There were another dead corpse. After Dong Zhuo looked at the dead corpse placed in the yard again, he was not as angry as others imagined, but frowned...

"Father-in-law, the thief's body has been checked, and there are a total of 256 people."

Niu Fu did not dare to speak loudly, for fear of angering Dong Zhuo, but he did not expect that Dong Zhuo just waved his hand and his brows became more and more frowned.

"Two hundred and fifty-six thieves... but they killed our 148 elite..."

"It seems that Huwa is right. If our soldiers are not elite Western Army, if the bandit army is multiple..."

Dong Zhuo suddenly turned around and looked at Niu Fu.

"How many soldiers are there in the city?"

Niu Fu hurriedly said, "There are more than 400 soldiers in the city. Father-in-law, with just such a few soldiers, it is probably difficult for us to deal with the thieves."

Niu Fu explained again: "Father-in-law also knows that those demons are good at bewitching the people, and no one knows how many people in the city are following the thief. If the incident happened last night a few more times..."

Dong Zhuo said with a gloomy face: "Recruit soldiers for us immediately, invite wealthy families in the city immediately, and ask them to take out money and food for us. If you don't want to... Humph! Are there no demons in their family?"

Niu Fu hesitated and said, "Father-in-law, are we recruiting some mercenaries too?"

Dong Zhuo frowned and said unhappily: "When Huwa recruited mercenaries, you were not present, and you didn't hear what Huwa said with your own ears. Mercenaries only have two kilograms of grain a day. What kind of people can they recruit? If you don't feed them for three or two months, how can you use them?"

"snort!"

"You don't even look at what time it is. How can we have time to feed them with food? Just think about it!"

Dong Zhuo has been a long-time general for many years, and he is not unable to see the benefits of mercenaries. He is all poor and has only one belly left. Since he dares to join the mercenary, he will definitely be a bastard who doesn't take his life seriously.

It’s one thing to dare to fight, but if you are so thin that you can blow away a gust of wind, how can you fight?

Dong Zhuo knew that mercenaries were useful and wanted to recruit some such people in private, but he was not Dong Hu, and Dong Hu was not a lie, so he could do whatever he wanted, but he was the prefect of Hedong County and the basic official rules must be followed, otherwise others would impeach him all day long, impeach him for plotting evil and rebelling.

There are very few permanent troops in one state and one county. The fifth battalion of the Northern Army in the Luoyang Imperial Capital is less than 5,000 soldiers. In the three auxiliary areas of Chang'an, the only permanent troops are Chang'an Huya Camp and Fufeng Yong Camp, and there are only 4,000 soldiers together...

According to the military deployment of the early Han Dynasty, there were only two lieutenants in one county, north and south, and at most four or five hundred regular soldiers, and even in one county, there were only a thousand regular soldiers.

However, later the Han Dynasty lacked financial resources. In addition to the more special prefectures and counties, most of them were abolished. The wealthy prefectures and counties could have two Simas used to serve as lieutenants. The poorer prefectures and counties could only retain one, and some did not even have Simas. At most, each county had a county lieutenant, and at most, there were dozens of yamen runners under his command.

It would be fine if there was no rebellion. As soon as the rebellion came, Dong Zhuo instantly realized that his troops were insufficient and wanted to expand his troops immediately. But even if he sold all his family business in Lintao, he could only maintain a thousand Huangzhong Yizong.

Hedong County is not a remote small place in Lintao. Hedong County has a Yanchi, which is the core place of a wealthy family. The wealthy families of each aristocratic family are mixed. Dong Zhuo has not had the right to kill whom several years later. How could he touch the interests of each family for a while?

But Dong Zhuo was indeed smart. After seeing Taipingdao’s rebellion, he immediately noticed the benefits and immediately asked Niu Fu to threaten the families without paying for them...

Humph...

Nearly a thousand Huangzhong Yi went to various counties from all directions, fearing that a careless person would let the thieves seize the city inside and outside. However, Dong Zhuo was short of troops and it would be difficult to recruit enough soldiers in a short time, and he could only defend the city before the ice and snow melted.

After the Taiping Road robbery occurred in Anyi County, Dong Zhuo sent someone to Luoyang again to report what happened in Hedong County to the Sangong carefully. It was just that the road was blocked by heavy snow, and even if the letter was delivered day and night, it would take more than ten days.

Dong Zhuo threatened and tempted the rich families in all counties to pay for money, but they didn't pay for food. Hundreds of Huangzhong Yi immediately broke through the gate of the courtyard. When they came out, a pile of yellow cloth strips and a pile of corpses were ruthlessly thrown on the street.

But there is also a top family in the Han Dynasty in Hedong, that is, the Wei family of Hedong, the Wei family of champion Hou Weiqing.

Niu Fu led two or three hundred people to invite people to drink everywhere in the city. Wei Boru and Wei Zhongdao led more than a thousand servants to guard both ends of the street. The walls of Wei's house also had swords, guns, sticks and heads. After seeing this scene, Niu Fu had to give up. But no matter what, Dong Zhuo still got a lot of benefits in a month, and there were three thousand soldiers in his hand, but this was also a later story.

When Dong Zhuo scattered his troops to various counties, Dong Min took his nephew Dong Huang and hundreds of cavalry to Luoyang. The two rushed to Luoyang day and night with letters. Even so, it was February of the first year of Chuping when they arrived in Luoyang. After entering Luoyang City, they were shocked to find that Tang Zhou, the disciple of Zhang Jiao of Taiping Road, had already secretly reported the Taiping Road rebellion. Not only did Zhang Jiao rebellion, but they also arrested Jing and Yang Shen envoy (dafang) Ma Yuanyi.

The God's envoy Ma Yuanyi led Jing and Yang tens of thousands of people to Luoyang in the cold winter, trying to enter Luoyang, and seized the heart of the empire from the inside out.

Jing Yang was not a Jiangnan person with the same temperament as he did in later generations. In the Han Dynasty, Jing Yang had many brave barbarians, similar to the East and West Qiang, and these mountain barbarians also rebelled from time to time.

Ma Yuanyi led tens of thousands of people from the south to the north, and they marched thousands of miles apart when it was snowing two feet long. With this alone, once tens of thousands of people entered Luoyang City in batches, they might not have been able to fight over tens of thousands of such resolute rebels with just four or five thousand battalions of the Northern Army and nearly ten thousand gatekeepers.

But all this is because of Tang Zhou’s defection secret complaints, tens of thousands of people fled, and those killed were killed. Dong Min didn’t care whether Ma Yuanyi died or not. His “secret complaint” was gone!

When he came, Dong Min was still wondering if Dong Hu was talking nonsense, but when Taipingdao really rebelled, he felt a little complaining, complaining that Huwa always had these hindsights. This was the case with Jincheng Pass that day, and Taipingdao today.

Dong Min lamented in his heart, and still came to the Luoyang Yin Mansion with a letter. As for why it was not the "Yueqi Captain" mansion that Dong Zhuo said... He Miao was promoted. After Tang Zhou secretly sued Zhang Jiao for rebellion, the original Luoyang Yin He Jin was promoted to general, and He Miao also turned from Yueqi Captain to Luoyang Yin.

Zhang Jiao's plan to rebel was too sudden, and what Tang Zhou revealed was too horrifying. Thirty-six generous things involved almost half of the territory of the Han Dynasty, and it was the key point of the wealthy family. The position of "General" that had been delayed again and again finally fell on He Jin after Zhang Jiao rebelled, but who was the general who led the troops to quell the rebellion?

Who will quell the rebellion for all parties?

The civil and military officials in the court were quarreling with each other, but at this time the eunuchs in the inner court were completely suppressed by the civil and military officials in the outer court, and the party members who had been repeatedly imprisoned were completely abolished.

The court quarreled for half a month but failed to make a final decision. As the ice and snow were about to melt, the quarrels between the various parties became increasingly fierce...

Dong Min and Dong Huang came to He Miao's mansion with a cart of gifts, but the gatekeeper looked down on the two of them, and they could only stay outside the prefectural gate and wait.

Perhaps Dong Min had experienced such humiliation too many times and there was no big difference on his face, but Dong Huang was different. Seeing a dog slave dared to humiliate like this, the viciousness on his face did not dissipate a little bit.

Looking at the stubborn and gloomy face on Dong Huang, Dong Min sighed in his heart...

"Huan'er."

"Are you resentful to your brother... or Mao'er, tiger baby?"

Dong Huang still bowed his head and said nothing.

"Brother, my sister-in-law treats you as a parent-child since childhood. Even if you bully Maoer, my brother and sister-in-law have never scolded you for this. Do you know why?"

Dong Huang looked up at Dong Min, but still said nothing. Dong Min looked at He Miao's door and smiled bitterly...

"because……"

"Mao'er is a waste."

"Since birth, it has been decided that Maoer is just a useless waste."

Dong Min pointed to the gate of He Mansion.

"A slave like a dog is scolding you and me at will, why?"

"Because we didn't bring enough gifts, we didn't meet the qualifications of the 'useful' person that the dog slave thought."

...

"Oh!"

"well……"

Dong Min chuckled with a self-deprecating voice, and sighed helplessly.

"Although things are different, the reason is the same. Brother, sister-in-law...even uncle thinks Maoer is just a waste and can only manage the fields, accounts and be a person who is scattered and waits for death in his life."

"Not only brothers, sister-in-law, uncle, and everyone in our family thinks so, so no one cares if you bully Maoer since childhood, because everyone thinks Maoer is a waste."

"But Maoer doesn't think so, Maoer doesn't think she's just a waste!"

...

"Huan'er."

"You may think that Maoer is valued by his sister-in-law and loved by his brother because of the tiger baby. Without the support of the tiger baby, Maoer is still an unattended waste."

"but."

"Have you ever thought that without Mao'er's support, can Huwa reach this point? If Mao'er is really a waste, can he support Huwa? Can he always be kind to Huwa?"

...

Seeing that Dong Huang finally looked up at him, Dong Min smiled instead and patted his shoulder.

"Brother, sister-in-law, and uncle, we have never given Mao'er much support. It's a world of difference compared to you, but Mao'er and Huwa have come to this point. Even if my uncle is not feeling well, we are convinced."

"Why?"

"Because they earned it themselves, not given by their brothers or sister-in-law, but by themselves, and they have to accept it even if they don't accept it!"

After a long time...

"Nephew...nephew was wrong..."

Seeing that Dong Huang finally bowed his head, Dong Min nodded silently.

"Maoer is the only son of his brother, but he has his own family. Even if he has no brother, Maoer will have his own family business. Therefore, the brother has never been worried about Maoer. Instead, you are the elder brother's heir and inherit the family business earned by his brother."

"Mao'er is a family of his own. He is given to you by his brother's family. He is the descendant of the Dong family. He should support each other, but if you always become enemies with Mao'er, you will disappoint your brother and force your brother to choose only one between you and Mao'er."

"The brother's family business is earned by his own hands, and Maoer's family business is earned by Maoer. Huanger, do you have the family business you earn? Do you think... if you bully Maoer so, who will the brother choose?"

Dong Min looked at the carriage that was gradually coming, raised her hand and patted Dong Huang on the shoulder...
Chapter completed!