As the summer and May gradually came to an end, the atmosphere in Chang'an City gradually became weird.

Tens of thousands of young and strong people have accompanied the infant army, as well as the Marquis of Guiche in Beijing, which made Chang'an City gradually deserted; A large number of middle-aged men went out, which also made a large number of acres of fields near Chang'an deserted.

The spring ploughing, which was supposed to begin at the end of March, was also postponed to April due to the rebellion of the sons of King Hui; In the vicinity of Chang'an, and even in the entire Guanzhong, almost all the middle-aged laborers at home were sent to the front line of Suiyang and Xingyang, and the acres of land could only be taken care of by the women left behind, as well as the old and the young.

According to the estimation of the internal history, the entire Guanzhong will be affected by this rebellion, and the grain output is likely to drop by half this year!

This is not bad - although Guanzhong has lost most of its prime-age labor, the social order is still in order, and although the spring plowing is late, it is still barely carried out; Although the yield of the acres may be reduced, it is not yet to the point of no harvest.

The real impact has to be in the Kanto region.

It has been nearly ten days since the rebels arrived in Suiyang, and the route of the rebels to Suiyang by themselves, as well as the passage along the way, have also been sent to the court.

Not to mention that the rebels rushed from Linzi, the capital of Qi, to Suiyang, the capital of Liang, a journey of more than 3,000 miles, and it only took nearly 50 days.

The south south of Huaiyang and Chudi can be said to have been completely unaffected by the rebellion, but according to the speculation of the magistrates, it is possible that the grain tax this year will be less than 70% of the normal situation.

As for the counties that the rebels 'passed' along the way, it was the ones who made people jaw-dropping, and they had great contempt for the discipline of the Kanto prefecture.

The most despisable thing for the court is Hedong.

The rebels set out from Linzi and went straight to Suiyang, the capital of Liang, and the whole journey was smooth and unimpeded, and they hardly set foot on the east side of the river.

However, in the report of the Hedong County Guard, Hedong suffered heavy losses in the process of 'resisting the rebels'!

According to Hedong, when the rebels passed south of Hedong, they were only a few dozen miles away from Hedong, and Hedong hurriedly dispatched local troops to prevent the rebels from attacking Hedong.

And it was precisely the county soldiers who were sent to defend that made the security in Hedong worse.

But what makes people laugh is that the lawbreakers in Hedong County, who got the 'activity space' because the county soldiers went out, did not go to kill people and overhaul goods, nor did they do evil, bullying men and women, but took advantage of the God-given opportunity of the county lieutenant to lead the soldiers, and recklessly stepped on the crops of the peasant uncle!

As for such an obvious lie in Hedong, the evaluation made by the Son of Heaven sitting upright in the Weiyang Palace has also been banned and has become a topic of conversation among the people of Chang'an before and after dinner.

It is said that after the Son of Heaven got the report from Hedong County, he directly characterized it as: touch porcelain!

With the fermentation of the incident, the solution of the word "touching porcelain" has gradually been interpreted by all parties.

- Those who touch porcelain deceive others of their goods by doing things that have not been done; If A has a pearl and jade, hand it to B, and B looks at it one after another, and does not like it, but returns it; A has a pearl and jade, and its things have been damaged, and B is responsible for compensating for its loss, and the wealth is recovered to deceive people in this pickled way, which should be called 'touching porcelain'.

The people of Chang'an, who learned the correct interpretation of the word 'touch porcelain', turned around again, pondered what Hedong County had done, and suddenly showed an expression of 'oh~~~'.

Although the Hedong incident caused a lot of material controversy in Chang'an, out of the needs of public opinion in the war, the court did not give a clear answer to the Hedong incident; But everyone knows that after the war is over, no matter what the outcome is, the whole of Hedong County may not be able to escape.

Except for such a joke in Hedong, other places are relatively normal, or rather, the silence is a little abnormal...

The Xiongnu mission set off from Chang'an for more than half a month, and at this time it should also go out of Yanmen and set foot on the grassland of Munan; However, the temperament of the Xiongnu seems to have changed greatly because of the matter of peace - the internal strife in the Han Dynasty broke out for nearly two months, but the border pass did not even send back a message that 'the Xiongnu seem to have moved'.

After the Xingyang front line moved in with the county soldiers led by Shen Tujia in Huaiyang County, and successively received the support of Chehou Xungui who went out from Chang'an, the situation became more and more stable; And Huaiyang Shoushen Tujia also used the wisdom of the Son of Heaven as a torch to successfully suppress the Hou Xungui and guard Xingyang steadily.

The abundant defense line garrisoned by General Zhou Zao was also assisted by Chehou Xungui, who spontaneously went to various parts of the Kanto region, and Zhou Zao also relied on the Son of Heaven Festival to firmly control the defense of the Fengpei front line in his own hands, and did not let Chehou Xungui, who rushed to Fengpei, grab the slightest military power.

If the stability of these aspects is still normal, then the Suiyang defense line, which is sandwiched between the Fengpei line and the Xingyang-Aocang line, and is garrisoned by the general Guan Ying and nearly 100,000 Guanzhong troops, is a bit abnormal.

According to the military report from Suiyang, as well as the court's prediction of the outbreak time of the Suiyang Campaign, the Qidi rebels should have arrived at Suiyang City as early as May 20, and the Suiyang Defense Campaign should have officially broken out on the 20th at the latest.

But time passes day by day, and tomorrow is the first day of the sixth month; However, the front line of Suiyang did not send back the slightest news of the 'start of the battle', and only from the 25th, a military report was sent every day that 'the rebels were camped 20 miles outside Suiyang City, stationed but not attacking, and seemed to have other plans'.

After five consecutive word-for-word war reports were issued, there was even speculation in the court that 'the general was concealing the battle situation'!

But this statement only showed its head slightly, and then disappeared into the court's various deductions for the battle.

- Unless the general completely decides to turn to the rebels, he will never dare to do anything to 'hide the situation of the war'.

In other words, the Qidi rebels were indeed as Guan Ying said, only stationed outside Suiyang City, and then enjoyed the sun at the gate of Guanzhong every day, without the slightest intention of attacking Suiyang.

After confirming this matter, the court gradually fell into a strange silence, just like Chang'an City; And a military report sent into the customs from Xiaoguan yesterday completely made the Chang'an court fall into silence.

——Acting King Liu Heng, because his crown prince died in Chang'an, he raised troops in the north, intending to ask why Chang'an killed the prince?

The court, which was originally optimistic about the rebellion of the princes, fell into an overwhelming panic for a while!

——Xiaoguan, Hangu Pass, is the gateway to the north and east of the pass!

Since the establishment of the Han Dynasty, the dynasty has never faced the situation of being attacked by rebels in both directions of Guanzhong!

What worries the court even more is that the Daiguo is located on the border between Han and Hungary, and the Daiwang is approaching Guanzhong, which means that there will be a defensive hole hundreds of miles long in the border wall defense line!

Not to mention the outcome of the struggle between Qi and the rebel army and the central part of Chang'an, the fact that the Dai army went south alone may cause the Han Dynasty's already stretched northern defense line to fall into chaos!

On the day when the news of the king's army reached Chang'an, Weiyang Palace and Changle Palace suddenly turned into edict machines, and issued more than a dozen edicts and edicts in a day!

——Liu Xin, the king of Yan, immediately sent Yan soldiers to the border of the Northern Han and Hungarian Empires to accept the defense of the land!

- Flying Fox Commander Chai Wu, on the day of the edict, set off quickly, entered the Dai and Zhao fronts, and was temporarily stationed, ready to deal with the Huns' attack on the border wall of the Han Dynasty at any time!

- Liu Jiao, the king of Chu, divided the Chu soldiers to garrison Runan and Nanyang, and always keep an eye on the movements of the Huainan national soldiers!

Several edicts from Chang'an came out, so that most of the territory of the Han family was involved in this very beginning, only the turmoil that broke out in Qi - Yan, Zhao, and Dai in the north, Chu, Wu, and Huainan in the south, plus Qi when the rebellion broke out, almost all the vassal states of the Han dynasty were either actively or passively affected by the war.

And none of these arrangements belong to 'unfounded worries'.

If the king rebels, it is very likely that he will come out of the nest, abandon the defense of the border wall, and concentrate all his efforts to force the pass, thus plunging the hundreds of miles of defense line between the country and the Xiongnu into a vacuum.

In this regard, the best choice for the central government of Chang'an is to let the Yan State, which is adjacent to the Dai State, divide its troops into the Dai State to fill the loopholes in the border wall defense line left by the Dai Guo soldiers after they were taken away by the Dai Wang Liu Heng.

The division of troops may make Yan and Dai fall into a situation of insufficient defensive strength at the same time, and send the Flying Fox Army to the north from the Flying Fox for a while, temporarily stationed at the intersection of Yan and Dai and the Zhao State behind the two, so that the Flying Fox Army can move at the first time when there is a hidden danger on the side wall, and rush to the battlefield to support in the fastest time.

If the deployment of the Yan King and the Flying Fox Army was basically out of defense against the Huns, then the arrangement of Liu Jiao, the king of Chu, was completely on guard against the southern princes.

——Now that Liu Heng, the acting king, is raising troops, Liu Chang, the king of Huainan who is also the son of Emperor Gao, has suddenly become the focus!

and Liu Heng, the acting king, and Liu Chang, the king of Huainan, are the only two surviving heirs of Taizu Liu Bang; On behalf of the king Liu Heng raised troops, Liu Chang, the king of Huainan, may not respond by raising troops in the eastern part of the country.

Liu Jiao, the king of Chu, as the Kunji of Taizu Liu Bang, coupled with the strong military strength of the Chu State, was enough to force Liu Chang'an, the king of Huainan, to sit in Huainan and could not intervene in the rebellion of the princes and kings.

A series of arrangements were transmitted from Chang'an to various places, and only then did the panic in Guanzhong settle down a little; Immediately after that, there is the most important and most urgent question: who should be sent to garrison the Xiaoguan defense line?

Although the acting king rebelled, claiming that he wanted to ask Chang'an for an 'explanation' about the death of the prince, anyone with a discerning eye knew that the acting king was in response to the initiative of the Qidi rebels to 'jointly punish the puppet emperor Lu Hong'.

- It's just that the acting king didn't say it so bluntly, leaving a little room for maneuver.

And now that the acting king has led his troops south and forced Xiaoguan, the princes and rebels in this direction also need to send generals to garrison.

Just like the chaos in the eastern part of the country, the court hurriedly sent the general to irrigate the baby, led the captains of the two departments of the Northern Army, and transferred the people and soldiers from the Guanzhong to form a counterinsurgency army and go out of the pass to garrison Suiyang.

If nothing else, the final outcome of this matter will be known tomorrow.

However, even now, when there are no definite results, the vast majority of people have basically confirmed the candidate for the counterinsurgency army.

In the general Guan Ying, the general Zhou Zao, and the general Chai Wuju led the troops, and most of the founding feats were decrepit, and the Chang'an court was qualified to lead the army to quell the rebellion as a commander, and only a few people remained.

Among them, the most suitable is none other than Taiwei Zhou Bo...

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As the imperial city of the Han Dynasty, Weiyang Palace is also filled with an eerie atmosphere.

Under the unprecedented crisis, the group of eunuchs who knew the way to survive in the palace were the first to feel the breath of impending disaster.

It is in this situation that the 'Imperial Doctor in the Forbidden Middle', the Provincial Imperial Guard, who only pulled up the framework a few months ago, finally reflected a trace of the meaning of existence.

In just ten days, dozens of eunuchs in the forbidden middle school were killed in the square of Weiyang Palace on charges of internal and external collusion and secretly escaping from the palace.

As for the eunuchs who were restricted by the provincial imperial guards due to 'private misconduct' and focused on censorship, they are even more unknown.

If there is a problem in the final review, these key personnel will also not be able to avoid the end of being killed with a cane; Even if there is no problem, the best outcome is to be expelled from the palace and left to fend for itself.

And in this large-scale inspection of the eunuchs in the forbidden middle, there were some incidents that made the courtiers creepy.

As the censorship body of the eunuchs in the ban, all the inspections of the eunuch group by the provincial imperial guard were endorsed by Emperor Liu Hong; Among the unique political system of the Han family, there is also a large part inherited from Qin, that is, the vast majority of Jiuqing belongs to the government, and there are departments dominated by eunuchs.

In this big inspection, the first thing to be hit was the eunuch department under the name of Shaofu: Shangshi!

According to the joint investigation of Lang Zhongling and Wei Wei, it was finally found that the murder weapon for the assassination of the acting crown prince was through the subordinates of the Shaofu, who were responsible for buying vegetables and vegetables outside the palace to eat, and transporting the forbidden Shangshi subordinate to the government.

And Shangshi, as the six merchants of Shaofu, is actually composed of two completely unrelated departments; In the words of later generations, it is 'bureaucratic food' and 'eunuch food'.

Although the two are collectively referred to as Shangshi, and the office is also close to each other, in the specific operation, there is almost no contact at all.

The bureaucrats are responsible for purchasing supplies from the market, checking whether there are any problems with the materials, and finally sending the materials that are not problematic to the treasury of the Shaofu government.

The eunuch Shangshi waited for the bureaucrats to send the materials to the treasury, and then went to transfer the materials, and then conducted another verification to confirm that there was no problem with the materials, and then sent the materials to the palace.

It was only through two separate audits by two unrelated groups, as well as the natural contradictions between the bureaucrats and the eunuch groups, that every batch of supplies imported into the palace was guaranteed to be without problems.

Just like this time, when the assassination of the crown prince in Shiqu Pavilion occurred, the unique mode of operation of the six merchants of Shaofu will make the investigation extremely simple.

——Ninety-nine percent of the prohibited items in the palace are through the channels of the Shaofu!

Because except for Shaofu, other channels almost completely did not have the power to send anything to the palace.

The channels for materials to flow into the palace can also be directly locked into the six Shangs in the Shaofu, namely Shangyi, Shangshi, Shangguan, Shangxi, Shangyu and Shangshu.

The flow of materials into the treasury of Shaofu proves that there is still a problem with the outer six of Shaofu, and the appearance in the palace proves that there is still a problem with the inner six.

Coupled with the new bookkeeping method officially implemented by Shaofu a few months ago, the investigation was extremely easy.

According to the Assassin's confession, the murder weapon was obtained by the Assassin from the East Kitchen about ten days earlier; Then, as long as you check from the account book of the Shaofu Treasury to find out who has collected materials from the Treasury from the 12th to the 8th to send them to the East Kitchen, you can narrow the scope to a narrow range of less than ten people.

In fact, the investigation process was much easier than that—the new bookkeeping method implemented by the Shaofu made every entry and exit of everything recorded in black and white.

And Lang Zhongling directly found a record of the 'abandoned short sword' from the account book of Shaofu.

The eunuch suspected of being transferred this time was killed with a rod for 'trying to escape from the palace'.

Immediately afterwards, there is the manager of the Shaofu Treasury: the Treasury Order is under investigation.

The reason is very simple: a eunuch who is still a scholar of the government retrieves a sword from the treasury, but the treasury only records and predicts the matter, and does not express the slightest doubt about it?

Such a lack of subjective initiative has hit the subordinates of the Shaofu deeply, and the purge triggered by this incident will suddenly cover the entire Shaofu.

In the end, there was one chief eunuch of the Shaofu, and all the two young eunuchs were demoted, and most of the five subordinates, three eunuchs, and six Shang were dismissed; The six eunuchs were all killed, and a comprehensive purge was passively carried out within the Shaofu.

As Shaofu ordered Uncle Tian to take the responsibility on his head and asked Emperor Liu Hong to punish the crime, the Empress Dowager came forward to intercede for Shaofu, and the matter of Shaofu gradually came to an end.

Even so, Emperor Liu Hong also gave Uncle Tian the task of making meritorious contributions: actively cooperate with the provincial imperial guard to establish a supervision department within Shaofu to prevent such incidents from happening again.

And Uncle Shaofu Ling Tian could only respond to this request in the end.

As the most special department of Han Jiuqing, Shaofu and the palace can be said to be inextricably linked.

The Shaofu treasury was completely independent of the entire political center and was controlled by the emperor; The output of the Shaofu workshop was also controlled by the emperor.

As a department under the same regime, the uniqueness of the Shaofu is especially reflected in the outflow of materials.

Logically speaking, all the items produced by the Shaofu Workshop, such as weapons, ordnance, cloth items, and even utensils, are all state property, and there is no problem in using them for national construction.

But this is not the case in fact - every sword, every bow and even every arrow made by the Shaofu is not handed over to the military free of charge, but needs to be purchased by the treasury under the control of the Prime Minister's Mansion and then distributed to the troops in various places.

As for cloth, bedding, military rations and other materials, they also need to be purchased by the state treasury at 'military expense' before they can be distributed to the soldiers.

This is also the origin of the confidence that the Shaofu can be independent of the entire court and only responsible to the emperor - in addition to the emperor and the queen mother, there is absolutely no third person in the Han family, who can mobilize Shaofu's materials with a piece of paper.

Not even the prime minister!

The Shaofu's independent status from the outside of the court made the court mostly have a 'schadenfreude' attitude towards what happened to the Shaofu; even the big fall of the Shaofu this time only made the foreign court a little wary of the provincial imperial guards.

It wasn't until the incident ended with the ending of 'Shaofu's internal provincial imperial guard' that the outer court hurriedly began to intercede for Shaofu and prayed for Emperor Liu Hong to think twice.

But in the end, Shaofu Ling Tian Shu said strongly, 'This is all deserved', and he was willing to accept such surveillance, and the foreign dynasty accepted the reality as if he was mourning, and turned his firepower to the head of the provincial imperial guard: the eunuch Ling Wang Zhong.

Within half a day, hundreds of impeachment letters against eunuchs were sent to the palace for 'not cultivating personal morality', 'accepting bribes', and 'cronyism', filling Liu Hong's imperial case.

And just when Wang Zhong endured the open guns and arrows in all directions and carried the unprecedented disaster of the provincial imperial guards, a figure was hidden behind Wang Zhong's broad arms, quietly carrying out the investigation of the courtiers and hundreds of officials.

A year later, that man's name would resound all over the world, and countless bureaucrats would be terrified and shy away from him.

- Provincial Imperial Thorn History, 中行 (háng) said (yuè)!

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