Chapter 26: Destruction of the Deadline

Dong Zhuo, who had greatly increased his power, understood his thoughts again, but he was not sure, so he found Li Ru again and said to him: "This general is the last emperor and asked me to assist King Chenliu as the crown prince, but the death of the last emperor was too sudden, and we didn't have time to do anything. Now we have almost mastered the entire Luoyang, and I am going to depose this emperor and make King Chenliu the emperor. What should I do in your mission?" Li Ru had long been clear about Dong Zhuo's thoughts.

So he was not surprised to hear Dong Zhuo say such ruthless words, so he said: "Now the court is panicked and helpless and has no backbone. Why not take this opportunity to handle it? If you change later, you will change. Tomorrow, Lord will hold a banquet in the palace to entertain you all, and at the banquet, he will talk about the decree of the decree. If anyone disagrees with it, he will directly kill and establish his authority. Anyway, Lord has the will of the late emperor. Strictly speaking, he is also the auxiliary minister appointed by the late emperor. He has this power."

After hearing this, Dong Zhuo nodded with satisfaction. The next day, he really set up a banquet in the palace to entertain the ministers in the court. The civil and military ministers were afraid of Dong Zhuo's intimidation. However, Mi people dared not give Dong Zhuo face and almost arrived. Even Ding Yuan, the governor of Bingzhou who had just arrived in Luoyang, came here. Dong Zhuo directly brought his sword and arrogantly came to the palace where the banquet was set up. He had seen courtesy with the civil and military ministers very hypocritical. Then he called the civil and military ministers to sit down and drink. The civil and military ministers had no choice but to pretend to be very happy and drink there. When the banquet was in full swing, Dong Zhuo suddenly put down his wine glass, stood up, and said to the civil and military ministers: "My sir, I have something to say, please listen first."

After saying that, he inspected the audience. When the civil and military ministers heard Dong Zhuo's words, they stopped and looked at Dong Zhuo together, waiting for Dong Zhuo's following. These people are not fools. What kind of personality does Dong Zhuo usually have? Since they are going to invite everyone to dinner today, there must be something to say. Now that the answer to this mystery is finally revealed. They are naturally looking forward to it.

Dong Zhuo looked at the expectant ministers of civil and military affairs and said, "The emperor is the king of a country, representing the majesty of the court and the glory of his ancestors. However, today's saints are cowardly and do not have the style of emperors, so they are not as concise as King Chenliu. When the old emperor was alive, he issued a secret order to let the general assist King Chenliu as the crown prince and become the treasure in the future. Therefore, this general has decided to abolish the current saints and make King Chenliu the emperor. I wonder what the ministers think."

When the civil and military ministers heard this, they remained silent. What a joke? When this guy came up, he actually said he wanted to depose the emperor and establish a new king. Who dared to continue?

Those who are used to being officials in the capital are already a little timid. They know that generals like Dong Zhuo who lead troops are unreasonable, so they dare not speak, afraid of causing trouble. But if they dare not say it, it does not mean that no one dares to say it. You must know that the people here are not only ministers in the court like them, and there are also local officials who are so stupid. Ding Yuan stood up and said, "Mr. Dong, you said you have the imperial edict of the previous emperor, so where is the imperial edict now? Can we all take a look? After all, the deposed emperor is of great importance."

Dong Zhuo was stunned for a moment when he heard this and said, "Didn't I say it? That's a secret decree. The emperor said it above, it's a major issue and will be destroyed after reading it. So this general destroyed it. Now there is any imperial decree for you to see."

This time Dong Zhuo really didn't lie. Emperor Ling of Han did give him a secret order, and he did destroy it after reading it, and he did destroy it. After all, it was a big deal, and the general was still at the advantage at that time.

But what she said was the truth, others might not believe it. At least Ding Yuan in front of him did not believe it very much, so Ding Yuan said a little angrily: "Mr. Dong, the current emperor is the eldest son of the late emperor. Since he ascended the throne, he has not made any mistakes. How can he easily say it is abolished? Besides, you, Lord Dong, are just the governor of Xiliang. Without the imperial edict of the late emperor, why do you want to depose the emperor? What do you want to do?" Ding Yuan said this very impolitely. He was right. Although Dong Zhuo was the governor of Xiliang and was also considered a member of the party, since he could not produce the imperial edict of the late emperor, and he was not an important official like the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers, why should he abolish the emperor and establish a new king? Does he have that qualification? Does he have that prestige? Does he have that power?

It doesn't matter if he said this. If someone else had changed, he would really be ashamed of the other party, but who is he facing now? The murderer, Dong Zhuo. He spoke to Dong Zhuo in this tone in front of so many civil and military ministers. Didn't he lose all his face? And it also involved Dong Zhuo's personality problem. How could Dong Zhuo not be angry? So Dong Zhuo said angrily: "Shut up. Ding Yuan. What do you mean? Are you doubting this general? Tell you who follow me will prosper, and who will rebel against me will perish."

After saying that, he pulled out the sword in his hand, and was about to kill Ding Yuan, a bastard in public. But who knew that he was powerful and dared to bring the sword to drink. Others were not made of clay, and there were also some bold ones. As soon as he finished speaking, Ding Yuan stood up behind him, holding a square painting halberd in his hand, glaring at Dong Zhuo, as if he wanted to kill Dong Zhuo before he could stop.

Fortunately, when someone around Dong Zhuo saw something wrong, he quickly came out and said to the muddy: "Haha. Dear sir, today we are just drinking and having a banquet, so don't talk about state affairs anymore. It is better to say major affairs in the court."

The other ministers also quickly persuaded Ding Yuan to leave first. Ding Yuan snorted coldly and left. Dong Zhuo was a little confused. For example, why he suddenly interrupted his words and gave the bullshit Ding Yuan a chance to escape, but out of trust in the plane, it was not convenient to ask on this occasion, so he ignored it and continued, "Sir, do you think what I thought about this general's words just now? Does anyone have any objections?" Since Ding Yuan's naughty young man went out and it was okay, someone continued

Let's make a comeback~ This time, the one who made it out was Lu Zhi, who had met Liu Bin several times. What Lu Zhi said was similar to what Ding Yuan said, but Lu Zhi was also a great scholar, so naturally he would not offend people as much as Ding Yuan. He used the example of Yi Yin and Huo Guang to remind Dong Zhuo that yes, there were indeed ministers in history who had deposed emperors and established a new king, but they were all respected veterans of several dynasties, or they were close relatives of the royal family and had supreme power. As a governor, you, Dong Zhuo, do not have the qualifications yet.

Dong Zhuo was even more furious after hearing Lu Zhi's words. He was not a fool, so he naturally heard what Lu Zhi meant. OK. Ding Yuan's bastard said this just now, I'll let him go for the time being. He also had hundreds of thousands of troops in his hands. In addition, Li Ru's disagreed with the topic, he was left behind. You are a Shangshu who has no rights and dares to find me bad luck. Isn't this seeking death? So Dong Zhuo insisted on killing Lu Zhi. Fortunately, Lu Zhi's personnel have always been good, and he is a great scholar of the times, and there is no conflict of interest with those aristocratic families, so all the civil and military officials in the court pleaded for him. Dong Zhuo looked at this situation,

If they really want to kill Lu Zhi, they offended all the ministers, which is a bit unworthy. So they spared Lu Zhi's life. However, the death penalty was avoided, and the living penalty could not be escaped. Dong Zhuo directly removed Lu Zhi from all his official positions and was demoted to a poor man. Although these civil and military ministers had doubts about Dong Zhuo and the governor of Xiliang had the right to be exempted from the position of Shangshu, they could only agree to it out of their tyranny of Dong Zhuo. Wang Yun looked at the situation and said, "The abolition of the envoy is of great importance. It is not the right thing to talk about for a long time now. It is better to wait a few days to choose a good time. Let's discuss it."

Dong Zhuo looked at the current situation and could not force these ministers too much, so he nodded and agreed. The civil and military officials left one after another.

Dong Zhuo and Li Ru also slowly walked out of the palace and were about to go back to the military camp to discuss how to deal with it. Suddenly, they saw a man holding a Fang Tian painting halberd and riding a horse outside. It was the young man standing behind Ding Yuan just now. Dong Zhuo said in surprise: "Who is this person? What is he going to do?" Li Ru looked at it and said: "This person is named Lu Bu, whose courtesy name is Fengxian, and is Ding Yuan's adopted son. I just wanted to be unfavorable to my father-in-law behind Ding Yuan, so I quickly changed the topic. Now he is in this way, it seems that it is still unfavorable to my father-in-law. My father-in-law might as well hide for the time being and wait until the next day."

Dong Zhuo looked at Lu Bu's horse and Yang Wei's appearance, and was impressed by it. With his ability, it was naturally obvious that Lu Bu was a powerful general, and it was not embarrassing to avoid it for the time being, so he agreed. He and Li Ru went out of other palace gates and did not face Lu Bu head-on.

However, Dong Zhuo doesn't want to cause trouble now, which does not mean that other people will let him go. Ding Yuan saw that Dong Zhuo was a very ambitious person, so he wanted to get rid of him. So the next day he led his Bingzhou army to work and declare war on Dong Zhuo outside the city. After Dong Zhuo knew about it, he couldn't help but be furious and thought to himself: "Okay. I won't take the initiative to trouble you Ding Jianyang. You kid dare to cause trouble for me now. I really think I'm afraid of you. Since you are so ignorant, don't blame me for being rude."

So Dong Zhuo also led his Xiliang Iron Cavalry to form an array outside the city and prepare to fight Ding Yuan's Bingzhou Army. As long as Ding Yuan is out, no one dares to make things difficult for him in Luoyang. If he wants to make an abolition and enactment, no one dares to say anything else. But is it really that simple? Although the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is powerful, there are no particularly powerful generals under Dong Zhuo. How could it be the opponent of Liu Bin, who is like a wolf or a tiger?
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