Volume 1 The Yellow Turban Rebellion Chapter 71 The Situation

Guo Bin, who was far away in Yangzhai, could naturally predict that one of his twists and turns would definitely cause another monstrous wave, but he didn't care about it after writing a letter to He Jin, Lu Zhi, and Cai Yong to explain the situation in detail. After all, the reason why Guangluxun Dong Chong was able to make a fuss about Liu Bian's assassination was only because of the great drought in the world. This is Liu Yan's weakness and Liu Hong's dead end.

However, Guo Bin explained the problem of the great drought in the world as an extremely non-aggressive "illness", that is, Liu Hong's illness and the empty hanging of the East Palace, which was more acceptable to Liu Hong than Dong Chong's proposal. After all, tiger poison does not eat children, Liu Wei is not only his eldest son, but also his first heir to the throne.

Liu Bian has been raised in Taoism since he was a child, although he is not extremely intelligent, but he is also smart and sensitive, but his knowledge is limited and his majesty is insufficient. If you are carefully trained by the Son of Heaven for a few years, you will definitely be a qualified emperor.

According to Guo Bin's speculation, Liu Hong in history must have done the same, and it can be seen that after Dong Zhuo enters Beijing, he will abolish Liu Bian and replace Liu Xie. If it is just as later generations think, because Liu Xie is eloquent and can speak, he wants to risk the disapproval of the world and do the abolition of the establishment, then Dong Zhuo is too stupid, and it is not in line with the character of Dong Zhuo, who is rude and cunning in appearance, as Guo Bin saw. You must know that officialdom is the place where people's minds are most exercised, Dong Zhuo can rise all the way, even if he is defeated, he can be promoted, if there are really brave and unscrupulous people, wouldn't it be too unreasonable to take the audience's IQ in their eyes?

In addition, now Liu Bian is over ten years old, if according to the trend of history, Liu Hong will die in six years, then Liu Bian's age will be 16 years old, which is already the age when he can start a family and support the portal, and Liu Xie is an eight-year-old little doll. Even if it is inferred from common sense, Liu Xie, an eight-year-old doll, is actually more eloquent than the adult son Liu Bian, isn't this a liar? There is no record in the history books that Liu Bian is mentally retarded or anything, otherwise why would Liu Hong canonize him as the crown prince? And it is recorded that Liu Hongyu hesitated and did not abolish the prince because of He Jin's power, isn't this even more of a liar?

Liu Hong is a ruthless man who can put his uncle to death in prison at the age of thirteen, he personally put Li Ying, Du Mi and others in prison; and extinguished the barbarians, and the demons caused countless chaos, who can say that he is a fool? At the beginning, he was able to use the hands of eunuchs to jail and even execute the powerful party members who had countless aid from the government and the opposition, not to mention He Jin, a small relative who came up by nepotism! If you want to say that the Three Kingdoms of the late Han Dynasty were smeared and underestimated, Liu Hong should be ranked first.

Therefore, Dong Zhuo welcomed back Liu Bian and Liu Xie in the suburbs of Luoyang, just because Liu Xie "can speak well", or he and the Empress Dowager Dong, who raised Liu Xie, are the same family, so he has the intention of abolishing the establishment, Guo Bin thinks it is pure nonsense. If Dong Zhuoguo was such a brutal and ambitious warlord as recorded in the history books, how could he risk the world's condemnation to abolish the establishment of the country because of one or two sentences? Besides, if after a night of running, tired and hungry, and seeing his emperor's brother being bullied by such a big black man, eight-year-old Liu Xie not only did not tremble with fright, but he could still speak, I am afraid that he would be like an ordinary eight-year-old child, crying and saying: "Don't beat my brother." ”

Therefore, Guo Bin believes that the big reason why Dong Zhuo abolished Liu Bian and established Liu Xie is that Liu Bian is close to adulthood.

However, in the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms: Emperor Xianji", the scene at that time was recorded: "Zhuo and the emperor are indispensable. Nai Geng and Chen Liuwang talked, asking the cause of the trouble; Wang replied that from the beginning to the end, there was nothing to lose. Zhuo Daxi has the intention of abolishing. ”

How can this be explained? First of all, the big question is: how did this conversation come about? Dong Zhuo? How could he tell someone such a thing? Liu Bian? As a normal person, who would say how clumsy he is, not even as good as an eight-year-old child? The biggest suspect is Liu Xie.

But Liu Xiegui is the Son of Heaven, how could he tell his subordinates such a thing? This should be top secret wherever it is placed! Therefore, Guo Bin believes that this is made up by Chen Shou.

So, why did Chen Shou make up such a paragraph? It should be to emphasize the legitimacy of Liu Xie's accession to the throne, and then to emphasize the legitimacy of Cao Wei's concession.

This point can be known by looking at what happened to Liu Bian in history: Liu Bian ascended the throne in April 189, was deposed in September, and was killed the following year. Isn't this an eyesore to look at the eldest son of the first emperor? I'm afraid that Liu Xie at this time is also looking forward to Liu Bian's killing, right?

Everyone knows that it is wrong for Liu Xie to be deposed, so Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Wang Yun, Lu Zhi and others are all against it, but once Liu Xie ascends the throne, no one cares about this abolished emperor anymore, why? Because his political life is over. Everyone began to stand under the banner of Liu Xie, and they all flaunted their loyalty to Emperor Xian of Han, whom they had originally opposed. He will always and everywhere do his best to maintain the legitimacy of Liu Xie, and then achieve his own goals. This is politics, cold-blooded and ruthless.

Therefore, this fabrication of Chen Shou, based on his loyalty to the emperor, seems to be blameless.

From this point of view, the official history does not seem to be so reliable.

Based on the above analysis, Guo Bin can almost conclude that Liu Bian will not be deposed, and Liu Hong will definitely accept the path that Guo Bin has drawn for him. As for the letters to Lu Zhi and Cai Yong, it is just an insurance. But where did he think that in order to protect Guo Bin, Lu Zhi proposed to change the method of the Common Era to be tried only in Yangzhai County? And Cai Yong probably saw this too, so he seconded it.

Although the chapter was written after consultation with Xi Zhicai, Guo Jia, and Xu Shu, after it was written, the three of them pondered for a long time before sending someone to send it out. It's just that although the three of them are all brilliant people, they are still young after all, and they have not served in the imperial court, so they do not know many rules in the imperial court, so they have made such a mistake. It is impossible for He Jin not to see the problems inside, but he didn't mention a word, but it is worth pondering.