Chapter 34: The Second Shogunate

Political enemies, too many.

Coming down from the court, Ma Yue was sweating profusely, and he was even more tired than fighting a battle.

The matter of abolishing the queen was decided, and under the efforts of Ma Yue Jianshuo, the northern army began to lay off personnel, but did not withdraw from the palace. On the other hand, the captains of the West Garden also cut their parts. The edict has been issued, ordering all troops and horses to transfer troops back to their original stations.

Although the Changshui camp was reduced to 700 posts, for Ma Yue, he won a victory for himself in the court.

In June of the sixth year of Zhongping, the Quartet explored the horses and galloped into Beijing, declaring that the Quartet was peaceful and the sea was peaceful.

Yizhou Thorn Shi Xingjian was killed by the Yellow Turban. Engaged in Jia Long, Qianwei Taishou Renqi recruited village warriors to fight against the thieves, and after several months of fighting, they finally killed Ma Xiang, the leader of the Yellow Turbans. The new Yizhou Mu Liu Yan and others of the imperial court were stationed in Mianzhu, and the Yellow Turban remnants in Shu County and other places were quickly purged;

The rebellion of Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju in Youzhou in collusion with Karasuma gradually came to an end. Although Liu Yu and Gongsun Zhan, the commander of the cavalry, had differences in the strategy of conquest, after several disputes, the two still joined forces. The generals led by Gongsun Zhan defeated Zhang Chun by force, and Liu Yu beheaded him, and Zhang committed suicide by hanging himself, so far the Youzhou rebellion was initially successful. Liu Yu was promoted to state pastor; Gongsun Chan was also promoted to lieutenant and concurrently served as the chief historian. It is worth mentioning that the Liu Zhang brothers performed remarkably in this rebellion, and they were also promoted and rewarded, as well as the partial general Xu Rong, who finally got rid of the unlucky captain.

The war in Hanoi was also successful, and Zhu Jun only recruited some miscellaneous troops in Hedong in the fifth year of Guanghe, and beat the Montenegrin army that invaded Sili into a daze. These peasant armies fought for a long time and their morale was low, and they finally retreated to the deep mountains and old forests, and sent people into the court to ask for feuds. Promising the court to grant them the position of chieftain, they no longer rebelled.

There are more than 200,000 yellow turbans in the land of Qingxu, but they are also a rabble. After Yuan Shao scattered them back to the court, Xuzhou assassin Shi Taoqian and Donghai Xiang Xue Yan broke them one by one. In the coastal area, there was a cavalry commander Zang Ba to deal with, he recruited Wu Dun, Yin Li and other local heroes to raise their own troops, and in a few days, the Yellow Turban Wanderers who wandered through the mountains and coasts were wiped out.

In terms of merging with the state, the Ding Yuan rebellion was also quite effective. Seeing that they could not take it, the Xiongnu rebels had to retreat to the north and set up the Marquis of Xubu Gudu to act as a pseudo-Shan Yu. Hugh Tuge's department was even more miserable, after several battles, it was absorbed by the former general Dong Zhuo, and the rest escaped from the outside of the fortress to resume the nomadic life. On the side of the Baibo army, the leader Guo Tai was killed in battle, and his subordinates Han Xian, Li Le, and Hu Cai had no ambitions, respected Yang Feng as the leader, and retreated to the Baibo Valley to defend it.

In contrast to the peace of the world, the deposed of the Empress He symbolizes that the once powerful He family is gradually coming to an end, and the entire He family only has some power in the most inconspicuous car and cavalry general, He Miao, but in the eyes of most people, he is already half a dead man.

The soldiers and horses around Luoyang received the edict, and the soldiers and horses gradually retreated, but under the impetus of the well-intentioned people, the speed of three or five miles a day, Ma Yue felt that these people were still waiting for something.

……

In an inconspicuous dwelling in Luoyang City, He Miao, a dignified chariot general, pushed open the wooden door with a puzzled face, looked at the handprints on the door and the dust in his palms and frowned.

No one has lived in this house for many years.

He Miao, who was dressed in civilian clothes, turned around, and the two guards carefully closed the door and guarded the door, looking at the barren and grassy courtyard, stepping into the courtyard with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and pushing open the half-hidden door.

The empty room was full of dust, and there were two futons on the position where the sunlight shone in from the open wooden window, and the several cases placed were warm with turbid wine, Zhao Zhong put his hands in his sleeves, and when he looked up in a regular suit, he didn't get up, but just raised his hand and asked: "General, please take a seat, the old slave has just warmed the wine, and you have arrived." ”

"Zhao Zhong, the place you picked is hidden, so you can't find someone to clean it?"

He Miao has been saving up a lot of anger these days, even if He Jin is dead, it is also a good thing for him, but now that his sister has also made Ma Yue useless, it is estimated that the next step is to take his head.

"General sit down, this place is good, clean, and there are few people." Zhao Zhong narrowed his eyes, with a wave of hatred in his eyes, "If it weren't for the disarmament of the Changshui Camp, I am afraid that the old slave would not be able to go out of the palace to see the general." ”

He Miao patted the futon and sat down, and said with a gloomy face: "Don't mention Ma Yue, what are Zhao Changshi's plans?" ”

"What are you going to do at this time, the queen has abolished him, those scholars are unreliable, the general understands, they all rely on you if you are powerful, if you are not powerful, don't expect them to save you."

Judging from the situation in the past few days, He Miao is also a little disheartened with the scholars, at least on the surface, the Yuan family does not plan to fight with Ma Yue, and Ma Riyan is a little biased towards Ma Yue, and those who dare to speak are those young people who have no strength under their hands to know that they are bluffing all day long, He Miao bowed his hand and said: "Alas, I don't hide it, I plan to go back to Nanyang, so I can still pick up a life, damn."

"The general is going to leave it at that? The revenge of killing brothers and sisters? Zhao Zhong frowned and looked at He Miao with a look of disbelief, and said seductively: "In fact, the general's loss of power is nothing more than the two of them, if you can get rid of these two people...... Doesn't the general want to ascend to the position of Brother Ling? ”

"Cut, who doesn't want power, but if you want it, you have to take your life." He Miao said with a mocking face: "Yes, just Ma Yue and Jian Shuo, but others are simply calling for wind and rain in the court, you haven't seen Jian Shuo's virtue, in the past, no one below the third prince was convinced, but now it's good, even the old man of the Yuan family has been forced to the ground, what else can be done?" ”

"The old slave has his own plans, but he can make the two thieves give the head, it depends on whether the general dares to do it!"

"This ......" He Miao came to his senses as soon as he heard it, and as soon as he went out, he was afraid of Ma Yue's might and wanted to take it back, and he didn't receive it for a while, just hanging in the air.

Zhao Zhong saw that there was a drama in the matter, and immediately said: "He Cheqi, you can think about it, if there is no help in this matter, I Cao will not be able to do anything in the palace, we are all hanging on the tip of Ma Yue's knife, when to behead, but he has the final say...... You won't be unaware of this. ”

He Miao's brows furrowed, at this time, I am afraid that there is no other way but to assassinate, either he will die, or we will all die sooner, damn it, Zhao Zhong, tell me carefully about this matter, what are your plans? ”

"The general came over with his ear ......"

He Miao chattered with Zhao Zhong in the abandoned house in Luoyang City for a while, and after a while, Zhao Zhong walked out of the courtyard with a smile, and then walked all the way back to the back door of the palace, and the little eunuch who was answered at the back door was cautiously welcomed in.

After a while, He Miao raised his eyebrows and came out of the private house with the guards, slipped all the way to Yuan's mansion, and was catching up with Yuan Shao who was going out.

"Brother Ben Chu, Brother Ben Chu, where are you going to go out?"

Yuan Shao came out of the mansion in a hurry, led the horse and was about to go to the hussar shogunate to find Dong Chong, when he suddenly heard someone calling him, turned his head and looked at it carefully, only to find that it was He Miao, the general of the chariot cavalry, and hurriedly greeted him and said: "Ouch, General He, what's wrong with you, you almost can't recognize it in your regular clothes." ”

"Alas, it's hard to put into words."

Yuan Shao saw this, looked around cautiously, tilted his head to He Miao and said, "He Che rode into the mansion first, this is not the place to speak." ”

Welcoming He Miao into the mansion, the servant brought Wen Tang Yuan Shao and asked, "What's the matter with the chariot, come to the mansion to find your uncle?" ”

"No, no, no." He Miao lowered his head and said, "I came to you on a special trip, Brother Ben Chu Xian." ”

"Looking for me?" Yuan Shao sat up straight and asked, "What's the matter with He Che riding here?" ”

"I want to find you...... Let's talk about Ma Yue. He Miao said with a smile: "I plan to remove Ma Yue and Jian Shuo from the court, what do you think?" ”

Yuan Shao raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and turned his face directly when he heard the words, "Someone, send off!" ”

"No, Brother Ben Chuxian, the more Ma Yue and your family don't deal with it, we should join forces......" Before He Miao finished speaking, a family member at the door walked up to him and respectfully did not speak, Yuan Shao frowned and said: "He Cheqi, there is still something to do today, so I won't send it, you can go." ”

"This ...... Alas, farewell! ”

He Miao touched his nose and went back to the house to continue to think about other methods, Yuan Shao asked the family to close the door of the mansion with a look of disgust, and respectfully walked to the courtyard of the old lady Yuan Kui, bowed down and said: "Uncle, Fang Cai, He Miao has come to the house." ”

"He Miao?" Yuan Kui was lying on his side on the couch reading a book, when he heard the words, he got up and turned around and beckoned Yuan Shao to the front, and asked, "What is he doing here?" ”

Yuan Shao respectfully knelt down on the couch and said, "Back to my uncle, He Miao planned to assassinate Ma Yue, but he had already been driven away by his nephew. ”

"Good time!" Yuan Kui also looked disgusted, frowned and said, "This Nanyang is a splasher, what do you think of the scholars?" Like him? Ahem! ”

Speaking in a hurry, Yuan Kui coughed twice, and then said to Yuan Shao seriously: "At the beginning, you must know that my generation of scholars must take it as their responsibility to help the world, and we are respected by the people of the world, but this respect is not obtained in vain, and we must not do such a thing, even if we kill people, we must also fight openly and honestly, how can we go to kill people?" ”

"Uncle, what about Ma Yue?"

"Scholars should help the world, warriors should be bloody battlefields, and warriors should not be a country!" Yuan Kui looked at Yuan Shao and said: "We are anti-Ma Yue, just like anti-eunuchs and anti-relatives, in order to ensure that the world does not develop to a worse state, this is a difference in political views, so we must be hostile and fight." He Miao killed Ma Yue to save his life, in order to vent his personal vendetta, my generation should be ashamed of this! ”

"What about it...... Watching? Yuan Shao nodded and asked, "Although He Miao is despicable, it is best for them to fight and lose both, and now you have sent the road back to Runan...... Do you think your nephew will continue to go to Dong Chong's mansion? ”

"Go, you have to go." Yuan Kui narrowed his eyes, his aging face coincided with the heavy bags under his eyes, "Let the Hussar Mansion become the second shogunate!" ”