Dong Zhuo took atrocities, first killed the Yuan family, and then sent troops to plunder the Quartet, the Kwantung coalition army not only did not attack Luoyang, but scattered in a hurry, which made Dong Zhuo look down on these scholars in the Kwantung region, especially the Yuan brothers, who didn't even care about family hatred and national hatred, and only cared about grabbing territory.

The Kanto people are all paper tigers.

Without external threats, monopolizing power in the court, and with the full support of the champion Hou, Dong Xiangguo proclaimed himself Taishi in Luoyang in early May, above the princes surnamed Liu.

Since then, Dong Zhuo has become even more arrogant, no longer like a hillbilly, afraid and flattering to the scholars; Self-confidence is even more unprecedentedly inflated, and I will no longer use the Central Plains Shi clan as a dish, enveloping? Appease? Come on, what are you working so hard for? If you don't accept it, you will fight, anyway, they are not the opponent of Xiliang Tieqi.

In mid-May, Dong Zhuo tortured Zhang Wen to death under the pretext that Zhang Wen, the guard commander, had an affair with the Yuan family, and ordered Zhang Wen's family to be beheaded.

No one in the court dared to say anything to Master Dong.

Dong Zhuo is absurd and unreasonable, but Li Ru has a long-term view.

At this time, Dong Zhuo entrusted all military and political affairs to Li Ru, so that Li Ru had room to play.

Li Ru figured out Dong Zhuo's thoughts, and made vigorous adjustments according to Dong Zhuo's thoughts.

First of all, Dong Zhuo was gilded and publicized to the outside world that Dong Zhuo was the descendant of Zhang Huan, a famous general in Liangzhou, and inherited the morality, sentiment and ability of the older generation of celebrities such as Chen Fan and Li Ying; At that time, Dong Zhuo once served as Zhang Huan's other Sima position, followed Zhang Huan to conquer foreign races, and made great achievements.

Zhang Huan (104 years, 181 years), the words are clear. A native of Yuanquan in Dunhuang (now in the east of Anxi County, Gansu), a famous general and scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and one of the three Ming Dynasty in Liangzhou.

Li Ru took Zhang Huan's three sons and many of his disciples from Hongnong County to Luoyang, and arranged them preferentially.

Secondly, let them be in a high position, but they were not given real power, let them wave the flag and shout for the court, promote the idea of loyalty to the Han, and improve the influence of the court in people's minds.

The Yuan family adopted the strategy of encircling Luoyang from the local area and seizing the local military and political power, which seemed to be eager for quick success and quick profit, so that the whole door was beheaded.

The Yang family, who are also the fourth and third dukes, adopted diametrically opposite strategies, hoping to change and seize power from the court, but Dong Zhuo was too strong and domineering, so he could only have an ambiguous relationship with Dong Zhuo.

Li Ru, as a rare wise man, felt that the Yang family had no military power, which was easy to control, and he had to make good use of it, so he voted for his favor, and recommended Yang Biao, who was dismissed, to be appointed as Guanglu doctor, and more than ten days later, he was relocated to Dahonglu.

For famous generals such as Huangfu Song and Zhu, they could not be allowed to leave, colluded with the scholars or warlords and princes, and could not let them take power, and acted against Dong Taishi, so they were all named noble and high-ranking positions, but they did not have any real power.

Finally, increase the power of the people of Liangzhou and Yongzhou, which is the person Dong Zhuo trusts the most. Li Ru hoped to gradually replace the control of the Kwantung clan in the imperial court with the Liangzhou people and the Sanfu people.

Li Ru carried out a series of internal adjustments, and did not forget the adjustment of the military.

Guo Yan continued to serve as the governor of Hujiao Pass, and his life was very leisurely, the Kwantung coalition army was disbanded, no one posed a threat to him, the infantry held the city, and the cavalry occasionally went out to hunt to relieve boredom, Chenliu County and Yingchuan County were his hunting grounds, which brought deep disasters to the people of Chenliu County and Yingchuan County.

In the face of the powerful Xiliang Iron Cavalry, Chen Liujun guarded Zhang Miao and Cao Cao, who was stationed in Jiwu County, did not dare to face it head-on.

Zhang Miao, the word Meng Zhuo, Dongping Shouzhang (now Dongping County, Shandong) people, when he was young, he was famous for his chivalry, helping the poor, helping others, bankrupt his family, and many strong men were attached to him, known as one of the "Eight Kitchens", Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were all friends of Zhang Miao, and under the recommendation of the Yuan family, he was appointed as Chen Liutaishou, and was regarded as a protégé of the Yuan family.

Hu Zhen was beheaded by Huaxiong due to his mistake and was punished by Dong Zhuo, so he poured out all the resentment in his heart on the people of the two counties, burning, killing and looting, and took what he could.

Zhang Ji and Fan Chou, who were stationed in Guangchengguan, made the people of Runan County miserable.

Luoyang Baguan and Sanfu areas are garrisoned by strong troops, and Luoyang has the most powerful "Flying Bear Army" garrisoned, led by the strongest combat effectiveness and loyal military general Li.

The Flying Bear Army is Dong Zhuo's personal elite unit, with a flying bear pattern embroidered with ribbed wings on the banner, and is led by Dong Zhuo's henchman Li and others; The Flying Bear Army is all composed of elites and capable people in the Xiliang Army, such as Hu Che'er in Dong Zhuo's army, which is said to be "able to carry 500 catties and travel 700 miles a day"; The Flying Bear Army is very well-equipped, with Xiliang Iron Cavalry and Xiliang soldiers who often fight with foreign clans, and its combat effectiveness is very strong, and it is Dong Zhuo's army.

At this time, the Kwantung princes were busy grabbing territory and maintaining their rule in the local area, and they had no time to take care of the people of several counties, which made the people of Liangzhou regard the Kwantung clan as paper tigers.

The scholars Wang Yun, Huang Wan and others chose to forbear for the time being, and they were all respectful to Dong Zhuo

Dong Zhuo was very satisfied with Li Ru's series of arrangements.

The only one who was dissatisfied with the status quo was Lu Bu, seeing that the Liangzhou army was looting everywhere and making a windfall, he was very envious and jealous, and his officers and soldiers also had opinions on Lu Bu, so Lu Bute applied to Dong Zhuo, hoping to go out to fight and make meritorious contributions to the imperial court.

Dong Zhuo did not fully trust Lu Bu's army, he was both wooing and wary of Lu Bu, Dong Zhuo couldn't pay attention to it, so he invited Li Ru to come to negotiate.

Li Ru understood that Lu Bu was a vicious wolf from the border county, and if he used it well, he could make a lot of profits, and if he didn't use it well, he would backfire on him.

So Li Ru responded: "Taishi, Lu Bu is from a border county, he is ruthless and moody by nature, if he is kept by his side, it will change over time, if he is released, he cannot effectively control it, he can only gradually weaken his strength and guard against it carefully." ”

Dong Zhuo said worriedly: "Lu Bu and his army are from the border counties, they have made a living by plundering barbarians before they came to Beijing, and they have long been robbed, and they have been poor for a long time, so they naturally have an incomparable desire for wealth, and they are naturally envious when they see Guo Yan, Zhang Ji and others making a windfall outside, and if they don't meet his requirements, I am afraid that he will be difficult to control his subordinates." ”

Li Ru thought for a while, and then suggested: "Taishi, the Taishou of Yingchuan County fled privately, and now the position of Taishou is vacant, why not appoint Lu Bu's subordinate Wei Xu as the Taishou of Yingchuan County, so that he has the opportunity to plunder the Quartet and fight with the princes of Kwantung, which can not only appease Lü Bu and his army, but also achieve the goal of weakening the strength of the warlords of Kwantung." ”

"Haha, this strategy is very good, but the purpose of killing people with a knife is too simple, how can Lu Bu not know?"

Li Ru said again: "Don't worry, Taishi, you can appoint Zhonglang General Hu Zhen as the Taishou of Chenliu County at the same time, change the Governor of Tiger Prison Guan, and Captain Guo Yan as the General of Dongzhonglang, so that Lu Bu and others will not suspect it." ”

"Haha, that's good, but if Lu Bu and Wei Xu are bought by the Kwantung scholars, they should be combined inside and outside, wouldn't Luoyang be dangerous?"

"The master is too worried, with Zhang Ji and others guarding Guangcheng Pass, how can it be easily overcome? The Tiger Prison Pass is even more heavily guarded, and the Kwantung princes have long been taught, and they will never do such a stupid thing. ”

Dong Zhuo was overjoyed, so he adopted Li Ru's suggestion and appointed Hu Zhen and Wei Xu as the Taishou of Chenliu County and Yingchuan County respectively.

This is a plan to kill people with a knife, which can achieve the goal of killing two birds with one stone, and more importantly, it appeases Lu Bu and those arrogant officers and soldiers under him.