Just now, Situ Xuxiang was not so angry and said: "If Liu Bei wants money to farm, just tell him. We can all find ways to raise it. After all, this is a good thing that benefits the country and the people. Why do we need to do it so cruelly? It is cheap for us to kill each other."
It’s just Shi Chang who serves them!”
Situ Xuxiang, courtesy name Gongbi, was a native of Pingyu and one of the three newly appointed Dukes of the Han Dynasty.
The Xu family is also the top noble family in the Han Dynasty, and has a great reputation among the scholars. He has two brothers, Xu Shao and Xu Jing.
Shocking the world.
However, Prime Minister Xu had a very bad reputation. He was notorious for clinging to eunuchs in order to get promoted. The brothers Xu Shao and Xu Jing even refused to recognize him as their elder brother because of this incident, and they did not have any contact with each other for more than ten years! Of course, Prime Minister Xu did not think so.
I am a gang of eunuchs, and everyone is just using each other.
In Xu Xiang's view, Liu Bei couldn't have targeted Wang Fen for no reason. It was because he was short of money in farming that he targeted Wang Fen, and then he would immediately seize Wang Fen's handle and make Wang Fen's rebellion a solid case.
, but when Liu Bei dealt with Wang Fen, he was defeated miserably.
This rebellion implicated many of his disciples and old officials. Originally, Liu Bei should have informed the heads of the powerful families in this situation so that they could be prepared. However, Liu Bei was not one of their own, and he was still a fool, and he stabbed him in one go.
Went to Lingdi.
So today's scene happened. A large number of disciples and former officials of the Xu family, Yang family, and Yuan family were implicated, causing them heavy losses.
Cui Lie's disciples were not greatly affected, but the rebellion took place in the Hejian Kingdom, and the powerful people there were probably going to die.
Because of the relationship between the three mutual laws in the Han Dynasty, many Jizhou officials were from Yanzhou, Xuzhou, and Sili. This is why the Yuan family is in Runan, but Yuan Shao can raise an army in Hebei to resist Dong Zhuo.
This is not only the thought of Prime Minister Xu, but also the thought of all the civil and military officials present. This time Wang Fen's rebellion will definitely not end without the death of hundreds of people! I didn't realize that this Liu Bei is a ruthless person! He was killed in an instant
Hundreds of officials died, and so many people did not die during the first two party imprisonments.
Lu Zhi, on the other hand, said angrily: "Xuande is arresting rebels. Could it be that he is arresting the wrong one? Wang Fen did something wrong. You failed to take care of your disciples and old officials, and you dared to do such things as rebellion!"
Lu Zhi was eight feet two inches tall and had a voice as loud as a bell. He had a resolute personality and noble moral character. He often had the ambition to help the country and help the world. He did not like to write poems and poems, and he could drink a stone of wine. When he was young, he worshiped the great Confucian Ma Rong as his disciple, and
He recommended Zheng Xuan as a fellow disciple. Lu Zhi was knowledgeable about the past and present, and liked to delve into Confucian classics without being limited to the chapters defined by his predecessors. Ma Rong was related to a wealthy family, and there were often singers and dances in the family. Lu Zhi studied in Ma Rong's family for many years, and never did this.
After a quick glance, Ma Rong admired Lu Zhi very much.
Lu Zhi was originally from Youzhou, and his apprentice was Ma Rong from Fufeng County. Since he entered politics, he has spent more time holding a sword than a pen. In addition, he has a good relationship with Huangfu Song, so he can be regarded as a member of the Kansai generals.
, so even though he is a famous scholar all over the world, he is still squeezed out by the Guandong clan headed by Yuan Wei. He can only be regarded as an idle person in the court and does not have much influence!
It can also be seen from this incident that half of the court knew about such an important matter as Wang Fen's rebellion, but Lu Zhi was still kept in the dark.
This is also the reason why he is so angry. Originally, everyone just gave up on the political struggle, but by launching a mutiny, he was planning to overturn the table!
Yuan Wei also knew that they had done something wrong this time. He felt guilty and said, "Now the Yellow Turban has not been destroyed, Xiliang has not been completely razed, the Thunder God in Bingzhou has become more powerful, the people live in poverty, the treasury is empty, and the court is struggling. At this time, if the court
If another disturbance occurs in the hall, it can be imagined that the blow to the Han Dynasty will be severe. The two of you must persuade Liu Bei and stop him from causing another disturbance!"
Lu Zhi said coldly: "Although Liu Bei is my student, we have not been in contact for more than ten years. There is nothing Shu Zhi can do!"
"Why are you doing this? Don't you know that doing this will cause chaos in the world!" Even a good old man like Liu Yu cannot accept that Yuan Wei and the others are planning a mutiny. Don't look at it as Wang Fen did it, but say that Yuan Wei did it.
Wei didn't know it at all, he was just lying to a fool.
Yuan Wei sighed and said: "The world is already in chaos, and we can't see any hope in your majesty. We want to get rid of the eunuchs, clean up the affairs of the Han Dynasty, and let the whole Han Dynasty bring order to chaos. However, the one your majesty trusts is Shi Changshi.
them!"
Yuan Wei then said: "Who is Zhao Zhong? He sent a little money to your majesty, and your majesty made him a cavalry general. What achievements does he have? He wiped out hundreds of thousands of yellow turban thieves like you did."
The rebellion was still put down, nothing happened, Zhao Zhong never even left Luoyang City.
It was enough to make Zhao Zhong a general, but His Majesty actually asked him to preside over the awards for the meritorious officials who put down the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Everyone knows what Zhao Zhong did. He took bribes, perverted the law, and slandered the meritorious officials!
If you don't give him money or bribe him, he will be dismissed no matter how great his merits are. If you give him money and you don't have any merit, you can get an official position. He even dares to sell money to the prefect for 2,000 shi, turning a good court into a market.
As a result, everyone has seen that in less than half a year, the Yellow Turban thieves resurrected and captured the entire Jizhou! So much so that the Yellow Turban thieves have not yet been pacified, and ruthless bandits like Lei Gong have emerged!"
Then Yuan Wei looked at Lu Zhi and said: "Ziqian, don't you want to get rid of the eunuchs in the court and give the man a bright future?"
Lu Zhi took a deep breath and said, "If you have different paths, don't work together!"
Then he left the main hall, and Liu Yu also left with him. As a clan member of the Han Dynasty, he disapproved of Yuan Wei's behavior even more!
Yuan Wei sighed and said: "It seems that we have to launch a backup plan!"
In the Hejian Kingdom of Jizhou, Liu Bei captured all the officials of all sizes in Hejian! Then according to the list in Wang Fen's letter, he arrested these officials and powerful men one by one. Only a few people mentioned that they had gotten the news and escaped. Of course, all of a sudden
Hundreds of people were arrested, and they were all officials of the imperial court. Liu Bei and the others were also frightened.
When Emperor Ling's decree came to Hejian Kingdom, Liu Bei and the others were relieved. With Emperor Ling's decree, their actions were not considered ultra vires.
Liu Bei sat in the governor's office and looked through the latest interrogation records, but he found that the arrested officials began to bite other people and shook their heads.
Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping were by Liu Bei's side, helping him count the money he got from this house raid!
Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Jian Yong and others all came in talking and laughing.
Zhang Fei smiled and said: "Brother, we don't have to worry about money this time. These corrupt officials have more than 1 billion in gold, silver, jewelry and other properties, shops, and houses. They also have millions of acres of land in various parts of Jizhou. Now
We are finally rich! Sure enough, you can get rich by ransacking homes. Now I understand Lei Gong and Zhang Yan a little bit. This feeling is so good!"
"Brother should continue to torture them, arrest all these corrupt officials, and make them spit out all the money they embezzled!"
Liu Bei said calmly: "Enough is enough. If we really arrest them all, the whole Jizhou will be in chaos. Moreover, they are also biting randomly now. If they continue, they will only unfairly accuse the innocent!"
Zhang Fei laughed and said: "In our Han Dynasty, when these officials are arrested, how can there be innocent people? We just take this opportunity to kill a group of such scourges.
Jian Yong said: "Yide and you want Xuande to be eliminated from the scholarly ranks of the Han Dynasty and to make Xuande a calm and lonely minister!"
Guan Yu thought for a moment and then said: "Brother, the most important thing for us now is the farming matter. It will not be beneficial to Jizhou to continue to delve into the matter of Wang Fen's rebellion this time."
After listening to their opinions, Liu Bei said: "Su Shuang, Zhang Shiping, the two of you will divide the money paid this time and give the gold, silver and jewelry to Jian Shuo for him to bring to His Majesty. At the same time, the house and shop will also be handed over to Jian Shuo."
Leave it to His Majesty.
The copper coins, grain, grass, and land will be left to us, Beizhonglang General's Mansion, to use the money and grain for farming. With these lands, we can resettle more than 100,000 households of refugees. If Onezawa's farming is successful, there should be no refugees in the entire Jizhou."
In this way, Jian Shuo returned to Luoyang City with a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry, as well as hundreds of rebellious officials and their families. When Emperor Ling saw the treasures worth hundreds of millions of dollars, as well as houses and goods worth hundreds of millions, he smiled.
He nodded and said: "This Liu Bei is very good. Not only is he a member of the Han clan, he is good at farming and fighting. He is a talented person. We should promote more people like this in the future!"
"As for these rebellious officials, continue to torture them and find out who is behind them. I don't believe that such a small fry dares to betray me!"
None of the officials Liu Bei arrested were worth more than 2,000 shi, because officials with more than 2,000 shi could only be arrested by order of the imperial court, and Liu Bei did not dare to move. However, Wang Fen, the governor of Jizhou, was nominally only worth 600 shi, and the remaining officials
Not to mention, there are only a few from Qianshi, so it’s not an exaggeration to say that they are little miscellaneous fish!
Emperor Ling wants to use this rebellion to once again attack the power of the noble clans. It is best to involve more officials so that he can clean up a group of officials from the noble clans and use them to install his own people!
Zhang Rang sneered: "I will not let you down!"
Just kidding, what these eunuchs like to do most is to attack the nobles and nobles.
Because of the Yellow Turban Uprising, there was no one among the Eunuchs who could fight. In the past few years, the Eunuchs had been retreating step by step in the face of the attacks of the noble gentry. The power of the Eunuchs in the Han Dynasty was wiped out by these noble gentry with the help of the Yellow Turban Army.
Only Luoyang City and the Sili generation barely retained their power. Now the eunuchs no longer dare to go to local activities because if they do, they will definitely die!
And now the eunuchs finally have the opportunity to attack the powerful nobles. They are experts in framing Zhongliang!
But Liu Bei in Jizhou didn't know all this! After he got Wang Fen's money, Liu Bei finally had the start-up capital for farming, and he posted notices all over Jizhou! Any refugee who was willing to go to Dayeze to farm could get 10
Mu of wasteland, Beizhong Lang's mansion provided farm tools and food, and then they handed over 50% of the food in the first year, 40% of the food in the second year, and 30% of the food in the third year. After three years of handing over the land, the land belonged to them.
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After Liu Bei's announcement, 300,000 refugees in Jizhou rushed to Onezawa. The refugees all wanted to get land. Even if they didn't have land, it would be good to find a place to eat. Onozawa was surrounded by lakes and farmland.
, everyone was enthusiastic about opening up wasteland for themselves. Of course, the food in Liu Bei's hands was consumed quickly, and he felt lucky. If Wang Fen and others had not provided more than one million shi of food, he would not have been able to support so many refugees!
Liu Bei's life was easy, but Zhang Yan's life in the Taihang Mountains was hard. Although Wang Fen spent money and food to invite them to come down the mountain to rebel, his 20,000 elite troops were disarmed and detained by Liu Bei. Now these noble men of his are in Onoze laughing.
Farming. This makes Zhang Yan heartbroken. These are all veterans who have been with him for several years, and they are just gone!
And his subordinates in the Taihang Mountains are also losing rapidly. Now his subordinates disappear as soon as they go down the mountain. Zhang Yan was so frightened that he did not dare to send troops down the mountain. He only dared to hide in the Taihang Mountains and not go out. He finally saw it. He and he
Farming is a violation of the law, and as soon as farming begins, there will be no good for him.
Fortunately, this was not the first time that Zhang Yan had experienced this kind of thing. He knew that Liu Bei would not stay in Jizhou for a short time, and he would not come out again until Liu Bei left Jizhou.
When Jizhou began to become stable due to the disappearance of the refugees, the situation in the Luoyang court became increasingly undercurrent. Every day, people were involved in Wang Fen's rebellion. In less than a month, 30 officials in the entire Luoyang city were arrested.
The eunuchs were arrested and tortured in the prison of Tingwei Mansion. These actions reminded the nobles of Luoyang City of the party imprisonment of the year. Is the third party imprisonment about to begin?
Just when the powerful nobles of Luoyang City were panicking, their savior came.
In the fourth year of Zhongping, in August.
Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun openly rebelled, causing a sensation in the entire Han Dynasty!
Because these two people are completely different from other rebels.
Zhang Ju is the former Taishan Governor, and Zhang Chun is the former Zhongshan Prime Minister. They are both officials of the Han Dynasty, and they are also high-ranking officials with an official residence of more than 2,000 shi. They are both members of the core ruling class of the Han Dynasty. They all rebelled. This
It’s not that the high-ranking officials of the Han Dynasty are not optimistic about the future of the Han Dynasty! If it causes a chain reaction, and the prefects in various places in the Han Dynasty also learn from Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju rebels, the entire Han Dynasty will fall apart.
So Emperor Ling was furious and roared like thunder in the court hall.
"I decree that officials from all over Youzhou go all out to suppress the two traitors Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun! If we don't see their heads for a month, I will ask them!"
This rebellion is different from the previous ones in Jizhou and Bianzhang in Xiliang. Not only did they rebel this time, they also openly established a court, established an emperor, and named their country Dayan.
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Zhang Ju proclaimed himself emperor and was known as the Emperor of the Yan Kingdom. Zhang Chun also proclaimed himself the Prime Minister of the Yan Kingdom, General Mi Tian, and King of An Ding.
Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun also mobilized their relations in the Han Dynasty. In Youzhou and Jizhou counties, they issued official documents to inform the people of the prefectures and counties, declaring that the Yan Kingdom would replace the Han Kingdom, and that Zhang Ju was the real emperor. They requested that the emperor abdicate the throne on that day, and ordered
The three princes and nine ministers of the imperial court welcomed Zhang Ju to Luoyang to take charge of state affairs.
It’s no wonder that Emperor Ling is so angry. He wants to replace him as emperor!
No one in the imperial court responded to Emperor Ling because they knew that this rebellion was completely different from the previous ones.
Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju are powerful men in Youzhou. Once they rebelled, they could gather hundreds of thousands of people in Feiru County, Liaoxi County, Youzhou to raise troops. How could such a rebellion be easily put down?