Volume 2 Troubled Times Haoxiong Chapter 1 Crisis 1 Section 1 In the first year of the first year of the Great Han Dynasty (190 AD), in March, Jinyang.

Longshan is located in the middle of the west mountain of the Luliang mountain range, connecting the hanging urn mountain and Tianlong mountain in the south, and connecting the peaks of Mengshan in the north, the strange peaks are steep, the trees are verdant, the eyes are full of greenery, and the scenery is very beautiful.

On March 20, Liu Xiao, the princess of Changping, and Li Hong, the hussar general, arrived at the Longshan camp. In recent years, the Longshan camp has been the military and political center of northern Xinjiang, and the Zhenbei General's Mansion, the Zhengbei General's Mansion, the Che Cavalry General's Mansion and the Hussar General's Mansion have been stationed here.

Li Hong likes Yongsan. The scenery here is good and quiet, you can avoid the hustle and bustle of the city, and the terrain here is good, which is suitable for military training.

Longshan is only forty miles away from Jinyang, which is convenient to contact and will not affect the handling of official business. When Zhao Qi temporarily took charge of the affairs of Jinyang, because he considered that he would also be in charge of the Tianzhong Lang General's Mansion, he moved the main subordinates of Xingyuan to Jinyang City.

After learning that Li Hong was about to go south, Zhao Qi immediately moved Xingyuan Peng's subordinates back to Longshan. Regarding the palace of Princess Changping, Li Hong and Zhao Qi agreed that it should be arranged in Jinyang City.

Although no one can determine the date of Princess Changping's return to Luoyang, one thing is certain, that is, Princess Changping will not return to Hejian Country.

If the Gyeonggi crisis cannot be resolved for a long time, the princess will not only be unable to solve the problem of Peng's dependents and guards without income, but may also have problems maintaining her own survival.

If the Jizhou and Hejian governments can take the initiative to bear this additional expense, it is better to say, if they are not willing to bear it, then the matter will be very troublesome.

However, from the current point of view, all the provinces in Jizhou are very close to the princess, and no one dares to offend her, and the princess only fills hundreds of carriages with the belongings she brought to Jinyang.

The princess brought all the belongings of the attendants and servants to Jinyang, and apparently had no intention of returning to Hejian Kingdom, she wanted to return to Luoyang, and return to Luoyang after the Gyeonggi crisis was resolved.

The first emperor asked Liu He to take the princess out of Beijing in order to solve the problem of imperial unification, but now the problem of imperial unification does not exist, and Xiao Donghou has inherited the unification, and it stands to reason that the princess should return to Beijing.

However, due to the earth-shaking changes that have taken place in Luoyang one after another, the princess not only did not return to Beijing, but shouldered the heavy responsibility of eradicating the ** Yu and Kuang Zheng Han Dynasty, which no one expected.

The first emperor would never have imagined that the edict he left in order to solve the problem of imperial unity and the princess who was sent out of Luoyang in advance would play an unexpected role under Yuan Kui's careful planning and become a huge force for revitalizing Sheji.

Now Li Hong feels the threat of this force to himself, the princess status is respectful and noble, she came all the way to the northern Xinjiang, representing the royal family, the Son of Heaven, and the Han Dynasty.

Even if she didn't have an edict, she had enough authority and qualifications to ask the hussar general to wave his army south for the safety of the Han Dynasty.

Li Hong can not listen to Yuan Kui now, not to listen to Liu Yu, he does not listen to the orders of the two ministers, at most he will be accused of arrogance and lawlessness, and the only thing he will offend is the court, but if he does not listen to the princess's orders now, he will commit the crime of deceiving the king and vain himself, and it is the people of the world who will be offended.

In the name of righteousness, the princess asked herself to lead the division of King Qin to eradicate the ** pigtail and Kuang Zheng Han family, what reason do you have not to listen?

If you don't listen, what about your subordinates? Will the northern provinces and the armies of the northern Xinjiang tribes continue to faithfully carry out their orders?

Since the princess arrived in the northern Xinjiang, many of the Hussar General's Mansion suddenly felt the supreme authority of the imperial power and the heavenly might of the Great Han Kingdom.

The only princess of the first emperor stood in front of him like this, who can say that she turned a blind eye?

The respect and worship of the imperial power, and the love and loyalty to the Han Dynasty directly led to a change in people's understanding of this crisis and changed their attitude towards solving this crisis.

Now there are not many subordinates in the Hussar General's Mansion who agree with Li Hong's checks and balances. Zhu Mu mentioned this issue more than once, and he hoped that Li Hong would face up to the reality, put the society first, and give up northern Xinjiang for the time being, but Li Hong deliberately avoided it and did not talk about it.

Li Hong decided to separate the princess from the hussar general's mansion, otherwise things would get more and more troublesome. Now not only the attitude of Zhu Mu and others has changed greatly, but even he is a little shaken.

After the army passed the fortress, Princess Li Hongyu said that Zhao Qi, Xu Shao, and Wang Yi had already arranged a place for her in Jinyang, although it was a little simple, but it was barely enough to live.

Northern Xinjiang is currently in difficulty, and there is really no financial resources to build the palace, so I implore His Highness to give in for the time being.

Liu Xiao hesitated for a moment and asked in a low voice, "Are the adults also in Jinyang?" Li Hong said: "The minister lives in Longshan Daying, not in Jinyang. However, Zhao Qi, Xu Shao and many other adults are in Jinyang City, they will ......" Liu Xiao shook his head and interrupted Li Hong's words in a soft voice,

"Where you go, I'll go." The tone was very resolute, and there was no room for negotiation at all. Li Hong was stunned for a moment, and just wanted to persuade a few more words, but saw that Liu Xiao was already in tears, and he wanted to give up.

Li Hong's heart softened, thinking of the many favors that the first emperor and the Empress Dowager Dong had given him, his heart was sour for a while, and he said in a low voice: "Okay, okay, Your Highness, don't cry, follow me to Longshan." Li Hong was very depressed and depressed about this.

Fengxue asked him, why does Her Royal Highness the princess also want to go to the Longshan camp? Li Hong said, I asked her to move to Jinyang City, but she was unwilling.

Xiaoyu sighed, don't you want her to be with us? Li Hong was silent. Xiaoyu whispered and persuaded, Her Royal Highness the princess told me that day that she had long wanted to look for you in Northern Xinjiang.

After she left Luoyang, she had no relatives, she didn't know anyone except you, and in this world, only you can help her.

Don't you want to help her? Li Hong was speechless. Fengxue leaned into Li Hong's ear and said softly, the princess cried very sadly that day, saying that after finding you, she would never leave you again, unless you personally sent her to Luoyang, she would not leave you for half a step.

Her Royal Highness admires you very much, and when she talks about you, her expression makes people jealous. Li Hong smiled bitterly, and suddenly he thought of something, and asked, "Does Wen Ji live in Xingyuan or go back to Jinyang?" ”

"I heard Wen Ji say that Her Highness left her behind to live with us." Xiaoyu said with a smile,

"General Zilong must have been very relieved when he learned the news." Zhao Qi and other officials in northern Xinjiang were very surprised when they heard that the princess was going to move to the Longshan camp, and hurried to Longshan to take over.

Hundreds of officials, big and small, crowded the gate, and there was a lot of commotion. After Zhao Qi and the others knelt to greet the car, they sent the princess to the luxurious tent that had been prepared for a long time.

Zhao Qi, Wang Yi and others advised again, but the princess insisted on not going to Jinyang. Everyone had no choice but to retire.

In the evening, the Longshan camp was bright, and the northern Xinjiang provinces set up a feast, one to welcome the princess, and the other to the hussar general.

It is said to be a feast, but the dishes are actually very simple, there are four dishes on one table, and there is only one meat, which is shabby.

Northern Xinjiang seems to be really struggling. At this feast, Li Hong saw many new faces, these people were all Peng subordinates recruited by Zhao Qi for the Hussar General's Mansion in recent times.

Linghu Shao, Wang Rou, and Guo Ce are the people of Jinyang's gate valve, and Li Hong has known each other in the past. Zhao and Shi Lu turned out to be the subordinates of He Miao, the general of the cavalry, and although Li Hong had heard of his name for a long time, this was the first time they had met.

Xu Chao is the son of Xu Shao, the Taishou of Taiyuan, and not long ago rushed to northern Xinjiang with his family to join his father. Sun Zi was recommended by Wang Rou.

Sun Zi is a native of Taiyuan Zhongdu (now Pingyao), lost his parents at the age of three, was raised by his brother and sister-in-law, and entered Taixue when he grew up.

Later, his elder brother was killed, and Sun Zi immediately abandoned his official position, killed the enemy, and took his family to avoid the disaster of Taiyuan Wang Rou's family.

This time, Wang Rou happened to be forcibly recruited by the Hussar General's Mansion, and in desperation, he had no choice but to recommend Sun Zi by the way.

After the princess left early, the atmosphere in the big tent was relaxed. Li Hong is an easy-going person, talking and laughing, there is no distinction between dignity and inferiority, everyone feels very cordial, and there is no scruple when speaking.

Since there were not many generals, there were only a few people in the big tent, such as Hua Xiong, Pang De, Duan Xuan, Zhang Zhen, Zhang Xiao, Chen Jian and Chang Gong, and the rest were officials of the scholar clan, so the topic immediately turned to current affairs.

The most urgent task at the moment is to resolve the Gyeonggi crisis, but Zhao Qi, Xu Shao, Guo Yun and others believe that to resolve the Gyeonggi crisis, it is necessary to take care of the crisis in northern Xinjiang and must not do anything to abandon northern Xinjiang.

In their view, the Gyeonggi crisis is far from being on the verge of breaking out, on the contrary, the northern Xinjiang crisis is the first thing to solve when the northern Xinjiang crisis is at a critical moment.

Wang Han, Yang Qi, Cui Jun, Zhang Fan and Xing Hao of Princess Changping's Mansion immediately expressed strong opposition.

They believe that the safety of the community is far greater than the safety of northern Xinjiang. If the society collapses, what is the use of stability in northern Xinjiang?

How long can it last? First of all, we have to go south to fight Dong Zhuo. Ling Hu Shao, Wang Rou, and Guo Ce immediately retorted, Northern Xinjiang is stable, the problem of displaced people is solved, and tens of thousands of troops have food and salary, where can Gyeonggi be in chaos?

The state and county raised troops, King Qin was fake, and it was true to drive Dong Zhuo away. In order to escape the responsibility of rebellion, these people even threatened to depose the son of today, what kind of chaos is this?

Who is the minister of evil? Who is the Northern Xinjiang army fighting? As soon as the issue of imperial control was provoked, it immediately set off an uproar, and the controversy in the big tent suddenly became fierce.

Zhao, Shi Lu, Zhu Mu, Liu Fan and others believe that the imperial system cannot be abolished, and there is no contradiction between King Qin and Dong.

It is necessary to unite with Yuan Shao and other state and county armies to attack Luoyang. Yu Peng, Yin Si, Tian Chou, Sun Zi, Xu Chao and other young officials raised a question that no one could avoid.

Yuan Shao said him

"Inheriting" the world, if we unite with him, does it mean that the hussar general will obey his command? So what is the princess doing in the northern frontier?

Is the crusade the son of today? Yuan Shao and Dong Dajun if they don't give up the so-called

"Inheritance", if we don't recognize today, we can't join forces with Yuan Shao. Li Hong had been listening quietly.

The local officials in Northern Xinjiang were unwilling to give up Northern Xinjiang and were unwilling to recognize Yuan Shao's

"Undertaking the system", this is beyond Li Hong's expectations. Can you use this reason to perfunctory the princess?

Can the counterbalance be achieved with the help of the local officials in northern Xinjiang? The next day, Liu Xiao, the princess of Changping, and Li Hong, the hussar general, led the officials of northern Xinjiang to the martyr's hall at the southern foot of Longshan and held a grand memorial to worship the souls of the martyrs in the sky.

The martyr's hall has not yet been completed, and thousands of craftsmen are still busy. Zhao Qi said that at this rate, it will be about the same by this winter.

Li Hong asked, is the money enough to build the Martyrs' Hall? Zhao Qi said with a smile, I am starving to death, and I must build the Martyrs' Hall, otherwise I am sorry for the martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the country, and I also failed the trust of the Son of Heaven.

When the princess heard this, she said to Zhang Fan without hesitation: "Donate all the property we brought from Jizhou to the Martyrs' Hall as funds for the construction of the Martyrs' Hall." Zhang Fan frowned and whispered, "Your Highness doesn't leave a little?" ”

"No," said the princess, waving her hand,

"Look at what everyone ate last night? Northern Xinjiang is indeed very poor, very poor. In the afternoon of the same day, the officials of all the prefectures said goodbye to the princess and returned to Jinyang.

Li Hong also went to Jinyang to listen to the reports of the prefectures on the tuntian, taxation, spring ploughing, and other matters. In the middle of the night, Linghu Shao, Wang Rou, and Guo Ce were left behind by Li Hong.

Li Hong asked them for advice on how to solve the Gyeonggi crisis. The three gate valves were almost in unison, resolutely opposing helping Yuan Shao attack Dong Zhuo.

Linghu Shao said, whether it is Yuan Shao or other officials of Dong Dajun, the purpose behind it is too obvious, and if you ask for Dong, you will ask Dong, and you will depose the Son of Heaven and engage in what kind of ridicule and generosity

"Undertake", who believes? Who are they fooling? Lie to themselves. After all, it's not for authority?

What do you want authority for? Isn't it for the benefit of your own clan and gate valve? Sacrificing us and perfecting others, who would do such an idiotic thing?

They had a hard time riding a tiger, so they deceived the princess to the northern frontier, and wanted to use the first emperor to suppress you, but don't fall for this.

Wang Rou said, adults should not send troops now, it is better not to offend both. Dong Zhuo has a son of heaven in his hands and is powerful, and the adults want to use this opportunity to have a good relationship with him and make more benefits.

Yuan Shao and various prefectures and counties controlled the grain, and the adults also took advantage of this opportunity to make peace with him, striving to move out of the disaster as quickly as possible and buy more food.

Li Hong thought for a moment and said, "To do this, it is not possible to offend at all. He paused and asked, "What do you think?" Wang Rou and Ling Hu Shao and Guo Ce looked at each other and smiled, and Wang Rou said happily: "We have this intention." In northern Xinjiang, we live and die together with adults. As long as the northern Xinjiang is prosperous, both adults and we can benefit from it. Li Hong was overjoyed when he heard this.

In northern Xinjiang, the largest gate valve is the Wang family, which is divided into two branches: Qixian and Jinyang. The most famous Situ Wang Yun of the Wang family in Qi County, the current head of the family is Wang Yun's elder brother.

The Jinyang Wang family is Wang Rou and Wang Ze brothers. Wang Rou used to be a general of Zuo Zhonglang, and Wang Ze is now the Taishou of Daijun.

Linghu Gate Valve, Guo Gate Valve, and Wang Gate Valve are all related by marriage, and if these three families can support themselves, at least one-third of the officials in Northern Xinjiang will stand on their side.

"If you want to implement a tripartite counterbalance strategy, the most important thing at present is to relocate the victims to Gyeonggi and Jizhou, buy a large amount of grain, and quickly stabilize northern Xinjiang, so as to gain enough time for checks and balances." Guo Ce said,

"We don't have to worry about money, Northern Xinjiang already has the right to mint money, we can also buy grain, as long as we come forward, Jizhou's grain will continue to be sent into Northern Xinjiang. Now the key is ......"

"I know, I'm trying to find a way to force Dong Zhuo away and force Han Fu to lend the county." Li Hong nodded and said,

"But what I need now is for the northern provinces to accept checks and balances, so that I may have a proper excuse to refuse the princess's request. If there is such a quarrel every day, not only will the officials of the northern Xinjiang provinces be at a loss, but it will also affect the morale of the northern Xinjiang army. ”

"It's not that hard to do." Wang Rou smiled,

"Three ways. The first is to let the officials of various states and counties in northern Xinjiang write to the princess and swear to protect northern Xinjiang. The second is to encourage the students of Jinyang University Hall to denounce Yuan Shao's 'inheritance' in order to defend the imperial status of today's son. We want the princess to know that the real purpose of Yuan Shao and Dong Dajun is not to revitalize Sheji, but to destroy Sheji. Thirdly, of course, it was our gate valve who came forward. Together with the Wei Valve, Fan Valve, Du Valve, as well as Xu Ling, Lu Zhong and others from Hedong, we came out to advise the princess. The northern frontier has fallen, what will we do with our losses? Will the imperial court make up for it? Now our strength is not good, King Qin not only ruined the northern Xinjiang, but also may destroy the Han Dynasty, if you wait until the northern Xinjiang is prosperous, then the hussar general has 100,000 male soldiers, food and salary are sufficient, not to mention King Qin, even Zhongxing Sheji is also an easy matter. Li Hong nodded again and again, and then discussed with the three of them about specific countermeasures.

**The next day, Li Hong came to visit the wife of Zhuangjie Hou Fu Xie. Fu Xie's son Fu Gan is already sixteen years old and tall and heroic.

Li Hong said to Mrs. Fu that Yan is not young, and he should also apply what he has learned after reading books with Mr. Wang for a few years.

In my opinion, let's go to the General's Mansion to serve. Mrs. Fu was grateful, and Fu Gan was also very happy, said goodbye to her mother, and followed Li Hong with her bags.

Before Li Hong left Jinyang, he went to Jinyang University Hall in Hanging Urn Mountain. First, I came to visit Mr. Jian of the Great Sacrifice Wine King, and secondly, Fu Gan also had to say goodbye to the teacher, and the last thing was to set a date for Pang De to marry.

Li Hong said, I have one more thing, I wonder if Mr. can help me solve it? Wang Jian said, as long as it's not a war, I can probably help.

Li Hong said that in the past few years, there have been many battles in northern Xinjiang, many wounded soldiers, and many people have been homeless and have been stranded in Longshan, and I really want to find a way for them to live.

Now that the population of the counties has increased dramatically, there are very few pavilion chiefs, lieutenant chiefs, and township chiefs, and I plan to send them to various places.

There is absolutely no problem with their loyalty to my Han, but they lack the ability to read and break words, so I would like to ask Mr. to send a group of disciples to the Longshan camp to teach these wounded soldiers to read and write, I wonder if Mr. can help?

Wang Jian said happily: "My lord is thoughtful. I will send a hundred disciples to Longshan tomorrow. ”

"This idea was come up with by Master Xiangkai." Li Hong said with a smile,

"Some time ago, he wrote me a letter, saying that when he was preaching and healing in various places, he found that there was a lack of pavilion chiefs and lieutenant chiefs in many places, and there were many troubles and fights, which were very chaotic, so he gave me this idea. When he comes back from Montenegro, I want to thank him very much. Wang Jian shook his head and sighed: "Master Xiangkai probably won't come back." ”

"Why?" Li Hong asked strangely.

"Since the ancient literature and scriptures were changed to official studies, the Confucian scholars of today's literature and scriptures have attacked us very hard, especially the governance policy of northern Xinjiang, which is quite criticized, thinking that the Legalist principles pursued by the adults are completely contrary to the way of Confucianism, which emphasizes etiquette and ignores the law." Wang Jian said,

Master Xiangkai was very dissatisfied with this, so he came forward to refute it. Master Xiangkai pursued the study of Huang Lao, believing that the world should be governed by inaction, and using the Mohist 'Shangxian, Shangtong' and other governance policies, which is quite understandable with the Confucianism and law integration policy we advocate, but he was unanimously attacked by the Confucian scholars of modern and ancient scriptures. Master Xiangkai then brushed his sleeves and went to the world. Li Hong shook his head and smiled bitterly,

"These Confucian scholars can't do things, but they talk about the Tao."

"What do you think about this?" Wang Jian asked.

"I think there are pros and cons to the academic propositions and policies of various factions and factions, but for Northern Xinjiang, whoever can solve the problem of stability in Northern Xinjiang and who can solve the problem of feeding millions of people in Northern Xinjiang is the best, otherwise, it is all idle talk and nonsense, and it will not benefit the country and the people at all."

"Do you mean that you support Jinyang University to study all kinds of academics, so as to find the most suitable governance strategy for the stability and revitalization of northern Xinjiang?" Wang Jian asked.

"Of course it's for the best." Li Hong said with a smile,

For example, in Mr. Wang Fu's "Theory of the Hidden Husband", the immigration, tuntian, border areas, and the simultaneous development of agriculture and industry are very useful to northern Xinjiang, so why can't we get more strategies conducive to the development of northern Xinjiang? I've been reading this book for a long time, and I've learned a lot from it. I have read a lot of classics, and I know that during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Confucianism and Moism were the academic 'prominent learning' at that time, and they were famous all over the world, but at that time, Legalism was also quite respected by all countries. The Legalists are not close to each other, they are not very noble and low, and they are cut off from the law, and I think that the current governance policy in northern Xinjiang is still far from the gist of this Legalist. If Northern Xinjiang wants to quickly recover its vitality and even restore the prosperity of Emperor Xiaowu, it must achieve Confucianism and law, Confucianism and Taoism complement each other, and the strengths of each family can be accomplished. Xunzi's technique of solemn ritual and heavy law, I think it is very desirable. Pay equal attention to etiquette and law, what's wrong? Wang Jian nodded appreciatively and said, "What the adults said is reasonable. It's a pity that people are too biased now, and there are even fewer sane people. Li Hong said with a smile: "Mencius said that the people are the most important, the community is secondary, and the monarch is light. If Mr. can re-learn the art of Xun Meng in Jinyang University Hall, so that all living beings can understand and remember this sentence, maybe there will be fewer biased people. Wang Jian hesitated for a moment and asked, "What is the significance of your lordship's sudden proposal to let the students of Northern Xinjiang study the art of Xun Meng?" Li Hong hurriedly shook his hand and said: "No, no, it's just a suggestion, I am a martial artist, and I don't know much about academic matters and governing the country, which makes Mr. smile." "Jump to