Speaking of Liangzhou, we can't fail to mention Dong Zhuo, a chaotic minister and thief who caused chaos in the world at the end of the Han Dynasty. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Cao Cao is also known as a chaotic minister and thief, but, unlike Dong Zhuo, when Cao Cao was young, he was definitely a loyal minister, a great loyal minister, and later after holding the power, he slowly had a different heart, but he did not usurp power until his death, but left the opportunity to his son.

Dong Zhuo is an authentic Liangzhou person, to be precise, it is a native of Lintao in Longxi, Liangzhou is located in the northwest of the Great Khan, bordering the Qiang people, from 184 AD, the Liangzhou Rebellion began, but at that time, the energy of the Han Dynasty was on pacifying the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and did not care about the small place in Liangzhou, and then intensified.

It was the Qiang people who started the Liangzhou Rebellion, because the Qiang people had always been oppressed by the Han people and had to resist. Soon, the Xiaoyue clan and Han rebels sympathetic to the Qiang people joined them, intending to wrest control of Liangzhou from the imperial court. The Yellow Turban Rebellion was fierce and large-scale, but it was quickly put down as a rebellion, but the Liangzhou Rebellion occurred repeatedly, shaking the Han Dynasty's control of the northwest and further leading to the decline of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

In the winter of 184 A.D. (the seventh year of Guanghe), two groups of Qiang people from Beidi County, Anding County, Jincheng County, Longxi County, Caohan, Heguan and other places rebelled. Later, the Huangzhong Yicong Hu army, which was sent to quell the rebellion, mutinied in Lingju, killed the generals of the Han Dynasty, joined the rebels, and killed Leng Zheng, the captain of the Qiang Guard, and the situation escalated.

At the same time, the two Qiang people also joined forces, with the former Huang Zhongyi Conghu soldiers Beigong Boyu and Li Wenhou as generals.

In the spring of 185 AD, the rebel army had reached tens of thousands and marched into Chang'an, the former capital of the Han Dynasty. The imperial court appointed Huangfu Song, a famous general who conscripted the Yellow Turban, as the general of the left chariot cavalry to defend Chang'an, but Huangfu Song was slandered by the eunuchs after failing to succeed in the early days, and was dismissed from his post in July after four months in office.

The ongoing rebellion in Liangzhou devastated the treasury, forcing the imperial court to pay harsh taxes and recruit laborers to cope with the war. Situ Cui Lie suggested giving up Liangzhou, but Fu Xie, the speaker of the Lang, strongly opposed it, and said that Emperor Ling of Han was moved and did not take Cui Lie's suggestion. Then, Fu Xie was appointed as the Taishou of Hanyang and sent to the front.

In August, Sikong Zhang Wen was appointed as the general of the chariot cavalry to act as the emperor Fu Song, commanding 100,000 troops, and the new general Dong Zhuo and Zhou Shen, the general of Dangkou, all served under his account, of course, there is one person who cannot but mention, that is, Sun Jian, who was a general under Zhou Shen.

In the first battle, the two sides did not win or lose, and the advantage of the Han army was not obvious, but in November, a meteor fell into the rebel camp, Dong Zhuo took advantage of the rebels' heart to waver, launched a surprise attack, and defeated the rebels.

Immediately, Zhang Wen ordered Zhou Shen and Dong Zhuo to divide their troops into two ways to pursue the rebels, and they were all defeated, but Dong Zhuo was the whole army and returned, although the defeat was still glorious, and soon after, Dong Zhuo was named the Marquis of Taixiang and ate thousands of households.

Although the Battle of Meiyang prevented the rebels from advancing to the heart of the Han Dynasty, due to the failure of the Han army's attack, the rebels still maintained their strength in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, and the upper valley of the Wei River became an area for the Han army and the rebels to fight.

In the winter of about 186, the rebel Bian Zhang died of illness, and Beigong Boyu and Li Wenhou also died in internal strife. The new Liangzhou Assassin Geng Contempt thought that he could profit from it, and tried to re-establish the rule of the Han court in Liangzhou without the help of a large army from other regions, but Fu Xie tried to dissuade him, but Geng Contempt still acted on his own.

In 187 A.D., Geng Cong gathered the army of six counties to attack Longxi County, which was located in the western Xinjiang, and was occupied by Han Sui's rebels because Li Xiangru, the Taishou of Longxi County, defected.

Geng contempt appointed the corrupt official Cheng Qiu as the middle of the rule, which chilled the gentry and the people. In April, when the army marched to Zhidi Road in Longxi County, Geng's army mutinied, and both Cheng Qiu and Geng were killed.

Hanyang was too guardful of Fu Xie, kind to the people, and respected him from near and far, and the rebels held him in great esteem, trying several times to persuade him to flee or surrender. However, despite the increasing shortage of manpower and material resources, Fu Xie was still determined to defend the city to the death, and finally died in battle.

After Fu Xie's death, Han Sui, who had been looking forward to it, immediately raised troops, and Ma Teng later joined in, and the rebels jointly plundered the surrounding areas of Chang'an.

This was the first time that the rebels ruled the entire Liangzhou after the Liangzhou Rebellion, and the chariot general Zhang Wen was also dismissed due to the failure of the counterinsurgency.

Fu Xie's death and the loss of the entire territory of Liangzhou made Emperor Ling of Han completely give up the hope of recovering Liangzhou, and to a large extent, let the local government defend its own door.

However, Wang Guo and others did not have a long-term vision, and after occupying the entire territory of Liangzhou, they did not recuperate, develop their strength, truly cut off Liangzhou, and established themselves as kings. On the contrary, the kingdom actually ordered the army to continue to attack eastward, besieging Chencang, trying to occupy the land of Guanzhong, and then threaten Chang'an and Luoyang.

If Chang'an is lost, Luoyang is shaken, the 400-year-old foundation of the Han Dynasty may be destroyed in one fell swoop, how can Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty still sit still, regardless of the news that the war in Youzhou also started, let Huangfu Song and Dong Zhuo go to quell the chaos.

The Youzhou Rebellion was the rebellion between Zhang Chun and the Wuhuan chieftain Qiu Liju, and their army burned and looted everywhere in the four prefectures of Qing, Xu, You, and Hebei. Emperor Ling was unable to take care of it, so he issued an edict ordering the people of Youzhou to ride the Duwei Gongsun Zan to crusade.

Gongsun Chan fought with Zhang Chun and Qiu Liju's army in Shimen Mountain, a vassal state of Liaodong, Zhang Chun and others were defeated, abandoned his wife and children, and fled across the border fortress, and the men and women they plundered were all recaptured by Gongsun Zhan.

Gongsun Chan took advantage of the victory to pursue deeply, but there was no backup, but was surrounded by Qiu Liju and others in Guanzi City, Liaoxi County, after more than 20 days, Gongsun Chan ran out of food, the whole army was scattered, and the soldiers died five or six out of ten.

In this battle, Gongsun Zan and Zhang Chun were both defeated, and neither side had the strength to launch another large-scale war, and even if the Youzhou Rebellion was basically calmed down, both sides were recuperating.

Before, Dong Zhuo was almost defeated in every battle, and this time Emperor Han Ling used Dong Zhuo because he was from Liangzhou, familiar with the situation in Liangzhou, and had considerable influence among the Qiang people.

After this battle, Dong Zhuo was rewarded again, his power swelled, and Emperor Ling of Han also realized that he recruited Dong Zhuo as a young mansion that was not in power, but Dong Zhuo politely refused.

When Emperor Ling was seriously ill, he issued an edict to Dong Zhuo, worshipping him as the pastor of the state, and his troops were subordinate to Huangfu Song.

The ambitious Dong Zhuo was naturally dissatisfied with such an arrangement and appointment by the imperial court, so he replied to Emperor Ling: "The size of the soldiers has been similar for a long time, and they love the grace of the ministers and raise animals. Refusing to hand over the right to the army, he immediately led his troops into Hedong to watch the changes of the times.

After disobeying the decree and garrisoning Hedong, the entire Longxi became Dong Zhuo's sphere of influence, he not only controlled a powerful armed force, was a local warlord Haoqiang, but also an official of the imperial court and an important minister in the frontier. As a result, with his strong strength and extremely inflated ambitions, Dong Zhuo began to design a plan to win the central power.