Five stars gather at the end, Ji, Yinghuo comes first and then goes.
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 Yuanshi, 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 rebels 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 will be no problem at the beginning. Because these prefects are basically Liu Hong's family backgrounds. After all, he has been on the throne for almost 20 years, and the prefects from all over the country are basically released from him. So Liu Hong is confident that he can 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 Son of Heaven, and his authority is not only the weapons of the human world but also the care of God. But now that the weapons are broken and God no longer cares about 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?
Afterwards, Liu Hong 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 people of 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, the Liu family, said it yourself, the Han Dynasty had lost its virtue, and its destiny 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 slightest.
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 Shao Han 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 has 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 would wear five-colored robes and ride 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, in order to show his strong martial virtue, Liu Hong personally led the Shesheng Army to the park for hunting. He also personally hunted a deer, took its blood and fried the deer's intestines, and gave them to five powerful generals of the Shesheng Army.
They are: Li Yue of Longxi, Xin Hong of Longxi, Hu Zhen of Anding, Yan Xing of Hanyang, and Zhao Ang of Tianshui.
These are heroes from all over Liangzhou, and they are the elites from all over the country.
Although Liu Hong relied on Yongliang warriors as his minions, he did not trust the Yellow Head Army to these people. Instead, he divided the eunuchs who moved west with him into the army.
For example, Jian Shuo was a senior military school captain and the head of the Ten Military Academy Lieutenants.
And because the Xiyuan Tenth Army is divided into the Fifth Inner Army and the Fifth Outer Army. The Fifth Outer Army is stationed in Xiyuan and Dongpingguan. The Fifth Inner Army is stationed directly on Fangshi Street in Chang'an.
As for the five internal armies, Liu Hong even placed eunuchs in every village. There was one eunuch for every hundred people to control the military power.
In this way, after a series of efforts, Liu Hong almost established the five inner armies of the Xiyuan Tenth Army. Liu Hong gave them the military titles: Pengri, Tianwu, Changxing, Ningguo, and Weiyuan respectively.
As for the five foreign armies, Liu Hong currently does not have enough military strength to fill it, and can only hope to absorb it from Ming, Yi and other places in the future.
After doing this, Liu Hong was not very happy, because he still had a huge worry:
That is because his eldest son, Shi Hou, was not brought back to Chang'an. It would be troublesome if he fell into the hands of the rebels in Henan.
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When Liu Hong changed Shuo's uniform in Chang'an, the whole world was in uproar.
No one expected that the country would be so decisive and take quick action to respond to heaven when the celestial phenomena were different. Liu Hong's decisiveness convinced many people who were still waiting and watching that the country at least had the intention to clean up the country.
Therefore, under the concept of interests and loyalty to the emperor, many two thousand stone governors in Liangzhou, Bingzhou, and Yizhou sent their superiors to Chang'an with this year's taxes, money, and grain to show their loyalty to the country.
However, Dong Zhuo, the governor of Hedong Province, refused to send in his advisers. Not only that, he also occupied the salt pond in Jiangdong and took it as his own.
Dong Zhuo's behavior surprised Liu Hongda and sent him several reprimands. However, Dong Zhuo showed no change except for his hypocritical response.
At this moment, Liu Hong knew that he could not save Hedong.
Hedong is the most important county between Luoyang and Chang'an. If Hedong tilts towards Luoyang, Chang'an will be in danger. Therefore, Liu Hong no longer dared to force Dong Zhuo.
The power of the government to build teeth.
The time has come to the end of December in the sixth year of Guanghe, which is also the beginning of the first year of Chengtian.
Luoyang finally reached peace talks with the Han army outside the city.
When Prime Minister Xu left the city, and all the ministers followed him, the Han army from Henan and the Qu army from the Shijia tribe, 20,000 men, officially entered Luoyang.
After the announcement of moral reform in Chang'an, the Han army in Henan officially declared Chang'an as a pseudo-emperor and a puppet dynasty, and established the eldest son of the pseudo-emperor. Shihou Liu Bian succeeded to the throne and continued to regard Yanhan as the orthodoxy.
The original Guanghe reign title could no longer be used, so the ignorant young emperor Liu Bian was accompanied by his uncle, the generals He Jin, Xu Xiang, Yuan Wei, Huangfu Song and other generals, Zhu Jun, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and other generals. , officially announced to the world, and changed the name of the year to Republic.
Originally, there was a quarrel within Henan about who would be Luoyang's successor.
Many people disagreed with establishing Liu Bian as emperor because it was illegal.
From the perspective of the patriarchal system, Liu Bian succeeded Liu Bian because he was the eldest son of Liu Hong. But now Liu Hong is considered a pseudo-emperor and is no longer recognized as orthodox. So how can Liu Bian be the emperor?
So these people thought they could choose someone with the closest blood relationship to be the monarch.
But this did not win the approval of the upper-class soldiers and leaders in Henan.
Originally, Yuan Shao also had this plan, and even thought about making Liu Yu, the elder of the clan, the emperor. However, after Yuan Shao entered the city and met his uncle Yuan Wei, he decisively gave up this idea and turned to support Liu Bian as the emperor.
There are several considerations here.
Those who supported Liu Bian as king mainly included his uncle He Jin, Situ Xuxiang and the leader of the Yuan clan Yuan Wei.
Needless to say, the reason why He Jin was willing to let the Henan rebels enter Hulao was not only forced by the situation, but also because he wanted to support his nephew Liu Bian. This way he could continue to be a general.
As for He Jin's attitude, the Henan aristocratic families had to carefully consider it because He Jin represented the attitude of Nanyang and some party elders.
After the party was lifted from the ban, He Jin recruited a large number of party members, such as Liu Biao, Kuai Yue and others, who all had very strong influence in various places.
So He Jin must fight for it.
There are two reasons why Situ Xuxiang supported Liu Bian. On the one hand, it was for his own reputation. Because he supported Liu Bian, he was not disloyal to Liu Hong. It was just because Liu Hong had lost his moral character and he had no choice but to remonstrate with him. Promise to support the new king.
But this is just his personal secret calculation and cannot be brought to the table. If it were just for this reason, except for some people in the city who would agree to surrender, no one else would be convinced.
But the great thing about Mr. Xu is that he really has a political mind.
After the negotiation with Zhong Yao collapsed, he knew that the Han army in Henan had not really thought about how to unite the counties in Guandong, which would undoubtedly be greatly detrimental to the future confrontation between the East and the West.
But Xu Xiang helped them think of it.
Afterwards, he drove to Yuan Wei's mansion and interviewed Yuan Wei directly. Because in Xu Xiang's view, Yuan Wei must be aware of this military remonstrance even if he was not the leader behind it.
At first, Yuan Wei acted with him, acting loyal and patriotic, but felt sad for the children's nonsense.
But after Xu Xiang pointed out the hidden worries behind the Henan family and told him that he had a solution, Yuan Wei stopped pretending.
So what exactly is the solution?
This method is to imitate the republic during the period of King You of Zhou. At that time, King You of Zhou was immoral and immoral, which aroused the people of the country to riot. In the end, King You fled to the land of Hu, and the court was ruled by Zhao Gong and Ding Gong, assisting the young prince. After that, etc. When the prince grows up, he returns the throne to the emperor.
As soon as this method came out, Yuan Wei applauded loudly.
This Xu Xiang was really a capable person. He not only solved the legal issues of the court in the future, but also nailed the false emperor to death, and then covered up the rebellion caused by the noble families in Henan.
Yuan Wei and others of the old school have long been tied to the Han Dynasty. Therefore, they do not oppose the Han Dynasty but oppose Liu Hong. In this way, they can still borrow the Han Dynasty's four hundred years of destiny and continue to be princes for generations.
As soon as this method came out, consensus was quickly reached inside and outside the city. It can be said that everyone is happy and everyone benefits.
Among them, Yuan Shao may be the saddest, after all, he really wants to replace the Han Dynasty rather than assist the Han Dynasty.
But at this time, Yuan Shao could only obey Yuan Wei's orders and continue to lie dormant.
Because of this, Yuan Shao became more and more obsessed with either party.
But no matter whether he was frustrated or proud, the world was empty for a while, and the two dynasties were in opposition.
Both Kanto and Kansai had to choose their own monarchs and fronts, and an iron curtain slowly opened between the east and the west.