Chapter 249: An Unsolvable Contradiction
In Dong Zhuo's mansion, Dong Zhuo was half-lying on the cloud bed, two maids gently pounded his legs for him, one maid gently massaged his shoulders, one maid gently shook the fan, and another maid peeled the grape skins and sent them into Dong Zhuo's mouth one by one, and then took the grape seeds and put them in the garbage can. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The current day is already in autumn, and the weather is not hot, but Dong Zhuo is fat and sweats easily.
"Well, yes, yes." After listening to Li Ru's report, Dong Zhuo opened his eyes and said with a smile, "Cao Canghe is really powerful, first whipped He Miao, and then killed Wuyangjun's mother and daughter, and easily resolved Wen You's plan." ā
Li Ru smiled slightly and said: "This plan should be difficult for Cao Juye, the son-in-law uses this plan to force Cao Ju to completely fall to his father-in-law, if the third plan of the son-in-law is completed, the father-in-law can rest assured that Cao Juye will be used." ā
"Hahahaha......" Dong Zhuo immediately laughed and said, "With Fengxian and Canghe to help, what is there to fear." ā
Li Ru immediately said: "Father-in-law should not be careless, the ministers of the court and the central government are dissatisfied with their father-in-law, and there are many people who have the intention of assassination like Wu Fu. ā
Speaking of Wu Fu, Dong Zhuo's face sank, and he snorted: "Lone is not thin on Wu Fu, that guy dares to stab Lone, it's really hateful, but that guy would rather die than move, so that Lone can't take down the person in charge, and he is really unwilling." ā
"As long as the father-in-law is properly prepared, and he is protected by his side, this is not a cause for concern." Li Ru stroked his chin and beard with his hand and said, "It's just that the most important thing at the moment is that there is a contradiction between Cao Ju and the generals of Xiliang." ā
Hearing this, Dong Zhuo couldn't help frowning, in fact, he had known about this matter for a long time, but he had never thought of a good way to resolve it.
Xiliang is located in a remote area, and the people of Xiliang are brave and aggressive, especially the generals of Xiliang under Dong Zhuo, and there are many brutal people.
Just when Cao Ju was ordered to raid the mansion of Zhang Rang and others, Li Yu, a general under Dong Zhuo, broke a group of rebel soldiers in Sili's army and captured hundreds of people. Li Yu ordered these people to be wrapped in strips of cloth, put their heads upside down, and then poured oil on them, lit a fire, and burned them alive.
Another time, it was Dong Zhuo's own business, that time at a banquet for hundreds of officials, Dong Zhuo ordered hundreds of northern rebels who had been lured and captured to the center of the venue, first ordered the soldiers to cut off their tongues, and then some of them had their hands and feet cut off, and some had their eyes gouged out.
The cruelty of the method was so cruel that all the officials and soldiers present were miserable, and many of the guests were so frightened that their chopsticks fell to the ground. But Dong Zhuo was casual, still drinking freely, and there was a smug look on his face.
It is reasonable to kill these people, once Guo Yan actually slaughtered a village in the Sili area, killed all the men, beheaded them and hung them on the carriage and horses, and the women were all looted by the soldiers, and all the disobedient people were killed.
This incident caused Cao Ju to be furious, and he immediately wrote to Dong Zhuo, demanding that Guo Bi and his subordinates be severely punished, so that Dong Zhuo was a little big, after all, Guo Bi was his old subordinate, and Dong Zhuo did not think so.
Later, he was forced by Cao Ju to do nothing, and Dong Zhuo had to kill two generals under Guo Yan's command, and put all the responsibility on those two people, so that the matter could be reluctantly calmed down.
In this way, the Xiliang generals can't tolerate gambling on Cao Ju, and Cao Ju can't get used to the Xiliang generals, and the friction between the two sides is getting bigger and bigger.
The generals under Dong Zhuo are basically divided into three parts, the most important is his original team, the generals of Xiliang, followed by the Bingzhou army headed by Lu Bu, and finally the Luoyang faction headed by Cao Ju.
The discord between the Xiliang faction and the Luoyang faction made Dong Zhuo a headache, because he was not good at restraining the Xiliang army too much, after all, before entering Beijing, he promised all kinds of benefits to the Xiliang army. However, Dong Zhuo can't offend Cao Ju too much, because he also knows that the actions of the Xiliang Army are unpopular with the people, and once Cao Ju is offended, the latter will raise his arms and respond to all subordinates, and his regime will be in crisis.
Dong Zhuo asked, "Wenyou, do you have a clever plan to resolve one or two?" ā
Li Ru didn't have any good way, otherwise, how could he just remind Dong Zhuo again and again, he would have told Dong Zhuo the solution a long time ago, and he could only shake his head lightly when he heard the words.
"How's that okay?" Dong Zhuo frowned, sighed, and said, "Even Wen You has nothing to do, so do you have to break your arm?" ā
In fact, after Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, he made so many big moves, not all of them did bad things, but also did some good things, the most representative of which is the overturning of the case of the party.
In the past, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty was mediocre, listened to slander, and killed Chen Fan, Dou Wu and other party members, and even sent his relatives to remote places. Dong Zhuo listened to the suggestion, rehabilitated Zhaoxue for those dead party members, built an ancestral hall to ask questions, and also restored the official titles to the living party members, and even their children were entrusted with important tasks.
Of course, these party members were very grateful to Dong Zhuo, and said that they would build a shrine for Dong Zhuo and thank Dong Zhuo for his great kindness.
Also, Dong Zhuo also listened to the advice of Shangshu Zhou Se and Wu Qiong, the captain of the city gate, not only did not investigate the responsibility of the Yuan brothers who fled, but instead named him the Bohai Taishou, Yuan Shu as the rear general, and Cao Cao, who had just left Luoyang, was named the captain of Xiaocai.
In addition, Dong Zhuo also recruited a group of famous people as officials according to the nominations of Zhou Se and Wu Qiong.
Xun Shuang, Chen Ji, Han Rong, Shen Tupan and others were all recruited, especially Xun Shuang, Dong Zhuo sent an envoy to Xun Shuang's hometown to appoint him as the minister of the plains, Xun Shuang went to Wanling on the way to the post, and was appointed as Guangluxun. Xun Shuang arrived in office for three days and was promoted to Sikong. From the time he was drafted to the time he was promoted to the third duke, there were a total of ninety-three days.
Dong Zhuo also appointed Chen Ji as the general of the five senses, Han Rong as the great Honglu, Chen Ji as the son of Chen Yu, and Han Rong as the son of Han Shao, all of whom are famous families.
Dong Zhuo also appointed Han Fu as the pastor of Jizhou, Liu Dai as the assassin of Yanzhou, Kong Ling, a native of Chen, as the assassin of Yuzhou, Zhang Miao, a native of Dongping, as the Taishou of Chen Liu, and Zhang Zhi, a native of Yingchuan, as the Taishou of Nanyang.
Dong Zhuo's own cronies did not serve as high-ranking officials, but only held positions such as lieutenant generals and lieutenants in the army, so Dong Zhuo felt a little sorry for them, and he didn't restrain those murderous and oversold goods, and didn't let them be promoted, would he still block their road to wealth?
Unable to think of any good way, Li Ru was about to say goodbye, but just before he went out, a military academy hurriedly ran over, knelt at the door, and shouted: "Lord Qi, Yuan Shao... Yuan Shao and others gathered a crowd to rebel, and more than a dozen princes have responded, and the army is no less than hundreds of thousands. (To be continued.) )