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Chapter IX: The Old and Weary Lord(1/3)

Throughout the first month of the second year of Zhongping, the situation in the world continued to deteriorate.

In Guandong, the sequelae of the war began to break out, banditry, refugees, and plague. At the same time, the states and counties after the war still lacked food, money, and armaments... In this case, it was the Jizhou capital where Huangfu Song was in charge.

Can't control the situation, let alone other places?

You must know that the chaos is not limited to Jizhou and the Central Plains. Bandits, plagues, and refugees all have long legs! In fact, from the moment the typhoid broke out, the entire core area of ​​​​Kantong began to slide towards disorder.

At the same time, Kansai also made no concessions.

Zhang Xiu, the Five Pecks of Rice Cult in Hanzhong, has still not been wiped out, but it has never expanded, but the rebels in Xiliang are getting bigger day by day. In other words, throughout the first month, the bad news in Liangzhou has not stopped.

There are ten counties in Liangzhou of the Han Dynasty plus one vassal state. However, from Zhangye to the west, the so-called Zhangye, Dunhuang, Jiuquan, and Zhangye Juyan vassal states. These three counties and one country cannot control the situation regardless of the power of the county or geographical restrictions.

What a big impact.

The rest are the seven counties of Wuwei, Anding, Beidi, Jincheng, Longxi, Hanyang and Wudu.

At the beginning, the rebellion took place at the junction of Longxi County and Jincheng County. The main personnel were Han bandits from Longxi County and the Huangzhong Yicong Hu tribe from Jincheng County. This was a typical government-forced people's rebellion, and it was also what Han Sui started before he came to Luoyang.

What happened can be regarded as the first small stage of the rebellion.

Then, just as Han Sui was on his way back, these two groups quickly grew in size, so they united. The Hu and Han sides each elected a leader, Beigong Boyu and Li Wenhou, and they were both called generals.

After all, they rebelled. At the same time, their scope of activities also moved to Jincheng County, and they began to attack cities and territories everywhere.

But it is worth mentioning that they still cannot be considered as climate at this time. This can be seen from their base camp. Their base camp at that time was the hometown of Yi Cong in Huangzhong, which was a little east of Qinghai Lake... This

This is considered the second small stage.

Immediately afterwards, came the battle in which the Han army's Qiang captain died for his country. In this battle, the entire Han army was annihilated and a man of two thousand shi was killed. More importantly, the two Westerners Han Sui and Bian Zhang were killed.

The famous people in Liangzhou were taken advantage of the situation, which changed the nature of the entire rebellion... In fact, this rebel army soon openly took up the banner of punishing eunuchs and swept away half of Jincheng County!

This is the third small stage.

And in the first month, news continued to come that the rebels, under the banner of Han Sui and Bian Zhang, quickly swallowed up the entire Jincheng County, almost like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves. Chen Yi, the prefect of Jincheng, died for his country, and the rebels occupied an entire county.

Country... This is the fourth stage.

So far, the most terrifying thing is not the war situation, but that at this time, Liangzhou Governor Zuo Chang is still doing something... He was reported by Gai Xun and other Liangzhou locals for reselling military rations. He was dissatisfied, so he asked Gai

Xun and other prefectures were engaged in leading troops out of the city to Lueyang and other small towns on the road to resist, while he stayed in Hanyang County and sat down in the city of Hebei, which had complete fortifications.

It is said that he had the idea of ​​sitting back and watching the life and death of Gai Xun and others.

However, with Han Sui, Bian Zhang, and a county, the Xiliang rebels were no longer what they used to be. Tens of thousands of them passed Lueyang City and headed straight for Jicheng! Zuo Chang panicked and asked for help.

, but what he did after coming to Liangzhou was completely unpopular, and almost no one was willing to save him!

Of course, there are always loyal ministers in Bandang. Gai Xun, the person in charge of Liangzhou Prefecture, stood up again. With half threats and half requests, he finally brought the troops back to Jicheng.

At this time, Zuo Chang did not dare to do anything anymore and immediately followed Gai Xun's advice. After Gai Xun gained the initiative, his first step was to ask for pardon for Han Sui and Bian Zhang.

But now, how can Bian Zhang and Han Sui turn back? They replied directly, if Zuo Chang had listened to Gai's advice and came to surrender them a month ago, they could still turn back, but now they have killed a county guard.

, swallowed up a county, and besieged the governor, how could there be any room for pardon?

However, these two men didn't know whether it was because the reinforcements were difficult to get out of the fortified city, or they were really feeling guilty, so they withdrew their troops.

There is a big drama in Liangzhou and the tragedy in Guandong. In contrast, Hanoi can be said to be peaceful.

First of all, the root cause must be that the scale of the war in Hanoi was relatively small, and the refugees were properly resettled from the beginning; secondly, I don’t know whether it is Gongsun Xun, the ruler, who is very virtuous, or Gongsun Auntie, according to the divine inspiration.

The epidemic prevention strategies I learned worked after all... But anyway, typhoid fever did not spread into an epidemic in Hanoi.

Of course, Gongsun Xun's place is definitely not a harmonious place, and there is no problem. Otherwise, what is the sudden conflict between Lu Fan and Wang Xiu before?

This was enough to make Gongsun Xun feel resentful and give him a headache even if the two of them later ceased their activities.

That's right, the dispute between Lu Fan and Chang Lin that day was not fundamentally about the conflict between local scholars and foreign Yuan Cong, but between Lu Fan and Wang Xiu... This was mainly because Gongsun Xun's rank was too high.

, the power of General Wei is really much higher than that of a prefect. In addition, after the Yellow Turban Rebellion was quelled, the political aura of this Jihou is still shining. The so-called strong dragon is overwhelming. With Gongsun Xun here, local snakes are formed alone.

If you don’t have power, you can’t jump!

And Lu Ziheng is also a smart man. He knows very well who is his real opponent.

If Gongsun Yue gains more trust, what does that have to do with him?

No matter how arrogant Guan Yu is, can he compete with him for the position of general shogunate?

Before, everyone thought that Shen Pei was being aggressive, but Lu Fan had already seen it. Perhaps Shen Zhengnan did have that competitiveness and influence, but Gongsun Xun had always only used him as a sidekick... without Gongsun.

With Xun's recognition and support, his review is destined to not pose a threat in the short term.

Then, leaving aside Lou Gui who has no idea in this regard, the only one who can challenge his status as Lu Fan is Wang Xiu and Wang Shuzhi, who is deeply trusted by Gongsun Xun... This point has already been made by Lu Fan.

Wang Xiu knew it well, and Gongsun Xun also knew it well.

However, before coming to Hanoi, Wang Shuzhikong was capable, loyal and favored by Gongsun Xun, but he had no wings. Moreover, he was cautious and never violated the rules. Therefore, the two sides got along well and even cooperated quite a bit.

But now, the appearance of Chang Lin, Zao Zhi, and especially Chang Lin, who is the leader of Hanoi scholars, means that Wang Xiu suddenly has the strength to challenge Lu Fan...

Frankly speaking, Gongsun Xun regretted that he had made a mistake in hiring people.

Although Chang Lin was a pragmatic and serious gentleman, he naturally had the style of a local leader. Except for people like Han Xuan and Zhang Cheng who obviously used the Gongsun Xun shogunate as a springboard to become officials, other young Hanoi scholars generally relied on him.

, allowing such people to serve under Wang Xiu will inevitably make Hanoi scholars naturally biased. As a pure minister, Wang Shuzhi will not take the initiative to fight, but when there are many people who support and favor him, he cannot help himself.

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For example, Yang Jun, Wang Xiang, and Zhao Zi are theoretically members of the central staff team directly affiliated with Lu Fan. However, when Wang Xiu brought Chang Lin and Zao Zhi back to Huai County, they encountered

When something happens, he always runs towards Wang Xiu intentionally or unintentionally, and then asks Chang Lin for advice and greetings... Who in Lu Fan's position would be so angry?

Therefore, the dispute at the dinner party that day was Lu Fan's double attack on Wang Xiu and Chang Lin.

However, Gongsun Xun beat him and walked away in the middle, which finally made Lu Ziheng restrain himself and forced Wang Xiu to take the initiative to leave a greeting... The two parties reluctantly reconciled and suppressed the dispute in its infancy.

However, what has happened has happened, but there is nothing we can do about it. We will have to face this problem again sooner or later.

Although Gongsun Xun knew in his heart that as his shogunate became more and more enriched, this kind of thing was indispensable, but when it finally happened among the people he trusted the most, he felt a little depressed after all.

Fortunately nothing went wrong!

The spring breeze in February was slightly drunk, but Gongsun Xun was not the only one who felt depressed. In fact, across a river, the emperor had not had a sound sleep for many days in several months.

Beigong, Zhuolong Garden (West Garden), the night is already dark.

"how?"

Under the swaying copper palace lanterns in the outer hall, as soon as Xiaohuangmen came out, Zhang Rang, who was standing there, called over anxiously.

"Report to Chang Attendant." Xiaohuangmen came forward, and then hurriedly knelt down to report. "Your Majesty is still in a irritable mood, and the maids who served you also finished their work hastily and were all kicked out. Until now, Your Majesty is still on the couch.

I was tossing and turning and couldn't sleep, and there was nothing we could do."

Zhang Rang nodded slowly, but remained silent under the lamp.

"Chang Shi!" Xiao Huangmen couldn't help but whispered on the ground. "My lord..."

"Your Excellency?" Zhang Rang, who looked a little haggard, was slightly startled, but he immediately came to his senses. "You were brought into the palace by Duan Changshi, right? What does "Old Duan" mean?"

"My lord has no other intentions," Xiao Huangmen quickly replied. "It's just that this situation is really difficult, so he wanted me to ask you by the way, what should we do? He hopes that you will follow your lead."

"I know, I know." Zhang Rang, who stood with his hands behind his back, nodded repeatedly. "We can't continue to hold on to this situation... So, now you have someone call Lao Duan over... No, all the regular servants in the palace will be

Call me and I will meet you in the palace residence."

Xiaohuangmen was overjoyed and kowtowed on the ground in agreement.

Zhang Rang looked at the small yellow door on the ground and became even more speechless... It seems that the pressure has spread from top to bottom to the eunuchs at the bottom, and they really need to make a decision.

The night is dark, the south wind is blowing, and the air is dry.

Following Zhang Rang's invitation, soon, from Changqiu to Zhao Zhong, there were Xia Yun, Guo Sheng, Sun Zhang, Bi Lan, Li Song, Duan Gui, Gao Wang, Zhang Gong, Han Kui, Song Dian, etc.

People arrived one after another... twelve people in total!

Yes, it is common sense that there are twelve of the ten permanent attendants. This is mainly because there are more eunuchs with trust in the emperor, so he changed the system and became the twelve permanent attendants. However, the rule of the ten permanent attendants for hundreds of years is still allowed.

People are used to referring to the two thousand stone-level leader among the eunuchs in this way.

By the way, Jian Shuo is not among them. Jian Shuo, who is tall and loyal to the emperor, is currently just a member of the yellow family, and his promotion rate is not as fast as Gongsun Xun and Cao Cao!

Of course, there may be other reasons for not inviting him at this time.

Back in front of us, twelve 2,000-stone-level Zhongchang attendants were sitting together under the flickering candlelight of the palace lanterns, but the atmosphere was solidified. No one spoke for a long time, until everyone's eyes gradually focused on the leaders Zhang Rang and Zhao.

On the two loyal people.

"There's a big fuss over there in Liangzhou." Zhao Zhong, who was also the supervisor of Huangmen in Changqiu, complained helplessly. "A group of rebels actually started to punish eunuchs after capturing Jincheng County? The outer court even used this

Although the new Shangshu Ling Liu Yu and Liu Bo'an were not willing to go against us, they would not go against the scholars. However, Zuo Chang, whom we sent over, was defeated repeatedly, and I was also difficult to deal with in Nangong.

"

Zhang Rang took off his two-thousand-stone official hat, put it on the ground and replied calmly: "Zuo Chang followed my path to get this position, but he is so embarrassed that he has to do this. It is really hopeless... I know that Da

Changqiu is here to hear what I mean. What I mean is quite simple. It should be withdrawn or replaced. If the scholars recommend it, the governor of Liangzhou should be let go... The victory or defeat is decided by others.

What is there to say?”

Zhao Zhong was about to speak but stopped, and everyone lamented.
To be continued...
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