There was a rebellion in the Yan army, not a rebellion.

Except for Murong Chui in Guanzhong, who has nothing to do with the sudden rise of the Yan State, there are mainly such a few military forces in the Yan Kingdom.

One of them is naturally the emperor's Praetorian Guard, this army is the most elite, and the army that destroyed the Han State with the Liang State is this one, and it is also this one that is now confronting Murong Chui.

This army is the most loyal to the emperor, among which Hu and Han are mixed, Yan has the practice of using the Hu people as the commander of the Janissaries, in the Praetorian Guard, it is usually the clan, relatives and Hu people three-legged, the first two naturally needless to say, the latter has no foundation in the country, can only be attached to the emperor, the easiest to control, and the eunuchs have the same effect.

In addition to the Praetorian Guard, there are various local armies, such as Murong Ke's Taiyuan army, but most of these armies rely on the sovereign, for example, since Murong Ke's death, after the Taiyuan Kingdom revoked its establishment, the kingdom army was also abolished, and the kingdom army was similar to the private soldiers in the hands of those gate lords, which should not be underestimated.

In addition to this, there is another army in the Yan Kingdom that is easy to overlook, that is, the army guarding the border in the north of the Yan Kingdom, and these armies are somewhat similar to the Tuntian soldiers.

These armies were born before the Murong Yan Kingdom, which was an important military town established to defend against the Hu people when the Yan Kingdom had just moved back to the Central Plains.

Later, the grassland Hu people were pacified, and Murong Chengguang moved these important military towns north to the Monan grassland, from west to east, until the old Liaodong land of the Yan Kingdom, that is, the Liaoning part of the later generations, and then it was too remote to the north, as for the Winter City where the Luo clan was located, it was still thousands of miles away from the Liaodong City of the Yan Kingdom.

Having said this, the problem must be very clear, these people were sent to guard the border, and guarding the border, except for Luo's, has always been unwilling.

After all, the Yan Kingdom returned all the way to the south in order to leave the cold north, but the emperor sent them back again, and from here, these people were a little dissatisfied with the nobles in the south.

This dissatisfaction reached its peak with the accumulation of time, the Yan State conquered the city in the south, these old buddies in the north have long been forgotten, after the outbreak of the War of the Two Emperors, the military and civilians of the important towns in the north finally found an opportunity and broke out a huge uprising.

This kind of problem actually exists in the Liang State, and the Lingnan and Southwest places of the Liang State have always been ignored, but the problem is that the southern combat effectiveness of the Liang State is very weak and cannot pose a threat to the Liang State.

However, these northern towns of Yan Kingdom are extremely strong in combat, and these soldiers and civilians who have been fighting in a difficult environment all year round have the ability to raise the emperor.

And so a fantastical scene appeared.

When Murong Chui was still confronting the forbidden army of the imperial court, the soldiers and civilians of these military towns had already crossed those passes and captured Jicheng, which was relatively empty.

The person who leads all of this is called Erzhurong!

……

What happened in Jicheng was simply dazzling, but there was one thing that shocked everyone, that is, Jicheng was slaughtered.

Since the Zhaocheng Convention, the princes will cover it up, and they will use various means, such as not killing and surrendering, to not taking prisoners.

The most common means of siege is to declare war on the entire city, artificially turning all civilians into enemies.

In other words, civilians are not allowed to protect their harvest in drought and flood, but they must choose one side to fight, otherwise they will have to meet the outcome after the city is broken, of course, women and children are not in this system.

In this case, the defender and the besieger, there will definitely be one side that increases the difficulty, usually the defender, which will be sold by the people from the city.

And although it was very fierce before the war, after successfully breaking through the city, there were basically no large-scale killings, and generally only robbed things and women, and did not kill people.

Looting is unavoidable, soldiers need these things, and all armies cannot be expected to love the people like children.

But this time in Jicheng, it was a naked massacre.

As the capital of Yan Kingdom, although Jicheng is limited to its location and is not too prosperous, its population is still the first in Youzhou, and more than 100,000 people died directly under the butcher's knife.

The most terrible thing is that this massacre was not ordered by Er Zhurong, or no one ordered it, Er Zhurong still wanted to meet the emperor, but he couldn't control these soldiers directly, and even one of his sons just stopped it and directly hacked to death.

When this happened, Er Zhurong didn't even dare to let out a fart, so he could only let the soldiers loot and kill in Jicheng.

After the soldiers gradually stopped, Jicheng had become a purgatory on earth, and people naturally did not die, and Jicheng was full of fires burning corpses.

What Er Zhurong saw was the angry eyes of the powerful people who had survived the catastrophe and the emperor, and in the face of this gaze, Er Zhurong knew that it was impossible for him to cooperate with these people.

He secretly instructed the emperor to be killed, and then the prince succeeded him.

This sudden change made everyone have no time to react.

Er Zhurong controlled the government, and collected the land of Jizhou to the south, and blocked the road for the imperial forbidden army to return to Jizhou, and the imperial army was trapped in the basin of Bingzhou, with Murong Chui to the west and Er Zhurong to the east.

Er Zhurong also sent a group of generals under his command to collect the rest of the counties, and he prevented Murong Chui from receiving the troops of the imperial court.

The forbidden army of the imperial court had never encountered such a situation as it is now, and the only way at the moment was to surrender to Murong Chui, although they were loyal to Emperor Daxing, but now the imperial court was in the hands of Er Zhurong.

Er Zhurong's cruelty, who knows if he will do anything, and some of them choose to surrender to Er Zhurong, because many people's families are still in Jicheng.

Besides, many people look down on Er Zhurong from their hearts, thinking that he is just a bun, even if he controls the government, he is just a Dong Zhuo, and he has an army in his hands, even if he is Er Zhurong, he can only obediently treat them as guests.

So after a riot, some of these people surrendered to Er Zhurong, and some to Murong Chui.

Regarding the sudden death of the Emperor of the Yan Kingdom, Murong Chui's expression was very complicated, but he knew that now was not the time to think about this, Er Zhurong had already endangered the throne of the Murong Clan, and he had to defeat Er Zhurong as soon as possible and purge the Yan Kingdom.

Just when he was marching towards Taihang Mountain, a major event that shook the world happened again.

Er Zhurong slaughtered the royal family of the Murong clan and those powerful people who were unwilling to submit to him, and nearly a thousand people were killed, not including the families of these people, although the throne of the Murong clan is only three generations, but the royal family is very large, after all, the Murong clan has been developing for hundreds of years.

In Er Zhurong's killing, almost all the royal family within five generations were killed, and Murong Chui now not only has no parents, but his uncles, brothers, brothers, nephews, etc. are all dead.

As for the other courtiers, not to mention, this large-scale killing completely made everyone realize that Er Zhurong was not Dong Zhuo, he was a person even crazier than Dong Zhuo.

But what is very helpless is that his killing has no impact on his rule in a short period of time, because his basic plate is a military town, and these people have made a lot of profits from these killings, and the wealth accumulated by the magnates of Yan State for more than a hundred years has become Er Zhurong's food.

For these soldiers and civilians, for the generals under Er Zhurong's command, it is really a great wealth, and Er Zhurong has won the hearts of the people who belong to him in this way.

Murong Trai's march was stopped by Er Zhurong, of course he was not Murong Rong's opponent, but Er Zhurong's generals were very brilliant, although Murong Trai did not suffer defeat, but also did not achieve decisive results.

The main reason is that Murong Chui's march to the army is too long, and the state cannot provide so much grain, so he needs to transport grain from Guanzhong, and the natural front line is stretched.

The current situation is quite similar to the Changping War between Qin and Zhao, but the difference is that it was easier for Qin to transport grain than Zhao back then, so in the end, Qin could defeat Zhao.

But now that Murong Chui has not yet been in Shuzhong, it is a little difficult to sustain in terms of food, while Er Zhurong has more food than Zhao State.

As for how this grain came from, it was very simple, he seized the granary of Yan State, and then went to attack those counties, and the scholars who were willing to provide grain and grass stayed, and those who were unwilling, he even killed the emperor, so many powerful people were killed, are you still afraid of these people?

Most of the scholars in Jizhou were dissatisfied with the royal family of the Murong clan, and naturally they would not be loyal to him, so they turned to Gorde Zhurong, but these people naturally did not sincerely take refuge in Er Zhurong, they were just helpless, just to survive, once they had the opportunity, they would let Er Zhurong know what was called a righteous act.

Er Zhurong used a butcher's knife to seek temporary peace, Wang Meng and others advised Murong Chui that the army could not attack for the time being, they believed that Er Zhurong's rule was quite fragile, and now the continuous attack gave Er Zhurong and others a chance to gather together.

Murong Chui accepted this suggestion, he also needed time to digest the large areas of land in Hedong and Bingzhou, and he was waiting for Er Zhurong to blow himself up directly.

……

What happened in the Yan Kingdom spread to the Liang Kingdom, making the entire Liang Kingdom only feel dumbfounded, it was really beyond the imagination of these people, and there was even a feeling that they were not under a blue sky.

It seems that the Liang State is still in the era of etiquette, and the Northern Dynasty has begun to kill indiscriminately.

The chaos in the Yan Kingdom, especially the slaughter of the royal family, made Xiao Yan only feel frightened, and he said to Luo Xianzhi: "Lingxiu, in the history I know, there has never been such a tragedy, will there be such a thing in my Daliang?" ”

Luo Xianzhi was also in a trance, this kind of royal slaughter can be traced back to the time of the Qin Dynasty, but it was Qin II's own hands, and it had nothing to do with outsiders.

This is the first time that such a large-scale royal family has been slaughtered, and the bottom line of politics has been destroyed again.

What makes Luo Xianzhi feel most aggrieved is that Er Zhurong is a martial artist, the so-called show only meets soldiers, it is unreasonable, Er Zhurong and those who can only use knives, where will they care about your political bottom line, their logic is, I will be happy first and then say that after I die, who cares about the flood.

The formation of rules is from generation to generation, but the destruction of rules is that these people who come out of the wilderness can easily break it.

Facing Xiao Yan's inquiry, Luo Xianzhi was thinking about how he should speak?

After pondering for a while, he said: "Your Majesty, the minister will not answer your question first, the minister wants to ask you a question, that is, do you know why King Su talks about etiquette, benevolence and righteousness, and all kinds of truth, goodness and beauty.

But in the face of the barbarians, there is only one kill.

In the face of those who trample on the Zhou rites, there is only one killing.

In the face of people who do not understand Zhou etiquette, do you not let them participate in all political activities? ”

Xiao Yan shook his head, and Luo Xianzhi said slowly: "Because the rules are set for those who talk about the rules, and the rules are to protect everyone, the reason why people are different from beasts is because we have rules, and these rules can make laws, they can be rituals, but in essence, they are all things that bind our animal nature."

Those barbarians who don't understand the culture of Zhuxia, those barbarians who have no civilization, are the same things as beasts, and if we talk about etiquette about these things, we are reasoning with beasts, and we will only usher in death, which is called pedantry.

Therefore, King Su accepted those who were willing to accept the ritual law into the human society, and killed all the barbarians who were unwilling to accept the ritual law, just like killing a wild beast.

Therefore, King Su killed all those who trampled on the Zhou rites, even if he was a king, but when he did not obey the Zhou rites, he was no longer a man, but a beast.

For those slaves, King Su also has the same view, those who learn etiquette and agree with these rules have the opportunity to turn over and enter politics.

And now Er Zhurong of the Yan Kingdom, he is the one who has turned his back on these things, if His Majesty is in the same blue sky with such a person, then the final outcome, I am afraid it will not be lucky.

After all, it is always difficult for people with a bottom line to defeat those who have no bottom line, Er Zhurong is the one who has no bottom line, and it is your Majesty who should strangle him in the cradle and nail him to the pillar of shame. ”

Xiao Yan understood, only by letting everyone know that those who trample on the bottom line will not end well, can they stop this unhealthy trend.

If it was something else, forget it, but the slaughter of the royal family, Xiao Yan really couldn't bear it, he divided his sons into various places, you can imagine how much he attached importance to his son, and he was already a little chilled at the thought that one day his son or grandsons would die under the butcher's knife.

"Lingxiu, what do you think I should do?"

Xiao Yan asked a little impatiently, he wanted Er Zhurong to die as soon as possible, and when he thought of this person, he was already a little uncomfortable.

Luo Xianzhi said softly: "My Liang has occupied Qingzhou, go north directly from Qingzhou, cross the Yellow River and attack Jizhou, Naer Zhurong's rule is extremely fragile, relying on the results of killing, it is like dancing on eggs, and the slightest carelessness is the result of chickens flying eggs."

The other is to mobilize the entire Jiangzuo scholars to criticize Er Zhurong verbally and penually, and shape him into an image worse than Dong Zhuo, if used well, this is a weapon sharper than a sword soldier. ”

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Luo Xianzhi walked out of the hall, and when he was laying down the stairs, he suddenly thought of one thing, that is, who was Liang going to send to the expedition?

If the emperor does not go on an expedition, who else can use it now?

It seems that only Xie Xuan is left, after all, Xie An is already very old, and he only has to wait for death, and it is impossible to go on another expedition.

But can Xie Xuan handle those people under Er Zhurong?

Xie Xuan's war experience is still a little insufficient, especially the war of the Southern Dynasty and the war of the Northern Dynasty are completely different.

Even if the general trend analysis is good, if the person who executes the tactic cannot achieve victory, it is a failure.

Luo Xianzhi walked slowly in the palace, and he began to think about all the policies since he took power, as well as his judgment on the general trend of the world, and the final results.

He took a closer look at himself, since he began to serve as Shang Shuling, there has been no mistake in the general trend among the nations, and there have indeed been accidents, such as the first time he wanted to collect Shuzhong, but in the end he did not reach it, but that was because the situation suddenly changed.

Another time was when Murong Chui raided Chang'an, causing Wei to fall in an extremely short period of time, which was somewhat unexpected, but the overall trend was not wrong.

Internally, his achievements over the years are also very remarkable, Xiao Yan has been able to make the army of food and grass in almost all wars, and now the power of the court in Liang Guozhong is much stronger than when he first took office.

The contradictions in the Liang State have been reduced a lot, the power of the scholars has been suppressed, but they have not been defeated, the Hanmen have more channels to rise, the power of the Buddhism has been hit, and there is already a bit of a hidden style, and almost all the tentacles that reach out to politics have been cut off.

In the case of non-stop foreign wars, it is already very remarkable that the country can still prosper day by day, and Luo Xianzhi is still very satisfied with himself.

But every time at this time, he had a cold instinct, and he always felt that he had overlooked some things, but he calculated carefully, most of the things were not a big problem, and most of them could not be advanced because of the emperor.

For example, the problems of the imperial family, such as the problems of Buddhism, but he thinks that these are not in a hurry, it is impossible for the reform to be completely successful at one time, and it is also impossible for the reform to solve all the problems at one time.

For a politician, he is still very young and has plenty of time to solve these problems, where does this uneasiness come from?

Luo Xianzhi was puzzled!

……

Liang Guo or Xiao Yan reacted violently to Er Zhurong's wanton massacre, which was somewhat beyond Er Zhurong and Murong Chui's expectations.

Almost the entire literati of the Liang State were instructed by Xiao Yan and Luo Xianzhi to criticize Er Zhurong, and as for the articles and historical records such as "Jicheng Death Record" and "Prayer Yanren Record" recorded by the people, they were even more endless, and these words were surging towards Hebei.

Many places that didn't know what was going on in Jicheng also began to spread about Er Zhurong's brutality.

After the killing in Jicheng, of course it was impossible for Er Zhurong to stay in Jicheng, he moved to Yecheng, and was naturally the first to know about it, he never imagined that Xiao Yan's reaction was even greater than that of Murong Chui.

Murong scolded was naturally hard to hear, and he kept insulting, but he didn't directly mobilize the entire Jiangzuo literati to scold together like Xiao Yan, and he also set up a stone tablet in Jiangzuo to record the things he did.

Xiao Yan's verbal criticism of Er Zhurong inspired Murong Chui, and he also began to let his scholars write these articles, although he could not kill Er Zhurong for the time being, but at least he would spray Er Zhurong to death verbally.

Luo Xianzhi proposed this idea to Xiao Yan, which is naturally very effective, especially for a role like Er Zhurong, who has no real advantage, and it is much more effective.

After Er Zhurong annexed many armies in Jizhou, if you purely talk about the strength of the army, he is quite strong, but in the face of either Murong Chui or Xiao Yan, he does not have an advantage, his only advantage is to stick to his homeland, there is no pressure of grain and grass, and the interior is relatively united, after all, they are all a group of people who have returned from the north, and they are not familiar with the life in the Central Plains, so they can only unite around him.

This is the same reason as Dong Zhuo at the beginning, all the generals of Xiliang are united by his side, even if Dong Zhuo does so many things, those people still follow him.

This kind of unity within the ruling group is very significant for the improvement of the combat effectiveness of a group.

And Er Zhurong's political means are not as low as imagined, at least he is much stronger than Dong Zhuo, he killed all the royal family and the magnates of Yan State, and controlled the entire Jicheng, but he did not stay in Jicheng, but let his henchmen control Jicheng, this is a wonderful move.

The so-called unknowable punishment is unpredictable.

The same is true for the army, if he stays in Jicheng, then how much strength he has will be known, and then some people will have some thoughts that should not be there, but he left Jicheng and arrived in Yecheng, which is very safe, and the people of Jicheng should think about whether they want to start a rebellion, and after launching, can they withstand the counterattack from Yecheng.

The army of Yecheng is like a sword, which has been hanging over the heads of all the people of Jicheng, and those who have some bad intentions in their hearts do not dare to move at will.

But Luo Xianzhi's plan is to directly attack Er Zhurong from a non-physical level, which is very terrifying, especially for the people under Er Zhurong.

What was the final outcome of Dong Zhuo's Xiliang generals back then?

Naturally, those of them who don't learn and don't know about it, but who doesn't know those scholars?

Once Er Zhurong really has such a reputation, then no one wants to stand with Er Zhurong again, this is a reality, the key is whether Er Zhurong has the ability to fight back?

No!

Now all the pens in the world are in the hands of Liang Guo and Murong Chui, and those celebrities in Jizhou are hiding, unwilling to help Er Zhurong, because Er Zhurong is really brutal, who will be willing to help him?

Is it possible for Zhu Rong to defeat Liang Guo and Murong Chui with a knife handle?

After all, the weapon of criticism is still not worth the criticism of the weapon, if Er Zhurong can defeat Murong Chui and Xiao Yan, then there will definitely be someone who will sing the praises for him, but unfortunately, it can't either!

To put it mildly, Er Zhurong can show off his power alive now because Murong Trai wants to take Kanto without blood, otherwise with Murong Trai's current strength, as long as he is willing to pay the price of sacrifice and defeat Er Zhurong, there will not be much of a problem.

Er Zhurong naturally felt the malice that permeated the entire Jizhou, he felt a little frightened, and even had the idea of retreating to the north, he believed that there, he could guarantee his safety.

But he was stopped by his subordinates, and he finally left there, and now he has to go back, isn't this a joke, this world of flowers has not been enjoyed, and they are unwilling to leave.

In the face of this trend of thought, Er Zhurong naturally did not dare to disobey everyone's wishes, so he could only stay in Yecheng and began to try to consolidate his rule.

His purpose is very simple, that is, to complete the construction of his own power in the shortest possible time, not to rely on the Yan court as now, but to belong to his own court.

In other words, he wants to be emperor.

Only when he becomes an emperor can his rule be deepened, and his control over his subordinates can be further deepened.

As for his thoughts, the people under his command naturally knew it, and Er Zhurong thought that everyone under his command would definitely agree to him as emperor, but the result was not so.

Many people advised him that it was not the right time, and even used superstitious means to persuade Er Zhurong.

The reasons for this are naturally quite complicated, but there is one that cannot be ignored, that is, Luo Xianzhi's methods made Er Zhurong's subordinates have strange thoughts.

There are quite a few people who don't want to stay on the ship of Er Zhurong all the time, especially those who are quite far-sighted, and the more they look at it, the more they feel that Er Zhurong is unreliable.

……

The so-called people who win the hearts of the people win the world, and the hearts of the people represent different things at different stages, but in the final analysis, the hearts of the people are those who can bring strength.

And these people are called scholars in this era, and most of these scholars care very much about the evaluation of history, and these people are also the people who can be on history.

Even if they can't go to history and don't think about things that go so far ago, these scholars also care very much about the reputation of the world, and they were unwilling to stay with Dong Zhuo at the beginning, and now they are naturally also unwilling to stay with Er Zhurong.

Luo Xianzhi's move hit these people, and these people will give Er Zhurong a fatal blow, especially after Liang Guo and Murong Chui decided to attack Er Zhurong.

This kind of non-support from the scholar clan will make Er Zhurong very uncomfortable, and even make him fall into a situation of failure invisibly.

Er Zhurong came from the far north, and he had not yet seen the war situation in the Central Plains, which was another kind of cruelty!

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Rong both killed the nobles, and came to the court, plus the captain, the general, the prime minister, the record of Shangshu, the governor of the internal and external military, self-proclaimed king, as if self-reliant, vainly set up a new court, arrogant and arrogant, King Yong pressed, Liang Guo advanced, the people were sluggish, Rong was quite frightened, when three hundred days, Rong wanted to coerce the emperor away, the emperor stabbed him in the court, Rong died. - "Northern History: Yan Benji"

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