Chapter 309: Claiming the Emperor 3/3

After the Son of Heaven arrived in Chang'an, Chen Cheng placed Liu Ban and Empress Dowager He in Changle Palace, and he himself still occupied Weiyang Palace. Because the official office is on the edge of Weiyang Palace, it is convenient to deal with various things. As for whether he will be said to be arrogant and domineering because of this, Chen Cheng doesn't care at all.

The ministers who came with the Son of Heaven also had their own places, and after many powerful people were exiled to the Western Regions, there were many places vacant inside and outside the city. Among the ministers of the imperial court, few people were willing to join Chen Cheng's command, and only those middle- and lower-level officials who had no hope of promotion and could not climb up if they wanted to, threw themselves into the arms of the new regime.

However, this is not surprising, Xu Chao, who is in charge of the household department, is very unfriendly to these people from Luoyang, except for a few people whose reputation is too high, and the other middle and lower-level officials have all stopped distributing Lu rice. If you don't come out to be an official, then you won't have anything to receive, so you can only eat yourself at home.

Forced to make a living, those who still want to take a second look, or want to sell at a price, have to fill their stomachs first. People always have to eat, don't they?

In this way, the contradictions between the original Liangzhou faction and the Guanzhong faction soon changed greatly. The contradictions between the local factions and the court ministers are no less than the contradictions between the local forces. In the past, the officials in the court were shouting at the local civil and military officials, but now that Chen Cheng has seized all the power with officials from the three provinces and six ministries, the ministers can no longer suppress the subordinates.

These people fought fiercely, but the provincial officials led by Yan Zhong did not pretend to them at all. After a few temptations, the anger of the ministers of the imperial court was even stronger, and they secretly cursed Chen Cheng for not knowing how many, but Chang'an also stopped a lot.

Everyone understands Chen Cheng's attitude, no matter what they fight for, don't want to press on the head of the provincial ministry in turn.

Within a few days, Chen Cheng canonized himself as a general in the name of the Son of Heaven, commanding the world's soldiers and horses, and authorized "praise and worship without a name, enter the court without trending, and go to the palace with a sword". Then Chen Cheng issued a series of personnel orders, Bai Jia Xu was appointed as the servant, Dong Zhao was appointed as the waiter of the Ministry of Works, and the others were promoted and promoted.

Even Wei Li, who once roared at Chen Cheng, also got the position of a waiter in the Criminal Department, which can be regarded as a few levels higher. This is easily reminiscent of the story of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang Feng Yayong at the beginning of the establishment of the Han Dynasty. Coupled with the fact that when Chen Cheng first got Chang'an, he had three chapters of the law with the people, and many people thought that after Chen Cheng returned with his troops, he would change the high-pressure policy of strict punishment and strict law when Yan Zhong was in power.

But the truth is completely opposite to what these people think, the government is indeed distributing land to the poor people, and distributing seeds, and even ploughing cattle, lambs, suckling pigs and so on, but what follows is the land clearance that has not been seen for a long time. After Emperor Guangwu revived the Han Dynasty, for a long time, Qingtian was the national policy of the imperial court, but that was more than a hundred years ago.

In the last 100 years, no emperor, or ruler, has ever turned the national policy of "Qingtian" out of the pile of old papers. In these years, which Haoqiang family doesn't have a lot of "hidden fields"? The government is re-"clearing the fields", isn't it going to take food from everyone's bowl?

As soon as the decree of "Qingtian" was issued, it caused an uproar in Guanzhong. Many officials have written to denounce this move as "competing with the people for profit," and there have been many incidents of forceful expulsion of officials in the countryside, and even cases of staff members sent down have been killed.

Many officials in Guanzhong thought that this kind of mass opposition would definitely force the generals of the military forces of Yongliang to retract their orders, but they were wrong. Hearing that the local officials who measured the land had been killed, Chen Cheng immediately remembered the arson case in Fuping, and immediately sent 3,000 soldiers to take down the county order, the county commander, and the officials at all levels in the county where the accident occurred, and packed them together with their whole families and sent them to the Western Regions.

Then there was the implementation of military management in the county, and more than 200 people were killed before and after, and all the powerful families in the county were sent to the Western Regions, and they were not allowed to return if they were pardoned. This kind of thunderbolt-like means suddenly made the land of Guanzhong silent. Only then did everyone think that the general relied on absolute force to force Duan Xuan to surrender, defeat Lu Bu and Dong Zhuo, and then control Guanzhong.

Don't look at Chen Cheng's kindness, but how can this kind of figure who uses force to seize the world be swayed by the so-called public opinion? When Emperor Gaozu pacified the world, he was also unkind to Confucianism, and even did something to pee in Confucianism's hat.

Now that the local military forces in Guanzhong have been destroyed, even if there is some resistance, it has been quickly pacified. In addition, the government distributed land to the poor people, which broke the resistance of the local people, and the policy was successfully implemented. This made the officials in the provincial ministry rejoice, but the ministers in the court were greatly disappointed.

They still want a righteous man to stand up and punish the tyranny. When they were in Luoyang, they were suppressed by He Jin, but they managed to maintain the dignity of the minister, and they were still high-ranking court officials. When they arrived in Chang'an, they were hung aside to dry.

There is no need for them to deal with all kinds of things, and no one comes to report to them, and what they can do every day, in addition to eating and sleeping, can only get together with each other and scold Chen Thief for being ungentlemanous. Every time they talked about it, they would sigh and say: If they knew this, it would be better to stay in Luoyang with Taiwei Yang Biao!

Yang Biao and others, who were far away in Luoyang, were dizzy with hunger at this time, and they were crying bitterly. Many people regret it deeply, knowing that they would starve if they return to Luoyang, so it is better to go to Chang'an with the Son of Heaven. At the very least, the people of Xiliang will still give food to eat!

After Yuan Shu seized Luoyang, his prestige rose to the peak for a while, and many heroes in the world were attached. Even Taiwei Yang Biao and others gave up the Son of Heaven's car and ran back to Luoyang. They waited for Yuan Highway to sweep away the heroes and create a new dynasty.

At the beginning, Yuan Shu did seem to have a destiny. After defeating Zhou Ang, Sun Jian, the general under his command, turned his head to attack Liu Biao, and once led his troops to attack the city of Xiangyang, forcing Liu Biao to hide in the city and not dare to come out. Seeing that Jingzhou was about to fall into the hands of Yuan Shu, the situation took a turn for the worse.

When Sun Wentai pursued Huang Zu, he encountered an ambush and was shot dead by a crossbowman, and Liu Biao recaptured Jingzhou. After the absence of Sun Jian, the weaknesses of the Yuan Shu Group were soon exposed. In the battle with Yanzhou Mu Cao Mengde, Yuan Shu's army was repeatedly defeated, and in just a few months, he lost 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers and horses, Yingchuan County was taken by Cao Cao, not to mention, even Nanyang County, which had been occupied for a long time, was also captured by Liu Biao.

With the loss of Nanyang County and Yingchuan County, Luoyang became almost an isolated city. Originally, there was still some grain and grass that could be transported from Runan and Yingchuan, but now that Cao Cao and Liu Biao cut off the grain route, famine began to break out in Luoyang again. After Sun Jian broke through Luoyang, Yuan Shu's army swarmed in and plundered the city.

For more than ten days, the city was full of rape/adulterous and plundering Yuan Shujun. After Yang Biao and others returned to Luoyang, they found that there were only a few hundred people left in the city, and most of them were unclothed and skinny. However, the life and death of the people have never been regarded by the bigwigs, they turned a blind eye to the tragic situation in the city, and went directly to visit the complacent Yuan Shu.

Later, there was a famine in the city, and even Yuan Shujun himself couldn't eat enough, and Yang Biao and others began to starve. I was hungry for more than ten days, but I suddenly saw the lights in the city. When I inquired, it was Yuan Shu who was whimsical, thinking that he had occupied Luoyang, and now Cao Cao and Liu Biao still opposed him, just because he did not become the emperor.

"What?" Yang Biao was shocked, "Yuan Shu wants to be the emperor?" ”

It's not impossible to be called emperor, everyone is the top magnate of the Han Dynasty. I don't object to you being called the emperor, anyway, the benefits will still fall into the hands of the families. But now the situation is not right! Outside, Cao Cao, Liu Biao, Zhang Yang, Huangfu Song, these are all enemies, if you don't settle them, you will be called the emperor, isn't that looking for death?

Although Yang Biao was born with a golden key, he is not stupid. Not only is he not stupid, Yang Biao can be regarded as a smart person, he never thought that Yuan Shu could be so stupid, and he dared to be the emperor when the road to Yuzhou was cut off.

He didn't try to dissuade Yuan Shu, and just slipped away with his family. Yuan Shu went crazy, Yang Biao wouldn't accompany him to go crazy. Fortunately, the Yang family's hometown is in Hongnong, which is not too far from Luoyang, and it doesn't matter if there is no livestock to travel, just walk for a few more days.

Thirty miles out of the city, suddenly there was a lot of smoke and dust behind him. Yang Biao looked back, couldn't help but be shocked, and said in a panic: "It's not a big deal!" ”

He hurriedly ordered his family to speed up their pace and run towards the field. But there is a flat river near Luoyang, and there is not even a sheltered place, even if you want to hide, where can you hide?

Yang Biao wanted to take his family to hide in the woods, but was caught up by Yuan Shu's subordinates. The cavalry rode into the crowd with swords, and although there were only more than 100 horsemen, they still had a very strong impact. Dozens of Yang family members tried to resist with swords in hand, but they were all hacked to death one by one.

The leader laughed loudly and said triumphantly: "I have long heard that the Yang family has been in charge of senior officials for several generations, and the family has accumulated a lot of wealth, and today it can be regarded as falling into the hands of our brothers!" ”

The subordinates patted their ass and said, "It's still the general Gao Jian, as soon as he heard that the surname Yang was out of the city, he took us to chase after him." If someone else knows, where will we still have a share? ”

Some people are also worried: "The Yang family has a reputation, if the lord knows, will he be angry?" ”

"Afraid of what?" The general said in a loud voice: "There are so many robbers around Luoyang, who knows what we are going to do?" Besides, the lord now wants to be the emperor with all his heart, how can he take care of these things? ”

Yang Biao was stabbed in the back, lying on the ground with blurred flesh and blood, and said sadly: "Although you take the money, let me wait for a way out, okay?" ”

"Good!"

The general walked over, stepped on Yang Biao's chest, and slashed with a knife. The ring head knife slashed at Yang Biao's face, blood splattered everywhere, and it was soon impossible to tell who this person was. This group of soldiers and horses killed Yang Biao and his party, looted all the money, and then left.

The corpses lay strewn down the road and soon became cold. The smell of blood attracted a lot of wild dogs and wolves, and these beasts roared at each other to intimidate their opponents, and after a confrontation for a while, they avoided each other, and each picked some carcasses to feast on.

In the evening, in a ditch on the side of the road, someone suddenly climbed out. The man, about twenty years old, looked at the corpse on the ground with fear and grief, and then ran toward the west.

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