Fantasy Three Kingdoms: Four knots in Taoyuan at the beginning

Chapter 161 Chapter 158, Three Powerful Groups of the Eastern Han Dynasty
Then Nanyang sent Deng Feng to take revenge.

After Zhu Yu Xiancheng surrendered, Luoyang was still an isolated city, forming a dangerous salient south of the Yellow River, and the old reformers were entrenched in nearby Nanyang and Yingchuan, ready to move.

And these two places are also the birthplaces of the two major groups, and their political significance is also very important, so Liu Xiu decided to go south.

He held a military meeting in front of the imperial court. In order to boost morale, he threw the written proclamation on the ground and asked deliberately: "The enemy of Yancheng is the strongest, and the enemy of Wancheng is the second. Who wants to fight Yancheng?"

Zhi Jinwu Jia Fu volunteered and said, "I'll go!"

Liu Xiu laughed and ordered Jia to attack Yingchuan again, and Wu Han to attack Nanyang, and set off soon.

Wu Han, Jian Tan, and Wan Xiu led their troops to the south and quickly marched towards Nanyang, including Kewan City, Nieyang, Li County, Rang City, Xinye and other places, and defeated the Qinfeng Department of Nanjun in the south of Xinye. festival victory.However, because of insufficient food and grass, he allowed his subordinates to plunder the villagers, causing public dissatisfaction, and the damage to Xinye was particularly serious.

It happened that Deng Feng, the Polu General, was returning to his hometown to visit his relatives. Seeing this scene, he couldn't help being furious.He gathered the clan and villagers, counterattacked Wu Han, took back food, grass and supplies, and stationed in the city of Fuyang.

Wu Han was forced to retreat, Wanxiu died of illness in the army, Jiantan trapped Wancheng, Deng Feng took the opportunity to attack the city and seize the territory, and controlled most of Nanyang County.Ordinarily speaking, his goal of revenge has been achieved, and he should write a letter to impeach Wu Han and defend himself.

If it weren't for the conflict between the Hebei Group and the Nanyang Group, and Liu Xiu had to rely heavily on Hebei, Deng Feng would not have made such a foolish move and would have chosen to continue the confrontation.

Deng Feng united with Dong Xin, Qin Feng and other forces to communicate with each other, which shocked the government and the public.

The Gengshi regime fell apart, to a large extent because of internal fighting and cannibalism.

Although Wu Han was at fault this time, Deng Feng chose to betray and plunged Nanyang into war, which in Liu Xiu's view was simply treason.In November, Liu Xiu sent Cen Peng, the general who conquered the South, together with Zhu Hu, Jia Fu, Geng Yan, Wang Chang and other generals, to lead an army against Deng Feng.

Cen Peng stormed to block the village, and Deng Feng and Dong Xin joined forces and fought fiercely. The two sides were deadlocked and fought for several months.

Most of Cen Peng's troops were soldiers from Nanyang. Liu Xiu originally thought that this would reduce resistance, but it was counterproductive, and he couldn't let go of fighting.The Han army's "blocking" made no progress in blocking the township, and Zhu Hu was captured in a battle.

Liu Xiu finally got angry and decided to go on a personal expedition.

In April of the third year of Jianwu, Liu Xiu came to the front line of Duxiang, and there was no need to fight at all. Deng Feng's army was so upset that he fled without a fight, and returned to Fuyang City overnight.Cen Peng and other generals took advantage of the victory to pursue, Dong Xin surrendered, and Fuyang was quickly captured.

Deng Feng withdrew to Xiaochang'an again, and Liu Xiu ordered a strong attack. After all, the strength was so great that Deng Feng couldn't support it, so he let the captured Zhu Hu go out of the camp and surrender.

Considering that Deng Feng is Deng Chen's nephew, and that Wu Han was at fault first, Liu Xiu intends to pardon him.The generals remained silent, while Cen Peng and Geng Yan expressed their views: "Deng Feng ungratefully rebelled, fought again, Jia Fu was wounded, and Zhu Hu was captured. After His Majesty's personal conquest, he did not know how to repent and persisted until the end of the road. Surrender. If you don't kill, Not enough to punish latecomers." In order to achieve the current unity of the two groups, Liu Xiu finally chose to kill relatives righteously.

Later, Jia Fu of the Nanyang School and Kou Xun of the Hebei School almost merged

The Jia Kou incident refers to the conflict between Jia Fu and Kou Xun, which happened almost at the same time as the Deng Feng incident.After Jia Fu, Yin Zhi and others led the army to conquer Yingchuan, they transferred to Runan, and Liu Xiu changed Kou Xun to be the prefect of Yingchuan, acting as the government affairs officer.Jia Fu's subordinates killed people in Yingchuan, and Kou Xun enforced the law like a mountain and beheaded him for public display.

During the war, laws and regulations were not strict, and these things are usually turned a blind eye.Coupled with the inherent contradictions between the two groups, Jia Fu was very angry, and the consequences were serious.

Jia Fu's temper has a long history. When he first returned to Liu Xiu, he had disagreements with his colleagues.At that time, he was an official under the name of General Polu. In a meeting, he sat side by side with Duan Xiao, an official under the name of Da Sima.Duan Xiao reminded him: "You are the governor of the general, and I am the governor of the great Sima, so we cannot sit together." Jia Fu was angry: "The great Sima and General Polu are both Gong Liu, so why can't they sit together!" Everyone thought he was arrogant , wanted to push him away, but was suppressed by Liu Xiu.

Although Jia Fu was a Confucian scholar, his force was very high.

Jia Fu returned to his teacher Yingchuan, and said harshly: "I am equal to Kou Xun in the official position, but now I am humiliated by him. It is not a gentleman not to take revenge. When I see Kou Xun, I must kill him with my own hands!"

Fortunately, Kou Xun is a sensible person, deliberately avoiding Jia Fu, his subordinates were not angry, and said that they were willing to guard with swords in case of accidents.Kou Xun said: "Back then, Lin Xiangru was not afraid of the King of Qin, but hid from Lianpo. It was for the state affairs. The ancients were still like this, how could I forget it?"

He ordered the counties to welcome Jia Fu along the way, with double servings of wine and meat, enough to eat and drink, but he himself said that he would not be sick.Jia Fuyu was still angry, and wanted to settle accounts with Kou Xun, but the soldiers were all drunk, so they had to give up.

Kou Xun was worried that Jia Fu would not give up, so he reported to Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu had lingering fears about the Deng Feng incident and decided to intervene in person.He first called Jia Fu to understand the righteousness, and then called Kou Xun.Kou Xun entered the hall and found that Jia Fu was already seated, so he was about to turn around and leave. Liu Xiu called him back: "Now that the world is uncertain, how can two tigers fight privately? I am here to persuade you." Enmity.Finally, there is no danger, the dust has settled, and you can breathe a sigh of relief.

In the third year of Jianwu, Zhu Fu was besieged by Peng Chong in Ji County and could not move. Geng Kuang of Shanggu County sent troops to rescue him but failed.

Soon after, Zhang Feng, the prefect of Zhuojun, was superstitious about what the sorcerer said. The sorcerer said that Zhang Feng should be the emperor, and wrapped a stone in a colorful cloth bag and hung it on his elbow. He said that there was a jade seal in the stone. Supreme General" and united with Peng Chong.Peng Chong got this strong support, unknowingly he was in high spirits, and he called himself the King of Yan, full of confidence.

Zhu Fu panicked, and hurriedly wrote a letter to ask Liu Xiu to drive in person, but was dissuaded by Da Situ Fuzhan.Until May of the fourth year of Jianwu, Liu Xiu went to Hebei again to stabilize the strategic rear.However, another situation occurred in the middle. It turned out that Yin Lihua went out with the army and gave birth to a boy in Yuanshi County, who was later Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty.

The Qianfeng Ji Zunbu took the lead and attacked Zhuojun by force. Zhang Feng's meritorious Cao was unwilling to die with him, so he turned against the water and captured Zhang Feng, and then surrendered in Kaesong.Before the stupid Zhang Feng died, he couldn't forget: "I have a jade seal tied to my elbow!" Ji Zun wanted him to die, so he smashed the stone, and there was nothing inside.

At this time Liu Xiu had passed Lu Nu, one prince was born, and the other went well, so he decided to return to Luoyang.Ji Zun was stationed in Liangxiang, and Xiaoqi sent his chariot Liu Xi to station in Yangxiang to reject Peng Chong.

The well-informed Peng Chong led tens of thousands of main forces, and sent his younger brother Peng Chun to lead two thousand Hun cavalry to launch an active attack on the Han army.When Peng Chun's tribe went south and passed through Jundu Mountain, they were attacked by Shanggu's Gengshu tribe. The two kings of the Huns were killed, and Peng Chun fled back to Yuyang.

Ji Zun also used offense as defense, and defeated Peng Chong's general Li Hao in Lucheng, beheading more than a thousand ranks.After that, the two sides held a stalemate for more than a year, and Ji Zun repelled Peng Chong several times, which gradually stabilized the situation in Yuyang.

Hearing the news of Liu Xiuluan's return, all the generals were puzzled. Only Wu Han said: "Your Majesty is proficient in military affairs, and there is a reason for it." When welcoming him, the generals asked carefully, and Liu Xiu said mysteriously: "There are thieves in Wei County, so I returned." Based on the actual situation, Liu Xiu said this, perhaps for the sake of keeping it secret.First, he brought Yin Lihua, who was pregnant with Liujia, with him, and later concealed the truth from the generals, obviously because he was afraid of something.

Liu Xiu wanted to enjoy family happiness in Luoyang, but was turned off by Zhu Fu's disappointment.It turned out that Peng Chong couldn't beat Ji Zun, but he was more than enough to deal with Zhu Fu. He besieged Ji County for several months, the food in the city was exhausted, and people had begun to eat people.At this time, Geng Kuang sent a support army to try to break the siege.The reinforcements failed to break through the encirclement, but attracted the attention of Peng Chong's army. Zhu Fu broke through the encirclement to the south desperately and approached Liangxiang.

Zhu Fu's soldiers mutinied, he killed his wife to avoid humiliation, and fled back to Luoyang alone.Shangshu ordered Houba to write a letter of impeachment, saying that Zhu Fu caused chaos in Youzhou and forced Peng Chong to rebel, but he did not dare to die for Ming Festival, and he should be executed according to the law.Liu Xiu missed the old love and appointed him as Zhijinwu, responsible for the defense of the capital.

In the fifth year of Jianwu, the Peng Chong Rebellion finally ended in a dramatic way.Recently, Peng Chong has been restless and even had auditory hallucinations. He always felt that there was a toad screaming under the stove, but he searched for it but found nothing. The fortune teller said it was a sign of civil strife.He felt that the person who was most likely to betray him was his cousin Peng Zihou who had been a hostage in Luoyang, so he asked him to lead the troops outside, and he was not allowed to see anything.

Defense by day and night, house thieves are hard to guard against.One day when Peng Chong was taking a nap on the couch, his three slaves were malicious and wanted to take his head to receive a reward.The three people headed by Zimi sneaked in, tied Peng Chong tightly, and then falsely passed on Peng Chong's order to control the people in the mansion.Peng Chong hurriedly called his wife, she came to see, she was terrified, the three of them were going to kill each other, Peng Chong was quick to get his wife to pack the luggage.

Zimi understood, so he and one of them followed Peng's wife to get the belongings, and asked the other to watch Peng Chong.Peng Chong took the opportunity to fool him into letting him go, the man was shaken, and he probed out to look around to see if there was anyone around.As a result, Zimi came back soon, locked up Peng Chong and his wife, and began to collect the gold and silver.

At dusk, Zimi asked Peng Chong to write a handwritten letter as a document for customs clearance, then beheaded Peng Chong and his wife, and went straight to Luoyang.Seeing that Peng Chong hadn't shown up for a long time, and the gate was closed tightly, the generals of Yuyang discovered something serious when they climbed over the wall, so they elected Peng Chong's son Peng Wu as king.But after all, the hearts of the people have dispersed, and soon the pseudo-national teacher Han Li killed Peng Wu, led the crowd to surrender to Ji Zun, and Yuyang declared peace.

In addition, in the third year of Jianwu, because Deng Yu lost the battle in Guanzhong, Liu Xiu worshiped Feng Yi as the general of Zhengxi to replace Deng Yu.After the two armies joined forces, despite Feng Yi's dissuasion, Deng Yu insisted on a decisive battle with the Red Eyebrow Army, but was defeated.Deng Yu fled back to Luoyang with only 24 cavalry, leaving the mess to Feng Yi. This matter can be seen as a friction between the Nanyang faction and the Yingchuan faction.It was only because Feng Yi kept a low profile and forbearance, and finally turned defeat into victory, that there were no more serious consequences.

The fortress is the easiest to breach from the inside. Don't think that Liu Xiu's opponent is too weak. The process of unifying the world will go smoothly.Just coordinating internal conflicts and maintaining the balance between interest groups takes up a lot of energy.Since the fourth year of Jianwu, Liu Xiu has been patrolling the battlefields in the east, west, north, and south, one for supervising the battle, and the other for coordinating the generals, which has played a very good role.

The struggle of the 28 generals in Yuntai is just the epitome of the battle of the three major groups under Liu Xiu's command. The struggle of the three powerful groups ran through the entire Eastern Han Dynasty. , Shuzhong Haoqiang, Huainan Haoqiang, Jiangdong Haoqiang and many other powerful groups.

In general, the Three Kingdoms is a war of spokesmen chosen by many tyrants.

The chaos in the central government at the end of the Han Dynasty caused the original balance to be broken. The national wealthy families no longer were brilliant, and each found an agent, which opened the era of the Three Kingdoms struggle for hegemony. Due to the rise of Cao Cao's odd number, why is it said that it is an odd rise? Because the vassals of the Eighteenth Routes are all public officials and famous scholars, who have been officials for many generations, or they are the Qubu of these aristocratic families. Cao Cao can be regarded as the descendant of the poor family and the eunuch.With the first-mover advantage of the Yingchuan Xun family relying on Cao Cao, the geographical advantage of the emperor's capital Xuchang, the Yingchuan nobles began to rise nationwide.

As the ruler of Hebei, Yuan Shao became the agent of Hebei's wealthy family. If Yuan Shao became the ruler, then Hebei's powerful family would once again become a nationwide wealthy family. Unfortunately, Yuan Shao was defeated, and Hebei's wealthy family was forced to integrate into the Cao Wei regime. With Cao Cao dominating the north, the Yingchuan nobles are not far away from becoming a nationally legal wealthy clan. Coupled with the marriage with the military nobles of Peiqiao, this trend is unstoppable.

However, as an anomaly, Sima Yi appeared. Sima Yi was from Hanoi. As a powerful minister who wanted to replace Cao Wei, although he did not kill all the Cao Wei royal family, the surrounding branches and leaves, Yingchuan nobles and Peiqiao nobles were killed and demoted one by one. The power vacuum, had to rely on Hebei Hao family, and the Sima family.

As the northern regime, the southern forces could not intervene. As the geographical location of the capital, Luoyang excluded the forces in Guanzhong, and the wealthy families in Hebei began to revive.

As the land of the Four Wars, Yingchuan is a place where the national unity and stability are better. The local tyrants can get a piece of the pie. Once the war breaks out, the population will wither and lose its foundation. The rise of Yingchuan tyrants is just like the rise of Cao Cao in the Central Plains. Unexpectedly tenacious, from the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the end of the Tang Dynasty, he has always been active in the regime, throughout the entire process of clan politics.

Most of the talents recruited by Liu Bei Group are from humble backgrounds, and some are not even from humble backgrounds. This is also the result of Chen Yuan's conscious choice.

Otherwise, if too many talents from powerful families are brought in, not to mention whether they can pee in a pot, Liu Bei is in danger of becoming Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, and eventually becomes the spokesperson of powerful families. plan does not match.

Therefore, when Chen Yuan recruited talents, he tried his best to recruit talents from poor families and poor families, but it didn't mean that he didn't want talents from powerful and powerful families. After all, they were too fragrant, but he had to pay attention to the proportion.

Chen Yuan naturally knew in his heart that after recruiting these people on a large scale in Hebei this time, he would not recruit talents casually in the future, because now Liu Bei has enough talents under his command.

(End of this chapter)