The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 516 Turmoil
Since ancient times, Fengqiu has been sad and lonely.

In the clear sky, a crane and a row of clouds brought poetry to Bixiao.

In the Jinyang City Government Office, clerks with books in their hands hurried on both sides of the road covered with fallen leaves.

Spring and summer have passed, and now it is autumn.

The weather is getting cooler gradually, and the noisy cicadas are blown away by autumn.

It is precisely because of this that the work of Chinese officials in government offices in various places has become more and more busy.

There is no imperial power that does not go to the countryside, and the management of the place under the Yellow Turban Army is no longer the three elders, nor is it the local powerful family, but the officials appointed by the Yellow Turban Army.

Although most of the old systems in the original place have been preserved, after all, any reform cannot be achieved overnight, and not any new system can be well adapted to the society.

Affected by various conditions, Xu An could only implement reforms slowly.

It's just that the original local authority, the spokesperson Sanlao, has been transferred to a representative of public opinion, with only the right to make suggestions but not to enforce the law.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was divided into thirteen prefectures, and prefectures and counties were set up within the prefectures.

Each county has a guard, lieutenant, and supervisor, each with one person to manage the army, government, and supervision.

Counties under the jurisdiction of the county, counties with more than [-] households, have county magistrates, and counties with less than [-] households have county magistrates, all directly appointed by the emperor.

The "county system" began in the Qin Dynasty, and Liu Bang continued to inherit this system after the Li Han Dynasty, and further improved it, and finally formed a three-level administrative management of states, counties and counties.

In the local governance of the Han Dynasty, the system of village pavilions was implemented.

Townships are set up below the county level, pavilions are set up below the township level, and houses are set up below the pavilion level.

Shiting is a township, and the township has three elders and cowards.

These are people's self-government organizations with the clan as the core.

To be precise, there was no such system as a village in the Han Dynasty, and small-scale gathering places were generally called "gathering".

Under the current rule of the Yellow Turban Army, there are pavilion chiefs and township chiefs. The original rights of the three elders have also been taken by the Yellow Turban Army.

Because there are not many Fu Zhu, only one or two Fu Zhu preaching handouts will be set up in the village.

However, these amulets only have the right to receive believers, not Taoists.

The current Yellow Turban Army inspections are very strict. If you want to enter the Tao, you must pass a lot of tests. It is not the original situation that you can join as long as you want to join. Only those who enter the Tao are eligible to be called Taoists.

The requirements of believers are very lenient and are not recorded in the book. As long as you are willing to listen to the teachings of Taiping Tao, then you are a believer.

The time when Xu An revised the teachings and content of Taiping Dao began at the end of the second year of Zhongping (185), and it is now the first year of Yonghan (189).

After nearly four years of long-term corrections, the content of Taipingdao has been gradually separated from the original Taipingdao.

The new Taiping Tao revised by Xu An discarded a lot of dross, and Xu An also added a lot of new ideas, some ideas from later generations.

Xu An always felt that one sentence was right.

"There has never been a savior, and we don't rely on immortal emperors. To create human happiness, we all depend on ourselves!"

This is the lyrics of a song, from a great song, a song that will go down in history, and a song sung by thousands of people.

It is precisely because it started from a humble beginning, it is precisely because it has experienced hardships, it is precisely because it has seen hardships, and it is precisely because Xu An has seen a magnificent and prosperous age.

It is precisely because of these reasons that Xu An is able to see more profound things and is able to be sure of the correctness of the path.

Wearing a fragrant eagle-wolf suit and holding a book bound with yellow paper, Liu Pi walked quickly into the courtyard outside Xu An's office building, followed by an eagle guard officer in purple eagle suit thereafter.

The guards guarding the entrance of the courtyard saw that it was Liu Pi who was coming, and immediately moved out of the way.

The guard turned his head to look at the Eagle Guard officer in purple eagle uniform, and couldn't help frowning.

The number of times Liu Pi came to the Jinyang city government to look for Xu An is not infrequent. Liu Pi can be said to be the most trusted person in the entire Yellow Turban Army. Therefore, every time Liu Pi came, the guards would consciously get out of the way. Even simple inquiries and transmissions are omitted.

But this time Liu Pi's arrival was a bit unusual. Usually, every time Liu Pi came, even if he brought his personal entourage, the personal entourage would be accompanied by a few wolf guards.

The division of labor between the Eagle and Wolf Guards is clear, and because of this, in the territory under the jurisdiction of the Yellow Turban Army, people often see the Wolf Guards, and the Eagle Guards mostly appear in uncontrolled areas and the outer areas of the Yellow Turban Army. .

Generally, the figures of Yingwei appear in the government offices of Jinyang City, especially the figures of high-ranking officials of Yingwei.

The eagle and wolf guards are classified according to the color of their clothes. Commanders wear eagle and wolf clothes, embroidered with eagle and wolf beasts, and the background color is fragrant.

And to be able to wear the purple eagle wolf suit, only the first level of the pacifier is second only to the commander, and the entire eagle wolf guard is only two people, that is, the chief officer of the second eagle wolf guard.

The emissary of the Wolf Guard is Wei Lu, who is now famous among the Yellow Turban Army. After all, the role and deeds of the Wolf Guard in the territory are obvious to all.

Most people know the name of Yingwei's governor, Yang Ting, but even the officials of the Jinyang government office, and even most of the generals of the Yellow Turban Army are very unfamiliar.

This year, during the southern expedition to Hedong County, an eagle guard wearing a red eagle uniform entered the Jinyang government office.

This time, Yingwei's appeasement envoy came in person, probably to cause a bigger shock.

The guard looked back, he was just a guard, he was not capable of governing these matters, his most urgent task now was to do what he should do.

"Ying Ting, the envoy of Yingwei Town, has seen Duke Ming."

After Yang Ting walked into the house, he and Liu Pi saluted Xu An who was handling government affairs.

Xu An put down the document in his hand, he was obviously startled when he heard Yang Ting's name, and then raised his head.

"Has the situation outside changed?"

Because of the needs of intelligence work, Yang Ting stayed in the eldest son city of Shangdang County all this time, but now he went directly to the Jinyang government office.

Xu An also noticed that Yang Ting's clothes were still stained with a lot of dust, probably caused by the non-stop rush from the eldest son city to Jinyang along the way.

So Xu An immediately guessed roughly that Yang Ting would be allowed to leave the eldest son city only in extremely important situations and changes.

"It is indeed as Duke Ming said."

Yang Ting nodded, he took a breath, moved his steps, and put the stack of documents in his hand on the desk in front of Xu An.

"I'm afraid that within two months, the Battle of Henan will be over."

Xu An picked up the document, and Yingwei clearly recorded all the major events that happened in the past few months according to the importance of the event.

Although some information had been submitted before, this time all the information was connected together, which also made Xu An feel more intuitive.

Xu An looked at the contents of the document and felt great pressure at the same time.

From the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms, during this long period, countless heroes emerged, countless lords emerged from the water, the aristocratic families were exposed, the Han Dynasty was unwilling to decline, and it also bloomed its last light, wanting to make a comeback.

The star of the general is bright, the star of the emperor is dim, there are powerful enemies outside, and there are internal troubles and chaos.

Talents do not flourish in the Three Kingdoms, and only the masters of the Three Kingdoms are able to employ people, so they are supported by all forces to form a tripod.

But because of this, successive wars, epidemics, and turmoil have caused countless deaths.

The country perishes with weakness, but the Han alone perishes with strength.

It is precisely because of its strength that the long-term separatist regime cannot be unified, thus falling into a long-term tug-of-war and long-term internal friction.

There is a passage in "Three Kingdoms · Wei Shu · Cheng Guo Dong Liu Jiang Liu Biography" that records the scene at that time. It makes people feel cold all over.

"Although there are twelve prefectures today, as far as the population is concerned, it is only a large county in Han Dynasty."

There is no description of the war, no description of the turmoil, but it reflects a fact.

From the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the turmoil of the Three Kingdoms, the huge empire with a population of nearly [-] million was finally reduced to a country with a population of less than [-] million.

Even counting the tenants and trilogy who were sheltered by aristocratic families, as well as those who were not included in the household statistics, such as village households, military households, official households, escaped households, leaked households, hidden households, etc., are not half of the number in the Han Dynasty. .

In the end, it was difficult to suppress the foreign races that were originally subject to the surroundings, which led to the occurrence of the chaos and the Shenzhou land sinking.

Liu Yan has now subdued most of Yizhou by virtue of his own prestige and ability, and the Yellow Turban Rebellion in Yizhou has been successfully put down by him.

Zhang Lu's mother, the leader of the "Five Dou Rice Road", was beautiful, and knew about ghosts and heresies, and had contacts with Liu Yan's family. Liu Yan appointed Zhang Lu as the governor and Sima, and attacked Hanzhong County with Zhang Xiu, the other Sima.

Zhang Lu and Zhang Xiu successfully defeated Hanzhong and killed Su Gu, the prefect of Hanzhong.

But after Zhang Lu gained power in Hanzhong, he took the opportunity to kill Zhang Xiu, cut off the traffic, and beheaded the Han envoys,

Liu Yan then got an excellent excuse, and then Liu Yan cut off contact with the central court on the grounds that the rice thieves caused chaos and blocked traffic.

Mi Thief is the name given to Zhang Lu in the table above.

Zhang Lu is the grandson of Zhang Ling and a teacher of the Five Dou Rice Dao Department.After Zhang Ling's death, Zhang Lu's father, Zhang Heng, continued to follow his path.

After Zhang Heng died, Zhang Lu succeeded him as the leader of Wu Dou Mi Dao.

Zhang Lu, who seized Hanzhong Zhizhou, inherited Zhang Xiu's teaching law, embellished it, and further revised the teachings, just like Xu An's of Taiping Road now.

Zhang Lu called himself "Master", and those who practiced Wudou rice Taoism were called "ghost soldiers" at first, but after they believed in the Tao, they were called "jiujiu".

Hanzhong County is not the same as other places. There are no officials in the county, and local government affairs are managed by offering wine.

He also advocated inheriting the teachings of his ancestors, teaching the people to be honest and not cheating, to make patients turn themselves in, and to forgive the offenders three times. If they commit the crime again, they will be punished.

If it is a small fault, you should build a hundred steps to make atonement, and according to the "Moon Order", when everything grows in spring and summer, killing and drinking are prohibited.

Zhang Lu also founded Yishe, which puts righteous rice and meat in it, and provides free food for passers-by, and claims that if you get too much, you will offend ghosts and gods and get sick.

Under the advocacy of Zhang Lu, the Five Dou Rice Road flourished in Hanzhong County.

And Liu Yan, who had a reasonable excuse, completely ignored any affairs outside Yizhou, but put all his attention in Yizhou.

Liu Yan recruited troops and appointed cronies in various places to further attack local tyrants and consolidate his own power, so Yizhou was in a semi-independent state.

When the Kwantung princes issued a call to crusade against Dong Zhuo, Liu Yan did not respond at all. He continued to protect the state and defended himself. He neither supported Liu Bian nor Liu Xie, but chose to wait and see. Everyone knew his thoughts.

Apart from Yizhou, a total of four states have undergone drastic changes.

The first is Youzhou, the second is Jingzhou, the third is Yuzhou, and the last is Jizhou.

The situation in Youzhou is complicated. Although Gongsun Zan is under the control of Liu Yu in name, in fact the two seem to be inseparable.

But at this moment, a person quietly landed in Liaodong County on a sea boat.

This person is the trusted prefect of Liaodong County appointed by Dong Zhuo - Gongsun Du!

Gongsun Dushao moved to Xuantu County with his father. He was a small official in Xuantu at first, and he was promoted all the way, and finally he was promoted to Shangshu as the governor of Jizhou.

But later he was dismissed for his faults, but was immediately dismissed due to rumors.

It was not until today that he was recommended by Xu Rong, a fellow villager, and he was revived and appointed as the governor of Liaodong.

The relationship between the Gongsun family in Eastern Liaodong and the Gongsun family in Western Liaoning is not that great, but after a long period of development, the Gongsun family in Eastern Liaodong can now be regarded as a powerful family in the same place, and it is no longer the down-and-out small family it was in the past.

But because Gongsun Du started his career as a small official in Xuantu County, he has always been despised by the powerful family in Liaodong County.

Prior to this, Gongsun Zhao of the Liaodong vassal state was the county magistrate guarding Xiangping. He made Gongsun Du's son Gongsun Kang the captain of the army to humiliate Gongsun Du.

Gongsun Du sneaked into Liaodong County secretly, relying on his own power, and recruited a group of close families, and Yu Xiangping became the prefect of Liaodong.

Then the celebrity arrested Gongsun Zhao and flogged him to death in the Xiangping market.

Afterwards, Gongsundu recruited troops on a large scale based on the family members of his own family, and took out all the weapons to arm the army.

Liaodong County was in a power vacuum at this time, Gongsun Zan led his troops to Zhuo County, and most of the Youzhou Army was stationed in Liaoxi County.

The speed at which Gongsun Du mastered Liaodong County far exceeded everyone's imagination. By the time Gongsun Zan and Liu Yu reacted, Gongsun Du had firmly grasped Liaodong County.

The rich and famous families in the county, such as Tian Shao, were all killed by him because they did not favor Gongsun Du in their usual dealings. There were more than [-] rich families killed by him, and everyone in the county was terrified.

Xu An recalled that he did remember that there was Gongsun Du at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It seemed that when he was in Liaodong, he did not participate in the struggle for hegemony in the Central Plains, but managed Liaodong with peace of mind.

Later, after Gongsundu cleared the county, he mobilized his troops and conquered Gaoguli in the east and Karasuma in the west. ,

Therefore, many people went to Liaodong County to avoid chaos. Beihai Guanning, Bing Yuan, and Wang Lie all went to Liaodong to rely on him. .”

Later, Gongsundu also established himself as Marquis of Liaodong and Mu of Pingzhou, and posthumously named his father as Marquis of Jianyi.

The Temple of the Second Ancestor of the Han Dynasty was also established, and an altar was set up in the south of Xiangping City, where heaven and earth were worshiped in the suburbs.

At that time, Cao Cao listed Gongsun Du as General Wuwei and Marquis of Yongning Township.

After Gongsun Du received the seal ribbon, he sneered and said: "My king Liaodong, He Yongning also!" He threw the seal ribbon sent by Cao Cao into the arsenal.

It was precisely because of the words "My king Liaodong, He Yongning too!" Xu An remembered Gongsun Du.

This is good news, both for Xu An and for the Yellow Turban Army.

Gongsundu's occupation of Liaodong will definitely become a thorn in the side of Liu Yu and Gongsun Zan, and Liu Yu must be afraid of it.

And more importantly, if Xu An wants to plot Youzhou, then he will not fight alone. If he can persuade Gongsundu to attack Youzhou together, forming a situation of two sides, it will undoubtedly cause heavy damage to the Youzhou army. hit.

At that time, the Youzhou Army will be forced into the embarrassing situation of fighting on two fronts.

……

The situation in Jingzhou seems to be the same as in history. Liu Biao rode into Jingzhou and overwhelmed the entire Jingzhou within ten months.

But Xu An feels that Liu Biao's choice now seems to be somewhat different from the original time and space.

Now that the Eastern and Western emperors of the Han court stand side by side, there are too many variables.

For Xu An, the biggest change this time is the change in Yuzhou.

In the original time and space, after the death of Kong Ni, the governor of Yuzhou, although Yuan Shu named Sun Jian as the governor of Yuzhou, in fact, Sun Jian had no chance to control Yuzhou. There is no false name.

But now Sun Jian is the justifiable governor of Yuzhou. Liu Xie now relies on Chen Wang Liu Chong to establish a new court in Chen Guo to oppose Liu Bian.

Now the situation in Yuzhou is completely different from the original situation in time and space.

But in Jizhou, although it was just a trivial matter, Yinglangwei didn't notice it, but it caught Xu An's attention.

Han Fu's general Qu Yi led the rebellion.

In the original time and space, it was precisely because of Qu Yi's rebellion that Han Fu personally led the army to conquer, but was defeated by Qu Yi.

Yuan Shao had always wanted to be in charge of Jizhou, so he formed an alliance with Qu Yi and jointly forced Han Fu to take up the post of Jizhou, so that Yuan Shao became the shepherd of Jizhou, and Qu Yi worked under Yuan Shao's tent from then on.

The last document contained the most important message, which was sent by the Eagle Wolf Guard of Henan County.

Just outside the Dagu Pass, one of the eight passes in Luoyang, a great battle that will determine the direction of the world is about to take place...

(End of this chapter)