Outside Guangzong City, Dong Zhuo and Dong Zhongying, the "Dongzhong Lang Generals" of the Han Dynasty who were arrogantly remembered, were checking the enemy situation.

The history of Gwangjong County is not long. In the first two years of the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Liu Ruyi, the great-grandson of the filial piety king, was the king of Guangzong, and the name of "promoting the meaning of the son" was taken, and the name of Guangzong was born. A few years later, the country was divided, and it was not until the Eastern Han Dynasty that it was placed as Guangzong County again.

Riding on a tall horse from the Western Regions, Dong Zhuo, who was fat and burly, with only a few followers by his side, approached to a distance of only one hundred and ten steps from the Yellow Turban Army camp, peeking at Guangzong City not far away.

In today's Guangzong County, there are many soldiers and revolutions, crowded with countless yellow turban wrestlers. According to the intelligence of the fine [spy] planted by the Han army in the Yellow Turban Army, the Taiping Dao leader of the entire Han Kingdom, the spiritual leader of the entire Yellow Turban Army, the great virtuous teacher, and the Tiangong general Zhang Jiao, was religiously guarded by these fanatical Yellow Turban Army soldiers in the temple in the county.

In Dong Zhuo's memory, although Zhang Jiao was over fifty years old, he was full of black hair and looked like he was only in his forties. Of course, this was a few years ago, when Dong Zhuo was still serving as Situ's subordinate Yuan Kui, that is, Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao's uncle, and was a thief under Cao Shao.1

Of course, no one will notice the details of hair and figure at the first glance of Zhang Jiao. For those who meet Zhang Jiao for the first time, they will only be attracted by the deep gaze of the "great sage and good teacher".

Although Zhang Jiao is not tall, he is far less tall and burly than his third brother Zhang Liang, and he is a rare fierce general at first glance; His appearance is not handsome, not as chic and elegant as his second brother Zhang Bao, like a fairy. However, if the three brothers stand together, let an unknown person come and observe. At first glance, this person will usually find Zhang Liang, and at the second glance, he will look at Zhang Bao, and then, his attention will be completely attracted by Zhang Jiao, and he will no longer see the two supporting characters beside him.

Dong Zhuo back then reacted like this.

If it weren't for such a strange charm, how could Zhang Jiao, who was born in a merchant family, be called a "great sage and good teacher" by countless scholars and people in the late Han Dynasty, where he paid attention to his family background?

- Why rebel?

Dong Zhuo shook his head vigorously, forcibly driving these memories that were useless for the war out of his mind.

Today's Han Dynasty, although it has experienced decades of Qiang rebellion in Xiliang, and the country is not as strong as before, it has not reached the point of running out of oil and drying up. A middle-level military general like Dong Zhuo, although he complains to the court from time to time, has never cooled down his enthusiasm to serve the country and win the reward of the Han family.

However, today's Dong Zhuo, although under the edict of the Son of Heaven, was promoted to the chief general of the Han Army's Jizhou Expeditionary Army, but in his heart, he was depressed and wanted to scold his mother!

Although Dong Zhuo has a poor relationship with the original generals Lu Zhi and Lu Zigan, it is because of the estrangement between the Kanto and Kansai people 2. In addition, in terms of talent, one is partial to literature and the other is partial to martial arts, so it's no wonder that the relationship can get better.

But the conscience of heaven and earth is above, and Lu Zhi's dismissal and imprisonment really have nothing to do with Dong Zhuo's penny and five baht money!

As a rare protégé of the Yuan family from Liangzhou, Dong Zhuo has multiple sources.

Lu Zhi's dismissal and imprisonment were ostensibly because of the edict of the Son of Heaven, Lu Zhi stuck to the military camp and refused to take the initiative to attack and break the Yellow Turban Army. In fact, in the depths of the incident, it is the result of the political struggle that has taken place in the court at present.

The Yellow Turban Riot at the beginning of the year made the Son of Heaven and the imperial court panic for a while and became a mess. Under the rush to the doctor, all the contradictions were temporarily suppressed, and all the tricks were used to deal with the swarming Yellow Turban Army.

It is under such circumstances that Lu Zhi, Zhu Jun, and Huangfu Song will be urgently pushed out and serve as the three main generals of the suppression of the Yellow Turban Army.

However, with the Yingchuan Yellow Turban Army, the Nanyang Yellow Turban Army, and the Yanzhou Yellow Turban Army successively defeated by the Han Army, the Han court, which had come to its senses, began to sort out the government that was once out of balance in the Yellow Turban Rebellion. In this way, the direction of the wind in the middle of the country will naturally change significantly.

Originally, it was the eunuch group headed by the "Ten Standing Attendants" who had the upper hand in the court. These guys, who are no longer below, under the secret connivance of today's son, have vigorously attacked the scholars and party members, and their arrogance is so arrogant that even the Yuan family and the Yang family, known as the "Four Worlds and Three Princes", have to retreat. However, after the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Uprising, the biggest weakness of the "Ten Standing Servants" came out.

That is:

——The roots are all in the land of Gyeonggi, and you can't grasp the place!

The inability to grasp the place means that the "Ten Standing Attendants" can certainly call for wind and rain in the court and decide on the appointment and dismissal of officials. However, in the face of the yellow turban frenzy outside Gyeonggi, the "Ten Standing Attendants" were completely beyond the reach of the whip.

In order to extinguish the Yellow Turban Army, which threatened the safety of the Han dynasty under the banner of "killing the traitors of the imperial court", the "Ten Standing Servants" had to take the initiative to abolish the "party management" policy that had been adhered to for more than ten years, and re-employ a large number of capable and prestigious party members. The Son of Heaven and the eunuchs hoped that they could use the latent power of the party throughout the world to suppress the Yellow Turban uprising.

As a result, the party members who had been expelled from the imperial court returned to Luoyang with great swagger, or served in various prefectures and counties. For a time, the resurgence of the party clique actually had the momentum to compete with the eunuch clique.

- This momentum is very dangerous!

Decades of purges and repression have sown an irreconcilable hatred between the two major groups, the party and the eunuchs. What's more, once the party members gain power, what they want to seek is not an official position, but the authority to control the world!

After realizing this, the "Ten Standing Attendants" unanimously made such a judgment. So, they need to do something to show their strength and warn the warriors who are about to move.

This is the object of warning, and in today's war, the most effective target is naturally the leading general who holds the military power. Therefore, Lu Zhi, Zhu Jun, and Huangfu Song became the targets of the "Ten Standing Servants".

Among the three, Huangfu Song has the greatest credit for killing the Yellow Turban, and he was born as a martial artist, so he has always been rejected by the scholars, and he can be regarded as having a peaceful attitude towards the eunuchs, which can be ignored.

Although Zhu Jun was born as a scholar, he was sleek and had the characteristics of a businessman, and he always deliberately avoided direct conflict with eunuchs. In addition, Zhu Jun was in the Battle of Changshe, and Huangfu Song deliberately gave him part of his merits to make up for the previous defeat, and it was not very convenient to move him.

In this way, only Lu Zhi remains.

As one of the great Confucians of the time, although Lu Zhi is not a member of the party, he has always had a close relationship with the party. Moreover, when he was in Luoyang, he had a bad relationship with another great Confucian Cai Yong and Cai Bojiao.

However, Cai Yong, who relied on being a teacher who was the son of today, repeatedly asked the Son of Heaven to alienate the "Ten Permanent Servants". His actions are naturally deeply hated by the "Ten Standing Servants". was connected by Cai Yong, and Lu Zhi was naturally disgusted by the "Ten Standing Servants".

The best thing is that although Lu Zhi pinned down the main force of the Yellow Turban Army led by Zhang Jiao in the Jizhou area, it can be said that he could not move, but he has not had any great merits in his hands. Compared with the tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of beheadings reported to the imperial court by Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, Lu Zhi only got a few thousand. In comparison, if the eunuchs were to bring down Lu Zhi, they would need the least effort, and the demonstration would have the most obvious effect.

Because of these mysteries hidden in the court, there is the incident of "Xiaohuangmen Zuofeng's unsuccessful bribery" that is currently being spread by the officers and men in the military camp.

And this bribery incident is not as obvious as it seems.

Just imagine, a small yellow door is just a 600-stone goods, far less than the characters in the "Ten Standing Servants". Where does such a small minister have such an ability to easily bring down the middle man with a rank of two thousand stones?

Although the eunuchs were greedy for money, they had always been very discerning. And when it comes to loyalty to the emperor, there are really few ministers in the current dynasty who can be compared with the "Ten Standing Servants".

At the critical moment of the decisive battle between the army and the enemy, people were sent all the way from Luoyang to the Jizhou battlefield to extort the army's rewards and supplies. Such an act, such a timing, if there is no special plan in it, it really seems too inappropriate.

Dong Zhuo also secretly pondered for a few days after Lu Zhi was imprisoned for a crime, and then he figured out the truth during the period. If you want to say that the money handled by the "Ten Standing Servants" can be calculated with "100 million". On the occasion of the approaching war, they sent Zuo Feng to ask Lu Zhi for a bribe, where did they really like this bribe? This is just to probe Lu Zhi's position in the name of soliciting bribes.

If Lu Zhi is willing to form an alliance with the eunuchs, or have nothing to do, he should be more or less Xiang Zuofeng. And Lu Zhi's direct refusal undoubtedly shows that he has no intention of living in peace with the eunuchs.

With such a signal, the "Ten Standing Attendants" naturally unceremoniously treated Lu Zhi as the chicken and killed it for the other monkeys!

- How many major events in the court have been corrupted in this way!

ps: 1 When Yuan Kui was appointed as Situ, he was recommended by Chayexschayexs. of Duan Xi, who assassinated Shi Duan Xi, and made Dong Zhuo a thief under his disciple.

2 During the Qin and Han dynasties, Hangu Pass, which is located in the valley of Kun, was generally used as a boundary marker to distinguish the two major regions of east and west, and was called Guandong and Guanxi respectively. At that time, there was a saying that "Kanto is a prime minister, and Kansai is a general". It means that the area east of Hangu Pass has more prime ministers, and the area west of Hangu Pass has more generals.