After successfully solving the problem of Taishou Qiaomao in Dongjun, Liu Dai's prestige in Yanzhou increased greatly for a while. Although many county officials in Yanzhou were extremely dissatisfied with Liu Dai's indiscriminate killing of his colleagues, they did not dare to express any objection to it.

Of course, Liu Dai would not admit that he killed Qiao Mao. This reputation is not good for anyone. Anyway, the other party had no direct evidence, so he naturally put all the blame on the Liangzhou army of Xu Rongbu, who was stationed two or three hundred miles to the west.

However, how can such a lame excuse be concealed from the state and county officials of the world?

Although everyone didn't dare to say it on the surface, they had long regarded Liu Dai as the murderer of their colleagues in private. If there is a chance, most of the officials in Yanzhou don't mind partnering with this guy.

On the contrary, Cao Cao, the real perpetrator of the beheading, but due to the rapid and perfect raid operation, coupled with the deliberate concealment of the identity of Cao Cao's subordinates, the number of people was also small, and his identity was not revealed for a long time. Cao Cao also knew that his practice was very taboo, and after finishing the incident, he took the trouble to remind his subordinates many times that they must not disclose the evil deeds they had done.

And Liu Dai, who carried the black cauldron, out of consideration for his brother-in-law Yuan Shao's reputation and a little vanity of his own family, naturally did not deliberately reveal Cao Cao's identity. In this way, Cao Cao swaggered across the Yellow River and returned to Hanoi amid the discussion of this matter everywhere, and handed over an errand in front of Yuan Shao.

Cao Cao completed the task assigned by Yuan Shao, and naturally received Yuan Shao's key training. And after Qiao Mao was killed, Yuan Shao naturally refused to hand over the vacated county guard position to others. However, when Yuan Shao wrote a letter to Liu Dai, wanting Cao Cao's little brother to serve as the Taishou of Dongjun, Liu Dai's letter had already arrived.

In the letter, Liu Dai said several things in a mixed manner. For example, "Xiansi [Yuan Tan] has been quite able to receive scholars recently, and has the original legacy", such as "Ah Bao [Yuan Shang's nickname] Although he is young, he has finished learning "Urgent Chapter" and so on. And at the end of the letter, Liu Dai told Yuan Shao lightly that Dongjun had an important status. He has asked the celebrity Wang Qiu to temporarily lead the East County Taishou to replace Qiao Mao, who was unfortunately killed by the "West Thief" [Dong Zhuojun].

The reason why Liu Dai vigorously supported Yuan Shao's actions was not only because everyone was relatives and needed to help each other, but also because Liu Dai's foundation in Yanzhou was unstable and he urgently needed to pull the banner of the Yuan family to strengthen himself.

Although he was born in the Han family, Liu Dai belonged to a branch that diluted the identity of the clan very early. transformed into a famous family of high-ranking officials and eunuchs in the Han Dynasty. The former lieutenant Liu Chong is Liu Dai's uncle; 's father, Liu Yu, is also a famous minister of the Han Dynasty, and the counties he has governed have all praised his merits; Brother Liu Xuan, who also served as a county guard, is now raising hope at home. Operate the affairs of the magistrates of any county or state.

Regarding Yuan Shao's behavior, Liu Dai can be described as half happy and half worried. Yuan Shao's actions against the imperial court. It is not in line with the fundamental interests of the Han family. But as a state and county official, Liu Dai welcomed this state, which could justifiably be independent of the jurisdiction of the imperial court. The relationship between him and Yuan Shao is almost a relative and a close political ally.

However, support is support, and Liu Dai is a clan relative of the Han Dynasty. Out of consideration for the interests of the family, it is absolutely impossible to take refuge in Yuan Shao's subordinates and truly obey his orders. Therefore, if there is anything that both parties can start with, Liu Dai will not be because of kinship. Just show mercy to this subordinate. Authority is a thing that is more reliable to grasp in one's own hands.

Liu Dai's measures undoubtedly blocked Yuan Shao's means of interfering in Yanzhou in advance. Thinking about Liu Dai's passing through Qiaomao, it is not surprising that he will grasp the power in his hand more tightly. Yuan Shao had no other opinion except for sighing about this. His current mind is still paying attention to the anti-Dong war. However, after Cao Cao learned about this, he was quite melancholy.

It is you who contribute, but others who benefit. In Cao Cao's heart, this kind of taste under the fence is very sad!

Compared with Yuan Shao's calmness, Yuan Shu, who is also a brother of the Yuan family, was furious about the killing of Qiao Mao from Yanzhou.

Yanzhou can be regarded as Yuan Shao's sphere of influence due to the existence of Liu Dai. Jizhou Mu Hanfu, who is also a former official of the Yuan family, can be regarded as a supporter of Yuan Shao. There is also Yangzhou Assassin Chen Wen, although he did not explicitly support Yuan Shao, he is also biased in his attitude.

And he Yuan Shu, the dignified son of the Yuan family in Runan, still relied on Sun Jian, a turtle from the south of the Yangtze River, to force and kill Nanyang Taishou Zhang Zhi, and only then did he temporarily occupy Nanyang, a large county, by virtue of his own general's brand. is also the Yuan family, but there is a huge difference in the influence of the power of the two sides. You must know that he is a genuine Yuan sister-in-law, unlike Yuan Shao's son-in-law!

Compared with the two, Yuan Shu naturally felt very dissatisfied. He secretly contacted Qiao Mao, also in order to gain his own influence in Yanzhou, a key state, so as to win back a game from Yuan Shao's hands. Even if he can't surpass Yuan Shao for the time being, Yuan Shu thinks that he must at least be on par with him in order to be passable, right?

However, Yuan Shu never imagined that he finally passed the nail of Qiao Mao and gained a little upper hand in Yanzhou, but Yuan Shao actually did not play his cards according to the rules and blatantly killed Qiao Mao by force. This made Yuan Shu's hard work in the past few months all go down the drain!

However, no matter how angry Yuan Shu was, he didn't even have a reason to accuse Yuan Shao. Moreover, at the critical moment of the crusade against Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shu cannot affect the overall situation of the entire crusade against Dong because of the discord between him and Yuan Shao.

That's the big picture. As the son of an official eunuch, Yuan Shu is a gentleman, and he also understands that he must obey the overall situation.

Although the contradictions between the two Yuan have not yet surfaced publicly, Dong Zhuo, as a powerful minister of the current imperial court, naturally does not know the dirtiness between the brothers. Even if Dong Zhuo didn't know it, he still had a good son-in-law, Li Ru, who could remind him at all times.

The contest between Er Yuan in Yanzhou finally used force, which was really good news for Dong Zhuo, who was forced by the Kwantung princes to move the capital to Chang'an.

The Kanto region is vast, has a large population, and has a developed economy, and when it comes to the mobilization power of the war, it is at least three or four times more advantageous than Dong Zhuo, not to say that it is ten times that of Dong Zhuo. Dong Zhuo had always been jealous of the alliance of the Kwantung princes before, and it was because of this. However, if the Kwantung princes fought with each other, Dong Zhuo would not pay too much attention to a Kwantung who could not work together.

Think back then, didn't the Qin State, which also occupied the Guanzhong area, use the land of Guanzhong to break through the six countries of the Kanto region one after another, and finally dominate the world?

It's just that sending troops to fight costs money. Dong Zhuo's headache every day now is not a lack of troops, but a lack of money.

In June, due to the low amount of taxes, it was difficult for the imperial court to maintain the daily expenses of the imperial court and the army. As a last resort, Situ and Shangshu Ling Wang Yun, who presided over the daily affairs of the court, proposed a profit method of discarding the five-baht coin and recasting it with a small coin.

How could Dong Zhuo and Li Ru not know the results that this would lead to?

It's just that I was forced by the form and had to do it.

In this matter, not only within the imperial court and in the subordinate localities, Dong Zhuo was discussed and blamed. Even the only current ally of the imperial court, the annexed states, was strongly opposed. However, even so, Dong Zhuo still withstood these pressures and forcibly implemented a new money law.

Otherwise, there would be no money and food sufficient to maintain the operation of the imperial court. Otherwise, Dong Zhuo didn't have to wait for the Kwantung rebels to come over, he was crushed by the heavy financial pressure first.

Using the sword in the hands of the Liangzhou army as a bargaining chip, Dong Zhuo successfully used the means of minting small money to accumulate an income sufficient for the imperial court to live for two or three years. However, the price of this is that the people in the Sili area have abandoned the form of currency transaction and directly adopted the method of bartering as a means of mutual exchange. And after the imperial court minted a small amount of money, there was no chance for this method to be used again.

"Between the rebellion of the Kanto region, there are already signs of fire. Can you make the fire between the Kanto rebellion more intense? ”

Although Dong Zhuo has a lot of pressure on his shoulders, he turned the pressure into appetite, and in just half a year, his waistline has grown again. Looking at the huge figure of the old father-in-law, Li Ru sometimes couldn't help but think maliciously, it was a miracle that his father-in-law's delicate concubines had not heard of any of them being flattened by his father-in-law.

"Lord Hui, Confucianism thinks that Liu Biao, the lieutenant of the Northern Army, can be appointed as the assassin of Jingzhou."

"Liu Biao? Is it Liu Biao and Liu Jingsheng, one of the 'eight visits of the party'? ”

Dong Zhuo asked with some confusion:

"Yes, this is the man."

"It's party again! Wen You, look at it, most of the guys in Shandong now, the ones who are the happiest are party members! Since this Liu Biao is a member of the party, how can he be allowed to hold such an important position? ”

If he hadn't known that Li Ru would never betray him, Dong Zhuo would have thought that he was another scholar with different intentions. Since entering the ruling dynasty, Dong Zhuo has seen too many dissidents. At first, he was deceived by the scholars a few times. But later, except for Wang Yun, Li Ru and a few other people, Dong Zhuo no longer believed in other court officials and scholars.

"It is precisely because Liu Biao is a member of the party that he can be released to be the history of Jingzhou!"

"Ah, what's the explanation?"

"Today's Kanto is full of party members and Yuan's henchmen. But all the officials who were loyal to the court were mostly murdered by rebellion. Therefore, if the post of Jingzhou Assassin is not a member of the party or a member of the Yuan family, it is absolutely impossible for him to take office. ”

"The lesser of two evils. With the strength of the Yuan family, the imperial court naturally can no longer put wings for the tiger. Except for Yuan's henchmen, the only remaining choice for the imperial court is the party members. (To be continued......)