Chapter 515 Court battle
"We don't need the opposite party to admit it, we just need to express our tendencies." Jia Xu's face was calm. They had already locked in victory, and they no longer needed the opposite party to admit it.
All they need is a superior who can let others of their own actions. As for whether Liu Bei himself wants to ascend the throne, that is Liu Bei's own business, as long as Liu Bei can seize the supreme power of the Han Dynasty.
The others, they will help Liu Bei solve it.
"Don't you need..." Li You murmured to himself, and finally looked at Liu Bei. Liu Bei's face was the tenacity that Dong Zhuo had never possessed, which was the only firm belief that he had always been implemented to the end.
"That's right. Nowadays, we no longer need their recognition." Li You's hesitation went all out, showing his killing and ruthlessness again.
Once upon a time, Li You was also standing at such a crossroads, but at that time he had the strongest power of the Han Dynasty, so strong that he didn't even need the recognition of the people of the world.
However, Dong Zhuo, who he recognized, fell into the prosperity of Guanzhong that allowed them to ask for. Dong Zhuo's depravity eventually led to the collapse of the Western Liang power, and also caused Li You's efforts to waste the first half of his life.
Now, Li You is standing at the intersection of fate again. He looks at Liu Bei who was chosen by Chen Xi and Yang Ji. Liu Bei's eyes are full of beliefs that Dong Zhuo had never seen before.
"Just do what we should do, the rest..." Chen Xi looked at Luoyang in ruins all over the ground. After Liu Bei rebuilt Luoyang, what choice would the Chang'an court officials who claimed to be loyal ministers of the Han Dynasty make?
At the same time, Li You's butler Li Fan appeared in Chang'an, and he came to Chang'an with Liu Ye.
He is different from Liu Ye. Liu Ye’s reason is to invite Liu Xie to return to Luoyang, while Li Fan came to find the four of Li Jue, Guo Si, Fan, Chou and Zhang Ji.
Because Li Jue and his friends rebuilt the Zheng Guo Canal, the Xiliang army in Guanzhong is still doing well now. After all, the Xiliang army's killers basically went down to collect taxes by themselves, so it is basically impossible for food to be embezzled by the middlemen.
In addition, the people of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry also made a noise, saying that they were responsible for the agricultural taxes covered by the Zheng State canal. If anyone dared to cross the boundary, they would ask the guys who dared to reach out to try the Xiliang Iron Cavalry's horse-killing sword to be bad.
By the way to collect taxes is actually not what Li Jue and Guo Si thought of, but was provided by Sima Lang and Zhuge Jin, who were sent to Chang'an by Chen Xi, to Li Jue and Guo Si. The purpose is to cut off the hands of the major forces in Chang'an reaching Zheng Guoqu, because Li Jue and Guo Si really have the ability to cut off this hand.
Even Li Jue had not forgotten to pay taxes to the Chang'an court. After all, the tax he collected in Zhengguo Canal was 50%, and he handed over one of them to the Chang'an court. The remaining 40% was definitely enough for the Xiliang Iron Cavalry in Guanzhong.
As for whether 10% of the court is enough for the court to use, it is not related to Li Jie and the others. After all, the one they paid is one-tenth of the total harvest of the people, and the tax stipulated in the Han law is thirty-one tax.
If anyone dares to use this to hit Li Jue and the others, Li Jue and the others will dare to use Hanlu to hit him. Why did the previous imperial court run normally with one-thirty, and even defeat all the foreign enemies such as the Huns and spread all their ashes?
Why can't the court's governance system be operated by you? Say, is it that some of you embezzled state taxes? ?
The reason for the court officials was that taxes from all over the country used to support the operation of the court. Now there is only the taxes from Zheng Guoqu, so of course there is no way to make the imperial management system run. Moreover, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is still the biggest stumbling block to the operation of the current imperial management system. Otherwise, why did the Xiliang Iron Cavalry replace the tax collection function of the imperial officials?
Then Li Jue said that the taxes on Duke Xuande were sent to Chang'an on time every year, and even the taxes sent by Duke Xuande were more than those paid by Zheng Guoku.
We have checked that the tax revenue during Emperor Huan’s reign was almost at this level. Why was the court management system able to operate normally at that time, but it was not possible now?
The court officials were speechless by Li Jue. Can they explain this to Li Jue clearly? No, if this matter is really exposed in the court, the consequences will not only be that Liu Bei will send troops to clear the emperor directly, but also that the aristocratic families hiding behind them will also be liquidated together.
Liu Bei has the ability to suppress or even liquidate all the Han family.
Moreover, the court officials really didn't expect that Li Jue, a vulgar guy, would go to look through the treasury tax records during the reign of Emperor Huan.
This also led to the court's confusion when facing Li Jue's question, and had no idea what to use to refute Li Jue's question.
The treasury tax records during the Huan Ling period not only caused headaches for the court, but also made Liu Xie notice this matter and ordered Zhong Jifuwan and others to check and compare the current and past treasury tax records.
However, Yang Biao, Dong Cheng and others mobilized their "eloquence" and convinced Zhong Jifuwan, who was shaken in his heart, and asked the two of them to persuade Liu Xie to give up pursuing this matter.
Then Yang Biao, Dong Cheng and others who did not want Liu Xie to investigate the matter began to provoke the relationship between Liu Xie and the Western Liang Iron Cavalry, without even having to provoke it. The relationship between Liu Xie and the Western Liang Iron Cavalry was already in a state of turmoil.
In Liu Xie's impression, Dong Zhuo probably contributed considerable efforts to turn the Han Dynasty into what it is today, so Li Jue, Guo Si, who is the remnant of Dong Zhuo, and other Western Liang cavalry were instantly hostile to Liu Xie, and the previous actions to investigate the records of the national treasury were left unresolved.
In the end, the situation in Chang'an changed back to its previous appearance. The court angrily criticized Li Jue and others, but Li Jue and others did not listen to the accusations of those people at all. Instead, they directly dispatched the Western Liang Iron Cavalry to surround some so-called just guys.
The Xiliang Iron Cavalry does not kill people, just to let these people feel what it means to be covered by death. After all, the murderous aura of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is not something that ordinary people can bear.
Why do people with low physical fitness and lack of mental strength be scared to death after being caused by the Xiliang Iron Cavalry for a round? At least they have a serious illness and will die of illness if they are accidentally killed. After all, it is really hard to say that the medical level of Chang'an is really hard to say.
It’s not that Chang’an does not have doctors with excellent medical skills, but whether those who have been subjected to the murderous aura of the Western Liang Iron Cavalry can come into contact with doctors who can cure their illnesses.
After the number of times, even the Hongnong Yang family, whose disciples and former officials were everywhere, could not let their disciples and former officials provoke Li Jue and the others again.
It was not that the disciples and old officials were unwilling to go, but that the Hongnong Yang himself was unwilling to go. After all, the enemies they faced were not following the rules.
Faced with the unruly cavalry of Xiliang and the Hongnong Yang family, who did not have much military strength, was unwilling to consume their strength for no reason.
It was at this time that the Yang family of Hongnong realized that their biggest flaw was that they were in the central government and they did gain huge power, but correspondingly, they did not have the military strength to match them.
What is the most important thing in troubled times? Of course, it is a military strength that can make people unruly.
Power can only play its greatest role under the rules. If you meet someone who does not want to follow the rules, it is best to show your own strength to not follow the rules.
Therefore, after realizing the importance of military strength, Yang Biao wrote a letter to Liu Xie in the name of forming the Emperor Guard that he wanted to reorganize the Southern Army. In fact, Yang Biao originally wanted to reorganize the Northern Army, but the Southern Army had been disbanded long ago, and now he doesn't know where to find someone to reorganize. But the Northern Army is different. Although the Northern Army was disbanded by Emperor Ling, Emperor Ling ordered Huangfu Song to form the Eighth School of Xiyuan with his soldiers after the Northern Army was disbanded.
Although the Eighth School of Xiyuan has been disbanded until now, the Weiwei still has a list of relevant soldiers. As long as the list is followed, a group of veterans can still be summoned as backbone, and then a group of young and strong men can be summoned as grassroots level. After a period of training, it will be almost done.
Unfortunately, when the Eight Schools of Xiyuan were disbanded, the capital of the Han Empire was still in Luoyang, so the veterans were scattered around Luoyang.
When Yang Biao got the list from Weiwei and sent people to Luoyang to find these veterans, most of them could no longer be found. They were either taken away by Liu Bei or poached by other interested people.
After all, it was a time when it was really a gift for food, and it was a time when people could work hard. Even the veterans who did not leave Luoyang with Liu Bei, most of them were poached by some people with ideas.
There is no way, the family really has no food. If they don’t find a way to get food, the whole family will starve to death.
After Yang Biao's men returned to Luoyang with the list, there were only dozens of veterans from the Northern Army left.
Looking at these dozens of veterans, Yang Biao, Situ, was silent for a long time, and finally wrote to Liu Xie, hoping to reorganize the Southern Army. After all, the Southern Army is not as serious as the Northern Army. If a group of young and strong men come to train, it will still be able to succeed quickly.
That's right, Yang Biao's intention to reorganize the Emperor's Southern Army was good, and Liu Xie also agreed to reorganize the Southern Army, but Liu Xie transferred the task of reorganizing the Southern Army to Fu, and he didn't even look at Situ Yang Biao.
Oh no, it can't be said that Liu Xie didn't look at Yang Biao at all. After Liu Xie handed over the task of reorganizing the Southern Army to Fu Zong, he handed over the task of rebuilding the Xiyuan headquarters to Yang Biao.
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By the way, Liu Xie told Situ Yang Biao that the Southern Xiongnu people could be replenished into the headquarters of the Xiyuan.
After receiving the Liu Xie's edict, Yang Biao was in a mess in the wind for a while. He just wanted to get some military power for himself, but why did it suddenly become like this?
The Southern Army, which was in charge of Fu Wan, must have listened to Fu Wan in the end, and Fu Wan was a firm royalist and Liu Xie's father-in-law.
And will the Xiyuan headquarters, which was filled with the Southern Xiongnu, listen to him or Liu Xie's emperor's edict?
Does there any choice for the Southern Xiongnu?
Can the power in Liu Xie suppress the Southern Xiongnu be put aside first? What is important is that Liu Xie has the righteousness of the emperor. Under the emperor's decree, do the Southern Xiongnu have the courage to not obey?
Of course, if this is the case, Yang Biao would not have much worry. After all, Fu Wan was ordered to reorganize the Southern Army, which was still very secure, and there is no problem in suppressing a Southern Xiongnu. If it is not good, there will be Liu Bei outside.
If Liu Xie could help him up, they were loyal ministers of the Han Dynasty. After all, Liu Bei, who was outside the pass, was only dissatisfied with Liu Xie's continued trouble, and he was not tolerant of Liu Xie's existence.
However, Liu Xie's requirement for Yang Biao was that the formation time of the Xiyuan headquarters was faster than that of the Southern Army, because in Liu Xie's eyes, the Southern Xiongnu could have a certain combat effectiveness after being replaced by a little training.
The Southern Army is different. The Southern Army needs to start training from scratch. With the ability to do it, it takes a lot of time to train the five thousand young men who have gathered to the level of an elite legion.
No matter whether there is a list of people inherited by the Southern Army on the Weiwei, even if the Weiwei can give a list, the people inherited by the Weiwei can find the people. The key is whether Fu Wan can complete the training of the Southern Army under the Southern Xiongnu's southward journey.
If Fu Wan could complete the training of the Southern Army before the Southern Xiongnu went south, he could ask the Southern Army to announce the edict and then bring the Southern Xiongnu troops to Chang'an.
I am afraid that Fu Wan will not be able to complete the training of the Southern Army in a short period of time.
No one watched. During the process of moving south, the Southern Xiongnu would really not betray the people along the way?
As for asking the Xiliang Iron Cavalry to help defend... If the Xiliang Iron Cavalry could really help, Liu Xie would not have to rebuild the Southern Army and the Xiyuan headquarters.
If the Western Liang Iron Cavalry knew that Liu Xie planned to recruit the Southern Xiongnu to be reinvigorated into the headquarters of Xiyuan, would you see if the Western Liang Iron Cavalry would cut the Southern Xiongnu to death halfway.
So Yang Biao was very uncomfortable with Liu Xie's order, but he had to refuse to execute it, and he could not let Li Jue and others know about this order. The series of actions of Li Jue and others in Chang'an clearly showed that there was someone behind them.
In the end, Yang Biao rejected Liu Xie's order because he found that he seemed to have a way to gain military power without passing Liu Xie.
However, it was precisely because Yang Biao refused Liu Xie's order that Dong Cheng and others believed that Yang Biao was unfaithful, so they set him off as a royalist, and fought for power with him.
Later, news came that Liu Bei defeated Yuan Shao, Yang Biao's position as the Grand Marshal was dismissed and appointed as Situ, while the Grand Marshal gave it to Liu Bei and the Grand Marshal gave it to Chen Xi.
However, Yang Biao didn't care much about the position of Taiwei at this time. The reason why he wanted to be Taiwei was just to give him some military power. Now it is different because he planned to write Yang Feng's name on the genealogy of Hongnong Yang's family.
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Li Fan came to the Northern Army Camp occupied by Li Jue and the others. Originally, this place should be the garrison of the remnants of the Xiyuan tribe, but after the disbandment, the remnants of the Xiyuan tribe were no match for the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and they were driven out directly.
Coincidentally, as soon as Li Fan arrived at the camp gate, he met Fan Chou who wanted to leave the camp.
(This chapter ends)