In October of the second year of Zhongping, in a golden autumn season, Liu Bei and Cao Ren's sister got married.

Because Liu Bei's identity is relatively special, as one of the eight captains of Xiyuan, he can't go back to his hometown Youzhou to get married, nor can he go to Cao's ancestral hometown of Qiaoxian to get married, so he can only stay in Luoyang.

Yuan Ji once persuaded Liu Bei to invite his old mother and the clansmen to Luoyang to attend their wedding.

But Liu Bei did not agree, he explained to Yuan Ji that his mother was not in good health, and the distance between Luoyang and Zhuo County in Youzhou was too far, and now there were groups of thieves in all parts of the Han Dynasty, especially in Hebei, there were too many thieves in Taihang Mountain and Black Mountain, and there were dangers everywhere, so it was better not to let his mother and the Liu family come here.

Although Liu Bei's wedding did not come to bless the Liu family from Zhuo County, he received a lot of gifts, especially his younger brother Liu Jian, who sent heavy gifts from Jizhou to congratulate Liu Bei on his wedding.

At the same time, Liu Jian also personally wrote a letter and ordered someone to hand it over to Liu Bei.

There were only four simple words on it.

"Brother toils."

After seeing the letter sent by Liu Jian. Liu Bei's eyes couldn't help but moisten a little.

Although it is only four simple words, it proves that Liu Jian understands him very well.

In this way, the Liu family of Zhuo County and the Cao family of Qian County became a marriage family.

But Liu Bei's wedding had just ended, and a major event happened in Luoyang City, so that all the festive things would come to an end.

Emperor Liu Hong finally died of illness at the age of twenty-eight.

Liu Hong in history has lived four full years longer than now, and he has lived to be thirty-two years old.

I don't know if Liu Jian's arrival is fortunate or unfortunate for Liu Hong.

When the emperor died, the whole country mourned, all joy stopped, and the whole country mourned.

But that's just the surface.

In fact, except for Liu Hong's biological mother, Empress Dowager Dong, and those eunuchs who were extremely dependent on Liu Hong, no one in the whole country was saddened by Liu Hong's death.

Liu Hong has implemented the party policy for more than ten years, and the people of the world hate him in their hearts, Liu Hong is dead, and the county scholars are almost unhappy, how can they mourn him?

When Liu Hong was alive, his ability to govern was very average, the number of displaced people in various states increased dramatically, the Yellow Turban Uprising, and the rebellion increased day by day, and the low-level Li Shu had no good impression of the emperor.

When Liu Hong was alive, he was addicted to alcohol, and he rarely got close to his son, and the two princes had almost no dependence on this father.

Queen He and He Jin are even more eager for Liu Hong to die early, so that they can be in power!

Between heaven and earth, except for his mother and eunuchs, who will miss Liu Hong?

No, there really isn't one.

As a conspirator, as a businessman, Liu Hong is very successful.

But as an emperor, he can be said to be a failure, and he can't fail again.

As soon as Liu Hong died, the government and the opposition underwent tremendous changes.

There is no doubt that the prince Liu Wei ascended the throne as the emperor, but because the Son of Heaven was young, the affairs of the court were all attributed to the general He Jin and Yuan Kui, who was crowned the prince.

The general He Jin and the Taifu Yuan Kui, participate in the Shangshu affair!

Shang Shutai finally fell into the hands of the Valle Reading Clan again.

Subsequently, Yuan Kui and Yuan Ji summoned Xu Xiang and Fan Ling to Beijing, and beheaded both of them on charges of crime.

The reason why these two people were killed was because these two people were representatives of the scholars who had thrown themselves into Liu Hong, and killing these two people would deter those scholars who had thrown themselves into the imperial power.

Subsequently, Yuan Ji was listed as Situ and ranked as the third duke.

In the process of changing the emperor and dividing power this time, He Jin and the Yuan family occupied an absolute advantage.

Instead, the eunuchs became isolated.

In fact, in a sense, He Jin should be on the same line as the eunuchs.

Because the power of He Jin, who is a foreign relative, and the eunuchs are much weaker than the well-dressed giants led by the Yuan family.

After all, their power comes from imperial power, and now that the emperor is young, He Jin should take this opportunity to unite with the eunuchs to maintain the power of his nephew, and at the same time use himself as the nephew's representative to check and balance the scholars.

But He Jin is different from others, although he is straightforward on the outside, like a hero, but he is a cowardly person in his bones.

Living in Nanyang County, although he is a rich butcher, he has a mysterious worship of those noble men since he was a child.

Therefore, even if he became a great general, he did not think of using the imperial power to give himself the ability to balance the nobles.

He chose to compromise and cooperate with the nobles.

But the problem is that the imperial power has weakened now, and the power of the scholars is unprecedentedly strong.

Once He Jin compromised, the balance of the entire imperial court's strength would all be tilted to the side of the scholars.

And the eunuchs and the young emperors, who also belonged to the extension of imperial power like He Jin, fell into an extremely embarrassing situation.

Subsequently, Yuan began to rearrange the layout in the court.

First of all, it is naturally the position of the state pastor that the Yuan family has been stealing for a long time.

Yuan Shao's Jingzhou Beimu, Yuan Shu's Yangzhou Beimu, Yuan Yizhou's Beimu!

Runan Yuan's family, the fourth and third dukes, is the lintel prominent.

Now, there is another Taifu, a third duke, and three state pastors!

The momentum is so strong that no one can compare with his family before.

Even the Yuan family, who came out of three state pastors at once, also caused a burst of criticism in the court.

In fact, there are many protégés and former officials of the Yuan family in the court, but it does not mean that all the people in the court are members of the Yuan family.

There are still many ministers who are to Han but not to Yuan.

For a time, many people who opposed the selection of three people from the Yuan family as state pastors poured into Shangshutai.

But the problem is that now that Yuan Kui has recorded Shangshu with He Jin, these notes have naturally been suppressed.

But even so, the Yuan family is currently feeling a certain amount of pressure.

So, Yuan Ji personally came forward to talk with Yang Biao, and in exchange for Yang Biao as a guard lieutenant, and in this court reshuffle, a group of Guanxi celebrities took important positions in the court.

In addition, in order to appease the Huangfu Song who was stationed in Fufeng, he worshiped him as General Zuo.

After a lot of rectification and a lot of division of power, it was not easy to divide the authority and interests clearly.

And the three state pastors of the Yuan family have finally settled down.

In Liangzhou, Dong Zhuo, who replaced Zhang Wen in Liangzhou, was also rewarded by the imperial court.

The imperial court named Dong Zhuo as the marquis of the township and sealed 1,000 households.

Dong Zhuo was not too proud after receiving the reward from the imperial court.

He just called Dong Min over to discuss the current matter with the other party.

Hearing Dong Zhuo's sealing of the marquis, Dong Minque was very excited, more excited than Dong Zhuo himself.

"Second brother, now you can be regarded as getting ahead, completely developed, our brother's long-cherished wish for many years, I can't imagine that it will be achieved at this age, it's not easy."

Dong Zhuo laughed: "The matter is not to the end, it is not possible to draw conclusions, what is the situation of the rebels in Liangzhou?" ”

"In recent days, Huang Zhong's troops have attacked the rebels very fiercely, and if it goes on like this, the rebels on the Western Front will be defeated sooner or later."

Dong Zhuo narrowed his eyes and said: "Let Huang Zhong slow down first, don't attack too quickly, the longer the war in Liangzhou is delayed, the more beneficial it will be to us, the Yuan clan is in the limelight in Luoyang at the moment, and everything is empty, let's drag out the war on this side for a longer time, ask them for more food and salary, expand the army, sooner or later, the old man will let the people of the world see, the one who can rectify the world, not just him Runan Yuan." ”