Dong Zhuo said helplessly: "But I don't have many scholars who seek refuge with me now!"
Xiangkai said: "But as long as the Prime Minister has the righteousness of the court, they have to do things for the Prime Minister. But if they really kill King Hongli, I'm afraid they will really see the Prime Minister as a national thief.
The prime minister will completely lose his heart as a court official. You must know that what the country is dealing with now is only the clans of Guandong, the clans of Sili, the generals of Guanxi and the clans of Xiliang. They all do not agree with Yuan Shao's approach.
They are potential allies of the Prime Minister, it depends on how the Prime Minister draws them in."
"And the most important thing is that if the Prime Minister kills King Hongli, Zhennan General Liu Bei, and Youzhou Shepherd Liu Yu, they will probably regard the Prime Minister as a traitor to the court, and the Prime Minister will have an additional 100,000 troops.
enemy!"
When Xiang Kai said this, Dong Zhuo also remembered that there are still hundreds of thousands of troops in the clan, which should not be underestimated. King Hongli really cannot kill indiscriminately!
This is really different from the original history. In the original history, the Han army was either with Dong Zhuo or in the alliance to fight against Dong. The strength of other people was irrelevant. Although Dong Zhuo could kill Liu Bian to solve his own troubles.
But now Liu Bei has 30,000 troops in the clan, and Liu Yu has 80,000 troops. This is a force that changes the situation. Dong Zhuo will naturally think twice before acting. Liu Bei has not left Wuguan yet. If Liu Bei rebels against the court because of this matter
, the entire city of Chang'an will be unstable!"
So Dong Zhuo asked: "Does your commander Qu have any good suggestions?"
Xiangkai smiled and said: "Did Yuan Shao say that he was acting on the orders of King Hongli? If the Prime Minister dared, he could send King Hongli to Yuan Shao. By then, King Hongli would be a problem for Yuan Shao! He Yuan Shao
King Hongli could clearly remember what his family did, and he could also see clearly who killed his relatives. As long as King Hongli went to Yuan Shao and summoned the loyal ministers of the Han Dynasty, I am afraid that the alliance would be destroyed.
Parting on bad terms!"
"But it was my old Dong who killed Empress Dowager He. The hatred between King Hongli and me is no worse than that of Yuan Shao!" Dong Zhuoleng looked at Xiangkai in succession. I'm afraid it would be beneficial to Lei Gong! If Yuan Shao really arranged for Liu Bian to ascend the throne in the Central Plains,
There are two emperors in the Han Dynasty. Lei Gong wants to divide the Han Dynasty!
Xiangkai looked at the ferocious expression in his heart and said with relief: "If the Prime Minister disagrees, there are other ways. We can arrange for King Hongli to go to Hulao Pass. If Yuan Shao and the others pass by Hulao Pass, the Prime Minister will ask Hongli to go to Hulao Pass."
King Li rebuked Yuan Shao and let the hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the coalition see clearly what Yuan Shao and the others were doing!"
Dong Zhuo asked doubtfully: "Is this useful?"
Xiangkai smiled and said: "Of course it works. The generals and commanders around Yuan Shao are all from the noble families of the Central Plains. They have been favored by the emperor. How could they follow Yuan Shao in rebellion? As soon as King Hongli appears, Yuan Shao's lies will go bankrupt. By then they will
Morale is greatly reduced, and it will not be easy for the Prime Minister to annihilate the coalition forces!"
"Our Commander-in-Chief Qu has another suggestion. If the Prime Minister has the courage, he can take King Hongli to Chenliu to open the door. They are not saying they will follow King Hongli's will. The Prime Minister can ask King Hongli to ask them to open the door. Maybe
All the places in Yanzhou can be easily conquered by relying on King Hongli!"
Dong Zhuo mocked: "You, Commander Qu, have come up with some tricks like this. Even a fool would not be able to open the city gate under such circumstances and let me lead an army to massacre them!"
Xiangkai said: "Prime Minister, you have always lived on the border of Xiliang. The rule of the border is that the man with strong soldiers and horses is king. But now this is the Central Plains. Even if there are small wars, it has not experienced a major war for hundreds of years. The Central Plains
The people of the country have been under the rule of the Liu family for hundreds of years. Although there are ambitious guys like the Yuan brothers, the Liu family in the center definitely has more people than the Yuan family, so King Hongli is the trump card in your hand.
It depends on how you play this trump card, Prime Minister!"
"Ace!" Dong Zhuo understood this. When he was in Taiyuan County, he also played cards from Mayi!
But he doubted that King Hongli really had such a big effect?
This means that Xu Wei is not here, otherwise he would have introduced the achievements of the "City Gate God of War" to Dong Zhuo!
However, through Xu Wei's reminder, Dong Zhuo also discovered that killing King Hongli himself was the next step. Although he would not give King Hongli to Yuan Shao, he would take him with him to see if he was so powerful or not.
OK!
So he went to Li Ru and told Li Ru what Xiangkai said today! After all, he and Lei Gong were enemies, and he was worried that Lei Gong had evil intentions!
Li Ru suddenly broke out in a cold sweat and said: "If it hadn't been for Lei Gong's reminder, my subordinates would have almost ruined the important matter of the Prime Minister. King Hongli really cannot die in the hands of the Prime Minister, otherwise the ministers in the hands of the Prime Minister will collapse! The Prime Minister
But compared with Yuan Wei and others, the biggest shortcoming is that they only have an army and no disciples and former officials who control the government. Yuan Wei can easily use his disciples and former officials to control the entire Central Plains, but the country relies on the majesty of the imperial court to maintain this
The rule of Sili, if killing King Hongli causes dissatisfaction among Sili officials, our power will collapse!"
Dong Zhuo thought for a while and said: "Since I can't kill King Hongli, I will go to the battlefield to see if King Hongli has the power that Thunder God said. At the same time, I will also find a way to solve this disaster. I can't kill King Hongli."
, just let Yuan Shao and the others kill him!"
Li Ru thought for a while and said: "Prime Minister, this matter needs to be considered in the long term. We have no power among the scholars, and frame-up is Yuan Wei's specialty. It's better for my subordinates to come up with a solution for this matter! Now the Prime Minister should take the initiative.
Attack and annihilate the rebels, let the people of the world see the Prime Minister's martial arts, and then the government will be stable!"
Dong Zhuo thought for a while and said: "Wen You, tell me, should I kill Yuan Wei's whole family so that the Yuan brothers can see how powerful I am!"
Li Ru sneered and said: "Originally, my subordinates also had this idea, but Lei Gong opened their minds. The next generation head of the Yuan clan was originally Yuan Ji, but Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu were unwilling to accept it. They recruited forces everywhere, and they didn't
In order to seize the position of the next generation head of the Yuan family, the Prime Minister can use Yuan Ji to deal with the Yuan brothers, and bring Yuan Ji up to deal with Yuan Shu to see if Yuan Shu dares to kill his eldest brother! We will also kill people with a borrowed knife."
Dong Zhuo laughed loudly when he heard this and said: "What a great trick to kill someone with a borrowed knife, I just want to let the old guy Yuan Wei also have a taste of killing someone with a borrowed knife!"
The next day, Dong Zhuo summoned the three ministers and nine ministers in the court to discuss sending troops to defeat the rebels. Among them, Dong Zhuo specially asked Yuan Wei and Yuan Ji to be brought to the court meeting!
Shi Tianyi, the director of the Prime Minister's Office, explained the current military situation to the civil and military officials and said: "Although the rebels are powerful, their army has not gathered together. The main forces of Hanoi County are Yuan Shao and Wang Kuang's army.
This army has 40,000 people, and the food and grass are provided by Jizhou Mu Han Fu. However, Yuan Shao has no intention of continuing to move forward in Hanoi County. It seems that he is waiting for other rebels to gather!
In the direction of Yanzhou are the main forces of the rebels, Yanzhou governor Liu Dai, Zhang Miao, Zhang Chao, Qiao Mao, and Yuan Yi's army have already stationed in Suanzao. Bao Xin, the Prime Minister of Jibei, is also rushing to Suanzao. It is said that Cao Cao, the captain of the Xiaoqi Colonel, has received funding from Wei Zi.
We have recruited tens of thousands of soldiers and are marching towards Jujube! There are about 70,000 to 80,000 troops along this route, but most of them are newly recruited soldiers who are not very effective in combat!"
Dong Zhuo looked at the map, then smiled at Yuan Wei and said: "It seems that these two groups of people should follow Yuan Shao's lead. Your Yuan family is worthy of being the best noble family in the world. You can easily recruit an army of hundreds of thousands. Even the imperial court does not have this ability!"
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All the civil and military officials in the imperial court looked at Yuan Wei. The Yuan family really spent a lot of money this time. The foundation of the Yuan family for hundreds of years was all laid out. This was a plan that failed or failed. The Yuan brothers did not rebel and became emperors. Any one of them
It is impossible for any emperor to tolerate such a large family, especially if there is a precedent of rebellion. There is a high probability that their family will be wiped out.
It is not that there are no families as big as the Yuan family in the imperial court, but they dare not take another step forward, because the first step is to become a royal family, but for a family that wants to take this step, the possibility of the nine clans being wiped out is higher.
Everyone is not optimistic about the Yuan family. Wouldn't it be better to be the leader of a family? Why take this step!
In the eyes of other noble families, now that the family has reached its current level, stability and family inheritance are the most important things.
Yuan Wei should find a way to suppress the two activists Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, and make Yuan Ji the head of the Yuan family early, abolishing the elders and establishing young ones. This is simply a disaster for a wealthy noble family like them. Look at the Yuan family now.
The brothers have led a dangerous road of near death.
Now even Yuan Ji, a qualified head of the family, is being dragged to death by the Yuan brothers. Everyone knows that the reason why Dong Zhuo has not killed Yuan Wei and the others is because he is confident in defeating the Yuan brothers. But if Dong Zhuo had defeated the Yuan brothers,
, that’s when Yuan Wei and Yuan Ji lost their lives!
Yuan Wei looked at Dong Zhuo, but now he was a little confused about Dong Zhuo. He originally thought that Dong Zhuo would kill King Hongli and annihilate the nine Yuan family clans, but the reality was that King Hongli was still alive and he was not captured by Dong Zhuo.
Come on, does Dong Zhuo still want to reconcile with him?
Or was there someone behind Dong Zhuo who was advising him? But Yuan Wei knew that things had reached this point and there was really no way back for the Yuan family.
He said coldly: "If the Prime Minister hadn't done so many outrageous things, there wouldn't be so many troops in the uprising!"
Dong Zhuo laughed loudly and said: "Tai Tuo, you are just this unhappy. When the general died, the power of the entire Luoyang City was in the hands of Tai Tu. You were the late emperor's entrusted minister, and you were also the most important member of the Han Dynasty.
As the head of the family, no one can compare with you in terms of prestige and qualifications.
But the Imperial Tutor was too hesitant to take the responsibility for the Luoyang Mutiny, and he was even more afraid to face the hatred of King Hongli and Queen Mother He. He gave up this right on his own. Push me out, old Dong. Otherwise, how could I, a Xiliang warrior, do it?
If I can easily control the power of Luoyang City, is it possible that my old Dong’s prestige will be higher than that of the Grand Tutor!"
"You are not responsible for everything I did in Luoyang City. The Taifu is responsible for half of the people's anger today! Yuan Shao and the others rebelled. This is not a son fighting an adult. For such disobedient and unfilial descendants, it is up to me to help the Taifu.
Fu killed them!"
"Look at your servant Yuan Ji. He is a talented young man who is rare among our great men. He has already become one of the nine ministers at a young age. Your master is confused. You don't want such a good heir, but you want to promote Yuan Shao.
The two brothers Yuan Shu!"
Yuan Ji's face was expressionless, he knew that Dong Zhuo was trying to sow discord.
But Dong Zhuo's words spoke to his heart. He was obviously the next generation of the Yuan family, but now he was dragged down to death by Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu.
They rebelled in the Central Plains. Have you ever thought about what would happen to the people who stayed in the original family in Luoyang City? They want them to die! Yuan Ji is not yet 30 years old, and he doesn't want to die yet.
Yuan Wei snorted coldly: "It would be great if the Prime Minister has this ability!"
All the civil and military officials in the imperial court broke out in cold sweat when they heard the conversation between Dong Zhuo and Yuan Wei. They would not be killed and silenced, right?
This Dong Zhuo is truly a man from Xiliang. Everyone sees through this but refuses to reveal it. Even if he wants to fight for the interests of his own family, it must be for the sake of all the people in the world. You said it in front of everyone today. This is not to expose the truth.
Table, how can we still fool people in the future, and this is still the imperial court. If these words are recorded in the history books today, won't everyone's reputation be ruined?
Dong Zhuo sneered and said: "Don't worry, Grand Master, your Yuan family is powerful and has disciples and former officials all over the world. I really don't have the confidence to defeat you, but I can but have the confidence to bring you and the rest of your party closer to death."
Tutor, I better wish that I can defeat the Yuan brothers. As long as I feel that I will fail, I will hand over the entire Luoyang City to Thunder God. I will watch in Chang'an City how Thunder God plans to defeat you! Even if you are going to die, you
Will die too"
Through the Tengjia Army establishing an embassy in Luoyang City, Dong Zhuo finally discovered that Yuan Wei and others were more afraid of Lei Gong and others than him.
I am still too shameless. I should have brought out Lei Gong to threaten Yuan Shao when they first raised their troops! There would not be so many things in the Central Plains.
Sure enough, Dong Zhuo's words made the entire court's civil and military officials horrified. They all couldn't believe that Dong Zhuo would actually lead a wolf into the house!
"No, Prime Minister, Lei Gong is the source of cholera in the world. His occupation of Luoyang City will only expand his power. The Prime Minister cannot be stable in Chang'an!"
"Brother Yuan Shao is simply not as powerful as the imperial court. The Prime Minister does not need to contact Lei Gong!"
Ni Ma! The Yuan family is still rooted in Runan, so there is no need to worry about Lei Gong, but most of the families of the civil and military officials present are in Sili. Lei Gong invades Sili. This is a disaster they simply cannot bear! You Dong Zhuo and Yuan Wei
Fighting, what does it have to do with our Sili family? This is simply bringing disaster to the pond!
Dong Zhuo sneered at the ugly behavior of the civil and military officials of the dynasty. Sure enough, what Lei Gong said was right. Without family background, they were just a group of selfish old men, so there was no need to pay attention to them!
Dong Zhuo said word by word: "So please stay safe and secure. If Yuan Shao's army breaks through the passes of Luoyang City, I will lead Thunder Lord's army to Luoyang City!"