I, Liu Bian, Sanxing Han Dynasty

Chapter 19 Reality but no name

In the next few days, Luoyang only received one military report from Hanyang County, which stated that Ji County had more than enough to defend the city. Before the military report was sent, Huangfu Li and Liu Bei led their cavalry out of the city at night, looting and burning. Get some food and fodder for the rebels.

However, as the strength of the Liangzhou rebels increased day by day, although the rebels still could not capture Ji County, they showed signs of abandoning Ji County and going to Sanfu. After all, Ji County has few soldiers and cannot stop it.

Liu Bian had no intention of becoming a master of micro-management, and he did not think that when it came to specific battlefield command, he could compare with the battle-hardened Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, let alone a fierce man like Sun Jian among them.

Emperor Ling did change his generals on the spot, more than once.

But it's not too difficult for Liu Bian. Through Zhang Rang to ensure that no eunuchs slander, everything will be easy to talk about.

And a few days after Emperor Ling had a night talk with Liu Bian, he actually took Liu Bian to Yongle Palace in person.

Empress Dowager Dong was not hopelessly stupid. This time, she acted very lovingly in front of the emperor and Liu Bian.

Perhaps, Empress Dowager Dong had vaguely understood what Emperor Ling was thinking.

Liu Bian also felt that this was probably the closest he had been to the position of prince since he entered the palace.

But after going to Yongle Palace, Emperor Ling still had nothing to express in this regard. He just instructs the Chancellor to select some minor matters from the official documents of that day every five days and hand them over to Liu Bian for review. As long as the review results are confirmed by Lu Zhi and there are no problems, they can be implemented directly.

On the other hand, Lu Zhi took advantage of this shareholder's style to become a mother-in-law after many years of being a daughter-in-law. After being a minister for nearly ten years, he finally completed the ministerial order and could legitimately teach Liu Bian the affairs of the ministerial office.

He Jin was keenly aware of this change. He learned wisely this time and did not engage in the trick of writing letters to hundreds of officials.

Liu Bian felt that He Jin might have listened to someone's suggestion and just sent a letter from Chen Lin, the chief secretary of the General's Mansion, and several others, but Emperor Ling still pretended that nothing had happened.

Liu Bian understood that Emperor Ling still had not made up his mind.

He basically understood the concerns of Emperor Ling - the conflicts between Empress He, Empress Dowager Dong and Liu Xie, as well as He Jin's pursuit of reputation among scholars.

Among them, He Jin is relatively unimportant, but because of the death of Wang Meiren, the former is still a thorn in the heart of Emperor Ling even today when Emperor Ling personally went to broker the relationship between the two palaces.

Liu Bian also tried to persuade Queen He once, but Queen He reluctantly agreed.

For this reason, Liu Bian also called Emperor Ling to go to Yongle Palace to meet Empress Dowager Dong, and Emperor Ling readily agreed.

But Emperor Ling was fine when he was in Yongle Palace, Empress He unilaterally surrendered, and Empress Dowager Dong was only slightly irritated in front of Emperor Ling, which was still within the acceptable range.

When Emperor Ling felt tired and left first, Empress Dowager Dong probably felt that she had decided to take over Empress He, and her attitude changed at that time.

Empress Dowager Dong was not the kind of person to be merciful and forgiving. Even Liu Bian couldn't bear to listen to her unreasonable accusations, so he pulled Empress He away on the spot.

Liu Bian had been cared for by Queen He for so long and could not ignore her.

At this point, Liu Bian decided to withdraw his previous evaluation of Empress Dowager Dong as "not hopelessly stupid".

Emperor Ling was quite embarrassed when he learned everything afterwards, but he didn't say much. He just told Liu Bian to go to Yongle Palace to say well every month.

On the first day of April in the fourth year of Zhongping, Liu Bian went to Yongle Palace according to Emperor Ling's instructions.

Empress Dowager Dong's attitude towards Liu Bian was not as extreme as that towards Empress He, but it was not much better. It was just like going through the motions, very bland, and incomparable to Liu Xie.

Liu Bian even felt that if he were not an adult at heart, it would be difficult for an eleven or twelve-year-old child not to have a rebellious mentality in the face of Emperor Ling's saucy manipulations. Emperor Ling was probably aware of this and called Liu Bian the next day, hoping to appease him.

Emperor Ling first asked Liu Bian about his homework, and Liu Bian answered them one by one.

Then Liu Bian suggested to Emperor Ling: "I saw my brother very smart last time, but when I asked Zhang Changshi, he said that my brother has not yet officially enlightened to study. I think he is almost old, so why not go to the East with me? Watching books?”

"That's fine, but your grandmother... it doesn't matter, I'll go and tell you in person." Emperor Ling was happy, and remembered the purpose of calling Liu Bian, and said, "Lu Ziqian told me that your handling of those official documents is basically the same. There is no omission, you go and talk to Liang Hu tomorrow, and from now on you will take a whole day to come to Yutang Hall every five days, and Lu Zigan will teach you how to deal with the important affairs of the court and counties!"

Emperor Ling's sudden decision was beyond Liu Bian's expectation. Logically speaking, a prince who could do this would be no different from a prince except that he did not have the title of prince.

After all, the Han Dynasty has not had a prince for many years, and the configuration of the prince's uterus is only theoretical, and in reality it is useless.

Liu Bian suddenly felt that Emperor Ling had become extraordinarily amiable.

It's worth all the thought he put into it.

……

On the right side of Fufeng, in Huaili, Dong Zhuo was filled with anger.

Dong Zhuo, who grew up in Liangzhou, maintained good relations with many Qiang tribal leaders in Liangzhou. He had already had a premonition of the resurgence of the Liangzhou rebels.

That's why Dong Zhuo followed Zhang Wen to defeat the Liangzhou rebels two years ago and stationed troops in Youfufeng through Yuan Wei's network, hoping to achieve greater achievements.

In his early years, Dong Zhuo was recruited as a sergeant by Yuan Wei, who was then Situ. Since then, he has maintained a relationship with Yuan Wei. He often showed favor to him through his third brother Dong Min, who was an official in Luoyang, and made money every year.

Unlike Dong Zhuo's first candidate, the deceased Zhang Huan, Yuan Wei accepted Dong Zhuo's gifts in full.

Earlier, Dong Min sent someone to tell him that Yuan Wei had obtained the post of former general for him, commanding the three auxiliary forces, but he had to be controlled by Huangfu Song.

Although Dong Zhuo was a little reluctant and felt that Huangfu Song was also from Liangzhou, so why should he be overshadowed by him, but he was still quite satisfied with the position of former general who was higher than Shangqing.

After receiving the news, Dong Zhuo immediately got ready.

He himself has extraordinary physical strength and is good at riding and shooting. When running the army, he pays attention to winning the hearts of his soldiers. Whenever he made meritorious deeds and was rewarded by the court, Dong Zhuo would not keep any money and distribute it all to his subordinates.

Dong Zhuo's Qiang, Huns, and Han soldiers who had been recruited for a long time were gradually trained to be loyal only to the leader himself under Dong Zhuo's strategy.

In fact, Dong Zhuo is not the only one who has done this kind of thing, but Zhang Huan, Duan Jiong and others mostly only do this when the rewards from the court do not come in time. Dong Zhuo is different.

Just when Dong Zhuo was happily preparing to go to Chang'an to accept new recruits, the military order from Zhu Jun and the wartime promotion from Luoyang were like a basin of cold water poured on him.

"Stick to Huaili! General Zuo Zhonglang! Stick to Huaili! General Zuo Zhonglang!" In the martial arts training ground, Dong Zhuo waved the horse in his hand. Every time he shouted, he stabbed down an archery target or a straw man, as if to kill They thought he was Zhu Jun.

His son-in-law Niu Fu ran over excitedly and shouted: "Sir, a letter has arrived from Uncle Luoyang. I heard that the edict has also arrived. When will you gather your sons and set off?"

Dong Zhuo threw the horse to the ground heavily and said angrily: "Mom, a former general was robbed by Zhu Jun's farm slave, where are you going?"

(End of this chapter)