Chapter 50 The commons of power trigger a political crisis

In the sixth year of Zhongping, the entire Han Dynasty was in a mess.

The forces of all parties are you singing and I will appear, and the contenders have the highest control of the imperial court. Zhou Yi is like an outsider, watching this farce with a cold eye.

In March, Emperor Liu Hongxu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Liu Wei ascended the throne. The young emperor was young, and his relatives were in power. Emperor Ling's relatives Dong were not satisfied, forming a situation in which the relatives of the empress dowager of the two dynasties competed for power.

The Ten Standing Servants joined forces with the He family to go out to the former court's relatives Dong and Jian Shuo, the leader of the Xiyuan Army who was loyal to the Empress Dowager Dong, and controlled the power of the court and the Xiyuan Army.

The scholars, who were persecuted by the scourge of the party, instigated their relatives He Jin to kill the ten permanent servants and the eunuch group. The eunuch group is an extension of the imperial power, and the Empress Dowager He tried her best to protect the eunuchs in order to consolidate her position.

The He family was divided, and He Jin wanted to get rid of the eunuchs, but he didn't want to completely fall out with his sister Empress Dowager He, so he wanted to use the power of local soldiers to come to Luoyang Qinwang. Dong Zhuo of Liangzhou, and Ding Yuan of Liangzhou were ordered to enter Beijing.

The ten permanent servants preemptively attacked and ordered He to enter the palace and kill him. Yuan Shao, the leader of the Shi clan, and He Jin's subordinates jointly purged the eunuchs. Eunuchs Zhang Rang, Duan Qi and other eunuchs abducted the young emperor and left Luoyang.

Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang, quelled the battle between the scholars and the eunuchs, and welcomed the young emperor back to the palace. Subdued the forces left by He Jin and intervened in the government.

Ding Yuan was one step late, causing Dong Zhuo to enter the city first, and had to garrison troops outside the city. The official worships Jinwu and balances Dong Zhuo, who is also a military force.

In just a few months, eunuchs, relatives, scholars, and local soldiers all stepped onto the political stage, and finally the eunuchs and relatives were destroyed, and the military group became the biggest beneficiary. The scholars got up early in the morning in this struggle but rushed to a late meeting, and did not reap the benefits.

It's not that Zhou Yi doesn't want to intervene in this historical event, but the sky is high and the earth is far away, and he is powerless. Zhou Yi's current power is still too weak, and Youzhou has not yet been completed, so why should he gain a foothold in the political center of the country.

Stretching the scale of history, this is just a process of changing the emperor's power after the death of the old emperor.

Let's ask if the change of imperial power was not thrilling.

Wars for succession have always been bloody and brutal:

The young dragon opened his eyes, and the incident of the bloody palace gate often occurred;

It is not uncommon for sons to seize the heirs, and it is not uncommon for disasters to arise from Xiao Wall;

There are many brothers who kill each other and fry each other with the same root.

Zhou Yi is not the nanny of Emperor Liu, and he will not be responsible for the mess of Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty. People who come from a democratic society are not interested in imperial power, and shoulder the responsibility for the rise and fall of this nation, not the honor and disgrace of a certain royal family.

Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty was mainly responsible for this palace coup. The emperor's mental trick went too far, hurting himself, and completely breaking the fortune of the Liu royal family.

Eunuchs, relatives, scholars, and soldiers were the four pillars of Han Dynasty politics, which divided political power, checked and balanced each other, and were at peace with each other. In order to stabilize his imperial power, Liu Hong reserved a piece of public power in addition to the rights of these four forces.

Whoever can get this public right can suppress the other three forces and become the first person under the imperial power. Normally, these four political groups are fighting for public power. Emperor Ling of Han only had to maintain a balance in the middle, ensuring that this public power did not fall into the hands of any one political group.

It's like tying a banana with a rope and hanging it on the roof, but the other end of the rope is in the hands of Emperor Han Ling, and the four monkeys below fight you to the death for the banana, but you still can't get the banana. Emperor Han Ling saw it and applauded.

Several party failures are a direct consequence of the struggle of political blocs for public rights. But now that Emperor Han Ling has returned to the west, the banana has fallen to the ground, and the four monkeys have a chance to get the banana, and the fight is even more cruel.

In fact, the public banana eunuchs and relatives who fought for this right were directly destroyed.

In a sense, this is also the tragedy of the commons.

If a pasture belongs to everyone, ten families raise cattle and sheep together. As time passed, more and more cattle and sheep were raised, resulting in the degradation of the pastures, and at this time, a respected person in the village would come out to coordinate the number of cattle and sheep raised by each family. The pasture can be maintained.

But one day, this respected man died. There will be people who will secretly raise one more head, and then everyone will raise one more head, two heads, until the pasture is degraded. Watching the pastures become barren day by day, there are also rational friends who will control the number of their cattle and sheep.

But there will always be unconscious people who will find that because the number of cattle and sheep you raise is smaller, the condition of the pasture has improved, and they will raise a few more. Those who are rational will also give up their persistence and start raising more cattle and sheep.

If they still insist on raising fewer cattle and sheep, then they must be the first to be eliminated, because they have the fewest sheep and the lowest ability to resist risks.

As a result, more and more cattle and sheep were raised, and the pastures became more and more desolate. Everyone knows that this is digging their own grave, but they also know that even if you don't dig it, others will dig it. Digging is death, and not digging is death. If you can dig a little more, you may be able to die a better death.

This is the tragedy of the commons, and the element of tragedy is not sadness, but inevitability. Any evasion is futile.

This is a situation created by Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty himself, and the political group of the Han Dynasty will go to grab this commons of power, and the loser will be eliminated.

And now the cruel survival competition game has only reached the middle game, and the logic of the tragedy of the commons will cause the people involved in the game to die out one by one, and in the end there is only one winner, or none of them.

If there are no external variables to break this pattern, the end result is destruction.

It's like there's an apple tree on the side of the road, and people can pick apples when they're thirsty. Slowly, people will find that when the red apples are gone, everyone will pick green apples, and when the green apples are gone, everyone will pick small apples, and in the end there will be no apples to pick, so the crowd will disperse.

The majesty of the Han Dynasty was wiped out in the competition of everyone. Luoyang City was also in ruins in the battle between everyone.

In the end, Cao Cao had this apple tree and ended the chaos.

As Cao Cao said: "If there is no one in the country, I don't know how many people are called emperors and how many people are kings." ”

There are still a few different monkeys in the DPRK, and it should not be said that there are still a few smart people in the DPRK. For example, Lu Zhi, Huangfu Song and others. Lu Zhi was compiling the Shangshu, but when the young emperor was held hostage by Zhang Rang and left the palace, he welcomed the young emperor back to the palace, and the Han god of war Emperor Fu Song guarded the imperial tomb on the edge of Luoyang. At the beginning of the year, after the civil strife of the Qiang people in the northwest with 10,000 Wuhuan iron horses, Huangfu Song was deprived of military power by Liu Hong and sent to guard the imperial tomb. Wuhuan Iron Cavalry also stayed in the northwest and handed it over to Dong Zhuo, and this time it was also brought to Luoyang.

Many important ministers in the court watched this palace scandal with Zhou Yi, and everyone hid away from the royal battle.

In the struggle for succession, if you are not careful, you will be killed, and everyone is in a high position, so there is no need to take too much risk for this power. When the throne is stabilized, the operation of the court still depends on the courtiers. It's just that everyone didn't expect that the situation would become more and more intense, and eventually it would evolve into a point out of control.

Of course, the form at this time was not as bad as it was in history.

Because Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo are-for-tat, no one can help anyone. Xiliang Iron Riding is good, but Bingzhou Wolf Riding is not a false name of Lang. They are all troops trained in the struggle against the Hu people, and their combat effectiveness does not want to go up or down.

There were generals such as Hua Xiong and Niu Fu in the Xiliang army, but there were Lu Bu, Zhang Liao and others in the Bingzhou army, and they were chess opponents for a while. Because Lu Bu's bravery and the state army still pressed the Liangzhou army, Dong Zhuo was not depressed.

Lu Bu's entry into Luoyang is not the identity of Ding Yuan's righteous son and the head of the state army. Lu Buguan worshiped Pingnu Duwei, and Ding Yuan was unable to accept Ding Yuan as his righteous son. Although Ding Yuan was a thorn in the state, he was only named the captain of Wumeng by the imperial court. Even though this lieutenant has much more power than Lu Bu, he is the same in rank.

Because Lu Bu's hometown was in Bingzhou, Ding Yuan summoned Lu Bu to his command and led an army alone. Lu Bu's little friends Zhang Liao, Gao Shun and others also joined the army one after another and served under Ding Yuan's account, who made Ding Yuan an official of his parents.

Dong Zhuo's subordinate Li Su was an old acquaintance of Lu Bu and came to persuade Lu Bu to surrender. Send a good horse BMW Chitu, plus countless money. Who knows, Lu Bu is no longer the kid he was when he met Li Su. At that time, Lu Bu seemed to come out of a ravine, he had never seen much of the world, and he was greedy.

But now, Lu Bu has been in a high position for a long time, and he is used to the way of thinking of the superiors, so he naturally looks down on this money. drove Li Su away, and Chitu didn't want it.

I haven't even read the Art of War, and I still come here to use it, is my Lu Bu so worthless? The last article in Sun Tzu's Art of War talks about how to use it. Bribes are the lowest form of use.

Although Chitu is one of the best BMW horses, our moon hugging is not bad.

"Brother Lu, I can't understand the situation in Luoyang anymore." After Li Su left, Zhang Liao said to Lu Bu.

"Wenyuan (Zhang Liaozi), don't say that you can't understand it, and I'm confused. Junko, what do you think of this situation. Lu Bu sighed, turned around and threw the question to Gao Shun. Yes, I learned to play the ball.

"As soldiers, we are going to kill the enemy at the border pass and make meritorious contributions, but what does this mean by fighting around in Luoyang. What is there to fight for in the power of the DPRK and China, it is better to go back to the border and kill the enemy with this skill. "Gao Shun is a straight man, but his political ability is almost zero. Such a soldier is a pure soldier.

"Hou Ye once said that we were born at the border, believing in the supremacy of force, and did not understand the political logic of the Central Plains. Let us be careful when we have the opportunity to enter the Central Plains in the future. Now it seems that Hou Ye is right. Lu Bu listened to Gao Shun's words and sighed again.

"That is, Master Hou's promotion in the past two years is fast enough, and he has been herded in Youzhou, which is bigger than the officials of Ding Thorn History. If Master Hou is here, he must know what Lord Dong and Lord Ding are fighting for. Zhang Liao was a little envious of Zhou Yi's situation. Hou Ye is Zhou Yi, or the title of the year, I am used to it.

"Why don't we send someone to ask Master Hou?" After a moment of silence, the three of them opened the way at the same time.

"Forget it, it's too far, we just need to stay still and keep our duty." Lu Bu changed his words again.

Lu Bu wants to have a clear conscience, but will Ding Yuan believe it?

Since Li Su entered Lu Bu's tent, Lu Bu has been tricked.

Counter-plotting!