In strict accordance with Liu Xiu's strategy and tactics, he led Liu Xi and other 4 generals to quickly send troops to Zhuo County, and immediately launched a fierce siege, which was like a storm.

(Obey the army first, and attack Feng in a hurry.) ）

Zhuojun Taishou Zhang Feng was incompetent, he rebelled because he heard the warlock say that he could be a brother, in fact, he himself did not have the personal ability to play in the troubled times, and he did not make any decent preparations after the incident.

As soon as the sacrifice was made, Lao Zhang's county secretary general (Gong Cao) Meng Wei hurriedly tied up Lao Zhang and surrendered the city.

(Feng Gong Cao Meng's dedication to Feng Fall.) ）

Lao Zhang was a little puzzled: Aren't I able to be a brother? What's going on?

The priest arranged to cut Zhang Feng as soon as possible.

Seeing that his head was not protected, Lao Zhang was anxious, and hurriedly said:

"I have a jade seal tied to my elbow."

The priest had the multicolored stone tied to his elbow taken down and smashed it with a hammer, and there was nothing in it.

Lao Zhang looked at the gravel on the ground, and realized that he had been fooled, and it turned out that the position of the first brother actually had nothing to do with him.

He looked up to the sky and sighed:

"I really deserve to die, I can't blame anyone else!"

(Die without hatred!) ）

The priest obeyed the order and immediately cut him down.

Lao Zhang rebelled in March last year, and today his head has landed, and it has only been 14 months since he was full of fights, just like a supporting role crowded on the stage to gag, with no lines, no opportunity to perform alone, and he didn't even have a familiar face.

After killing Zhang Feng and taking Zhuo County, Sai Zun arranged for other generals to return to Beijing to report to Liu Xiu, while he led his troops to gather in Liangxiang to rest and cooperate with Geng Yi's attack on Yuyang.

However, while sacrificing to the north, Geng Yi received Liu Xiu's order to send troops, but he was sluggish.

He muttered in his heart that his father Geng is now serving as Shanggu Taishou, and his position, status and contribution to Liu Xiuhan's dynasty are exactly the same as Peng Chong's, and Shanggu is adjacent to Yuyang. In the extremely complex political and military situation in the north, he has a heavy army, but none of his relatives are in the capital Liu Xiu (in fact, he is mortgaged as a hostage), if Liu Xiu is suspicious, it will be troublesome.

Thinking about it, he didn't dare to march north easily.

After hesitating for a while, he simply wrote to Liu Xiu, asking to return to the capital to defend Liu Xiu, and asking the imperial court to send other comrades to fight Yuyang.

(Yi Yi's father is based on Shanggu, Ben and Peng Pet have the same merit, and the brother has no teacher in Beijing, self-doubt, dare not go alone, and go to Luoyang to seek enlightenment.) ）

Liu Xiu is skilled and sophisticated, and he can see through Xiao Geng's mind at a glance, so he issued an edict to comfort him:

"The general's entire family is serving the country, charging into battle, and making outstanding achievements, what suspicion can there be, you still want to go back to the capital? You should gather in Zhuo County with General Wang Chang and seriously think about the strategy of defeating the enemy. ”

Geng Guo heard that his son asked to return to the capital to serve the emperor, and he also felt that his son was very reasonable, the current situation was complicated, and the emperor could not be suspicious of the Geng family, so he was uneasy.

So, in order to show his loyalty, Lao Geng hurriedly sent his youngest son Geng Guo to Luoyang and asked him to serve Liu Xiu.

This is actually handing over one's children to the imperial court as hostages.

The world is chaotic, people's hearts are unpredictable, when the heavy soldiers sent out by the first brother are like flying kites, if the kite wants to fly people at ease, the best way is to help him tighten the rope.

Therefore, Liu Xiu was very satisfied with the old Geng's family's approach, and immediately sealed Geng as the Marquis of Yumi.

At this time, Liu Xiu made a deployment to further carry out a surgical blow on Peng Pet, pressing step by step to promote change.

In this way, after beheading Zhang Feng, Tun Juliang Township, Liu Xitun Juyang Township (now northwest of Gu'an, Hebei), during this period, Saizun repeatedly thwarted the attacks of Peng's pet generals and surrendered many of the old Peng's soldiers; Geng Yi, Zhu You, and Wang Chang broke through more than 10 local forces in the area of Wangdu (now Tang County, Hebei); Geng Kuang, Geng Shu and his son attacked the military capital (now Changping, Beijing) and choked this place where the Xiongnu had to reinforce Peng Chong.

Lao Peng didn't want to be caught, so he quickly counterattacked:

He himself personally led the main force of tens of thousands of people to attack Xizun, and sent his younger brother Peng Chun to lead more than 2,000 Xiongnu elite cavalry who came to reinforce to attack Liu Xi.

However, in order for the Huns to be involved, they had to go through the military capital. It was in the military capital that the Huns were attacked by Geng Yi's younger brother Geng Shu.

Geng Shu also has the style of a brother, very violent, broke the Huns' elite cavalry, and even the two Hun kings who led the team were also beheaded.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Peng Pet hurriedly retreated.

(Pet sent the younger brother to ride more than 2,000 Huns, and pet himself to lead tens of thousands of troops, divided into two ways to attack Zun and Xi.) Hu rode through the military capital, Shu attacked and broke his crowd, beheaded the two kings of the Huns, and the favor retreated. ）

Peng Pet was born in a cadre family, and he is not without a little ability, but with his mind and level, he is only the material of a prefectural and department-level cadre.

If he Lao Peng works hard in Yuyang's position, we can't say that he is a vegetarian meal; If he is conscientious, strict with himself, and wins the trust of the court and the people with his actual work achievements, it is not impossible for him to be promoted and reused in the future.

However, he attaches too much importance to his own glory and wealth, and he can't treat himself, his colleagues, and the organization correctly, especially Liu Xiu, so that not only can he not be promoted, but even saving his current position and even his net worth is a problem.

He was not a senior gardener, but he forcibly picked the melons when they were not sweet, pinching the melons and tearing off the seedlings, and things were out of control.

No, after Lao Peng returned to Yuyang, the priests and Geng family grandfathers did not call immediately.

According to Liu Xiu's deployment, everyone maintained the pressure of the army, and promoted changes within Lao Peng with strong military pressure.

Liu Xiu saw Lao Peng very thoroughly, thinking that as long as the pressure and heat arrived, something would definitely happen inside Lao Peng.

After losing the battle and returning to Yuyang, Lao Peng was very depressed.

He was already narrow-minded, but now he can't tolerate anything, often cranky, and often has nightmares.

He had strange nightmares, such as, what did he send someone to a county town to distribute documents, and found that the fire was burning from the city to the outside of the city; What a naked man climbed up to the top of the city and was pushed down by the prisoner; What in the lobby I heard a toad crying under the stove, and I didn't find it after digging three feet into the ground, etc.

It scared him.

In desperation, he invited the fortune tellers and asked them to measure the good fortune and evil according to these strange dreams.

He was very careful, and invited several groups of people to tell the hexagrams.

Unfortunately, several of these fortune tellers said that there was going to be an internal rebellion.

(It is said that soldiers should start from the middle.) ）

This time, he was even more frightened.

He further investigated the various unstable and insecure factors around him, and thought hard about who wanted his life.

After thinking about it, he felt that Hou Lanqing, a cousin who had been living with him, was very suspicious, because he had been a hostage at Liu Xiu in Luoyang.

He believes that the queen Lan Qing is a relative of himself and has appeal among the soldiers; He stayed in Luoyang and was suspected of being assimilated by Liu Xiu; He lives with himself, and it is convenient for him to cut himself, so what the fortune teller said is likely to be fulfilled in him.

Anyway, I'm going to tear him out!

So, just in case, he arranged for Empress Lan Qing to lead a team to be stationed outside the city, so that he could stay away from his palace, stop participating in major events, and not come back without being summoned.

(The generals live outside and have no relatives in the middle.) ）

In February 29 AD, the spring was cold, and Peng Pet survived day and night in fear and doubt.

On this day, after fasting, he went to rest in his closet.

(In the spring of the fifth year, I was fasted and I was alone in the toilet.) ）

Probably too stressed and tired for days, he fell asleep unconsciously.

He Lao Peng must not have known that an accident specifically for him had quietly descended.

The mastermind of this turn of events is a figure he never dreamed of: his slave and maid.

The army outside is pressing, everyone inside is in danger, Liu Xiu's reward is tempting, and there is really no more rush to follow Lao Peng as a slave.

Zimi decided to do a vote, gamble, not be a slave, and get promoted to make a fortune.

We believe that he may have been thinking and planning how to get Lao Peng all of a sudden.

Now, seeing the master resting alone in the bathroom, Zimi feels that a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity has come.

Seeing that Lao Peng was already asleep, Zimi quietly walked in with 2 assistants.

The so-called 2 assistants are also Lao Peng's slaves.

The brothers quickly tied Lao Peng, who was still in his dream, into a knot on the bed.

In the bondage, Lao Peng was woken up by the pounding.

He wanted to resist, of course it was useless.

He quickly understood that his subordinates must be doing this for the sake of promotion and wealth.

When Zimi and a few people were busy, Lao Peng was definitely not willing to be caught, and he was also doing the ideological work of these brothers. But the historical data on how he did it are unknown, and we can't say anything about it, and it is estimated that coercion and inducement are inevitable.

However, his work had no effect.

Slaves and maids want to kill their masters, especially if this master is still a prefectural and department-level cadre, and he is still busy rebelling and fighting a defensive war. Because the danger factor of this matter is too great, once you miss it, your net worth and life will be over.

At the same time, the slaves and maids are not necessarily inferior to the so-called princes and generals.

The view that princes and generals are nobles, noble blood, and therefore high IQ has been proved by history to be unreasonable. It is not uncommon in history to see examples of emperors who are clothed, and there are many mentally handicapped and stupid people among the emperors.

Now, the sub-secrets don't listen to Lao Peng's nonsense at all.

What happened next was clearly well planned.

Zimi pretended to use Lao Peng's words to inform the cadres on duty outside the house;

"The king fasts, let the cadres all go home and rest."

(The king fasts, and all the officials rest.) ）

Immediately, Zimi'er and a few others pretended to be Lao Peng's order and told the other slaves and maids that for the sake of safety, everyone must be tied up now.

They tied up all the other slaves and maids in the palace of Lao Peng and put them in different places.

(Pretending to be a pet life sect, binding slaves and maids, and placing them in one place.) ）

Then, the hostess appeared.

Zimi called Lao Peng's wife to the bathroom in the name of Lao Peng.

As soon as Mrs. Peng entered the house, she was shocked when she saw this, and exclaimed, "The slaves have rebelled!" ”

Before she could finish shouting, Zimi and the others immediately stepped forward and grabbed her hair and beat her up. There was a slap in the face, and soon her cheeks were red and bleeding.

When Lao Peng, who was tied up and couldn't move, saw that his wife was flattened, he hurriedly said to her:

"Hurry up and get a few generals to pack up!"

(Go and dress up the generals.) ）

Lao Peng said a lot, calling Zimi'er a few "generals", of course, a kind of political envelope; asked his wife to give them some property, which was clearly a kind of economic entrapment, hoping that his brothers could let him go; If the wife gets out, not only can she take a few fewer slaps, but maybe there may be a miracle.

Mrs. Peng understood and immediately agreed.

So, Zimi and another buddy took Mrs. Peng to another room to get her belongings, leaving a small slave to guard Lao Peng.

(So the two slaves took their wives into the treasure, leaving one slave to guard the favor.) ）

Seeing that the opportunity came, Lao Peng quietly launched an ideological offensive against the little slave who stayed behind.

He said to the slave earnestly and in a low voice:

"You child, I have always loved you very much, and I know that you didn't want to do this, but you were just coerced. Now that you have untied the rope and let me go, I will marry my daughter Peng Zhu to you as a wife, and I can also give you all the belongings of the family. “

When the little slave heard this, he was a little tempted.

He also knew that he could go to Liu Xiu to receive a reward and get promoted and make a fortune by following Zimi's master, but now the price offered by the master is not low: inexhaustible gold and silver treasures, and everyone is a wife.

What's more, I didn't contact Liu Xiu in advance, and the master was ready-made.

The more he thought about it, the more tempted he became, and he tentatively wanted to untie the rope for Lao Peng.

Who knows, as soon as the little slave looked up, he saw that outside the window, Zimi was closely monitoring every move in the room here, listening carefully to what Lao Peng said, so he didn't dare to untie the rope.

(The little slave wanted to solve it, but when he looked outside, he saw that Zimi listened to his words, so he didn't dare to understand.) ）

Poor old Peng missed the opportunity.

Although everyone is a slave, it is not easy for Zimi to make people give up the big bargain that is at their fingertips and follow themselves.

In this way, Zimi'er packed some gold, silver, treasures and precious clothes, and packed them in the toilet where Lao Peng was, and it took 6 horses to play.

Next, they ordered Mrs. Peng to sew two pockets for later use.

In the blink of an eye, it was dusk, and the sub-secrets loosened the tie to Lao Peng.

They forced Lao Peng to write a handwritten warrant to the general guarding the city gate: Now send Zimi and others to Zihou Lanqing's camp, please open the door quickly and let them go, and do not stop and stay.

As soon as the warrant was written, the Zimi immediately cut off the heads of Lao Peng and his wife, put them in 2 pockets, galloped out of the city with the warrant, and ran to Luoyang to present their heads to Liu Xiu.

(The book is completed, that is, the pet and the wife's head, put it in the bag, and then hold the record and gallop out of the city, because it is a good idea.) ）

In the blink of an eye, the next morning, Lao Peng's subordinates wanted to report to Lao Peng, rushed to Lao Peng's palace, and saw that the door was closed, which was very abnormal.

Everyone came in over the wall, only to see that the palace was in a mess, and the bodies of Lao Peng and his family were lying sideways, but their heads were gone.

Everyone panicked.

After intense consultations, in accordance with the tradition of father's death and son's succession, Lao Peng's Shangshu Han Li and others jointly supported Lao Peng's son Peng Wu as the new King of Yan, with his son Lan Qing as the general, wanting to support the situation.

However, Lao Peng is dead, Liu Xiu's army is eyeing the neighborhood again, and many people have lost confidence in continuing the confrontation.

One day not long after, Han Li, the national teacher of Lao Peng, found an opportunity to cut off Peng Wu's head, ran to the camp outside the city, and surrendered the city.

Jicheng went down without a fight.

So, Sai Zun took the opportunity to exterminate Lao Peng's henchmen and family and pacified Yuyang.

Let's look at Luoyang.

Facing Zimi and his entourage coming to offer their heads, Liu Xiu was both happy and surprised, and his mood was very complicated.

He was happy that Lao Peng finished playing, and he had one less opponent from now on; And he was surprised that Lao Peng wanted to be promoted to rebellion, but he didn't expect to end up like this; The solution to the Yuyang problem turned out to be so weird, with black humor in the cruelty.

At the same time, looking at Lao Peng's head, Liu Xiu was in a very uncalm mood.

Here, we would like to say a few more words.

As everyone knows, Liu Xiu is a good Confucian, respectful and orthodox, and he is very uninterested in killing the lord and seeking glory in troubled times.

More than 2 years ago, when accepting the surrender of the Red Mei Army and giving a lecture to the senior cadres of the Red Mei Army, Liu Xiu criticized their bad deeds and praised their three strengths, one of which is that other thieves first supported a monarch when they got into trouble, and cut off his head and surrendered when the situation was urgent, and thought that he was meritorious, and when the Red Mei Army surrendered, he could also hand over a complete Liu Penzi, which is worthy of recognition.

(The remaining thieves set up the king, and they all insisted on their first surrender, thinking that they were meritorious, and the princes were completely Fu I.) ）

Now, Liu Xiu is facing a paradox: if he rewards Zimi heavily, it is equivalent to encouraging the murder of the lord for glory, which is not allowed by traditional morality, and he feels that it is difficult to calm down emotionally; And if he doesn't praise Zimi, after all, he has made great contributions to removing disasters for himself, and he should be rewarded.

The former of this paradox is a moral judgment and the latter is a value judgment.

In fact, Liu Xiu didn't need to worry about this at all, because recruiting and surrendering rebels has always been an important means for soldiers to attack and disintegrate their opponents.

In all political battles and military wars, everyone hopes that there will be more defectors in their opponents, and they also formulate and implement some incentive policies for this purpose, which is also called "abandoning the dark and turning to the light"; Everyone must do everything possible to prevent dissidents from appearing in their camp, encourage their members to be loyal and unyielding, and at the same time punish those who defect severely, so as to set an example.

In this way, it is common for contradictions between moral and value judgments to arise at the same time when dealing with defectors.

It is also normal for people to deal with this issue differently and often produce different results and attract different opinions.

Our protagonist Liu Xiu after careful consideration, soon sealed Zimi as "Unrighteous Hou".

The title itself is a heavy reward, and the title "unjust" is actually a criticism.

In Liu Xiu's opinion, he made such a peace with the mud and took into account the moral judgment and value judgment of the defector, which should be the best of both worlds.

This measure was still appropriate at the time, and later historians applauded and criticized.

As a matter of fact, as long as we make a slight analysis from the viewpoint of Marxist historical materialism and look at Liu Xiu's approach in the specific social and historical environment in which he lives, we will naturally have a public opinion.

Friends who are interested, just think about it yourself.