Section 10 Analysis of the Wise Men [4]

Dong Zhuo listened to Li Ru's words and had to admit that according to the analysis, moving the capital was actually the best strategic decision for his side at present. He discussed carefully with Li Ru for a long time, and finally took out the decisiveness cultivated by leading troops for many years, and decided:

"That's it! I'm here, and the Han court is here. If I am not here, the Han court will also perish! ”

So, Dong Zhuo, who made the decision to move the capital, immediately took action. In order to hurry up and avoid the obstruction of the courtiers, he forcibly pushed the matter forward in an extremely brutal way.

First of all, Li Ru forced the Han Shao Emperor Liu Wei to die, removing the possibility of the Kwantung Coalition Army correcting the "Emperor's Failure to Rule". Then, in order to deter the possible hidden communication with the Kwantung princes in Luoyang City, Dong Zhuo actually wrapped more than 100 "Taishan soldiers" captured in the battle of defeating Wang Kuang in public, wrapped them in linen cloth coated with lard, set fire to them from under their feet, and roasted these captives alive one by one!

The ministers of the court are all "civilized people", and when they play political means, they are clever in a race. However, when it comes to doing things directly and overwhelming people with power, no one dares to come forward. Dong Zhuo directly showed his determination by violent means, and the rest of the courtiers did not dare to turn their faces with Dong Zhuo before the matter became a matter of life and death with their own family.

Just when the whole court was frightened by Dong Zhuo's brutal methods, Dong Zhuo took the opportunity to announce the decision to abandon Luoyang and move the capital to Chang'an.

Dong Zhuo's timing was obviously good. Before the court broke out in a comprehensive opposition due to fear and consternation, Dong Zhuo decisively dismissed Situ Yang Biao and Taiwei Huang Wan, who had raised objections. As for Wu Qiong, the captain of the city gate, and Zhou Bi, the captain of the overseer, they were directly imprisoned and executed. Such a ruthless approach finally suppressed the resistance of the ministers of the court to this matter.

Subsequently, Dong Zhuo asked his younger brother Dong Min and son-in-law Li Ru. First, with loyal and elite troops, he escorted Liu Xie, the son of heaven, to Chang'an, and then ordered Xu Rong's troops stationed in the Xingyang area to be vigilant and hold back the coalition forces of the Kwantung princes. He himself sat in Luoyang and organized the relocation of officials and clans in Luoyang City.

Just after Liu Xie, the current son of heaven, was hurriedly "invited" by Dong Zhuo to move the capital. A new edict was once again sent to the case of Huangfu Song, the general of Zuo, who was guarding Chang'an.

In the edict, the Son of Heaven ordered that Huangfu Song be appointed as the captain of the city gate and go on the road to protect the chariot of the Son of Heaven's migration. At the same time, the text of the edict also implies that the Son of Heaven is weak and cannot withstand any fright. Once there is any unfavorable situation, it is easy to have an "unspeakable" ending.

Such a naked threat to the life of the Son of Heaven. Let Huangfu Song, who is dedicated to being a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, be silent. Jingzhao Yin Gaixun, who has been discussing with Huangfu Song recently, how to raise troops against Dong, almost didn't spit out a mouthful of old blood after seeing this edict!

It is impossible for any loyal Han courtier not to be angry when he encounters such a scene. However, Dong Zhuo's practice of gambling the life of the Son of Heaven is too sharp. Even Huangfu Song and Gai Xun. I really want to break Dong Zhuo, a rebel minister, into thousands of pieces at once. After all, I don't have the courage to risk the safety of the current Son of Heaven.

I have to say that Dong Zhuo's move completely detained the lifeblood of the two. If you want to be the loyal and good of the Han, you must put your own life and death out of the way. And any possible counterattack by them is likely to leave endless infamy in the history of the youth.

After weighing the pros and cons, Huangfu Song finally decided. Risking his life and accepting the appointment of the Son of Heaven to protect his reputation as a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty.

After receiving the news that Huangfu Song rode alone to join the ranks of the team that accompanied the Son of Heaven to migrate, Dong Zhuo only felt comfortable all over:

- Finally escaped a catastrophe!

And then. The triumphant Dong Zhuo, after his younger brother Dong Min took over the army commanded by Huangfu Song and controlled the situation in Chang'an, he finally embarked on the road to the new capital city of Luoyang with the migration of civil and military officials.

Among the migratory people, the court ministers who traveled with Dong Zhuo were still treated well. Dong Zhuo wants to rely on them to govern the country, and he must maintain a certain degree of tolerance for them. However, those ordinary people in Luoyang have been completely defeated at this time!

In order to raise military salaries, Dong Zhuo's relocation was very rude. Ordinary residents of Luoyang, when faced with the wolf-like superintendent of the relocation of the sergeant, as long as the movement was slightly slow, was immediately charged with fornicating with the "Eastern Rebellion" [i.e., the Kwantung Coalition Army], executed on the spot, and confiscated all family assets.

No less than 5,000 innocent people died as a result of this. The hundreds of thousands of Luoyang residents who were hurriedly driven on the road by Dong Zhuojun were in a hurry to prepare and disorganized, and the number of dead along the way was counted in tens of thousands. As for the escort team that sought an opportunity to leave the Liangzhou Army on the way, there were no less than tens of thousands of people who fled south or north.

Dong Zhuo was open to these people who fled halfway, and even a little desperate. Because in this way, he can be regarded as reducing the burden of relocating the people in Chang'an. And the baggage property left by the escapees has become an additional harvest for the Liangzhou army.

Under the deterrence of the Liangzhou army's butcher's knife, this migration of hundreds of thousands of civilians began in February and ended in April, lasting only about two months. With such an efficient operation, I am afraid that even the "Chengguan Brigade", which is famous in later generations, shocks the whole world, and has been solemnly promised by the state never to be the first to use in war, will sigh to themselves!

As a result, the number of residents of Luoyang who were able to reach Chang'an smoothly was only about half of the number of people who embarked on the migration journey. With such a huge loss rate, Dong Zhuo was truly hated and spurned by the people of the world. So much so that the content of a song is "Qianli grass, He Qingqing." Ten days, no life! The nursery rhyme actually spread throughout the entire division and school captain department overnight.

Then, "Qianli grass, He Qingqing." Ten days, no life! How is that explained?

"Qianlicao" is actually "Dong", and "Decameron" is "Zhuo". And whether it is "Qianli Cao" or "Ten Days" is a bottom-up solution, which is different from the usual top-down solution, implying that Dong Zhuo will be from the bottom to the top, and the subordinate Lingjun. "Qingqing" refers to the outbreak, alluding to Dong Zhuo's violent rise to power, but he quickly fell and ended up with a "no life".

However, nursery rhymes are just nursery rhymes after all, and they can't really kill people. Even if the residents of Luoyang who were forced to relocate, no matter how much they hated Dong Zhuo, they couldn't let Dong Zhuo lose a single hair. On the contrary, Dong Zhuo reaped the wealth of the residents of Luoyang by means of forced immigration, and even he was greatly surprised by the magnitude of his gains. It can be seen that the residents of Luoyang have a solid heritage and the wealth of the century-old imperial capital is huge.

Of course, if you want to talk about the real extra gain, you have to count the Lu Bujun behind the palace. The reason why Lü Bu was left behind by Dong Zhuo in this capital relocation operation was, on the one hand, that Dong Zhuo was worried that the Kwantung princes would take the opportunity to fight and let Lü Bu's army participate in the war and weaken the strength of part of the Bingzhou army. On the other hand, Dong Zhuo also asked Lu Bu to do something very tasteless, that is:

- Tomb robbing.

Of course, Dong Zhuo is today's prime minister, and what he wants to do can't be without a good name. Therefore, Lu Bu, who had just been promoted to Zhonglang General by Dong Zhuo, had another temporary official hat on his head, called "Touching the Golden Captain".

The meaning of this official position is to try to take out those valuable burial goods from the tombs of the emperors and high-ranking officials and wealthy merchants buried in the Beibi Mountain area.

This kind of behavior of digging up the graves of the dead, no one under Dong Zhuo is really willing to do it. Even the greedy Hu Zhen and the bold Fan Chou avoided this matter. You know, that's a bad bad job, and you have to face the blame of the world!

Otherwise, this lucrative job would not have been the turn of Lu Bu, a new "outsider".

Fortunately, Lu Bu was born in the northern border county, and he has been associated with the Huns for a long time, and he has become a lot more thoughtful, and he does not care much about some etiquette and habits in the Central Plains. Since this matter fell on him, Lu Bu also looked at the harvest from the middle fertilizer, and pinched his nose to recognize it.

Think about it, there are more than 20 emperors of the Han Dynasty, and there are no less than ten mausoleums located in the eastern capital of Luoyang. Even if a mausoleum can only earn 10,000,000 yuan, it will accumulate a huge number of more than 1 billion yuan!

In addition, in the past hundred years, many princes and ministers buried in Luoyang, their funeral goods are so large and of high value that the total number is probably tens of billions!

Although most of this wealth had to be handed over to the national treasury to subsidize the military. But Lu Bu, as a direct handler, if he didn't get some benefits from it, wouldn't he have the notoriety of being a "golden captain" in vain? (To be continued......)

PS: PS: There are some things today, the update is late.