Answer questions from readers and Dong Zhuo

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Some readers in the book review area said that mixing with Dong Zhuo will make a reputation stink, and it will not be good for development in the future, so here is an answer.

In fact, the reason is also implicitly mentioned in the book, but the meaning is not clearly expressed, I have also seen a lot of Three Kingdoms themes, and the reason I said has not appeared in them, if it is not too in-depth study of the history of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, readers may not know too much about this, I will explain it here.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, there were a large number of family gate valves, which everyone knows, but in fact, there are also factions among the family gate valves, and the two largest factions are naturally the Kanto gate valve and the Kansai gate valve. The most famous of the Kanto Gate Valve is naturally the Yuan family, as well as the Yang family (Yang Biao's one) and the Sima family (Sima Yi's one); And the Kansai family is actually not too much, Dong Zhuo should be regarded as the most powerful one among them.

The conflict between the Kanto and Kansai family lords has a long history, and it began when Guangwu moved its capital to Luoyang. Because the Eastern Han Dynasty focused on the development of the Kanto region, there were many Kanto families and not many Kansai families, only some families that could only be said to be strong. (The family is dominated by scholars, and the strong are more likely to rise by force).

The Kanto family has always looked down on the powerful people in Kansai, because the land of Kansai has been relatively barren since the fall of the Western Han Dynasty, and there have been many disasters. Therefore, when Dong Zhuo occupied Luoyang, the Kwantung family joined forces to send troops, but when Dong Zhuo withdrew from Luoyang to Chang'an, they no longer pursued, in fact, the meaning that the Dong family did not want to enter the barren land of Kansai in their eyes.

And the reader's question is that Zhang Xiu follows Dong Zhuo, and his reputation will stink. That's right, Zhang Xiu's reputation in the eyes of the Kanto people will not be too good, that's for sure, but I definitely won't arrange Zhang Xiu to do bad things that harass the people. In this way, in fact, Zhang Xiu can only recruit Kansai people in the future. Of course, there are acquaintances such as Zhang Ren and Zhao Yun and some poor people. And due to the background between Zhang Xiu and the Kanto giants, they were actually destined to be antagonistic early on.

The above views of the wealthy families of the late Han Dynasty are from Mr. Chen Yinke, one of the four masters of modern historiography, and the younger brother is only paraphrased, which may be wrong or missing. If you are interested, go to find Mr. Chen's works to see, there are also descriptions of the founding of Wei, Shu, and Wu, all of which are related to the family, and the reasons why the Sima family usurped Wei later, which is very different from the point of view that everyone usually sees, but it is very reasonable, everyone has time to take a look, but Mr. Chen is a person in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, although the work is in the vernacular, but the text is still a little profound, and it is a bit difficult to read.

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