The Infinite Heavens Run Away

283 Chapter 7.39 The development of the feudal lords and the death of Dong Zhuo
Chapter 7 I forged the soul of Han in the Three Kingdoms
7.39 The development of princes and the death of Dong Zhuo

Time passed very quickly, and in a blink of an eye we entered the third year of Chuping, AD 192. To be more precise, it was the beginning of May of the third year of Chuping.

It has been more than two years since the war between the princes and the Shangdang. After Deng Feng returned to the Shangdang, he paid no attention to external affairs and concentrated on developing the three states of Bingzhou, Jizhou and Yanzhou that he already controlled. Qingzhou is basically controlled and Youzhou is basically suppressed.

At the beginning of the second year of Chuping, Deng Feng formally arranged a marriage with the Zhen family in Jizhou. However, instead of Deng Feng himself, he asked his subordinate Xu Shu, the governor of Jizhou, to marry the eldest daughter Zhen Jiang and the second daughter Zhen Tuo at the same time.

As the Zhen family fully joined the Deng family's camp, Deng Feng's control of the entire Jizhou accelerated instantly. By the end of the second year of Chuping, Jizhou was officially sorted out. In addition, the Zhen family had already taken the lead in building cement avenues that covered counties and counties.

It can be said bluntly that even if there are people in Jizhou and other states who are dissatisfied with Deng Feng and want to cause trouble, nothing can be done.

At the same time, the overall control of Jizhou also brought one of the biggest benefits. The most serious problem that restricted the power of the Deng family in the past - salt, was officially solved.

Jizhou directly covers the Bohai Sea. Deng Feng cooperated with cement salt ponds to launch the "salt-sunning" technology, which eliminated the main "salt boiling" technology of this era by at least eight streets.

Not only has it completely solved its own problem of using salt, but it can also "export" through caravans on a large scale, which is visible to the entire power improvement.

On the contrary, Qingzhou was easy to talk to. Shortly after the war against Dong, Liu Dai, the governor of Qingzhou in this timeline, happily went to Chen Gong in person to express his surrender.

Deng Feng was not stupid enough to play "kill the donkey" and still let him serve as the governor of Qingzhou. However, his powers were adjusted in accordance with the standards. At the same time, all aspects were covered by policies based on the already completed local models.

So far, all aspects of the work have been basically completed, and all that remains are some details.

With the surrender of Qingzhou, some talents originally in Qingzhou also came to Deng Feng's hands.

The most outstanding one is naturally "Donglai Taishi Ci", whose military level is no less than that of Zhang Liao and Huang Zhong before they practiced Deng Feng's Kung Fu. Deng Feng transferred him to Yanzhou to take over Huang Zhong's position, and Huang Zhong led his troops to Qingzhou to take charge of military affairs. All kinds of work.

Instead, it was Youzhou. Deng Feng had sent people to persuade him several times, hoping that Gongsun Zan would surrender. He still had a good impression of the "White Horse General" who was feared by everyone in the north. Unfortunately, Gongsun Zan had no good impression of Deng Feng. Rejected - to this day.

However, although Gongsun Zan did not surrender, he still played by himself behind closed doors in Youzhou. But the "closed doors" here only refers to the military and political aspects, and the economic aspects have long been infiltrated into a sieve.

In particular, Gongsun Zan accepted Deng Feng's suggestion and mobilized the big households in Youzhou to jointly build cement roads connecting various places to cooperate with Deng's various products and caravans.

Most of the commercial business in Youzhou is now either controlled by the Deng family, or is controlled by the Deng family in partnership with the big families in Youzhou, such as the Tian family (Tian Yu) and the Yan family (Yan Gang). Gongsun Zan has all the "control" of Youzhou. Basically it remains theoretical.

In addition to the Deng family's power - or as it is now called across the world, the "Hebei Army", the major warlords also have their own progress.

The nominal "lord of the world" Sili is currently under the control of the Empress Dowager He. The reason why it is "The Empress Dowager He" instead of "Han Shaodi" is because His Majesty the emperor is really not on the stage at all. He has almost no use for eating, drinking and having fun.

This also allowed the whole world to see that although Dong Zhuo was hard to say in other aspects, at least he did a good job in deposing the Young Emperor of the Han Dynasty and establishing the Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty.

It's a pity that Liu Xie's reputation is so bad now. Even if the Young Emperor of Han dies, he has no hope of taking over. After all, no one can look down upon three "big weddings" and three bridal chambers being robbed, even the so-called "Queen". The "emperor" of other people's playthings.

However, although Emperor Han Shao was not good enough, after so many years of "exercise", Queen Mother He has grown up so-so.

In terms of policy, except for strictly suppressing the aristocratic family, she will learn what Deng Feng does, especially two points that are very tight.

The first is to build roads on a large scale to make government orders smoother; the second is to strictly train troops and strengthen equipment, mainly through "recovery" from Deng Feng.

It is true that Deng Feng never went to the palace to look for her again, but the Queen Mother completely put down her face and went to the party six times in just two years, and each time she stayed for one and a half months, or lived directly in Deng's house. In the big house, even people with low IQ can see the problem.

However, this kind of thing has always been "just know it", and no one has time to take care of it. On the contrary, many forces are envious of it.

Just one woman can exchange for a complete set of equipment for 45000 elite infantry and 5000 elite cavalry, plus material support from time to time. This deal is so worth it.

So much so that some people really wanted to obtain equipment through this method. For example, Yuan Shu, the laughing stock in front of him, sent his men over to "negotiate" in a serious manner, but was thrown out by Deng Feng.

Relying on these conditions, Queen Mother He has developed well in Sili, especially now that most of the talents who are still willing to be loyal to the Han Dynasty have chosen to go there, plus some of the original veterans, such as Lu Zhi, Zhu Jun, Huangfu Song, Ma Richan, etc. They are still helping her.

At least for now, Sili's status still exists, and the major princes are still willing to recognize them in name.

Of course, the "personal relationship" between Queen Mother He and Deng Feng also brought some negative effects, mainly because the veterans were dissatisfied with it, but they only expressed it verbally because "he gave too much."

In Xuzhou, the state pastor Tao Qian saw that his body was getting weaker and weaker, and his two sons were not good enough. So after repeated considerations and trials, he officially began to train Liu Bei in an all-round way.

On the one hand, he arranged for him to be beside him, but he did not deprive him of his power. Instead, he handed over Liu Bei's original position to Guan Yu, and in turn taught Liu Bei by words and deeds in all aspects, and handed over all the resources in his hands.

On the other hand, it also arranged for the major forces in Xuzhou, such as the Chen family (Chen Deng), the Mi family (Mi Zhu), and the Cao family (Cao Bao) to contact Liu Bei.

It's hard to say anything about Liu Bei's other aspects, but he is really good at dealing with people, and he quickly opened up the situation in Xuzhou.

All parties in Xuzhou also saw what Tao Qian meant, and Liu Bei was indeed fine in all aspects, so they quickly accepted him. The landmark event was still the tradition of feudal society - Cao Bao officially married his daughter to Liu Bei. Cao's surrender was also officially announced.

With Cao's recognition of Liu Bei, other major forces also gradually recognized his status as the "future Xuzhou Shepherd".Especially when Cao Bao surrendered and Tao Qian handed over power, the Danyang soldiers, the backbone of Xuzhou's military power, officially became Liu Bei's force.

He also discovered two generals by the way, that is, Xu Sheng and Lu Dai, who were later famous Soochow generals.

For this reason, Liu Bei officially has top advisers-Chen Gui, Chen Deng, Chen Ying and his son, as well as strong financial support-the Mi family is a world-famous big businessman.

Coupled with [-] Danyang soldiers, [-] second-line troops, more than [-] elite soldiers who had been trained in Xiapi, and some miscellaneous military forces, Liu Bei had [-] troops and officially became one of the most powerful forces in the world by the end of the second year of Chuping.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, shortly after the end of the battle against Dong, the army had just finished repairing, and after receiving the appointment edict of Yuzhou Mu, Yuan Shao formally sent troops south to Yangzhou. By the middle of the year, he had basically completed the pacification and appointed his advisers He is the governor of Yangzhou.

Of course, we must also go to the Queen Mother He in the capital in terms of procedures.

Sitting on the land of two states, Yuan Shao's status has greatly increased. Except for Dong Zhuo, who does not belong to the same system, he is basically the most powerful force in the world second only to Deng Feng's Hebei Army.

On the contrary, it is Yuan Shu, the real direct descendant of the Runan Yuan family, the younger brother of the concubine's eldest son Yuan Shao, and the true eldest son of the Yuan family, who is basically still in a funny state.

Because he failed to seek the position of "Jingzhou Shepherd" in the capital and became a model of "overestimating his own capabilities" and the laughing stock of the world's princes, Yuan Shu spent all his energy on fighting with Liu Biao, the official Jingzhou Shepherd in Xiangyang.

What is extremely painful is that the strength shown by this "Four Generations and Three Dukes" was really not up to par. Whether it was military struggle or other aspects, he was basically defeated by Liu Biao, or to be more precise, it should be the major families in southern Jingzhou.Wenpin, who was recruited by Deng Feng back then, shined brilliantly, and Yuan Shu's army, which led troops to fight, retreated steadily, and even created a buffer zone on the northern line of Xiangyang.

Just over a year after the end of the Dong Dynasty, by the end of the second year of Chuping, the power in Yuan Shu's hands not only did not increase, but shrank significantly.

What's even more painful is that not only did he not find the problem, but he continued to be self-righteous.

Seeing that his brother Yuan Shao had captured the land of Yangzhou, he casually sent a messenger to ask Yuan Shao to support a batch of grain and grass as the orthodox descendant of the Yuan family. Naturally, he was rejected.

He actually wrote to Yuan Yi again, asking this side branch to be obedient and capture the "concubine" Yuan Shao to serve him. Of course, he was slapped in the face.

Yuan Yi gave his letter to Yuan Shao without telling him, but also disclosed the matter to the world. The direct result was that Yuan Shu basically said goodbye to all aspects of support from the Yuan family in Runan.

So far, the "eldest son" of the Yuan family, who has great vision and ability, is still at odds with Xiangyang, and has not seen any results.

Cao Cao, who was supposed to start his own hegemony career and soon be able to kill everyone, is still stuck in the post of governor of Chen County, basically unchanged. The whole world regards him as a subordinate force of Yuan Shao. At present, he has not been able to Enter the "princes" group.

It's really not that he doesn't want to move, but that the surrounding environment is too harsh.To the north of Chen County is Liang County, and further north is Yanzhou. Now it is beyond his control.

He thought about going to Qingzhou. Cao's power in Qingzhou and Yanzhou was not small. It would not be difficult to start a business after going there. Although he would have to face Deng's Hebei army immediately, it was still stronger than it was now. Unfortunately, Liu Dai chose to join Deng's family, causing his plan to fail.

He also invited himself to go south to Yangzhou, but Yuan Shao refused, because the Yuzhou army soon went south on his own, and Yuan Shao officially became a powerful prince controlling the two states.

He even considered Xuzhou, but Tao Qian made it clear that he was not strong enough to win by Liu Bei, so he had no choice but to give up.

After Sun Jian died, his eldest son Sun Ce, who should have been only 15 years old in real history but was strangely an adult in this world, completely inherited his power. He led his men back to his ancestral homeland of Wu County and easily completed control.

When Yuan Shao went south, he immediately took refuge and took advantage of the situation to send his men to capture Kuaiji in the south. At any rate, he was considered to have considerable strength.

After Liu Yan took up the post of Yizhou Mu, he closed the door and became the emperor himself, and he has not moved yet.

Although Jiaozhou is also a place of Han Dynasty, it has never had much influence. Now it is controlled by the Shi family. The current governor of Jiaozhou, Shi Xie, is quite honest and has basically done nothing.

Basically, the whole world has completely entered the period of feudal princes competing for hegemony. The reason why the time node of "early May of the third year of Chuping" was chosen is because of other changes.

"Sir, Dong Zhuo is dead." Deng Feng, who was in the lobby of the Shangdang Zhengbei General Mansion and was discussing matters with many of his subordinates, heard the report from the intelligence chief Xiao Zhao, and was handed over a piece of silk information.

"It's really - it's a bit miserable to die." Deng Feng shook his head, handed the silk to his subordinate Wen Wu, and then looked at their shocked expressions.

"Lord, what is written on the silk is relatively simple. There should be other supplements, right?" Liu Ye, currently the de facto No. 1 civilian official of the Hebei Army and the top leader of the Government Affairs Council, asked.

"Xiao Zhao?" Deng Feng really didn't know this. He just read the briefing.

"Situ Wang Yun over there played some tricks and found a beautiful woman to promise to Lu Bu first, and then deliberately exposed it in front of Dong Zhuo. As a result, Dong Zhuo took her home without saying anything, which made Lu Bu very angry." Xiao Zhao " "Pfft" began to explain with a smile.

"This - Dong Zhuo can't be so unwise, right? Even if this kind of problem happens, it's just a woman, so just give it to Lu Bu." Liu Ye asked strangely.

But then she felt several murderous looks, and then she remembered the special situation of Deng Feng's subordinates. She shivered, and quickly showed a forced smile to confess to the female officials opposite.

Deng Feng has been working hard to improve the status of women. In this regard, he means what he says, and this is the case in all states under the Hebei Army today.

On the one hand, it is to improve the social status of women, mainly through the large-scale use of female workers in all major industries, including wool spinning, linen spinning, leather processing and even iron processing.

When women have financial income, and many women's income even exceeds that of the male master of the family, their status will naturally improve.

On the other hand, China's reforms since ancient times have always been most effective from the top down, and this aspect is no exception.

Deng Feng's solution was to use women on a large scale in both the army and the imperial court. In this regard, the children of the original aristocratic families took advantage, because if they wanted to be officials, at least they could not be purely illiterate. Ordinary people, let alone women in the family, even men Difficult to read.

If it weren't for the large-scale schools that Deng Feng established in various counties, the female official system might have become another way of "sharing the pork" among the major families.

Even so, the vast majority of ordinary women are also at the grassroots level, and senior female officials are basically eldest ladies from aristocratic families.

For example, the entire Hebei Army currently has women not only in the female guard battalion and medical corps, but also in some support arms. For example, there are professional female units in the crossbow corps and engineering corps.

However, there are still no women in purely violent arms such as cavalry and main battle infantry. Many positions in the Zhengbei General's Mansion are also held by women, the most famous of which are the two heads of the Deng family.

Cheng Lingsu is in charge of the military's logistics and equipment management, and Cai Yan is in charge of sorting out government information. Others include Ma Yunlu, the commander of the female guard battalion; Zhen Jiang and Zhen Tuo, the first and second leaders of the Ministry of Commerce; Xiao Zhao, currently the head of the Hebei Military Intelligence Department, etc. wait.

This also allowed the previously suppressed major aristocratic families to see an opportunity and sent outstanding women from their families to serve in the Deng family.

Nowadays, there are many women serving in various aspects of the Hebei Army. It's okay to say something about the senior management. After all, Deng Feng strictly controls the situation. At the grassroots level, especially at the county and county levels, in many places there are women among the five chief officers, especially deputies and staff. do not talk.

This makes Deng Feng very helpless, because if this continues, major aristocratic families would really dare to re-establish the "imperial power does not extend to the county" through the women in their families. However, he made the policy regulations, and for now he can only hold his nose and accept it.

Only supplementary regulations were made, in the name of "the yin and yang of heaven and earth, men are supreme", it was mandatory that the number of women in any unit should not exceed [-]%, which barely put a stop to this unhealthy trend.

All of the above are supported by Deng Feng's personal strength and the strong support of the 15 elite members of the Hebei Army. This is also the greatest confidence that Deng Feng dares to suppress the family.

Under such circumstances, Liu Ye dared to look down on women, and on such an important occasion, it was natural for him to be threatened.

"That's what Li Ru said, but Dong Zhuo didn't agree." Xiao Zhao smiled and didn't take it seriously, "Not only that, after he heard about it, he sent soldiers to Lu Bu's door to reprimand him.

This approach not only chilled Lu Bu, but also further fragmented the Xiliang army, which was already somewhat alienated. Therefore, when Dong Zhuo died, there was no one who announced his revenge. "

"How did he die specifically?" Zhang Liao, the No. 1 general in the Hebei Army and the leader of the Military Academy, asked. "He is also a temporary hero after all. He won't die so easily, right?"

Everyone in the lobby subconsciously looked at Xiao Zhao.

(End of this chapter)