Chapter Seventy-Seven: Lu County Taishou

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Duan Wencao, the Taishou of Lujun County, received a warning letter from Dong Chun, the general of Zuo Xiaowei, in Juping City.

Lu County and Qi County are adjacent to each other, and the two sides are bounded by Mount Tai. If there is a rebellion in Qi County, it will inevitably affect Lu County, so when Zhang Xutuo, the commander of Qi County, tried his best to encircle and suppress the traitors, the situation in Lu County also became tense.

Qi County and Lu County are the core areas of the Qilu region, not only with a large population and rich economy, but also because of the long history, it is the hometown of the founder of Confucianism, Confucius, and the source of Chinese civilization, so that the Qilu people are born with a sense of superiority.

The unification of Middle Earth, the victors were not Shandong, but the Guanlong people, who were despised by the Shandong people as barbarians, which hurt the self-esteem of the Shandong people. The winner is the king, the loser is the coward, the defeat is also defeated, the city head changes the king's flag, the dynasty is very normal, and history proves that no matter who sits in the country, it is the gate lord clan who actually controls the authority, and the aristocracy is always the ruling class of Middle-earth. However, the Guanlong people have finally completed the unification of Middle-earth, so how can they share the power and wealth of Middle-earth with their former enemies and today's defeated generals?

Guanlong people are emerging aristocrats, most of them started with military merits, to put it bluntly, they are a tyranny, and Shandong people are old aristocrats with a long history, heirlooms through scriptures, hairpins for generations, are real nobles, the two are not comparable at all, just imagine this background, how can Guanlong people let Shandong people control power? Doesn't that mean giving up the position and giving the country that you have worked so hard to fight to the people of Shandong? Therefore, the Guanlong aristocratic group, whether it is the nobles with the surname Han or the nobles with the surname of Yu, whether it is the nobles of Guanzhong, Longxi, Hedong or even Heluo, has spared no effort to contain and crack down on the people of Shandong, and resolutely defend their rights and interests.

However, in order to safeguard the great cause of reunification, it is necessary to carry out political reform and implement a centralized power system, and only centralized power can ensure the long-term peace and reunification of China and Turkey. In this way, the government of the gate lord clan that flourished during the split of Middle-earth lost the basis of its existence, but the survival of the gate lord clan relied on the foundation of the gate lord clan government, and if this foundation was destroyed, it would be difficult for the gate lord clan to survive and would inevitably perish.

It is necessary to carry out political reform after the reunification of China and Turkey, but if the reform touches the fundamental interests of the gate lord clan, or even directly related to the life and death of the gate lord clan, can the reform continue? Therefore, the first emperor adopted moderate reform methods, step by step, to ease the contradictions as much as possible and reduce the conflicts, but even so, the political storms continued one after another. With the support of the Shandong and Jiangzuo aristocratic cliques, he quickened the pace of reform, increased the central government's possession of power and wealth, and spared no effort to curb and crack down on the strength of the various aristocratic cliques, especially the Guanlong aristocratic clique, with the result that the contradictions within the ruling stratum suddenly became fierce.

He led the army to conquer Jiangzuo, and suppressed Jiangzuo for ten years, stabilized and expanded Jiangzuo, and consolidated the great cause of unification, so the Jiangzuo aristocratic group has become a strong backing for today. In the pre-imperial dynasty, the fate of the Jiangzuo people and the Shandong people was the same, and they were both the targets of the Guanlong people to contain and attack. Now the Jiangzuo people have successfully entered the court with the help of the enthronement of the present and reached the core of power, so the Shandong people have naturally become the allies of the Jiangzuo people against the Guanlong people, and entering the core of power is the dream of the Shandong people, so the Jiangzuo people and the Shandong people hit it off, and the two sides joined forces to support the emperor's radical reform strategy, trying to counter the Guanlong people with reform, contain and weaken the Guanlong people's control of authority, and realize their dream of making a comeback.

Reform has entered the fast lane, the contradictions between reformists and conservatives have intensified, and the conflicts between Guanlong and Shandong and Jiangzuo have also become fierce.

As a part of the Shandong people, the Qilu people are the farthest away from Guanlong, and the estrangement between them and the Guanlong people is too deep, so you can imagine how fierce the contradictions between the two sides are. Wang Bo and Meng Rang are Qilu people, and the Changbai Mountain Righteous Army is also Qilu people, and the reason why they became the first batch of people to raise the banner against Sui in the land of Middle Earth has its inevitability, which not only has profound historical reasons, but also has anger and hatred for the current political situation. The first batch of anti-Sui people, nominally anti-Eastern Crusade, anti-conscription, and anti-Guanlong rule, was actually a general explosion of grievances accumulated by the Guanlong people and Shandong, and in a sense, it was also the failure of the radical political reform strategy of the emperor and the central government with the goal of centralization.

For this rebellion led by Qi Junsheng, the nobles of Qilu region and even the entire Shandong were very concerned. Duan Wencao, as the Taishou of the neighboring county, is particularly concerned.

Duan Wencao is a native of Qilu, living in Beihai, and Duan's family is also a wealthy family in Qilu. When the Northern Wei Dynasty of the Tuoba clan was divided, Duan Wencao's father Duan Weihu entered the customs from Emperor Xiaowu's westward journey, and since then he has served in Guanlong, the Western Wei and Northern Zhou dynasties. Duan Wencao's reputation is not obvious, but his elder brother Duan Wenzhen is a famous general in Middle-earth with outstanding achievements. Duan Wenzhen was a civil and military officer, and made many meritorious contributions in the Great War of Reunification and foreign wars. Guan Longren's right servant Shangshu shot Su Wei had a grudge against him, and once designed to frame Duan Wenzhen and remove him from the people. Fortunately, the nobles of Shandong worked together to avenge their grievances. The first emperor immediately used it again and awarded him the title of general. Now ascended the throne and reused Shandong people, Duan Wenzhen was elected, and he was awarded the high position of the secretary of the military department, which was cited as the humerus.

At that time, Duan Wencao was the general of the Weifu Wu Benlang, and the two brothers were both high-ranking officials in the army, which was also a taboo thing, so they were "attacked" by the Guanlong people. The emperor then transferred Duan Wencao out of the army and asked him to supervise the secretary of the province. Bachelors are all elegant people, Duan Wencao is a vulgar martial artist, how can he be competent? As a result, the contradiction intensified, and Duan Wencao whipped the bachelor in anger and was impeached by Yushi. The emperor had no choice but to send him to the local area and became a taishou in Lu County, which meant that he wanted to use his Qilu status and Duan's prestige in Qilu to ease the contradictions between the central and local governments, and help the central government promote reforms in the Qilu region and implement reform measures.

When Duan Wencao arrived in Lu County, he was naturally welcomed by the Qilu nobles, and Cheng Dù also eased the contradictions between the central and local governments. Originally, this was a good thing, which was conducive to the promotion and implementation of the central government's reform measures, but the development of things deviated from the expected track.

Since Duan Wencao took charge of Lu County, the Qilu people felt that they had a support, a leader, and a backbone, and their morale suddenly rose and they became bolder. Imagine that Duan Wencao's elder brother Duan Wenzhen is the secretary of the military department, when he is the ruler of the court, he has won the trust of the emperor, there is such a first-class relationship, what are the Qilu people afraid of? As a result, the contradiction between the Qilu aristocracy and the Guanlong bureaucracy quickly intensified and intensified. Duan Wencao has a strict personality, is rigid, attaches great importance to the interests of the group and the interests of the region, is uncomfortable with how the Guanlong people look, protects the interests of the Qilu people everywhere, and connives, and connives, as a result, since he became the head of Lu County, not only failed to help the central government promote reform in the Qilu region, but hindered the implementation of the reform policy, and everyone focused on "infighting", and the results can be imagined.

The great river flooded, and Qi County was affected. Qi County is located in the lower reaches of the Great River, and the disaster situation is actually not very strict, however, because the Qilu nobles and the Guanlong bureaucracy are fighting "in full swing", the government is of course "ineffective". The victims could not get relief, and the Qilu nobles were furious, of course, they wanted to instigate and deliberately intensify the contradictions, so Wang Bo and Meng Rang gathered a large number of displaced and homeless victims and raised a banner in Changbai Mountain to rebel.

When did Zhang Xutuo open a warehouse to release grain? After Wang Bo and Meng Rang led the crowd to raise the banner and rebel.

Therefore, Duan Wencao has reason to believe that the sharp deterioration of the situation in Qi County is all Zhang Xutuo's conspiracy, Zhang Xutuo wants to force Qi people to rebel, and then chaos the situation in Qilu, and in the name of suppressing thieves, he will kill people, eradicate dissidents, and attack Qilu nobles.

Duan Wencao was very angry about this, and in his letter to his brother Duan Wenzhen, he scolded Zhang Xutuo and the Heluo aristocratic group behind him to the blood, and threatened to take revenge on Zhang Xutuo and eradicate this murderous butcher for the Qilu people. Duan Wenzhen knew his younger brother's character, beware of his younger brother losing his mind and doing something illegal, then he really fell for the opponent's trick, and in the end, not only could he not save the Qilu people, but also compensated himself. Duan Wenzhen immediately asked his second son Duan Lun to rush to Lu County day and night, staying by Duan Wencao's side to prevent Duan Wencao from making a "excessive" move.

At this time, Zhang Xutuo drove Wang Bo, Meng Rang and the Changbai Mountain Righteous Army out of Qi County and into Lu County, and directly aimed the spearhead at Duan Wencao, do you suppress the thief? If you don't suppress and let the thieves escape, then let this gang of thieves burn, kill, and plunder on your territory, and I still have a reason to impeach you, so that you can't eat and walk around, take a step back and say, even if your brother Duan Wenzhen tries his best to protect you, my impeachment has no effect, but if this gang of thieves has been at large on your territory, and you have been repeatedly suppressed, how can you explain to the east?

Duan Wencao was furious, but he couldn't find a way to deal with it in his eagerness, and he was at a loss.

At this moment, Dong Chun, the general of Zuo Xiaowei, wrote again, saying that a group of Xuzhou thieves had escaped into the territory of Lu County, and asked him to take precautions and make every effort to encircle and suppress them.

It's too much of a deception! Duan Wencao was angry, scolded, and had the heart to kill. Okay, you Guan Longren did a good job, flanking me back and forth, you must put me to death, okay, you are unkind, I am unjust, you forced the thief to my territory, you want me to suppress the thief, I just don't suppress, what can you do to me? Bite me?