In January 25 AD, the two armies of Red Mei arrived at Hongnong County (郡治洪农县, present-day Ling, Henan) almost simultaneously under the leadership of Fan Chong and Xu Xuan respectively

Bao Northeast).

The Red Eyebrows fought fiercely, and the troops at the beginning were vulnerable and retreated.

In this way, the team of red eyebrows grew rapidly, and soon reached Huayin (now Huayin, Shaanxi).

However, there are serious problems with the self-construction of the red eyebrows, and some of them are still fatal.

First of all, in terms of ideological construction, Chimei does not have a clear, long-term, and cohesive goal.

They rebelled earlier for the sake of food and survival, and now they are fighting for that.

As for its westward march to Guanzhong, as we said earlier, it was entirely because of the fear of dispersing. If the army goes to its homeland to the east, it will quickly disperse.

What is the army doing in the west? There are two things: one is to beat people, see the beginning of the change, see the people beat the people; The second is to grab things, no matter what is the beginning

It's still the common people's, and they grab whatever they see.

These two things of the red eyebrows are actually entangled: beating people is to better grab things, and if you grab things, you must beat people.

It's a team that doesn't know what to do tomorrow.

At the same time, this team is easy to fool.

For example, Fan Chong has a subordinate who is from Qidi, a wizard who likes to pretend to be a ghost, beat drums and dance, and often says that he is the grandson of Gaozu Liu Bang

Wang Liu Zhang possessed himself and asked everyone to worship King Jing and ask for blessing and help.

At one point, the wizard fabricated that:

"King Jing got angry again and said, 'I should be the emperor, why should I be a robber?' ”

Some in the army laughed at him, saying that he was not normal.

But whoever laughed at him, soon became ill.

As a result, there was a sense of panic in the army.

(There are laughing wizards who are sick, and the army is alarmed.) ）

For example, Fang Wang, a native of Pingling, was killed by Gengshi the year before last because he raised troops to kidnap Liu Ying and called him a widow, and his younger brother Fang Yang held a grudge.

Fang Yang wanted to use the power of Red Eyebrows to avenge his brother.

When Red Mei came to Huayin, Fang Yang met with Fan Chong and other leaders and actively offered advice.

He said: "The first emperor is absurd and unreasonable, and the government decree is not comprehensible, so the general has today's achievements." Now that you have a million soldiers, you can attack the west

Hit the imperial capital Chang'an, but did not have a proper name, and was regarded as a robber by people, this situation can not be sustained. It's better to find a Liu clan to be the emperor

to justifiably crusade against the enemy. Use this to command the world, who dares to disobey? ”

Fan Chong and the others felt that it made a lot of sense when they heard it, and it was the same as what the wizard said.

At this time, the wizard's advocacy of King Jing became even more vigorous.

Within a few days, when Chimei arrived in Zheng County (present-day Huaxian County, Shaanxi), Fan Chong and other leaders could not wait, so they consulted with each other and said:

"Now that we are almost in Chang'an, we should find someone surnamed Liu and honor him as the emperor."

Well, as to whether the leaders of the red eyebrows are unassertive and easy to be fooled, we will naturally find it clear if we look at it.

Secondly, in terms of organizational construction, Chimei has not formed a strong leadership core, nor has it cultivated, selected, and used a good cadre team, especially in the first leader

In terms of equipment, it is very casual and funny, as if it is joking.

Fan Chong and other leaders did not have a high overall quality, except for the simple plans of grabbing things and eating to motivate everyone, except for fighting fiercely, there was nothing else

What a capability.

As they continued to win battles and approach Chang'an, they wanted to find someone surnamed Liu to be their leader as soon as possible according to the intentions of the ghosts and gods.

At the beginning of the Red Mei Incident, when passing through Shixian County (near present-day Taishan, Shandong), he not only robbed things and women, but also robbed men and pulled Zhuang Ding, and kidnapped Liu

Penzi and his two elder brothers, Liu Gong and Liu Mao, brought these brothers and sons with them.

Among them, Liu Mao studied "Shangshu" since he was a child, and he had a little cultural knowledge and theoretical level, and was named when he followed Fan Chong to surrender not long ago

Shihou.

In the beginning of the change, cultural people were a scarce resource, and Liu Mao was named a servant and served beside the first emperor Liu Xuan.

When Fan Chong and the others left the beginning of the change in anger, he did not leave and stayed there in the change.

Liu Penzi and Liu Gong have always been in the Red Mei Army, under the leadership of General Liu Xiaqing, with the position of "cattle officials" and their duty is to feed cattle.

Fan Chong and others felt that the blood of the surname Liu in the platoon army was close to Liu Zhang, the king of Jing, and more than 70 people were discharged at once, among which the nearest ones were Liu Penzi and Liu Gong

, and a man named Liu Xiao.

It should be said that these dozens of people, including this brother, although they are of royal blood, have long been broken after Wang Mang's years of tossing and vicissitudes.

Just like Liu Xiu, except for the bloodline itself, there is no big difference between them and ordinary people.

Let's just talk about the brothers in front of me, all aspects of doing things for people are the same mediocrity, and it is not easy to pick one out of them.

It's okay, you guys, our brothers aren't very capable people.

Don't be embarrassed, choose one of you to be the leader, this is the arrangement of the ghosts and gods, otherwise, how can you have your share in this good thing.

Be content, don't chatter, stay there and don't move, everyone is going to pick.

Catch lots!

Fan Chong discussed with the leaders that he wanted to use this most primitive method to determine one person from among the three surnamed Liu to be the first brother.

He said: "I heard that in the past, when the Son of Heaven led his troops to fight, he called himself a general. ”

So, Lao Fan and the leaders arranged a few staff members to build a mound in the north of Zheng County, set up King Jing's tablet, and gestured with his hands and feet

Muttered a sacrifice.

Then, the staff took out three identical blank wooden tablets, and drew some symbols on one of them, which were estimated that no one could understand, and wrote "General."

Army" 3 words.

Then, the three wooden tablets were put together in a box.

At this time, the leaders of the red eyebrows, large and small, gathered under the mound.

Liu Penzi and the other 3 candidates stood in the middle, touching Jane in order of age, that is, drawing lots.

The basin is the youngest, and the last one is cast from the box.

He shuddered and took it out to see that it read "Great General".

As soon as everyone saw it, they immediately knelt down and kowtowed, and worshipped.

(The basin is the youngest, and the latter is probed, and all the generals are called ministers.) ）

Immediately afterwards, the Red Eyebrows established a leadership team according to the specifications of a dynasty.

Although Fan Chong was elected as the chief leader because of his bravery, he could not read big characters and could not count, so he had to become a royal historian.

Although the position of emperor can be done by a fool or a fool, the prime minister does specific work, and it must be done by someone who is somewhat capable. composed

Xuanyuan worked as a jailer, could read through the Book of Changes, and was a cultural person, so he took on this role.

It doesn't matter to the others, anyway, the buddies don't have much culture, and their understanding of the responsibilities of each position is also different.

Xiao An is the left big Sima, Xie Lu is the right big Sima, since Yang Yin and below, they are all Lieqing and generals.

As for the number of positions in the leadership team, the structure of the cadre team, and the responsibilities and discipline requirements of each position, I'm sorry, that's too professional, we don't

I understand, I don't want to understand, how to talk about it.

It was June 25 A.D., and Liu Penzi was 15 years old.

He was nervous and terrified!

This game of drawing lots is often played, but I haven't heard of catching lots as an emperor.

Isn't the emperor just a man who eats whatever he wants and hits whoever he wants?!

I'm dreaming, right?!

Facing a group of heads and brains in front of him, who are usually fierce and vicious, but now have serious expressions and flickering eyes, the basin is indeed nervous.

He was disheveled, dirty, barefoot, and sweaty in shabby, sweat-soaked clothes.

Seeing so many people worshipping him, the basin was so frightened that he was about to cry!

(The basin was fifteen years old, and he was sent to stumble, his clothes were ochre and sweaty, and when he saw the crowd worshipping, he was afraid to cry.) ）

Although Liu Gong himself didn't touch the lot, he was also very happy to see that his younger brother had touched the pot.

Good days begin! Glory and wealth begin!

He saw that the basin was a little weak, and hurriedly said to him:

"Hide this talisman well."

Who knew that the basin didn't care, so he bit off the wooden tablet in his hand, threw it on the ground, turned around and found Liu Xiaqing, and snuggled up to him.

He may feel that it is more appropriate and safer for him to feed the cattle as a shepherd boy for Liu Xiaqing.

His little shepherd boy can be the emperor, and Liu Xiaqing also feels that his face is very bright.

He quickly helped the basin buy some simple props for the emperor: a red single coat, a red turban, embroidered shoes, a tall cart and a horse, and the cart was loaded with red

Colored fenders, red curtains.

However, the basin was not interested in these, but felt that these things were very inconvenient to use, and it was better to wear the old clothes habitually; When the emperor is even less so

Habit is far less free than herding cattle.

So, the basin didn't listen to the dissuasion, and still visited Liu Xiaqing every morning and evening according to the old rules, and still invited those shepherd boys in the army to have a good time.

(And he was invited by the shepherd.) ）

Liu Xiaqing hates that iron does not become steel.

It doesn't matter if the generals are red-eyebrowed, anyway, it would have been a decoration for you to be the emperor.

But don't care what, Red Eyebrows has had his own emperor since then.

Third, in terms of work style building, Red Mei has not grasped the construction of work style, and military and political cadres do whatever they want.

Originally, as a peasant rebel army, the Red Eyebrows rose up against those who oppressed them, which represented the law of social and historical progress. Where there is oppression, where there is

There is resistance. At the same time, their resistance was also very appealing, and the battle was brave and effective.

We should fully affirm this.

However, because they do not pay attention to the building of work style, the cadres have no scruples, and blindly come to the outside world, they have seriously harmed the common people who have suffered as much as them

profits, destroying social good customs and social stability.

Red eyebrows are like a poor man who has been bullied and knocked to the ground, and it is only natural for him to resist and defend his rights and interests. But if he wants

If you get up indiscriminately and see who destroys whom, you can't say that it represents social progress.

Since the Red Eyebrows Incident, while attacking the city, the habit of robbing money, goods, and women has been formed. The victims were other than Wang Mang's local bureaucrats

, powerful landlords, and more often ordinary poor peasants.

As the team grew, this stinky habit of theirs became more and more prominent.

Let's take an example.

In December 25 A.D., the red eyebrows were extinguished and entered Chang'an.

As for the performance at the end of the shift, we will talk about it later.

As soon as the red eyebrows entered such a big city, they let the soldiers rob and bully people casually.

The residents of Chang'an, regardless of the cadres and the masses, have been affected.

The residents of Chang'an originally hoped to destroy Wang Mang, and let everyone live a good life, but they were disappointed; Now I hope that the red eyebrows can extinguish the corrupt and incompetent beginning,

Let everyone live a good life for a few days, and it is even more disappointing.

There was really no choice but to defend themselves, or go it alone, or join forces to build a fortress and resist the red eyebrows.

(He also captured the mob and the people, and the people defended the wall, and they all defended it.) ）

Whatever the reason, a force that makes the common people guard against and resist is not a good bird.

Liu Penzi lived in Changle Palace in Chang'an City.

Changle Palace is the place where Wang Mang and Liu Xuan have worked, and the red-eyed high-ranking cadres come here every day to gather.

Everyone gathered here not to do research work, or to help Liu Penzi deal with government affairs, but in fact, there was not much work to be done at all.

They come here to gather, first, to fight for their own merits, to debate with each other, to disagree with each other, who is anxious and wants to vent, even if they destroy office supplies;

Second, when waiting for local cadres and front-line soldiers to offer looted property and women, they will be snatched away without waiting for the pot.

(The basin lives in Changle Palace, and the generals will discuss merit every day, argue and cheer, draw their swords and hit the pillars, and they cannot be the same.) The battalion commander of Sanfu County sent envoys to contribute, and the soldiers took it away. ）

In this case, the emotions of the red-eyebrow cadres are like dry firewood, and a little spark can be ignited; It behaves like a wild horse, and it will run wild for a little reason.

Do? Lao Tzu has fought and killed people, who is Lao Tzu afraid of?!

On the day of the sacrifice to the gods at the end of the year, Fan Chong and others had a big party, and the drums were excited, which was very lively.

Liu Penzi sat in the main seat, Zhonghuangmen led people with weapons to stand behind him to guard, and senior military and political cadres sat in the main hall.

Before the banquet began, a man took out a pen and knife and wrote a post to congratulate him.

Since everyone is uneducated, and they want to be vassals and have a high-level play, they all ran over one after another, clamoring for this person to submit his name

I wrote it.

It's actually a small thing.

However, no one is willing to give up the opportunity to show their vulgarity, hula is surrounded all at once, you push me, or quarrel face-to-face, or

Those are squeezed back to back, and no one is polite.

Do? That's how I robbed everything!

Dasi Nong Yang Yin really can't stand it, what kind of words does this look like!

He pressed his sword and scolded:

"You're just old servants! Today, you should pay attention to the courtesy of kings and ministers, but you are even more chaotic, even children will not do this when they play games

Shape. You all deserve to be killed! ”

However, everyone was busy with their own affairs, and instead of taking care of him, it became even more chaotic (more like a debate).

Hearing that the hall was so lively inside, the soldiers outside stopped working.

They thought, there must be something good inside. Since it is a benefit, you must have your own share.

Do? I want a copy too!

It seems that in response to the chaos in the hall, these soldiers outside either rushed in, or climbed over the wall and broken windows to climb inside, and came in to take a look

Wine and meat can be robbed.

Then you have to rob it, whoever stops it will destroy him!

(The soldiers then crossed the palace and entered the customs, plundered wine and meat, and killed and injured each other.) ）

At this moment, Wei Wei Zhuge Zhi rushed over with his troops to calm the situation, but no one listened to him.

There is really no way, Zhuge Zhi ordered to kill!

It wasn't until more than 100 people were killed that Zhuge Zhi brought the situation under control.

(Wei Wei Zhuge Zhizhi heard this, and the soldiers were killed, and more than 100 people were killed.) ）

If you have a party internally, you have to use force to fight, and the operating cost of Red Eyebrows is indeed too high.

In this way, there are obviously too many problems in the ideology, organization, and style of the red eyebrows.

It's like a person who has a brain problem, and his limbs and organs are sick, and his gestures are just bad.

However, it is such a red eyebrow that also fights even more temperlessly.

Defeated in the hands of such a red eyebrow, we can only say that it really deserved to be defeated.

Let's go back and start with the time when the red eyebrows entered Chang'an.