Yu Poison's death in battle was just the beginning for the Black Mountain thieves.

In the following time, among the Black Mountain thieves, there were constantly the previous Yellow Turban Qu Marshal who died in battle during the attack on the city.

Soon, the original 300,000 Black Mountain thieves were left with only 100,000 left.

But hundreds of thousands of Black Mountain thieves are still a huge burden for Zhang Yan, and he can't afford to support so many people.

At the beginning, Zhang Yan only thought that the more people there were, the better, but only when she was a family member was only the price of firewood, rice, oil and salt.

He had already borrowed the hands of the Han army and got rid of half of them, but he still failed to achieve Zhang Yan's goal.

Bian Si was killed in battle, and He Man was killed in battle......

The generals in Zhang Yan's hands died one by one, but Zhang Yan's real main force did not suffer too much.

Then Zhang Yan personally took Zuo Cong Zhenggu and others to break through Jizhou Yecheng.

Although Yecheng was defeated, Zhang Yan knew in his heart that it would be difficult for the Black Mountain Thieves to continue to develop. If no changes are made, they will become weaker and weaker, and will eventually be defeated by the great armies of the imperial court.

Therefore, after showing his strength to the Han Dynasty, Zhang Yan turned his head and wrote to the Han court, saying that he was willing to lead the people to surrender.

While he still has strength, he has bargaining chips with the imperial court to get the maximum benefits.

During this time, the imperial court was also given a headache by the Black Mountain thieves, although some of them were eliminated.

But I also know that it is very difficult to completely eradicate the Black Mountain thieves.

The other party can't beat it, so he drills into the Taihang Mountain Range, and there is no way to take the black mountain thief.

Now Zhang Yan, the leader of the Black Mountain thieves, is willing to surrender, and the emperor Liu Hong is still willing to accept Zhang Yan.

It's just that some people in the court oppose it, some people support it, and it is difficult to unify opinions.

The main reason is that although Zhang Yan surrendered, he was unwilling to come to Luoyang. If they don't come to Luoyang, they won't be able to control Zhang Yan.

Zhang Yan can surrender to the Han today, and tomorrow he can rebel again, turn into a bandit again, and plunder everywhere.

But in the end, Liu Hong agreed to Zhang Yan's request and prepared to start an all-out effort to deal with the Han Sui rebellion in the west.

Zhang Yan surrendered to the Han Dynasty, but he did not need to go to Luoyang, and the people and horses in his original hands continued to belong to Zhang Yan.

And named Zhang Yan as the general of the middle of the peace, leading the affairs of the valleys in Hebei, and specifically responsible for exterminating the bandits in Hebei.

The imperial court did not provide Zhang Yan with grain and grass, but Zhang Yan could use the credit of exterminating the bandits to go to various cities to receive the grain and grass he needed.

It is equivalent to Dahan hiring Zhang Yan, and the employment fee is still very low.

And Zhang Yan is equivalent to changing an enemy for himself, but this enemy is much weaker than the previous one, and he is easy to deal with.

Although he failed to get more benefits from the Han Dynasty, the result was still satisfactory to Zhang Yan, he did not lose his freedom because of this, and the hundreds of thousands of people in his hands still belonged to him, and his rights did not become smaller.

Although there are still rebellions in various places, it is basically difficult to pose a threat to the Han Dynasty.

Liu Hong only waited for the rebellion in Guanzhong to be suppressed, and then he was about to start recovering military power.

Before the Han Dynasty, there were many years of peace, and there were few generals.

But from the beginning of the Yellow Turban Rebellion to the present, Liu Hong doesn't know how many generals he has rewarded.

And the Taishou in various places also support the army and respect themselves, and each Taishou has at least 10,000 troops in his hands.

If before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Taishou in various places had the current strength, the Yellow Turban Army would not have been able to sweep the world at all.

But as an emperor, he definitely doesn't want the people below to hold the military power in their hands.

Peasant uprisings, most of which were unequipped and had low military literacy, were easily quelled.

But if it is a rebellion of the powerful Taishou General and the like, it will not be so easy to suppress.

If they are plotting in secret for years, it will be even more terrifying.

Even if Liu Hong doesn't like the government very much, he knows the importance of reducing military power, and this kind of thing cannot be delayed.

In addition to the fact that the rebellion in Guanzhong has not been extinguished, Liu Hong has not yet ordered the return of military power, and the generals in other places, Liu Hong has begun to transfer them to Luoyang one by one to take back their military power.

The surplus troops were directly disbanded, and some of them were added to the forbidden army, so that the eight captains of the West Park who had been established before were under the command.

Although Liu Hong didn't pay much attention to the government, the power did not fall aside.

The right to appoint, punish and other powers is in his hands.

Liu Hong is not a patient person.

After the rebellions in other states were put down one after another, Liu Hong's eyes have been on the side of Xiliang in Guanzhong.

Just wait for Huangfu Song to put down the rebellion and completely take back the military power.

But Liu Hong waited for many months, but he still didn't receive half a cent of good news, and he finally couldn't help it. Zhang Rang, a regular attendant in the middle of the country, was sent to the front line to inspect.

is the same as the previous Xiaohuangmen Zuofeng went to inspect Lu Zhi's army.

However, Zuo Feng's status cannot be compared with Zhang Rang at all, Zhang Rang arrived in Guanzhong, and after seeing Huangfu Song, he directly asked Huangfu Song for 50 million money.

Huangfu Song is an honest official, and he never withholds his salary, so he naturally can't come up with so much money.

The results were no surprise.

Just like when he escorted Lu Zhi back when he exterminated the Yellow Turban Army before, Liu Hong called back Huangfu Song, who was responsible for suppressing the rebellion of Bian Zhang Han Sui, with an edict.

Replace Yuan Shao's successor, and let the new Sili lieutenant Zhang Wen be responsible for suppressing the rebellion in Guanzhong.

After Zhang Wen succeeded Huangfu Song, he began to vigorously recruit Han Suibian Zhang and other rebels.

The two sides fought several battles in Guanzhong, all of which were won by Zhang Wen, and Han Sui Bianzhang began to retreat and return to Xiliang.

So Zhang Wen sent Zhou Shen, the general of Dangkou, and Dong Zhuo, the general of the Broken Captives, to lead their armies to pursue the rebels.

However, in the process of pursuit, Zhou Shen was ambushed and defeated and fled.

Dong Zhuo was alone, so he also retreated.

Although Zhou Shen was defeated, this time Zhang Wen replaced Huangfu Song, after all, he let Bian Zhang Han retreat to Xiliang.

Liu Hong did not punish Zhang Wen, but was promoted to lieutenant shortly after.

Zhang Wen was promoted to lieutenant and returned to Luoyang, and the military power in his hands was also handed over.

But Dong Zhuo did not come back, but stayed in Guanzhong, and he always controlled the Xiliang Iron Cavalry in his hands.

Compared with Zhang Wenhuang Fu Song, who was loyal to the Han Dynasty, even when he was in power, some people persuaded them to rebel, but they all refused.

But Dong Zhuo is an ambitious person, although his current merits are not as good as others, but Dong Zhuo has long understood that the world is no longer the Han world of the past.

Faced with Liu Hong's desire to recall him back to Luoyang to serve as Shaofu, although Shaofu is one of the nine Qings, he has no real power in his hands.

Where will Dong Zhuo be willing, his background is not as good as Yuan Shao and others, even if he goes to Luoyang and serves as one of the Shaofu of Jiuqing today, he may be deposed tomorrow.

It's the three publics, and you can replace several of them a year.

So Dong Zhuo directly called himself sick and dragged him not to go to Luoyang to take up his post.

Liu Hong knew at a glance that this was Dong Zhuo's excuse, so after thinking about it again, he appointed Dong Zhuo as the pastor of the state, asked Dong Zhuo to hand over the military power to Huangfu Song, and then went to the state to take office.

Compared with Shaofu, one of the Jiuqing, Liu Hong's merger with the state pastor this time is already a big step back.

But Dong Zhuo still found a bunch of excuses, and he could bear it, but because his soldiers had a deep relationship with him, and there were yellow turbans in Bingzhou, he wanted to lead the army to Bingzhou to take up his post together.

At this moment, there is still Zhang Yi in the state and the assassin, Liu Hong's purpose is only to collect Dong Zhuo's military power, Dong Zhuo is unwilling to hand it over, so it is naturally impossible for Dong Zhuo to go to the state.

Liu Hong didn't expect that he would be able to collect other people's military power, but there was a problem here in Dong Zhuo.

Whether it was the previous Yellow Turban Rebellion or the Liangzhou Rebellion, Dong Zhuo participated with his own troops.

After these two wars, Dong Zhuo had firmly controlled his troops, and others could not interfere in Dong Zhuo's military affairs. Many people in the court have already seen that compared with Huangfu Song and other generals, Dong Zhuo already has a tendency to be big.

Since Mingsheng secretly descended, he could not deprive Dong Zhuo of his military power, Liu Hong wanted to use force.

However, Dong Zhuo's army was originally the elite of Xiliang and had very strong combat power, and Liu Hong was worried that if he used force, he would force Dong Zhuo and Han Sui to go together, and in the end he could only stop it.