If Wang Yun accepts Li Dai and Guo Feng's request to surrender, can the Han Dynasty be revived?
Actually... Wang Yun was quickly defeated because he had the illusion of "reviving the Han Room" and "thought too much".
Wang Yun's "sudden change"
Until the last month of Wang Yun's life, Wang Yun was a capable, shrewd, and loyal "ruler of the world."
When he was a magistrate, he governed properly and had a good official name; when he suppressed the Yellow Turban Rebellion, he personally led the troops and made great military achievements; when he planned to eliminate Dong Zhuo, he planned far-reaching and took every step as a battalion.
It can be said that Wang Yun fully meets the standard of "the able minister who governs the world".
However, after getting rid of Dong Zhuo, Wang Yun was inexplicably like a different person, he fainted, made mistakes again and again, and died in just over a month!
Especially on the issue of dealing with the Liangzhou Army, Wang Yun's actions are simply incomprehensible.
He actually refused Li Dai and Guo Feng's request to surrender on the grounds that he could not be granted two amnesties within a year, and as a result, he forced the people of Liangzhou to rebel and quickly perished.
Wang Yun's ability to pretend to submit to Dong Zhuo as a Situ shows that he is by no means a pedantic person, but a person who has changed his power.
Then, why would Wang Yun, who had changed his powers, not understand the general situation and obstinately reject Li Dai and Guo Feng?
This shows that Wang Yun is by no means simply ignorant of the general situation and ignorant of the situation, but has his own plans.
In 192, there was still a chance to re-bridge the world
In April 192, Wang Yun and Lü Bu killed Dong Zhuo.
At the time, at least on the surface, there seemed to be an opportunity for the world to be re-bridged.
Jizhou: Yuan Shaogang defeated Gongsun Zhan at the Battle of Jieqiao and gained a foothold in Jizhou.
Youzhou: Although Gongsun Zhan was strong, Youzhou was still under Liu Yu's rule.
Xuzhou: Tao Qian governs Xuzhou. Previously, he had responded to the call of the famous general Zhu Juan and sent troops to support, and seemed to have a heart for the Han Room.
Yanzhou: Liu Dai is dealing with the threat of the Qingxu Yellow Turban, and Cao Cao has just established himself in Dong County.
Jingzhou: It was in April of that year that Liu Biao defeated Sun Jian and defused the crisis. Liu Biao has always contributed to the imperial court.
Yuzhou( 豫州, Nanyang): Nanyang Taishou Yuan Shu and his Yuzhou assassin Shi Sun Jian were on a crusade against Liu Biao in Jingzhou, but progress was not smooth.
Yizhou: Liu Yan has established a firm foothold in Yizhou.
Elsewhere: Basically, imperial court officials are still in power.
It can be said that in April 192, no huge military group had been formed across several states, and the sphere of influence of each group was limited to one state, and most of the prefectures and counties were still presided over by famous scholars such as Tao Qian, Kong Rong, Liu Dai, and Zhang Mi, as well as the clans such as Liu Biao, Liu Yu, and Liu Yan (rather than the later "heroes").
Moreover, shortly before that, Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan also accepted the mediation of the imperial court and stopped the attack.
They rose up in the war against Dong Zhuo, and now that Dong Zhuo is dead, the world seems to have a chance to re-heal on the surface.
Wang Yun's plan
After killing Dong Zhuo, Wang Yun had two choices.
1. "Holding the Son of Heaven hostage", Dong Zhuo in the past and Cao Cao later, strive to be the tyrant who competes in the world.
2. Go back to the past, reconstruct the relationship between the imperial court and the localities, and restore the majesty of the imperial court.
Wang Yun's choice was the latter.
In fact, this is not Wang Yun's choice alone. Emperor Fusong, Zhu Juan, and other high-ranking officials with strength and prestige also have this tendency; they are capable, but they are unwilling to be the tyrants who are chasing the deer in the world, and they still want to be "Han officials."
To this end, Wang Yun, who originally had no shortage of power changes, began to be "pedantic" and tied his hands and feet.
He carefully followed all constraints.
In this way, it is not difficult to understand Wang Yun's "faint move".
Wang Yun, who "refused military power"
As if to show that he was not Dong Zhuo and the like, Wang Yun "refused the right to fight" .
1. Refusal to reward the army.
Lü Bu once suggested: Reward the generals in the army to collect their hearts.
Wang Yun refused.
2. Force the Liangzhou Army to rebel.
At the beginning, when Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang, He Jin and He Miao were killed. Dong Zhuo did not bring many soldiers, but he was still able to seize the opportunity to absorb He Jin and He Miao's troops, and then control the forbidden army and control the imperial court.
After Dong Zhuo's death, the Liangzhou army was leaderless, Xu Rong, Hu Yi, Duan Sheng, and others submitted, and with wang Yun's past talent and legitimacy of the Han court, Wang Yun was not unable to take the opportunity to "divide and rule" the Liangzhou army and properly incorporate it.
However, although Wang Yun admitted that the liangzhou people's sins were coercion, he said that they could not be pardoned, but should be allowed to accept appropriate punishment.
Later, Wang Yun refused to let Emperor Fusong unify the Liangzhou Army, but wanted the Kwantung people to arrange for the dissolution of the Liangzhou Army.
In a word, Wang Yun "refused the right to fight"!
The importance of military power is well known, but can Wang Yun not know it?
Wang Yun's "faint move" is not a lack of intelligence, but a single-minded desire to reconstruct the order of the world!
The Han Room cannot be revived
However, the inability to revive the Han Dynasty is already a historical trend that Wang Yun alone can reverse.
Wang Yun mouthed a "Guandong Haojie", and even before his death, he also asked Lü Bu to encourage Guandong Haojie not to forget the Son of Heaven, he was willing to build order with Guandong Haojie.
However, the strange thing is that in the history books, there are few records of Kwantung Haojie's interaction with Wang Yun's court.
There is only one possibility: no one will take care of him!
The disintegration of the world is the inevitable result of the development of the powerful landlord forces since the Eastern Han Dynasty. The so-called opposition to Dong Zhuo is just an excuse for them to expand their interests!
A year ago, Yuan Shao, the anti-Dong Zhuo alliance leader, had already set the goal of "commanding the world north of the Great River and rebuking the unconvincing"; Gongsun Zhan even thought that "the affairs of the world can be determined".
The heroes are not interested in going back in time, they have opened their mouths and talked about "the world"!
In this case, the military power, you Wang Yun not want, someone will want!
The Liangzhou army had previously brutally killed the secretary of state, plundered the people, and destroyed Luoyang, which was indignant.
As long as Wang Yun was still tied up, he would never dare to go against his will and give a pardon, and they would inevitably be uneasy, and they would inevitably cause turmoil in the Liangzhou Army!
At this time, only a hero who dares to act boldly and dares to break the rules can stabilize the situation, and not Wang Yun, who is trying to return to the bureaucracy.
In addition, the city of Chang'an was strong and not easy to capture.
Li Dai and Guo Feng were even prepared to fail and plunder away.
At this time, the soldiers in the forbidden army opened the city gate, and Lü Bu's hezhou army did not fight to the death, and they were unwilling to "fight to the death" for the Han Chamber.
Because, in the hearts of the people of the world, the banner of the Han Room is no longer possible to stabilize the world, and to survive, only to rely on the strong!
Obsolete systems
The bureaucracy of the Eastern Han Dynasty could no longer meet the requirements of the times.
In just a few years after the fall of Wang Yun, the territory of Liu Dai, Zhang Mi, Kong Rong, Tao Qian, and other bureaucrats was seized by the "heroes" and withdrew from the stage of history.
Whether at the central or local level, the bureaucrats of the Eastern Han Dynasty became the first to be eliminated in the chaotic world.
Therefore, what would happen if Wang Yun accepted the attachment of Li Dai and Guo Feng?
Wang Yun, who either presented himself as a "hero" and threatened Tianzi to compete with the four sides, or continued his great ambition to restore order in the Han Dynasty, and finally died in another mutiny.
The Han Chamber could not be revived.