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"", or search in Baidu: Sanlian Literature Network] Chapter 10 Wind and rain is obscure Section 25 After He Hao finished speaking, the voices of opposition and condemnation in the Shang study room rose one after another, and many ministers were excited, scolding Li Hong for being arrogant and arrogant, lawless, threatening the Son of Heaven with heavy troops, and wantonly trampling on the laws of the Han Dynasty.

Yuan Kui thought for a long time, and then raised his hand to signal the ministers to calm down.

"If Lord Li holds the edict of the first emperor and goes south with heavy troops, how will we deal with it? Will he continue to support the current son or obey the edict of the previous emperor? Yuan Kui shook his head again and again and sighed,

"First Emperor, this is all the ...... of the First Emperor" The ministers didn't understand what Yuan Kui meant by this, and they were silent one by one.

"Since the beginning of the Lulongsai War in the first year of Zhongping, Master Li has been leading his troops to fight on various battlefields in northern and western Xinjiang. In the past six years, Master Li has made great contributions to the Han Kingdom to resist foreign enemies and quell rebellions. There is no doubt that he is a hero of my Han Kingdom and a loyal minister of my Han Kingdom. Yuan Kui said slowly,

"The reason why he went south today is because he is loyal to the first emperor and loyal to the Han Kingdom, if he ignores the edict of the first emperor and settles in a corner of northern Xinjiang, is he a loyal minister of the first emperor? Is it a loyal minister of my Great Han Kingdom? When the thief said it, it was too heavy. ”

"Today's situation all originated from the first emperor, and you should be very clear about this." Yuan Kui said calmly,

"Lord Li did not use the edict of the first emperor to tell the world, did not threaten the Son of Heaven with a book, and only led his troops south to Jinyang under the pretext of insufficient food and grass, which can be regarded as very thoughtful. Although there are many places where the Great Han law is violated, all the conditions he asked Master He to bring back are all for the safety of northern Xinjiang, for the success of Tuntian, and for the survival of the millions of victims who moved north. You should be well aware of this. Ding Gong, Lu Zhi and He Hao looked at Yuan Kui with admiration, while the other ministers became more and more shocked the more they listened, and they had gradually understood what Yuan Kui meant.

"Lord Li is holding the edict of the first emperor in his hand, and he is shouldering the safety of northern Xinjiang, but he is facing the crisis in Luoyang today, how do you tell him to deal with himself?" Yuan Kui looked at everyone and suddenly smiled,

"After the end of the Northern Xinjiang War, why are we worried that Master Li will go south? That's because we all know that his situation is very difficult, and it is difficult to gain a foothold in advance and retreat, so we let Master He go north to explore the reality. There was silence in the study.

The important ministers of the Great Han Kingdom all pondered, and no one spoke anymore. Lord Taifu, who was involved in Shangshu and handled state affairs, suddenly said these words, which was naturally not without purpose.

Could he have a better solution?

"Can Master Taifu tell us about the countermeasures?" The servant Yang Biao asked.

"Of course, we should agree to any request within the scope of the Great Han Law, and we can also agree to any request that has a precedent in this dynasty. We resolutely refuse to accept any request that violates the laws of the Han Dynasty. Yuan Kui stroked his long beard and said word by word,

"But we also have a request, Lord Li must go north to conquer the Xianbei Kingdom this year, otherwise, what will he use to prove his loyalty to the Son of Heaven to the Great Han Kingdom and the Son of Heaven?" The ministers suddenly realized.

The ministers then deliberated on specific countermeasures. This year, 10 billion yuan of money can be allocated for the relocation of the people in the tuntian fields south of the Hetao and the repair of the city, but considering that there will be another major flood in the lower reaches of the Yellow River this year, the prefecture must accept more people who have moved north.

Because of the large influx of disaster victims into the state, northern Xinjiang really needed to add more tuntian areas, so the imperial court agreed to Li Hong's request to add six counties, including Hedong County, to northern Xinjiang tuntian.

agreed that the general of Che Cai would be the governor of the military administration of fifteen counties within ten years, and he would also have to lead the military power of three states and two counties, so the imperial court thought that there was indeed no need to set up the state pastor, so Dong Zhuo was exempted from the post of state pastor, but the court believed that the state must be re-established and the post of state assassin.

During the ten-year tuntian period, there were too many uncertainties, and the state itself was barren, so the imperial court agreed that the fifteen counties would not need to pay taxes to the state treasury for ten years, but the court believed that the ten years should be counted from the fourth year of Zhongping, that is, there were seven years left without paying taxes to the state treasury.

Considering the current situation in northern Xinjiang and the lack of finances of the Han State, the imperial court did not agree with Li Hong to form a 300,000 border army in northern Xinjiang, and only agreed that Li Hong should maintain the existing size of 200,000 border troops, including 120,000 tuntian soldiers.

Of course, the 5 billion dollars that Li Hong asked for the army building and military expenses will be gone. Now that Princess Changping has arrived in Hejian Kingdom, only King Bohai is still detained in Luoyang.

However, when the King of Bohai will return to the vassal kingdom can only be determined by the Son of Heaven and the Queen Mother. As for Li Hong's request to garrison troops in the fifteen counties, and to garrison the army as a lieutenant and lead the taishou, as well as the matter of garrisoning troops in Jizhou and filling the two states with Jizhou taxes, the imperial court never mentioned it.

In the end, the imperial court demanded that Li Hong, the general of the chariot cavalry, immediately reorganize his troops and prepare to go north to conquer the Xianbei kingdom in August.

The ministers' recital was brought to the Changqiu Palace by Zhao Zhong and Zhang Rang to ask the Queen Mother to take a look. After listening to Zhao Zhong's report, the Queen Mother took a closer look at the recital, and then said: "This palace doesn't know much about the affairs of the court, you can do whatever you want, as long as Li Hong can defend the northern frontier and no longer go south, but Xiao Donghou can't leave the capital anyway." ”

"That's what the minister thinks too." Zhang Rang said,

Li Hong proposed to garrison troops in Jizhou and return to the king of Bohai, which obviously wanted to support the king of Bohai as the emperor in the north. Now that Taiwei Lord Liu Yu is in Youzhou, if Li Hong joins forces with him to support the King of Bohai, this matter will be out of control, and the country will be in chaos in the future. Empress Dowager He asked in a panic: "What can Aiqing do?" ”

"From the minister's point of view, let's change the King of Bohai to the King of Chenliu. Chenliujun is near Gyeonggi, and even if King Chenliu wants to return to the vassal country, he is still by the side of the Son of Heaven and can't make any big waves. Empress Dowager He was overjoyed, hurriedly played, and ordered Zhao Zhong to immediately draft the decree.

Empress Dowager He was in a relaxed mood, and then she was heartbroken about the 10 billion money allocated to Northern Xinjiang.

"Can you allocate a little less money?" Zhao Zhong's face changed, and he hurriedly advised: "Queen Mother, this must not be reduced. The Yellow River flooded again this year, and thousands of victims poured into Bingzhou, and what Li Hong wanted now was money and food, and if Li Hong was angered by this incident, it would be worth the loss. Empress Dowager He was startled, and hurriedly said: "The palace is quasi-playing, give an order immediately." He Jin, the general who participated in the Shangshu affairs, also got this recital.

He Jin called He Jin, showed him the recital, and asked, "How is the matter going in Hejian Country?" ”

"Wu Tang made several attempts without success." He Jin said,

"Lord Taiwei has already sent 3,000 soldiers to the River Country to protect the princess, so ...... Is it an order to withdraw them immediately? ”

"Withdraw it, there is no need to provoke Li Hong at this time." He Jin said,

"Since the edict is in Li Hong's hands, the princess has no threat to us. The key now is to protect the King of Bohai and not let him have an accident. Then He Jin pointed to the last few words of the recital and said,

"Look, will Li Hong go north to attack Xianbei? We need him to be stationed in Jinyang and Hedong for a long time, otherwise Luoyang's affairs will be very troublesome. ”

"At this time, going north to conquer is indeed the best opportunity, if the first emperor is still there, Li Hong will definitely lead the army north without hesitation, but now ......" He Jin said with a wry smile,

"Now that the number of victims in Bingzhou has reached millions, and the situation in northern Xinjiang is precarious, if you give him a hundred guts, he will not dare to go north to conquer. So, the general should rest assured, this matter is foolproof, but ......"

"But what?"

"Doesn't the general think that Li Hong has changed a lot? He's not the leopard he used to be, he's even more dangerous. You see, in order to maintain the safety and security of northern Xinjiang and ensure that the state of Tuntian was effective, he not only ignored the edict of the first emperor, but even put forward many demands that violated the law. He Jin said worriedly,

Although he is nominally for the Han Kingdom, for the northern Xinjiang and millions of victims, in fact, he is not for his own net worth and life, not for his own power and glory. A ten-year covenant? Ten years later, he is full-fledged, who else in this world can compete with him? He Jin pointed to the recital on the case and said: "Lord Taifu and the ministers in the court thought that they could use Li Hong's loyalty and the survival of the northern frontier to coerce him to go north to conquer, why didn't they think about it, if Li Hong would rather bear the charge of resisting the decree than go north?" Lord Taifu wants to use the expedition to the north to eradicate the hidden danger of Li Hong, is it too wishful thinking? He Jin said with a smile: "The conditions for the army to go north this year are not very good, not to mention that before Luoyang is stable, I don't want him to go north." But in order to get the ministers of the court to agree to his conditions, Li Hong can still make a little gesture of going north. When we meet all the conditions of Li Hong, and he has the power, money, and soldiers, the situation in northern Xinjiang will gradually improve. By the next year, there will be no trace of the traitors in the palace, and I have firmly controlled the government and stabilized Luoyang, at that time, Li Hong can lead the army to the north to conquer. Since the outbreak of civil strife in Xianbei last year, the strength of the Xianbei people has been greatly reduced, and this is the best opportunity to make great achievements in the world, and I don't want to miss it. ”

"So, the general is determined to help Li Hong?"

"Since he is trustworthy and goes south to help me stabilize Luoyang, of course I will also be trustworthy to help him stabilize northern Xinjiang." He Jin said,

"In order to ensure the emperor's unity, I can only join forces with Li Hong. Otherwise, even if I get rid of the traitors in the future, I will have to fight to the death with these soldiers, what good will it do me? As long as Li Hong is here, the ministers of the court will have to help me deal with this leopard, and without the constraints of the scholars, I will be able to gradually control the authority and control the government without worry. ”

"General, what about ten years from now?"

"Ten years later, my Great Han Kingdom has already recovered its vitality, and the national strength is great, if Li Hong does not keep his promise, the Son of Heaven can gather the strength of the whole country to besiege the northern frontier with an edict. Could it be that he alone can compete with the entire Great Han Kingdom? He Jin smiled,

"Ten years from now, if Tuntian in northern Xinjiang is successful, the people will live and work in peace and contentment. If Li Hong was a loyal minister, he would not have caused trouble in northern Xinjiang, and would have willingly handed over military and political power. If he had been blinded by the power and wanted to cut off the king, he would have lost the hearts of the people, and the congregation would have rebelled, and it was believed that he would not last long and would have perished. He Jin thought for a while and felt that there was nothing wrong with He Jin's idea.

Ten years, a blink of an eye. Northern Xinjiang is so big, so poor, with a population of millions, and maybe more disaster victims will enter Bingzhou in the future, it would be good for Li Hong to let these people eat their stomachs, where would they have the spare energy to take care of others.

"How do you get back to the Son of Heaven and the Queen Mother now?"

"Agreed." The general picked up the recital and smiled,

"The general of the chariot is too timid to dare to go south to Hedong so far, of course he can only get these things." Li Hong returned to Jinyang day and night.

General Xian Yufu of Fenwei, General Zhang Yan of Yanglie, General Zhao Qi of Hutian Zhonglang, and Shi Zuoyan, the head of the Cheqi General's Mansion, did not make a sound for a long time after listening to Li Wei's narration.

Although Li Hong was forced to go south to threaten the Son of Heaven and the imperial court due to the situation in northern Xinjiang, many of the conditions he proposed did violate the laws of the Han Dynasty.

"Do you know the consequences of this?" Zhao Qi smiled bitterly,

"Even if you can achieve your goal, you will lose your reputation if you are not loyal to the emperor first, and then you are not loyal to the current emperor. And once you lose all your power, you will be wiped out. ”

"I won't talk about the future." Li Hong smiled indifferently,

"If we want to resettle millions of people in the fields south of the Hetao, we can't do without 10 billion yuan of money. At present, it is very difficult for the salt and iron income of Bingzhou and Hedong to cope with the disaster relief, let alone support the tuntian of Bingzhou. Therefore, we must get our hands on this 10 billion money immediately. ”

"What about the taxes in Jizhou?" Xian Yufu asked,

"You want Jizhou's annual taxes, this is impossible, the Son of Heaven and the imperial court will not agree."

"I don't expect them to say yes either." Li Hong said with a smile,

"Jizhou Mu Yang Qi drove the victims to Bingzhou, he always had to pay a price, and he always gave me hundreds of millions of dollars a year."

"Do you really want to build 300,000 border troops?" Zhang Yan also asked,

"Now that the adults are threatening Luoyang with heavy troops, they don't dare to agree even if they want to."

"I can't even solve the stomachs of the victims, what other 300,000 border troops can I build?" Li Hong shook his hand and said,

"I just want money, I want that five billion dollars. After striking first Xianbei, he immediately planned to establish a military system in northern Xinjiang, streamline the army, and control the number of troops within 50,000. The other soldiers should let them go back to the tribe to graze, and those who should go to the tuntian should go to the tuntian. I don't have that much pay to support them. After so many years of fighting, it's time for them to go home. Li Hong looked at the heavy rain outside the house and cursed fiercely,

"It's all raining, otherwise there would be such difficulties in Northern Xinjiang, forcing me to not only deceive people now, but also to go against the Son of Heaven." Only then did Xian Yufu and the others understand Li Hong's thoughts, and their hearts suddenly relaxed.

Li Hong is the same as in the past, it still hasn't changed, but this time the disaster has become even bigger. Now that the first emperor is gone, many things have become very troublesome, and for the sake of the stability of northern Xinjiang, he can only take risks to do things against his will.

"Zhong Yuan, is this all your idea?" Zhao Qi asked with a smile.

"The ideas I came up with are all within the provisions of the Han law, and the excess parts are added by the adults themselves." Li Wei said innocently,

"But then again, if it weren't for Lord He Hao He running to say a few words, I'm afraid my lord would have to spend a few days in Wuyuan." Xian Yufu looked at Li Hong solemnly and asked, "What did the adults say just now?" Do you want to go north to fight Xianbei? Li Hong nodded.

Xian Yufu and others were shocked,

"At this time?" Li Hong nodded again.

"Hit Xianbei at this time?" Zhao Qi asked incredulously,

"Then you are still leading the army south?"

"The main purpose of going south is to fight Xianbei, not to ask the imperial court for money and land." Li Hong pointed at Li Wei and said,

"Zhong Yuan, you tell the four adults about going north to attack Xianbei." In order to ensure the safety of millions of victims in the south of the Hetao, the danger of Yinshan and the Great Wall alone could not stop the invasion of the Xianbei people, and it was necessary to cross the Yinshan Mountain and beat the Xianbei people into the desert thousands of miles away.

This is just like when the hussar general Huo Qubing led his army to attack the Huns for more than 2,000 miles, and only by beating them far away and not daring to approach the border fortress can we ensure the border tuntian in the Beidi and Shuofang areas.

The continuous influx of victims had forced northern Xinjiang into a very dangerous situation, and the crisis-ridden situation in Luoyang left Li Hong with no choice.

He seems to have no better way to solve the current crisis in the north than to go north to conquer. Only by continuing to fight can the predicament of northern Xinjiang be temporarily alleviated.

In the face of the fierce offensive of the Han army, the Hu coalition army was finally completely defeated after resisting for two months, but the strong attack momentum of the Han army made the Xianbei people panic.

After the loss of the heroic commander Tuoba Feng and 10,000 iron cavalry, the Xianbei Lord in the north only had an army of 15,000 left.

In the face of huge survival pressure, he couldn't wait to bow down to the head of the Xianbei King, and Qian Man was also sent back to Danhan Mountain by him.

Tuoba Feng, the Xianbei Lord in the north, has no strength, and he has lost his qualification to be on an equal footing with the Xianbei Lords.

In the near future, even if his northern Xianbei is not attacked by the Han Chinese, it will be divided between the leader and the lords.

The head of the Xianbei King also felt the murderous aura of the leopard in the distance, and he hurriedly sent someone to invite the Xianbei Lord Murong Feng in the middle, the Xianbei Lord in the west to settle in Luoluo and the Xianbei Lord in the east to discuss the matter in Danhan Mountain.

The four sides unanimously decided that as long as the Han people invaded the steppe, the four sides would jointly send troops. The scouts of the Xianbei people then spread all over the border areas of the two thousand miles and the border counties of the Great Han Kingdom, monitoring the movements of the Han army day and night.

After Li Hong decided to go north to conquer, he immediately began to mobilize the army south in the rain, hoping to confuse and deceive the Xianbei people.

He ordered Xu Rong to lead his troops westward into Beidi and Shuofang Counties, ordered Yan Rou to lead his troops eastward into Dai County and Shanggu County, and ordered Koji Yi Yan Liangtun to march south with almost half of his army, creating the illusion that the Xianbei people were scattered and had no intention of going north.

When the rainy season in the grasslands ended in July, Li Hong led his army north deep into the desert to attack the Xianbei Kingdom. After listening to Li Hong's expeditionary strategy, Xian Yufu, Zhang Yan, Zhao Qi and Zuo Yan all felt that Li Hong had gone crazy.

"The situation in Luoyang is unstable, how can the army go on an expedition to the desert?" Zhao Qi was shocked and asked.

"Another purpose of my army to the south is to stabilize the situation in Luoyang." Li Hong said with a smile,

"What is the source of the turmoil in Luoyang right now? It's just a ** eunuch, as long as the eunuch is killed, and the general is in charge of the court, what chaos is there in Luoyang? ”

"Can the imperial court guarantee the food and ammunition of the army?" Zhang Yan frowned and asked.

"On the day of the emperor's lifetime, I had set an expedition to the desert in August, and the imperial court also prepared enough food and ordnance for the army in northern Xinjiang." Li Hong said,

"Luoyang is stable, everything is just like when the first emperor was alive, how we should fight or how to fight, how the court should provide me with food and salary or how to provide me with food and salary, there is no change."

"If the imperial court suddenly interrupts the supply of grain and grass......," Zuo Yan said in horror.

"I've been prepared for this." Li Hong said,

"We have been stockpiling grain and grass for three months in advance. In addition, there are still large armies left behind in Hedong and Jinyang. To tell the truth, if all of our hundreds of thousands of troops died in the desert, the harm caused to Gyeonggi by the millions of victims in northern Xinjiang would probably be far greater than the threat posed to Gyeonggi by Li Hong, right? I believe that the generals, the Taifu and the ministers of the court will not take the fate of the entire northern Xinjiang and the Han Dynasty as a child's play. Li Hong stood up, took the horsewhip and walked out, and said to Xian Yufu and Zhang Yan,

"Brother Yu Xing, Brother Feiyan, you immediately recruit 100,000 Tuntian recruits from the nearby victims to be stationed in Tuntian, Hedong, and I will take the Black Panther Yi from the camp and the 100,000 Tuntian soldiers who rushed from Hedong to Anyi first."

"Adults don't want to go home?" Zhao Qi asked.

"There's no time, I want to see Dong Zhuo right away." 100,000 Tuntian soldiers held high the battle flags of generals such as Yushi, Yang Feng, Wen Chou, and Liang Baiwu, and under the leadership of Li Hong, they hurriedly entered the Linfen camp.

Zhang Baiqi, who rushed to greet him, asked Li Hongdao in surprise: "My lord, why did you bring back these 100,000 Tuntian soldiers?" Li Hong said with a smile: "They are now the main force of the Northern Xinjiang army, and they are no longer Tuntian soldiers." In a few days, General Xian Yu will send you 100,000 Tuntian recruits. Zhang Baiqi asked suspiciously, "Then the army of Lord Yu and Lord Yang has not arrived in Hedong?" ”

"They're going to go back to Wuyuan County the way they came." Song Dian, the regular attendant, rushed to the Linfen camp to announce the decree. Without saying a word, Li Hong ordered Pang De to drag Song Dian out and cut him down, put the bloody head in a brocade box, and then asked Zhonghuang to take it back to Luoyang.

At this time, Li Wei opened the holy decree and glanced at it, and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise: "My lord, Your Majesty worships you as the general of the chariot and cavalry, and the general is the same as the third duke." Li Hong didn't even look at it, waved his hand and said: "Order the army to approach Anyi City tomorrow." "Jump to!

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