Dong Zhuo has done too many evil things. To sum up, he mainly committed ten crimes:
1, abolished the emperor for no reason.
Dong Zhuo entered Beijing on August 28th, A.D. 189. Two days after entering the city, Dong Zhuo put forward the idea of abolishing the emperor. You know Dong Zhuo was just a place before, but after he entered Beijing, he dismissed Sikong. He has no political foundation and no experience in governing the country. With his own military strength, he dared to abolish the emperor, abolishing Liu Bian's position as emperor and replacing him with Wang Liuwang and Liu Xie.
You know, officials who ruled the Han Dynasty with Confucianism are immoral and subversive, and they will face opposition from everyone. In the Western Han Dynasty, Huo Guang abolished the emperor and was evaluated by a minister named Yan Yannian as: Huo Guangshan abolished the emperor and died as a minister, which was immoral. But Huo Guang is the minister of auxiliary government, and he is loyal to the country. Dong Zhuo is now the foreign minister and local official. Not to mention the abolition of the emperor's qualification, even if there is, it is immoral and will be reviled.
Besides, the emperor Liu Bian was young and didn't make any mistakes, but Dong Zhuo abolished the emperor only three days after he entered Beijing, and started a new stove. In just three days, Dong Zhuo was forced to get it done, and the efficiency was second to none. It is obvious that Dong Zhuo did things completely regardless of any consequences and let his temper prevail.
2. Poisoned the waste emperors Liu Bian and He Taihou and the mother of the Queen Mother.
Three days after the abolition of Emperor Liu Bian, Dong Zhuo moved his mother into Yong 'an Palace, and then poisoned the Queen Mother. You know, the emperor is young, and the queen mother is the highest decision-maker of the imperial court, so it is easy to be poisoned by Dong Zhuo. This is simply dumbfounded and poisoned all the top decision makers in the imperial court. What else is Dong Zhuo afraid to do? Dong Zhuo has only been in Beijing for six days.
In addition to poisoning the Empress Dowager, Dong Zhuo also poisoned the waste emperor Liu Bian, just to prevent someone from using the waste emperor Liu Bian to confront Liu Xie, because the former emperor Liu Xie, the Han Emperor, had only two sons, and Liu Bian died, leaving only Liu Xie, the later Han Emperor. In addition, Dong Zhuo sent someone to poison He Taihou's mother.
3. conniving at soldiers raping women and robbing property in Luoyang city.
Luoyang was the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Dong Zhuo took 3,000 soldiers into Luoyang and took control of the imperial court. After that, Dong Zhuo revealed the nature of a robber. He indulged his soldiers in robbing the rich and helping the poor in Luoyang, raping women and robbing property. Luoyang is the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty for hundreds of years, the largest city in China and the most prosperous city in China. As a result, Dong Zhuo brought a group of bandits, which made Luoyang people uneasy.
Dong Zhuo's behavior is completely the behavior of bandits and robbers. If he were a government official, no one would do such a thing. Dong Zhuo used to be a local government official for a long time, and worked as a captain, a secretariat and a state shepherd, but he was like a bandit in Luoyang. No wonder people all over the world hate him.
In addition, Dong Zhuo raped the princess and maid-in-waiting in the palace.
The forced relocation of the capital has caused great man-made disasters.
Because the Kanto Coalition headed by Yuan Shao fought Dong Zhuo with great momentum, Dong Zhuo felt that Luoyang was unsafe, so he was ready to move the capital. It took Dong Zhuo only two months from proposing to completing the relocation. You know, this is a huge project. The detailed plan for moving the capital was only prepared for more than two months, but Dong Zhuo ignored everything and enforced it.
We should know that moving the capital is not only about moving government institutions and materials, but also about moving all relevant institutions and personnel in the capital. As the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty for hundreds of years, Luoyang has at least thousands of official positions and a population of at least one million. So many people have to consider steps, procedures, processes and plans, but Dong Zhuo ignores them.
He sent soldiers to forcibly drive away Luoyang residents, unwilling to kill them directly. Because there was no preparation at all, countless people died on the way from Luoyang to Chang 'an, starved to death, died of illness, and were exhausted all the way. Only Dong Zhuo can make such a tragedy. The whole city of Luoyang then became an empty city, and the bustling capital city of hundreds of years became an empty city.
In the process of moving the capital, most of the books in the National Library of the Eastern Han Dynasty were lost on the way, and Dong Zhuo didn't care. As long as Luoyang city, including palaces, houses and cities, can't be taken away, the accumulation of hundreds of years in the Eastern Han Dynasty will be destroyed at once, which is a pity. This kind of thing is simply irritating, which is a huge man-made disaster caused by moving the capital.
5. Stealing the royal mausoleum
The ancients were very taboo about the theft of tombs, not to mention the imperial mausoleum, which was a key protected tomb in previous dynasties. However, in order to get money, Dong Zhuo sent someone to open the Wenling Mausoleum of Emperor Han Ling and stole the treasures from the tomb. You know, Emperor Han Ling just died a few months ago, and the treasure that had just been put in the tomb was stolen by Dong Zhuo. At the same time, Dong Zhuo also instructed Lu Bu to rob the graves of other emperors and ministers in the Eastern Han Dynasty and steal wealth for himself.
6. Kill the minister at will
Because Yuan Shao opposed Dong Zhuo and organized the Kanto Allied Forces to crusade against Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhuo killed Yuan Shao's uncle Wei Yuan, his eldest brother Yuan Ji and nearly 100 people in the whole clan. Yuan clan is a big family with four generations living under one roof. One person's intimate friends and followers are all over the world, which is a big family in the whole Eastern Han Dynasty. In this way, Dong Zhuo killed a group of people, causing Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu to hate Dong Zhuo.
Dong Zhuo killed the minister entirely out of emotion. For example, Rao Long Zong, an imperial envoy, forgot his sword when he met Dong Zhuo, so he found an excuse to kill Dong Zhuo. For example, Zhou Hui, Zhou Yu's brother, served as the Luoyang Order. When he heard that something had happened in Luoyang, he returned to Luoyang from other places. Just because Dong Zhuo didn't like him, he was killed by Dong Zhuo's troops.
Wen, once Dong Zhuo's boss, crusaded against Qiang people with Dong Zhuo. After Dong Zhuo took control of the state affairs, Zhang Wen did not attach himself to Dong Zhuo, and Dong Zhuo found a reason to kill him. The reason is collusion with Yuan Shu, just because Zhang Wen is from Nanyang, and Yuan Shu was in Nanyang. In this way, Dong Zhuo killed Zhang Wen, besides Zhou Yi and Wu Qiong, Zhou Yi and Wu Qiong.
These are all recorded stories of Dong Zhuo killing the minister, and there are obviously more that are not recorded.
7. Killing people for no reason
Dong Zhuo once sent people to attack Yangcheng County, Yingchuan, and met local people to hold a "February Fair". As a result, Dong Zhuo's army directly slaughtered all the people who took part in this activity, claiming that it was a trophy of war, beheading all the men in the car and taking away all the women and property. Only Dong Zhuo can do such an unnatural thing.
8. Killing and abandoning soldiers
All soldiers captured by Dong Zhuo's army will be dealt with by cruel criminal law. On one occasion, Dong Zhuo wanted to go to the place where he lived and asked the minister or minister to see him off outside Chang 'an. Dong Zhuo gave a banquet to entertain all the people. At the banquet, Dong Zhuo killed hundreds of soldiers who had surrendered from Beidi County. First, he killed these soldiers, then cut off his tongue, cut off his hands and feet, gouged out his eyes and put them in a pot to cook. Some of them are still there.
For example, Xu Rong, the general of Dong Zhuo, captured Li Man, the satrap of Yingchuan who was fighting Sun Jian, and was boiled and killed. Ordinary soldiers wrapped the whole person up, stood upside down on the ground and drowned them with hot oil. This is Dong Zhuo's cruel means of killing and surrendering.
9. Economic plunder: replacing five punishments with small money and plundering people's wealth.
The Han dynasty always used five fines. This currency itself has a little weight and size. According to the value of money itself, Dong Zhuo issued a small amount of money, which is smaller and lighter than the five fines, and its own value is not as good as the five fines. However, Dong Zhuo stipulates that the purchasing power of small money is the same as that of five fines. Isn't this obvious to send money to plunder?
At the same time, Dong Zhuo collected all the copper materials used for casting money in Luoyang and Chang 'an, and made this small money. Moreover, there is no pattern on the small money, and it is not convenient to use. However, Dong Zhuo totally ignored it. He still uses small money instead of five cents and ruthlessly plunders everyone's wealth.
10, wantonly robbing and killing people in Chang 'an.
After Dong Zhuo moved the capital to Chang 'an, he appointed a captain named Tamia Liu, who turned out to be an official in charge of the supervision and administration of Beijing. However, the captain appointed by Dong Zhuo took money to kill people every day, and Dong Zhuo also made inhuman charges. Anyone who is "unfilial, unclear, disloyal and disobedient to his brother" will be sentenced to death and all his property will be confiscated.
It's like trying to kill someone to get money. How to judge "unfilial son, unknown official, unfilial minister and unfilial brother"? There is no standard at all, it is completely unilaterally defined. As long as Dong Zhuo is happy, he can sentence whoever he wants, so the whole Chang 'an citizens are in trouble. No wonder people keep risking their lives to assassinate Dong Zhuo. No wonder even people like Lu Bu think that Dong Zhuo will not live long before he wants to assassinate him.
Dong Zhuo's ten charges, if casually taken out, are enough to be blamed for the ages, but Dong Zhuo committed all ten charges, which was extremely rare at that time and even the whole China society. Therefore, no one was the most cruel, vicious, ruthless and cruel in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty.