Chapter 1 Danger lurks in the middle of October 28, Hedong, Hebei City, Hussar General Yuan.

The eight-hundred-mile fast ride delivered Li Wei's letter to Li Hong within one day. Li Wei asked Li Hong to immediately return to Jinyang to preside over the overall situation when the war in Hedong was suspended.

General Xu Rong of Long Xiang and General Yu Shi of Zhichong are both in Hedong, what is the general worried about? At present, the most critical problem in northern Xinjiang is not to seek Dong Qinwang, nor to provide food and wealth, but to distribute power.

If we allow the power of the eldest princess to expand rapidly in northern Xinjiang, the eldest princess and the general will inevitably fall into a power struggle, and there will be no peace in northern Xinjiang, and everything the general wants to do will come to naught.

Li Wei explained in detail the analysis of the current situation and the countermeasures proposed by the Eldest Princess's Mansion. Due to the different views of the Eldest Princess's Mansion and the Hussar General's Mansion on the current situation, the countermeasures are also very different, and the differences between the two mansions are very large, and there is no possibility of coordination at all.

It is precisely because the differences between the two governments cannot be reconciled that the issue of the distribution of power between the two governments has inevitably been put on the table, and the most intense controversy is the issue of the distribution of military power.

The Northern Xinjiang army is now the backbone of Dong Qinwang and the stability of Sheji, whose command is this army currently under its command?

Is the decision-making power and military administration of military strategy subordinate to the eldest princess or the hussar general? Li Wei said, Master Zhang Wen and I have only discussed this matter privately, and the two governments have not yet formally discussed it, obviously he wants to know the attitude of the general, so that he can react quickly.

My prestige and qualifications cannot be compared with Zhang Wen, and I don't know what the general's attitude is towards this matter, so I don't have the confidence and dare not argue with Zhang Wen about this matter with confidence.

I said a few words in anger that I didn't know the importance of, but Zhang Wen asked me, "Is the Northern Xinjiang Army the private property of the general?"

I was terrified. Zhang Wen said a word, indicating that the eldest princess and they had made up their minds to get the military decision-making power and administrative power of the Northern Xinjiang army.

General, you need to know. Now that Dong Zhuo has fallen out with us, he wants to do everything possible to attack and suppress the general, if at this time Zhang Wen secretly wrote to the Son of Heaven in the name of the eldest princess, begging the Son of Heaven to put the Northern Xinjiang army under the control of the eldest princess, do you say that the Son of Heaven and Dong Zhuo will agree?

The chaos in northern Xinjiang is great news for Dong Zhuo. From this point, we can also see Dong Zhuo's intention of asking the Son of Heaven to give the eldest princess the military and political power of the six states, and send seven ministers from the court to northern Xinjiang to assist the eldest princess.

The purpose of the ministers of the DPRK and China was to force us to attack Dong Zhuo, and Dong Zhuo could not have known it, but he knew the hussar general better.

He knew that in order to fight for control of the army, the northern frontier would definitely be chaotic. Dong Zhuo saw that the opportunity for the chaos in Northern Xinjiang had come, and he would definitely ask the Son of Heaven to agree to the eldest princess's request.

When the holy decree arrived in northern Xinjiang, did the general accept the decree or resist the decree? If you accept the holy decree, the eldest princess and Zhang Wen will definitely put you in the air, you must know that there are nine generals and twelve lieutenant generals in northern Xinjiang, and anyone can lead the troops to fight.

But these people led the troops to fight Chang'an, and Dong Zhuo may not be afraid. If you don't accept the holy decree, openly disobey the orders of the Son of Heaven, and ignore the majesty of the eldest princess, then the general has always flaunted that he respects the Son of Heaven, and what is the explanation for revitalizing the society?

In the eyes of the officials in Northern Xinjiang, what is the difference between you and Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shao? After the general's prestige and loyalty were severely attacked, how would he suppress the northern frontier in the future?

Since the eldest princess arrived in Northern Xinjiang, due to her dignity and prominence in identity and status, all the officials of the Northern Xinjiang Prefecture, the wealthy men of the gates, the Confucian scholars, and the people of cloth all respect her like a god.

The first emperor has two sons and a daughter, and now that the king of Hongnong is dead, the Son of Heaven is in trouble, only this eldest princess took the edict of the first emperor to the north and took on the important task of saving Sheji, which shows her weight in the hearts of the world.

In the past, Northern Xinjiang was the most respected as a general, and the general had the final say, but now it is different.

Although the general still holds great power, in front of the eldest princess, the general is just a minister.

So now in Northern Xinjiang, the eldest princess represents the Han Dynasty and the Son of Heaven, and there is only the eldest princess in the hearts of Northern Xinjiang people, and the general has taken a back seat in everyone's minds.

At this time, if the general openly resists the decree and breaks with the eldest princess, he will inevitably be criticized by all parties, and the officials in northern Xinjiang will also deviate from the general, and even if the northern Xinjiang is not chaotic, it will leave a deep worry.

If the general is the same person as Dong Zhuo in everyone's minds, then whether in the Northern Xinjiang Army or in the Northern Xinjiang Prefectures, there will be people who secretly contact the eldest princess and plot to kill you.

It's not like I'm alarmist, look at Dong Zhuo, how many people want to kill him? Once there is a riot in northern Xinjiang, will the general still have the power to return to heaven?

Li Wei finally said that the eldest princess supervised the military administration of the six states, which included northern Xinjiang, that is to say, the eldest princess actually controlled part of the military decision-making power and administrative power of the northern Xinjiang army.

Although there is still a part of the military decision-making power and administrative power in the hands of the Son of Heaven and the imperial court, because the Son of Heaven is now in trouble, the imperial court is controlled by Dong Zhuo, and in fact, this part of the power has also been attributed to the eldest princess.

At present, the war in the Kwantung region is tense, Dong Zhuo has no time to take care of anything else, and it is impossible for him to think of asking the Son of Heaven to add another holy decree to the eldest princess.

And Zhang Wen and the others, considering the current situation and the current situation in northern Xinjiang, are definitely unwilling to break with the general, so it is impossible for him to implore the eldest princess to play the Son of Heaven's request.

But just in case, I still asked the general to strengthen his vigilance and strictly prevent the eldest princess from sending people west to Chang'an.

With and without this holy decree, for northern Xinjiang, it is a matter of life and death, and the general must not be negligent.

Last month, I repeatedly urged the general to refuse to allow the imperial envoys to enter the Jin, but the general insisted on not listening. The general said that the trend of checks and balances has just been formed, and it needs the understanding and support of the Son of Heaven and the imperial court, and it cannot openly resist the decree.

But now that the situation has changed abruptly, Dong Zhuo and us have completely broken up, the trend of checks and balances has been completely destroyed, and we are subject to the eldest princess, how to deal with it?

Please return to Jin as soon as possible. Li Hong didn't expect such a thing to happen. Wasn't there a lot of things that had already been decided before I left Yongsan?

Although Dong Zhuo made peace with us for the time being, the crisis in northern Xinjiang has not eased, and of course the strategy of attacking Luoyang cannot be changed.

Why is it suddenly involved in the distribution of power? Why is the crisis in northern Xinjiang getting bigger and bigger? Xu Rong, Yu Shi and Zhu Mu successively finished reading Li Wei's urgent book, and the three of them looked at each other speechlessly.

After the eldest princess entered the Jin Dynasty, the threat to the northern frontier finally began to appear.

"It's all my fault and Zhong Yuan." Zhu Mu said apologetically,

"In the past, I didn't know much about the general, and I had some misunderstandings about the general's personality, but after such a long period of contact, I know in my heart who the general is. For the sake of the Han Dynasty and the Northern Xinjiang, the general can be said to have worked hard and exhausted, and he has exhausted all his methods. But because of the incompetence of our people, the general was dragged to a desperate situation step by step. Li Hong looked at Zhu Mu and was very moved to reach out and pat him on the back,

"Gongding, don't say that, we have tried our best, not to mention that it has not yet reached the point of exhaustion, we still have a way."

"General, Lord Xu, Lord Yu, for several years, you have been fighting in all directions, and you have never been in contact with the government. It's understandable that you can't think of today's events, but Zhong Yuan and I should have thought of it a long time ago. Zhu Mu sighed,

"It's a pity that Zhong Yuan and I are too young, except for talking about Taixue, we are just county officials for a while, and we don't have any experience in dealing with state affairs. I also don't know much about political affairs, especially the power struggle in the court, and now I think about it, I'm really ashamed of my ignorance. ”

"Looking back now, since the time of the first emperor, the imperial court has been trying to weaken and restrain the power of the generals, and due to various coincidences, they have finally succeeded." Before returning to heaven, the first emperor did two most important things, one was to give two edicts to the general, and the other was to send the eldest princess to the country of Hejian.

Although the purpose of the first emperor seems to be for the imperial system, in fact, the ultimate goal of the first emperor is to weaken and restrain the general.

One of the two edicts to the general was immediately sent to northern Xinjiang, and one was handed over to Yuan Kui. Yuan Kui understood the intentions of the first emperor very well, even if the matter of the imperial command had been resolved, but the matter of the general had not been resolved, especially when Dong Zhuo appeared later, so Yuan Kui had a plan to kill two birds with one stone.

The stone is the Dong Alliance, and the two birds are the general and Dong Zhuo. One stone kills two birds, and it requires various conditions, and it is not possible to smash it if you want to.

The best way to crush two birds is to tie them around their necks with a rope and then crush them to death.

The rope that binds Dong Zhuo is the Son of Heaven, Dong Zhuo holds the Son of Heaven hostage, and the Son of Heaven is in trouble, so he will fight if he doesn't fight. The rope that binds the general is the eldest princess, and the eldest prince wants to fight the king in addition to **, and he will fight if he doesn't fight.

Now both birds are tied up and waiting for the stone to come and smash it. If the eldest princess did not have the edict of the first emperor, at most she would have an extremely respected status, but with this edict of the first emperor, it would be completely different.

When we read the edict, we should not only look at the content, but also deeply understand the theme of the edict and the mind of the Son of Heaven.

What is the thrust of the edict of the first emperor? It is a stable society. Everyone in the world knows that the ultimate purpose of the first emperor to solve the imperial system is to stabilize the society, but now the ultimate goal of the first emperor has not been achieved, which means that the effect of the first emperor's edict still exists.

What was another edict from the first emperor to the general? Han, a big Chinese character, what is its main purpose, it is self-evident, is loyalty, loyalty to the great Han Sheji, to the first emperor, to the edict of the Son of Heaven.

Faced with an eldest princess and two edicts, what choice should the general make? Is the general willing to put this rope around his neck?

Obviously, the general was unwilling. The general would rather resist the decree than suppress the parties and implement checks and balances.

So, the Son of Heaven revised the law, publicly authorized the eldest princess to supervise the military and political affairs of the six states, and sent seven old ministers from the court to assist the eldest princess.

Why were we negligent? Because we have always admitted that when today's son and the imperial court controlled by Dong Zhuo, we have not publicly announced that King Qin is courting Dong, and we have been keeping our heads down and trying to get rid of the crisis facing northern Xinjiang.

We are still fantasizing that in time we can use the powerful power of Northern Xinjiang to force Dong Zhuo to return to power to the Son of Heaven, so we have all neglected the eldest princess and the eldest princess's potentially huge power.

At this time, the general had already turned his face with Dong Zhuo, and the eldest princess had no scruples, so she could immediately follow the edict of the first emperor, announcing that the Son of Heaven and the imperial court had been held hostage by Dong Zhuo, and the holy decree of the Son of Heaven was Dong Zhuo's edict, which had no effect, and told the states and counties of the world to jointly seek Dong Qinwang.

And the eldest princess took control of the power to act on behalf of the state and gained greater power than the general. At this point, the general's power in northern Xinjiang began to be restricted by the eldest princess, and her strength would be weakened step by step by the eldest princess.

We can imagine what the situation in the world will be after the eldest princess raises the banner of Dong Dada?

Yuan Shao is humble and powerful, and he and his alliance will not hesitate to gather under the banner of the eldest princess.

Yuan Shao's hand

Compared with the prominent status of the eldest princess, the "Edict of Inheritance" is not worth mentioning at all. Not to mention Yuan Shu and Sun Jian and others.

From the perspective of the eldest princess, she also needs the two forces of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu to restrain and balance the power of the general.

Therefore, she will be very careful to avoid the issue of imperial domination and pull Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu under the banner of Dong Da.

What about the Great General? If the general does not please Dong, no longer works with the king, and does not respect the order of the eldest princess to send troops to save Sheji, his prestige and prestige will be gone, and his fate can be known.

General, you must be soberly aware that Northern Xinjiang is not your general's fiefdom, not a vassal state, it is only a part of the territory of the Han Dynasty.

Most of the people in this land of northern Xinjiang, including the generals in the army and the officials of the northern provinces, are basically loyal to the Han Dynasty and the Son of Heaven.

Everyone is loyal to the Han Dynasty and the Son of Heaven, so they obey your military orders and obey your commands.

If the general openly broke with the eldest princess, why did the general convince the people of Northern Xinjiang of your loyalty?

How can people believe that you can stabilize northern Xinjiang and save the community? Except for some of the Hu clan and cronies who are absolutely loyal to you, how many people in the north can you get the trust and support of the people of Northern Xinjiang?

The people of Northern Xinjiang don't trust you and support you, how can Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu trust you? If everyone can't gather under the same banner and can't work together, how can they please Dong Qinwang?

How to save the community and save the people of the world from fire and water? You may think that the eldest princess has no army, no strength, and the general can completely control her firmly with the strength in his hands.

So let me ask, where did the chaos of the Han Dynasty come about? Is it because Yuan Shao and various prefectures and counties oppose Dong Zhuo's rule?

Why can Dong Zhuo be in charge? It is because he controls the Son of Heaven. You must know that even if Dong Zhuo didn't do anything big, but his control of the Son of Heaven itself is a big-evil act, and everyone in the world can ask for it.

If the general relies on the army to control the eldest princess, I can safely say that the northern frontier will be chaotic. Why?

Lord Han Fu of Jizhou will first cut off his aid to Northern Xinjiang, Lord Liu Yu of Youzhou will also fight back angrily, and Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and others will add fuel to the fire, they will never watch another ** Dong Zhuo arise again when Dong Zhuo has not been eliminated.

The current situation in northern Xinjiang is clear to everyone, if we lose the four Tuntian counties in Jizhou and lose the aid of Jizhou, the people will riot because of hunger, and the 120,000 army will collapse because there is no ration.

In this case, is the general still capable of turning the tide? Dong Zhuo is so concerned about the benefits of China, but what about us?

We only have the barren Sanjin and the desolate desert. The general will bear the notoriety of rebellion and be defeated before Dong Zhuo.

If the general is willing to be a rebel against the Han Dynasty, willing to give up the northern Xinjiang expedition everywhere, willing to join Dong Zhuo, willing to ruin the lives of the world, and willing to overthrow the Han Dynasty, the general can do whatever he wants.

But the great general was bound to rebel and die quickly in the war. The general can look at history and look at the rebellion of a perverse conspiracy to usurp the country without any foundation, with the power of one person, what will happen in the end?

It's just a stench of living beings for 10,000 years. Northern Xinjiang had just experienced the battle of the expedition to the desert, and the army had not yet given enough respite, and the imperial court had cut off the army's food and salary due to repeated wars, and there was a crisis within the army.

The population of northern Xinjiang has exceeded the capacity of northern Xinjiang, and the tuntian fields in various places have not yielded results, while the displaced people from various prefectures and counties are still moving north, and there is a financial and food crisis in northern Xinjiang.

When the eldest princess arrived in Northern Xinjiang, the Son of Heaven modified the law to give her the power over Northern Xinjiang, and at this time, Dong Zhuo destroyed the checks and balances, which immediately caused a more serious power crisis in Northern Xinjiang.

The survival of northern Xinjiang is all in the thought of the general. The power crisis in northern Xinjiang was planted in the time of the first emperor, and today, it has finally taken shape.

Zhang Wen's words made Li Wei tremble, and he didn't dare to speak out, because no one could afford the consequences of this crisis.

The ministers of the court unanimously recommended Zhang Wen and other seven old ministers to go to northern Xinjiang, and they thought about all aspects of the situation, and it can be said that there is almost no omission.

Why hasn't Zhang Wen asked the eldest princess to tell the king of the world to ask for Dong until now? Zhang Wen obviously knew the current situation in northern Xinjiang, and he himself personally commanded the counterinsurgency war in western Xinjiang, but why did he still propose a two-way battle and attack Chang'an and Luoyang at the same time?

Why did Zhang Wen discuss this matter with Li Wei in private, but did not convene a collegiate discussion between the two governments and publicly propose this policy?

Zhu Mu looked at Li Hong and arched his hand and said, "General, Lord Zhang Wen is asking you, are you loyal to the Great Han?" Or stay true to yourself? "Jump to