Chapter 256: The Spirit Emperor's Five Moves

The time is pushed back to the second year of Zhongping, that is, on the night of February 19, 185.

With the end of the Ten Standing Attendants, Emperor Liu Hong had an experience of being in a coma in Changqiu Palace a few days ago, and watched Zhang Rang and others jump off the city tower that night, and he couldn't afford to be sick after that.

But in addition to the accumulation of depression and anger, in fact, there is a small half of his illness - just pretending.

Liu Hong is not stupid, he even thinks very thoroughly.

He was able to become the emperor at the beginning, which was the credit of the Dou family and a group of eunuchs.

But when he was still young and ignorant, the Dou clan leaned towards the government and the opposition, and opposed the eunuchs, and then a bloody storm unfolded in the court court, and the Dou clan was also completely wiped out by many middle servants at that time.

This palace change was carried out when he was twelve years old, and he was unforgettable and hardworking, and his heart was palpitating.

He didn't forget the face of the Dou clan in the past, Dou Wu and Dou Miao, the two sluts were like superiors in front of him, and then died in the struggle, and he couldn't forget that when the eunuchs who wagged their tails and begged for mercy were threatened, they suddenly became like mad dogs.

But luckily, dogs are dogs, and most of the time they are docile. Thinking that those middle servants are also afraid that one day their lives will be lost, so try to treat him as kindly as possible, although always instilling the past credit makes him impatient and a little grateful, but there are some people who have been forcibly expropriated and repeatedly impeached by officials over the years is not without his mind.

It's just that he is more afraid of the recurrence of the Dou clan in the past.

He didn't want to be manipulated, and he was afraid that if he lost the Ten Standing Servants, no one would be able to give him an excuse to continue to enjoy his free life, so he had always been extremely wary of the group of scholars who supported Dou Wu at the beginning - because he knew that he was just lucky to become the emperor, and if another Dou Wu appeared one day and let the scholars develop, maybe one day he could be supported and replaced.

Fortunately, those middle servants are really obedient and will do things if they give some benefits, and although those scholars are pedantic, they don't dare to really rebel.

If you really talk about it, the tacit consent to the deposition of Empress Song in the first place is not that you really dislike Empress Song.

It's just that the Song family is a relative who has been passed down for several generations after all, and it is favored by the scholars, it is difficult to say whether it will evolve into another Dou clan, he needs to knock on the annoying scholars, and also knock on the relatives and relatives to whom the scholars are attached, and at the same time, he also needs to give the ten permanent servants more rights to protect his arbitrary behavior.

So he also had the heart to support the He family, so that the He family, who was born in a businessman, joined forces with the eunuchs to help him stabilize the court.

But once people have status, coupled with the ambition that breeds, they will really lose their minds.

Queen He, who was born as a butcher, disregarded his majesty and dared to kill his concubine, so that his favorite second son Liu Xie had no mother, and then things were not satisfactory, the ten permanent servants actually comforted themselves, as if they thought that their son-in-law Liu Wei had secured the position of the future emperor and did not dare to offend, and then, He Jin actually opposed the ten permanent servants, and there was a possibility of repeating the changes of the past.

He is still alive, and now that he is older, he is not afraid of a real quarrel between the two sides, but in the Yellow Turban Rebellion, as soon as the party members were removed, more documents to impeach the Ten Standing Servants came up than before, thinking about the meaning of these documents impeaching him behind the impeachment of the Ten Standing Servants, it made him angry after all.

The world is his, the people are also his, he is the emperor, then he can do whatever he wants!

Whoever wants to make trouble, go to death!

What does he do, what does he like, and why do those scholars point fingers?!

The yellow turban was calm, he thought that he could be stable for a while, but he didn't expect that with the rise of the scholars, the contradictions between the two sides of the eunuch clan became more and more intense, and the clan relatives and relatives were also involved, and even there were people on both sides who fornicated with the moth thieves and tried to rebel.

He was very angry, but he believed that these eunuchs were greedy for life and afraid of death, Zhang Rang Zhao Zhong Although he was greedy, he was particularly loyal, and with the two of them taking the lead, he would never be so rampant in a short period of time.

But the scholars don't, those scholars are simply unreasonable, and they are chattering in front of him every day.

At the same time, Queen He's previous dove killing Wang Meiren undoubtedly showed that she had set the position of the queen and the position of the prince.

Even the clan relatives seem to be coveting his throne, and the book every day says how he should be the emperor, and it also makes others raise those clan relatives for a while - is it possible that he wants to use him to set off his own good, or that he will have the opportunity to let future generations become emperors like him in the future, or do he want to be the ruler?

He was depressed and angry, if it weren't for the wealth and beauties accumulated in the West Garden, he was really reluctant to give it up, this right was really tempting, and he really had the heart to leave the stall and quit.

And that night, Zhang Yan's coercion, He Jin's betrayal, the coaxing of the scholars, and even a traitor among the ten permanent servants, finally made him disheartened and bedridden, but he really wanted to cure everyone.

So he made his first move.

He pushed Jian Shuo, Pan Yin and others to the position of the middle permanent attendant, and then officially opened the Xiyuan Army and established Jian Shuo as a virtual commander, so he pretended to be sick and waited and saw the situation.

Seeing He Jin and Yuan Kui's gang pretending to be good people in the court, he laughed in his heart, but he also got sick, and pondered the matter of the elixir of immortality.

He recruited a lot of monks to raise, giving people the illusion that everything is based on loyalty and rebellion, and then in the following year, he reduced his expenses, but he also continued to mess with those beauties, and occasionally pretended to be intimate with Queen He.

This year, Liangzhou did not settle down, he occasionally got angry and insulted the important ministers of the court, with his change, those people even knew that they were ashamed of themselves, and no one even spoke out to let him give up more things from the West Garden to support the Western Expedition.

He also sent away Liu Kuan and Yang Ci, two teachers, and there was no one in the court who he could take care of.

At the same time, he felt that his body seemed to be becoming more and more weak, and urged the priest to speed up the refining of the medicine, but the elixir of immortality was not practiced, but he found the five stone powder, so that he was still majestic when he was with many beauties, and even more enjoyable than before - this five stone powder even set off the trend of scholars, seeing many official disciples die unexpectedly, he sneered in his heart when he strictly controlled the measurement.

But there are many people who die, and he knows that it is a poison that is three parts of medicine, but he will go to see his beloved son Liu Xie from time to time, and he is worried that he may die of eating such a day, and Empress Dowager Dong may not be able to take care of Liu Xie.

It's just that he is used to enjoying himself, and Wushisan is simply more practical than the Immortal Pill, he doesn't want to give it up, so he secretly selected Dong Zhuo, the broken general, from among the generals of the Western Expedition.

In his mind, Dong Zhuo is also surnamed Dong, although he is unruly and does not listen to Zhang Wen, but it is also a manifestation of not being kind to people, not to mention that Empress Dowager Dong has the same surname as Dong Zhuo, and Liu Xie is also called "Dong Hou" by the world.

In addition to these, he could only talk to Jian Shuo, Pan Yin and others in private, occasionally taking advantage of the military chaos to replace the three princes, so that the power would be dispersed, and then watching He Jin and Yuan Kui and the others like fish in water, sneering and waiting for an opportunity.

He wasn't sure of this opportunity, but he always felt that it would come back.

I just didn't expect the opportunity to come so quickly!

In 186, that is to say, in May of the third year of Zhongping, the solar eclipse came as scheduled!

In response to this vision, the court has always attached great importance to it, and he took this opportunity to take the second move.

He deposed He Jin from the post of general, named He Miao as a general, and at the same time appointed Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Bao Hong, Zhao Rong, Feng Fang, Xia Mu, and Chun Yuqiong as the eighth lieutenant of Xiyuan, and took charge of the army.

He Miao has always been close to the eunuchs, and he is not in agreement with He Jin and He Jin's corporals, but he also has some ability, and the eight captains are also quite capable people, as long as he insists, it will definitely not cause much backlash from the scholars.

Among them, except for Yuan Shao is the fourth and third dukes, the remaining seven people are either from a poor family, or a eunuch, that is, Yuan Shao, who seems to be a scholar, and the rise of the Yuan family in the past actually has the late Yuan Yu, who is a little lonely and widowed with the eunuchs, not to mention that Yuan Kui is quite generous and quite effective in doing things, and he actually has the meaning of using Yuan Shao to win over Yuan Kui, and it is good that the tide rises, and finally has the real power of the West Park Marshal Jian Shuo has Yuan Kui to check and balance.

He Jin was deposed, only Yuan Kui sat in the court, the scholars were leaderless, and the court was not as he expected, and it was really criticized, that is, even Queen He repeatedly admonished, and always felt that the second time was not as good as the long, and this time the replacement of the general seemed somewhat out of place.

He thought that it was all the He family who persuaded him to pass the test, but he also knew in his heart that he was afraid that someone would see his dislike for scholars, and even combined with his previous experience in Hongdu Sect, he also saw that he was trying to abandon the etiquette law by taking advantage of this matter, ignoring the rules of order for the young and the old, and making Liu Xie the prince.

Although the court was in turmoil for the next few months, he passed out once and was confused.

This fainting was also divided between Youzhou Mu Liu Yu and Yuzhou Mu Huang Wanduan, but Nayizhou Mu Liu Yan used the road being sealed as an excuse to support the army and respect himself, which made him feel faceless, so he was angry.

After that, he found that his health began to deteriorate, but those ministers ignored it completely, only thinking about the orderly affairs of the young and the young, and some people were afraid that he would want to live a free life again, so they even insinuated in public some words about the rotten wood of the child.

He was so angry that he vomited blood, and his health was getting worse and worse, and no one seemed to be able to recover his body, whether it was the imperial doctor or the alchemist.

So he made the third move.

dismissed many officials, pushed the Empress Dowager Dong's family to power, named Dong Zhong as a chariot general, recalled Zhang Wen, Huangfu Song and others who quelled the rebellion in Liangzhou from Chang'an, and named Dong Zhuo, who remained in Chang'an, as the left general.

To the spring festival in February of the fourth year of Zhongping, he was familiar with Liu Bei, the Taishou of Zhuojun who participated in the government in Beijing, and felt that this guy was quite capable and loyal, and Dong Zhuo, who was unruly and might have an accident, just confronted the constraints, and Youzhou Wuhuan rebelled, Yuyang Zhang Chun Zhang Ju rebelled, and Liu Bei accompanied Gongsun Zhan, under the assignment of Liu Yu to lead people to pacify, and then knew that Liu Bei and Liu Zheng were not in agreement, he felt very comfortable, so he took the fourth step of chess, gave Liu Bei a Zhongxing sword, and promised to give the other party an important position in these months.

After that, he suddenly contracted a cold, and even suffered from lung disease, and his body gradually showed signs of running out of oil.

Empress He looked at him more often, He Jin, Yuan Kui and others also began to clash with He Miao Jianshuo and others, and countless people began to look forward to it, thinking about his establishment of the crown prince.

He looked at the faces of all beings, although he was sick, but his mood suddenly improved a lot for a while, so he did not hesitate and walked the fifth move.

After this move, he watched the civil and military officials in a mess, hearty, and then laughed and died on the dragon chair.

The two Zhongxing swords were assigned to Jian Shuo and Dong Chong to support Gu, and they planned to call Liu Xie as the Son of Heaven, and ordered the left general Dong Zhuo to enter Beijing to assist Jian Shuo and Dong Chong, and Zhuojun Taishou Liu Bei was the general of Hu Ben Zhonglang and entered Beijing to protect Liu Xie.

He had already anticipated the consequences of this decree.

Queen He will go crazy, He Jin and He Miao will also go crazy, and then fight with Jian Shuo, Dong Chong, Dong Zhuo and others.

There was even more he had imagined.

But it didn't matter, at least he was happy.

At least these bloody events, eight-year-old Xie'er should not be able to remember, and...... Xie'er finally got the throne as he wished.

He felt that he was not necessarily a good emperor, but at least a good father.

On March 21 of the fourth year of Zhongping, Emperor Liu Hongxu was nicknamed Emperor Xiaoling.

But after that, Liu Xie did not succeed the emperor, He Jin found out that the Fang Shi who was close to the eunuch was mixed with other chronic poisons in Wushi San, poisoning the Ling Emperor, even though the Ling Emperor was sitting in the court in a conscious state and laughing and died, He Jin still framed Jian Shuo and Dong Chong took advantage of the Ling Emperor's delirium to make an edict, and even after some scholars questioned the truth of the holy decree, they claimed that Jian Shuo and Dong Chong conspired with Fang Shi to poison the Ling Emperor, and they were not worthy of being the minister of Tuogu, Jian Shuo and Dong Chong naturally counterattacked, and the two sides began to attack, The rumor of Fang Shi's rebellion spread as a bloody light unfolded in Luoyang.

During this period, Dong Chong was killed by He Jin, He Jin was killed by Jian Shuo, He Miao was killed by Wu Kuang, and Yuan Shao led many courtiers to kill Jian Shuo, and with some kind of thought, he instigated Yuan Kui to help Liu Wei succeed to the throne.

On the ninth day of the fifth month, Dong Zhuo finally led his troops into Beijing.

But Dong Zhuo did not immediately take out the edict of Emperor Ling after entering Beijing, but supported Liu Bian, and the court dispute seemed to be settled, no one could have imagined that Dong Zhuo sent a letter to Liu Bei's mansion in Zhuo County, Youzhou, which had been standing still, and after he read all the military horses in Luoyang, the ambition in his heart began to grow wildly, and with the passage of time, he gradually became ready to move.

On May 26, as the matter of Liu Zheng's imminent completion of filial piety was spread, seeing that Liu Zheng had no foundation in Zhuo County after more than two years of operation, Liu Bei looked at the holy decree issued by the imperial court after Dong Zhuo's recommendation, and looked at the post of Yulin Zhonglang General, and led two thousand soldiers to Luoyang.

It's just that after he set off, he chatted with Gongsun Yue, who caught up, for a while, and then his eyes suddenly turned cold, but he could only suppress his anger and go to Luoyang on the grounds of the holy decree.

Two days later, Liu Zheng walked out of the mansion, and a group of people were already waiting at the gate of the mansion.

Zuo Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Huang Zhong, Xiahou Sheng, Xiahou Lian, Cai Yang, Bao Ru......

On the right are Gongsun Zhan, Gongsun Yue, Jian Yong, Sun Hao, Ke Hai, Li Li, Zhao Yi, Zhang Mancheng, Bu Ji......

In addition to these people, there were many, many people waiting on both sides.

At the same time, Liu was directly opposite, and Xun Shuang, who was leaving the post Sikong at this time, came to send a letter to Liu Bei and stood with a smile.

And behind him, Xun Wang, Xun Yang, Xun Yue, Xun Biao, Xun Di, Xun Yu, Xun Yu, Xun Qi...... Dozens of men, women and children of the Xun family looked at Liu Zheng curiously.

Lu Zhi, who was accompanying Liu Zheng, glanced at it, arched his hand, and then raised his sleeves and made a gesture of invitation to the door of the mansion, and said with a smile: "Everyone, please ...... inside."

On both sides of the door, red lights are hung, and the inside is full of lights.

Liu Zheng was dressed in red and had a fluttering demeanor.