The title of the country was established, and Zhang Chong was ready to reward him based on his merits.
He appointed Duman as the left prime minister of the Taiping Kingdom, and He Kuitai as the right prime minister of the Taiping Kingdom. He appointed Sun Ji as the left envoy to the Privy Council, and Yang Mao as the right envoy to the Privy Council.
He was promoted to marshal of the five generals, Guan Yu was promoted to marshal of the left army, and the marshal's mansion of the left army was established; Zhang Dan was promoted to marshal of the right army, and the marshal's mansion of the right army was established; Ding Sheng was promoted to marshal of the front army, and the marshal's mansion of the front army was established; he was promoted to Jin
He was appointed Marshal of the Central Army and established the Marshal's Mansion of the Chinese Army. He was also promoted to Marshal Dong Fang of the Rear Army and established the Marshal's Mansion of the Rear Army.
Cai Yong was appointed as the Tongquetai cabinet minister, Zhuge Gui was appointed as the magistrate of Yecheng, Wu Guan and Shan Ming were appointed as the left and right directors of the Xiansi Department, Tao An was appointed as Taixuezheng, Zhao Da and Guo Tu were appointed as the prosecutors and prosecutors.
As the left and right directors, Yan Zhuang and Gao were promoted to the left and right directors of the Transportation Department. Fan Chang and Ren Jun were appointed as the left and right directors of the Yingtian Department.
Xun You, Ruan Yu, Lu Cui, Shen Shang, Feng Fang, Li Heng, Li Rong, Feng Xi, Huang Quan, Guo Tao, Wu Rui, Zhang Yun and others were appointed as Lang Guan.
He also set up the General Military Department in front of the account, with Cai Que and Guo Zu as the left and right captains, in charge of the five divisions of iron troops, iron cavalry, iron armor, trapping troops, and iron forest troops. He also promoted Li Damu and Dian Wei to the left and right generals of the Hengli Army, and followed them.
Under the tent.
As for Ru Mengju, Dong Zhao and others all retained their original positions, but their ranks were upgraded one level.
In addition, Zhang Chong also ordered the Secretary of Engineering to withdraw a batch of money from the treasury and ordered it to melt new copper coins, named "Taiwu Tongbao", and melted ten thousand catties of gold to cast gold coins, named "Establishing Taiping Kingdom", and distributed them all to
All officers and men in the whole army.
In this way, a relatively well-organized Taiping State named "Tai", including administration, justice, and military, was established in Hebei.
The first thing Zhang Chong did after proclaiming himself queen was to declare Guan Yu as the marshal of the Tailu camp, envoy Yue, and lead the marshal's troops of ten thousand people from the left army southward, stationed at the festival.
Obviously, after repeated consideration, Zhang Chong still believed that the current Guan Yu was the only commander qualified to face the complex situation in the Lutai region.
Afterwards, Zhang Chong called Guan Yu into the palace and told him all the information about the Lutai area, and also told Guan Yu about his risks to the subsequent situation.
As expected, Guan Yu did not disappoint Zhang Chong. He clasped his fists and accepted the order without any fear on his face.
In this way, on the third day after the founding of the Taiping Kingdom, Guan Yu led ten thousand elite infantrymen, two battalions of two thousand cavalry, and four thousand heavy troops. He set out from Yecheng and marched southeast along the official road.
Afterwards, they will pass through the Baima Ferry, pass through the Heji base area, pass through the Zhongping Kingdom base area in central Yanzhou, and finally station in Fenggao.
And over there, after the Taiping Kingdom was established in Yedu, the situation in the world has indeed undergone tremendous changes.
The first one is that after the Han Dynasty experienced two major political turmoils, its prestige was greatly reduced. In response to the strife from the upper class, the governors in various places sat back and watched to protect themselves, so the strength of the two capitals weakened again.
Regarding these, Liu Hong from Chang'an in Kansai did not take any measures, but went for more unscrupulous pleasures and banquets. Xu knew that there was no hope of regaining Luoyang, but unexpectedly he was defeated by the rebels from Kanto, so Liu Hong began to let himself go.
He used all the tricks he played in Luoyang in Chang'an.
First, he diverted the water from the Qujiang River to build Tianchi, and then built a huge boat on top of the Tianchi. In the boat, there were hundreds of charming palace maids, wearing jewelry and holding musical instruments. Liu Hong also selected sixteen most beautiful women to teach the emperor how to dance. Then he spent all day long
Have a feast and have fun in Tianchi, no longer paying attention to foreign affairs and going to court in the morning.
At that time, Fu Xie, the captain in charge of the Jin Dynasty, urged Liu Hong to focus on state affairs, saying that the world was in chaos and the Han Dynasty was in decline. If Liu Hong didn't cheer up and restore the ancestral foundation, how could he have the face to meet the great ancestor and Taizong in the future?
Liu Hong knew that Fu Xie was loyal and loyal, but he was really annoyed by his nagging. In a fit of anger, he sent Fu Xie to Hanyang, Liangzhou, to fight against the Qiang people.
Fu Xie didn't want to go, but the envoy wouldn't even let him go home, so he took his carriage and horses to send him west. In the end, he could only bow his head to the Weiyang Palace where Liu Hong was.
As soon as Fu Xie left, undercurrents surged in the Kansai court, and everyone was thinking about their own way out. Liu Hong obviously could no longer bear the trust of the Kansai nobles.
The Kansai side has lost its spirit, while the Kanto side is not much better. Their finances are also about to collapse.
Because of the Jiazi Rebellion, the Yuan family was massacred. Money, food and materials transferred from various places in Guandong to Luoyang were getting less and less.
Many prefects in Guandong were either disciples of the Yuan family or were entrusted with their support by Qi Enyin, so the Yuan family served as a bridge between the central and local governments on the other side of the imperial court.
But now that the Yuan family has been exterminated, and was even killed in the Chongde Hall, these eunuchs are saddened by the death of rabbits and foxes. Most of them are even thinking that the Han Dynasty is not far away from death. In this case, who is this person?
Why don't you preserve your strength?
It's a bit difficult to be called a loner, but it's not unthinkable to be a prince.
As a result, the governors in various places used the excuse that Yellow Turban thieves were everywhere and the roads were cut off, and seized the above plan. In fact, they used it to recruit troops.
The localities and the central government are becoming more and more alienated.
But what the governors of Guandong did, it would be difficult for the ministers of Luoyang.
More than half of the Han Dynasty's annual money and food comes from the Guandong region. Twenty-three out of ten come from Qingxu, three-fourths out of ten from Yanyu, two-in-ten from Jingzhou, two-in-ten from the hinterland of the capital, and the rest are
Yizhou.
But now Qingzhou has fallen, Yanzhou is broken, Yuzhou and Jingzhou are unstable, and only Xuzhou is left that is still transporting money and food. But how can it support the tens of thousands of troops in Guandong?
In fact, as early as Yuan Wei's time, in order to increase Luoyang's reserves and savings, he planted crops in the Gyeonggi area. However, this had little effect, because this area was full of land and manors owned by the powerful nobles and nobles, and there was really no excess.
Population and land are used for farming.
Because Yuan Wei wanted to gain the support of the gentry in the capital, he never took action against these wealthy families, so Luoyang's money and food supplies were running low.
Finally, on May 30th, the first year of Taiwu, a plague caused by a great famine swept through the sacred city of Luoyang.
The plague first broke out from Luzuo, Kyoto.
There were so many people starving to death in this civilian area that the plague became prevalent. Although the poor were the first to die, the plague soon spread to Youcheng, and more and more wealthy families died violently.
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For a time, the city of Luoyang looked like a ghost, and people were in panic.
More and more ministers began to flee Luoyang and seek refuge in the Guandong region. To make matters worse, due to the chaos last year and the lack of water conservancy maintenance in Yuzhou, severe locust plagues broke out in May this year.
For a time, locusts flew and covered the sky, making it impossible for people and horses to move. The ravines and ravines they fell into were all flat, and the people were severely hungry.
In this way, the ministers who wanted to flee to Guandong saw white bones and weeds all over the ground along the way. Only then did these ministers, who had tasted all the wealth and wealth in the world, realize how miserable the world was. For a while, their clothes were filled with tears, and they couldn't bear to see it.
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Under this situation, Prime Minister Xu came forward and asked the young emperor Liu Bian to issue an edict to punish himself in an attempt to win over people's hearts.
After the Sinji Edict, the largest court meeting since the Jiazi Rebellion began, presided over by Prime Minister Xu, He Jin, and Huangfu Song.
At this moment, the Chongde Hall has lost the blood of the Yuan family and its disciples. All the ministers gathered here to discuss only one topic, that is, whether the capital should be moved for refuge? If so, where should it be moved?
The matter of moving the capital is really unacceptable. If it is not impossible, who would want to stay away from the tombs of their ancestors?
In fact, this is not the first time that related topics have been discussed. When Dong Zhuo completely turned to Guanxi, someone in the Luoyang court mentioned moving the capital because it was too close to Luoyang from Hedong. With the Guanxi Army
The horse army was so fast that they could surround Luoyang in less than two days.
But this time, due to the epidemic and lack of food, the court once again proposed to move the capital.
But even so, when the discussion about whether to move the capital was revealed, the court officials were still in an uproar.
All officials who are qualified to speak out express their opinions.
The ministers in the Gyeonggi area, especially the Zheng family, firmly advocated that the capital should not be moved.
Zheng Tai, who had already become a minister, spoke righteously in court:
"Those who moved the capital to avoid chaos have not perished. Although they have not perished immediately, there have not been those who have been able to revive."
Guo Xiu, Zhong Fu, Wei Kang, Zhang Chong and other ministers all came forward to reconsider. They were all locals of Luoyang, and they firmly disagreed with the imperial court moving the capital at this time, both emotionally and in terms of interests.
And Liu Bei, who had just made great gains in the Jiazi Rebellion, even advised him in the tone of a relative of the Liu clan:
"The mausoleums of our ancestors, the ancestral temples, and the imperial palaces are all in Kyoto. How can we abandon them?"
For example, Huangfu Song even advised the young emperor and Prime Minister Xu behind him from a military perspective:
"Now the struggle between the two capitals is at a critical stage. Once we give up Luoyang, it is almost equivalent to giving up the capital and the entire Kansai territory. It can be said that with a sudden movement, the two capitals will no longer exist."
Huangfu Song was very anxious because he knew that the Guandong court was at a critical juncture in history.
Because he has very reliable information, today's Kansai is worse than them. Now Liu Hong is no longer in charge of politics, and all political power has fallen into the hands of the eunuchs. Under the suppression of the eunuchs, many loyal
Officials were demoted to Xizhou.
So now many old friends in the west have contacted Huangfu Song again, and it is obvious that there will be big changes.
Moreover, Huangfu Song had long recognized that time was on their side. Although Liu Hong ran away with his son Liu Xie, he was too young after all. And once Liu Hong passed away, Liu Xie would not be old enough to control the court.
At that time, the conflict between the eunuchs and the wealthy families in Kansai will quickly amplify, and that will be their opportunity in Kanto.
But the premise of all this is that you can't move the capital. If you move the capital, wouldn't it mean giving Luoyang to others?
But no matter how right Huangfu Song was, he still didn't understand what Xu Xiang and others were thinking.
Why did Xu Xiang push the court to move the capital? Because he had already seen that if he continued to stay in Luoyang, it would be a dead city. In terms of war potential, the Luoyang Basin cannot be compared with the Guanzhong Plain.
The real opportunity is in the Central Plains. As long as the imperial court moves its capital to the Central Plains, it can rely on the imperial court's remaining authority and tens of thousands of elite soldiers to resume its rule in the Central Plains region.
Therefore, Prime Minister Xu will be a strong man who will cut off his arms and return to the Central Plains to consolidate his roots and cultivate his power to control the four directions.
Prime Minister Xu is a very farsighted and farsighted politician. He deeply understands that the court is no longer that powerful man.
Luoyang is good. The so-called eight passes are the key. It is located in the world and has the advantage of Heluo. It relies on Mang Mountain in the north and Jingbiao in the south. It is like sitting in a palace and overlooking the courtyard. But these are all for the Han Dynasty.
Rather than talking about a small and fragmented imperial court now.
The original advantages of Luoyang were all disadvantages for the Han Dynasty at this time.
Take the north as an example. Once Dong Zhuo from Hedong boldly moves south, the defenses of the river will be completely unable to stop these Bingzhou cavalry. Now Dong Zhuo just doesn't want Luoyang to fall so quickly. It is not in his interest, so he has stopped the army in Dahe.
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However, this kind of ineffective defense puts their own safety at the enemy's sword, which is unacceptable to both Xiang Xu and Liu Bian.
And more importantly, Huangfu Song has said so much, can you produce grain?
Luoyang's reserves have always relied on water transport from the Central Plains. This type of water transport has a high loss in normal times, and only the authority of the Han Dynasty can maintain this loss, allowing grain to be transported from various places to Beijing. But what about now?
After two years of war in the world, Dingkou was dispersed, production was cut off, and merchant travel was extinct. Even the strong men who were originally responsible for water transportation have been drafted into the army by various counties and counties. How can we still transport grain?
In the end, Huangfu Song and Xu Pingting had a quarrel, and no one could persuade the other. Later, several powerful families in the capital, including Zheng, Zhang, Wei, and others, agreed to lend 200,000 dan of food to the court, and the chaos was stopped.
In addition, the young emperor Liu Bian had lived in Luoyang since he was a child and was unwilling to leave. Not to mention that he was also worried about being scolded by his relatives for abandoning the tombs of his ancestors.
So after seeing that the food crisis had been temporarily resolved, Liu Bian decided not to move the capital.
But this capital relocation incident made the officials and workers of the Manchu Dynasty feel thorny in their hearts. They all had this thought in their hearts:
"Have I reached this point as a big man?"
However, no matter what kind of turmoil swept Luoyang, the great epidemic in June of the first year of Taiwu finally caused civil unrest in the Central Plains.
More and more Guizhou leaders who could no longer survive began to group together to attack the local tyrants from various places. There were various rebel armies with various names.
In this regard, Luoyang was completely helpless, and the Han Dynasty could only ask local powerful families from all over the country to start their own troops to suppress the civil unrest.
There is an edict:
"Whenever a young man comes out of the army, a hundred people will be awarded the title of general, five hundred persons will be awarded the rank of captain, and five thousand persons will be awarded the rank of lieutenant general."
For a time, there were many powerful men in the Central Plains. They were either called Xiaowei or Zhonglangjiang. There were as many people as Weiwei or generals. Some of these people were directly divided into counties. For example, Su Dai, a Wu man, had five thousand soldiers and became the governor of Changsha.
Beiyu is the leader of Huarong, and each of them is the lord according to the militia.
It was also when the situation suddenly accelerated that Zhang Chong summoned civil and military officials to discuss the next stage of expansion.
Now Zhang Chong handed over the Lutai region to Guan Yu, and then left more energy to deal with Hebei affairs.
With the sudden decline of the behemoth Guandong Court, Zhang Chong predicts that the probability of subsequent joint strangulation of the Taishan Army in Hebei is low. Without strong central control, the powerful powers from all over the country cannot unite.
It was also based on this judgment that Zhang Chong believed that now was the time to take over all the lands in Hebei.
Some staff members thought that it would be better to take advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains and the heroes to rise south, pass Xingyang and go straight to Luoyang.
But Xun You put forward a different view for Zhang Chong. He believed that the Central Plains is now a muddy land, which seems to be in chaos but is complicated. Moreover, the Central Plains is the area where the powerful have the strongest strength. It is better to take advantage of the civil strife and the depletion of strength.
At that time, we worked together on the Northern Expedition.
Youji has strong soldiers and horses, and has been defeated by Taishan's army. It is time to capture them all. Once you support Youji, you can leave Taihang and enter Bingzhou, and then control the two capitals with nothing, and the world can be settled.
Zhang Chong accepted his strategy and decided to make another northern expedition.
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