Chapter 1 is full of dangers, and in Section 13, Zheng Yan flatly denied that Northern Xinjiang had the intention of attacking Jizhou and Hanoi. Since the recovery of the border counties and the expedition to the desert, the northern Xinjiang army has suffered astonishing losses.

In the first battle of Sunset Plain, there were only more than 20,000 people left in the Iron Cavalry Army, which also included Liu Bao's Xiongnu Army and Loulu's Karasuma Army.

Now there are 10,000 cavalry in the Duliao army of Wuyuan, 10,000 cavalry on the desert, and the rest of the old, weak, and disabled are all disbanded.

Some of the Xianbei, Karasuma and Qiang people who had been fighting with the hussar generals for many years also returned to their tribes.

At present, there are 20,000 iron cavalry guarding the border fortress in northern Xinjiang, and it is impossible to go south to the Great Wall. Because of last year's successive wars, the Hu people in the desert suffered losses to varying degrees, especially the Xiongnu slaughtered the Hu rebels and the Xianbei tribes, almost all of which were wiped out, and in addition they suffered a snow disaster in winter, they were all greatly injured, and they could not recover at all in five to ten years.

The hussar general now wants to forcibly recruit Hu Cai, and the Hu tribes will not agree. Even if these big and small kings agreed, it would be difficult for them to gather enough 10,000 elite iron horsemen, and this method of forcibly requisitioning and transferring the Hu tribes regardless of life or death would make the Hu tribes worse, and would arouse the hatred and resentment of the Hu tribes, and the consequences would be worrying.

There are still 100,000 foot soldiers of the Northern Xinjiang Army. Of these 100,000 people, 30,000 are in the desert, 20,000 are stationed in border counties and other important passes, and 50,000 are south of the Great Wall.

The 50,000-strong army north of the Great Wall would not have moved south in any case, unless the hussar general intended to abandon the desert and the border counties.

Leaving 50,000 foot soldiers and 20,000 iron cavalry is the minimum number of people to defend the border fortress, and in the future, with the gradual recovery of the strength of the Hu tribes, the number of the border army will increase year by year.

The army of 50,000 south of the Great Wall is currently divided into three parts. General Zhang Yan led 10,000 men to garrison Changshan to guard Tuntian District.

General Koji Yi led 20,000 men to garrison all parts of Jinzhong. General Yan Liang led 20,000 men to stabilize the situation in Gyeonggi in Luoyang.

None of these three armies can be mobilized at will, so what army will Northern Xinjiang use to attack Jizhou and Hanoi?

In addition, almost all of these 100,000 troops were the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army in the past, and the soldiers of the former Youzhou, Jizhou, Bingzhou and Xiliang had basically lost all of them in the previous wars.

What are the consequences of using the Yellow Turban Army to fight the Yellow Turban Army? Could it be that the hussar general is not afraid of the defection of the northern Xinjiang army?

There are still 200,000 Tuntian soldiers in northern Xinjiang. Some of these Tuntian soldiers were the old, weak, sick and disabled in the Yellow Turban Army, and some were disaster victims and displaced people who poured into northern Xinjiang.

Tuntian affairs in northern Xinjiang are heavy. In their spare time, they had to reclaim wasteland, repair ditches and pass walls, so they had little training.

In addition, these people have not experienced a war, so it's okay to take them out to scare people in peacetime, but if you want to pull them out to fight, that is, to send them to death, don't even think about it.

There are no troops in the north to use for conquest at all. Not only did Northern Xinjiang not have the troops to attack Jizhou and Hanoi, but it also had no money and food to sustain the army to conquer everywhere.

The hussar general asked the imperial court for 17 billion money last year. Among them, 10 billion yuan was used for tuntian in northern Xinjiang, 5 billion yuan was used for garrison areas, and 2 billion yuan was used for relief.

The two billion dollars were used up in October last year. Li Wei sent people to various places to buy 5 million stone millet seeds, but in two or three months, they were eaten up by millions of disaster victims and displaced people.

(Han Dynasty 1 stone = 2 city buckets, 1 city bucket jin, 1 stone = 27 city jin millet) Later, in order to save the emergency, the hussar general also temporarily embezzled more than one billion yuan from the tuntian capital and military funds to buy grain.

The hussar general had a ten-year agreement with the imperial court, and the imperial court had all allocated the funds for the tuntian in the past ten years.

At present, there are not only four new tuntian districts in northern Xinjiang, namely Hetao, Pingcheng, Changshan, and Zhongshan, but also two additional tuntian districts of Julu and Zhaoguo, and 10 billion yuan is definitely not enough.

There is not much left of the 5 billion border military funds. In order to relocate and pacify the Hu tribes in the desert, establish the Hanbei County and the Mobei Protectorate, compensate tens of thousands of fallen soldiers, reorganize the army and repair the passes, the northern Xinjiang has basically used up this money.

There are 120,000 troops in northern Xinjiang to be fed, which is a huge expense, and the military salaries of the soldiers alone are nearly 500 million yuan a year, plus military rations, ordnance, and other kinds of military supplies, and the daily expenses of the 120,000 troops in northern Xinjiang need at least 800 million yuan a year.

Originally, the expenses of the border army were paid by the imperial court, but now the imperial court is an empty shelf, there is no money, and the northern Xinjiang can only find a way to solve it.

According to our calculations, the military and relief funds needed in northern Xinjiang this year, plus all the expenditures of the northern prefectures, are about 1.5 billion yuan.

1.5 billion money, equivalent to about 30% of the taxes collected by my Han every year, so much money, where can I get it in northern Xinjiang?

Although the use of funds in Tuntian can temporarily ensure the needs of Tuntian, we have money but no food, so where can we get the grain of the people in Tuntian?

The salt and iron income of northern Xinjiang and all kinds of taxes are added together, at most 500 million yuan a year, if you add the 300 million money filled by Jizhou, and the military funds of the border army are paid by the imperial court, then Northern Xinjiang can barely support it, but now the imperial court has no money, and it is estimated that there is no money in recent years, and the 300 million money in Jizhou is also gone because of the generosity of the hussar general.

A shortfall of one billion dollars immediately appeared in northern Xinjiang's spending. There is a gap of one billion dollars in expenditure in northern Xinjiang, and there is a serious shortage of food in northern Xinjiang, let me ask, how could the hussar general attack Jizhou at this time?

Is he going to give up the desert and the border counties? If he wants to give up, why is he putting it off until now? Zheng Yan persuaded him for a long time, and his expression was extremely sincere, so he almost swore without a gambling curse, but Zheng Yan's miserable and sincere analysis and explanation not only did not remove Yuan Shao's suspicions, but made him more determined in his guess.

The hussar general wants to fight Jizhou. Northern Xinjiang deployed 50,000 main forces of Northern Xinjiang south of the Great Wall, 100,000 Tuntian soldiers, plus 20,000 troops of Gongsun Zan of Youzhou, and 170,000 people attacked Jizhou, which was strong enough that no one could stop it.

Northern Xinjiang is not only short of grain this year, but also has a shortfall of one billion dollars, which is the main reason why Li Hong can't wait to occupy Jizhou.

Jizhou has grain, salt and iron income plus taxes at least one billion money, and if Jizhou is defeated, Li Hong will be able to solve all problems.

Although there is no money and food in northern Xinjiang to support the conquest of the 170,000 army, Li Hong can give up Tuntian, abandon the displaced people, and give up the Han Sheji.

Li Hong's occupation of Jizhou is fake, and the seizure of Dahan Sheji is true. Li Hong's ambition and ruthlessness are ten times stronger than Dong Zhuo.

Yuan Zhao felt fear for the first time, Dahan was really going to end. Yuan Shao looked at Zheng Yan and was very angry in his heart.

This hussar general Peng's subordinates did not tell a lie, and he knew all these situations in northern Xinjiang, which was also the main reason why he dared to openly confront Li Hong.

In his own eyes, Li Hong is a dying leopard, and sooner or later the northern Xinjiang will collapse because of the overwhelm.

Now the leopard has finally come to its senses, and it is about to open its claws and strike hard. The consequence of this blow must be the overthrow of the community.

I will never let this leopard succeed. Yuan Shao suddenly smiled. If you tell lies and wantonly exaggerate the strength of Northern Xinjiang, I believe that the leopard has no intention of attacking Jizhou, and this action is just a bluff to scare me.

But now you don't reveal the situation in the north at all, which shows your intentions......

"You go back and tell Li Hong that if he fights Jizhou, I will let the ant thieves in, and all he will get is a piece of ruins and millions of mobs." Yuan Shao sneered,

"At that time, not only Sima Ju and Bai Huan will beat him, but even Zhang Yan and Yang Feng will follow. Back then, he was able to appease Zhang Yan, it was because of the support of the imperial court, and now he wants money and no money, and he wants food but no food, how can he appease him? What did he take to quell the rebellion? Zheng Yan's eyes suddenly showed a hint of joy, and then he jumped up, pointed at Yuan Shao angrily and said, "You dare to defeat my big man? ”

"Hmph, who wants to kill my big man, you know better than me." Yuan Shao waved his hand disdainfully and said,

"I asked Chen Lin to accompany you to Jinyang. If Li Hong is willing to help me enter Luoyang and help me repel the Black Mountain ant thieves, I will take a step back. I can put aside the matter of the emperor for the time being, we will first work together to quell the rebellion, and then work together to defeat Chang'an and eradicate the Dong thief. If Li Hong is unwilling and insists on going his own way, I will let him die without a place to be buried. Zheng Yan sneered and walked away.

Yuan Shao said to his back, "I'll leave tonight." I ordered the army to open the road to Jizhou, and send you and Chen Lin safely to Yecheng first. Yuan Shao, Xu You and others discussed countermeasures again.

Xin Ping said anxiously that Li Hong had already wound his arrows and was ready to go, and the situation was very critical.

If Li Hong attacks Jizhou, and we let the Black Mountain Ant Thieves and Qingzhou Ant Thieves converge and go north, then where will we go?

Yuzhou and Nanyang are now in the hands of Yuan Shu, and the Yanqing and Xu areas are densely covered with ant thieves, where are we going to settle in a hurry?

Yuan Shao said calmly: "Once the ant thief goes north, we will go to Yangzhou." There was plenty of money and food, there was no war, and with Jiangdong as we could advance and retreat freely, we could reorganize our army and accumulate strength. After Li Hong invaded Jizhou, he was bound to fight fiercely with the ant thieves for a period of time, and we took advantage of this time to quickly occupy the four prefectures of Yanqing and Xuyang, so as to form a confrontation with the leopard across the river. Xu You shook his head and said, "This is the next policy." In my opinion, preventing Li Hong from attacking Jizhou is the best policy. Li Hong occupies Jizhou, and his strength will be restored in a few years, and if he and Dong Zhuo join forces to attack us at that time, we may not be opponents. Trapping Li Hong in northern Xinjiang is the best policy. Yuan Shao asked, "What is Ziyuan's plan?" ”

"It's a bit late to form an alliance with Li Hong at this time, and he must be asking for a sky-high price, so we must find a way to regain control of the situation." Xu You said,

"Last time, in order to urge Lord Liu Yu to go south, we sent a lot of money to Gongsun Zhan, hoping that he could help us, but he collected the money, but he helped us. However, from this incident, we can see that this person is a person who is greedy for money and loves power, and he can be completely co-opted and used. You must know that because of Liu Yu's relationship, Gongsun Chan is not currently controlled by Li Hong, and Liu Yu has a very good relationship with us, so ......"

"United Gongsun Chan to fight Li Hong." Yuan Shao frowned and thought,

"That's a good idea."

"Li Hong fought Jizhou, and we guarded Jizhou, all for Jizhou's money and food, and we couldn't solve the matter of revitalizing Sheji." Xu Yu continued,

"We must do everything we can to occupy Luoyang as soon as possible. After the adults sit in the middle of the world, we have the foundation of Yuzhou and Nanyang in the south, and the strength of the states of Hebei, Yanqing and Xu in the east, and then connect Li Hong in the north and Dong Zhuo in the west. If the society is determined, then the Han Dynasty will prosper, so that adults can do things like Yi and Huo, build the world's meritorious deeds, and pass on the reputation of eternity. Yuan Shao smiled bitterly,

"I completely offended Lord Zhu Jun, and it is more difficult to take Luoyang at this time than to ascend to the sky." Xu You smiled slightly,

"Didn't your lord just say that he would not mention the matter of the emperor's reunification for the time being? Actually, I also think that it is indeed unwise to hold on to the emperor until the social situation is decided. Yuan Shao thought for a moment and said, "Ziyuan, you go to Luoyang immediately." I'll leave it to you to convince Master Zhu. Then he pointed to Xin Ping and said,

"You go to Youzhou to give Gongsun Chan a gift, and give him a heavy gift that he has to join forces with us to restrain Li Hong." In June, Luoyang.

Yuan Shu drove Taichang Ma Riyan (di) and Emperor Fu Song back to Chang'an, and once again blocked the gallop road to Guanzhong.

The people of Guanzhong were panicked, and the price of grain rose several times a day, and a stone of millet was sold for an astonishing 20,000 yuan. Although Dong Zhuo repeatedly added money to the ministers and the soldiers of the Northern Army, everyone still couldn't afford to buy food.

The dignitaries and nobles were hungry, not to mention the ordinary people in the city. Dong Zhuo and the ministers discussed countermeasures.

Situ Wang Yun caught out the abolition of the five-baht coin and recast the small coin to tide over the difficulties. Taiwei Zhao Qian and Sikong Chongfu strongly opposed (in May, Sikong Xunshuang died of illness, and Guanglu Doctor Chongfu succeeded Sikong), believing that although this policy could solve the urgent need, it would cause endless troubles.

Jiuqing Zhuqing and other ministers had mixed reactions, some in favor and some in disapproval. In order to stop this matter, Ma Riyan, Cai Yong and others united a group of ministers who opposed the abolition of the five punishments to give advice repeatedly, and even went to the Xiangguo Mansion to admonish each other with death.

Of course, Dong Zhuo knows the consequences of abolishing the five sentences, but how to solve the current crisis in Guanzhong? If you want everyone to buy food and eat your stomach, you need more money, but the speed at which Shanglin Sanguan minted money was far from keeping up with the speed of food price increases, and the only way was to change the big money to small money.

Dong Zhuo thought, if Chang'an is chaotic at this time, Li Hong will take the opportunity to come in, and he will be finished, let's spend this period of time first, anyway, it is these gate lords and ministers who know that casting small money endangers the society.

Most of these people have money, and some of them have a lot of food at home, so they don't have to worry about not having enough to eat, and there are many people among these people who are in favor.

The proposal to abolish the five money was passed with the arguments of the ministers and Dong Zhuo's insistence. At the end of June, the Son of Heaven issued an edict to abolish the five punishment money and use small money instead.

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