On the ninth day of the seventh month, in the middle of Xinshi, the city of Ji was broken.

Liang Xing's two or three thousand cavalry were nothing more than moths to the fire. In the face of Li Zheng's tens of thousands of troops, only one round of arrow rain completely covered it up in the dust of history.

As for Liang Xing, a general who still did not change his mind in this situation, Li Zheng had an attitude of appreciation and regret.

"This Liang Xing is with the wrong person." Li Zheng looked at Liang Xing, who was standing in the middle of the field, full of arrows, still glaring angrily, unwilling to fall, and couldn't help but shake his head again and again: "If such a loyal person is used by me, how good it would be." ”

Xun You and Jia Xu also held their respects together and saluted Liang Xing's corpse who was standing in the scene.

"Someone!"

Li Zheng shouted: "Collect the body of this General Liang and bring it back to Lingzhou for burial!" ”

"Whoa!"

Liang Xing died, and all the more than 30,000 defenders in Jicheng surrendered, and Li Zhengshun led his troops into the city.

Since then, Liangzhou Han has been wiped out, and Li Zheng's family is dominant!

With the demise of Han Sui, Li Zheng not only gained the right to rule a large area of land in a short period of time, but also collected nearly 50,000 soldiers.

Although these soldiers are not as good as the elite soldiers under Li Zheng's command, they believe that as long as they are nourished and trained for a period of time, they will be able to catch up soon. After all, they have a good foundation in.

After the Battle of Jicheng, the four counties of Beidi, Wuwei, Anding, and Hanyang all fell into Li Zheng's grasp. The rest, such as Jincheng, still have a dry Qiang to do nonsense, and Longxi and Wudu County still need to be garrisoned immediately, so as to gradually fully incorporate them into the bag. Of course, it's only a matter of time.

In addition to Zhangye County, Dunhuang County, Jiuquan County, and Zhangye and Juyan Subjects further west, the most prosperous areas in the eastern part of Liangzhou were all controlled by Li Zheng.

On July 12, Li Zheng led more than 50,000 soldiers to return to Lingzhou with the ashes of the soldiers killed in the war, accompanied only Xun You and Xun Ying.

Now that a large area is included in the bag, it is necessary to do everything possible to consolidate the rule, which is inseparable from Xun You, so Xun You followed back to Lingzhou and prepared to focus on government affairs.

Jia Xu, on the other hand, stayed in Hanyang and replaced Li Zheng to preside over the occupation of Longxi, Wudu, and Jincheng, as well as the military operations against Qianghu around these counties.

After returning to Lingzhou, the first thing Li Zheng set out to do was the promise he made when he was recruiting soldiers - to build a hero altar!

10,000 servitudes were dispatched to the northern part of the county, and the selected address was located on the open plain north of Lingzhou City.

In Li Zheng's planning, the base area of this heroic altar should reach at least two acres of land, all of which are built with huge stones, in the shape of a nine-sided tower, and the height should reach 30 zhang!

The nine-sided Altar of Heroes is hollow and layered to hold the ashes of the heroes. On the inner wall of the altar, the gods of Taiyi are carved to appease the spirits of heroes. On the outer wall of the altar, the names of the heroes and their deeds will be engraved and announced to the public.

And the top floor of the altar will be a platform, and on the platform, a town will be placed.

Directly south of the altar, a sacrificial platform will be set up for people to worship heroes.

This qiē is done above board. On the day of the construction of the altar, more than 100,000 people in the entire Lingzhou City all went out of the city to watch.

At the same time, because of Li Zheng's move, he also received more profound admiration and love from his soldiers.

Li Zheng took Xun Ying, who seemed to have a graceful appearance and had already revealed a trace of the mature demeanor of a young woman, standing aside with Xun Shuang, Li Boran and others, looking at the hot altar construction site, and couldn't help but show anticipation.

Once such a building is completed, I don't know how majestic it will be.

"Chongxiao, I'm afraid it won't take at least a year or two for this altar to be completed." Xun Shuang stroked his beard on the side and said, "Moreover, Chongxiao, you can't favor one over the other." ”

Li Zheng nodded and said with a smile: "Uncle, rest assured, Chongxiao will save himself." After Mr. Wenhe's next batch of slaves are escorted back, the little nephew will start to build a sage altar to enshrine civil officials and scholars who have meritorious deeds, contributions, and practical deeds in all aspects, and even those who have outstanding contributions and outstanding virtues among the people. ”

When Xun Shuang heard this, he nodded with satisfaction.

After defeating Han Sui this time, Jia Xu was responsible for sweeping away the surrounding Qianghu tribes, with Jia Xu's ability, plus tens of thousands of strong soldiers, it would not be long before a lot of Qianghu tribes were wiped out.

Free labor is enough, and the development of Liangzhou will enter a period of rapid development.

Public facilities such as water conservancy, road transportation, and education in all localities should be included in the plan. Of course, this doesn't need to be done by Li Zheng personally, Xun Yu is in charge.

In addition, agriculture, animal husbandry, and animal husbandry should also be quickened.

Because of the large area of the newly incorporated territory, this year's winter wheat sowing, and even next year's spring sowing, will be very compact and busy.

There are also post-war reassuring work, land distribution work, and so on.

Fortunately, another talent of the Xun family, Xun Yan and Xun Xiuruo, also arrived, so he shared some of the pressure on Xun You. Otherwise, Xun You may have to complain to Li Zheng.

Of course, this is just a joke.

With Xun You's ability, there are only a few counties, but only one state, no matter how many government affairs, it will never be difficult for him.

When everything in Liangzhou is temporarily calmed down and Qiē is normalized, Li Zheng will start the next step of expansion.

I discussed this issue with Jia Xu and Xun You at the beginning.

The two of them have the same meaning as Li Zheng, after taking Liangzhou, for the time being, at least for a year or two, they will not use troops against the Guanzhong region, but will focus on the grasslands in the north.

The Huns are also a problem for their henchmen.

Moreover, the grassland is also very important to Li Zheng

There is Li Zheng in charge, and the government affairs under him are managed by Xun Yu and Xun Yan, as well as Xun Shuang's guidance from time to time. Military affairs are temporarily controlled by Jia Xu, and everything is carried out in an orderly manner.

The whole Liangzhou was immediately like a huge precision machine, running rapidly.

The county commanders and county lieutenants in various places were also appointed one after another, so that the people's livelihood under the rule began to gradually recover. As for the county guard, Li Zheng has not been appointed for the time being.

The county guard of the Han Dynasty, that is, the Taishou, actually had a lot of power and held the military and political power of a county. Li Zheng's idea is to separate the military from the government.

He will never let the county guard control the military power, the county guard, just carry out government affairs, and the military power must still be firmly in Li Zheng's own hands.

So in terms of the system, it needs to change.

However, at the moment, it seems that it is not the time, so the county guards are not appointed at all, and the county orders are directly responsible to Li Zheng.

At the beginning of August, the first batch of about 30,000 slaves was escorted back to Lingzhou, and then the Sage Altar entered the construction.

Subsequently, almost every half a month, a group of slaves were escorted back to Lingzhou, and then distributed to various places. The young and strong were served, and the rest were scattered and formed into villages to settle down

When the earth-shaking changes took place in Liangzhou, the undercurrent of Luoyang also peeled off the fig leaf and came to the light.

In August, the general He Jin, under the instigation of Yuan Shao and others, plotted to kill the eunuchs. However, the leak failed, but was counted by the ten permanent servants, and in the name of the Empress Dowager He, she was summoned into the inner palace and killed.

Emperor Ling is in Japan, He Hou and He Jin have the same will, unified interests, and the core is the prince's debate. However, after the death of Emperor Ling, the prince argued that he ascended the throne, and the interests of He Hou and He Jin were divided.

The entire Han court, now summed up, is three major interest groups. First, it is imperial power. Second, it is a family. The third is a relative.

Between these three parties, the imperial power declined, and he had to use the power of eunuchs to balance his relatives and families. And the family and relatives always want to pull out the eunuchs and steal a qiē imperial power. At the same time, the family forces look down on their relatives, especially He Jin, who is just a slaughterer.

The eunuch is the mouthpiece of Empress He or the mouthpiece of the imperial power, and He Jin plots to punish the eunuchs, which is to pull out the minions of the imperial power, which is farther and farther away from the imperial power represented by Empress He and even the young emperor.

Fueled by the family, He Jin, who thought he had mastered the power of the court, did not hesitate to uproot the eunuch class.

But in the end, because of the suspicion of He Hou, he was killed by the eunuchs in the palace gate.

He Jin died, so the family had an excuse. The eunuch dared to kill the general, this was simply looking for death, so led by Yuan Shao, the captain of Sili, and others, led the soldiers and horses of the West Garden, stormed the palace gate, and entered the inner palace! In the palace, the soldiers led by Yuan Shao and others were like poor bandits, burning, killing and looting, which was outrageous. There is also a tiger Ben Zhonglang general Yuan Shu, who is even more bold, and even set fire to Nangong.

This is the first time in recent years that the prestige of the royal family has been severely damaged, and it is also the result expected by the family represented by Yuan Shao and others.

When He Jin was planning to get rid of the eunuchs, in order to ensure that nothing went wrong, Dong Zhuo, who he personally supported as a cronie, sent a letter and transferred Dong Zhuo to lead his troops into Beijing and Qingjun.

Yuan Shao and the others didn't care about it before, they only felt that the killing of the eunuchs was only in the morning and night, even if Dong Zhuo arrived in the capital, the overall situation had been decided, and Dong Zhuo was helpless.

But to the surprise of Yuan Shao and others, the eunuchs in a desperate situation actually hijacked the young emperor and the prince association and escaped from Luoyang.

At the same time, I didn't expect Dong Zhuo to come so quickly!

After receiving He Jin's secret letter, Dong Zhuo, who was stationed in the east of the river, immediately led three thousand elite cavalry to cross the river in the south, and arrived at Xiaopingjin in the north of Luoyang, which was already ten minutes at night.

However, the sky-high fire in Luoyang surprised Dong Zhuo.

He knew that something big had happened in Luoyang.

Then, Dong Zhuo lurked in Luoyang to report that the eunuchs had kidnapped the young emperor and Chen Liuwang and went to the north of the mountain. So he quickly led his troops and headed to the north of the mountain.