Suicheng failed to hold it after all, and together with Bo Anjun, Kang Lingjun, Fu Yuanjun and others in Suicheng, they could not escape their doom, which shows how much the Black Turban Army hated the powerful. At the same time, the ability of the Black Turban Army to attack the city exceeded the previously expected combat power by several times, and the bad news three times a day really surprised everyone.

Jiang Min didn't care about the aftermath, and went to the Taishou Mansion to discuss the civil change, leaving Jiang Gan, Jiang Rong, Luo Songting, Chen Yunfeng, Bai Liyan and others in the mansion to continue to wait for the news of the Taishou Mansion.

After dark, the government prepared dinner, but Bailiyan couldn't eat at all, pacing back and forth under the verandah, feeling uneasy.

I don't know when, Luo Songting appeared behind him and asked lukewarmly:

"Wei Gongzi, but I'm worried about the combat power of the thief soldiers."

"It was Senior Luo." Bailiyan (Wei Xian) gave a slight salute and said: "This time the people are like a tiger, and they actually captured the two counties of Sun State within a month, invaded the territory of Xianguo, Sun State, and Zhiguo, and also captured Suicheng, and forced the palace capital of Qiu Nanzhi.

If it were an ordinary rebellion, it would not have been able to have such a rapid momentum. Moreover, the mutiny of the 100,000 army of Sun Guo is very strange, and the rebellion of the defenders of Chuanyang Pass is inexplicable, and all kinds of visions are hinting that behind this civil upheaval, there must be someone secretly at the mercy of the maze. ”

It is impossible for the rebels to have strict military discipline, strong combat quality and strategic organization, even if they have the 100,000 mutinous army of Sun Guo to rely on, it is impossible for the rebels to digest a whole army in a short period of time, not to mention that the main force of the Black Turban Army is attacking Shangguan County of Sun State, and it is impossible to draw more men and horses to blossom in all directions.

Judging from the current news, the loss of Chuanyang Pass and Suicheng in Chunan County is not the bad luck of the Xianguo family, and the Zhiguo and Changsun Kingdom also lost their cities and land, which means that the Black Turban Army attacked from all sides and offended all the surrounding powers.

Even if all countries have the basis for a popular uprising, it is difficult to believe that there is no driving force behind such a large-scale collective popular uprising, and it is by no means a day's work to mutinize the army.

Even now, it is impossible to see who is the beneficiary behind this popular uprising, more like all the countries have offended all the people in the world, and almost all the countries of the Central Plains have been involved in this huge uprising that changed the political map overnight.

"It seems that the hero sees something the same." Luo Songting said, walked into two steps and continued: "What the people are against is harsh government and heavy taxes, and what all the people in the world do is nothing more than abundant food and procreation. Now worshipping heaven as a father and exterminating kings and magnates is intended to overturn the foundation of today's national system. ”

"The intention of the predecessors, could it be that this popular uprising was deliberately done by someone?"

Luo Songting nodded, affirming Bailiyan's guess.

"Since the Liang Dynasty was divided, there have been 626 springs, summers, autumns and winters, and there are only three who can set the general trend of the world. Does Wei Gongzi know who the three families are? ”

Luo Songting asked, Bai Liyan seemed to understand:

"Please also ask the seniors for advice."

"For the monarch, the power is overwhelming. For businessmen, wealth loses the world. For the Taoist, Libu the world. Wei Gongzi thought that the Black Turban Army should be one of the three. ”

Luo Songting was very calm, and Bai Liyan was stunned:

"Could it be the sons of the hundred schools and the giant merchants!"

Luo Songting nodded and said:

"The Black Turban Army worships Heaven as the monarch's father, and it is nothing more than a pretense of heaven's will to fool the ignorant people and fools of the people in the whole world, and how can we be deceived by those who know what is going on."

"Hiss......" Bai Liyan's heart was shocked, and he hurriedly said: "It is not to worship the heavens as the monarch's father, but from the way of the foolish sect." ”

"It's not known, it's not known."

Perhaps Luo Songting has seen through the mystery of the civil uprising from the very beginning. Bai Liyan should have thought that the so-called worship of heaven as the monarch's father is nothing more than kidnapping the name of heaven and heaven's will, inciting the ignorant people of the whole world to rise up and overthrow the existing political pattern.

Nowadays, the education level of the common people is extremely low, the literacy rate is calculated in 1 in 10,000, and "heaven" is often the ultimate authoritative logic of all unexplainable phenomena in the feudal era, and the people's worship of "heaven" far exceeds their loyalty to the king.

Even kings and sons of heaven had to go up to the altar to worship the heavens in order to prove their legitimate rule. And then from the providence evolved into the theory of God, a kind of ethereal spiritual sustenance.

The deeper reason why the Black Turban Army will not rashly set a historical precedent and move out of the name of "Monarch Father" as a teacher is that a certain kind of theology-based thinking among the sons and hundreds of sons has gradually evolved from theory to theoretical practice, and this practice is often triggered by the people's misery caused by natural and man-made disasters.

In addition, in the oppression of natural and man-made disasters, it is logical to oppose the existing ruling class in the name of the gods with the will of heaven, and in order to make the insurrection acceptable to more basic potential forces, it is often necessary to bring out the most basic representative and impeccable perfect logic of a particular era, which is the will of the gods.

All oppressive and inexplicable phenomena are explained to the ignorant and ignorant people of the world in the tone of God, and the precedent set by the Black Turban Army is precisely the peasant uprising instigated by the primitive spiritual religion of "Heaven is the monarch and father", and even the merchants who have been exploited and suppressed and have extremely low status.

Luo Songting didn't have any concept of religion, but he obviously saw that the geopolitical destruction brought by the Black Turban Army's worship of heaven to the monarch was changing the political system that had never changed since ancient times.

As Luo Songting said, since ancient times, even in modern society, those who can win the world need power, money, and spiritual beliefs.

The Black Turban Army, which worshiped heaven as the monarch's father, unprecedentedly aroused the spiritual combat effectiveness of the peasants, and as soon as it appeared, it quickly caused the 100,000-strong army based on the peasants to mutiny. This kind of spiritual sustenance is undoubtedly more like a cult, a cult with extremely demagogic power.

Religion or revolution did not begin to stir up the toiling masses of the world to fight for it.

When Christianity penetrated Rome, it took more than 100 years and dirty means to gain a foothold on the European continent. Buddhism was introduced to China, and it also took more than 300 years to be accepted by the Central Plains.

The spread of religion is to spread the idea of self-cultivation and self-cultivation, and gradually win the masses, which has the specific rationality of its time. It is difficult not to think of the Taiping Dao, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Red Lotus Sect, and so on, created by Zhang Jiao of the Yellow Turban Uprising.

Apart from the extremely incendiary cults, it is difficult to have a rational logic to explain this rare peasant uprising in the past few years.

Luo Songting did not deny that worshipping heaven as the monarch's father was manipulated behind the back of one of the hundred sons, nor was it certain that it was the foolish faction that was manipulated behind the scenes, perhaps he was also worried that the theory of the foolish faction in the name of heaven and Taoism, once it openly fell to the black turban army, it would be even more destructive to the existing geopolitics.

Jiang Min went to the Taishou Mansion to discuss matters, and did not return until late at night, when Taishou Yuzhuang received that the Lingling directly crossed the county guard, and directly issued an administrative order to the counties, requiring all localities to strictly prevent the impact of the rebellious people, and within half a month, to transport money, grain and other goods to the Lingling for the army to conquer the rebellious army.

This means that King Xian will send troops to recruit the rebel army in the near future.

Xianguo has an army of 180,000, the Jin State and the Changsun Guohu are allies, adjacent to the east and west sides of the Xianguo, and the Xianguo is the lower state of the Jin State, so in the past five years, the main army of the Xianguo has been arranged in the southern line of Suidang County, and the two counties of Chunan and Xianxi were originally guarded by the Western Army, and the garrison strength is only 20,000, even if the county soldiers from all over the country are added, the combat power will not exceed 50,000.

King Xian transferred money and grain to various places, either to build a new army, or to send part of the 100,000 Zhennan army to Qiunan to quell the rebellion.

It was too late to form a new army, and the Zhennan Army was mobilized to quell the rebellion, and Zhiguo also had the possibility of leaving Guangxin Gong ready to move. The best strategy should be to mobilize the Jiangdong Army, the troops of the Lingling County, and the Forbidden Army as the basis, quickly fill the conscripts, join the Zhenxi Army, and go south to Qiunan County to quell the rebellion.

On the fifth day after the Black Turban Army broke through Suicheng, King Xian made an exception to invite the envoys of the Jin State to participate in the court meeting, intending to test the reaction of the Jin State.

The court finally decided to transfer 10,000 soldiers from the capital county, 10,000 soldiers from the Lingling garrison, 5,000 forbidden troops, 25,000 new soldiers, and 20,000 soldiers from the Jiangdong Army to form a new army to march west to quell the rebellion.

At the same time, he ordered Taiwei Dingyang Marquis Zhang Jun to supervise the country's soldiers and horses, and Da Sima Jiang Yan was in charge of logistics supply to ensure the use of troops in Qiunan.

The post of General Zhenxi is dedicated to the defense of the country, and the post of General of the Conquest is set up when foreign enemies invade or go abroad to fight. In the case of counterinsurgency or low-intensity defensive operations, the general of the town army can have an overview of the military affairs of the border defense and counterinsurgency, and exercise the authority of the general.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, the news of Lu Ji's appointment as the commander of the counterinsurgency reached the prince's mansion, and the Jin envoy Qian Kun told the court in detail, and Xihuan also knew that King Xian intended to test the reaction of the Jin Kingdom.

"Qian Envoy, what do you think of Lu Ji?" Xihuan asked Qian Kun, thinking about the situation in front of him at the same time.

"Back to His Royal Highness, Lu Ji is an average soldier, but he is old and serious, and he can gain the upper hand in fighting with the eldest grandson army, and he is still three points away from fighting with Zhiguo. Its ability is far above Ding Yanghou, and it is inferior to Zhao Xun. This expedition against the rebels, with Lu Ji's ability, should be more than enough. ”

"Oh!" Xihuan looked at Qian Kun suspiciously, and asked Gu Chen again: "Gu Chen, you have gone to Qiu Nan to inquire in detail, do you think Lu Ji can win this battle?" ”

"Back to His Royal Highness, it is rumored that there are as many as 50,000 people who have broken through the Suicheng rebellion, and there are 30,000 people in Suicheng County, conscripts, and strong men, but they have not been able to support it in five days before it was breached, most of which are the people of Suicheng mutinied, so that the rebel army can enter the city so smoothly and kill more than 3,000 people from the whole family such as Taishou and Fengjun.

Lu Ji went south this time, if there was still a chance of victory in the field battle, if he wanted to recapture Suicheng and Chuanyang Pass, it would be difficult to do anything with only 90,000 soldiers. Moreover, there has been a commotion in Xianxi County, and if the main force of the Zhenxi Army goes south to Qiunan, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no fire in the backyard of Xianxi County. ”

Gu Chen is a secret worker, and his analysis is more transparent than Qian Kun. Xihuan nodded again and again, and his bewitching face suddenly became a little more worried.

"Money envoy, how should you reply to my father about this?"

"Back to Your Highness, the chaotic people have not yet become a trend, and the minister thinks that it is not possible to send troops to fight with the bandit army, which will damage the strength of my Jin country. The situation on the side of Wei Guo and Qi Guo has eased somewhat, and it is presumable that the main force of the Northern Army will be withdrawn in the summer.

Even if you want to use troops to quell the rebellion, you have to wait until after the autumn. Therefore, the minister suggested that money and grain could be used to help the Xianguo counterinsurgency, which would also make the Xianguo consume its own strength. ”

"Well, that's what I want. I asked the money envoy to repair a letter to my father, and the princess of Xianguo will make arrangements. ”

"No, the minister will do it immediately."

When Qian Kun left, Xihuan said to Gu Chen again:

"Gu Chen, can you find out the details of the Black Turban Army?"

"Back to Your Highness, these black turban soldiers are all peasant tenants, and their armor is average, except for the Xianguo people, there are also Zhiguo, Changsun, and Sun Guoren, who have followed the demons when they conquered the city, and they didn't want to die at all.

There were 50,000 people in the attack on Suicheng alone, all of whom were peasants, and they were dedicated to killing the magnates and officials. In addition, there are rumors that the leader of the Black Turban Army has been promoted, claiming to be the divine authority of the heavens, and he has proclaimed himself the father of the world, how arrogant is this. ”

Xihuan disagreed, and said contemptuously:

"These untouchables are really arrogant. The country of Liang is still there, and the countries are coexisting, but they have a sweet dream, and they really don't know how to write dead characters. ”

"What His Royal Highness said is very true, but the rebel army is fierce, does the princess ask the king to transfer Jiangdong troops to escort him, in case ......"

Gu Chen wanted to speak and stopped, Xihuan's face suddenly sank, and his face was displeased:

"The Xian army is fierce, and it can't be attacked under the city of Chenling."

Xihuan would rather believe that the Xian army was completely annihilated than that the Xian army was vulnerable. If she is really attacked by the rebel army under the city of Chenling, Xihuan is also a person who wants to be faced, and when she is on the verge of the city, she, the princess, will not be too cowardly.