Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 517 Competing in the Central Plains (44)

one year later
Autumn of the seventh year of Duke Yan 310 (527)
The situation in Wei State is getting worse and worse, and more and more rebels are being suppressed. Every time a rebel is killed, two more people will rebel.

And Er Zhurong, who fought for three or four years, relied on his excellent record of suppressing thieves, and was promoted again and again. Now he is the governor of the Wei State, and he was awarded Doctor Jin Ziguanglu, and the governors of Bing, Si, Fen, and Guang. The military forces of Liuzhou, Heng, and Yun are a rising star in the Central Plains. It feels like Cao Cao started his career by destroying the Yellow Turban Army.

The rebel Du Luozhou continued to grow, occupying several Youyun prefectures in Hebei, proclaiming himself emperor in Yingzhou, with the country name "Zhao".

Ge Rong, who was originally a general of Huaishuo, after participating in the uprising of military households in Huaishuo Town, after many twists and turns, finally killed Yuan Hongye, who had betrayed the uprising, and became the new leader of the uprising army in Huaishuo Junzhen, and captured several counties. The county, with great momentum, is competing with Du Luozhou for the land of Hebei, and is proclaiming the emperor in Lunu City, Zhongshan County, Dingzhou, with the country name "Qi".

Both were the leaders of the rebel army, but after defeating the officers and soldiers of the Wei state nearby, they both chose to join forces. The two rebel armies fought each other, and the battle for hegemony was staged on the land of Hebei. It felt like Gongsun Zan fighting Yuan Shao back then. .

At the same time that the rebels were powerful, Xiao Baokui, the imperial court's commander in charge of suppressing thieves in the west, because he had been defeated by the rebels in Guanzhong for more than a year, was worried that he would be punished by the Wei court, so he simply rebelled and rebelled in Chang'an. Proclaim the emperor, and the country is named "Qi".

Because the general couldn't beat the rebels, he simply rebelled and became a rebel himself. This belonged to the daily life of the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

When you can't beat the anti-thief, the best solution is to become an anti-thief!

At the same time, the leader of the Di rebel army also proclaimed himself emperor, and the country was named "Qin".

The leader of the Qiang and Hu rebels also proclaimed himself emperor, and the country was named "Qin".

The Han people in Liangzhou took the opportunity to separate themselves and proclaim themselves emperor, with the country name "Liang".

As bad as the domestic situation is, the external situation is just as bad.

As the saying goes, taking advantage of your illness will kill you.

Chen Qingzhi, a white-robed Confucian general of Liang State, took the opportunity to launch the Northern Expedition and captured the counties and counties in Huaibei, and the soldiers peaked directly at Langya County.

The vassals Khitan and Kumoxi suddenly launched a rebellion, and instead of suppressing the rebels for Wei, they cooperated with the rebels and attacked the city together.

Rouran took the opportunity to occupy the Monan Grassland, and her strength began to grow. Rouran, who had been beaten by the Central Plains, finally began to feel proud.

It also took Yan State more than a year to capture the cities of Wu, Xiqu, Dongqu, Tingxian, Changyang, and Buqi.

Most of the cities were afraid of Yan's soldiers, so they voluntarily surrendered to Yan State. The only cities that were really captured by Yan State with stone throws were Yucheng and Dongqu City.

At the same time, the Yan State's looting team finally looted most of Qingzhou, and established a Liao payment system in the countryside of Qingzhou.

Luoyang
Royal Palace
"The world is corrupted to this point. Only the governor Zhurong is a loyal minister, and only the governor Zhurong can save my great Wei!" Emperor Yuanxu said. He is only eighteen years old this year. A few months ago, he just married Er Zhurong's daughter, counting on Er Zhurong to be able to wipe out the rebels for the Great Wei.

Luoyang's royal relatives and aristocratic families all regarded Er Zhurong as a life-saving straw. When the situation in the Great Wei had deteriorated to this point and everyone was rebelling, Er Zhurong was still fighting for the Great Wei. Road rebels, who is this loyal minister?

Great Wei loyal minister Er Zhurong!
It is as loud as Dong Zhongying, a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty!
However, above the court, party struggles continued, and even when the country was on the verge of subjugation, the dignitaries of the Great Wei still fought for power tirelessly.

Internal fighting leads to subjugation of the country, and subjugation of the country also requires internal fighting, just like the Jin Dynasty back then.

Changguang City

country village
Three hundred officers and soldiers of the State of Wei are plundering the villagers. The guard of the State of Wei in Guangzhou will use this method to reduce the Liao pay that the State of Yan receives.

Anyone who resists will be killed without mercy!

Those who do not resist will be killed without mercy!

Anyone who pays the Liao salary to the Yan Kingdom will be killed without mercy!

Those who do not pay Liao's salary to Yan will be killed without mercy!

Those who betray the Great Wei are rebels and will be killed without mercy!

Those who are loyal to Wei are undercover agents and will be killed without mercy!

Those who do not betray or be loyal must have other plans, and they must kill Wu's amnesty!

In the villages invaded by the officers and soldiers of the Great Wei, all the men were killed, and all the young women were raped. All the wealth was brought back to the city, and those that could not be taken away were directly burned on the spot. The country's Liao rate.

If I can't beat the country of Yan, I can't beat you?

The people in Guangzhou of Wei State did not understand why it was fine for the army of Yan State, a hostile country, to rob them, but why the officers and soldiers of their own country Wei also robbed them?

The fire burned down the village, but [Liao Salary Envoy] hid in the basement and managed to escape. He hurried to Huang County and explained the matter to Yan Guo.

Huangcheng
Suburban hunting ground

"Recently, more and more Liao pay envoys have come to report, saying that the generals in Guangzhou of the Wei State may have changed their combat strategy and stopped fighting with us, but instead slaughtered the villagers in the countryside, as long as they slaughtered those villagers in advance If it is clean, we will not be able to slaughter, so we will have to withdraw our troops and return to Liaodong because we can’t get anything.”

In order to prevent the Yan State from massacring the people in Guangzhou, the generals of the Wei State in Guangzhou, their countermeasures were to slaughter the Wei State people in Guangzhou in advance, so that there would be no people in the Yan State to slaughter.

This is really a clever strategy, at least it makes Yan Lian feel a little tricky.

I wanted to massacre the people, but the enemy killed them in advance because they were afraid that I would massacre the people.

"Anyone who pays Liao's wages to my country of Yan is a subject of my country of Yan. Only my country of Yan can slaughter the people of my country of Yan. He, the country of Wei, is not qualified to do so!"

"Notify the Liao pay envoys to move all the people from their respective villages to Huang County."

"Let the aristocratic army and the parliamentary army who are looting Qingzhou come back and sweep up the counties and counties in Guangzhou, and severely sweep those Wei officers and soldiers who dared to go out of the city to slaughter the people."

The rulers essentially regard the people as their own property. Out of love for property, they will resist the invasion of the enemy and prevent the enemy from coming to slaughter their own property, resulting in the loss of their own property. But if the property wants to rebel against the customer, then What greeted them was iron-blooded suppression.

To use a metaphor, the shepherd (ruler) will kill the hungry wolf (barbarian) who steals the sheep, but in essence it is only to prevent the hungry wolf (barbarian) from damaging his own property. The rebellion overthrew the shepherds (rulers), then what greeted them was naturally the joint suppression of the shepherds (rulers) and hungry wolves (barbarians).

This is the essence of the idea of ​​"Lianlu Pingkou" can be spread for thousands of years.

Although "captives" are enemies, it is obvious that "bandits" are the serious troubles in comparison.

True ideological enlightenment is not against "faint lords", but against "lords", and this lord naturally includes wise lords.

Opposing a faint monarch and supporting a wise monarch is essentially safeguarding the monarchy.

The real awakening of the lamb should be against the shepherds, not just against the so-called "faint shepherds" among the shepherds, but to support those so-called "wise shepherds".

A lamb, although it opposes the "faint shepherd", but supports the "wise shepherd", this does not mean that it has a sense of resistance, it only means that it is still slavish in nature, but it hopes to be enslaved by the "wise shepherd" , instead of being enslaved by "faint shepherds".

Since ancient times, there have been countless people who rebelled and rebelled, but why can't they be called enlightenment?
Because they are only against the "faint monarch", not against the "jun".

(End of this chapter)