Chapter 102 The officers and troops prepare for war
Liu Cang only stayed in Luoyang for three days. When the martial law in Luoyang City was lifted, the Taiping Road riot broke out completely, and the name of the Yellow Turban Uprising spread throughout the world.
At that time, Julu people raised their horns and ordered the poor peasants to wear yellow scarves on their heads and rise up on the pretext of overthrowing the corrupt rule of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Within three days, the title of Jiazi spread throughout the world. Zhang Jiao called himself the Great Sage and the Great Master, and his younger brothers Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang regarded themselves as great doctors. There were thirty-six disciples under them, with more than ten thousand people in the big group and thousands in the small group.
Each has its own commander, under the unified command of Zhang Jiao.
Good teachers, great doctors, Qu Shuai, etc. don't seem to be a problem, but the "divine envoy" who was the first to be arrested and has been tortured to death is somewhat inconsistent with the title of the Han people.
Among the people with famous yellow turbans in various places, those with Han surnames are common, but under Dafang Qushuai, there are Luoshi, Lei Gong, Fuyun, Yu Digen, Baique, Yu Du, Wulu, Bairao, Suigu, Kuju, etc.
Wait, no matter how you look at it, it doesn’t look like Han people’s naming habits.
As for saying that these are just nicknames, fine, as long as you ignore the habit of using nicknames to gain fame in this era, that's fine.
Zhang Jiao raised more than 300,000 followers and called him General Tiangong. Qing, Xu, Ji, Yan, You, Yu, Jing and Yang simultaneously launched riots.
It is said that riots broke out across the eight states, but except for the Central Plains, the Yellow Turbans in other areas were wiped out and dispersed as soon as they emerged.
The Yellow Turban thieves burned down government offices, killed officials, looted everywhere, and captured people into armies. However, many counties, counties, and cities had internal agents, and most of the officials they killed were gathering places for people who wanted to buy offices.
The Yellow Turbans aimed to overthrow the decadent royal family. After some operations, Liu Hong was furious.
The Yellow Turbans in Jingyang were destroyed before the chaos, but under the command of Zhang Jiao, the Yellow Turbans in many places also began to march towards Luoyang, hoping to approach the imperial city.
Liu Hong was furious, and Huangfu Song suggested lifting party prison terms and amnestying party members. The so-called party prison terms meant banning some officials, friends, relatives, from participating in politics and becoming officials, and limiting the scope of their activities under house arrest.
The misfortunes of the Eastern Han Dynasty caused by the party's imprisonment had accumulated for a long time, and Liu Hong was indeed worried that those scholars who had been suppressed would get together with Zhang Jiao to do mischief.
When the Yellow Turbans broke out, many of the original party officials were granted titles and became the first to benefit.
Originally, that was all you said. All that was left was to deploy troops to quell the rebellion.
In the end, Liu Hong was still Liu Hong. This guy had a wonderful mind. Perhaps he felt that it was too cheap for those noble families to just lift the party prison.
This guy actually asked the ministers to donate war horses and weapons, recommended the descendants of each family and people who knew the strategy well among the people to join the army to fight against the thieves, and asked all counties and counties to recruit local warriors for defense.
To put it bluntly, until now, facing the crusade against the Yellow Turbans, Liu Hong still wants to spend less or even no money at all.
Well, the Yellow Turbans killed many officials who bought their jobs. Regarding the long-term benefits that their future promotions would bring, Liu Hong did cut off a source of wealth. Could this be regarded as a kind of alternative compensation for himself?
The family members responded to Liu Hong's call, and the children from all walks of life were filled with indignation against the Yellow Turbans. Horses, ordnance, local warriors, and Qubu were brought to the stage one after another.
When facing cities, manors, and forts with no internal response but large numbers of armed forces, the Yellow Turban generals often took detours to avoid losing troops.
The Yellow Turbans invaded villages and towns and captured cities where the people's hearts aspired. So far, many wealthy families who had occupied land as slaves were killed.
The Yellow Turbans wanted to rush to Luoyang and compete with the Liu Dynasty, but the heroes were divided and the Han Dynasty existed in name only, but the historical trend has also entered a countdown stage.
In the Cai Mansion in Luoyang, Liu Cangjia was still in his stomach. Like most of the children of aristocratic families, he was also ready to respond to Liu Hong's call and form a Qubu to follow the imperial army to 'defend the family and the country'.
"Father, I have found someone to communicate with Zhang Rang. Zou Jing wants to go to Youzhou to recruit troops. I am going to go back to Lousang first." Sitting across from Cai Yong, flanked by Cai Yan, Zhang Xiu Niang and Liu Cang.
Cai Yong said.
"Well, it's time to go back. The turtle in the pond needs to be found." Cai Yong's face was serious, but the direction of approval was somewhat strange.
After being tormented by Liu Hong in his early years, Cai Yong is now extremely disappointed with the royal family. He has failed to resign several times during this period in Luoyang. Now, in this situation, he is more concerned about the turtle, which has a good health effect.
Well, health preservation, Cai Yong’s definition of turtle is still health preservation. After all, emperors have always said that increasing life span has been common in ancient times, but no one has really lived a long life.
This thing is quite taboo among scholars. Although Cai Yong has not gotten rid of his own decline period, he can really feel the health-preserving effect. This effect is enough to make him extremely interested in turtles.
In the Cai Mansion, they did not raise dogs or chickens, but they did raise a pond of turtles. Cai Yong looked at these turtles very closely. Liu Cang could not include them as livestock, so he followed Cai Yong to mess with them.
.
"In this expedition, Your Majesty will use Ziqian as the main force on the northern route. Zigan is an upright man and is loyal. You should try not to get close to Zigan. Yizhen is good at adapting and has a good impression of you. You can find him.
act.”
After explaining the problem of the turtle, Cai Yong turned the topic to Liu Cang.
"Save the child." Liu Cang nodded.
Probably because of Zhang Rang's relationship, Lu Zhi didn't like him very much. For Cai Yong's sake, Lu Zhi would not embarrass Liu Cang, but cold words and cold faces were inevitable. Cai Yong was worried that with Liu Cang's temperament, he would not follow Liu Cang again.
Lu Zhi had a conflict.
"This time the rebellion will be overthrown by the descendants of aristocratic families. You have a bad reputation in Luoyang. You should take this opportunity to show off your foundation and don't hang around with the title of badger again." Cai Yong explained to Liu Cang again.
The so-called foundation of one's life is a bit like a personal sign. People in this era attach great importance to it and may even stick to it for the rest of their lives.
And it is precisely because of this lifelong social atmosphere that people in this era have spoken about themselves, and if they do not violate the past, there will be very few doubters.
For example, loyalty, righteousness, perseverance, benevolence, filial piety, goodness, kindness, etc. are not as exaggerated as imagined. They are just a trademark of good qualities that should be valued throughout life and regarded as the foundation of one's life.
Liu Cang now has outstanding military strength, and there is hardly any opponent among his peers. If bravery can barely be regarded as a foundation, but before the war, Liu Cang was not even recognized by people in this aspect.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Although the reputation of 'Badger Liu' has given Liu Cang a lot of karma, it is obvious that that thing is definitely not the foundation of his career.
He has a bad reputation, and only some middle school boys secretly admire this ability.
In this counter-rebellion, Liu Cang's participation in the battle was not part of the regular army and could only be regarded as volunteerism.
Because of Liu Hong's weird brain circuit, which is obsessed with money, there are few people like Liu Cang who volunteered to join the army to help in the war and tried to get ahead with their military exploits.
Cai Yong wanted Liu Cang to establish a positive image among these fellow disciples, or to make more friends.
"Oh, don't worry." Liu Cang responded boringly. Cai Yong glared at him before correcting his expression.
"Save the child." Liu Cang said again, but he didn't think so.
What kind of friends do you have to make, especially those from aristocratic families? Look at how close Cao Cao and Yuan Shao are now, but in a few years, they won't be able to grab each other's waist and stab each other to death.
Instead of wasting that idle energy, it would be better to gain more military exploits and make more war profits.
"It's not appropriate for your father to interfere in Luyuan. The embroiderer is still in charge there. You don't need to be distracted from the affairs at home. The sword on the battlefield has no eyes. Be cautious in everything." The horn of gathering troops was faintly heard outside the courtyard, and Cai Yong said to Liu Cang again.
Make an explanation.
"Yeah." Liu Cang nodded and looked to Zhang Xiu Niang.
"The work in Luyuan can be carried out as normal, but the embroiderer must remember that the training at Feixiong Camp must be moderate, and do not conduct it with the intensity that you and I usually practice." As he spoke, Liu Cang stood up, and the Luoyang officers and soldiers were waiting.
If so, he will also lead his troops to accompany him.
"Xiu Niang understands." Zhang Xiu Niang stood up, supported Liu Cang's armor, and smiled at Liu Cang.
There is nothing wrong with the so-called training, because Liu Cang would occasionally let Zhang Xiu Niang and Cai Yan do some overload training because they could observe their attributes.
That kind of training requires him to observe it all the time. If someone imitates it, he will probably make a group of soldiers disabled.
Liu Cang wanted to go, but Cai Yan clamored to go to Luyuan. Cai Yong didn't like to refuse. After all, there was something to do with Zhang Rang there. It was just Liu Cang's special situation, but Cai Yong didn't like Cai Yan going there.
A family of four, Liu Cang went out while making a lot of noise.
Pan Feng accompanied him, and Liu Cang led 200 light cavalry to join the Luoyang expeditionary regiment.
On the north bank of the Yellow River, smoke is brewing. To the east of Hulao, Yuzhou is plagued by moths.
Chapter completed!