The result of the court meeting can be imagined. With Long Fei's skillful argument, the help of Dong Zhuo's subordinates, and the officials who had a grudge against the Yuan family, Yuan Wei could only grit his teeth and donate money and food. Yuan Wei could only grit his teeth and donate money and food.
Wei saw it clearly today. Dong Zhuo had no intention of funding the establishment of the Eighth School of Xiyuan. He clearly wanted to take over Long Fei's hand to rectify himself.
Of course, Long Fei also understood that since he entered the court, no one mentioned the matter of gratitude, and Li Ru proposed the idea of establishing the Eighth School of Xiyuan, he understood in his heart. As for why he chose Yuan Wei, it was also Li Su's guidance.
When Yong retorted, Li Su only said something bold. When Yuan Wei retorted, Li Su immediately brought out Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, and said that Yuan Wei had colluded with them, and it was obvious that he wanted to frame Yuan Wei. Long Fei just did it
Dong Zhuo's gun.
After returning home, Yuan Wei flipped his robe sleeve angrily and overturned the tea bowl on the table to the ground. Everyone in the family was frightened and did not dare to approach. Yuan Feng looked around, poured another cup of tea for Yuan Wei, and said: "
Third brother, there is no need to be so angry. Dong Zhuo clearly wants to deal with our Yuan family in the court today, so we can just spend some money and food for temporary peace!"
"What did the second brother say? When has my Yuan family been humiliated like this?" Yuan Wei was still angry: "He wanted to kill our Yuan family. He made me anxious. I immediately asked Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu to raise troops.
Let’s see how long he can be domineering?”
Yuan Feng shook his head: "Now is not the time, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu has just established a foothold, and there are not many soldiers under his command. However, Dong Zhuo has seized He Jin's troops and horses, and has grown bigger and controlled Luoyang. It is better not to use swords until it is absolutely necessary!"
Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu also need time!"
Yuan Wei ignored him and said loudly to the door: "Go and bring Mr. Lu, General Huangfu, Wang Situ, and Zhang Weiwei to me, saying that we have something important to discuss!"
"Why are you looking for Wang Yun? Isn't that Long Fei introduced to Dong Zhuo by Wang Yun?" Yuan Feng stopped him immediately.
Yuan Wei said coldly: "I just want to ask Wang Yun, does he still think that Dong Zhuo's minions are not enough, so he is adding more people to him? That Long Fei is eloquent and talks nonsense. You can tell at a glance that he is not a good person!
Introducing such a person to Dong Zhuo is clearly a conspiracy!"
Several people who received the news came to Yuan's Mansion one after another. They were all important officials of the imperial court, and they naturally knew what happened in the court. Seeing that Yuan Wei's face was not good, Wang Yun hurriedly stepped forward to apologize. Yuan Feng didn't even look at him.
Instead, he clasped his fists at everyone: "My lords, you all know what happened in the court today. Dong Zhuo is trying to destroy our court. Today, I am the one to be attacked. Tomorrow it may be you. I, the fourth and third prince of the Yuan family, can't measure him, Dong Zhuo."
No matter what, it would be hard to say if it were you, Mr. Lu, didn’t Dong Zhuo almost kill you a few days ago?”
Lu Zhi shook his head and sighed: "Unfortunately for the great man, our ministers are powerless and are about to die in the hands of this traitor!"
Zhang Wen turned to Wang Yun and said, "Wang Situ, isn't that Long Fei one of yours? Why is he acting like this today?"
Wang Yun hurriedly handed over his hands and said to everyone: "Forgive me, Long Fei was originally my general. Who knew that Dong Zhuo took notice of the hunt a few days ago and forced him to go. This man was diligent and willing to work when he was in my house. Who knew
He has become like this just after being appreciated by Dong Zhuo. It is because of my inability to discipline him! Master Yuan, please rest assured that Long Fei is still living in my house temporarily. I will definitely teach him a lesson when I return!"
"I hope so!" Yuan Wei glared at Wang Yun.
There was nothing substantive in this gathering, it was all nonsense. Yuan Wei was in a bad mood, so he asked these people to question him. After talking for a long time, they dispersed. As soon as Wang Yunchang returned home, he saw Long Fei in his study.
While drinking tea in the middle of the night, Wang Yun did not get up when he saw Wang Yun came back. Wang Yun smiled and shook his head: "Long Xiaowei, you have made this old man miserable! I have been scolded for you all night! Although it is your approach.
Dong Zhuo's methods cannot be used against the Yuan family, and the Yuan family is not easy to mess with!"
Long Fei put down his tea bowl: "It's precisely because it's hard to offend that I have to do it. Only by targeting the Yuan family will Dong Zhuo truly believe that I'm on his side."
Wang Yun nodded: "What do you plan to do next?"
"Train troops!" Long Fei replied: "Dong Zhuo controls all the troops in Luoyang, and his Xiliang cronies alone number 20,000. Without an army of his own, even if he can deal with Dong Zhuo, it will be difficult to do so. If
If the situation in Luoyang cannot be controlled in time, the second and third Dong Zhuo will naturally come out. Will Mr. Wang still spend money to treat us?"
"Forget it then! Inviting you here this time has already bankrupted my fortune!" Wang Yun waved his hands repeatedly.
Xiaowei was first placed in the Qin Dynasty as a mid-level officer. In order to strengthen the protection of Chang'an City, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty established eight Xiaowei, Tunqi, Infantry, Yueqi, Changshui, Huqi, Shesheng and Huben.
The ranks of all the lieutenants were two thousand Dan. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Zhongbao captains were omitted, Huqi was merged into Changshui, and Huben was merged into Shesheng, leaving only five captains. At the end of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Ling specially set up eight Xiyuan captains.
, in charge of the military power near the capital. With the frequent wars at the end of the Han Dynasty, there were many military merits, and the number of school captains had greatly shrunk, and they were reduced to lower-level officials among military generals. This time Dong Zhuo rebuilt the Eighth School of Xiyuan, actually for himself
Prepare a guard force to protect your life when necessary.
Although Long Fei and Zhao Yun are also among the eight newly built Xiyuan schools, they are not important official positions. Above them, there is also Dong Min, the captain of the military academy, who is in charge. Even if they have bad intentions, they will die immediately without a burial place. However,
, although the official position is not important, he is still considered in Dong Zhuo's inner circle and is the commander of Dong Zhuo's personal guard. It is an exception to receive such attention just after joining Dong Zhuo's camp.
In Dong Zhuo's expectation, each of the eight Xiyuan schools rebuilt this time had 5,000 people, who were distributed according to the establishment method of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Dong Min's army was in charge of the palace garrison and the Taishi Mansion garrison. Xu Rong was in charge of the Xiliang infantry of 5,000 people.
, was Dong Min's deputy. Zhang Xiu was in charge of 5,000 Xiliang cavalry, Long Fei was in charge of 5,000 heavy cavalry, Zhao Yun was in charge of 5,000 archers, Li Shi was in charge of 5,000 Xiliang archers, Gao Shun was in charge of 5,000 infantry, and Zhang Liao was in charge of light cavalry.
There are five thousand cavalry. Except for Dong Min and Xu Rong, eight of them are stationed around Luoyang.
Among them, Dong Min, Xu Rong, Zhang Xiu, and Li Shi were either Dong Zhuo's close confidants or close confidants' nephews, so the soldiers they commanded were drawn from elite soldiers from all over Luoyang, and they were all Xiliang soldiers. As for Long Fei, Zhao Yun,
Gao Shun, Zhang Liao and others did not have such a good thing. Dong Zhuo only gave them quotas to recruit soldiers and enough grain and rice to feed five thousand people. They had to figure out their own solutions for soldiers and weapons.
"Damn it, it turns out we are the stepmothers!" Long Fei said with a bitter smile.
Zhao Yun shook his head: "What should I do? Are you really going to recruit troops?"
"What else can we do? What kind of captain is a mere commander?" Long Fei said: "Tomorrow you will post a recruitment notice and see if anyone responds! If it doesn't work, I will quit!"
"Why did Mr. Long say such a thing?" Gao Shun and Zhang Liao came in from the door. This place was originally the barracks of the Eighth School of Xiyuan. No one has lived in it since those people were dismissed. Now it has become their base camp. Say this
The speaker was Zhang Liao. Because of the gift of the horse, he and Long Fei became very close. Gao Shun still had a serious look on his face and remained silent from the moment he entered the door.
"It turns out it's you two. Please sit down quickly. Second brother, I'll serve you tea!"
After taking a sip of tea, the four of them were at a loss when it came to the matter of having generals and not having soldiers. The matter of recruiting soldiers was not a difficult matter in the first place. The world was in chaos and all the refugees were displaced. In order to have enough to eat, there were many people who were willing to serve as soldiers.
. But this Luoyang is different from other places. After Dong Zhuo came to power, in order to show his ability to govern the country, he ordered that no one should beg for food within a hundred miles of Luoyang City. If caught, he would be executed. Those who could not survive were all gone.
, those who stayed were basically unwilling to serve as soldiers, let alone serve as soldiers for Dong Zhuo.
"Do you two have any good ideas?" Long Fei asked.
Zhang Liao shook his head: "There is no alternative except conscription. There are not many people in Luoyang City who want to be soldiers now. The four of us together need 20,000 soldiers and horses. It is not easy!"
Gao Shun, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said: "I have a way to get 20,000 soldiers, but I don't know if you have the courage?"
"Master Gao, please speak!"
"Although there are no beggars for more than a hundred miles around Luoyang due to the order of the Grand Master, we can't recruit soldiers at all!" Gao Shun still had no expression on his face and spoke smoothly: "As far as I know, there are 30 people south of Luoyang.
There is a mountain called White Wolf Valley. There is a group of thieves in the valley. They were originally the remnants of the Yellow Turbans. They settled here after Zhang Jiao was wiped out. Now they have become the largest group of bandits near Luoyang, disturbing passers-by. The four leaders are
Yang Feng, Li Le, Han Xian, and Hu Cai are all mediocre people. They guard high mountains and high mountains and deal with the imperial army. If we can get a foothold here, if we can get these people to submit, we can get troops!"
"How many people do they have? To solve our manpower problem, we need 20,000 people!" Zhang Liao asked hurriedly.
Zhao Yun frowned: "We are only one, two, three, four, or four people now. According to what Brother Gao said, we can solve our problem of soldiers and horses. That is an army of tens of thousands. How about four of us going to attack tens of thousands of traitors?
"
"We can fight, but the worst we can do is borrow some soldiers and horses from the Grand Master! I just don't know what the strength of those people is? Whether we can fight or not will decide!" Long Fei said.
The four of them were silent again. After a while, Zhang Liao said: "Since you don't know, then go and find out. The four of us are trying our best here and still don't know! How about we set off now?"
The discussion was finalized, and Long Fei specially called for Talun to have one more person and more helpers. Unexpectedly, Wang Wei also came with him. Their team expanded by more than half, from four to six. They all rode out on horseback.
After arriving at the south gate of Luoyang, we headed straight to Bailang Valley. Everyone was on tenterhooks. There were only six of them, and it was hard to say whether they would be able to escape if they met a thief. Although the other party was incompetent, at least Long
Fei didn't notice the names of these people in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". But he still had to be careful. Long Fei understood the principle that ants kill an elephant.