Luo Shi passed away!
What is at stake is not just his personal life or death, or the grief and sadness of his family.
The death of any big figure will cause great changes in the political landscape, and even the life and death of a faction will be borne by the leader.
No outsiders knew about Luo's possession of the artifact. Outsiders also speculated about Luo's supernatural power, and they didn't know how powerful it was.
But why are the emperors and noble officials still so fearful of Luo Shi and respect Luo Shi so much?
Ordinary people respect Luo Shi because of the legend and moral character.
But how can a creature like an officer respect a person simply because of his moral character?
If this is true, then the person in charge of the Ming Dynasty should not be Zhang Juzheng, but Hai Rui!
When the Han Dynasty was first established, the Luo family was known as the "Luo Ban Dynasty" and "Luo and Liu share the world!"
What is described is that the power of the Luo family is huge, not inferior to that of the royal family. This is not an exaggeration, but is what everyone in the world thinks, even the royal family themselves think so.
There are even some people with extremely dark psychology. During the period of Sanluo's auxiliary administration, they still doubted whether the Empress Dowager would imitate Qin Shihuang's mother Zhao Ji and cause Liu Bang's posthumous son to usurp the Han Dynasty.
Because in the imperial court at that time, even the great heroes were standing on the fence between Luo and Liu. The great entrepreneurial hero and major shareholder of the Han Dynasty, the Lu family, all favored the Luo family. How could the Liu family fight against the Luo family?
He can usurp the throne without usurping the throne, he can be authoritative but not overbearing, he can be authoritative but not exclusive.
This is the reason why Luo Xin was praised as the Pillar of Optimism by his contemporaries. This is why Emperor Xiaohui Liu Ying and Emperor Xiaowen Liu Heng treated Luo Xin like a father, and they tried their best to honor Luo Xin after death, even leaving this trust behind. The reason for Luo Jing.
The Luo family has always had strong political energy, and can protect humble scholars. For example, Jia Yi can make soldiers who have no way out become marquises and generals. If they want money and people, they are the best scholars in the world. The reason why people and noble officials respect Luo family.
During the Three Kingdoms period, the Yuan family of Runan and the Yang family of Hongnong were the three princes for generations. Why did the Yang family not have the status of the leader of the world's gentry like the Yuan family?
It's because the biggest capital of the Yuan family in Runan is not the so-called clear names of the fourth generation and the three princes. That thing is not valuable. It's because the Yuan family has promoted too many people through that position, and the interests of too many noble families and officials are incompatible with it. The Yuans are united together, this is the way of the Confucian classics clan.
Luoshi's official position is the Protector of the Western Regions, but the Protector of the Western Regions in this world is not an ordinary official position.
But the king of the northwest!
The status may not be as noble as the Three Dukes, and the energy that can be exerted is not as great as the Three Dukes, but this is the real official of the border!
The population that Luo Shi can directly control is as high as 500,000!
The population that can be recruited is as high as three million!
Several times in the Han Dynasty, since the princes and kings were enfeoffed, there have never been such powerful local princes again.
If the Western Regions were not far away from Chang'an Mountain and there were many dangers on the road, even the emperor would be restless.
Such a huge force not only adds invisible help to Luo Shi, but also has many people taking care of Luo Shi.
The people in the world who are most worried about Luo Shi's death are not his children and relatives, but the nobles and the kings of the Western Regions.
Because there is a saying in this world that people leave and the tea cools. When Luo Shi was there, the imperial court treated the Western Regions quite well. But after Luo Shi died, the imperial court's attitude toward the Western Regions and even Hexi would definitely change.
The attitude towards those princes, kings and princes who established vassal states in the four counties of Hexi and the Western Regions will also change.
Luo Shi's letter to the emperor before his death was that he was worried that after his death, the emperor's rewards to the armies in Hexi and the Western Regions would be reduced.
After all, it was not only the armies of the Western Regions and Hexi that attacked the Huns this time, there were also 110,000 troops fighting the Huns on the grasslands. Without these people, even if the Xiongnu Chanyu was killed, a group of exhausted soldiers would want to fight on the grassland. It is very difficult to retreat safely under the encirclement and suppression of the Xiongnu army.
This is why the noble officials of the Western Regions knelt down and cried directly after hearing Luo Shi's last words.
These people are just worried about their future, and there is only one person who is most worried!
King Dayuan Dong almost wanted to raise Luo Shi as his father.
Not only King Dayuandong, but also Liu Dan’s sons who are still alive in this world, who has not been protected by Luo Shi?
Even if Luo Shi doesn't speak, as long as he is still in the Western Region, he still holds a hundred thousand troops in the Western Region and Hexi, which is the greatest deterrent.
Not even the emperor could ignore his will, let alone others.
But now that Luo Shi is dead, this protective umbrella has completely leaked. His aunt is dead, his uncle is also dead, and there is no one to protect him.
Liu Xun naturally knew these things very well. He was an emperor who was very good at playing political tricks, and was very familiar with various means of using official positions to deprive him of power.
After Luo Shi died, the biggest problem before him disappeared, and the rest were trivial matters.
He flipped through a battle report at random, and then suddenly asked Huo Guang next to him: "Zimeng, who do you think should be appointed as the new Protector of the Western Regions?"
It is impossible for Liu Xun to hand over the position of Protector of the Western Regions to Luo Lan. The Luo family has been entrenched in the Western Regions for two generations. It has been fifty years since the death of Emperor Xiaowu. If this continues, what will the Western Regions become? Liu's or Luo's?
Moreover, the Wushuang Kingdom is located where the Western Region Protectorate is located. This two-in-one system makes the Western Region Protectorate less like a place of imperial court.
Huo Guang was stunned, and secretly complained in his heart, why would he ask himself such a question?
He knew what the emperor was thinking, so he said without changing his face: "Your Majesty is wise and wise, I dare not speak nonsense.
It’s just that the Western Region is extremely important. As Wu Xianghou said in his letter, the Western Region is unstable and Guanzhong is uneasy. Available, trustworthy people who can handle the situation should be sent there. "
Liu Xun glanced at Huo Guang with a smile, and then said with a smile: "With Wushuang Hou Kingdom and Wusun Kingdom in the Western Region, the Duhu Mansion cannot get rid of the shackles.
In the past, the orders of the Dong'a Hou Kingdom were like imperial edicts. With the death of King Luowen, this privilege disappeared.
Now that the Wushuang Kingdom has been in charge of the Western Region for two consecutive generations, it's just three things. It's time to end.
Moreover, the original purpose of the Protectorate's headquarters in the Wusun Kingdom was to embezzle Wusun, and then attack Dawan for war purposes.
Now that the Wusun Kingdom's war objectives have been roughly completed, and the Dawan Kingdom is surrounded by mountains, the conquest can no longer be completed overnight.
From this point of view, the location of the Western Region Protectorate is too far to the west, which is not conducive to the Han's control of the entire Western Region. I decided to move the location of the Protectorate to the east. "
Huo Guang immediately understood that this was to disperse the power of the Western Region Protectorate and make the Wushuang Kingdom a normal guarding prince instead of the uncrowned king it was before.
There is nothing wrong with the emperor's approach. After the Huns were exterminated, the situation in the Western Region changed, so the administrative system must change accordingly.
However, in the Western Region, which is not the land of the Central Plains, the emperor's brand is not easy to use, especially the temple army. This army is more like a rebel army and mercenaries. The words of the Han Dynasty court are not very effective.
Huo Guang didn't say anything. Anyway, these adjustments cannot be completed overnight. Emperors of the Han Dynasty never lived long. Only God knows how long the current emperor can live.
So he said directly: "Your Majesty is wise, the Western Region is extremely important. It can not only protect the safety of the Han Dynasty, but also send out all the unstable people in the Han Dynasty. It is crucial to completely control the Western Region."
The so-called unstable people include refugees, gangsters, disaster victims, prisoners, beggars, and other people who are on the road to practicing law or have already practiced law.
Liu Xun's strategy was to learn the method of exile and send these people to inaccessible places on time to open up wasteland. This would not only reduce the pressure on the population in the Central Plains, but also open up more land for the Han Dynasty.
Over the past twenty years, the effect has been quite good. Without the death of people in major wars or the death of people in large-scale famine, it has effectively alleviated the contradiction of more people and less land.
Liu Xun now completely controls the four counties in Hexi and the countries in the Western Regions in order to successfully establish the countries in the Western Regions.
Thinking of this, Liu Xun patted Huo Guang's shoulder and said: "Zimeng, you understand me. The Western Regions are actually trivial matters. After all, there are many native people there. If we want to completely conquer the Western Regions, we will probably defeat the big men." Only if you can do it, I will definitely not do that.
My real target is the four counties in Hexi, where there are fewer native people, and the Huns who once settled there have been expelled.
I want to relocate the population to the four counties in Hexi. In such a vast land, the population of the four counties is only one million. It is really too small!
I want to move another two million people there, so that the Han people can farm land and raise horses there. As long as the four counties of Hexi are in the hands of the Han people, even if we lose the Western Region and Henan, we Han people can still form cavalry. Get back all the lost land. "
Huo Guang bowed and said: "Your Majesty, do you have a candidate in mind for the Great Protector of the Western Regions?"
Having said all that, who should we choose as the Protector of the Western Region?
All ideas will eventually fall on the head of the person who implements them. Can the person you choose be able to take on your ideas?
Huo Guang asked this because based on the emperor's selection, he could judge the emperor's attitude towards the old ministers in the Western Regions and Hexi, as well as his positioning towards the Wushuang Kingdom.
This is very important to Huo Guang.
Unexpectedly, the emperor did not answer. Instead, he put down the battle report in his hand, stood up, came to the screen, opened the map on it, and a map of the Western Region appeared on it.
Huo Guang watched helplessly as the emperor picked up a pen, heavily dotted the Wusun Kingdom, and then drew three lines, directly dividing the Wusun Kingdom into three parts.
Split the country!
The emperor thought that the Wusun Kingdom, which occupied most of the Yishui River Valley, was too big and wanted to divide it into three parts!
"I don't want to make wedding clothes for others."
(End of chapter)
