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After receiving Li Wei's message, Yangwu General Yang Feng immediately summoned the captains Yang Zhen, Liao Lei, and Li Yao to the big tent to discuss matters.

When Xu Rong and Yang Feng went south to Gyeonggi, the hussar general Li Hong specially authorized Xu Rong and Yang Feng to supervise both Chinese and foreign military affairs and have full command over the troops they led for the convenience of their movements. In the middle of this month, as the situation in Hedong became more and more serious, Li Hong urgently wrote to Xu Rong and Yang Feng, asking them to closely cooperate with Li Wei of Linfen Xingyuan to control the situation in the Gyeonggi area, and not to take action lightly, so as not to worsen the current situation.

Xu Rong and Yang Feng obeyed the military order. During this time, Dong Zhuo had urged the two to send troops to attack the rebels several times, but the two turned a deaf ear and refused for various reasons.

Yang Feng was very excited when he suddenly received the message agreed with Li Wei in advance, and he beckoned everyone to sit down, and said happily: "Your Excellency ordered us to settle the matter of Luoyang before spring ploughing, and we can fight this battle in Hanoi now." ”

Liao Lei smiled: "So, we are going to discuss with Li Su and Zhang Yang about sending troops to attack?" ”

"You can do it." Yang Fengjian's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and he mocked disdainfully, "After we arrived in Heyang, Dong Zhuo let Zhang Yang withdraw across the Yellow River. Hmph, he thought it would be safe to cross the Yellow River, it was a joke. ”

Liao Lei nodded, turned his head and asked Li Yao, "The people who went to Taihang Mountain haven't come back yet?" ”

"Don't worry, a few of us are old friends with Yu Poison and Yu Gu, and nothing will happen." Li Chong showed a wicked smile and said in a low voice, "Why don't I go there myself?" ”

"There's no need." Yang Feng waved his hand and said, "Such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, if Yu Poison and Zhenggu can't catch it, they are only worthy of being bandits in Taihang Mountain for a lifetime." ”

Then Yang Feng briefly talked about the current grim situation in Northern Xinjiang, and finally said, "When we left Yunzhong Xingyuan, my lord told us that the key to whether we can quickly solve the crisis in Northern Xinjiang is not to defeat Yuan Shao, but to occupy Luoyang. Once we get Luoyang, we will be able to control the situation. Therefore, the purpose of this battle in Hanoi was not to fight Yuan Shao and Wang Kuang, but to fight Li Su and Zhang Yang. ”

"Li Su and Zhang Yang have 15,000 northern troops, while we only have 10,000 tuntian soldiers, and there is a big gap in strength. So, please be careful and don't make any mistakes. As for how to fight, we have already discussed it, and now it is equivalent to poisoning the mountain and crossing the river with publicity. ”

In February, Henan Yin, Xingyang City.

Long Xiang's general Xu Rong summoned the strong crossbow Zhonglang general Sun Qin and Wu Yi Zhonglang general Gao Ran to discuss the attack on the sour jujube rebels.

"Your Excellency has come to order us to launch an attack immediately so that we can quickly seize Luoyang." Xu Rong spread out the map and said slowly, "At present, there are about 40,000 to 50,000 rebels in the area of Sujujube, and they have not moved after they have been allied, obviously trying to delay time. The longer the confrontation between the two sides continues, the more unfavorable it will be to our northern Xinjiang. Therefore, this battle must be fought immediately, and it must be hit with one blow. ”

Sun Qin touched his short beard and asked with a smile: "The matter of luring the enemy is very important, if you want to lose again and again, ordinary people don't want to do this thing, who do you think it's better to hand it over?" ”

Xu Rong looked at the two of them and smiled without saying a word.

"The stakes are too high for those who are not idle to do it. Since Jingzhi has this question, someone must have chosen someone. Gao Ran hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Jingzhi, I won't fight with you about this matter, and the first credit will be given to you." ”

Sun Qin laughed, "Look, how is Gao Shun?" ”

"Okay." Xu Rong patted the case, "I fancy him." Tell him to come to the big tent quickly. ”

The next day, Gao Shun and Liang Baiwu led 5,000 men and horses to march towards Suojube, and Xu Rong led the army to follow.

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March of the first year of the first peace of the Han Dynasty (190 AD).

In early March, Northern Xinjiang.

Due to the snow disaster in the north, most of the grain purchased by Li Wei a few years ago was requisitioned and transferred to the desert and border counties for disaster relief, and Zhao Qi supported part of Youzhou free of charge, resulting in a shortage of food in Hedong and Jinzhong.

After the first lunar month, as the relocation of the capital began, the Gyeonggi displaced people poured into Hedong like a tidal wave. After the Son of Heaven drove westward, this tide of displaced people suddenly turned into a stormy wave, and the number of displaced people in the east of the river suddenly increased sharply, and grain suddenly became a rarity, and the price increased several times in a day.

The crisis in northern Xinjiang did not erupt north of the Great Wall as expected, but suddenly erupted violently in the southern part of Jin. The northern Xinjiang governments were caught off guard and fell into a predicament at a loss.

The Hedong Prefectures and the Hussar General Linfen Xingyuan were surrounded by hundreds of thousands of displaced people, and the miserable cries resounded through the four fields with the cold wind of early spring, and the shadow of death suddenly enveloped the land of southern Jin.

Ignoring the strong opposition of the northern Xinjiang provinces, Li Hong, the hussar general, resolutely ordered the use of the tuntian funds and border military funds that he had asked for from the imperial court last year, "no matter how expensive the grain is, buy it first for disaster relief." ”

At the same time, Li Hong ordered the recruitment of the giants Xu Ling and Lu Zhong, Wei Che of the Hedong Wei Valve, Wang Rou of the Jinyang Wang Valve, Ling Hu Shao of the Linghu Valve, and Guo Ce of the Guo Valve, as the Hussar General's Mansion Peng, mainly responsible for the financial affairs of Northern Xinjiang, such as the mutual market of goods, and directly participated in the formulation and implementation of relevant financial policies in Northern Xinjiang. Li Hong said, if you don't follow it, you will arrest me.

The rapid hooves of the 800-mile fast rider echoed day and night on the galloping road north and south of the Great Wall, and the figure of the knights galloping on their horses became the most ardent expectation and hope in the hearts of the homeless people.

Xu Ling, Lu Zhong and Wei Che were invited to Linfen by the Black Panther Yicong. Li Wei and Shi Sangyang, the chief of Hedong Mansion, said bluntly, you are now officials of the Han Dynasty, and you have to bear the responsibility for the rise and fall of Sheji. You first donate some grain to Northern Xinjiang, and then sell all the grain in your storehouse to Northern Xinjiang and sell it immediately. Wei Che asked, at what price? Li Wei doesn't want to be troubled, the food he needs now is time. So he gritted his teeth and said, at the current price, sell it to Beijiang for three thousand yuan a stone.

Xu Ling, Lu Zhong, Wei Che and others thought about it and immediately agreed. Earn ten times the money, if you don't sell it again, Li Wei may go crazy and arrest people. Li Wei said that this price cannot rise any further, and if it continues to rise, there will be no money in northern Xinjiang. There was a mess in northern Xinjiang, and everyone was done. You are now the members of the Hussar General's Mansion, and you have a way to stabilize the price of food.

Once the northern provinces begin to buy grain from the wealthy men, the price of grain will surely skyrocket. In Hedong, there are many fertile fields, mansions, manors and dock forts for the powerful and wealthy people of Luoyang and Chang'an. After the imperial court issued a decree and decided to move the capital, these people were the first to flee to Hedong with their belongings. Although some were killed before they could escape to Hedong, the fields, houses, and estates of these people were immediately occupied by relatives and friends who they authorized to entrust them. The imperial court's edict caused many merchants to die, but it was a miracle that Hedong Mansion did not catch an acre of land and a single house. Now the problem is focused on these people. Some of the old family members in Hedong and the tycoons who moved into Hedong from other places, such as Xu Ling and their relatives and friends, can be properly controlled, but these people cannot be controlled. Once these people take the opportunity to raise prices, grain prices in Hedong will inevitably get out of control.

Li Hong was forced to forcibly recruit the gate valve giant as Peng's subordinate, in fact, one of the most important reasons was to stabilize grain prices.

Because the northern Xinjiang provinces did not foresee the outbreak of the food crisis in Hedong, and because the provinces lacked financial personnel and had no experience or methods to deal with such crises, they used up all the grain stocks in northern Xinjiang in a short period of time, and threw away the opportunity to stabilize grain prices. If the northern provinces had been able to quickly buy grain from the wealthy in Hedong and Jinzhong after the snowstorm began, such a dangerous situation would not have arisen now. Now that the Gyeonggi crisis has reached its worst, the northern Xinjiang is not only unable to free up its hands to solve it, but has taken the lead in entering a desperate situation of collapse. At present, although there is still money to buy grain in northern Xinjiang, one is the problem of grain prices, and the other is the financial problem after the crisis. The part of the misappropriation of funds from the tuntian and military funds from the border areas must be made up, otherwise the old crisis has not been resolved, and the new crisis will come again.

The solution of all these problems depends on the wealthy people of the northern Xinjiang gates, and these problems are also related to their practical interests, so Li Hong must recruit them into the government. First, it is necessary to solve the current crisis, second, to solve the future crisis, third, to quickly restore and develop northern Xinjiang, fourth, to avoid contradictions, strive for profits for both sides, and ensure that northern Xinjiang can solve the problem of food and survival, and finally to solve the problem of lack of financial personnel in northern Xinjiang. There is now only one Tang Yun from a family of merchants who has been in charge of the finances of Northern Xinjiang in the Hussar General's Mansion for generations, but he is too young and does not have a wealth of business experience. Xie Ming's appointment as the lieutenant of salt and iron can only be regarded as a duck on the shelf, and he himself is not proficient in cargo farming. The status quo in northern Xinjiang is so untenable, and if the crisis continues, what will happen to northern Xinjiang? Give up completely? Of course not, we can only do everything we can to save it, at any cost.

Xu Ling thought for a moment and said frankly: "Zhong Yuan, it's not that I won't help you, but we really can't do it." In the past few years, in northern Xinjiang, we have not only spent all the money of the imperial court, but also spent almost all of our money. Do you know how much the Hussar General's Mansion owes me? How much money do you owe to the entire Hedong and Jinzhong gate valve tycoons? In today's situation, Northern Xinjiang may collapse at any time, and we may fall together with Northern Xinjiang at any time. ”

"The desert and border counties were affected by the disaster, the livestock died countless times, and the relief must continue after the beginning of spring, Hetao and southwest Hebei should be tuntian, the Gyeonggi crisis should be solved, the army should fight, the desert was initially decided, the 80,000 army was to garrison the border, and I heard that the hussar general would rebuild tens of thousands of iron cavalry. Zhong Yuan, do your own calculations, how much do you need for me, how much food and supplies do you want? We have a lot of grain in stock and we can indeed control grain prices in the short term, but as time goes by, as grain becomes scarcer and less, it is inevitable that grain prices will skyrocket. ”

"There's only one way to solve it." Xu Ling looked at Li Wei, who looked cold and exhausted, shook his head and sighed, "This is the only way to drive the disaster victims north of the Great Wall to Jizhou and the displaced people to Gyeonggi, otherwise the northern Xinjiang will fall, and it will fall soon." Do you know how many people are there in such a barren northern Xinjiang now? I think it's at least more than five million. Zhong Yuan, you sober up and quickly tell the hussar general that the crisis in the north is not food and money, but people, too many people, he is not capable of feeding so many people, he will kill us all. ”

"Brother Boyu, do you want to die? Dare to say this? Wei Che sneered, "What is the origin of the hussar general, have you forgotten?" How did he promise to appease the Yellow Turban Army back then, have you forgotten? The hussar generals would rather kill us than drive the displaced people out of the north. ”

Li Wei's face turned blue with anger, and he slapped his palm on the case, "There is no Northern Xinjiang, and now you are so rich?" Without the Hussar Generals and the Yellow Turbans, you would still be able to sit here and speak? I think the Xianbei people have already killed and burned you all. Say something useful. ”

Xu Ling coughed a few times in embarrassment, and said in embarrassment: "First of all, you have to have money." Without money, who will sell you grain in this situation? I think Hedong will give you credit to a few of our kind people, and no one else will pay attention to you, unless you go to rob it. In addition, even if the Gyeonggi crisis is resolved, if there is no money, Northern Xinjiang will not be able to afford to buy food and supplies from various prefectures and counties. Secondly, there must be land, there is no field, the disaster victims stranded in northern Xinjiang can only eat and not plant, you are a mountain, and he will also eat empty. Third, it is necessary to resolve the Gyeonggi crisis before spring ploughing and send the victims of the Hedong disaster back to farm. These people stayed in Hedong, and Hedong could not be ploughed in spring, and even if they were sown, the seeds of spring ploughing would be dug up and eaten by them. Not to mention the May winter wheat, it is estimated that it has not yet been harvested, and there is soil left in the field. Zhong Yuan, if you can properly solve the three problems, Northern Xinjiang will be worry-free. ”

"Are you unwilling to do it?" Li Wei sneered, "The hussar general promoted you so much, and even recruited you as a dependent, you don't appreciate it?" Your families plus your relatives and friends, all the grain together accounts for at least half of the grain in Hedong. If it is entirely feasible for you to buy all their grain and stabilize the price of food, why don't you do it? Are you worried that if we drop the price of grain to 300 yuan a stone, you won't be able to make money? I tell you, I buy your grain for relief and to suppress the price of food. You don't do it? Well, since you're willing to kill yourself, don't blame me for being ruthless. ”

"My lord, when do you see this?" Wei Che said calmly, "How could they possibly sell us grain? No one wants to do it. ”

Li Wei looked at the three of them and suddenly laughed, "Okay, since that's the case, then I'll let you earn a lot." After a month, I will not only make you a lot of money, but also pay you back the arrears of the hussar generals. You can go. I don't think you want to do it either, so forget it, I'll explain it to the hussar general myself. Let's go. ”

The three of them were shocked and stunned, and looked at Li Wei very suspiciously.

Lu Zhong respectfully asked in a flickering manner, "My lord, can you ...... This ......"

Sang Yang, who had been silent, said with a smile: "Lord Li went to Beijing this time to ask Lord Xiangguo for money, and Lord Xiangguo said, I don't have money, and Shanglin Sanguan has no time to cast, I think you should go to Beijiang to cast it yourself." So, Master Li brought back the Son of Heaven's holy decree. ”

Xu Ling's faces suddenly changed greatly.

"In order to buy grain in the Gyeonggi area, Lord Sangkoku ordered Sanguan Shanglin to mint money day and night." Li Wei smiled for a while, "But the speed at which Lord Xiangguo minted money is far less than the speed at which the price of food has risen. I heard that the grain in Chang'an has risen to 5,000 yuan a stone, so Lord Xiangguo intends to ask the Son of Heaven to abolish the five-baht coin and release a small coin. ”

Xu Ling's white face turned red in an instant. The muscles on Lu Zhong's face twitched a few times involuntarily. Wei Che was dumbfounded.

It is a good thing that northern Xinjiang has the right to independently mint money to replenish the national treasury according to its financial situation, but once it mints too much money or mints inferior money, it will inevitably cause prices to soar and agriculture and industry to collapse. Whether it is the common people or the gate lords, their wealth will be wiped out in an instant, and all their property will be swept away by the government and the imperial court. If what Li Wei said was true, then a disaster even more terrible than the edict had quietly come.

Li Wei slowly took out the holy decree from the document volume and put it in the middle of the case, and the expression on his face gradually became cold.

"Since Lord Xiangguo can ask the Son of Heaven to issue a decree, he can naturally ask the Son of Heaven to abolish the five-baht coin. As long as the imperial court changes the national policy, not only will you become beggars, but even the lives of the nine clans will be difficult to preserve. Go back and think about it, and see who can protect your property? Who will save your lives? ”

Li Wei's holy decree when he came to the capital not only made Xu Ling, Wei Che and others do their best to raise food for the northern Xinjiang, but also happily entered the palace for Peng. This decree and the force of the hussar generals can make them nothing, but on the contrary, if used skillfully, they can also make them richer. This holy decree is an unpredictable ghost, and as far as the current group of Peng's subordinates in the northern Xinjiang provinces are concerned, few people can fully understand, control and use the currency system to restore the vitality of the northern Xinjiang and get the northern Xinjiang out of the crisis. For the sake of the clan's wealth and destiny, the best way is for them to control it, tame it, and prevent it from becoming a demon that endangers the northern frontier and the wealthy of the gate lords.

In their eyes, Li Wei is the most terrible demon, the right-hand man of this hussar general, and now he is not only powerful in northern Xinjiang, but also more and more unfathomable, and he can even think of this desperate idea.

After Li Wei temporarily alleviated the crisis in Hedong, he immediately wrote to Li Hong, imploring him to speed up the resolution of the Gyeonggi crisis.

At this time, Li Hong had already issued more than a dozen orders in a row, preparing to go south.

Li Hong urgently ordered the three counties of Yunzhong, Dingxiang, and Yanmen to move the victims stranded north of the Great Wall and the people in the camp in Yunzhong back to Jizhou as quickly as possible.

Ordered the general Zhang Yan to lead the army south into the garrison of Julu County, and ordered the general of the town army, Lu Yi, to lead the army into the garrison of Zhao State. At the same time, Li Hong ordered them to do everything possible to buy food in Jizhou, so that the military rations could be solved nearby, so that the disaster victims and people who had moved back to Julu County and Zhao State could have enough to eat. Later issues on this matter will be resolved at the same time as the Gyeonggi crisis. If Jizhou Mu Hanfu sends an army north, he will fight them back, and don't be soft.

Ordered Yu Shi and Yan Liang to take advantage of the disaster of the displaced people in Hedong, quietly raise 50,000 Tuntian soldiers, wait for the opportunity to surround Niu Fu's 20,000 northern army and drive them out of Hedong, and then directly threaten Sanfu and Tongguan to force Dong Zhuo to retreat westward, and respond to the two armies of Xu Rong and Yang Feng to seize Luoyang.

Ordered Zhao Yun to rush to Meiji as quickly as possible, seconded 5,000 iron cavalry to Yu Fuluo, the Xiongnu Dadan Yufuluo, and the Right Xian Wang, and went south to Sanfu to meet Yang Ming, and feinted to attack Chang'an. Ordered Yang Ming to immediately send people to Chang'an City, and spread the news that Han Sui, Ma Teng and other Xiliang rebels had raised troops to attack Hanyang and were about to hit Sanfu.

Ordered Zheng Yan not to talk to Yuan Shao anymore, get rid of Yuan Shao, and directly discuss with Han Fu about the garrison and the relocation of the victims.

I asked Master Xiangkai of Dazhitang to hurry to Montenegro and agree to all the conditions proposed by the leaders of the Yellow Turban Army such as Bai Huan and Ku Chieftain as much as possible, and let them immediately lead their troops down the mountain to attack Hanoi and Jizhou, so as to contain the army of Yuan Shao and Han Fu.

In early March, Liu Xiao, the princess of Changping, rushed to the clouds.

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