Chapter 667 Dong Hu's Emotions for Dong Zhuo's Life
Things have cause and effect. At the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu had already laid the root of chaos in the world for the empire. Whether Dong Zhuo exists or not, the empire will definitely collapse due to the collapse of finances and the high centralization of the prefects of the county and state, which is nothing more than the length of time.
The root of the imperial chaos has been laid, and the world is turmoil is a matter of time. But it is inevitable that Dong Zhuo will enter the historical stage. At more than 100,000 rebels blocked the Wei River Road in Liangzhou, threatening the security of Guanzhong at all times. At the moment when Zhang Wen's six armies were defeated in the five armies, only Dong Zhuo brought back all his troops safely. In the second year of Zhongping (185) to the death of Emperor Liu Hong (189), Meiyang Camp replaced five commanders in succession, Huangfu Song, Zhang Wen, Zhao Zhong, He Miao, and Huangfu Song in succession. If Dong Hu was added to Zhu Jun's succession, he would be the six commanders of the Han army in Meiyang.
During the four years, the Han soldiers in Meiyang frequently changed their commanders, which made the Han soldiers at a loss and had no real loyalty to each other. They were loyal to this commander. They changed their people and changed their commanders in less than a year and a half. The new commander would use the "three fires of new officials taking office" to establish their authority. Who would this fire burn?
No one knows that the general who suffered a loss would never make a bet on the new commander for the second time, while Dong Zhuo has been staying in the Meiyang Camp since the second year of Zhongping. Although Zhang Wen and Huangfu Song have let Dong Zhuo be the "Logistics Captain" without exception, he has stayed in the Meiyang Han Bing Camp for four years, and he has also successfully rescued 30,000 Han soldiers.
Dong Zhuo became the boss behind the tens of thousands of Meiyang Han soldiers. Meiyang Han soldiers were the real elite Han soldiers of the Han Dynasty, including the fifth battalion of the Northern Army of Luoyang, the Huya Camp in Chang'an, and the Yong Camp in Fufeng, including some Yulinlang, Hubenlang, Luoyang City defending soldiers, and Chang'an City defending soldiers.
The ancestors of these elite Han soldiers once fought south and north on the land of the Han Dynasty. They even directly participated in the war to clear out the Yellow Turban Army and Liangzhou Qiang, and controlled them, and in fact they had become the invisible generals of the empire.
There was no change in Luoyang, and Dong Zhuo did not have the opportunity to enter Luoyang. Maybe he would not reach the peak of power, but as long as he entered Luoyang, even if He Jin was alive, it would not be possible to suppress him. What's more, He Jin and the Ten Generals died together. As for Huangfu Song... After the incident in Luoyang, if Dong Zhuo wanted to kill him, it would be just a matter of whining.
After Dong Zhuo controlled the Han soldiers in Meiyang and had an accident in Luoyang, Dong Zhuo was unstoppable, but this was just the situation in "Three Kingdoms". However, after Dong Hu appeared in this world, if he wanted, he could stop all this. He had the strength of holding Liang and 200,000 elite troops in his hand.
He could stop Dong Zhuo and even killed all the people, but he did not have the ability to stop the collapse of an empire. This was not something that human power could prevent. He could not prevent the foundations of countless vampire families attached to the empire and the military and political power of the prefects of each county were separated, and he could not prevent the giant from collapsing.
Time is fate.
Dong Zhuo's success is related to Zhang Wen's incompetence, to the Yuan family's ambitions, to the countless radical Qingliu scholars, and to the difficult policies of the Han Dynasty...
A bad result will definitely not be caused by one reason, and Dong Zhuo's evil is definitely not just his fault. At least Dong Hu did not see that he really had any ambitions. A large part of his evil is attributed to Yuan Wei, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Zhang Miao, Zhang Chao, Liu Dai, Cao Cao, Sun Jian and others.
Dong Zhuo had the desire for power that all the powerful ministers of the Han Dynasty had, but in Dong Hu's view, he was just an ordinary powerful minister of the Han Dynasty, and he did not have the will to live in peace with the Qingliu people. Just look at his appointment to the court officials, you can easily draw this conclusion. If the wealthy families were not too proud and arrogant and could not tolerate him, if they could use Wang Yun's deception and paralysis, it would not be impossible to deceive him away his troops. After all, his troops were real Han soldiers, but all the princes besieged Luoyang from all directions. If any normal person had no choice, it would be impossible to disperse the troops and horses and stretched their necks to make people chop them. But does Taicang, Luoyang still have money and food to support soldiers?
Dong Hu was lying in a recliner, in a very ordinary farmyard outside Jie County. His eldest son Dong Ning and Xiao Dong Bai were lying on the wooden table next to him to write his studies. There were only three fathers and sons in the whole courtyard. It seemed that he was resting leisurely with his eyes closed, but he was moved by Dong Zhuo's life...
With a "grid" sound, the wooden door in the yard was opened. Before Dong Hu opened his eyes to see, his son and daughter-in-law cheered.
"Ah Mom--"
Hearing the cheers of the two dolls, before he opened his eyes, a helpless smile appeared on the corner of Dong Hu's mouth.
After learning that Dong Zhuo was dead in Shangai County, due to the reorganization of the Black Mountain Army, he could not observe the situation in Chang'an immediately, but he was worried.
In the script of "Three Kingdoms", after Dong Zhuo's death, Li Jue and Guo Si became the biggest disaster in Guanzhong, ten times worse than Dong Zhuo.
Even after the princes of Guandong rebelled and Dong Zhuo retreated to Chang'an, the three officials of the court were still the ministers in the court. In addition, after the construction of the dock, most of them lived in the dock. Although he robbed a lot of money and food, his control over the government was relatively smaller. It was precisely because of this reason that Wang Yun could kill him. If it were Cao Cao, ten Wang Yun would not even think of killing anyone.
In Dong Hu's opinion, Dong Zhuo is no different from the powerful ministers over the past four hundred years. He is still a Han minister. It is normal to loot money and grain. After all, he has to be responsible for the soldiers' stomachs. If there is no money and grain support, a hundred thousand troops can immediately chop off his head.
Dong Zhuo has been a general for so many years and is very clear about the importance of money and food. He can ignore the lives and death of officials and the people, but he will definitely guarantee the military's food. 100,000 troops are deployed along the line from Chang'an to Luoyang, and most of the troops are outside Tongguan. Eighty percent of the soldiers are missing. Although the people are suffering, they are not unbearable.
But when Lu Bu killed Dong Zhuo, the rebel soldiers would definitely take the opportunity to plunder and divide the money and grain that Dong Zhuo had plundered, and the money and grain would disappear out of thin air. When Li Jue and Guo Si entered Chang'an, the 100,000 soldiers lost their food. What should I do?
Dong Zhuo has money and food to support soldiers, so soldiers will not be really unscrupulous. But when the money and food that Dong Zhuo plundered disappeared out of thin air, Dong Hu even thought about it with his butt and knew how cruel it would happen.
If Dong Zhuo is not dead, it will be fine. Once he dies, the situation in Guanzhong will inevitably be completely out of control. For political idiots like Wang Yun and Lu Bu, even without Li Jue and Guo Si, Guanzhong will definitely not be able to settle down.
In Dong Hu's view, Wang Yun and Lu Bu were not only political idiots, but also military idiots. After Dong Zhuo's death, Xu Rong, Hu Zhen, Duan Wei and others who remained in Chang'an surrendered. Lu Bu did not attack the bigger Wu at the first time, but should have blocked Tongguan at the first time, completely blocking Niu Fu from Shan County, Dong Yue from Mianchi, and Li Jue from Luoyang from Luoyang to the west of Tongguan.
It would be fine if Li Jue and Guo Si forced Li to rebel politically, but he turned a blind eye to Tongguan, a city that was related to his life and death. In the end, Li Jue and Guo Si gathered his troops and rushed into Guanzhong.
In the script of "Three Kingdoms", Dong Zhuo's death was extremely unfavorable to the survival of the generals of Liangzhou for a period of time. There was not only Tongguan in the road to Guanzhong from Shan County, but Hedong County was the territory of Baibo's army. Although when Dong Zhuo was alive, Baibo's army surrendered to Dong Zhuo, after Dong Zhuo's death, Baibo's army was the army of the court. Moreover, when Liu Xie fled Chang'an, the main force of the guard was Baibo's army. Once Wang Yun and Lu Bu blocked Tongguan at the first time instead of running to attack the larger dock, Li Jue and Guo Si would fall into a desperate situation. As long as Lu Bu, Bai Bo's army could hold on to the natural barrier of the Yellow River for three or five months without attacking, Li Jue and Guo Si would be hacked to death by soldiers due to insufficient food.
Wang Yun forced Li Jue and Guo Si to rebel politically, and turned a blind eye to Tongguan in military affairs, but he only gave Lu Bu a miscellaneous general "Fengwei". Before Wang Yun could gain a foothold, he had just killed Dong Zhuo and suppressed Lu Bu. With Lu Bu's ruthlessness in killing his father, even if there was no Li Jue and Guo Si, once Lu Bu couldn't stand it, he would definitely kill Wang Yun!
What's more, there are still Han Sui and Ma Teng lying on the periphery of Liangzhou, and Dong Hu doesn't think that the Qiang people in Liangzhou who have rebelled for several years will become good babies.
Without Dong Hu's "Three Kingdoms", even without Li Jue and Guo Si, Guanzhong would inevitably become a battlefield for all kinds of soldiers.
For Dong Hu, Dong Zhuo's political and military talent is far ten times or a hundred times higher than Wang Yun. After entering Chang'an, Dong Zhuo stabilized Han Sui and Ma Teng. Like Dong Hu's approach, he wanted to open up a safe area for Chang'an, so he extended the main force to Luoyang. He even used the method of firm clearing the walls and fields to forcibly move the capital to avoid the princes from directly pushing the battlefield to Guanzhong with the supplies of Luoyang. At the same time, Dong Zhuo also surrendered the Baibo Army of Hedong County, which opened up a safe area for Chang'an.
Politically, he not only convinced Han Sui and Ma Teng, but not only surrendered Bai Bo's army, but also showed kindness to the scholars. His subordinate Liangzhou generals did not serve as officials in the court without exception, but also appointed officials from Qingliu to various places, including those princes who rebelled and wanted to attack him.
Dong Zhuo's approach is not wrong. The only mistake is that he underestimated the pride of the wealthy families, but this cannot be said to have no political wisdom. He just underestimated the ambitions and shamelessness of various princes.
Dong Hu was very stubborn. He just thought the shamelessness of the Qingliu scholars. He said one thing behind the scenes and never cared about the world and the people. From Ding Yuan arsonized fire at the Yellow River Ferry, from attacking the palace, from the moment hundreds of thousands of troops besieged the imperial capital, they were not qualified to keep talking for the Han Empire, and the Three Kingdoms fought for hegemony, and slaughtered countless prisoners and the people at all, which also proved their respective ambitions and shamelessness...
"The peaks are like gathering, the waves are like anger, the mountains and rivers are like Tongguan Road. Looking at the western capital, I feel hesitant, sad that the Qin and Han dynasties have been made of earth in the palaces..."
"The people are suffering."
"The people will suffer..."
Chapter completed!