Chapter 60

Now.

From the candidates for the garrison commanders of just two passes.

One can see.

No matter when or where, Dong Zhuo's heart was inclined toward the Xiliang direct line.

In Dong Zhuo's heart, even if he didn't intend to put those high-level officials of the Xiliang direct line in Sishui Pass and Hulao Pass.

Then the candidates for garrison commanders of these two passes still had to be chosen from other people in the Xiliang direct line.

To put it bluntly, fat water doesn't flow into outsiders' fields.

Important positions were always hoped to be controlled by the Xiliang direct line.

In this regard, Gu Yi felt it was necessary to change Dong Zhuo's thinking.

If Dong Zhuo were still that warlord ruffian entrenched in the borderlands, then this thinking would be understandable.

But now, Dong Zhuo was the most powerful warlord in the world who controlled the Han court!

He was the boss-level figure of the entire Great Han.

His original thinking should also change.

Under his command, the Xiliang Army roughly accounted for forty percent, the Luoyang Imperial Guard accounted for thirty-five percent, and the Bingzhou Army accounted for twenty-five percent.

If Dong Zhuo still had that original thinking.

Then the Luoyang Imperial Guard faction and the Bingzhou faction would never be able to return to him.

Indeed, Lu Bu, the leader of the Bingzhou faction, had a stain on his political record.

But this did not mean that other generals of the Bingzhou faction should also be beaten to death with one stick.

If all resources were monopolized by the Xiliang direct line.

Then not only the Bingzhou faction, but also the Luoyang Imperial Guard faction would not see a future.

Anyway, doing more or less was the same.

Let alone meat, you couldn't even drink a mouthful of hot soup, so why should everyone continue to be a cow and a horse for you, Dong Zhuo?

With the Xiliang Army entering the capital.

The composition of the Dong Zhuo army had changed.

Just like some companies in later generations.

If the composition only had one faction, then of course everything was easy to say.

But now, the Bingzhou faction and the Luoyang Imperial Guard faction had also joined the original Dong Zhuo army.

Three factions coexisted.

But when it came to the shareholders who had the final say, they were all people from the Xiliang direct line.

How could the Bingzhou faction and the Luoyang Imperial Guard faction, which accounted for sixty percent of the total, not harbor resentment toward the Xiliang direct line?

Their demands could not be guaranteed.

Their lives and time were being oppressed.

Over time, resistance and struggle would naturally break out!

If the balance of interests between internal factions could be well managed.

Perhaps... the Dong Zhuo of history could have achieved a more magnificent career!

And now.

Gu Yi had long been bound to the Dong Zhuo army.

He himself was about to become Dong Zhuo's grandson-in-law.

Of course, he would not continue to watch Dong Zhuo walk down that old path of history.

So, Gu Yi decided to throw out a reform plan he had been thinking about for a long time!

Of course, Gu Yi was not a fool.

Since ancient times, reform was a matter of offending people.

Being eager for quick success naturally wouldn't work.

He chose the most gentle method.

He smiled slightly and said to Dong Zhuo:

"My lord, under the whole heaven, is there any land that is not the king's?"

"This sentence also applies to the problem of governing subordinates."

"You are no longer the leader of the Xiliang warlords with one hundred thousand armored men; you are the Prime Minister of the Han with three hundred thousand armored men!"

"Among the three hundred thousand troops, which one is not your subordinate?"

"It's just that their origins and experiences are very different."

"But the result is the same."

"They have now become the warriors under your command."

"Like you, they long to build a career and long to break the upward channels monopolized by the Guandong aristocratic groups!"

"Why not look at the whole army for the candidates for garrison commanders of Sishui Pass and Hulao Pass, and let the capable ones hold the positions?"

"Boom!"

Like a thunderbolt from the sky.

It stunned Dong Zhuo on the spot!

Li Ru, who was on the side, had the same expression as Dong Zhuo.

No one had ever mentioned these words Gu Yi said to Dong Zhuo.

All along...

Only the Xiliang direct line was considered his own people in Dong Zhuo's eyes.

But now...

He, Dong Zhongying, was no longer that border warlord entrenched in Liangzhou, waiting for the right time.

But the Prime Minister of the Han who held power over the world!

If the concepts of the old era were not abandoned.

What awaited Dong Zhuo in the end...

Would be burning in flames!

With a "thump."

Dong Zhuo collapsed on the ground.

Even when Dong Bai and Gu Yi came to help him, Dong Zhuo just shook his head in confusion.

For a moment, he was truly unable to accept the shock in his heart.

Dong Zhuo was never a stupid person.

If he were really just the fool who only knew about wine pools and meat forests in the romance, then how could he have gone from a border warrior to the position of Prime Minister who held power over the world?

There were many heroes in troubled times.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, there were countless of them.

Dong Zhuo could become the first person to hold power over the world, and he didn't rely just on luck.

He understood that what Gu Yi said was correct.

Having a large family and a big business meant that the forest was big, and there would be more birds in the forest.

Dong Zhuo's current status was not just the leader of the original Xiliang faction, but the common leader of the three major factions!

How to balance the relationship within the three major factions.

Leading the three major factions to build a career and expand outward.

That was what Dong Zhuo, the super big boss, should consider!!

And not always thinking about how to tilt more interests toward the Xiliang direct line that followed him first.

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