Chapter 249 Liu Hong counterattacks behind the assassination
Han Ling Emperor Liu Hong was actually not an idiot who didn't understand economics.
On the contrary, because my family was poor when I was young, I went into business with my mother. Later, I studied Xie Xin's "Economics" and my horizons were further improved.
Because of this, after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, he quickly discovered that there was a problem with the tax payment quota in Yizhou.
As an emperor who controls the entire Han Dynasty, he will never allow his ministers to take away his gold coins from his pocket. There is a problem with the tax situation in Yizhou, and he is naturally very angry.
But whether there is really a problem, he still can't tell clearly. After all, he has never actually seen the people's livelihood situation in Yizhou. Judging from the memorials of the court officials, Yizhou has indeed suffered large-scale damage after the Yellow Turbans were raging, and the taxation dropped to
At this level, there is actually nothing surprising about it.
On the one hand, it was the actual situation from the memorial, and on the other hand, it was his inner doubts about Yizhou's taxation. After the two collided, he decided to go to Yizhou to check the situation in person, and then determine how to punish Zhao Fen.
Of course, in order to prevent Zhao Fen from making preparations in advance, his excuse was to go back to his old house for a visit.
However, not long after the team entered Yizhou, an accident happened.
A large number of assassins, especially those mixed with a large number of cavalry, suddenly launched an attack.
During this assassination, the assassin shouted: "Kill all the eunuchs and kill the ignorant king" and kept attacking Liu Hong's frame.
The imperial guards fought bravely against the enemy and finally allowed Liu Hong to escape.
Afterwards, after careful inspection and identification by the army, it was determined that the assassin was the Montenegrin Yellow Turban.
But Liu Hong keenly discovered that the identity of the assassin should not be that simple.
After all, if the Black Mountain Yellow Turbans were already struggling to survive after many sieges, how could there be so many cavalry and well-trained cavalry sent to kill them?
And if you want to assassinate yourself, why bother adding the words 'Kill all the eunuchs'?
It's okay not to add it, but adding it is redundant, and it directly targets the courtiers** who are enemies of the eunuch party.
After secret investigation, it turned out that the mastermind behind his assassination was none other than Wang Fen, the governor of Yizhou, and Zhou Jing, a native of Pei State, and others were among the participants. However, the others were only treasonous at most, and the biggest target was directly directed at Wang Fen.
"The traitor is so brave!" When he returned to the palace and saw the report from the shadow guard, Liu Hong shouted.
"Come here, send me people to Yizhou immediately and capture Wang Fen!" In anger, Liu Hong immediately ordered.
"Your Majesty, be patient. If you issue an order to arrest Wang Fen at this moment, I'm afraid he will be forced to rebel. Now that Yizhou has finally regained some vitality, it can't fall into dire straits again!" Zhang Rang cautiously stepped out of the queue.
Admonished.
"Oh, what's your clever plan?" Because he knew Zhang Rang very well, Liu Hong knew that Zhang Rang must have some good way to deal with this matter.
"Arresting Wang Fen directly will only make him immediately rebel. How about summoning him to Luoyang on the pretext of knowing about Yizhou affairs. As long as he arrives in Luoyang, it is not a matter of your Majesty's words whether it is the Guan or the Yi and Qi tribes.
?" Zhang Rang suggested with a smile.
"That's fine, but I also immediately ordered Lu Ziqian to pay close attention to the situation in Yizhou. Once Wang Fen has the intention to directly raise troops, I will kill him immediately regardless of the cost!" Liu Hong said fiercely.
"Here!" Zhang Rang smiled and went down to issue the decree.
At the same time, Yuan Mansion in Luoyang.
"The assassination failed?" Yuan Feng looked at Yuan Shu expressionlessly.
"Children are incompetent..." Yuan Shu answered honestly.
"You have to improve in the future. Otherwise, after a hundred years, how will you be able to support our huge Yuan family as the head of the clan?" Yuan Feng sighed.
"The child will definitely live up to his father's high expectations!" Yuan Shu was overjoyed and secretly determined to work hard.
"Tell me, why did it fail this time?" Yuan Feng took a sip of tea and asked calmly.
"Without him, it was the people from the Dongfang clan in the palace who took action... Although outside the palace, their strength would have dropped drastically. But the people below also said that they had made a "hundred-year promise" at that time, and from then on
No more debt'.
Come to think of it, they risked a significant decline in strength and risked their lives to protect Liu Hong in order to finally fulfill the Dongfang family's oath to Liu Bang?" Yuan Shu immediately told the information he had obtained.
"People from the Dongfang family... something is not right! The Dongfang family is a sword-protecting family. It has been guarding the palace for more than four hundred years, guarding the Red Sky Sword, the symbol of the Han Emperor, day and night.
Precisely because they are protecting the sword and not the person, they will never leave the palace. Now that they are leaving the palace rashly, is there something wrong with the Chixiao Sword?!" Yuan Feng immediately thought of a possibility.
"Perhaps, the Dongfang family's oath back then was that the Chixiao Sword would not leave the palace for a day, so the Dongfang family would ensure the safety of the Han royal family in the palace.
Now that he has left the palace against his oath, and Liu Hong is not equipped with the Scarlet Sky Sword. Coupled with what he said, the boy concluded that the Scarlet Sky Sword is no longer in the palace!" Yuan Shu said excitedly.
"Haha, it is true that Heaven is going to destroy the Han Dynasty, and no one can resist it. Once the Red Sky Sword is gone, the palace will be like a woman taking off the last layer of gauze, just waiting for capable people to pick it up." Yuan Feng
It was also rare that he laughed.
Then, with a faint smile, he said to Yuan Shu: "You did a pretty good job this time. At least you let us know that the Chixiao Sword is no longer in the palace. As long as we have this information, what if the assassination fails?
This loss is still within the allowable range.”
"Thank you for the compliment, father!" Yuan Shu received Yuan Feng's praise and immediately became overwhelmed with pride.
Just then I thought about it and couldn't help but ask: "How should Wang Fen deal with it?"
"He can't stay anymore, so let him 'worry about the truth and commit suicide'!" Yuan Feng said indifferently, as if Wang Fen's death was as ordinary as the death of a cat or dog.
"I understand, kid!" Yuan Shu smiled and left.
Not long after, Han Ling Emperor Liu Hong issued an edict to recruit Wang Fen to come to Luoyang to resign.
However, not long after the imperial edict passed, news came that Wang Fen had committed suicide. With this news, Wang Fen's conspiracy to "conspire to assassinate His Majesty" naturally "surfaced".
"Huh, that's an advantage for him!" After hearing the report, Emperor Ling immediately patted the imperial case.
As to whether Wang Fen is the one who is cheap, or if he has other intentions, only he knows for sure.
Is the person behind the scenes really Wang Fen? Considering Wang Fen's experience and his character, Liu Hong doesn't believe that he will commit suicide. With his courage to even assassinate the king, once he knows that he is suspected, he is afraid that he will commit suicide.
He would immediately raise an army to rebel.
Suicide is simply a joke! The so-called 'suicide' is probably just to hide the existence behind the scenes?!
Who, who is it!? Liu Hong is constantly searching his memory, trying to find the real culprit behind the scenes.
I didn't think it was okay, but when I thought about it, the whole world was suspected, including Liu Bian who was far away in Hanzhong.
But as for the biggest beneficiary, after much deliberation, it was He Jin.
He knew Liu Bian's temperament. He was a bit cowardly and old-fashioned, but he was definitely a good 'prince'. He would never be able to do anything like 'parricide'. Besides, he lived in the palace all year round, so there was no way he could form cliques.
How could it be possible for Pai to instigate Wang Fen to assassinate him?!
Only He Jin could recall Liu Bian in the name of mourning as soon as he died. Then if he could forge a succession edict, Liu Bian could quickly ascend the throne under his auspices.
It's just that Liu Bian is still young, so all military and political affairs are naturally controlled by him, just like Dou Wu earlier. And this situation, judging from the situation of recent generations of Han emperors, is not a strange thing.
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"Humph, do you really think that I am just a piece of dough that you can manipulate?!" Liu Hong firmly grasped the handguard of the dragon chair, his eyes full of anger.
After a month of silence, Liu Hong quickly made a counterattack.
The so-called counterattack only has one action, and that is to create the Eighth School of Xiyuan! Although the authority is suspected of overlapping with the Habayashi Army, as long as you master this army, you can not only improve your self-protection ability, but also divide it.
Advance military power.
Of course Liu Hong would not allow anyone to resist such a thing that killed two birds with one stone.
Sure enough, as soon as the plan was proposed, courtiers advised him, saying that the national treasury was in serious deficit. Luoyang already had a Yulin army and city guards, so why did it need to spend money to create another army?!
And this courtier also has a background. On the surface, he is a die-hard loyalist of He Jin's family. In fact, secretly, he is a dead soldier who was thrown away by the Yuan family.
His advice indeed made He Jin happy. But soon, the courtier was angered by Liu Hong's thunder, and he directly sent people to drag him out and behead him.
His death can be regarded as a well-deserved death. At least his family and descendants will receive special care from the Yuan family. And his advice also exacerbated the deterioration of the relationship between Liu Hong and He Jin.
In the end, because everyone could see that Liu Hong was determined to win, no one continued to dissuade him.
Five months later, when the spring of 186 came to the land of China, the Eighth School of Xiyuan was formally established.
Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, who were originally among them, are now serving elsewhere. However, after the family's struggle, Cao Ren and Yuan Shu successfully took office. The remaining six people have not changed, namely Jian Shuo, Bao Hong, Zhao Rong, and Feng Fang
, Xia Mou, Chunyu Qiong.
"Go ahead, Xiyuan Campus Lieutenant will be under my personal command. He cannot be transferred unless you hold my imperial seal! Let's see how He Jin wants to interfere with the Xiyuan Army!" Looking at the names on the list, Liu Hong looked at the names on the list fiercely.
Speaking of.
There was no other reason. Except for Zhao Rong and Jian Shuo on the list, they were considered imperialists, and other loyalty issues were questionable. Just to avoid completely breaking up with the courtiers, Liu Hong could only compromise temporarily.
At this moment, he is different from Liu Hong in history. He has already begun to try to further improve the emperor's authority and get back the lost part bit by bit.
This is not only for myself, but also for Liu Xie to be more relaxed and smooth after he takes the throne.