Chapter 820 King Qin
When Zhang Chong drew up the list of the first batch of students, Tian Feng, who had just returned from Gong County, couldn't help but give him some advice.
Why is it necessary to carry out purges on various hills in the army now?
In the eyes of knowledgeable people in Datai, Datai has many troubles and difficulties that need to be solved urgently, and military mountaineering may be the least important among them.
As a subordinate, Tian Feng has information convenience in his position, so he can analyze the situation for the king from an overall perspective.
What enemies does Mrs. Tai have now?
Let me start by saying that there are still many powerful princes in the world, such as the powerful princes in Guanxi, Cao Cao in Qingzhou, brothers Zhang Miao in Chenliu, the remaining party members of Yuan Shao in the Central Plains, Gao Lan in Nanyang, Liu Biao in Jingzhou, Chen Deng in Huainan, and Sun Jian in Yangzhou.
It can be said that although Da Tai is the strongest among them, it is not the time to slack off yet.
In addition to these princes on the surface, there are also ministers from the old Kansai families in the dark.
If the Gyeonggi aristocratic family accounts for more than half of the world's aristocratic families, then the Kansai aristocratic families who are the third assistants of Kansai account for a large part of them.
And compared to the aristocratic families near Luoyang, Kyoto, these Kansai families are almost all old-established families that have been prosperous since the Han Dynasty. Their power and local presence are deeper than those of the Gyeonggi aristocratic families.
Of course, in normal times, the competition between aristocratic families does not care about the number of people or fields. After all, no matter how many fields you have, can you compare to the country?
What can really keep a family from falling is the achievements in Confucian classics and the family relationships that have been maintained for generations.
But now that troubled times have arrived, the logic has changed.
The Kansai aristocratic families with more stories are able to thrive in this troubled world.
Now, with the previous heavy blows against the Gyeonggi officials in Kyoto, the family's influence near Gyeonggi has been almost uprooted.
Therefore, the aristocratic family in Kansai has become the only famous one left in the world. Recently, many spies have been sent to Kyoto to carry out small operations.
In Tian Feng's words, my eldest wife's heart will never die if the family is destroyed.
So you say the Kansai issue is important or not.
Through their past interpersonal networks, these people continued to go to the outposts under the Taishan Army to gather information, and they also contacted some descendants of the disgraced families to form associations, causing trouble in the local area and threatening the young achievements of the eldest brother in the local area.
Do you want to eradicate it?
In addition to the various princes, the remnants of the old era who were determined to destroy themselves, and the broken troops who were scattered in the countryside due to wars repeatedly looted places. In Tian Feng's view, these are much more serious problems than the color of the mountain.
So Tian Feng persuaded Zhang Chong to slow down, and he was a direct person who spoke directly and said something that he couldn't bear to say.
That is, no matter what the ability and attitude of the old brothers are, one thing is worthy of affirmation, that is, they must be loyal to the eldest wife and the king.
After all, these people are a vested interest group of Da Tai. How could they not protect their own interests?
And now, with the Hu-Han integration movement that Your Majesty is launching in the North, although many methods are used and the results are good, the thousands of years of differences and cultural differences cannot be bridged in a short time.
Nowadays, many Hu Tatars are deployed in the army, and they have a clear understanding of the actual situation of our army. If we want to attack our basic situation at this time, it will inevitably cause chaos and turmoil in the Taishan Army.
If there are some barbarians here who have different intentions and really rebel, then things will be in trouble.
Look, even though Tian Feng is acting like a lonely minister outside, in private he speaks to Zhang Chong in a humane and worldly way.
But what Tian Feng had considered, hadn’t Zhang Chong considered it?
In fact, as a person in a superior position, he is naturally better able to think about problems from an overall perspective than the people below him, because he has access to more information.
But what about the people below? I always feel that I see little from above and think little, so I always give advice with sincerity and a straightforward attitude.
But Zhang Chong understands that in his position, there are countless people who seek their own interests under the guise of admonishment.
Even if these people didn't think so, Zhang Chong had to think about whether this person had any purpose in saying this.
So do you think there are people who are not so utilitarian? Does he really think from a public perspective and the overall situation?
Yes, but Zhang Chong still thinks so.
Because Zhang Chong knew very well that no matter whether it was his subordinates or privy councilors, they could give any advice, but he, Zhang Chong, could not listen to everything, because the person directly responsible for what happened in the end was not these ministers, but himself.
If you are not sure what the purpose behind other people's suggestions is, then Zhang Chong is really irresponsible for the career he has built.
Therefore, Zhang Chong can listen to both, but only he can make the final thinking and decision-making.
For example, while Tian Feng was persuading, Zhang Chong had his own thoughts on the matter.
Is what Tian Feng said correct? right!
Because what Tian Feng thinks is so intuitive. How could anyone cut off one of his hands before eliminating the foreign enemy?
But what does Zhang Chong think about this matter?
That is the premise of Tian Feng's conclusion that the purge of the army's hills will reduce the combat effectiveness of the Taishan Army.
Is this the truth? Zhang Chong didn't see it that way.
First of all, Zhang Chong attaches great importance to the scale and skills of struggle. He has made it clear to Zhang Dan and other high-level military officials before that the so-called purge is not a purge, nor is it a method of bloodshed and beheading.
The purge is to purge the morale and discipline, and to build the Taishan Army into a training base for the establishment of the Huangtian Era.
The specific method is to carry out large-scale propaganda and re-education work at the middle and lower levels, and carry out the capable ones at the top, and those who are unable to learn, and those who are unwilling to learn are sent to lower levels to get education in practice.
It can be said that if the purge is carried out according to this model, the combat effectiveness of the Taishan Army will inevitably take on a completely new look.
So this is like giving Taishan Army a full-body examination. If any lesions are found, treat them in time. Don't put it off until later and make the problem bigger. In the end, even with Zhang Chong's prestige, he may not be able to push forward.
In fact, the gap in understanding between elites such as Zhang Chong and Tian Feng exceeds several eras.
Zhang Chong, who was familiar with dialectics, was much more thoughtful than them in terms of depth of thinking. For example, according to Tian Feng's words, first deal with the outside world and then with the inside.
Have you ever thought that when you are solving external problems, as the Taishan Army expands, are the various hills in the army also expanding?
When the time comes, there will be arrogant soldiers and veterans outside, and they will all be veterans with meritorious deeds. Even if you want to carry out internal purges, I'm afraid it will be difficult.
Why? Isn’t it because those who have developed to that stage, including the government and the public, are not their people? No matter how talented you Zhang Chong is, you can still check them one by one by yourself?
In the end, don't we still rely on these people? And if you want someone who has a personal relationship with them to check them out, what can you find out? Even if they can find out anything, they may have deduced it.
So, this stage is just right.
The outside world fell into calm. The Qingzhou side continued to fight fiercely with Guan Yu. The Kansai side seemed to be involved in a new struggle between the government and the opposition. Even the remnants of the Yuan family huddled in Runan seemed to be consolidating power and falling into internal struggles.
Not only is the outside conducive to purge, but the Taishan Army at this stage is also suitable for carrying out a campaign.
He, Zhang Chong, had just led these people to win a decisive battle, and his prestige was at its peak.
Especially when Zhang Chong led his troops to the west, Xi Shen, one of the former brothers, was executed for selfish reasons. This incident, coupled with the case of Zhao Huo in Gong County, happened to create a situation in both the military and political aspects. A major ideological purge. With such interlocking links, Zhang Chong thought he could think more clearly than people like Tian Feng.
However, Zhang Chong did not say much to Tian Feng about his thoughts on these struggles, but only emphasized the scale of this struggle.
But Tian Feng is right about one thing, that is, one cannot generalize among the old brothers.
Struggle is not a blind struggle, nor does it mean that all old brothers are sent away to study.
There is no vacuum between powers. If all the old brothers who followed him to conquer the world are removed from the army, a huge power void will inevitably be left.
When the time comes, it will be people like Pingzhoushi who will fill this gap.
Although Zhang Chong has always said that Hu and Han are one, he is not naive, and he will not be as naive as Fu Jian who thinks that he can overcome hundreds of years of estrangement by relying on his personal charm.
So to put it bluntly, Zhang Chong has always been more cautious about promoting Pingzhou scholars and those captives. Although he also understood that as long as Pingzhou warriors existed on a large scale in the army, those Pingzhou warriors would eventually reach the top ranks of the army.
But Zhang Chong still wanted to control this process, at least at a safe speed.
And if all the old brothers are transferred to study, it will inevitably speed up the process in the end, which is what Zhang Chong does not want to see.
Therefore, if anyone is interested after seeing Zhang Chong's first batch of lists, they will find that about 80% of them are actually old brothers who came from the Yellow Turban system in the past, and are the backbone of the Yellow Turbans from the four prefectures of Qing, Yan, Henan, and Hebei.
Zhang Chong did this because he knew that those who believed in Huang Tian were not the same as the Huang Tian he wanted to portray. They still believed in the propaganda of San Zhang.
For these people, Zhang Chong used to be tolerant for the sake of the overall situation and asked for common ground while reserving differences. But since we need to purge now, the purge of our thoughts is also an important part.
In the final analysis, the Taishan Army can only have one Huang Tian and one great cause.
Among these generals who were born in the Yellow Turbans, there were indeed many who were powerful in combat and had made many achievements, but few of them could grow to the level of leading generals.
In the final analysis, there was still too little learning in strategy, and by sending these people to advanced martial arts schools, he also gave these people a chance to move up.
Thinking this way, Zhang Chong cannot be said to have satisfied everyone, but he can be considered to have a Bodhisattva heart.
And soon, the first group of senior military officials began to leave the army and report to the newly built Senior Military Academy near Zhangshui River.
From now on, they need to work hard to adapt to a new identity and become good students who love to learn.
After taking care of all this, the purge movement began in full swing in the army.
At the beginning, Zhang Chong still focused on purges and preventing the movement from going to extremes. However, in the later stage, with good feedback from the armies, he also began to spend some energy on external affairs.
Among them, the most important thing, and the one that Zhang Chong pays the most attention to, is nothing more than what happened in the Kansai court since March.
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From June to August, in these three months, the drought in the world has not been alleviated, and the wars among the princes have ceased.
Therefore, all the princes took advantage of this window period and began to focus their energy on the internal affairs.
On the Taishan Army side, they did three things in three months:
Establish an embroidered uniform guard; arrest the remnants of the old officials; purge the Taishan Army.
The Imperial Court in Guanxi, west of Shaanxian County, has been working on one thing for three whole months, and this one thing has involved the energy of dozens of counties under Guanxi.
Everyone is looking forward to Chang'an, waiting for the final settlement of this matter.
It turned out that at the end of May this year, when the Taishan Army defeated the Yuan Army in Yiluo, the Optimus Prime Stone of Kansai and Grand Master Dong Zhuo began to stop attending the court due to his deteriorating health.
In the next three months, the imperial party under Liu Xie continued to expand. Seeing that their backers were no longer available, some generals from the Liangzhou faction continued to flirt with Liu Xie's people.
But just after Liu Xie had spent these comfortable and carefree three months, on the second day of September, Dong Zhuo's important adviser Li Ru suddenly asked the court to make the Grand Master the King of Qin.
After this report, many civil and military personnel under Dong Zhuo Ba's family came to the report one after another, saying that the grand master had the kindness to help protect the Han Dynasty, and his merits were high enough to reward the king.
But everyone who is sober knows that this is the plot of Dong Zhuo's group.
Grand Master Dong, who kept saying he wanted to make the Han great again, finally revealed his sinister intentions.
In fact, to be honest, Dong Zhuo did not have any dirty intentions from the beginning. At the beginning, he really wanted to obey the emperor's orders and disobey the ministers, bring peace to the heroes, and seek to regain the stability of the Han Dynasty.
Therefore, after Dong Zhuo was worshiped as Grand Master, he only established Bafu as a relative of the Han family.
It was under the leadership of Dong Zhuo, a powerful figure, that the Kansai court suppressed the rebellion in Liangzhou and the separatist regime in Yizhou, completing the unification of Yong, Liang, and Yizhou.
But it was also during this process that a number of generals under Dong Zhuo were promoted and left the town one after another.
Not only did Yizhou belong to Li Jue and Liangzhou belonged to Niufu, but even the three auxiliaries near Chang'an were filled with some generals, retainers and township party members from Liangzhou.
It can be said that Dong Zhuo's control over the court became increasingly tight, and the distinction between monarch and ministers that he had previously adhered to was becoming increasingly blurred.
But what really changed Dong Zhuo's mind was the battle that had just occurred in May.
Guo Si, who was Dong Zhuo's humerus, and Liu Bei, who was regarded as a pillar by Liu Xie, died in Weihan one after another. Along with the two men, Dong Zhuo's ambition also died.
After learning that Yuan Shao in the east had also been defeated by Taishan Xiaoer, Dong Zhuo understood that all the rhetoric about making the Han great again were nonsense, and he had to think about himself.
After fainting in May, Dong Zhuo could no longer get off the ground. At that time, he knew that he would not live long.
Dong Zhuo has a regret, that is, he has enjoyed everything in his life, but he has not been able to become supreme.
He was born in Han Dynasty, grew up in Han Dynasty, and wanted to die in Han Dynasty.
Therefore, Dong Zhuo did not want to force the young emperor to seize the throne.
But now that our old Dong is about to die, it would not be too much to confer a king title on our old Dong.
And his hometown is where the old Qin people made their fortune. Shouldn't he be granted the title of King of Qin?
Dong Zhuo, King of the Han Dynasty and Qin Dynasty!
This is Dong Zhuo's last wish.
Liu Xie was quite confused about Lao Dong's sudden attack, but Liu Xie, who had been in power for several years, was not an amateur. Even though he was caught off guard, he still used the court's public discussion as an excuse to gain two days.
And today, the fourth day of September, Liu Xie, who has always said that he wants to discuss it, finally wants to give an explanation to the dedicated old director.