In March of the sixth year of Zhongping (AD 189), the state was merged with Xihe County, Meiji, and Prairie.
The green grass stretches for thousands of miles, and the uneven hills around it add to the rhythm of the grassland. The white sheep move quietly and sometimes between the grassland and the hills, forming a unique and beautiful picture. Gai Jun, Gai Yin,
Bian Bing, Pang De and others stood in this scenery, listening to the bleating of sheep, the neighing of horses, the lowing of cattle, and the barking of dogs, with smiles on their faces that could not be concealed.
In the distance, a motorcade is looming...
"Father..." Gai Yi quickly left the group on his horse, his big eyes full of joy.
When Gai Jun left Beidi County at the beginning of last year, his eldest son Gai Yi had just turned six and was about to learn to ride a horse. Today, it seems that the horse is riding very smoothly. It can be seen that he has put in a lot of hard work over the past year.
Gai Jun hugged Gai Yi's small body and lifted him off the horse. Compared with last year, this boy was not only taller but also heavier. He lightly flicked his smooth and white forehead and asked with a smile: "Fu Ping,
Do you miss your father?" Gai Jun is really a fond son. He read the "Book of Filial Piety" at the age of four, learned archery at the age of five, and learned to ride a horse at the age of six... If this trend continues, he will become a literary and military genius in the future.
Gai Yi's face was flushed, but she was still shy as before. She bit her lip and nodded fiercely. She also greeted Gai Yin, Pang De and others.
Gai Jun touched his son's head, looked at the red pony, opened its mouth, looked left and right, nodded and said: "This pony is shaped like a dragon, with shiny coat and torch-like eyes.
What a good horse. Who chose it for you?
Gai Yi took her father's broad and warm hand and said softly: "My uncle gave it to me in the middle of last year." Of course, his uncle refers to Yang Aruo. "My aunt was pregnant. She was so big when I left..." Gai Yi
Talking and comparing.
"Really? Okay, okay..." Gai Jun was very happy after hearing this. At the same time, he also had some strange feelings. In his heart, Gai Liao was a child herself. Can she take care of the baby? He thought.
Here, Gai Jun couldn't help but laugh. The baby has its own wet nurse to take care of it, so it's a waste of time...
The father and son held hands and chatted wordlessly, waiting for the motorcade to arrive.
The carriage stopped slowly. Gaimo couldn't hold it in any longer. He threw away his mother Cai Wan's hand and jumped out of the carriage. He didn't want to lose his balance and fell to the ground. He didn't feel anything, but he was frightened.
All the adults around him were stunned.
Gai Jun took three steps at a time and picked up Gaimu to coax him. Gaimu's eyes were wet and he was about to cry, but once he entered his father's arms, he couldn't cry anymore. He sniffed and said crisply: "Father, I can memorize it."
"The Classic of Filial Piety", do you want to listen to it?"
"Okay, okay..." Gai Jun said with a bitter smile.
Gaimo recited it as if no one else was around: "Zhongni was leisurely living, and Zengzi was waiting to sit down. The master said: The king of the past had the most virtuous principles to teach the world, and the people were harmonious, and there was no resentment between superiors and subordinates. You know? Zengzi avoided the table and said: "If you are not sensitive, how can it be enough?"
Do you know? Confucius said: A husband’s filial piety is the foundation of virtue and the source of teaching. Sit down again and I will speak to you. The hair and skin of your body are received by your parents and you dare not damage them. This is the beginning of filial piety..."
At this time, there was more silence than sound. Everyone stood quietly in the field, listening to Gaimo reciting the "Book of Filial Piety"...
After Gaimo finished reciting, Gai Jun praised his son, walked up to Guo Rui, punched him in the heart, and asked: "Are you feeling well?" Guo Rui was seriously injured in the battle with Xianbei.
, it took a full year to raise him, so Gai Jun had to leave him in the north.
"Strong enough to kill a tiger. When I heard Captain Ma talk about Zhonglang's heroic deeds in Bingzhou, I felt so itchy..." Guo Rui said with a smile. He came to Bingzhou this time for the marriage of Pang De and his sister. The two are quite eldest.
It's time to get things done.
"Don't be so desperate in the future." Remembering that Guo Rui was unconscious and as if he were dead at that time, Gai Jun still has lingering fears.
Guo Rui smiled and answered Gai Jun silently.
"You..." Gai Jun shook his head and asked Pang De to talk to him. He walked to his second wife and gently held their hands.
"It would be nice if I could live here for a long time..." Cai Wan said while looking around. Compared with Beidi County, which has lofty mountains and mountains, the Xihe Prairie is endless. In terms of scenery, it can be described as spring orchids and autumn chrysanthemums, each with its own characteristics.
Bian Wei nodded in agreement and praised: "It's really beautiful here."
"It's okay to live here occasionally, but you will get bored after a long time. You will know soon. Your husband is tired of living here." Gai Jun shook his head and said. "By the way, did you encounter any danger on the road?" Shangjun
, Xihe has just recovered, and the county government is still unable to take care of all areas. Han and Hu bandits often rob travelers and people. Not long ago, Liu Min, the prefect of Shangjun, and Cui Jun, the prefect of Xihe, sent a joint letter asking them to send troops to help eliminate the bandits.
When Cai Wan mentioned this, he wanted to laugh and said: "I encountered several groups of bandits and bandits, but when I heard that they were my husband's family members, they all ran away with their heads in their hands."
Gai Jun pretended to be dignified and said: "That's right. What kind of person is your husband? Stomping his feet can cause cold and earthquakes."
Cai Wan spat secretly, "My husband is already the father of two children, and he has reached the rank of a lieutenant general among the Huns, but he is still so shameless, which makes people laugh and cry."
Bian Wei also rolled her eyes at Gai Jun, looked at Pang De and Guo Rui's sister kissing me with envy, and sighed: "In a blink of an eye, Lingming is getting married soon, and Xiao Bing is the same age as him..." Pang De was compared to
Logically speaking, Bian Wei shouldn't call him a captain of two thousand stone cavalry, but Pang De began to follow Gai Jun at the age of fourteen and worked as his follower for several years. In addition, Gai Jun never regarded him as an outsider. In Cai Wan,
In Bian Wei's eyes, Pang De is just like Gai Jun's younger brother and his own son.
There were so many people around him that Bian Bing felt uncomfortable and said dissatisfiedly: "Sister, I am nineteen years old, and I am as big as a Sima. From now on, please don't call me Xiao Bing. You should call me cousin Gongshu."
Bian Wei snorted coldly: "Are you nineteen?"
Gai Jun knew that Bian Wei was anxious about his younger brother's marriage, so he said with a smile: "Weier, don't be anxious, I know your husband well, I will find a good wife for the Duke this year, don't worry..." Gai Jun already regarded Bingzhou as his own
Marriage could quickly shorten the distance between him and the Bingzhou scholars. He searched for a long time and temporarily settled on two families. One was the Xihe Guo family and the other was the Xihe Wang family. They were both local wealthy families. The ancestor of the Xihe Guo family was the public servant of Guo of the Western Han Dynasty.
There is also Guo Wengzhong, and even Guo Daxian, the remnant of the Yellow Turbans who is now rampant in Hedong and Hanoi. The Xihe Wang family is a branch of the Taiyuan Wang family, and the head of the family is a disciple of the party leader "Ba Gu" Guo Tai, so the Northern Prefect Wang Jiran. Of course Gai Jun would like more
After marrying the Wang family, although Guo Tai died, his disciples and former officials are all over northern Xinjiang. Even Wang Yun, the current number one celebrity in Bingzhou, is Guo Tai's disciple. Unfortunately, Bian Bing's background was too poor and he joined the army. The Wang family may not see it.
It seems that the Guo family has been weak in recent years, but there is some hope of success.
Bian Wei secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Since her husband said she would find a good wife, she would definitely not be a village girl.
"Ancestor of the small clan..." Gai Luan came in a hurry. She is eleven years old this year. She no longer screams and rushes to Gai Jun when she sees Gai Jun's face like she did when she was a child. She has become more calm and has a ladylike temperament.
.She can't be said to be beautiful, but she is also slim, delicate and pleasant, very similar to the Abai in her childhood in her memory. Fortunately, she inherited Gai Yin's height rather than his appearance...
Gai Jun smiled and said: "Little Phoenix is getting more and more beautiful, and she will get married in two years."
Gai Luan's face was flushed, and Guan Ping behind her became uneasy. He had always regarded Gai Luan as his wife, and was afraid that Gai Jun would look up to some young talent. Then he realized that Gai Jun was joking and felt relieved a little.
Everyone talked and laughed and returned to the residence of the Xiongnu Zhonglang General. Gai Jun asked his second wife to take their son to play, and led Guo Rui into a quiet room. Guo Rui was the first person to follow him, and he had not yet established Shehu.
, the Second Battalion of Luodiao, second only to Guan Yu, Bao came out with two people. They were not outsiders. Gai Jun was not polite to him and asked directly: "How is the Northland now?"
Guo Rui thought for a while and said: "Prefect Jin Xuan's administration is quite good. Generally speaking, he rarely interferes in the county's established strategies. However, he never refuses the requests of Generals Zhang Shijun, Dong Zhuo, and Huangfu Song.
Adding fuel to the flames, the grain from the northern lands continued to flow out, causing everyone's dissatisfaction." Zhang Shijun refers to the governor of Liangzhou, the predecessor of Jingzhao Yin Zhang Ze. He was dismissed due to circumstances, and later he was reinstated as the governor of Liangzhou because of his military talents. The capital of the capital
Wei Ze was a famous scholar in the north. He was the agricultural capital, Wei Wang, Yi Wang Wendu, and he and Yang Aruo were in charge of farming affairs.
"It's really not the food you grew, so I don't feel bad at all if I give it to you." Gai Jun looked depressed. Jinxuan Ziyuanji, the governor of the North, was born in the Jin family of Jingzhao. This Jin family was the minister of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Jinghou.
, the descendants of the Xiongnu Jin Rixi, all seven generations of the Jin family were chamberlains, and they continued from the Western Han Dynasty to the Eastern Han Dynasty. They were regarded as the first-class family, not inferior to the Fufeng Geng family.
Gai Jun asked again: "Where are the soldiers?"
Guo Rui said: "The military power has always been in the hands of Ma Duwei and Yang Xiaowei..."
Gai Jun nodded, it doesn't matter if you suffer some losses, as long as you keep the soldiers in your hands.
"Jin and Wang have shown their dissatisfaction..."
"It doesn't matter." Gai Jun chuckled disdainfully, the world was about to be in chaos, so what could he do if he was dissatisfied?...
Guo Rui didn't understand why Gai Jun was so confident, so he could only say: "As long as Zhonglang knows what's going on."
"Shou Cheng's side..."
Guo Rui subconsciously frowned and said: "Ma Duwei not only colluded with the capital, but also had secret contacts with Han Sui and Dong Zhuo."
Gai Jun tapped the desk with his index finger quickly, his face uncertain. He had known that Ma Teng and Han Sui had some contacts, but Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhuo...
Dong Zhuo was talented in martial arts, but he was unruly, jealous and aggressive. He fought with Lu Zhi during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Huangfu Song in Western Xinjiang, Zhang Wen, and Gai Jun. No one could get along with him.
good.
Since the great chaos in Western Xinjiang in the first year of Zhongping (AD 184), intermittently for five or six years, Huangfu Song, Zhang Wen, Zhou Shen, Geng Bi, Gai Jun and others either returned without success, were defeated and punished, or fled away.
In a foreign country, only Dong Zhuo among the generals has always stood firm. He served as deputy commander in the worst times, and even became the commander-in-chief of Western Xinjiang for a while. Over the years, Dong Zhuo used the power in his hands to weave a dense network of relationships.
Throughout the entire Western Xinjiang Han military system. Subsequently, Dong Zhuo's ambitions expanded rapidly, and no one dared to take advantage of him.
The imperial court was not blind. In order to curb the continued growth and spread of Dong Zhuo's power, he took advantage of Huangfu Song's victory over Han Sui at the end of last year and recruited Dong Zhuo as the Shaofu at the beginning of the year. The Shaofu was also known as the general, a master craftsman, and one of the Nine Qings. He was in charge of the mountains, seas and lands.
That is to say, he has the advantage of salt and iron, and he is a hero in his position. He is known as the first among the nine ministers.
Dong Zhuo smiled coldly...
In the tenth year of Yanxi (AD 167), that is, twenty-two years ago, the Dong Qiang and the Xianling Qiang attacked Guanzhong. Chao Kou Sanfu, Dong Zhuo and Yin Duan, who were still Sima at the time, followed the Xiongnu Zhonglang General Zhang Huan to defeat the Qiang people.
, killed more than 10,000 prisoners. It was during this battle that Zhang Huan requested the imperial court to move his home in Dunhuang to Hongnong Huayin.
The following year (AD 168), Dong Zhuo followed Zhang Huan to Beijing to receive the reward.
At that time, Liu Hong, who was only thirteen years old, ascended the throne and became the emperor of the Han Dynasty with the support of General Dou Wu. Dou Wu secretly discussed with the Taifu and the party leader Chen Fan to kill the eunuchs, and the Central Minister Cao Jie and others launched a coup.
Taking advantage of Zhang Huan's first arrival in the capital and not knowing the truth, he ordered Zhang Huan to lead the border troops to surround Dou Wu, forcing Dou Wu to commit suicide, and Chen Fan was executed.
Dong Zhuo participated in the whole process of the coup. He had never been so close to the government. His heart was pounding and it almost reached his throat...
"So what if I kill the general Dou Wu by mistake? If I have a strong soldier in hand, I can kill the eunuch. Then the whole court will be under Zhang Huan's control."
However, to Dong Zhuo's disappointment, Zhang Huan was helpless in the face of the eunuchs' relentless pressure. He was easily stripped of his military power by the eunuchs and promoted to Jiuqing, Shaofu. Yes, Shaofu. The bones that the court now throws to Dong Zhuo
Dong Zhuo admired Zhang Huan's ability in using troops, but he was too foolish and loyal. He didn't even give up the chance to powerful ministers. Maybe he could take a step forward...
Faced with the imperial court's move to seize power, Dong Zhuo had no interest in being Zhang Huan's second best. He wrote a letter saying that there was turmoil in Liangzhou and the big thief was still alive. It was time to work hard and serve. The officials and the people were eager to repay their kindness and intercepted the minister's carriage.
He spoke sincerely and was not allowed to leave. He first asked me to serve as the former general for the time being. When the big thief is defeated, he will definitely go to the capital to face the holy clouds.
Dong Zhuo's situation was already established, and seizing power by force could easily trigger a civil war within the Han Dynasty, which would give Han Sui an opportunity to take advantage of it. The court had no choice but to let it go.
In mid-March, Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty suddenly fell ill and was in critical condition. His relatives, scholars and eunuchs were at war with each other.
Dong Zhuo's heart suddenly moved...
Very similar to twenty-one years ago...
"If I were Zhang Huan, I would never miss a good opportunity..."
Many times in the dead of night, Dong Zhuo tossed and turned on the couch, unable to fall asleep.
As Emperor Liu Hong's condition worsened, the imperial court appointed Dong Zhuo as the Bingzhou Mu, and asked him to hand over more than 20,000 soldiers under his command to Huangfu Song and take up the post alone. The Zhou Mu was a system that Liu Yan proposed to the court to restore last year. The Zhou Mu has great power.
, similar to the prefect of a county, who controls both civil and military affairs and does everything, no different from the princes. The court seems to treat Dong Zhuo well, but it has evil intentions. In terms of reputation and strength, Gai Jun is much greater than him, let alone
He went to the post alone, and he felt unsure about bringing all the soldiers with him. Dong Zhuo believed that Gai Jun would kill him without hesitation as long as the court gave the order.
Dong Zhuo spoke fiercely: "I have neither savvy nor great deeds. I rely on Tian's great grace and have been in charge of the army for more than ten years. The soldiers love the kindness of the minister and do not hesitate to sacrifice their lives. I beg the general to go to Beizhou with him, and his service is declining." The implication is that
That is to say, this army belongs to me alone. It only obeys my orders. It can be taken to Bingzhou. Why bother to hand it over to Huangfu Song...
Then, without waiting for the court's reply, he led his army to Hedong. On the grounds that the Yellow Turban remnants were blocking the road, he stationed troops in Hedong to observe the changes in the capital.
There is no doubt that he wants to repeat the story of twenty-one years ago, but he wants to change the script and change his destiny...