It is not easy for the eunuchs to fight tooth and nail to earn some "pension money" for themselves. One by one, they don't want to spend too much money on such things.
Moreover, Liu Hong's appetite has no limit. He is a kind of man who can only go in but not out. He can absorb as much money as he has and then use it for personal enjoyment. Spending money is like running water.
Eunuchs can indeed make money, but there is a limit to the speed at which they can make money, but there is no limit to the speed at which Liu Hong spends money. If this happens several times, they all feel that they have become Liu Hong's savings institution.
Liu Bei's interception and timely notification gave him the possibility to stop the loss in time, which made him very grateful to Liu Bei.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
"Your thanks are valuable. I've made a note of it. If I'm in any danger in the future, it'll be up to you."
Liu Bei smiled and patted Zhang Rang on the shoulder.
Zhang Rang was stunned for a moment, and then he laughed.
"It's good to be an ally with you. It doesn't make me feel like I'm seeking skin from a tiger."
"Of course, because we have a common enemy, and our sincere cooperation is obviously more beneficial than harmful to both of us. I can't think of any need to betray you, and I can't think of any need for you either. Will betray me."
Liu Bei shook his head and said: "At least until the scholars are completely in decline, we can all be allies, allies with high credibility, allies who can entrust each other to do things."
Zhang Rang stared at Liu Bei and nodded slowly.
"That's right, ally."
Again, it is much easier to discuss cooperation with eunuchs than with scholars.
What the eunuchs want is very clear and vulgar, and it is easy to satisfy them.
What the scholars wanted was too abstract and elegant for Liu Bei to understand, so it was difficult to satisfy them.
Therefore, Liu Bei likes to be allies with eunuchs.
On the fifth day of November, Liu Hong, who was addicted to doing pleasant and shy things with the newly-entered beauties, seemed to realize that he had to do something, so he rarely stretched his head out of the beauties' silk holes and asked It has been announced that the Yuan will be changed.
The reign of Guanghe came to an end, and the reign of Zhongping came.
Perhaps in order to seek good luck, Liu Hong was tired of the "Guanghe" era name that brought him too much uncertainty, and was ready to change his era name and live a stable and comfortable life.
But it seems that the era name of Nakahira is not a good era name. Not long after it was announced, December has not yet arrived, and Kansai urgently reported.
There was a rebellion in Liangzhou.
The scale of the rebellion is not small.
The Qiang people from Beidi County, Anding County, Jincheng County, Longxi County Wuhan, Heguan and other places launched rebellions one after another. The land of Liangzhou was full of wars, and rebels were everywhere.
Unable to endure the endless abuse and bribe demands from imperial officials in Liangzhou, many Qiang people did not intend to endure it any longer.
In addition, they had previously learned that the Taiping Dao Rebellion broke out in the Central Plains, so they believed that the Eastern Han Empire was weak and decided to rebel and break away from the rule of the Eastern Han Empire.
Liangzhou initially dispatched the Huangzhong Yi Conghu, who were border troops and mercenaries, as the main force to suppress the rebellion of the Qiang people. However, they never thought that after these Huangzhong Yi Conghu arrived at the front line, they would suffer from arrears in military expenses and insufficient rewards. For other reasons, a mutiny broke out, killing the Han chiefs, and united with the local rebellious Qiang people to rebel.
They elected Beigong Boyu and Li Wenhou, the former military officers from Huangzhong who had followed Hu, as generals to lead them. They attacked cities and territories everywhere, harassed cities and plundered property, causing a very bad impact.
The Yi Conghu people in Huangzhong were a group of nomadic people who were attached to the imperial court of the Eastern Han Dynasty and driven by the Eastern Han Dynasty. They were mainly Yuezhi people at first. Later, as the Yuezhi people and Qiang people continued to blend, they gradually became mainly Qiang people.
After they merged with the rebels, the composition of the rebels became more complicated. It can be said that most of them are Qiang people, but there are also many miscellaneous people of unknown ethnic origin, and some powerful Han people from Liangzhou Yicong joined them, such as Local powerful people such as Song Yang and Wang Guo.
In the rebel organization, the Qiang people occupy a dominant position, but because the Han people are powerful and the officers have knowledge, they are often able to occupy leadership positions and exert a certain influence on the rebels.
Of course, the ethnic issue is not a problem at all at this time. Whether it is the Qiang rebels or the Han rebels, they have only one purpose - I want to rebel against the Luoyang court!
Facing this group of nondescript rebels who responded to the Yellow Turban Army, Liangzhou Governor Zuo Chang seemed to be very resourceful.
According to what he said, he was recruiting troops to fight against these rebels. He said that the rebels were just petty thieves, not worth mentioning at all, and could be wiped out with a snap of their fingers. As long as the court could have enough rewards, Liangzhou Jianer would definitely eliminate the rebels for the court. military.
When you hear this, it sounds like you are going to do something bad.
However, the Manchu dynasty obviously did not take this small rebellion in the border area seriously. Many rebellions by the Yellow Turban Army had been suppressed by the empire. The Manchu dynasty's civil and military officials had strong confidence that Liangzhou would be able to resolve this matter. .
As a result, Zuo Chang did not know whether he had eaten too much and stuffed his brain. He actually embezzled tens of millions of military recruitment money, so that the Liangzhou government did not have enough troops to contain the rebels.
Shi Gaixun, the county magistrate of Hanyang, who was very prestigious in Liangzhou, also believed that Zuo Chang's brain was blocked by eating too much, so he tried to dissuade him from embezzling military expenditures. However, Zuo Chang thought it was a hindrance, so he gave Gai Xun an army. Let him go to Ayang County in Hanyang County to face the attacking rebels.
Zuo Chang originally thought that Gai Xun would not be able to defeat the rebels, and planned to execute him with military law when he returned after being defeated. However, he did not expect that Gai Xun had a sudden attack and defended Ayang County with inferior troops. The rebels were besieged many times and could not defeat them. As a last resort, Zuo Chang Finally gave up the attack on Ayang County.
Although Gai Xun defended Ayang County, Zuo Chang did not seize the opportunity to attack the rebels to eliminate them. Instead, he was too timid to move, so that the rebels diverted to Jincheng County.
After the rebels moved into Jincheng County, they pretended to surrender and asked to see Bian Yun and Han Yue, the famous officials in the city, saying that they wanted to negotiate with them. As long as they were willing to come out to meet, they were willing to surrender.
Bian Yun and Han Yue originally did not want to go out of the city to meet each other, thinking it was a scam, but Chen Yi, the prefect of Jincheng, wanted to settle the matter quickly and make achievements, so he urged them to go out of the city to meet with the Liangzhou rebels, and the rebels successfully kidnapped Bian Yun. Yue Han also took advantage of the situation to break through the city and kill Chen Yi.
Jincheng County was thus controlled by the rebels.
The rebels regained their prestige and gained the ability to continue causing rebellion. During this period, Gai Xun repeatedly asked Zuo Chang to send troops to assist Jincheng County. Zuo Chang was afraid of the enemy and refused to do so.
So the rebels directly attacked Liangzhou Prefecture's Ji County in Hanyang County. Zuo Chang was surrounded in Ji County and could not escape. Then he panicked and quickly sent someone to Gai Xun of Ayang County for help.
Some generals in the army didn't want to rescue this bastard governor who was seeking his own death, but Gai Xun scolded them and told them to focus on the overall situation, so they were able to lead the army to support Ji County.
After arriving in Ji County, Gai Xun was surprised to learn that Jincheng County officials Bian Yun and Han Yue, who had been trapped by the rebels, had joined the rebels and even became one of the rebel leaders. He angrily asked them why they betrayed like this The favor of the imperial court.
Bian Yun and Han Yue felt ashamed, but they also said that the responsibility lies with Zuo Chang. If Zuo Chang supports Jincheng County in time, Jincheng County can be saved and the prefect will not die. They still have a chance to change their ways. But in this situation, they have already There is no choice.
Despite this, because of Gai Xun's great prestige and power, the rebels did not dare to confront him head-on, so they retreated and lifted the siege of Ji County. The crisis was temporarily lifted, and Zuo Chang was able to survive.
But the situation did not get better, and the rebels did not stop attacking the city.
The battle has been fought like this, and many officials of the empire have been killed. It is impossible for the court to forgive them. The rebels have already fired their bows and there is no turning back.
This battle can only continue.
In December of the first year of Zhongping, relevant news was sent to Luoyang.
Only then did the ministers in the court learn that the eloquent Zuo Chang had cleverly avoided all the correct options and selected the extremely wrong option with extremely ghostly skills in just over twenty days. , pushing the chaos in Liangzhou into the abyss.
This made them extremely annoyed.
(End of chapter)
