Chapter 62: Troubled Times
In the Jade Hall, the emperor was like a frightened rabbit, so frightened that he had nowhere to hide.
Under the emperor's jade steps, there were two rows of civil and military officials, and there was only one person standing in the main hall, his body was as strong as a lion, and the long sword on his waist was shining, and he stood in the hall, as if there was an invisible pressure, which made people dare not look up.
"Zhou Mi, summoned!" Dong Zhuo turned around slowly, his gaze swept over His Highness's ministers.
Zhou Mi glanced at the edict in his hand, and said loudly: "Today's emperor, the talent is frivolous, the prestige is not scrupulous, it is difficult to convince the public, the queen mother teaches no mother, the government is in chaos, the emperor is hereby abolished as the king of Hongnong, the queen mother returns to power, respects the king of Chen Liu as the emperor, and should be obedient to the people, in order to comfort the hope of the soul." ”
Zhou Mi took the opportunity to accept the edict and nodded at Dong Zhuo.
Dong Zhuo turned around and waved his sleeves, and a sharp light in his eyes was like a sharp sword slashing: "Send King Chen Liu to the palace and welcome the Son of Heaven to the throne." ”
"Traitor!"
Before the serving eunuch stepped forward, a wat board flew out of the crowd and flew towards Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhuo's head was slightly tilted, and he reached out to catch it steadily.
"Rebellious ministers and thieves, the old man fought with you."
An angry shout rose from the crowd, and a figure passed over the kneeling ministers, and rushed straight to Dong Zhuo.
Dong Zhuo didn't move, and when Ding Guan approached, he pulled out his sword with lightning speed, but when he saw a ray of cold light, the sword swung out, and blood splashed on his neck.
Ding Guan fell to the ground, blood gushing from his neck, and even so, none of the three princes and nine kings dared to speak.
Without waiting for Dong Zhuo's orders, a column of Xiliang troops went to the palace in armor, dragged Ding Guan out of the Yutang Hall like a dead dog, Dong Zhuo put his sword into the sheath, and bowed to Liu Xie, who was already sitting on the throne: "Minister Dong Zhuo, meet Your Majesty!" ”
Every word he said was respectful, but the tone of his tone made the emperor shudder.
"Dong Aiqing is flat..."The emperor was not happy at all when he knelt down to him, but was very frightened.
Dong Zhuo frowned: "Dong Aiqing...... Your Majesty, the old minister has the merit of supporting the establishment, can he be a captain? ”
Where is this inquiry, it is simply a forced decree, the emperor shrank back, and said cowardly: "I can draft a decree, add Dong Aiqing to the post of captain, open the palace, and fake the festival." ”
The corners of Dong Zhuo's lips slanted a sneer, and he still respectfully thanked him: "Thank you, Your Majesty!" ”
He rose and turned to leave the Jade Hall, and he strode along the long steps, the wind swirling and blowing down overhead, and his robe was raised in a sassy manner, and his whole body was like a burning flame.
In Dong Zhuo's eyes, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were a group of buzzing moths, which could neither achieve a big deal nor help the poor, and it might be a scourge to keep them, but it was always harmless, and occasionally he came to assassinate him, and scolded him for being a usurper and traitor by killing himself, and he thought it was funny.
If it weren't for the self-righteousness of this group of scholars, how would he have the opportunity to tilt the power of the government and the opposition?
Dong Zhuo raised his head, the sky was clear and cloudless, the wind passed over his shoulders, from this moment on, he would dominate the whole world.
In September of the first year of Guangxi, the Luoyang Palace held a court meeting, the emperor Liu Wei, the nine-year-old Chen Liuwang Liu Xie, and the empress dowager He were all in the palace.
After reading the edict of the minister to bully the lord, Lang Zhong ordered Li Ru to step forward and pull the trembling Liu Wei down from the dragon throne, poor this little emperor, Lai's uncle He Jin tried his best to help to ascend the throne, and he was deposed as the king of Hongnong after only five months of reign.
The cry of the Empress Dowager He lingered in his ears, and the ministers couldn't bear it, but before everyone could react, Dong Zhuo had already personally hugged Liu Xie, the king of Chen Liu, to the dragon throne.
Things in the world seem to have a certain number in the dark, in the past, Liu Hongyan drove, and entrusted the eunuch Jian Shuo to assist the youngest son Liu Xie, He Jin led the scholars to fight several times before killing Jian Shuo, and set up the eldest prince Liu Xuan, who expected that all kinds of hard work would be empty, Dong Zhuo came, and the dragon throne still belonged to Xiao Liu Xie after all......
After Liu Xie was put on the throne, some decrees concocted by Dong Zhuo were promulgated one after another.
First of all, cut off the title of the Empress Dowager of the He family, completely isolated it from the deposed emperor Liu Wei in the Yong'an Palace, and handed it over to Lang Zhongling Li Ru to take care of.
Then, Liu Yu, who was in Youzhou, was changed to the great Sima, and Dong Zhuo became the chief lieutenant of the three princes on his behalf, and led the former generals to the military, and then added axes, had the right to live and kill, and gave the tiger warriors to defend at any time.
Then, the Yuan was changed to Yonghan, with Huang Wan as Situ and Yang Biao as Sikong, so that the two of them established their reputation, and in addition, they gave each family from the secretary of state to the Huangmen Shilang to raise a child as a lang, nominally to let the children of these high-ranking officials enter the palace to make up for the absence of the previous eunuchs, but in fact they were controlled in the palace as hostages.
After doing these two things, Dong Zhuo made two inexplicable decisions in order to win over the scholars: first, the former generals Dou Wu and Taifu Chen Fan, who were killed in order to plot against the eunuchs, reversed the case and corrected the name, and completely closed the public case of the party.
That was twenty-one years ago, and now that the eunuch power has been wiped out, Dong Zhuo is just selling a favor and drawing an end to the disaster of the party.
As Dong Zhuo abolished the emperor and officially took control of the government, his true face began to be gradually exposed.
He was not satisfied with serving as a lieutenant, he gave up this position to Huang Wan, and then coerced Xun Shuang to become a commoner, and he asked him to be named Xiangguo, promoted to the Marquis of Yi, and visited the unknown, and went to the palace with his sword, which was no different from the majesty of the Son of Heaven.
He also crowned his mother as Chi Yangjun, his four-year-old granddaughter Dong Bai as Weiyang Jun, and the rest of the family gave him a thick seal, and all the generals from Li Dao to Li Wei were rewarded.
He led his subordinates to invade the palace, drank and had fun overnight in the palace, bullied the palace lae, and he also plundered the treasures in the palace and the West Garden, distributed them to his subordinates, and even melted down the bronze figures, bells, and water-swallowing beasts that symbolized the prestige of the imperial court, and minted them into copper coins for his own ownership.
Under his instructions, Lang Zhong ordered Li Ru to harm the deposed Empress Dowager He with poisoned wine......
These criminal actions aroused the dissatisfaction of the ministers, and Wu Fu, the captain of the city gate, assassinated Dong Zhuo with a sharp blade, but not only did not succeed, but was captured and killed by him.
Since then, he has become more and more brutal and unkind to his ministers, beheading and killing at every turn, and sometimes even disemboweling those who disobey him in public, gouging out his eyes and tongues, and his methods are cruel and unsightly.
And his subordinates also killed people like hemp, plundering the people's property everywhere in Henan and Yuzhou, and washing countless villages with blood.
However, the arrogance also overwhelmed him, and even the advice of the chief bookkeeper Tian Yi gradually fell to heart.
Shangshu Zhou Bi and others took advantage of this opportunity to continue to pour him ecstasy soup, ostensibly touting him as the current Duke of Zhou, but many influential talents were put into foreign positions, Han Fu served as Youzhou Mu, Kong Ling as Yuzhou Assassin History, Liu Dai as Yanzhou Assassin History, Zhang Miao as Chen Liutaishou, Zhang Zhi as Nanyang Taishou.
In November of the same year, Cao Cao, the captain of the military academy, attempted to assassinate Dong Zhuo in the name of offering a sword, and hurriedly fled to his hometown in Qian County.