At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

When Guo Peng was preparing to fish in troubled waters, General He Jin's old department and Yanzhou's new Dongjun prefect Qiao Mao arrived in Dongjun at the end of November to take office.

Dong Zhuo's arrangement of positions in the old general's department was incidental, not Yuan Wei's original intention, but Dong Zhuo felt that since reconciliation was to be reconciled, he should reconcile to the end and appoint officials together to let them know that it is worthwhile to serve the old director under the old Dong's command. eat.

It's a pity that Dong Zhuo's background is too low to convince the public, and his own reputation and strength have not reached that level, and the positions he entrusted can't satisfy the appetite of these old generals.

They felt that what Dong Zhuo got today should belong to them, and that Dong Zhuo snatched what they deserved from them. Dong Zhuo is a stinky and shameless person.

So, as the descendant of Taiwei Qiaoxuan, who came from a famous family, Qiao Mao decided to do something.

Before he came to take office, he detected many voices of dissatisfaction with Dong Zhuo's usurpation of power in the court and the public, so he had a plan, forged the three official documents of the court, and called on the princes of all towns to crusade against Dong Zhuo.

In their eyes, Dong Zhuo was just a lucky man with more than 1 soldiers, and he could not create a huge deterrent force and could not shock the world, so Qiao Mao boldly became the initiator.

The people he contacted at the beginning were also very simple. They were all general He Jin who was unwilling to obey Dong Zhuo.

For example, Wang Kuang, the prefect of Hanoi, Bao Xin, the prime minister of Jinbei, and Cao Cao, the prime minister of Jinan, including Yuan Shao, the prefect of Bohai who escaped because he opposed Dong Zhuo's abolition of the emperor, and Zhang Yang, who was also the former general of the general.

Qiao Mao felt that their group of old generals was enough to overthrow Dong Zhuo.

Combined with the power of counties and states, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses can be obtained. If they work together to attack Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhuo will inevitably be defeated. The court should be in charge of the old generals like them.

Moreover, they still don't recognize the status of the new emperor Liu Xie, thinking that Liu Xie is Dong Zhuo's puppet. They, the old generals, want to overthrow Liu Xie and re-establish the nephew of General He Jin, Liu Bian, on the throne to restore order.

While issuing documents, Qiao Mao recruited troops to build momentum, and spread some hard-to-discern stories about Dong Zhuo bullying the emperor and messing up the palace, planning to attack Dong Zhuo.

At that time, it was December of the first year of Yonghan.

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In the middle of the same month, Cao Cao, Prime Minister of Jinan, received Qiao Mao's call to crusade. He was shocked and immediately notified Guo Peng of the incident.

Guo Peng is now the shepherd of Qingzhou, and he is the direct superior of the Prime Minister of Jinan. It is impossible not to tell Guo Peng about this kind of thing.

The troops deployed by Guo Peng in various places are all directly under his own orders. There are only 500 county soldiers in the county to maintain order and take responsibility for law and order, and they have little combat effectiveness.

Moreover, Cao Cao didn't dare to decide on such a big matter by himself, so he immediately traveled from Jinan to Linzi to find Guo Peng.

Guo Peng was surprised when he saw Qiao Mao's call to attack Dong Zhuo.

"Don't recognize the status of His Majesty today? They also want to abolish the establishment?"

Guo Peng was very hesitant: "Brother, this is inappropriate, this is completely inappropriate, this is to beat the emperor with the minister, this is to mess up the upper and lower levels, and it will cause trouble."

"However, they attacked Dong Zhuo as the former subordinate of the Great General, saying that Dong Zhuo was a sinner for murdering the Great General. In this way, they can be regarded as a famous teacher?"

"Teachers are famous, teachers are famous, but it's hard to say how many people will respond. Qiao Mao called Sangong, this name is not very famous. Brother, our family background is different from theirs. They can do it." We may not be able to do it.”

When Guo Peng said this, Cao Cao also showed hesitation.

"Zifeng, what do you mean?"

"Wait and see, continue to wait and see, see how many people in the world respond to this matter, if there are many people responding, and it becomes a trend, let's join in, otherwise, this matter is really hard to say, if one is not good, it will become a rebellion, Everyone in the world gets it and punishes it, so what can I do?"

Cao Cao felt that what Guo Peng said was reasonable, but he was also worried about his status as a former general.

"It doesn't matter, brother, I am Qingzhou Mu, and you are the prime minister of Jinan I appointed. If you say that I don't agree, I want to crusade against the Yellow Turbans, and put the blame on me. Don't say anything, just say that crusade against the Yellow Turbans is the most important thing." The important thing is to talk about these things after the crusade against the Yellow Turban, otherwise it will be a crime to lose the rear.”

Cao Cao felt that this was not good for Guo Peng.

"Zifeng, is it not good for you to do this?"

"I don't care, brother, we must be careful about this matter. We are all positions conferred by His Majesty today. Isn't it rebellion to oppose His Majesty now?"

"that's true……"

Cao Cao was full of worries, but according to what Guo Peng said, he used the urgency of the crusade against the Yellow Turbans as an excuse to delay, did not give an accurate answer, played Tai Chi, and waited and watched the situation.

In addition to Cao Cao, several other former generals, such as Wang Kuang and Bao Xin, responded directly, and Yuan Shao also responded after a while. Bohai prefect Yuan Shao responded to Qiao Mao's call as the former general.

But Yuan Shao responded, but he was restrained.

Dong Zhuo was not unscrupulous towards Yuan Shao. The reason why he appointed Han Fu as Jizhou Shepherd was to let Han Fu suppress Yuan Shao as Jizhou Shepherd, form a superior-subordinate relationship, monitor and restrict Yuan Shao, and not allow Yuan Shao to make trouble.

His approach was effective at the beginning. As an old official of the Yuan family, Han Fu was very jealous of Yuan Shao.

He respected Yuan Shao on the surface, but secretly felt very jealous because Yuan Shao did not cooperate with Dong Zhuo to preserve his reputation. He was worried that Yuan Shao would usurp his power and threaten his status. This thing is very hesitant.

At the banquet, he asked his confidants whether he should help Dong Shi in this matter, or Yuan Shi who responded to the call.

Liu Zihui, the staff member, was very dissatisfied with Han Fu's behavior at both ends, and angrily said: "At this time, it should be helping the country. Where did you come from to help Dong and Yuan?"

Feeling ashamed, Han Fu no longer prevented Yuan Shao from responding to the call, and wrote to Yuan Shao to support his actions, so Yuan Shao was able to act publicly.

Jizhou Mu's pressure is still great for Yuan Shao, the prefect of Bohai Sea. He is also an outsider and has not yet gained a firm foothold.

It can be seen how strong the state pastor's suppression is on the officials under his command.

Mr. Guo is also doing the same thing. After he took office as state shepherd, except for Donglai County and Beihai Kingdom, many places were invaded by the Yellow Turban Army. Le'an Kingdom, Jinan Kingdom, Pingyuan County and Qi Kingdom were all arranged by him to be the county guards. Or garrison defense.

Cao Cao became the Prime Minister of Jinan, Zang Hong became the Prime Minister of Le'an, and Zaoyi undoubtedly became the Prime Minister of Qi.

Although Chen Ji was the prefect of Pingyuan County, Guo Peng sent Cao Ren to lead [-] troops to defend Pingyuan County on the grounds of guarding against the local Yellow Turban Army's uprising.

Then he sent a postal supervisor to supervise the place, took control of the situation in Pingyuan County, and began preparations for fortifications at the border between Pingyuan County and Jizhou, controlling Pingyuan County from a military perspective.

He brought out people from Shanggu County and Guo's Manor with experience in managing grassroots mass organizations to the areas under his control, and arranged refugees and refugees to farm in the desolate areas in these areas, and then set up administrative villages, Township.

These newly established villages and villages are organized and managed by Guo Peng himself. They can be directly recruited and paid taxes to Linzi.

In this way, he can increase the population he directly controls, and increase his presence and power in Qingzhou.

Unlike Han Fu who started at the top, Guo Peng cared more about the grassroots.

Moreover, he was unambiguous at the upper level. With Cai Yong, the free celebrity publicity minister, boasting for him, it goes without saying that the scholars in Qingzhou who have not fled abroad have feelings for him.

On the other hand, Yuan Shao got Han Fu's permission, so he finally breathed a sigh of relief. Yuan Shao quickly took advantage of this rare opportunity to publicly declare his dissatisfaction with Dong Zhuo, and wanted to attack Dong Zhuo, build momentum, and buy himself time.

When the momentum gets louder, Han Fu will not be able to deal with him in an open and honest manner.

After getting Yuan Shao's response, the remaining Cao Cao seemed insignificant.

Qiao Mao taunted Cao Cao contemptuously about Guo Peng's excuse, and ignored Cao Cao, recruiting troops and buying horses with the princes he contacted to build momentum.

Bao Xin found it strange that Cao Cao did not respond to this action. He wrote to Cao Cao and wrote to Guo Peng.

He persuaded Guo Peng to join the coalition against Dong. As long as Guo Peng joins the coalition against Dong, the chance of success in the campaign against Dong will be greater.

Cao Cao received Bao Xin's letter and felt helpless, so he wrote another letter to explain to Bao Xin.

Guo Peng also wrote to Bao Xin, saying that the Yellow Turban Army was plotting to attack Qi, and that he was really out of skills, and he had to wait until the Yellow Turban Army was wiped out before he could think about other things.

By the time the two replies were sent to Bao Xin, it was already New Years. In this year, officials in the court and China proposed to change the Yuan and change the reign name to Chuping. Dong Zhuo agreed, so the reign name was changed to Chuping.

Also at the beginning of the first month, Dong Zhuo learned that the old generals of the Kwantung He Jin planned to raise troops against him.

These people, led by Yuan Shao, played the banner of opposing Dong Zhuo's self-established emperor Liu Xie. They believed that Liu Xie was not the orthodox emperor, but Liu Bian, the nephew of General He Jin, was the orthodox emperor. They wanted to fight to Luoyang to restore Liu Bian's throne. .

Dong Zhuo was very annoyed, very angry, and very frightened when he heard this.

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Dong Zhuo, who felt good about himself, did not expect that someone would unite to oppose him, let alone Yuan Shao, who had been tolerant again and again, would actually take the lead in opposing him.

He was also very annoyed by the political appeals of the old generals.

But at this moment, Dong Zhuo didn't think about Yuan Kai, and didn't feel that Yuan Shao's actions had anything to do with Yuan Kai.

Because it was Yuan Kai who advocated the establishment of Liu Xie, and Yuan Wei advocated the establishment of Liu Xie and let himself contribute. How could Yuan Wei let Yuan Shao do such a thing now?

Dong Zhuo ruled out Yuan Kui's suspicion, and then raged at those of his subordinates who persuaded him to appoint officials to the old general He Jin, and almost killed them.

They desperately begged for mercy and said that they hadn't thought of it, which made Dong Zhuo reluctantly forgive them.

"Now that the situation has arisen, that traitor Yuan Shao raised the banner of rebellion against me, and even abolished the emperor. It is simply outrageous! I absolutely cannot allow this to happen! What can you do, tell me immediately."

The staff all found it difficult to accept, wasn't it your old man who abolished the emperor a few months ago?

Now he actually changed his identity and became a loyal minister guarding the royal family?

This is truly magical realism, where anything can happen.

But things have come to this, for the sake of everyone's heads, someone started to give Dong Zhuo ideas, such as military deterrence, political suppression.

Dong Zhuo didn't think it worked.

In the end, someone who could not be named proposed to Dong Zhuo a very terrifying strategy.

The political demands of those old generals were to abolish Liu Xie and establish Liu Bian. Then the root of the problem lies in Liu Bian. As long as Liu Bian is removed, Lingdi will only have one son. Then the political demands of those old generals Wouldn't it be nothing?

Dong Zhuo thought, hey, that's true, you are such a clever little ghost!

Why bother to solve the problem?Wouldn't it be enough to just let the problem itself go away?

So Dong Zhuo began to plan how to kill Liu Bian in a simple and convenient way.

To kill Liu Bian, it is definitely best to use Liu Bian's people around him, so Dong Zhuo and others chose and chose Hongnong Wang Lang Zhongling and Li Ru.

Li Ru was from Guanzhong. After Liu Bian was abolished as King Hongnong, he served as Lang Zhongling of King Hongnong. He was not satisfied with this position and wanted to get a higher position and leave the hopeless place of King Hongnong.

But he never got a reliable opportunity, and he felt depressed about it. Until this time, he finally got the opportunity, but the opportunity itself also needs to be paid, and the opportunity will only be reserved for those who are prepared (sacrifice) (sacrifice) people.

"what?!"

Li Ru was shocked.

The opportunity was right in front of him, but Li Ru was frightened.

"Opportunities are in front of you, Li Jun, you have to know how to grasp the opportunities. Remember, opportunities don't come every time."

Dong Min told Li Ru half persuading and half threatening that if you don't do this, you will die.

So whether you choose to do it and get riches and honors, or don’t do it, die by yourself, and enjoy the glory and wealth with someone else, it’s all up to you.

Li Ru experienced an extremely intense inner struggle.

Since there is no way to leave a name in history, it is good to leave a bad reputation for thousands of years.

Li Ru knew that he had no way out, he just wanted to live now.

So, on the twelfth day of the first month of the first year of Chuping, Dong Zhuo invited Liu Bian, king of Hongnong, to have dinner.

During the dinner, Dong Zhuo insisted that seeing Liu Bian's complexion was not good, he was sick, and ordered Li Ru to bring up a bowl of medicine for Liu Bian to take.

Liu Bian immediately realized that this was a political murder, and refused to take the medicine in extreme panic. Li Ru forced Liu Bian to do nothing. He had a meal with his wife Tang Ji, watched Tang Ji dance for the last time, and took the poison in grief. , died instantly.

Liu Bian died, and Dong Zhuo thought that the political appeal of the Kwantung Allied Forces was over.

As a result, this gave another group of people who wanted to oppose Dong Zhuo an excellent excuse to raise troops.

In fact, the Dong Lianjun was divided into three batches.

Qiao Mao took the initiative, and Yuan Shao took over the command flag and organized the first batch of anti-Dong coalition forces of the old general He Jin. He used the restoration of Liu Bian's throne as a political appeal, pushed all problems to Dong Zhuo, and opposed Dong Zhuo.

The second batch of anti-Dong coalition forces was launched after the news came out after Liu Bian's death.

Most of this group were celebrities appointed by Dong Zhuo to serve as governors and prefects of various states.

They took Liu Bian's death as an opportunity, and secretly based on Yuan Kai's will, launched a joint discussion with Dong Dong.

The two groups of people hit it off and formed a massive anti-Dong coalition.

Yuan Shu's actions and reactions are relatively slow, and his reputation is really not as loud as Yuan Shao's. He still fled after Dong Zhuo abolished the emperor, and his reputation is lacking.

Therefore, everyone regards Yuan Shao as the main force, not Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu has only a few people such as Sun Jian, the prefect of Changsha, following him, and he is the third wave of troops to challenge Dong.

The three waves of fighting against Dong Bingma are collectively known as the Kwantung Allied Army.

In the beginning, it was just Qiao Mao's counterattack against Dong Zhuo by the old general He Jin under the auspices of Yuan Shao.

In February, the news of Liu Bian's death spread throughout the Kanto region. Not only Yuan Shao and others were stunned, but also those celebrities who were not ready to ask for Dong.

They never expected that Dong Zhuo would be so brave and dare to kill Liu Bian!

Although Dong Zhuo claimed that Liu Bian died of illness, everyone knew that Liu Bian was killed by Dong Zhuo. Even if he really died of illness, it must be Dong Zhuo.

In any case, it was Dong Zhuo who killed him.