Liu Xie still became the emperor in the end, but Liu Wei lived well, and he, the emperor, was actually not safe at all.

However, at this moment, Liu Wei is holding the jade seal of the country, which naturally represents the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty, and he is sitting firmly on the throne. It's just that he was only nine years old at the time, and there was no possibility of actually taking power at all, and the affairs of the court were directly controlled by Dong Zhuo.

"Father-in-law, there are three more courtiers begging bones today, if we don't add another batch of courtiers, I'm afraid that normal government affairs will not be able to function; In addition, the family is very hostile to us, whether we should divide and win over a group; Finally, there is the problem of the Yellow Turban Army, after all, the state is adjacent to Sizhou, so the son-in-law thinks that it is better to demarcate a buffer zone. "Now the actual person who handles government affairs naturally falls on Li Ru, but when it comes to major matters, he has to report to Dong Zhuo.

"If you want to replenish manpower, where should you replenish it? If it is divided and co-opted, who should be co-opted? However, the buffer zone is relatively easy to deal with, Xihe County, Shangjun and Shangdang County are used as direct buffer zones, and neither side is allowed to use troops against them, as for the part bordering Taiyuan, it is mainly border, and garrisons are not allowed within 50 miles around. Dong Zhuo is actually actively learning to deal with government affairs this time.

In the first half of his life, he spent almost all of his time in battle. He may know how to win the world on a horse, but this method of dismounting the horse to rule the world is obviously not qualified at all. Seeing that there were few people around who could use it, they had to go out in person.

At this moment, just like Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, he has just grasped power, and he still has a trace of fantasy about how to rejuvenate the Han Dynasty.

Dong Zhuo was actually a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty from the beginning, just like Cao Cao, if it weren't for the change in mentality because of chance, how could he have changed from a loyal minister to a traitor?

Dong Zhuo was born in a good family, and to put it bluntly, he is a local tyrant, but in fact, there are few officials in the family. It is precisely because Liu Hong's mother, Dong, is related to them that Dong Zhuo was able to go from a small official to an official career.

For so many years, it can be regarded as a crusade to the east and west, and he finally put down the rebellion in Liangzhou for the Han Dynasty, and in terms of merit, he can actually be regarded as a national hero who resisted the invasion of foreign enemies. As for bribing eunuchs and He Jin, it can only be said that it is the trend of the times, and at that time, promotions had to pay a sum of money to be promoted, and bribing the ten permanent servants was actually not a disgraceful thing.

The most important thing is that there is no one in the court, and if it were not for the help of the ten permanent attendants, he would not have been able to get to where he is today in his life.

It is rare to grasp absolute power, and at this moment, he has nothing to think about for the time being, thinking about how to help Liu Xie Zhongxing, a big man. And the reason why Liu Xie was supported to take the throne was because he learned that Liu Hong was going to pass on the throne to Liu Xie, Jian Shuo fought for this, and he Dong Zhuo is now just justifying Liu Xie's orthodox inheritance.

Of course, in this time and space, the main thing is the relationship between Liu Wei being taken away by Fang Yun, and the edict has become an incidental factor.

The Han can't live without an emperor for a day, but if the emperor is a hostage in the hands of the Yellow Turban Army, will the Han never want the emperor? So the easiest solution is naturally to put Liu Xie on the throne, which he deserves.

As a Hanchen, he is just abiding by the edict left by Liu Hong, and no one who really knows about this matter is qualified to blame him for anything.

"We can support those excluded officials from small families or poor families, and even directly cede the government to those families, as long as they can help us deal with affairs, they are worth our wooing. The key now is not the authority of the government, but the ownership of military power. As long as we have absolute military power, then everything will be under control. Li Ru first answered the first question.

"Go on!" Dong Zhuo nodded, probably understood the key to these words, and felt that it was true.

"As for the differentiation and co-optation part, now Yuan Valve is the largest gate valve in the world, followed by Yang Valve, and Yellow Valve again. There are countless other new and old families, but they are still incomparable to Yuan in terms of heritage and connections. In other words, now Yuan Valve can be regarded as a problem for our henchmen, but it is not suitable for us to take action personally, which will only attract other gate valves to oppose us together.

On the contrary, if we wait for a good student to appease the members of the Yuan Valve in Luoyang, and at the same time arrange the protégés and former officials of the Yuan Valve in important local positions, then the other families will inevitably feel a sense of danger when they see that the Yuan Valve is powerful, and they will be used by us when the time comes. At the same time, Yuan Valve has benefited, and he will be more or less well-behaved for a while, as long as we control the two states in Guannai as a base area, then no matter what the future holds, we can be invincible! Li Ru expressed his opinion on the second question.

Recently, Yuan has been very motivated to seize military power, which is not a good situation. If he can be attracted to the struggle for military power and the competition for government affairs, then it is of great significance for Dong Zhuo to further control Luoyang.

Dong Zhuo is mainly less knowledgeable, and the popular saying is that he reads less, but it does not mean that he is stupid. As long as everything is spread out in front of him, he naturally knows what to choose.

Within a few days, Yuan Valve's protégés and former officials were quickly appointed to a large number of key positions, and even Han Fu, one of the protégés, was also appointed as the new Jizhou pastor. Yuan Valve's power expanded to the limit for a while.

And this did cause the dissatisfaction of Hongnong Yang, and the forces dominated by Yang Biao began to separate from Yuan Valve.

Dong Zhuo took advantage of the situation to promote a group of officials from small families and poor families, these officials had no backers, but at least they knew that Dong Zhuo didn't want them to take refuge in Yuan Valve, so he took refuge in Yang Biao. So the two forces confronted each other in the court, but they managed to maintain a delicate balance.

It's just that Dong Zhuo still missed one point, that is, in the common interests of the family, their purpose is the same.

In terms of background, Dong Zhuo started from the end of the year and was vulgar, and his ascension to a high position was not happy to be seen by Yuan Valve and Yang Valve, and even the family gate valve in the world. Therefore, even if the two factions quarreled in the court, in fact, they did not tear their faces at all, and all the fights were maintained within a very peaceful range.

"Father-in-law, Liu Wei should die!" A few days later, Li Ru admonished.

"He was killed by Fang Yun?" Dong Zhuo didn't hear it clearly, but when he heard the words, he raised his head suddenly.

"It's because you didn't kill that it's a problem! Fang Yun obviously planned to blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes, even if it was a deposed emperor. Since we have already established Liu Xie, we naturally can't let him succeed, otherwise we will fall into passivity. Therefore, it should be announced that Liu Wei has died, so even if Fang Yun takes out Liu Wei again, no one will believe him as a Yellow Turban Army! Li Ru said solemnly.

"But the prince argues that it's in his hands!" Dong Zhuo said worriedly.

"As long as it is announced to the world today, then even if Liu Wei is alive, he is still dead, and the world will not recognize an emperor who was held hostage by the Yellow Turban Army. Besides, how can he Fang Yun prove that Liu Wei in his hand is Liu Wei himself? Li Ru reported with a smile.

"Great goodness!" Dong Zhuo also knew what was at stake, so he naturally allowed Li Ru to do it.

Not long after, Liu Xie 'issued' a notice, saying that the prince had died, and he was posthumously named King Hongnong and allowed to be buried in the imperial mausoleum. And after this edict was passed out, the family gate valves, especially the family gate valves who knew about it, actually helped to fuel the flames, and as a result, the terrible prince debate was 'killed' by them like this...... (To be continued.) )