Spring has gone to winter, experienced rebellions, and the five years of natural disasters in Zhongping are about to end its last month.

At the beginning of the month, Luoyang City ushered in its first heavy snow after the beginning of winter.

Liu Wei sat on the porch, with a brazier next to his lap and a bottle of warm red fire.

Red fire roast is the latest wine brewed by Shi Ziyi according to the method suggested by Liu Wei. It is made from a variety of crops such as wheat, chestnut, rice, and millet that are repeatedly distilled and fermented. Chihuo Shochu has a transparent color, mellow taste, and a higher degree than pear flavored liquor, which is close to the appearance of modern liquor.

In winter, if you want to be able to drink a sip, your heart is as warm as charcoal, which accelerates the circulation of blood and makes people feel that their blood is boiling, so Liu named it Chihuo.

In the early stage, only a dozen jars were successfully brewed, so they were naturally sent to Liu Bian for tasting. Liu Wei sent an altar to Xun Yu and Wei Yi each, except for one altar he opened today to taste, and the rest were ready to wait for Jiang Qi to celebrate after his victory!

Looking at the sky full of goose feathers and snow covering all the worlds as far as his eyes could see, Liu Wei was stupid. Although he was playing with the wine glass in his hand, he didn't mean to take a sip of red fire.

It has been nearly a month since Jiang Qi went out to fight the Montenegrin Army, and because of the inconvenience of transportation, there has been no news back, and Liu Wei is naturally worried about the battle ahead. But not long ago, a seal from Dazong Zheng Liu Yan made him have to pay attention to it.

Emperor Liu Yan said that the reason why the country was so turbulent was because the power of the assassin was too small to effectively manage the administration of a state, and suggested that the assassin should be changed to a state pastor, increase its rights, and send a virtuous minister or clan to serve as a minister.

The root cause of the chaos that led to the division of the heroes in the late Eastern Han Dynasty finally appeared.

At the beginning, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty divided the world into thirteen states, and sent a thorn with a rank of 600 stones to supervise the Taishou or the prime minister of the kingdom of the 2,000 stone county, just to play a role in containing each other. The county guard and Wang Guocheng have a higher rank than the assassin history, but the assassin history is in the nature of the imperial order, and both sides pinch each other's necks, and no one dares to make a mistake.

But now Emperor Ling wants to change the history of the assassin to the state pastor, and has become the superior of the county guard and the country. Without the role of containment, the state pastor who has obtained a state has the power to argue with the central government.

The matter is still in the court, and Liu Wei is worried about whether he should come forward to stop it.

This was an opportunity to change the fate of the Han Empire, which, if successful, might delay future divisions and buy the empire four or eight years to recover. But it was not an easy task for him to stop Liu Yan's seal.

It is true that he can use the knowledge and insights of his previous life to remind the current rulers, but he is just a child, and he has always been soft-spoken in the court, how many people can listen to what he says? And doing so will expose yourself too much, which is not in line with your plan to be a low-key person and pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger.

In addition, the most important point is that there is no shortage of far-sighted people in the court of this era, how can they not see the danger that this seal brings to the empire?

That's because for the Han Empire, which was plagued by civil strife at this time, Liu Yan's article containing evil intentions was not a good idea.

At this time, although the large-scale Yellow Turban Rebellion in the Han Empire had died down, the remnants continued to invade the government in various counties and counties. The surrounding nomadic peoples such as Qiang, Xiongnu, and Xianbei also took the opportunity to constantly harass the border.

Whether it is a nomad or a yellow turban, these people are very mobile, basically wherever they go, where they grab. The central army sent by the imperial court followed behind and was exhausted, and most of them had flattened the east today, and the west would make trouble again tomorrow. In the long run, military spending has been innumerable, and it is difficult for the country to support it.

And it will not work to rely on the local government to exterminate it on its own, the Taishou and Guocheng between the counties and countries are all at the same level, and they are not subordinate to each other, so it would be good to be able to defend their own one-third of an acre, not to mention coordinating operations together to suppress the rebellion in the state. And the right to assassinate the history is only a supervisory function, and it is impossible to mobilize Taishou and Guocheng, who are much larger than him. Some assassins even have enough ability to protect themselves, such as Yizhou Assassin Shi Xi Jian, Bingzhou Assassin Shi Zhang Yi, and Liangzhou Assassin Shi Geng Contempt were all killed in the rebellion. However, after increasing the power of the assassin and becoming a state vicar, he had the right to administer the counties in the state, and in the event of a rebellion, he could organize all the forces in the state to extinguish it. It is evident that since the change to the cantonal pastor, the peasant uprisings in the states have been completely eliminated in the past ten years.

It was precisely because of the foresight of such a function that this seal was successfully passed in the court. Soon Emperor Ling issued an edict, with the servant Huang Wan as the pastor of Yuzhou, and Liu Yu of the clan as the pastor of Youzhou, the initiator Liu Yan originally wanted to go to Jiaozhou, because the mountain was high and the emperor was far away, which was very in line with his idea of taking a place to settle down and settle down, and separating one side of the emperor. However, Dong Fu of the Wei family said to Liu Yan that there would be chaos in Beijing, and there would be a genius in Yizhou. Liu Yan was moved, so he sought the imperial court to be the pastor of Yizhou, and Dong Fu also went to Yizhou with Liu Yan.

The resolution of the imperial court has been made, and Liu Wei, who is willing to oppose it, weighs it again and again, and finally gives up.

There is still a chance to save the Han Empire, as long as you are prepared and wait for that moment to come as originally planned.

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The heavy snow in Luoyang has been going on for three consecutive days, and when it really stops, the snow on the road has been deep and has no calves.

As far as the eye can see, the city is covered in silver and snow.

In the Maolong Garden, Liu Wei wore a silver fox fur and walked towards the lake in the snow. Tang Ji, Ren Hongchang and Princess Wannian ran in front of Liu Yan, and the three girls chattered and laughed together, as if they were singing a play.

Liu Wei ignored the laughter of the three daughters and lowered his head to think about his own affairs. Another year passed in a blink of an eye, and Liu had to think about the gains and losses of this year's interests, Jiang Qi had been on the expedition for a long time, which also made him quite worried.

Liu Wei ignored Tang Ji and the others, but it didn't mean that the three girls would let him go. After walking to the lake, the third girl turned her head and saw that Liu Bian was still looking down and thinking, Tang Ji was a little annoyed, and a snowball hit Liu Bian's face.

Liu Wei was startled, and looked up to see Tang Ji pinching his waist by the lake and giggling. Princess Wannian is introverted and hides behind Tang Ji's back to cover her mouth and snicker. And Ren Hongchang has always had an attitude towards Liu Bian since the night of the New Year, and Tang Ji dragged her and Princess Wannian over this time when she came to play in Maolong Garden. At this time, seeing Liu Yan being beaten, he wanted to laugh but didn't want to show it, so he had to look away in shame.

"Your Highness has been busy this year and has not had a day off, and today I finally came out to play, why do you have to worry about things with frowns?" Tang Ji asked with a pretended annoyance.

Ever since Tang Ji was assisting Liu Wei in killing Chen Chao in the Haolong Garden, he had been depressed for a long time. I didn't untie the knot until recently. Liu Wei knew that she went into the palace to accompany her when she was very young, and there was no confidant sister here, so she asked Ren Hongchang to come over to accompany her, and the second daughter soon became a good sister who talked about everything.

Today, when the snow stopped, Liu Wei saw that the three girls were chattering together, and he didn't relax for a long time, so he proposed to take the three of them to the Dragon Garden for ice skating. It's just that Liu Bi, who is used to being busy this year, will inevitably get distracted and think about things on the road, and Tang Ji, who feels sorry for his body, is afraid that he will be tired, so he pretended to be annoyed and pulled him back to play.

Liu Wei saw the three women standing by the lake, with different postures and characteristics, lined with the silver and white of the snow, like a cluster of peonies dyed on rice paper. was fluctuating for a while, so he didn't think about anything else, pretended to be fine, walked towards them, and said as he walked: "I'm used to being busy, so I unconsciously think about things, which makes Sister Tang worry, I'm really damned!" ”

Tang Ji has been with Liu Wei for a long time and knows him very well. Seeing that he was pretending to be okay on the surface, but with an evil smile on the corner of his mouth, he knew that he was going to do evil, so he preemptively dug down his waist and threw a snowball at him.

Seeing that Tang Ji saw through his heart, Liu Wei hurriedly dodged the flying snowball, grabbed a ball of snow from the ground and skimmed it towards Tang Ji.

Tang Ji screamed and jumped away, Liu Wei moved quickly, and even Ren Hongchang and Wannian didn't let go, and raised two snowballs to skim at them. The second girl hurriedly dodged, screaming, and at the same time also grabbed the snow from the ground, and threw snowballs at him from different directions with Tang Ji, who jumped away.

With one enemy and three Liu Bian, he naturally had no chance of winning, and he was beaten all over the snow after a while, so he had to say to him: "Sisters, don't fight, I admit defeat, I admit defeat." Aren't you going to skate? ”

When the three girls saw Liu Bian begging for mercy, they stopped their hands together, and saw the embarrassed appearance of a cloud of snow marks on Liu Bian's beaten body, and the flowers and branches of each laugh trembled.

Hearing Liu Bian's proposal to skate, several people asked the accompanying Huangmen to bring Liu Bian's imitation of skates and ice cars from his previous life. Liu Wei was afraid that it would not be safe, so he asked the two yellow gates to test the hardness of the lake's freezing. After learning that it was safe, he put on skates, and Tang Ji also learned to skate with Liu Wei, so he also wore skates. Ren Hongchang and Wan Nian played for the first time, and they chose the ice car.

The second daughter sat on the ice car, holding the iron chisel in both hands, and skated the ice car to compare the speed. Regardless of Tang Ji's shyness and opposition, Liu Wei took Tang Ji's hand and played figure skating on the ice.

The four of them played for two or three hours, each sweating profusely and exhausted. Especially Ren Hongchang and Wan Nian, who were skating for the first time, screamed happily louder than when they collectively played Liu Bixue just now.

The four of them gathered together to rest, and the three girls revealed an attractive body fragrance, and Liu Wei felt relaxed and happy when he smelled his nose in it.

Carefully admiring the appearance of the three daughters, it is needless to say that Ren Hongchang is sinking into a fish and a goose. In the past two years, Tang Ji's appearance has also become more anxious. Although it can't be seen wearing a thick coat now, it is also common for Liu Wei to have a graceful figure after taking off the coat.

Ten thousand years are also slim, and the age is almost to the age of the year. Liu Wei also happened to hear Zhang Luowannian's marriage a while ago. It's just that the status of the mother and daughter of Wannian is low, and the Spirit Emperor himself doesn't care about his children, so no one officially mentions this matter.

However, Jin Zhiyuye will marry sooner or later when she reaches the age, Liu Wei has a very good relationship with Wannian, and has a very modern concept, so she naturally doesn't want her to marry blindly and dumbly. In his mind, he wants to match Wannian and Jiang Qi, there is no means to win people's hearts here, but he just thinks that Jiang Qi's sincere character and the equally restrained Wannian are a perfect match.

But Liu Wei will not be a mandarin duck without drinking water and pressing his head. He decided to wait for Jiang Qi to come back and let the two get in touch more before developing their relationship. Wannian is also relatively young at this time, and it is best to consider letting him marry when he is twenty years old.

At this time, Liu Wei was thinking wildly, and Wei Yi ran over panting from far and near. brought him three pieces of news: Bao Hong, the lieutenant of the lower military academy, returned victoriously from the Yellow Turban in Runan and entered the city in a few days; Jiang Qi, who has always worried Liu Wei, finally got the news - he went deep into the territory of Zhao County and attacked and killed the Black Mountain thieves Kou Zuo and Zhangba.

The last one is the one that caught Liu Bian's attention the most: the Son of Heaven Zhao Po captured the general, Hedong Taishou Dong Zhuo was the former general, and the left general Huangfu Song conquered the Liangzhou Thief Kingdom.

Dong Zhuo? It's Dong Zhuo! Liu Wei took a deep breath after hearing this.

Another major source of chaos caused by the collapse of the Han Empire finally entered Liu Bian's sight and stepped onto the stage of history.

In his previous life, Liu Bian once discussed a problem with others on the forum.

What would happen if there was no Dong Zhuo?

Some people believe that without Dong Zhuo's dictatorship and perverse behavior, there would be no Dong Coalition Army against the Eastern Princes; There will be no fire to burn Luoyang and move the capital to Chang'an. The imperial court will not lose its prestige and sit back and watch the local warlords grow bigger.

Dong Zhuo is really the culprit of the split and fall of the Han Empire.

Of course, there are also a considerable number of people who believe that the reason for the fall of the Han Empire was from the Huan Ling Rebellion, and the country suffered a series of natural disasters and political internal friction, and Dong Zhuo's Rebellion only played a role as a fuse, completely pushing the already precarious Han Empire into the abyss.

Liu Bian's view is biased towards the latter, but for him, those historical figures and events are just symbols. Through the concatenation and addition and subtraction of a number of columns, there is a historical result. Whether it was the Huan Ling Rebellion or Dong Zhuo's chaotic government, when combined, they became the reason for the fall of the Han Empire. But if you take out one of the symbols, maybe the result will be very different.

Unexpectedly, after Liu Bian's crossing, those originally abstract historical figures became real. In particular, Dong Zhuo's bloated and hideous face often appears in his nightmares.

For this person who will end his life, Liu Wei has always been angry. His wariness even surpassed that of Cao Cao and Liu Bei, who were historical bulls.

Over the years, Liu Wei has been paying attention to all the news about Dong Zhuo. From the beginning of his career in Longxi, to the suppression of the Yellow Turban Rebellion internally, and the suppression of the Qiang rebellion externally. From a good family, Yu Linlang has now become a former general and Hedong Taishou.

If you don't look at his behavior in the future, judging from Dong Zhuo's merits so far, he should be regarded as a brave general on the frontier. It's just that the expansion of power in the future has led to the expansion of personal ambitions.

After listening to the news brought by Wei Yi, Liu Wei ended his short busy life. Ignoring the angry complaints of Tang Ji and the others, he and Wei Yi returned to the secret room of the dormitory and had a secret talk.

After returning to the secret room, Liu Wei gave Wei Yi a task in response to Dong Zhuo's appearance.

"Go to Hedong to make friends with Dong Zhuo?" Wei Yi wondered why Liu Wei assigned this task to him. At this time, he was not only responsible for the work of the Shang Fang Agency, but also in charge of the operation of the paper mill and the Diaoyutai, as well as the establishment of an espionage organization. Recently, Liu Wei also asked him to study the production of printing, but he only gave him a general research direction, and he had to organize his own people to study the rest.

He was already busy hitting the back of his head with his foot and had no time to go to Hedong, so Liu Wei insisted that he go to make friends with Dong Zhuo in person. As early as when the spy organization was first established, the first thing Liu Wei did was to tell Wei Yi to pay more attention to this person, and to insert eyeliner to him when he had the opportunity. This made Wei Yi wonder who this Dong Zhuo was, so that Liu Zhuo would care so much.

Wei Yi expressed his doubts, but Liu Wei couldn't tell him that Dong Zhuo was the one who led the troops into the Beijing Division half a year later and abolished himself and killed him. I had to say vaguely: "I heard that Dong Zhuo has a backbone in the back of his head, and he behaves like a hawk-eyed wolf, and he is not a human minister, so I pay special attention to this person." ”

The ancients all believed in physiognomy and the art of prophecy, and Liu Wei said the two characteristics of the Three Kingdoms that he knew that had the most anti-vassal signs, and Wei Yi also believed it. Liu Wei also told Wei Yi about the description of the characteristics and personalities of Dong Zhuo and his subordinates in the historical materials of his previous life, and told him to be especially careful of Dong Zhuo's adviser named Li Ru. asked him to bring gold and silver, and bribe Dong Zhuo and his subordinates with gold and silver to close the relationship if necessary.

Wei Yi wrote down what Liu Wei said, and then went back to prepare for the trip. After taking a few steps, he suddenly turned around and returned to Liu Wei.

"The person His Highness asked me to check a few days ago, I have already found out, and this person has indeed been realized as a servant of the imperial history." Wei Yi said.

In his previous life, in order to write a time-traveling novel, Liu Wei had consulted a lot of historical materials, and once glimpsed that this person had served as a servant in Luoyang at this time. A few days ago, I called Wei Yi to check it, and it was the same as what I remembered.

Wei Yi said: "This person is upright and unblemished, and there are many quarrels between colleagues. I heard that he was preparing to return to his hometown at this time, and I wonder if His Highness wants to arrange for him to meet with His Highness. ”

Liu Wei thought for a while, thought of the relationship between him and Yuan Shao in the original history, and said cautiously: "You go to Hedong first, let this matter go first, arrange someone to monitor it, and report to me regularly." ”

Wei Yi bowed down and took the order to leave.

It just so happened that Tang Ji also came back from skating outside, and without Liu Wei to play with them, even if she was happy, she always felt that something was missing. glared at Wei Yi, who called Liu Wei away, and Wei Yi had no choice but to run away with a smile.

Seeing Tang Ji coming back angrily, Liu Jian hurriedly apologized and promised to play with her for a day in the future. Tang Ji was angry not that Liu Bi didn't accompany her well, but that Liu Bi didn't work hard and didn't take care of his body. had the intention of harshly admonishing him, but he couldn't stand Liu Weilai's character of being a face, and he really couldn't get angry.

Looking at the already thin Liu Bian's increasingly pale complexion, the distressed Tang Ji had no choice but to order him to stew more big supplements to support Liu Bian's body.

In the blink of an eye, a few days later, Wei Yi had prepared everything and started the task in the name of going to Hedong to purchase strange stones. At the same time, Jiang Qi's troops also entered the vicinity of Wen County, Hanoi, and were about to return to Luoyang in the near future.

At this time, Jiang Qi also got in touch with Wei Yi's intelligence officers near Wen County, and passed on the extermination of Zuo Ji and Zhangba to Liu Bian first, many days earlier than the imperial court knew.

Liu Wei couldn't help but be stunned when he mentioned a name in the story he wrote, and was surprised in his heart: "It turned out to be him!" ”

To be continued