In July, Chen Chong led Sili and Liangzhou ministries back to Chang'an.
Returning to the dry land of Guanzhong again, everything in front of Chen Chong felt familiar: the cries of green birds along the road, the piles of corn by farmers in the streets, a few yellow and white chrysanthemums exposed from time to time on the roadside, and the endless The sound of the Wei River flowing made him feel that he had just left with the crowd. After all, the last time the army left Guanzhong, the scenery along the way was the same. But Chen Chong didn't feel comfortable. He also knew that this was just the surface of the world. Life often takes several years of calmness to make people relax, and then destroys them in an instant. This is the lesson that the past years have taught him.
After returning to Chang'an, Chen Chong did not immediately disband the armies, but made major personnel adjustments. After the Battle of Huoshibu, he was haunted by the scene where the Eastern Army was almost destroyed after the organization was disrupted, and he often woke up late at night because of it. Although everyone discussed afterwards that this was due to lax military discipline in the army and the desire to win more than anything else, it could be avoided as long as more emphasis is placed on military discipline in the future. However, Chen Chong believes that the battlefield situation is ever-changing, and there are always some unexpected situations. Blindly emphasizing military discipline is not omnipotent, and more considerations should be made from the military system.
When he was in Luoyang, he already had a general idea in his mind. Since the first year of Yanxing, although the armies of the two prefectures have become more and more numerous, their personnel have gradually become scattered. Although the generals of each school are affiliated to the two governments, they are not coordinated with each other and are not familiar with their jurisdictions. Without the commander-in-chief to participate in the command and mobilize personally, they often fight independently on the battlefield. If they win, they will pursue them, and if they lose, they will retreat alone. These problems are not obvious when there are only a few elite soldiers, but once they participate in a large battle involving more than 100,000 people, this problem becomes difficult to ignore, let alone the situation where the organization is disrupted.
Therefore, Chen Chong concluded that new positions should be established above the counties, towns, and Guanjun in order to coordinate the overall situation. After discussing with Liu Bei, Xun You and others, most of them agreed with Chen Chong's point of view. However, this move involved hundreds of thousands of soldiers and could not be changed suddenly. Therefore, they suggested that the Sili Mansion should try it first in Guanzhong, and wait for initial results. Then promote it nationwide.
So Chen Chong changed the Sizhou army to the Central Army and merged the Northern Army, which was originally the palace forbidden army, into it. The long-abandoned position of General Wei in the DPRK was reestablished and Guan Yu was appointed as the head of the Chinese army.
Under General Wei, Chen Chong set up two military advisers, who were responsible for assisting the left commander and planning the military, and were appointed by Zhong Yao and Huangfu Jianshou; one governor, who was responsible for maintaining military discipline and rewarding and punishing soldiers, and was appointed by Dong Yue; and one guard, who was responsible for guarding. Xu Huang serves as the leader of the Central Army and serves as the messenger and communications officer; Zhao Yun serves as the leader of the army, responsible for teaching troops and martial arts and recruiting talented people; Yu Fan serves as the leader of the Dianjun army, responsible for clearing money and recording personnel; and Yu Fan serves as the leader of the army. Responsible for reviewing and proofreading, checking for omissions and filling in vacancies, Liu Qi serves.
The soldiers of each county no longer regarded the county as a separate division, and were thus reorganized into eight divisions: Zhongli, Tunqi, Huben, Xiaoyong, Infantry, Shesheng, Qingchao, and Jinguan, which were composed of Hu Zhen, Zhu Hao, Zhang Xiu, They were led by Sheyuan, Yangquan, Pei Qian, Yang Qiu, Ma Dai and Wang Gai, each with 5,000 people under their command.
While reorganizing the army, Chen Chong also took this opportunity to redefine the military merit titles of the lieutenants.
The twenty-level military merit title originally belonged to the Qin system. It was a military system established by Shang Yang to promote the country's farming and warfare. As a result, the Qin State not only developed a strong army that spanned the six countries, but also discovered famous generals such as Bai Qi and Wang Jian. , and then China was able to be unified. When Emperor Gaozu founded the country, this system was still used and regarded as the foundation of the country. Emperor Gaozu once made it clear during the White Horse Alliance: "Those who have not achieved military merit will not be ennobled as marquises." This is what he meant. This is how the Han Dynasty flourished for hundreds of years. However, with the development today, the eighth-level civilian titles have become empty titles, and the number of titles below fifteenth level has basically lost their original effectiveness. Only the two levels of Guanneihou and Liehou are still practical.
However, titles are related to various systems such as service and land granting, which affect the whole people. Now it is impossible to fully restore them. Chen Chong then retreated to the next best thing. He just wanted to redefine military titles in the army so that salary would depend on title rather than position. Chen Chong thought that once the organization was disrupted again, even if the sources were mixed and the military positions were not subordinate to each other, the soldiers only needed to distinguish their status according to their military titles, and they could temporarily organize new troops to execute military orders. This was the biggest problem. Benefits.
The army consolidation began in July and lasted until late September, when it was finally ended. Then Guan Yu came from Hedong to take up his post and led the Eighth Division of the Chinese Army to the area around Shanglin Garden for hunting training. As a result, the local people called the Chinese army Shanglin Army.
It's late autumn in the blink of an eye, and frost is coming soon. The temperature has cooled down very quickly recently. Some people are just slow to put on their clothes and have contracted the wind chill. Someone told the story that Zhang Zhongjing used dumplings to cure typhoid fever, so every household in Guanzhong cooked dumplings. The aroma of noodles filled the streets and alleys, making passers-by extremely intoxicated.
On this day, Chen Chong took a break in the small house. It was afternoon at this time, and the sun moved slightly to the west, but the sunshine was still extremely warm, so Chen Chong moved the bamboo couch to the windless well in the back hall, next to a cluster of pink chrysanthemums, and then lay on it, covering his eyes. Black cloth takes a nap. As he got older, his energy was not as good as before, so he always had to rest for two moments at noon.
But just when he was about to fall asleep and lost consciousness, the footsteps of several people suddenly came from the front yard, and then stopped. After a while, Dong Bai slightly shook him awake and called softly: "Ting Jian, Ting Jian .”
Chen Chong reluctantly opened his eyes and saw Dong Bai smiling at him, and heard her say: "Chang Wen is here and said he wants to see you if there is something urgent."
Chen Qun came not for any other reason, but because of a confession. When Chen Qun handed over the original text to Chen Chong, Chen Chong glanced at the beginning and saw the four characters "Chen Heng presented the memorial" in a flying and phoenix manner. He immediately couldn't laugh or cry. He couldn't help but think: "What is supposed to come will still come!"
The person who wrote this letter was none other than Shangshu Lang Pingyuan Miheng. The content of the article is also very simple, which is to impeach Chen Chong, the commander-in-chief and minister, and to annex Liu Bei, the governor of the state, with the general. The table bluntly states that in recent years, they have controlled the government internally, exercised arbitrary power, forced talented people into a trap, and formed a party of their own. Externally, they have lost troops and generals. Their efforts have been in vain and have greatly damaged the country's prestige.
He also mentioned Chen Chong's previous remarks, saying that he promised to return the imperial power to the emperor when he was 20 years old. Now that the deadline has come, why hasn't he returned to the emperor's government? A closer look at the failures of the past few years is simply due to the fact that the country's monarchs and ministers have lost their positions, lack of discipline, and important ministers in the court have lost their ethics. This has caused the people to imitate and have evil intentions. For example, Chen Chong killed his family but did not leave his post, and Zhang Fei's father died without resigning. It is extremely unethical to be in mourning while still retaining the remnants of Dong Zhuo such as Jia Xu and Zhang Xiu.
If that's all I've said, that's fine. But Mi Heng was interested in writing, and also wrote: "Xiang Yu is a boy, and there is still the defeat of Wujiang. How can Chen Chong return to Chi County with just one look!" Back then, Chen Chong had his eyebrow bone knocked out by Dong Jun, but today he was killed by you. Heng scolded him directly. Later, there were sarcastic remarks about Liu Bei's background as a shoe seller, that Lao Ge was rude, had big ears, but didn't know how to accept his words and do good deeds. Chen Qun and Xun You were even scolded to death, and were ridiculed for being "from Tugu'er", which means It just refers to the waiter who sells meat and negotiates the price.
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At the end, he also grandly attached a joint list. There were not many names, but everyone was a very famous scribe. For example, Zhao Jian, known as "Chen Shi the Second", Geng Ji, the "Maoling White Horse" personally promoted by Chen Chong, and even Wei Xi, the "final army of Jingbei" and others.
Even a well-educated person like Chen Chong couldn't help but feel a little angry after reading the article, but he immediately washed his face with cold water and quickly calmed down. While rubbing his face slightly with a towel, he asked Chen Qun, "Where is Mi Heng now?"
Chen Qun replied: "After he went to the table, he went home. I heard that his house even had a coffin ready."
Chen Chong couldn't help but laugh and thought to himself: It's really not easy to meet someone who is admonishing him these days. Then he asked again: "He is a minister, is there no discussion in Taichung?"
Chen Qun said truthfully: "There are indeed discussions in Taichung, but most of them are about the reason why he was listed. Other than that, they are praising his literary talent."
It turns out that when Mi Heng entered the court as an official, he always thought highly of himself. Among the people in Xijing, he admired only a few people such as Chen Chong, Kong Rong, and Yang Xiu. But Chen Chong has been busy with official duties, so he only has good friends with Kong Rong and Yang Xiu. Unexpectedly, during the seven-year turmoil in Yanxing, two friends died one after another because of Chen Chong. This made him intolerable and thought Chen Chong was incompetent. Even in ordinary discussions between celebrities, he often disparaged Chen Chong and laughed at him as a blind dragon.
Chen Chong had already heard about what he had done, and although he had no intention of pursuing it, he also knew that sooner or later he would come out and embarrass everyone, so he reminded Liu Bei about it. At this time, he finally saw this article, and Chen Chong asked Chen Qun again: "He didn't send a copy to Bafu, right?"
Chen Qun smiled bitterly and said, "This is natural."
Sure enough, half a month later, the inscription that Mi Heng sent to Bafu was sent back to Xijing by Fa Zheng. Under the inscription, Liu Bei wrote eight characters on the front with a red pen: "Zhilan is in power and must be eliminated!" On the back, he wrote in black ink. : "This person's traitorous nature is hard to change, and his tongue is poisonous! If you don't kill me, I won't hesitate to be famous!"
Although there were only about twenty words, Chen Chong could already imagine Liu Bei's rage. He recalled Liu Bei's promise not to kill before they left, and he felt funny and sighed in his heart. He said to Fazheng: "Filial piety and uprightness will last forever." There is no rest for the Jinyang border defense, so why not rest for a few days in the capital."
After hearing this, Fazheng knew Chen Chong's intentions and understood that Longshou was planning to drag the matter over and deal with it as nothing could be done. Fazheng has always respected Ni Heng's literary name, so he admired Chen Chong's decision in his heart, and then replied with an unusual smile: "Forget it for fun, but I heard that the envoy's training of the new army is quite effective, I also plan to go and observe One or two!"
However, the political impact of Mi Heng's statement was indeed very bad, and Chen Chong could not completely ignore it. After careful consideration, Chen Chong appointed Ni Heng as the captain of Yinchuan and asked him to go to Yinchuan County, which was full of rebel Qiang people, to appease the Qiang people. As for Mi Heng's confession, Chen Chong placed it in front of his bed, watched it and recited it silently every day, so as to work hard and live up to his original intention.
