After Liu Biao set off, he traveled day and night and arrived in Qingzhou in a short time. At the Qingzhou Prefecture, he met Qingzhou Mu and the clan elder Liu Yu, and told Liu Yu what happened in Luoyang.
At that time, Liu Yu did a good job against the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou.
Because he insisted on treating the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army in a gentle manner and was never willing to go on a killing spree, Liu Yu encountered some dangers at the beginning and suffered several defeats.
However, because Liu Yu enforced military discipline and required the army not to harm the lives of the people in Qingzhou, Liu Yu himself and Liu Yu's army had a good reputation in Qingzhou.
After the war, Liu Yu took the trouble to send people time and time again to communicate with the leaders of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, telling them that being thieves had no future and that they would be wiped out by the imperial court sooner or later. The imperial army was too powerful. What grievances could they have against them?
He said, why must we rebel?
Such words may sound ridiculous at first. We have all rebelled, and you still ask why we rebel?
It's you who are doing the opposite, you still don't have any skills at all?
Therefore, the Yellow Turban Army reported the names of several famous corrupt officials in Qingzhou to Liu Yu and asked Liu Yu to punish these corrupt officials. Otherwise, they would never be willing to negotiate with Liu Yu.
They originally thought that Liu Yu would definitely not take action against these corrupt officials. However, after careful investigation, Liu Yu confirmed that these officials were indeed corrupt and disregarded human lives, and their crimes were extremely heinous.
He was so angry that he actually went to the court as a state shepherd to remove these corrupt officials. He also questioned them, ransacked their homes, put them in prison, put them in prison cars, and sent them to Luoyang for execution.
Therefore, Liu Yu used his actual actions to impress some people within the Yellow Turban Army and gained their trust, making the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army willing to negotiate with Liu Yu.
Liu Yu proposed a plan to let them remove their armor and return to their fields, and then select elites from among them to form an army and treat them to eat the imperial rations. This plan successfully made a considerable number of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army tempted.
Some leaders of the Yellow Turban Army, led by Zhang Rao, Guan Hai and Guan Cheng, thought this plan was good and they were willing to surrender to Liu Yu.
Some leaders of the Yellow Turban Army, led by Xu He and Sima Ju, insisted that Liu Yu could not be trusted and could not give up resistance and join Liu Yu, otherwise they would definitely regret it.
The two sides could not reach an agreement, so an internal split occurred.
Zhang Rao, Guan Hai and Guan Cheng led part of their troops to surrender to Liu Yu and stopped causing rebellion, while Xu He and Sima Ju led another army south to Xuzhou and joined the Xuzhou Yellow Turban Army to continue fighting.
Liu Yu was very trustworthy and kept his word. He asked the court for forgiveness for Zhang Rao, Guan Hai and Guan Cheng, and appointed them as captains, letting them command their original subordinates respectively, and selected 10,000 elite men to join Liu Yu.
The army under Yu's command became the force to maintain local security in Qingzhou.
As a result, Liu Yu's prestige in Qingzhou became even greater.
When Liu Biao arrived in Qingzhou, the chaos in Qingzhou had just come to an end.
When he learned that Liu Biao, a subordinate of the general, had come, Liu Yu warmly entertained his fellow clansman, and then learned from Liu Biao what had happened in Luoyang and the purpose of Liu Biao's visit.
Then Liu Yu expressed his anger very simply.
"The Emperor is so ridiculous. He just wants to sell his official position and get a title. Instead of establishing the legitimate son of the Queen as the crown prince, he wants to abolish the eldest son and establish a young son, and make the common son the crown prince? Is this to destroy the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty? I can never accept the emperor's nonsense.
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Liu Yu was not only willing to send troops to cooperate with He Jin, but was also willing to publicly oppose the emperor's abolition of elders and establishment of younger ones. Liu Biao was very surprised by his outright support, and Liu Biao praised Liu Yu's profound righteousness.
A successful persuasion greatly increased Liu Biao's confidence, so he ran to Xuzhou again.
The situation in Xuzhou is much more difficult than in Qingzhou. Liu Yan has no intention of making peace with the Yellow Turban Army. He just wants to fight. He has been fighting since he took office until now. He has not finished fighting for more than half a year.
In addition, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army marched south to Xuzhou some time ago, which made Liu Yan's situation even more difficult. Liu Yan had a strong opinion of Liu Yu and was very dissatisfied with him.
Liu Biao's arrival and the purpose of his visit actually didn't matter to Liu Yan. No matter who the emperor chose to be the crown prince, Liu Yan had no intention of getting involved. The only thing he thought about now was to leave Xuzhou, the place where the Four Wars were fought, and go to a safer place.
Become a state pastoralist.
After learning about the civil strife in Luoyang, he became more clear about his thoughts on avoiding trouble. However, he really couldn't tell Liu Biao clearly about this, and he didn't want to offend either Liu Hong or He Jin, so he pointed at Xuzhou.
Chaos smiled bitterly.
"If we can't deal with the Yellow Turban bandits in Xuzhou, I can't continue to be a pastor in Xuzhou. Why send troops to Luoyang? Please be patient with Jing Sheng and say a few kind words for me, so that the general won't think anything of me.
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Liu Biao knew that Liu Yan did not want to get involved in this matter, but the situation in Xuzhou was his best shield. There was nothing he could do about it, so Liu Biao could only embark on the journey back with a feeling of depression.
Although Liu Yan failed to win over Liu Yan, He Jin and Yuan Wei joined forces and still got the support of a considerable number of local military and political officials. Under the banner of supporting the eldest son's inheritance, they sent troops to Luoyang one after another.
By November of the fifth year of Zhongping, 30,000 troops had gathered in Luoyang, ready to be reviewed.
Until this moment, Liu Hong still had not thought about it.
He really felt that this was an action to respond to the celestial phenomena and relieve the disaster of the Han Dynasty, so he called himself the "Supreme General". Accompanied by He Jin, holding the Emperor's Sword, he reviewed the troops from all directions outside Luoyang City.
On the night when Liu Hong and He Jin reviewed the army together, the long-forgotten Shi Changshi gathered together to brainstorm and discuss their current difficult situation.
In the end, they reluctantly came up with an answer that wasn't even an answer.
During the Taiping Dao Rebellion, the eunuchs in the palace colluded with Zhang Jiao, which should be the main reason for their current difficult situation.
At that time, although they used a lot of money to get rid of this matter, Liu Hong obviously did not forget it so easily.
Money can buy forgiveness, but it cannot buy trust. Once trust is something that is only once lost, it can never be regained, no matter how much money is spent.
I have to say that their judgment was correct. Liu Hong's important reason for refusing the current Shi Changshi's placement of their cronies in the Xiyuan Army was because the Shi Changshi had not understood it with Zhang Jiao.
Although they put the blame on the dead Cao Jie and others and spent a large sum of money to purchase a VIP service called Forgiveness, this time someone unexpectedly appeared among the Eighth Colonel of the Xiyuan Army.
Feng Fang.
Cao Jie's son-in-law, who had been dead for a long time and was used as a shield by them.
What does this mean?
Unless Feng Fang is really powerful enough to make Liu Hong ignore everything, this proves Liu Hong's distrust of the current Shi Changshi. He is even willing to believe in a dead man rather than trust the Shi Changshi.
Liu Hong didn't believe what they said. Liu Hong always believed that they were indeed colluding with Zhang Jiao and had evil intentions, but they were forced to change their strategies due to reality.
So he would rather believe in the dead Cao Jie than in the living Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong.
Otherwise, Feng Fang would not be able to take the position.
There was no reason for Jian Shuo, a small Huang sect, to suddenly become Liu Hong's favorite.
A huge sense of crisis enveloped the ten permanent servants, and Zhang asked Zhao Zhong and others to gather together for a meeting to discuss what they should do under the new situation.
"Your Majesty would rather use the Xiaohuang Gate than wait for me. You should already know what this means. I don't need to say more. So now we have to discuss what to do and what to do. Don't wait.
not talking."
As the host, Zhao Zhong convened everyone to brainstorm and use their abilities to try to find a way out for everyone.
In the current situation in Luoyang, without soldiers and military support, isn't it just a piece of meat in someone else's bowl?
The eunuchs have been arrogant and domineering for so long. In the hearts of the people of the world, even if they are not said to be compassionate, they can be regarded as lacking in great virtue. They are the type where everyone wants to chop them into pieces and eat them. If they don't have an army, they will
I can't even guarantee that I will survive until tomorrow morning.
Liu Hong refused to give them this guarantee.
Is this okay?
We must find another way out!
So the wise men of the Shi Changshi began to make plans, brainstormed, and finally came to the conclusion that we should build private soldiers, recruit soldiers, and form an army, and we would only listen to our army!
This conclusion was then rejected.
Who are you and dare to recruit private soldiers?
Believe it or not, if you recruit private soldiers today, you will be killed by Liu Hong tomorrow?
Liu Hong now has more than 30,000 Xiyuan troops in his hands, and Jian Shuo and them are not of the same mind. Regardless of whether this army can fight in the field, it is still easy to deal with these eunuchs, isn't it?
The eunuchs also thought of some unreasonable solutions, and some solutions that were not even thought of with their brains - such as surrendering to He Jin and asking He Jin to protect them.
Is this a solution that anyone can come up with?
Zhang Rang felt desperate about this.
When it comes to making money, doing bad things, and looking for land and property, everyone is a good hand, but when it comes to making plans, a group of people don't even have the power to protect themselves.
Although Zhang Rang controls Dongyuan's spies, which can barely be regarded as an armed force, the number is not enough. If a fight breaks out, there simply won't be enough people to fill their teeth.
So, what should we do?
Zhang Rang stood at the window, with a bright moon in front of him, and behind him a group of guys who had been chattering for a long time and couldn't come up with a solution to the problem. At the moment when he was upset, Zhang Rang suddenly remembered what a person once said to him.
Zhang Rang remembers this person's face clearly, and he also remembers the scene when he said these words.
"Lao Zhang, remember, even if your life is threatened in the future, you come to me and I will save your life."