Chapter 6 Dong Zhuo, the son of the Dong family (Part 1)
Dong Zhuo's name is Zhongying, his father Dong Ya, his elder brother Dong Zhuo died early, his younger brother Dong Min, his son Dong Mao, and his daughter Dong Yuan...
If it weren't for seeing it with your own eyes or feeling it with your own eyes, Dong Hu would have thought that Dong Zhuo was a big villain. After living in this world for more than ten years, Dong Zhuo was no different from ordinary border generals in his eyes.
Dong Zhuo was like a raid in his early years and had many reputations in the Qiang family. Therefore, he was attracted by the Baima Qiang Lao Wang, who was south of Longxi County, and became the son-in-law of the Baima Qiang Lao Wang.
To the west of Longxi County are the Qiang tribes of Hehuang in Jincheng County, and to the south are the Qiang tribes of Shenlang and Baima Qiang. To the south are the Qiang tribes of Jincheng County are guarded and protected by Qiang tribes. In addition to guarding Jishishan, Longxi County does not need a large army to protect the west, but the Qiang tribes of Shenlang and Qiang in the south are different.
The Ganlang Qiang invaded Longxi County from time to time to rob. Lintao, the southernmost city in Longxi County, became the seat of the southern commander of Longxi County.
In the south of Lintao, there is the ginseng Lang Qiang, and in the south is the Baima Qiang. Dong Zhuo is the son-in-law of the Baima Qiang Lao Wang. The two attacked the ginseng Lang Qiang in the Ginseng Lang Valley, and the ginseng Lang Qiang could only stay in their nests and dare not make trouble again. This is why Dong Zhuo became the captain of the southern Lintao camp.
It was also because Dong Zhuo had a good relationship with the Qiang tribes and was brave and good at fighting. Because the Huns often rebelled, Dong Zhuo was transferred to Xiliang by Duan Yi, the Qiang-guarding captain, to serve as a member of the Qiang tribe. Just like Chen Yi, who was abducted by the imperial court to recruit famous scholars from the Western Liang, Yan Zhong and Han Sui, and Bian Zhang, the Xiongnu rebelled. What was terrible was that the Qiang people rebelled, and Dong Zhuo had a high reputation in various Qiang tribes.
Success or failure is the most suitable thing for Dong Zhuo.
When Duan Yi was appointed as the captain of the Qiang Hu Qiang, Dong Zhuo was under his name; when Duan Yi was appointed as the governor of Bingzhou, Dong Zhuo was recommended to the Duke's Mansion by Duan Yi for his merits and served as Yulin Lang...
Speaking of this, we need to talk about the selection system of the imperial officials.
There are usually two ways for the imperial court to select officials. One is similar to the scientific examination, and the Imperial College students take up posts after the palace examination. The Imperial College students often come from officials from Luoyang Northern Army and the "Southern Army" or the palace guards. These people are often behind ministers, and some are officials from the court.
The second way to select officials is to select local officials, such as "selecting good people" in the local area, such as "filial piety and honest people", and the enthronement of Dong Zhuo when attacking the Huns.
In the early years, the court paid attention to the officials selected from the village, but since the great generals Liang Yi and Dou Wu, the emperor did not trust the civil and military ministers of the court, and repeatedly carried out party corruption. Therefore, the emperor was more willing to trust the Tai students who were born in court guards.
In other words, when Duan Yan recommended Dong Zhuo as "Yulin Lang", he was already a "too student". As for exams, it was not a big deal. Just pay for it. Dong Zhuo, butcher He Jin and He Miao were the same. If he didn't serve as a guard in the palace first, he would not be able to become an official. Therefore, Emperor Liu Hong publicly sold the guards in the palace in Xiyuan, and then sold the officials of various counties.
The emperor did not trust the civil and military ministers of the court, and instead preferred to use the Taishu student who was born as a palace guard. When Duan Yan recommended Dong Zhuo as Yulin Lang, there were no obstacles in his journey to promotion.
After being the Yulin Lang for a year, Dong Zhuo was recommended by Duan Yi to Zhang Huan, the general of the Huns, who was appointed as the Sima of Zhang Huan's army. Later, the Qiang people rebelled and rushed into the three auxiliary places of Guanzhong. Zhang Huan transferred Dong Zhuo to encircle and suppress them. Later, he was ordered to resist the invasion of the Xianbei people by Guangwu Order of Yanmen. The Qiang people in northern Sichuan and Yizhou rebelled, and then transferred Dong Zhuo to be the commander of the northern Shu County of Yizhou to defend against the Qiang tribes of the Songfan grassland. Later, Liangzhou Xiu Tu, Xian Qiang rebelled, and then transferred Dong Zhuo to be the commander of Wuji, the Western Regions...
The same words are true, success or failure of Xiao He. Dong Zhuo was the one who was favored by Duan Jing and Zhang Huan recommended by Duan Jing. Although it cannot be said that he has a prosperous official career, he is still stable. However, after Dong Zhuo served as the captain of Wu Ji in the Western Regions, he was in trouble and was in trouble because of Zhang Huan and Duan Jing.
General Dou Wu and Grand Tutor Chen Fan wanted to join forces to kill all the eunuchs in the inner court. At this critical moment, Zhang Huan, Yin Duan and Dong Zhuo had just pacified the rebellion of the Western Qiang and were leading 50,000 troops and countless prisoners into the capital to offer prisoners. The inner court sent envoys to tell Zhang Huan that Dou Wu was rebelling, and Zhang Huan forced Dou Wu to commit suicide.
After Dou Wu committed suicide, Zhang Huan realized that he had been deceived by the eunuchs in the inner court and was unwilling to surrender to the inner court and resigned for retirement. Therefore, Yin Duan and Dong Zhuo both became unlucky, but Dong Zhuo was different from Yin Duan. He became the Grand Marshal Duan recommended it to Zhang Huan.
Zhang Huan forced General Dou Wu to death, but he had no choice but to give up military power to support his old age. Perhaps because of the tragedy of the rabbit and the fox, Duan Yan also joined the eunuchs for this reason. Duan Yan said that Dong Zhuo did not suffer much influence for a while, but then, Dong Zhuo still failed to escape this disaster.
Duan Qi was close to the Tenth Constables of the Court, and the Qingliu Party members in the court also exiled their anger on Duan Qi. After the Sili School Commander Yang Qiu grabbed Duan Qi, Duan Qi was imprisoned and finally committed suicide under poison. His family was exiled. Although Zhang Qiu did not get any good later, he was killed by the Tenth Constables, which even triggered a larger-scale party and corruption incident. However, because Dong Zhuo was a disciple of Duan Qi, he was also labeled as an eunuch by the Qingliu of the Court and was dismissed from office.
Dong Zhuo was promising because of Duan Jing, and was dismissed from his post because of Duan Jing. Isn’t it true that Xiao He succeeded or failed?
As a member of the "Dong Family", he can ignore Dong Hu, but he must understand some of what Dong Zhuo did. Judging from Dong Zhuo's resume, he doesn't look like a big bad guy. He is obviously a border general who has made great achievements in the Han Dynasty and is also a border general who needs to go wherever he needs to go. How come he became a big bad guy in the words of later generations?
Dong Hu doesn’t know!
But he knew that Dong Zhuo died miserably later. Not only did he lit the sky lantern himself, but his family also died with all his family.
Did Dong Zhuo do what he did later? Dong Hu thought he could not judge it. He just instinctively didn't want to have too many entanglements with the Dong family, but the reality is cruel. If you want to survive in this world and want to support the brothers and sisters behind him, there must be a big tree behind him, even if he sometimes just needs to rely on the title of Dong Zhuo.
Dong Hu stood outside the door of Dong's mansion for a quarter of an hour until the disabled man Dong Mao walked out with a crutch, and then he hurriedly stepped forward to support him.
"Where is the eldest son going? Why don't the servants get a carriage?"
Dong Mao is Dong Zhuo's only son, but he is not favored by Dong Zhuo because of his legs and feet. He has no status at home and is a person with a low presence, but Dong Hu likes gentle and unpretentious eldest son of the Dong family.
Seeing that it was Dong Hu, Dong Mao couldn't help but smile and said, "You kid won't want to buy some rice and grain again, right?"
Dong Hu helped Dong Mao sit on the horse-tie stone not far away, scratching his head and said, "It's because he wants to ask for some food from the eldest son, but Huwa came today mainly to meet his uncle."
Dong Mao couldn't help but be stunned. Although his legs and feet were not good, his mind was not stupid. After years of interaction, he could feel that Dong Hu was not very willing to be too close to the Dong family. As for the reason...
Dong Mao shook his head slightly, just when Dong Hu was a little puzzled about what he meant to shake his head...
"Tell me, how much food did you have to buy this time?"
Dong Hu thought about it and said, "I may have to ask for more this time, at least it will be enough for a thousand people to need a year. Of course... The eldest son also knows the wealth of Huwa, so he also asks the eldest son to be able to owe some Huwa to a credit."
"One thousand people? Eat for one year?"
Dong Mao was stunned for a moment, looking at Dong Hu's expression was quite strange, and he pointed his finger in front of him, and Dong Hu had to stretch his big head closer.
"Bang!"
Dong Mao knocked his big head hard and smiled and said, "You kid won't really escape because of Prefect Chen, right? If you really escape, your father would be angry that I owed you money and food on credit."
Dong Hu squatted in front of Dong Mao and scratched his head for a while, sighing: "I think the eldest son has also heard about what happened in Jincheng County."
"Well. I heard it a little. I heard that you, a hundred and ten people, dared to attack hundreds of Po Qiang. A few days ago, my father praised you for being a genital. Why? Are you scared now?"
"It's not that scared, Huwa just thought of poking Po Qiang's butt again."
"Oh? Punch Qiang's butt again?"
Dong Mao suddenly became interested and smiled and said, "Tell me, how did you pierce Qiang's butt? If I touched me, I will sell you 20,000 shi of grain at a low price, and give you some good things."
Dong Hu scratched his head and thought for a while, and asked, "If the eldest son was Beigong Boyu, Han Sui and others, would the eldest son stop after rebelling and seizing Yunwu City?"
Dong Mao smiled and said, "Isn't this obvious? Naturally, I want to seize Jincheng. Only by seizing Jincheng, Beigong Boyu, Han Sui and other rebels can they be temporarily stable."
Dong Huyi raised his thumb and praised: "The eldest son is indeed unparalleled in wisdom..."
"Haoh, don't talk a lot! Anyone from Longxi people will not know these messy things." Dong Mao curled his lips very disdainfully.
Dong Hu sighed, "Even if you defeat the Qiang and burn down the Qiang and Han Sui colluded to rebel, it would never cause much disaster. But if you seize Jincheng, once the entire Xiliang Qiang and Hu saw profitable and fought for it, that would be the real disaster."
Dong Mao nodded slightly. The Han Dynasty had no idea how many years had fought with Qiang and Hu, so he knew that it was not scary to rebel just one or two Qiang tribes, but what was scary was that countless tribes followed and rebelled.
Dong Hu scratched his head and said, "The Qiang took down Yunwu City in just one day. The tribes will definitely think that our dynasty is weak and vulnerable, but those tribes will definitely not follow the Qiang and Shaodang Qiang to rebel together. Unless they seize the Jincheng and block the entrance of the Western Regions and Hehuang, there will be countless tribes bets. If the Qiang and Shaodang Qiang are the ones who have taken over the Qiang and blocked the entrance to the Hehuang area, there will be countless tribes bets. If the Qiang and Shaodang Qiang are therefore equipped with tens of thousands of troops to make it difficult to control it."
"In other words, Jincheng is a city that Beigong Boyu, Han Sui and others must attack. But if it is just right to defeat Qiang, when Qiang attacks Jincheng, thousands of bandits suddenly stabbed Bao Qiang and burned the butt of the Qiang..."
"Jishishan?"
Dong Mao suddenly realized how the guy in front of him wanted to stab Beigong Boyu in the butt. After a while of silence, he had to sigh and smile bitterly.
"You kid is indeed cunning. Jishi Mountain is south of Yunwu City. This will not only allow you to attack the land of the defeated Qiang tribe, but if you take the opportunity to steal Yunwu City, then Beigong Boyu and Han Sui's rebels may really die in your hands."
Dong Hu nodded and agreed: "If the boy took Yunwu City, Beigong Boyu's rebels would have to attack Yunwu City. If Yunwu City was not taken down, they would be attacked by east and west. Yunwu City was strong enough. Only by the little people of Beigong Boyu wanted to retake Yunwu City at this time..."
The two of them shook their heads together. At this time, Beigong Boyu, Han Sui and others had not yet taken down Jincheng, the heavy city at the four-way intersection leading to the Western Regions. They had not taken down Jincheng, and the tribes that were repeatedly beaten by the Han Dynasty would wait and see, and it would be impossible to make a big deal if they rebels were unable to control them.
Dong Hu turned his head and looked at the groom dragging the carriage out of Dong's mansion...
"When Huwa transported salt, he realized that he had an intention of defeating Qiang, so he asked his second brother to go to Yunwu City to warn him. He thought that Chen could be more careful. If Beigong Boyu rebelled, it would be the time when the court reopened his uncle. After all, his uncle had many prestige in various Qiang tribes."
"My uncle has many prestige in various Qiang tribes. Yunwu City is still in the hands of the court. As long as the court re-activates his uncle, it will only take a minute to quell the rebellion of the Qiang. It will not cause too much damage to our dynasty. It is just that the prefect Chen is too useless. Under the warning of Huwa, he can still be destroyed by Beigong Boyu. Han Sui made chaos inside and outside, and it deserves to be killed and destroyed by the clan!"
Chapter completed!