The seventh year of Zhongping was a very restless year. In March, Emperor Han Ling died after all. The Liu family tried all their methods but could not suppress the injuries in Emperor Han Ling's body.
The backlash of the Luck Golden Dragon severely damaged his soul. His ability to persist these past few years was also thanks to the heritage of the Liu family.
The death of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty had a great impact on the court. When he was there, although there were struggles between the courts, they would not be as fierce as they are now because Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty was suppressing them.
Always in a state of balance.
However, once Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty died, things were different. No one suppressed him, and all parties began to fight openly and fiercely.
Then, General He Jin became a victim, a victim of the aristocratic family.
It's ridiculous to think that they have power because they have bad brains. Even Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty would not believe those people easily.
In the end, the general was killed by Zhang Rang and a group of eunuchs.
This also brought the struggle in the court to a tense situation.
Then Dong Zhuo came to Beijing, bringing with him hundreds of thousands of Xiliang border troops. Originally, the imperial army was unable to unify because of the inability of all parties to unite. Facing hundreds of thousands of Xiliang border troops, in the end, they were defeated by Dong Zhuo without even a few battles.
Got it.
The struggle between the aristocratic families and the eunuchs all ended in favor of Dong Zhuo.
According to the information Su Fan received, it was the Yuan family's idea that Dong Zhuo came to the capital. Dong Zhuo originally relied on the Yuan family to slowly rise up, step by step from a small soldier in the border army to a general in the border army. He was the governor of Liangzhou in his previous life when he entered the capital.
In fact, at that time, the imperial court had very little control over frontier generals such as Dong Zhuo.
The Yuan family thought that Dong Zhuo relied on the Yuan family to make his fortune, so he would naturally surrender to the Yuan family. With Dong Zhuo's hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, they would definitely be able to control Luoyang.
Unexpectedly, Dong Zhuo also gave the Yuan family a sap. After Dong Zhuo's Xiliang army controlled hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops, they immediately turned against the guests.
It can be said that Yuan lost his wife and lost his troops.
As usual in history, Dong Zhuo occupied Luoyang City with his Xiliang border troops and took control of the court, although many people were dissatisfied.
However, Dong Zhuo's cultivation level was very high, and the Xiliang border army and the imperial army were all in his hands. Even if some people were dissatisfied, they did not dare to oppose it blatantly.
Of course, the changes in the court have nothing to do with Su Fan. He is now far away from the center, and here in the East China Sea, he is like a local emperor.
After taking up the position of governor of Donghai County, Su Fan did not make many changes to the counties under Donghai County. Except for a few officials, such as the county lieutenant, he did not care about the county magistrate.
Anyway, he controls the military, and the county magistrate has no ability to fight against him.
There are not many aristocratic families in Donghai County. Most of them are county tycoons from the same place. It is impossible to compete with him.
He is a prefect and holds the power of life and death over the local area.
It's just that he hasn't been too busy to follow officials from different places for the time being, firstly because he doesn't have that many civil servants under his command.
Secondly, he still places more of his land in the East China Sea Territory, which is hundreds of miles in radius and is his newly built territory. There is no one to control it and he can develop as much as he wants.
Not to mention other cities, there are always local nobles, and it is impossible for him to drive them all away.
His current strength is still unable to compete with the nobles in the world.
After taking office, he only captured the two most popular nobles. After killing the chickens to scare the monkeys, no one in Donghai County dared to confront him head-on.
The two sides were relatively peaceful.
Su Fan spent most of his time in the East China Sea Territory.
A large city was rebuilt in the East Sea Territory.
After more than five years of development, the East China Sea Territory has completely changed. Tens of millions of people live here.
Most of them are Yellow Turban soldiers and civilians, especially those from Guanhai. In the past five years, at least one million refugees have been sent there every year.
Su Fan supported him and secretly provided him with food and grass, while he provided him with refugees, or some craftsmen and ink workers.
Although the Yellow Turbans were suppressed, there are still many Yellow Turbans raging in various places.
The court had no intention of suppressing it, but the local government did not have the power. Guan Hai himself stayed in Qingzhou and did not move because of Su Fan's reminder.
After the army returned, he slowly appeared.
In the past five years, with the food and grass provided by Su Fan, he did not have many subordinates, only a few hundred thousand, but they were all strong and strong, and they had received limited training.
The strength is still very strong.
In Qingzhou, there is almost no one who can defeat him. Unlike the previous Yellow Turbans, who burned, killed and looted places, he only frequently blocked roads and tolled people on major pipelines.
As long as you are willing to pay the toll, he will get out of the way and keep you safe.
Therefore, in recent years, the local big families have been unwilling to go to war with him, so it is not a big problem to pay some money and food.
Therefore, in the past five years, relying on Guan Hai's dark side, Su Fan's Donghai Territory has a population of tens of millions, and Donghai County also has a population of millions.
The development potential is no worse than Xiapi.
More importantly, it took seven or eight years for Su Fan to build the Donghai Territory into a production base.
We can provide Su Fan with absolute logistical support.
Especially the development of rune technology and productivity have surpassed the limits of ancient times, and some are even better than those of later generations.
For example, although carriages still rely on animal power, due to the blessing of various levitation techniques, a carriage can carry several tons. Relying on animal power, it can also reach speeds of dozens of kilometers per hour, or even higher.
The animal power in this world, even the lowest-grade raccoons, is better than the fine horses of the Tang Dynasty, which are proud of the world.
A truly good horse is comparable to a monster.
Su Fan had seen top-level horses, and even some ninth-level warriors were no match for them.
Relying on this kind of animal power, transportation under Su Fan's rule was also extremely developed, not to mention commerce.
Now the Xuzhou Mi family has put most of its business in Donghai County, because the productivity of Donghai Territory can produce "epoch-making" things.
Of course, the most important thing in the East China Sea Territory is the Ministry of Military Industry. In order to develop military industry, Su Fan specially built a city and assigned it to the Ministry of Industry.
There are even hundreds of thousands of people in the Ministry of Industry.
It's not much worse than Su Fan's army.
Since Su Fan took office in Donghai County, the army has naturally not forgotten to develop. Relying on the sea, he is not short of money and has been opening up wasteland, so there is naturally no shortage of food.
In this way, there will naturally be no shortage of troops.
In five years of development, the army has grown from an army of 70,000 to a regular army of 300,000 today.
Of course, he doesn't have just this small army. When it's really in danger, he can pull out an army of three million at any time.
And it is not composed of farmers, because of the militia system of the East China Sea Territory, people living in the East China Sea Territory, as long as they are young and strong, must receive training as long as they have no agricultural work.
At the same time, he can also influence the land of Qingzhou.
In terms of strength, he is really worthy of being the best in the world, Dong Zhuo.
This chapter has been completed!