The great man will live forever

Chapter 248 The Reincarnated Prince
In Luoyang City, in the palace, Liu Xiu rubbed his head and said: "The news of Peng Chong's rebellion has not yet reached the Central Plains, so the most important thing right now is to stabilize the morale of the troops around Luoyang. As long as the Western Front can support Chimei and defeat him, Everything else is easy to talk about.”

It has to be said that Liu Xiu always knows who his biggest opponent is. So far, although he has rebelled a lot, Liu Xiu's biggest opponent is still the Red Eyebrow Army.

The Red Eyebrow Army is extremely tough. From rebelling to conquering Chang'an step by step, and destroying the Gengshi regime, he has a good chance of winning the world.

It's just that they are not only short-sighted, they just want to run after grabbing it. Their combat power is actually extremely strong, but they don't know how to manage. They don't have a visionary and dominant person in charge. They don't have strict military laws, otherwise Liu Xiu wouldn't be sure. Can win the world.

"In this way, Deng Long, you assist Zhu Fu to attack Peng Chong. When you arrive, don't start a war rashly. Wait and see. I will personally lead Wu Han and Geng Yanquan to Puyang to defeat the rebels of the five schools and attack Liu Yong.

The chaos in Puyang is certain, and Peng Chong will inevitably hesitate if no one responds. You can take this opportunity to fight Peng Chong in one go. As for Deng Yu's western front, with Feng Yi watching over it, it shouldn't be a big problem and it can be delayed for a while. After the rebellion in Puyang is settled, I will send my troops to the western front..."

Liu Yong was a native of Suiyang, Liang County (now Shangqiu City, Henan Province), and was the eighth-generation grandson of Liu Wu, King Xiao of Liang in the Western Han Dynasty.His father Liu Li was the eighth generation king of Liang.

During the Yuanshi period of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Li had close contacts with the Wei family (the family of Emperor Ping's biological mother, who was Wang Mang's political enemy) and was killed by Wang Mang. Liu Yong lost the qualification to inherit the title of King Liang.

In September of the first year of Gengshi (23rd year), Wang Mang was defeated and killed.Gengshi Emperor Liu Xuan moved his capital to Luoyang, and Liu Yong went to Luoyang to see Liu Xuan and ask for the restoration of his title in the kingdom.Liu Xuan granted Liu Yong the title of King of Liang according to the old system, and made Suiyang (now Shangqiu City, Henan Province) the capital of the Liang Kingdom.

After Liu Xuan moved the capital to Chang'an, politics became increasingly corrupt.Liu Yong, who was far away in Suiyang, heard about it and decided to seize the territory of Liang State. He first appointed his younger brother Liu Fang as the general of the auxiliary state, and his younger brother Liu Shaogong as the imperial censor, and was granted the title of King of Lu.

Then, he recruited heroes from various counties and took Zhou Jian and others as generals to capture 28 cities in Jiyin County, Shanyang County, Pei County, Chu County, Huaiyang County, Runan County and other places.

In order to expand his power, Liu Yong sent people to appoint Dong Xian who occupied Donghai County as the General of Yi Han, Zhang Bu who occupied Qi County as the General of Assistant Han, and Jiao Qiang who occupied the Western Defense as General Hengxing.

Liu Yong gathered all the separatist forces in Shandong under his banner, and jointly formed a coalition to occupy the lands in Guandong.

In the first year of Jianwu (25th year), Gengshi Emperor Liu Xuan was defeated and died.In November, Liu Yong claimed to be the emperor.Liu Xiu had proclaimed himself emperor before, which created a situation where two Han clan clans were competing for legitimacy.

There has been only one emperor since ancient times. Unless it is the Three Kingdoms, or the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, how can we tolerate another emperor in the Central Plains?Therefore, for Liu Yong, Liu Xiu, who had already proclaimed himself emperor, must be eliminated.

At this time, Ayi Mei who was below also spoke, "Your Majesty, I invite you to fight!"

"This?" Liu Xiu was very grateful for their joining, and also named her a Marquis, a Marquis of Qingfeng. However, Ayimei was rarely allowed to fight. After all, she was a woman. There were indeed few female generals fighting in ancient times.

Her original subordinates were also under her control, but their number was estimated to be a few thousand, and then it gradually increased, to tens of thousands at most.

Now the total strength of all the troops under Jingyou is about 20. On the surface, it is said that, but the number of elites who can really fight is estimated to be only 10.

"Why, Your Majesty looks down on us women?"

Liu Xiu shook his head quickly, and then said, "Since Qingfeng Hou is willing, then come with me to fight."

"promise!"

However, before Liu Xiu left for the expedition, he asked his canonized queen to personally hold the two- or three-year-old prince Liu Qiang and sit next to him, and accept the worship of the ministers, so that everyone could know the prince.

This also means that he will lead the expedition in person, and if anything happens to him in the future, everyone can support his son. Although he is young, he still has hope that he can be the heir and will not let everyone disperse.

At this time, Prince Liu Qiang was in the arms of Queen Guo Shengtong. He was chubby and wearing a small hat and short clothes. His eyes were watery and cute. He opened his big eyes and looked around curiously.

It's just that the eyes seemed to sparkle with a light that was different from that of a young child. It just passed away for a fleeting moment. When he saw Ayimei kneeling down below in the distance, a trace of surprise flashed across his face, and then he hid it. very good.

No one knows that Prince Liu Qiang is no longer the same person, or that he is the memory of the awakening interpretation, or that he is the reincarnation of Liu Han, which is mysterious and mysterious, wonderful and wonderful.

He didn't dare to act too amazing, for fear of being discovered by those people. For a two or three-year-old child, it's good if he can talk. If you act too smart, will you become a monster?

He also wanted to fight for Liu Xiu as soon as possible, unify the world, and then kill the other time-travelers behind him to promote social change, but he was too young.

After everything was done, Guo Shengtong hugged him and said with a smile, "Are you happy today, Qiang'er? From now on, you will be the prince of the Han Dynasty, and the emperor in the future. Are you hungry? Do you want to nurse, nanny, nanny!" "

Regardless of whether Liu Han refused or not, he called a very plump woman, and then his mouth was blocked by something, including his face. His whole face sank into the big soft and white bun...

Although he refused in his heart, Liu Han still ate it with big mouthfuls. It was fragrant, sweet, and very pure. Use this to test cadres. Which cadre can't withstand such a test?

"Forget it, let's not stop breastfeeding. Let's wait until we are older. What's wrong with breastfeeding when we are two or three years old?"

He thought about it and took another big sip, "Eat more milk, good nutrition, and you can grow taller and taller faster, yes. That's it..."

Liu Xiu's imperial conquest was naturally a great victory. More than 5 people were beheaded, and Liu Yong was defeated. Then he sent his generals Huya General Gai Yan and Jianwei General Geng Yan to start cleaning up the mess.

After all, Liu Xiu is the emperor, and he can't always rush to the front. So what should he do as the emperor? What if he becomes the Ming God of War and is captured by the enemy?

When Li Shimin conquered the world, he was not the emperor, his father was the emperor. Of course, I have to say that Li Shimin was the best at fighting among all the emperors. He ranked second, and no one dared to rank first.

Before the Xuanwumen Incident, Li Shimin's official positions were: General Tiance, King of Qin Shangzhuguo, Taiwei, Situ Shangshu Ling, Yongzhou Mu, Left and Right Wuhou General, Shaanxi Daoxingtai, Yizhou Daoxingtai Shangshuling , General Manager of Liangzhou.

These official positions were not awarded casually by others, they were all awarded by him. He won them and made meritorious service, so my father awarded them to him. Step by step, he increased the number of appointments to the point where no one could be appointed. Above all kings.

Of course, Liu Xiu's military ability is also very high among the emperors of the past dynasties. Even if it is not as good as Tang Taizong, it is not far behind, maybe just slightly inferior.

Liu Xiu's fight was going smoothly, but not long after he sat down, someone from the army tent came to play for him urgently. He picked up the bamboo slips and looked at them. He was stunned, and then sighed helplessly: "Thread It’s urgent again!”

Originally, there was a severe famine in Sanfu, and everyone was eating each other. The city walls were all empty, and the fields were covered with bones. Hundreds of thousands of red-browed troops gathered in Chang'an. Soon they were short of food and grass, so they had to withdraw from Chang'an to the west and go to Longyou to replenish food and grass. The result was a separatist regime. Wei Xiao was defeated by Longyou.

It was a severe winter, "when it snowed heavily, all pits and valleys were full, and many scholars froze to death." The hundreds of thousands of Red Eyebrows' army had no choice but to return eastward and return to Chang'an again, where they defeated Deng Yu's army stationed there and forced them to withdraw from Chang'an.

Good guy, even the defeated generals under Wei Xiao couldn't defeat him. It was really embarrassing, but at this time, the Red Eyebrow Army also suffered a great deal of exhaustion.Seeing that Deng Yu's Western Expeditionary Army was in trouble, Liu Xiu sent Feng Yi to Guanzhong to replace Deng Yu in commanding the Western Expeditionary Army.

After Feng Yi arrived, Deng Yu united with Feng Yi to fight Chimei again, but was defeated again. Feng Yi only led a few people to abandon their horses and walk back to the camp, while Deng Yu was defeated and fled to Yiyang.

Feng Yi gathered his scattered subordinates, fortified the walls and cleared the country, waiting to fight again, and then wrote this memorial to Liu Xiu.

The people under his command quickly asked, "Your Majesty, didn't Feng Yi just go? Why are you in a hurry again?" Everyone recognized Feng Yi's military ability.

Liu Xiu said helplessly: "This is the memorial he wrote. He can't hold on anymore. It shows that the war has become very dangerous."

In fact, he had already lost a battle, but he didn't say it. He just said that the war was dangerous.

Liu Xiu sighed, "Brothers, I have to continue to work hard for you for a while."

As a result, before he could finish his words, Chen Jun hurriedly came in again, "Your Majesty received an urgent report from Nanyang that Dong Xin of Nanyang rebelled!"

Good guy, bad things happen one after another.

"Wancheng is in emergency. Your Majesty, please send troops to support as soon as possible."

Liu Long on the side shouted, "Oh no, there are still many of our clansmen in Nanyang County."

Nanyang County was a transportation hub and an important economic place at that time. There were many rich and wealthy families here. It was also the place where brothers Liu Yan and Liu Xiu started their careers.

At the beginning, when they launched the Chongling Uprising, they were all supported by powerful families in Nanyang and the Central Plains. Later, they became very influential in the reform regime.After Liu Yan was assassinated by Liu Xuan, Nanyang's powerful forces split.Some of them followed Liu Xuan and fell into the internal fighting of the reform regime.

Some supported Liu Xiu and traveled all the way to Hebei to join Liu Xiu.The most important among them are the Deng family and the Yin family in Nanyang. The Deng family's son Deng Chen is Liu Xiu's brother-in-law, and the Yin family's Yin Lihua is Liu Xiu's first wife.

Not to mention the geographical location, this is Liu Xiu's hometown. If someone cheats on her, what will others think?
At this time, Liu Xiu was also very anxious. Wu Han on the side quickly said, "Your Majesty, I am willing to relieve Nanyang's worries and go to Nanyang to quell the rebellion."

Seeing Liu Xiu's hesitation, Wu Han continued: "Your Majesty, there is no need to delay on the Western Front. Dong Xin does not have many troops. I only need to lead a team of troops."

There was a reason for Liu Xiu's hesitation. Wu Han was very powerful in fighting and very tough, but his military discipline was really poor. Most of the troops he led were soldiers and horses from Youzhou. Those soldiers and horses were really powerful. They were all from the north, and they were very powerful. Tough and tough, similar to Bingzhou soldiers.

Later, Lu Bu used Bingzhou soldiers and horses to scare the Xiongnu, and then led the Bingzhou soldiers to fight east and west. In the end, he was killed by Cao Cao, a bit similar to Dong Zhuo's Xiliang army.

Bingzhou, Youzhou, and Liangzhou are all in the north, with strong folk customs and strong military combat effectiveness.

Liu Xiu sighed after hearing what he said, "It doesn't matter, you are from Nanyang and are familiar with the situation there. It is up to you to evaluate Dong Xin's rebellion. Remember, it must be resolved quickly."

"promise!"

Wu Han got his wish and he was very happy.

Then Liu Xiu looked at the others and said, "The rest of you will follow me to the Western Front to support Deng Yu. We will break camp and set off tomorrow morning!"

"promise!"

Liu Xiu never expected that this time he sent Wu Han to start another major rebellion, and it was a major rebellion that caused him a lot of headaches.

Wu Han, Jiantan and Wanxiu led their troops southward, aiming to capture Nanyang and its counties.This army conquered Wancheng, Niyang, Lixian, Rangcheng, Xinye and other places, and defeated Qin Feng's troops in Nanjun south of Xinye. It can be said that they are victorious.

In order to raise food and grass, Wu Han allowed the army to plunder local powerful families, which caused popular resentment and caused particularly serious damage to Xinye.

By coincidence, Deng Feng, the Polu general of the Nanyang faction, returned to his hometown to visit relatives. Seeing this scene, he couldn't help but become angry. What's more important was that Wu Han's army killed his favorite woman.

How could this be tolerated? He gathered his clan and villagers to counterattack Wu Han, recaptured the grain, grass and baggage, and stationed himself in the city of Tuoyang, raising the banner of rebellion against Liu Xiu.

Wu Han was defeated by Deng Feng and forced to retreat south. Wan Xiu died of illness in the army and was trapped in Wancheng.

Of course, when Wu Han did this, it was not because he was completely indulgent, but sometimes he did it deliberately. Liu Xiu's subordinates were not monolithic. They all had selfish motives and formed alliances and factions. This was inevitable.

There are two major factions under Liu Xiu. The first faction is naturally the Hebei faction. These are the generals Liu Xiu appointed when Hebei rose. Most of them are powerful families in Hebei or officials in Hebei.

After Liu Xiu arrived in Hebei, he made friends with local officials in Hebei, received support from powerful families in Hebei, and formed an alliance with Liu Yang, the true king.

Then Liu Xiu destroyed Wang Lang, integrated the powerful forces in Hebei, rebuilt his own army, quelled the chaos in Hebei, and rose up in Hebei to become a rival to the reform regime.

Since Hebei's tycoons played the greatest role in Liu Xiu's rise, they also had the greatest political power in the early Eastern Han Dynasty.

Moreover, in order to appease the Hebei faction, Liu Xiu made Guo Shengtong, the niece of King Zhending Liu Yang, as the queen, and made Guo Shengtong's son Liu Qiang the crown prince. As a result, the Hebei faction had a strong voice in the court.

Among the 28 Yuntai generals, Wu Han, Geng Yan, Kou Xun, Jing Dan, Gai Yan, Wang Liang, Geng Chun, Ren Guang, Li Zhong, Pi Tong, Wan Xiu, Liu Zhi, etc. are all spokespersons of the Hebei faction.

Among them, although Wu Han was a new barbarian from Nanyang, he had been an official in Hebei for a long time, and he was an important helper in Liu Xiu's consolidation of Hebei's powerful powers, so he had the strongest say among them.

The other sect is naturally the Nanyang sect. In addition to his own clan, the most important ones are the Deng family and the Yin family in Nanyang. The Deng family's son Deng Chen is Liu Xiu's brother-in-law, and the Yin family's Yin Lihua is Liu Xiu's first wife. .

It was precisely because of the support of these two wealthy families that Liu Xuan did not dare to frame Liu Xiu in Luoyang and let him go to Hebei to recruit troops.

When Liu Xiu rose in Hebei, the Nanyang faction was not very powerful, but it had great resources in the Central Plains.

These families are powerful and powerful families with deep roots in the Central Plains. They have been operating in the Central Plains since the establishment of the Han Dynasty, so they occupy a large amount of local resources, including land, population, officials, etc.

Liu Xiu established the Eastern Han Dynasty after the rise of Hebei, and then went south to the Central Plains to compete with the Gengshi regime. He had to gain the support of the Central Plains clans, among which the influence of the powerful Nanyang was crucial.

Therefore, Liu Xiuzai also placed great emphasis on officials from the Nanyang faction and gave them great authority to compete with the Hebei faction.

Among these officials were Deng Yu, Zhu Hu, Cen Peng, Liu Long, Jia Fu, Du Mao, Chen Jun, Ma Wu, Ma Cheng and others from Yuntai 28 generals.

Just how strong they are can be understood intuitively, and why they want to rule the world together with the powerful.

If we don’t talk about the Yin family, let’s talk about the Deng family. The Deng family is very good. It can be seen from the history books that “the official has two thousand stones.” It’s a local emperor.

At that time, Liu Xiu's brother-in-law Deng Chen spent a lot of his family's money in order to support the Liu Xiu brothers in their uprising. The exact amount he spent could provide combat equipment, food, drink, and toilets for 2000 people. How terrifying.

Later, Deng Yu heard that Liu Xiu had gone to Hebei. He thought this was a good opportunity for Liu Xiu to start his own business, and he spent another fortune.

The Deng family, which had sacrificed its family fortune twice, was able to support Deng Feng to form an independent army and protect the Deng family and the Yin family from harm on the territory of the Xuanhan regime. It can be imagined how rich the Deng family's family background was. horizontal.

The same Yin family probably wouldn't be too far behind.

Later, Liu Xiu expelled the troops sent to Hebei by the Gengshi regime, formally established the Eastern Han Dynasty, and set up a banner against the Gengshi regime.

So he sent his army south to fight in the Central Plains and had a war with the local army in the Central Plains.The Central Plains was in the hands of the Gengshi regime at that time, and many powerful families in the Central Plains supported the Gengshi Emperor Liu Xuan.

Therefore, the Hebei army was very rude when it entered the Central Plains. It not only destroyed the troops of the Reform regime, but also plundered the powerful families who supported the Reform regime.

The powerful families in and around Nanyang in the Central Plains were exceptions. They did not support Liu Xuan, but supported Liu Xiu, but they were also plundered by the Hebei army.This led to various conflicts and a large number of rebellions supported by local clans.

The looting by Wu Han's men was partly due to poor military discipline, and partly to eliminate the Nanyang Sect. If not eliminated, it would also weaken their foundation.

As for Deng Feng's rebellion, not only was he a counterattack against the Hebei faction, but he was also unhappy about it.

Who can figure it out? This is probably what he was thinking:

“Back then, our Deng family, in order to support your old Liu family’s troubles, had a good life, and even our ancestors’ graves were burned without any complaints;

After your brother was killed, everyone felt that the ship of your old Liu family was going to sink completely. The old Yin family had such a good family background and such a beautiful daughter, but they used it to support you without hesitation;

Later, you went to Hebei to start a business alone again, and I, the old Deng family, followed you to Hebei for adventure again with all my heart;

As a result, you arrived in Hebei and married a beautiful, fat wife from Hebei. But I tried my best to protect your original wife at home;
Then, Liu Yang, the financial backer brought by the Hebei daughter-in-law, rebelled, and you killed him. Now Peng Chong from the Northeast rebelled again. In order to appease the forces in Hebei, you made the Hebei daughter-in-law the queen and her son the prince.

Wu Han, a fake Nanyang person who is really from Hebei, led a group of Hebei people to mess around in our hometown and even killed my wife before we got married. You think I am annoying or not? I won’t play with you anymore. I want to let you go. You know, bullies don’t bully like this..."

Originally, the political struggle gradually changed its nature, and due to poor handling in some places, it turned into a war.

(End of this chapter)