Chapter 2 is like the abyss, verse 2

In mid-November, Li Hong sent his subordinates Cao Jiewu and Xu Yan to Luoyang Tiger Prison to meet Yan Liang.

Zhang Wen, Ding Gong, Cai Yong, Zhao Qi and many other old ministers have made all preparations for the establishment of the dynasty in Jinyang. Emperor Gao Temple and Emperor Shizu Temple will be completed at the end of this month, the relevant ceremonies of the construction of the dynasty are all prepared, the auspicious day of the construction of the dynasty by Xu Shao, Cai Yong and other ministers of the calculation of the final, the ministers of Northern Xinjiang, Youzhou, Jizhou are coming to Jinyang day and night. Now everything is ready, just wait for Taifu Liu Yu and Jizhou Mu Hanfu to arrive in Jinyang.

If nothing else, the Jinyang Imperial Court will be completed in mid-December. Dong Zhuo must retaliate after hearing the news, so Li Hong asked Yan Liang to be on guard, and once the situation is unfavorable, he will immediately lead the army to withdraw from the tiger prison, retreat in the direction of Yingchuan, and meet Yuzhou Mu Kongling. Kong Ling's forces were weak and could not attack Luoyang alone, and if the Northern Xinjiang Army joined forces with him, he could not only effectively contain the Northern Army of Luoyang, but also get the money and food support of the southern counties of Yuzhou.

"Last time we beat him, Yingchuan Taishou Li Meng's death is also directly related to us, so Kong Ling may not give us a good face, so ......" Li Hong looked at Xie Wu, and suddenly swallowed back the words behind.

Xie Wu comprehended and made a gesture of slashing. Li Hong shook his head, and then made a neck gesture, "After defeating Luoyang, we need food and salary even more, so this matter will be handed over to Lord Tian Chou Tian to handle, so that he must solve it as soon as possible." ”

Enlightenment bowed down to receive the order.

"In addition, please ask Lord Yan to write an urgent letter to Gao Ran and Gao Shun, and ask them to rush back to the Gyeonggi area to meet and attack Luoyang immediately after the war in Xuzhou is suspended."

Then Li Hong picked up two military orders and handed them to Xie Wu, "Lord Yan has recently recruited two thousand homeless people to supplement the army, and the army is in urgent need of officers. So after you and Xu Yan arrive in Luoyang, don't come back, and be a subordinate under General Hutou's account. ”

Xu Yan was stunned for a moment, and blurted out: "The general doesn't want us anymore." ”

"What?" Li Hong stretched out his hand and patted the shoulders of the two, and said with a smile, "You are veterans of the Black Panther Volunteer Battalion, you have followed me to fight for many years, and you have made many achievements, so it is time to lead the army to fight." It's rare for me to go to the battlefield now, and if you continue to follow me, your good martial arts will be wasted. Go ahead, go and make contributions, in the future, when the society is stable, you can at least be a general, so that you can help me. If you've been a guard for me, what can you do for me in the future? Can you help me revitalize the community and save the people? ”

The two of them knelt down excitedly and took their leave.

In November, Jinyang.

Taifu Liu Yu took more than 30 people in the palace to engage in and Peng's subordinates, and 500 iron horses rushed to Jinyang. He was accompanied by Lu Zhi and more than 20 disciples who followed him.

Jizhou Mu Hanfu rushed to Jinyang with more than a dozen Peng subordinates and 1,000 soldiers. He was accompanied by the old ministers Cui Lie, Ma Riyan, Chen Ji, Yuan Peng and more than 60 celebrities and scholars who were invited and recruited in Jizhou.

The hussar general Li Hong, the Longxiang general Xu Rong, and the hussar general's mansion Sima Zhumu also hurried back to Jinyang at the same time after receiving Zhang Wen's letter.

The officials of the northern Xinjiang provinces, the generals and Zhonglang generals of the Northern Xinjiang army, and the Taishou of the counties of Youzhou and Jizhou, all who can come are here.

In a short period of time, there were about 50 officials with a rank of more than 2,000 stone in Jinyang.

The eldest princess faced familiar and unfamiliar faces, and faced the ministers who knelt down in the big tent and pressed the ministers, she couldn't hold back the excitement in her heart anymore, and hid her face and cried.

The ministers thought of today's stormy man, and they were also sad and sighed.

Before the establishment of the dynasty, the governments were collegial.

Everyone, including the officials of the northern Xinjiang provinces, thought that the biggest obstacle to the distribution of power was the hussar general Li Hong, but Li Hong's attitude was completely unexpected by everyone.

Li Hong first gave up the ten-year contract with the imperial court and handed over all the military and political affairs of the sixteen counties in northern Xinjiang. Li Hong said that there is a prerequisite for the ten-year covenant with the imperial court, that is, the stability of the society. Now that the Han Dynasty is in danger and the northern Xinjiang is crumbling, I no longer have the ability to continue to be in charge of the military administration of the sixteen counties in the northern Xinjiang. The ten-year covenant is dissolved from today.

No matter how barren and difficult the northern Xinjiang was, the Jinyang Imperial Court had military and political control over the sixteen counties at the beginning of its preparation, which ensured the dignity of the imperial power and the authority of the imperial court from that point of view.

With the handover of the military and government in northern Xinjiang, the ministers' views on Li Hong have changed greatly. Although Han Fu and other ministers thought that Li Hong had ill intentions and hidden evil intentions, Li Hong's first move to delegate power still greatly inspired people's hearts.

But then Li Hong made an even more astonishing move.

In recent years, whether Li Hong was an expedition to the desert or a threat to the imperial court, his original intention was to solve the displacement of the northern Xinjiang, in order to solve the tuntian in northern Xinjiang, the importance of the northern Xinjiang Tuntian Prefecture and the Northern Xinjiang Salt and Iron Prefecture to the stability of the northern Xinjiang is self-evident, Li Hong has no reason to give up the control of the northern Xinjiang Tuntian and salt and iron, but Li Hong's words are amazing, he gave up, he handed over all the tuntian and salt and iron to the imperial court.

Liu Yu, Zhang Wen and a group of old ministers were pleasantly surprised. Li Hong has always told them that he is willing to give up the military and political affairs of Northern Xinjiang, but he has never said that he wants to give up Tuntian and Yantie in Northern Xinjiang. Was Li Hong moved by the sincerity of the ministers, his head was hot for a while, and he was so excited that he didn't know the world? It seems that people who have lost their memories are much simpler, and far more loyal to the big man than those who have read too much.

Han Fu and a group of ministers with similar thoughts looked at each other, unable to believe that this was what a hussar general should say and do. The hussar general has a problem with his brain, and the hussar general's mansion also has a problem with his brain?

Xu Rong, Li Yi, Li Wei, Zhu Mu, Zhang Baiqi...... The generals, lieutenant generals, and practitioners of the Hussar General's Mansion looked at the high-spirited Li Hong blankly, stupid.

Last night, when the Hussar General's Mansion was deliberating, Li Hong also swore that he must firmly grasp the tuntian and salt and iron, how could things completely change after a good night's sleep? Is the hussar general sick again? Is he going to give up the northern frontier for which he has fought for four years and sacrificed hundreds of thousands of soldiers?

Zhang Yan and Yang Feng looked at each other and smiled bitterly. Although the two of them know Li Hong's true thoughts, if they want to get back what they sent, I'm afraid it won't be as simple as it is today. Will the next development of the situation be as the general predicted? When a general fights a war, he always likes to take risks with soldiers, but national politics is not a war, can this kind of risky strategy work?

The ministers in the big tent were silent, only Li Hong's excited voice echoed everywhere.

He waved his hand impassionedly and said, "As in the past, I led the army to conquer, and the eldest princess and all the lords sat in Jinyang. I am diligent to ask Dong Zhuo, and strive to kill Dong Zhuo within a year, save the Son of Heaven, and revitalize Sheji. ”

Wei Jun (beard) stood up suddenly, raised his arms and shouted: "Swear to follow the great general Qin Wang Xingguo to the death......"

Pang De, Hua Xiong, Wen Chou and other generals in northern Xinjiang jumped up, echoing in unison, for a while, the roar in the big tent was like thunder, King Qin's heart to serve the country suddenly rushed straight to Xiaohan, many old ministers trembled, tears in their eyes.

Except for military power, Li Hong gave up all power. This made the Jinyang court have considerable strength, but at the same time, the Jinyang court also took over all the crises in northern Xinjiang. The Jinyang court, which had nothing at all, now held the administrative power of northern Xinjiang in its hands, carrying the crises of northern Xinjiang on its back, and in addition to the brief excitement, Liu Yu and Zhang Wen and other ministers felt not prominent power, but deep hardship that people could not breathe.

Li Hong handed over the power, and he was relaxed, and it was none of his business, he only had to interject and nod.

Liu Yu followed suit and immediately handed over the power of Youzhou Mu to the imperial court, which directly controlled the nine counties of Youzhou. (Youzhou has eleven counties, but Dai County and Shanggu County have long been assigned to Northern Xinjiang, so now there are only nine counties.) ）

Han Fu turned a deaf ear, turned a blind eye, and did not mention the military and political affairs of Jizhou. No matter how much you hand over power in Northern Xinjiang and Youzhou, both of you are poor, if you want to survive, if you want to ask for Dong, you have to look at my Jizhou's face.

Liu Yu and Zhang Wen and other old ministers did not mention the military and political affairs of Jizhou. Among the three Shangqing positions in the Jinyang court, Liu Yu is the Taifu, acting as the prime minister, and has the most power in the Jinyang court. Li Hong is a hussar general and a general military officer, acting as a lieutenant in the Jinyang court, even if he handed over the military and government of Northern Xinjiang, he still has more than 100,000 border troops in his hands, and he is still the most powerful minister of the Han State. Only Han Fu is a Jizhou pastor, and he is just a famous and powerless deputy prime minister in the Jinyang Imperial Court, if you ask him to give up the military government of Jizhou, then what power does he have? So Liu Yu and others really can't say it. The most important thing is whether this Jinyang court can play the role of dominating the prefectures and counties of the world, and the key depends on the money and grain of Jizhou. Without the support of strong financial endowments, let alone let the states and counties of the world gather and follow, even their own survival is a problem.

Although Han Fu himself was unwilling to give up the military administration of Jizhou, and the eldest princess, Liu Yu and others also kept silent, the ministers saw this matter in their eyes and understood it very well. Considering the overall situation, the powers of all parties must ask for similarities while reserving differences, so everyone also discussed in private, and no one publicly accused Han Fu.

The power that the court should have obtained was obtained, and then it was to set up the government and conquer the subordinates.

There are old ministers Ding Gong, Chen Ji, and Lu Zhi in the eldest princess's mansion, Zhang Fan and Xing Hao in the former eldest princess's mansion, Xiao Lan and Sun Zi in the former hussar general, Liu Fang in the former Taifu mansion, Huang Yue and Ma Feng in the former Jizhou mansion and dozens of other Peng subordinates.

Taifu Mansion has Zhang Wen, Cui Lie, Ma Riyan, Yuan Peng and other old ministers, Wei You, Sun Jin, Zhang Yi of the original Taifu Mansion, Wang Rou, Wei Gu, Linghu Shao, Liu Fan, Zhaozhao, Shi Lu and other Peng subordinates of the former Hussar General's Mansion, Wu Liang, Yuan Hong, Hu Gan and other Peng subordinates of the original Jizhou Mansion. Together, there are about 60 people in the thirteen Cao Peng genera.

The Hussar General's Mansion is engaged in Peng's subordinates because a part of the Eldest Princess's Mansion and the Taifu Mansion have been transferred to supplement the Eldest Princess's Mansion and the Taifu Mansion, so the personnel are relatively small, but now the Hussar General no longer needs to deal with the military and political affairs of Northern Xinjiang, and it is not a big problem to have fewer personnel.

The Imperial Historical Mansion was presided over by Han Fu, the old minister Cai Yong and Chen Hao of the former Hussar General's Mansion were deputies, and Li Li of the former Jizhou Mansion was subordinate to Peng, as well as other officials of the former Imperial Historical Mansion. Considering that Han Fu had to stay in Yecheng most of the time to preside over the military administration of Jizhou, the daily affairs of the imperial history were mainly represented by Cai Yong. Putting the world-famous Cai Yong under Han Fu can be regarded as giving Han Fu enough face.

The ministers of the Jinyang Imperial Court thought so, but what did Han Fu think? It can be seen from the melancholy on his face recently that he is very dissatisfied and lost. Jizhou is so important to the Jinyang court, as the pastor of Jizhou, he was squeezed out of the core of power, of course he was unhappy. In the Dong Alliance, he became Yuan Shao's subordinate, and he could only obey his words. In the Jinyang court, although he is nominally at the end of the three dukes, his power is not as good as a long history of the Taifu Mansion. Am I honest and easy to deceive?

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

On the sixth day of December, a grand ceremony was held in Longquan for the eldest princess to act as the agent of state affairs. The eldest princess issued an edict to the world with the mandate of the Son of Heaven, and the Jinyang Imperial Court was established.

On the seventh day of the first month, the eldest princess led the ministers to worship the Temple of the High Emperor and the Temple of the Emperor Shizu, which are located on the top of the North Mountain.

On the eighth day of the first month, the eldest princess presided over the first court meeting of the Jinyang court.

The court meeting was held in the most luxurious tent of the Eldest Princess's Mansion. The ministers of the Great Han Kingdom felt very fresh and full of interest.

The ministers once persuaded the eldest princess to move to Jinyang and set up the court in Jinyang City, but the eldest princess refused. The eldest princess couldn't say anything, she just didn't do it.

Zhang Wen later explained to the ministers with a smile that Emperor Gaozu and Emperor Shizu of the Great Han Kingdom were very poor when they led the establishment of the dynasty, and it was normal to discuss state affairs in the big tent. It is a good thing that the eldest princess imitates her ancestors and discusses in the big tent. This can remind us at all times that when the society is still in danger and the common people are still in a catastrophe, we should govern the country frugally and work day and night in order to stabilize the society as soon as possible.

The main theme of the deliberations was to counter the rebellion, to fight against Dong, to diligently promote the king, and to revitalize the community.

Taifu Liu Yu put forward three strategies to revitalize the society. The first strategy is to take the northern Xinjiang army as the main force, unite the forces of various states and counties, and immediately attack Luoyang. After taking Luoyang, the imperial court immediately moved to Kyoto in order to quickly restore the imperial court's control over the prefectures and counties, and strive to stabilize all territories except Western Xinjiang and Guanzhong in the shortest possible time. The second strategy was to pacify the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou, stabilize Yanqing and Xu Sanzhou, and completely quell the rebellion. The third strategy is to strive to restore the national strength a little within two to three years, and then use the strength of the whole country to win against King Dong Qin, capture Guanzhong, rescue the Son of Heaven, and revitalize Sheji.

The top priority was to attack Luoyang. The hussar general Li Hong played the strategy of attack. Li Hong explained his strategy of attacking from three ways and winning in the middle, and decided to transfer all the armies of Zhang Yan and Liyi to Hedong, and concentrate about 45,000 troops to attack Luoyang, striving to fight in one battle. Li Hong said that if we gather troops now, we can launch an attack at the beginning of the first month.

The strategy of attack was decided, and then there was the question of food and ordnance. Everyone stared at Jizhou Mu Hanfu. Han Fu was very refreshing and agreed. No matter how difficult Jizhou was, he guaranteed at least four months' food and salary for the Northern Xinjiang Army.

The first court meeting of the Jinyang court ended with a hopeful laughter. Jump to