Chapter Eighty-Nine: Dong Zhuo Abolish the Emperor
Mu Yi was dismissed from the post of Taiwei and served as the Taishou of Yanmen.
This incident made many civil and military officials faintly feel that I am afraid that the sky is about to change!
Looking at the entire government and the opposition, there are only a few people who can compete with Dong Zhuo. And Mu Yi is just one of them.
But now that even Mu Yi has gone to Yanmen, who else can stop Dong Zhuo's soldiers?
In fact, how did they know that Mu Yi seemed to have left Luoyang with great fanfare on the surface, but in fact, he had already dressed up and secretly infiltrated Luoyang City.
On September 26, 189 AD, Dong Zhuo led his army into Luoyang.
But Dong Zhuo knew that there were many people who were not convinced by him, so he set up a banquet in Wenmingyuan to invite hundreds of civil and military officials, and he wanted to take this opportunity to try how much prestige he had in the hearts of these people.
Dong Zhuo looked at the civil and military officials seated, and he didn't bother to beat around the bush with them, so he said directly: "When the son is weak today, the old man is ready to abolish the Son of Heaven and set up a new king, I don't know what you think?" ”
Everyone present was shocked after hearing this, they couldn't imagine that Dong Zhuo was so bold and dared to talk about the abolition of the establishment? Could it be that he is ready to rebel? Or maybe Dong Zhuo has long been disobedient?
Just when everyone was talking and the scene was extremely chaotic, Ding Jianyang, the assassin of Shiding Yuan, directly overturned the table, stood up and pointed at Dong Zhuo and said: "Bold Dong Zhuo, you are just a local official, you dare to talk about abolishing the establishment without an inch of merit, are you preparing to rebel?" ”
Dong Zhuo pulled out his sword angrily, his eyes widened, he blew his beard and glared: "Ding Jianyang, you are an old horseman, do you think that the old man's sword can't cut off your head?" ”
Ding Yuan also pulled out the saber at his waist.
At the same time, a general stood in front of Ding Yuan, holding a Fang Tian painting halberd and staring at Dong Zhuo angrily.
Dong Zhuo looked at it, and his brows furrowed involuntarily.
I saw him, the bright silver crown pearl inlay, the pheasant tail is really good-looking, the dragon scale armor is like autumn frost, the rouge robe is full of flowers, the Tang Qi armor avoids the knife and gun, the eight treasures are saved with water mirrors, the treasure carving bow is like a crescent moon, and the beast pot is obliquely inserted into the arrow, this is really a handsome young man, and the moon is shy and hibiscus.
Seeing the tension between the two sides, someone came out and started to play a round.
"Dong Gong, the abolition of the establishment is a major event of the imperial court, why don't you wait until the temple to care?"
"Yes, yes, yes......"
Someone came out to play the round, and Dong Zhuo also had steps to go down, opened two angry round bull's eyes, and inserted the sword back into the scabbard.
Ding Yuan flicked the sleeves of his robe and walked out angrily, and Dong Zhuo didn't even bird him.
In this way, a feast broke up.
The next day, above the court, Dong Zhuo was taken to the palace, and he didn't take the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs in his eyes at all, and said directly to the civil and military officials: "The great one is the world, and the second is the monarch and the minister, so it is the government." The emperor is weak and cannot worship the temple and be the lord of the world. Now I want to follow the story of Yiyin and Huo Guang, and set up Chen Liuwang, what is it? ”
Dong Zhuo saw that the officials were silent and didn't dare to respond, and said: "Xi Huo Guang made a decision, (Tian) Yannian case sword." If you dare to obstruct the discussion, you will follow it with military law! ”
At this time, Shangshu Lu Zhi stepped forward and retorted: "The former Taijia is not clear, and Changyi has committed more than a thousand crimes, so there is a matter of abolition. Today, it is rich in the spring and autumn period, and there is no loss of morality, and it is not the comparison of the past. Dong Gong has neither the ambition of Yiyin nor the talent of Huo Guang, if he has the ambition of Yiyin, he can usurp without the ambition of Yiyin. ”
Yi Yin was the founding minister of the Shang Dynasty, assisted Cheng Tang to win the world, and later served as the teacher of Taijia (Cheng Tang's grandson). After Taijia succeeded to the throne, he did not abide by the law and discipline, and Yi Yin's dissuasion was ineffective, so he simply united with other ministers to depose him and confined him in Tonggong.
Three years after Yi Yin's regency, Taijia repented and reformed, and Yi Yin returned the throne to Taijia.
Huo Guang was a powerful minister in the Western Han Dynasty. When Emperor Liu Fuling of the Han Zhao Dynasty died, Huo Guang was a general at the time, and because Liu Fuling had no heirs to inherit the throne, he welcomed Liu He, the king of Changyi, to ascend the throne as the emperor.
However, Liu He only served as emperor for twenty-seven days, and was deposed by the ministers led by Huo Guang on the grounds of morality and illegality.
At that time, Huo Guang summoned the ministers to discuss the abolition of the major event, the ministers were so frightened that no one dared to respond, and the Dasi Farmland Yannian (Tian Yannian was Huo Guang's former official, a dead friend) left the table and stepped forward, pressed the hilt of the sword with his hand, and said: "The ministers should respond, and the ministers please cut them with a sword." So, everyone agreed to depose Liu He.
The story of Yi Yin and Huo Guang is not the same as Dong Zhuo's abolition, but the only thing in common is Dong Zhuo's insistence: Liu Bian is also a person with low moral character and incompetence for the throne like Taijia and Liu He.
Dong Zhuo also copied Huo Guang's model, and personally played two roles (Huo Guang and Tian Yannian), using force to deter the ministers, which was very funny.
Back then, Huo Guang cooperated with Tian Yannian, and he did succeed in deterring the ministers, and there was no opposition on the spot.
And Lu Zhi is not afraid of life and death, he stands up and is upright! The reason for the refutation left Dong Zhuo speechless, and he insisted that Liu Bian was "rich in the Spring and Autumn Period and virtuous in his deeds", and could not be compared with Taijia and Liu He. Besides, Liu Wei was still young and didn't do anything out of the ordinary at all, so he directly opposed Dong Zhuo's reason for wanting to emulate Yihuo.
Dong Zhuoqi's teeth were a little painful, and he pulled out his sword on the spot and prepared to kill Lu Zhi.
However, Li Ru, who was standing beside Dong Zhuo, gently pulled Dong Zhuo's sleeve and whispered, "Lord, Lu Zhi is a well-known Confucian in China and has a wide range of connections, if he is killed now, I am afraid it will be unfavorable to the lord!" ”
After listening to Li Ru's words, Dong Zhuo asked Lu Zhi to be blasted out on the spot.
September 30, 189 A.D
Dong Zhuo led the army into the palace, forcibly dragged the emperor off the throne, and fell down under the main hall to claim the title of vassal.
At the same time, he forced the Empress Dowager He to write an edict of abolition in front of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, and read it aloud in the main hall: "Emperor Xiaoling does not investigate Gaozong's Meishou Zhizuo, and abandons his courtiers early." The emperor Cheng Shao, looking at the sea, and the emperor is frivolous, majestic and unscrupulous, in mourning and lazy, declining as before; Fierce virtue is displayed, obscenity is heard, the artifact is insulted, and the temple is degraded. The queen mother taught no mother, and the government was in chaos. The Empress Dowager Yongle collapsed, and everyone was confused. The way of the three outlines, the discipline of heaven and earth, and there is a que, the great sin. Chen Liuwang Xie, Shengde Weimao, the rules are Miaoran, the abundance is exchanged, and there is a table of Yaotu; Mourning and mourning, not being able to speak of evil, the nature of Qi Ling, and the Yi of Zhou Cheng. Xiu Shengmei said, what the world has heard, it is advisable to inherit the Hongye, for the eternal unity, and can inherit the temple. The deposed emperor was the king of Hongnong. The Queen Mother returned to power. ”
The edict to the effect that the young emperor was born with frivolous behavior, and his appearance lacked the majesty that a king should have, and during the mourning period for the first emperor (Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty), he did not fulfill his filial piety as a son, was lazy and lazy, and was no different from not keeping a funeral on weekdays, and even committed adulterous behavior, and the scandal was known to the people of the world, insulting the society and the ancestors, so he was deposed, and Chen Liuwang was virtuous, so he was appointed as the emperor, and the Empress Dowager He no longer had to listen to the government and hand over the power in her hands.
Dong Zhuo This is pure, a big child, he can be charged with fornication, I'm afraid even he doesn't believe it. But Dong Zhuo just did this, in the face of hundreds of thousands of Xiliang Iron Riders, who would dare to say anything?