Chapter 46: Zhang Heng occupies Hanzhong

The time quietly came to March 185, and according to the lunar calendar, it was the beginning of February. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Luoyang suddenly caught fire and burned down the palace, and after Zhang Rang Zhao Zhong persuaded Liu Hongzhao to sue the world and levy a field tax. If it was before, it would have been a layer of skin at most, but now it is about to lose a piece of meat.

Judging from the original historical trajectory, this is actually quite normal. After the Yellow Turban Uprising, people's livelihood withered in various places, and a large number of fields were abandoned. In addition, major grain merchants are reluctant to sell, and grain prices have soared. At this time, the land rent was levied, and those who did not have a title could not be exempted, and how many Liu Hong found some fields in these families.

The family itself did not lose much, and even if the tax was increased, the money they earned was several times more than usual. The key move is easy to cause dissatisfaction among the people, and the families are certainly willing to add fuel to the fire.

It's just that it's different now, this Yellow Turban Uprising has looted all the grain merchants behind several big families, and there is not so much grain to sell. In addition, the harvest of high-yielding crops after the autumn harvest has led to a further stabilization of food prices. The family itself didn't make much money, and as a result, it was going to be levied land rent, which was not peeling off the skin, but losing the flesh!

At the same time, it is also stipulated that whether officials are promoted or promoted, they need to pay money for palace repairs. The price is not high, just to disgust and disgust those families who take advantage of the vacancies of officials in various places and plan to seize official positions in the past.

There are a very small number of people who are promoted to filial piety, because they can't raise money, commit suicide in Luoyang, this matter is cited as an important example by the family, and Liu Hong's mediocrity is promoted everywhere. The courtiers also took the opportunity to advise Liu Hong to take back the emperor's order, and everyone used to play at most, but this time it was real!

Liu Hong disdained this, if he was really a poor scholar, only the Yellow Gate would come to the door to make up for the expenses, and even develop into the imperial party. The suicide was a stupid X who was instigated by the family, and this kind of person did not die in vain, at least his death was made a big fuss by the family.

If Li Yu saw this, he was afraid that he would feel how similar this was to the end of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the Donglin Party instigated the local people to resist taxes, so they were killed, but they used this incident to write the "Tombstone of Five People", which was used as an excuse to promote scholars and courtiers to resist the government's collection of commercial taxes. The ultimate beneficiary is not the master behind them, that is, the family and the merchants?

Unexpectedly, this hand was actually used in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

Liu Hong is not afraid of a bad reputation, in fact, even if he continues to work hard to turn it around now, will the family allow him to reverse his image? Or under the monopoly propaganda of the family, who will know his compassion for the people and the belief of Zhongxing Dahan? Compared to the image of the Holy Monarch who would only continue to infringe on his interests, he would rather maximize his power and confront the family!

Soon after, he directly sold land in Hejian County and made a lot of money. Externally, in fact, the focus is still on the word cheap. It is precisely because it is sold cheaply that it is possible for the people to buy the land that belongs to them. It is precisely because it is sold cheaply that the family has no way to monopolize this batch of fields, so it is naturally even more dissatisfied and further slanders Liu Hong.

It still doesn't matter to Liu Hong, after all, the people have divided the land that should have been swallowed up by the family. Under his personal presiding, local officials are not even good at favoritism. He could even sell his land to a family that supported the imperial party.

Now Jizhou has not experienced the Yellow Turban Army riots for too long, and too much land has become borderless. It's just that he can't sell all the land for cheap, so he can only arrange it for his hometown Hejian now, and win over the local family who supports him.

People in the world often draw the wrong point, it is a fact that Liu Hong sold land cheaply, but why is it Hejian and not somewhere else?

By mid-February, the Montenegrin army had once again raised its troops and plundered the area. And Guan Hai and others, who were supposed to raise troops in Qingzhou in history, of course it is impossible to continue to raise troops there, but fortunately, there are Taishan thieves and Qinling thieves who also raised troops at the same time, and the momentum is still huge.

According to the report of local officials, the thieves in the three places gathered millions of people, swept the locality, and the military situation was urgent! It's just that when Liu Hong saw this twist, he only felt that 'you *** are teasing me', how many soldiers can be raised in such a place, and millions of people can be gathered!

The Montenegrin Army is now under the command of Zhang Niujiao's confidant Chu Yan, of course, Chu Yan has changed his name to Zhang Yan at this moment; The Taishan thief is mainly Bu Ji, supplemented by He Man and He Yi; The thieves in the Qinling Mountains are still dominated by Zhao Ci.

The forces of the three parties swept through the place in an instant, and for a while, Julu County, Taishan County and Nanyang County were affected again. Not to mention Zhang Xiu, Ma Xiang and Zhao Yi from Ba County, the imperial court was at a loss and didn't know how to deal with it.

But I didn't want to, after capturing the three counties of Julu, Taishan and Nanyang, the three forces begged to surrender. At the same time, an application was submitted for the establishment of the Taihang Mountain Autonomous Region, the Taishan Autonomous Region and the Qinling Autonomous Region. vowed not to go down the mountain for the rest of his life, and obeyed the dispatch of the Han Dynasty.

When the court heard this, it was immediately divided into two factions. If one faction fights the main battle, all the thieves will die; One faction believes that the other side only runs rampant in the mountains and does not interfere with the politics of the mountains, which may not be tolerated. It's just that the army must be restrained, and it is best to let the imperial court send some officials to serve as administrative officials, as is the case in the Yue Autonomous Region!

In fact, it was obvious that the main peace faction on both sides had the upper hand, and it was only after March that the imperial court really made a decision.

Seeing that at the beginning of March, Beigong Boyu, the leader of the Qiang people in Xiliang, committed a rebellion and gathered tens of thousands of Qiang people to Koubian. Compared to him, the Black Mountain thieves, the Taishan thieves and even the Qinling thieves are all just Han Chinese. Isn't it easy to choose between tens of thousands of people and three million people?

It can only be said that Beigong Boyu came too coincidentally, and in the end the imperial court had to compromise and allow the three of them to establish an autonomous region. However, it was necessary for the imperial court to send an administrative official to act as a deputy. The three parties received an ultimatum and agreed one after another.

Liu Hong was very satisfied with the performance of the tripartite forces, and directly gave Zhang Yan, Zhao Ci and Bu Ji the identities of filial piety, and really responded to the sentence 'murder and arson'.

After solving the problem of the three forces, the three forces retreated back into the mountain range, which made everyone breathe a sigh of relief, and set their sights on the Beigong Boyu Department in Koubian. This time, the imperial court wanted to eliminate them with a thunderous situation, and Liu Hong immediately appointed General Zuo, and the current Jizhou Mu Emperor Fu Song sat in Chang'an to ask for it.

Although Huangfu Song is a eunuch, he is definitely a double agent, seeing that the family and the emperor are playing so well in Jizhou, he knows that he will be implicated if he is not careful, so he directly pretended that Zhao Zhong's family was arrogatory, and had a war of words with Zhao Zhong, but he did not send troops.

Seeing that the two of them chatted for a long time, a few of them were lost in this city, and Liu Hong was also directly furious, and removed the position of Huangfu Songzuo general and Jizhou pastor, and even the title was fined 6,000 households.

Zhang Wen was reassigned as the general of the chariot cavalry, and Yuan Lian's father was appointed as the deputy of Yuan Peng. Bai Zhonglang made Dong Zhuo the general of the prisoner, and Zhou Shen, the general of Dangkou, listened to his command.

This battle was fought directly from mid-March to the end of November, and it was finally over. According to the Gregorian calendar, when the troops returned triumphantly, it was around New Year's Day in 186.

At the same time, unbeknownst to anyone, the rebels of Ba County are experiencing a coup d'état.

Five buckets of rice to worship wine, Zhang Heng is a descendant of Zhang Liang, the second generation of Heavenly Master, the eldest son of the first generation of Heavenly Master Zhang Daoling, and the father of the third generation of Heavenly Master Zhang Lu.

In the early years, the Zhang clan sat in the land of Bashu, and under the instruction of Liu Hong, Zhang Heng joined the Wudou Rice Sect, and now he has defeated the Han army many times under the cooperation of the inside and outside of Momen, and has established a very high reputation. At this moment, he seems to be under one person and above ten thousand people in the Wudoumi Sect.

"You said you were going to attack Hanzhong? Why?! Zhang Xiu looked at the cronie in front of him suspiciously, at this moment he was becoming more and more difficult to control Zhang Heng, and within the Wudou Rice Sect, the reputation of the other party had faintly overshadowed him.

"Ba County is mountainous, only the Jiangzhou area is a plain, close to Chengdu is often harassed by officers and soldiers, so that it is impossible to cultivate with peace of mind. In the long run, military rations will become a problem. Hanzhong is a plain terrain that is most suitable for farming.

The key is that Hanzhong is also the gateway to Yizhou, as long as we occupy Hanzhong, the officers and soldiers of Bashu cannot come out to fight us, and the Han army in Guanzhong cannot go south to conquer us! Zhang Heng said slowly.

Before Zhang Xiu could reply, he further said: "And now that Liangzhou Beigong Boyu is in rebellion, if we occupy Hanzhong, we can discuss with it to attack the north and south, so that we can attack Chang'an, and even capture Luoyang." When the time comes, you will be the founding emperor! ”

At that moment, Zhang Xiu's heart moved. summoned Ma Xiang and Zhao Yi and said this, and the two saw that the opportunity was rare, so they naturally agreed. The next day, the army began to assemble northward, and five days later began to attack Hanzhong.

However, when entering the Nanzheng range of the Hanzhong Governance Office, suddenly the official army of Hanzhong and the official army of Chengdu suddenly appeared in the mountain road, not to mention the north-south attack, the first wave of arrow rain actually shot Zhang Xiu directly on the spot.

Zhang Heng immediately stepped forward, quickly withdrew with his troops, and retreated to the Hanchang area for rest. At that time, there were less than 50,000 troops left, and most of them were wounded. However, under such circumstances, Zhang Heng not only successfully ambushed the pursuers once, but also beat the other party so that he did not dare to continue the pursuit.

The army finally took a breather, although Zhang Heng had the fault of encouraging everyone to attack Hanzhong, but his performance was very good, and now his reputation is the highest, and the upper position is unstoppable.

At this point, Zhang Heng successfully ascended to the position of the Heavenly Master of the Five Doumi Sect, which also means that Liu Hong has mastered this army in Bajun in the true sense!

That's not all, while the official army was in shock, Zhang Heng led the army north again, but he directly killed the hinterland of Hanzhong. After more than a month of fighting, Hanzhong was finally defeated and the door to Bashu was completely closed. He also received the assistance of the Yang family, the eldest son of the Hanzhong family, Yang Song, who became the master of Zhang Heng, and joined the Wudou Rice Sect.

"Next, it's the whole territory of Yizhou!" Sitting in the Nanzheng official office, Zhang Heng sat there tiredly and muttered.

"Father, is it worth it?" The eldest son, Zhang Lu, is fifteen years old, but he is already very sensible.

"There are some things that you still have to do even if you know that they are difficult, and this is called loyalty! Besides, Your Majesty's layout is very good, just wait for the entire territory of Yizhou to fall, and the Han Dynasty is hopeful! The key is that our Zhang family doesn't have to worry about being suppressed by other families, it's really ......good," Zhang Heng said with a faint smile.

Zhang Lu is still young and doesn't know much about more political things, but he can see that his father is really happy. (To be continued.) )