Liu Bei looked at the endless corpses and the blood-red sun, standing still.
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei looked at the dull Liu Bei and asked worriedly: "Brother?"
Liu Bei's eyes suddenly filled with tears and he said: "A big man shouldn't be like this!"
"I, Liu Bei, hereby swear an oath that in my lifetime I will revitalize the imperial court, revive the Han Dynasty, return the sun, moon and stars to their proper places, and ensure that all the people live in their own place. I want the world to be peaceful again!
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei also said solemnly: "We must work with our brother to revive the Han Dynasty and make the world peaceful!"
July of the second year of Zhongping in the Han Dynasty (AD 185).
The vigorous Zhang Niujiao Rebellion was finally suppressed by the Han army. Except for Xu Wei's tribe who fled to Yanmen County and Chu Feiyan's tribe who fled to Taihang Mountain, the remaining Yellow Turban troops were all wiped out by the Han army.
Emperor Ling was overjoyed and granted amnesty to the whole world.
At the same time, with Zhao Zhong's experience, he finally knew that if he continued to let Shi Changshi buy and sell officials, he would eventually spit out all the money he got!
Therefore, he dismissed all the officials who escaped from Jizhou this time, and Emperor Ling, in a rare act of generosity, appointed the heroes who had annihilated the Yellow Turbans as prefects and county magistrates, but he actually did not ask them to pay for their official positions.
As the commander-in-chief of this army campaign, Emperor Ling made a bold move and made Fu Cheng the Mu of Jizhou, and also granted him the title of Marquis of Hanyang with 5,000 households.
Of course, the reason why Emperor Ling was so generous was also related to the trophies handed over by Fu Bian. This time, the Yellow Turban Army forcefully wiped out the noble families and powerful men in Jizhou. Countless families were destroyed, and more than 300 families were exterminated.
Zhang Niujiao and the others seized more than 10 billion money, 15 million stones of grain, and treasures and materials from other continents from these wealthy noble families. Although Zhang Niujiao and the others consumed these, they were taken to the Taihang Mountains to hide some, and some were
Xu Wei got it, and the rest were captured by Fu Bian.
Fu Bian knew the current situation of the court. He allocated 10% as a reward for the soldiers, 40% was left in Jizhou to settle the refugees, and the remaining 50% was fully handed over to the court, which was about 3 billion yuan and 2 million shi of grain. This was already
It was the Han Dynasty's annual financial income. Faced with such a large amount of wealth, Emperor Ling was naturally generous and praised Fu Bian for being sensible and a worthy minister of the country.
He has been the emperor for decades, and every general spends money like water. This is the first time he has seen money back. How can this not make him excited? How can such a loyal minister not be rewarded heavily!
Not only did Fu become a marquis, Emperor Ling, who was in a good mood, had Liu Yu, the governor of Youzhou, Gongsun Zan, the governor of western Liaoning, Zhang Yi, the governor of Bingzhou, and Ding Yuan, the captain of Hedong, all be granted the title of marquis. The other meritorious officials each received rewards. It can be said that this time
The rewards were higher than last year's Yellow Turban Uprising. Even if others were not granted the title of marquis, they were generally promoted by one or two ranks.
Liu Bei was promoted to the rank of captain of the field camp and became a senior bureaucrat in the Han Dynasty. He followed Liu Yu to Youzhou to farm the fields.
At the same time, Xu Wei and his 200,000 troops finally arrived at his ideal base - Yanmen County!
Yanmen County was established by King Wuling of Zhao during the Warring States Period to fight against the foreign tribes in the north. History records that during the Zhao State, Li Mu was the first line to fight against the Huns. Shanwu, where Qin Dynasty was governed, is now the northern part of Ningwu, the old prefecture of Shanxi Province, the southern part of Shuoping, and the eastern and northern part of Datong.
Its territory was also governed by Yanmen County in the Han Dynasty. The county governed 14 counties. They were: Yinguan, Mayi, Qixian, Loufan, Guangwu, Yuanping, Lucheng, Wangtao, Fanri, Juyang, and Nao.
County, Wuzhou, Pingcheng, Qiangyang and other counties.
But since the Yellow Turban Uprising, the Han Dynasty began to shrink its power in the grasslands. Most of the border troops in Yanmen County were transferred to the interior to fight against the Yellow Turban Army. They finally put down the Yellow Turban Uprising. However, Beigong Boyu and Li Wenhou of Liangzhou again
Rebelled.
In particular, Li Wenhou was one of the leaders of Yi Conghu.
Don't underestimate the identity of leader Yicong Hu. When the Qiang people rebelled, the Han Dynasty recruited pro-Han Qiang people to deal with the rebellious Qiang people.
Especially Duan Xi, one of the Three Ming Dynasties in Xiliang, his subordinates were basically Qiang people, and Duan Jiong was also one of the famous generals in the late Han Dynasty. He fought a total of 180 battles and beheaded 38,600 enemies.
Ranked over 100, he obtained more than 427,500 cattle, horses, sheep, mules, donkeys and camels at a cost of 4.4 billion. More than 400 soldiers died in battle. He suppressed the Qiang rebellion in Xiliang and was granted the title of Duan Jiuxin by the imperial court.
The Marquis of Feng County has thousands of households in the city.
He led the Qiang people to fight against the Qiang people, and had such a powerful record that no novel would dare to write about it. It can be said that Duan Xi was also a genius commander like Huo Qubing.
The identity of this leader of Yi Conghu was Duan Xi's original subordinate. After the Qiang rebellion was suppressed, the imperial court gave some cattle and sheep land to the pro-Han Qiang people and asked them to retire.
And these people became the leaders of Yiconghu, which means that these Qiang people are elites who have been fighting for a lifetime, and they are also closely related to the Xiliang border army. Dong Zhuo is their comrade-in-arms. This is why the imperial court is in Xiliang
Although there were 100,000 troops, Xiliang could not be pacified because those who rebelled against the imperial court were experienced soldiers and generals.
And this time Fu Bian stayed with an army of 30,000. The entire Yanmen County, that is, an important pass like Yanmen Pass, still had 1,500 garrison troops stationed there. The other counties were basically empty, relying on powerful private soldiers to maintain local stability.
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Xu Wei led 200,000 people to Yanmen Pass, and the defender simply gave up Yanmen Pass.
There are no more imperial troops outside Yanmen Pass. If you want to survive here, you can only rely on the Han people's own abilities.
Fortunately, in this era, the Han people had been suppressing the grasslands for more than 300 years. Even if they are now in decline, the Hu people fear the strength of the Han people and dare not make any mistakes. The Han people can still survive outside the customs, but their population is not large.
Yanmen County has 8 counties outside Yanmen Pass, but the combined population does not exceed 50,000.
Just imagine, a place larger than Beijing has only 50,000 people. How empty it is.
When Xu Wei led 200,000 people to station in Mayi County, it made the place lively.
Wang Lei and the others looked at the dilapidated and weathered city of Mayi County and said, "Captain, this is not even as good as the towns in Jizhou. Can so many of us really live here?"
It's really not Wang Lei's nonsense. There are hundreds of thousands of people in a county in Jizhou, more than the entire county of Yanmen. And now in Mayi, the county magistrates have fled long ago when they knew that Xu Wei and the others came here, and even a little
The money man also ran away.
There were only thousands of poor people left in Mayi. They could not escape and did not dare to escape. They could only resign themselves to their fate.
Xu Wei smiled and said: "Look at how empty it is along the way. It will be cultivated into fertile land. Such a big place is enough to feed 200,000 of us. It is impossible for the Han army to come after us now. We can build new ones here."
Family business!”
Xu Wei took a fancy to the open space here, the absence of other messy relationships and feudal forces, and a blank piece of paper for painting.