#War Storm #How luxurious was Dong Zhuo's peak lineup? Two top strategists, three marshals, and more than ten fierce generals (Part 1)
Speaking of Dong Zhuo, a historical figure, the image of a courtier who threatened the son of heaven to make the princes and a lustful lustful person could not help but appear in front of everyone's eyes.
Many people in history have a negative evaluation of him, such as Lu Zhi, a teacher who studied when Liu Bei was a teenager, who once commented that he was "fierce and difficult to control, and will inevitably have troubles in the future." Later, Dong Zhuo deposed the Han Shao Emperor and established Emperor Xian of Han to control the government, which also confirmed Lu Zhi's words.
Another thing related to Dong Zhuo that has been widely discussed by later generations is the love-hate entanglement between him and the mink cicada and Lü Bu, and there is still a pause "Dong Zhuo plays the mink cicada and dies under the flowers".
And the story between him and the sinking fish and falling geese and the mink cicadas who close the moon and shy flowers are even more enjoyable. Dong Zhuo's image in the future is mostly a negative image of a despicable villain, but can you imagine how strong he was at his peak?
Power tilts to the opposition, the cultivation of a generation of traitors
Dong Zhuo was a famous courtier at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and since he poisoned Empress He, abolished the Han Shao Emperor Liu Xie, and supported the Han Emperor Liu Xie to ascend the throne, the Eastern Han regime also really went to the end of the name, and he naturally became a generation of powerful ministers who were in power at that time.
Dong Zhuozi Zhongying, according to today's geographical division, he should belong to the People's Republic of China. When he was a child, Dong Zhuo was also quite chivalrous, because Min County was located in the northwest region and was relatively close to ethnic minorities such as the Qiang, so he especially liked to make friends with the Qiang people at that time. And his arrogance can be seen in a small story of his youth.
Because when he was young, Dong Zhuo liked to make friends with the Qiang people, especially with many Qiang leaders. Later, Dong Zhuo returned to his hometown to farm, and the Qiang leaders came to see him, and Dong Zhuo deliberately slaughtered the cattle in the cultivated land to entertain them. You must know that at that time, it was still an agricultural society, and cultivating cattle was not an ordinary domestic animal, nor could it be slaughtered privately, and slaughtering cattle privately would be punished by law.
In fact, from this story alone, it can be seen that Dong Zhuo has a strong rebellious spirit from an early age, which also laid the groundwork for his later subversion of the Han court and violation of etiquette.
At the same time, Dong Zhuo is also a warrior with high martial arts, he has experienced many battles of large and small in his early years, and it is not too much to say that he has experienced hundreds of battles, and has made great achievements.
During the pacification of the Liangzhou rebellion of Beigong Boyu, Liwen Hou, Han Sui and others under the banner of crusading against eunuchs, because of his merits in quelling the rebellion, he was given the title of Marquis of Pingxiang, with a thousand households, and Dong Zhuojia was knighted, thus beginning the first step in his later power to the opposition and control the government.
Later, when Yuan Shao killed the eunuchs in the imperial court and the side of the Qing emperor, the chaotic situation was threatened by both the Han Shao Emperor Liu Jie and the empress dowager, and later Dong Zhuo led his troops to arrive in time to save the Han Shao Emperor in time, and thus began his political career in the imperial government.
In fact, when he rescued Emperor Shao of Han, Dong Zhuo also met Liu Xie, who was still the king of Chen Liu at that time, and at that time he greatly appreciated Liu Xie's calm and self-reliance after experiencing the rebellion, and because Liu Xie was raised by Empress Dong since childhood, he thought that he was of the same clan as Empress Dong, and at this time he had the idea of establishing a new emperor in his heart.
It was not until Dong Zhuo later annexed Luoyang's army and further strengthened his strength that he began his plan to establish a new emperor. He informed Taifu Yuan Kui of the plan in the form of a letter and obtained his approval.
Later, at a court meeting, Dong Zhuo used Huo Guang's example to propose a plan to change the new emperor, threatening his subjects to kill whoever opposed it, and finally Emperor Shao of Han stepped off the dragon chair with the help of The Taifu Yuan Kui, and Liu Xie also ascended the throne with the support of Dong Zhuo and was called Emperor Xian.
And on the third day of the new emperor's reign, Empress He was poisoned and killed in the palace, and Dong Zhuo also ordered his courtiers not to hold funerals for her. At this point, Dong Zhuo completely realized his plan to blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and became the real ruler behind the Eastern Han Court at that time.
