Chapter 10: Divide and system
Zang Ba Zang Xuan's young name is Kounu, originally a native of Huaxian County, Taishan County. His father's name is Zang Jie, Ren County Prison Peng, arrested for disobedience to Taishou, Zang Ba was eighteen years old, led dozens of guests to rob the prisoner car, and the father and son died in the East China Sea. After Tao Qian assassinated Xuzhou, Zang Ba went to vote, and Qian was awarded the post of Captain of the Cavalry with his courage and health, so that he led the troops to garrison Langxie, and entered Mount Tai from Langxie. In the original history, when Tao Qian was still alive, Zang Ba had gathered his disciples and formed a semi-separatist force, and after Tao Qian's death, he once returned to Lu Bu, and was invited by Cao Cao to cooperate with Lu and was appointed as the Lang Evil Minister--in fact, Cao Cao entrusted Qing and Xu Erzhou affairs to him.
And in this timeline, because Lu Bu didn't get the opportunity to flee to Xuzhou, Zang Ba defected to Cao Cao earlier. In addition, Xuzhou can be regarded as "peaceful liberation", and Zang Ba's attention in the Cao Wei regime, as well as his power in Qing and Xuzhou, are much inferior to the original time and space. However, due to various historical problems, Zang Xuangao was still equivalent to secession in Langxi County, and his influence extended to Mount Tai in the west and Beihai and Buqi counties in the north.
Cao Cao once wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to attack Shu, transfer Zang Ba into Jing, and gradually eliminate his power, but then it was lost because of Pang Tong's counterattack - Zang Xuangao went to Jingzhou to fight for a while, but did not catch up with the war, so Shunshun returned to his hometown on the spot.
There are more than 10,000 soldiers available under Zang Ba's command, and if you rush to search Lang Evil County, you may get 20,000 soldiers, which is a force that cannot be underestimated. At present, it has been detected that Zang Ba is still staying in the base camp and governing Ju County, but his generals Sun Kang, Sun Guan, and Yin Li led an army of 7,000 to Rencheng through Mount Tai to meet Cao Zhi and Cao Kai.
In addition, Cao Chong also instigated a third force, that is, the remnants of the Sun family. I think it was a tribute to the "southerners returning to the south." The northerners returned to the north", so the Sun family team was demolished, and most of the generals who stayed in Jiangnan with Sun Quan lived under strict surveillance, and there was nothing to do for the time being. But the part that returned to Jiangbei, half of them were demoted. Half of them have returned to their hometowns and lived in seclusion, and the monitoring of them has gradually relaxed, that is, they have taken advantage of this opportunity to turn their backs.
I don't know how Cao Chong lured these people to take the bait, in short, there was smoke between Lu and Henan, including Runan Lu Yi (Lu Fanzi), Jiujiang Jiang Qin, Lujiang Chen Wu, etc., who led guests and families to raise troops to echo Cao Chong.
It is precisely because of the response of the above three forces that Cao Chong, the king of Liyang, dared to be bold. Where did the anti-flag come from?
When the news from all sides was summarized in the central government, the outline of the Kwantung rebellion gradually became clear, and Shixun once again convened the "Zhongshutai Enlarged Meeting", and this time Emperor Cao Chao also came to observe. Shi Xun was the first to speak, saying: "The thieves have their own incidents, and the smoke is all over the five prefectures of Thailand, Hai, Yan, Henan, and Lu. If it is aggregated, it is afraid of the east of Songshan Mountain. It is not owned by the imperial court......"
At present, the rebel forces are still relatively scattered, and if they advance from the north to the south, join forces in victory, and twist into a rope, it will be more difficult to do.
Liu Ye believes: "The thieves are divided into the north and the south, and they should be divided and controlled." "To the north are Cao Zhi and Cao Kai. There is also Zang Ba's Qingxu army, and to the south are Cao Chong, Luzhou Tuntian soldiers, and the remnants of the Sun clan, and they must first cut off the connection between them as quickly as possible, and then break them one by one.
It was Hoon who took the opportunity to play. He said that Cao Hong, an auxiliary state, should be appointed as the governor of the capital, and led the army from Yingchuan to Liang and Pei, blocking the two rebels in the middle, and then Cao Hong mobilized Lejin and Yu Ban to launch a comprehensive attack on the rebels in Yan and Luzhou.
At the same time as launching a military offensive, it is also necessary to launch a political offensive, Shi Xun believes: "Although Sun Kang and others have rebelled, and Zang Xuangao is still in Jucheng, his meaning is unclear, and he should send an envoy to find out his true intentions." If he has rebelled, he should make the counties of Qing and Deng set up a pass and prevent him from going north; If he has no rebellious intentions, he should be kind to comfort him, so that Pinghai and Tai. The meaning of King Anfeng (Cao Pi) is also not clear, and he should also send envoys to restrain him, so that he can help guard Anfeng and not cooperate with the chaotic army. ”
Jia Xu picked up the missing and made up for it, and raised another concern: "Sun Quan is still in Huiji, if Liyang ...... Cao Chong's northward advance was blocked, and he must cross the Yangtze River to join the Sun family. Sun's henchmen, spread between Wuhui and Danyang, if the husband is alone, Wanfu Jingcong, and then rely on the danger of the Yangtze River, it may not be easy to overcome it. "It is suggested that Sun Quan be summoned to the capital immediately and made him a prominent lord - he can no longer be left in Jiangnan.
Shi Xun shook his head and said: "No, Sun Zhongmou may have no objection, if he is summoned urgently, it is to urge him to rebel." "After all, there are many former officials of the Sun family in the rebels, if you summon Sun Quan to Beijing at this time, will he be worried that once he sets foot in Luozhong, he will become a prisoner? After thinking about it, will it be a stalk of the neck, I will simply rebel - "But I can order Wei Wenchang to lead the boat division to the south to deter him, then Quan will not dare to rebel." ”
Jia Xu nodded when he heard this, and said in his heart that I had forgotten the East China Sea Master...... Originally, the land of Wu and Hui, there was a big river in the north, and so on, there was Danyang County in the west with dense hills and fierce folk customs, and the east was a vast ocean, it was very convenient to close the door and become unified, and the imperial court completely suppressed the war north of the Lujiang River, it was completely unruly with him, so I asked to urgently call Sun Quan - if you call him, he may be opposed, not called him, and when you encounter such a good situation, dare to protect him and not rebel? But now is different from the past, we already have a large fleet that can crisscross the sea frontier, if Sun Quan dares to rebel, when the time comes, the ports of Wu and Hui will be blocked, cut off the trade routes, the local surname will definitely take the initiative to tie up Sun Quan to ask for guilt, if he still has a little brain, where can he dare to rebel?
Although Jia Xu was resourceful, he was still a traditional continental scholar, and he had not paid much attention to the maritime frontier issue before—and it was not like the later Yuan and Ming dynasties, when Japanese invaded the coastal areas—so he was not concerned about this. He said in his heart that Wei Wenchang is Hongfu's former official, and Zhoushi is also the one who built the clan, which is indeed my shortcoming, but it is Hongfu's strength.
The rest of the details, there is no need to go into details, in short, since the emperor listened to the side, the ministers immediately played after the decision, Cao Chao agreed, and the Chinese book sent the edict to the general, and the efficiency was very fast. Because there were still changes in Luozhong, the forbidden army could not be sent more, only 2,000 soldiers and horses were allocated to Cao Hong, and Cao Xiu and Xiahou Shang were their deputy generals, and they led the army eastward together - Yu Lu gathered the troops of the prefecture and county, and it was estimated that when they arrived in Liang County and Pei County, they could gather 20,000 people.
Cao Hong had to order the consequences to abide by his promise to Shixun, play Cao Chao, please join the army with Zhuge Liang, the squire of the military department, and go to quell the chaos together.
As soon as the army and envoys were sent out, Cao De and Hua Xin returned to Beijing one after another. It is said that the mausoleum of the first emperor has been completed, and the funeral ceremony is ready to stop, that is, he asked Cao Chao for instructions and regularly went out for funerals.
The Cao Wei period is also an important transition period in the history of ancient Chinese etiquette. The Han rite was originally very simple, and I wanted to make a ceremony for my uncle and grandson back then. Liu Bang asked him how to come conveniently, don't make it too complicated, the ministers can't figure it out; Later, Emperor Wu deposed the hundred schools, and Emperor Yuan respected Confucianism alone, so that all kinds of rituals became more and more complicated. Cao Cao himself has always been frugal, efficient in doing things, not flashy, not heavy on rituals, so during his reign, the old rituals were simplified on a large scale.
In the original history, Cao Cao had ordered a simple ceremony and a frugal burial before his death. said: "The world has not yet been settled, and it has not been obeyed by the ancients." After the funeral, they are all removed. Those who are stationed in the garrison are not allowed to leave the garrison. There is a division and each rate is a job. Collect the time, no hidden gold and jade treasures. The scale of its mausoleum is not even comparable to that of many middle-level officials in later generations - of course, the so-called seventy-two suspicious graves are all folk rumors. But on this timeline. After all, Cao Cao usurped the throne and became emperor, and when he was dying, the Central Plains was settled. Even Xishu is already declining, so it can't be too unruly.
When Cao Cao was alive, he chose a good site on the outskirts of Luoyang and built a mausoleum - the location is slightly the same as that of the emperors of the Eastern Han Dynasty, both at the foot of the northern mountain, but not far from each other. The mausoleum is not large. So Cao De went to oversee him after his death, and it took only a few months to complete it.
According to Zhou Li (in fact, most of them were fabricated by Han Confucian): the Son of Heaven was buried on seven days, the princes were buried on five days, and the doctors and scholars were buried on three days; The Son of Heaven was buried in July, and the princes were buried in May. The doctor was buried in March. But after all, this is just a theory that stays in books, and with the preservation technology of these years, if the coffin is really stopped in July, it is likely that after summer, it is quite likely that the smell of Qin Shi Huang will need to be covered up by abalone. Moreover, according to the research literature of Hua Xin and others, the time from death to burial of the emperors of the Han Dynasty was 23 days for Gaozu and 24 days for Emperor Hui...... The shortest is Emperor Wen of Han, only seven days, and the longest is only three months of Emperor Han Ai.
So, we don't need to stop for seven months.
Cao Cao died in winter, and the body did not decay quickly, and the original plan was to wait for the kings to go to Beijing to mourn and then go out of the funeral. Now that Cao Ang, the king of Yuzhong, has entered Henan, it is estimated that he will enter Luo in two or three days, and the kings of Kanto ...... The edict has already been issued, but they have not been seen to make the trip, and the counter-report has suddenly risen, and it is estimated that they will not come, so Hua Xin will ask, it has been more than three months since the death of the first emperor, when will we salute?
Cao Chao made Si Tiantai choose a day for stargazing, and chose to bury Cao Cao on February 16, nine days later. But I didn't expect that just after the decree was issued, Cao Ang had not yet arrived, and a carriage came from Anfeng and galloped into the south gate of Luoyang......
It turned out that the news of Cao Cao's death reached Anfeng that day, and Cao Pi mourned greatly, hurriedly packed up, and planned to go to Luoyang to mourn. Just as he was in the process of preparation, he suddenly received a letter from Cao Chong and an envoy sent to lobby him. Cao Chong said that he was willing to serve Cao Pi as the master, and if he could successfully seize power in the future, he would support Cao Pi to ascend the throne, and he only wanted to make his vassal country bigger.
Cao Pi summoned his confidants to discuss secretly, and Zhu Shuo said: "The king has no loss of morality, but he went to the crown prince's throne, and this villain framed and the first emperor did not know why." The throne is returned to the king, although it is not the first initiative, the king of Liyang invites Dai Zhi, and the opportunity must not be missed. The minister did not dare to speak falsely. ”
Whether in the original history or on this timeline, Cao Pi has played the role of a filial son for many years, but in fact, it is completely false, this person's nature is relatively cold, and he has long expected that Cao Cao has only been in the past two years, so sadness is sadness, but it will not be completely messed up. He said to Zhu Shuo: "If Ziying makes it say, Yan, Tai, Hai, and Lu will rise all at once...... On the contrary, the Son of Heaven is young and weak, and the auxiliary government is all mediocre officials and martial artists, and it is Hongfu who has not returned to Shu, if he does not want to get up, the army will be cautious and fast, and the matter may be ......successful."
Speaking of this, there was a sudden turn of gravity: "However, those who trapped me and harmed Ziwen in the past, or suspected that Ziying was also Ziying, how can they be trusted to wear a lonely heart?" If he instigates me to start an incident, he will take it by the sidelines, and he will not be afraid to die alone, but he will laugh at it for eternity. "Now the mastermind is Cao Chong, and all the forces are in contact with him - I don't know how long ago that little guy started planning and preparing - he carried me out just as a banner, and it will not be difficult to get rid of me in the future. If the rebellion fails, it must be a "death" word, but I am not afraid of death, I am afraid that I will make wedding clothes for others, and I will become the laughing stock of the world.
Zhu Shuo spread his hands: "The king of Liyang is a young man, not as the king has been from the first emperor, crisscrossing the field, quite aware of military affairs, waiting for the two armies to merge, wanting to seize its handle, only in the king, why is it difficult?" The minister is afraid that the king will not obey, and he will also spread the news, and the king of Yun will conspire, so he will want to clear himself and cannot get it, and the court will be guilty. If you are from the death, if you do not follow, you can still expect to turn the family into the country, and the king will think twice. ”
As soon as the words fell, a person protested: "Zhu Yancai's ignorant theory, rebellious words, if the king listens, he will be wiped out!" (To be continued.) )