo can't talk to Dong Zhuo, it may be more useful to ask Cai Yong to come forward.

"This son is young, but he can care about the world, and his long-term vision is very human." Looking at Chen Mo's departing back, Cai Yong sighed and said, "Brother Ciming, I think the master is really wrong. ”

"The two have different paths to save the country, and it is good for this son to start from the overall situation, but Dong Zhuo, even if he has the ambition to help, he has no virtue to believe in the world, and it is difficult for him to be tolerated by scholars after all!" Xun Shuang nodded, what Chen Mo said did have some truth, but this was purely from the perspective of the Han family, but Dong Zhuo's problem now was not whether he assisted the Han family or not, but that his own virtue was not recognized by the scholars, and he was not qualified to do this, even if he was powerful now, but he was unpopular, and it would be difficult to last long after all.

"Alas~" Cai Yong sighed, the key to this is that the people in the world do not recognize Dong Zhuo, or in other words, Dong Zhuo's background and reputation should not have done what he is doing now, but just as Chen Mo said, after these changes, the prestige of the Han family has been shaken, and it is really difficult to experience a change, which is more important...... Maybe it's not that no one understands, it's just that they choose to ignore it.

……

Early the next morning, Chen Mo came to the Jiade Hall as usual, the Son of Heaven and Dong Zhuo had not yet come, but the atmosphere was a little different, the ministers gathered around in twos and threes to whisper, Chen Mo did not participate, just listened attentively.

What the ministers said, but it was the recent Xihe Yellow Turban remnant Guo Tai led the troops to attack Hedong County, which was not a big deal, and it is not a new thing for the remnants of the Yellow Turban to rebel in recent years, but Hedong is too close to Luoyang, and Dong Zhuo led the army from Hedong to Luoyang in less than three days, which can pose a threat to Luoyang, so the court cannot ignore it.

At the beginning of the month, Dong Zhuo had sent his subordinate general Niu Fu to lead the army into Guo Taisuo's department, but yesterday came the news that Niu Fu was defeated by Guo Tai, which was a bit surprising, it seems that Yu Fuluo was also involved, and Guo Tai jointly defeated Niu Fu, and the ministers discussed this matter.

If it is just a simple Yellow Turban remnant, it is not too important, but Yu Fuluo led the Hun cavalry, as soon as this winter comes, the river froze, and it can rush to Luoyang in one day, which is too threatening to the imperial court.

Hedong ......

Chen Mo's heart moved, and he found Cai Yong's figure in the crowd, at this moment Cai Yong was discussing something with Xun Shuang, Wang Yun and others, and he did not hesitate, he came to Cai Yong's side in small steps, and saluted Cai Yong: "Cai Gong, Xun Gong, Mr. Zishi." ”

"Captain Chen?" Wang Yun looked at Chen Mo who took the initiative to find him and smiled: "What's the matter with Captain Chen?" ”

"I'm here for Mrs. Guo's business." Chen Mo said with a smile: "The rest of the Yellow Turban is not to be afraid, but after the Hun cavalry of Yufuluo enters the winter, it can directly threaten Luoyang, and the last general intends to lead his troops to go out to fight, but he is soft-spoken, I hope you can help." ”

Wang Yun shook his head and smiled when he heard this: "Captain Chen thinks too highly of me, and this matter still needs to be decided by the Grand Master." ”

Chen Mo wanted to say something, but seeing that Dong Zhuo had already helped Liu Xie in, the ministers hurriedly shut up, and Chen Mo also saluted the three of them, turned around and returned to his place.

After the monarch and the ministers saw the ceremony, Dong Zhuo directly asked about the matter of Hedong, Dong Zhuo's Xiliang army wanted to deter the armies and could not move lightly, so this time Dong Zhuo wanted to select generals from the original Luoyang forbidden army to lead the five colonels of the Northern Army to conquer Guo Tai.

"Your Majesty!" Chen Mo immediately took a step forward, bowed down and said, "The last general is willing to go." ”

Chen Mo?

Dong Zhuo looked at Chen Mo, but there was some emotion in his heart, Chen Mo is a general in the court at the moment, except for his Xiliang lineage, he is more capable of fighting, if he sends Chen Mo to attack, it may be possible.

"Captain Si Li once won more with less in Runan, and broke the Gepi thieves, and he has a lot of experience in the Yellow Turban, so he may be able to do it." Cai Yong came out of the queue and smiled.

Dong Zhuo nodded, and was about to speak, but saw Wang Yun suddenly come out and smiled: "Your Majesty, Taishi, General Chen's courage is naturally few people, but Captain Sili has the responsibility of supervising the Quartet, since Captain Chen took office, the politics around Luoyang are clear, and now the people's hearts are not stable, if you easily send Captain Si Li, it will be useless, and General Chen is young, if he is sent, wouldn't it make people laugh at my court?" ”

Dong Zhuo said with a smile: "Since ancient times, heroes have been born as teenagers, but the captain of Si Li really has no time to doppelganger, can you have other people to recommend you?" ”

"Chun Yuqiong, Zhao Rong, and Xia Mu are all former Xiyuan generals, and if they can be subordinate to the captain, they can lead the three of them to recruit Mrs. Guo." In the train, Zheng Tai came out of the queue and bowed to the Son of Heaven and Dong Zhuo.

These three people are all famous, Dong Zhuo touched his beard and nodded: "Then I ordered Chun Yuqiong to be the main general, Zhao Rong and Xia Mu to assist him, and the fifth school of the Northern Army and the second school of Huben and Yulin sent troops to recruit!" ”

"Taishi is wise!" The ministers hurriedly bowed and said.

Chen Mo glanced at Wang Yun, and followed the ministers to respond in unison, and then, the court discussed some things to reduce the expenses of the imperial court, eliminate some unnecessary official positions, and try to keep everything simple in the imperial court, as well as the refusal of Yuzhou and Yanzhou to pay taxes, and whether to remove them.

Anyway, the ministers do not recommend using the recall to threaten the assassins to pay taxes, but how to make them hand in, no one can say why.

In addition, after Yuan Shu left Beijing, he entrenched in Nanyang, cut off Jingzhou, and detained Jingzhou to pay taxes.

There are a lot of bad things in the court now, Chen Mo is a little helpless, and now the ministers in the court can't tolerate him, he originally wanted to occupy Hedong in the name of conquest, and then like Dong Zhuo was entrenched in Hedong and should not be edicted, but was stopped by Wang Yun, which made Chen Mo a little depressed.

However, with the ability of the three of them...... Chen Mo felt that he still had some opportunities in this matter.

Until the dispersal of the dynasty, the ministers did not discuss a result, Chen Mo dispersed with the ministers, but he was thinking about how to persuade Dong Zhuo to choose himself as a general after the defeat of Chun Yuqiong and the others