For the people in the entire Luoyang whirlpool, Liu Hong's declaration was a fatal matter.
But in the midst of this fatal crisis, those obsessed with party struggle still keenly sensed opportunities.
The Taiping Dao Trial, which was mainly in charge of Dongyuan and participated by the heads of the Three Law Departments, gradually entered a white-hot stage. Guo Hong, Han Fu and Zhao Qiu were stabbing at the critical point with all their moves.
Zheng Xuan, the leader of the Ancient Classics School, a waiter and a doctor, was suspected of colluding with Taiping Dao because one of his direct disciples had contacts with Taiping Dao thieves.
So Zheng Xuan was "requested" by Dongyuan to assist in the investigation.
Yang Biao, the son of Yang Ci, the leader of the Jinwen Jing school, once had a relationship with a Taiping Taoist. After this past was dug up, Yang Biao was also invited by Dongyuan to assist in the investigation.
The most senior leaders of both sides were taken to the East Garden for questioning and trial, which shows how fierce the battle was.
That is to say, the war department and the court department belong to two different command systems. Otherwise, the intensifying political whirlpool in Luoyang could really involve the entire Eastern Han Empire.
He Jin stayed away from this political whirlpool.
Although some people yearn for guys who can dominate the whirlpool, He Jin knows that the most important thing for him to do at the moment is not to participate in the struggle.
He had just become a general, and it was when he needed military prestige to establish his position. Without military prestige, how could he be ashamed to hold the highest military position in the world?
The position of general is too powerful, the status is too high, and it is very conspicuous. Even if he is a relative, it will be difficult to convince the public if he does not have certain achievements.
If he can't convince the crowd, he won't be able to sit firmly in this position, and he will be ridiculed by others, and he will become a rat on the street and everyone will shout and beat him. Even if his sister is the queen, he will not be able to escape.
As a man, He Jin cannot accept this shame.
Therefore, Liu Hong and Zhang Rang really chose the right person when they chose He Jin for this position. At least subjectively, he sincerely hoped to put down the Taiping Dao chaos as soon as possible and was willing to do his best for this.
While the army was still preparing, the most anxious person was He Jin.
He was busy jumping up and down to raise ordnance, food and fodder for the army, hoping that the army could be prepared as soon as possible and then dispatched smoothly.
Basically, if any problem arises in the army during this period, He Jin can quickly solve it for you. The speed at which he handles the problem is incredibly fast, unlike a normal Eastern Han Dynasty bureaucrat.
For example, Lu Zhi found that the army's expected food supply was still insufficient, which might affect the normal dispatch of troops, so he asked Liu Bei to find He Jin to solve the problem.
He Jin was in the General's Mansion. When he heard that Liu Bei was coming on behalf of Lu Zhi, he immediately met with Liu Bei in person. After hearing the problem, he immediately found the official in charge of logistics work without saying a word and asked him to directly communicate with Liu Bei. Solve the problem as quickly as possible.
The whole process of dealing with the problem took less than a stick of incense, and then He Jin started to deal with the next thing.
This efficiency...
To be honest, if the empire's bureaucrats had Ho Jin's speed and efficiency in handling problems, how could the Taiping Tao Uprising have happened?
However, even He Jin was just a flash in the pan. After the Yellow Turban Rebellion was put down, He Jin would not continue to maintain this kind of work intensity.
So, everything is just a mirror image.
The two systems in Luoyang City are rushing in completely different directions, and on the other side, the Taiping Road in Jizhou and the Central Plains region is also having a hard time.
The excellent matching mechanism in history is always worth studying. How can a bronze player randomly meet a diamond player?
Because of the excellent operations of Gao Zheng, Yan Sheng and Wang Meng, the leaders of the Jizhou Yellow Turban Army, the major channel commanders of Taiping Road who could serve as the main force in various parts of the Central Plains knew the specific situation at completely inconsistent times.
Some Qushuai were lucky. The people sent by Jizhou to spread the news were more clever and quickly reached their destination, so they knew about it earlier, by the end of February.
Some Qushuai were too unlucky, and the people sent by Jizhou to spread the news were too unreliable.
Either he broke his leg on the way, or he was killed by a strong bandit on the way, or he simply ran to the wrong place and got lost, or he felt that there was no future with the Yellow Turban Army, so he deserted and ran away.
Therefore, these unlucky Qushuai were still at a loss as to what was happening in Jizhou until the government took action. They were still waiting stupidly for everyone to act together on the fifth day of March and the world would be well.
The Luoyang court moved relatively quickly.
Before He Jin officially became general, at the end of February, the governors of various states and the governors of various counties got the news, and they were all frightened by the top-secret official documents sent to Luoyang court at high speed.
What?
Taipingdao, which spreads everywhere and promotes truth, goodness, beauty and Huang-Lao's teachings, is actually a group of careerists who conspire to rebel? Are they planning a rebellion?
Is this a big deal?
Although these local officials do not pay much attention to Taiping Dao, they basically know the scale of the local Taiping Dao. Smaller places with Taiping Dao are fine. In larger places, even the governor's office and the county governor's office have joined Taiping Dao. officials exist.
So the governors and county guards became very uneasy.
Some of them immediately began to prepare to mobilize the armed forces they could mobilize.
It is worth mentioning that although the Eastern Han Dynasty institutionally abolished a complete set of recruitment, training, and combat systems for county soldiers starting from Liu Xiu, this enabled local counties to have an army that was fully trained and capable of conducting field operations. The possibility disappears, but how can the maintenance of political power be lacking in force?
During the Western Han Dynasty, the county soldiers were composed of regular soldiers such as knights and officials who were mainly responsible for military functions, and pawns who were mainly responsible for a series of logistical chores. Shortly after the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty, in order to restore order in the world, Liu Xiu deposed the former and left behind the latter.
Perhaps he felt that the latter could not pose a threat to his central government.
However, no matter how the latter lacked combat effectiveness and institutional guarantees, they could still legally use force. Therefore, the latter filled the gaps of the former in the political ecology of the Eastern Han Dynasty and assumed the role of "prefecture soldiers". The actual responsibilities of the existence can be called the characteristic military force of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Of course, due to the lack of institutional recruitment and training, as well as the lack of institutional guarantees, it is questionable how much combat effectiveness these "pawns" who handle chores have.
In terms of number, these Eastern Han Dynasty-style county soldiers generally ranged from 1,000 to 3,000 people.
Border counties in remote areas such as Youzhou, Bingzhou, and Liangzhou face the threat of foreign forces. Therefore, the county soldiers generally have a larger number, are trained frequently, and have strong combat effectiveness. They also have professional battalions. In fact, there are no How much worse than the soldiers of the prefecture and state during the Western Han Dynasty.
The inland counties are completely different.
The number of county soldiers in the inland counties is basically maintained at around one thousand, and they are really mainly responsible for chores and logistics. They have a humble status, equivalent to the servants of the state and county chiefs and officials, and are allowed to be ordered around and done by them. Some menial chores.
Except for a few special beings who deal with bandits and bandits and protect their superiors from running away at critical moments, most county soldiers have basically not received any serious combat training, and their combat effectiveness and fighting will are extremely close to zero.
Coincidentally, the locations where the Yellow Turban Uprising led by Taiping Dao broke out were basically in inland counties.
Of course, the Yellow Turban Army established on Taiping Road did not have the professional strength to attack the Eastern Han Dynasty government, but the local county and state officials in the Eastern Han Dynasty could not provide professional troops to deal with the Yellow Turban Army's attack.
In fact, during the Yellow Turban Uprising, before the end of the professional troops from the Luoyang court, the Yellow Turban army and the local county soldiers were basically in a state of novices, and the actual strength gap between the two sides was not large.
The difference is that the Yellow Turban Army has the bonus of utter hatred for the Han Empire, the belief in the Great Master, and the bonus of Huang Tiandang's slogan "Heaven is Dead", so they have a stronger will to fight and are relatively less afraid of death.
As for the officers and soldiers of the Eastern Han Dynasty...
To put it bluntly, these soldiers with the characteristics of the Eastern Han Dynasty, their status is as good as that of dogs, their treatment is as good as that of pigs, their work is as good as that of donkeys, and how much money do they get in a month?
What are you fighting for?
Run away!
As a result, the officers and soldiers of the county were defeated like a mountain.
Then there was a situation where [the world was shaken in ten months].
(End of chapter)
