Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 1284 First court meeting

  The first month of the second year of Yanping in the Han Dynasty.

  Whether you are poor or rich, you have to celebrate a new year. The Han Emperor Liu Xie was no exception.

   On the first day of the first lunar month, the emperor led his ministers to worship Gaozu and Shizu Temple. On the eighth day of the first lunar month, offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, praying for a good harvest. On the ninth day of the first lunar month, worship Yuntai. On the same day, the emperor decreed that Yang Biao and Lu Bu should stop their troops, and the two families would enter the court together to take power.

  All such political activities are carried out under the minister headed by Fu Wan. Because Yang Biao's strength has been greatly weakened, Hongnong Yang's control over Luoyang has dropped a lot, and it is impossible to fully interfere with Liu Xie, and because Lu Bu is almost at the gate of the city, Yang Biao can only accept it in the end. Fu finished the mediation of Dong Cheng and others, and said that he could sit down with Lu Bu to discuss some follow-up governance issues, and no longer march.

  Fu Wan and the others played the crowns to celebrate each other, and it felt like a new year, a new dynasty, and a new atmosphere.

  Yang Biao was hit physically and mentally. Before the Chinese New Year, he heard that he fell ill. Yang Xiu hurried back and took care of him day and night. Yang Xiu, who was originally a high-ranking yamen like a noble son, gradually realized the difficulty of life. He and Yang Biao huddled together in Hongnong County, whether they were comforting each other and licking their wounds, or accumulating strength and waiting for the right time. Got it.

  Lü Bu’s army, well, it’s not a big army, anyway, if we don’t distinguish between auxiliary soldiers and civilian husbands, we can barely make up 10,000 people. They drove into Luoyang, met the emperor Liu Xie, and started a new journey.

  Emperor Liu Xie ignored Yang Biao, he finally walked from behind the scenes to the front of the stage, and it took four or five years to really take this step!

  On the tenth day of the first lunar month, Emperor Liu Xie paraded the army at the head of Luoyang City. Of course, it was Lu Bu's army. Immediately, Liu Xie returned to the palace to accept the congratulations from all the officials, and officially sat on the throne alone. His mood was as complicated as that of a daughter-in-law who has been a wife for many years, with joy and worry.

  On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Son of Heaven convened the Great Court Meeting for the first time. The focus of the discussion was mainly on how to calm down the chaos in the world and return to the original order as soon as possible.

  Zhongxing, these two words are very important in Liu Xie's heart, including his father Han Lingdi. At the beginning, Emperor Han Ling tried his best to hold power for a while, and wanted to pull the out-of-control carriage of the big man back to the road, but unfortunately, he failed in the end.

   Now, Liu Xie wants to pick up these two words again.

  How to complete the great cause of ZTE?

First of all, the government orders must be unified. As it is now, the counties and counties in different regions are in charge of their own affairs, and the situation where the government orders cannot be issued by Henan Yin is not ZTE. Therefore, in the face of the situation that the power of the princes in various counties and counties varies from large to small, and the distribution is uneven Next, what method can be used to calm the world as soon as possible?

"Your Majesty! I only need 5,000 iron cavalry, and I can gallop all over the place! Put down the rebellion!" Lu Bu said in an imposing manner, "I will clean up the world for Your Majesty, and return the world to the big man!" Lu Bu believes that only Fu Wan and others need to do a good job. They don't need to worry about logistics and fighting. Five thousand cavalry and more than ten thousand auxiliary soldiers and civilians are a very powerful attacking corps. Coupled with their own martial arts, they are enough to fight north and south.

"Your Majesty, you can take the small counties first, accumulate small victories, and pool your troops to achieve a big victory. As a humble minister, you can take Yanzhou and Qingzhou first..." Lu Bu was not just talking empty words, but also had some calculations in his heart. The plan is very simple and practical, that is, in the name of His Majesty, we will crusade against the surrounding counties and counties that are less powerful, and then collect soldiers while accumulating strength, and then fight the big princes...

   "General Lu!" Fu Wan frowned, and had no choice but to interrupt Lu Bu's high-spirited speech. Lu Bu's plan is completely inferred under the ideal state, but the actual situation is obviously much more complicated. At present, the two Yuans divide the north and the south, and Lu Bu plans to clean up these small counties first. Don't you know that these small counties are basically extended by the two Yuans? Tentacle, if it really hurts Er Yuan, if Er Yuan can't keep Er Yuan, he will join forces and come to kill him directly!

But the problem is that Lu Bu was just found by his group of people, and he couldn't embarrass Lu Bu face to face. It would be unsightly if there was a gap, so Fu Wan thought it over and said: "General Lu's strategy may be okay. However, there are not enough reserves in the court, and there is not much food and grass, so it is really unbearable to carry out a large-scale conquest..."

   Lu Bu frowned, three deep lines stood up in the middle of his forehead, after looking at it, he hesitated for a moment, closed his mouth, backed away, and kept his temper to stop talking.

  After so many years, Lu Bu has understood a little bit. Now that Fu Wan said so, he will give him some face. If the dispute continues, both parties will not look good.

  Yuan Shao is the enemy of the imperial court, and so is Yuan Shu. Except for these two forces, the other forces are generally considered objects that the imperial court can unite with.

According to Lu Bu's original plan, he only needs to unite with Fei Qian to gather a large number of cavalry troops, and then attack Yanzhou and Qingzhou first, disrupting the battlefield, and wait for one of the two Yuans to show their flaws, then they can drive straight in, just like Like a sharp knife piercing into the chest, he directly took the head of the general from among the ten thousand troops, and let's talk after taking the head of one of the two Yuans!

  At that time, as long as one of the two Yuans falls, the world will inevitably shake, and other forces around the corner will inevitably stop, and then return to the army to deal with the remaining Yuan family, and the world will naturally be calmed down easily. As long as the two sources of turmoil, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, are eliminated, the great cause of ZTE can be completed within a few years.

  However, Fu Wan believes that the most important thing now is not to raise troops immediately, but to adjust the land system and taxes first. Without money and food, it is impossible to fight wars, and it is impossible to pacify the world.

Heluo was hit by a disaster last year, and the autumn harvest land tax was greatly reduced. In addition, the taxes of local counties and counties were basically all withheld, which led to the reduction of the imperial court's money and food to an extremely low value. The reason is a large loss of population. Therefore, it is necessary to take advantage of the time when there is still some spare capacity to resettle the refugees to organize production, increase taxes and stabilize the people.

Fu Wan suggested that the soldiers and civilians in Heluo should first learn the model of uniting the north and start farming. Using farming can stabilize the regime on the one hand, express the court's attitude of pursuing peace, and eliminate its guard mentality. The barren land is recultivated and cultivated, which can not only avoid the difficulty of the small nobles who cannot open up wasteland and resume farming on a large scale, but also allow the imperial court to directly control the land and obtain sufficient taxes, money and grain income.

Liu Xie listened, perhaps it was the embarrassing finances in Chang'an that left him a deep impression, so when Fu Wan finished talking about the strategy, Liu Xie thought for a while, and then agreed to promote Fu Wan's plan. For the time being, we will not attack various places, but first develop our own strength and reserve money and food.

  Of course, Liu Xie did not forget to appease Lv Bu, saying that he only needs Lv Bu to train his soldiers and horses, and he will soon have the opportunity to fight the enemy...

  After the general direction of the strategy is decided, it is inevitable to continue to delve into some details. One of the things has something to do with Zhengxi General Fei Qian, that is, Wuzhu Coin and Zhengxi Tongbao.

Originally, in the Western Han Dynasty, the three officials of Shanglinyuan who cast money, Zhongguan, Biantongling, and Junshuling, were responsible for casting the world's coins, and once took back the right to cast coins, but later because the interests of casting money in various places were too great, so In the end, when the imperial power was not stable, it was almost impossible to control the private casting of money. Even the royal blood and princes from all over the world took the lead in poaching the corners of the big men. In the end, the country's casting power was gone...

There is a difference between the copper coin and the actual item. For example, the usual market price of a five baht coin can be exchanged for a noodle cake, but in fact the value of the metal itself used in a five baht coin is not worth a noodle cake. , then the difference is obtained by the minter.

This truth is basically understood by anyone who has played coin minting, so when Zhengxi's Tongbao appeared on the market, although everyone felt that this Tongbao was better than the original hemp money and corn money, and even better than the general five The baht money is worth three cents, but this kind of thing has always been a matter of small profits and high sales. Although the profit of a coin is very small, if all the coins in the world use Zhengxi Tongbao, then the accumulation is quite considerable.

  And judging from the circulation speed of Zhengxi Tongbao, ordinary people are still more willing to accept this kind of coins with better quality and more exquisite patterns, which are more convenient to keep or spend.

  If it weren’t for the inferior coins such as corn money and hemp clip money that have been rejected by many merchants and people, maybe bad money driving out good money will be staged again.

When Fei Qian was merging with the North before, he used inflation to harvest a wave of wealth, and the gentry Haoyou who had been harvested was busy spending the low-quality coins in his hands, and some guys even did not hesitate to recover the loss. Melting the original five baht coins and casting a large number of worse coins again further exacerbated the depreciation of coins. The final result was that the order of coins in the surrounding area was completely collapsed. Whether the gentry or the common people who had suffered a loss once, they refused to accept it again. Inferior-quality coins, even five baht coins that were originally of good quality, have been implicated and are basically difficult to use.

Therefore, in the Heluo area, the common people would rather barter than accept low-quality coins, and those low-quality coins are just like paper money that lost national credibility in later generations, worse than waste paper, which led to the gradual disappearance of low-quality coins The market in the Heluo area once cut off the circulation of coins.

  Now that the imperial court wants to re-establish the taxation system, the issue of rebuilding the order of coins has become the focus of debate whether to use Feiqian's Zhengxi Tongbao or the original five baht coins.

  On the one hand, some people say that there were furnaces and craftsmen for casting money in the city of Luoyang, all that is needed is an edict to abolish Zhengxi Tongbao, and recast and circulate five baht coins.

On the other hand, some people also suggested that since the people are willing to accept new money and are unwilling to accept five baht, they should ask Zhengxi to pay tribute to a set of craftsmen and equipment for casting Tongbao. New Tong Bao.

  Some people said that even if Zhengxi’s casting was collected, there would be princes in other regions casting money, which could not be banned at all.

   Then someone said that Zhengxi’s casting of coins had not been approved by His Majesty. Where did the good officials come from?

   Seeing that the building was gradually crooked, Liu Xie hurriedly stopped discussing this issue, saying that it would be put on hold for the time being, and that they would discuss it later when there was a new solution.

   Finally, there is the **** problem.

  The original military system of the Han Dynasty was inherited from the Qin system, and the emperor was the supreme military commander, with two major military agencies to control the entire army. One is the capital security organization composed of Guang Luxun, Weiwei, and Zhijinwu, and the other is the highest military administrative organization composed of Taiwei and generals at all levels. The national army is composed of three parts, the capital army, the army of each county and the frontier army.

  The army of the capital includes the Huben Army, the Habayashi Army, the Southern Army and the Northern Army. The Northern Army usually guards the capital, and some or all of them go out with the general during the expedition. The county soldiers maintain local law and order in peacetime, and listen to the imperial court in wartime. The emperor's "Tiger Talisman" is needed to recruit soldiers from the county. When the war is tense, they will be temporarily recruited from the county.

  The frontier army guards the border counties, under the command of the prefects of each border county and the governor of the country.

   Now the capital army is basically gone. The frontier army, the Northwest Army, that is, General Fei Qian, who is conquering the west, is the only one, and then the soldiers in various counties are in charge of their own affairs.

Let Fei Qian lead troops into the capital. Many people think that Dong Zhuo and Li Guo are coming again as long as they think about it, so they absolutely cannot accept it. However, even if these soldiers of Lu Bu are counted as the capital army, it is not enough. To compete with the soldiers of various counties, but to recruit a large number of troops and expand the army...

  Where did the money and food come from?

   Everyone realized that they were so embarrassed that they went back to the original question...

Liu Xie was sitting on the throne, looking left and right. After more than two hours, the officials were arguing with each other, and now you have gradually lost the stage of sitting on the throne. Excitement, a sense of exhaustion rose from the heart and spread to the whole body.

"Is this kind of imperial court what my father has experienced before?" Liu Xie is young after all, and his energy cannot be compared with that of an adult. , such a situation... No, if Emperor Guangwu is faced with such a situation, what should he do?"

   "Your Majesty...Your Majesty!" After finishing his speech, he found that Liu Xie was in a daze, so he couldn't help but raise his voice, "I don't know what Your Majesty means?"

   "Huh?" Liu Xie was taken aback, then subconsciously replied, "Then follow Aiqing's play..."

  As soon as the words came out, Liu Xie realized something was wrong.

There is no way, this is a habit that has been cultivated since Dong Zhuo's time. Anyway, at that time, he was basically a puppet. Dong Zhuo or Li Guo said what he said. This is what Liu Xie said most skillfully at the court meeting That's it, now I'm distracted, subconsciously blurted out.

   What did Fu Wan say just now?

   It's over, do you want to say that what you said doesn't count during the first court meeting?

  Liu Xie's face turned red, and he stared anxiously at the little yellow door beside him. Xiao Huangmen was shocked, and quickly shouted loudly: "Your Majesty is not feeling well, today's court meeting will be suspended! Relevant matters will be discussed tomorrow! Retire from the court!"

"This!"

"Ugh…"

   "Send off Your Majesty!" The officials were also helpless, but Liu Xie wanted to leave, and everyone couldn't stop them, so they had to bow together and adjourn the meeting for the time being...

   Lu Bu frowned, lowered his head, watched Liu Xie get off the throne from the corner of his eye, and turned into the apse, then shook his sleeves and left the hall without saying hello to Fu Wan and the others.

  Luo Yang in the first month, the sky is still clear, but when Lu Bu stood outside the hall, he felt that the sky was somewhat hazy...

  (end of this chapter)