Chapter 199: Liu Yan is dead
In June 191 AD, the Han Dynasty surnamed Liu ruled the area to welcome the first turmoil, the dignified Yizhou Mu Liu Yan actually died on the woman's belly, and then stained with Liu Yan's light, the woman's identity was also spread all over the world for the first time, everyone was stunned to find that it was Zhang Lu's mother, and Zhang Lu, originally in Yizhou was quite taken care of by Liu Yan, not long ago, was promoted by Liu Yan to the governor of Sima, a group of officials in Yizhou finally understood, the reason is that it is here, for a while, Yizhou people are turbulent, panicked.
Liu Yan has four sons, the eldest son Liu Fan, the second son Liu Dan, the third son Liu Mao, and the fourth son Liu Zhang.
Originally, according to the original history, Liu Yan should have died of illness in 194, and the eldest son and second son around him would also be beheaded later for plotting against Dong Zhuo, the third son was weak and sickly, and the fourth son was indecisive and extremely cowardly. Maybe he was too unlucky, Liu Fan and Liu Mao were alive and well in Luoyang, but he died suddenly nearly three years ahead of schedule.
Emperor Ling Liu Hong and Emperor Huan are not in the same line, but Emperor Huan has no children, and after his death, he chose Liu Hong, who is also a relative of the surname Liu, and this relationship between the two emperors is not unique. In the Han Dynasty, especially in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, because of the frequent change of emperors, many people were just infant emperors, and it was impossible to have children.
Although Liu Hong has heirs, he is afraid that the eunuchs' relatives will fight for power, and he treats his son as a puppet, and before his death, he rewarded the children surnamed Liu, Liu Yu, Liu Yan, and Liu Biao are Youzhou, Yizhou, and Jingzhou Prefecture Pastor respectively, Liu Dai and Liu Miao are the assassins of Yanzhou, and the other is the imperial history, it can be said that it is not an exaggeration for the forces surnamed Liu to occupy half of the Han Dynasty, and this is not an exaggeration after Liu Dai expelled Qiao Mao from Yanzhou to become the first prince of Yanzhou.
And now, Liu Yan died suddenly, and his death was still so disgraceful, it is unknown what the ownership of Yizhou is!
When Liu Yan died, Dong Zhuo was still busy cleaning up the Qiang people, and because the place they were located was too far west, it was already seven months old when he knew the news. In the middle of the month, Dong Zhuo really couldn't stand the speed of the army's march, so he took his guards to throw off the army and hurriedly returned.
It is said that June is scorching, and it is also scorching in July, because of the sparse vegetation in the northwest, there are many places with a tendency to desertify, and under the scorching sun, it exudes an amazing heat, which greatly reduces the speed of people's hurrying, and it took Dong Zhuo nearly half a month to rush back to Chang'an.
"Wenhe, although Liu Yan was sick before, he was good and bad, but he didn't die all of a sudden, right? What's going on? Is there any news coming back from the shadow guard? As soon as he entered the mansion, Dong Zhuo impatiently summoned Li Ru, Jia Xu and others, and as soon as everyone sat down, Dong Zhuo hurriedly asked.
It's no wonder that he's in a hurry, Yizhou is a big piece of fat meat, but anyone with some ambition wants to take a bite. It stands to reason that it is only the beginning of the end of the Han Dynasty, and it is the beginning of the princes, not to mention Cao Cao, Zhang Miao, Tao Qian, Gongsun Zan and others, even Yuan Shao, who has the most development momentum today, has no energy to deal with it, not to mention that Yizhou is in the west, far away from the Central Plains, coupled with the difficulty of climbing to the sky with Shu Road, no one will be idle at this time to run to nibble on the fat of Yizhou.
But will there really be no one?
Of course not.
Not to mention Liu Yan's heirs, they are the big families of Yizhou, and they don't want the power of Yizhou to fall, so that they will suffer losses, and when Liu Yan was stationed in Yizhou, he once killed the family in Yizhou, at this time Liu Yan died, and it was too late for them to clap their hands and celebrate, how could they give up the power of Yizhou again?
Dong Zhuo knows very well that the more this kind of power change now, the greater the possibility of his success in using troops in Yizhou, internal and external difficulties, it is most appropriate to describe Yizhou at this time, if he lets go of such a good opportunity, even if Liu Zhang, the most cowardly among Liu Yan's heirs, ascends the throne, and if he wants to capture Yizhou, the difficulty will increase exponentially, how can he not be in a hurry in this situation?
"Liu Yan is an unlucky guy." Speaking of this, Jia Xu couldn't help laughing: "That Zhang Lu's mother was originally a witch, and her appearance was moving, Liu Yan was greedy at first sight, the two of them had dry firewood and a fire, so they naturally hooked up together, but this Lu and Liu Yan are romantic, one is their own unbearable, and the other is for Zhang Lu's future, but they have coveted the Lu family for a long time, and when they have the opportunity, they are naturally abnormal, and they can't turn the dragon and phoenix with them all day long, where are they willing to easily give power to Zhang Lu." ”
Speaking of this, Jia Xu seemed to have thought of something, and the mockery on his face suddenly became stronger: "Since the Lu family is willing to cooperate with Liu Yan for the future of Zhang Lu, he is naturally a ruthless person, seeing that Liu Yan refuses to cooperate, he ordered Liu Yan in the meal, although the Wudou Rice Sect is not decent, but he is quite proficient in the affairs of this Spring Palace, in order to be successful, the Lu family naturally used a larger amount of medicine, poor Liu Yan has not recovered from his illness at this time, where will he be the opponent of the Lu family, the battle is not over, and he is so dying." ”
Dong Zhuo listened, his face couldn't help showing an incredible color, he had looked forward to letting Liu Yan hang up quickly, because this was the time for the princes to develop greatly, but he was trapped in Yongliang and couldn't step out at all, if he waited until Liu Yan died of illness three years later, some of the princes had already achieved the momentum, and even he had the idea of sending someone to infiltrate Yizhou to assassinate Liu Yan, but before he was busy with the affairs of the Qiang people, this idea was shelved by him, and he didn't expect that good luck would fall from heaven now.
"This kind of thing, Liu Yan's family and subordinates should try their best to cover it up, how can the people of the shadow guard be able to find out so clearly?" Dong Zhuo had a trace of curiosity on his face, although the shadow guard has been developing, he has definitely not reached the strength to be able to do everything, and he can't help but admire Jia Xu's methods even more.
How do you know that it's okay if Dong Zhuo doesn't ask, when this sentence is asked, Jia Xu suddenly smiled weirdly on his face: "The family in Yizhou spread it." ”
Dong Zhuo couldn't help but be stunned, even if it was spread by the family in Yizhou, he had already thought about the situation of discord in Yizhou, but if it was just like this, could Jia Xu show such an expression?
"Hahaha......" didn't hold back after all, and suddenly, Jia Xu laughed loudly: "Then the Lu family is really a talent, after Liu Yan's death, because of the cause of his death, it was extremely shameful, Liu Yan's two sons immediately detained all the people in the house who knew about it, and many inconsequential slaves were all killed, then the Lu family was worried about himself, and he didn't know how to say that Zhao Wei was stolen and raised in the mansion. ”