From the beginning of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the rivers and rivers of the Han Empire were no longer in style. Only 5 years later, with the northwest tiger wolf Dong Zhuo entering the capital to rebel, the world officially ushered in a new era - the division of princes. The chaotic world is indispensable to the hero, but more is the foil of the marquee, less is the protagonist on the stage to show the style.
In 190 AD, as the previous year's Taeshou Qiaoqiao forged the three official documents of the Eastern Commandery and spread the call of the Prefecture County to please Dong, the Kwantung Prefecture Pastor, The Assassin History, and the Taishou all responded with troops, which is the well-known Eighteen-Way Princes' Alliance in the interpretation. Of course, there are not so many roads in history, counting Cao Cao's total of only 11 roads (one says 12 roads, plus Zhang Chao's brother Zhang Chao), not all gathered in sour dates, but stationed in different places, the only people who really came to sour dates were Yuan Shu, Yuan Yi, Liu Dai, Bao Xin, Zhang Mi, Qiao Mao, Zhang Chao and Cao Cao 8 roads, and Yuan Shao's position as the leader of the alliance was pushed by everyone.
But things are bad on this "remote push". It is not that the remote push is wrong, after all, Yuan Shao's prestige and family background are there, and the position of the lord of the alliance is none other than him. It was that he was not stationed in the sour date camp, and only then did he have the follow-up heart-wrenching disaster. Where was Yuan Shao's garrison at that time? Hanoi. Probably in the area of Jiaozuo, Henan. And stationed here, not only Yuan Shao's army, but also Hanoi Taishou Wang Kuang.
Who is Wang Kuang? He was from the Tai'an clan of present-day Shandong, and when he was young, he had already befriended the Famous Qingliu scholar Cai Yong, which showed that his origin must be unusual. And this person is light and charitable, chivalrous and hot-hearted, so he is very famous. "It's been hours" is no exaggeration to say on him. As an adult, because of his great reputation, he was recruited by the great general He Jin, became a member of the general's palace, and was sent back to his hometown to recruit soldiers before plotting eunuchs. As a result, Wang Kuangbing was recruited, and He Jin's head had already moved. There was no way, Wang Kuang had to hide.
Later, at the invitation of Yuan Shao, he again participated in the subsequent ex-eunuch action, which was also a great reputation, and soon after he was appointed as the Taishou of Hanoi, and then participated in the discussion of Dong and became a prince of Yilu. Such a life is supposedly quite good. But then the problem arises.
Faced with the huge Kwantung Alliance, Dong Zhuo took the advice of his subordinates and sent a number of important imperial court officials to Hanoi to lobby the alliance leader Yuan Shao. But Dong Zhuo forgot that Yuan Shao was not a good person, he had dared to openly argue with him in Luoyang, and now that he had taken advantage of the reputation of eunuchs and dong, he had vaguely become the leader of the shi clan, and Dong Zhuo had beheaded the clan members of the Yuan clan who remained in Luoyang, and he was willing to obey Dong Zhuo's orders? The important ministers sent by Dong Zhuo all became prisoners under the ranks, and they were beheaded in a few days to show that they were incompatible with Dong Zhuo.2
But it was not Yuan Shao himself who carried out this task, but Wang Kuang, who was with him in Hanoi. Coincidentally, among these slain ministers, one of them happened to be Wang Kuang's brother-in-law, Hu Wuban.
Wang Kuang this is a great righteousness to destroy relatives.
Was it Wang Kuang who took the initiative to ask for help in order to show his attitude, or did Yuan Shao force him to do so, using Wang Kuang's special identity to create a low-pressure atmosphere in which the Kwantung Alliance and Dong Thief had nothing to talk about? The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms quotes Pei Songzhi as having only one sentence: "Kuang first killed Jin Wu Hu Wuban." It is not possible to accurately judge the role that Wang Kuang played in the whole thing. In the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, it is clearly written: "Shao made Wang Kuang kill the class". Wang Kuang was an executioner.
But then came the problem. Did Wang Kuang take the initiative to ask for help, and Yuan Shao pushed the boat along the water and ordered him to be in charge, or did Yuan Shao force Wang Kuang to kill people? Because Hu Wuban was not from an ordinary background, the ensuing revenge of his family had to be borne by someone. Whoever is in charge will have to take responsibility, although with Yuan Shao's family background, the Hu Family may not be able to do anything to him.
If it is Wang Kuang who asks for help, then this Haojie, who is known for his chivalry, is really a model of "not necessarily good when the hour is big". The former ancient road hot sausage hero liver and gallbladder, it turned out to be only for the world to see, after gaining enough reputation, turned around in front of Yuan Shao and willingly became a thug and a biting dog. But if it is the latter, in addition to letting people see Yuan Shao's viciousness (with your family being killed), you have to let the person next to you kill his relatives to relieve the hatred, right? It was Dong Zhuo who had a vendetta against you Yuan Benchu, and I didn't see you personally mentioning the army directly attacking Luoyang and Chang'an, only seeing you kill the imperial court's heavy courtiers, singing at night, coveting Jizhou to kill Han Fu, and Yuan Benchu's villains), and at the same time, it was inevitable that people felt heartache that Wang Kuang finally had to make such a choice.
Because in the chaotic world, people gradually lose their principles.
In prison, Hu Wuban wrote a letter denouncing Wang Kuang's vicious behavior, but eventually entrusted his two daughters to him. This can be understood as his only choice of Wang Kuang, but it may also be that he has seen through Wang Kuang's helplessness. Yuan Shao, this person, has a great reputation and talent, but he is a typical zhida talent. He did not dare to confront Dong Zhuo, and he was afraid of the ensuing retaliation of the Hu Wu family, and in order to create the image of the Kwantung Army that destroyed his relatives in righteousness, he fiercely used Wang Kuang. But Wang Kuang did not have a choice.
After reading the letter, he could only hold Hu Wuban's daughter and cry bitterly. He couldn't complain about the heinous hatred expressed in Hu Wuban's letters—the mouth of Zhang Hu and the wolf, the poison of the long snake, and the anger of Gong Zhuo, how cool! Because the nature of this matter is nothing more than that. But he was powerless to change anything, and Hu Wuban's fate and his own fate had already been decided from this moment on. Hu Wuban will die, and he himself will soon die. This may have been the answer that Wang Kuang already knew the moment he accepted Yuan Shao's order.
Wang Kuang, who destroyed his relatives in righteousness, completely became a thorn in the eye of the Hu Wu family. Just when he was defeated by Dong Zhuo and returned to his hometown to recruit thousands of troops and prepare to unite with Zhang Miao, Hu Wu's family, who had already held their breath, finally could not contain the anger in their hearts and joined forces with Cao Cao to kill him.
When wang Kuang, who was chivalrous and hot-hearted, finally chose to bow to Yuan Shao, and his hands were stained with blood, what we saw was that the brilliance of human nature had since plummeted, and he finally became a victim of the times. The chivalrous men who sang generously and sadly have since become fewer and fewer. In a chaotic world, life is like grass, and how to survive has become the only thing most people have to consider. They are right, who wants to leave someone else in a hurry? But this is the sadness of the times. Yuan Shao was a huge pusher who completely detonated this moral decline.
Wang Kuang, on the other hand, is just the beginning.
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