Chapter 6: Emperor Ling's Purpose to Shock the World
Although Wang Qing and Tian Hu both struggled with more than 200,000 Yellow Turbans, Li Xiang was not worried at all.
First of all, Bingzhou has formed as many as 150,000 troops in recent years. In addition to the 60,000 troops accompanying Meng Tian to guard Yanmen, among these 150,000 troops, there are also 30,000 troops scattered throughout Bingzhou to guard various places in Bingzhou.
In other words, there are still 60,000 troops in Bingzhou ready to set out at any time to meet Wang Qing. Although the enemy is large in number, they are all composed of farmers who have just stepped out of the farmland. Their equipment is simple and their combat power is seriously insufficient. Although our own troops are small,
But they are all elites who have been trained for many years, with well-equipped soldiers and armor, and strong combat capabilities.
As for how Bingzhou could maintain an army of 150,000, it was naturally through farming. As a person of later generations, Li Xiang was naturally willing to imitate policies that were effective in history and adapted to the situation at that time.
Anyway, for Li Xiang, as long as he can strengthen himself, plagiarism is not important. Anyway, there was no so-called intellectual property rights and patent rights during the Three Kingdoms period.
In the original history, the farming method practiced by Cao Cao during the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms was naturally Li Xiang's first choice. After all, Cao Cao was able to become the largest overlord of the Three Kingdoms through Yanzhou, which was almost defeated in several wars. Zao only introduced the farming method.
The role of law is not insignificant.
In history, the reason why Zao Zhi is famous is that he initiated and implemented the farming system, which solved Cao Cao's long-standing food problem.
Since Emperor Ling of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the brutal exploitation of the landlord class and the long-term tyrannical merger wars have severely damaged agricultural production in the vast northern region. The situation of "the land has no permanent owner and the people have no permanent residence" is everywhere in the countryside. All over the country
The people were starving, refugees were everywhere, and the society was in serious turmoil.
Many princes even lost in wars due to severe lack of food. In the first few years of his campaigns, Cao Cao was often forced to withdraw his troops midway due to lack of food supplies, giving up the military victory that was about to be won. There are even unofficial records that Cao Cao
During the most difficult period, meat was even used as military rations. This clearly illustrates the food problem at that time.
The emergence of Zao Zhi solved Cao Cao's big problem. Zao Zhi suggested that Cao Cao reclaim land in Xuchang, integrate soldiers and civilians, and carry out farming to solve the food problem. Cao Cao adopted his suggestion and appointed
He is the captain of the field and is fully responsible for the affairs of the field.
And Zao Zhi lived up to Cao Cao's expectations. The implementation of the farmland system allowed the agricultural production in the north, which had been damaged by the war for a long time, to recover and stabilize in a short period of time. Farmers who had lost their land returned to the land, and many barren farmland also
After being reclaimed, the Cao Wei forces also accumulated a large amount of food, which provided guarantee for the subsequent war.
Let’s not mention the farming matter for now, let’s talk about Wang Qing’s matter first.
There is another reason why Li Xiang is not worried about the threat of Wang Qing, and that is the existence of the Eight Paths of Taihang. With the Eight Paths of Taihang, the Yellow Turban army mobilized by Wang Qing from surrounding famous states cannot enter Bingzhou at all.
The Tian Hu forces within Bingzhou do not pose a threat at all.
In the past, when dealing with Wang Qing and Tian Hu, although Li Xiang deliberately let go for some reasons, this does not mean that the opponent suffered no losses. In fact, Tian Hu, who is still hiding in Bingzhou, now only has ten thousand defeated troops left.
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The current Tian Hu is not qualified enough to cooperate with Wang Qingli and threaten Bingzhou.
Just when Li Xiang was preparing to raise troops to attack Wang Qing's Yellow Turban Army, an order from the Luoyang court, or more precisely from Han Ling Emperor Liu Hong, disrupted all Li Xiang's plans.
Anyone in a desperate situation will unleash hundreds of percent of their potential to save themselves. Han Ling Emperor Liu Hong was no exception.
Faced with the predicament of the Han Dynasty, despite the full support of the Han family, the Yellow Turban Army had no signs of being suppressed for the time being. Under such circumstances, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty finally panicked.
No emperor, no matter how stupid, wants to be the king of his country, so how could Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty be an exception?
When the building was about to collapse, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty finally came up with an impossible solution.
Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty first ordered to delegate more military and administrative power to the governors of the thirteen states, and allowed local powerful men to recruit private soldiers to work with officers and soldiers to suppress the Yellow Turban Army.
Perhaps Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty thought that this was not enough to suppress the Yellow Turbans and resolve the crisis, so he immediately issued another order. That was to abolish the history and establish a pastoralist, and use the clan and important ministers as state pastoralists. He would be superior to the governors and prefects in the local area and monopolize the power.
Calm the people.
Of course, the most shocking thing about Han Ling Emperor Liu Hong this time was not this order, but what he did after issuing this order.
Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty granted the decree to six prefecture shepherds. Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty appointed Liu Biao as the shepherd of Jingzhou, Liu Yao as the shepherd of Yangzhou, Liu Yu as the shepherd of Youzhou, and Li Yang as the shepherd of Bingzhou. He ordered four people
To mobilize elite troops to go to the Central Plains to quell the rebellion, each state only needs to leave a small number of troops to maintain the state.
Later, he appointed Lu Zhi as the Mu of Jizhou, Huangfu Song as the Mu of Yuzhou, and Zhu Jun as the Governor of Yuzhou. They ordered the three of them to gather reinforcements from the four states and make every effort to eliminate the Yellow Turbans in the two battlefields of Jizhou and the Central Plains.
When Emperor Ling's decree was issued, all knowledgeable people in the world were shocked, and Li Xiang was no exception.
Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty really wanted to fight for his life, but Li Xiang had to say that this was indeed a good method if necessary, and he had the intention of risking his life and living later.
Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty successively sealed Jing, Yang, You, and the four prefectures as prefects. He said that he would only leave a small number of troops necessary to maintain the situation, and sent the remaining elite troops to the two battlefields of Jizhou and the Central Plains. In fact, this was to use the four prefectures.
Take the bet and concentrate your forces in Jizhou and the Central Plains to deal with the main force of the Yellow Turbans.
This is a big gamble. If you win and the Yellow Turbans are destroyed, the Han Dynasty will have a chance to breathe. But if you lose, I am afraid that the Han Dynasty will export all the land in Guandong.
The sealing of the four prefectures as state shepherds, the granting of military and political powers to the state shepherds, and the creation of private groups for powerful locals were probably all intended to hold back the Yellow Turbans in the four states and prevent them from affecting the main battlefield.
The historical abolition of history and the establishment of animal husbandry were proposed by Liu Yan, a clan member of the Han Dynasty, and this proposal also laid the fuse for future feudal princes to separate their regimes and lead to successive wars.
However, this time the abolition of history and animal husbandry was proposed by Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty himself. I don't know what will happen to this move in the future, but in the face of the current crisis, it may really give the Han a chance to survive him.
Regarding this, Li Xiang could only secretly think that, as expected, people were forced out. Even an emperor like Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty could come up with such a bold idea.
But the decree of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty interrupted Li Xiang's plan. Faced with the decree of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, should these troops be sent out? If so, how many troops would be needed to not affect the security of Bingzhou and cater to the Han Dynasty?
What is the Ling Emperor thinking? If we send out troops, how will we fight the battle? Should we conserve our strength or decide it quickly?
For a time, because of the decree of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, countless questions were placed in front of Li Xiang.