In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the imperial court omitted the capital lieutenant, and his post was concurrently held by the Taishou, and only in the border counties continued to maintain the capital lieutenant and the subject state governor, or when there was an extreme situation, it was temporarily established, and the matter was over. Just like a few years ago, Bao Xin, the commander who fought with Zhang Qian several times in Yanzhou, was temporarily appointed during the Yellow Turban Uprising, and after the Yellow Turban Army was completely defeated, he was removed from the post of governor and turned into a councilor.

The current Jizhou Governor was temporarily appointed by Wang Fen, the assassin of Jizhou, in the name of guarding against "Taihang thieves", and was used to command the Jizhou Prefecture Division. Now that the Taixing Army has been recruited by the Han family, Wang Fen, the assassin of Jizhou, still continues to retain the existence of the state governor, which has vaguely aroused the discussion of a few Jizhou officials who are not cronies.

The current governor of Jizhou, surnamed Koji, is a branch of the Xiping clan and is also quite famous in Liangzhou. In the first year of Zhongping [184], he came to Kanto with the then Beidi Taishou Emperor Fu Song to suppress the "Yellow Turban Rebellion".

After Huangfu Song, who was transferred to Zhonglang General, pacified the Yellow Turban in Jizhou, in order to deter the remnants of the rebellious party in Jizhou, Huangfu Song left Lu Yi in Jizhou. Later, Wang Fen took over the history of Jizhou Assassin, and he also greatly appreciated Lu Yi, and strongly recommended Lu Yi to be the captain of the Jizhou Prefecture Division and take charge of the Jizhou Prefecture Division.

The position of lieutenant is an important position with a rank greater than 2,000 stones. As a Kansai person, but in Jizhou, which can be called a place where talents are born, he occupies such an important position, and the pressure he is under in the open and in the dark will naturally not be small.

Fortunately, Lu Yi has the support of Jizhou Thorn Shi Wang Fen behind him, and the soldiers of the department are fierce, especially the 300 personal soldiers, known as "the first to ascend". Megatron Jizhou. In this way, Lu Yi can be regarded as suppressing many county soldiers in the state.

According to Shi A's secret investigation, since the beginning of this year, Lu Yi has repeatedly sent a team of Xiandeng personal soldiers to go out to do some secret things. Zhao Feng's death is most likely inseparable from Lu Yi. But. As an outsider in Luyi, how can he kill and loot many times under the noses of Jizhou people, but he has never been found out?

Obviously, there is a powerful force behind Lu Yi.

This kind of speculation made Shi A, who was secretly observing on the sidelines, feel extremely heavy.

In Jizhou, he has the ability to be the backer of the Yi. Few and far between. Most likely, there is only one person.

Jizhou Thorn Shi Wang Fen.

However, this is one thing that Shi Ah can't figure out anyway.

Not to mention the cost of mobilizing the troops of Lu Yi and mobilizing the covering forces along the way, it is not worth attacking a few inconsequential local tyrants at all. According to the practice of officialdom, there was such a vicious looting incident in Jizhou, and the imperial court must put the responsibility on the head of Jizhou's assassination.

Just the little treasure that was plundered. Can it be worth the damage caused to Wang Fen's official reputation by these incidents?

These questions of Shia. Only Wang Fen can answer. Even Lu Yi himself simply accepted the secret instructions of Wang Fen, the assassin, and sent reliable elite soldiers to the designated place to do some things that needed to be done in ordinary training.

As for what kind of consequences will happen after these things are done. Koji didn't care. Or rather, it's useless for him to care.

Lu Yi is five years old Chinese New Year's Eve today, eight feet three inches tall, with a majestic appearance, and his body is still at its peak. And the experience is rich enough, and it is the most elite age in a general's life.

Since the age of 20, Lu Yi participated in the Liangzhou Border Army as a son of a good family, and he relied on his military exploits along the way, rising all the way from Shichang to the current position of 2,000 stones, which is already the highest position in the officialdom that Lu Yi can climb personally.

In the Han army, the position below 2,000 stone can also rely on military exploits to fight. However, at the level of 2,000 stones, the role of combat exploits has become relatively secondary. If you don't have enough power behind you to support you, it's normal to spend a lifetime in an official position at this level.

The Xiping Koji clan is just a small local haoqiang, and he can't speak at all in the imperial court. If he wants to continue to advance, he must take refuge in a court force that is strong enough but lacks military power at hand.

Although he is only a peripheral member of the court, Lu Yi still knows a little about the factional division of the current court.

Today's Han court, due to the intentional arrangement of the Son of Heaven, can be roughly divided into three major forces.

The first major force is naturally the eunuchs who control the court and the inner dynasty all the year round, and the leading figure is the famous "Ten Standing Servants".

This faction, relying on the favor of the Son of Heaven, firmly controlled the Southern Han Army guarding the palace and dominated the imperial capital Luoyang. However, the eunuchs had no foundation in the prefecture and county. Moreover, the reputation of the Ten Standing Attendants among the people is extremely bad. If Lu Yi had no choice, he would not have thrown himself into these eunuchs.

Not to mention anything else, one of the famous "Liangzhou Sanming" back then, with 400 self-inflicted losses, killed more than 38,000 Qiang people and rebelled against the party, captured 427,000 domestic animals, and shocked the world. However, due to the hatred of the world's corporal for the eunuch family, Duan Cheng's final ending was actually forced to commit suicide.

Lu Yi is proud that he can't compare to the hero of the late Duan Taiwei. Even Duan Cheng fell into such a field, of course Lu Yi did not dare to follow in his footsteps.

The second major force was a family of neutral bureaucrats headed by the Hongnong Yang clan and the Runan Yuan clan.

These families, although they are also considered scholars, have always maintained a subtle neutrality in the struggle of the imperial court. Because the protégés of this faction are all over the world, and they advocate burying their heads in doing things and grasping the real power of the court, they belong to the backbone of the officialdom of the Han court.

No matter which faction gains power, it is inseparable from these veteran officials who have the ability to govern the world in the DPRK and the central government, and can be called experienced in governing the localities. With this, the bureaucratic families have always been comfortable in the choice of camps, and they can advance and retreat freely.

For example, in the second year of Jianning [169], the general Dou Wu and the Taifu Chen Fan conspired to punish the eunuchs, but the army was defeated. In this fierce struggle, the family of neutral bureaucrats not only survived unscathed, but took the opportunity to accept the inheritance of the losers on a legitimate and legitimate scale. The general Dou Wu has a family property worth nearly 10 billion yuan, of which the Yuan family in Runan has received at least 3 billion yuan of land from it.

Up to now, Hongnong Yang and Runan Yuan are already the world's top families known as the "Four Worlds and Three Princes". If only the foundation is deep. The strength is so strong that the other two factions cannot compare.

It's just that this faction has always promoted the golden mean, taking maintaining the stability of the court as its own responsibility, and is best at making peace with mud. There are also many mountains inside it, two giants. Between the Yuan family and the Yang family, there is also a disagreement between the face and the heart, and they are rarely able to act in unison, so that they do not appear too powerful in the imperial court.

Koji really wants to join this faction. It's a pity that whether it is the Hongnong Yang clan or the Runan Yuan clan, with their deep foundations, there is no shortage of elite soldiers and good generals in the camp.

On the contrary, in order to avoid suspicion. Neutral bureaucratic families must also restrain their own expansion in the military to ensure that their sons and nephews can gain a foothold in the military and not be suppressed by the other two factions at the same time. Although Lu Yi has a heart, he has not encountered a suitable opportunity, which can really be described as helpless.

As for the third major force, it is the newly rising power of foreign relatives and party members.

Strictly calculated, the power of foreign relatives and the power of the party. Actually, it's not the same thing at all. Decades ago, before the eunuchs had risen to prominence. The predecessor of the relatives and the party, that is, the "Qingliu" forces, fought to the point of incompatibility.

At that time, who would have thought that one day, relatives and party members would be able to join hands intimately. Working together against the political enemies of the DPRK and China?

The so-called unpredictable world is precisely this.

The representative of the foreign relatives is He Jin, a general who has only really risen in the past ten years. He Jin's faction originally followed the path of the eunuch "Ten Permanent Servants". Since four years ago, with the help of the "Yellow Turban Rebellion". He Jin was able to serve as a general, and the relationship between the two sides gradually went away.

As a faction that seems to be weak in the imperial court, He Jin, a general, is much more aggrieved than his predecessors Dou Wu, Dou Xian, Liang Ji and others. Even the Tai students in Beijing dared to openly ridicule He Jin's background, and Shengsheng said that He Jin, who was born as a scholar, was "born as a butcher".

As for the power of the party, although there are many well-known celebrities in the world, but in view of the "party power" policy of the imperial court, it was not really lifted until four years ago, although those party members who were pardoned have been reinstated, after all, the time is still short, and the forces are mostly distributed in local states and counties, and they cannot really affect the affairs of the imperial court.

Although these two factions have completely different positions, their advantages just complement each other. For the common interests of both sides, He Jin vigorously recruited party members and entered his shogunate. And the party members also used the power of the general to seek influence on the government. It can be said that it is with the support of the party behind him that the general He Jin really has the power to influence the decision-making of the imperial court.

Of course, in this way, the eunuch faction, which was originally an ally, naturally regarded the general He Jin as the biggest enemy. Even if the Empress Dowager He adjusts in the middle, she will not be able to resolve the contradictions between the two sides. It's just that with the buffer of Empress Dowager He, the relationship between He Jin and the eunuchs will not be completely broken.

Wang Fen, the assassin of Jizhou, is one of the "eight chefs" among the party members. The so-called "cook" is not the chef of later generations. In the Han Dynasty, it was used to praise those who could help the world with their family wealth. Du Shang, Zhang Miao, Wang Fen, Liu Ru, Hu Wuban, Qin Zhou, Fan Xiang, and Wang Zhang are the "eight chefs" recognized by the party.

Therefore, from this point of view, Lu Yi is actually an army general who belongs to the party. It's not too much of what Lu Yi wants, but it's not a bad choice.

However, it is actually difficult for Lu Yi to understand Wang Fen's order to secretly attack and kill Xiao Haoqiang who is close to the Taihang Mountain area. The reason he could think of was that he could use this to create a turbulent situation in Jizhou to ensure that the Jizhou Prefecture Division would not be disbanded.

After appeasing the soldiers who had returned from a secret killing mission, Lu Yi once again opened a bamboo slip he had just received, and looked at the order above, feeling faintly uneasy.

The command on the bamboo slip is very simple, only a few words.

-- Before the third day of the eighth month, he went to Gaoyi to discuss major matters. (To be continued......)

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