After Jian Shuo's body was carried away, the young prince who was just over ten years old quickly came to the court with the support of the ten permanent servants and a group of people. When he saw his young nephew finally sitting on the supreme dragon chair, He Jin, the general who fell to the ground, had a feeling of weakness all over his body.

- It's not easy!

- It's not easy!

How difficult is it to put a young man on the throne of the emperor under the hostility of the Son of Heaven?

Those who have not experienced it will never be able to imagine it.

The first emperor, Liu Xie, was definitely a smart person. After appointing Jian Shuo as the commander of the Xiyuan Army, he found that Jian Shuo still couldn't control the situation in the army, so he first sent him to prison and died under the pretext that Bao Hong, the captain of the military academy, was unfavorable to the Yellow Turban Army of Gepi, so as to cut off the direct wings of the general. Then, the Son of Heaven didn't wait for He Jin to react, and immediately played another ruthless move:

——Let the general He Jin personally lead the army to crusade against the Qiang and Han rebels led by the famous men Bian Zhang and Han Sui in Xiliang!

How did He Jin, the great general, come about, everyone in the government and the opposition knows. He Jin's main military achievement before this was to preside over the capture and killing of Ma Yiyuan and other Taiping Road thieves.

However, Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty wanted to let the famous generals Huangfu Song, Dong Zhuo and others not be sent, but let the general go to the expedition. The taste of this, even the janitors of Luoyang City, can taste it.

However, even so, the great general He Jin could not refute this order.

The reason for this is that the initial establishment of the post of general was a military position tailored by Liu Che, the son of heaven, for the general Wei Qing, in order to attack the Xiongnu in the west. Before Wei Qing. Although there are also Han Xin and others who have held the position of "great general", compared with General Wei Qing, there is a big difference.

Since General Wei Qing, among the previous generals, there are certainly some who have never sent troops or fought in battle. However, there are also many people like Dou Xian, who have made great achievements such as "Leshi Yanran Mountain". Therefore, since the Xiliang rebellion lasted for several years and never subsided, it was only natural for the Son of Heaven to let the general send troops.

Fortunately, He Jin has a good sister. Although Empress He was alienated by Emperor Ling, she was still able to win over a few of the ten permanent attendants. The news that Emperor Ling ordered the general to go on the expedition has not yet been officially released in the court. It has already been known to He Jin. He Jin, who was frightened into a cold sweat, immediately invited Yuan Shao, He Yan and other resourceful people to come and discuss countermeasures.

He Yan is worthy of being a world-famous resourceful person, and in the blink of an eye, he came up with a feasible countermeasure. That is:

- Drag!

At that time, He Jin had already taken out the news that the Spirit Emperor was weak and was afraid that his life would not be long before he came out of the mouth of the doctors of the Tai Hospital. In this situation, as long as it drags on for a while, maybe the Spirit Emperor will fall ill himself. The Son of Heaven fell ill. The great generals who are responsible for the world naturally have to stay and sit in the imperial capital. Just in case of small nights and unforeseen events.

Of course, if Emperor Ling hadn't fallen ill himself, and the forces had infiltrated He Jin's side of the Tai Hospital, he could also find a way to help Emperor Ling fall ill earlier.

So, before the news of the imperial court's order for the general to lead the army to the expedition was officially announced, the general took the lead. Let Yuan Shao, the lieutenant of the Chinese Military Academy, quickly lead his troops out of Beijing, go straight to Qing and Xu Erzhou, and go to suppress the growing rebellion of the Yellow Turban thieves there.

Yuan Shao's movements were fast, and he took away half of the troops of the Xiyuan Army in one go. Jian Shuo, this captain of the military academy. I can't stop this at all. Because, at that time, he was still in the palace, waiting for the edict for the general to go on the expedition to be issued.

Subsequently, the general He Jin postponed Emperor Ling's order to send troops on the grounds that he had insufficient troops in his hands and needed to wait for Yuan Shao to return from the Qingxu battlefield before he could send troops. It wasn't until Emperor Ling fell ill on time as promised that the general He Jin secretly ordered Yuan Shao to lead the army to quietly escape on the way to the Qingxu battlefield and sneak back to Luoyang.

Then, He Jin used Yuan Shao as a bridge to secretly meet with the later general Yuan Kui. After getting the promise of serving as the Taifu in the future, Yuan Kui, the head of the Yuan family in Runan, expressed his willingness to secretly help the general fight against Jian Shuo and support the emperor to succeed to the throne.

Through this kind of exhausting dark chess arrangement, He Jin finally had the last laugh in the battle for succession. Recalling all the efforts made beforehand, He Jin couldn't help but feel like a dream.

The big picture is finally decided!

In the summer of the sixth year of Zhongping, on the afternoon of April 13, the prince officially succeeded to the throne as the emperor with the support of the ministers, and changed the yuan to the "first year of Guangxi". On the same day, the Son of Heaven Liu Wei issued an edict, with the "Later General" Yuan Kui loyal and diligent in state affairs, hard work and high merit, and carried the position of "Taifu", ranking above the three dukes, and the "general" He Jin shared the government.

At the same time, the general He Jin recommended Yuan Shao to the post of lieutenant of the Chinese military on the grounds that Yuan Shao, a lieutenant of the Chinese military academy, had a noble character and extraordinary ability. This recommendation did not encounter the slightest opposition in the imperial court, and it was successfully passed at once.

The lieutenant of the Chinese military and the lieutenant of Sili, as well as the arrogant captain of Taihang, although they are all lieutenants, the difference between them can be said to be a world of difference.

The arrogant captain of Taihang, the orthodox Han officials, all regarded him as a joke. You must know that the position of school captain was a high-ranking official with a rank of more than 2,000 stones in the Han Dynasty. As for the captain of 600 stones, in recent decades, except for arrogance, there is really no second person who has been there.

Captain Si Li, however, is different from an ordinary lieutenant. Although it is still a rank ratio of 2,000 stones, Captain Sili can be called "the first captain in the world".

This position, because his subordinates can actually have a thousand-level directly subordinate armed force in the capital, and is specially responsible for supervising the Beijing division and the surrounding areas of the capital, and has the right to impeach hundreds of officials, and has always been known as the "Crouching Tiger" in the DPRK. Like Shang Shuling and Yushi Zhongcheng, Si Lixiao also has a special seat when he meets in the court, and the three are collectively called "three solitary sittings", and his identity is transcendent.

became the captain of Sili, marking that Yuan Shao officially became an important figure in the imperial court, rather than just relying on his secret influence to manipulate the court situation.

Next, when the status of the new Son of Heaven was recognized by the subjects of the world, in May, He Jin couldn't wait to play with the three princes of the imperial court and impeached the Empress Dowager Dong:

"Empress Xiaoren [Empress Dowager Dong] made Xia Yun and other transportation prefectures and counties in her hometown, and she entered the Western Province compared with her wealth. story, the queen is not allowed to stay in Beijing; Please move to your home country. ”

- Empress Dowager Dong was originally a feudal concubine. If she is not the emperor's wife, she should not live in the palace for a long time, and should be relocated to her hometown Hejian County.

As a result, the biological mother of the previous emperor was forced to leave the palace where she had lived for 20 years and returned to her hometown in Hejian. Soon after. The sudden death of the Empress Dowager Dong caused countless discussions among the government and the opposition. People secretly talked about it, and they all thought that the general He Jin poisoned the Empress Dowager Dong.

Next, the hussar general Dong Zhong also became a victim. He Jin besieged the Hussar General's Mansion with soldiers, in this kind of red. Bare. Under the threat of nakedness, Dong Chong was very knowledgeable and committed suicide, exchanging his life for a way for the whole clan to live.

From now on. The government of the Han Dynasty was completely controlled by the great general He Jin. And He Jin finally reached the pinnacle of his life, becoming an authentic minister "under one person, above ten thousand".

Of course, these bullshit things in the court have little to do with arrogance. When the news of the new emperor's succession to the throne reached Meiji County, Zhang Mad was already ready to leave for the south and take a trip to Baibo Valley in Hedong.

In the Taixing Army. Because Zhang Qi had predicted the time of the death of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty a few years ago, the soldiers were concerned about the death of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty. There wasn't much of a shock. However, the title of "Little Heavenly Master" was called even more vigorously by the soldiers in private. Incidentally, the loyalty of his arrogant subordinates to him has actually increased on a small scale.

Zhang Mad went south to Baibo Valley this time, not alone. Instead, he brought with him a large army of 2,000 soldiers and 3,000 people. Strictly speaking, the Taixing army originally sent 500 soldiers to escort 3,000 people to Hedong to transport grain. However, this team had completed most of the journey, and Zhang Qiang personally led 1,500 soldiers. Catch up from behind and join the marching ranks.

Judging from this alone, it is enough to prove that a big event has happened in the White Wave Valley.

This major event has to start at the end of March of the sixth year of Zhongping [198].

In the fifth year of Zhongping, the Gepi Yellow Turban Army defeated Bao Hong, the captain of the lower military school, and its power was even stronger. He Jin, the general who shouldered the power of military dispatch of the entire Han Empire, had to send more troops to suppress the arrogant Yellow Turban Army.

Although the general He Jin, in order to ensure the military power of the troops he sent, let his brother He Miao serve as the chief general of the suppression of the Gepi Yellow Turban Army. However, He Jin, who was well aware of his brother's military talents, sent talented lieutenants such as Cao Cao and Bao Xin to He Miao to ensure the smooth battle.

Sure enough, with the effective assistance of Cao Cao, the captain of the military academy, and Bao Xin, the cavalry captain, He Miao successfully defeated the Gepi Yellow Turban Army, so that the rebel army in the entire Yuzhou temporarily hid their heads. And although He Miao is a hands-off shopkeeper, he was also named "General of Che Cavalry" by the imperial court by virtue of this skill, and since then he has the confidence to become independent from He Jin. ①

On the other hand, the Yellow Turban Army in Qingxu and Xu Prefectures was also effectively curbed by local governors of prefectures and counties. Especially in Xuzhou, where the Yellow Turban Army was raging, Shi Taoqian, the newly appointed Xuzhou assassin, was very strategic in dealing with the Yellow Turban Army.

As soon as Tao Qian arrived in Xuzhou, he appointed Sun Guan, Wu Dun, Yin Li and others, who were quite powerful in Donghai County, as generals, and recruited Cao Bao, the fierce general of the Cao clan in Pengcheng, and let him lead his own private soldiers as assistants to defeat the Yellow Turban Army. On the other hand, Tao Qian also worshipped Chen Dengbai, who had been captured by the arrogance, as a captain of the agricultural school, in order to restore the devastated situation of the county caused by the war.

What's even more amazing is that in the face of the Taiping Road, which is widely spread in Xuzhou, Tao Qian actually came up with a desperate plan to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle. That is: to promote the Floating Tu religion.

Futu is the ancient name of Buddhism. Although the religion of Futu has been introduced to China for hundreds of years, it has not had many followers in Middle-earth. Tao Qian had only seen the actions of the Futu Sect in the White Horse Temple in Luoyang before, but he was not interested in this first-class religion of "Fangshi".

However, when the general Sun Guan proposed to use the Futu Sect to suppress the Taiping Dao, Tao Qian, who had a keen mind, immediately accepted it. As a concrete action, Tao Qian immediately appointed Mingshi Zhenrong, a fellow villager and devout Futu cultist, as the minister of Xiapi, and repaired the Futu Temple in Guangling, Xiapi, Pengcheng and other counties with deep roots in Taiping Dao, so as to spread Futu Sect and suppress Taiping Dao.

Under the two-pronged approach of both civil and military, the situation in Xuzhou quickly improved. Together, the second wave of the Yellow Turban Army in the fifth year of Zhongping [188] has seen a significant decline after entering the sixth year of Zhongping.

This is something that even the arrogance can feel. Specifically, the third batch of relief materials that the imperial court promised to provide has never been mentioned again six years after entering Zhongping.

The occurrence of the Baibo Valley incident is precisely such a background. (To be continued......)

PS: PS: (1) Historical records record that He Miao served as a chariot general for four years in Zhongping. "Zizhi Tongjian" records: In February, Xingyang thieves killed the order. In March, Henan Yin He Miao begged Xingyang thieves and broke them; Bai Miao is a general of chariot cavalry. Don't blame anyone who knows the changes here.

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