Chapter 328 Chengtian

Author: Crazy Chen

Chapter 328 Chengtian

In the sixth year of Guanghe, winter is December.

The five stars gather at the end, Ji, and Yinghuo arrive first and then go.

In the way of the world, those who are virtuous are celebrated, and those who change and establish kings are dying in all directions; those who are not virtuous are punished, leave their country, and destroy their ancestral temples.

So Li Ruyin of Heyang wrote to Dong Zhuo, the governor of Henan:

"This talisman of the emperor's change of surname corresponds to the Han ancestor's entry into the pass. The tail is Yanfen, and a king will surely come out from under it. The lord has a strong army and generals, and according to the salt and iron in the east of the river, this is a divine talisman treasure, and he enters Luoyang."

Dong Zhuo asked why and replied:

"In the past, when Zhou generals conquered Yin, five stars gathered in the house; Qi Huan generals dominated, and five stars gathered in Ji; Han Gao entered Qin, and five stars gathered in Dongjing. Therefore, when five stars gathered together, it was the change of dynasties in the world. For example, in the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty, four stars

Gather Liu and Zhang for five days each. Later there will be Wang Mang and the chaos of Chimei, and Guangwu will revive in Luo. Now the five stars have gathered at the end, Ji, and the world will be in chaos, and a king will come out."

Zhuo Yin was so happy that he sharpened his troops and horses and went to the southeast.

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The celestial phenomena are changing, and swords and weapons are everywhere in the world. No matter whether it is four stars or five stars, it shows that the imperial power is out of control and the troubled times have come. All these pose important challenges to the sanctity and majesty of the Han Dynasty.

Those who hope for the stars all over the world are worried and lamenting that a revolution is about to sweep the world.

On the same day, the celestial phenomena changed drastically. Zhang Chong, the prefect of Jiyin, went up to the tower to watch at night.

As a scholar of astrology passed down from his family, of course he knew what this meant. When he contacted the news from the west, he knew that the country had moved westward and that the Henan rebel party would take control of Kyoto. Zhang Chong was silent for a while.

Finally it's time to make a choice.

So, on the next day, three riders came out from the Jiyin County Sheriff's Mansion carrying flags. One went to Luoyang in the west, one went to Juancheng in the north of the county, and the other went to Liang State in the south.

We went to Luoyang to find the rebels in Henan and surrender, to Juancheng to negotiate peace with the Taishan thieves, and to Liangpei to find an offensive and defensive alliance.

In these troubled times, even a two-thousand-stone official like Zhang Chong had to make his own choice.

On this day, more local governors, like Zhang Chong, made their own choices. The situation in the entire world accelerated due to a celestial event.

What is also accelerating is the situation in Chang'an.

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Liu Hong felt that he was extremely unlucky.

This year has been a very rough year.

First, Taipingdao rebelled out of nowhere. Then he was stabbed in the back by some noble families in Henan and fled to Chang'an. Before he could even enter the palace, there was another vision of the conjunction of five stars.

When the Taishi Ling of Chang'an told him this, Liu Hong didn't take it seriously, but after fully understanding it, Liu Hong became really worried.

What is Liu Hong most worried about now? It is the authority of the Han Dynasty.

The authority of the Han Dynasty represents his authority.

Now if Chang'an wants to counterattack Luoyang, it must get the support of Yong, Liang, Bing, and Yi. How to get it? It depends on whether the governors of various places are still on Liu Hong's side.

Naturally, there was no problem at first. Because these prefects were basically Liu Hong's family backgrounds. After all, he had been on the throne for almost twenty years, and prefects from all over the country were basically released from him. So Liu Hong was confident that he could obtain these

people support.

But this was only the beginning. Because of the Three Mutual Laws, the governors in various places in Kansai were not necessarily from Kansai, so it was easy to obtain another channel of power in Henan.

Once the rebels cannot be defeated quickly, these people will inevitably wait and see.

And now the most terrifying thing happened again. That is that the celestial phenomena predicted that Liu Hong would die.

He is the emperor, and his authority, apart from human weapons, is the favor of God. But now that the weapons are broken and God no longer favors him, who will listen to him?

Those who were still worried about rebelling against him and being accused of being traitors and traitors can now openly oppose him.

Therefore, Liu Hong could not accept this and asked Tai Shiling to come up with a way to quickly eliminate this disaster.

Taishi Ling really thought of a way, that is, to change the Chengzheng unified thing. He said that if heaven forbids the Han Dynasty, then he could change his religion by himself, and then receive the order.

This is actually a precedent. Emperor Ai also experienced such a legitimacy crisis during the Early Han Dynasty.

At that time, the Han Dynasty had already spent two hundred years in the Spring and Autumn Period. All the great Confucian scholars said that the destiny of the Han Dynasty no longer belonged to the Han Dynasty. There were even scenes of people dying seven times without gaining anything, and people dying seven times without having a lifetime.

For example, Gan Zhongke, a local scholar in Qi, claimed that the Han family had exhausted its strength, and the Emperor of Heaven sent a real man named Chi Jing to teach him magic and let him replace the Han Dynasty to rule the world.

He was also regarded as Zhang Jiao of this dynasty, but he was executed for the crime of deceiving the public without waiting for the crowd to gather.

At that time, Emperor Ai faced the crisis of the decline of the Han Dynasty and the absence of the Mandate of Heaven. He followed the advice of his ministers and changed his moral character and Shuo, in order to show that he would change the Yuan and the Shi and renew the Mandate of Heaven.

Because of this, the Han Dynasty changed from Tu De to Chi De, and the Han Dynasty lasted for more than 200 years.

So now Taishi Ling suggested that Liu Hong change Shuoyi color and change Yanhan to Huanghan.

He said that according to the theory of the mutual coexistence of the five virtues, after the red virtue comes the earth virtue, so he has to change into yellow clothes. In this way, the Han Dynasty can continue for another two hundred years.

This suggestion made Liu Hong very embarrassed.

He was about to change into yellow clothes, and he subconsciously thought of the group of moth thieves with yellow turbans, and there was a shadow in his heart. Is it really possible for these people to overthrow the Han Dynasty?

Tu De, Huang Tian, ​​Yellow Turban, Yellow Clothes...

The more he thought about it, the more Liu Hong felt that this method was not good. Doesn't this mean that he should tell the whole world that Yan Han is doomed? The next person to take over the world will be Tu De?

Liu Hong then asked several other people for their opinions.

These people all said that Tai Shi Ling's method was the best that could be done at the moment. At least this would let the world know that the destiny was still on their heads, it was just a different sign.

But it's a pity that Liu Hong doesn't read history, and no one told him the complete past events of that year.

That is, not long after Emperor Ai changed his moral character, the Han Dynasty was usurped by Wang Mang, and the method of usurpation was to use prophecies. After all, even you Liu family said it yourself, the Han Dynasty had lost its virtue, and the destiny of the Han Dynasty was no longer there.

If there is another sage king in the world, he will be a descendant of the Yellow Emperor and Yu Shun, and he will be a descendant of the Yellow Emperor and Yu Shun. Is it reasonable for this person to replace the Han Dynasty?

Of course it was reasonable, so a relative named Wang Mang easily usurped Liu Han's destiny.

But it's a pity that Liu Hong doesn't know this. And the Kansai nobles don't understand this either, and they can't persuade them even if they want to. After all, two hundred years have passed, and the cultural gap between the Kansai nobles and the Kanto nobles is not the smallest.

Halfway.

So in the end, even though Liu Hong felt that this strategy was not very good because of his long-term political intuition, at this critical moment of natural disaster, Liu Hong could only choose this method.

Then change your virtue and accept your orders again!

After a short period of preparation, Liu Hongzhao announced to the world that he would change his moral code and change his banner. Zhao said:

"The country inherited the fire fortune of the Yan and Han Dynasties, so it has a tude. The clothes are yellow, the flag is red, and the ocher red is often worn. Shang and Zhou are the two kings, and the descendants of Shun, Yu, and Tang are named three Kes. The Shaohan Dynasty revived, and the local spirits should be

King, you have great virtues, your life will be five hundred, and it will last for thousands of years. It will be an auspicious omen in ancient and modern times, if it matches the contract."

And in order to show his formality, even when the situation inside and outside the customs was so tense, Liu Hong still took the ceremonial carriage to Mount Huayue to enshrine Zen, buried jade treasures and gold volumes in the five-color altar, and offered sacrifices to heaven.

After that, Liu Hong changed his reign name to Chengtian. Then he went to the Zongling Mausoleum in Chang'an to worship the Taimiao, and worshiped heaven and earth together in the southern suburbs. He personally completed the three major rituals of enshrining Zen, worshiping the Taimiao, and southern suburbs, and officially changed the Deyi flag.

In order to truly implement the new destiny, Liu Hong even allocated a sum of money from his already not very wealthy treasury to specifically change the flags and banners for the armies. They used to use crimson before, but now they all use apricot.

, in order to comply with Tu De, further emphasizing the orthodox status of Tu De.

Of course, the cloth is limited, and it is impossible to dress up the entire army at once. Starting from the 54th Department of Xiyuan, these new troops will be put into yellow clothes first. While other soldiers from other towns looked at the new troops in yellow clothes and yellow flags,

He was mocked as the "yellow-headed army".

In this way, the Han army fought and fought, and found that they were beaten like moth thieves.

But Liu Hong ignored these details. After dealing with the problem of De Yun, he immediately began to prepare for the formation of his emperor's personal army, which was the Yellow Head Army of the 54th Department of Xiyuan.

Liu Hong was very sober, and his destiny was too elusive. Only the weapons in his hands gave him a sense of security.

After the Kuomintang Rebellion, he fled hastily with his family members, and the original palace guard system of the Northern and Southern armies collapsed.

The Northern Army had withered in Hebei, and the Southern Army was trapped in Kyoto. At this time, Liu Hong only had more than 5,000 Yellow Head Army troops around him. Although there were more than 10,000 soldiers in various camps in Chang'an at this time, they could not bring him a sense of security.

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So, as soon as he settled down, he began to form fifty troops in Xiyuan.

Now in Chang'an, there are less than a hundred soldiers and no more than ten thousand soldiers. If he wants to replenish the complete establishment, Liu Hong can only focus on the Western Army that originally resisted the Qiang people.

The captain of the Western Army is Gai Xun, the captain of Tuolu. He has a thousand soldiers from Huya Camp, a thousand soldiers from Yongzhou Camp, a thousand soldiers from Fufeng Camp, and 3,000 soldiers from Chang'an.

Gai Xun easily handed over the military power to Liu Hong. After that, Liu Hong used these 6,000 elite soldiers as the main body, supplemented the Yuan Cong, the sons of the retinue officials, the good family sons of the six counties, and the good men of Guanxi to join the army, and established the Xiyuan Tenth Army.

Liu Hong commended Gai Xun for his loyalty and bravery, made him a general in fighting against captivity, and gave him the three districts of Shangzhai in Chang'an, where he could randomly collect a thousand pieces and ten fine horses.

There is no way, Liu Hong has a lot of money to spend, so he can only give it to this amount. If the country is restored later, Gai Xun will make up for it.

Later, Liu Hong obtained hundreds of Qiang people who were good at riding and shooting from Geng Bi, the governor of Liangzhou, and he also selected a thousand people from the powerful sons of Guanxi who were good at riding and shooting to rebuild the Shengsheng Army.

The Shesheng Battalion here is different from the Shesheng Battalion of the Fifth School of the Old Northern Army. The former is a cavalry corps, while the latter is a crossbow corps.

The original meaning of Shesheng was to accompany the emperor in hunting. During the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty selected those who were good at riding and shooting from the Yulin Cavalry and gave them the title of Baiqi. When Emperor Wu went hunting, he wore five-color robes and rode six idle horses to follow them.

Now Liu Hong doesn't have the financial resources like his ancestors, so he can only equip Qianqi Shesheng with yellow clothes and yellow horses.

As soon as the Shesheng Army was established, Liu Hong personally led the Shesheng Army to the park for hunting in order to show his strong martial virtue. He also personally hunted a deer, took its blood and fried the deer intestines, and gave them to five powerful generals of the Shesheng Army.
To be continued...