After Emperor Ling saw the memorial, he immediately summoned the three ministers and nine ministers and asked: "Now the court has no money and the war can't go on. Fu Bian said that he wants to recruit the Yellow Turban bandits in Jizhou. What do you think of Fu Bian's memorial?"
Taiwei Cui Lie immediately stood up and said: "We can't appease the yellow scarf thieves like Zhang Yan who slaughtered noble officials and brought disaster to the people. Now that we are at the end of our rope, we will naturally escape and kill these thieves and bandits!"
Cui Lie's hometown is Qinghe County in Jizhou. Although it is not the main battlefield, he escaped early when Zhang Niujiao encircled and suppressed the gentry, but all his family property was gone. Even the fields were taken by Fu Bian and he did not return them, and his relatives also died. It can be said that no official in the imperial court had a greater hatred against the Yellow Turbans than he did. He did not agree to appease the Yellow Turbans in both public and private matters!
Other ministers also objected fiercely, not because they had any deep hatred for the Yellow Turban Army, but because they felt the same way. Cui Lie was in such a miserable state now.
What Zhang Niujiao and the others did back then was too exaggerated, and hundreds of noble families in Jizhou were directly hit hard. You must know that Jizhou is one of the three largest families in the Han Dynasty.
Now that everything is over, it is impossible for the noble families in Jizhou to recover for hundreds of years. This is really terrible for the noble families in other places, and this is not the case even when dynasties change.
Their class attributes make it impossible for them to accept that Zhang Yan and other Yellow Turban thieves will continue to live in this world without even thinking about recruiting them. Leaders like Zhang Yan will kill the nine tribes one by one and cut them into pieces with a thousand swords!
We must let the thieves and bandits in other places know what happened to Zhang Yan and the others, and know that the noble family is sacred and inviolable!
Cui Lie shouted loudly: "Fu Bian has an affair with the Yellow Turban bandits. He will be caught and tried. The imperial court will send generals to destroy the Yellow Turban thieves in Jizhou!"
"Your Excellency Taiwei said well!"
"That's how it should be done!"
All other officials agreed with Cui Lie's proposal!
Emperor Ling shouted loudly: "Shut up!"
All the ministers were frightened, and they all looked at Emperor Ling without saying a word!
Emperor Ling looked at the civil and military officials with cold eyes and said: "Everyone knows, kill, kill, kill!"
"Where's the money?"
"It's only December now, and the treasury is almost empty. Do you plan to let me eat dirt? Or do you plan to let the frontline soldiers eat dirt to wipe out the bandits! You can continue to fight if you want, you can find a way to get the money yourself! "
Situ Xuxiang said: "Even if the court has no money, it cannot let go of the Yellow Turban bandits. If bandits like Zhang Yan are appeased today, will other bandits in the world follow suit, so that the world can be stable?"
"There is no money in the national treasury, so the court can just increase taxes. The elimination of these bandits is also for the stability of the people. The people will understand the court!"
The minister ordered Lu Zhi to report: "It is absolutely impossible. In recent years, the imperial court has raised taxes many times in order to suppress rebellions in various places. If we want to increase taxes, I am afraid that the Yellow Turban thieves from all over the world will reappear. You must know that just in Jizhou If taxes are raised, Zhang Niujiao will be in trouble, and everyone will not worry about Zhang Niujiao appearing again in the Central Plains!"
Lu Zhi's words really worried the civil and military officials. If Zhang Jiao was a traitor who abided by the rules, everyone would not be worried. No matter how fierce the fight was, they would not be able to hit them. But a traitor like Zhang Niujiao would be too much. It's terrible. To these officials, this is almost like killing the Nine Tribes.
General He Jinjin reported: "Your Majesty, it is better to appease the bandits first. Once Zhang Yan and other bandits give up their military power, killing and beheading them is not something that can only be done by a few petty officials. In this way, it will not cost too much troops."
He Jin's words made the Ling Emperor a little moved. He didn't care about Zhang Yan's massacre of the wealthy gentry in Jizhou. After all, he didn't have much affection for the wealthy gentry. However, Zhang Yan's poisonous thorn stuck in the Central Plains was too strong to be pulled out without waiting.
It's time to go out. If the whole Jizhou can be stabilized by appeasement, Emperor Ling is willing. As for the revenge of the court officials on Zhang Yan later, Emperor Ling doesn't care!
But Lu Zhi stopped him and said, "What the general said is wrong! If your majesty recruits Zhang Yan, you must ensure his safety. Otherwise, the court and your majesty will break their trust in the world. Such a plan will damage the majesty of the court and your majesty!"
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Emperor Ling reacted immediately. Wasn't he using his little dignity to help the nobles in Jizhou vent their anger? He was very familiar with the nobles, right?
He wished that all the noble families in the world would be massacred by the Yellow Turban Army. No one could take advantage of these noble families. He remembered that when Zhang Niujiao revolted, all the civil and military officials said openly and secretly that I was making money. This allowed thieves like Zhang Niujiao to attack again.
Rebellious.
Cheap nobles, you can't do this kind of thing!
So he said: "If Zhang Yan is appeased, Zhang Yan will be an official of the imperial court from now on, and no one can say anything about revenge in the future!"
Cui Lie said angrily: "If the imperial court really recruits a traitor like Zhang Yan, I will stop being an official!"
Emperor Ling knew that Cui Lie's family had suffered heavy losses, so he rarely had a good temper and said: "Lieutenant, the court has no money, and there is a Xiliang thief to fight. The court can't do anything to Zhang Yan, so what if we don't appease him!"
Cui Lie said: "Jizhou is the confidant of the imperial court, and Xiliang is just a borderland. Even if it is abandoned, what does it matter? The Han Dynasty has rarely received a cent of tax from Xiliang in recent years. Abandoning Xiliang is a big deal to the imperial court.
Abandoning a huge burden, 100,000 Xiliang elites entered the Central Plains, what yellow turban thieves cannot be defeated!"
Cui Lie's words about giving up Xiliang shocked all civil and military officials. No one thought that Cui Lie would say such a thing out of revenge. This is giving up the land of his ancestors!
Tao Qian was furious after hearing Cui Lie's remarks, and immediately shouted loudly: "Situ can be killed! If Situ is killed, the world will be safe!"
When he said this, everyone was shocked.
Cui Lie was furious and said: "You are just a defeated general. If the emperor had not been generous, you would be in Zhao Prison now. Now you dare to talk nonsense in the court!"
Tao Qian was a disciple of the chariot general Zhang Wen. He followed Zhang Wen to Xiliang to quell the rebellion. However, he followed his teacher and fought a defeated battle. He relied on his teacher's relationship to avoid being punished too much, and he became a
The minister of the imperial court.
In order to save Situ Cui Lie's face, all the civil and military officials had to write to the emperor to impeach Tao Qian for being silent.
Tao Qian replied calmly: "Liangzhou is the stronghold of our Han Dynasty, the barrier of the country, and the foundation that our ancestors have gone through all kinds of hardships to develop. How can we just give up casually? How will your Majesty face it a hundred years later?"
The ancestors of the Han Dynasty!"
"Cui Lie, as the Third Duke, was the prime minister of the dynasty. Instead of trying his best to find a way to eliminate the rebellion, he opened his mouth and said that he would give up my Han Dynasty's territory of thousands of miles. If you don't kill such a person, who should be killed? If the rebellion takes over Xiliang, the power will
After the expansion, the military strength was increased, and then Kou Sanfu was invaded, Chang'an was shocked. Could it be that the imperial court even gave up on Chang'an!"