157, The Three Great Groups of the Eastern Han Dynasty (Part 1)
Afterwards, Chen Yuan told Lu Zhi some things about Jingzhou, and then left.
This time I came to visit Lu Zhi mainly as a casual visit.
The main purpose is to recruit people, Tian Feng, Ju Shou, Zhang He, Yan Liang and Wen Chou.
For these five people, Yan Liang and Wen Chou should not have a big problem.
After all, Tong Yuan is his uncle and can also be considered his master.
As for Tian Feng and Ju Sue, they need to be deceived.
Both of them are wise men with IQs as high as 90+, and they need to be carefully prepared to succeed in deception.
About Zhang He.
Chen Yuan was a little unsure.
Because Zhang He is not a foolish and loyal person.
Zhang He was actually responsible for Yuan Shao's failure in the Battle of Guandu.
Because after Wuchao's food was burned, Yuan Shao's huge army was still there.
Although the morale of the army was declining, if Zhang He and Gao Lan had not surrendered first, the army would not have collapsed.
As long as we can stabilize the morale of the army, we can still fight.
Zhang He is a rather selfish person.
But his outstanding military talent made Chen Yuan not want to give up.
At most, it will be over if he is not allowed to participate in some key battles.
Chen Yuan thought about it and returned to Yan Mansion with Zhao Yun.
Because of Tong Yuan's instructions, Chen and Yuan successfully entered the Yan Mansion and came to the main hall.
Although Tong Yuan was born into a poor family, his cultivation level was high.
So the Yan family still respects him very much.
At this time, Yan Liang was talking to Tong Yuan.
Tong Yuan did not hesitate and said directly to Yan Liang: "Zicheng, your cultivation level is considered moderate now, do you have any thoughts on becoming an official?"
Yan Liang nodded: "To be honest with my uncle, someone in the county has asked me to serve as an official, but I am still hesitating."
"Why are you hesitating?"
Yan Liang scratched his head: "Uncle, you also know that I am not good at writing. Now that Jizhou is at peace, it will be useless for me to become an official. I can't handle those government affairs."
Although Yan Liang was born in the Yan family in Anping, Hebei Province, he had a headache when he saw the slips, so he started practicing martial arts with great interest.
Now there is no place for Yan Liang to use his talents in Jizhou.
Therefore, Yan Liang is hesitating.
Because the county valued Yan Liang's family background and wanted him to serve as a civil servant in the county.
How could Yan Liang do this?
But Yan Liang is not young anymore, and it is inevitable to become an official. Otherwise, how can the Yan family in Hebei Province continue to establish a foothold in Anping and pass on the legacy.
"In that case, then you can come with me to Jingzhou."
Yan Liang was stunned.
Going to Jingzhou?
"Yes, come with me to Jingzhou. Mr. Liu of Jingzhou is a kind-hearted man and appoints people on their merits. Moreover, there is no peace in Jingzhou. There are many wars. There is definitely a place for you to use your skills. How about that?"
This is because Tong Yuan does not know much about the situation in Jingzhou and thinks that Jingzhou is still full of clan thieves.
Yan Liang's eyes lit up when he heard this: "Uncle, didn't you lie to me?"
Tong Yuan snorted: "I have never lied to you."
Yan Liang smiled when he heard this: "In that case, I will listen to my uncle and go to Jingzhou."
Chen Yuan walked to the door, and when he heard this sentence, he couldn't help stroking his hands and shouting: "Brother Zicheng's going to Jingzhou is really a blessing for me in Jingzhou. My lord must be overjoyed when he hears this news."
Yan Liang looked up and saw a handsome young man walking in.
Tong Yuan introduced: "This is Jingzhou Biejia Chen Yuan and Chen Zichu. He is the fourth brother of Jingzhou Liu Shijun and the most important minister under his command. Zicheng has met Chen Biejia soon."
Although Yan Liang's IQ is not too high, he is not stupid either.
After hearing Tong Yuan's introduction, he knew Chen Yuan's status in Jingzhou.
So Yan Liang hurriedly saluted: "Yan Liang has met Chen Biejia in Anping."
Chen Yuan quickly helped Yan Liang up and said, "Zicheng doesn't need to be polite. I've always heard that Yan Liang and Yan Zicheng in Anping have courage that no one can match. My lord, if you get it, it's like adding wings to a tiger."
Good guy, Chen Yuan is a little short of words now.
It can only be used back and forth like a tiger with extra wings.
This made Zhang Liao on the side feel an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
I seem to have heard this somewhere?
Yan Liang was still young, so when Chen Yuan said this, he felt a little embarrassed.
He scratched his head and said, "Don't be too harsh with your words. Liang Ye only has a lot of strength and can't afford to be praised like this."
Chen Yuan likes this kind of simple and pure people.
"You deserve it, you deserve it. I only know Zicheng. By the way, Zicheng, I heard that you also have a good friend named Wen Chou. Why don't you invite him to go to Jingzhou to make contributions together?"
Yan Liang nodded: "Brother Wen is stronger than me. I will send someone to ask Brother Wen to come over."
Wen Chou was also in Anping, not far away.
Therefore, it didn't take long for a big man to appear in front of everyone.
I saw that the big man had a majestic body, eight feet in length, and a face like a deer. He walked very fast and had a majestic air about him.
When Wen Chou entered the main hall, he bowed to Yan Liang and said, "Brother Yan, why did you call me here?"
Yan Liang immediately told Wen Chou that he was going to Jingzhou, and Wen Chou immediately said: "Brother Yan, you and I are brothers. Since you are going to Jingzhou, then Chou will go to Jingzhou with you."
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After Yan Liang and Wen Chou were done, Tian Feng, Ju Shou and Zhang He were left.
Zhang He should be relatively easy to deal with, because he is still very utilitarian, and he only needs a relatively high official position to recruit him.
As for Jushou and Tianfeng, we need to talk about ideals and life.
Of course, the benefits are also indispensable.
The Ju family is also a powerful force in Hebei, and it may not be easy to persuade them if they don't have any interests.
So does Tian Feng.
Especially asking the two of them to go to Jingzhou is quite difficult.
This involves a problem.
That is the struggle between the powerful forces of Hebei and the powerful forces of Nanyang and Ruying.
This starts with Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu.
Liu Xiu himself was born in Nanyang, so he should be the representative of Nanyang's powerful people.
However, Liu Xiu's rise and power was in Hebei, and was closely related to Hebei's power.
Later, Ru Ying Haoqiang joined in, and Ru Ying Haoqiang was very loyal to Liu Xiu and would never leave him.
These three major groups have been fighting against each other since the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The concentrated expression is in the struggle of the twenty-eight generals of Yuntai.
Although Yuntai Twenty-eight Generals are both famous in the world, they are not harmonious.
The twenty-eight generals are just the front desk, behind them is a larger network of interests, and where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.
Although Liu Xiu's men are full of talents and are envied by others, every family has a hard-to-read scripture, and only he knows the taste of it.
In the second year of Jianwu alone, there were many internal strife incidents, which showed that Liu Xiu's team was not monolithic, and the various gods with the three major groups as the core were constantly at odds.
The first is the resistance of the Hebei faction Liu Yang. Who is Liu Yang? King Zhending, uncle of Queen Liu Xiu and Guo Shengtong. He played a great role in Liu Xiu's rise. He provided money, troops and food, and strongly supported Liu Xiu.
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Of course, I also want something in return. Although I am already a vassal king and cannot be granted a title, it is still reasonable to give him one more county, even one more county.
Liu Xiu said nothing, perhaps because of a moment of negligence, but Liu Yang didn't think so. He felt that he was being neglected.
What makes Liu Yang even more confused is that Liu Qiang, the son of Guo Shengtong, is almost one year old, but the queen and the prince have not yet been established.
The confrontation between Guo Shengtong and Yin Lihua, on the surface, was a harem dispute, but in fact it was a form of struggle between the Hebei faction and the Nanyang faction. At this time, Guo and Yin were both nobles, and Liu Xiu vaguely expressed the intention of establishing Yin.
Liu Yang, who is a direct stakeholder, will naturally respond.
Liu Yang first used a popular prophecy to build momentum, saying, "After Chijiu, Ying Yang will dominate."
"Gall" means thyroid enlargement, which is exactly the disease Liu Yang suffered from.
Liu Xiu heard the news and sent guerrilla general Deng Long to conquer Liu Yang. He closed the city gates and prohibited entry.
Although Liu Yang may not really rebel at this time, Liu Xiu is well aware of his energy and hesitation will lead to big troubles. He decides to cut the knot quickly and carry out the beheading operation against Liu Yang. Who should he send?
Liu Xiu finally chose Geng Chun. Geng Chun was related to Liu Yang, so it would not arouse too much suspicion, and he once burned down his own manor, giving him the air of a lonely minister.
Geng Chun pretended to be on a tour of prefectures and counties. After arriving at Zhending, he summoned Liu Yang to the inn.
Liu Yang claimed that he was ill and did not want to show up. He also wrote to Geng Chun and wanted to meet privately, but Geng Chun declined.
After all, Liu Yang was in the wrong and wanted to have tens of thousands of troops, but Geng Chun could only follow a hundred people, so he and his brothers led the troops there.
When he arrived at the door of the inn, Liu Yang asked his brothers to wait outside and went inside to meet them.
Geng Chun looked friendly, saluted, and invited Liu Yang's brothers to come in. When they completely relaxed their vigilance, Geng Chun quickly closed the door and killed all Liu Yang brothers.
Geng Chun carried their heads out of the door and announced the charges, "It's so terrifying that no one dares to move."
After Geng Chun came back and resumed his duties, he realized that he had offended many people and could not gain a foothold in the court, so he asked himself to be the governor of another county.
Liu Xiu also knew that the Hebei clan was not easy to mess with, so in order to stabilize people's hearts, he renewed the title of Liu Yang's son Liu De as king; and in June of this year, he officially named Guo Shengtong as queen and Liu Qiang as prince, which was an explanation to the world.
After Liu Yang rebelled, Peng Chong rebelled.
Peng Chong was from Wancheng, Nanyang. His father, Peng Hong, was the prefect of Yuyang during the reign of Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty and was very prestigious in the local area.
He himself served as a county official when he was young, and during the reign of Emperor Di Huang, he served as a subordinate official of Da Sikong, following Wang Yi's army in the Eastern Expedition.
As soon as he arrived in Luoyang, he heard that his younger brother had joined the Han army. He was afraid of being implicated, so he fled to Yuyang with Wu Han and took refuge with his father's disciples and former officials.
After Gengshi ascended the throne, he sent envoys to patrol Youzhou and gave him the power to appoint officials below the level of prefect.
After the envoy arrived in Yuyang, considering Peng Chong's influence there, he immediately appointed Peng Chong as a partial general and acted as the governor of Yuyang.
Soon Peng Chong united with Geng Kuang of Shanggu County and sent Wu Han, Gai Yan, and Wang Liang to send troops to assist Liu Xiu.
However, unlike Geng Kuang, Peng Chong was half-hearted from the beginning. If Wu Han had not used a small trick to facilitate this matter, I am afraid that he would have fallen to Wang Lang's side, and the situation in Hebei would have been completely different.
When Liu Xiu regrouped and went north to pursue the Bronze Horse Peasant Army, Peng Chong came to see him with a proud look on his face.
Liu Xiu was busy with military affairs and his etiquette was a little rough, so Peng Chong felt that he had "fallen out of favor".
Liu Xiu noticed this and asked the newly appointed Youzhou Mu Zhufu what was going on.
Zhu Fu was a native of Xiao County, Pei County. From his place of origin, we can guess that he may have been Liu Xiu's childhood friend when he was in Xiao County.
He served as chief secretary and partial general, and participated in the battle to defeat HD. After Wu Han attacked and killed Miao Zeng, the former Youzhou pastor, Liu Xiu appointed Zhu Fu as the general and Youzhou pastor.
Zhu Fu had no outstanding performance before. We can boldly infer that this appointment is most likely nepotism.
Zhu Fu is impatient, self-righteous, and has a bit of a poisonous tongue.
He replied to Liu Xiu: "Your Majesty gave him a sword and called him the master of the North Road. He felt good about himself and felt that your Majesty should welcome him hand in hand. But now that he has not done so, he is dissatisfied." He then added more jealously: "Wang Mang is the prime minister.
At that time, Zhen Feng was often summoned in the middle of the night, and he was deeply favored. Later, the relationship became estranged, and Zhen Feng held a grudge and was eventually killed. Peng Chong is just like Zhen Feng!"
Liu Xiu thought it was making a fuss out of a molehill, so he didn't take it seriously. This oversight almost led to a catastrophe under the combined effect of various factors.
After Peng Chong returned to Yuyang, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became. Wu Han and Wang Liang were originally his subordinates, but now they were ranked among the three princes, but he was still standing still, feeling very unbalanced.
When people are mentally unbalanced, they are most afraid of being stimulated, and Zhu Fu, who worked with him, was just a prick.
Zhu Fu was eager to seek governance. He visited famous scholars and scholars in Youzhou and recruited them into the shogunate, spending money and food to support their families.
Peng Chong was unhappy. Now the world was uncertain and it was time to use troops. Why bother raising so many idle people?
He refused to carry out Zhu Fu's order, and Zhu Fu issued a document scolding Peng Chong.
The wording was very harsh, and there were probably words such as "You Qiu Ba know nothing". After reading it, Peng Chong was so angry that he gritted his teeth and tore the document into pieces.
Immediately afterwards, Zhu Fu wrote another letter against Peng Chong, saying that he was unfaithful and unfilial, embezzled and took bribes, wasted on human life, etc. Liu Xiu gradually became suspicious and issued an edict for Peng Chong to come to Luoyang to respond.
Peng Chong thought that he was trying to double-cross me, so he asked to go to Beijing with Zhu Fu and confront him face to face. He also vented his bitterness to Wu Han and Wang Liang.
Wu Han and Wang Liang were not stupid and hurriedly submitted the letter to the court.
Liu Xiugui was the emperor of the Qin Empire, so he could not bargain with the emperor. It was also taboo to make friends with courtiers privately, so he resolutely rejected Peng Chong's request.
Peng Chong's wife was also a strong-willed person, saying that Yuyang's soldiers and horses were strong, no need to look at anyone's face. Peng Chong discussed with his subordinates again, and these old colleagues who had been together for many years couldn't stand Zhu Fu's style, so they unanimously agreed to do him.
Peng Chong was so motivated that he immediately sent troops to besiege Zhu Fu.
Zhu Fu had few generals and hurriedly asked for help from the imperial court. He originally hoped that Liu Xiu would personally lead the troops to quell the rebellion, but Liu Xiu only sent guerrilla general Deng Long. The reason was also very simple. At this time, Liu Xiu was in the east, west, and south.
Fighting on three sides, there is no way to free up troops.
After Deng Long arrived in Yuyang, he did not immediately meet up with Zhu Fu, who was more than a hundred miles away. Instead, he brazenly declared that he would "break his favor overnight".
After finding out Deng Long's position, Peng Chong, who had experienced battles for a long time, decided to take a preemptive strike and defeat them one by one. He personally led 10,000 troops to confront Deng Long head-on, and sent 2,000 cavalry around to make a surprise attack from behind, defeating Deng Long's army.
Zhu Fu's whip was beyond reach and he could only watch helplessly as his friendly troops perished.