For a long time after the coalition captured Chang'an, the relationship between the generals of the Xiliang Army was between allies and teammates, saying that they were allies, and they thought that they were all their own people, saying that they were teammates, and they were essentially allies.

Li Dao, Guo Yan, Fan Chou, Zhang Ji and others all think that they belong to the Xiliang Army, but they also think that their strength and status are not comparable to others, everyone thinks that everyone used to be captains, and they avenged Dong Taishi together, and the credit is about the same, so why should I listen to you, my brother has soldiers, food and territory, and is afraid of you!

The result is that after the death of Dong Zhuo and Niu Fu, although the Xiliang army is still a whole in name, it has actually been divided, among which Li Dao, Guo Yan, and Fan Chou are the strongest, so they joined forces to control Chang'an and the imperial court, and Zhang Ji, Duan Xuan and others also led their own armies and controlled one side.

But as the saying goes, one mountain can't accommodate two tigers. In the past, Li Dao was the only general in the Xiliang Army to open a mansion, and his strongest strength could overpower Guo Yan and Fan Chou, plus Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty and the three dukes in the court still had a certain influence (because the original status of Li Guo and others was too low and there was no one available, the court was able to retain some of its strength, but as time went on, the influence of the court became weaker and weaker), so the contradictions could be reconciled at the beginning. But after Guo Yan and Fan Chou also opened the mansion, the gap between the three was not so big, and at that time, the imperial court was no longer able to influence the bigwigs in Xiliang, and with a series of conflicts between the three in the military, politics, and economy, the contradiction was about to erupt.

Li Wei first began to be dissatisfied with Fan Chou, unlike his good buddy Guo Yan, who had been fighting with him for a long time, Fan Chou joined the Xiliang Coalition Army in the middle of the march to Chang'an, but he couldn't stand Fan Chou's strong strength, and finally Zhang Ji was squeezed out of Chang'an, and he stayed, although his status was not as good as Li Guo and the two, but the overall strength was really not much worse.

Li Wei's dissatisfaction with Fan Chou rose further after the war against Ma Teng and Han Sui. When Fan Chou was attacking Ma Teng and Han Sui, Li Wei's nephew Li Li was not effective in fighting, so Fan Chou rebuked him and said: "People are coming to cut off your uncle's head, and you dare to be so lax, can't I behead you!" When Ma Teng and Han Sui retreated to Liangzhou, Fan Chou led the army in pursuit. Han Sui sent someone to Fan Chou and said: "Things in the world are unpredictable, you and I are fellow villagers, although there is some small friction today, I am afraid that we will come together, I want to talk to you." Then they put their arms together and laughed for a long time.

After the class teacher returned to the court, Li Li told Li Dao: "Fan Chou and Han Sui are side by side, and they don't know what to say and laugh, and the relationship looks very close." Although Li Wei later agreed to open a mansion for Fan Chou, it was impossible to say that he did not have a mustard in his heart.

After Guo Yan and Fan Chou opened the government, they could also participate in the selection and recommendation of officials. Li, Guo, and Fan all wanted the imperial court to appoint the people they had promoted, and once they didn't do what they wanted, they threatened them greatly, and the officials in charge had no choice but to appoint officials in the order of Li, Guo, and Fan, and the people nominated by the three dukes didn't even have a chance at all.

The reckless behavior of Li Guo and others in Chang'an City and even in the entire Guanzhong region destroyed the basic order in this area, causing chaos in the entire Chang'an, rampant thieves, and even daytime robberies to occur frequently. In the end, they had no choice, so they simply divided Chang'an into three, and the three of them guarded their own places, but even this still did not prevent the situation from continuing to deteriorate, and their relatives, friends, and cronies continued to go their own way, run amok and violate the people.

In the end, prices in Chang'an City or the entire Guanzhong area soared, and the price of grain and rice reached 500,000 yuan, and the beans and wheat reached 200,000 yuan. The dignified capital of the empire, where the Son of Heaven is, but the result is that people feed on people, and white bones are everywhere, and Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty can't stand it anymore, so he opens Taicang to relieve the people.

However, because the army was not rich in food, although Jia Xu tried every means to dissuade them, they still decided to embezzle the money that Emperor Xian used for disaster relief, but even so, their military food was still not enough, so they simply indulged the army to rob the people, and the result was that the fire was artificially poured fuel on the fire, causing a more serious famine, and the people in the Guanzhong area had to flee their homes one after another.

At this time, Fan Chou couldn't stand it anymore, and he was fed up with being a junior. In the second year of Xingping (195), Fan Chou decided to leave Chang'an, and Li Meng and others also supported it, and they prepared to lead their troops east to Hanguguan. But before leaving, Fan Chou thought that he had ceded his territory in Chang'an to Li Dao, so he asked Li Dao to give him more troops as compensation. But Li Wei didn't want Fan Chou's territory, nor did he want to give him an army, not only that, but he also wanted Fan Chou's troops and even Fan Chou's life.

Fan Chou fought bravely and was supported by his subordinates, and the risk of a head-on duel was too high, so Li Wei set up a banquet to invite Fan Chou and Li Meng to come over to the meeting to discuss these things they were going to leave. At the meeting, Li Wei took advantage of Fan Chou's drunkenness and ordered his nephew to kill Hu Feng with a staff (it is also recorded that Hu Feng stabbed Fan Chou to death), and Li Meng was also killed. Subsequently, Li Dao annexed Fan Chou and Li Meng's subordinates.

This time Li Dao is too inauthentic, everyone is a colleague of the Xiliang Army, they have carried guns, smoked (this is not), drank wine, and fought good brothers. Even if you were the leader when you avenged Taishi Dong, and you had the greatest credit, Fan Chou and Li Meng's credit was not small! Fan Chou and Li Meng just want to leave Chang'an and ask you for the army, but they are not ready to ask for your life, if you don't want to give them troops, you won't give it! How can you do it? This time, Li Dao actually stabbed the hornet's nest, and with the precedent of Li Dao and Fan Chou, the generals of the Xiliang Army began to fear each other.

Before Li Dao did not kill Fan Chou, although he encountered many difficulties, the Xiliang Army at least maintained a whole, although the generals had a great deal of autonomy, they still recognized Li Dao's position as the leader, and on the premise of not harming their own interests, Li Dao could still mobilize them, even Guo Yan and Fan Chou were no exception. But after Li Wei killed Fan Chou, he actually opened a Pandora's box and destroyed the trust that the Xiliang Army used to maintain alone, and after that, the Xiliang Army could no longer exist as a whole. Li Dao lost his authority as a leader, the other generals of the Xiliang army no longer listened to him, and the generals of the Xiliang army began to distrust each other, and finally they killed each other, pushing the Xiliang army led by Dong Zhuo to the road of destruction.