347 Dong Zhuo's letter of solicitation

In October 189, NPC Dong Zhuo abolished the Han Shao Emperor and established the new emperor, completing the move to establish authority in the world.

Subsequently, through the replacement and handling of the highest officials of the central government, the entire Eastern Han government was almost completely controlled by Dong Zhuo: the dethronement of the emperor, the appointment and removal of court officials, the formulation of major policies, and the centralization of power.

Dong Zhuo promoted himself to Taiwei, becoming one of the three Dukes, in charge of national military affairs and former general affairs. Later, he was appointed as the county marquis, and was appointed as the prime minister of the state "below one person and above ten thousand people". He jumped to the top of the three Dukes, taking power as the prime minister, and enjoyed the privilege of "praise and worshiping but not being named, entering the court without going to the palace, and walking on the palace with swords and shoes."

However, it is far from enough to rely on these alone in the huge central bureaucracy. Many of the deeply rooted officials and bureaucrats in the court were simply dissatisfied with the barbarians who came to Xiliang.

Yuan Shao, who held military power in Luoyang City, strongly opposed the new emperor. Dong Zhuo wanted to eliminate him. Yuan Shao fled to Bohai County to take refuge. Yuan Shao's four generations and three dukes were extremely powerful in Jizhou, and Dong Zhuo dared not pursue the investigation.

Cao Cao was in the capital and held military power. While expanding his troops and conquering military power, Dong Zhuo wanted to eat Cao Cao by luring him for profit. However, Cao Cao saw through Dong Zhuo's conspiracy and refused to cooperate with him. He failed to assassinate Dong Zhuo, and left without saying goodbye and fled Luoyang.

Many loyal and righteous ministers in the court were forced to flee or eliminated.

Dong Zhuo tried his best to win over the important officials of the court, Situ Huang Wan and Sikong Yang Biao. The three of them formed cliques in the court, and they were in a mess. They promoted and supported Chen Fan, Dou Wu and others who had been deposed. They wooed, tempted, excluded and other means to crack down on all forces that were unfavorable to themselves. They re-enhanced and appointed a large number of party members. Cai Yong, who was once exiled, was attracted and summoned to the court as an official.

Dong Zhuo's arbitrary use of power and indiscriminate killing innocent people rapidly intensified the conflicts between the court. He saw the potential crisis from all signs and felt deeply uneasy. Therefore, in addition to arranging personal forces in various central departments, he also arranged local confidants through means such as bribery and appointing local prefects and governors to protect his central government.

The focus of the purchase is the Liangzhou warlords.

Thousands of cavalry rushed to all parts of the thirteen states. Hundreds of them came straight to Liangzhou.

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Liangzhou, Anding City.

Ma Teng frowned when he received a letter from Dong Zhuo's envoy.

Although he was a rebel, he rebelled against local officials, killed corrupt officials, and protected the safety of the people in the area. He was loyal to the court. Dong Zhuo, this thief, was extremely influential in Liangzhou and notorious throughout the world.

He owned Anding County and Beidi County, so he naturally disdained to surrender to Dong Zhuo.

However, Dong Zhuo, in the name of the court's righteousness, sent him to the court, and led his troops to Luoyang to protect the lord. This made him very embarrassed. Zhao'an was the best way to clear the charges. Perhaps, it should be discussed with Wenyou (Han Sui).

Liangzhou, Jincheng.

Han Sui received a letter of surrender from Dong Zhuo, inviting him to lead his troops to Luoyang, and couldn't help but sneer. The opportunity for troops to enter Chang'an, Luoyang has come! He has been in Liangzhou for enough birds to shit. Dong Zhuo gave him the opportunity to go to Chang'an with justification.

After overnight, Ma Teng brought dozens of people to Jincheng and personally rushed to Jincheng to discuss with Jincheng prefect Han Sui whether to accept the imperial edict and surrender to the court.

"Wenyou, what do you think about Dong Zhuo's surrender?"

"Brother Shoucheng, isn't this right for your wish? No matter how violent Dong Zhuo is, he ultimately represents the righteousness of the court. It is legitimate to submit to him. If we miss this rare opportunity, Dong Zhuo will be defeated by other ministers of the court in the future, and those ministers who are conservative will not be willing to give us another chance to surrender."

Ma Teng hesitated and finally made up his mind and agreed.

"Well, the name of a thief should be removed. However, Dong Zhuo invited us to lead troops to Luoyang. What do you think about this?"

"Hmph, Dong Zhuo has already begun to be scared. Although he has hundreds of thousands of powerful military power, how powerful can he be compared with the rebellious forces one after another? He urgently needs a large number of military support to consolidate his throne of prime minister, so he is willing to surrender us and promise a general. Dong Zhuo is a great warlord from Xiliang. He has no one else who can rely on us Xiliang people.

But he took advantage of us, isn’t this an opportunity for us? We can take advantage of this rare opportunity to control the government with Dong Zhuo, so that we Xiliang people can control the overall situation in the world."

Han Sui was extremely excited at this time. Not everyone could meet this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Seeing this, Ma Teng was secretly worried.

"Training troops into Luoyang is indeed the best way to seek wealth. But Liangzhou is not just our two warlords."

"You mean the prefect of Wuwei and the general Xiaobai, the General of the Central Army of Pinglu?"

"good."

"If I guessed well, he should have received a letter from Dong Zhuo. As for whether he will respond, it is hard to say. He is an important official in the frontier of the court, and he guards the side alone, so he doesn't need to look at Dong Zhuo's expression. If he takes the opportunity to seize our foundation when we enter Luoyang, it will be a big trouble. This needs to be carefully considered."

"Xiaobai is in the natural danger of Gulang Gorge, guarding the two cities of Wuwei and Zhangye. Even if we are anxious, we cannot take him down. In my opinion, we must strive to convince him and advance to Luoyang together. In this way, our Xiliang army will control the situation of the court and make the overall situation determined."

"Well, since that's the case, we will send an envoy to persuade him."

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Liangzhou, Wuwei County, Xiaobai Town.

Dozens of cavalry flew to Xiaobai Town and submitted a letter to Dong Zhuo to the prefect of Wuwei Xiaobai.

Zhan Xiaobai was a little surprised when he received Dong Zhuo’s letter of acceptance. Didn’t Dong Zhuo be the king of the court? Why did he think of writing to himself?

He opened the letter to read it.

In the letter, Dong Zhuo, in the name of the prime minister of the court, asked Xiaobai to surrender, and promised to be promoted to the fourth-rank Left Central Army General [Six Divisions Minister], and led his troops to Luoyang with Ma Teng and Han Sui to guard the Quezhong.

"System prompt: Player Xiaobai officially undertakes the task of "Dong Zhuo Letter". This is a camp selection task. Please select "Yes" or "No". Select "Yes" to officially join Dong Zhuo's camp and become a general under Dong Zhuo, and will be enemies of the eighteen princes in the Battle of Hulao Pass. Choose "No" to stay in the court camp and become an enemy of Dong Zhuo's army in the Battle of Hulao Pass. Reply period: fifteen days. No choice is made within fifteen days, and you will automatically give up joining Dong Zhuo's camp."

Zhan Xiaobai was speechless for a moment. This letter turned out to be about choosing a camp.

After calculating the time, the Hulao Pass battle broke out in just one month. At this critical moment, Dong Zhuo thought of trying to win him over. Hulao Pass is one of the most important plots in the entire game, and the possibility of a plot reversal is extremely small. Then, the prelude to the world's battle for hegemony was truly unfolded.

After Dong Zhuo was defeated at Hulao Pass, he burned Luoyang and moved the capital to Chang'an. His regime maintained its power in Chang'an for a long time until Lu Bu was trapped by Diao Chan's beauty and Dong Zhuo died.

Zhan Xiaobai handed the letter to Jianba, Qiushui, Chunqiu Shaoxia, Tianbao and others for a look and asked them to refer to their opinions.

Jianba’s opinion: “From the perspective of justice in the world, choosing one of the eighteen princes is the right way, and choosing Dong Zhuo’s camp has a bleak future.”

Qiushui has no objection, but she also tends to be inclined to the court's position.

The young hero of the Spring and Autumn Period was to choose the strong side to join and become the winner of the war."

Tianbao’s opinion: “Pick the party who gets the most is the one who gets. If Dong Zhuo can offer a high enough price, it’s okay to join Dong Zhuo’s camp.”

Based on the opinions of the four people, Zhan Xiaobai threw Dong Zhuo's letter into the secret library. Dong Zhuo gave too few benefits. A mere fourth-rank left-rank general was not enough to let him run to work hard for Dong Zhuo. Moreover, his strength was too weak compared to the warlords such as Dong Zhuo, Lu Bu, Ma Teng, and Han Sui. Even if he went to Luoyang, he would not get much additional benefits.

......

An NPC general from Chang'an fled to Xiaobai Town and claimed to be Huangfu Li. He urgently asked to meet the prefect of Wuwei.

Zhan Xiaobai met him in the study without thinking.

Huangfu Li is no other person, but the nephew of Zhan Xiaobai's teacher Huangfu Song. Although Zhan Xiaobai has never seen him, he has heard of this name. In addition, Huangfu Song has a son Huangfu Jianshou, which Zhan Xiaobai has never seen. Although he has never seen him, the relationship between them is a natural intimate relationship because Zhan Xiaobai takes Huangfu Song as his teacher.

I don’t know what Huangfu Li came to Wuwei to do to him.

Zhan Xiaobai bowed and said, "Xiaobai has met Brother Li, but I wonder if the teacher has always been good?"

Huangfu Li smiled bitterly and replied, "Xiaobai, don't be polite. I came to Wuwei because of this. My uncle was imprisoned by Dong thief and imprisoned in the prison in Chang'an City. He would be sentenced to death at a date.

Zhan Xiaobai was shocked, "What, Dong Zhuo wants to kill the teacher?"

Huangfu Li said bitterly: "That's right. My cousin Jianshou had a friendship with Dong Zhe, so he had rushed to Luoyang and pleaded with Dong Zhe, hoping that he could let his uncle go. But I think Dong Zhe would probably not agree. The situation is critical, so I came to Wuwei and hoped to discuss major events with Xiaobai."

Zhan Xiaobai immediately said: "Brother Li has something to say."

Huangfu Li gritted his teeth and whispered: "Annihilation of Dong Bids--! Dong Zhuo was traitorous and was unforgivable. My uncle had already conspired to attack Dong Bids with Yang Xun, the court's conspiracy. But he didn't expect that Dong Bids would take the lead and put his uncle in prison. To save his uncle, only Xiaobai attacked Dong Bids and raised troops to Chang'an. There were a large number of bureaucrats and generals in Chang'an City who were old subordinates. As long as the uncle raised his arms, they would respond in groups. Xiaobai and his uncle cooperated with each other and could take Chang'an in one fell swoop and eliminate the troops left by Dong Bids in Chang'an. Then he captured Hangu Pass and forced Luoyang. The great cause could be made--!"

Huangfu Li stared at Zhan Xiaobai tightly and looked at every look he looked.

Zhan Xiaobai was surprisingly calm.
Chapter completed!