Since Liu Zhi waved his army north and pocketed the Liaodong, Liaoxi and Wuhuan tribes, the Northern Xiongnu have been waiting for him to prevent him from attacking at all times.

However, after that, the Han did not take any further action, but began to work hard to manage these places, and later sent troops to attack Wusun and Dawan.

At that time, the Northern Xiongnu were in strict formation, thinking that the Han would fight in one go.

In the past few years, Dahan has been like a boulder hanging above their heads, and if they don't fall for a day, they will be worried and tortured every day.

However, the powerful external threat also made the Northern Xiongnu unprecedentedly united, and Huyan Shan Yu took the opportunity to unify the various tribes.

The soldiers and horses were trained every day, and the morale of the entire khanate reached an unprecedented level.

When he got the news that there was a great plague in the Central Plains, Liu Zhi couldn't help but be overjoyed at this time.

After the resolution of the Presbyterian Church, it was unanimously agreed that this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity should not be missed.

No matter how powerful the big man's weapons are, it is impossible to take care of them left and right, and when the time comes, he will not be able to hold on to food and grass.

As for firearms, after several years of drills, the Northern Xiongnu considered it unsuitable for close-range attacks, so to crack this point, there was only a sneak attack.

As long as the two armies are mixed together, the superpower of gunpowder will be self-defeating, and it will not be able to play a three-percent role.

So, on the night when the moon was dark and the wind was high, the Northern Xiongnu army divided into two routes, from the two directions of Liaoxi and Wusun, and launched a sneak attack at the same time.

Due to lack of preparation, the Northern Xiongnu won the first battle, and after paying a lot of price, they occupied the forward positions of the Han army.

The defender on Wusun's side was the Fenwei general Duan Cheng, and the chief general of Liaoxi was the Fubo general Huangfu Gui, both of whom coincidentally issued the order to temporarily retreat.

Liu Zhi once instructed them that in the event of a sudden situation, everything is mainly to preserve strength, and he will never blame for the strategic retreat.

Therefore, they issued orders in a very timely manner, and there was no psychological burden, and with an open-minded emperor as the backing, they could simply do whatever they wanted to fight, and they were able to give full play to their natural advantages.

While sending the news back to the capital as quickly as possible, he organized men and horses to prepare for a counterattack.

Duan Cheng promptly notified Quan Xu, the lieutenant general of the Yulin Army guarding Dawan, and asked him to keep an eye on the border to prevent Kangjuguo from uniting with the Northern Xiongnu and taking the opportunity to knock on the pass.

In addition, for the Kushan Empire and the body poison, it is also necessary to take strict precautions.

Before receiving Liu Zhi's order, Quan Xu temporarily blocked the border and issued a notice that it was best for merchants to enter the country by the southern route, and the blockade on the northern route was far away.

The defenders of Liangzhou also quickly gathered on the border, and the border between the Northern Xiongnu and the Han was very long, and it was very difficult to fully defend it.

The current guard of the Liaoxi Protectorate is the Zhendong general Zhang Huan, who declared a state of emergency as soon as he got the news.

He did not send troops to support Huangfu Gui, after all, Liaodong, Liaoxi and Wuhuan and other places have not been recovered for a few years, although some immigrants have also moved in, but relatively speaking, the number is very small.

Therefore, his first task is to keep a close eye on the Xianbei people, prevent them from taking the opportunity to make trouble, and cooperate with the Northern Xiongnu.

Because Liu Zhi attaches great importance to border military affairs on weekdays, he has conducted countless drills with the Military Aircraft Government on the issue of starting a war. Therefore, according to various unexpected situations, macro strategies have been arranged for a long time.

After all, the border between the North and the West is too long, and the speed of information transmission in this era is too slow, and it will be very dangerous if we cannot respond in time.

Therefore, all the generals have a high degree of autonomy in commanding the army, and they will not be afraid to hold back.

When the news reached Jingshi, the war had been going on for a while, just as Duan Cheng estimated, Kang Juguo also brazenly sent troops to attack Wusun and Dawan, and it seemed that the two countries had already reached an alliance in private.

For a time, the Beijing division was shaken, and many people complained about Liu Zhi's all-out disaster relief behavior, thinking that it was the emperor's high-profile behavior that made the spies of the Northern Xiongnu know the news and thus exploit the loophole.

Some people also believe that he used all his food for disaster relief, which made him unable to raise military rations now, which brought considerable difficulties to the later war.

In short, most people are pessimistic about the outcome of this war, even if they think that the final victory must belong to the Han, but the price to pay will definitely be very high.

This also deepened the contradictions within the imperial court, and the military generals of the military machine government advocated an all-out counteroffensive, and believed that this was an excellent opportunity to completely solve the problem of the Northern Xiongnu.

But the ministers did not think so, but now the internal and external troubles are precarious, and the Silk Road, which has just been opened, has also been devastated.

When the epidemic situation in the Central Plains is still unclear, it is really unwise to start a large-scale war.

Therefore, they thought that they should negotiate peace with the Northern Xiongnu, and then settle accounts with them after they had overcome the current difficulties.

The views of the two sides are-for-tat, and each side does not give in to each other, and there has been a lot of quarrel inside and outside the court.

But Liu Zhi was not in a hurry, and let them quarrel endlessly, and the situation on the border had long since changed from what it used to be after years of painstaking management.

Several generals are also experienced in many battles, and they have already made various arrangements in terms of strategy and tactics.

Therefore, the controversy of the imperial court will not affect the development of the war in the slightest, and as for the military rations, there is no need to worry about it in the short term.

Last year, Liu Zhi took precautions and secretly purchased a large amount of grain from Tianzhu and Shenyao, and stationed them in Liangzhou and Liaoxi.

According to conservative estimates, it will last at least two or three months, and these three months he believes will be enough time to resolve the epidemic at home or the border dispute.

He is even less worried about the outcome of the war, because in the past few years, the research and development of gunpowder in the Han Dynasty has been very rapid, and he has been able to manufacture more exquisite gunpowder bullets, and the number is very large.

The results of the collision between cold weapons and hot weapons are self-evident.

For him, the biggest difficulty now lies in the imperial court itself, which, despite being on the throne for eight years, appears to have undergone numerous reforms.

The entire court structure seems to have undergone earth-shaking changes, but in fact, in some aspects, it is still a change of soup and no medicine, and it has not shaken the status of the family class in the Han Dynasty at all.

For example, the land policy did not dare to redistribute at all, and it could only be said that it was opportunistic, and the land of the family was preserved intact.

The only thing he could play a role in alleviating was to open up a large area of new land in eastern Liaodong to adjust the domestic land contradictions.

In terms of the imperial court system, although the system of three princes and nine secretaries has been changed to the system of nine products and eighteen products, the people are still the original group of people, and there has not changed much.

Even the reform of the imperial examination system, which he was proud of, could only be said to be a half-finished product, and in order not to exacerbate the contradictions between the family and the royal family, not only did he retain the system of conquest.

It also left a number of places that could be recommended in the imperial examination, and also left a large number of vacancies for the family in the army, so that they had more opportunities to become officials.

The only thing that has changed is that the scrutiny of these places is stricter than before, so as to prevent those who do not learn and have no skills from infiltrating the imperial court.

No way, because for a long time the middle and lower classes have been deprived of the opportunity to educate, and the talent among them is very scarce.

Even if the imperial examination is opened, not many people can get ahead, and a small number of poor students who enter the imperial court are limited by age, experience and qualifications.

If you want to become the mainstay of the Han, I am afraid that there is still a long way to go.

So far, the vast majority of the ministers that Liu Zhi can rely on are people of insight from the scholar class.

Their interests are in great conflict with the imperial power, and there is an irreconcilable natural gap with the common people.

Therefore, Liu Zhicai felt powerless in this fight against the epidemic, because the all-out rescue of the people had touched the fundamental interests of the family class.

He was opportunistic, and even played tricks with the dignity of the emperor, fighting wits and courage with them in every way, but the result was still unsatisfactory.

If all goes well, according to his original policy of boiling frogs in warm water, just give him another ten years.

He believed that he could slowly change the pattern of the court and solve the problem fundamentally.

Over the years, natural and man-made disasters have set up many difficulties for him, and they have also constantly provoked the relationship between the imperial power and the family.

Let the already fragile bond between the two sides become weaker and weaker, and it is on the verge of collapse.

At this time, if Liu Zhi does not make concessions, I am afraid the consequences will be unimaginable.

But the key is to what extent this concession must be achieved, and Liu Zhi will never let the layout that he has worked hard for several years return to the previous situation.

And the resentment of the family class against the emperor is also unprecedentedly high, and it has reached a very dangerous edge.

The young emperor constantly challenged their interests, but because he skillfully exploited the contradictions between the families, he kept a delicate balance on a tightrope for several years.

However, the simultaneous outbreak of the epidemic and the war has upset this balance, making all the contradictions bloody and unavoidable.

In the past few years, Liu Zhi has made the family understand that it is almost impossible to make the emperor make big concessions.

In the past, they thought that Liu Zhi was just too young and liked to be willful, but now no one adheres to the idea of luck.

Just when the previous dynasty was unpredictable, in the harem, a conspiracy was also unfolding silently.

On this day, Concubine Geng's maiden family suddenly sent a message in, and directly begged the Empress Dowager Yun's Yong'an Palace, saying that her mother was seriously ill and hoped to see her daughter for the last time.

Empress Dowager Yun has always liked Concubine Geng, and she pays the most attention to filial piety on weekdays, so when she heard the news, she immediately made the decision and asked Concubine Geng to take the little prince Liu Wei out of the palace immediately.

Geng Xian saw that the person who came was her mother's sister-in-law, and when she heard that her mother was suddenly seriously ill, she was so anxious for a while that she didn't think much about it at all.

When he walked to the gate of the palace with Liu Wei, he thought that it was inappropriate, so he sent a eunuch to report to Liu Zhi, and he went back with the comer.

Hurriedly returning to the mansion, Geng Xian was anxious, and he didn't have time to say hello to the others, so he went straight to the backyard.

Who knows, but he was blocked by his father and brother.

"Ah Xian, don't panic, your mother is not seriously ill, and it is necessary to discuss something with your father to come back for you."

Geng Xian was taken aback, the expression on his face suddenly changed, and he looked at his father and brother in disbelief, and saw that their expressions did not seem to be fake, and he immediately knew that something was wrong.

Qiang Yan smiled, "Father, what is this doing?" If there is anything I can't ask my mother to come into the palace and tell me, I have to take such a risk. ”

She is very smart, although she still doesn't know what her father is doing, but she already has a premonition that it is not a good thing, so she is tactfully persuading the other party to give up.

Geng Wen smiled coldly, he didn't pay much attention to this daughter on weekdays, and he didn't expect to be favored when he forcibly sent her to the palace back then.

"Why? It's because you gave birth to a prince. ”

Over the years, the Geng family has long since declined, and although Geng Wen is ambitious and talented, his ambition has never stopped. I always want to have the opportunity to regain the glory of the day I will be able to climb to the top again.

Since his daughter gave birth to the prince Liu Wei, his heart began to live, and the Eastern Han Dynasty has been in power for a hundred years, until His Majesty Liu Zhi has abandoned the privileges of his relatives.

If you want to rely on your nephew to ascend to the throne and become a powerful minister in the world, the biggest obstacle is Liu Zhi.

As long as he reigns for one day, even if Liu Wei is really designated as the crown prince in the future, the Geng family will not be able to soar.

Unless, Liu Wei can ascend the throne by unconventional means.

Of course, at the beginning, he didn't dare to have such a rebellious idea, but after the recent conflict between Liu Zhi and the family class intensified, a group of careerists set their sights on the two princes.

They began to have frequent contact with the maiden forces of the two princes, trying to choose a suitable puppet candidate from them.

In this case, Geng Wen's ambition swelled unprecedentedly, if Liu Wei could ascend the throne, his daughter would become the queen mother, and according to tradition, he would be able to become a general.

At that time, the Geng family will be able to recast its glory, even more than before.

Originally, he didn't need to be so anxious, but when he heard that the other prince's maiden family had already begun to take action, he couldn't help but be anxious.

If someone else preempts this matter, he will be in vain, and he will not be able to get any benefits, and he may be directly erased by the other party as a threat.

After all, Liu Wei occupies the position of the eldest son of the emperor, and Geng Xian's position is also higher than that of another beauty.

Therefore, after some thought, he made up his mind to deceive his daughter and nephew from the palace, in any case, without Geng Xian's cooperation, this matter was categorically difficult to succeed.

"Now Your Majesty is bent on going his own way, stirring up a miasma in the court, which has caused public indignation in the world, since he doesn't care about the Han family, naturally someone will attack him en masse."

Geng Wen talked eloquently, "Now they intend to let Wei'er take the throne in advance, and you will listen to the government, which is a great thing for the country and the family." ”

In Geng Wen's cognition, needless to say, Geng Xian should also understand that the Eastern Han Dynasty court attaches great importance to the orthodoxy of the concubine.

If it is done step by step, even if Liu Wei can successfully ascend the throne in the future, the position of the queen mother can only be Deng Meng's.

Geng Xian is at most an imperial concubine, and his own son became the emperor, and it is impossible for the Geng family to become prominent because of this.

And he heard that his daughter was not favored in the palace, whether it was the queen who respected Liu Zhi like a guest, or the concubine who favored the harem, they were much stronger than her.

In such a situation, even a fool knows how to choose to be more beneficial to himself.

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