Liu Yan committed suicide in Wenshuidong, and he should have been praised and compensated for his merits, but this matter was deliberately ignored by the whole country of Jibei.
At that time, Liu Yan's daughter-in-law cried and went to Liu Yan's boss Zhou Feng, asking why other families' pensions had been reduced, but theirs had not.
After the Battle of Wenshui, Zhou Feng's troops were all wiped out, so he took his brother-in-law and three guards back to Sheqiu. Originally, he had been sitting at home to await his punishment, but in order to seek justice for his beloved general, he found the official,
Ask why.
The department official did not hide it, but directly explained the reason, which was actually not complicated. It was that the superiors wanted Liu Yan to bear the responsibility for the collapse of the Wen River.
Most of the hundreds of Jibei soldiers who escaped this time were officers of the Chinese army. They criticized Liu Yan because they felt that the retreat turned into a rout because Liu Yan, who was in charge of the rear, failed in his duty and failed to stop the rebel army.
The thieves broke into the dock directly.
Nearly 700 brothers walked to Wenshui River to their death, and even Wenshui River was cut off. It was really tragic. Don't you, Liu Yan, need to be responsible for the brothers who drowned?
Yes, the bandit army was powerful, and Liu Yan's troops at the rear were also loyal. Even Liu Yan himself committed suicide on the spot, which can't be said to be unloyal. But the thing is not that we just need to work hard, what is important is to complete. Could the soldiers who drowned in Wenshui know?
Will you rest in peace just because Liu Yan said "I tried my best"?
When Zhou Feng heard these words, he was trembling with anger. He never thought that these corrupt officials would be so shameless, leaving the hero's blood and making the hero's family shed tears. At that time, Zhou Feng made a fuss in the government office.
But at this time, Zhou Feng, who had lost all his troops, could be said to be a phoenix in distress, worse than a grass chicken. Those subordinate officials did not tolerate Zhou Feng at all, so they beat him up and kicked him out of the office.
You must know that Zhou Feng is the country's economic captain, and these officials dare to beat him, which is extremely audacious. However, it is unexpected, but it is reasonable, because the real decision-makers in Sheqiu are these powerful subordinate officials.
Since the Han Dynasty implemented the Qin Dynasty, one of the important responsibilities of the governors of all dynasties has been to suppress local tyrants.
There are three categories of powerful people. One is the descendants of the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms. These people were not eliminated during the Qin Dynasty. After the Qin Dynasty, they either formed strongholds to defend themselves or relied on other heroes. After Liu Bang established the world, these people suddenly became the most powerful people in the area.
People.
The second category of powerful people is the military meritorious princes of the former Han Dynasty. Liu Bang was an extremely generous man. For him to conquer the world, one hundred thirty or forty people were granted the title of prince and enjoyed the food and towns. These people basically settled in their own fiefdoms.
They became a powerful family in the local area. Although these people were almost exterminated later, their influence still remained in various places.
The last kind of power is the powerful local clan. When the world was first established, Liu Bang divided the land and houses for his 400,000 soldiers. These people were the first batch of homesteaders. Later, the governments of all dynasties continued to migrate refugees to cultivate the land, and several large-scale
The granting of land and land was a sign of progress in the early days of the dynasty.
However, the efficiency of self-cultivating farmers cannot withstand the collective production of powerful clans. Therefore, as long as the world is at peace, these powerful clans will quickly rely on their large number of people to develop production and rise rapidly. Especially in the first thirty years of the Han Dynasty,
Huang-Lao's philosophy of not intervening in local areas made this trend faster.
Therefore, since Emperor Wu of the former Han Dynasty, the prefects of the Han family began to crack down on these powerful people. Among them, they appointed cruel officials, governors, and even issued the "Order to Move Maoling". It is recorded in history that "the officials moved two thousand stones from generation to generation, and the rich and powerful Gaozi merged and merged with the houses."
"Yu Zhuling", implemented the "relocation to the mausoleum" system, moving powerful people from all over the country to their original places, so that they could not continue to develop and grow. Therefore, the young people of Wuling in the Han Dynasty were all the children of powerful people.
But this method is just a way to stop the boiling water. The trend of the rise of wealthy families cannot be reversed. After the Xiaoyuan Dynasty, the system of moving tombs was directly abandoned. But no matter how you say it, the former Han Dynasty was a policy of suppressing the powerful.
line, but after this dynasty, this policy has been completely reversed, from restraining powerful powers to relying on powerful powers.
On the one hand, it was during the last years of Xinmang that various wealthy families gathered to protect themselves. In the name of protecting the village, they gathered clans, guests, and villagers together to stabilize the place in the form of a wall. In other words, the Han family took control of the city.
And the powerful power took control of the countryside.
Although there were many cruel officials after the Later Han Dynasty, especially in the Guangwu Dynasty, they still upheld the tradition of the Han family and suppressed wealthy families. For example, there was a cruel official in Guangwu named Li Zhang, whose family lasted for five generations and had two thousand stones. He compiled "Yan's Spring and Autumn Annals".
Later, he paid homage to Yangping Order for Guangwu. At that time, Zhao and Wei Hao often gathered in villages. Zhao Gang, a man with a surname in Qinghe, built a dock wall at the county boundary to repair armored soldiers, but he was harmed by it. After Li Zhang took office, he directly set up a banquet to entertain
Zhao Gang. When this local tycoon named Zhao went to the banquet, he brought a sword and a feather coat, and led more than a hundred soldiers. He was unparalleled. But what happened next? During the banquet, Li Zhangjian beheaded Zhao Gang, and his accomplices were also killed.
Catch them all in one go.
But in the future, there will be very few cool officials like Li Zhang. Because the end of cool officials is often not good, they are either removed from their posts or sent to other positions. Therefore, after the subsequent chief officers took office, they began to adopt the friendly line of "you are good to me, I am good to everyone"
, and later even directly appointed powerful and influential children as department officials.
Since then, the power of the Han family has fallen into the hands of powerful children, and the chief officials of Piju are often pure Confucianists who only read the classics and are not familiar with common affairs. When they are in power, they sit back and do nothing, plotting against officials, Qian Gu lawsuit
Nothing.
It can be said that these powerful local officials are the ones with real authority, and they have controlled it for generations and used marriages to form a deep-rooted network. It can be said that the officials are smooth and the officials are iron-clad.
At first there were still some governors who tried to cheer up, but with power vested in powerful families, no matter what they did, they would ultimately fail.
For a simple example, there was a prime minister in the Jibei Kingdom who opened a channel along the Jishui River to irrigate farmland. Originally, this was a thing that benefited the country and the people. But the bad thing was that the prefect at that time was a man who suppressed the powerful.
The ancient law sect and powerful men messed up this matter.
How to do it? Because they control the public opinion in the countryside, when the officials of the Prime Minister of Jibei went to the countryside to inspect the fields along the Jishui River, these powerful people told the villagers that these officials came to inspect the fields and water use of each family.
Later, when they build a pond, they will divert water from this Jishui River. Then the water from each of your houses will be taken away.
When the subordinate official who went to the countryside stayed at a farmhouse, he was burned to death by the excited villagers.
This is just one example, and there are more methods. For example, if the number of people mentioned above is to be recruited to build waterways, then these powerful people will tax them ten times as much. In short, as long as they do not follow these powerful officials, they can implement any policy no matter what.
Public dissatisfaction boils over and the policy cannot be implemented.
Therefore, the officialdom of this dynasty has formed a culture of "taking officials as teachers". Among the chief officials, the ignorant ones regard subordinate officials as their eyes and ears, the lazy ones regard subordinate officials as their spirit, and the greedy officials regard subordinate officials as their hawks and dogs. But they just sit there.
Yazhai, empty talk about mystical principles.
But with the authority of the Han Dynasty, the powerful people could no longer be controlled, and it was no more common for them to harm the people. From the officials of the government, provincial temples, counties and counties, to the township pavilions, warehouses, and treasury officials, as long as they
When it comes to tax, labor, cashiers and accountants, if there is even the slightest profit, they will be exploited a hundred times.
So even if Zhou Feng was beaten by these powerful officials, he had no way to appeal. When he returned home with a bruised face and a bruised face, he heard that Liu Yan's wife had hanged herself after being pushed by the officials. Zhou Feng spat out a mouthful of blood.
, no longer energetic, fell ill at home.
Zhou Feng couldn't figure it out. The country was in trouble. Shouldn't we think of good generals and use them? How could we treat them like pigs and dogs?
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Taishan County, Bo County.
Since Zhang Chong defeated the 500 cavalrymen from Nanxian County of Taishan County, the 4,000 Lu soldiers from the east bank of Surabaya River, and the 4,000 Jibei soldiers from the east bank of Wenshui River, the Taishan Army has truly stood firm in Mount Tai. Among them, the Taishan Army
Zhang Chong's series of actions to calm the people, provide disaster relief, and encourage victims to produce goods also made many dissatisfied Han courtiers see the potential of the Taishan Army and joined the army one after another.
Among them, after Zhang Chong entered Bo County, a local Confucian scholar recommended himself. He was a member of the Party, and the elders in his family were all members of the anti-Han faction of the Party. Originally, they had planned to flee to the mountains and join the savages, but the appearance of the Taishan Army made it difficult for them to do so.
They saw different possibilities.
The self-recommended person was named Tao An, who studied the Book of Changes at home. The first thing he said when he saw Zhang Chong was:
"The general is a very human being with a dragon's body and a phoenix's appearance. We now have a master."
He offered a message to Zhang Chong: "In today's world, the Han Dynasty has no virtue, and the mountains and rivers are about to collapse. At that time, the world will be full of chaos, heroes will fight for it, and the places where the Qingyan Four Battles are really not the place for heroes, I hope the general can follow the method of the great ancestor.
, drive the troops westward, pass through Wuguan and enter Guanzhong. When the time comes, the unlucky woman will not grab the jade and silk, but gather the horses and soldiers from the west of the pass to consolidate the foundation. Once there is a change in the east, they will obey the heavens and respond to the people. The world will not be peaceful.
also."
Zhang Chong was overjoyed because Tao An was the first counselor to present him with the overall strategy of his power. It can be said that any counselor who can plan such a general trend in the world has the potential to become a mastermind. Just like Zhuge Liang presented "Long" to Liu Bei.
"Zhong Dui", Lu Su presented "Couch Policy" to Sun Quan, both are first-rate great strategists.
Moreover, Tao An was also very innovative, that is, he did not limit Zhang Chong's current sphere of influence, but looked at the world and pointed out that the most successful place in the world is Guanzhong. It will merge the mountains and rivers of the state on the left, and the richness of the state on the right. Then it will merge with the west.
Once the state's soldiers and horses move eastward, who in the world will be able to take over?
Zhang Chong has actually been thinking about future strategies. With his consecutive victories against the Han Dynasty, he greatly encouraged Taiping Dao's uprising enthusiasm. As for the letters he received recently, not only the letters from Qu Shuai of Qingzhou and other counties were related to his
, to build an offensive and defensive alliance. Even Yingchuan and Runan’s Taiping Road sent people to send a group of religious elites to the Taishan Army to learn the art of battle formations and cultivate military backbones for subsequent uprisings.
Therefore, Zhang Chong had already expected that the great uprising of Taiping Dao was just around the corner, but unfortunately Zhang Chong felt that this was not optimistic. Because the overall strength of Taiping Dao was still too far behind that of the Han Dynasty, and all parties were still acting on their own and could not be integrated.
In this state, how could it be possible to defeat Hanting?