A person who can make the emperor of Han Dynasty and the important ministers of the court wait quietly in the court hall for half an hour does have the qualifications to be envied, jealous, and hated.
Such power is probably the pinnacle of power!
When Dong Zhuo returned to the court, no one showed any displeasure.
When he saw Dong Zhuo returning, Liu Xie stood up in a hurry and greeted Dong Zhuo to sit next to him with a humble look on his face.
After dragging his fat body and sitting down, Dong Zhuo said with a smile:
"Haha! I have a good plan to defeat the thief!"
After Liu Xie heard this, he hurriedly said:
"What good advice does the Prime Minister have?"
Dong Zhuo turned to look at Liu Xie, then at the ministers below, and said loudly:
“Move the capital!!!”
When the word "move the capital" came up, everyone in the court was in an uproar. After Liu Xie heard this, he immediately slumped down on the dragon chair, trembling all over and not knowing what to say.
After hearing this, all the ministers in the court were extremely surprised. No one would have thought that Dong Zhuo would even think of moving the capital. After all, this matter was too big and too big.
As mentioned before, there were many cases of capital relocation, but these all had reasons for having to move the capital. They were all moved from barren places to fertile places.
Luoyang has been the capital for nearly two hundred years. Looking at the entire Han Dynasty, there are other places that can compare with the prosperity of Luoyang.
As soon as Dong Zhuo moved the capital, someone in the court put forward his own opinions.
Situ Yang Biao stood up in a hurry, walked to the middle of the court, saluted Liu Xie and Dong Zhuo with his hands, and asked:
"I wonder where the Prime Minister wants to move the capital?"
Dong Zhuo said in a deep voice:
"Don't you people usually go to Luoyang Street? Now there is a nursery rhyme being sung all over the street, 'There is a Han in the west, and there is a Han in the east. It will be easy for a deer to walk into Chang'an.' This is not God's fault.
Do you want us to move the capital?"
"I will obey God's will and move the capital to Chang'an."
After Situ Yang Biao heard that Dong Zhuo wanted to move the capital to Chang'an, he thought it was absolutely impossible, so he said loudly:
"I think this is impossible. The area near Chang'an is now in dire straits. The turmoil two hundred years ago has caused the Guanzhong area to still not regain its former glory. Luoyang is indeed extremely prosperous now. How can we move the capital from a prosperous place to one?"
A poor place.
Moving the capital means abandoning the ancestral temples and mausoleums that have been built in Luoyang for hundreds of years, which will cause too much noise. After moving the capital, it will not be easy for the people to live in peace."
"Also, I have heard the nursery rhyme that Xiang Guo said. But this nursery rhyme is just a joke that only children see. How can we take it seriously?"
Dong Zhuo suddenly became angry when he heard Yang Biao's objections to moving the capital. After Yang Biao finished speaking, he shouted angrily:
"Are you going to thwart the country's plans?"
Taiwei Huang Wan also stepped forward and said:
"This is a national matter, and we, as the Third Duke, will naturally have to express our thoughts. I think what Yang Gong said can probably be considered."
After Huang Wan finished speaking, she looked at Dong Zhuo. Seeing that Dong Zhuo didn't answer her, she continued:
"In the past, the Duke of Zhou built Luoyi to stabilize the Ji family, and Emperor Guangwu divined the Eastern Capital to prosper the Han Dynasty. This was an inspiration given by God, and it was a matter of stability for the gods. Since the great cause has not been stabilized, how can it be moved casually and suffer losses?
Where is the popularity that has been lost all over the world?”
Dong Zhuo was still very angry and hated these two people, but now in this court, these two people have extremely high reputation and prestige, and he couldn't do anything to these two people for a while. Dong Zhuo couldn't help but think, you guys
How dare you two oppose me? I will punish you two again in the future.
Dong Zhuo saw that two of the three princes were against him. Although he was angry, he could not get angry. Dong Zhuo continued to say:
"The terrain of the Sanfu area is flat, dangerous and easy to defend on all sides, and the land is fertile. It is called 'land and sea'. Today, the generals from Guandong have launched an army to attack, and I am afraid that Luoyang cannot continue to defend it. There are still palaces in Chang'an, so why can't the capital be moved to Chang'an?
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The fashion book Zheng Tai also stood up and walked out, saying to Dong Zhuo:
"If the world is righteous, foreigners from all over the world will protect the court. We should implement virtuous governance and convince the opponents. Letting the emperor move the capital is a low-grade strategy. I think you should leave the affairs of the court to the officials and concentrate on the outside world.
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"If someone disobeys orders, use force to threaten them. Now that the generals in Guandong have raised troops, the people are already suffering terribly. If you put down the government and lead the troops to resist, the people may still be able to be saved. But if you move the capital to protect yourself, it will be
It would be extremely dangerous."
From ancient times to the present, you can name a lot of traitors and loyal ministers in any dynasty. Especially in troubled times, loyal ministers are more likely to leave a reputation and be remembered by others.
In troubled times, these loyal ministers did not rely on the army to arm themselves, but only insisted on their own ideas of governing the country. Sometimes these people had a determination to do something even though they knew it was impossible, a kind of scholar-bureaucrat spirit possessed by strong men.
However, gradually the spirit of scholar-bureaucrats also changed.
What is a scholar-official? "To establish a mind for the heaven and earth, to establish a way for the people, to pass on the sage and inherit the unique learning, and to create peace for all generations." This is what a scholar-official is.
What is a scholar-official? He is the Jing Ke who said, "The wind is rustling and the water is cold. Once a strong man is gone, he will never come back." He is the Qu Yuan who "The road is long and far away, and I will search up and down." He is the Zhuge who "dedicates himself to death"
Prime Minister, this is Lin Zexu of '************,************'.
However, by the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, many scholars had forgotten this sergeant-official spirit.
However, it is just that many scholars have forgotten the spirit of scholar-bureaucrats, not all people have forgotten the spirit of scholar-officials. For example, Situ Yang Biao and Taiwei Huang Wan.
After Zheng Tai finished speaking, the other officials in the court expressed their agreement. Dong Zhuo saw that almost no one in the court supported him in moving the capital. For a while, he couldn't continue to insist on his idea, but this was only today.
Just the court.
For Dong Zhuo, moving the capital to Chang'an was what he wanted to see most.
Chang'an is close to Liangzhou and closer to the place where Dong Zhuo started his career. Chang'an is definitely much safer for Dong Zhuo than Luoyang.
As for those who oppose him, he can just find any reason to remove them later.
In February 190, after deposing Situ Yang Biao and Taiwei Huang Wan, Dong Zhuo's plan to move the capital finally began.
Two thousand wealthy families were looted, imperial tombs were dug up and property was looted, millions of people were forced to leave their hometowns, and half of the books in the Eastern Han Dynasty were burned. These were the consequences of Dong Zhuo's move to the capital.
Jiu killed the deposed emperor Liu Bian, Tang Ji, and the Queen Mother He, and completely cut off any thought of the alliance. The emperor of the Han Dynasty is in Chang'an, and the previous emperor died. You princes can't go into Luoyang to save the emperor in the name of it!
Dong Zhuojiu's act of killing Liu Bian did have an impact on the alliance. If Liu Bian had not died, Yuan Shao would not have proposed to support Liu Yu as emperor.
If Liu Bian had not died, and if the alliance against Dong had won in history, then Liu Bian would definitely be the emperor.