Perhaps in the eyes of many people, Dong Zhuo's image is a "brainless" big fat man.
I once talked about his IQ during the "Western Liang Rebellion", and if this is not enough to prove that he is "strategic", then this article will talk about his political skills and his real intention to make a big fuss in Luoyang but not to lose the hearts and minds of the people.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="25" >, Dong Zhuo's political skills</h1>
In November 189, "Dong Zhuo was regarded as the xiangguo, the worship was not named, the entry into the dynasty was not trending, and the sword was on the temple."
"Xiangguo" was the highest official position in the Qin state during the Warring States period, originally called "Xiangbang", which was used by the Han Dynasty, in order to avoid the name of "Liu Bang", it was renamed "Xiangguo", and this position was no longer held until Lü Zhuo's nephew Lü Chan, until the appearance of Dong Zhuo.
As for those special courtesies, in simple terms, you can wear shoes and carry a knife and swing to the ground.
The so-called one person gets the Tao, the chicken dog ascends to heaven, but Dong Zhuo is very interesting, and the promotions are all imprisoned party members or well-known scholars, such as the Three Gongs: Huang Huan is the lieutenant, Yang Biao is the Situ, and Xun Shuang is the Sikong.
Huang Huan was the grandson of The Great Lieutenant Huang Qiong, who had been suppressed for nearly twenty years because of the scourge of the party; Yang Biao needless to say, I had written an article entitled "Hongnong Yang Clan", if you are interested, you can take a look; Xun Shuang is from the Yingchuan Xun clan, Xun You, Xun Yu, are all cattle people of this clan.
These three people, the speed of promotion is like a rocket. Take Xun Shuang as an example, he was summoned as the Minister of The Plains as a hermit, he had not yet arrived, he was posthumously worshipped as Guanglu Xun, and his ass was promoted to the position of Sikong without sitting hot, and the whole process took only three months...
In this long list of promotions, few of them were his own cronies, which was Dong Zhuo's political skill, he sealed the high-ranking official Houlu with the soldiers, and let the military power firmly in the hands of his own people.
After all, Dong Zhuo's level is limited, and his means are far below Cao Cao's, because Dong Zhuo has ignored too many problems, the most fatal of which is that he has not restrained his own banditry.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="163" > two, Dong Zhuo's gangsterism</h1>
In addition to the wanton sealing of officials, what else did Dong Zhuo do? Simply put, it is to accumulate wealth and indulge.
After taking control of the imperial government, all the treasures in the world changed their surname to "Dong", and Dong Zhuo did not maximize his wealth like Emperor Hanling, but rewarded the soldiers.
The money is divided, how to earn it back? There are many ways, such as: cast it yourself!
Therefore, Dong Zhuo began to scrap the "five baht" and mint "small money", that is to say, to use money that was several times lighter than the "five baht" to spend it as "five baht", in exchange for the heavier weight of the "five baht money" in the hands of the people and enrich the national treasury.
In Dong Zhuo's view, this kind of behavior was not fast enough, let alone absolute, so he directly plundered and robbed and started the bandit business.
That's right, the later Liu Bei did almost the same thing as Dong Zhuo.
Of course, this kind of behavior had a huge impact on both of them, Dong Zhuo was lit after his death, and Liu Bei almost lost the hearts of the people.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="166" >3. Kyoto is like hell on earth</h1>
Dong Zhuo is more like a bandit than Liu Bei, and he does everything to the extreme.
Xi Liangbing, in the absence of any restraint, not only had money in his eyes, but when he saw women, regardless of their origins, once they succeeded, they directly pushed them down and slept until they were rich and rich, and they actually became the capital to boast, dong Zhuo not only did not punish them, but also called the behavior of the fanatics "searching for prisons."
Later, due to the urgency of moving the capital, the rich people were simply gathered, the money and grain were taken away, the men were killed, the women were rewarded to the soldiers, and before leaving, the fire burned Luoyang City, "within two hundred miles, the rooms and houses were destroyed, and the chickens and dogs were no longer there."
You know, Luoyang is the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty, is a holy place in the hearts of the courtiers, and the relatives of the emperor and the state, the family of the family, are very many, they look at each other in the house, the relationship between the in-laws is complicated, perhaps the rich family is not famous, but in the case of the prevalence of selling officials and lords, it is inevitable that there are relatives who are officials in the dynasty.
In addition to making the living rich, the dead have not spared!
In the Han Dynasty, filial piety was incorruptible, although the taste changed at the end, but "filial piety" has penetrated deep into the bone marrow, whether true or false. Among them, the number of funerary objects is also one of the criteria for judging "filial piety", which is why "Han Tomb...", you know.
Therefore, up to the emperor's mausoleum, down to the family tombs of the people, during Dong Zhuo's reign, they were all excavated wildly, and it was really not an exaggeration to say that Luoyang at that time was like a hell on earth.
Not only that, Dong Zhuo also moved into the palace to satisfy his carnal desires, and princesses, concubines, and even palace women became Dong Zhuo's "booty".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="167" > fourth, Dong Zhuo's real purpose</h1>
Aren't you afraid of losing the hearts and minds of the people and arousing the indignation of the people?
I am afraid that Dong Zhuo did not commit brainless violence, but wanted to achieve the effect of "Li Wei" through atrocities.
The history book's comment to Dong Zhuo is "Young good man... Rough and scheming", through his past history, I have reason to believe that he made plans when he returned from the north of the mountains.
In the shortest possible time, he must use high-ranking officials to win over soldiers, use heavy gold to win over soldiers, depose the emperor to shock the court, establish military prestige with atrocities, and then accumulate wealth, build high walls, and become a happy earth emperor.
Later generations have said, "Dong Zhuo moved the capital to Chang'an because he was afraid of the Kwantung Alliance", perhaps, but is it possible that this was his idea early on?
I guess that in Dong Zhuo's plan, Luoyang is just a tool, he will not live in the place where he committed violence for a long time, and moving the capital to Chang'an is the best choice, which is the starting point of the Silk Road, where it is also the former capital of the Han Dynasty, and most importantly, it is closer to Longxi.
However, Chang'an was once looted by the Chimei Army, and everything was in ruins, and once the capital was moved, it was equivalent to starting over.
Of course, this is just a possibility that I think is myself, as for what the real situation is, I can only go back and ask Dong Zhuo...
Whatever Dong Zhuo's intentions were, violence would inevitably lead to strong resistance.
As early as the first month of 190, Kwantung Prefecture Elected Yuan Shao, the Taishou of Bohai, as its ally, and Yuan Shao claimed to be a che riding general and granted the generals temporary official titles, thus officially rebelling against Dong.
In addition to the Kwantung rebels, there were many anti-Dong forces, and Dong Zhuo was afraid that the rebels wanted to support the deposed Han Shao Emperor Liu Jue, so he sent Li Ru, one of the most mysterious strategists in the history of the Three Kingdoms, to send Liu Wei a cup of poisoned wine, so that Liu Xie, who he had established, would become the only orthodox heir of the Han Dynasty.
According to historical records,
As mentioned earlier, when Liu Wei faced Dong Zhuo's soldiers and horses, he couldn't stop crying, and this time in the face of this cup of poisonous wine that was said to "ward off evil spirits", I don't know if he also shed tears, at least before leaving, no one would laugh at him.
As for Tang Ji, since Liu Jie's death, no matter how much Tang Mao persuaded him not to marry, even if Li Dai attacked Chang'an and wanted to marry Tang Ji, he did not succeed, until Jia Xu informed Emperor Xian of this matter, and was admitted to the palace and named Princess Hongnong.
In fact, in the history of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, there are still many women worthy of boasting, so let's talk about it slowly later.