Chapter 1 Danger 18 Mid-August, Chang'an. Since Li Hong and Yuan Shu ordered the severance of goods and colonies with Gyeonggi, the Son of Heaven issued successive decrees, and Dong Zhuo and the ministers of the Three Princes also wrote urgently, urging Li Hong and Yuan Shu to obey the decree of the Son of Heaven and immediately reopen the pass.

At present, there is a shortage of materials in the Gyeonggi area, and the people are living in great difficulty, and they urgently need help from northern Xinjiang and Jing, Henan and other prefectures and counties, but Li Hong and Yuan Shu have no intention of relenting.

Li Hong played the Son of Heaven, either immediately abolishing small money, or taking five baht to buy goods in northern Xinjiang, bartering is also fine, in short, northern Xinjiang resolutely prohibits the use of small money.

Li Hong said in the recital that the ministers obeyed the will of the first emperor, guarded and governed the northern Xinjiang, defended Gyeonggi, and defended the community.

The minister believes that His Majesty's proposal to abolish the five-baht coin is a move that harms the country and the people. His Majesty was too young to be able to observe state affairs, and because he was trapped by his courtiers, he had the loss of today.

His Majesty should make amends for the loss of the sheep and immediately issue an edict to abolish the small money and reintroduce the five-baht money to stabilize the world.

Yuan Shu did not give advice to the Son of Heaven, nor did he reply to the ministers of Shangqing, but directly ordered the soldiers stationed at various passes to strictly prohibit anyone in Gyeonggi from setting foot in Jing and Henan, not even the envoys of the Son of Heaven.

Gyeonggi was completely cut off from Jing and Henan, and northern Xinjiang became the only hope for Gyeonggi. The Son of Heaven gave an edict to the princess and asked her to persuade Li Hong.

Ministers such as Taiwei Zhao Qian, Situ Wang Yun, Sikong Chongfu, and Henan Yin Zhujun also urgently wrote to the officials of the northern Xinjiang provinces through their various connections, asking them to put the Son of Heaven, Sheji, and the people of Gyeonggi first, and to do everything possible to persuade Li Hongzhong to open the pass.

Li Hong was under tremendous pressure from the northern Xinjiang provinces and had to reopen the two ferry crossings of Pubanjin and Maojin.

But whether he himself or the officials of the northern Xinjiang provinces, there is one thing that they have the same understanding. The Gyeonggi prefectures and the clan could come to northern Xinjiang to buy various necessities other than grain, such as salt.

But it must be five baht or barter, and no one in northern Xinjiang will accept a small amount of money.

As a result, there was a very embarrassing scene in the Han Kingdom, where small coins were used in various parts of Gyeonggi, and five baht coins were used in northern Xinjiang and other prefectures and counties, and there were two currency systems in one country.

The actions of northern Xinjiang angered Dong Zhuo and the ministers of the DPRK and China. When Dong Zhuo learned that Li Hong and Yuan Shao had formed an alliance, he was extremely angry.

What Li Hong was going to do next was already very clear, for the sake of the survival of Northern Xinjiang, he finally chose Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, abandoning the Son of Heaven and the imperial court.

Li Hong's statement in the cantata and Zhu Mutoutou's explanation of the Tao, although ornate and reasonable, cannot conceal their true purpose at all.

Li Hong wanted to join forces with Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu to help them quell the ant thief riots in various places first, and then get their sufficient money and food support, so that the northern Xinjiang could quickly pass the crisis.

Li Hong may have wanted to wait until the northern Xinjiang recovered to attack Chang'an and welcome the Son of Heaven back to Beijing to take charge. But from the perspective of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, it is impossible for them to let Li Hong get his wish.

Northern Xinjiang is strong, and they only have to be slaughtered, so they must use the advantage of sufficient money and food to restrain Northern Xinjiang, and threaten Li Hong to agree with them to abolish the current son and rebuild the imperial system.

From Li Hong's point of view, it is impossible for him not to think of this, and it can be seen from his proposal of checks and balances that he has recognized the two powerful forces of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu.

In other words, Li Hong may have made preparations to abolish the current prince and rebuild the imperial system as a last resort.

For the current Li Hong, the interests of Northern Xinjiang are far higher than the interests of the Han Sheji, and higher than the interests of the Son of Heaven and the imperial court.

Li Hong and Yuan Shu blocked Gyeonggi from the north and south under the pretext of opposing the abolition of the five-baht money by the Son of Heaven, and at the same time, Li Hong formed an alliance with Yuan Shao and the army of Dong Dajun, and also joined forces with Yuan Shu to go to Yanqing and Xu Sanzhou to quell the rebellion, does this mean that Li Hong, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu have reached some kind of agreement that is unfavorable to the Son of Heaven and Sheji?

If Li Hong decides to give up today, with the help of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, the three parties will join forces, and Luoyang and Chang'an will definitely fall.

The current blockade of the three parties has put Gyeonggi in a desperate situation, and the food and salary of the 120,000-strong army has become an unsolvable problem, and once this problem turns into a rebellion, Luoyang and Chang'an will be defeated.

The expedition to the desert greatly damaged the vitality of the imperial court, so after the state and county rebelled, whether it was Li Hong or Dong Zhuo, neither of them wanted to fight, and they both wanted to use checks and balances to win time to recover.

Now Li Hong bought this time at the expense of the Son of Heaven and the imperial court, but Dong Zhuo got nothing.

On the contrary, he was driven to a dead end, and he had no choice but to break through the encirclement with a large army, to fight, to rob, and to die and then live.

Dong Zhuo proposed to take the initiative to attack Hedong, Hanoi, Yanzhou, Jingzhou and Yuzhou. Dong Zhuo wants to fight Li Hong, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu at the same time, all three, where there is food to grab.

Dong Zhuo said that the purpose of our attack is to undermine the checks and balances and solve the problem of money and food, and the most important thing is to destroy the checks and balances.

We first attacked Hedong and Hanoi, stationed heavy troops in Luoyang, and cut off the Kwantung passage from Jingyu and Henan to northern Xinjiang.

In this way, Li Hong could not get Yuan Shu's help, he could only turn to Yuan Shao for help, and Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu had turned against each other, and he could not get Yuan Shu's help.

In this way, Li Hong and Yuan Shao will fight for Jizhou's money and grain. You must know that after the ant thieves rioted in Yanqing and Xusanzhou, there was basically no harvest in the fields this year, and they could only count on Jizhou's money and grain to live.

As long as Li Hong and Yuan Shao tore their faces, the checks and balances carefully planned by Li Hong will also completely collapse.

When the Northern Xinjiang is too busy to take care of itself, and Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu's brothers are on the wall, we can not only regain control of the initiative and get rid of the current crisis, but also destroy the weakest Yuan Shu first.

Yuan Shu was destroyed, Yuan Shao and the ant thieves were entangled, and the rebels were gone, so how Li Hong should choose at this time, he should be very clear.

Liu Ai and Tian Yi thought about it for a long time, and they were worried. Tian Yi said that now that Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu's army is busy quelling the rebellion in Yanqing and Xu Sanzhou, this is indeed a good time for us to attack south and destroy the balance of the situation.

However, there are three unknown problems that we have to attack on our own initiative. One is that the current checks and balances will break down because of our attacks, how will Li Hong react?

Will he take the opportunity to attack Chang'an and Luoyang? Second, when do we choose to attack?

Is it before the autumn harvest at the end of September, or after the autumn harvest at the end of October? When the attack was made at the end of September, the northern Xinjiang was busy with the autumn harvest and was unable to dispatch heavy troops to the south for a while, which was conducive to us achieving the goal of the attack first.

Attacking after the end of the autumn harvest at the end of October, the Northern Xinjiang army reacted much more quickly, and we could have been hit hard by Li Hong.

Third, will Han Sui and Ma Teng of Xiliang take advantage of Chang'an's empty forces to attack Chang'an?

After careful discussion, Dong Zhuo, Liu Ai, and Tian Yi all felt that the current crisis could not be solved by relying on the army alone at this time.

Li Hong's strength should not be underestimated, if he was provoked, forcing him to abandon the desert and border counties, and go south with an army of 70,000 outside the Saiwai, then it would not be a question of whether Luoyang and Chang'an could hold it, but a question of the defeat of Sheji.

Liu Ai suggested that Dong Zhuo immediately convene the old ministers of the DPRK and China to discuss the matter. These people are all important ministers of the Han Dynasty who have gone through ups and downs, and at this time when the survival of the society is at stake, they should have a better solution.

Liu Ai said that because Yuan Shao told the world to rebuild the imperial system, and he killed four ministers in a row, the voice of the court's crusade against him has been heard endlessly.

Li Hong first ignored the tripartite checks and balances between the Son of Heaven and the imperial court, and later reneged on the alliance and formed a separate alliance with Yuan Shao, which has fully proved his ambition.

Compared with Northern Xinjiang and Sheji, which is more important, doesn't he know? Obviously, Li Hong has a scheming heart and another purpose.

The voices of condemnation inside and outside the government and the opposition have already explained everything. Li Hong's ambition is not only visible to us, but also to the hungry people.

"Li Hong and Yuan Shao are not eliminated, and the Han Dynasty is in danger, so many ministers in the court should be more worried about the survival of Sheji than Lord Xiangguo." Liu Ai said,

"At this time, they must be willing to spend time with adults." Dong Zhuo listened to Liu Ai's suggestion and asked the Son of Heaven to invite out the former Taiwei Cui Lie, the former Taiwei Zhang Wen, and the former Grand Si Nong Yuan Peng.

Then he invited more than a dozen ministers, including Taiwei Zhao Qian, Situ Wang Yun, Sikong Chongfu, Taichang Ma Riyan, Taifu Chen Ji, Dahonglu Han Rong, Shangshu Ling Ding Gong, Emperor Fu Song in the Imperial History, Guanglu Doctor Huang Wan, Yang Biao, Cai Yong, etc., to discuss matters in Xiangguo's Mansion.

Today's Han is in danger and crumbling, and Dong Zhuo, who is in a desperate situation, and the old ministers sit together and work together to discuss countermeasures.

How to save the community from danger? The focus of the ministers is all focused on northern Xinjiang, in their eyes, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Han Fu and others are not worth mentioning at all, as long as Li Hong is tamed, the world can be determined.

Why does Li Hong have the heart of separating the feudal town? Because he not only presided over the military power of You, He, Hebei, Yan, Qing, and Xu, but also snatched the military and political power of the sixteen counties in northern Xinjiang from the hands of the Son of Heaven, and no one could restrain him.

How to restrain Li Hong's power? Today, the prestige of the Son of Heaven has been lost, the imperial power has declined, the holy decree is no longer effective, and forcibly depriving Li Hong of his authority will only force him to rebel, and the only way is to implement checks and balances of power in northern Xinjiang, and use checks and balances to restrain and reduce Li Hong's authority.

How to achieve checks and balances and restraints in northern Xinjiang? Huangfu Song said: "Li Hong's greatest power is not the military power of the six states, but the military and political power of the sixteen counties in northern Xinjiang. He has a ten-year covenant with the imperial court, and we cannot forcibly break this agreement. Therefore, we can only set up a government office in northern Xinjiang that is more powerful than the Hussar General's Mansion, and is in charge of the military and political power of the six states, including Northern Xinjiang. Dong Zhuo and the ministers immediately thought of Princess Changping and Princess Changping's Mansion.

"According to the law of the Han Dynasty, the princess cannot interfere in the affairs of the court, let alone take charge of the military power of the state and county." Huangfu Song said slowly,

"But now that we are in the midst of the survival of our Han dynasty, what can't we do in order to revitalize the community? What law cannot be changed? Dong Zhuo and the ministers suddenly became excited, and the discussion was extremely hot.

"Brother Yizhen, even if the princess is in charge of the military and political affairs of the six states, with her prestige and strength, can she restrain Li Hong?" Dong Zhuo frowned and asked suspiciously.

"We can invite the Son of Heaven to worship Princess Changping as the eldest princess and set up the eldest princess's mansion in Jinyang." Huangfu Song said calmly,

"Then recruit a group of highly respected ministers from the imperial court to serve in the eldest princess's mansion, so that the princess's prestige and strength will all be there."

"Brother Yizhen, this strategy is very good." Zhang Wen said with a smile,

"In terms of political affairs, the Hussar General's Mansion supervises the sixteen counties of Northern Xinjiang and is completely subordinate to the Eldest Princess's Mansion. In terms of military affairs, the Hussar General's Mansion was in charge of the expedition, and the Eldest Princess's Mansion was in charge of military administration (military administration), and the two governments were mutually contained. Okay, okay...... If Li Hongruo wants to cover the sky with one hand in northern Xinjiang again, it will be even more difficult. It's just that the eldest princess still lacks an elite army, if Lord Xiangguo can supplement the eldest princess's mansion with an elite tiger ben, then the hussar general is really looking up to the sky and sighing, helpless. Dong Zhuo stroked his palms and laughed,

"Good. I immediately asked the Son of Heaven to recruit 2,000 tiger guards to protect the eldest princess in northern Xinjiang. "The Son of Heaven is young, and although he doesn't understand the reason for this, he knows that now that the holy decree he has promulgated has left Gyeonggi, it will be like a gorgeous silk scroll, which has no effect except for being beautiful.

Li Hong is a hero he has admired since he was a child, and he is the most favored and valued national guard of his father, why is he like Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, who are rebellious, not only working against the imperial court, openly disobeying his holy decree, but also threatening himself violently?

The ministers told themselves that the northern frontier had 120,000 border troops and was strong. In this case, why didn't Li Hong lead the army to quell the rebellion?

Why don't you kill Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu and welcome yourself back to Luoyang? Is Li Hong really like the ministers said, with different ambitions, trying to plot against the Han family and usurp the Han world?

The Son of Heaven was frightened and restless, and stayed in the newly renovated Moyang Palace to bury his head in reading. In the affairs of the world, it is not the turn of a child to dictate to him.

Now I can only read more books and learn more skills, and I must at least figure out why Yuan Shao and a group of ministers betrayed him, and why Li Hong disobeyed the holy decree and was unwilling to help the court kill the rebellion.

What did Dong Zhuo do and suddenly became the best of the Han Kingdom. A lot of things have happened in the past year, and I am dazzled, overwhelmed, and at a loss, and I am confused from beginning to end.

I don't understand it myself, ask the ministers, and the ministers say very differently. It seems that only when you grow up and understand things can you probably know who is right and who is wrong.

However, there is one thing he knows very well, he is the son of heaven of the Great Han Kingdom, and no one can disobey his orders.

He pleaded with Li Hong in a low voice to open the pass and help the imperial court and the people of Gyeonggi to tide over the difficulties, this request was reasonable and there was nothing wrong with it.

As Li Hong, the general of the Hussars of the Han Kingdom, why did he insist on not complying? Even if Li Hong didn't listen to himself and the imperial court, what reason did he have to watch the lives of people in Gyeonggi all over Gyeonggi go to misery?

The Son of Heaven intuitively believed that Li Hong had done something wrong. Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and a group of Han rebelled and drove themselves and their ministers to Chang'an, and Li Hong not only ignored the Han Sheji, but even picked up a knife to exterminate Gyeonggi, he was also a Han rebel.

Thinking that Yuan Shao had killed four court officials in one go, one of whom was a major minister of the Han Dynasty, the Son of Heaven suddenly shuddered.

My sister Princess Changping is in Jinyang, and she is now a relative, if Li Hong ...... The Son of Heaven didn't dare to think about it, and immediately sent an edict to the ministers who were discussing the affairs of the Xiangguo Mansion, asking them to immediately draw up a holy decree to bring Princess Changping to Chang'an.

After Dong Zhuo, Zhao Qian and others received the decree, they did not draft the decree according to the will of the Son of Heaven, but hurried to the Moyang Palace.

"Your Majesty, it is not appropriate for Princess Changping to receive Chang'an." Dong Zhuo played. When the Son of Heaven heard this, he was very scared, and looked at Dong Zhuo blankly and didn't dare to make a sound.

If you don't take your sister to Chang'an, wouldn't your sister's life be very dangerous? The look of fear on the face of the Son of Heaven did not hide from the eyes of the ministers.

Taiwei Zhao Qian immediately made an explanation, and finally Zhao Qian said,

"Your Majesty, for the sake of the Han Sheji, it is better for Princess Changping to stay in Jinyang for the time being. When the society is stable in the future, His Majesty can take the princess back to the capital at any time and share the prosperity. Dong Zhuo, Wang Yun and other ministers knelt down at the same time, and their words were very sincere.

The Son of Heaven didn't understand why the ministers wanted to keep the princess in Jinyang, and why the princess could revitalize the community by staying in Jinyang, but since so many ministers had a strong request in unison, he had no choice but to nod and agree.

The Son of Heaven was very unhappy in his heart, but he had no choice, he knew that even if he didn't nod, this holy decree would be sent to Jinyang.

The Son of Heaven decreed that Liu Xiao, the princess of Changping, should be worshiped as the eldest princess, and lead the military and political affairs of You, And, Ji, Yan, Qing, and Xu.

Taichang Ma Riyan, Taifu Chen Ji, Shangshu Ling Ding Gong, and Guanglu Doctor Cai Yong were envoys to the imperial court, leading 2,000 tiger guards to Jinyang to proclaim the decree.

After the decree was completed, the four were dismissed from their posts and accepted the eldest princess's mansion by the decree of the Son of Heaven. Former Taiwei Cui Lie, former Taiwei Zhang Wen, and former Grand Si Nong Yuan Peng accompanied them and were jointly opened in the Eldest Princess's Mansion.

In the second half of August, Dong Zhuo and the ministers of the Three Princes, Jiuqing Zhuqing and other hundreds of officials sent seven old ministers to Bashang. Once gone, no one knows if they can see each other again.

Yuan Shao can raise a knife to slaughter the minister, why can't Li Hong? Ma Riyan and other seven old ministers said goodbye to the hundreds of officials in the court and the central government one by one and headed east.

In August, Jinyang, Longshan. Zhu Mu rushed back to the Hussar General's Mansion as fast as he could. After Li Hong listened to Zhu Mu's words, his expression was solemn and he was silent for a long time.

Li Wei said eagerly: "General, immediately stop them from entering the Jin Dynasty and send the princess back to Chang'an, otherwise we will be in big trouble...... Li Hong suddenly stood up and smiled: "Let's go, let's congratulate the eldest princess." "Jump to