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The well-informed families in the capital soon learned of the emperor's reward for Gao Shun and others.

This time, Gao Shun was not only named a marquis for his military exploits, but also a rare champion marquis, and Fang Liang was named the minister of Jinan.

This is simply the face of the thugs.

This made many families unable to sit still, not only because they were jealous of Gao Shun's exploits and rewards, but also because the scholars had a strong spiritual purity. They are ashamed to be in company.

What's more, Gao Shun was so close to the eunuchs and was in a hostile state with them.

They were more worried that Gao Shun would move south after eliminating the Yellow Turban thieves in Guangzong and make military exploits again.

What they feared most was that similar things would become a common practice, allowing the Hanmen and Liangjiazi to gain a channel for ascension, which would seriously harm the interests of the scholars and shake their foundations.

Therefore, the families that have their own moral cultivation use yang schemes, and some families who are willing to degenerate use conspiracy, in short, Gao Shun cannot be allowed to monopolize the exploits of exterminating the Yellow Turban Thief, and he must be suppressed.

Since Gao Shun was able to raise his own funds to support the army to exterminate the Yellow Turban Army, they did not have this convenient condition, but they could find another shortcut; As a result, many families began to donate money, food, armor, and war horses to the emperor, and presented a larger number of domestic slaves, and the quality of these domestic slaves was greatly improved compared with the previous time.

Families that had no domestic slaves, or a small number of domestic slaves, recruited people from society and sent them to join the army.

They hoped that His Majesty the Emperor would raise more troops to clear the Yellow Turban Thieves.

Not only for the sake of military merit, to eliminate the Yellow Turban thieves south of the Yellow River as soon as possible and prevent Gao Shun from continuing to go south, but more importantly, the Yellow Turban Thieves are their natural enemies, and they must be eliminated as soon as possible to return their lives to the normal track.

Their greater motivation was to participate in the feast of re-dividing wealth as soon as possible after the Yellow Turban thieves were pacified, and the ownerless land, poor and helpless peasants, etc., were the opportunity for them to expand their estates and expand the ranks of domestic slaves; Contributions to the emperor, they will soon be able to earn back; After all, it was the landlord class and the Han people who suffered the most damage from the Yellow Turban thieves, and the damage to the Dashi clan was also an economic loss.

This is a dignified conspiracy.

The emperor was very happy, and he smiled at the benefits sent to the door.

Liu Hong asked Zhang Rang: "Why are the scholars so active?" I didn't ask them to donate. ”

Zhang Rang was well-informed, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, this is thanks to the general and the champion Hou, the general wrote one after another, hoping that the champion Hou would pacify Jizhou as soon as possible, and then go south to Yanzhou and Yuzhou to level the thieves, and the scholars were afraid that the champion Hou would make another meritorious service, so they hoped that the battle of Yuzhou would end as soon as possible and prevent the champion Hou from going south." ”

"Hehe, I didn't expect that I would have this effect as the champion Hou."

Zhang Rang said: "Congratulations to Your Majesty, the champion Hou is loyal to His Majesty, and he will inevitably be hated by the Shi clan, in this case, the Champion Hou will only be attached to His Majesty and dare not have two hearts, otherwise just the Shi clan will let him die without a place to be buried." ”

Liu Hong said with a smile: "Hehe, I hope he will become a sharp blade in my hands, invincible, invincible, and worthy of the title of "Champion Hou" in my hand." ”

The Yuan family is a different idea, last time they donated a large amount of money and food, sent two thousand-person teams, and sent the two best juniors of the family, but they were besieged by the Yellow Turban Army in Changshe, and they did not make an inch.

They did not blame the two lieutenant generals for being incompetent, but only for the Yellow Turban Army being too cunning, and the number of officers and soldiers was too small, and they lacked training.

Now Gao Shun has obtained so many military exploits, not only has he cleared the Yellow Turban thieves in Sanzhou, but also beheaded the thieves Zhang Jiao and Zhang Bao, and now they are made marquis, which fills their hearts with hatred and anger.

And due to Gao Shun's reasons, the Yuan family's transactions with the Xianbei clan and Wuhuan in Shanggu County were suspended, which caused the Yuan family to lose a lot of wealth, and the Yuan family hated Gao Shun to the core.

Yuan Situ learned from the pain, he had united with the major families to blockade Gao Shun before, and they did not play a role in the interests of their respective families; This time, he decided to shake off these short-sighted, selfish guys and prepare to go it alone.

Now that order has been restored to the three prefectures of You, Hebei, and Qingdao, let's create some trouble for them.

The first thing he thought of was the Wuhuan people, judging from the news that came back, the Wuhuan of Shanggu County now relied on Gao Shun very much, and the relationship was very close; And Gao Shun cut off the court reward of the Wuhuan people in the three eastern counties, which made the life of the Wuhuan people in the three eastern counties a lot more difficult, and there was a possibility of conflict, which was the opportunity he took advantage of.

This time, he sent the most powerful steward of the family to Liaoxi County, trying to persuade the Wuhuan people to enter the fortress and plunder.

For them, this is the opportunity of the emptiness of the border county, a good opportunity to plunder, and they can't help but be unmoved.

Wuhuan's tens of thousands of troops went south and carried out a joint attack on Gao Shun with the Jizhou Yellow Turbans, how to survive with his existing soldiers and horses? Yuan Kui believed that even if he couldn't use this to eliminate Gao Shun, he would be able to make him suffer heavy losses.

If the Wuhuan people enter the fortress and plunder, he will have a reason to attack Gao Shun.

In addition, Yuan Situ had another plan, to transfer Hedong Taishou Dong Zhuo to beg for thieves.

Dong Zhuo was once conscripted by Situ Yuan Kui as the government of Peng.

As a top-down system of selecting officials, the status of expropriation is second only to that of inspection; In the Eastern Han Dynasty, due to political corruption, the bureaucracy used the call to favor favoritism, and because of the appeal of the person who was called to the master, a subordinate relationship was formed between the two, which contributed to the growth of private power among the bureaucracy.

Because of such a special relationship between Yuan Kui and Dong Zhuo, at the critical moment, Yuan Kui thought of Dong Zhuo.

At this time, He Jin was not long in office as a general, the yellow scarf was not extinguished, and an inch of merit was not made; Whether it is the extermination of the Yellow Turbans or the formation of the team of the General's Mansion, it is inseparable from the support of the scholars, and his background is humble, so the general has the intention of moving closer to the scholars.

He Jin hurriedly caught the olive branch thrown by the scholar clan to meet his purpose of befriending the scholar clan, which not only made good friends with the scholar clan, but also hoped to make a difference, but also suppressed Gao Shun.

Although Yuan Kui cannot represent the scholars, he is one of the important representatives of the scholars.

And Yuan Kui not only had to recommend the people of his own force to earn military exploits, but also suppressed Gao Shun, prevented him from going south to suppress bandits, and then made war exploits.

Yuan Kui and He Jin hit it off, wrote to the emperor, and recommended Dong Zhuo, the Taishou of Hedong County, as the lieutenant general, and led the army to support the Yuzhou battlefield.

In particular, the Yellow Turban Army in Yingchuan County is gaining momentum, and they are too close to the capital Luoyang, and the danger is too great, Liu Hong also wants to pacify the Yellow Turban thieves in Yuzhou and Yanzhou as soon as possible, so he successfully passed the recommendation of the two to Dong Zhuo.

And Dong Zhuo has been struggling to find an opportunity to make friends with the scholars, and this move is exactly what he wants, not only can he befriend the Central Plains scholars, but also earn military merits, so he happily goes.

Yuan Kui wrote a letter to Dong Zhuo to kill less and expel more, and strive to drive all the Yellow Turban troops from Yuzhou and Yanzhou to Jizhou, so as to create more trouble for Gao Shun, just as it is a reason for them to expel the Yellow Turban thieves to Xuzhou.

Dong Zhuo has not made a career yet, has no more ambitions, and obeys his old boss Yuan Kui; He knew Yuan Kui's abilities, and if he didn't do what he wanted, he would soon be dismissed from his post.

At this point, Situ Yuan Kui did not give up, and sent people to Julu County, Jinan Kingdom, and other counties in Jizhou and Qingzhou to collect evidence of Gao Shun's misdeeds, and prepare to bring down Gao Shun in one fell swoop when the time came.

And Gao Shun didn't know that danger was quietly looming over him.