Chapter 655: The New Emperor Succeeds to the Throne and Shares the Spoils

In the sixth year of Zhongping, in mid-April, when the hussar general and Liangzhou Mufuquan led more than 3,000 horsemen, met with thousands of horsemen under Yan Yan's department, and brought the captured "new monarch" Liu Wei and Yuan Benchu and some other captured ministers and hundreds of officials to the outside of Luoyang City, it immediately caused countless commotions.

Of course, for these commotions, Fu Quan will not care, he made people shout in the four cities, outside the city to persuade surrender, only less than half a day, the four city defenders rebelled one after another, they want to open the city gate to welcome Fu Quan inside, no matter how the main general of the Luoyang defenders Yuan Shu responds, can not prevent those soldiers who want to open the city gate and surrender, and even Yuan Shu himself, was captured by the defenders of Luoyang who want to be preserved.

The general trend is unstoppable, after all, except for a small number of private soldiers of various families, the reason why most of the soldiers followed Yuan Shao and others to do this is because they themselves were promoted by the general He Jin, and in addition to He Jin's repayment, the greater dependence is that they have He Jin's nephew, the emperor's eldest son Liu Wei.

Although Liu Wei is not the son-in-law of Emperor Liu Hong, as long as the defenders of Luoyang are properly supported, there is also a chance to ascend the throne as the emperor.

At dusk, when Fuquan came to the Suzaku Gate, the Zhongchang attendants Jian Shuo, Empress Song, Empress Dowager Dong and others who opened the door to greet them wept with joy, and Fuquan comforted everyone one by one, and went to meet the dead emperor Liu Hong.

After the visit, Fu Quan did not announce the news of Liu Hong's death as soon as possible, but ordered Huang Zhong to lead people to collect the surrendered defenders of Luoyang after the civil strife one by one, and temporarily disperse and reorganize them in case there were any more waves.

At the same time, he ordered Lu Qiang, who was always in the middle of the order, held the emperor's edict, and then ordered Yan Yan to hold the festival, take the tiger talisman, and led the five hundred Liangzhou soldiers under Jian Shuo to enter the northern and southern armies, and the armies were broken up and reorganized from the new.

In doing so, Fuquan naturally wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to consolidate his temporary power in Luoyang and prevent someone from repeating it. And the original Luoyang defenders and the northern and southern armies are scattered and reorganized, which can make them ignorant of generals and soldiers, so that they are suspicious of each other and throw rats, which may reduce the probability of another accident.

Yan Yan was very happy to receive the order, and secretly said that he had made the right bet, originally he was going to gather thousands of cavalry and wait for the opportunity to kill the driver in Luoyang City, but Yuan Shao and others actually closed the four gates, so that he could only take the cavalry around the city, but he did not dare to get too close and expose his strength.

Moreover, Yan Yan did not have Fuquan's familiarity with royal etiquette, and when he got the news, Yuan Shao took the emperor to Taimiao, he was naturally a lot late. After that, Yan Yan led people to rush to the Taimiao on the way, and happened to meet the old master Fuquan led by the fine horseman, and immediately joined the Fuquan Department to inform the situation inside and outside Luoyang City at that time.

It is precisely because Yan Yan has the previous story of deterring the five battalions of the Northern Army that Fu Quan did not hesitate to order him to be incorporated again, of course, this is also what Yan Yan himself wants, the reason why he shocked the five battalions of the Northern Army, and also wanted to lead people to attack Luoyang, is not it to make meritorious contributions?

Now Fuquan asked Yan Yan to reorganize the five battalions of the Northern Army, if there are no accidents, when Liu Chong takes the throne, he, the general who has absorbed military power from the dragon, will definitely make a great achievement, and the matter of the feudal marquis that was unattainable in the past is naturally close at hand, and it can be said that Yan Yan is really happy to receive this order.

However, after doing this, Fu Quan still did not mourn to announce the death of the emperor, he just ordered all the armies to guard Luoyang to ensure the safety of the people of Luoyang. At the same time, the four gates and palace gates of Luoyang were closed, and the main members of the party families in Luoyang City who conspired against Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and others were arrested for the crime of rebellion and disrespect.

These family private soldiers who participated in the rebellion had already been taken out by Yuan Shao and them to support Liu Wei, and now when it was time for Fuquan to collect debts, they were powerless to resist at all.

Of course, in order to maintain temporary stability, Fuquan did not implement any drama of raiding the family and exterminating the family, it is impossible and unrealistic, he wants the world, not just this Luoyang City, if he wants this Luoyang City, he can enter the city and open the killing, learn from Dong Zhuo in history, after breaking with the party, he understood that he was used as a monkey by the party, and created countless bloody cases under the direct atmosphere, and even killed Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu's uncle Yuan Kui's family, this is why the brothers of the Yuan family ruined their family and relieved their difficulties, and they were sympathized with by the whole world, setting off the prelude to the princes seeking Dong.

Although Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu have been arrested now, it is difficult to guarantee that there will not be another party member of Zhang Shao and Wang Shao.

Therefore, Fuquan only sent the first offender suspected of rebellion and others to Beisi Prison for trial, and did not make any greater moves, and at the same time, Minglin forbade his soldiers and horses, taking this opportunity to loot property and rob people's wives and daughters in the wealthy families of Luoyang.

At the same time, Fu Quan knew that when He Jin was alive, he had recruited foreign soldiers into Beijing earlier than history, and now he sent all the Xiyuan soldiers under the command of Jian Shuo, divided into two routes, led by Li Dao and Zhang Ji respectively, more than 4,000 people went to the Tiger Prison Pass, and more than 3,000 people controlled the Mengjin Pass all the way, so that the two controlled the pass, and strictly ordered that if there were foreign soldiers leading troops into Beijing, they would not be allowed to enter the port pass unless they had an edict.

After that, Fu Quan wrote another letter, giving various orders to his other old subordinates, and all things were prepared, and the rest was to wait for the east wind.

Five days passed in this way, when he got the news of Fuquan, he abandoned all kinds of logistics baggage, and even did not bring armor, only carried ten days of grain, grass and weapons, and traveled lightly, and the remaining 17,000 foot soldiers who came from Jing Zhaoyin to Si Li's rapid march finally arrived outside the city of Luoyang under the leadership of Yang Ding, Hu Zhen and others.

This time, Fu Quan finally breathed a sigh of relief, after all, when this group of soldiers arrived in Luoyang, the overall situation had been decided, and the division was inside and outside, and there was no need to worry about it.

Subsequently, the news of the death of Emperor Liu Hong, after coming out of the palace, swept all corners of the city at a whirlwind speed, and then spread to the outside of the city.

In May, these two months were extremely unusual for the people of Luoyang, the capital of the Han Dynasty, because they experienced a farce in which brothers ascended the throne one after another.

Liu Chong, the eldest son of the emperor who had just let them greet the throne in Luoyang City before, suddenly became a puppet monarch, and Liu Chong, the hussar general who escorted the puppet monarch Liu Wei and the rebel minister Yuan Shao into Luoyang, and Liu Chong, the crown prince supported by Mu Fuquan of Liangzhou, will also ascend the throne today.

It's just that, unlike Liu Bian, Liu Chong's accession to the throne was inherited from generation to generation in the palace since the founding of the Han Dynasty, but he was not the same as Liu Bian, who only built a platform in Luoyang City and ascended the throne, and did not even enter the palace, which is somewhat unworthy of the name.

The bells and drums rang in unison, and in the sound of singing, Fu Quan, together with the new three dukes who were temporarily replaced, led the hundred officials into the Chongde Palace, and shouted long live in the mountains, and each returned to you.

The crown prince Liu Chong, who was only ten years old, sat on the dragon chair, looking like a man and quite dignified. However, because of his young age, even because he was taught by Queen Song all the year round, there were many high-ranking people who were majestic, but they were obviously unable to govern, so they respected their mother Queen Song as the queen mother, hung the curtain to listen to the government, and respected Liu Hong's biological mother, the Empress Dowager Dong, as the Empress Dowager Taihuang.

At the same time, the amnesty of the world and the change of Yuan Guangxi were for the first year of Guangxi, and the emperor's brother Liu Xie was named the king of Bohai, and his eldest brother Liu Wei, although there was a rebellion, but after all, because he was coerced, he was one of Liu Chong's only two brothers, and there were the last words of brotherhood left by the first emperor Liu Hong, and he did not kill him.

In the end, according to Emperor Huan's accession to the throne, his younger brother Liu Kui, King of Bohai, was impeached for rebellion, and Emperor Huan only demoted him to the king of Liaotao, and there was only one way to treat the fiefdom of Liaotao County.

As the widow of the first emperor, in order to show that the new monarch respects the eldest brother, it is clear that it is preferential, but in fact it is surveillance, after all, Zhuqi County is located in the northeast of Donghai County, close to Fuquan's hometown Langya County, adjacent to Langya Kingdom, and even Fuquan's fiefdom Yangdu County is not far from him. In this way, as long as you secretly send troops and horses in three places, and even choose a cadre to control the rich Xuzhou, if anyone wants to use Liu Wei to make an article, they have to work hard to die, not to mention, Liu Wei is not yet an adult, in recent years, as long as Fuquan is the eldest son of the first emperor is underage, and the emperor Liu Chong can't bear to keep his brother away, and put him under house arrest in Luoyang, there will be no other things at all.

In fact, originally Fuquan wanted to directly send Liu Bian, a special threat of identity, to Liangzhou, which he ran well, but was later stopped by the Song Dynasty, after all, Liangzhou was bitterly cold, and he really wanted to send a coerced and rebellious emperor's eldest son to go there as the king.

Obviously, although it has been clear that Situ Ding Gong and Sikong Liu Hong participated in the rebellion, and Taiwei Liu Yan was involved in the rebellion, and Taiwei Liu Yan was far away in the north, there is no evidence to prove that he participated in the rebellion, but in order to prevent accidents, Fuquan discussed with the Empress Dowager Song, and decided to remove even Liu Yan's Taiwei, after all, the three princes are important, even if they do not arrange their own people, they cannot arrange their own political enemies.

After discussion, the position of Situ was given to the end of the ambush, and the position of the empty was given to Ma Riyan, both of whom were relatives of the emperor, and both had the merit of leading the troops to escort them.

As for Ma Riyan, although the Ma family has an in-law relationship with the traitor Yuan family, at the critical moment, Ma Riyan ordered the family servant King Qin to escort him and not conspire with the Yuan family, which has proved Ma's choice, coupled with the relationship between Fuquan and Ma Riyan, it is natural to give Ma Riyan, who was already a captain, a chance to serve as the third prince again. However, because he just assumed the position of lieutenant this year, it would be obviously unrealistic if he was immediately reinstated, so he was only given the position of Sikong.

As for the position of Taiwei, in this meeting to share the spoils of the new monarch's accession, Fuquan chose a person that no one expected, that is, Cai Yong, who is still idle at home.

Originally, according to Fu Quan's idea, the position of Tai Lieutenant was the best for Fu Wan, but thinking that he was already a hussar general, and let Fu Wan serve as the highest military commander in charge of the Central Imperial Court, it was difficult to say whether it would cause other people to be uneasy. For example, the Empress Dowager of Song, after all, although the relationship between the Empress Song and the Fu family is very good, if the Fu family controls the heavy troops of the imperial court one after another, it is difficult to say whether the Empress Dowager will have any other thoughts, after all, in the rule of power, the internal relationship is the easiest to break down.

Therefore, in order not to make people suspicious, Fu Quan finally chose a person that everyone could accept, and he could also clearly tell the Empress Dowager Song or the whole world that he did not have the determination to become the next Wang Mang.

Moreover, Cai Yong, as a world-famous Confucian, has never made a big difference in his life, thinking that he also rose at this time in history, Fu Quan felt that he should compensate him. Of course, in his heart, he was thinking about Cai Yong's eldest daughter, and wanted to give Cai Yong this big gift by himself, if he wanted to accept Cai Yan as a concubine in the future, Cai Yong should not refuse.

After the three dukes, the rest of the reward is naturally Fuquan, and then it is other civil and military officials, Fuquan is now the marquis of ten thousand households, Shiyang County, and now there is the king of Qin to escort the car, sweep away the treacherous work, so the decree is divided into three counties of Linyi, Dong'an, and Dongguan in Langya State, and give Fuquan food to the four counties.

In terms of rewards and punishments for food alone, Fuquan's income is comparable to Deng Yu, the head of the 28 generals of Yuntai, reaching the ultimate in the number of ministers since this dynasty. After that, he was given to enter the court and go to the palace, praised and praised, and the etiquette was better than Xiao He, and he was rewarded with money, slaves, silk, carriages and horses, clothes, and Jiadi, which was comparable to Huo Guang.

It's just that, even so, the civil and military forces of the Fu clan in the DPRK are still unwilling, among which the Liangzhou generals who have just entered Beijing are the most intense, please grant the position of general Fuquan.

This matter has long been expected by the Empress Dowager Song and the Song forces in the court, and she wants to make an order from the mouth of the little emperor of the court, but she resigned for Fuquan, and then gave her resignation, such as the third, Fuquan still refused without hesitation.

At this moment, the hundred officials and the queen of the Song Dynasty were all stunned, even the little emperor Liu Chong, who didn't know the situation, looked at the appearance of the queen mother, and also felt that something was wrong.

There are civil and military forces in the DPRK, and only then did they realize that Fuquan was not pretentious, but really did not plan to take the position of general, and the military generals of Liangzhou were puzzled. Then Situ Fu finished coming out of the ranks, on the grounds that Fuquan was a young man and should not be rewarded too heavily, and at this time, everyone understood that Fuquan seemed to be content with the position of hussar general.

Subsequently, Fuquan ignored the hundreds of officials who exchanged their heads, took out the list of meritorious heroes, and asked for credit from the people who stood in line in time in this feast of sharing the spoils, among them, even Jia Xu, Guan Yu and others who were far away in Liangzhou and Bingzhou were rewarded, and even Xuzhou, Fuquan's hometown, there were many people who were not involved in this matter at all, and they were also among them.

However, these are nothing at all, the Empress Dowager Song, who is mainly in power, will naturally not allow it, although the Empress Dowager Song knows that Fuquan's move is to cultivate the wings of the imperial court, and there is a suspicion of forming a party for personal gain, but now the situation is that it is necessary to cultivate more of these people, and after the confrontation and rebellion, they are distributed all over the place, and the power is still a huge party group.

Therefore, in one breath, through the mouth of the little emperor, the imperial court awarded more than a dozen generals, dozens of generals, dozens of marquis, and there are many hundreds of officials below the nine kings in the court, among which there are many Liangzhou, Yizhou, and Xuzhou.