The first thing Murong Heng did for Gao Huan was to solve the employment problem of ethnic minorities in Dingzhou.

"Since these men have been fighting for a living for generations, why don't we all co-opt them and form our own cavalry armament, so that we have no fear of the central government requisitioning troops or the intrusion of the neighboring armed forces. As for the expenses of the cavalry, we can completely solve it on our own, with the salt industry in Jizhou and the coal mine in Dingzhou, the problem of funds should not be the biggest problem, but the problem of food that we have to solve now. Murong Heng said his opinion in one breath, and everyone was very fascinated by what he heard, and he picked up the teacup and sold it to drink water.

"Then how does the military advisor think we can solve this problem of eating?" Gao Huan, like everyone, looked at Murong Heng blankly.

Murong Chang put down the teacup leisurely and said slowly: "How did the general forget what Cao Cao of the Three Kingdoms did back then?" ”

Gao Huan couldn't remember the specific historical details, and vaguely remembered that Cao Cao invented an internal regulation called Tuntian, so he said sincerely at the moment: "Forgive me for being lonely and unheard, and I ask Mr. for advice, and I would like to hear about it." ”

"Let's take our current situation, since we have collected a large number of Xianbei cavalry, then there is no reason for the infantry to exist in large numbers, so we should streamline and eliminate them, but we can't send them back to their hometowns, which can easily cause a second rebellion." Murong Heng looked at everyone's hungry eyes with satisfaction before he said slowly: "Then we will put all these eliminated infantry in the tuntian, plant the fields in peacetime, and replenish them if the troops are not enough in wartime, so as to solve the problem of food and the problem of soldiers, and by the way, we will also do a good job of public security." ”

After listening to this, everyone couldn't help but admire it very much, the matter is indeed very simple, but few people can think of such a small detail.

Without further ado, Gao Huan immediately asked Murong Heng and Xu Mingzhi to draft a document, first to recruit Xianbei and other ethnic minorities with generous treatment, and let them settle down in Dingzhou. The second is to eliminate the old and weak remnants of the infantry army, and resettle them on the spot to carry out Tuntian, with the longitudinal line of Zhongshan-Julu-Zhaojun as the core, and set up Tuntian captains and Tuntian distribution centers along the way. The third is to recruit the bandits and the homeless people who are making trouble in the territory, and these people can be absorbed into the tuntian. A large number of mountain kings or homeless people can also get some low-level official positions, which can be regarded as including them in Gao Huan's administrative establishment.

For those bandits who refused to surrender or the displaced people who gathered to rebel, Gao Huan's methods were more brutal, and Gao Yue and Gao Gan's southern and northern soldiers divided into two roads and swept along the way. As long as they dare to resist and do not surrender, those who take the lead will be killed, and those who follow the trend under his command will all be confiscated as slaves and sold to the salt fields in Jizhou to work as coolies or to dig coal in the coal mines of Dingzhou.

In this way, by the time of the fourth year of Emperor Xiaochang of the Ming Dynasty (528 AD), Gao Huan was already the strongest force in Hebei, with 20,000 cavalry and 80,000 infantry, and a year's income of 220,000 taels of silver and more than 1 million stone of grain.

Er Zhurong also showed that the emperor named Gao Huan as the general of the expedition to the north and the marquis of Anping, which is a county marquis, and the title is very high. Gao Huan also captured Yingzhou and Youzhou one after another under Murong Heng's planning, and now only Yanzhou, Anzhou, Pingzhou and Yingzhou are left in the north that have not been controlled by Gao Huan.

Let's talk about the situation in Luoyang now, Emperor Ming of the Northern Wei Dynasty was too greedy and too heavy, which caused his body to be hollowed out at a young age in his twenties, and now he is even more terminally ill, and it is difficult to even turn over on the kang.

His mother, Empress Dowager Hu, because she was widowed in her early years, couldn't bear to be lonely, and even got involved with her chamberlain, and later fell in love with Emperor Ming's uncle Yuan Yi, and insisted on doing things with him, and even did not hesitate to divorce his wife without authorization. Yuan Yi was overwhelmed and could only reluctantly agree in the end.

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty knew about Empress Dowager Hu's promiscuity and indulgence, and they were very disgusted, so they united one after another and finally imprisoned Empress Dowager Hu in the cold palace. Er Zhurong led his troops to Luoyang to preside over the government and release the Empress Dowager Hu, who knew that the Empress Dowager Hu did not change her heart, and successively had an affair with the waiter Zheng Yan, Guanglu doctor Li Shengui and Xu Qi, a scholar from the Zhongshu House, and even gave birth to two children, a boy and a girl.

Such filthy behavior made Er Zhurong unexpected, but something even more terrible happened.

Xu Qi and Empress Dowager Hu discussed wanting their illegitimate son to be the emperor, so the two took advantage of Emperor Ming's critical illness and made another edict to let Emperor Ming in a coma stamp his handprint, and finally he was afraid that Emperor Ming would regret it and poison him.

Now things are out of control, as the so-called country can't be without a king for a day, the vacant emperor seat did not wait for Xu Qi's son to sit, Er Zhurong was furious and brought people into the palace. first punished Xu Qi to the Nine Clans, and then sent Empress Dowager Hu to the nunnery in the north of Luoyang, where Empress Dowager He was strangled not long after.

Er Zhurong then proposed by the courtiers and subordinates to support the eighteen-year-old Yuan Ziyou as the emperor, known as Emperor Xiaozhuang in history, Er Zhurong is even more powerful in the court, the real ten thousand people, the monarch behind the scenes.

Like the emperor, Yuan Ziyou's gratitude to Er Zhurong from the beginning gradually began to dislike and resist, and contacted loyal courtiers to plot to regain power. These news were slowly known by Er Zhurong, and Er Zhurong thought to himself, I can't kill the emperor, can't I kill a few courtiers to stand up? So Er Zhurong did something that even Gao Huan was afraid of in the future: on the occasion of the first sacrifice to heaven after Emperor Xiaozhuang's official accession to the throne, he gathered all the civil and military courtiers, and loudly reprimanded them as civil servants, just taking money and not doing things, and even enriching their own pockets for various crimes, in short, they found a lot of excuses and hats, all of which were buckled on the heads of the courtiers, and then they were killed.

There were nearly 1,500 courtiers present at that time, and in the end, only more than 300 survived. The scene at that time can only be described as tragic.

Er Zhurong's practice directly caused him to be unable to gain a foothold in the imperial court, so he could only lead his troops back to the Yecheng base and let Erzhu Tianguang and others stay in Luoyang. At that time, a major event also occurred in the Guanzhong area around Chang'an.

Hu Chen's rebel army was originally attached to He Liuhan Baling after the Six Towns Uprising, and later He Liuhan Baling was destroyed, Hu Chen took over the rest of his department, and the power became bigger, but Zhengguang was wiped out by Er Zhurong in the early years of Xiaochang, and his subordinates were taken over by a Hun called Wan Qian Chounu, and waved his army south, all the way to the Guanzhong area, and occupied the Guanlong area of seven states and 54 counties. Wan Qian Chounu even proclaimed himself emperor in Chang'an, set aside hundreds of officials to seal the harem, and changed the yuan to the first year of the divine beast.

These absurd things made Er Zhurong feel exhausted, and he had no choice but to send Er Zhu Tianguang to lead He Batsheng and other troops to Guanzhong to quell the chaos, and Yuwentai happened to be among the army.

Here I want to talk about the affairs of Zhu Zhao and others in Huainan. Earlier, during the reign of Emperor Zhengguang and Xiaochang of the Ming Dynasty, because Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of the Southern Liang Dynasty, coveted Northern Xuzhou, Southern Yuzhou, Eastern Jingzhou and other places that belonged to the Huainan region at that time, and dreamed every day of recovering the lost land and reorganizing the rivers and mountains. However, the strength of the Northern Wei Dynasty was much stronger than that of the Southern Liang, and Xiao Yan couldn't come up with a way for a while, and then finally caught the outbreak of the Six Towns Uprising in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the internal forces were tilting against each other, and they couldn't take care of the Huainan region, so they took the opportunity to send troops into the area of the Huai River Valley.

Er Zhurong later sent Er Zhu Zhao to defend Huainan, originally wanted to confront Nanliang and consume it, but Er Zhuzhao was young and vigorous, brave and ruthless, and fell into the ecstasy of Chen Daozhi, the defender of Nanliang, and was defeated and defeated again and again, more than 40 times of big and small battles, and there were many defeats and few victories, but fortunately, Er Zhu Zhongyuan was afraid of death, and he insisted on Huainan County behind closed doors, which made Chen Daozhi unable to take advantage of the victory to expand the results.

After Er Zhurong's indiscriminate killing of ministers came out, the relatives of the clan were afraid of harming the pond fish, so they fled one after another, and there was a noble relative named Yuan Hao who was sick and rushed to the doctor, and he actually came to Nanliang Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan unexpectedly obtained such a strange treasure, so he naturally valued him very much, and first sent him to Chen Daozhi's army to protect him, and prepared to support him to go north to be the emperor at that time, so that Nanliang could naturally get millions of benefits. Xiao Yan's wishful thinking played well, but he was not as quick as Er Zhurong.

Er Zhurong not only let the royal family recognize Yuan Ziyou's emperor's position, but also announced that the world would arrest Yuan Hao, so Xiao Yan was passive, and he didn't dare to act rashly for a while. However, the smoke of gunpowder in the Huainan area is everywhere, and war is inevitable.

Because of his heavy losses, Er Zhuzhao gradually couldn't withstand Chen Daozhi's frequent sneak attacks. After discussing with him, Er Zhu Zhongyuan had to decide to ask Er Zhurong for help.

Er Zhurong was a little stretched because of the division of troops between Luoyang and Guanzhong, so as a last resort, he transferred back to Youzhou to assassinate Sima Ziru's troops to defend Yecheng and let Gao Huan move to Yingzhou. He led his troops to Huainan to meet this Chen Daozhi for a while.

Er Zhurong was Xiaozhuang Emperor Yong'an in March of the second year to lead the army to Huainan, the first time to Huainan and Chen Daozhi to take on a battle and suffered defeat, so the rest of Erzhu Zhongyuan and Erzhu Zhao, and set up the formation in the Shouchun area. I'm going to take a break and then find Chen Daozhi to take revenge.

Chen Daozhi temporarily defeated Er Zhurong's offensive because he was waiting for work, but he knew in his heart that if he continued to consume like this, he would definitely suffer in the end, so he planned to make a detour to Nanyu Prefecture to intercept Er Zhurong's grain route, leaving Yuan Hao to sit in the base camp. Chen Daozhi's miraculous trick really achieved miraculous results, the grain and grass of Erzhurong's department were robbed, the army's morale was unstable, and even deserters appeared. Er Zhurong wanted to find Chen Daozhi for a decisive battle, but was harassed by his guerrilla methods, and was exhausted, and was completely passively beaten. The remaining 50,000 men of the 100,000-man horse plus Erzhu Zhongyuan and Erzhu Zhao were defeated by Chen Daozhi's 30,000 horses.

Er Zhurong had to look at Chen Daozhi differently, he was indeed a strong opponent, but Er Zhurong was not a fuel-efficient lamp, he was cunning and cunning, and he saw that he couldn't catch Chen Daozhi's decisive battle, and planned to turn back and go south to kill Yuan Hao, this Yuan Hao is also a pus-filled nobleman, not the opponent of the old fox at all, Er Zhurong defeated Yuan Hao and captured it by dividing it by two.

Now Chen Daozhi had to come out to fight a decisive battle with Er Zhurong, losing the card of Yuan Hao, Chen Daozhi was struggling in the territory of the Northern Wei Kingdom, and there was a faint danger of falling into the enemy's territory. Chen Daozhi fled back to Liang on a horse, and along the way, Er Zhurong cast a net in order to catch this strong opponent, and Chen Daozhi could only shave his hair and pretend to be an ascetic when he was embarrassed, and then fled back to Southern Liang in a thrilling way.

After Er Zhurong eliminated Chen Daozhi, he pacified the prefectures and counties of Huainan, and then led the army back to Luoyang to show off his exploits.

In short, when the whole country was in chaos, Gao Huan was living a good and nourishing life in the north. This cannot but say that everyone has a life.

But in Gao Huan's heart, he was already in a cold sweat about Er Zhurong's killing of the ministers, such a person served his life, his life hung by a thread all the time, and he lived tremblingly under the knife of others, and this psychological shadow area was very large. So although he didn't say anything on the surface, he had begun to prepare secretly in private.