As the king of Ganling, Liu Zhong mingled with the rebels and openly opposed the imperial court's summons, which was a very important political signal for the locals.

The rebels of the Ganling Kingdom also happened to want a nominally past leader, so they chose to honor Liu Zhong as the leader and asked him to lead everyone against the imperial court.

This guy actually began to give orders in a grand manner, and the faction that was divided into kings didn't know that he thought he was going to raise an army to fight against Luoyang and make a move against Liu Bei.

So Xu Huang could only choose to quickly pass through Julu County, and then arrive in Ganling Country to deal with Liu Zhong, fortunately, there was no large-scale enemy army in Julu County, Xu Huang was equivalent to passing through Julu County quickly, and arrived near the boundary bridge by force in early July of the first year of Zhenguan, where the army rested for a day, and then continued to march.

At that time, the situation in Ganling Kingdom was very bad, and the situation in Bohai County was also relatively dangerous, and Cai Yong's side insisted on it very difficult.

But fortunately, the Yingyang Army led by Cao Ren completed the Qingzhou cleaning task ahead of schedule with the cooperation of Xun Yu, and after learning of the thieves in Bohai County, he led his troops across the Yellow River and advanced to Bohai County.

When Xu Huang was lacking skills, Cao Ren picked up this burden.

As a result, the battlefield situation in early July was that the two armies of Xu Huang and Cao Ren advanced to Ganling and Bohai respectively, and the total number of rebels in Ganling and Bohai had exceeded 60,000, while the number of troops led by Xu Huang and Cao Ren was less than 30,000.

But neither Xu Huang nor Cao Ren thought they could solve this battle with a huge disparity in numbers.

Xu Huang and Cao Ren rushed to their respective battlefields.

At the same time, fighting broke out in other parts of the north, large and small.

Although the Dutian Decree was nominally the first wave of action against officials, with the resistance of some officials, the landlords and powerful could not sit still, and they also rebelled together, and the war was in full swing without waiting for the imperial court to issue the second phase of the Dutian Decree.

They knew very well that they could not escape, and if they sat back and watched the rebellion of the officials be suppressed by the imperial court, who could help them against the imperial court when they were in trouble?

So they chose to rise up in advance, act together with the rebellious officials, and resolutely do not make the mistakes of the past.

So one after another came to the surface and officially tore their faces with the court.

It can be said that there are many places where this round of fighting broke out, and there are rebels in many places who are rebels rebelling under the banner of resisting the Dutian Order, which seems to be very large-scale, and it seems that there is a posture of rebellion against the whole world.

But a closer look shows that the rebels that appear in most of the rebel places are quite weak, small in number, poorly equipped, and better than nothing, and belong to the outright rabble, so on the whole, most of the rebellions are controllable.

For those traitors, the local garrison can solve them, and some of them don't even need to be dispatched by the local garrison, and they are all solved by the local county soldiers who are not fully staffed under the leadership of the county and national soldiers.

In a county, two or three hundred county soldiers can defeat the rebels in that county under the leadership of the captain of a county national soldier, even if there are thousands of rebels in that county.

From mid-to-late May to early July, news came from all over the world, so Liu Bei, who was looking at the overall situation in Luoyang, looked at the specific situation and felt that there was no need to send the Luoyang garrison to help in the war.

But there was one thing that surprised him.

He originally thought that this wave would come out of some shallow-eyed guys, so his status would not be very high, but he didn't expect that several sect kings would also jump out in this wave, openly opposing Dutian Ling and opposing him.

He knew that this news was not notified to him by Xu Huang, but by the intelligence system controlled by Liu Hui, and he first knew the news of Liu Yu, the king of Zhao, and Liu Bei, the news of Liu Zhong, the king of Ganling, who was backstabbed, did not know until mid-to-late July, and a few days after that, Xu Huang's news was also delivered.

King Zong's participation in the rebel army sequence and the arrival of the system field order is not a piece of news that can be laughed at for the imperial court.

The identity of the Eastern Han Dynasty King is sensitive and special, and he is basically a descendant of Liu Xiu, and his relationship with Liu Xie is relatively close, and he has nothing to do with the current emperor Liu Bei, and he is also a passerby.

When Liu Bei expanded the target of the slave restriction order to King Zong, the ministers were suspicious and felt that Liu Bei might want to attack King Zong, but the kings did not jump out to oppose it at that time.

But this time, under the deterrence of Dutian Ling, the sect kings finally couldn't help it.

According to the regulations of the Eastern Han Dynasty, only the prince can act as a prince, which is far from the rule of the Western Han Dynasty that seven aunts and eight aunts may act as the king of the sect, and this rule has continued from Liu Xiu to the present, and it has been almost 200 years, and everyone has become accustomed to it.

When Liu Bei ascended the throne, according to the rules, he should be crowned king for his son and knighted for his blood relatives, and as for those former dynasty clans, it is estimated that there will be some other ways to deal with them.

But Liu Bei didn't.

He only established his eldest son Liu Shen as the crown prince, and the other sons did not have any titles on the grounds that they were not yet minors, and still stayed by his side to teach and raise them personally.

And the Liu clan of Zhuo County, Zhuo County, except for a few people who have been officials by his side, have received material rewards, even if the title is promoted, it is because of the real merit, for the Liu clan of Zhuo County, Zhuo County, Liu Bei did not give any unexpected rewards, and even did not give enough as expected.

On the whole, Liu Bei's ascension to the throne is special, and even such a thing as knighthood is very special.

So some people have been discussing in private all along, thinking that Liu Bei has been delaying the royal system, is there some special idea? Or do you want to wait for some opportunity to serve those old sect kings in a pot?

Everyone thinks that keeping those old kings will not do any good for the Third Reich, but they don't know when Liu Bei will officially start it.

And now, they find that the opportunity seems to have arisen.

Liu Yu, the king of Zhao, openly opposed the imperial court, and also tried to cooperate with the rebels to fight, the evidence was conclusive, and Xu Huang took it down on the spot and escorted him to Luoyang for trial.

Liu Bei was furious, handed over Liu Yu to the court for the crime, ordered a strict investigation and interrogation, and never tolerated it, if there was really a relevant situation, he would be punished in the most extreme way, and he must not open the net because he was a member of the Han family.

In his case, the prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people!

If such a thing really happens, in fact, it is really like that, after all, you are a rebellion, this kind of thing is a matter of losing your head in any dynasty and generation, and it is not normal if you don't lose your head, and if you really want to lose your head, no one can say anything.

Therefore, Liu Yu's matter really fits the thoughts of the ministers.

It's just that Liu Bei really doesn't think like this, he doesn't have any idea about who will be the king of the sect, anyway, they are all Liu Bang's descendants, who should not be the king, as long as he is honest, he doesn't want to end up with a reputation for treating the Han clan relatives harshly as soon as he takes the throne.

Although he had the idea of manipulating the Han clan group a little later, it was similar to Dutian Ling, thinking of using this part of the relatively wealthy Han clan kings and big landlord clans to collect their taxes and use their taxes to subsidize those poor Han clan relatives.

Everyone is the descendant of Liu Bang's ancestor, Liu Bei also empathizes with the situation of the Han clan group in the current Han Empire, and he also understands the estrangement between the Western Han clan and the Eastern Han clan, so he came up with such a way to rob the rich and help the poor in a gentle way, so that this group does not seem so indifferent.

But he didn't expect that King Zong would really stand up and fight with the group of thieves who opposed the Dutian Order, and he would actually use troops to blatantly oppose the imperial court, be their leader, and engage in this kind of rebellion.

Which is more important, the tax or the status of the king?

Are these guys really completely confused?

Liu Bei shook his head, he was very dissatisfied with these high-level clans that had been raised and abolished, and felt that they were really all insects, the hopeless kind, for the sake of a little profit, they gave up their long-term interests, and they were really insects among insects.

Such people continue to occupy high positions and enjoy state benefits and tax exemptions, which is simply the Han Empire digging a hole for itself.

So Liu Bei made up his mind to conduct a detailed review of the Han clan group in the future, especially the group of Han clan relatives who are still receiving money in the imperial court, and if there are problems, take them all, depose the title, save a sum of court expenses, and clean up these bad people.

The next trial for Liu Amnesty, because of Liu Amnesty's special status, the three divisions were a little unable to let go, so Liu Bei personally served as the chief judge and interrogated Liu Amnesty, mercilessly, and asked all the questions that were heart-wrenching.

Liu Yu also went from pretending to be calm at the beginning to collapsing later, and finally knelt directly in front of Liu Bei and begged for mercy.

He honestly confessed that he was just worried that Liu Bei would depose his prince according to the practice of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and he was very worried, afraid of losing the prince, afraid of losing his current status and honor, so he went to the wrong path under the threat of Dutian Ling.

But this is all avoidable, this is all a misunderstanding, he feels that he must explain clearly to Liu Bei, he doesn't want to rebel at all, just because he is afraid, there is no other reason, he has no intention of threatening Liu Bei's throne, Liu Bei continues to be the emperor It doesn't matter, he just wants to get a guarantee to protect himself.

It's just that Liu Bei doesn't want to listen to it anymore.

You threaten the lives of officials for your own safety, and you dare to claim that you are innocent in response to the call of traitors?

If you are innocent, are there any sinful people in the world?

The turmoil in the world is still going on, but Liu Bei has already made a judgment against Liu Yu.

Liu Yu colluded with the thieves, committed rebellion, brutalized Zhongliang, betrayed the emperor, was intolerable in heaven, sentenced to death, punished the three clans, removed the state of Zhao, changed the state of Zhao to Zhao County, and cut off its inheritance.

Liu Yu is finished.

He shouted Liu Bei's name loudly, begged Liu Bei for mercy, and wept bitterly to the point of almost collapse, completely lacking the arrogance and self-confidence in King Zhao's mansion.

This did not come as a surprise.

As the first top Han clan relative to be disposed of after Liu Bei ascended the throne, Liu Yu's end was completely expected by everyone, from the news of his collusion with the rebels, everyone knew that he was dead, and the three clans must be indispensable to him.

Originally, he shouldn't have had such an end, but good words are hard to persuade the damned ghost, he died by himself, who can save him?

Because of the special situation, on July 26 of the first year of Zhenguan, on the fifth day after the end of the trial, Liu Yu was sentenced to prison, and Liu Bei personally supervised and beheaded him at the Luoyang execution ground.

Liu Yu's head soon fell to the ground, and his head was ordered by Liu Bei to be treated with lime, and then sent to the king of the world in turn, asking them to take a look, and then think about what they should and should not do.

In order not to follow Liu Yu's old path, they should perhaps reflect on it, think carefully about whether they have made mistakes, and if they have, then quickly admit their mistakes, and if they have a good posture, they may be able to survive.

For the sake of the face of the Han family, Liu Bei didn't want to do things too badly, but if someone really didn't follow the rules, he couldn't help it.

For example, Liu Zhong, who is even more hateful than Liu Yu.

Liu Yu had the idea and action of rebellion, but he was suppressed, and he was guarded from the beginning to the end of the Zhao rebellion, unable to move, and belonged to a pure waste.

But Liu Zhong is not, he has ideas, has the ability to act, and can also play some intrigues, specifically pick the defenders when they are vulnerable, kill the defenders, kill many loyal and brave soldiers, and indulge the rebels to plunder Ganling County, causing a large number of innocent deaths and injuries.

For this person, Liu Bei was already angry.

So he directly ordered Xu Huang to let Xu Huang catch him alive, he must not let Liu Zhong die too happily, and he must let Liu Zhong feel what life is better than death, what is it to survive but not to die, let him leave this world with remorse for not being a human being in the next life.

Liu Bei's anger was transmitted to Xu Huang along with the order, and Xu Huang, who had just won a battle, sighed again and again after reading Liu Bei's edict.

The subordinate asked Xu Huang why he sighed, and Xu Huang shook his head.

"If Liu Zhong didn't do anything, he could continue to be a clan member of the Han family, maybe he could continue to be the king of the sect, however, he didn't know what medicine he had taken wrong, and he actually wanted to rebel, did he really think that relying on a rebel army of the Ganling Kingdom would make his rebellion successful? He underestimated His Majesty too much. ”

The subordinates thought about the victorious battle that had just ended, nodded, and felt that Xu Huang was right.

With such a huge difference in the combat effectiveness of the two armies, what kind of idea did Liu Zhong have to become the leader of the rebels of Ganling State so decisively?

It is undeniable that there are so many people in this world who will have an inexplicable sense of superiority, and will think that he is very awesome and powerful, even if he actually has no ability.

Liu Zhong is this kind of person.

At first, Xu Huang just felt that this person was a little arrogant, or a little unable to see his own ability, but Xu Huang soon found that he was wrong, and it was a bit outrageous.

The reason is simple.

Not long after Xu Huang won a battle near the Jieqiao, just as the army was advancing, he heard that Liu Zhong had shouted a new slogan under the influence of the rebels of the Ganling Kingdom, and began to question the legitimacy of Liu Bei's throne.

Liu Zhong thinks that Liu Bei's throne is not coming from the right way, it is a very shameful bullying of the weak, and it was snatched from the hands of weak children, and there is no legal basis at all, especially when Liu Hong still has a son living in the world, even if the eldest son Liu Wei is deposed as a concubine because of his crimes, isn't Liu Xie still there?

Therefore, Liu Bei should return the throne to Liu Hong and stop his usurpation.

For this reason, Liu Zhong publicly shouted the slogan, asking Liu Bei to return the throne, and also called on the people of the world to unite, first go to the Hejian Kingdom to welcome back Liu Xie, and then support Liu Xie to become the Son of Heaven, and then crusade against Luoyang together, so that Liu Bei handed over the throne.

If Liu Bei surrenders the throne, then he can still live, but if he refuses to hand over the throne, he will be punished with the most severe punishment, or even beheaded.

To be honest, when he heard the news, Xu Huang was sluggish, and for a moment he felt as if he had taken the wrong medicine, so he had auditory hallucinations.

What? Some people questioned Liu Bei's throne, so they wanted to coerce Liu Bei to abdicate?

Who has the guts?

Oh, Liu Zhong.

Xu Huang was silent for a while, and expressed his sincere "admiration" for Liu Zhong's behavior of not stopping his life and dying.

If you simply oppose the Dutian Order, it would be okay, Liu Bei would be a little suspicious of asking for hardships if he wanted to buckle the hat of rebellion, but now Liu Zhong is firing at Liu Bei's throne and on things that everyone in the world recognizes, openly challenging the existing political order, and openly fighting against the current vested interests.

Good guy, you think you're living too comfortably and living too long, so you can't wait to be reincarnated, right?

(End of chapter)