The rebels outside Handan City were actually really easy to deal with, because Xu Huang launched a sneak attack on them, or a night attack.

I thought that the night attack would not be so easy, but the vanguard sent by Xu Huang easily touched the rebel camp, and then successfully began to set fire.

According to the feedback from the battle situation later, Xu Huang learned that when the vanguard touched in, the rebel guards were sleeping together, the patrol that should have appeared did not appear, and the lookout soldiers on the high platform seemed to be gambling with their comrades.

As a result, when the fire burned more and the rebels were in disarray, Xu Huang's army began to attack.

In the chaos, the rebels completely collapsed, and the Han army had no tactics, just rushed and fought until dawn, when the battle ended.

After counting the number of people, Xu Huang learned that more than 20,000 rebels with a total number of about 23,000 were captured, killed and burned to death, and less than 1,000 escaped.

On the city wall, watching the Han army's battle flag flying fiercely, Sun Xiang, who had been under pressure for many days, burst into tears, and then ordered the city gate to be opened to welcome Xu Huang into the city.

After Xu Huang entered the city, he recognized Sun Xiang and found that Sun Xiang had been a lieutenant under him, and then when he was old, he went to Luoyang, and then he didn't hear any news from him, but now he was a little surprised to find that he was actually here.

After learning about Sun Xiang's experience these days, Xu Huang was quite emotional, patted him on the shoulder, and said that Sun Xiang was a good man.

Immediately after, Xu Huang learned about what had happened in the city these days, and couldn't help frowning.

"I thought King Zong wouldn't say this, and when I heard the rumors, I thought that the rebels deliberately said this, so as to deceive their own people, but I didn't expect this to be true, King Zhao really wants to get along with the court?"

"At first, I was also surprised and couldn't believe it, until he sent the guards of Zhao Wangfu to fight with the guards guarding the city for control of the city gate, I knew that he really wanted to join forces with the rebels, so I quickly led people to annihilate his guards."

Sun Xiang said in a low voice: "After that, I sent people to surround the Zhao Wangfu, not allowing them to communicate inside and outside, the city has a lot of opinions on this, many officials and large families put pressure on me, asking me to withdraw my troops, but I didn't, I have been taking care of the Zhao Wangfu, so some people can't sit still, and want to assassinate me." ”

"It seems that traitors are not only outside the city, but also inside the city."

Xu Huang sneered, and then decided to visit the King of Zhao in person.

Before visiting King Zhao, Xu Huang saw Zhao Guoxiang, whose face was pale and his eye sockets were deep-set, and Xu Huang was a little unbearable to see this world-famous Confucian so haggard.

"How many days have you not had a good rest? You're in charge of a county, so it's better to rest. ”

"The failure to stop the rebellion and the death of so many people are the reasons for my incompetence.

Fu Qian sighed and said: "I'm old, I'm useless, I can't do anything, and then I will give it to Your Majesty, ask for my own guilt, and ask the general not to hide anything, what mistake I made, the general said bluntly, I should be responsible, I will bear it." ”

Xu Huang felt helpless.

This matter is really not something that a minister-level official can bear, because the matter in Handan City involves a king.

Xu Huang is clear that the Dutian Order not only involves officials, but also involves the Han clan group, and even the land and property of the former little emperor Liu Xie, who obtained a lot of land, must accept the declaration of Dutian and tax payment, of course, Liu Xie is not very sensitive to these, so he easily accepted it.

But these long-standing kings are different.

They own a lot of land and claim to be relatives of the Han family, and they never think that they have the need to pay taxes, in a sense, they are the strongest nail households in Dutian.

Moreover, in terms of identity, as clan relatives, they have a special identity and special status, and ordinary officials do not dare to oppose them in a serious way, no matter how noble their status is.

Even the officials who received the orders of the imperial court were somewhat scruples when facing King Zong, but Liu Bei specially instructed in this action that even if it was King Zong, he would also accept the investigation of Dutian Order.

Liu Bang's genes are indeed very strong, and until now, the group of Han clan relatives has been very large, and there are many real outstanding people, which can be described as talented people from generation to generation.

However, this proportion is a bit small, and the number of insects is significantly larger than that of Renjie.

After Liu Bei ascended to the throne, he made a thorough investigation of the Han clan group, and learned that most of the Han clan group is the same as before he started, they are ordinary people, with no power, no status, no property, and a tight life, no matter what, they are not rich, and the number of ordinary small landlords is very small.

This is actually very normal, since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty pushed the Grace Order, there are more and more Han clan groups, the territory is getting smaller and smaller, and the interests are becoming less and less divided, and it is natural that there will be various class differentiations.

Tui En Ling is indeed a good move, greatly reducing the burden of the imperial court, and getting rid of a lot of burdens for the imperial court, which the later Ming Dynasty did not learn, Zhu Yuanzhang loves his children too much, and the descendants of the Zhu family multiply too quickly, which has caused a huge burden on the national finances.

There is no Han Empire, and there are not many things where the Han clan has become ordinary people and has suffered at all, just like the days that Liu Bei lived back then, the imperial court never said that it would give him even a little bit of service and compensity to the Han clan.

The eldest sons of the Han clan inherit the largest property, and the concubines do not have such good treatment, and they can only get a little bit of soup, if they are a little capable, they can fight for the future by themselves, but most of the Han clan relatives are also normal people, ordinary people, it is not easy to live a good life, where is the entrepreneurial talent?

As a result, more and more Han clan groups have become unpopular, or even inferior to everyone, and the days have become more and more sluggish, and finally even the ordinary people are inferior, and there are not a few who die of poverty and illness.

For these people, the Han royal family has no mercy, and no one has said that they want to help these relatively poor Han clan groups, and it is the norm to be free and resign life and death to fate.

Therefore, the Han clan group is a very large group so far, and the number of people in the Eight Classics has already reached tens of thousands, but the real nobles of the empire are only a very small part, and the number on the top of the pyramid is a little bit.

For example, the major sect kings.

The king of the Eastern Han Dynasty is basically the descendants of Liu Xiu, and the Han clan relatives inherited from the Western Han Dynasty have no kinship, and the impoverished Han clan group is basically the clan group of the Western Han Dynasty, and the number of clan relatives in the Western Han Dynasty is far larger than that of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The current king of the Han family can be traced back to several generations, and it can basically be traced back to Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu also has his reasons for doing this, because the marquis can still go up in name, and the prince can only be the emperor if he goes up, and everyone will be crowned a prince, which will only make more and more people ambitious about the imperial power, so it is necessary to strictly limit the number of candidates and the number of princes, so as to better defend the imperial power.

Others can't be princes, but the prince is the most suitable to be a prince, so that when the royal family has no heirs, they can choose the right person to inherit the throne from among the children of the side branches, so this rule is so set.

However, the current situation is different.

Because Liu Bei is not strictly speaking a relative of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but a relative of the Western Han Dynasty.

His ascension to the throne essentially means that the top clan magnates of the Eastern Han Dynasty inherited from Liu Xiu's bloodline have lost their imperial power, and the imperial power of the great sect has been transferred back to the hands of the pure Western Han Sect, and Liu Xiu's branch has lost its status and power.

This is not a good thing for most of the Eastern Han clan relatives.

According to the rules of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Bei should make his sons princes, and these princes, who have been inherited for more than a hundred years, are likely to lose their status as princes.

So they will also worry about whether Liu Bei will attack them for various reasons.

At present, the Eastern Han clan relatives who are not too worried are a few people such as Liu Yu and Liu Xie, but they are not princes themselves, so most of the Eastern Han clan kings have a nervous and wait-and-see attitude towards Liu Bei's ascendancy.

They are a little more relieved when many policies do not involve the suzerain group, but when the policy involves the suzerain group, the situation is different.

And there are also some news circulating within the Eastern Han Dynasty King group, knowing that Liu Bei had been offended by an Eastern Han Dynasty King before, and his sense of the Eastern Han Dynasty King Group may not be very good, so they are very nervous, and the restrictions and suppression of the clan by the previous slave restriction order have more clearly increased the opposition and mutual suspicion between them.

If the slave restriction order has not completely touched the core interests of the sect king's group, then the Dutian order has really touched their core interests.

It seems that Liu Bei is really going to do something to Liu Xiu's children and grandchildren.

Like normal landlords, the Eastern Han Dynasty often had a large amount of land wealth.

The political suppression of them by the royal family was exchanged for economic tolerance, and economic tolerance was exchanged for a substantial expansion of their land wealth, especially among some wealthy or greedy kings.

The number of fields owned by these kings was no less than that of the local superlords, and their status was even higher, and it was impossible for anyone to talk to them about taxes or the like.

But now it's different, Liu Bei just wants to talk to them about tax issues, not only to talk, but also to collect taxes seriously, or ladder tax rates, the larger the amount of land, the higher the tax rate of the excess part, the highest is actually four into five, this is to chop meat on them with a knife to eat.

After the group of sect kings learned about this, their attitudes were relatively consistent, that is, they were frightened and angry, but the degree was different, some people were not so angry, and some people were so angry that they were about to explode.

Zhao Wang Liu Yu is the kind of person who is about to explode.

In his heart, he felt that Liu Bei, the Western Han Dynasty royal family, was planning to seize the imperial power of their Eastern Han royal family, and finally bullied children, bullied old ladies, and took the imperial power into his hands.

In his opinion, Liu Bei, the imperial family of the Western Han Dynasty and the orthodox clan of the Eastern Han Dynasty, is no longer a person, and being able to serve them as officials and serve them is already a gift, how dare you risk the disapproval of the world to usurp the throne?

How dare you?

Even if we usurp the throne, there are so many moths before and after, and we have endured a lot of hard work to limit slaves, and now we still have to spend the field?

Dutian?

Do you know what Dutian is?

What does it mean to know Dutian?

Are you also worthy of the field?

At that time, when Fu Qian took Du Tian Ling to Zhao Wangfu to find Liu Yu to convey the order, Liu Yu almost died of anger, he pointed to Fu Qian's nose and asked Fu Qian to get out of Zhao Wangfu, Fu Qian was not angry, but he still conveyed the court order without humility or arrogance, saying that people would soon be organized to come to Du Tian and calculate the tax amount, so that Liu Yu could prepare.

Liu Yu's face turned blue with anger, and he couldn't tolerate the "offense" of obedience and Liu Bei's "calculation" no matter what.

So he privately negotiated with some officials and wealthy forces with better relations, and learned that they were also very resistant to Dutian's order, and were ready to carry out the "Guangwu Shi Story", set off a war, and countered Liu Bei's shameless order with resolute resistance, so that Liu Bei confessed and knew how much mistake he had made.

So Liu Yu thought for a moment, then decided to join in, and then sent people to contact the other sect kings in Jizhou to see if they had any ideas over there.

In fact, in this matter, Liu Yu has more considerations, he feels that Liu Bei is a member of the Western Han Dynasty, and in essence, he is not a group of people from their noble Eastern Han Dynasty, and it is difficult to say that he can urinate in a pot, and what Liu Bei is doing now is difficult to say that it is not a revenge on the Eastern Han Dynasty clan.

If this revenge is successful, it is difficult to say that there will not be a next time, if there is a next time, will it be more powerful and more severe every time, and in the end, they will even depose their identity as the sect kings?

Without these inheritances, how can they live a good life?

This is the most essential worry, and it is also the fundamental reason why Liu Yu and other Eastern Han clan groups are unbearable, with such worries, Liu Yu feels that if this rebellion is successful, it is necessary for them to erect a counter-flag, calling on the world to break with Liu Bei, regain the imperial power from Liu Bei, and let the good life of the Eastern Han Dynasty group continue.

Otherwise, let Liu Bei, a remnant of the Western Han Dynasty, ascend to the throne and rule the world, and the ghost knows what other off-the-clay moves will make them worse than dead.

Before, there was no response to the news sent by Liu Yu, and the other kings didn't seem to be very impressed by Liu Yu's proposal, but Liu Yu felt that he was ready to send it, so when the rebels gathered to prepare for a surprise attack on Handan City, he launched a "cooperation between the inside and the outside" of Handan City.

But he calculated, but he didn't count that Sun Xiang, the captain of the national soldiers of Zhao County, was a capable person, and he was also a subordinate loyal to Liu Bei, leading more than 2,000 county soldiers to learn in advance that the rebels were going to attack Handan, so he acted quickly, took control of the entire Handan City, and defeated the team he sent to assist the rebels.

After that, he besieged Zhao Wangfu on the charge of great disrespect and trapped him, although he did not launch any other military action against Zhao Wangfu after that, but one encirclement and one guard was enough to make Liu Yu fall into extreme panic.

(End of chapter)