Chapter 103: Changshan Yellow Turban
Han Yi saw that Luo Pei and Sun Qing were leading the way, so he was happy. www.biquge.info Lu Ping quietly told Han Yi that he didn't want his identity to be exposed, and said to Luo Pei and Sun Qing that Han Yi was just going to Yuyang Qiping County to take up his post today.
Han Yi asked Lu Ping why he had been stranded in Changshan Country for a long time. Lu Ping said: "My cousin's situation in Changshan Country is not very good, because he is not the high-level leader of Taiping Dao, and the betrayal of his guide Tang Zhou has caused great harm to Taiping Dao. Therefore, most of the leaders of the Yellow Turbans at all levels in Changshan Country who know the status of the salary are disobedient to them. My cousin heard that the court was deliberately plotting to disperse the Yellow Turban Army in Changshan Kingdom, and because he had insufficient trustworthy manpower, he left me behind. ”
Han Yi frowned and said, "Couldn't my cousin establish his prestige in the Changshan Yellow Turban Army in the few battles in Jiumen County?" ”
Lu Ping shook his head and said, "After the Battle of Xiaquyang, the Yellow Turban Army of Changshan Kingdom belonged to the United Army. Although Zhang Bao died, most of his subordinate generals survived, and there were only more than 10,000 people who could completely obey his cousin's army. After arriving in Changshan, the leaders of the Yellow Turban Army had to gather around their cousins because of the persecution of the imperial army. After the Battle of the Nine Gates, although the cousin won the trust of many leaders of the Yellow Turban Army. ”
But as soon as the court army retreated, the Yellow Turban Army lost external oppression, and the arrival of Tao Sheng, the leader of the Yellow Turban of Zhao State, made things worse...... In particular, Zhang Niujiao, who holds his prestige in the Yellow Turban Army of Changshan Country, has a strong military strength, and has many people who obey orders, so he often challenges the status of his cousin. Half a month ago, he even sent troops to attack Julu without authorization, intending to drag the entire Changshan country into the war again. ”
"Zhang Niujiao's progress in Julu is very fast, and I heard that the war in the northwest is tight. The generals of the Yellow Turban Army, such as Chu Feiyan, Guo Daxian, Huang Long, Zhang Leigong, Liu Shi, Wang Dang, Greentown, Tao Sheng and other leaders of the Yellow Turban Army, are all ready to move, sharpen their knives, and prepare to go out of Changshan at any time to respond to Zhang Niujiao's army. Now the only people who can obey the orders of their cousins are Sun Qing, Zuo Xiao, Li Damu and other thirty or forty thousand horses. ”
Han Yi frowned and said, "Didn't you tell you to guard against the conspiracy of the people sent by the court?" Zhang Niujiao's horns are clearly provoked by others. As the saying goes, one army cannot tolerate two masters, since Zhang Niujiao doesn't listen, he will either be cut off and killed quickly. Either it is good to close and disperse, and the horns of the horns are partly carried out. How could it be that it induced all the other leaders of the Yellow Turban Army to rebel again? ”
Lu Ping sighed: "My cousin is kind-hearted, but he is a little indecisive, and he has always thought that the Yellow Turban Army in Changshan Country is already weak, and he can't start civil strife and kill each other, which greatly reduces his own strength, but is taken advantage of by the court." I don't want people's hearts to go their way, or to slip in an unpredictable direction. ”
Han Yi shook his head, looking at the military affairs of leading the army to fight, even the unscrupulous Huangfu Song was not his opponent, and he didn't want him to be so unwise in handling the internal affairs of the army. The reputation of fratricidal civil strife is indeed ugly, but sometimes after fratricidal civil strife, it is possible that one's own strength will rise instead of decreasing. Like after the defeat, the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army who stood on the top of the mountain, after not listening to the persuasion, because they should be decided, how could hundreds of thousands of people be trapped in the war because of Zhang Niujiao?
Han Yi and his entourage went north for a few days, and they came to the county governance Yuan clan of Changshan Country. Along the way, Han Yi saw that the millet seedlings in various places were verdant, and the production recovery was good, there was no harvest for the whole year last year, and if there was no war this year, there would be at least six or seven percent of the harvest. It's just that after the battle of Zhang Niujiao, the war has started again, and the millet seedlings that have not been sown long ago are afraid to become weeds.
Han Yi waited for a long time in the Yuan clan's county guard's mansion, and it was only late to pay his salary, and after waving off the attendants in the mansion, he took off the iron mask on his face, revealing a pale and bloodless face with a beard and a raza although it was chronological.
I saw a sense of decadence on his face, and after seeing Han Yi, he pulled out a smile and said, "Cousin Yi, don't come to harm, how long have we not seen each other?" ”
Han Yi said with a smile: "The younger cousin lives in Chenggu in Hanzhong, and the younger brother lives in Zhaoling in Runan, so we only have to meet once every three years." Now the younger brother has just turned twenty-one years old, which is exactly three years since I saw him. I don't want to be just three years, but my cousin has done such a big business, not only is he famous in the world, but even his status is too guarded by a county. The Fu family has a son like this, which can be regarded as comforting the ancestors. ”
Pay the salary smiled bitterly and said: "Cousin Yi came to me again to find me happy, I don't dare to look at people with my true face every day, where can I comfort my ancestors." Now it's just struggling to maintain, this yellow turban thief is really a mud that can't be helped. ”
Han Yi asked strangely, "Isn't my cousin looking for an opportunity in Luoyang?" Why did he come to Jizhou, Hebei Province, and get involved with the Yellow Turban thief? ”
Pay a long sigh and talk about his own experience. said: "Originally, when I was in Julu, I was going to leave the Yellow Turban Thief and go to Taihang Mountain to study in seclusion. I don't want the situation of the yellow turban thief to change greatly after half a year, and it will turn from prosperity to decline. At that time, Chengzhang was also living in seclusion with me in the Taihang Mountains, and when he heard that Zhang Liang was trapped, he begged me to go down the mountain to save people. ”
I couldn't refuse, so I had to go down the mountain with him. At that time, Zhang Liang's army was defeated, so he had to gather thousands of remnants and go to Xiaquyang, not wanting Zhang Bao to be dead, and the yellow scarf was destroyed. Originally, I also wanted to retreat, but I saw that Huangfu Song wanted to slaughter tens of thousands of yellow turban thieves outside Xiaquyang City, and because of his good heart, he saved their lives, and he didn't want to carry this burden on his back, and he couldn't throw it away at this time. ”
Han Yi said with a smile: "What can't you throw away, anyway, there are very few people among the Yellow Turban thieves who know your true face, and if you abandon them and leave, who will find you." ”
Fu Yu shook his head with a wry smile and said: "I am the Heavenly Dao General of the Yellow Turban, and the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Changshan Country are all in my hands. The court did not want to surrender to them, and at this time they were secretly plotting to destroy them, so how could I abandon them at this time of great danger? ”
Han Yi smiled: "But how many of them are willing to listen to your advice?" Your Heavenly Dao general does not live up to your name at all, you treat them as people, but they may not treat you as a king. ”
He didn't answer the salary, just shook his head blindly, and in the end, the salary was paid and said: "Cousin Yi, you are now the magistrate of Qianping County, and your future is limitless, it is better to stay in Changshan less, don't let people know the real relationship between you and me." I'm afraid that the court will be bad for you, your uncle, and Cousin Rui. ”
Han Yi didn't listen to the salary when he saw it, so he could only give up persuasion. Originally, I wanted to ask the salary for the strange formation of the defeated famous general Huangfu Song, but I didn't want to pay the salary at this time, so I could only put it down for the time being. Prepare to leave Yuanshi early tomorrow morning and continue north.
Early in the morning of the second day, he didn't have time to come to see him off, but he ordered Luo Pei to offer a hundred gold and send it all the way to Han Yi to the border of Zhongshan Kingdom, and then he said goodbye and left.
Han Yi looked at the direction of the Yuan clan in the south, and thought: Listening to Lu Ping's words, the biggest opponent of paying salaries in Changshan Country is the old Changshan Country Yellow Turban Thief Qu Shuai Zhang Niujiao. If Zhang Niujiao dies, he will be able to control Changshan and the country smoothly by paying his salary. I also heard that Julu Taishou Guo Dian is a capable person, because he failed to successfully pacify the Yellow Turban Thief Army of Changshan Kingdom, he was not happy, and he did not want to be appointed as a high-ranking official of the court to leave office, but he was only willing to stay in Julu County to continue to prevent Yellow Turban thieves. At this time, he has Yan Liang and Wen Chou under him, and Zhang Niujiao should not be his opponent. But why did you hear that the horn had made so much progress?
Yes, Zhang Niujiao is good at attacking giant deer, and paying the salary can be inferred to be his own behavior, which has nothing to do with the Yellow Turban Army of Changshan Kingdom, and can still maintain a superficial harmony with the court. But if the other leaders of the Yellow Turban Thieves also went out together, the other Yellow Turban troops in the Changshan Kingdom would become rebels if they did not rebel. Guo Dian is retreating as an advance, intending to lure out the other people in the Changshan Kingdom and force the Yellow Turban Army to rebel against the Changshan Kingdom.
It's just that last year's war has just stopped for half a year, and at this time, the Qiang Qiang Rebellion in the northwest is blazing, and the court has no army in Hebei, how can Guo Dian have this grasp to defeat the salary of the famous Zhenglong?
Yes, although the paid soldiers are strong, they are bent on guarding the border of Changshan and developing production. After a long time, two or three years after the harvest, the people decided that Changshan Country would become a country within a country. At that time, the salaries will be paid and the soldiers will be paid, and it will be difficult to find peace. The court wants to raise troops to fight again, not to mention that it can't be paid for fighting, even if it is for the sake of the court's credibility and prestige, it can't send troops to attack Changshan Country first.
However, the relationship within the Yellow Turban Army made the strategists sent by the court see an opportunity. Qu Shuai Zhang Niujiao's prestige is no less than paying a salary, but he first provoked Zhang Niujiao's rebellion, and then made Zhang Niujiao progress very quickly in Julu County, the purpose is to increase the reputation of that Niujiao. No matter how successful it is to lure out the Yellow Turban Army of Changshan Country, at that time, it is difficult to say that the head of the Yellow Turban Army of Changshan Country will not pay salaries, and maybe it will become a bull's horn that is majestic on the surface.
It is indeed difficult to resist the enemy, but this horn is not a problem, as long as the horn is broken, and then it is easy to deal with the salary without heavy soldiers in hand. At this time, around Julu County, although there is no imperial army here, there must be several strong armies lurking in it, keeping an eye on the movements in Changshan Country at all times. As long as most of the Changshan Yellow Turban Army is dispatched, it is the time for them to attack up and down.
When Han Yi thought about this, he was shocked in his heart, although he had not participated in the conspiracy, he was not bad as expected. As long as the salary is not paid and Zhang Niujiao is killed quickly, Zhang Niujiao will one day slowly seize the position of the leader of the salary on the battlefield of the giant deer. Then came the day of the complete failure of the Changshan Yellow Turban. Although Zhang Niujiao's life is not worth anything, he must be saved by paying his salary.
But how to save the salary? Han Yi couldn't help but feel a little worried,