After the autumn, the weather in the northwest is getting colder and colder, and it is inconvenient to send troops, even if the emperor urges, Fuquan will not be stupid to send troops in winter, after all, this is a taboo in the final analysis.

As the Hanhu cavalry from all over Sanfu and the northern regions continued to pour into Liangzhou, anyone understood that the second offensive after Fuquan entered Liangzhou was about to begin.

Of course, even if the northwest land falls into a short period of peace, the world is still not stable.

Among them, the instability in the world is still caused by the emperor Liu Hong, or the eunuchs trusted by Liu Hong, as for the root cause of the inside, it is naturally the treasury that has been empty after the Taiping Dao Rebellion.

In February, there was a disaster in Nangong Yuntai, and many palaces in Luoyang were damaged, and Liu Hong wanted to get money to build it quickly, but he didn't have much to do. Therefore, Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong, who were often servants, saw this and persuaded Liu Hong to levy a field tax on the cultivated land of the whole country, ten yuan per mu, to build a palace and cast bronze figures.

This move naturally aroused the anger of the world, after all, the world had just been recuperating from the Taiping Dao disaster, and Liu Hong raised taxes like this, obviously not giving those people a way to live.

Seeing this, Lu Kang, the Taishou of Le'an County, wrote a letter to dissuade him: "Xilu declared taxes and suffered from the plague. Mourning the increase of the public and Confucius is not, how can there be a bronze man who gathers and grabs the people's property to camp useless, donates the holy ring, and follows the law of the dead king! ”

Lu Kang's words were to use the matter of Lu Xuangong and Lu Aigong to warn Liu Hong. In the spring and autumn of that year, Lu Xuangong levied a field tax per mu, so the larvae of locusts hatched in large quantities, causing disasters; Lu Aigong wanted to increase the taxes of the people, but Confucius thought that this was wrong. How can Yan Dao forcibly plunder the people's property to build useless bronze men? How can one forget the admonitions of the saints and follow the example of the deceased monarch himself? ”

This is actually a very good metaphor, Liu Hong naturally understands, but the eunuchs have long been eyeing this piece of fat, how can they be willing to let the emperor cancel this order? Therefore, they impeached and attacked Lu Kang, saying that he cited the example of the death of the country to compare the emperor of Shengming, and committed the crime of "great disrespect" against the emperor, and Liu Hong was immediately furious when he heard this, and ordered Lu Kang to be escorted to Tingwei Prison for trial in a prisoner's car. If it weren't for the fact that Liu Dai, who came to serve the imperial history, wrote to defend him, Lu Kang would not have been executed and exiled to his hometown, otherwise he might have come up with something.

As for the collection of taxes, Liu Hong and the eunuchs naturally did not fall behind, and the imperial court issued an edict to let all states and counties contribute wood and beautiful textured stones to the imperial court, and send them to Beijing in batches to build palaces.

During this period, the eunuchs were picky in every way when they accepted the inspection, and forced the state and county officials to sell those that were considered unqualified, and the price was only one-tenth of the original price. However, the eunuchs who audited the state were still very picky and refused to accept it immediately, resulting in the timber being piled up and decaying, and the palace was not completed for many years. At the same time, many people in various places who spent money to buy officials from the West Mansion even took advantage of this opportunity to privately increase the taxes of the people, and embezzled from them, and the people complained and wailed.

However, despite this, Liu Hong, who was the initiator of the matter, just wanted to build some damaged palaces, but he lost an even worse reputation for it. However, the end result was that the palace always needed not enough wood and stone, and it was never completed.

There was no wood or stone, so Liu Hong could only order his henchmen and guards in the West Garden to go to the prefectures and counties to supervise, and these people intimidated and frightened the state and county officials, and at the same time accepted large bribes. Those assassins, 2,000 stone officials, as well as Maocai and Xiaolian, are required to pay money for "helping the army" and "repairing the palace" when they are promoted and go to office.

Of course, these two names of money are the reason why Liu Hong has intensified his efforts to seek money, among them, the Taishou of the big county usually has to pay 20 or 30 million yuan, and the rest are different according to different official ranks. All newly appointed officials must first go to the West Garden to agree on the amount of money to be paid before they can take up their posts.

Most people agree with this, anyway, after paying the money, they will always earn back the money if they go to office and embezzle some money. It's just that there are always people who don't agree, for example, some honest people, seeing that the emperor took the initiative to ask for bribes, directly asked to resign, but in the end they were forced to take office and pay money.

During this period, Sima Zhi, a native of Hanoi, had just been appointed as the Taishou of Julu, and because he was known as a humble man, the amount he should pay was reduced by three million. Sima went directly to the edict, sighed abruptly, and said: "I can't bear to cut off the people for the sake of the people's parents." Subsequently, Sima Zhi resigned on the pretext of illness, but it was not approved, and on the way to his post, he went to Mengjin, wrote a very detailed and straightforward account of the various malpractices of the time, and then committed suicide by taking poison.

Of course, Sima Zhi's matter is not necessarily bad, because after his recital was presented, Liu Hong was very shocked when he saw it, and knew that his wishful thinking had made many people profit, so he ordered to temporarily stop the collection of palace repair money, which made those who made a lot of money stop.

In this regard, Fu Quan has nothing to say, at this time, the officialdom of the Han Dynasty has long been as corrupt as the long dynasties of the past dynasties, whether you are a party member, a scholar, a relative or a eunuch, you can not be corrupt for the sake of fame in office, after all, most of them are from the family, in fact, they are not bad at all, but unless they have to, don't file other people's financial roads.

And most people are forced to adapt to this phenomenon, and if they can't persevere, they can only choose to go along with the same stream, and only a few people can still insist, but this time it was the emperor Liu Hong who made them pay the money, and it was Liu Hong who saw that those officials from the family were rich and wanted to carry out political robbery, unless you were unwilling to be an official, otherwise, you could only go along with it.

If it weren't for the fact that Liangzhou was in the midst of the war at the moment, and it was already a bitter cold place, Fu Quan thought that if he served in other places when Liu Hong issued this edict, he didn't know how he would deal with Liu Hong's harsh conditions.

Fu Quan is not afraid of how much money he will spend to become an official, for him, even if he inherits the family property to learn from Cao Cao and his father Cao Song, it is no problem to spend 100 million yuan to sit on the third prince. Of course, there is naturally someone who does this this year, and that person is a famous person in Youzhou, Cui Lie, a native of Anping, Gaoyang.

At that time, not only the palace had a disaster in February, but even the Lecheng Gate also had a disaster, according to the disaster uniform since the founding of the dynasty, Fuquan's political enemy Situ Yuan Kui became a scapegoat for these two incidents and was deposed.

And Cui Lie thinks that Cui's Jizhou is a famous family, he has few British titles, has been a secretary, and is also a famous man, and the nephew of Cui Ming, a great calligrapher who is sometimes known as "Cui Du", should be the third duke, so he lost 5 million money to Emperor Liu Hong's nurse Mrs. Cheng. On the day of the appointment, the Son of Heaven came in person, and all the officials were finished, and Mrs. Cheng said it in public, Cui Lie's prestige immediately plummeted, and everyone thought that it smelled of copper.

It's just that it's ridiculous that those who dislike Cui Lie for having a copper smell, they seem to be high, didn't they secretly pay Liu Hong for promotion? Obviously impossible, if Cui Lie didn't look for Liu Hong's nurse, he went directly to the West Mansion to see Liu Hong, and if he told him in person, I'm afraid no one would say so, after all, as long as you don't collude with the eunuchs in the palace, even if you buy and sell officials, others won't laugh so shamefully if they know, Ma Rong, a famous man in this dynasty, will not be like this soon, as a noble relative, he has repeatedly embezzled and accepted bribes, although it will make people secretly shameful, but on the surface, Ma Rong is still a model for the society at that time, and the object of worship by all the scholars and scholars.

As for what Fuquan is afraid of, but it is those wood, stones, as we all know, good wood, stone is difficult to find, and to find, those big wood, big stones, the manpower and material resources spent do not know how much, which also represents how many laborers are recruited by the local government, invisibly, so that the people who have just passed through the scourge of the Yellow Turban Moth Thieves in Taiping Road have not yet cultivated and recuperated, and they are in trouble again, I am afraid that it is precisely for this reason that the people have gone through the Taiping Road. Even though many people know that they can't deal with the big man if they resist as a thief, they still want to deal with the government and want to achieve their inner thoughts and become thieves.

For Liu Hong's actions, Fu Quan is not good to say, when the world is in chaos, although his behavior is a little mediocre, after all, there is a bastard thing that builds a palace, but is harmed by trusted officials, as for the more unscrupulous buying and selling officials, it seems to be greedy for money, but in fact, it is not the Han Dynasty is short of money?

After all, even if the Taiping Dao Rebellion was quelled last year, the world was not stable, and now the Han is still fighting on the two fronts of the north and the west, Liu Hong has no money, what war can he fight? Do you want those Han armies to be white warriors who are willing to sacrifice, who don't want money, food, or any rewards to fight for the Han Dynasty? Obviously impossible, even if they thought, their wives and children in the family would not let them do this.

However, having said that, Liu Hong is obviously a bit fucked up when it comes to collecting money. He also built the Wanjin Hall in the West Mansion, and introduced the money and silk to accumulate in the hall, and hid and deposited tens of millions of money in the homes of the small yellow gates and the permanent servants, and bought a field house in the river, starting from the first view.

Everything, as if to learn a lesson, in the previous pacification of the Taiping Road, the emperor Fu Song knew the money in his west mansion, let him give all the money BMW to reward the sergeant's response, after all, after all, if the reward is made, no one can really care about the finances of the Han Dynasty, in that case, for Liu Hong, the operability will be greater.

Of course, in this year, it is not without good things, in addition to the great victory of Fuquan in Liangzhou, in the north, Huangfu Song attacked the Black Mountain thieves without pressure, and the effect achieved was also to break Feng, the Black Mountain thieves had several Han army field battles, all of which were broken by Huangfu Song, and in the end they had no choice but to hide between the mountains and mountains in the Taihang Mountains, so that the Han army was helpless all of a sudden.

Although the Han army can gather troops and attack along the mountain range one by one, and then exterminate the Black Mountain thieves step by step, but now that it is autumn, it is almost winter, and it is impossible for Huangfu Song to use this time-consuming time to play hide and seek with the Black Mountain thieves in winter, and the Black Mountain Thieves naturally hope that winter will come, so that Huang Fu Song's Han army can consciously retreat.

The two armies are so deadlocked, but the first to change is still the Black Mountain Bandits, as for the reason, it is that the leader of the Black Mountain Thieves has changed and replaced it with a person named Zhang Yan.

However, Zhang Yan's real name is this name, his real name is Chu Yan, as for why he changed his name, it was because of his friend Zhang Niujiao. At the beginning, Zhang Niujiao and Chu Yan joined forces to attack the gall Tao, and the horn was in the middle of the arrow, and died because of it, before he died, he ordered his subordinates to respect Chu Yan as the commander, and Chu Yan also changed his surname to Zhang in order to repay his friends and commemorate him. However, because Zhang Yan is as light as a swallow, and brave and good at fighting, the soldiers admired him very much, so some people in the army called him "Feiyan" for this name, and over time, his name of "Feiyan" also overshadowed his real name, and finally others directly called him "Zhang Feiyan", as for his real name, it was too little.

Because Zhang Feiyan's army forces after joining forces with Zhang Niujiao, after taking over Zhang Niujiao's army, the power is huge, many valley thieves in Taihang Mountain, see because your forces are more vying to rely on Zhang Feiyan's department, and later, Zhang Feiyan's troops are extensive, to one million, called the Black Mountain thieves, Hebei counties and counties and were victimized by them, and the local government can not begg, so the imperial court let the famous Jizhou herdsman Huangfu Song, with the previous stay in Jizhou, participated in the pacification of most of the main Han army of the Yellow Turban Moth thieves in Taiping Road, Jizhou, to crusade against the Black Mountain thieves.

As a result, Huangfu Song lived up to his name as the first general to pacify the Yellow Turban Moth Thieves in Taiping Road, and beat the millions of black mountain thieves under Zhang Feiyan's command, and retreated one after another, and finally could only retreat into the Taihang Mountain, living up to the momentum of the previous principal, and Zhang Feiyan saw that the momentum was not right, so he finally sent an envoy to Beijing to Luoyang, and begged for surrender.

Liu Hong also knew that it was really difficult to let the Black Mountain thieves shrink in Taihang Mountain, and the longer the Black Mountain thieves dragged on, the more unfavorable it would be for Dan. And if it drags on until winter, will the Han army withdraw its troops or continue to attack?

After all, the winter battle, the pressure of logistics supply, is really not small, so after some thought, I consulted the ministers and the consent of Huangfu Song, who is now pacifying the Black Mountain thieves, and worshiped Zhang Feiyan as the general of the Middle Peace, so that he could lead the affairs of the valleys in Hebei, and he had to raise filial piety and honesty, and pacify Zhang Feiyan, so as to control the Black Mountain Army, and slowly give preferential treatment, and finally make him truly a member of the Han Dynasty.

In fact, it is precisely like this that the later ministers of the late Han Dynasty all regarded the black mountain thieves who were originally born in the Yellow Turban remnants of Taiping Road as the regular Han army of the Han Dynasty, and no longer regarded them as moth thieves, and although Zhang Feiyan was entrenched in the area of Taihang Mountain, he did not provoke the prestige of the Han family.

Fu Quan was also relieved when he knew this, after all, he knew that with Zhang Feiyan's fall, Jizhou and other places where the Han Dynasty was rich could finally be truly stable, and they would soon be able to replenish the blood of the Han Dynasty. And with Zhang Feiyan's sincere surrender, the Han family finally does not need to fight on both sides, and he can also deal with Han Sui in the northwest with peace of mind.