At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Pearl dark cast!

An absolute jewel in the dark!

But Guo Peng didn't know how to get Gao Shun, Gao Shun's background was not recorded in history books.

However, he has been bound to Lu Bu since he appeared, and coupled with his unswerving loyalty to Lu Bu until his death, it is not difficult to imagine that the two may be from the same hometown, and their friendship has grown since childhood.

For this kind of bonded friendship, Guo Peng is helpless.

Guo Peng sent people to Bingzhou to search around, but found Zhang Liao who was a subordinate official in Yanmen County, but he did not find any trace of Gao Shun.

Faced with Guo Peng's invitation, Zhang Liao refused on the grounds that his mother needed his support.

However, this is not a big deal to Guo Peng. It is nothing to lose a cavalry general like Zhang Liao. He already has no shortage of brave generals who charge into battle.

But it was really distressing not to find Gao Shun.

This is even more so now when elite infantry needs to be trained.

In desperation, Guo Peng personally seized the military training for the strong men and personally guided these strong men to practice.

During this period, Guo Peng received a letter from Cao Song, who told him that he had become a captain.

Guo Peng was stunned for a while before he realized that Cao Song had been dismissed because of the former Taiwei Cui Lie, and then spent a lot of money to buy the official position of this Taiwei and became one of the three princes.

As a result, Cao Song reached his political peak, and he proudly showed off to Guo Peng, saying that Guo Peng was the son-in-law of the current Taiwei, which would be of great benefit.

Guo Peng smiled wryly.

Sangong, a political vase, has no real power unless he is assigned to other positions. Song is how to calculate this account.

Could it be that he still wants to make the Cao family into four generations and three princes?

Guo Peng was speechless, so he wrote back to congratulate him and had nothing else to say.

At the end of December, Guo Peng sent Zhao Yun and Guo Lie to Luoyang, and brought Cao Lan and the children to Shanggu County. The family was reunited, and the children were raised by him, so the family had a rare reunion. new year.

Then, the four years of Zhongping came to an end, and the fifth year of Zhongping came.

Guo Peng knew that this year was the year when the chaos really started, but he didn't expect that the first battle of the year would be fought by himself.

On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month in the fifth year of Zhongping, about 1 people from the Xianbei tribe went south to invade the border.

Guo Peng was very annoyed, and before all the counties could react, he personally led [-] elite knights to fight back, smashed them, beheaded more than [-] people, and solved the group of Xianbei people neatly.

So the foreigners in Youzhou knew that the knife in Guo Peng's hand was getting sharper and sharper, and it was not something they could fight against.

After Guo Peng reported this matter to the court, the court was relieved.

I thought there was going to be another war in northern Xinjiang, but it was solved by Guo Peng three times, five times and two times. That's great, Guo Peng is really a good comrade.

Emperor Ling personally instructed to reward Guo Peng, but something happened when the court was studying how to reward Guo Peng.

Chapter 171 - Liu Yan's appearance

This time, something really happened. It was a big deal, not a small one at all.

In February of the fifth year of Zhongping, the Yellow Turban bandit Yubu Guo Tai and others rose up in Baibogu, Xihe County, under the banner of Huang Tian being dead, and announced that they would avenge the great virtuous teacher and re-establish Huang Tian.

Then he directly led his troops to attack Taiyuan County, Hedong County and other places, and harassed the core area of ​​the Eastern Han Empire, shaking the capital.

The second Yellow Turban Uprising, which lasted for a long time, began.

Compared with the first subversive action full of political meaning, the second Yellow Turban Uprising was a purely low-level people's action against tyranny using the reputation of the Yellow Turban Army.

Compared with the first time, the second time was more like an uprising, and the first time was more like a conspiracy.

Similarly, the second Yellow Turban uprising without a unified command was more like a bandit battle, with no program and no action plan, and it was completely useless.

However, this incident still caused a great impact within the Han government.

The shock that the first Yellow Turban incident brought to Emperor Ling was so great that he still remembers it fresh.

As soon as he heard about the Yellow Turban incident, Emperor Ling immediately wondered if the gentry wanted to mess with him again, and wanted to show him some flair.

This can be regarded as wronging them. If the gentry want to mess with him and show him some color, they will definitely not use this method alone.

But such spontaneous and uncontrolled uprisings are much more difficult to deal with.

They were scattered in many places, without a unified program of action, scattered troops, and attacked everywhere, which had a huge impact on the counties and states of Hebei.

Not only Mrs. Guo, Zhang Yan, who has great prestige and energy in the valleys of Hebei, also became active at this time.

Cooperating with Mrs. Guo's offensive, he looted everywhere, and even infiltrated southward towards Luoyang, threatening the security of the central government of the Han Dynasty.

There are many mountains in Hebei, such as the Taihang Mountains and so on.

After the defeat of the Yellow Turban Army in Hebei, many of the remaining troops were not captured, but scattered into the mountains and hid. The Han army did not pursue them in the mountains, so they survived.

Headed by Zhang Yan, they continued to absorb fleeing farmers who could not survive and the remnants of the Yellow Turbans from all over the country, and gradually gave birth to an extremely powerful force. At this time, they actually "gathered millions".

The figure of one million is mostly mixed with water, but from the perspective of the endless wars in various places and the displacement of many people in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, it can't be mixed with much water.

Unable to survive in the plains, they fled into the mountains.

Fleeing to a place where the officials of the Han government could not manage was also a way of life for those who could not survive, so there is also the title of "escape household".

It's not that the Han government didn't organize troops to encircle and suppress, but in the mountains, the sophisticated equipment of the Han army was of little use.

Restricted by the terrain, the Yellow Turbans in the mountains took advantage of the terrain advantage to attack the Han army who was unfamiliar with the terrain, setting up various traps, and playing the Han army around.

As time went by, there was no place where the Han army was willing to conquer. People who couldn't survive in the surrounding area heard about it and went to join the Yellow Turbans in the mountains, and this force became stronger and stronger.

Once it broke out, the Han government felt fear again.

After this happened, He Jin also felt very helpless because the fierce battle was still going on in the west, so he had to send Zhu Jun to lead the troops north again to wipe out Guo Tai and Zhang Yan's armies.

Zhu Jun led the army to go northward and fought for more than ten days. The results obtained were very small, but the military expenditure was huge.

Emperor Ling was very annoyed by the continuous turmoil in the world.

He didn't want to deal with these things and simply had fun, but he didn't expect that it would be impossible for him to come to his door and ignore them. He was annoyed, but there was no better way.

He has no way, but there are many people with ideas.

When the time came to March, one day, Taichang Liu Yan asked to see Emperor Ling, and gave him a memorial.

Liu Yan is a descendant of Liu Yu, King Lugong of the Western Han Dynasty, and he is a descendant of the authentic clan.

When he was young, he worked in the state and county, and was awarded the position of doctor because of his clan status. Later, he was elected as a virtuous founder and was recruited by the Situ Mansion.

After that, he successively served as the magistrate of Luoyang County, the governor of Jizhou, the prefect of Nanyang County, Zongzheng, Taichang and other officials.

At this time, Liu Yan was regarded as a relatively capable and knowledgeable person in the clan.

He first served as an official in the local government and then in the central government. He has a very beautiful resume and rich experience.

Because all the way from being an official in the local area to the central government, I have contacted many people, and I know the political situation of the Han government very well.

In addition to being very familiar with the ills of the Han court, Liu Yan noticed something very critical and worried him with his keen sense of smell—the body of the spirit body seemed to be not in a good condition.

As Taichang, he often comes into contact with Emperor Ling. Recently, he found that Emperor Ling's body is not as good as before.

When the country is in crisis, the emperor's body has a problem. What does it mean?

After careful consideration, Liu Yan came to a very worrying conclusion.

The emperor's health is not very good, but the son of the emperor is still young, and the master is suspicious of the country, needless to say?

Coupled with the fact that rebellions are happening one after another in the world today, this is clearly a sign of troubled times!

So Liu Yan decided to test the waters by presenting a performance to Emperor Ling.

"Change the governor of the state to the state pastor?"

Emperor Ling frowned: "Jun Lang, the state shepherd has a lot of power, this is not a trivial matter, why do you have such an idea?"

Liu Yan said slowly, "Your Majesty, bandits and bandits are making troubles one after another in today's world. What do you think is the reason?"

"What else could be the reason?!"

Emperor Ling immediately became very angry.

Liu Yan coughed a few times to hide his embarrassment.

"Having said that, but Your Majesty, there are indeed many problems in the administration of officials in the big man."

"I know this too, but how can this kind of thing change overnight? What's the point of changing the governor of the state to the pastor of the state as you said?"

Emperor Ling stared at Liu Yan.

"The meaning is to allow His Majesty to choose the imperial clan and close ministers to go out of the town, grant the power of arbitrariness, rectify the administration of officials, and quell the rebellion."

Liu Yan's face remained unchanged, and he said, "Before, although the governor of the state had great power, he was only a supervisory officer in name, and he was not allowed to be appointed by the court when something happened. opportunity.

Those state governors also had corrupt people who broke the law and appointed their cronies to important positions. They only knew about corruption and bribery.

There are assassins who want to do something, but because of insufficient power, they are restricted by the local area, cannot be deterred, cannot rectify the administration of officials, the administration of officials is corrupt, the local government affairs decline, and refugees naturally arise.

When there were refugees, there were bandits. To change this phenomenon, the imperial clan and important ministers of the Qing Dynasty should be selected from the imperial court to serve as state shepherds, and given the authority to rectify the place. "

Emperor Ling frowned and thought about it, and felt that what he said made sense.

It is the national policy of the unified country to weaken the power of local officials in order to prevent local troubles.

But now the officials have stopped making troubles, and the local powerful and civilians are making troubles one after another. The officials are not powerful enough to stop them.

Isn't this asking for trouble?

but……

"Jun Lang, I have also considered what you said, but the power of the state pastor is too great, and I am afraid it will cause a situation that cannot be lost!"

Emperor Ling looked at Liu Yan worriedly.

Chapter 172 .170 Two Yizhou has the spirit of the emperor!

Emperor Ling would say this, and Liu Yan had thought about it a long time ago, and had figured out how to deal with it.

"That's why I suggest that Your Majesty choose the famous people in the clan and the high-ranking ministers in the court. The children of the clan naturally have a heart for the big man, and the high-ranking ministers don't love money or power. They have fame and are dedicated to serving the court. Such a person is suitable to be a state shepherd."

When Liu Yan said this, Emperor Ling thought about it and felt right.

The clan is all members of the old Liu family, so they must have a heart for the big man.

Those in the imperial court who value fame and feathers more than their lives dare not do such outrageous things.

Although I don't know why, Lingdi has this kind of confidence.

However, this is a big matter. If you really want to do this, you still need to think carefully.

"Let me think about this matter carefully."

Emperor Ling gave Liu Yan an ambiguous answer, but in Liu Yan's view, this matter was already settled.

He has been with the emperor for a long time, and he really knows too much about some of the emperor's habits.

At the same time that Liu Yan wrote a letter to suggest, he also recommended himself to be the shepherd of Jiaozhou.

In his opinion, Jiaozhou is far away from the emperor, with a small population and less taxation. It is estimated that the emperor himself does not care much.

It is the most remote and least populated state in the southernmost part of the Han Dynasty. It is not a disadvantage to use it as an experiment, right?

Nothing else matters, as long as I can avoid disaster, that's enough.

Liu Yan's calculations were very loud.

This matter gradually fermented after Emperor Ling summoned several ministers to discuss it, and many people knew about it, and Dong Fu, who was serving as a servant in the court, also learned about this matter through such channels.

So Dong Fu found Liu Yan.

"Oh, if Mr. Dong wants to see me, he can just send someone to look for him. Why do you have to come by yourself?"

Liu Yan heard that Dong Fu was coming to visit him, so he went out to greet him in person.

As a son of the clan, Liu Yan is much higher than Dong Fu in terms of official position.