"So, He Jin and the eunuch were actually killed by Yuan Shao with one stone?"

After listening to the confidential news that Bao Chu and Pan Yin presented as a meeting gift, even if he was arrogant as a traverser, he couldn't help but look dumbfounded.

This secret completely subverted the historical impression that Zhang Qi originally had about the major events in the late Han Dynasty.

It took a while for Zhang Madness to react, and he was shocked by the level of strategy of the ancients. Many years after he came to the end of the Han Dynasty, he once again sincerely expressed his admiration for the intelligence level of these ancients.

"So, the reason why Yuan Kui let Dong Zhuo abolish the Son of Heaven Liu Wei and kill the Empress Dowager He in the back is also to wipe Yuan Shao's behavior?"

Hearing that Zhang Qiang suddenly burst out with a common saying like "wipe your ass", Cheng Yu couldn't help frowning. However, this little thing is not worth much. Cheng Yu took over the arrogant words and analyzed for the arrogant:

"In the major matter of abolishing the Son of Heaven, Taifu Yuan Kui is only afraid that he is the real mastermind. As for the death of the Queen Mother, it should be the hand of the Yuan family. The servant has always felt that it is difficult to deduce what happened after Dong Zhuo entered Beijing. But if there is Yuan Shao's assassination of He Jin, everything can be integrated! ”

Immediately afterwards, Cheng Yu explained the deduction he had spent a night to Zhang Qiang. This derivation is basically consistent with the facts that happened in Luoyang. For the first time, Zhang Shao discovered that Yuan Shao, don't look at him in historical records, he is completely a loser, but he has such a far-reaching impact on the formation of the situation of the Three Kingdoms in the future!

It's just that even if he knew about Yuan Shaogan's private deeds, it was difficult to take advantage of it. If nothing else, one without evidence is enough to make any unfavorable accusations against Yuan Shao disappear. Empty words. Who would believe it?

What's more, the people who now have the right to speak in Shilin are the Yuan family. In today's era, whoever has the right to speak in Shilin will have the highest right to speak in the entire Han Dynasty. With such a dominant position, he was born in the arrogance of the Yellow Turban Army. Any word he said, Yuan could ignore it and directly let it become a piece of nonsense.

However, although Zhang Qiang was surprised by Yuan Shao's forbearance and scheming, as well as his extremely amazing strength, he did not regard Yuan Shao as a too important enemy in his heart. There is no way, the imprint left by the historical records of later generations is too profound, so that Zhang Shao naturally has a little contempt for Yuan Shao.

According to historical records, or rather. It is recorded in the script of the Three Kingdoms game, and Zhang Mad remembers that 189 is the year of the major event of "princes seeking Dong". Now, it's not long before the end of the year. This also means that the "princes begging for Dong" in the script of the Three Kingdoms game will be imminent!

- Let's fight! Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shao, you two fight to the death!

-- When you lose both, it's time for me to sit and reap the fisherman's profits!

This is what Insolence thinks at this time.

The insolent idea soon became a reality. Or rather. Zhang Qiang, a half-history lover, has been blessed by the Three Kingdoms games of the past dynasties. I didn't mistake the timing of this incident.

However, to the surprise of insolence, the first to raise troops against Dong Zhuo was not Yuan Shao, the leader of the party who was expected to return, but Yuan Shao's younger brother, Cao Cao, who was famous in later generations!

Since I have consulted some online materials. Zhang Mad expressed his disbelief in Cao Cao, who was the first to raise troops against Dong described in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". After getting the news that Cao Cao took the lead in raising troops, Zhang Qiang was surprised for a while, and his first reaction was:

- It's not scientific!

According to Zhang Qiang's current level of knowledge of Dahan, he is completely incomprehensible. With just one Cao Cao, what qualifications and strength does he have to challenge Dong Zhuo, who occupies the righteousness and military superiority of the imperial court?

Cao Cao, the "traitor of troubled times", doesn't even understand the truth of "shooting the first bird with a gun"?

After all, Zhang Qi is just a bystander, and for a series of events that happened in Luoyang City, he can only use his poor and pitiful historical knowledge of later generations to make up for the deduction. And this kind of derivation, naturally, it is impossible to figure out the truth of the development of the matter.

So, why did Cao Cao be the first to raise the banner of rebellion against Dong Zhuo's power at the end of the sixth year of Zhongping [189]?

Speaking of which, the words inside are long.

Although Cao Cao has a close relationship with Yuan Shao, and in the eyes of outsiders, he is regarded as one of Yuan Shao's younger brothers, but in fact, the relationship between the two is more similar to that of friends, or political allies.

Although Cao Cao likes to read, his study is not very strong in Confucianism, the mainstream academic of the Han Dynasty. However, Cao Cao was extremely interested in the mysteries of hundreds of schools of thought such as legalism and soldiers. In the eyes of his friends, Cao Cao is a jumper who is good at change, but short on Jingyi.

From Cao Cao's personal point of view, the reason why there are so many problems in the Han Dynasty is entirely because the bureaucrats at all levels, especially His Majesty the Son of Heaven, are unwilling to govern the country strictly according to the laws of the Han Dynasty.

Assuming that His Majesty the Son of Heaven can master the three aspects of the Legalist "law", "technique" and "potential", and select a group of courtiers who are proficient in the laws and regulations and strictly abide by the laws and regulations to assist the Son of Heaven in governing the country, he will inevitably be able to govern the Han Dynasty in an orderly manner and no longer the current chaotic situation.

For the eunuchs who were originally quite powerful in the Han court, Cao Cao, a follower of the Legalists, believed that this was a manifestation of the Son of Heaven's failure to abide by the law and the unauthorized appointment of private individuals. The eunuch who was supposed to stay in the palace to serve the Son of Heaven ran to the court to point fingers, which was completely illegal.

In this way, the Son of Heaven will break the framework of the Han legal system, destroy the majesty of the law, and make the entire court chaotic and corrupt.

It is precisely because of this that Cao Cao has no good impression of the eunuch power he started, and he is bent on getting rid of the label of "descendant of eunuchs" on his head. From the eunuch's point of view, this kid is an out-and-out traitor.

Therefore, when Cao Cao first entered his career, as soon as he arrived at the post, he affirmed the ban, strictly enforced the law and discipline, and made more than ten five-colored sticks, which hung around the yamen. It is a reckless move to make "those who violate the ban will be killed".

At that time, Empress Song, the first empress of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, was still on the throne, and Jian Shuo was a eunuch in the hands of Empress Song. With Jian Shuo's power in the court, few people in the government and the opposition are willing to offend him casually.

However, Cao Cao was strong at that time, and he wanted to make some decent results. Outcome. As soon as he met Jian Shuo's uncle Jian Tu who was forbidden to walk at night, he actually ruthlessly beat Jian Tu to death with a "five-color stick"!

It is said that the crime of "forbidden night walking" is generally not a crime that is punishable by death. In this way, Cao Cao can be regarded as establishing a little prestige for himself, but he has also made an enemy like Jian Shuo. Fortunately, Cao Cao's grandfather Cao Teng was clever and left an extremely favorable network of contacts for Cao Cao's father Cao Song. is just a big man, and he can't help the Cao family of Qiaoxian County, who has a thin foundation.

However, after this incident. Cao Song also clearly blamed Cao Cao, and found a way to keep Cao Cao away from the northern part of Luoyang City, where the imperial relatives and nobles lived, and went directly to the more remote Dunqiu to be the county commander, which was a disguised distribution to give Jian Shuo an explanation.

Touching such a soft nail, the stunned Qing Cao Cao understood some of the rules in the officialdom of the Han Dynasty. After a brief term in the Dunqiu Order, Cao Cao returned to Luoyang as a Lang official. This time, Cao Cao was obviously much more well-behaved. Didn't cause any more trouble to the Cao family. And the friendship between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao also began at this time.

Cao Cao and Yuan Shao are familiar with each other. But the political views are not entirely consistent. Compared with Yuan Shao's idea of hoping for a powerful minister to sort out the current dim government, Cao Cao believed that the laws of the Han Dynasty should be used as the criterion to judge whether a courtier was loyal or not. As long as the laws of the Great Han can be given sufficient dignity, the Great Han can be revived.

Especially in the most critical attitude towards eunuchs. Cao Cao believed that as long as the eunuchs were strictly controlled in the court and they were not allowed to interfere in the affairs of the court, it was enough. There is no need to exterminate them for this.

Because of this, when Yuan Shao was planning to punish the eunuchs. It was to exclude Cao Cao.

Therefore, when Yuan Shao raised the siege of the palace with the Xiyuan army, although Cao Cao participated in this battle, his performance was quite negative. It is not so much that he went to attack the eunuchs in the palace, but that Cao Cao went to fight soy sauce.

Oh no, Cao Cao didn't completely play soy sauce on the sidelines, in fact, he also worked as a sheriff and a firefighter, extinguishing the fires that ignited in the battle one by one, which can be regarded as protecting these magnificent palaces.

Next, Cao Cao couldn't understand Yuan's retreat in front of Dong Zhuo. Since he did not participate in the series of schemes intended to punish the general He Jin and the eunuchs, the reason for Yuan's series of behaviors can only be confused for Cao Cao. It's just that since the general trend is like this, Cao Cao is not stupid enough to jump out against Dong Zhuo. He just watched from the sidelines.

However, Cao Cao wanted to wait and see what happened, but Dong Zhuo was not so easy to let Cao Cao relax on the side.

In the case that Yuan Shao went out to Jizhou, Chun Yuqiong followed, Jian Shuo and Bao Hong were dead, and Feng Fang, the right captain of the auxiliary army, was also liquidated as a eunuch and the party, Cao Cao, the captain of the military academy, suddenly became the first person in the Xiyuan Army. If Dong Zhuo wants to subdue the Xiyuan Army, he naturally has to take Cao Cao first.

Of course, although Cao Cao has a background as a eunuch, his performance over the years proves that he has always been on the side of the scholars. In addition, the former lieutenant Cao Song's connections in the imperial court, Dong Zhuo did not have bad intentions towards Cao Cao, and originally wanted to win over him.

Therefore, Cao Cao could not continue to stay in the position of lieutenant of the military academy. But Dong Zhuo also specially set up a new official position for Cao Cao, called "Xiaoqi Captain". Although the specific scope of power of this official position has not yet been determined, as long as Cao Cao shows his intention to surrender to Dong Zhuo, he will inevitably be reused by Dong Zhuo.

Some of Dong Zhuo's cronies, such as his nephew Dong Huang, were secretly jealous of Cao Cao's luck. That "Xiao Cavalry Captain", even if it is not as beautiful as the "Captain of the Army", at least he is a practical minister who unified the army in Luoyang City and commanded thousands of elite soldiers. This kind of authority, even Dong Huang himself has not mixed it up!

It's just that Cao Cao, who was rated as "a capable minister who rules the world and a traitor in troubled times", will he be willing to succumb to Dong Zhuo's subordinates like this? (To be continued......)