The good news of the Changshe finally came, and the entire Luoyang City was stunned at first, and then rejoiced

。 Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoAll kinds of celebrations that should have been held during the Spring Festival were carried out regardless of this time. There are also more people who go to the temple to make vows, and it is said that the incense of the White Horse Temple outside the city is more than 90% more than usual, which is shocking and somewhat natural.

After all, in these days, Luoyang City has been invaded by rumors, and it has long been suppressed too miserably. Right now, they urgently need a vent channel.

Of course, these are things that people can do. As for those officials in the court, after hearing the good news of the Changshe, after they were happy, they all had solemn expressions. Because they understand that with the news that has stirred up a stagnant pool, a lot of things have to change.

First of all...... The first thing to do was to change the duties assigned to the eunuchs who had just been dispatched.

Originally, the imperial court thought that those generals had fought abroad for a long time without success, which was a sin and needed to be punished. So the emperor, at the instigation of the eunuchs, sent eunuchs to the front line to inspect.

The inspection was just a name, but the real purpose was to reprimand the generals. This is only the first step, and the next step is for the eunuch to report how unbearable the general is. The Emperor will surely be outraged by this, and then replace the generals at the front.

In this way, the eunuchs had the opportunity to intervene, and they could send generals who were "friendly" to them and "tribute" to them.

As for whether these generals are capable or not, the eunuchs don't care much. They were eunuchs, people who served by the emperor's side. In a sense, they could isolate the palace from the outside world and let the emperor know what they wanted the emperor to know.

Although this was pitiful for the emperor, neither the ministers nor the eunuchs were doing the "separation from the inside and outside" - no one wanted the emperor to know what the country he ruled was really like. Because once the emperor knows the truth, then they will lose a lot of interests.

Deceiving the emperor for the sake of profit is the general trend in the court.

At least in this general trend, the difference between ministers and eunuchs is that ministers and scholars will still do something for their own interests, and they also need fame to maintain their reputation.

And those eunuchs may be because they have no roots and no hope, they don't have much knowledge, and they don't have a bottom line in most things, except for asking for money or money, which is disgusting.

At the beginning, they were the ones who provoked the emperor to scold the front, and the ministers at that time did not stop it because they were also dissatisfied with the inaction of the front.

But now......

Because of the good news from the front, it is not so appropriate to let the eunuchs reprimand the generals on the front.

"The victor is beyond reproach......" is the phrase of some awesome Mr. Steel.

This sentence has not yet appeared in this big man, but everyone instinctively thinks that it is too much to criticize them when they have won the battle on the front line. These things need to be corrected, and the generals are leading the army, and they must not be angry with them when they are not wrong.

The soldiers are all very powerful and angry people, and the court is afraid that something will happen to them because of this.

"They have to be appeased. Although the Yellow Turban Thieves have not yet been pacified, this battle is a turning point, and I see the hope of exterminating the thieves. Therefore, I hope that Your Majesty will be able to increase the number of officers and knights for the meritorious personnel of this battle according to the current situation, and appease the hearts of these combat soldiers. "At the first court meeting held by the imperial court after the good news, someone suggested to the emperor.

"They have to be appeased. Although the Yellow Turban Thieves have not yet been pacified, this battle is a turning point, and I see the hope of exterminating the thieves. Therefore, I hope that Your Majesty will be able to increase the number of officers and knights for the meritorious personnel of this battle according to the current situation, and appease the hearts of these combat soldiers. "At the first court meeting held by the imperial court after the good news, someone suggested to the emperor.

"This is not in ......accordance with the rules," some people proposed, and some people objected: "There is military merit in quelling the rebellion, and you should be promoted to a knighthood, and I have no objection to this." It's just that this military merit should be paid after the rebellion is quelled. Now that the yellow scarf has not been settled, there may be chaos in the future, and it is too early for you to talk about this. Moreover, the two generals Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun are already a high lord, if they are crowned and knighted because of the victory in this battle, then after they completely quell the rebellion, the credit will be greater, how should we reward it! ”

"In terms of official positions, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun are just Zhonglang generals...... In terms of titles, the two are just pavilion marquis...... Is this a high title? The person in front of him seemed to have done his homework on the man's objection, and he quickly refuted it after the other person's words fell.

As soon as he said this, everything was put on the bright side.

Will Zhonglang be a high-ranking official? Naturally, it is a high-ranking official...... More than two thousand stones is Yulu, and the rank of the Han Dynasty is indeed good. But he is not the apex, and can only be regarded as a middle-level and upper-level official position. Above the Zhonglang generals, there are also generals with a rank of 2,000 stones, and there are four expeditions and four towns second only to the three dukes, as well as higher generals before and after, as well as generals, hussar generals, and chariot generals...... It's not impossible to be rewarded.

And the title, above the pavilion marquis of the two, there are also township marquis, and county marquis...... This is also all rewardable.

Therefore, for the reasons stated by the previous opponents, those present only had to think about it for a little time to feel that this matter was really unreliable.

However, most officials do not have the idea that they are not concerned when they are not instructed by their own factions.

They watched silently, allowing the two men facing each other to argue.

At this time, they had already understood that this matter was a struggle between the Huangfu Song family and the eunuch family.

Obviously, the people who proposed to reward the front line were from the Huangfu Song line, but the people who opposed this opinion were from the eunuch line.

However, it seems that because there are other reasons behind it, at the moment they are just arguing loudly, or just talking about things, but they are not involved in more things.

"There's something strange about this!" Seeing that the two of them were really red-faced, but the others were calm and calm, some unknown ministers also vaguely understood this: "Could it be that they already have prejudices?" I wonder who has the big deal to take care of both sides? This ......"

They thought about it, and their minds couldn't help but think of a person who had been in and out of various banquets in rumors recently, and seemed to be quite active:

"It seems that he came out of Zuo Zhonglang's side. These days, he seems to have come up with a lot of novelties, and he is fighting with both the general and the general.

The general's side can be regarded as a scholar, and the chariot general has a good relationship with the eunuchs. If he had threaded the needle in this, such a result would have been conceivable. ”

"Well, it seems that today's issue is just a formality." Everyone is a clear-eyed person in their hearts, and they are naturally very clear about this.

So, everyone sat back and watched. Finally, without any more people making trouble, the quarrel between the two sides finally came to an end—the constant quarrel made the emperor frown, and finally the emperor opened the golden mouth: "Since you each have your own opinions, then I think you should take a step back." Bounties are possible, but they can't be too much. ”

The emperor said and held his cheeks with his hand, thought for a while, and said: "Enter the emperor and wait for the capital; Feng Zhu Jun was the general of the town thief, and he entered the Xixiang Waiting; Cao Cao was captained by the capital and led the Jinan Minister, with a rank of two thousand stones! As for the leader of the volunteers, Liu Bei......" The emperor paused as he spoke, with some doubts on his face: "I don't know where this person comes from?" I vaguely seem to have heard it somewhere. ”

"Your Majesty!" Listening to the emperor's question, Zongzheng Liu Kuan flashed out, bowed down and replied: "Liu Bei is a descendant of the Han family, and his ancestor is Liu Zhen, the son of Liu Sheng, King Jing of Zhongshan. After Liu Zhen, it has been hundreds of years since he was exiled to Zhuo County.

Liu Bei's grandfather, Liu Xiong was the county magistrate of Fan County, Dongjun, and Liu Bei's father, Liu Hong, was also a local official.

Liu Bei was lonely early, and at the age of fifteen, he studied under Lu Zhi, the general of Beizhonglang, and later dropped out of school because of his unbearable family background. He made a living by weaving and selling shoes, serving his mother.

and the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Liu Bei used the assets of his sworn brothers as the basis to recruit volunteers, and broke the Yellow Turban Army in Youzhou and Qingzhou, and made a lot of contributions. A few days ago, Liu Yan, the assassin of Youzhou, recommended Liu Bei as filial piety, and His Majesty must have heard of it. ”

"Well, that's really the case......" The emperor nodded in approval, and a happy smile appeared on his face: "I didn't expect that there are still quite a lot of talents in my Han clan." This is also the embodiment of the prosperity of our Han Dynasty. Zongzheng, according to Liu Bei's seniority in the clan, I should call him ......"

"Your Majesty, if you are in terms of clan continuity, he should be your peer......" Liu Kuan said as he stroked the white hair under his chin.

"Peers? He's younger than me, so he should be my brother? What a hero. The smile on the emperor's face became even bigger: "Since Liu Bei has studied under Lu Zhimen, he still has the ability to come." In this case, in the current critical situation, let him be exempted from the assessment. Well, according to the rules of filial piety and honesty as an official, after adding that he has made such military achievements, I want to crown him as the captain of Fengche, with a rank of two thousand stones. Now that the suppression of the Yellow Turban Army is expected, it is just right for the states and counties to report the number of their volunteers, reward officers according to their military merits, make up for the shortcomings, and collect their soldiers and horses to rectify the military situation in order to eliminate future troubles. ”

"This ......" heard that the emperor's first order was full of so many doorways, and the ministers, who had always regarded the emperor as vulgar, couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and immediately smiled bitterly. They knew that the passing on of this order would inevitably involve the entanglement of many people's interests, and in their opinion, such a thing as exchanging "official positions" for "private soldiers" was not wrong at all. So, they didn't raise any objections at all.

This matter was thus determined.

At that moment, there was a squire who recorded the emperor's will, quickly wrote it into writing, and wrote one. After this decree was appreciated by the emperor, it was handed over to the eunuchs around him, who arranged for the Yellow Gate to prepare for promulgation.