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Taifu Yuan Kui urgently convened Situ Ding Palace, Sikong Liu Hong and Jiuqing Zhuqing ministers to discuss the matter. Shangshu ordered Lu Zhi to give a detailed explanation of the latest situation in Gyeonggi.

"Because the former general Dong Zhuo and Hanoi Taishou Dinh Yuan publicly responded to the chariot cavalry general Li Hong going south to eradicate the traitors, the situation in Gyeonggi suddenly deteriorated." Lu Zhi said with a stern expression,

"Now there is a reason for Li Hong, the general of the chariot cavalry, to lead the army south into Luoyang, and he can cross the Yellow River south at any time to approach the Beijing Division, so the top priority now is to immediately find a way to prevent Li Hong from entering Beijing and resolve this crisis as soon as possible, so as to ensure the stability of the political situation in Luoyang and the peace of mind in the Han Dynasty."

"Is there any way to stop Li Hong from entering Beijing now?" The servant Yang Biao said angrily,

"The former general Dong Zhuo was bold enough to lead his army to cross the Yellow River south without the consent of the Son of Heaven, and Ding Yuan, the Taishou of Hanoi, was even more lawless and unholy, and dared to lead his troops to attack Mengjin and kill two court officials. Where is the rescue from the fact that things have come to this point? I think that Li Hong, Dong Zhuo and Ding Yuan had already planned to go south to Beijing, and the expedition to the desert was a non-existent thing, and Li Hong must be deceiving us. ”

"Ding Yuan can capture Mengjin, kill the ministers, and burn the passes, but what about the other soldiers and horses who returned to Beijing to support? Will they also respond to the general like Dong Zhuo and Ding Yuan? Who can guarantee that the officers and men of the Northern Army and the West Park Army will not defect? Shangshu Zheng Tai said,

"I think that if you want to stop Li Hong from entering Beijing and resolve the crisis in Luoyang, the only way is to comply with the general righteousness and immediately kill the traitorous eunuch, which is the only way. As long as you kill the eunuch, everything can be solved. ”

"What if you can't stop Li Hong's footsteps south after killing the traitorous eunuch? What if Li Hong's ultimate goal was not to kill the traitorous eunuchs, but to enter Beijing and abolish the young emperor? Sikong Liu Hong said,

"Li Hong is too ambitious, he will not lead his troops south in order to kill a few traitors, he may want to take the opportunity to control the power of the country."

"Ladies and gentlemen, once Li Hong crosses the river and enters Beijing, the traitorous eunuch and the general are bound to fight back to the death. At that time, Luoyang will inevitably fall into a bloody war, and the lives will be tragically destroyed, which will be a terrible disaster for the Great Han Kingdom. Therefore, we must prevent Li Hong from entering Beijing, but the army alone cannot stop him. Shang Shu Zhou said,

"We must let Li Hong know that even if he leads his army to cross the river to the south, he may not be able to occupy Luoyang, abolish the young emperor, and control the authority."

"What's your plan?" Stuart Palace asked.

"From the point of view of the following officials, it is better to join forces with the general as soon as possible and kill the traitorous eunuchs first, so as to stabilize the military morale of the Gyeonggi armies." Zhou Bi said,

"Former general Dong Zhuo and Hanoi Taishou Ding Yuan honored the young emperor, and it was the traitorous eunuch who wanted to be killed, as long as they were pacified, the army of Gyeonggi could once again work together to stop the general from going south. If he does not retreat to the north at that time, he will be a rebel of my Han Kingdom, and everyone will be punished. ”

"Kill the eunuch? Your Majesty and the Queen Mother will kill the traitor? Guangluxun Liu Bo smiled bitterly,

"It's hard. If the eunuch does not die, the general will not retreat, and this Luoyang will fall into a bloody battle sooner or later. "The ministers discussed it for a long time, but to no avail.

Now don't talk about killing the eunuchs, it is even more difficult to drive the eunuchs out of the palace. Yuan Kui slowly stood up and said, "I'll go talk to the general." You will jointly play Your Majesty and the Empress Dowager, make the harm of Li Hong's entry into Beijing more serious, and ask the Empress Dowager to make up her mind as soon as possible to remove Zhao Zhong and Zhang Rang from their posts as a permanent attendant. "Captain Yuan Shao rushed to Mengjin.

Hanoi Taishou Ding Yuan and the general's palace attendant Wang Kuang Ying out of the camp. After Yuan Shao exchanged pleasantries with them for a while, he said with a smile: "The general asked me to tell the two of you that Meng Jin's fire burned well, and the first credit for killing the traitorous eunuch is yours." Ding Yuan looked at the thick black smoke on the pass, twisted his beard and said with a smile: "The general's plan is very clever. As soon as the eunuch is removed, what reason does the general have to cross the river? Yuan Shao shook his head, his face was worried,

"The situation has changed a bit. The former general Dong Zhuo suddenly raised troops in response to Li Hong, and he led his troops across the river in the name of eradicating traitors. Ding Yuan and Wang Kuang looked at Yuan Shao suspiciously.

Wang Kuang is in his thirties, thin, white-faced and short-bearded, and gentle. He asked Yuan Shaodao: "Dong Zhuo's crossing of the river was not arranged by the general?" ”

"It's not." Yuan Shao said,

The general did not want Dong Zhuo to cross the river, and repeatedly told him to stop Li Hong on the north bank of the Yellow River, but Dong Zhuo turned a deaf ear and ignored it at all. He first raised troops in response to Li Hong's murder of the traitorous eunuch, and then crossed the Yellow River to the south, resulting in no troops west of Hangu Pass to stop Li Hong. ”

"So, Li Hong is really going to enter Luoyang?" Ding Yuan asked in surprise.

"The general is also worried about this." Yuan Shao said,

"Due to Dong Zhuo's sudden crossing of the river, the situation in Gyeonggi is now a bit out of control."

"What is Li Hong's real purpose? Is he really going to sweep Luoyang? Wang Kuang asked in a panic,

"When will the other reinforcements arrive in Beijing? Do we have enough troops to stop Li Hong? ”

"Commander Wuqiu Yi has returned to Dongjun on the orders of the general earlier." Yuan Shao said,

"In a few days, he will enter Beijing with Dongjun Taishou Qiaomao and Henan Yin Wangyun, but our troops are not enough. You put these two battalions of the Xiyuan Army in order, and rush to Hangu Pass tomorrow. This is the order of the great general, and I came to Mengjin for this purpose. The two bowed down to receive the order.

"Are the heads of Zhao Rong and Xia Mu there?"

"Brother Ben, what do you want their heads for?" Wang Kuang asked strangely.

"We have to rush for time, and we have to force the Son of Heaven and the Queen Mother to kill the traitor while we can still control the situation in Gyeonggi." Yuan Shao said,

"If Li Hong's army crosses the Yellow River, we won't have a chance." It didn't take long for Du Lieutenant Lu Bu to send the heads of Zhao Rong and Xia Mu, the captains of the Xiyuan Military Academy, with a few personal guards.

"You're Lu Bu?" Yuan Shao held Lu Bu's hand affectionately and said happily,

"It's better to be famous than to see it."

"Adults know about me?" Lu Bu asked in surprise. Yuan Shao is a famous man in the world and the head of the next generation of Yuan Valve, and Lu Bu is of course very happy to be appreciated by him.

"When I was in the General's Mansion, I heard Wen Yuan mention you many times. Wen Yuan said that your martial arts are world-famous, and you fought in Yanmen Pass that day, and you have killed countless enemies, and you are invincible, I have admired it for a long time. This time you attacked Meng Jin, and you beheaded Zhao Rong and Xia Mu in a row, and the credit was not small. When I go back this time, I will definitely recommend you to the general. Lu Bu was overjoyed, and leaned over to thank him.

Yuan Shao grabbed him and said with a smile: "Wenyuan is in Hangu Pass, you will be able to see him soon." Yuan Shao said goodbye to Ding Yuan and Wang Kuang, and went straight to Hangu Pass without stopping.

Cao Cao, Chun Yuqiong, Zhang Liao, and Zhang Yang welcomed Yuan Shao into the pass. Yuan Shao briefly talked about the situation in Luoyang City, and then said to Cao Cao and Chun Yuqiong: "The general asked the two adults to jointly write a recital to punish the traitorous eunuchs. Cao Cao and Chun Yuqiong glanced at each other and did not make a sound.

Chun Yuqiong is in her thirties, tall and strong, with a round face and long beard, and is resolute and capable.

"Meng De, are you worried about ......" Cao Cao smiled and waved his hand to let the guards carry three heads.

"This is the head of Feng Fang, the captain of the Central Army, Zhao Xing, the left captain of the auxiliary army, and Zhang Ding, the right captain of the auxiliary army." Cao Cao said,

"I couldn't convince them, so I had to kill them."

"Mengde is such a fast knife." Yuan Shao said with a smile,

"The general said, these five battalions of the Xiyuan Army are still under the command of you and Lord Chunyu, how about it? You don't have anything to worry about now, do you? Zhao Zhong, Zhang Rang, Guo Sheng and several other middle school attendants looked at the five heads on the desk, and they were very frightened.

"The Xiyuan Army snatched it away from He Jin like this." Zhao Zhong scolded viciously,

"Cao Apu, that little bastard dares to betray us, I will kill him."

"What else to kill?" Guo Sheng said angrily,

"Think about how to keep your head."

"If you want to think about anything, let's avoid the limelight first." Zhang Rang sneered,

"This time, even the Queen Mother can't protect us. But if they want to kill us, they don't have the ability to do that. As long as that man-eating leopard heads north into the desert, we can make a comeback. ”

"Hmph...... Cao Apu, you little bastard, wait for death. Taifu Yuan Kui, General He Jin and other ministers jointly signed a concert, once again asking the Son of Heaven and the Empress Dowager to immediately remove the Zhongchang and other lieutenants in the palace.

Empress Dowager He was forced to be helpless and convened the officials to discuss. Zhao Zhong, Zhang Rang and others wept bitterly and begged bitterly.

Duan Jue even broke his head, and for a while the blood flowed profusely, and it was miserable. Zhao Zhong said that since the old minister could not serve the queen mother in the palace, it was okay to resign and go home to retire, but as long as the old minister and others walked out of the palace, they would definitely be killed by the general.

Empress Dowager He couldn't bear it, and wrote an edict to He Jin, saying that the He family can have today because of the help and support of these old officials in the palace, and we can't ruthlessly and unjustly drive them out.

Today, due to the situation, the palace can promise you to remove the Zhongchang attendants, but considering the needs of the palace and the ancestral system, other Zhongguan will not be recalled.

He Jin Shangjuan said, now that the Gyeonggi soldiers have responded to the general of the Che Cavalry, they are all demanding that the traitorous eunuchs be killed, and I have no control over the situation, and chaos is imminent.

If Li Hong held high the edict of the first emperor at this time and took the opportunity to go south to enter Beijing, then it would not only be the lieutenants in the palace who would die, but also the Son of Heaven and our entire He clan.

Empress Dowager He insisted on not complying, she said to He Jin, it is okay to remove the middle attendants, but you must ensure their lives, and the other lieutenants must stay in the palace to listen.

She asked He Jin to discuss with Master Taifu, first agreed to all the conditions that could promise Li Hong, and then saw what Li Hong planned.

He Jin and Yuan Kui and other ministers felt that they could not force the Son of Heaven and the Queen Mother too hard, and now that the traitorous eunuch had lost the support of the Xiyuan Army, he would be driven out of the palace sooner or later, and the top priority was to find a way to get Li Hong to withdraw his army.

The master craftsman Zhu Jun rushed to Fenglingdu with the holy decree. Considering that the success of the Tuntian in the annexation of the prefecture was directly related to the safety of northern Xinjiang, the imperial court decided to set up the Tuntian Lieutenant in the Tuntian District south of the Hetao and the Tuntian District in the Tuntian District of Changshan and Zhongshan Counties.

These two prefectures and the Diannong Zhonglang General's Mansion in Hedong and the Hutian Zhonglang Mansion in Jinyang were under the jurisdiction of the Cheqi General's Mansion, and the imperial court no longer interfered in the affairs of Tuntian in northern Xinjiang.

Due to the repeated invasions of the northern border counties by the barbarians and the need for garrisons, the imperial court agreed that the five counties of Beidi, Shuofang, Wuyuan, Yunzhong, and Dingxiang should be garrisoned by the captain and the commander.

According to the agreement of the two counties of Taiyuan and Shangdang to appease the Yellow Turban Army at that time, the Yellow Turban Army still appointed the Taishou on its own.

The candidates for the Taishou of the rest of the prefectures and counties were recommended by the Cheqi General's Office, and the appointment was made after the approval of the imperial court. The imperial court still resolutely disagreed with the establishment of 300,000 border troops, but the imperial court believed that Li Hong could expand the Tuntian soldiers in northern Xinjiang to 300,000, and as for the 5 billion military resources needed by Li Hong to build the border army, the imperial court still agreed to allocate them.

Jizhou is one of the few major tax states in the Han Kingdom, and its taxation is directly related to the finances of the Han Kingdom.

Therefore, the imperial court still did not agree to use Jizhou taxes to fill the two states, but considering the current situation of the annexation of the state, the imperial court agreed to transfer 200 million money from the Jizhou tax to Youzhou and 300 million money to the annexed state every year.

After Li Hong received the order, he warmly entertained Zhu Jun. Zhu Jun said that the purpose of the general's southward movement this time has been achieved, when does the general plan to withdraw his troops?

When to go on an expedition to the desert? Li Hong was in a very good mood, he said with a smile: "If the eunuch is executed, I will withdraw the army." As for the expedition to the desert, I would like to ask your lord's opinion. Zhu Jun shook his head and said: "There must be a lieutenant in the palace, this is a fact, and it is also the ancestral system." No matter how the adults put pressure, it is impossible for the lieutenants to be executed, at most, a group of heinous people have been driven out of the palace, and there is no need to coerce them any further, but it will exacerbate the crisis in Luoyang. As for the expedition to the desert, I would also like to ask you a question. ”

"Your Excellency, please speak."

"Have you obeyed the edict of the previous emperor?" Zhu Jun asked solemnly. Li Hong thought for a moment and said: "The first emperor treated me like a mountain, of course I have to obey the edict of the first emperor." ”

"Do you recognize today's imperial rule?" Li Hong was silent. Zhu Jun glanced at him worriedly and whispered, "Do you understand Emperor Xian's intention of letting Liu He escort the eldest princess north to the Hejian Kingdom?" Li Hong looked at Zhu Jun in surprise.

"Do you understand why the first emperor did not appoint a prince until he died?" Li Hong already knew what happened before and after the first emperor's return to heaven through various channels, but in the face of Zhu Jun's questioning today, he suddenly understood the original intention of the first emperor.

"You went south this time, although you stabilized the northern frontier and helped He enter the main court, but do you think Luoyang will be safe and worry-free from now on?" Zhu Jun smiled bitterly,

"My lord, you still don't know Luoyang, you don't know the court. Whether it is Zhong Yuan or Gongding, they are all too young to know the depth of my Han court. Do you count how many of my Great Han Kingdom have been discharged as the Third Duke? Why did the first emperor choose Yuan Kui alone? ”

"Although the general has been obscure for many years, he is not a scholar, this is the root cause of the Luoyang Rebellion, do you know?"

"In the Beigong Incident in the first year of Jianning, the general Dou Wu and Taifu Chen Fan joined forces to kill the eunuch, but because the secret was leaked, they were killed by the eunuch, what is the crux of it? In addition to the factors of the Northern Army's loss of control, what other lessons can the soldiers learn from them? ”

"The most important reason why Taifu Chen Fan wanted to actively cooperate with Dou Wu, the general of his relatives, was because Dou Wu had the dual identity of a scholar and a relative. At that time, as long as the traitorous eunuchs could be killed, the Great Han Kingdom could avoid returning to the old path of the dictatorship of foreign relatives. Taifu Chen Fan is kind to the Empress Dowager Dou, and her father Dou Wu is close friends with the ministers of the scholar clan in the court, so the biggest possibility for her is to return to the minister of the scholar clan. In other words, after the ministers of the scholar clan helped the general Dou Wu kill the traitorous eunuchs, they could get the opportunity to govern, but what about today? Today, the ministers of the scholar clan helped the general He Jin to kill the traitorous eunuch, what can they get from it? ”

"The great general He Jin is the son of a butcher, and the ministers of the noble clan will not accept him from the heart. The ministers of the noble clan are only willing to accept the general of their relatives who are scholars, and it is impossible to accept the general who is a pariah person. Similarly, He Jin didn't believe in the ministers of the scholar clan, this time he entered the Baijun Mansion and secretly dispatched everything, almost forming an opposition to the ministers of the scholar clan. Look at the Empress Dowager He again, the Empress Dowager He does not have the slightest good impression of the ministers of the Shi clan, she only trusts the eunuchs. In this case, even if the ministers of the scholar clan used the power of He Jin to kill the traitorous eunuch, what could they gain from it? Can you take charge of the government? ”

"Obviously, this is not possible." Zhu Jun sighed,

"He Jin got everything today with the help of the traitorous eunuchs, and he wavered on the issue of getting rid of the traitorous eunuchs. Once he has taken control of the state, will he still kill the traitorous eunuchs? No, He Jin will immediately change his strategy and turn to the side of the traitors, and the ministers of the noble clan will surely suffer a catastrophe. Therefore, in order to prevent trouble before it happens, for the sake of the Han Society, the ministers of the noble clan need the army. The lesson of the Beigong incident to the scholars is to have their own army, but this army is not the Northern Army, let alone Huben and Yulin, but ......" Zhu Jun did not continue, he looked at Li Hong, and said word by word: "Expedition to the desert, please think twice." Li Hong's heart was in turmoil.

The emperor sent the princess north. The first emperor was lonely with Taifu Yuan Kui. The great general He Jin was the son of a butcher. He is in charge of the government.

These things are entangled together, even Luoyang is even more chaotic.

"Can't go on an expedition this year?" Li Hong muttered to himself, dazed. He tried his best to find a solution from these things, he had to stabilize Luoyang, otherwise, his trip south would be in vain.

Zhu Jun didn't say much, he didn't even ask about Xiao Lan's current situation and hurriedly left. Li Hong sent him to the ferry and suddenly asked, "My lord, is King Chen Liuwang okay?" Zhu Jun sighed gloomily and said something that made Li Hong's heart tremble.

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