Chapter 328 Chengtian
In the sixth year of Guanghe, winter is December.
The five stars gather at the tail and Ji, and Yinghuo comes first and then goes.
In the human world, those who are virtuous are celebrated, and those who change and establish kings are dying in all directions; those who are not virtuous are punished, leave their country, and destroy their ancestral temples.
So Li Ruyin of Heyang reported to Dong Zhuo, the governor of Henan:
"This talisman of the emperor's change of surname corresponds to the Han ancestor's entry into the pass. The tail is Yanfen, and a king will surely come out from under it. The lord has a strong army and generals, and according to the salt and iron in the east of the river, this is a divine talisman treasure, and he enters Luoyang."
Dong Zhuo asked why and replied:
"In the past, when Zhou generals conquered Yin, five stars gathered in the house; Qi Huan generals dominated, and five stars gathered in Ji; Han Gao entered Qin, and five stars gathered in Dongjing. Therefore, when five stars gathered together, it was the change of dynasties in the world. For example, in the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty, four stars Gather at Liu and Zhang for five days each. Later, there will be chaos among Wang Mang and Chimei, and Guangwu will revive in Luo. Now that the five stars have gathered at Wei and Ji, the world will be in chaos, and a king will emerge. "
Zhuo Yin was so happy that he sharpened his troops and horses and peered into the southeast.
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The celestial phenomena are changing, and weapons are everywhere in the world. Regardless of whether it is four stars or five stars, it shows that the imperial power is out of control and the troubled times have come when hegemons emerge one after another. All this poses important challenges to the sanctity and majesty of the Han Dynasty.
Those who hope for the stars all over the world are worried and lamenting that a revolution is about to sweep the world.
On the same day, the sky changed drastically. Zhang Chong, the prefect of Jiyin, went up to the tower to watch at night.
As a person with astrological knowledge passed down from his family, of course he knew what this meant. After contacting the news from the west, I learned that the country had moved westward and the Henan rebel party would take control of Kyoto. Zhang Chong was silent for a while.
It's finally time to make a choice.
So, on the second day, three riders came out from the Jiyin County Sheriff's Mansion carrying flags. One went to Luoyang in the west, one went to Juancheng in the north of the county, and the other went to Liang State in the south.
They went to Luoyang to find the rebels in Henan and surrender, to Juancheng to negotiate peace with the Taishan thieves, and to Liangpei to find an offensive and defensive alliance.
In these troubled times, even a two-thousand-stone official like Zhang Chong had to make his own choice.
On this day, more local prefects, like Zhang Chong, were making their own choices. The situation in the entire world accelerated because of a celestial event.
What is also accelerating is the situation in Chang'an.
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Liu Hong felt that he was extremely unlucky.
This year has been a rough year.
First, Taipingdao rebelled out of nowhere. Then he was stabbed in the back by those aristocratic families in Henan and fled to Chang'an. Before he even entered the palace, there was another vision of the conjunction of five stars.
When the Taishi Ling of Chang'an told him this, Liu Hong didn't take it seriously yet, but after fully understanding it, Liu Hong became really worried.
What is Liu Hong most worried about now? It was the authority of the Han Dynasty.
The authority of the Han Dynasty represents his authority.
Now if Chang'an wants to counterattack Luoyang, it must get the support of Yong, Liang, Bing, and Yi. How can I get it? Just to see if the governors from various places are still on Liu Hong's side.
Of course it was no problem at first. Because these prefects were basically Liu Hong's descendants. After all, he had been on the throne for almost twenty years, and the prefects from all over the country were basically released from him. Therefore, Liu Hong is confident to gain the support of these people.
But this is only the beginning. Because of the Three Mutual Laws, the prefects in various places in Kansai are not necessarily from Kansai, so it is easy to obtain another channel of power in Henan.
Once the rebels cannot be defeated quickly, these people will inevitably wait and see.
And now the most terrifying thing happened again. That was because the celestial phenomena predicted that Liu Hong would die.
He is the emperor, and his authority, in addition to human weapons, is the favor of God. But now that his sword is broken and God no longer favors him, who will listen to him?
Those who were still worried about rebelling against him and being accused of being traitors and traitors can now openly oppose him.
Therefore, Liu Hong could not accept this and asked Tai Shiling to find a way to quickly get rid of this disaster.
Taishi Ling really thought of a way, that is, to change the Chengzheng unified matter. He said that if heaven forbids the Han, then he could change his religion by himself and then receive the order.
This is actually a common practice. Emperor Ai of the Early Han Dynasty also experienced such a crisis of legitimacy.
At that time, the Han Dynasty had already spent two hundred years in the Spring and Autumn Period. All the great Confucian scholars said that the destiny of the Han Dynasty no longer belonged to the Han Dynasty. There were even scenes of people dying seven times without gaining anything, and people dying seven times without having a lifetime.
For example, Gan Zhongke, a local scholar in Qi, claimed that the Han family had exhausted its strength, and the Emperor of Heaven sent a real man named Chi Jing to teach him magic and let him replace the Han Dynasty to rule the world.
He was also regarded as Zhang Jiao of this dynasty, but he was executed for the crime of deceiving the public without waiting for the crowd to gather.
At that time, Emperor Ai faced the crisis of the decline of the Han Dynasty and the absence of the Mandate of Heaven. He followed the advice of his ministers and changed his virtues and the new moon to show that he would change the Yuan and the Shi and renew the Mandate of Heaven.
Because of this, the Han Dynasty changed from Tu De to Chi De, and the Han Dynasty lasted for more than 200 years.
So now Taishi Ling suggested that Liu Hong change his color. Change Yanhan to Huanghan.
He said that the five virtues are mutually reinforcing, and after the red virtue comes the earth virtue, so he has to change into yellow clothes. In this way, the Han Dynasty can continue for another two hundred years.
This suggestion made Liu Hong very embarrassed.
He was about to change into yellow clothes, and he subconsciously thought of the group of moth thieves with yellow turbans, and there was a shadow in his heart. Is it really possible for these people to overthrow the Han Dynasty?
Tu De, Huang Tian, Yellow Turban, Yellow Clothes...
The more he thought about it, the more Liu Hong felt that this method was not good. Doesn't this mean that he should tell the whole world that Yan Han is doomed? Is Tu De the next person to dominate the world?
Afterwards, Liu Hong asked several other people for their opinions.
These people all said that Taishi Ling's method was already feasible at present. At least this move still lets the world know that the destiny is still in their heads, it's just a different sign.
But it's a pity that Liu Hong doesn't read history, and no one told him the complete past events of that year.
That is, not long after Emperor Ai changed his moral character, the Han Dynasty was usurped by Wang Mang, and the method of usurpation was to use prophecies. After all, even you, the Liu family, have said that the Han Dynasty has lost its virtue and its destiny is gone.
There will be another sage king in the world, who is destined by heaven. He will still be a descendant of Huangdi and Yu Shun, and he will be born with native virtues. So is it reasonable for this person to replace the Han Dynasty?
Of course it was reasonable, so a relative named Wang Mang easily usurped Liu Han's destiny.
But it's a pity that Liu Hong doesn't know this. The nobles in Kansai don't understand this either, and they can't persuade them even if they want to. After all, two hundred years have passed, and the cultural gap between the Kansai gentry and the Kanto gentry is not the slightest bit.
So in the end, even because of his long-term political intuition, Liu Hong felt that this strategy was not very good. But at this critical moment of celestial disaster, Liu Hong could only choose this method.
Then change your moral character and accept orders again!
After a short period of preparation, Liu Hongzhao announced to the world that he would change his morality and change his banner. Zhao said:
"The country inherited the fire fortune of the Yan and Han Dynasties, so it has a native virtue. The clothes are yellow, the flag is red, and the ocher red is often worn. Shang and Zhou are the two kings, and the descendants of Shun, Yu, and Tang are named three Kes. The Shao Han Dynasty revived, and the native spirits should be King, the virtuous person will live five hundred years and live for thousands of years. It will be an auspicious sign in ancient and modern times, if it matches the agreement. "
And in order to show the formality, even when the situation inside and outside the customs was so tense, Liu Hong still took the ceremonial carriage to Huayue to enshrine the Zen, buried jade treasures and gold books in the five-color altar, and offered sacrifices to heaven.
After that, Liu Hong changed his reign name to Chengtian. Then he went to the Zongling Mausoleum in Chang'an to worship the Taimiao, and in the southern suburbs, he worshiped the heaven and the earth. He personally completed the three major rituals of enshrining Zen, worshiping the Taimiao, and the southern suburbs, and officially changed the virtue and banner.
In order to truly implement the new destiny, Liu Hong even allocated a sum of money from his already not very wealthy treasury to change the flags and streamers for the armies. They used to be crimson before, but now they are all apricot. , to further emphasize the orthodox status of Tu De.
Of course, the amount of cloth is limited, and it is impossible to dress up the entire army at once. Let’s start with the 54th Department of Xiyuan and put these new troops in yellow clothes first. The other soldiers from other towns looked at the new troops in yellow clothes and yellow flags, and mocked them as "yellow-headed troops."
In this way, the Han army fought and fought, and found that they were beaten like moth thieves.
But Liu Hong ignored these details. After dealing with the problem of Deyun, he immediately began to prepare for the formation of his emperor's personal army, that is, the Yellow Head Army of the 54th Department of Xiyuan.
Liu Hong was very sober. His destiny was too elusive, and only the weapons in his hands gave him a sense of security.
After the Kuomintang Rebellion, he fled hastily with his family members, and the original palace guard system of the Northern and Southern armies had collapsed.
The Northern Army had withered in Hebei, and the Southern Army was trapped in Kyoto. At this time, Liu Hong only had more than 5,000 yellow-headed troops around him. Although there were more than 10,000 soldiers in various camps in Chang'an at this time, none of them could bring him a sense of security.
So, as soon as he settled down, he began to form fifty troops in Xiyuan.
Now that Chang'an is here, there are less than a hundred soldiers and less than ten thousand soldiers. In order to supplement the complete establishment, Liu Hong could only focus on the Western Army that originally resisted the Qiang people.
The captain of the Western Army was Gai Xun, the captain of Tuolu. He has a thousand soldiers from the Huya Camp, a thousand soldiers from the Yongzhou Camp, a thousand soldiers from the Fufeng Camp, and three thousand soldiers from various tombs in Chang'an. Gai Xun easily handed over military power to Liu Hong. After that, Liu Hong used these 6,000 elite soldiers as the main body, supplemented Yuancong and Hucong officials' sons, Liangjiazi from the six counties, and Jian'er from Guanxi to join the army, and established the Xiyuan Ten Army.
Liu Hong commended Gai Xun for his loyalty and bravery, made him a general in fighting against captivity, and gave him the three districts of Shangzhai in Chang'an, where he could randomly collect a thousand pieces and ten fine horses.
There is no way, Liu Hong has many ways to use money, so he can only give it to this amount. If the country is restored later, Gai Xun will be able to make up for it.
Later, Liu Hong obtained hundreds of Qiang people who were good at riding and shooting from Geng Bi, the governor of Liangzhou, and also selected a thousand people from the powerful sons of Guanxi who were good at riding and shooting to rebuild the Shengsheng Army.
The shooting students here are different from the shooting students in the fifth school of the old Northern Army. The former is a cavalry army, and the latter is a crossbow army.
The original intention of Shesheng was to accompany the emperor in hunting. During the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty selected those who were good at riding and shooting from the Yulin Cavalry and gave them the title of Baiqi. When Emperor Wu went hunting, he wore five-color robes and rode six idle horses to follow them.
Now Liu Hong doesn't have the financial resources like his ancestors, so he can only equip Qianqi Shesheng with yellow clothes and yellow horses.
As soon as the Shesheng Army was established, Liu Hong personally led the Shesheng Army into the garden to hunt in order to show his strong martial virtue. He also personally hunted a deer, took its blood and fried its intestines, and gave them to five generals of the Shesheng Army.
They are: Li Yue of Longxi, Xin Hong of Longxi, Hu Zhen of Anding, Yan Xing of Hanyang, and Zhao Ang of Tianshui.
These are heroes from all over Liangzhou, and they are the elites from all over the country.
Although Liu Hong relied on the Yongliang warriors as his minions, he did not trust the Yellow Head Army to these people. Instead, he divided the eunuchs who moved west with him into the army.
For example, Jian Shuo was a military academy captain and the head of the Ten Military Academy Lieutenants.
And because the Xiyuan Tenth Army is divided into five inner armies and five outer armies. Among them, the fifth foreign army was stationed in Xiyuan and Dongpingguan. The Fifth Inner Army was directly stationed on the streets of Fangshi in Chang'an.
As for the five inner armies, Liu Hong even placed eunuchs in every village. There is one emissary for every hundred people, who controls the military power.
In this way, after a series of efforts, Liu Hong almost established the inner fifth army of the Xiyuan Tenth Army. Liu Hong gave them the military titles of Pengri, Tianwu, Changxing, Ningguo and Weiyuan respectively.
As for the five foreign armies, Liu Hong currently does not have enough military strength to fill it, and can only hope to absorb it from places such as Merger and Yi in the future.
After doing this, Liu Hong was not very happy, because he still had a huge worry:
That is because his eldest son, Shi Hou, was not brought back to Chang'an. It would be troublesome if he fell into the hands of the rebels in Henan.
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When Liu Hong changed Shuo's uniform in Chang'an, the whole world was in uproar.
No one expected that the country would be so decisive and take quick action to respond to heaven when the celestial phenomena were different. Liu Hong's decisiveness convinced many people who were still waiting and watching that the country was at least determined to clean up the country.
Therefore, under the concept of interests and loyalty to the emperor, many two thousand stone governors in Liangzhou, Bingzhou, and Yizhou sent their officials to Chang'an with this year's taxes, money, and grain to show their loyalty to the country.
But here, Dong Zhuo, the governor of Hedong, refused to send in the planning officials. Not only that, he also occupied the salt pond in Jiangdong and took it as his own with a profit of tens of millions.
Dong Zhuo's behavior surprised Liu Hongda, who sent him several reprimands. But Dong Zhuo didn't change at all except for hypocrisy.
At this moment, Liu Hong knew that he could not save Hedong.
Hedong is the most important county between Luoyang and Chang'an. If Hedong leans towards Luoyang, Chang'an will be in danger. Therefore, Liu Hong no longer dared to force Dong Zhuo, and not only allowed him to be innocent, but also allowed him to be appointed as a military general and allowed him the power to build a government.
The time has come to the end of December in the sixth year of Guanghe, which is also the beginning of the first year of Chengtian.
Luoyang finally reached peace talks with the Han army outside the city.
After Xu Xiang left the city, and all the ministers followed him, 20,000 people from the Han army in Henan and the Qu army from the family tribe officially entered Luoyang.
After Chang'an announced the moral reform, the Han army in Henan officially declared Chang'an as a pseudo-emperor and a puppet dynasty, and established the eldest son of the pseudo-emperor. Shihou Liu Bian succeeded to the throne and continued to regard Yanhan as the orthodoxy.
The original Guanghe reign title could no longer be used, so the ignorant little emperor Liu Bian was accompanied by his uncle, the general He Jin, Xu Xiang, Yuan Wei, Huangfu Song and other three princes, Zhu Jun, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and other generals. Next, he officially announced to the world that he would change the name of the year to Republic.
Originally, there was a quarrel within Henan about who would be Luoyang's successor.
Many people disagreed with establishing Liu Bian as emperor because it was illegal.
From the perspective of the patriarchal system, Liu Bian succeeded Liu Hong because he was the eldest son of Liu Hong. But now Liu Hong is considered a false emperor and is no longer recognized as orthodox. So how can Liu Bian be the emperor?
So these people thought they could choose someone with the closest blood relationship to be the monarch.
But this did not get the approval of the upper-class soldiers and leaders in Henan.
Originally, Yuan Shao also had this plan, and even thought of making Liu Yu, the elder of the clan, emperor. But after Yuan Shao entered the city and met his clan uncle Yuan Wei, he decisively gave up this idea and turned to support Liu Bian as king.
There are several considerations here.
Those who supported Liu Bian as king mainly included his uncle He Jin, Situ Xuxiang and the leader of the Yuan clan Yuan Wei.
Needless to say, the reason why He Jin was willing to let the Henan rebels enter Hulao was not only forced by the situation, but also to support his nephew Liu Bian. Because this way he can continue to be a general.
As for He Jin's attitude, the Henan aristocratic families had to carefully consider it. Because He Jin represents the attitude of Nanyang and some party bosses.
After the party's ban was lifted, He Jin recruited a large number of party members, such as Liu Biao, Kuai Yue and others, who all had very strong influence in various places.
So He Jin must fight for it.
There are two reasons why Situ Xuxiang supported Liu Bian. On the one hand, it was for his own reputation. Because he supported Liu Bian, he was not disloyal to Liu Hong. It was just because Liu Hong had lost his moral character that he had no choice but to advise and support the new king.
But this is just his personal secret calculation and cannot be brought to the table. If it were just for this reason, except for some people in the city who would agree to surrender, no one else would be convinced.
But the great thing about Mr. Xu is that he really has a political mind.
After the negotiation with Zhong Yao collapsed, he knew that the Han army in Henan had not really thought about how to unite the counties in Guandong, which would undoubtedly be greatly detrimental to the future confrontation between the East and the West.
But Xu Xiang helped them think of it.
After that, he drove to Yuan Wei's mansion and interviewed Yuan Wei directly. Because in Xu Xiang's view, even if Yuan Wei was not the leader behind this military remonstrance, he must be aware of it.
At first, Yuan Wei acted with him, looking loyal and patriotic, and felt sad for the children's nonsense.
But after Xu Xiang pointed out the hidden worries behind the Henan family and told him that he had a way. Then Yuan Wei stopped pretending.
So what is the solution?
This method is to imitate the republic during the period of King You of Zhou Dynasty. At that time, King You of Zhou was immoral and immoral, which aroused the people of the country to riot. Finally, King You fled to Hudi, and the court was ruled by Duke Zhao and Duke Ding, assisting the young prince. Later, when the prince grew up, he would return the throne to the emperor.
As soon as this method came out, Yuan Wei applauded loudly.
This Xu Xiang was really a capable person. He not only solved the legal issues of the court in the future, but also nailed the false emperor to death, and then covered up the rebellion caused by the noble families in Henan.
Yuan Wei and others of the old school have long been tied to the Han Dynasty. So they were not against the Han Dynasty but against Liu Hong. With this method, they can still borrow the Han Dynasty's four hundred years of destiny and continue to be princes for generations.
As soon as this method came out, consensus was quickly reached inside and outside the city. It can be said that everyone is happy and everyone benefits.
Among them, Yuan Shao may be the saddest, after all, he really wants to replace the Han Dynasty rather than assist the Han Dynasty.
But at this time, Yuan Shao could only obey Yuan Wei's orders and continue to lie dormant.
Because of this, Yuan Shao became more and more interested in taking sides.
But whether it is frustration or pride. For a time, the world was empty and the two dynasties were in opposition.
Both Kanto and Kansai have to choose their own monarchs and battle lines, and an iron curtain slowly opens between the east and the west.
This chapter took a day to write and was revised many times. Because this chapter is the end of this volume, it needs to give an explanation of the current situation in the world. And it provides a starting point for the subsequent development of various forces. By now, basically all careerists have demonstrated their power, and a larger-scale competition will begin. Just as this chapter ends, an iron curtain is slowly opening. In the new volume, the protagonist will use his inner strength more to sink his own ideas. Stay tuned.
Finally, I would like to recommend a new book by a child in the group, "Bring a Mobile Phone Back to the Han Dynasty", which is getting better and better.
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