The new governing team and the new governing atmosphere need a clear and thorough demonstration.
In addition to the fact that the nature of the empire cannot be shaken, everyone also agrees that the ability of the Ancient Literature School can be demonstrated with a serious achievement that is beneficial to the country.
We, the School of Ancient Literature, must completely solve the problems that the School of Modern Literature cannot solve, and the humiliation that the School of Modern Literature has brought to the Han Dynasty, so as to avenge our past humiliation.
Therefore, no one objected to Liu Bei's suggestion, but there were many who supported it.
Moreover, the issue of merging states is indeed serious and needs to be resolved. No one can tolerate that an armed force not controlled by the imperial court can spread its power to the edge of the Yellow River, only more than 100 kilometers away from Luoyang.
Coincidentally, at this critical moment, Liu Bei received Dong Zhuo's personal letter.
The general idea is that Dong Zhuo hopes that Liu Bei can help him transfer back to Luoyang to take up the position instead of staying in Bingzhou. Dong Zhuo feels that the situation in Bingzhou is not stable and his own abilities are limited. He is afraid that Liu Bei will be angry if he fails to do so, so he hopes Liu Bei will hire someone else. .
Dong Zhuo didn't want to do Bingzhou Mu, he wanted to be an official in a safe place.
After reading this letter, Liu Bei thought about it and felt that Dong Zhuo was also interesting, so he wrote him a reply.
The general meaning is that you can come back if you want, but you need credit. There are many people who have made great achievements in this wave, and there are also many people who have not returned to Luoyang. And you used to be an old official of the Yuan family. I hope you can avoid the limelight. It is not a good thing for you to return to Luoyang now that you left it in Bingzhou.
If you really feel that Bingzhou is too dangerous to stay, it’s not impossible. I can help you transfer to Xuzhou to be the governor of Xuzhou, solve the rebellion that has not been resolved in Xuzhou, and then transfer you to Luo based on this merit. Yang, what do you think?
In other words, if you want, you can stay in Bingzhou. The imperial court is planning to use troops to conquer Bingzhou. If you want, you can launch the first round of attacks as the shepherd of Bingzhou and make achievements. Isn't it also a good choice?
After Dong Zhuo received Liu Bei's letter, he made some considerations. After weighing the pros and cons, he was very torn.
It would be great to be able to make meritorious service in Bing Dynasty. He wanted to agree, but after thinking about Gongsun Zan, he felt unsure. He had given up on Yuan as his former backer. Liu Bei seemed very reliable, but he didn't seem to be completely reliable. He was not sure if something happened, Liu Bei would give up on him the same way he gave up on Gongsun Zan.
Currently, Dong Zhuo is quite politically sensitive and cannot bear more political risks.
So after much deliberation, Dong Zhuo decided to give up his position as Bingzhou Mu and chose the first path, to go to Xuzhou and become the governor of Xuzhou.
He no longer cares about who is the governor of the state or the governor. Anyway, he mainly goes to Xuzhou to fight. After the war, he goes directly to Luoyang. It's a good idea to get Jiuqing. After that, he will endure the qualifications and become a three-gong unknown. He stays in Bingzhou, and his rank is Higher, the risk factor also skyrockets.
At the moment, it is better to seek stability.
Dong Zhuo, who has spent most of his life taking risks to survive, is now older and no longer pursues excitement, but begins to pursue stability.
Liu Bei was a little surprised by his choice, but he still did not refuse Dong Zhuo and agreed to him, asking him to take the initiative to request a transfer.
In early November of the first year of Jian'an, the Luoyang court received a transfer request from Dong Zhuo, the governor of Bingzhou. After some research, the Luoyang court, mainly Liu Bei, decided to agree to Dong Zhuo's request.
So he announced to the outside world that he would transfer Dong Zhuo to serve as the governor of Xuzhou, specifically responsible for suppressing bandits in Xuzhou.
Liu Yan, the former Xuzhou Mu, resigned directly because of his failure to suppress thieves and the replacement of prefects and state ministers without asking for instructions.
For the sake of the Han clan, I won’t punish you, but don’t be an official anymore. Go home and have your children!
Yes, it's not that Liu Bei is just looking for something to put on Liu Yan's shoes. It's actually that Liu Yan doesn't follow the rules and has exposed too many problems. As long as he catches them, they can be dealt with immediately.
Starting from the sixth year of Zhongping, Liu Yan began to fight with a group of Xuzhou Yellow Turban Army. The fighting lasted for almost two years with no results. The fighting made Xuzhou unable to produce with peace of mind. His own arrogance was also very outrageous, which made many local officials in Xuzhou
The powerful nobles and nobles were all dissatisfied with him. qδ
It turns out that this guy is not good at fighting the Yellow Turban Army, but he is good at fighting the local tyrants.
There were many powerful families in Langya Kingdom, Donghai County, Pengcheng Kingdom and other counties because they had a bad relationship with him and did not obey his orders. Instead, they opposed him, so he was exterminated by him on charges of collaborating with the enemy.
The first time, three families were exterminated, the second time, six families were exterminated, and the third time was even more ruthless, directly killing ten families of varying sizes in Pengcheng Kingdom on the grounds of leaking military information and collaborating with the enemy.
Liu Bei was actually a little curious about how this guy dared to jump like this. The Luoyang court was still there, and he was still there. Xuzhou was not a place with congested traffic like Yizhou. Xuzhou was the place of the Fourth War.
Did he take the wrong medicine?
Later, Liu Bei noticed that when this guy was cleaning up the local families in Xuzhou on a large scale, it was the time of the Luoyang Rebellion and the two Yuan rebellions.
At that time, the situation in Luoyang was unstable, and Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu were making trouble all over the world. Liu Yan probably thought that the world was going to be unstable and something was going to go wrong, and he wanted a place to settle down to ensure his own interests, so he started to exclude dissidents and favor nepotism in Xuzhou. , replaced a prime minister and a prefect without the permission of the court.
Although the state pastor does have this power, you still have to talk to the central government at least, and everyone goes through a process to give the central government some face.
As a result, he didn't care at all and didn't send any message to the central government at all.
This time Liu Bei returned from the Northern Expedition with a great victory, the rebellion between the two Yuan Dynasties was suppressed, the Luoyang court's reputation was greatly shaken, and Liu Yan began to panic.
At this moment, the local forces no longer gave in to him and moved closer to the Luoyang court. Many people in Xuzhou asked their connections to go to the central government to talk to Liu Bei about this matter.
They followed the path of Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong and asked them to take the lead, hoping that the central government could personally take action to resolve this matter.
Either someone else can kill the Yellow Turban Army, or you, the general, come to conquer the Yellow Turban Army in person. In short, please ask the central government to help us get rid of this bastard Liu Yan. We in Xuzhou really can't bear the torment of this bastard again and again. .
The local forces in Xuzhou joined forces and gave Liu Bei a very generous meeting gift, which Liu Bei could not refuse. Liu Bei had no feelings for Liu Yan. No matter what this guy did, he was not familiar with him. As long as he didn't cause trouble, Liu Bei didn't want to target him. However, this guy did really bad things and tormented the people of Xuzhou so much. As for the boiling public resentment, it is not enough to fight against the Yellow Turbans themselves.
Even after this matter was announced in the court, some officials suspected that Liu Yan had a disobedient heart and that he was out of self-respect for not destroying the Yellow Turban Army, so they suggested that the Luoyang court ask him about his crime.
After reaching a consensus in the court, Liu Bei did not relent, but he did not do anything absolutely. He said that for the sake of the Han clan, he would be dismissed from his post and demoted to a commoner, and he would not be questioned for the time being.
The emperor had just ascended the throne, so to accuse the clan members of these things would inevitably make the world laugh, and it would also easily make the world feel that there was disharmony within the Han Dynasty, which was not a good thing.
So the Luoyang court quickly reached a consensus and removed Liu Yan from his position as Xuzhou pastor. He also lost his title and salary, and went home as a naked commoner.
Dong Zhuo's transfer was also approved. Dong Zhuo was allowed to take five thousand troops to Xuzhou to serve as the governor of Xuzhou. As a former general, he was responsible for suppressing bandits. The local ministers and prefects needed to cooperate with Dong Zhuo and not make mistakes.
After Dong Zhuo's transfer was approved, the post of governor of Binzhou became vacant.
At this time, some people began to ask the imperial court to appoint capable people as governors of Bingzhou, who would be fully responsible for the suppression of bandits and the restoration of Bingzhou.
However, the position of governor of the governorship is indeed a hot potato.
Even veteran soldiers like Dong Zhuo couldn't handle it. Just replacing him would definitely not work. No one from all parties was willing to take over this hot potato. The final decision-making power naturally fell to Liu Bei.
Liu Bei thought for a moment and gave his own advice.
Unusually, he promoted General Shi Manchong to serve as governor of Bingzhou.
He was also transferred to be the prefect of Jincheng County and the director of the Liangzhou Military and Horse Affairs Department. Tianwei Zhonglang stationed Guan Yu in Bingzhou and served as the officer in the Bingzhou Army and Horse Affairs Department, allowing Man Chong to cooperate with Guan Yu.
