It took two months, in March of the third year of Yanxing (195), Chen Chong barely completed the financial inspection in Chang'an. However, some of the officials were unconvinced and tried every means to confront the Sili Mansion, which led to many turmoils. Guanglu doctor Zhou Zhong was born in the Zhou family of Lujiang, and was the son of the former Taiwei Zhou Jing. He had been serving in the court for eighteen years. Before Chen Chong came, both the government and the public regarded him as one of the three princes. After Chen Chong Lingtai Chang Dynasty
, he made a petition to the Chancellor the next day, requesting to become an official and go into seclusion on the grounds that he was old, frail, suffering from eye diseases, and unable to see clearly.
He said this on the surface, but secretly he packed up his belongings early and said to the officials: "The Dragon Head seems to be rectifying the government, but in fact it is to use this as an excuse to eliminate dissidents and fight for power with the emperor. We are not the Dragon Head.
If I don't return early, I'm afraid there will be trouble." Soon, similar rumors spread throughout Chang'an through the mouths of lower-level officials, saying that Sili Xiaowei seemed to be peaceful, but in fact he had the ambitions of Wang Mang and Dong Zhuo, and was trying to seduce the Han Dynasty.
Unruly.
When the news reached the palace, the emperor indeed had a change of heart, implying that Chen Chong's decree would be postponed. Chen Chong rejected it on the grounds that the order had already been issued and would not be changed. After receiving the document, he immediately led everyone out of the palace and stopped before Zhou Zhong left the capital.
We stayed in the convoy. We found a thousand pieces of silk, fifty shi of pepper, five million baht, and two thousand gold cakes.
Because he had something to say first, Chen Chong presented the list to the emperor and announced it to the people of the city in Beique. Zhou Zhong was sweating profusely and kowtowed to Chen Chong repeatedly, begging for forgiveness. Chen Chong did not continue to delve deeper, reloaded the checked property into a cart, and allowed him to take up his official position.
After this incident, the rumors about Chang'an disappeared immediately. As for the connection between them, we can only let future generations think about it.
However, not long after, another incident was exposed in Beijing. At the end of January, three officials from the Sili Mansion were suddenly kidnapped by city residents while walking in the West City and disappeared mysteriously. When they reappeared, the three were found in the south of the city.
The fire burned the corpse into a charred corpse and threw it on the official road. Only the official seals of each were left beside the corpse.
Since Chen Chong entered the capital, this was the first time such a terrible death occurred in Chang'an, which shocked both the government and the public. Chen Chong ordered Yang Xiu to be the chief officer to investigate the incident strictly. As a result, before any action was taken, two more knights surrendered themselves to the government.
. It is said that they saw these three people oppressing celebrities and being greedy for money and dominating women on the pretext of checking their wealth. They saw injustice on the road, so they killed people righteously. When the news spread, the people all regarded them as righteous men.
Chen Chong had seen this kind of trick too many times. He openly asked Yang Xiu to interrogate him, but secretly sent people to search the West City based on his portrait, and found out the real name of the person who committed the crime and more than ten related rangers. After sending people to arrest him,
It was also found that the rangers killed indiscriminately and buried more than twenty corpses. The witnesses and physical evidence were all there, and the person who committed the crime could not deny it. He was thinking of his family, so he could only plead guilty before the law and admitted that the crime was instigated by someone else. But as to who instigated it,
They didn't know it either. After all, their leader had noticed something was wrong beforehand and had already fled. Chen Chong had no choice but to sentence the relevant people to death for murder and hang them in Hengmen.
After these two incidents, the government and the public were reluctantly calm, allowing Chen Chong to reluctantly implement the property inspection order. As for the amount of property inspection, it is difficult to describe it all here due to the huge number and variety. I can only briefly list it and only discuss the rare treasures.
Among the rare treasures, General Dong Cheng of Jianping had a hundred feet of Shu embroidery, Situ Chunyujia had ten pieces of coral, Sun Rui, the official of Guanglu, had eighteen stones of rhinoceros horn, Imperial servant Liu Ai had thirty bushes of pearls, and the rest of the land and acres of money were numerous.
, all of which are shocking. After being listed in the North Tower, no one has said anything about it. It is not urgent to eliminate the officials.
But just when this political affair was finally coming to an end, Huangfuli, the governor of Yuzhou, reported to the court: "Yuan Shu led his army to enter the Chen State again and attacked Chen County, Xinping, and Ningping counties. It is said that there are millions of soldiers.
The army, with thousands of good generals and a company camp of more than a hundred miles, seems to be moving in full force."
As soon as the letter arrived, within the remaining six days, more than ten military reports were delivered to Chang'an one after another. Each military report represented the fall of a county. Chang'an and Yingchuan were nearly a thousand miles apart, and the messengers kept working day and night, one after another.
Even if we change horses, it will take five days to arrive. Who knows how many counties will be lost during this period?
In fact, on the sixth day of March, Yuan Shu successfully recovered thirty-five counties of Yingchuan, Chen, and Liang, and restored all of Yuzhou.
The main reason why he was able to achieve such results was because Yuan Shu chose the timing very cleverly. Last autumn and winter, the Han army and the Gengcang army fought fiercely for several months. At this time, some of them returned to Bingzhou with Liu Bei, and some rested in Henan. There were only about 10,000 Han troops left in Yuzhou.
In the past few years of spring plowing and autumn fighting, the soldiers have long been accustomed to resting in spring and have not prepared for battle. As soon as Yuan Shu's army arrived, Huangfuli received the news of the defeat on the front line before she could order her troops. The morale of the Han army was not strong at all.
After hearing that he was defeated, he naturally had no choice but to lose again and again, and was directly forced back to Henan by Yuan Shu.
After recapturing Yuzhou, on the tenth day of the third month, Yuan Shu moved his army to Yangdi. He sent Sun Xiang to lead his troops to the Shenyuan Pass for surveillance. Then he built a three-foot-high platform in front of the city, summoned all the tribes of Yingchuan in front of the platform, and rewarded all his officials.
General. In the warm spring breeze, Yuan Shu, wearing a golden armor, stood on a high platform, watching the military flags flying like waves and the heads of people moving back and forth. He was a little intoxicated for a while. He then laughed with Yang Feng beside him and said: "General, I feel
How are my men doing?"
It turns out that Yuan Shu's military expedition was not limited to the two states of Yu and Yang. Years ago, he reached a peace agreement with the Baibo Army, so before the expedition, he bribed the Baibo Army with a heavy sum of money in exchange for Yang Feng to bring 50,000 Xuzhou men with him.
Let’s march west together.
Yang Feng looked at the endless army in the audience, and his mood was agitated for a moment. Yuan Shu had nearly 150,000 infantry and cavalry this time, and together with the Xuzhou Army, there were nearly 200,000 troops. Looking around, there were few people who could compare with him. Back then,
He had only a few thousand men under his command in Bingzhou. How could he have imagined that he would be as majestic as he is today, towering over thousands of people and standing alongside the Yuan family?
But when he thought about the war, he was wary, so he said: "If Liu Bei leads his army here, it will be difficult to compete with Yuan Gong." What he was thinking about was that if Chen Chong came here, the outcome would be unpredictable.
Yuan Shu heard what he had not finished and showed a look of confusion on his face. He drew out his sword, pointed it in the direction of Luoyang, and then said slowly: "Back then, I was in Wancheng, occupying Jingyu, and ordered Sun Wentai to go north to attack Dong.
, What kind of feat is it to regain the Eastern Capital? Even Chen Tingjian and Liu Boan have to regard me as the leader of the alliance. The inscription on the recovery of Luoyang at that time is still placed in Nangong! No matter who goes out to fight with me, they will all come back defeated!
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After that, he ordered the army to beat drums, and the sound was like thousands of waves, resounding throughout the nine heavens and nine earth. All the scholars who came to watch the ceremony turned pale and trembled. When the army sergeants and soldiers shouted in unison, some even fainted on the spot.
This made Yuan Shu laugh loudly and seemed extremely proud. He asked Yang Feng: "My subordinates have such power. It must be easy to conquer Guanzhong and regain the two capitals. If one day I really conquer the world, can I be a Zhong family?"
Emperor?"
How could Yang Feng have expected that he suddenly said this? He thought that he was just taking advantage of the absence of Liu and Chen's main force. He had not even seen the shadow of Jinyang Bafu, let alone conquered Guanzhong and hijacked the emperor. As a result, the person next to him People have already thought of it several years later. But what does this emperor of the Zhong family mean? Yang Feng didn't know what to say for a moment, so he simply pretended not to hear it and continued to watch the scenery below the stage.
Yuan Shu did not continue to speak to him. On the high platform, he marched one by one. The warriors from the two states in the procession lined up, saluted to the platform, and then received their rewards from the attendants below. Looking at the vitality among the soldiers below the platform, Yuan Shu was deeply satisfied. After Sun Jian's death, although Yuan Shu recruited Sun Jian's remaining troops, he did not know how to mobilize the army. As a result, the number of officers in the army became increasingly scarce as time went by, leading to repeated defeats. However, starting from last year, Yuan Shu used Zhao In the name of Wen Yangzhou Mu, he promoted and recruited a large number of young talents in the two states, such as Sun Ce, a descendant of Sun Jian, Sun Hao, a descendant of Sun Jian, Zhou Yu of Lujiang, Gu Yong of Wujun, Zhuge Jin of Langya, Zheng Hun, the younger brother of the famous Confucian Zheng Tai, etc., etc. He was not a leader among young people. In addition, he had previously recruited Qiao Rui, Ji Ling, Zhang Xun and other capable generals in Runan, which gave the army a completely new look. Yuan Shu therefore privately told his eldest son that even if Sun Jian was alive, he could not do better. .
After the reward was completed, Yuan Shu ordered Shi Yiguan to recite the Western Expedition in public. In the article, Liu Bei and Chen Chong were the enemies of the court, and his seven major crimes were listed:
Chen and Liu raised troops from Dongping to fight against the moth thieves. When Julu was completely victorious, Chen Chong went to the front to intercede for the thieves, while Liu Bei secretly released the yellow turban and left behind. He really did not know loyalty, justice, filial piety, and brotherhood. As a result, a false dynasty emerged in Shandong, and the world was in chaos. So far, it still cannot be rectified. This is the first crime.
Chen Liu was in Bingzhou, and was ordered by the late emperor to annihilate Xianbei. First there was the defeat of Sangqian, and then there was the chaos in his household. He lost his troops and generals, insulted his title, and was unworthy. This is the second crime.
Chen Chong was the shepherd of Bingzhou and participated in the campaign against Dong. However, when the battle came, he stopped at the north of the river and could not go south to Mang Mountain. He joined forces with Sun Jian for the expedition, which led to the battle of Guangcheng and the defeat of the captives. Dong Zhuo escaped by chance. This is the third crime.< /p>
Liu Bei was the governor of Taiyuan, and together with half of the elite troops in northern Xinjiang, they marched straight to the east of Hedong and reached Puban. However, they hesitated when something happened and hesitated to use their troops. Huangfu Song defeated them one by one, causing the whole campaign against Dong to be defeated overnight and the allied forces dispersed. This is the fourth crime. .
Later, by luck, Chen and Liu took charge of Chang'an and took charge of the government. However, he held a high position and did not cultivate virtue. He was close to Ren Yuanxian, oppressed the clan, made Liu Yu live in seclusion, and Gongsun harmed the people. This is the fifth crime.
This year, Chen Chong's new policy went even further, infringing on the three divisions and suppressing the ministers. Zhou Zhong was in panic and the three princes were in desolation. The emperor was suspected of having fallen into disgrace, and it was difficult to eliminate the artifacts. The new ambitions and old ambitions were hidden. This is a crime. 6.
In addition, the Han Dynasty governed the country with loyalty and filial piety. Chen Shi, the Duke of Taiqiu, had a good reputation in the world. He loved his descendants, especially Chen Chong. However, when Chen Shi passed away, Chen Chong returned home in one day. He went to Xihe because of his desire for power. He really could not serve the world. Set an example. This is Sin Seven.
After reciting the seven sins, Shi Yiguan lamented again, thinking that even the bamboos of Nanshan could not bear the sins committed by the two. He then compared Yuan Shu to Qi Huan and Jin Wen, who would kill the rebels and establish the Han Dynasty, and order the superiors and subordinates to return to their positions. , the guilty deserve it, and wise men govern.
Sun Ce in the audience heard this and looked at Yuan Shu's calm expression from a distance. He couldn't help but laugh. He thought to himself: It's ridiculous that a group of flies also want to achieve great things. Then he stepped on his feet and looked around, observing the military base.
situation, and thought: If I want to make contributions, what should I do?