Xuande

Chapter 143

For the people in the entire Luoyang vortex, Liu Hong's declaration is a terrible thing.

But in this fatal crisis, the guys who are obsessed with party struggles are still keenly aware of opportunities.

The Taipingdao Trial, which was mainly in charge of Dongyuan and participated by the heads of the three legal departments, gradually entered a white-hot stage. Guo Hong, Han Fu, and Zhao Qiu seemed to be seeing red with bayonets, and their moves were all aimed at the key.

Zheng Xuan, the leader of the School of Classical Classics, a servant, and a doctor, was suspected of colluding with the Taipingdao by Yang Ci, because one of his personal disciples had contacts with the Taipingdao thieves.

So Zheng Xuan was "invited" by Dongyuan to assist in the investigation.

Yang Biao, the son of Yang Ci, the leader of Jinwen Confucianism School, had a relationship with a Taiping Taoist. After this past was dug up, Yang Biao was also invited by Dongyuan to assist in the investigation.

The most senior leaders of both sides were taken to Dongyuan for questioning and trial, which shows how fierce the battle was.

That is to say, the war part and the court part belong to two different command systems, otherwise the intensified Luoyang political vortex could really involve the entire Eastern Han Empire.

He Jin keeps a respectful distance from this political vortex.

Although some yearn for those who can dominate the vortex, He Jin knows that what he should do most now is not to participate in the struggle.

He has just become a general, just when he needs military prestige to establish his status. If he doesn't have military prestige, how can he be ashamed to be the highest military post in the world?

The position of the general is too powerful, the position is too high, and it is very eye-catching. Even if you are a foreign relative, if you don't have certain achievements, it will be difficult to convince the public.

If he can't convince the crowd, his position will not be stable, he will be ridiculed by others, and he will become a street mouse and everyone will beat him up. At that time, even if his sister is the queen, he will not be able to escape.

As a man, He Jin could not accept this humiliation.

So Liu Hong and Zhang Rang chose the right person for the position, at least subjectively, he sincerely hoped to put down the Taipingdao chaos as soon as possible, and was willing to do his best for it.

When the army was still preparing, He Jin was most anxious.

He was busy and jumped up and down to raise ordnance, food and grass for the army, and hoped that the army could be ready as soon as possible and then dispatched smoothly.

Basically, any problems in the army during this period, He Jin can solve them for you quickly, and the speed of solving the problems is incredible, it doesn't look like a normal bureaucrat of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

For example, Lu Zhi found that the army's estimated food and fodder was still lacking, which might affect the normal dispatch of troops, so he asked Liu Bei to find He Jin to solve it.

He Jin was in the General's Mansion. When he heard that Liu Bei's representative Lu Zhi was coming, he immediately met Liu Bei in person. After hearing about the problem, he immediately called for the logistics officer and asked him to directly communicate with Liu Bei. Solve problems as quickly as possible.

The entire process of dealing with the problem took less than a stick of incense, and then He Jin started to deal with the next thing.

This efficiency...

Seriously, if the bureaucrats of the empire have improved the speed and efficiency in dealing with problems now, where would the Taipingdao uprising happen?
However, even He Jin is only a flash in the pan, and after the Yellow Turban Rebellion is put down, He Jin will not continue to maintain this kind of work intensity.

Therefore, everything is just a mirror image.

The two systems in Luoyang City are galloping in completely different directions, and on the other side, the days of Taiping Road in Jizhou and the Central Plains are not easy.

The excellent matching mechanism in history is always worthy of attention. How can a bronze player meet a diamond player casually?
Because of the excellent operations of the leaders of the Yellow Turban Army in Jizhou, Gao Zheng, Yan Sheng, and Wang Meng, the commanders of the Taiping Road, which can be the main force in various parts of the Central Plains, knew the specific situation at completely inconsistent times.

Some Qu Shuai were lucky. The people sent by Jizhou to spread the news were more clever and quickly arrived at the destination, so they knew about it earlier, at the end of February.

And some Qushuai are too unlucky, and the people sent by Jizhou to spread the news are too unreliable.

Or he broke his leg on the way, or he was slaughtered by bandits on the way, or he simply went to the wrong place and lost his way, or he felt that he had no future with the Yellow Turban Army, so he deserted and ran away.

So these unlucky Qu Shuai went all the way until the government started to act, still at a loss as to what happened in Jizhou, and foolishly waiting for everyone to act together on the fifth day of March and the world will be prosperous.

The action speed of the Luoyang court is relatively fast.

Before He Jin officially became a general, at the end of February, the governors of various states and the sheriffs of various counties got the news, and they were all frightened by the top-secret official documents sent by the Luoyang court in a hurry.

What?
The Taipingdao, which spreads all over the place and preaches the truth, goodness and beauty and the theory of Huang Lao, is actually a group of careerists conspiring to rebel?Are they planning a major rebellion?
Is this okay?

Although these local officials don't pay much attention to Taiping Dao, they basically know the scale of the local Taiping Dao. The smaller Taiping Dao is better, and the larger places, even the governor's mansion and the county guard's mansion have joined the Taiping Dao officials exist.

So the governors and county guards were very disturbed.

Some of them immediately began to prepare to mobilize the armed forces they could mobilize.

It is worth mentioning that although the Eastern Han Dynasty systematically abolished a whole set of recruitment, training, and combat systems for the county soldiers from Liu Xiu, so that the local county had an army that received complete training and could conduct field battles in the system. The possibility disappears, but how can the maintenance of the political power be lack of force?

During the Western Han Dynasty, the army of the county was composed of knights, officers and other regular soldiers who were mainly responsible for military functions, and pawns who were mainly responsible for a series of logistical chores. the latter.

Perhaps he felt that the latter could not pose a threat to his central government.

But no matter how the latter has no combat effectiveness and institutional guarantees, it can still legally use force after all. Therefore, the latter also filled the lack of the former in the political ecology of the county state in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and assumed the responsibility of the "country state soldiers". The actual duties of this existence can be called the county soldiers with the characteristics of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Of course, due to the lack of systematic recruitment and training, as well as the lack of institutional guarantees, it is debatable how much combat power these "pawns" who handle chores have.

In terms of numbers, these county soldiers with Eastern Han characteristics generally ranged from 3000 to [-].

Frontier counties in remote areas such as Youzhou, Bingzhou, and Liangzhou are facing the deterrence of foreign force, so the county soldiers generally have a large number of soldiers, frequent training, and strong combat effectiveness. There are also professional battalions set up. In fact, there are no How much worse than the county soldiers in the Western Han Dynasty.

The inland counties are completely different.

The county soldiers in the inland counties are basically maintained at a quota of one thousand, and they are really mainly responsible for miscellaneous logistics. Some rough chores.

Except for a few special existences who deal with bandits and robbers and protect the chief from running away at critical times, most of the county soldiers basically have not received any serious combat training, and their combat effectiveness and fighting will are infinitely close to zero.

Coincidentally, the places where the Yellow Turban Uprising led by Taipingdao broke out were basically inland counties.

Of course, the Yellow Turban Army established by Taiping Road did not have the professional strength to attack the Eastern Han government, but the local county government of the Eastern Han Dynasty could not produce professional troops to deal with the attack of the Yellow Turban Army.

In fact, during the Yellow Turban Uprising, before the professional troops from the Luoyang court left the field, the Yellow Turban Army and the local county soldiers were basically in a state of pecking at each other, and the actual strength difference between the two sides was not large.

The difference is that the Yellow Turban Army has the bonus of hatred for the Han Empire and belief in great virtuous teachers, as well as the bonus of the slogan that the sky is dead and Huang Tian should be established, so they have a stronger will to fight and are relatively less afraid of death.

As for the Eastern Han County National Army...

To put it bluntly, these soldiers of the Eastern Han Dynasty have the status of a dog, their treatment as a pig, their work as a donkey, and how much money do they get a month?
What are you trying to do?
Run away!
As a result, the army of the county and the state was defeated like a mountain.

Then there is a situation of "between ten and a month, the world shakes".

(End of this chapter)