In May, the puppet Zhao Maqiu and Shi Ning Fushuai Zhong 120,000 entered Tun Henan, Liu Ning, Wang Bao slightly Jinxing, Guangwu, Wujie, as for Quliu. June, Xinyou, amnesty. In autumn and July, Lin Yi fell back to Rinan and killed Liu Xiong. Kui Wen, Deng Ding and other sons of the old country teacher Changsheng Ben were enshrined as emperors, and they confused the public with demons, and many Shu people returned to them.

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The time soon came to August of the third year of Yonghe, and Zeng Hua was unprecedentedly busy in these months, even busier than he used to be the captain of the Diannong Zhonglang Protector Shui. In the first two months, while formulating the "New Deal" system, he trained the reorganized Liangzhou Army. After the outline of the New Deal reform came out, he discussed with his henchmen Che Yin, Mao Muzhi and others for more than ten days, revised and revised the details, and then began to implement them in various counties.

Any new policy will encounter resistance and opposition, which Zeng Hua and others expected. This resistance is also as they expected, mainly from the three counties of Brazil, Brazil and Fuling, especially the county of Brazil.

In Zeng Hua's "New Deal", the biggest concern and opposition should be the Juntian tax system, and the biggest opponents were the wealthy families who owned a lot of land. They don't want to see that the people have a share of the land, and they don't want taxes to be levied according to the number of acres of land, so their losses will be too great.

There were no wealthy families in the three counties of Hanzhong, Shangyong and Jinshou, and even the few left were weak under the siege of Zeng Hua's descendants, and they couldn't make any big waves. In the three counties of Brazil, Ba, and Fuling, where there are many wealthy families, because everyone has just been annexed, they need to be people with their tails between their legs, and Zeng Hua did not forcibly expropriate their land, and for their subordinates, there are less than 100 and more than 1,000 tribal slaves, and the redemption system is adopted. However, there are servants who can ask themselves to go to the official government, and the government will pay for them to buy them from the hands of wealthy families, and then move to other land to grant them land to cultivate, and after paying the "ransom money" in addition to the taxes for several years, they will be the same as ordinary people.

In this way, the wealthy family will not find an excuse to rebel, but small actions still have to be made. As a result, the wealthy families of the three counties were making great efforts in the local area to obstruct the implementation of the new policy, and at the same time, they sent people to Jiangling and even Jiankang activities, and wrote to the imperial court to accuse Zeng Hua of disorderly government in Liangzhou.

But at this time, Huan Wen and Sima Yu were trying to win over Zeng Hua, plus those who complained were all newly attached to the wealthy families, and they had power in the old Cheng Han Dynasty, but after returning to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it seemed that the foundation and influence were too shallow, how could the imperial court and Jiangling move the first meritorious ministers of the Western Expedition for them?

Therefore, the activities of the wealthy families of the three counties in Jiankang and Jiangling were almost the same, and the property was spent like a flowing price, but the Governor's Mansion and the imperial court did not even reprimand Zeng Hua. Although some celebrities are dissatisfied with some of the measures in Zeng Hua's new policy, Zeng Hua is a well-known weirdo, and relying on some people above, Zeng Hua is a scoundrel with a face for some discussions from the government and the opposition. Okay, I can't do well, then you come. Those famous and clean officials suddenly didn't want to be silent, Liangzhou was lonely on the front line, and Zeng Hua was in charge of the military power, who had nothing to risk running there to beg for fun. Of course, there are also some "insiders", which Zeng Hua only learned later.

As a result, some people with ulterior motives or anxious people in the three counties took the opportunity to force themselves to raise troops to make trouble. But these troops were all expected by Zeng Hua and others, so they all became the actual combat training of the Liangzhou army. The three legions took turns attacking and swept through the three counties. Hundreds of wealthy families were broken one by one, family property was confiscated, family members were distributed, and together with thousands of cronies and henchmen, they were hung high on wooden poles to become the negative teaching materials of wealthy families.

Zeng Hua even used this as an excuse to forcibly relocate hundreds of powerful families in the six counties under his control, along with thousands of their families, to Nanzheng, Hanzhong, so that they could be governed nearby, leaving only the clansmen and tribal slaves to continue to cultivate the old land.

After such a calm, Zeng Hua not only let people see his iron-blooded hand to suppress dissidents, but also started Liangzhou to operate like an iron bucket, so that Jiangling and Jiankang could not penetrate at all.

The equally far-reaching system of official positions and the system of persuasion and examination have not brought losses to the wealthy families for the time being, nor have they infringed on their interests, so they have not attracted much attention and reaction.

In these months, many things happened not only in Liangzhou, but also in Yizhou in the south, but they were all rebellions. In April, after Deng Ding, the general of the eastern part of the old town of Cheng Han, and General Kui Wen took office in the north of the Great Evil Star Zeng Hua, they finally couldn't hold back their "sincere heart" towards the old dynasty and rebelled. They acted much more cautiously than the two kings, first secretly contacting the wealthy family, organizing the army, and then seeing the opportunity to suddenly attack, kill the Shu County Taishou Gu Tai, and reoccupy Chengdu.

After Deng Ding and Kui Wen raised the "banner of righteousness" in Chengdu, the wealthy families from all over the country responded, and the counties of Zitong, Shu County, Guanghan, Jianwei, Wenshan (now Maowen Qiang Autonomous County, Sichuan), Hanyuan (now Chongqing, Sichuan), and Hanjia (now Ya'anbei, Sichuan) were in flames.

Zhou Fu and Zhou Chu, father and son stationed in Pengmo, were overwhelmed by the rebellion of Jianwei, Hanyuan, and Hanjia counties in southern Shu, so they had no troops to support Yang Qian and Xiao Jingwen stationed in Fucheng. Therefore, the thousands of men and horses led by Yang and Xiao were besieged by the rebels of Zitong, Shujun, Guanghan and Wenshan counties, and they seemed to be weak and soon unable to parry, so they sent people to report to Pengmo, Hanzhong and Jiangling, and chose Guanghan County, where the rebels had the least power, as a way to retreat. In May, Yang and Xiao abandoned Fucheng, went down along Fushui, and retreated to Deyang City, Guanghan. As for Jin Shou and Brazil in Liangzhou behind them, to be honest, Yang and Xiao were really embarrassed to retreat.

Yang and Xiao's urgent reports were sent to Zeng Hua's hands, but they were thrown aside. At that time, Zeng Hua was stepping up the training of his Liangzhou army, preparing to suppress the opposition encountered when the new policy was implemented, so he was unwilling to send troops south easily. Another reason is that he doesn't want Yizhou to settle down before he completely controls Liangzhou, it's chaotic, anyway, there are Zhou Fu's father and son, Yang and Xiao echoing from the north and south, and they will not let those "Cheng Han restorationists" turn the sky upside down.

In July, Kui Wen, Deng Ding and others actually established Fan Ben, the son of the late Fan Changsheng of the late country, and Fan Ben, the former prime minister of the Cheng Han Dynasty, as the emperor, and played the banner of the Heavenly Master's Dao, and the people in Shu responded more, after all, the reputation of the Fan family father and son in Shu was there. It's a bit of a big deal, and it's not ordinary. As a result, another urgent report was quickly sent to Zeng Hua, who was presiding over the "Liangzhou Military and Political Joint Conference."

After Zeng Hua read Yang and Xiao's urgent report, he couldn't help but smile, and spread it all over the people who were sitting around, including Che Yin, Mao Muzhi, Liu Jin, Zhang Qu, Xu Dang and others.

Che Yin, who took the post of "General Staff Army", couldn't help frowning and said: "Our army has just pacified the entire territory of Liangzhou, and the wealthy families of the six counties have just moved to Hanzhong. ”

Hanzhong Taishou Mao Muzhi agreed: "What Che Wuzi said is that although Liangzhou is initially peaceful now, it is still a few steps away from stability. We are now sending troops to Yizhou Shu County, I am afraid that it is not in line with the strategy formulated by the majority of people a few months ago. ”

Xu Dang, Zhang Qu and others, who were eager to try there, heard that the two major strategists did not approve of sending troops to Yizhou, and they immediately retracted their heads and stopped talking.

After Zeng Hua listened, he didn't speak immediately, but continued to kneel and sit there, tilting his head and looking at the roof and pondering for a while, before he spoke: "Kui Wen and Deng Ding are not afraid, the only thing worth considering is Fan Ben, this person is the leader of the Heavenly Master Dao, and the reputation of the people in Shu is extremely high, if it is not handled well, I am afraid it will be difficult to have peace in Shu." ”

"Yes, in fact, this person is the key to the stability of Shuzhong, but it's a pity that Gu Taishou didn't invite this person well, and now he is surrounded by the rebels." After Mao Muzhi finished speaking, he couldn't help but sigh for Gu Tai, the Taishou of Shu County, who died in his duties. At that time, everyone knew that Chengdu was a crater, and everyone hurriedly flashed back to their own territory after scraping the ground, but they didn't want this Shu County Taishou to run over beautifully, and thought they had found a treasure.

This may be the result of the Western Expedition to destroy the Han Dynasty too quickly. Many of the old forces of the Cheng Han Dynasty have not been "eliminated" or "convinced" in the Western Expedition War and surrendered with their masters in a daze, plus Huan Wen is in a hurry to rush back to Jiangling, and the other Zeng Hua, the only one who can be suppressed, seems to have ulterior motives, just want to go to the newly granted territory, and do not want to defend Chengdu for too long. As a result, as soon as the two heavyweights left, the volcano erupted in a short period of time, and all of them smashed on the head of Gu Tai, who couldn't open his eyes.

After Mao Muzhi sighed for Gu Tai, he secretly glanced at the boss at the head - Zeng Hua, and secretly thought in his heart, Zeng Hua had actually seen the key to stabilizing Shuzhong, but he didn't say anything, it seemed that he had a far-reaching plan for a long time, but he was afraid that this Yizhou would not be able to stop until he wanted the surname Zeng.

Since following the young new boss, he has become more and more aware that he has underestimated the upstart before. Really as Che Wuzi said, this is a master who takes one step at a time to see ten moves, often carelessly moves a few moves, but it is a profound layout, not at the end, I'm afraid the gods and ghosts are unpredictable!

Zeng Hua, who was sitting there, didn't know that Mao Muzhi, who was at the bottom, admired him like a surging river, although he preferred to have a long-term plan, and as a modern person, the so-called strategy, geography, geography and other disciplines were used well, but he was not a Zhuge Kongming, and he couldn't pinch his fingers and calculate everything.

No, he is still there thinking about how long Yizhou is estimated to be chaotic, and when he should intervene to ensure that his interests are maximized. But when I think about it, my mind is always chaotic, and I can't figure out a clue. It seems that this is in a hurry to eat hot tofu, so let's put it first, observe and observe, and wait for the best opportunity.

Now the most important thing for me is to gather strength, I don't know how much time history can leave for me, I don't know much about this history, I remember a Wang Meng and the former Qin Fu family, and a Ran Min and his extremely tragic killing order. The former Yan Murong family only learned about it after they met through Boss Jin's "Tianlong Babu", which is said to be a stinky fart and rampant in the Central Plains. This should all be after Shi Hu's death, so it seems that it is enough to stare at Shi Hu, his death means that the north is in chaos, and he can fish in troubled waters. However, if you don't have enough strength, you can't even touch any big fish, so it's the last word that your waist is hard. We don't have to worry about the infantry, we don't have to worry about industry and agriculture, but the key is where we go to get some cavalry back, otherwise it will be a copy of the later Song Dynasty, and the economy will be bullish, and we will still suffer a lot of losses in fighting with the nomads in the northern plains.

Cavalry! Cavalry! Only with cavalry Lao Tzu can be regarded as a tiger with wings, and the dragon returns to the sea. Zeng Hua thought secretly, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration, by the way, look for them. Thinking about a question, Zeng Hua turned his head and found that the people in the hall were silent, looking at him there.

Zeng Hua smiled, anyway, everyone is used to it, continue with the topic that was interrupted by the urgent report just now.

Zhang Taishou reported that the rebels of Deng and Kui only shook off the border of Jinshou County and then retreated to Zitong County, and did not take another step north at all. He is now closely watching the rebels' every move. "Che Yin is talking about the report submitted by Jin Shou Taishou Zhang Shou. It's no wonder that Zeng Hua, who is famous in Shuzhong, did not come down from Liangzhou, Deng and Kui were already burning incense and worshiping God, how dare they come to provoke him if they have nothing to do? So even Liangzhou Jinshou County didn't dare to step in.

"Gan Tai Shouyu reported that Zhao Jun in Weixing County did not move, and it was still the same. However, the newly appointed Sizhou Assassin Sima Xun moved to Nanxiang, and arrested one or two thousand young people everywhere to enrich the army, making Nanxiang County a mess. ”

Gan Taishou is the Taishou Gan Rui of Shangyong County, and his main defense is the Zhao army of Weixing County in the north, and of course, the friendly army in the east that may "stray" in. Now Shi Hu of Northern Zhao has suffered from "hysterical Liangzhou madness", as if Zhang Chonghua of Western Liang robbed his wife and gave him a green hat, and is concentrating most of Zhao's troops to storm the land of Liangzhou Henan (now south of the Yellow River in Gansu). If it weren't for Xie Ai, who was leaned on by Zhang Chonghua as the Great Wall, with two brushes, maybe he would have been destroyed by the fierce Northern Zhao.

Now Beizhao and Liangzhou are fighting in the lower reaches of the river (Yellow River) and Taoshui, and naturally there will be no spare time to take care of the Jin room in the south, so from Weixing County to Guangling County (now Qingjiang City, Jiangsu), the entire **** border line is rare and safe. And although General Anbei and Sima Xun, who were transferred to the first level of the Western Expedition, finally have a territory and have some more soldiers and horses, he does not dare to come west to grab the territory even if he borrows his courage.

"But they all feel that the officials are not enough, and they hope that Nan Zheng can send more talents." Che Yin continued.

"Tell them that there is no one, and if they shout again, I will send him the third groom." Zeng Hua replied depressedly.

Che Yin and the others knew that their third brother was talking with this virtue, so they smiled slightly and stopped talking.

Zeng Hua is starting to worry again, talent! Where am I going to find talent? Now the middle and high-level officials such as the county guards and county lieutenants in the Liangzhou Prefecture and the six counties have basically been settled, but there is a serious shortage of officials at the county order and lieutenant levels. At the beginning, Zeng Hua merged some counties with a population of only a few hundred households and thousands of people, which were more like villages, into some large counties, and the township officials were elected by the local people themselves.

Zeng Hua thought about it, it seems that it is too late to cultivate by himself, he is a little negligent in this point, and he can only recruit talents on a large scale.

"Wuzi, Wusheng, I plan to set up a Zhaoxian Pavilion, which you will preside over. You spread the documents in my name, but all those who are talented, regardless of the level of the family, can apply for the vote, Lao Tzu is in charge of food and housing, as long as the real talent I will reuse. But you have to take care of it, I don't want anything to talk about, this kind of person will just let the dog bite him! ”

"Next is the military summary. Now the Changshui Army has become the Liangzhou Army, and the team has increased by more than seven or eight times, but I don't think the strength has even doubled. So a lot of people is not a good thing! It's important to be a good soldier! Each legion has been training for half a year, and there have been a few actual battles, and now in addition to three times a month, there is also a big drill, and the three legions take turns to fight, I will personally go into battle to practice with you, if anyone loses, don't blame Lao Tzu for cutting him! Famous generals are not read, but typed! The same goes for the army. Zeng Hua patted the coffee table and said to Liu Jin, Zhang Qu, Xu Dang and other military personnel, bluffing the generals for a moment, gritting his teeth and preparing to go back to train his subordinates again, no one dares to take it lightly when fighting with this military master, they are all old men who follow the military master, they can't afford to lose this face, and they can't lose too much.

"Liangcai, you continue to send people to spy in the west and north directions of Liangzhou, no matter what, I want to get the most detailed information about these two places!" Zeng Hua turned to Tian Feng, who was in charge of intelligence spying, and said.

In the evening, the "Liangzhou Military and Political Joint Conference" was finally completed. According to the usual practice, Zeng Hua should have a banquet for everyone. Zeng Hua is not only able to manage the people and the army, "Wen Tao Wu strategy", but also known as a "genius", one of which is to be able to make some "strange" but extremely delicious delicacies.

Therefore, everyone's enthusiasm to participate in the banquet is far greater than that of participating in the joint meeting.

Today's delicacy is the fragrant dog meat hot pot prepared with herbs.

Eating dog meat hot pot on August days is indeed a bit violent, but everyone can't take care of it so much as soon as the fragrance comes out. Led by Zhang Qu and Xu Dang, they took off their crowns and shirts one after another, and went into battle shirtless. At the end of the meal, even the two celebrities - Che Yin and Mao Muzhi didn't know where to throw their cloth crowns.

Zeng Hua was steaming, chewing a piece of dog meat that had just been brought out of the pot, and continued to stretch his chopsticks to a piece of hind leg meat that he had been aiming at for a long time. Someone is asking to see you at the door! Say it's your old friend! ”

"Old man!" Zeng Hua was stunned for a moment, and the targeted piece of dog meat was taken away by Xu Dangyi, who was quick-eyed. The depressed Zeng Hua dropped the chopsticks and said viciously: "Eat!" Eat! Beware of holding you to death! ”

Who knew that Xu Dang replied scoundrelly: "My lord, if you really want to support your subordinates, come with another one!" ”

Zeng Hua was helpless, so he could only turn around and walk to the door stupidly, and asked his relatives, "What old man?" How many people are there? Did you say what his last name was? ”

"Lord Hui, there are two people who came, and there are more than a dozen followers, all of whom say that their surname is Fan!"