C371 (1/2)

When Dong Zhuo finished reading, the group of courtiers s in the great hall were silent. They had been educated in Confucianism for many years, and their minds were full of loyalty and patriotism, but when the Son of Heaven and the nation really needed them, they shrank. Faced with Tu Dao, they wisely chose to protect themselves, leaving the teachings of Confucianism far in the dust.

Only the Empress Dowager He was in pain and choked with sobs. It was this autocratic system of imperial power that had sent her to the very top of power, but she had neither the political mind nor the skill to lose in this struggle for power, and her world was over.

Liu Bian and Liu Xie looked at each other and cried out. Being born in a royal home was their fortune. They were the pride of the heavens, the hope of their country. However, this was also their misfortune. They were born into a conspiracy, and regardless of which one of them became the emperor, they would still be the victims of the power struggle.

No one would have thought that even Dong Zhuo would be so shocked that the Tutor Yuan Wu would actually step forward and take off the silk ribbon worn by the Young Emperor Liu Bian and present it to him. Then, he would carry Liu Bian down the hall to greet Liu Xie, who was seated to the north.

”Long live the Emperor! Long live the Emperor!”

The ministers of the Gardner Hall were all shocked and knelt down one after another. This was the man's loyal followers. They did not care who was sitting on the dragon throne. They only saw the sharp butcher knife beside them. What royal talent? What divine bestowal of authority? They were all just underpants, nothing more than a piece of cloth to cover his face.

Power came out of the guns!

Even though he had abolished the Young Emperor, Dong Zhuo was not prepared to let go of the Empress Dowager He. Just as the officials paid their respects to the New Emperor, Dong Zhuo immediately stood out and said, ”Not long after the empress dowager returned to the first emperor, she forced the empress dowager to return to his own country, causing the empress dowager to die from worry and grief.

The ministers did not say a word, so Dong Zhuo issued a decree on behalf of the Son of Heaven, pardoned Empress Dowager He's sin of being unfilial, and moved the Empress Dowager He to the Eternal Music Palace.

At the same time, the Grand Pardoner changed his title to Forever.

Yuan Yuan looked at all this coldly and didn't say a word. However, the corners of his mouth curled up, as if he was trying his best not to laugh. Yuan Huo who was used to seeing an official like Dong Zhuo, the harder he was, the easier it was to break him down. Although Dong Zhuo was showing off his might in the imperial court, and was acting arrogantly, in truth, he was not far away from death.

In the days to come, the Luoyang would be enveloped in Dong Zhuo's terrifying rule. In the audience hall, even if Dong Zhuo said that, the other ministers did not have the chance to speak, or maybe they were too lazy to. West Cold Cavalry rampaged through the streets of Luoyang, robbing and killing had become their hobby.

Although he had chased Empress Dowager He out, the cruel Dong Zhuo did not let him go just like that. On the second day after the inauguration of Emperor Liu Xie, Dong Zhuo killed the Empress Dowager He with poison and ordered the officials below and below to not wear mourning garments. When they attended the funeral, they only wore white.

Dong Zhuo vented his hatred towards Hanling Emperor onto the He family members. With the excuse that General He Miao had colluded with her eunuchs to kill Great General, he dug out He Miao's coffin, took out his corpse, dismembered it and cut it into pieces, then threw it on the side of the road.

What was particularly intolerable was that Dong Zhuo didn't even let Empress Dowager He's mother go. Not only did he kill the wuyang Jun, he also ruthlessly cut the old lady's body into dozens of pieces and threw them into the imperial hedgerows, allowing the birds to peck at them.

Besides retaliating against the He family, Dong Zhuo valued military power the most. At the same time as he was reorganizing the northern troop and West Garden Army, he had also appointed Liu Yu as the Great General. He was now more superstitious about fighting, and as long as the army was in his hands, the soldiers would not be able to escape him.

Just as Dong Zhuo was busy taking revenge and seizing power, the officials of Luoyang who had a premonition about the impending storm started to flee for victory. The various officials and famous scholars of Luoyang all resigned, some even abandoned their copies and left. Xun Shuang, Wang Qian, Shen Tu Fan, He Hai and the others did not even greet him. In the blink of an eye, they disappeared from Luoyang.

In the Zhou Xu, Commander of the City Gate Wu Qiong took the initiative to express her goodwill towards Dong Zhuo, and advised Dong Zhuo to correct the malpractices of Emperor Huan and the Spirit Emperor, and to recruit famous scholars to fight for the hearts of the people. Dong Zhuo accepted the suggestion and ordered Zhou Xu, Wu Qiong and Yuan Wu to eliminate the dirty and incompetent officials, and to select the talent that was suppressed.

Thus, Tutor Yuan Zhong's body seemed to have gotten better. He sat on the study platform and was extremely busy every day, trying to reopen the case against Chen Fan, Dou Wu and the rest. He had reinstated all his titles and sent messengers to mourn their graves, taking their descendants as his officials.

At the same time, a large number of government officials were sent to serve in the local government. Among them, the senior one, Han Fu, was the Jizhou's teacher, the senior one, Han Fu, was serving the, Kong Zhou was serving the Sanglang, Zhang Zi was serving the Nanyang Taiyuan, Zhang Zi was riding as an ensign, Bao Xin was serving the Great General, Wang Kuang was serving the Great General, Wang Kuang was serving the East Pingxiang.

A discerning person could immediately understand that the government officials that were sent to the localities were all, without exception, Yuan clan officials, and the places they were going were concentrated in Jizhou, Yanzhou, and Henan Province. These place were not only places where the Scholars s and Feudal Lords gathered, they were also places where the entire country was prosperous. Especially, they were not too far away from the Luoyang.