Chapter 122: Troubled Times

After listening to what Zhang Liao said, Lu Bu frowned, and he shouted outside: "Wei Yue? ”

"The last general!" Wei Yue, who had been waiting outside the house, lifted the curtain and entered.

"Immediately, Wei Qi, Wang Jun, and Zhong Xuan will go to the mansion to discuss matters!" Lu Bu quickly read out the names of the three people.

Wei Yue agreed, immediately pressed his sword in his hand, and walked away.

After a while, Wei Qi, Wang Jun, and Zhong Xuan came together, Lu Bu did not procrastinate, went straight to the point, and told the three of them about the problems encountered by Gao Shun and Zhang Liao in Yuci.

Wang Jun bowed slightly, and took the lead in speaking: "The promulgation of the order on the same day is to verify the number of land, over the years, large households have encroached on the land, and small households have lost their land, resulting in more and more serious land annexation, and the state and county copywriting still records the original amount of land of Haoqiang. ”

He paused and continued: "In fact, they have already annexed a large area of fertile land, but the taxes they paid are still the same as before, which also causes the state and county taxes to gradually lose, so they need to re-divide the fields and demarcate the number of fields to increase the taxes!" ”

Wei Qian stroked his beard and nodded in agreement: "The state is rebellious, and the rebellion of the party can be seen, when Zhang Fujun was in power, the heroes were indulgent, tyrannical, and repeatedly violated the law, and this order happened to be a breakthrough, we started from here, recovered the strong and suppressed, and the state!" ”

Zhong Xuan listened carefully, and after Wei Qi and Wang Jun finished speaking, he put forward different views: "The state deviates from the Central Plains, and the powerful and powerful regard the imperial court law as nothing, and operate for many years, the power is huge and intertwined, from the county to the county order, to the small knife and pen officials, all of which have become their driving tools, we want to use the land to suppress the power of the strong, how easy it is to talk about it......"

He shook his head, with a solemn face: "You should know, as soon as the order was issued, the powerful and powerful families resisted one after another, and even joined forces to fight, first the party and the strong and powerful combined with the Montenegrin army to make trouble, and now they are unwilling to pay the field, and they are unwilling to pay the endowment, as General Wenyuan said, these heroes want to use the matter of the field to provoke the relationship between Wenhou and the people, in a vain attempt to provoke the people's uprising. ”

When he said this, he turned his head to look at Zhang Liao: "And the actions of General Wenyuan and General Shuda are enough to knock on the mountain and shake the tiger......"

The four of them turned their eyes to him and listened quietly

Zhong Xuan said loudly: "Wen Hou first won the state, the foundation is unstable, Haoqiang thinks that Wen Hou does not dare to blame them, so he blatantly opposes Dutian Ling, and opposing Dutian is actually against Wenhou, at this time, if Wenhou submits defeat, he will bow down to Haoqiang in the future, where can we hold the authority of this state?" In this case, the only way to do the law in an extraordinary time is to use force to suppress it. ”

Zhong Xuan stroked his beard under his chin and said with a smile: "Although Wen Hou's move offended Haoqiang, it can win the hearts of the people and is a good deal." ”

"Go on!" Lu Bu's curiosity swelled to the point that he expanded the room.

"If according to what General Wen Yuan said, Dou Zhang, this person is violent and unprovoked, brutalizes the people, and kills Dou Zhang to snow the people's grievances and relieve the people's anger, this is to win the hearts of the people."

"It's a pity that this is just the hearts of the people of a county." Lu Bu felt that this was far from enough.

Zhong Xuan smiled loudly: "If you want to win more people's hearts, Wen Hou only needs to send more people and follow the example of General Shuda!" ”

Zhong Xuan's meaning is very clear, if Lu Bu wants to get the hearts of the people of Bingzhou, he must send people to the township and county to investigate, but if he does not encounter injustice, he only needs to kill Haoqiang, the people are angry, punish the officials, and snow the people's grievances.

"In this case, then, as the three said, immediately send more manpower to investigate one township after another!"

Wang Jun suddenly became very dignified: "Well, not only that, Wen Hou is also ready to do both!" ”

Lu Bu nodded and motioned for him to continue.

"On the one hand, as General Wen Yuan said, if there is a dirty official, the person who supervises it can be punished on the spot, and the new county commander is elected by the people themselves; Both, get ready to fight. ”

With this move, Lu Bu has officially declared war on Haoqiang, and these Haoqiang will definitely gather a crowd to rebel.

When Lu Bu heard this, he was silent for a long time, and he suddenly thought of Zhang Yi's words when he was dying: "Although Bingzhou is a barren land, it is full of talents, some of which can be used greatly, some of which can be used for small purposes, and some of which are not used by me, or those who are not used by me, or nurture, or worship, or abandon ......."

Now is the time to abandon it.

Although the weather in late autumn has turned cold, the hearts of the people of Bingzhou are hot, and Lu Bu issued an edict, and countless powerful and corrupt officials lost their heads.

In order to protect themselves, the heroes of Dingxiang, Yunzhong, Shangdang, Xihe, and Wuyuan counties raised troops to resist, but the rebellion did not last long, and those rebellious heroes were quickly extinguished with the concerted efforts of the people and the official army.

All of a sudden, the people of Bingzhou chanted Lu Bu's merits, and his deeds of repelling the Xiongnu and Dongqiang a few years ago spread, and in less than half a year, he won the support of the people of the counties.

But Lu Bu and the subordinates of the state shogunate all understood that the so-called Haoqiang Rebellion was just some shrimp that could not set off big waves, and the real big fish were all hidden behind the scenes.

They hibernate as early as the Shangdang Rebellion, and they paid the land, handed over the endowment, and carried out according to the order, even if Lu Bu wanted to cure them, he couldn't find any excuse.

Both sides responded in silence, waiting for the other to make a fatal mistake.

Just when Lu Bu was fighting local tyrants, dividing the land, and suppressing Haoqiang in Bingzhou, the whole world was already in chaos.

In the autumn of this year, in order to be able to dispatch people from all walks of life in a unified manner, Yuan Shao ignored Cao Cao's opposition, and finally to: The imperial court was young, forced by Dong Zhuo, far away from the pass, I don't know whether it exists, he used this as an excuse, concocted a persuasion table and sent it to Youzhou, asking Liu Yu to establish himself as the emperor.

Seeing the failure of persuasion, Han Fu became more and more afraid that Yuan Shao would become bigger, and openly withheld grain and grass, making the supply of the righteous army frequently urgent.

Yuzhou Mu Kongling, who sat alone in Yingchuan, was robbed of his name in isolation and helplessness, and died of illness in pain.

Soon after Kong Ling's death, Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, had a conflict with Qiao Mao, the Taishou of Dongjun, because of the competition for grain and grass, Liu Dai led his troops to raid, killed Qiao Mao in sour jujube, and after snatching the grain and grass, he privately appointed his confidant Wang Qiu as the Taishou of Dongjun to control the entire territory of Yanzhou.

The princes of the sour jujube were afraid of creating assassination, so they dispersed in a hurry, and everyone returned to their own territory, and everyone unloaded their moral burdens, and divided the cities one after another, merging and dumping each other.

The first to be swallowed up by the torrent of troubled times were Hanoi Taishou Wang Kuang, Jizhou Thorn Shi Han Fu, and Yanzhou Thorn Shi Liu Dai.

Cao Cao took advantage of the situation after Liu Dai was killed by the Yellow Turban Army, defeated the Yellow Turban Army, incorporated its people, and became the new Yanzhou Soldier under the performance of Zhang Miao and Yuan Shao.

All of a sudden, the Central Plains was divided, and the wolf smoke was everywhere, and at this time of the storm, Lu Bu's recruitment order quickly spread to Kyushu.