Chapter 6 Success in the Heavens, Section 19 was given to Yuan Shao to elaborate on the general trend of the world. After the success of the great general King Qin, he will only consider stabilizing Hebei in the short term, and the possibility of sending troops to conquer is very small.

Even if it is necessary to send troops, it is limited by the tension of Hebei's financial endowment, and it can only use troops locally. At the beginning of the year, Cao Cao drove away Lu Bu and stabilized the entire territory of Yanzhou, and what he needed most now was time to develop his strength.

Xuzhou was slaughtered by Cao Cao twice in a row, and his strength was almost completely lost, so Liu Bei needed more time to recover.

Although Tian Kai nominally occupies the entire territory of Qingzhou, in fact, the southern part of Qingzhou is controlled by Kong Rong of the North Sea, and he only has three and a half counties in Northern Qingzhou, and his strength is not very strong, and he also needs time to strengthen himself.

Yuan Shu occupied two counties, Jiujiang and Lujiang in Yangzhou, both on the north bank of the Yangtze River. The four counties of Danyang, Yuzhang, Wujun and Huiji on the south bank of the Yangtze River were controlled by Liu Xuan, the assassin of Yangzhou.

At present, Yuan Shu's general Sun Ce is leading the army to attack, if Sun Ce can defeat Liu Xuan to occupy the four counties on the south bank of the Yangtze River, then Yuan Shu's strength will be greatly increased, so Yuan Shu will not be able to look north for a period of time in the future.

This year, we and Liu Biao joined forces to enter Guanzhong Qinwang, which cost a lot of money, and in the coming period, we need to invest all our strength to consolidate and develop the hegemony, and Liu Biao also needs time to recuperate.

To sum up, next year, the north and south banks of the Yellow River will be peaceful, and the fighting will temporarily subside. How can we use this precious time to weaken and restrain Hebei's to the greatest extent, and lay a solid foundation for our alliance to discuss Li Hong in the future.

First of all, it is necessary to devote itself to the horizontal and horizontal areas, crack down on the joint vertical, and isolate Hebei. Li Hong held the Son of Heaven hostage, controlled the imperial court, and had a strong military force, and even the three states of Hebei, which was a huge existential threat to some officials in neighboring prefectures and counties.

They were forced by all kinds of pressure, especially under the premise of respecting the Son of Heaven Zhongxing Sheji, and it was very likely that they would take refuge in Li Hong.

For example, Han Sui in Xiliang and Tian Kai in Qingzhou. As for Liu Biao in Jingzhou, Liu Bei in Xuzhou, and Liu Zhang in Yizhou, because they are descendants of the clan, although they know that Li Hong has the intention of usurping, they will still present their watches to the Son of Heaven and be loyal to the imperial court.

In fact, what Liu Biao has done in the past two years has explained everything. Cao Cao committed heinous crimes in a row, and there was no way out.

Yuan Shu is Yuan Valve's person, and his fate is tightly tied to us. Although there are many contradictions between the adults and him, once it is a matter of life and death for Yuan Valve, he still has to join hands with the adults to fight the enemy.

Therefore, in addition to Han Sui in Xiliang and Liu Zhang in Yizhou, Li Hong's partners were only Tian Kai, Liu Bei, and Liu Biao south of the Yellow River.

Even if Cao Cao and Yuan Shu were also his conspirators, Li Hong would not trust them. The purpose of Li Hong joining forces with them is only to intensify the contradictions between us, weaken our strength, and hinder our development.

Attacking Li Hong's art of combining and verticalizing is to devote ourselves to our way of connecting horizontally. Except for Li Hong in Hebei, all other forces can join forces, including Han Sui in Xiliang.

The reason why we are able to connect horizontally on such a large scale is because we have one of the greatest advantages, that is, we do not have the Son of Heaven in our hands.

We, like other forces, are Li Hong's enemies, our strength is not as good as Li Hong's, and we are all greatly threatened by Li Hong, so we can quickly turn the unfavorable factors without the Son of Heaven into favorable factors, so that Li Hong, like Dong Zhuo and Li Dao in the past, will fall into the confrontation and encirclement of various forces, and completely isolate Hebei.

If we succeed in success, the world will be divided into two major forces, with the Yellow River as the boundary. One major force is Li Hong of Hebei, and one major force is the coalition army of the southern states and counties of the Yellow River headed by the adults.

In this way, Li Hong's advantage is lost, and the period of defeat is just around the corner. Committing to the horizontal and the fight is easier said than done.

All forces have their own minds and interests, and when our strength is not strong enough, it is difficult for them to believe in us, and it is even more difficult for them to completely turn their backs on the Son of Heaven and Li Hong as enemies.

To tell the truth, many forces, such as Liu Biao, Liu Bei, Tian Kai, Yuan Shu and others, may step on two boats, neither offend Li Hong nor adults, so as to wait and see the changes in the situation and make the most beneficial choice for themselves.

Therefore, in order to succeed in success, the key is strength, and it is necessary to ensure that all forces can benefit to the greatest extent.

How to weaken Li Hong's strength while ensuring that all forces benefit to the greatest extent?

"Change the knighthood system and divide the princes." As soon as this statement came out, everyone was shocked. This dynasty inherited the Qin system and implemented the twentieth rank lord system.

The nineteenth-rank Kannai Marquis and the twentieth-rank Chehou were the most prominent. (In order to avoid secrecy during Emperor Xiaowu, it was changed.)

"Che Hou" for

"Liehou". In the pre-Qin period, the five-rank lord system was implemented, that is, duke, marquis, uncle, son, and male, collectively referred to as princes.

The princes had food and exercised military and political power in the land of the food and the government (i.e., the vassal states). By the time of the Warring States period, various countries changed their laws one after another.

After the Qin Dynasty changed the law, it established a system of twenty-class military merit. This system is still in use today. When Emperor Gaozu founded the country, he learned the lessons of the fall of Qin, implemented the policy of feudal and county parallelism, and divided a large number of his relatives as the monarch of the feudal state.

These kings had the right to use the land and could exercise military and political power over their land. They are equivalent to the fifth-rank princes of the two-week period, but these feudal kings can only be called

"King". The princes of the twentieth rank were nominally equivalent to the princes of the fifth rank of the two-week period, but they only ate fiefdoms and had no military and political power.

Gaozu once ordered his ministers to swear: "If you are not surnamed Liu, you will not be crowned king, and you will not be crowned a marquis unless you have military merits." "Visible

"King",

The dignity of the two lords of "Hou". (Here.)

"Marquis" refers to the marquis of Guannei and the marquis of the twentieth rank of the lord. By

After the "Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms" to Emperor Xiaowu, the country was sealed

The "king" gradually lost his status as a prince. At the same time, due to the many wars, there were also many people who were crowned marquis because of their military exploits, and the marquis of Guannai and the marquis of the liehou stood all over the court, which was the most glorious period of the warriors.

At the same time, there was a major event related to the Marquis. Emperor Xiaowu connected the liehous with the three important ministers.

If he is worshiped as a minister of the third prince and does not yet have the title of marquis, he will be immediately given the title of twentieth rank marquis.

Emperor Xiaowu's reward behavior was inherited as a customary system by later generations. In the reign of Emperor Xiaowu, the division of the marquis of Guannei and the marquis of the lieu was still rewarded more according to military merits.

But

In addition to "martial arts", by virtue of

The number of ministers who have been crowned marquis by "Wen" is also gradually increasing. When it came to Zhaoxuan Zhongxing, that is, the Wenzhi period of this dynasty, especially the Xiaoxuan Emperor's dynasty, local officials relied on

The situation of "Wen" being crowned a marquis has reached the extreme for a while. After the Zhaoxuan Zhongxing, the country's situation was declining, and the eunuchs of foreign relatives took power one after another.

A large number of these people privately named their cronies as marquis, and their relatives were even more marquis, and it was not uncommon for Zhongguan to count marquis a day.

The Marquis and Marquis of Kannai immediately ceased to be honorable. Later, the Son of Heaven began to sell his official beard, and the wind of collecting money became more and more intense.

After all, the official positions of the imperial court are limited, and the current twentieth rank is not honorable. At this time when the survival of the society was at stake, the imperial court should revise the knighthood system and restore the five-rank title system for the two-week period.

In addition to the current 20th rank system, the titles of duke, marquis, earl, son, and male are additional. The 20th and 5th rank titles were implemented at the same time and complemented each other.

In the absence of official promotion, in addition to increasing the number of salaries, they should also be given high titles, so as to encourage the officials of various prefectures and counties to fight bloodily for the stability of the society and the prosperity of the Han Dynasty.

Of course, at this time, we asked the imperial court to change the knighthood system, not to encourage everyone to make more meritorious deeds, but to weaken Hebei's strength and attack Li Hong's co-ordinated strategy.

The key to the fifth-class title system is not the dignity of the title, nor the number of fiefdoms, but the hereditary exercise of military and political power in the fiefdoms.

This alone can make the officials of all states and counties flock to it. After the officials of various prefectures and counties jointly put on the table, Hebei will immediately fall into chaos.

Although the implementation of the fifth-class title system can temporarily pacify the prefectures and counties and temporarily stabilize the world, with the increase in the strength of the prefectures and counties, the world will inevitably be in chaos.

The princes competed for the deer, and the first winner was the king, and the Han Dynasty fell apart from then on. Therefore, the Son of Heaven will not agree, the court will not agree, and Li Hong will not agree.

The consequences of the rejection of the fifth-class title system were very serious. First of all, the Son of Heaven and Li Hong offended the officials of various prefectures and counties, and Li Hong's strategy of cooperation and indulgence immediately failed, and Hebei was isolated.

Secondly, Li Hong is already a great Sima, a general, the Marquis of Jinyang, and an important minister of the court with 10,000 households.

His position is extremely high, he can no longer be promoted, he can not be rewarded, but what about his subordinates?

His veto of the fifth-class title system is equivalent to cutting off the promotion path of his subordinates and robbing them of their glory and wealth.

Let's ask, how many civil and military members will resent Li Hong because of this, and will lose their trust and loyalty to Li Hong because of this?

The officials of Hebei will definitely be separated from Li Hong, and the situation in Hebei will get worse and worse. Third, although this performance was handed over by us, it was Li Hong who benefited the most.

In today's world, if you talk about military merits, Li Hong is the greatest, and once the fifth-class title system is passed, the Son of Heaven will at least worship Li Hong as the Duke of Jinyang, and this point just stings the most sensitive place of the Son of Heaven and the ministers.

Back then, Dong Zhuo first proclaimed himself a master, and later even wanted to appoint himself

"Father Shang", he trampled on the dignity of the Son of Heaven and imperial power to the extreme. Today, Li Hong is even more intensified, he not only wants to trample on the imperial power, but also snatch the imperial power and occupy the country of the Son of Heaven.

In order to prevent trouble, the Son of Heaven and the ministers will unite with some officials in Hebei at all costs to kill Li Hong.

The crisis of Hebei's collapse began immediately. As long as there is a rebellion in Hebei, Li Hong picks up the butcher's knife and kills the minister, he will be in the name of rebellion, and the rest will be very simple.

Adults can hold high the banner of Qinwang Xinghan, dominate the world, and gather soldiers and horses from various states and counties to attack Hebei together.

In addition, Li Hong was under the pressure of the failure of the alliance, and he might not wait for Hebei to recover and take the risk of sending troops.

The officials of various prefectures and counties jointly issued a petition to revise the knighthood system, which is equivalent to telling Li Hong that although we respect the Son of Heaven, we respect the Son of Heaven at a price.

We want to share the imperial power, we want to share the land of the Han Dynasty, we want to be domineering, and we want to continue

The work of "Huan and Wen". Li Hong saw from this performance the strength of our Lianheng and the consequences of the great increase in the strength of various states and counties, so he would take advantage of the lack of strength in various states and counties to take the lead in attacking, intending to take the lead in pacifying the world.

Li Hong hurriedly dispatched troops without waiting for his vitality to recover, and his strength would continue to be damaged. If Li Yi wants to fight, he must choose the weakest one, either Qingzhou Tian Kai or Yanzhou Cao Cao.

Tian Kai has a deep friendship with some officials in northern Xinjiang, and he is the object that Hebei can win over, so Li Hong will only fight Cao Cao.

Cao Cao was defeated by him, and we will join forces with other states and counties. In this way, we can not only occupy Yanzhou, but also eliminate Cao Cao, and also inflict heavy damage on Li Hong.

"Regardless of whether Li Hong took the risk of sending troops or not, this strategy can more or less help us win time for development and help us smoothly implement the strategy of succession." Finally, he said,

Although Li Hong saved the Son of Heaven, he occupied part of the favorable factors. But as long as we implement this policy, all the favorable factors of Li Hong will be transformed into negative factors. At that time, he will not save the Son of Heaven, but a sharp weapon to assassinate himself. There was silence in the big tent for a long time, and Yuan Shao and everyone were thinking about this suggestion with their hearts.

Tian Feng smiled at the frustration and slapped his palms to show his admiration. It seems that this suggestion is planning for Yuan Shao everywhere, and it is to cross various states and counties, and to attack Hebei.

But his real intention was to try to use the fifth-class title system to remind and warn Yuan Shao that it was not advisable to rebuild the imperial throne in a hurry, and the conspiracy to usurp it was self-defeating.

After all, hegemony is not the king's industry, and if you want to achieve hegemony, you must continue

The merits of "Huan and Wen" must be respected today. Like Tian Feng, Fu Zhu had already guessed the deep meaning behind Yuan Shao's request to rebuild the imperial system.

The proposal of the fifth-class title system just gave Yuan Shao a chance to buffer and temporarily pushed Yuan Shao to a correct position.

Yuan Shao sat behind the desk, looking at the top of the cowhide tent with his eyes expressionless.

"If Li Hong agrees to implement the fifth-class title system, or ......" Guo Tu said half a sentence, feeling that the possibility of Li Hong's agreement was too small, so he swallowed back the following words.

Frustrated, he bowed his head and said nothing. Tian Feng sighed lightly. Yuan Shao stared at Fu Zhu for a long time, and a subtle sneer gradually appeared on his face,

"Li Hong will definitely agree." He turned his head to look at Guo Tu, who looked stunned, and said slowly,

"Disagreeing with the fifth-class title system is a disaster for Li Hong and Hebei. If you were Li Hong, how would you choose? Guo Tu realized.

The purpose of the frustration was actually to force Li Hong to agree to the implementation of the fifth-class title system. Once the fifth-class title system is implemented, Li Hong's strategy of cooperation will be successful, and he will be able to win precious breathing time for Hebei.

Secondly, he can appease the military and political officials in Hebei, gain the support of the people in Hebei, and enable Hebei to quickly come out of the disaster.

As for the rebellion of the Son of Heaven and the ministers of the court, there is no need to worry at all. This Guanzhong chaos has actually completely destroyed the majesty of the Son of Heaven and the imperial court, and there are very few ministers of the central government who can escape to Hebei for the rest of their lives, and the Son of Heaven has become a real loner.

As long as the Hebei officials are loyal to Li Hong, there will be no rebellion like Chang'an in the northern Xinjiang anyway.

After Li Hong carefully weighed the pros and cons, he had no choice but to agree. Although the result of the agreement was the princes, at this moment, he had no room for maneuver.

Only by implementing the fifth-class title system can he have the possibility of merging, and only when he succeeds in merging can he find an opportunity to destroy the enemy.

But the real purpose of this plan was to make Yuan Shao hegemonic and force Yuan Shao to give up rebuilding the imperial system. If Yuan Shao wants to rebuild the imperial system, he will lose many allies, lose the good situation in front of him, and finally inevitably go to extinction.

Only by respecting the Son of Heaven can he not be isolated, can he succeed in success, and finally defeat Li Hong to achieve hegemony.

The hegemony is successful, and he can do whatever he wants. This is a long process, but Yuan Shao desperately attacked Kansai this time, giving up the perfect opportunity to save the Son of Heaven and pacify the world, obviously indicating that he did not have this patience.

Yuan Shao saw the ultimate goal of frustration, he was very unhappy, he felt that he was restrained and insulted.

November of the second year of Xingping of the Han Kingdom (195 AD). On November, the Son of Heaven, the Empress and 52 ministers, more than 100 Huben and Yulin guards who escaped by chance, as well as more than 400 remnants of the defeated soldiers such as Zhang Xiu and Yang Mi, slowly arrived at the camp of the Son of Heaven in Anyi under the escort of the Northern Xinjiang Army.

In mid-November, more than a dozen ministers, including the eldest princess, the general Li Hong, the general of Zhenbei, Xian Yufu, the ministers Zhang Wen, Ma Riyan, Cui Lie, Cai Yong, and Zhao Qi, rushed to Hedong day and night to meet the Son of Heaven.

Since the death of the first emperor, the Son of Heaven and the eldest princess have always been on opposite sides. When they met again five years later, the two were sad and cried.

The ministers were sour in their hearts, and they also secretly wept and sighed. After Li Hong and his ministers retired, they immediately summoned Xu Rong, Lu Yi, Yang Feng, Yushi, Hua Xiong, Lu Bu, Zhang Baiqi and others to discuss the matter, learned in detail the beginning and end of the First Battle of Kansai, and praised Xu Rong, Lu Bu, and Zhang Liao.

In the afternoon, Li Hong, in the capacity of the great Sima, the great general, and the general of the staff, discussed state affairs with more than a dozen secretaries of the three princes, including Yang Biao, Situ Chun Yujia, Sikong Zhang Xi, former Situ Zhao Wen, Shangshu Lingshi Sun Rui, Weiwei Zhou Zhong, and Zhongcheng Zhong Xuan, the imperial historian.

Where does the Son of Heaven live? Is it Jinyang or Handan? Or somewhere else? The imperial court was destroyed, how to rebuild it?

How to negotiate the two wars of Guanzhong and Kansai? Who should bear the responsibility for the suffering of the Son of Heaven and the destruction of the imperial court?

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