Chapter 84 The man behind the scenes
The entire living room was quiet for a while, and everyone started talking. Chen Gong also laughed and said, "I also agree with Uncle Fang leading troops to Luoyang to protect the emperor!"
"That's right! Uncle Fang's sister is now the queen, and Uncle Fang is the emperor's wife. Luoyang is in turmoil, and the emperor has moved away. Uncle Fang cannot ignore this kind of thing. He should lead the army to Luoyang to protect the emperor!" Zhang Hong!
He also spoke.
Everyone calmed down. According to this set of arguments, it actually makes sense. At least it can be explained to the world!
Because the Han Dynasty has always shared the world with its relatives, and relatives in the past generations served as generals and then ruled. This has been a centuries-old tradition in the Han Dynasty.
Not to mention the recent ones, let’s talk about He Jin, a relative of Emperor Ling, Dou Wu during the time of Emperor Heng, Liang Ji who was earlier, etc...
That is to say, Emperor Heng did not reuse his relatives! Instead, he relied entirely on eunuchs.
Therefore, even if Zheng Xiaoming goes to Luoyang with troops to control the government of Luoyang, this is something that everyone in the world can accept and even take it for granted.
More importantly, Xuzhou now has strong soldiers and horses, plenty of food and grass, and Zheng Xiaoming is known as a famous general. It is entirely possible to raise troops to Luo.
All you need to do is defeat Dong Zhuo's Liangzhou Corps!
Although they still don't know exactly how many soldiers and horses Dong Zhuo has...
Zheng Xiaoming nodded slightly and said with a smile: "I have already written a letter to Sun Jian, the governor of Changsha!"
What this actually means is that he is ready to mobilize troops. He has even persuaded Sun Jian to attack from the north and the south together.
Sun Jian had joined Zheng Xiaoming since Liangzhou and became Zheng Xiaoming's subordinate. As Zheng Xiaoming's status rose over the years, Sun Jian naturally followed him even closer.
He has no other backing in the court, and his old boss Zhu Jun, who promoted him in the first place, has been idle all these years. Naturally, it is impossible to give him a hand...
In the original historical time and space, this was also the reason why Sun Jian finally defected to Yuan Shu!
But now, Zheng Xiaoming wants to take action. Naturally, he wants to take Sun Jian with him!
In fact, given Zheng Xiaoming's background in Jingzhou, I believe that the entire Jingzhou, at least the entire Nanyang County, will support him.
Liu Shao said: "I will go to Youzhou and persuade Youzhou Mu to join us in raising an army!"
Zheng Xiaoming nodded slightly, it would be better if Youzhou joins forces again!
However, since Liu Yu followed the rules, it would be difficult for him to send troops to fight against the imperial court.
As he was thinking about this, Chen Deng laughed and said, "I heard that Liu Xuande is in Fang Bo's tent. Then Liu Xuande and Gongsun Bogui are both students of Lu Ziqian. You can ask Liu Xuande to talk about Gongsun Bogui."
This is because he is worried that Liu Yu will not be persuaded and he will directly win over Gongsun Zan, the number one general in Youzhou!
Zheng Xiaoming nodded slightly and said with a smile: "I will leave it to you, Yuan Long, to take charge at this time!"
Everyone contributes ideas and strategies. Before war, diplomacy comes first and must win over enough allies and helpers.
Chen Gong smiled and said: "In addition to these, we also need to send messengers to convince Huangfu Yizhen. If we can convince Huangfu Yizhen, we can accomplish great things!"
Huangfu Song had at least 70,000 to 80,000 troops under his command, stationed in Chang'an. The most elite field troops of the entire Eastern Han Dynasty were gathered here.
If Huangfu Yi is really willing to join forces with Zheng Xiaoming and attack from east to west, then Yuan Wei and Dong Zhuo will never be able to fight!
But despite this, even Chen Gong doesn't have much hope.
This Huangfu Yizhen is similar to Liu Yu. In politics, he is an old-school figure who follows the rules and dare not go too far. It is difficult for him to directly step down and take sides to help Zheng Xiaoming.
We even have to worry about Huangfu Yizhen helping Dong Zhuo because Liangzhou people always stick together.
Now Dong Zhuo has been promoted to Sikong and entered the core circle of power in the court. This is a long-term major victory for the Liangzhou people. I am afraid that a large number of Liangzhou troops under Huangfu Song are happy to see this success, and even rejoice for it!
Again, in this era, the power of the township party is too strong!
Zheng Xiaoming is from Nanyang County, Jingzhou. With this background alone, he can influence the alignment of Nanyang County and even Jingzhou as a whole.
And Dong Zhuo's origin in Liangzhou can also win him the help of a large number of Liangzhou forces!
Coupled with the huge political resources controlled by the Yuan family in Runan represented by Yuan Wei, it can be said that the power controlled by his opponent is far greater than that of Zheng Xiaoming!
Therefore, although he paid attention to various diplomatic matters discussed by his advisers, he did not put them first.
To make iron, you need to be strong yourself, and your subordinates need to be strong enough before you can say anything else.
While Zheng Xiaoming was discussing with a group of counselors, a messenger suddenly came in a hurry, bringing the latest news from Luoyang: "Dong Zhuo deposed Emperor Liu Bian and appointed Hongnong King Liu Xie as emperor!"
This news was earth-shattering and shocked all the counselors under Zheng Xiaoming.
Wang Lang asked in shock: "Then Dong Zhuo is so virtuous that he dares to do what Yihuo did?"
In fact, in the Han Dynasty, deposing an emperor was not without precedent. Huo Guang did such a thing back then.
Therefore, it is not something that people dare not imagine, now that powerful ministers depose and establish emperors?
But who is Huo Guang? He is Tuogu Dacheng, the Great Sima General appointed by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
In other words, he was the number one person in the military and political affairs, and he also had the experience of assisting the government during the entire period of Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty.
That is because he has great prestige and his authority is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so he dares to do such a thing as deposing the emperor.
He is Dong Zhuo, a warrior from Xiliang, and a general with no title. He has just entered Luoyang for three days, and he dares to depose the emperor? Who gave him such courage? Don't you know how to write the word "death"?
Only Chen Gong sneered and said: "Dong Zhuo is a martial artist! How can he do such a big thing? There is naturally someone behind him!"
yes!
Dong Zhuo had the courage to depose and establish the emperor. This kind of thing is not surprising. Warriors are often very courageous and will do anything.
But the strangest thing is that he actually succeeded!
There was not much opposition in the entire Luoyang court, and they allowed him to succeed so easily?
The loudest opponents among them were actually Lu Zhi and Lu Ziqian!
You must know that although Lu Ziqian is the minister, he is the actual person in charge of the minister. But the minister is just a secretariat. Although the position of the minister is important, he is not the prime minister in the future, but only a middle-level official in Qianshi.
So what about the ministers and ministers of the Manchu Dynasty? Why are there so few voices of opposition? Are they all so afraid of death?
Or was it that Dong Zhuo, who had just led his troops into Luoyang for three days and had no political foundation in Luoyang, dared to kill all the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty?
There is only one answer, and that is that Dong Zhuo was just the executor. Behind the scenes, there was a person with huge political reputation and influence who was manipulating this matter, so that the Manchu ministers had no objections.
And this person can only be Yuan Wei, who is now the general leader of the Shangshutai, and is now the leader of the corporal scholars!
Chapter completed!