Luoyang, since the previous court meeting, Emperor Liu Hong decided to select a virtuous minister, to find out that Zuo Chang, who was killed by Fuquan, after many illegal things in Liangzhou's assassination history, these days in the court, are arguing about who to choose to investigate.

However, all parties wanted to profit from this matter, so it was never decided, and the matter has been delayed.

In Situ Yuan Kui's mansion, since Yuan Shao was favored by the Yuan family and did his best to help him cooperate with He Jin, Yuan Kui's mansion is much more deserted than in the past, not that he did much worse than Situ, but except for Yuan Kui's old friends, most people went to meet Yuan Shao, who would obviously be the most promising successor of the next generation of the Yuan family, Yuan Shao, a model in the world.

On this day, outside Situ's mansion, a middle-aged man came, he was about eight feet tall, with a square face, big ears and round eyes, a beard like a halberd, a slightly wide nose, and the corners of his mouth drooping slightly. However, although the appearance is very shocking, this big man obviously looks very lost, and adds a layer of confusion to his appearance for no reason

After glancing at the familiar hometown of Situ Mansion in front of him, the big man informed the man in front of Situ Mansion of his identity, and he didn't wait too long before he was led inside, but the reason why this was so was because this big man was Situ Yuan Kui's old official, and his name was Dong Zhuo.

After entering the Situ Hall, Dahan saw the old man in the hall, and hurriedly pushed the golden mountain to kneel down like a jade pillar and bowed: "The old man Dong Zhuo, meet Yuan Gong." ”

The old man, Dong Zhuo said the words, it was his former self-name as Yuan Kui's former official, and in history, Yuan Shaohui was willing to recruit him into Beijing because of this. The relationship between the former officials of the Han Dynasty and the former lord is, to a certain extent, more solid than that of the monarch and the minister, because their interests are very close to a large extent, but unfortunately Yuan Shao did not expect that Dong Zhuo, the former official of the Yuan family, would be anti-guest-oriented.

The reason why the Han Dynasty gate valve was able to endure for a long time was because it formed a huge and complex network of relationships headed by protégés and former officials. The relationship between the two of them is as small as serving the Lord, as large as life and death, and even for those who have been mourning for three years after the death of the deceased, and to many extent, the interests of the two families have been so close that they are inseparable, and it can be said that the relationship between the monarch and the minister is stronger and more reliable than that of the monarch and the minister.

Later, Dong Zhuo, as an old official, dared to kill the family of the late owner Yuan Kui, since the Han Dynasty, it is absolutely unique, so that it is he who started that others will follow suit.

This kind of person, in the mainstream public opinion of the Han Dynasty, is not notorious and has been stinking for thousands of years, it is unreasonable, and Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu brothers later organized a coalition to fight against Dong, why did they win the support of the majority of the scholars and even the common people's public opinion in the whole world, and this is the reason.

Because, first, Dong Zhuo violated the taboo of the Han Dynasty scholars, if everyone was like him, and killed the old master at the beginning, then the relationship between the old lord and the old officials formed in the Han Dynasty would be broken in an instant.

As for the second, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, since Dong Zhuo killed Yuan Kui's family, they have become the objects of sympathy from all over the world. Since the Han Dynasty, the wind of revenge has prevailed, and the government and the people have sympathized with the revenge people, but in the Yuan brothers, the hatred they carried has become the biggest hatred of both national and family hatred under the propaganda of public opinion, which naturally makes the two who became avengers win great support.

The enemy of the country, the Han Dynasty was messed up by Dong Zhuo's ministers, and the hater of the family, the uncle Yuan Kui of the two people, was killed by the enemy's former official Dong Zhuo. These two, under the two shouting for revenge, in the name of the country and the family, naturally made them stand on the commanding heights of public opinion from the beginning, and won the support of sympathizers all over the world, coupled with the political foundation of the fourth and third princes of the Yuan family, the late Han Dynasty started with a group of heroes, and the two were undoubtedly the most powerful.

Of course, it may be that in this regard, the prestige of the fourth and third princes of the Yuan family made the Yuan family too arrogant, because whether it was Yuan Shao or Yuan Shu, any of the two brothers believed in many important people wrongly in this regard. Their brothers were betrayed by very important Yuan officials, Yuan Shao had Dong Zhuo and Han Fu, and Yuan Shu had Sun Ce.

"Zhong Ying get up quickly, how can this be the case?"

Yuan Kui saw Dong Zhuo making this big gift, and hurriedly said, but, having said that, Yuan Kui didn't get up and help him up, maybe he was old and didn't want to move more, or maybe he didn't care about Dong Zhuo's salute or not. After all, since Dong Zhuo failed to punish the crime because of the extermination of the Taiping Dao, although he is not guilty now, he is still too sensitive, and the best choice for the Yuan family now is not to help.

It's just that Dong Zhuo is obviously not a person who gives up easily, especially after he was pardoned, neither the Yuan family nor He Jin took the initiative to ask about it, so he knew Yuan's attitude. Therefore, Dong Zhuo didn't reply, he knew that he didn't plead in his mouth, and at the same time, he didn't plan to get up, so he kept kneeling and bowing posture, hoping to impress Yuan Kui with practical actions.

Originally, in history, as Han Sui and Bian Zhang led the rebels to break into Sanfu, in order to resist the rebels, the imperial court did not care about the past suspicions, because he was a general in Liangzhou and was familiar with the geography of Liangzhou and the strength of the rebels, so he specially reinstated him and made him the deputy general of Huangfu Song to resist the traitors, so that he had the opportunity to re-enter the official career. However, now that Fuquan has pacified Liangzhou, it is not yet known whether he has a chance to recover.

Although in the Han Dynasty, there was a different connection between the lord and the officials similar to the father and son of the monarchs and ministers in later generations, but it was not enough to kneel and bow when they met.

Since the previous Taiping Road Yellow Turban Moth Thief Incident, after Beizhong Lang deposed Lu Zhi from the imperial court, Dong Zhuo relied on the relationship of the late lord Yuan Kui, under the recommendation of the general He Jin, and the support of Yuan's subordinate ministers, the imperial court changed Dong Zhuo to worship Dong Zhuo as the general of Dongzhong Lang, replacing Lu Zhi, and taking over the important task of exterminating Jizhou Taiping Dao. As a result, in the end, Dong Zhuo was unfortunate and was deposed by the imperial court to the court to be tried by Tingwei, and sentenced to "reduce the death penalty to the first degree", but fortunately, after pacifying the Taiping Road, Emperor Liu Hong granted amnesty to the world, and Dong Zhuo was able to pardon his crimes and become a commoner.

It's just that the pardon is pardoned, but everything he accumulated before is gone, especially after he was punished, the old department of Liangzhou that stayed in Jizhou was all assigned to Fuquan by the imperial court to recruit the traitors in Liangzhou. Although Dong Zhuo didn't have much contact with Fu Quan, he thought about it, with the confrontation between Fu Quan and Yuan, even if he had the opportunity to ask for these old departments, it was probably impossible.

Of course, the most important thing in front of Dong Zhuo now is not as simple as asking for the old department, now for him, the most important thing is to find a way to get an official and a half position, otherwise, with his status as a white commoner, those old departments still have affection for him, I am afraid they will not say that they will take refuge in him.

Therefore, in desperation, Dong Zhuo thought about it and knew that he only had two ways now. One is to spend money to bribe his distant relative, the Empress Dowager Dong, the biological mother of Emperor Liu Hong, to obtain an official position by virtue of this relationship; The other is to find his old master Yuan Kui, with the current power of the Yuan family, it is not difficult to help him get an official position.

After weighing the pros and cons, Dong Zhuo decided to take a two-pronged approach, of course, the main thing was to find Yuan Kui, and Empress Dowager Dong hoped that she would say something good in front of the emperor, so that the emperor's bad impression of his previous defeat would change.

This time he lost his official position and was punished for the crime, which was more severe than the last time Dong Zhuo was dismissed for the captain of Wuji in the Western Regions, and it also made him understand the truth that a husband cannot be without power for a day. In his heart, he also secretly swore that if he had the opportunity to rise again in the future, he would never give others the opportunity to treat him like this, his fate was still in his own hands, and if he wanted to master it, he had to have rights, and only rights were the foundation of his life.

In the future, when he recovers, he will never let others control him, only rights are the most important thing, at this moment, Dong Zhuo, who was kneeling, clenched his fists tightly.

Yuan Kui didn't see Dong Zhuo's clenched fists, he only saw Dong Zhuo kneeling and bowing, and shook his head helplessly and said: "Zhong Ying is useless like this, it's not a servant or a servant, it's really a previous Jizhou war, Your Majesty doesn't like Zhong Ying!" ”

With these words, Yuan Kui directly said the result, and hoped that Dong Zhuo would retreat from the difficulty, but this was obviously useless, Dong Zhuo knew that if Yuan worked hard, he would still have a chance, and everything depended on whether Yuan Kui helped or not. Therefore, Dong Zhuo still didn't say a word and couldn't bow down.

"Zhong Ying is like this, she has no youthful spirit at all, and she looks old, how can she be a general?"

No, Yuan Kui's other words did not anger Dong Zhuo, but this sentence directly made Dong Zhuo's face look and his momentum became violent.

I saw that Dong Zhuo stood up and stood up, and said in an impassioned tone: "Lian Po is a rice bucket in his twilight years, ten catties of meat, and he is on the horse, Zhuo is still over fifty today, how can he say that he is old?" The servant can serve the Han for another twenty years, and hopes that Yuan Gong will be successful. ”

After that, Dong Zhuo looked directly at Yuan Kui, and the tiger's eyes revealed boundless sharpness, but in the face of Yuan Kui, he had a kind of deference like a slave, which was what he told Yuan Kui with his attitude again, as long as Yuan was willing to continue to spend a lot of money to help him Dong Zhuo, he Dong Zhuo would definitely not forget Yuan, and still help Yuan Shu consolidate Yuan's power as before.

Of course, Dong Zhuo's appearance is also a hidden side, if his rights are taken away, betrayed by his allies, or continue to be abandoned as a political victim, anyone who dares to stop him, he will not show mercy, in the face of power, there is no mercy.

Looking at Dong Zhuo with a sharp face in front of him, Yuan Kui was thoughtful, he had never looked away, he had seen too many such people, and his grateful color made Yuan Kui understand that once he helped Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhuo would definitely help Yuan with all his heart.

Anyway, under the command of the Yuan family, there are too few outstanding border generals like Dong Zhuo, who saved Dong Zhuo today, and if he is in urgent need in the future, he will be of great use.

In the end, Yuan Kui nodded and said: "Zhong Ying's matter, the servant already knows everything, and he will wait for the news when he returns home." ”

There are some words that don't need to be said too clearly, Yuan Kui said it simply, but the meaning is obvious, he will help Dong Zhuo, and Dong Zhuo was immediately overjoyed.

"Thank you Yuan Gong, if you are sent in the future, Zhuo will die!" Dong Zhuo bowed down again, he didn't consider whether Yuan Kui could save him, with Yuan's current strength, although it was difficult to rescue himself, it didn't mean that it was impossible, but they would waste a lot of money.

"It doesn't have to be that way! It doesn't have to be that way! When the servant was tired, he didn't leave Zhong Ying behind, and someone came to see General Dong leave. Yuan Kui said with a smile, and then sent Dong Zhuo away, for Dong Zhuo, he has not yet reached the point where he must be valued, so naturally he will not stay in the mansion more.

Dong Zhuo was naturally interested, and after a confession, he left with the servants of the Yuan Mansion, leaving Situ Yuan Kui alone and staying in the lobby.

Looking at the figure of Dong Zhuo leaving in front of him, Yuan Kui kept thinking about it, and finally thought of an official position, which was more suitable for Dong Zhuo, that is, the person sent by the imperial court to Liangzhou to investigate Zuochang's affairs.

It's just that although the idea is good, when Yuan Kui was just about to let the good Yuan henchmen arranged by him, say that Dong Zhuo was the best candidate for the matter of Liangzhou, who knew that Emperor Liu Hong suddenly said: "Zuochang is a traitor, enough to die!" ”

In a word, he defined Zuo Chang and caught Yuan Kui off guard, I don't know why Liu Hong suddenly changed his attitude, until Liu Hong took out a joint letter signed by most of the soldiers and generals in Liangzhou, which said that Zuo Chang had many illegal things, and then I understood that whether this music was intentional or not, or those soldiers and generals were unintentionally written, it was obviously impossible for anyone to use Zuo Chang's affairs to deal with Fuquan.

Suddenly, Yuan Kui knew that he couldn't do anything, so he stopped, and Dong Zhuo lost the way to set foot on the rise of Liangzhou again, as for his back road, but after Yuan Kui thought about it for a few days, he recommended him at the court meeting, and asked him to go to Bingzhou as Sima, and together with the Han army, to conquer the Montenegrin army.