Dong Zhuo is the former official of the Yuan family, but he can easily suppress the Yuan family, so who else dares to stop his power in Luoyang?

In this way, won't the dominance of the imperial court fall into the hands of Dong Zhuo, a barbarian from Xiliang?

Dealing with the Yuan family, everyone has experience and knows how to deal with it. The Yuan family also has the same roots and origins as everyone, they are all big families, have a common language, and will not make too much trouble. But for Dong Zhuo, the Xiliang barbarian, few people dared to confront him face to face.

You don't see, yesterday Yuan Shao gave Dong Zhuo a sentence, and Dong Zhuo was going to be killed on the spot. The reason why Yuan Shao took refuge in Beijing today is because Dong Zhuo may not know how to secretly threaten the Yuan family!

This person is the former official of Taifu, but he doesn't even sell the face of the benefactor Yuan Kui, and everyone scolds Dong Zhuo in their hearts for being disloyal and unjust, incorruptible and shameless, so they are naturally faintly afraid of him.

Therefore, on the next big day of the court meeting, when Dong Zhuo really put forward the proposal of abolishing the Son of Heaven, none of the hundreds of cultural relics of the Manchu Dynasty, except for Shangshu Ling Lu Zhi, dared to object to this face-to-face.

And Dong Zhuo immediately demonstrated his authority. Under the silence of Taifu Yuan Kui, Dong Zhuo issued an edict on behalf of the Son of Heaven to remove Lu Zhi from the post of Shangshuling. Regarding Dong Zhuo's behavior, although there were many dissatisfied ministers in the palace, none of them dared to come forward.

Since the ministers were "unanimous", the poor Son of Heaven Liu Wei, who had only been the nominal Son of Heaven for more than four months, had not really held the authority of the Han Empire, and was forced to abdicate in the chaotic palace coup.

As soon as the young emperor Liu Wei abdicated, the Empress Dowager He automatically lost her identity as the master of the harem. Dong Zhuo soon said that "the queen mother forced Yongle Palace, until she was sad to death, and rebelled against the gift of the woman and aunt." Under the pretext, the Empress Dowager He was moved to Yong'an Palace for resettlement.

Poor Empress Dowager He has been watched by Taifu Yuan Kui's cronies since she was "rescued" by Lu Zhi. It's like house arrest. Now that her son has been deposed, the life or death of Empress Dowager He has become less important. A few days after arriving at Yong'an Palace, Taifu Yuan Kui sent someone to send wine and poison it in the name of Dong Zhuo.

Sounds strange?

Not surprising at all. Because what Dong Zhuo did was completely at the behest of Taiwei Yuan Kui. It was in the banquet after Dong Zhuo led the army to Luoyang. In order to clean up the aftermath for Yuan Shao, Yuan Kui made a deal with Dong Zhuo that was absolutely unexpected to others.

In a face-to-face conversation, Yuan Kui said that he would secretly help Dong Zhuo enter the court as the third duke and jointly hold the authority of the court with Yuan Kui. However, the conditions are:

- Dong Zhuo must come forward and assume the responsibility of being the son of today!

A fact that is not known to everyone is that the general He Jin was killed by Chun Yuqiong. And everybody knows. Chun Yuqiong is a close friend of her nephew Yuan Shao. Although the eunuchs were killed in the following turmoil, there are still witnesses alive in the world.

If the Witness had been an ordinary minister, that would have been fine. With Yuan's control over the Han court, no one was able to turn over the old accounts of this matter in the matter that the court had already discussed. But the problem is tricky, this witness is none other than the queen mother of the Han Dynasty. The theoretical master of the harem - Queen Lingsi [Empress Dowager He].

He Jin is the elder brother of Empress He, and the interests of both parties are the same. The relationship is close. If Empress Dowager He opened her mouth to expose the truth of the matter, all the ministers of the court and the central government who were dissatisfied with the Yuan family might believe it. Once this kind of thing happens, for the Runan Yuan clan, it may be a catastrophe!

Moreover, when Empress Dowager He was Yuan Kui in the name of Lu Zhi. When she was "rescued" from the hands of the eunuchs, Liu Wei, the Son of Heaven, was with her. In other words, I am afraid that before the Empress Dowager He fell into the hands of Yuan Kui, she informed the Son of Heaven Liu Wei about Chun Yuqiong's assassination of the general.

Yuan Shao was a close ally with the general. His assassination of the Great General's arrangement. Others can completely describe it with words like "madness". If the news that Yuan Shao was behind the assassination of the general is revealed, not only will Yuan Shao face a huge wave of condemnation, but even the entire Runan Yuan clan will fall into a huge infamy between the government and the opposition.

Just ask, even close allies and nominal bosses can be killed without hesitation, what other family in the world dares to maintain a close alliance with the Yuan family?

In the Han Dynasty, fame is strength, fame is official position, and fame represents the glory and wealth of a family. Therefore, in order to save the reputation of the entire Yuan clan, Yuan Kui could do anything.

If it were to prove that Yuan Shao was an ordinary person, Yuan Kui would naturally not care. As the most powerful family in the Han Dynasty, Yuan Kui has a way to deal with the enemy. However, what remains that may point to Yuan Shao's evil deeds are the two people with the highest status in the Han Empire.

Faced with the status of the Son of Heaven and the Empress Dowager, although Yuan Kui had the ability to control the words and deeds of the Son of Heaven Liu Wei and the Empress Dowager He in a short period of time, he could not maintain this effective control for a long time.

And the Empress Dowager He and the Son of Heaven, who lost the support of the general, needless to say, must be full of hatred for the Yuan family because they lost their control of the authority of the Han Dynasty. Once they have the opportunity, the two will inevitably do everything they can to regain power. Even with the toes, you can imagine that when the Son of Heaven Liu Wei really took power, it was the day when the Yuan clan began to decline!

Therefore, Yuan Kui decisively decided to kill the Son of Heaven and the Queen Mother!

However, how heavy is the crime of killing the king?

Since ancient times, after more than 2,000 years of Shang and Zhou dynasties, how many people who killed kings were able to get a good death?

The Yuan family, who started with prestige, must not bear such a terrible charge!

However, after the battle of the eunuchs, due to the military power in the hands of the two brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, it was the Yuan family that occupied the highest authority in the Han Dynasty at this time. If at this time, the Son of Heaven Liu Wei and the Empress Dowager He died suddenly, the Yuan family would definitely not be able to get out of it.

If it is not done well, Yuan's political enemies will use statements such as "Zhao Dun killed the king" (1) as an example to accuse the Yuan family of killing the king. This is a huge blow to the lofty prestige that the Runan Yuan clan has accumulated over a hundred years.

Therefore, the Son of Heaven Liu Wei and the Empress Dowager He must die, but they must die at the hands of others, and they cannot have any direct relationship with the Yuan family on the surface.

Taifu Yuan Kui is worthy of being a hero among people, in order to get rid of the crime of murdering the Son of Heaven and the Queen Mother, he is willing to take the initiative to give up the supreme authority that has been in his hands. The only person who grasped the supreme authority of the Han Dynasty was not the Yuan family. The death of the Son of Heaven and the Queen Mother will not be counted on the head of the Yuan clan in Runan.

If it were someone else, it would be impossible to make such a decision. How wonderful is it to be in power? Everyone wants to be in power alone, and they have never heard of anyone. willing to give up the supreme authority of the world.

However, Taifu Yuan Kui has this courage.

Yuan Kui has studied the family heirloom "Meng Shi Yi" since he was a child, and at the same time has read a wide range of books, which can be described as profound knowledge. He has gone through the two dynasties of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, and has seen countless power struggles in the court, and knows the truth that "surplus is overflowing, and full of losses".

Grasping the supreme authority for a while is not a good thing for Yuan Kui, but it may cause the entire Yuan clan to be wiped out. For him. The sustainable development of the Yuan family in the next hundred years is the most important thing to care about.

In terms of today's Yuan clan's network network, as long as they can maintain a good reputation, the Yuan clan's position in the Han Dynasty will be difficult to shake. After all, this world is still the Liu family, and the manipulation of the Son of Heaven can only guarantee a while, not a lifetime. Eradicate the great prestige of the eunuchs and retreat from the supreme authority in the world. It is enough to avoid a joint strike from many sides.

You don't see it, Yuan Shi reached the top. Those big families who were originally on the same side as the Yuan clan, such as the Hongnong Yang clan and others, immediately formed an alliance and sided with the Yuan clan's opposition? This has nothing to do with kinship, distance, and proximity, but is just a normal reaction of the family to the operation of the imperial court.

According to the experience that the families have gained from the centuries-old history of the struggle of the Han court, a court with only one voice is an extremely dangerous court. The last time there was only one voice in the entire court. It was the time of "Wang Mang's usurpation of the Han". At that time, even a three-year-old child had heard about what happened later.

In order to have a disaster like "Wang Mang usurping the Han" again, for the stability of the whole family, and for the continuation of the Han Dynasty. The families have a clear plan in their hearts about what they should do.

However, as long as Yuan took a step back, the situation was very different.

Yuan himself is one of the leaders of the world's families. If the Yuan clan can take the initiative to give up the supreme authority at the moment of the strongest strength, it is enough to show that the Yuan clan has no intention of dominating the imperial court. A strong ally who knows self-restraint is undoubtedly the best ally in the imperial court. Yuan's prestige, after experiencing this incident, can naturally be further climbed.

In this way, the clans that had begun to estranged from the Yuan family would once again move closer to the Yuan family and unite around the Yuan family. And the new party in power, no matter who it is, must cooperate with the family bureaucracy represented by the Yuan family if it wants to ensure the smooth running of the government. In addition, the Yuan family showed that they did not have much ambition, and the best partner for the new ruler would never be another family, but only the Yuan family.

As a result, the Yuan family is still the number one family in the current dynasty and can still maintain enough influence on the government. Moreover, the most important thing is that this situation is enough for the Yuan family to continue to pass on smoothly for a hundred years.

Therefore, giving up the supreme authority of the imperial court seems extremely ridiculous in the eyes of outsiders, but in the heart of Taifu Yuan Kui, it is a matter of course. As long as the Yuan clan did not have the level to successfully usurp the throne of the Liu clan for a day, the Yuan clan did not intend to stay at the top of the authority for a day.

It's just that it is also a big trouble to smoothly hand over the supreme authority of the Han Dynasty. Not everyone is entitled to this kind of authority. Moreover, along with the transfer of authority, the Yuan clan must also be able to derive tangible benefits from this concession, such as:

- Kill the Son of Heaven and the Queen Mother, and kill a mouth...... (To be continued......)

PS: PS: (1) Zhao Dun killed the monarch, referring to Zhao Dun, a famous minister in the Spring and Autumn Period, who had to flee abroad because he was threatened with assassination by the monarch Jin Linggong. But before he escaped from the country, Zhao Chuan, a member of the Zhao clan, killed Jin Linggong and welcomed Zhao Dun back to China. As a result of these changes, Dong Hu, the Taishi of the Jin Kingdom, recorded: "Zhao Dun killed the king. Although Zhao Dun defended, he couldn't explain it clearly, so he had to acquiesce to this statement of the government and the opposition. This incident is also known as "Dong Fox Straight Pen".

PS again: The handicap party is really not suitable for playing this kind of work. Fortunately, it should be done tonight. Ladies and gentlemen, you should be able to see it tomorrow morning.