It is said that it has been more than a year since Dong Zhuo's rebellion subsided, and calm has gradually returned to the states and counties. However, anyone with insight can see the turbulent undercurrents, and I don't know how much evil and murderous intent is condensed in it. I don't know. At some point the war will rekindle in an instant, and then sweep across the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, and even the entire Xia kingdoms.
In the past, the Xiliang generals were cautious and frightened in the early stage. Later, they found that the princes in the world did not condemn them, so they gradually relaxed and began to get ready to take action.
Li Jue and Guo Si occupied the third auxiliary position, but their political abilities were really poor, and they were also ridiculously poor in political maneuvering. As a result, their power was slowly usurped by the basically powerless nobles.
Although Li Jue and Guo Si had a bad mind, they had a keen sense of smell. They quickly realized this. The frightened two people were naturally unable to play checks and balances, so they chose the classic tyrant method, that is, killing on a large scale.
Chang'an Sanfu, who was originally calm, suddenly burst into blood.
The gentry in Guanzhong were completely desperate and migrated to Liangzhou, Yizhou and Sanhe.
In this era when the gentry is the king, it is impossible to find so many officials in a poor family. At the grassroots level in Guanzhong, 70% of the officials are removed from office, and the entire imperial court organization of the three auxiliaries is almost shut down.
Naturally, Li Jue and Guo Si didn't care about this. They only felt that no one could threaten their status and lives.
Chang'an.
After Li Jue and Guo Si eliminated their political opponents from the physical level, they gathered together to discuss the future. After all, the situation now does not look good.
Li Jue was impatient and said: "The most important thing now is to win over allies. Liangzhou Ma Teng and Han Sui accepted our appointment.
Although Zhang Ji is hypocritical, he came from Xiliang together after all, so he will not kill each other with us. Now he wants to confer officials and titles to the princes of Shandong.
If you are willing to accept it, it proves that the Han Emperor in our hands is valuable and can be used as an ally. If you are unwilling to accept it, then you are an enemy! "
Guo Si himself did not take Liu Xie seriously, so he naturally tried to save humanity by himself: "Those Shandong princes are all cunning and cunning, will they recognize Liu Xie?"
Li Jue heard this and said with a sarcastic smile: "Of course some people will not agree, but as long as the promised official is big enough, someone will always agree. After all, this is the Liu family's emperor with the highest legitimacy. If he does not recognize this emperor, is it right? Do you want to establish your own emperor?
There are some people in this world who are true loyalists of the Han Dynasty, but they have problems in their minds. Don’t look at the emperor in our hands as a puppet. Some people are willing to die for this emperor.
Have you forgotten Wushuang Hou Luokong?
When Emperor Xiaomin died, he insisted on dying even though he could live. Is there more than one person like Luo Kong in the world?
Liu Bei and Liu Xuande, who now occupy Qingzhou, live as the clan members of the Han Dynasty. If we give him an order from the imperial court, can he refuse directly?
The reason why he was recognized by the Yinghou and Erlu was because of Liu's bloodline, which allowed him to gather a group of courtiers who intended to restore the Han Dynasty.
If he is still just a self-proclaimed Qingzhou shepherd and does not obey the orders of the Liu clan, how will the people of the world treat him?
The most important thing is, how would Liu Yu of Youzhou, Liu Biao of Jingzhou, Liu Yan of Yizhou and other high-ranking Han clan members view him? "
Guo Si looked at Li Jue in surprise when he heard this. He didn't understand how Li Jue could analyze these things clearly. In the past, only military counselor Li Ru had such ability.
When Li Jue saw Guo Si smiling smugly, of course he would not tell Guo Si that he had already recruited advisers to advise him, so that he could completely overwhelm Guo Si in the future and become the sole master of the three auxiliaries in Chang'an.
Guo Bang was a little surprised. He felt that Li Jue was different now, which made him a little uneasy. Upon seeing this, Li Jue said: "How should these Guandong princes be sealed? Do you have any ideas?"
Reluctantly putting away those complicated thoughts, Guo Bang recalled the idea that someone had come up with and said: "Although most of the counties in Shandong Province now have owners, they are all self-represented. We can serve these people as governors of the states, and then Give their vassals important generals and county princes, so that they can attack each other."
This is a conspiracy!
Unless there are two parties that can completely trust each other, this trick is useless. But between the sect leader and the vassal, there is not so much trust. It is just an alliance between the military.
For example, Cao Cao was Yuan Shao's younger brother, and was even supported by the same gentry group. Taking stock of the advisers under the two men, the Xun family, the Guo family, and the Xin family were all big gentry families, but once they developed, they immediately faced each other life and death. Who cares about the previous relationship?
The aristocratic families scattered their bets, but there were also disputes within the family. If Yuan Shao won, the head of the Xun family would naturally transfer to Xun Chen's lineage. If Cao Cao won, he would transfer to Xun Yu's lineage. No one would hold back.
After Li Jue and Guo Si decided on the strategy of dividing the princes of Shandong, they began to plan to confer officials on the princes of Shandong. After the two of them thought about it for three days, a new imperial edict was issued and stamped with the emperor's seal.
The edict: "Since ancient times, kings have been sitting in the center, how can they lack the assistance of wise ministers?
Since ancient times, haven’t the titles of ministers been bestowed by kings?
Since ancient times, has any official who acted independently been able to die well?
I don't want to see all the loyal ministers in the world being blamed for this. Now I will reward all the ministers with noble official positions, so that they can lead the heroes in an upright manner.
I have thought carefully about the merits of all the ministers in the past, and I will reward them according to this list.
Yuan Shao was appointed as the shepherd of Jizhou and the governor of Henan. He was granted the title of Marquis of Ji and had a settlement of 2,000 households.
Lu Bu was appointed as the governor of Bingzhou, and Zhang Liao was appointed as the general of Pingbei.
Gongsun Zan was appointed as the general of Zhenbei and the Marquis of Ye, with two thousand households living in the city, and Liu Yu was appointed as the shepherd of Youzhou to envoy Chijie.
Cao Cao was appointed as the shepherd of Yanzhou and the prefect of Hanoi, and Guan Hai was appointed as the general of Pingdong to envoy Chijie.
Liu Bei was appointed as the pastor of Qingzhou, and Zhang Yan was appointed as the general of Zhendong to envoy Chijie.
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Yuan Shu was appointed as the general of Zhennan, and Sun Jian was appointed as the pastor of Yangzhou.
Liu Biao was appointed as the herdsman of Jingzhou.
Liu Yan was appointed as the pastor of Yizhou.
Ma Teng was appointed as the shepherd of Liangzhou, and Han Sui was appointed as the general of Zhenxi. "
There are dozens of people on the list, and a large number of state pastors, generals with heavy titles, and princes have been conferred, as well as many prefects, generals with miscellaneous titles, and other official positions of two thousand stone.
The county prince also mentioned it in the edict.
For a person of the rank of Tinghou, it is enough to just mention a sentence in the imperial edict issued to an individual. This can be said to be a big money throw by a famous noble. Under this level of throwing money, without the status of two thousand stones, he is not qualified to say a word. explain.
Shandong is shocked!
I'm not feeling well. I'll go to the hospital and finish the 8,000-word chapter in the afternoon.
(End of chapter)
