I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 178, Deal with Dong Zhuo

After the new year, Lei Gong of Mayi occupied the hot spots in the whole Luoyang city. With the quarrels of civil and military officials, proposals were put forward again and again, but they were rejected by everyone again and again. One of my own people became the general who conquered Leigong Town, and at the same time prevented my opponent from occupying this position.

The entire imperial court dragged on for more than two months, but the Great General Zhenbei was still pending. Even the ordinary people in Luoyang City knew that the imperial court was going to deal with Mayi's Lei Gong.

Emperor Ling was annoyed by the quarrel, so he simply put it aside on this issue. Anyway, Lei Gong has been staying in Mayi peacefully. As long as the court does not attack him, he will not move. People, the relationship between Lord Tuo Lei, Emperor Ling has not heard any news of the Xianbei invaders in the past two years!
Lingdi's current idea is to let Lei Gong and the Xianbei people fight, it is best to fight and hurt both sides!
But the fifth year of Zhongping (188) was not a good year.

Beginning in February, the rest of the Yellow Turbans in the Central Plains rioted one after another.In February, Guo Tai equaled the Baibo Valley of Xihe (now Yonggu Town, Xiangfen, Shanxi) to attack Taiyuan County (now Taiyuan, Shanxi), Hedong County (now northwest of Xia County, Shanxi) and other places.Not long after, news of a small group of Yellow Turban thieves also came from the Central Plains and Jizhou.

The spread of these bad news to Luoyang City made Emperor Ling agitated. It seems that there will be many people rebelling this year.

This is endless, this year the Yellow Turbans rebelled first, and they really couldn't kill them all!

But Emperor Ling didn't know that Dong Zhuo in Taiyuan County was overjoyed, and this was not a deal for his disciples.

Dong Zhuo is also a bit unlucky this year. He originally wanted to get some refugees and sell Lei Gong of Mayi to earn some money. Zhang Yan in Taihang Mountain, however, cut down on the refugees and started a business with Lei Gong in Mayi. Ten thousand and ten thousand refugees were transported to Mayi, and Dong Zhuo had nothing to do with him. Dong Zhuo could bear Zhang Yan to steal his business.The unaccustomed Dong Zhuo robbed Zhang Yan of [-] refugees!
But he didn't expect that his behavior would anger Xu Wei. He dispatched 1000 ceramic armored cavalry (Xu Wei's experimental armored cavalry, the cavalry wore iron armor, and the horses wore ceramic armor to prevent bows and swords. The Armored Cavalry is similar, but the cost is more than three times lighter, and the mobility is more than doubled. The disadvantage is that the impact is more than doubled, which is a bit like the monkey version of the Iron Armored Cavalry), which directly defeated Dong Zhuo's 3 Jingqi, scared Dong Zhuo sent 3000 Xiliang horses to apologize!
Xu Wei sent an envoy to warn Dong Zhuo not to touch Zhang Yan's people!Otherwise, the consequences will be at your own peril!

Dong Zhuo was frightened immediately, and he didn't dare to touch Zhang Yan's transporter anymore.

Then he searched the whole Bingzhou, and the refugees he got were only 2, and he earned only 2000 million. If Dong Zhuo was satisfied before, but now Zhang Yan is a thief with 1000 million, and he made 1000 million. The 2000 million in my hand is not good anymore.Every day when Dong Zhuo didn't scold Zhang Yan for half an hour, he was not in a good mood!

But now that tens of thousands of Yellow Turban soldiers rushed to Taiyuan County, Dong Zhuo was overjoyed. He immediately ordered 1 cavalry with Niu Fu, Li Jue, Guo Si, Hua Xiong, Hu Zhen, these fierce generals, the newly recruited Younger brothers Lu Bu, Gao Shun, and Zhang Liao also took them there.

Mrs. Guo is nothing but a group of refugees. How could she be the opponent of these fierce generals of the Three Kingdoms? They were defeated in the first battle. Except for a little confidant, all 3 troops were captured by Dong Zhuo!

Even Dong Zhuo didn't let him go like this, he went directly to Baibo Valley and robbed 7 to 8 women and children before he was satisfied with his retreat. It can be said that Dong Zhuo's battle was annihilated by Mrs. Guo and other historical Baibo thieves.

When Dong Zhuo was discussing how to sell these captives to Xu Wei at a high price, he also uploaded a good news to Luoyang City!

Luoyang City, court meeting!

Lingdi listened to the meaningless nonsense for another day in agitation. The three lords and nine ministers quarrel every day when they go to court. Now it has reached the level of personal attacks and exposing each other's faults. Of course, it is another quarrel with no results!

Just when Emperor Ling was about to leave, there was a good news from Kuaiqiu from Babaili!

Zhao Zhongcong took the bamboo slips, put them on the table in front of Lingdi and slowly opened them.

Emperor Ling was overjoyed after watching it and said: "I finally heard some good news this year. The Baibo bandits in Xihe County have been wiped out by Dong Zhuo, killing 10 bandits!"

Zhang Rangxi said: "The former general can be said to be loyal to the king's affairs. In less than half a month, 10 bandits have been wiped out. In the entire Han Dynasty, there are generals who are more loyal and capable than the former general!"

Dong Zhuo is the General of Zhenbei that Zhang asked them to launch, so even if he has a little credit, Zhang Rang will blow Dong Zhuo to the sky!

The Sangong and Jiuqing were also surprised. Although Dong Zhuo was a bit capable, the courtiers knew that he liked to support the bandits, so the Sangong and Jiuqing at the court didn't like him either.He has never done such things as cutting grass and roots!How did Dong Zhuo become a different person now?Did he suddenly become loyal to the big man?

After thinking about it, everyone thought that the most likely reason was that he didn't want to face the double attack of Lei Gong and the Yellow Turban Bandit, so he cleared the White Wave Bandit in advance!This is the real possible reason!
But not long after, another [-]-mile urgent battle report was handed over, and Zhao Zhong opened the shop again and slowly opened it on the table!

It's just that after seeing the battle report this time, Lingdi's expression turned ugly!Lingdi, who was already angry, threw this out directly.

Then he scolded angrily: "What kind of world is this? How come people rebel against the richness of Yizhou?"

Then Emperor Ling looked at the courtiers and said angrily: "It is because of you trash ministers that the great Han has been in decline these years. Every year there are people rebelling, and they can't be killed. One is destroyed here, and another is there! You know every day Fighting for power and profit, but don't know how to maintain the stability of the court!"

Yizhou is the land of abundance, one of the richest places in the Han Dynasty, and it is also one of the rare granaries of the Han Dynasty.

In recent years, Jizhou has been rebelling constantly, and the imperial court can no longer count on Jizhou's money and food. Relatively speaking, Yizhou has become more important. Such important places have also rebelled, so it is no wonder that Emperor Ling is going to be angry.
The three lords and nine ministers all knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, please appease your anger!"

Although they haven't watched it yet, they already guessed most of it by listening to it. Someone must have rebelled in Yizhou!
Emperor Ling scolded for a while, his mouth became dry, and he drank some water from the jade bottle before sitting down to calm his mood!
After He Jin picked up the battle report, everyone knew what happened!
It turned out that Yizhou people Ma Xiang and Zhao Zhi led [-] troops to rebel in Mianzhu. Ma Xiang and the others claimed to be the Yellow Turban Army, especially this Ma Xiang claimed to be the emperor.

Then Ma Xiang led the army to attack the city and pull out the village all the way, conquering the three counties of Guanghan, Bajun, and Qianwei one after another, and killed Zhao Jian, the governor of Yizhou.There was no way to suppress the rebellion in Yizhou, so they had to urgently ask the imperial court for support 800 miles away.

Another emperor came, the majesty of the big man is really getting lower and lower. When Zhang Jiao rebelled, he only dared to call himself General Tiangong. When Zhang Niujiao came, he only dared to call himself the commander of the Yellow Turban Army. After Zhang Chunzhang called them to rebel The emperors began to come out one by one.

After Pingshun got angry, Emperor Ling pointed to Taichang Liu Yan and said, "Tell me, Aiqing, is it not the same thing that these ordinary people always rebel?"

"Could it be that the imperial court's taxes are so high that they can't survive?"

"Why did you come here and you always say that the national treasury is empty, and now you can only collect more than 20 billion yuan in taxes a year, which is less than half of the original amount. If this is the case, the common people can't live. Who made this happen? They can't survive!"

The three princes and nine ministers in the imperial court all stared at Liu Yan, which made him sweat even more!

This is a proposition when it arrives!
Liu Yan is not the kind of person who is resolute and loyal to the country. Naturally, it is impossible for him to say that the local aristocrats have annexed too much land and turned the people of the world against each other.

Not to mention that most of the Sangong and Jiuqing in the court are corrupt officials, and they have embezzled all the taxes of the court!There may be only more than 20 billion yuan in the hands of the imperial court, but the taxes and fees collected from the common people may be more than 200 billion yuan.Among them, 9% of the taxes and taxes have been greedy by moths from all over the court.

Liu Yan thought for a long time with a bitter face, and to be honest, this is not to kill him.

He had no choice but to avoid the important ones, and instead of talking about taxes, he only talked about the rebellion. The prefect of the county, although he knew that some of the county guards were corrupt and broke the law, they could not remove these corrupt officials. They could only impeach them by the court.

But the officials from top to bottom of the imperial court protect each other, and these prefects and magistrates will not be punished at all. The people can only continue to endure these corrupt officials until they can't bear it, so they have to take risks and raise troops to rebel.

The refugees rebelled, and the governors often missed the best time to counter the rebellion because they did not have the right to directly recruit the county soldiers to suppress the rebellion. This made the rebellion of the big men more and more. In fact, many rebellions were relatively small at the beginning. It was easy to pacify them, but it was because they missed a good opportunity that they grew to the point where the court wanted to take action! "

Liu Yan's statement made everyone breathe a sigh of relief, at least they cleared up their relationship!

Emperor Ling was also a little disappointed with Liu Yan, this was not the answer he wanted.He wanted to use Liu Yan's mouth to make the world's elite and nobles restrain themselves a little, so as not to turn the world against them.

Emperor Ling was one of the rare emperors in the Han Dynasty who came from a folk background. He didn't say he knew everything about the local affairs, but he also knew a general idea.

At that time, Emperor Ling died because his father died young and his family had no one to protect him. Even though his family was relatives of the emperor, the fields and family property were still swallowed up by the elites in Jizhou. go down.

It is because of the difficult memories of childhood, and at the same time seeing the local greedy faces of the powerful and nobles.

Therefore, Emperor Ling was full of hatred and prejudice against the powerful clans in his heart. After becoming the emperor, he never trusted them.

"Is there anything you can do, love?"

Liu Yan could only bite the bullet and said: "In a place like Jizhou where the rebellion is particularly serious, the local prefects are no longer enough to suppress the rebellion, so the governor should be changed to the governor of the state, and the governor of the state should be in charge of the military affairs of the state. It’s better to calm one side, wait for the rebellion in one state to be suppressed, and the imperial court will recruit the state shepherd to return to the court, use the position of three princes and nine ministers to secure him, and at the same time send out the governor!"

Emperor Ling thought for a long time. Of course he knew the importance of the position of state shepherd. The land of one state in the Han Dynasty was comparable to the kingdom of princes in the Warring States period.

It’s not that there hasn’t been a state shepherd in the Han Dynasty in recent years. For example, Huangfu Song became the Jizhou shepherd when he pacified Jizhou, but he was dismissed after less than half a year. Pure Zhangju's rebellion!

It can be said that each state shepherd appointed by Emperor Ling is not only cautious, but also forbids them to serve for a long time!I'm just worried that these state shepherds will become bigger locally!
But at this time, the rebellion of the big Han has become unstoppable, and delegating power to the local authorities is something that can't be done even if it is drinking poison to quench thirst.

Emperor Ling retreated like this, thinking about Liu Yan's suggestion in the harem!

But this move of Emperor Ling caused an undercurrent to surge in the entire court, and all civil and military officials could see that Emperor Ling was moved by Liu Yan's proposal.

Being able to become an important minister like Zhou Mu is more powerful than Jiuqing, and compared to Zhenbei General who can threaten the official position of the court, Zhou Mu seems to be more feasible.

So civil and military officials all mobilized their connections, wanting to know some news from Emperor Ling, and help them mention their names in front of Emperor Ling. Fortunately, Emperor Ling was the first to think of their names when he appointed Zhou Mu.

There are only thirteen prefectures in the Han Dynasty, and if the Sili are removed, there are only 12 state shepherds in this state. There are not many such positions. There are many officials in Luoyang City, and there are also many who are qualified to serve as state shepherds. Everyone is trying to find a way to occupy this state shepherd. s position!

And Liu Yan also wants to take the position of state shepherd. He has already seen the turmoil in the Central Plains and knows that the world will be chaotic, so he wants to become a state shepherd in a stable place. He fancyes Jiaozhou, which is not only far away from the Central Plains, but also It is also very stable, there is no rebellion, and being a Jiaozhou pastor is a relatively good retirement position.

But Dong Fu, the servant, said privately to Liu Yan: "There will be great chaos in Luoyang, the capital city. According to the celestial phenomena, a new emperor will appear in the Yizhou area."

These words suddenly ignited his inner ambition. There are very few people in this world who refuse the temptation of the throne of Ninety-five Supreme Beings, and Liu Yan is not among them. Really fell into the troubled times hundreds of years ago, Liu Yan might not be able to replace him.

Of course, he also knew that Emperor Ling would kill anything that could threaten his throne.

So Liu Yan changed his mind and asked Emperor Ling to become a shepherd of Yizhou to help the court put down the rebellion in Yizhou. Emperor Ling didn't know the reason, but really thought that Liu Yan wanted to contribute to the country, so he joined him. First State Shepherd!
Half a month later, Emperor Ling decreed that Liu Yan, Taichang, should be the shepherd of Yizhou, and Huang Wan, the imperial servant, should be the shepherd of Yuzhou.Suddenly there are three more powerful state shepherds in the world!
The movement of the Han court did not affect Mayi!Mayi is still advancing according to Xu Wei's plan.

Xu Wei is now waiting for Dong Zhuo outside Yuanping County with 5000 cavalry.There is no way it is a big customer. Dong Zhuo helped Mayi increase its audience by a full 10 at a time. This is a timely rain for the current Mayi. This will naturally attract Xu Wei's attention!
A long stream of people began to appear in front of Xu Wei, and Xu Wei rushed forward with Baiqi!

And Dong Zhuo also found Xu Wei, and he also rushed to Xu Wei with Baiqi!

Dong Zhuo got off his horse first and laughed, "It's really Dong's fault that Shuai Qu was alarmed to come over in person without such a trivial matter!"

Xu Wei also dismounted with a smile and said, "This is not a trivial matter. Now our Tengjia Army suddenly has a few more counties, all of which are desolate and need population to fill them. General Dong helped us solve the big trouble. Speaking of which, I still have to thank General Dong!"

Dong Zhuo seemed to be Xu Wei's old friend and said: "It's easy to say, but Qu Shuai can support so many people. They can eat 10 shi of my grain in my hands for more than a month. There are quite a few people, so why not have a small half a million, don’t start a famine, and it will be Dong’s fault by then.”

Dong Zhuo wanted to secretly inquire about the grain storage of the Tengjia Army.If the Tengjia Army did not store much food, the threat to Taiyuan County would be much smaller.

Xu Wei said disapprovingly: "There is nothing to be afraid of such people. Even if they eat for a year, it is only ten million stones of grain. I can still afford this grain!"

Hearing these words, Dong Zhuo was a little startled, how much grain does Lei Gong have, with such a loud tone, it is tens of millions of grains!And 50 people eat tens of millions of grains a year, you are raising pigs!
However, Dong Zhuo recalled the information that his spies had brought back from Mayi, that three meals a day was the norm in Mayi, and now it can even be said that half of the people in Bingzhou ate in Mayi.

This is not an adjective, but a statement of facts, because Xu Wei set the price of grain low, and grain cannot be freely traded in Mayi. No matter how high the price of grain in Taiyuan County is, the grain in Mayi cannot flow out, so he worked in Mayi People in Bingzhou eat more in Mayi and less at home, and use this method to save food.

Dong Zhuo wanted to come to Mayi to eat this way, 50 people can really eat 1000 million shi of grain a year!

It's just that Dong Zhuo is a little worried now. Mayi's food is so abundant, it doesn't mean that they can attack Taiyuan County if they want to.

"We must find a way to get some more refugees for Lei Gong, and this old man will get you a million refugees, and see if you can still be raised like a pig!" Dong Zhuo thought to himself!
At this time, the refugees kept entering the territory of the Tengjia Army. As soon as they came, the members of the Tengjia Army would help them to check their health briefly, and then take them to the resettlement village near Yanmen Pass. Xu Wei remembers the end of the Han Dynasty There are a lot of plagues, and he doesn't want to bring the plagues to his territory, so the refugees who come to the horse will first be quarantined under the Yanmen Pass for half a month to make sure they don't have any plagues before entering Mayi!
The action of 10 people will naturally not end in a short while.

At this time, Dong Zhuo continued: "Have you brought Qu Shuai's armor?"

Xu Wei smiled and said, "Of course I did!"

Then he called one of his subordinates and asked him to come with a carriage, and then Xu Wei pointed to the Ma Yi and said: "This is the new ceramic horse armor made by the Tengjia Army! It weighs 100 catties, as long as the horse wears this horse armor It can be said to be invulnerable to swords and guns, water and fire! My Mayi has just successfully developed it, but I didn't expect General Dong to take a fancy to it so soon, what a good eye!"

When Dong Zhuo and the generals around him saw the horse armor on the carriage, their eyes lit up!
Dong Zhuo and their subordinates were so excited because they had been beaten by Ma Kai. At the beginning, Niu Fu followed Dong Zhuo's order to ambush Zhang Yan. He was not satisfied with robbing him once, and wanted to completely cut off Zhang Yan's passage into Mayi.

So Xu Wei took 1000 cavalry in horse armor and taught Niu Fu a lesson. This time, Dong Zhuo and the others discovered the gap between themselves and the cavalry of Lei Gong.

And these cavalrymen were wearing armor, invulnerable to swords and arrows, and impenetrable to crossbow arrows. Niu Fu reported to Dong Zhuo in horror: "Lei Gong's cavalry is like the Shura that appeared in the underworld! They are not cavalry that can appear in the world!"

Dong Zhuo was also amazed at the mighty fighting power of the horse-armored heavy cavalry in Xu Wei's hands. He also knew among the deserters of the Huns that Lei Gong had a Shura cavalry, with 3000 of them, defeating the 2 white-horse and bronze cavalry. At that time, Dong Zhuo heard this The news thought that the white horse had fallen into Lei Gong's trick, and was defeated by Lei Gong without showing the strength of the [-] cavalry.

But after Niu Fu personally experienced this cavalry, Dong Zhuo sent people around to inquire about this cavalry. Xu Wei's heavy cavalry was constantly perfected in Dong Zhuo's mind. I'm afraid his Xiliang soldiers may not be much stronger than Baimatong!

That is to say, from this day on, Dong Zhuo also wants a heavy cavalry like Xu Wei!It's not that he didn't find a blacksmith in Taiyuan County to inquire about the price of a horse armor, but in this era, a piece of iron armor costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, and to cover a war horse with iron armor, there is no need to think about millions of dollars. Even if Dong Zhuo paid all of it The family can only equip 100 such cavalry, and such an expensive price immediately puts an end to this idea!
When Mrs. Guo led 3 Yellow Turbans to attack Taiyuan, Dong Zhuo had the idea of ​​exchanging the prisoners of the Yellow Turbans for Lei Gong's horse armor.

Originally, he didn't have much hope. After all, how could such a sharp weapon in the army be easily handed over to others, especially since he was Lei Gong's enemy.

But he didn't expect that he sent his subordinates to talk about this idea, and Lei Gong actually agreed.

It is said that 100 people can be exchanged for one such ceramic horse armor.

Dong Zhuo didn't know if Ma Yi's Lei Gong had lost his head or what?

But he knew that he had taken advantage of it, and he was afraid that Lei Gong would go back on his word. After Dong Zhuo finalized the deal, he personally supervised the 10 captives to come to Lei Gong's territory, and at the same time, he also watched the 1000 pieces of horse armor get into his hands.

Dong Zhuo stroked the ceramic horse armor excitedly, and said excitedly: "It's so beautiful, I have never seen such a beautiful armor in my life!"

Xu Wei continued: "Every 100 people exchange one piece of armor until the transaction is completed!"

Dong Zhuo excitedly said: "Don't worry, Shuai Qu, my old Dong is the most honest and honest person, and it is well-known in Xiliang, Shuai Qu can go and ask about it."

(End of this chapter)