Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 737 The Conspiracy at the End of the Eastern Han Dynasty (Skipable)

Although Yuan Shao was very dissatisfied with Cao Cao's previous fooling, and sent Yan Liang and Wen Chou to make soy sauce, but he is also a hero who has ambitions in the world after all.

Some historians have researched and speculated on the situation at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. According to them, the collapse of the Eastern Han Dynasty was probably driven by someone behind the scenes, and it can be said that it was full of conspiracies.

For example, the original Yellow Turban Uprising was deliberately supported by some people, so many signs of rebellion initially shown by the Yellow Turban Taiping Road were covered up by people.

It is hard to say whether this is a conspiracy by Liu Hong, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, to reduce the power of the aristocratic family, or a plan by the power of the aristocratic family to divide the local real power.

Anyway, in the early days of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, he used the "disaster of the party" as an excuse time and time again to suppress the power of the aristocratic family. Those who were crowned as party members were all celebrities of the aristocratic family.

In addition, the absurd thing about selling officials and nobles as the emperor, and supporting the ten permanent servants to deal with foreign ministers, is also rooted in Emperor Han Ling's counterattack against the aristocratic family's control of the talent selection system.

From all kinds of things, it can be seen that Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty was jealous of the aristocratic family and wanted to weaken the influence of the aristocratic family on the government.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for the Yellow Turban Taiping Road to develop the momentum of the 36-party Qushuai across the country without any signs of rebellion at all at the beginning.

However, the power of the aristocratic family will naturally not be willing to be bullied by the emperor. After the power of the aristocratic family represented by Chen Fan was torn to death by the eunuch force representing the interests of the emperor, the new generation of aristocratic family power may have secretly And the royal family of Liu Han was separated.

Therefore, judging from the final situation after the Yellow Turban Uprising, the aristocratic family took the opportunity to reap practical benefits, and took the opportunity to have military power and the real power of the separatist regime against the central government.

Although Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty Liu Hong also sent Liu Yu, Liu Yan, Liu Biao, Liu Yao and other clans to serve as state shepherds, hoping that after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Lius' children could control the local real power, but it is a pity that these Liu clansmen It still needs the support of the local aristocratic family to gain a firm foothold in the local area. Generally speaking, it violated the true wishes of Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Ling. Small and medium families only.

It can be seen that although Hanling Emperor Liu Hong intends to use conspiracy to weaken the power of the aristocratic family, but at this time, Nanyang Yuan and Hongnong Yang, who represent the power of the aristocratic family, obviously have people who are smarter than Hanling Emperor Liu Hong. The power of the aristocratic family.

And with the death of Liu Hong, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, there was a rebellion among the ten permanent servants, and Dong Zhuo was lured into Luoyang again. All kinds of things once again reflected the taste of conspiracy.

Many things should not have happened, but they happened again.

If we talk about the original Yellow Turban Uprising, there may have been a conspiracy by Hanling Emperor Liu Hong to weaken the power of the family. It is said that Zhang Rang, one of the ten permanent servants at that time, had a connection with Zhang Jiao, the head of the Taiping Road, and it was also the ten permanent servants who covered up the Yellow Turban The first traces of rebellion in Taipingdao.

But in the later stage, it should be that the power of the aristocratic family headed by the Yuan family intends to weaken the influence of the Liu Han royal family.

For example, at that time, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, as the younger generation of the Yuan family, were the important confidantes around General He Jin, but they were the ones who pushed He Jin to suppress the ten permanent servants, and He Jin was killed by the ten permanent servants However, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and others took advantage of the chaos to break into the palace and wiped out the ten permanent attendants.

The ten permanent servants almost represented the power of Liu Han's royal family, so nearly two thousand eunuchs represented by the ten permanent servants were almost slaughtered in this incident, and He Jin, who was a foreign relative, was also involved in this conspiracy Get killed.

In this way, even if the new emperor of the Liu family succeeds to the throne, without the eunuchs as his minions, and without the support of foreign relatives such as He Jin, he can only let the aristocratic family represented by the Yuan family control the government. up.

It can be said that the origin of Emperor Liu's gradual becoming a puppet controlled by powerful ministers is this incident.

If Dong Zhuo hadn't led his troops into Luoyang later, arbitrarily ignoring the influence of the Yuan family and other powerful families in the court, I am afraid that the final result of this turmoil would be that the emperor was weak and the family headed by the Yuan family would control the Han Dynasty. , and then control the world situation.

So in the end, will the Yuan family come up with a way to abdicate, so that Yuan will replace Liu as the lord of the world?

After all, the Yuan family, who had the background of four generations and three princes at that time, could be regarded as the most qualified family to replace the Liu Han royal family as the new lord of the world.

It can be said that Dong Zhuo forcibly hijacked the emperor to create a change in the situation, which made the Yuan family who thought that they could control the situation by means of conspiracy suffer a bit.

But the Yuan family quickly recognized the reality, so they used their family background to make Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu the great warlords in the north and south, and finally they both held swords. Perhaps at this time, the Yuan family already had The idea of ​​seizing power by force, instead of making concessions with conspiracy.

Perhaps this is the true meaning behind why Yuan Shu proclaimed himself emperor in Shouchun, because this was originally what the Fourth and Third Duke Yuan family wanted to do after the layout, and they no longer had to hide their ambitions.

And Yuan Shu, as the direct son of the Yuan family, is naturally the best candidate to proclaim himself emperor. As for Yuan Shao, he is only the concubine son of the Yuan family, even if Yuan Shao performed better than Yuan Shu, he could only be the backup candidate for Yuan's support.

It's a pity that Yuan Shu is really a coward who cannot be supported, but Yuan Shao's influence in the north is getting stronger and stronger.

Of course, as far as Yuan Shao was concerned in the original history, he can only be regarded as an excellent politician, which is a good inheritance of a big family, but unfortunately he cannot be regarded as an excellent military strategist, so even if Yuan Shao has a strong family background , but was still wiped out by Cao Cao, who was better at military affairs, which made Yuan's ambitions come to naught, and instead allowed Cao to usurp the Han world in vain.

It's just that Cao's Great Wei is still not the favorite spokesperson of the family. The Cao family to which Cao Cao belongs is actually supported by the eunuchs attached to the Liu Han royal family, so Cao Cao is not considered a member of the family. With great fear.

This can be seen from Cao Cao's talent policy that he doesn't care whether he is from a poor family or a commoner. It can be seen that Cao Cao's struggle against the aristocratic family.

For example, when Cao Cao served as the northern captain of Luoyang earlier, he placed more than a dozen five-color sticks at the gate of the official office. Anyone who committed a crime, no matter what his background, would be taught a lesson. In fact, Cao Cao mainly targeted those rich and powerful families in Luoyang. , it can be seen that Cao Cao seemed to be pushed out to be a dog biting a child of a wealthy family at that time.

In addition, Yang Xiu's death, if Yang Xiu was killed by Cao Cao because he was too smart, it can only be regarded as a factor. What should be investigated is Yang Xiu's background. Who made Yang Xiu second only to the Yuan family in Nanyang at that time? Hongnong Yang's children.

Cao Cao wanted to suppress the power of the aristocratic family, and naturally he wanted to kill the outstanding young children of the aristocratic family. Otherwise, why would Cao Cao be so relieved to use smart people like Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai.

Even Xun Yu and Xun You, the confidants who supported Cao Cao to power, were eventually suspected by Cao Cao because of their aristocratic family backgrounds, and thus died before Cao Cao. One died of illness, and the other reportedly committed suicide by taking poison.

To say that they were really loyal to the emperor of the Han Dynasty and did not want Cao Cao to usurp power, so they separated from Cao Cao in the later period. I guess they could only deceive children. With their intelligence, how could they not know Cao Cao's ambitions, how could they be for the Han Dynasty? And support Cao Cao, the traitor.

Of course, after Cao Cao's death, after Cao Pi used Chen Qun's nine-rank Zhongzheng system, he had actually overturned Cao Cao's original employment policy, which already showed that Cao Pi had compromised with the power of the aristocratic family.

But Cao's Wei Dynasty failed to survive after all. With the rise of the Sima clan in Hanoi, Sima Yi, a smart man who also belonged to a powerful family, first escaped Cao Cao's butcher knife, and then took advantage of the situation to take power by joining Cao Pi. The world finally fell into the hands of the Sima family who came from a wealthy family.

Well, having said so much, it actually means that Yuan Shao has already longed for this world...

(End of this chapter)