Chapter 7: Success and Failure (3)

I know that there are many Three Kingdoms fans who pay more attention to details, and the charm of history often lies in the details, so I also pay more attention to these details. Of course, sometimes what we speculate about may be just speculation, not fact. However, without speculation about history, we will not know what people at that time wanted to tell future generations. Speaking of which, it has been more than ten years since I came into contact with Romance when I was six or seven years old, but it was only four years ago that I really started to focus on history books, so my qualifications are still relatively shallow. There's a lot of gossip, so let's get down to business.

In April of this year, Dong Zhuo arrived in Chang'an, and all the ministers knelt down in front of his car. At this time, a wonderful thing happened. Dong Zhuo asked Emperor Fu Song in the imperial history: "Emperor Fu Yizhen, aren't you scared when you see me coming back?" ”

Dong Zhuo asked this, in fact, there is a reason. Earlier, when the two of them rebelled together in Xiliang, they formed a bond because of disagreement. At this time, Dong Zhuo suddenly asked like this, and he didn't know if he deliberately wanted to show off in front of Huangfu Song, so that the other party thought that he was inferior to himself.

How could Huangfu Song not understand what he meant, so he said: "If the Ming Duke assists the court with benevolence and virtue, it is too late for me to be happy, so what is there to be afraid of?" If you kill at will and punish indiscriminately, then all the people in the world will be afraid, and I am not alone? Dong Zhuo listened to his words and couldn't help but be silent for a while.

Perhaps Dong Zhuo realized the mistakes he had made before, so he began to reflect on it, and asked the captain of Sili to investigate and punish those who were unfilial to their sons, disloyal ministers, unclear officials, and disobedient brothers, and executed them to death and confiscated their family property. It is good to know how to introspect, but it is useless to introspect without being able to do the key points and only do some superficial things. If you only know how to investigate and deal with other people's problems, but do not know how to correct your own mistakes, how can you make others come to their hearts? As a result, many people falsely accused each other, and thousands of people died unjustly. The people were terrified and dared only to look at each other when they met on the road.

Facts have proved that Dong Fatzi is a fool in politics, and he clearly doesn't know how to govern the country, but he just wants to make peace, and finally messes up the world. In this way, it is no wonder that people want to criticize him.

After Dong Zhuo retreated to Chang'an, some major events occurred in the eastern part of the country. Yuan Shao seized Han Fu's Jizhou. Cao Cao and Bao Xin left Yuan Shao and led their army to Dongjun, where they defeated the Baihuan troops who were attacking Dongjun, and then Yuan Shao recommended Cao Cao as the Taishou of Dongjun. The Xiongnu Yu Fuluo and Zhang Yang were originally attached to Yuan Shao, but at this time, Yu Fuluo betrayed Yuan Shao with Zhang Yang and led the army to be stationed in Liyang. Subsequently, Dong Zhuo appointed Zhang Yang as the general of Jianyi and the Taishou of Hanoi.

In October, Dong Zhuo killed the guard captain Zhang Wen. In the same month, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army attacked the Bohai Sea, and the 300,000 troops wanted to join the Montenegrin army, and Gongsun Zan led 20,000 foot cavalry to break it south of Dongguang County, beheading more than 30,000 people. After that, the Yellow Turban Army abandoned its baggage, fled across the river, and was broken by Gongsun Zhan, with tens of thousands of dead and more than 70,000 captured. Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty ordered Liu He to secretly go to his father through Wuguan, and asked the great Sima Liu Yu to lead troops to welcome him back to Luoyang, and then Liu He was detained by Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao. The merger of the Kanto Prefecture began with this. After that, most people who want to know about the Three Kingdoms know about it, so I won't say more.

In the first month of 192 AD, Dong Zhuo sent Niu Fu to lead the army to be stationed in Shaanxi County, Niu Fu sent Li Dao, Guo Yan, and Zhang Ji to attack Zhongmu in three ways, breaking Zhu Jun, and looting Chenliu and Yingchuan along the way.

According to the history books, Dong Zhuo had a brutal temperament at this time, killing people at will according to his preferences, and the slightest inappropriate language of his subordinate generals would be killed on the spot, causing everyone to be in danger. If this account is true, it is not surprising that he would have been betrayed by his subordinates. We all know that people are mutual, even if there is great kindness, they cannot be tortured and killed at will, which is the most basic principle of doing things between the same kind. Otherwise, you will become a sinner of your kind, and everyone will be condemned.

Dong Zhuo's brutality will always cause dissatisfaction among others, and it is inevitable that assassins will occasionally be assassinated, and Dong Zhuo will inevitably feel very self-endangered. So, he chose Zhonglang to take Lu Bu as his personal guard for safety. Thinking that Dong Zhuo also knew Lu Bu's personality, so in order to ensure his obedience to him, he swore that he would treat him like father and son, and gave him the title of Marquis of Duting. This is a political ploy, not a human factor, as is believed. Speaking of which, let's talk about Lu Bu's character by the way. Cheng Yu commented that Lu Bu was rigid and rude, indicating that Lu Bu should be a person with a straightforward temperament and not paying attention to hypocrisy, which is quite in line with his character from a Han family.

At the same time that Dong Zhuo was wooing Lu Bu, Situ Wang Yun, Si Li's lieutenant Huang Wan, servant archer Sun Rui, and Shangshu Yang Zan and others were all plotting to get rid of Dong Zhuo. Speaking of which, the reason why Wang Yun and others want to get rid of Dong Zhuo is not only because Dong Zhuo is tyrannical and unkind, but also because he also has the intention of seizing power. Politics in the feudal era was like this, and most of the actions of the politicians themselves described in the history books were only for their own interests, which was essentially no different from the ideas of some merchants today. Therefore, the real ones may not all be as glorious and righteous as described in the history books. After all, the state system of an era embodies the thoughts of the people in power of that era, and we can understand their personalities just from the system implemented.

The history books say that Dong Zhuo once pulled out his halberd and threw Lu Bu because of a trivial matter, but Lu Bu was agile and avoided the halberd. Then Lu Bu apologized to Dong Zhuo, and Dong Zhuo was angry. But Lu Bu has resented Dong Zhuo since then. Dong Zhuo often asked Lu Bu to guard the middle pavilion (the gate of the inner courtyard), and Lu Bu secretly had an affair with Dong Zhuo's maid, and then he was afraid that Dong Zhuo would find out about it, so he felt uneasy.

In fact, this is another narrative that wants to cover up. First of all, what kind of trivial matter would Dong Zhuo do to Lu Bu such a serious thing as throwing a halberd? Even if Dong Zhuo's temper is bad, he won't be so arrogant and unreasonable, right? Secondly, who is the maid who cheated on Lu Bu, and does she have enough weight to be the reason for Lu Bu to betray Dong Zhuo? Obviously, even when these two reasons are taken together, it still seems far-fetched. As for what the real reason for Lu Bu's betrayal of Dong Zhuo is, we don't know for the time being.

I suddenly wanted to joke about this paragraph. We all know that Diao Chan is a fictional character in Luo Guanzhong's pen, but some scholars have verified that there is indeed a person in history. Although I don't know why I conclude that Diao Chan is a real character, I think that since Luo Guanzhong will focus on this character in the book, it should not be groundless.

According to wild historical legends, Diao Chan and Lu Bu are also from Xinzhou, and the two have known each other for a long time. Due to Diao Chan's outstanding appearance, he was screened into the palace at the age of fifteen. A few years later, relatives and eunuchs fought for power, He Jin was killed by the ten permanent servants, Yuan Shao and others led troops to attack the forbidden palace, forcing Zhang Rang and others to flee with the young emperor and Chen Liuwang. Due to the chaos in the palace, many attendants fled the palace due to chaos, and Diao Chan was also among the escapees, and then outside the palace was accepted by Wang Yun as a singer.

Speaking of which, by the way, I would like to explain what a singer is. The singer is not a profession, but a slave who provides entertainment services for the master, and can be included in the house like a maid. As for whether Diao Chan was admitted to the room by Wang Yun like other singers, this is not easy to say. However, looking at the relationship between Wang Yun and Lu Bu can be so close, I still don't think about it, otherwise how could Lu Bu be so close to Wang Yun's relationship?

If Lu Bu and Diao Chan had known each other earlier, then the subsequent serial plan would not have made sense. Otherwise, after Wang Yun took Diao Chan in, when the situation settled down, he let her return to the palace to continue to serve. However, Dong Zhuo's **** happened in history, so from that time on, Diao Chan became Dong Zhuo's maidservant. And this statement seems to be more reasonable. For a perverse person like Dong Zhuo, Lu Bu is willing to follow him all the time, and he still has something to do with Diao Chan.

Since the history books say that Lu Bu will maintain an affair with Dong Zhuo's maid for a long time, if it wasn't that Lu Bu was very infatuated with that maid, it was that they were a couple earlier. In ancient etiquette, abandoning a wife and children was a violation of morality and ethics and was not tolerated by the world. Therefore, it is particularly reasonable that Dong Zhuo will kill Lu Bu because of a trivial matter, and Lu Bu will follow Wang Yun's persuasion and betray Dong Zhuo.

The deeds of Lu Bu and Diao Chan were later widely spread, and a proverb was also circulated among the people: Aunt Mi Zhi Sui Dehan. I don't know when this proverb came down, but it sounds like it has a little meaning.