In the imperial court system, among the series of official changes initiated by Dong Zhuo, the only one who did not get any benefits, or on the contrary, suffered damage in strength, was actually the Runan Yuan family.

Such a result is not only the result of Yuan Kui's initiative to retreat, but also Dong Zhuo's vigilance and fear of Yuan's huge power.

Although Dong Zhuo is the former official of the Yuan family, the two sides are actually not very close in terms of feelings and interests. In the face of Yuan's terrible means of turning his hands into clouds and covering his hands into rain in the court, even the Son of Heaven and the Queen Mother were not spared. In addition to being able to take charge of the imperial court, Dong Zhuo would wake up in his dreams every time he was awakened by some scenes that might appear one day in the future.

A huge power group that was enough to threaten Dong Zhuo's life and death could not help him be afraid, and then be careful to beware.

Of course, for the Yuan family, Dong Zhuo still has to be respectful on the surface. According to Yuan Kui's explanation afterwards, in order to get rid of the stigma of "killing the king", he took the initiative to jump out to confront Dong Zhuo, and then pretended to be Yuan Shao who fled to Jizhou in embarrassment, Dong Zhuo generously appointed him as the Bohai Taishou according to Yuan Kui's intentions.

At the same time, in order to take care of Yuan Shao in the Bohai Sea, Dong Zhuo also agreed to release Yuan's former official, Han Fu in the imperial history, as Jizhou Mu. and Yuan Shu, the tiger general who successfully carried out the task of poisoning the Empress Dowager He, also successfully obtained the position of general under Yuan Kui's reward, and was only one step away from Jiuqing. Even Yuan Kui, who originally served in Chang'an Ling, was promoted by Dong Zhuo and was promoted to Shanyang Taishou.

Due to the cooperation of the Yuan family, coupled with this wave of large-scale appointments of well-known scholars, Dong Zhuo, a martial artist who had been in charge of the Han Dynasty since he first entered the Beijing Division, was temporarily acquiesced in by the scholars.

Of course, if there are some things that make the scholars dissatisfied in the process of Dong Zhuo's administration in the future, these scholars will be quiet for a while. He will not be stingy with his eloquence, and he will inevitably scold this vulgar warrior.

No way, who called Dong Zhuo that he was not from a scholar's background?

If the scholars do not scold him, do they scold their own leaders, the famous men who are in the court?

The first taboo, Dong Zhuo used Wen's hand to solve it. But for the second taboo, Dong Zhuo only has Wu's hand to use.

Merely. That hand may not be easy to use.

As a remnant of the Yellow Turban, Zhang Qiang is naturally extremely unbearable in the eyes of the world's corporals. But this little warlord with strong soldiers and horses is not something that Dong Zhuo can solve with a few soldiers easily. According to the assessment of Niu Fu, Xu Rong and other generals in the army, there are no more than 30,000 elite soldiers, and there is still more than half a year, so they don't want to defeat the Taihang thieves. And if you want to completely eradicate the Taihang thieves, I am afraid that the number of troops and time required will be doubled.

Therefore, Dong Zhuo has not yet stabilized the situation of the Han Dynasty. Before firmly grasping the authority of the imperial court, the attitude towards arrogance can only be based on vigilance and peaceful coexistence.

In order to guard against the arrogant Taixing army, Dong Zhuo still asked Niu Fu, who was promoted to Zhonglang General, to lead his headquarters to be stationed in the south of Hedong County. At the same time, Dong Zhuo also ignored the "Three Mutual Laws" and took the subordinates of the general He Jin. One of Ding Yuan's henchmen, Captain Wu Meng, Zhang Yang, was appointed as the Taishou of the Shangdang. In order to prevent the Taixing army from moving south, by the way, he tried to cut off the connection between the Taihang Mountain ruled by Zhang and the Meiji and Hetao areas.

Of course, at this time, Zhang Yang's troops were weak, and it was not enough to pose any threat to Zhang Yan. Therefore, when Dong Zhuo was ambitious and wanted to dominate the world. At the time of the revival of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Qiang was engaged in a major event that had little to do with the military.

The big thing is:

Migrating displaced people.

The displaced people are the population, and the population is the foundation of any regime. For the insolent forces with weak foundations, anything that can increase the population of the territory under their rule is a big deal. For bad reputation. For the Taixing Army, which is regarded as a first-class bandit and grass robber by the people of the world, the homeless people are the most reliable and easily accessible population.

Although these people can be called poor and white, all the food, clothing and production tools used to settle down and resume production depend on the Taixing army. But for the Tai marching army, such a price is barely acceptable.

In the area of Baibo Valley now, there are tens of thousands of displaced people, who are carrying out long-distance migration under the arrangement of the Taixing Army. The source of these displaced people is also related to Dong Zhuo.

At the beginning, Dong Zhuo succeeded, in order to concentrate the troops in his hands, and in order to fulfill a verbal agreement with Zhang Qi, he once ordered his son-in-law Niu Fu to give up the two dock forts occupied in Baibo Valley. However, the land was given up by the Liangzhou army, but it did not mean that Dong Zhuo would hand over this land intact to the Taixing army.

Even if the Taixing Army was recruited by Emperor Ling of Han, in Dong Zhuo's eyes, they were still a group of Yellow Turban remnants. Even if it is not suitable to turn against the Taixing Army now, Dong Zhuo will not let the Taixing Army have too much fun. Therefore, when Niu Fu withdrew from the White Wave Valley, he was very crazy.

The Xiliang army has strict military discipline, and without the permission of the commander-in-chief, the soldiers cannot harass the place casually. However, if the commander gives an order and agrees to carry out the local scraping, the methods of the Xiliang army are not only sophisticated, but also cruel.

The Tai Marching Army is half an enemy army.

The White Wave Valley will be obtained by the Tai Marching Army.

The combination of these two circumstances allowed Niu Fu to execute the order to retreat, and issued an order to collect the goods and goods to the two thousand remaining soldiers under his subordinates without any scruples. Even in order to more effectively scrape the land here, Niu Fu also transferred 3,000 "reinforcements" from several other counties in Hedong.

As a result, the people of Nanpu and Dongbao, which were occupied by Dong Zhuojun, fell into an extremely miserable situation.

Not only were the property of ordinary people unscrupulously plundered by the Liangzhou army, but even some local powerful landlords with a small reputation also suffered the fate of ruined families. In addition to collecting goods and grain, all the young and beautiful women who were discovered by the Xiliang army were also openly taken into slavery by them in broad daylight.

During the whole process, as long as the Xiliang army found resistance, it would use force without scruples. Thousands of people were killed as a result. But even these dead were not let go by the Xiliang Army. Their heads were cut off, and they became the basis for the Xiliang army to repay the thieves for their exploits.

For a time, the southern part of the White Wave Valley seemed to have become a hell on earth. After the Liangzhou army withdrew, the sound of crying was endless. A surviving scholar wrote even more sadly and indignantly, "Hanging people's heads in front of the horse." Women in the back of the car" to show the cruelty of these Liangzhou barbarians.

After three days of harvesting, the Xiliang Army, which returned with hundreds of thousands of stone grains, hundreds of millions of goods and hundreds of beautiful women, quickly evacuated Baibo Valley. If it weren't for the reaction of the Taixing army, they decisively sent troops to stop the plundering of the Xiliang army. saved a lot of people in Baibo Valley, and I think that the harvest of the Xiliang Army can be increased by 30%.

In this way, although Zhang Qiang succeeded in getting a complete white wave valley, he also lost a lot.

However, this is not a big deal for insolence. Although he didn't expect that the Liangzhou army would be so vicious, he also won the hearts of the people of the entire Baibo Valley in the skirmishes launched against the Liangzhou army later.

As the officers and soldiers of the imperial court, the Liangzhou army was so scraped, and it was called the Taixing army of anti-thieves. but he became a protector of all peoples. Between one gain and one loss, insolence in general, still made a lot of money.

At least, the two things that are most needed in the struggle for hegemony, land and population, have successfully fallen into the hands of insolence.

As for the large amount of grain and goods that were lost this time?

Come on, these things aren't too marching either. Even if the Liangzhou army doesn't take the plunder, is it possible that the Taixing army can still use it to rob it?

And, after a year of hard work. Zhang Qi is really not too short of food and goods at hand. Thanks to the vigorous reclamation in the second half of last year. In addition, the weather has always been smooth, and the nearly 100,000 displaced people who have migrated to the Hetao area can already support themselves this year.

Some of the tens of thousands of displaced people created by the captivity of the Liangzhou army still want to keep some of their assets and can barely survive. Naturally, he stayed where he was and became a submissive citizen under the rule of the Taixing Army. However, those poor people who had been taken captive to bankruptcy had to accept the resettlement activities of the Taixing army.

Some of them were organized by the Taixing Army into Mintun personnel, and the "borderless land" created by the Liangzhou Army and occupied by the Taixing Army was reclaimed on the spot; The other part is about 10,000 people. It continued along the migration route of the displaced people, all the way to the north, and was transported to the vast and sparsely populated Hetao area for reclamation.

The current business situation of the Aether Marching Army, if everything is normal, clean up the mess created by the Liangzhou Army, that is, about half a year. Anyway, the Taixing army is currently in the stage of accumulation of strength, and has no plans to attack on a large scale.

In the arrogant plan, he would not wait until Dong Zhuo and the Kwantung coalition army were almost defeated, and he would take the opportunity to come out and occupy the territory and officially confirm the existence of his own forces to the princes of the world.

Of course, this does not mean that insolence has nothing to do at the moment. In fact, it is precisely in the stage of power cultivation that all kinds of military and civilian trivial matters will make Zhang Qiang more and more busy. After all, the Taixing army lacks the foundation and lacks the experience of large-scale local governance, and the various chaos that has broken out during this period of time can be said to make Zhang Qi a headache.

If it weren't for the fact that after Zhang Qiang occupied a piece of territory, he decisively let a group of older and more literate veterans of the Taixing Army retire and serve as county officials such as grassroots pavilion chiefs, Qiangfu, and Yougui in the newly occupied areas, it would have been really difficult to successfully digest these newly occupied territories. ①

In the short term, insolence must devote the main energy to the construction of internal affairs. This is the main reason why he chose to cooperate with Dong Zhuo instead of confronting him in the Baibo Valley incident.

Just like now, Zhang Qiang finally arranged the affairs of the autumn harvest and wanted to take a breath, but found that the secret agents under his rule came with news that many small officials had just gained a firm foothold, and there were already signs of corruption. There is no good way to deal with this problem.

After all, even a certain superpower in the world, known as the "master of the oil vessel" in later generations, will not be able to solve this problem at all. For the arrogance who traveled back to 2,000 years ago, if he could completely control the occurrence of corruption, then he would not be a human being, but a real immortal.

Of course, the crackdown on corruption still needs to be carried out with great fanfare. (To be continued......)

PS: PS: (1) The grassroots ruling institutions in the Han Dynasty were county, township, pavilion, and li. Generally speaking, 100 households are one "li", and one person is set up in "lizheng". Ten miles of a "pavilion", the pavilion set up a "pavilion chief". Ten pavilions and one "township", the township officials mainly have "three elders", "Qiangfu", and "Youfu". Among them, three elders are in charge of education; Qiang Fu is in charge of the administration of a township, and collects taxes at the same time; Seize thieves and manage public order.