The most widely circulated news in the imperial capital recently is not because of the impeachment of the procuratorate for the Jingzhou Prefecture Mu Cui Festival's impeachment of Langzhong An Shiji, which led to the collective interference of the imperial officials and the household department in the Imperial Bank case, nor because of Cui Jie's impeachment, the great Sikong Wang Xian begged for bones (an ancient saying for applying for resignation), but because of the outbreak of a plague in the northwest of the empire that has not been encountered for a thousand years!

A year ago, there was also an outbreak of plague in Bohai County, but it was well controlled, and after nearly 10,000 deaths, it was brought under control and is gradually recovering. But the new states in the northwest have no way to control it. By the time the court was reported, nearly 20,000 people had died, and the number was rising. Many towns in the northwestern new state have become isolated islands, because several large cities, including Dihua and Dingxing, the administrative office of Dayue Prefecture, have issued martial law and quarantine orders, and no one is allowed to move around without permission, let alone people from several counties in the southern part of Dayue Prefecture. Those counties that have been judged to be quarantined will not receive any supplies and assistance, and the people there will have to wait for death, or be killed by the plague, or be overwhelmed by starvation......

The two major new states in the northwest, Dayue Prefecture and Xihai Prefecture, have been dry for two years, there is no harvest in the fields, and the people have long been hungry. It can be said that as early as two years ago, the two prefectures of Xihai and Dayue were already powder kegs that lit at one point, and rebellions and storms on the official offices occurred from time to time. And now that the plague is raging, a fire is placed directly on the powder keg!

On the fifteenth day of the first month of 1002 of the Han Dynasty, the imperial capital was still celebrating the Lantern Festival, and sent eight hundred miles from Dunhuang County, Suzhou, on the tenth day of the first month, there were more than 2,000 people who crossed the desert next door, intending to attack Dunhuang City, on the eleventh. The defenders of Dunhuang broke the enemy under the city and beheaded more than 1,400!

On the seventeenth day of the first month, the Yumen Pass reported urgently, the contact with Dihua City was broken, and the straight road was full of hungry people and thugs, there were tens of thousands of people, and they had arrived at the Yumen Pass, and the guards of the city ordered the retreat.

On the 22nd of the first month, news finally came from Dihua City, and the eight counties in the southern part of Dayue Prefecture confirmed that they had been reversed. The three thieves Sidawang, Merk Dozan, and Silikotu waved the banner of "Fengtian to rebel and restore the Gumo, Qiuzi, and Kangju empires", and killed more than 400 county officials, all of whom were sent to Dihua. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, a crowd of 100,000 was gathered. Captured Pishan County, Xiye County, and Shule County, and the troops reached Suwen, three hundred miles southwest of Dihua.

So far. The Empire's largest rebellion in the New States since the Holy Ancestor broke out. Until the 30th day of the first month. The connection between Dihua City and Yumen Pass was completely severed, and Yumen went west, and the farthest could only reach the end of the city; To the north of Dunhuang, you can only reach the Cheshi.

Yongliang Prefecture and Yongliang Prefecture urgently mobilized four second-class regiments from Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan and other places to rush to Yumen, and ordered the first regiment of Suzhou (second-class regiment) to immediately go to Moshan, and strive to open up contact with Dihua Mansion within 10 days. Meantime. The first-class regiments stationed in Jincheng and Shuofang also received a mobilization order from the Privy Council and were ready to march to the northwest at any time.

On the first day of the second month, the emperor ordered people to beat the drums and convene all the officials above the fourth rank in the imperial capital to hold a grand court meeting. At the morning meeting. The Ministry of Rites Shangshu Dongfang Li officially read out the imperial edict, Starwang, Merk Dozan, and Silikotu were the imperial thieves, and the "Pseudo-Gumo Country", "Pseudo-Guizi Country" and "Pseudo-Kangju Country" established by him were the places where the Han Dynasty must conquer. At the same time, the imperial decree Honglu Temple conveyed the will of the Han Emperor to the envoys of various countries, and anyone who sympathized or intended to collude with these three countries was the enemy of the Han Dynasty! The big man swears to it!

Then, the emperor reprimanded the household department at the court meeting, "The people of Xihai and Dayue are all innocent children, because of the incompetence of the household department, they failed to timely allocate grain, grass and medicine to help the poor and help the needy, which is really against the bow." Today, he dismissed the position of Liangqu in the household department and demoted him to Yingzhou pastor to set an example. To show justice! Another decree to sow chaos in the states, the court is not responsible, as for this, the people are not guilty, there are those who abandon the darkness and turn to the light, except for the head of the thief, the past is not to blame! ”

The rebellion in the two states, of course, someone has to be responsible for such a big event. And the household department Shangshu Liangqu became a victim.

Since Emperor Lie, the empire has never belittled the second-class members of the imperial court because of rebellion. Liangqu is a precedent for more than 100 years.

Of course, this also has something to do with the fact that the NSW rebellion has been officially flagged. In the land of New State, rebellions often occur every ten years, but they are small rebellions of a few thousand people, which is equivalent to banditry. The Empire was not even allowed to send out the Second Legion, and the Third Legion could be pacified.

But this time, some of the bandits were able to gather 100,000 people, and even took down several big cities, approached a state office, and set up a banner and a country name, this is no longer an ordinary bandit, but a real rebellion! Moreover, it can be seen from the fact that the thief chieftains Starwang, Merk Dozan, and Silikotu were able to quickly change their Han names and capture several cities, and it can be seen that the Xinzhou army, especially the C-class legion, has been connected by traitors, so the stakes are very high, and the imperial court has to pay attention to it!

"What's more, that Liang Qu has been inactive for ten years in power, but has a tendency to favor the latter party, and the emperor has to cut him in order to recover the power of the imperial bank!" This is what Huainan Hou said to Shen Yun after he came back.

The second-class officials said that they would be dismissed, and the cabinet did not say anything about it, which shows how fierce the battle above the court has become. The emperor's dismissal decree passed through the cabinet, but only Junfu Wang Xian criticized Lan, and the first and second assistants were not seen, which shows that this move was not approved by the entire court ministers.

Speaking of which, we have to mention the "court meeting" held a year ago. At that court meeting, there were countless shirtless people from the emperor and queen parties, and the latter party counted the evidence of the procuratorate's favoritism, corruption, and perversion of the law, but did not mention the collusion between the local officials and the imperial bank. The Imperialists, on the other hand, focused on reform and demanded that this should not happen. The preparation of the party was also quite sufficient, believing that the reform matter was related to a hundred generations, and that it should not be done in a hurry, and should be slowly planned, but instead mentioned that the procuratorate was under the management of Sikong Wang Xian, which shows that Sikong was derelict in his duties...... This means muddying the waters.

Later, the news came that He Liang, the chief secretary of Ji'an County, committed suicide in fear of crime, and a small climax broke out in the court discussion. Some people think that this is because the procuratorate forced He Liang to death, and there is a suspicion of murder and silence, and demand that the procuratorate be thoroughly investigated. The people in the procuratorate couldn't sit still, and immediately stood up to refute it, believing that the other party's sweep was too extensive and could easily lead to turmoil in the DPRK......

The court meeting was held for three days, but there was still no result. On the last day, the Empress Dowager suddenly came to the court meeting, but she did not violate the ancestral system and intervened. Just listen behind the temple. But the Hou Party had long known that the Queen Mother was coming, and for a while the rhetoric became more intense, eager to sweep away all the officials of the procuratorate, all kinds of dirty things were taken out, and the initial discussion of An Shiji was downplayed.

In the end, the emperor could only depose An Shiji and send him back to his hometown.

Of course, afterwards, the emperor replaced the inspectorate and the senators of the inspection department, and Langzhong as many as ten people, on the grounds of investigating the procuratorate. At the same time, Dongfang Li, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was transferred to the procuratorate and served as the doctor of Zuo's advice. At the same time, he also served as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites. Three days after the year, the emperor appointed Gongfu Xiao as the left servant of the household department, which was only one step away from the position of Shangshu.

Sure enough, after the morning meeting on the first day of February. As soon as the belittled Liang Qu left, Gongfu Xiao took the position of the head of the household. Same. After reading the holy decree, Dongfang Li resigned from the post of secretary of the Ministry of Rites. He officially joined the procuratorate and served as the chief procurator of the procuratorate, and Zuo Ci, the former chief procurator of the procuratorate, served as the chief secretary of the government affairs yuan. Feng Ji, the former secretary of the Criminal Department of the Government Council, was promoted to the chief secretary of the Government Council.

At this point, the emperor's intentions against the Hou Party were very obvious, and he began to clean up the voices of discord in the court. Among the transfers of these three important posts, Gongfu Xiao was the imperial party. The promotion was expected by the post-party. But the transfer of Dongfang Di and Zuo Ci surprised the Hou Party. Only then did the party find out that these two people had long been members of the imperial party, so it was no wonder that the impeachment recital in Cui Jie would be announced by the Ministry of Rites, who had always been the grass on the wall.

As for Feng Ji, who is already sixty-five years old, becoming the chief secretary, it is interpreted by the Hou Party as. The emperor intended to promote the old man to the cabinet and replace the disobedient cabinet assistant Gongyang.

But Feng Ji has always been a good man, and no one believes him when he joins the Imperial Party. What's more, he is already sixty-five years old, and according to the imperial court system, he will be a minister at most this year, even if he is made the first assistant of the cabinet at this time, it is useless! The Hou Party quickly thought that this might be the emperor's arrangement to pave the way for the next cabinet auxiliary minister, and let Feng Jishang make a transition first. But the reign of the Ram is also sixty-five, and he wants to go with Feng Ji, who does the emperor want to let into the cabinet?

What made the Hou Party even more incomprehensible was that at the court meeting on the fifth day of the second lunar month, the emperor promoted Wang Zhao, the empress dowager's confidant, to the secretary of the Criminal Department of the Government Council, and added the lord, and at the same time transferred Bohai Taishou Xiao to Beijing as the secretary of Dali Temple.

This series of transfers caught the Hou Party a little off guard, but it was clear that the emperor was compromising with the Hou Party, saying that he would not attack the Hou Party so quickly and so ruthlessly. Sure enough, soon another piece of news spread throughout the imperial capital, and this news also made the ministers of the emperor and queen parties react instantly, and the party struggle must be temporarily suspended.

The news is that Zhang Sheng, the governor of Dayue Prefecture, rebelled!

This is definitely enough news to shock the Han Dynasty and make all the ministers speechless!

Speaking of Zhang Sheng, the governor of Dayue Prefecture, it is definitely a legend among the people of Xinzhou! He is a native of Dayue Prefecture's drug donation county, and when he was a teenager, he was admitted to Imperial University with the first place in the drug donation mansion, and after graduation, he gave up his pen and joined the Imperial Suzhou Second Class Army. Four years later, he was discharged from the army with the rank of captain, returned to donate drugs and became a county lieutenant, put down four rebellions in ten years, and was promoted to county lieutenant. In another decade, Zhang Sheng was favored by the Privy Council and transferred back to the imperial capital to serve as an outsider in the Executive Office of the Privy Council's General Staff.

In 985, he was promoted to Langzhong, the executive office of the Privy Council, and in 990, he was promoted to the senator of the executive office of the Privy Council. In 995 of the Han Dynasty, due to a conflict with Han Zhang, a major general of the Guards, he fought in the office of the Privy Council, which had a bad impact, and Han Wei was fined and demoted to stay in office, and Zhang Sheng was also reprimanded, but he was not punished. But Zhang Sheng himself tried to explain his guilt, hoping to return to his hometown. At that time, Emperor Han Le regretted his talent, so he transferred him back to Dayue Prefecture as a state pastor.

Although Zhang Sheng is a native of Xinzhou, he has been an official to the third grade, and he is a high-ranking official of the Han Dynasty. The time spent in the old state of the Han Dynasty is no shorter than that in Xinzhou, and it can be regarded as bathing in the emperor's grace, Emperor Le and the current emperor are good to him, but such a person is actually the opposite? !

You must know that although Pishan, Xiye, Shule and other places in the south of Dayue Prefecture were attacked by traitors, none of the officials surrendered! No matter what the officials in these places did in their lives in the local area, and regardless of whether they were corrupt and perverted the law before, they all made the same choice when facing the rebels - to repay the king's favor with death and swear to defend the land to the death! If you don't look at the files, the ministers can't even remember the names of these officials, but these people have all died in their positions, and Zhang Sheng, who was considered impossible to oppose, has reversed! This had to make all the courtiers lose their voices!

On 20 February, news of Zhang Sheng's rebellion was confirmed. He, like Starwan, Merkdozan, and Silikotu, gave up his Han name. Renamed "Tazan? Kungon? Abbas". And with the three of Starwang as one, with Dihua as the capital, the country name "Yueshi", and the self-proclaimed emperor of the Yueshi. Feng Siwang was the prime minister, Merk Dozan was the lieutenant, and Silicotu was the secretary, and the cabinet and three provinces and six ministries were formed, and the official system was similar to that of the Han Dynasty.

At the same time, it incorporated rebels from all walks of life, totaling 1.2 million, known as 2 million, following the Han military system and setting up a third-class army of A, B, and C. 200,000 first-class regiments. Four legions, 600,000 legions of the second class, fifteen legions, and the legions of the third class are not counted.

Just when everyone thought that Zhang Sheng was going to wave his troops eastward and fight a decisive battle with the Han in Suzhou, Ganzhou and other places. Zhang Sheng made an unexpected but reasonable decision - on the tenth day of the first month of March, the soldiers of the Yueshi first-class army entered the West Sea. Raid Lidou, Xiuxun, Kawang and other places.

Time. The government and the opposition are in an uproar!

Zhang Sheng's move was obviously to open up trade routes to Rome in order to communicate with Rome and other Western countries. In this way, the imperial army that was originally stationed in Moshan and Yumen Pass, preparing for a decisive battle with them, became a laughing stock.

On the sixth day of the fourth month, the 1st and 2nd Army Corps (Second Class Corps) of the Imperial Suzhou Army converged with the 1st Army Corps of Ganzhou to go out of Moshan. Attack Yanqi and Uman, prepare to advance in two ways, and attack Dihua along the Tianshan Mountain Range. At the same time, the defenders of Yumen Pass also dispatched troops to prepare to attack Jingjue, Ruoqiang and other places.

Available on April 27. The imperial army attacking Yanqi and Uman was ambushed by a total of 300,000 people in the Tarim River valley by two first-class legions and five second-class legions of the Yueshi clan, and more than 45,000 people from three legions in Gansu and Su fought for ten days and nights on a battlefield as wide as 200 li and as long as 100 li, and were finally outnumbered and forced to break through!

In this battle, the empire lost more than 20,000 soldiers and nearly 100,000 stones, and the three main legions facing Dayue Prefecture were disabled, and they did not have the strength to fight again within a year. Although he had a record of destroying 60,000 enemies, he lost the opportunity to annihilate the Yue Clan in one go. The Yue Clan also got a chance to breathe.

The Yumen Pass army, which had plundered Jingjue, Ruoqiang and other places, also had an unfavorable division, and retreated to Yumen Pass on the fifth day of the fifth month of May. This way is not that the enemy army is ferocious, but the plague is too powerful in the south of Dayue Prefecture, the imperial army has just arrived at the end of the refinement, hundreds of people are infected with the plague, before the large-scale spread of the plague, the legion commander decisively broke the wrist of the strong man, and abandoned the soldiers infected with the plague, so as to ensure that this westward legion will not be wiped out.

But because of this, the commander of this legion committed suicide in the barracks after retreating to the Yumen Pass, leaving a suicide note saying that he was ashamed of the hundreds of robes that he had abandoned by himself, and was willing to atone for his sins with death! The entire Yumen Pass defenders suffered for more than three days! The Privy Council posthumously named him a baron, showing his bravery!

The impact of the Battle of the Tarim Valley did not end there. Because of this battle, the empire not only lost the opportunity, but also made the Huns in the extreme north see the weakness of the empire, and they were ready to move, preparing to attack across Beihai Prefecture. The two first-class corps stationed in the northern frontier could not be drawn.

From the old state of Dahan, it takes time and money to collect grain and grass or gather troops. But now the big man lacks these two things.

Before the battle of the Tarim River Valley, although the emperor had the intention to ease the contradictions between the emperor and the queen, the situation was not completely stable, and the household still encountered many obstacles in receiving the Imperial Bank. But after this battle, the empire seems to have sobered up a lot.

You know, the Imperial army has not experienced such a defeat in a hundred years, and the entire three legions have been disabled, and the number of dead exceeds 20,000! This has not been possible in the last five hundred years!

For this reason, in addition to asking the cabinet to do a good job of compensating the soldiers who died in battle, the emperor also personally drafted the "Edict of Guilty"!

The emperor of the Han Dynasty is guilty of himself, which is undoubtedly slapping the face of all the officials of the Han Dynasty. Although it is said that "all things are not guilty, and the sin is in me", if it were not for the officials competing to participate in the party struggle, how could the empire face the dilemma of having soldiers and no money?

It can be said that it was the battle of the Tarim River valley and the emperor's "Edict of Guilt" that woke up the Han officials who were still immersed in the dream of the empire's incomparably powerful empire. By July 10, 1002, the Imperial Government Council had received more than 1,000 petitions from officials at all levels in 48 prefectures across the country, as well as more than 40,000 petitions from university students from all over the country who wanted to abandon their pens and join Rong! The enthusiasm of all strata of the empire for war rose in an instant!

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Of course, the above are all things that last for nearly half a year, and during this period, Shen Yun has also participated in some of them, and these participation also made him have a decision that will affect his life.

Things have to start with the return of Huainan Hou from the imperial capital.

Huainan Hou Fang Wei arrived in Huainan Mansion on the tenth day of February, at this time, the news of Zhang Sheng's rebellion had not yet come, let alone the battle of the Tarim River Valley, but the news brought back by Huainan Hou had no less impact on the other family.

"Your Majesty is going to purge the Hou Party, and in this process, I must personally exterminate the White Tiger Cult! And there can't be a single live mouth! In the study of the Huainan Hou Mansion, Fang Wei said to Shen Yun indifferently. (To be continued.) )

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