Liu Yan killed himself in Wenshuidong, and he had his own merits and compensation, but this matter was deliberately ignored by the people of Jibei State.

At that time, Liu Yan's daughter-in-law cried and complained to Liu Yan's boss Zhou Feng, asking why the bereavement benefits of other families had come down, but theirs did not.

After the Battle of Wenshui, Zhou Fengbu was completely mourned, so he took his brother-in-law and three soldiers back to Snake Hill. Originally, he had already sat at home and waited for the crime, but in order to seek justice for his beloved general, he found the official and asked the reason.

The official didn't hide it, but directly explained the reason, but it was not complicated, that is, the above deliberately wanted Liu Yan to bear the responsibility for the collapse of Wenshui.

The soldiers of the Northern Kingdom of Baiduo who escaped from Ascension this time were basically the non-commissioned officers of the Chinese army, and they had a lot of complaints about Liu Yan, because they felt that this retreat turned into a rout because Liu Yan, who was in charge of the palace, was derelict in his duties and failed to block the thief army, so that the thief army broke directly into the dock.

Nearly 700 brothers went to Wenshui in this way, and even Wenshui was cut off, which is really miserable. Aren't you, Liu Yan, responsible for the drowning brothers?

Yes, the thieves are powerful, and Liu Yanbu of the palace is also loyal, and even Liu Yan himself killed himself on the spot, which can not be said to be unloyal. But the thing is not that you just need to work hard, you want to get it done. Will the soldiers who drowned in Wenshui rest in peace because of your Liu Yan's "do your best"?

Zhou Feng, who heard these words at that time, trembled with anger, he never imagined that these pickled officials would be so shameless, making the heroes bleed and the heroes' families crying. At that time, Zhou Feng made a big fuss about the government, but at this time, Zhou Feng, who was completely lost in the army, can be described as a phoenix in distress, and he is not even as good as a grass chicken. Those officials were not used to Zhou Feng at all, so they directly beat him up and drove him out of the office.

You must know that Zhou Feng is the country's economic captain, and these officials dare to beat him, which can be described as bold. But no matter how unexpected it is, it is also reasonable, just because it is these powerful officials who are really in charge of this snake hill.

Since the former Han Dynasty practiced the Qin Law, an important responsibility of the past dynasties was to calm the local power.

There are three types of heroes, one is the descendants of the noble stomachs of the Seven Kingdoms, these people were not wiped out in the Qin period, and after the Qin rebellion, they either formed a self-defense or depended on the heroes. After Liu Bang settled the world, these people became the most powerful people in the local area.

The second category of Haoqiang is the military merit of the former Han Dynasty. Liu Bang is a very generous person, for whom he fights the world, there are 130 or 40 people who are feudal marquis and enjoy food. These people basically settled in their own fiefdoms and became local powerful people. Although these people were almost expelled from the country, their power still remained in various places.

And the last kind of strong is the local strong clan. At the beginning of the world, Liu Bang allocated fields and houses for his 400,000 soldiers, and these people were the first batch of homesteaders. Later, successive dynasties of government continued to migrate and reclaim land, and gave land on a large scale several times, which was a manifestation of the early dynasty of progress.

But the efficiency of yeoman farmers cannot withstand the collective production of the powerful clans. Therefore, as long as the world is peaceful, these powerful clans will quickly rely on their large numbers and developed production to rise rapidly. In particular, in the first 30 years of the former Han Dynasty, Huang Lao's learning was practiced and he did not intervene in the locality, which made this trend even faster.

Therefore, since the former Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Han family Taishou began to crack down on these heroes, including the appointment of cool officials, assassins, and even promulgated the "Relocation of Mao Tomb Order", which recorded that "the world migrated officials 2,000 stones, the rich and the nobles and the heroes merged with the homes in the tombs", and implemented the "migration tomb" system, which moved the heroes from all over the country to their hometowns, so that they could not continue to develop and grow. Therefore, the five tombs of the Han Dynasty were all powerful children. ….

But this method is just to stop the boiling, and the trend of the rise of the Hao family cannot be reversed, and after the filial piety, it is directly abandoned the system of migrating tombs. But in any case, the former Han Dynasty as a whole was a policy line of suppressing the powerful and powerful, but after the current dynasty, this policy has been completely reversed, from suppressing the strong to relying on the strong.

On the one hand, in the last years of Xinmang, the wealthy clans gathered to protect themselves, and in the name of protecting the township, they gathered the clans, guests, and villagers to stabilize the place in the form of dock walls. In other words, the Han family controlled the city, while the haoshi controlled the countryside.

Although after the Later Han Dynasty, especially in the Guangwu Dynasty, there were many cool officials, still upholding the Han family tradition and suppressing the Hao family, for example, Guangwu has a cool official named Li Zhang, whose family is five thousand stones, and repaired the "Yan's Spring and Autumn Period", and then Guangwu worships Yangping Order. At that time, Zhao and Wei Hao were often right

Tunju, there is a Qinghe surname Zhao Gang on the county boundary dock wall, armor soldiers, for the victims. After Li Zhang arrived, he directly set up a banquet to entertain Zhao Gang. When this local tyrant surnamed Zhao went to the banquet, he brought a sword and a feather coat, and led more than 100 soldiers, and Xuan He was unique. But what happened next? At the banquet, Li Zhangjian beheaded Zhao Gang, and his henchmen were also wiped out.

But in the future, there will be very few cool officials like Li Zhang. Because the fate of cool officials is often not good, they are either dismissed or assigned. Therefore, after the chief officer arrived, he began to take the harmonious route of hello, me, hello, everyone, and later directly set up the sons of Haoshi as the acting officer.

Since then, the authority of the Han family has sunk into the hands of the powerful children, and the chief officials of the promotion are often pure Confucians, who only read through the classics and are not familiar with general affairs. When he was in power, he sat with his hands high and plotted to come out, and Qian Gu didn't know anything about the lawsuit.

It can be said that these local powerful officials are the real people in authority, and they are also controlled by generations, combined into a deep-rooted network by marriage. It can be said that the chief officer of the flowing water and the iron-clad officer.

At first, there were some Taishou who were willing to cheer up, but in the case of the power of the family, no matter what they did, it would be a failure in the end.

For example, there was a prime minister in Jibei who once opened a channel along Jishui to irrigate farmland. Originally, this was a matter of benefiting the country and the people. But the bad thing is that the Taishou at that time was an ancient school that suppressed the Haoqiang, and the Haoqiang made this matter yellow.

How? Because they control the public opinion in the countryside, when the subordinates of the minister of Jibei went to the countryside to survey the fields along the Jishui, these heroes and villagers said that these subordinates came to survey the land and water of each family, and then they wanted to build a pond, so they would divert water from this Jishui, and then the water of your family would be taken away.

When the subordinate who went to the countryside stayed in the farmhouse, he was burned to death by the agitated villagers.

This is just one example, and there are many more. For example, if it is said above that how many people will be levied to build waterways, then these heroes will be levied ten times below. In short, as long as they don't follow these tyrants, no matter what the policy, they can make the people's resentment boil and make it impossible to implement the policy.

As a result, the officialdom of this dynasty has formed an atmosphere of "taking officials as teachers", and those who are ignorant in charge take Xu officials as their eyes and ears, those who are slack take Xu officials as their spirit, and those who are greedy take Xu officials as eagle dogs. And he only sat in the yazhai and talked about the mysteries. ….

And with the power of the Han court, they can no longer be controlled, and it is not ordinary for the people to be cruel and harmful. From the provincial temples of the government, the county offices, to the township pavilions, warehouses, and treasury officials, as long as it involves taxation and servitude, cashiers and accountants, all those who have the slightest profit will be exploited 100 times.

So Zhou Feng was beaten by these slippery officials, and there was nowhere to appeal. When he came home with a blue nose and swollen face, and heard that Liu Yan's wife had hanged herself because she couldn't bear the pressure of the slippery officials, Zhou Feng directly sprayed a mouthful of blood, and no longer had any energy, and fell ill at home.

Zhou Feng couldn't figure it out, how difficult the country is, shouldn't he think about and use good generals? Why do you use them like pigs and dogs?

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Taishan County, Bo County.

Since Zhang Zhen defeated 500 cavalry in Nanxian County, Taishan County, 4,000 Lu soldiers on the east bank of Surabaya, and 4,000 Jibei soldiers on the east bank of Wenshui, the Taishan army really stood firm in Taishan. Among them, Zhang Chong of the Taishan Army made a series of actions to reassure the people, provide disaster relief, and solicit the production of disaster victims, which also made many dissatisfied Han Ting people see the potential of the Taishan Army and joined the army one after another.

Among them, after Zhang Chong entered Bo County, there was a local Confucian student who recommended himself, he was the son of the party, and the elders in the family belonged to the anti-Han faction among the party, and they had planned to go into exile in the mountains and wilderness, and the company of the savages, but the appearance of the Taishan army made them see a different possibility.

This Mao Sui recommended himself as Tao Dark, who studied the Book of Changes, and the first sentence he said when he saw Zhang Chong was:

"The general is a dragon and a phoenix, very human, and my generation has a master."

He offered a message to Zhang Chong: "Under the party today, the Han family has no virtue, and the mountains and rivers are about to collapse. When the time comes, the four seas are boiling, the heroes are fighting, and the land of the four battles of Qingyan is not a place where heroes can be used, I hope the general can follow the law of the ancestors, drive the troops westward, cross the martial pass and enter the pass, when the unfortunate woman does not rob the jade silk, collect the Guanxi horses, deeply rooted in the fundamentals, once there is a change in the east, that is, the sky should be hanged down by the people, and the world is not enough to be peaceful."

Zhang Chong was overjoyed, because this Tao was dark

A strategist who offers him the overall strategy of his forces, so to speak, all strategists who can plan this general trend of the world have the potential to become masterminds. Just like Zhuge Liang presented "Longzhong Pair" to Liu Bei, and Lu Su presented "Couch Strategy" to Sun Quan, they are all first-class strategists.

And Tao Yin is also very creative, that is, he is not limited to Zhang Chong's current sphere of influence, but looks at the world and points out that the most successful place in the world is Guanzhong. It has annexed the mountains and rivers of the state on the left and the state of wealth on the right. and then with Xizhou Sima, once the east is out, who can be in the world.

Zhang Chong has actually been thinking about the future strategy, with his successive victories in the Han court, greatly encouraged the enthusiasm of the Taiping Dao uprising, as far as he recently received, not only the letters of the commanders of Qingzhou and other counties and states to build an offensive and defensive alliance with him. Even the Taiping Dao in Yingchuan and Runan sent people to send a group of elites from the sect to the Taishan Army, so that they could learn the art of battle formation and train military backbones for the subsequent uprisings.

So Zhang Chong had expected that the great uprising in Taiping Dao was just around the corner, but unfortunately Zhang Chong felt that this matter was not optimistic. Because the gap between the overall strength of Taiping Dao and Hanting is still too big, and all parties are still doing their own thing, they cannot be integrated. In this state, how can it be possible to win Hanting?

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