Zhang Liao's report was very valuable, and later he arranged students from civilian backgrounds to Yunying, Beiwei Army, or Qingzhou Army, and let them teach the officers and soldiers under his command to read and write. At first, they were not happy, but after Su Chen proposed incentives, a literacy boom quickly set off in the army, for which Su Chen personally compiled a lot www.biquge.info of military textbooks, kneading the art of war into the stories, and the officers usually told these stories to the people below when they were resting, and over time, some methods of marching and fighting unconsciously penetrated into their bone marrow and became instinct.

I have to say that this effect is good, the spiritual life of these ordinary soldiers is very lacking, although the army allows soldiers to go to the place of fireworks on the day of rest, but they can't go often, and the little money they saved for a few months is probably given to those Qinglou women once.

Therefore, he tried his best to enrich the spiritual life of the soldiers, and he introduced the military sports such as juju, polo, wrestling and other sports suitable for the army into the barracks, and the ordinary soldiers could enjoy themselves while improving their physical fitness, which was the true meaning of entertaining and educating.

Of course, in order to stimulate the soldiers' enthusiasm for fighting, he specially set up a military merit field system, all soldiers who have made meritorious contributions on the battlefield, after serving for ten years, can retire from the army, and rely on his military merits can be awarded military merit fields accordingly.

These soldiers who were awarded the military merit field have since become military households, and all the grain they have cultivated has been kept for their own use, except for handing over 20% to the government, and of course these military households are also obliged, and they have to shoulder the obligation of training the soldiers in the township.

In Shanggu County, Su Chen stipulated that Zhuang Ding, who had reached the age of eighteen, should participate in military training, and that soldiers participating in military training could receive a certain amount of food every month, and that training was only available during the slack period, and that they were responsible for farming when the farm was busy.

When the military household system was first implemented, it was met with great opposition, but later, in order to prove that what he said was true, 3,000 people were selected from the people who had made great contributions in the Qingzhou soldiers to retire, and these 3,000 people were the first batch of military households.

Most of these 3,000 people are from Shanggu County, so there is no clan rejection, and after they return to their hometowns, they bring a great sense of honor to their families, and the local villagers are eager to send all the male Ding Dong to serve in the army.

Of course, there were some difficulties in this, in order to select these 3,000 people, it took a lot of effort, you must know that this era is a clan system, even if a foreigner becomes a military household, you will be excluded in the local area, so in order to pilot in Shanggu County, he specially selected 3,000 people out of the 200,000 army under his command, and even some of them were only recruited when the army was expanded, and they have never been on the battlefield, but because of their outstanding performance in training, they were also selected to retire.

This is also a helpless thing, any change will touch the interests of some people, the military household system obviously touched the interests of the landlord Haoqiang, although it has been supported by the lower class of people, but Haoqiang has been suppressed, fortunately, there is no Haoqiang in Shanggu County, not to mention Shanggu County, there are not many Haoqiang families in the entire Youzhou.

Cai Yong quickly replied to him, telling him that it was a little difficult to select five hundred people at once, and that the first batch would give him two hundred at most, and the rest would be sent over slowly.

He didn't think about it overnight, this matter really had to be done gradually, and in order to avoid startling the snake, he had to adapt measures to local conditions.

Fortunately, most of the students in Taihang Academy are from Youzhou or Bingzhou, and the people Cai Yong sent to him are almost all Youzhou children, and they will definitely have less resistance when they return to their hometowns as officials, but at the same time, they are likely to bring corruption.

In order to firmly control these seven counties first, the hidden dangers of corruption that may be faced in the future can only be ignored for the time being.

Time has come to the sixth year of Zhongping in a blink of an eye, and not long after the beginning of the year, there is good news from Liangzhou, and the Qianghu Rebellion, which has lasted for several years, is finally going to be pacified.

In February of the sixth year of Zhongping, in the spring, the troops of the kingdom were exhausted and retreated. Dong Zhuo ordered a march in pursuit, and he attacked continuously and won a complete victory, killing more than 10,000 people.

Han Sui and others jointly abolished the position of the head of the kingdom, and the rebels gradually fought for power and profit, and then attacked each other, so the power gradually weakened.

The news of Qianghu's slight pacification reached Luoyang, Liu Honglong's heart was happy, and he began to live a luxurious life again, but within two months, bad news came from Luoyang, and the emperor Liu Hong died.

This can be said to be a bolt from the blue for the stormy man, although he had long known that Liu Hong's body was not good, but he didn't expect to die so soon, and Luoyang City, which was supposed to be festive, was suddenly overwhelmed.

After Liu Hong's death, the prince Liu Wei ascended the throne as the young emperor. The young emperor was fourteen years old, and his biological mother, Empress He, was respected as the queen mother and listened to the government in the court. Empress Dowager He with his brother General He Jin and Taifu Yuan Kui participated in the Shangshu affair, took charge of the government, and formed a situation of dictatorship of the foreign relative He family, He Jin became more and more powerful, and under the advice of Yuan Shao and others, he intended to attack the ten permanent servants.

When Liu Hong was alive, he wanted to succeed to the throne with the prince Liu Xie, and when he died, he entrusted the eunuch Jian Shuo with Liu Xie. Since Liu Hong died, Jian Shuo wanted to kill He Jin and set Liu Xie as the emperor, but He Jin was aware of it, but the matter was unsuccessful.

He Jin was in charge of the government, Jian Shuo was not at ease, but conspired with the eunuchs to punish He Jin. Zhao Shengsu, the regular servant, was close to the He family and handed over the book of Jian Shuo to He Jin. So He Jin killed Jian Shuo and returned all the forbidden soldiers under his command, thus obtaining the command of the eighth lieutenant of the West Garden. He Jin won the military power of the eighth lieutenant of the West Garden, and he was very complacent.

Empress Dowager Dong, the mother of Emperor Ling, plotted to participate in political affairs and had a bad relationship with Empress Dowager He. Empress Dowager He asked He Jin to ask Empress Dowager Dong to move out of Beijing and return to China, and asked He Jin to take Empress Dowager Dong's brother hussar general Dong Chong to prison. Dong Zhong committed suicide, and the Empress Dowager Dong died of fear. The He clan got rid of dissidents and took charge of the government, and its power was very strong.

In July, Empress Dowager He ordered Liu Xie, the king of the Bohai Sea, to be the king of Chen Liu.

The general He Jin from the middle military captain Yuan Shaozhi, wanted to punish the eunuchs, first asked the Empress Dowager He to do the best of the following eunuch positions, and replaced them with Lang officials. The Queen Mother didn't listen. He Jin was born in poverty, and he was a nouveau riche who had always respected eunuchs, although he was prestigious, he did not dare to make a decision when he encountered something, so he could not make a decision for a long time.

Yuan Shao also suggested that He Jin summon the Quartet to enter Beijing to coerce the Empress Dowager to agree.

He Jin adopted it, so he ordered to summon Dong Zhuo, the pastor of Liangzhou, to Beijing.

He Jin was close to Dong Zhuo, but Yuan Shao was disdainful of such a vulgar martial artist as Dong Zhuo, thinking of Su Chen's words in the past, Yuan Shao took the opportunity to suggest: "General, the ten permanent servants are widely implicated, and there are many cronies in the local prefectures and counties, Shao thinks that only the general can't be punished, and General Wei Su Chen has always been kind to the general, why didn't the general summon him to Beijing?" ”

He Jin had a good impression of Su Chen, especially since Su Chen would send many gifts to He Jin every year, so He Jin nodded in agreement.

Chen Lin, the chief bookkeeper, Shi Zhengtai, Shangshu Lu Zhi and others all advised He Jin not to summon foreign soldiers into Beijing, believing that He Jin was in an important position, holding heavy troops, and wanted to kill eunuchs.

Chen Lin, the chief bookkeeper, dissuaded: "There is a folk proverb called 'close your eyes to catch sparrows'. If a trivial matter like that cannot be achieved by fraudulent means, how can a major national matter be done by fraud? Now the general has royal prestige, holds military power, and does whatever he wants. Dealing with eunuchs in this way is like burning hair with a fire. As long as you launch it, make a decision immediately with the momentum of thunder, and give orders, then it is easy to achieve the goal by responding to the will of heaven and obeying the will of the people. Now, however, he has given up his authority to solicit foreign aid. When the armies of all parts of the country are gathered, the powerful will be the strongest, and in doing so, it is called taking the weapon upside down, and handing over the handle to someone else will certainly not succeed, but will only bring chaos. ”

He Jin didn't listen. When Cao Cao, the captain of the military academy, heard this, he smiled and said: "There should be eunuchs serving in the palace in ancient and modern times, but the king should not give them great power and favor, so that they can develop to this extent." Since they are to be punished, the first evil should be removed, and only one jailer is sufficient. Why not call up troops from all over the country one after another! If we try to catch them all, the matter will inevitably leak, and I will see the failure of this matter. ”

Zheng Tai, the servant of the imperial history, also advised: "Dong Zhuo is a tough person, not benevolent, and insatiable. If the imperial court relied on his support and granted military power, he would do whatever he wanted, which would inevitably threaten the safety of the imperial court. As a relative of the emperor and the country, you can act independently and punish those sinners according to your original intentions, and you really shouldn't rely on Dong Zhuo as foreign aid! And if things drag on for too long, there will be changes, and the lessons of Dou Wu's previous incident are not far away, so we should make a decision quickly. Shangshu Lu Zhi also thought that Dong Zhuo should not be called, and He Jin did not accept it. Zheng Tai then resigned and left, telling Xun You: "He Jin is a person who is not easy to assist. ”

The Yellow Gate Squire Xun You, the Northern Army's Hou He Hao and others saw He Jin's insistence on this, and they didn't say a word, just shook their heads and sighed.

He Jin's subordinate Wang Kuang and cavalry captain Bao Xin were both from Taishan, and He Jin asked them to return to their hometowns to recruit troops. He also summoned the Taishou Qiao Maotun soldiers of Dongjun to Chenggao, and asked Ding Yuan, the commander of Wumeng, to lead thousands of people to march into Hanoi County, burn the Mengjin ferry of the Yellow River, and the fire shined directly into Luoyang City, which was the signal to kill the eunuchs.

Su Chen's intelligence network in Luoyang soon spread the news of He Jin's summoning Su Chen's march to Zhuo County, Su Chen was afraid that the night would be long and dreamy, so he immediately asked Tai Shici to set off with a wolf horse, and at the same time he took the first step to gather the first dead soldiers and 30,000 Han Ying light horses, and took the strategist Yan Zhonghuaxin, and the generals Ju Yi, Zhang Liao, Zhang Fei, Zhang He, and Xu Chu rushed to Luoyang.

When Yuan Shao's letter came, he had already arrived in the Hejian Kingdom, and He Jin's summons happened to collide with him in the Qinghe Kingdom.

After Su Chen received the summoning order, he immediately wrote and said: "Zhang Rang and others, who are often servants, took advantage of the emperor's favor to disturb the world. Raise the soup to stop boiling. It's better to draw a salary from the bottom of the kettle; Although it is painful for a carbuncle to fester, it is better than eroding the internal organs inward. In the past, Zhao Ying led the army of Jinyang to eliminate the wicked people around the king, and now we have rang the bell and drum to come to Luoyang, asking for the arrest of Zhang Rang and others to eliminate the evil spirits! ”

Su Chen's letter was passed to He Jin one step ahead of Dong Zhuo, and He Jin was a little hesitant to listen to He Miao's persuasion, but Yuan Shaoli reported the situation, and at this time, Su Chen's letter happened to be passed to He Jin, and He Jin was relieved.