Zhang Yan was very angry when he saw that the people were arguing endlessly about whether or not to go out of the fortress to fight, and he said that the problem to be solved now was the problem of food and survival for the 600,000 disaster victims, not the problem of fighting out of the fortress. ∮ Yanmoxuan∮ no advertising∮ even if it is the only way to solve the 600,000 victims, but it will have to wait until next winter at the earliest, and the victims will arrive soon, what should the victims do this year? What about the victims next year?

He pointed to several senior Peng Shi of the Zhenbei General's Mansion and asked, do you still want people in the salt pond and iron mine? Do you want people in the ordnance workshop? If you can solve a little bit, you should find a way as soon as possible, and don't mess around anymore. He looked at Xu Rong again and asked, would you like to consult the opinion of Lord Hedong Wang, tell him about our difficulties, and see if he can help us resettle some of the victims? Then he arched his hand and said to Zhao Qi, who bowed his head and pondered, "Boss, you can think of a way to see if you can squeeze out a little more land from Mintun?"

Ding Yuan said dejectedly, Lord Zhang, don't just care about the stomachs of the victims, the 600,000 victims still need to have a place to live and clothes to survive. In addition, in order to prevent the outbreak of the plague and the large number of deaths caused by the disaster, we also recruited medical craftsmen and purchased medicinal materials. Money, now what we urgently need is money, land, but we don't have any of them.

Zhao Qi opened his eyes suddenly, looked up at Xu Rong and said, "Lord Xu, your Zhenbei General's Mansion still has military funds, military rations, and a large number of war materials such as tents, you can't use these things for the time being, so let's allocate them to us first." ”

Xu Rong shook his head with a resolute expression.

Zhao Qi said that His Majesty had a holy decree as early as the beginning of this month, ordering the armies of all departments in northern Xinjiang to return to their garrisons and no longer engage the enemy. Now that the Battle of Yanmen Pass has ended, there is no war in all parts of northern Xinjiang. Since there is no war in northern Xinjiang, what is the Zhenbei General's Mansion still hoarding military funds and rations? Lord Xu, at present, the proper resettlement of the victims is the top priority, and only when the problem of the victims is solved can the state be stable, which is more important than you fighting ten Yanmen Pass battles.

Zhang Yan, Zhang Baiqi, Ding Yuan and others also knew that there was still a large amount of military resources and rations in the Zhenbei General's Mansion, and emergency response would definitely not be a problem. But this matter is related to the war situation in northern Xinjiang, the hundreds of thousands of troops in northern Xinjiang, and even the safety of the Han Kingdom, so no one dares to speak indiscriminately. The authority of the Zhenbei General's Mansion is to be in charge of the military affairs of the three states and two counties, not just one state, and it is unthinkable that the Zhenbei General's Mansion does not have emergency military supplies and military rations.

Now that Zhao Qi had picked up this matter first, the others naturally followed behind to persuade him. In any case, if the matter of these 600,000 victims is not resolved, the responsibility and pressure of the Zhenbei General's Mansion will be the greatest.

Xu Rong was unmoved, not saying a word, as if he hadn't heard.

Zhao Qi saw that his repeated persuasion was ineffective, and he couldn't help but say angrily: "Lord Xu, if it was General Li who was sitting here now, he would not disagree. This matter is related to the safety of more than 1.8 million people and 600,000 disaster victims in Bingzhou, what reason do you have not to agree? Is it the lives of 2.4 million that matter or is it the general's mansion in Zhenbei that is important? Don't you know which is more important than the two?

Xu Rong sat behind the desk, smiling and not speaking, just not speaking.

Zuo Yan saw that Zhao Qi's eyes were wide with anger, his white eyebrows were high, and he was worried that his body would not be able to stand it, so he hurriedly whispered: "The boss is angry, the boss is angry, let's think of other ways." Money can actually be solved. Lord Xie, the Captain of Salt and Iron, has it in his hands, but it is His Majesty's money, and we can't use it. If we withhold it and don't use it first, and then ask Your Majesty for credit, you see, sir......"

Xie Ming was taken aback and said in horror: "Lord Zuo, this is a capital crime. ”

Zhang Yan was overjoyed when she heard this, "What are you afraid of?" I wrote to Your Majesty, and I said I wanted to borrow it. Now in this case, what are you afraid of killing the head or not killing the head, and the capital crime is not the death penalty. He turned his head to look at Zhang Baiqi and said loudly, "After you arrived in Anyi, immediately organized a large-scale training of 80,000 Yellow Turban main forces, went south and north, and swaggered everywhere, first, to show military might, and second, to deter Gyeonggi, I don't believe it, Your Majesty dares not to lend it to me." ”

Zhang Yan's face sank, he glanced at the people in the big tent, waved his hand and said: "Now the main forces of the Zhenbei General's Mansion are in Youzhou and the Great Wall Fortress, and we are left in Bingzhou and Hedong, and our Yellow Turban Army is left in Bingzhou and Hedong, if Your Majesty forces us in a hurry, hum ......"

Xu Rong couldn't help but bow his head and smile.

Zhao Qi, Ding Yuan, and a group of Peng Shi from the Zhenbei General's Mansion were dumbfounded, and their hearts were extremely shocked. They suddenly remembered that the Battle of Yanmen Pass was fought by the Yellow Turban Army, by Zhang Yan, not by General Zhenbei and his iron cavalry. The situation in the state is becoming more and more complicated and dangerous.

Zhao Qi glared at Zhang Yan, then looked at Xu Rong with a smile on his face, and slapped the case suddenly, "Okay, just do what Master Zhang said, and deduct Your Majesty's salt and iron benefits first." Our five governments jointly signed a letter, asking Your Majesty to immediately allocate funds for disaster relief, otherwise, even if we are killed, we will not be able to save the state and northern Xinjiang. Threat? Who threatens whom? If we die, at most we will kill the nine clans, but the state and the northern Xinjiang are lost, and the Han Sheji is not guaranteed, can Your Majesty still be able to defend his Wanjin Hall? ”

"I'll write this piece. Since we have decided to do this, we are going to succeed, and we have to make Your Majesty pay for it. On credit? If we borrow on credit, we have to pay it back, what do we pay back? We will threaten not only Your Majesty, but also the ministers of the court. Zhao Qi pointed at Zhang Baiqi and said, "Lord Zhang immediately rushed to Hedong to spread out the posture of the training a little bigger, and Pubanjin and Fenglingdu should garrison troops." Also, Lord Xu divided the hussar battalion into two, one part went to Hedong to kill the Baibo Yellow Turban Army in Wangwu Mountain, and the other part went to Taihang Mountain to kill the Yellow Turban Army in Montenegro, you asked the Iron Cavalry to drive the Yellow Turban Army in these two places to Hanoi as much as possible, so that they could threaten Gyeonggi. ”

Ding Yuan looked at the white-haired Zhao Qi in disbelief, wanting to say anything but not daring to say anything.

Zhao Qi glanced at Ding Yuan disdainfully, "I'm going to write to the general." Lord Ding can also write a letter to the general and ask him to do us a favor, which will be good for him. ”

"I have lived for more than eighty years, and when I am old, I am still forced by His Majesty and the court to be loyal and unjust, and I am really shameless to face my ancestors and ancestors to do this disloyal and unrighteous thing."

Knowing that the problem of money was solved, the atmosphere in the big tent relaxed a little. But Zuo Yan then said something that made everyone sad and bleak, "What about the land?" No matter how rich we are, we can't do without land? Relying on relief can only solve the problem for a while, and it cannot stabilize a lifetime. We can't ask Your Majesty to bring them back to their places of origin, can we? ”

Zhang Yan lowered her head, her forehead against the desk, and she wanted to cry in pain. He now finally understood how much pressure and pain the Zhenbei general Li Hong was under when he recruited the Yellow Turban Army to appease the displaced people.

Zhao Qi sighed: "What if you don't move back to your hometown? Although we want to withhold His Majesty's money, we can't go too far, and a billion dollars is already the limit. A billion dollars can last for up to three months. When the grain is ripe in October, we can hold on for another month. By November, those 600,000 people had to leave the state. Otherwise, just like Master Li said, Bingzhou will be dragged down alive, and when the time comes, don't talk about Tuntian, even the northern Xinjiang will not be able to defend it. ”

"Moving back to your hometown?" Ding Yuan exclaimed, "If this is known to the 600,000 victims, it will not be immediately chaotic." These are 600,000 people, not 600,000 head of livestock, not 600,000 troops, they are 600,000 victims, people who have nothing or even hope of survival. Some of the land in the homes of these victims has been washed away by the floods, and some have no land at all, and they have nothing to live on rent, so how do you tell them to live when they return to their hometowns? You're forcing them to riot. This move must not be, must not be, Your Majesty and the court will not agree. ”

"So you say, the rest of the people left in the area are going to riot?" Tang Fang asked puzzled. In his view, the only way to resolve the crisis is to relocate the victims to their places of origin.

Ding Yuan nodded and said, "The reason why Your Majesty and the imperial court relocated the victims to Bingzhou must have taken into account the possibility of riots by the victims. This time, the Yellow River burst its banks, and the seven counties along the river were affected, and these seven counties were all rich lands, especially the land along the river, which was very fertile and had long been bought out by the powerful and rich. This time, they suffered very heavy losses. This year their fields will definitely be unharvested, and it is even more difficult to say whether they will be able to resume farming next year. This depends on the damage of each person, and the second depends on the policy of the imperial court. In some places, the money and grain for this disaster relief were distributed according to the number of fields affected by the disaster, and in other places according to the number of people affected by the disaster, but no matter how it was distributed, the money and grain eventually went into the private treasury of the owner of the field, and it was very good that the peasant households who farmed the land could barely survive. Now that the disaster relief has just begun, His Majesty and the imperial court attach great importance to it, and the victims are protected, and although it is very hard, they can still survive. But after a long time, His Majesty and the court did not care, and then the deep suffering of the victims began. At that time, whether the victims of the disaster will gather and riot, do we still have to guess? The Son of Heaven does not know, but the ministers of the court and the central government know it, and the bureaucrats of the local states and counties do, but who is willing to damage their property to help the victims? What's more, the people are rioting, and they don't want to contribute money and efforts to quell the rebellion, isn't it all His Majesty and the imperial court who paid for it, and the army of the Great Han Kingdom went to kill it? ”

Ding Yuan looked at the people in the tent, word by word, and said solemnly: "The matter of moving back to his hometown must not be allowed. Even if the victims of the lower reaches of the Yellow River rioted, they would be pacified in the counties of the Han Dynasty within a year or two. And if there is a riot in the annexed state, the whole of northern Xinjiang will be over, and the northern Xinjiang will be over, and the Great Han Kingdom will be crumbling. ”

He said to Zhao Qi: "To solve the problem of the disaster victims, in addition to moving back to their hometowns, another proper strategy is to go out of the fortress to recover the four counties in northern Xinjiang, and then move the population north to alleviate the crisis of merging the prefectures." As I said just now, as long as the problem of money is solved, the solution of recovering the four counties is still the best solution. At the very least, these 600,000 victims can temporarily serve as the people of the Northern Expedition to solve the problem of survival, and at the same time, it can also stabilize the hearts of these 600,000 victims and let them see the hope of continuing to survive. ”

"The battle out of Cyprus seems unrealistic, difficult, and simply impossible. But please think about it, apart from this method, do you have a better, more appropriate, more effective way to survive the disaster, more stable in northern Xinjiang as soon as possible, and more acceptable to Your Majesty and the imperial court? We know that we can't do it, and this is the same as going against the sky, and we have to pay a heavy price. However, which is more conducive to the stability and rejuvenation of the Han Kingdom? Think about it, think about it. ”

There was silence in the big tent, and the atmosphere was extremely depressing.

Zhao Qi sighed, "Lord Xu, the two Lord Zhang, and Lord Ding, our five governments jointly signed a letter to inform Your Majesty and the imperial court in detail about the major impact and possible consequences of the disaster victims on Northern Xinjiang after they arrived in the annexed state. In addition, we will also play the solution of the discussion. We can't be the master of such a major matter, and it is not our turn to be the master, so let Your Majesty and the court make a decision. If His Majesty and the court veto these two methods, then we will wait to cut off our heads, and we will be loyal to the country. ”

He patted the desk and said loudly, "Let's do our best." We're going to hold out until October anyway. ”

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In July of the fifth year of Zhongping of the Great Han Kingdom (188 AD).

In early July, Luoyang.

The Great Han Kingdom could not do without the Tai Lieutenant, but now no one wants to take the post of Tai Lieutenant. Since the ministers did not make recommendations, the Son of Heaven was happy to pretend not to know, as if he had forgotten about it. At the beginning of this month, he accepted the recommendation of the general He Jin, the imperial servant Yang Biao, and the Guanglu doctor Yuan Feng, and appointed the Taixue priest Jiuma Riyan as the captain of the Northern Army. The five lieutenants of the Northern Army have long been the stepping stones for the bureaucrats to advance to the court, and they usually go to the Northern Army to show their faces when they take office, and then they can't see anyone.

Ma Riyan is a world-famous Confucian, the grandson of Ma Rong, a relative of the emperor, and a prominent family. The current generation of the head of the Chang'an horse valve is Ma Riyan, and there are many protégés and disciples of the horse valve, which is definitely the first in the world. His grandfather, his father, plus his own protégés, and bureaucrats with various origins were all over the world, and there were countless of them. The power of the horse valve is so great, although it is not as good as the Yang valve, the Yuan valve and the Xu valve in the Han Kingdom, but it is not much worse, especially the intimate relationship between the horse valve and the royal family, which makes his sudden entry into the office particularly attention-grabbing.

Ma Riyan has been concentrating on learning for many years, and is unwilling to enter the court as an official. Although the Son of Heaven admired him very much, the two had a big difference in their views on many things. For example, the Son of Heaven built the Hongdu Gate, which was strongly opposed by Ma Riyan, so the Son of Heaven did not want to use him. At this time, the Son of Heaven suddenly activated Ma Riyan, which can't help but make people think of the fact that he traveled thousands of miles to invite Cai Yong back at the end of last year. Does the Son of Heaven plan to use Ma Riyan to replace Cai Yong into the court to gain the support of the world's scholars? Many people have already vaguely guessed the intention of the Son of Heaven to be unwilling to issue an order to appoint a new lieutenant. The position of the lieutenant was reserved for Ma Riyan.

But many people don't understand why the great general He Jin took the initiative to recommend a great Confucian like Ma Riyan to enter the court, because no matter how He Jin tried to win him over, it was impossible for him to pull the horse valve who was close to the royal family into his camp. With the news coming out from various sources, many people knew that the Son of Heaven was going to set up eight captains in the Xiyuan Army, three more than the Northern Army. In other words, the specifications of the Xiyuan Army are much higher than those of the Northern Army, and the size of the Xiyuan Army has also expanded again and again, reaching 40,000 people. This is all because the Son of Heaven is addicted to collecting money, as long as someone pays to buy an official, why not sell it? The official position of a military Sima has been sold for two million dollars. If you can increase the number of troops and collect more money, why not? The leaked candidates for the eight lieutenants let everyone understand the difficulties of the great general He Jin, except for Yuan Shao, the remaining seven of the eight lieutenants turned out to be Zhongguan first. The general has been cornered with no way out, as if he is about to surrender to His Majesty. This recommendation of Ma Ripan's move, the general obviously has the intention of pleasing the Son of Heaven, but maybe he also has a hint of luck, because if Ma Riyan does not support the abolition of the Son of Heaven, then things will be very beneficial to the general. The focus of the battle for imperial domination suddenly shifted to the Son of Heaven and the general's efforts to win over and win over the scholars.

The bureaucrats in Luoyang were worried. What is the right position to take now? If you want to maintain neutrality, it is definitely not possible to swing left and right, there will always be one person who will win between the Son of Heaven and the Great General, and the scholars who rely on both sides must always have their own fundamental position. Is it to support the abolition of the Son of Heaven or to adhere to the law of the Han Dynasty and oppose the abolition of the heir? Many scholars are unwilling to abolish the ancestral system and the law. If the Son of Heaven can violate the ancestral system and the law, and can do whatever he wants, what else will the Son of Heaven use to restrain his subjects, then what kind of country is it called? However, if you oppose the abolition of the heirs and the establishment of the concubine, the consequence is that the general will be autocratic, and the Han State will still re-embark on the old road of taking turns to dictate and disrupt the government, and finally harm the country.

While the powerful ministers of Luoyang were still hesitating and unable to make a choice, the pace of the Son of Heaven was getting faster and faster. As soon as the northern Xinjiang is stable, the Xiyuan Army is completed, and the Son of Heaven has the Zhenbei general outside and the Zhongguan inside, and the great cause of the emperor's rule will be a matter of course.

The Son of Heaven obviously also considered that the abolition of the Emperor would stimulate contradictions and cause turmoil, so in recent years, he has thought of many ways to successfully achieve his goals without chaos, and the most admired by the ministers is the Son of Heaven's support for Li Hong, the general of Zhenbei. The vision of the Son of Heaven was far sharper than that of the courtiers, and he unknowingly took advantage of the continuous wars on the frontier to push Li Hong step by step to the most powerful position in the Great Han Kingdom. It is precisely because of Li Hong, the general of Zhenbei, and his most loyal and strong backing, that the current Son of Heaven is arrogant and does whatever he wants. He can do whatever he wants now, and even deprive the captain of his power entirely. Now the power of Shang Shutai has far exceeded the provisions of the Great Han Law, which is still very rare in the history of this dynasty. Think about the past, what did the Son of Heaven do in the palace? Driving a donkey cart to do business, who would have thought that he would have such a scheming?

But it is precisely because the Son of Heaven is too scheming that he is very, very cautious, and he does not completely pin his trust on Li Hong. In order to be more secure and sure, he formed the Xiyuan Army, suppressed the forces of lieutenants and generals, and used a large number of scholars to enter the court, and he wanted to realize his intentions without any crisis and without suspense and safety.

After reading Li Hong's request to use the results of the Battle of Yanmen Pass to quickly launch a counteroffensive in Youzhou and strive to stabilize the northern Xinjiang as soon as possible, his first thought was to agree to war.

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