In Qiao Mao's eyes, the world of the Han Dynasty can only be effectively governed in the hands of generations of ministers and children of big families like herself. With the methods of a lowly warrior like Dong Zhuo, he will only lead the Han into the abyss of decay step by step.

It is precisely because of such prejudice in his heart that Qiao Mao will hit it off with Cao Cao after meeting with Cao Cao. Even the matter of jointly forging the letters of the three princes to deceive other Yanzhou officials, Qiao Mao did it without any burden in his heart.

As for him doing so, will there be any adverse consequences?

In the derivation of Qiao Mao and Cao Cao, as long as there are many former officials of the Yuan clan among the princes who raised the army, people in the world will think that the Yuan clan led the army this time. When the time comes, can the Yuan clan, who are difficult to ride a tiger, still order the state and county officials who have already raised troops to fight against Dong Zhuo to immediately lay down their arms and surrender?

Even if the Yuan clan issued such an order, would those princes who raised troops dare to obey it?

For the Yuan clan, who was difficult to ride a tiger, their only choice was to turn the fake into reality and fully mobilize the latent forces of the Yuan clan to drive Dong Zhuo out of the imperial court!

Cao Cao's plan can not be described as ruthless. Even his allies for many years, he said that design is design, and he is unceremonious.

In fact, for Cao Cao, a seriously weakened Yuan clan is more in line with the interests of the Cao clan in Qian County than the Yuan clan who is currently close to covering the sky with one hand. The Yuan clan's power is too strong, so what do you need other allies for?

Of course, in order to prevent some of the former officials of the Yuan family from turning their faces to settle accounts with themselves after knowing the truth, Cao Cao did not take out the forged Sangong letter himself. Instead, let Qiao Mao do it. With Qiao Mao, who is willing to carry the black cauldron, no one will pursue Cao Cao's behavior.

In this way, in order to avoid being arrested by Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao, whose family was ruined, held back a yin energy and dug a big hole for Dong Zhuo. Without the Yuan clan knowing, Cao Cao vividly pulled the Yuan faction to Dong Zhuo's hostile side, making the two major forces suddenly turn into hostile under unexpected circumstances.

If there was no Cao Cao, maybe Dong Zhuo and Yuan would still end up tearing their faces. Fight to the death. But. That should be at least half a year, or even later. And it is more likely that the scheming Yuan Kui will directly paralyze Dong Zhuo's side as soon as he makes a move, where will there be any situation where the two sides are unable to hold each other?

From this point of view. Cao Cao's secret scheme. In fact, it played the role of a fuse. Detonated in advance, it may have been able to ease up, the collision between the two major forces of the Yuan clan and the martial artists of Bingzhou.

After a long lap of tandem activity. Cao Cao felt that the situation of the world rising up against Dong had been formed, and without waiting to return to his hometown of Qian County, he directly raised the banner of "Qing Jun's side, begging Dong thief" in the place of Chen Liujiwu, that is, Dian Wei's hometown.

Why didn't Cao Cao raise troops in his hometown of Qian County, but instead ran to Chen Liu's self-government to raise troops?

One reason is that the Cao family's family property in Qian County is not in the hands of Cao Cao himself, but in the hands of Cao Cao's father Cao Song.

Due to the lack of prior communication, Cao Song was very dissatisfied with Cao Cao's idea of raising troops, and was unwilling to vigorously support his activity. Cao Song is old, and he is not deeply disgusted by Cao Cao's fierce and blatant rebellion against the imperial court, at least he is very uncomfortable in his heart. It is not easy for the Cao family to accumulate some money, so it is used for political speculation, and Cao Song is of course reluctant.

As for the other reason, Cao Cao met an anti-Dong "comrade" in Chenliu, and this anti-Dong "comrade" was wealthy and firm, and he was willing to vigorously support Cao Cao's recruitment activities.

Wei Zi, whose name is Xu, was a native of Chen Liuxiangyi (now Sui County, Henan). Zeng raised filial piety, for the general He Miao, and Situ Yang Biao added his life, but he didn't give up. Living in seclusion in the township, fighting righteousness and squandering wealth, he is known for his virtue in the county. The people of the county all secretly agreed to it with "eight kitchens".

As a conscientious man, although Weiz did not become a leader, he still paid great attention to national affairs. After Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, this filial piety Weizi was very dissatisfied with this hillbilly from Liangzhou. When he heard the news that Cao Cao intended to raise troops to fight against Dong Zhuo, he immediately took the initiative to go to Chenliu County and met with Cao Cao, an anti-Dong righteous soldier.

The two talked happily in the post house, talking about the difficulties of the Han Dynasty, and actually hugged each other and cried. When Cao Cao revealed the difficulties of organizing the anti-Dong army, Weizi impassionedly expressed his willingness to donate all his family wealth to go to the national disaster together. In this way, Weizi formed an alliance with Cao Cao and decided to form a coalition army, first raising the banner of anti-Dong.

So, in December of the sixth year of Zhongping [189], Cao Cao, with the full support of Wei Zi, finally pulled up a team of 5,000 people and officially declared war on Dong Zhuo.

This also made Cao Cao the forerunner of the entire anti-Dong group, and reversed the world's perception of Cao Cao a lot. From then on, when scholars mentioned Cao Cao, they no longer talked about his eunuch background, but praised Cao Cao for daring to be the first in the world and having the courage to do things for the Han Dynasty.

Of course, of these 5,000 people, 3,000 were brought out by the local snake Weiz. The soldiers who really belonged to Cao Cao's lineage were actually only more than 1,000 people who followed Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan and other relatives and brought them from Qian County.

Cao Cao's troops were like igniting a huge powder keg and firing a signal flare. In just one month, those Yanzhou officials who had agreed with Cao Cao in advance also rose up one after another.

The attitude of these pioneers soon infected some other state and county officials who were dissatisfied with Dong Zhuo's administration. As a result, almost all the prefectures and counties in the world showed their alienation from the imperial court under Dong Zhuo's control.

Let's count the princes who raised their armies.

Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, Kong Ling, the assassin of Yuzhou, Zhang Miao of Chen Liutai, Zhang Chao of Guangling, Wang Kuang of Hanoi, Qiao Qian of Dongjun, Yuan Yi of Shanyang, and Bao Xin, the prime minister of Jibei, were active participants in the first wave of troops. For a time, the entire area of Yuzhou and Yanzhou in the eastern part of the country instantly became the base camp of those who opposed Dong Zhuo's government.

Cao Cao saw that his prior plan had been fully realized, and he was also extremely excited about the development of the whole situation. Although he no longer has an official position at this moment, he is still the first to advocate the army, and he is equal to those state and county officials at the level of 2,000 stones, and communicates with each other about the specific affairs of the Dong.

However, the emergence and development of this sudden situation frightened another group of people.

Among this group of people, there is no Dong Zhuo. Because after Dong Zhuo heard the news of the rebellion of the Kwantung princes, his first reaction was not fear, but anger. As a veteran who came out of the sea of corpses and blood, Dong Zhuo would not be afraid to use force against his opponents. When it comes to fighting, this is exactly what he is good at.

What was really frightened by the state and county officials who raised troops to ask for "Qing Jun's side and begging Dong thief" was precisely the backers of these state and county officials, the Runan Yuan family, who could be called the first family of the Han Dynasty!

The head of the Yuan clan in Runan, Taifu Yuan Kui, was extremely shocked after receiving the news that the former officials of the Yuan clan in Yanzhou and Yuzhou had participated in the rebellion against the imperial court camp. After repeatedly confirming the authenticity of the above news, Yuan Kui's first reaction was:

- I don't know which enemy it is, and he actually framed my Yuan clan like this!

Immediately afterwards, Yuan Kui's second reaction was to inform the Yuan clan people in Luoyang, the capital division, to flee quickly!

However, Yuan Kui's notice had not yet been sent, and a group of Xiliang troops had already surrounded the Taifu Mansion. Immediately afterwards, dozens of Liangzhou Qiang and Han warriors, all dressed in armor, surrounded by a high-spirited man with a length of nine feet, rushed into the Taifu Mansion and controlled all the people in the Taifu Mansion, regardless of men, women, old and young.

has such treatment, not only the Taifu Mansion, but also the mansion of the servant Yuan Ji. As a descendant of the Yuan family, Yuan Ji's family was also quickly controlled by a group of vicious Xiliang soldiers. The rest of the members of the Yuan clan in Beijing are also the key targets of these Liangzhou soldiers.

After all, Dong Zhuo is a veteran of a hundred battles, and once the identity of the enemy is determined, he has no sense of hesitation in acting. As early as the first time, he sent the general Hua Xiong to control all the members of the Yuan clan in the capital, so as not to cause anything to happen to them secretly.

Dong Zhuo's son-in-law Li Ru has already analyzed for Dong Zhuo that the rebellion of these Kwantung princes is unlikely to be caused by the Runan Yuan clan himself. However, Li Ru also suggested to Dong Zhuo that since things had developed to the point of open rebellion, the Yuan family had inevitably become the enemy of the Han Dynasty. In this case, if Dong Zhuo lets go of Taifu Yuan Kui, it will only make the rebellious momentum of the Kanto region more and more huge.

Anyway, the Yuan clan was already an enemy, and Li Ru thought that it would be better to take the opportunity to eradicate the Yuan clan's roots in the imperial court and promote a few reliable allies into the imperial court. In this way, Dong Zhuo can strengthen the actual control of the imperial court, unlike now, many key positions have been vacated by Yuan's former officials.

Of course, control is control, with the current foundation and momentum of the Yuan family in the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo would not dare to slaughter all the more than 60 people of the Yuan family like beating the wife of Huangfu Gui to death. If he did, he would have been completely apolitically minded.

Moreover, Yuan Kui's identity is still Dong Zhuo's benefactor. According to the customs and concepts of the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo, the former official, put the benefactor under house arrest, which is already a very immoral thing. If Dong Zhuo dared to kill his benefactor Yuan Kui, such an act would be enough to make Dong Zhuo become a "disloyal, unfilial, unkind, and unjust" well-dressed beast in the mouth of the world!

When the descendants of the Yuan family in the imperial court were severely attacked by Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao, an outstanding son of the Yuan family who was far away from the county, also got the news that the Kwantung princes had raised troops against Dong.

Similar to Yuan Kui, Yuan Shao, who was the Taishou of Bohai at the time, after hearing the news that the officials of Yanzhou and Yuzhou joined forces to raise the matter, his first reaction was panic, and his second reaction was anger, huge anger! (To be continued......)