In the third year of Guanghe, in mid-June, it finally rained for two days after many days of sunny days, bringing fresh air and washing countless mud in the city.

In the city, as in the past, even if there was a turmoil in the south that plundered Jing and Yangerzhou, there was still not much interference for the people of the Great Han Jingshi, what they used to do, and what they still do now, the only thing that may be different is the rumors on the streets and alleys between the people, and the topics they talk about are different.

"I heard that Fuba County led troops to level the Yellow Thieves Rebellion in January, and the south is Dading, and the real name is also a general!"

"How much did the 'dragon' slaughter this time?"

"Brother, this is wrong, after the rebellion in Fuba County this time, only those who did many evils were killed, and the rest of the traitors were all played to the court to avoid the death penalty, but it was Lu Lujiang who actually beheaded tens of thousands of traitors."

"Oh? Is there such a thing? ”

"Absolutely."

"Hateful! How could Lu Lujiang have this intention? The people had no choice but to attach the thief, and now that they have returned to the Han, why do they want to slaughter them? ”

"I don't know!"

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Inside the Pingcheng Gate, two people dressed in red clothes accompanied each other, while entering the city, they talked about the fact that the Yellow Sui Rebellion in the south was put down. This time, with Fuquan completely quelling the Huang Sui Rebellion, Emperor Liu Hong issued an order to summon Fu Quan to bring his soldiers and horses back to Beijing together.

Of course, the ordinary people of Luoyang were discussing their own affairs, which Fu Quan didn't know at all, but at this moment, he was marching all the way with the army under his command, and finally came to thirty miles outside Luoyang City.

Since receiving the order, Fuquan has tried his best to deal with all kinds of affairs after the war, the most important thing is the corpses of the Han army and rebels outside Shuxian County. Ordered people to cremate all these corpses one by one, and the Han army burned them alone, and those who knew their names would choose a place to set up a tombstone, and those who did not know their names would set up an anonymous tombstone, and as for the rebels, they would all be cremated together.

Although the Han army of Shu County was very dissatisfied with Fuquan's order for cremation, and there was a lot of opposition, they all kept their mouths shut when Fuquan said that the corpses outside the city were seriously decomposed, and that in this summer heat, it might lead to a great epidemic. After all, people are afraid of death, and it is obviously impossible for them to risk death and still adhere to customs.

Fortunately, the morale that Fuquan was most worried about did not happen, there was no epidemic in Lujiang County, and Shu County was also safe and sound. After that, with the completion of all the matters one by one, Fu Quan then led his department of nearly 2,000 cavalry to join the soldiers and horses left in Zongyang and Jingzhou Ganning, counting the lightly and seriously wounded soldiers, a total of more than 2,800 people, and came to Luoyang. Because of Liu Hong's will, he asked him to bring over the Ban Yu barbarians after the headquarters participated in the war, which made Fu Quan a little puzzled, and at the same time had a faint expectation in his heart.

After all, according to the tradition of the Han Dynasty, foreign soldiers are not easy to leave the country, let alone enter Beijing, after all, no one can guarantee whether foreign soldiers are absolutely loyal? Think about it in later generations, every time foreign soldiers enter Beijing, most of them are accompanied by unpeace, if the foreign generals are loyal enough, it is just that, but if the generals have different intentions, it is tantamount to a catastrophe for the central dynasty.

The simplest thing is that in real history, Yuan Shao and other party members fooled He Jin into transferring Dong Zhuo and other foreign soldiers into Beijing, and the final result was the beginning of the complete collapse of the Han Dynasty. When the central army could not suppress the foreign soldiers, the emperor who controlled the central army was like a puppet, and now, Liu Hong actually let Fuquan bring foreign soldiers into Beijing, which is a great thing.

Since the revival of Guangwu Zhongxing, there are only a handful of people who can bring foreign soldiers into Beijing, and only the "Liangzhou Sanming" has this qualification in this dynasty, but most people are even if they win the battle, usually the emperor let those main generals enter Beijing, and at the same time reward money and goods to the soldiers.

Now Liu Hong asked Fuquan to lead troops into Beijing, obviously there is a deep meaning in this, as for what it is, he doesn't know, it can only show that Liu Hong is of great use to him, which is also the reason why Fuquan is looking forward to it, after all, he is now the Taishou of the first county of the Han Dynasty, and if it is of great use to him, it is definitely not an ordinary position.

As for what happened in Fuquan in Lujiang, it was spread by the people of Luoyang, but it was also simple. On the same day, after Yan Yan gave the leader of the rebel army, Huang Sui, Fuquan surrendered the rest of the rebel army. Later, when he returned to the city, he planned to punish the chief evil among these traitors, and as for the others, he planned to go to the imperial court, but he didn't expect this to be learned by Lu Kang, who was still lying on the bed at the time, and he actually made an appointment with him and demanded that all the rebels be slaughtered in order to prevent future troubles.

This frightened Fu Quan all of a sudden, because this is obviously not something that Fu Quan agrees with, after all, although he loves to kill, but that is for foreign races, plus these rebellious Han soldiers are mostly poor people, because they are oppressed by corrupt officials and corrupt officials, they have to resist, and now Lu Kang, who should have the style of a famous man in his heart and have the heart to save the people of Limin, actually told him that he was going to slaughter these rebels, what else could this not surprise Fu Quan?

Originally, Fuquan thought that Lu Kang was sick and confused, so he chatted with him well, but he didn't expect this old guy to be sober, and still insisted on the decision to slaughter the prisoners, and at the same time to play the imperial court, reduce taxes in Lujiang, and resume production. After all, because of Huang Sui's rebels, Lujiang has been destroyed countless times, and it is impossible to recover his vitality in a short period of time.

Lu Kang's reply in two tones before and after really shocked Fu Quan, after all, Lu Kang had just chosen to slaughter prisoners in the front, and he wanted to ask for tax exemption later, and the characters of the two before and after were difficult for him to accept, which couldn't help but make Fu Quan wonder if Lu Kang was the heir of Confucianism.

However, Fu Quan later thought that Huangfu Song, who pacified the Yellow Turban Rebellion in history, did the same morale as Lu Kang after pacifying the Yellow Turban. On the one hand, there are cold-blooded butchers who slaughter hundreds of thousands of yellow turbans and do not leave any yellow turbans at all; On the other hand, there is a request for tax relief for the people everywhere, so that the people can be grateful to Dade, and the behavior of the traitors faced by the two of them is really exactly the same.

In this regard, Fuquan was puzzled, and in the end he could only conclude that whether it was Lu Kang or Huangfu Song, they were both from the Han Dynasty, they were all from wealthy families, and they were all Han Dynasty people who had been educated by Confucianism since childhood.

Under the Han Dynasty system of Confucianism and internal law, Confucianism annexed Legalism, and finally formed a combination of Confucianism and law.

The cloak of Confucianism is still that yearning for a saint to rule the world and educate the world as his own responsibility, but in fact he is still the Legalist who has strict laws. Just like the current Han law, although it is not as brutal as the Qin period, it is still extremely strict with the people, not to mention facing thieves such as the Huang Sui rebels and the Taiping Road Yellow Turban. Confucianism could not tolerate the survival of these clay-legged armies that were desperate to destroy the basic interests of their Confucian scholars, because their survival represented an element of instability.

For the Confucianists who rose in the "overthrow of the hundred schools of thought and the exclusive respect for Confucianism", their rise was to annex other academics, or to suppress other academics, and resolutely prevent them from resurrecting.

Therefore, for people or things that destroy the foundation of Confucianism, such as Lu Kang and Huangfu Song, who rose to prominence through Confucian education, it is natural to learn from their sages and mercilessly destroy those people or things that want to destroy their foundation. Naturally, such as Lu Kang's request for the slaughter of prisoners, and the later Huangfu Song's connivance with the soldiers to slaughter the Yellow Turbans, are all the same reason, just because these people still have the strength to destroy their Confucianism, and as the heirs of Confucianism, they naturally will not allow these people to survive.

Of course, if these people were just ordinary thieves, criminals, and prisoners, perhaps Confucian elites like Lu Kang and Huangfu Song would treat them differently. If their crimes are excusable, then the Confucian elite will not hesitate to use the power in their hands to pardon, forgive, or reduce their crimes, showing the glorious side of Confucianism that they have always flaunted, which is Confucianism, the contradictory Confucianism of the Han Dynasty.

Thinking about this, Fu Quan was relieved, he would not accuse Lu Kang of anything, because in the later life, he fully knew how stubborn a person who was brainwashed by textbooks was in his thinking. However, not accusing, it does not mean that Fuquan will agree with Lu Kang's approach, and he directly wrote to the court on the grounds that this matter should be decided by His Majesty. Of course, Fuquan added a lot of private goods in the book, because there was an example of Jiangxia's ancestors migrating from Nanjun to Jiangxia because of a rebellion, and Fuquan directly quoted this case without hesitation, and also informed Liu Hong in his words that he hoped to act according to the precedent.

The result of the matter is also very simple, after all, Fuquan is the first contributor to this rebellion, Liu Hong does not look at the face of the monk and looks at the face of the Buddha, so he naturally agrees, and as for whether he will destroy his foundation because he will avoid the death of these traitors, Liu Hong is not worried.

After all, just like the example of the past given by Fu Quan, it is only necessary to break up the remnants of these rebels one by one and migrate to various places in batches. The rebels were completely disrupted, coupled with the monitoring of the grassroots government in various places, those disrupted rebels wanted to rebel again, unless the situation was bad, and in the end, these rebel prisoners all moved to Jiaozhou under Liu Hong's word.

However, this matter was also opposed by many princes in the court, and many people, like Lu Kang, also suggested that in order to avoid such a large-scale riot, all the rebels should be beheaded, just as when Zang Min destroyed Xu Zhao, he directly besieged the city, and completely killed all the thieves led by Xu Zhao who were ravaging the southeast half of the wall, leaving no mouth.

Although the wishes of the princes of the court did not come true in the end, it also made Fuquan feel funny. Because I think of the Confucian scholars in later generations, most of them dealt with the rebels with Zhao'an, and formed a tacit understanding of educating the traitors with the morality of the saints, and the rare ones in the later generations who insisted on the main battle to eliminate the traitors and left no trace of life, but they were suppressed and persecuted because of this, how funny would it be if it was placed now?

They don't know that the ancients and Confucian martyrs they have always flaunted are not soft at all when dealing with traitors, and the ancients can think clearly about things, but they can't think clearly at all, they can only say that some people are really stupid at reading.

The march is full, and it is getting closer and closer to Luoyang City, just when Fuquan is still thinking about his relatives in Luoyang City, in front, countless black shadows that suddenly appeared in front of him, and he looked carefully, the first person was Fuquan from his father, looking at this posture, at this moment he was leading people to greet Fuquan.