【Anxi County Lieutenant】

After bidding farewell to Zou Jing, Liu Bei and his entourage set off to Anxi County, Zhongshan. After a year of campaigning, the Yellow Turban Uprising was finally generally pacified, and along the way, everywhere he went, there were broken walls, which was quite similar to what he saw and heard on the road to Lujiang County with Lu Zhi, whether it was before or after the uprising, it was the common people who suffered.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Liu Bei suddenly thought that Zhongshan Kingdom was now like this, so what would happen to Su Shuang? As early as when Zou Jing heard that Zhongshan was captured by Zhang Bao, Liu Bei began to worry about Su Shuanglai, although Su Shuang had prevented himself from falling in love with Xue'er, but after all, he was Xue'er's father, and he was also the person who really helped him.

But at that time, considering the urgency of the war, I had to put this matter aside. Now that I have set foot on the land of Zhongshan Kingdom, it is too unsatisfactory not to see, but I am not alone at this time, I can't do whatever I want, and I have to rush to work now, so it is inconvenient to withdraw.

Thinking of this, Liu Bei said to Liu Deran: "Deran, the reason why our righteous army was able to be successfully formed in Zhuo County, Mr. Su Shuang helped us a lot, and after the end of the war, I didn't thank them properly, now Zhongshan is in a mess, I don't know if he is okay, you go to see him on my behalf!" ”

"Okay, then I'll go and see, and am I going empty-handed?"

"This ...... Most of the war materials have been used for the reconstruction of refugees after the disaster, what else can you bring, Mr. Su Shuang helped us before We should not be for money, you just go and see! ”

"Alright then!"

"Bring dry food on the road, go early and return early, and the war has just ended, although the Yellow Turban Rebellion has been largely calmed down, but thieves from all over the country have taken advantage of the chaos to swarm, you have to be careful on the road!"

"Got it, the horses have it!" Liu Deran gently patted the horse with his legs, and then separated from Liu Bei.

Looking at the back of Liu Deran leaving, Jian Yong said with a smile: "Lord County Commander, I feel that this Su Shuang should not be in Zhongshan, the previous Yellow Turban Army was all hated for the rich, and all the people they killed were local powerful landlords, rich families, corrupt officials and corrupt officials, Su Shuang is so famous in Zhongshan, how can he still wait for death in Zhongshan?" ”

"Oh, this person, he just can't see others!" Zhang Fei said with a big grin.

"If those wealthy and powerful people let the people at the bottom have something to eat, they will not attract the disaster of killing, the ruthless people are too ruthless, the wronged people are too wronged, the gap is always so big, in the final analysis, the government is not good enough, the hatred of the rich is actually a gap, if everyone is similar, then there is nothing to hate!" Jian Yong stroked the horse's mane from his mount, over and over again, making the mount so comfortable that he kept barking.

"This is not realistic, everyone is the same, then there will be no motivation for society to move forward, and there will still be a gap between people." Liu Bei said: "In fact, the gap is not artificial, the gap between some people has actually been formed from the time of birth, 10,000 steps back, even if everyone in the society has similar wealth, but can it ensure that there is no hatred between people, such as who is more beautiful, who is higher, etc. ”

"Big brother is right!" Guan Yu said after hearing this.

"Yes, that's right!" Zhang Fei echoed.

"There is nothing to praise for the immature opinion, let's speed up and get to Anxi County as soon as possible, the people there need us!" After Liu Bei finished speaking, he sped up.

After more than half a month of travel, Liu Guanzhang and Jian Yong finally came to Anxi County, and as soon as Liu Bei took office, he went straight to the county government, visited Anxi County, and then began his work.

At this time, Liu Bei recalled that when he was in Dongguan, he heard that there was a man named Cao Cao, who had also served as a county lieutenant, but he served as the northern lieutenant of Luoyang, the first county in the world. As soon as Cao Cao took office, he made more than 10 five-color sticks, placed on the left and right of the gate, there were those who violated the ban, did not avoid the strong, and killed them with sticks. He serves as a county lieutenant in a small county, and his social relations are not as complicated as Luoyang, as long as he cares about the people and enforces the law strictly, he will definitely not be worse than that Cao Cao.

Liu Bei then asked Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to serve as his deputies, respectively commanding the officers and soldiers of Anxi County, his current task is very clear, the first is to strengthen patrol and supervision, and not to let the Taiping Dao forces resurge; The second is that after the war, thieves are rampant, and thieves are strictly prevented from making waves in Anxi County and endangering the lives of the people; Third, it is necessary to use officers and soldiers to check and balance the forces of powerful landlords and prevent their forces from becoming too big and not losing their tails.

The first two points are taken for granted, and the third point is the result of Liu Bei and Jian Yong's discussion on the road. After the Yellow Turban Uprising, in order to exterminate the Yellow Turban Thieves, Emperor Liu Hong ordered that the local government could recruit volunteers on its own and cooperate with the imperial army to quell the Yellow Turban Thieves. After the fall of the Yellow Turban Uprising, the remnants of the Taiping Dao continued to riot throughout the country, and in order to facilitate the suppression of the rioters, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty decided to strengthen the local military force, and as a result, there was a situation where the local governors were free of arms.

At the same time, the emperor called on the powerful landlords to organize private troops on the grounds of quelling the rebellion, making it legal for the powerful landlords to have private troops, and they further expanded their private armed forces on the basis of clans and guests. Later, some local bureaucrats with military power dominated one side, and they co-opted powerful landlords, resulting in the formation of large and small invisible local separatist forces, and it is conceivable that after the Yellow Turban Uprising, the Han Dynasty regime gradually began to lose control of the localities.

Although the policies implemented by Liu Bei during this period of time effectively controlled the local powerful forces in Anxi County, this was actually a drop in the bucket for the entire Han Dynasty. Local forces have been increasing, and the situation of gradual centralization and decentralization has become irreversible. Although the Yellow Turban Rebellion had failed, it had destroyed the foundations of the Han regime and hastened the Han dynasty to the brink of collapse. Of course, the chaos in the world caused by the Yellow Turban Uprising also gave many children from poor families a chance to lead to their careers, for Liu Bei, and for another young man, Sun Jian.

Sun Jian was originally a native of Wujun County, Yangzhou, and after the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Uprising, he recruited more than 1,000 merchants and Huaisi elite soldiers, and invested under Zhu Jun, and fought against the Yellow Turban thieves with Zhu Jun. In the course of a battle, Sun Jian defeated the enemy, took advantage of the victory to pursue, and went deep alone, but was injured and fell from his horse and fell in the grass, when the sergeants were scattered, no one found him, but fortunately, Sun Jian's mount ran back to the camp, and the soldiers came with the horses, only to find Sun Jian in the grass, and helped Sun Jian back to the camp to recuperate. After recuperating from his war wounds for more than 10 days, he went to the battlefield again. The thief armies of Runan and Yingchuan were defeated and fled to Wancheng, holding out. Sun Jianyong was on the side, risking the arrows and stones, entering the city first, and the ants were attached, so he broke the Yellow Turban thief, and his soldiers were so encouraged, they took Wancheng and killed the thief general Han Zhong, so Zhu Jun played this matter to the imperial court, and named Sun Jian as Sima of other departments.

For Liu Bei, taking the lives of tens of millions of people in exchange for a fame, he can't do it, fighting with Zhang Bao, thousands of people's corpses are all over the mountain, and Changsheng died forever in his arms with the fear of the world, and he will never forget this scene. Although he does not want to see the situation of chaos in the world, how can the development of history be controlled by him alone, since the arrow has to be sent on the string, he can only take advantage of the situation and act in accordance with the situation to do the things of the Han Dynasty.

Just as Liu Bei was doing his best to maintain social order in Anxi County, Liu Hong, the emperor of Luoyang, Kyoto, was sad at this time, because he had no money. The money earned by the hard work of selling the official mantle "doing business" before, a Yellow Turban thief rebellion made him lose all his money, the war was money and food, the expenses of the imperial army outside were huge, the treasury was originally empty, there was no way, under the internal and external pressure of the ministers of the court and the Yellow Turban thieves, Liu Hong could only take out his "private money" to cope with the huge expenses, so now his small treasury is empty, so he is depressed all day long, and he is not in the mood to do anything.

Seeing that His Majesty was so unhappy, Zhao Zhong, the middle attendant, said: "Your Majesty, since you took out your own money and lent it to the imperial court to deal with the war, then you have to repay the loan." "What Zhao Zhong said is not human words, the emperor took money to the court and said that it was "borrowed", isn't this ridiculous and generous, the whole world is not the king's land, the things in the whole world are the emperor's things, the emperor uses his own money to save his own things, this is what should be done, how can it be said to be borrowed.

But Liu Hong doesn't think so, he likes to eat this set, he likes to be proud of being able to make money from the court, at this time when he saw Zhao Zhong say "return", he wondered: "How to pay it back, the treasury is empty, where can the silver be returned." The emperor put his arms around a concubine and kissed her.

"Your Majesty, the slave thinks we can go back to our old business and sell our official beard." Zhao Zhong is a eunuch, he has seen a lot of things like the emperor, and he doesn't feel embarrassed at this time, and he still has something to say.

"Alas~ You slave, don't you know that after this war, the court has rewarded the remaining officials to those who have made war achievements, where can you sell the vacant official positions?" Liu Hong saw that Zhao Zhong couldn't get to the point, so he pushed the concubine away, sat up and looked at Zhao Zhong impatiently.

"Your Majesty, there is also a distinction between true and false achievements, those who really have military merits, then they deserve it; But those who have made false meritorious contributions, can't we cheapen them, we must find out and remove them from office. ”

Liu Hong's eyes lit up when he heard it at this moment, and he immediately smiled, clapped his hands and said: "Okay, Zhao Zhong, I really have you, I think what you said is very reasonable, spread my will, just do it!" ”

"Yes, the minion obeys!" After Zhao Zhong bowed, he got up and left, and a red-hot political reshuffle was brewed.