Until now, Dong Min still remembers his surprise when Chen Liuwang found him just now.

Unlike his second brother, he has always been in Kyoto, and he is a hostage of some degree. It's just that no one will point out this kind of thing, and he doesn't have the kind of hostage that is not free, but he has achieved the position of Fengche Lieutenant.

This position is the chariot in charge of the emperor, and the close ministers who have always been with him. In other words, in terms of closeness, he is much more trusted by Liu Hong than his second brother.

But this still does not change, the fact that Dong Min is a hostage. In particular, the hesitation of the second brother between the east and the west makes this essence even more prominent.

Therefore, Dong Min has always been a good gentleman in Beijing and tried to reduce his sense of existence.

He didn't understand why the Liu Association was looking for him.

But the first thing Liu Xie said when he found him made his heart tremble:

"Duwei's surname is Dong? It's our family. This king has been disgraced since he was a child, and he was all raised by the Queen Mother, who often said that she wanted to be closer to her clansmen. This king is the first time he saw Du Wei, and he felt close, and then he heard that you were the queen mother's clan, so he took the liberty to disturb Du Wei. ”

Liu Xie said here that he has been ashamed since he was a child, and Dong Min knows it.

This talked about a secret matter in the palace, that is, when she was still in Luoyang Palace, Liu Xie's biological mother Wang Meiren.

Wang Meiren is smart and talented, can write and account, and is a rare virtuous and virtuous person in the palace.

After that, Wang Meiren was pregnant, and she should have given birth to a child with He Meimei. But it's a pity that she is in the palace, and she meets Queen He.

There is a strange thing in the harem of this dynasty, that is, the emperor's heirs are not prosperous, and even the previous Emperor Huan, the harem has 5,000 women, but there is no son. After he died, the throne was suspended, and then Liu Hong entered the palace.

The underlying reason behind this is the intensification of the struggle within the palace.

Everyone knows the truth that mothers are more expensive than children, so if you meet a ruthless queen, all those who are pregnant in the palace will suffer.

Even if you are born, you will not grow up.

And Liu Hong also understands this truth, when the He family, who was not yet the queen, gave birth to Liu Wei, he sent him out of the palace to raise him, and he grew up with the family of a Taoist priest named Shi Ziyi.

And now that He is the queen, not only does he empathize with others, but even attacks more heavily as a person with vested interests.

She ordered in the palace that all those who were pregnant in the palace should be aborted.

So at that time, Wang Meiren knew that she was pregnant, and she didn't need Queen He to deal with her, so she drank the abortion pill herself.

But I don't know if Wang Meiren responded to Queen He's means, and she drank the medicine but didn't do anything.

She told people that she dreamed of walking in the sun.

At this moment, Queen He couldn't tolerate him, and when she knew that Wang Meiren had secretly given birth to the child, she was furious and directly asked her to kill Wang Meiren.

And that year, the country was furious and almost abolished the queen, if it wasn't for the eunuchs to keep it, there would have been nothing to do with the queen.

Since then, Liu Xie has been raised by the Empress Dowager Dong, also called Dong Hou.

These things are secrets to others, but for an internal court official like Dong Min, they are things that cannot be understood.

To be honest, he didn't sympathize with Wang Meiren, after all, there was no risk in doing something like that. But he still has some sympathy for Liu Xie, who has been motherless since he was a child.

But when he wrote this to the second brother in another county, he was reprimanded by the second brother:

"People are born in the emperor's family, and it is your turn to sympathize with me?"

I have to admit that the second brother is right.

So, this matter was left behind by Dong Min, until this time this Chen Liuwang came to him.

Dong Min is a person with great political acumen, and he immediately heard a different meaning from Liu Xie's words.

What did he say? Say that we and Empress Dowager Dong are clansmen? That's really not going to be a climb.

Empress Dowager Dong is a native of Hebei, and our Dong family is a broken settlement in Longxi, and the relationship between the eight poles cannot be beaten. But in Liu Xie's mouth, it became a family.

Liu Xieming is pretending to win over himself, or the second brother behind him.

Could it be that Liu Xie has seen the complexity of the current situation and has begun to prepare? Who taught him all this? Empress Dowager Dong?

But no matter who it means, the other side has already said the condition for winning over the Dong family, that is, to recognize Dong Zhuo as the clansman of the Empress Dowager Dong, and when Liu Xie ascends the throne, their Dong family will be a relative.

Although it is too dangerous to be a relative in my big man, no one is willing to come down if I really let anyone do it.

So Dong Min was moved, but he didn't dare to act, just hesitated:

"Back to the king, I and the Queen Mother are not a family, and I dare not claim to be arrogant."

But Liu Xie didn't admit it, grabbed Dong Min's hand, and said:

"Uncle He Qian, the Queen Mother all said yes, then it can't be. Come, let's find a place to get close. ”

In this way, Dong Min was pulled into the propaganda room in a daze.

And when did this conversation take place? It was when His Majesty was lying ill in the front hall, and at that time Liu Xie attacked.

Later, when he arrived in the Xuan room, Dong Min knew what Liu Xie wanted him to do.

In short, two things.

The first thing is to ask him to escort Liu Xie to Changle Palace a little.

The second thing is to wait for his second brother to enter Beijing and ask him to stabilize the situation outside.

Of course, Dong Min didn't understand the intention of these two things, and Liu Xie didn't explain much, just replied:

"There will be a big change in the palace tonight."

After that, the development of things was the same as Liu Xie said, the blood in the front hall was like a river, but Liu Xie slipped back to the Xuan Room while no one was paying attention.

Until now, Dong Min still couldn't believe it, could it be that all this was expected by the son in front of him?

I was a little wiser.

Dong Min guessed that the biggest beneficiary of this incident was Liu Xie in front of him as long as he pondered it a little.

The first is that the eunuchs actually don't support Liu Xie very much, and even have a certain degree of hatred. Because Queen He, who killed his mother back then, was saved in the hands of Zhang Rang and others. Almost all of these people are supportive of the prince's argument.

In addition, the ministers of foreign dynasties generally regarded Liu Xie as a child, and only regarded him as a child. At this time, the two factions fought, and it was Liu Xie and his Chen Liuwang party who benefited.

Dong Min knows that after the prince Liu Xie was named Queen Chen Liu last year, he had to open a mansion. Many handsome people in the court gathered under his command, such as the famous Hu Qian, the confessor Fa Zheng, the shooting aid, Wu Kuang, Lai Min and others, all of whom were handsome for a while.

These people are all called Chen Liuwang's party, and it may be that this time the strategist is among them.

In addition to Liu Xie's benefits, they Dong are not bad.

He didn't know where Liu Xie got the news, and he knew that his second brother had brought troops to Beijing. Originally, the second brother was going to press on the side of the eunuchs, but now that he has the skin of his relatives, who cares about the three melons and two dates given by your eunuchs.

The wealth that belongs to their Dong family is here.

But now it's not time to think about this anymore, Dong Min still has to guard Changle Palace. He used his brain to know how crazy the eunuchs would be once he knew that Liu Xie was in Changle Palace.

Thinking of this, he looked at the sky to the north, hoping that his second brother would come a little faster.

……

Both Zhao Zhong and Dong Min were looking forward to Dong Zhuo coming with his troops, but to everyone's surprise, Dong Zhuo, who had now paid homage to the former general of Kansai and was named the Marquis of Wugong, had just crossed the river at this meeting.

At this time, in the field of Linjin, four hundred miles away from Chang'an, an elite army of up to 20,000 people was stationed.

Just from the banner and Qin Hu's Qiang flute, we knew that this army was Dong Zhuo's former general group.

In fact, Dong Zhuo had arrived here five days ago, and then he began to stand still. This is the strategy offered by his new aide Jia Xu.

Since Li Ru first went to Chang'an, after coming back, he told Dong Zhuo that Jia Xu was a rare talent. Then Dong Zhuo used the most brutal way to directly let people plunder Jia Xu to Hedong in the middle of the night.

In the face of Dong Zhuo's coercion, Jia Xu agreed to join the Hedong shogunate without any hesitation, and did not dare to have two hearts, and wholeheartedly devoted himself to the counselor plan.

And this time, what Jia Xu offered to Dong Zhuo was to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.

At first, after Dong Zhuo received Zhang Rang's letter, he didn't think much about it, and crossed the river from Pusaka with soldiers and horses. But when he came to Linjin, Jia Xu suggested that he could pause here to watch the changes in Chang'an.

Dong Zhuo is such an eye-catching person, he patted his thigh and said that this suggestion was good.

Now that the internal and external dynasties are fighting each other, what is he anxious about? Fight, let both sides fight with their last breath first, and that was when it was time for him Dong Zhuo to clean up the mess.

So, Dong Zhuo really stopped at Linjin and didn't leave, set up his old camp on a plain ten miles east of Luoshui, and then scattered all the departments and stationed them in different places.

And after Dong Zhuo stopped at Linjin, he asked Linjin County to provide his army with a month's food at the former general's Fu Jie.

Dong Zhuo has 20,000 people, not to mention the livestock such as military horses, but only for people, and it costs 40,000 stone a month.

Such a huge amount of military rations is simply about to die in the Jin Order. But he didn't dare not give it, because the eunuchs gave Dong Zhuo an edict, asking the counties along the road to supply the needs of the army.

In addition to this, Lin Jin Ling is even more afraid of Dong Zhuo. This person's subordinates are all Qin Hu Yi's subordinates, and if they don't give military rations, these people will come directly to rob them.

So Lin Jin Ling could only find the big clans in the county to share this batch of military rations together.

Dong Zhuo's murderous name, how have these big clans never heard of it? can only admit bad luck and donate food to Dong Zhuo's army.

Of course, there are also those who have iron heads, and they believe that there are people in the court, and they don't take Dong Zhuo in their eyes. Then it was retaliated by Dong Zhuo, and the entire dock wall was looted.

Now that the chickens and monkeys are killed, no one dares to disobey Dong Zhuo's intentions.

In this way, relying on the continuous local contributions, Dong Zhuo's former general group stayed in Linjin and observed the situation in Chang'an at all times.

At this time, Dong Zhuo was talking to Li Ru privately in the big tent:

"Wen You, you are from Haoyang, aren't you busy now, do you want to take a few days off and let you go back to your hometown?"

Dong Zhuo, a military man in the Northwest of China, is such a sincere man, and the most beautiful thing in life is to return to his hometown.

But Li Ru shook his head:

"My lord, the great changes in Confucianism in Beijing are just in the past few days. We must always observe the situation and make a decisive decision at all times. ”

Dong Zhuo smiled and didn't insist anymore, but asked about the current situation:

"Now that you give me a thorough understanding of this situation, it's always a little unsteady."

So Li Ru said:

"The situation is indeed quite treacherous now, but from the perspective of the whole world, it can be said that the two capitals are opposed, and the heroes are competing against each other. Needless to say, the confrontation between the two capitals has already been fought three large-scale wars in the eastern and western parts of the country, and I am afraid that no one will be able to open the situation for a while. And the group is the situation in Hebei and Kanto. ”

Dong Zhuo nodded, meaning that Li Ru continued:

"Since Lu Shuai was overlaid in Zuoren Pavilion, now the south of Yanshan Mountain and the north of the Great River are the forces of the Taishan Army. Once he digests Hebei, he can get 10,000 horsemen and a huge force of more than 100,000 troops. This kind of military strength cannot be contested by the world. As for Yuan Shao of Ruying, Yuan Shu of Nanyang, and Liu Yu of Qingzhou, they can all be called heroes for a while, but I am afraid that they will not be able to stop the thieves of Mount Tai. ”

Even if it wasn't the first time he had heard this, Dong Zhuo still stood up anxiously and paced, he looked at the north viciously, and scolded:

"I expected Lu Zigan to be a famous handsome in the world, but I didn't expect to be defeated in the hands of hungry people."

But when he said so, he was glad that he saw the opportunity quickly and found that the situation was wrong, so he returned to Hedong through Taihang Mountain. Otherwise, if he stays in Hebei, he Dong Zhuo will also fold in Zhang Chong's hands.

In fact, Dong Zhuo's current actions are a reaction to Zhang Chong's capture of Hebei.

Why did he take such a huge risk to bring troops into Beijing? It's because Zhang Chong put too much pressure on him. The Taishan Army, which now occupies the entire eastern foothills of Taihang Mountain and the northern part of Hanoi, may seize Hedong from the north and east at any time.

If Dong Zhuo didn't take action again, he wouldn't be able to carry the Taishan Army at all.

And the action he discussed with Li Ru was to take advantage of this opportunity to control the center of Guanxi and block the Taishan army with the danger of the four stops in Guanzhong.

But one of the difficulties in this is that Dong Zhuo's troops are not superior. Now Chang'an is adopting the strategy of strong cadres and weak branches, and there are no less than 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers and horses in Beijing alone.

So they still have to rely on righteousness, but so far the two of them still can't think of any good name, which is also one of the reasons why they have stayed in Linjin.

This kind of thing, the two did not discuss with other staff members under the curtain, after all, major matters must be strict, must stop in the private room, must stop at two or three people.

From this point of view, this Xizhou Lao Ge is indeed much stronger than Yang Biao, the son of Anointing.

However, this headache between the two of them will soon be no problem, and the wealth that fell from the sky will soon fall on his head Dong Pifu.

……

Zhang Chong, who was far away in Yecheng, Hebei, never imagined that he would be the driving force behind the bloody killing in Chang'an, thousands of miles away.

In fact, this is not surprising, when the Taishan army swelled to the current size, which of the major events in the world left the influence of his Zhang?

But this also has big difficulties, at least Zhang Chong has more government affairs to deal with than in the past.

At this time, he was in the front hall of Taiping Palace and was looking through the important information compiled by Shang Shulang, all about the current situation in the world.

The news of the uprising of the reclamation soldiers in Liangzhou has not yet reached Hebei, and all that will be sent is some information from the Kanto region.

For example:

"Jiangxia soldier Zhao Ci rebelled, killing Nanyang and guarding Qin Jie."

Zhang Chong circled Zhao Ci and Qin Jie with a red pen, and wrote the name of Yuan Shu on the side. He instinctively felt that this matter was inseparable from Yuan Shu.

Then I saw another one:

"The stars in Changsha District of Jingzhou, Lingling and Guiyang responded one after another, and the four counties of Jingnan were in chaos."

Zhang Chong has a memory of this news, and it seems that it was calmed by Sun Jian in history. Now Sun Jian is still in Qingzhou, and I don't know how to solve this matter.

After thinking about it, Zhang Chong criticized:

"Focus on investigating the movements of Liu Biao and the wealthy families in Jingzhou."

The following articles are all about the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army in other places, such as the resurgence of the Yellow Turban in Baibo Valley, Kou Taiyuan.

Zhang Chongpi:

"Please Guo Tai enter the palace tomorrow."

Guo Tai is the leader of the Baibo Yellow Turban, and the corresponding situation can be learned from him.

After that, it was the news of the Runan Yellow Turbans, and they refused the olive branch handed by Zhang Chong, and they still had to stay in the Runan area.

Their reply to Zhang Chong was:

"They have put down their knives and picked up the plow, and they have gone back to their ordinary lives, and they no longer want to fight and kill."

Zhang Chong was quite helpless about this, and sighed:

"I don't want the world to melt swords and plowshares, but unfortunately the world doesn't allow it."

Zhang Chong cared about his comrades-in-arms in the end, and wanted Guan Yu, who was stationed in Fenggao, to pay more attention to the situation in Runan.

Thinking of Guan Yu, Zhang Chong casually rummaged through the stack of documents on the right, but he kept rummaging several times before he found the documents on Feng'an's side on the bottom layer.

I blamed Shang Shulang and the young people for being unreliable, Fenggao is an important place in the outside town, and the priority is so high, how can it be placed at the bottom?

Then Zhang Chong read this article, and then became furious.

Why?

It turned out that this document turned out to be an urgent report on the impeachment of Guan Yu, the marshal of the Left Army, in Fenggao.

Is that still the case?

Return to Hebei, stay tuned.