I, Liu Bian, Sanxing Han Dynasty

Chapter 524: New Commander
The rebellion of Gongsun Du in Liaodong was put down in a short time, and the civil unrest in various places was actually no match for the central army and border troops that had been baptized by war for a long time.

In the past, Emperor Xian did not pay enough attention to the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and the central army and local soldiers who went to quell the rebellion had been in peace for too long and their combat effectiveness was weakened. However, even so, it only took the Han Dynasty one year to quell the massive Yellow Turban Rebellion.

The scale of the civil unrest today is incomparable to the Yellow Turban Rebellion of the past.

The only difference is probably that in the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the past, most of the powerful families and nobles were the targets of the Yellow Turban Army, but now, there are many powerful families who have joined the rebellion.

The participation of these powerful people who possessed knowledge did improve the organization and combat effectiveness of the rioters to a certain extent, but their upper-level organization did not have a "Zhang Jiao" who could stand up and raise his arms. The rioters generally fought on their own in units of counties and kingdoms, and their increased combat effectiveness was still not enough compared to the central army and border troops that had been through many wars.

Luoyang.

Liu Bian was busy but not chaotic.

He didn't think that this turmoil, which was not as serious as the Yellow Turban Rebellion, could shake the foundation of the Han Dynasty.

In fact, after Huangfu Song and Guan Yu successively wielded their butcher knives, the new chaos in various places decreased visibly.

There are negative effects as well. Those areas that were already in chaos became even more chaotic, and some powerful people who originally wanted to hide in the dark and bet on both sides had to stand up and fight to the death.

Liu Bian was integrating military supplies from various places and sending them to the front line to quell the rebellion.

First is the most stable Sanfu area. After the drought, floods and locust plagues the year before and earlier, Sanfu had a bumper harvest last year, and the summer harvest in May this year was also full of grain.

The second is Liangzhou, which was the source of unrest in the past. Although Liangzhou has also implemented the military farming system, the environment, distance, and farmland yield are still there. It is naturally difficult to ask a place like Sanfu to transport food to Guandong. However, the soldiers of Liangzhou can be trusted in Guandong.

Zhang Lu of Hanzhong County in Yizhou returned to Luoyang after suppressing the Five Pecks of Rice Rebellion. Now there is no trouble easily. Under the governance of Liu Bei, Xun You, Shen Pei and others, Yizhou has few civil unrests and can supply food to the court.

Bingzhou and Youzhou, like Liangzhou, are places where strong troops come from.

There is stable logistics, elite troops from all over the place, and the veteran Huangfu Song who is in charge of the overall situation.

Liu Bian didn't know how to lose at all.

He had the courage to raise this flag.

Not only that, he also had to strengthen his original determination to kill.

The court currently controls too little land.

After thinking about this, Liu Bian looked at the memorial in front of him, in which the Imperial Censor impeached Prime Minister Dong Zhuo for recruiting the traitor Gongsun Du.

There was nothing wrong with the impeachment itself, but Dong Zhuo had only been a high official for a few months and he was not doing a bad job. Thanks to his iron-blooded style when measuring the land, Dong Zhuo was now almost feared by all officials, and many decisions could be implemented because of this. Therefore, Dong Zhuo had to continue to work.

However, Huang Wan, the former Guanglu Xun and newly appointed Taiwei, continued his stubborn side as a party member after becoming Taiwei.

However, this time, unlike when Huang Wan strictly abided by the system when he selected talents from the three departments as Guanglu Xun, Huang Wan now focused on the slaughter of the powerful by Huangfu Song, Guan Yu and others, and sang a different tune from Liu Bian.

Differences in political views led to disagreements between the monarch and his subjects.

Under normal circumstances, Liu Bian might have adopted a conciliatory approach, because Huang Wan's work ability was impeccable and his character and morals were beyond reproach.

But for Liu Bian now, there can only be one voice in the court. However, there are not many people who are qualified to replace Huang Wan as the Grand Commandant. None of Liu Bian's confidants who have been cultivated slowly have such qualifications. Therefore, Liu Bian first thought of Zhu Jun, the Right General and Governor of Jiaozhou.

In recent years, although Jiaozhou’s ties with Luoyang were not close due to transportation reasons, Jiaozhou was usually the last to receive imperial decrees, and was half a beat slower than the court in various events.

But under the leadership of the old general Zhu Jun, Jiaozhou seemed to have been unaffected by the natural disasters and man-made disasters in recent years, and it looked like a paradise on earth.

Now, as Lu Zhi had to retreat to the second line due to his old age, Liu Bian also had to consider the afterlife of this old general who had served the Han Dynasty loyally.

The rank of the General was equivalent to that of a middle-ranking official of two thousand stones, while Zhu Jun was a rank of ten thousand stones when he was alive, so Zhu Jun deserved it.

Therefore, even though Zhang Wen was an obedient candidate for the position of Grand Marshal, Liu Bian still chose Zhu Jun.

The imperial edict passed through Jingzhou and was sent to Jiaozhou as quickly as possible.

Jiaozhou, Cangwu County.

After suppressing the scourge in Jiaozhou with thundering means, Zhu Jun took office in Guangxin County, Cangwu Prefecture, where his deceased eldest son Zhu Fu had once been stationed, and continued to implement the court's good policies.

This was not a difficult task for Zhu Jun, who held the military power of Jiaozhou. After all, there were too few people in Jiaozhou, and most of them were barbarians.

After Zhu Jun defeated Shi Xie, no powerful family or nobleman in the counties of Jiaozhou dared to openly oppose him.

Facts have proved that a stable, fair and non-oppression political environment can indeed greatly promote the peaceful integration among ethnic groups.

Under Zhu Jun's leadership, Jiaozhou enjoyed a stable political situation and harmonious people, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment.

While the north was affected by floods and droughts, Jiaozhou, known as a place of miasma, was calm amid the overall drop in temperature.

Among them, Jiaozhi County, as the most populous county in Jiaozhou, even had a population of one million under the governance of Zhu Jun. Although most of them were registered barbarians, they only had to pay 40 coins or corresponding cloth as a head tax every year.

It is clear that several years ago, under the governance of Shi Xie, Jiaozhi County, which had suffered from an epidemic in its early years, had only more than 800,000 people on the register.

A population of tens of thousands of people certainly cannot come from natural growth, or in other words, it actually comes from the gift of nature.

The barbarians in the mountains envied the Han people for continuing to farm, and would rather pay a head tax than learn.

For Zhu Jun, this was naturally something he had been longing for.

Following the example of Liangzhou's military farming, the barbarians were allowed to learn Han classics, and the Han people who occupied a minority in Jiaozhou served as officials to manage the remaining barbarians.

This was the successful experience of Liangzhou, and Zhu Jun applied it without hesitation.

As for the land measurement that is in full swing in the Central Plains now... It's not that there is no population disappearing in Jiaozhou, but most of them are barbarians or Han people who call themselves barbarians. But in terms of land... Jiaozhou, with a small population and a lot of land, lacks this contradiction in the environment where the government takes the lead in developing arable land.

After receiving the emperor's edict, Zhu Jun arranged his affairs without hesitation and set out to relieve the emperor's worries.

(End of this chapter)