Chapter 338: Home and Country, Righteousness and Righteousness (2)
When the hustle and bustle of the street where Yiwu Building is located has completely fallen silent in the passage of time, the entire Jixian County has woken up from sleep with the dawn.
Jixian County is very large, and even if there was a movement last night, thousands of people ran and fought in various parts of the city, and many people didn't even know what happened the next day. As usual, they happily rushed to the bazaar, to the shops, to the workshop, and then they felt that the number of officials and soldiers coming and going had become more numerous, and when they had to take their places and perform their duties, they also knew about the events of last night in a somewhat depressed and cautious way, so their emotions became complicated under the stimulation of many words such as "blood flowed like a river", "another day", "lockdown and chasing the murderer".
They were at a loss, but they were helpless, especially when they learned that the city gate was sealed and they didn't know when it would open, most of them could only complain a few times, and then accept their fate and continue to live the life they could.
There was no shortage of good deeds, as well as the rich and leisurely people who did not need to be busy today, and the families who had planned to leave the city, either from the city gates, or from the streets, or even from the houses of the government and the magnates, and then some news spread.
The street of Yiwu Building has been completely sealed, many buildings have been burned in the chaos of last night, the streets are miserable, there are blood stains and corpses everywhere, and even the soldiers who sorted out the corpses have been replaced by batches, half of them are said to be tired, and the other half are mentally broken.
At the same time, in the chaos of the entire city last night, how many big people died, who were the specifics, no one dared to say nonsense, only that they had to wait for those non-commissioned officers to collect the corpses and get results, but many officials disappeared in vain, and a notice was issued on it that the city would be closed until the real culprit was caught, although this kind of notice was likely to be shown to the thieves, but it undoubtedly made last night's incident more serious, and the nature was extremely bad.
Some people learned from the mouths of several Qinglou people who were driven out of the street that it was the people of Liaodong and Wuhuan who were waiting for an opportunity to take revenge on Liu Beijia and Xun Liaodong, and then affected a group of high-ranking officials who happened to gather in Yiwu Building, and everyone also hated the same enemy, and there were many people who were aroused to go to the army in the next few days, and some people volunteered, saying that they wanted to help find those sneaky and extremely suspicious people. Cleared the neighborhood streets.
It is one of the few positive meanings of last night's battle.
But most of these news are things that the magnates of a higher level feel should let these people know, and in the eyes of those magnates, the whole thing seems to be clear now, but in fact it is even more confusing.
Last night, Liu Zheng's private mansion and Yiwu Building were suddenly besieged, which also indicated that Liu Zheng, Xun Yu and a group of thieves were involved in the war, and judging from the slogans and techniques, the group of people who rescued Liu Zheng and Xun Yu clearly indicated that these two people were Liu Zheng's forces at all, that is, this was a conspiracy launched by a group of thieves against Liu Zheng.
Subsequently, the north city gate was suddenly broken, and the thieves besieging Liu Zheng's private house retreated in a short time, and the two sides seemed to be a group of people, but from the number of people, the thieves besieging Liu Zheng's private house did not break through the north gate at all, but disappeared, that is, it was clear that someone took advantage of the weak strength of the city gate caused by the chaos and took advantage of the weakness to break the city. These two groups are not together at all.
In this matter, some people suspect that someone is planning to besiege the Liu government residence, so as to disperse the troops of Jixian County, so that those people can get out of the city, but this idea was quickly rejected, after all, there is no city ban during the day, there is no need to go out of the city so much, it is necessary to seize the opportunity to attack the city gate, then it should also ambush a strange soldier outside the north city gate, and then break the city inside and outside, how can it be so big and do such a stupid thing.
However, some people think that maybe it was because the gang left the city suddenly, so that the thieves besieging Liu's government residence were leaderless and retreated.
Most of them can only guess out of thin air, and the only thing that can be known is that the gang of thieves who left the city fled to the north, which clearly represents a certain force in the north. This also indicates that Liu Zheng's dispute with Wuhuan and Liaodong is the real cause of this matter.
On the other hand, in the chaos of Yiwu Building last night, the forces involved in it became even more complicated.
The rescuers alone were divided into batches and groups, including several forces.
First of all, Liu Zheng's person, it is said that he is called Tiger Ben Suwei.
In addition, there is a group of woodcutters and fishermen dressed as people, each with martial arts, but most of them have accents that seem to be from the Guanzhong area, and it can be judged that this group of people is not Liu Zheng's people, but other righteous people who came to support.
Then there is a group of officials and soldiers, in this regard, in fact, several government officials are ashamed to mention, after all, it has added a lot of chaos instead of saving people, and it is a little unreasonable to look at it.
Finally, there are those assistants, there are five or six hundred people in this group, but it is very strange that these people seem to have realized that their lords are in Yiwu Building until very late, and it is also when Liu Zhengqin arrived with thousands of crossbowmen to suppress the scene, this group of people is late, it is like they have come to go through the motions, stupid.
As for the enemy's side, it is even more bizarre.
At the beginning, the gang of thieves obviously wanted to kill Liu Zheng and Xun Yu, but after the two sides fled, some of them directly changed their targets and attacked a group of officials. Among them, many people consider from the motive, and feel that this group of people and the gang of thieves at the beginning are two groups of people at all, after all, it is easy to understand the movements of those officials, and if you really want to start, there is no need to make a temporary decision, and it is neater than anything else.
After that, in fact, a group of Liaodong people and a group of Wuhuan people came out, listening to what the witnesses said, they rushed over to support the thieves after hearing the news, but the two groups of people together did not exceed 100, and on the way to the coming, they directly bumped into the Liu Zheng army who came to support, and before they had time to show their majesty, they were shot a lot on the spot by the crossbowmen, and then they surrendered.
And with the participation of these two groups of people, it also indicates that the thieves who targeted Liu Zheng and Xun Yu at the beginning were not Liaodong and Wuhuan people, at least not the henchmen of Liaodong and Wuhuan, after all, among the more than 100 people, there were several Wuhuan and Liaodong more famous figures.
After hearing about this point, he can become a middle-level magnate in Jixian County, and some vague outlines are naturally depicted, and he also knows that the whole thing is probably not so simple, at this time, unless he is really stupid, he will definitely not inquire about this matter again, so as not to implicate the family.
It was also not long after the vast majority of them felt that as long as they hid their minds well, they would not be dragged into the quagmire, Liu Yu was critically ill, and the news that Zhao should abdicate for the missing eldest son Liu He to take care of Liu Yu came out, so the people's hearts fluctuated again.
This is not only because Liu He suddenly disappeared and Liu Yu was critically ill, but also because in these news, there was also the news that Liu Zheng had retired to the middle of the government, and Liu Bei, the former Taishou of Zhuo County, temporarily ruled Jixian County.
The entire power center came to the official post from the state pastor on the second day after the chaos occurred, and this moment of change of day made countless people suddenly feel that they had discovered the secret of last night, but they couldn't react, they didn't know whether they should stand in line, and they didn't even know who to ask whether Xian Yuyin and Zhao should really abdicate and make way for Xian, because Liu Bei, who benefited from this matter, was not the initiator.
And the change of power, in fact, even the important officials who were lucky enough to escape from Yiwu Building last night were a little blind, and even they couldn't know the thoughts of Xian Yuyin and Zhao Gai. Because the governor's office was protected, not even a fly could fly in, and they didn't know any of the guards.
On the other hand, Liu Bei did not go to the government to take up his post, and even had no way of knowing his whereabouts, but could only receive the oral instructions and seal letters sent by him, so that those officials could not understand the situation in Jixian County, and some people even went to the state pastoral mansion to scold Xian Yuyin, who was not out of the door, in a vain attempt to use "Youzhou is troubled, barbarians are raging" to provoke the always irritable and belligerent Xian Yuyin, but it has no effect at all, but it provokes a severe beating and drive away by the guards.
As a result, in the next few days, they could only wander around the Prefecture Governor's Mansion and Liu's government residence, and they had no intention of doing anything at all, or they wanted to try to understand the situation by not doing anything, but all they got was an edict that Liu Yu sent someone to inform them to do things with peace of mind, but they didn't even know whether it was an edict issued by Liu Yu himself.
In the next few days, some people were tired, just like those people who made trouble because of the lockdown, what should they do, some people were either tired or weak-hearted, so they also resigned from their official positions, observing the situation in the dark, and some people showed their ambitions and began to do practical things, or they flattered the old and new elites for more than ten days, and the signs of the replacement of the old and new elites have begun to emerge.
At the same time, many vacancies were filled by Liu Bei's order, and the vast majority of the people who filled the positions were envoys from various states who originally lived in the official post, and some of them were old people who were already famous and qualified in Jixian County, as for Lu Zhi, this Liu Bei's teacher, as if he did not exist at all, since Liu Bei served as a special driver, this person disappeared from the list of official candidates.
Of course, in addition to officialdom, there are also changes in the military, but few people in this area can find out about Liu Bei's true intentions.
I only heard that since Liu Bei became a don't drive and Xian Yuyin abdicated to make way for Xian, these soldiers and ruffians have not made trouble, but the mutiny was quickly suppressed, and it is said that Liu Bei also appeared in the camp in person, and then several barracks were sealed.
In the next few days, after the baptism of mutiny, suppression, and murder, a group of generals with talents were retained, and those without talents were eliminated, and all troops were also re-broken and shuffled.
However, no matter how the officialdom changes, no one can see Liu Bei, and even Liu Zheng is not much of a chance to be directly contacted because of the vigilance of many guards.
Fortunately, after more than ten days of chaos at the beginning, Jixian County did not become chaotic for a period of time after that, in such an atmosphere, everyone could feel Liu Bei's true existence, and they could detect Liu Bei's determination to seal the city from the armor and bows and crossbows of the guards at the city gate.
But in the process of gradually stabilizing the city, in fact, there is also a question in the hearts of countless people: What does the closure of Jixian County mean for Youzhou?
If on weekdays, it is not difficult to guess that the closure of Jixian County is an extremely bad thing for Youzhou, and at this time, it happens to encounter the Wuhuan rebellion, so the situation that the closure will produce is only afraid that it can only be chosen in a worse and no return.
And things, in fact, did not deviate from the imagination of those people.
The situation outside the city is indeed chaotic.
A few days after the closure of Jixian County, the county commanders and county guards began to send people to Jixian County to inquire about the news.
At the same time, the soldiers at the four gates were also frequently questioned by the envoys, and after answering "no comment" several times, the envoys began to abuse, provoke, and even frame them in the name of "rebellion", but the soldiers could only continue to endure.
After that, the number of people began to increase, many county commanders, county magistrates under the order of the county guard, instructed the county lieutenant to bring troops to come, so, the camp outside Jixian County gradually increased, noisy people, sometimes disputes, the city gate from time to time will be taken care of by arrows, some with greeting letters, some directly hung small and delicate jade and gold, nothing more than to inquire about the situation in the city, but these without exception, are all sunk into the sea.
As a result, people's hearts began to fluctuate, and rumors about Liu Bei's rebellion spread in Youzhou, and even had a tendency to spread to other states.
In the years that followed, there was no shortage of news that several Youzhou county guards supported the army and stood on their own, and in mid-August, an incident broke out in Yuyang County, which also made the situation in the entire Youzhou suddenly become more and more urgent Yuyang Taishou Wang Song sent troops to attack Yuyang Yellow Turban, causing the Yellow Turban Army to suffer from the enemy, and then surrounded by Wuhuan and Yuyang County soldiers, lost more than 10,000 people and collapsed directly.
The state was shocked.
By August 25, under the joint efforts of Youbeiping Wuhuan and Yuyang Wuhuan and the county soldiers, the Gongsun Zhan tribe headed by Gongsun Yue and the Yellow Turban Army led by Zhang Min, a total of 100,000 people, were defeated in one fell swoop, and the situation in Youzhou reached an extremely serious level.
Immediately afterwards, on the ninth day of the ninth month of September, the Wuhuan 80,000 army led by Wuyan and Su Fuyan attacked Guangyang County from Yuyang County non-stop, and the Yellow Turban in the north of Guangyang collapsed, and the two counties of Changping and Jundu surrendered under the persuasion of the soldiers of Yuyang County, which caused the self-esteem of all Han people in Youzhou to suffer a heavy blow, and also caused many people to be ashamed and indignant to the point that it was difficult to attach.
As a result, everyone's eyes were focused on Fuyang County, Shanggu County.
Because there were still seven or eight thousand Wuhuan people led by Bun Dun who were surrounded in the city by 10,000 people led by Gongsun Zhan, at the same time, Shanggu Taishou Wei Dun guarded the city and closed the door, and the two sides were deadlocked for more than two months.
The situation has developed to such a point that in fact most Han people have lost hope in Gongsun Zhan.
Not only because of Weidun's division of resistance and bias towards Wuhuan, but also because Wuhuan gathered 100,000 iron horsemen and attacked in a big way, Gongsun Zhan couldn't resist it at all among the 10,000 people, but also because the Yellow Turban Army of Shanggu County was so stupid that it was distressing, after learning that the Yellow Turbans of the two counties had been defeated, rectified, and collapsed again, they actually defended the western boundary of Shanggu and fought to the death with Daijun Wuhuan, and never thought of returning to help Fuyang.
And when he learned that the armies of Wuyan and Su Muyan would arrive in Fuyang one day, in the camp outside Fuyang City, a middle-aged man named Gongsun Zhan looked at the southeast with his hands in his hands, and his eyes were burning as if there was a fire.
"Here comes the teacher, Deran, Xuande will be one day later, you and I will be the four masters and apprentices for a hundred years!"
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