I have Futian in my heart

Chapter 896 Ruling 2
The first step Zheng Xiaoming took was to bring the Hedong and other salt ponds back to the imperial court, which was considered the simplest step.

Because ironmaking is distributed all over the country, and Yanchi is in the east of the river.The hometown of Guan Yu and Guan Yunchang!

It's the easiest to do!
However, if this is the case, when Zheng Xiaoming took this step, a rebellion was immediately stirred up in Hedong and other places.

A rebellion led by the Hedong Wei family quickly spread in Hedong County, and even in neighboring Hanoi, Shangdang, and spread to Runan, Chenjun, Jiyin, Dongping, Changshan, Zhaojun and other places in Yuzhou and Jizhou. .

Because these are the main producing areas of Hedong salt, there are a large number of stakeholders involved in salt trading in these areas.

And in these places, there are still many remnants of the Yuan family in Runan.

In particular, the Hedong Wei family is a well-known family in the world, and it is also the leader of the salt industry. The wealth accumulated is incalculable.Its power is huge, and it is also quite huge.

However, Zheng Xiaoming had already made preparations before launching, and sent Guan Yu to suppress it.

That Guan Yu Guan Yunchang has already made meritorious service in the war, and now he has been promoted to a school lieutenant, and has the qualifications to lead an army alone.

Moreover, he and the Hedong Wei family had a deep blood feud. It was because he offended the Hedong Wei family and killed members of the Wei family that he had no choice but to flee to a border place like Youzhou!

This time, it can be regarded as giving him a chance to take revenge.

As for the turmoil in Jizhou, Zheng Xiaoming has not yet made arrangements.Zang Ba, Tai Shici and others who were originally planning to stay behind in Xuzhou sent troops to suppress it.

But he didn't expect that Gongsun Zan had already acted ahead of time, leading his white horse righteous congregation, and wiped out the rebellion in Jizhou and other places.

Zheng Xiaoming was overjoyed, and worshiped Gongsun Zan as the Zhenxi General among the heavy-ranked generals. He was in Bingzhou and was responsible for suppressing the Qianghu and Southern Huns in Bingzhou.

Gongsun Zan and Youzhou Shepherd Liu Yan have always been at odds with each other, and their attitudes towards the nomads outside the Great Wall are completely different.

Gongsun Zan has always advocated suppression, while Liu Yan, the shepherd of Youzhou, advocated appeasement.The conflict between the two became increasingly fierce, and at this time, they also took the opportunity to transfer Gongsun Zan away.

After the reform of the military system, Zheng Xiaoming set all the heavy-ranked generals as permanent generals, especially the generals of the four towns who have the power to open the government and are responsible for the military in the four directions of the Han Dynasty.

Generally, guarding is called four towns, and active large-scale attacks are called four towns.

So the current generals of the four towns are equivalent to the four major war zones of the Han Dynasty.

This makes the rights and responsibilities more clear!
It has to be said that the official system of the Eastern Han Dynasty was a bit too chaotic, with too few levels.It doesn't matter whether it's the military or the government.

For example, after a thousand stones, it is two thousand stones.Behind the army commander is the school lieutenant...

The army Sima commanded thousands of people, but it was only at the level of a county magistrate.However, the school lieutenant is two thousand stones, which belongs to the rank of county guard and Jiuqing.

You must know that according to the system of the Han Dynasty, the Sangong Jiuqing are already the core officials of the central government.

The school lieutenant who commanded thousands of soldiers and horses was almost comparable to Jiuqing in terms of rank.

And a local prefect, in terms of hierarchy, can also be compared with Jiuqing, the head of the central government, which is too unreasonable.

Although there is a level of Biqianshi among the thousand stones, there is also a level of Biqianshi among the two thousand stones.But still not clear enough.

Therefore, in Zheng Xiaoming's reform, the nine-rank system was introduced.

The Great General is the first rank, the Sangong is the second rank, the Jiuqing is the third rank, the governor and governor is the fourth rank, the county guard and county lieutenant is the fifth rank, and the county magistrate and county lieutenant is the sixth rank.

The deputy county magistrate under the county magistrate is the seventh rank, all the way to the eighth and ninth ranks of Baishi officials and fighting food officials.

There is also a distinction between upper, middle and lower levels between each level, so it is equivalent to the twenty-seventh level of the ninth level.

Zhenxi generals like Gongsun Zan belonged to the third rank, on the same rank as Jiuqing.

However, Jiuqing is at the top of the third rank, while General Zhenxi is only at the middle of the third rank.

As for the heavy number generals, the front, back, left, and right generals are under the third rank.

The generals of the four expeditions are the top three.

General Wei is the lower rank of the second rank, General Chariots is the middle rank of the second rank, and General Hussars is the upper rank of the second rank.

So everything is crystal clear.

In the next step, Zheng Xiaoming will also give Sangong real power.Let Sangong recover from the state of decoration.

However, its power was dispersed, such as the abolition of the big Sima who was brought out by Emperor Ling.

Combining the authority of Taiwei with Zhongshutai, let one person be in charge, and become the responsibility of many Zhongshutai.

The prime minister is responsible for leading the Shangshutai, which is also divided into many Shangshu.

The last Yushitai is also average.

In this way, drawing on the rich experience of later generations, the name and reality are integrated, and there are no more cumbersome official positions.In addition, the power that could have been easily controlled by one person was distributed to many people.

Of course, these reforms must be in the future!

After the rebellion caused by the salt monopoly was quickly suppressed, Zheng Xiaoming's finances were greatly relieved, and he began to disband the redundant army in an orderly manner.

And build a standing army and so on.

And for the meritorious officials in this war, they will be rewarded one by one.

The battle of Shangluo this time was actually not too intense.There are not too many people who have done meritorious service, but there are still many talents emerging.

This work of rewarding meritorious deeds has been carried out successively for three or four months, and it will not be considered complete until the beginning of the spring of the second year of Guangxi in the next year.

In the end, only about [-] horses were kept as a standing army.

The situation of too few standing troops in the Eastern Han Dynasty was really too dangerous!
Now it's just that there is no money. After having money, the number of these standing armies will still be greatly increased. At least the size of the standing army in the world will reach more than [-].

After this work was completed, Zheng Xiaoming began to solve local problems.

Some local governors who are disobedient and have centrifugal tendencies, state shepherds have become the targets of Zheng Xiaoming.

The first to be disobedient was Han Fu, the governor of Jizhou.

He is Yuan Kai's former official, and he has been against Zheng Xiaoming in various ways.

But this gentleman is only a literati, and only a governor, and he lacks troops.It only needs an order from the court to replace it.

In addition, Yuan Yi, the prefect of Sanyang, Wang Kuang, the prefect of Hanoi, and Zhang Yang, the prefect of Shangdang, were directly removed.

Replaced with Zheng Xiaoming's men to be the prefect!

For example, Wang Lang was sent by Zheng Xiaoming to Shanyang as the prefect, Chen Deng as the prefect of Hanoi, Chen Gong as the prefect of Shangdang, and so on.

These people are easy to deal with when the center is stable, and an imperial edict can be removed directly.

Of course, there are also things that are difficult to deal with, such as Yizhou Mu Liu Yan who has a different heart.

This gentleman was originally a member of the royal family, but he had a different intention very early on.In the beginning, it was this person who persuaded Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty to abolish history and establish animal husbandry, and did this kind of thing that caused endless disasters.

And early on, he took a fancy to Yizhou, a prosperous and prosperous land of abundance, with convenient mountains and rivers, as his own base.He even secretly served as a guard of honor for the emperor.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, two royal family members, one Yizhou shepherd Liu Yan, and the other Jingzhou shepherd Liu Biao, seemed to have done this kind of thing...

(End of this chapter)