Chapter 194 Respect for Imperial Power

While Lu Bu bowed his lower body, he gave Tian Feng a wink at the back row. Tian Feng also agreed and said, "I have such a high official and a generous title today, all of which are given by Your Majesty and the Empress Dowager. The royal family is very kind. I will never forget it. I will devote my whole life to my death."

The other nine new high-ranking officials who were affiliated with the Lu Bu family, saw that Lu Bu and Tian Feng expressed their opinions, and understood what they meant, they all knelt down and kowtowed, expressing their loyalty to the emperor and the royal family.

Seeing that Lu Bu and others were acting like this, the other new ministers did not dare not to make any statement. They also knelt down one after another to express their loyalty to Emperor Liu Bian.

After this assassination of Emperor Liu Bian, Lu Bu was deeply touched. Emperor Liu Bian was tied to him. If Liu Bian had a few shortcomings, how should Lu Bu explain to the world how to fight against Liu Xie's pseudo-court of Luoyang? If those children of aristocratic families were not loyal to the Liu Bian court in Yecheng, how could he, the founder of the Yecheng court, get people's loyalty?

Therefore, Lu Bu felt that he could not learn from Dong Zhuo or Cao Cao. At least at this stage, he must show complete loyalty to Liu Bian.

Only when he, a powerful minister who holds heavy troops, respects Liu Bian, can those aristocratic families truly respect Liu Bian. Otherwise, with Liu Bian's current performance and the strength of the royal family, there is indeed not much that deserves people's respect.

Cao Cao used the emperor to command the princes, and he was a little embarrassed. One of the reasons was that Cao Cao did not respect much at all to Emperor Xian of Han. In this way, the ministers under him were contemptuous of Emperor Xian of Han like him. In this way, all the princes in the world knew that Cao Cao regarded Liu Xie as a puppet. Of course I would not accept any edicts from the puppet to deal with me. Therefore, in the middle and late stages, the edicts of the emperor in Cao Cao's hands were no different from white paper.

In the Yecheng court where Lu Bu was about to take complete control, Lu Bu was naturally the same, but on the surface he had to give Liu Bian enough respect, so that Liu Bian would not seem to be a puppet on the surface, but Liu Bian could not control the army and was greedy by nature. Such a monarch could only be a puppet. Just like the emperor of Japan, it was still a matter of whether Lu Bu usurped the throne or not in the future, but at the beginning, he could not let the princes in the world see at first sight that you were treating the emperor as a puppet, and then the princes could not command other princes and those aristocratic families by commanding the emperor.

Although Liu Bian was stupid and ignorant, he could feel the sincerity and loyalty that Lu Bu showed. He drank three bottles of wine with Lu Bu to show that Lu Bu gave him the majesty of an emperor in public.

The Empress Dowager He Lian also raised her glass, opened her red lips and smiled sweetly: "Lu Aiqing, thank you for your repeated efforts to protect you. I wish you a cup!" As she said that, she raised her eyebrows mischievously and blinked her eyes slightly, meaning she would go to my place tonight.

Lu Bu shook his head gently. He had already agreed to Wu Xia and returned to the mansion from the emperor's banquet tonight and went to accompany her.

Empress Dowager He's face turned a little resentful, and then returned to normal: "Lu Aiqing, please return to your seat."

After three rounds of wine and five flavors, the Secretary of State Huang Wan stood up and said loudly with the instructed by Lu Bu and Lu Zhi: "Dear family leaders, my aristocratic families, I saw many people sad because they were not selected this time, and some people were worried about the selection of yamen in the next few days. Everyone was worried, even if they could not be the chief minister of the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers, even if they could not be selected into each yamen, there was actually another place to go, and the future was very bright." Huang Wan said this, stopped and looked at everyone with a smile.

"Mr. Huang, please tell us where that is?!" asked the heads of the family, especially those children of the disciples who were not selected.

Seeing that it was so encouraging everyone's appetite, Huang Wan said with satisfaction: "Everyone just saw that the emperor was almost murdered by the assassin sent by Dong Zhe. What does this mean? It shows that the Yulin Army is insufficiently equipped, which makes the thieves have a chance to take advantage of.

The current plan is to restore the previous system, select good families from the Sili area, become Yulin Lang, and enrich the Yulin Army. The emperor and the cabinet assistants are interested in selecting several Yulin Lang from your families. Because Yulin Lang protects the emperor, the military rank is relatively high, which is equivalent to one or two leaders of the Central Army outside. I wonder what your family’s ideas are?"

Because Lu Bu just showed respect for Emperor Liu Bian, the heads of the family thought that Liu Bian would be in power sooner or later. If the children of his family could be selected as Yulin Lang and follow Emperor Liu Bian, if they were attracted by Liu Bian that day, their family could also be promoted and reused. Based on this consideration, they all turned the brave and resourceful children in the family into the Yulin Army.

Not everything is needed in the Yulin Army. Every family must have a biological son of the head of the family to be selected, otherwise other children of this family will not be considered.

The original intention of setting up this rule is also good. After these biological sons of the heads of the family will be Yulinlang, they will be more likely to be promoted to Yulin Prison than other children, and they will even be promoted to Shizhong. The emperor gave special instructions to take care of the vital interests of each head of the family.

In fact, this is a plan by Lu Bu, which governs various aristocratic families. Who knows that the heads of these aristocratic families are saying it well now, and who knows whether they will rebel in the future and put their children, especially their sons, in the palace, as Yulin Lang. In fact, the venue of the event is outside the palace, and there are more camps of the Yulin Army and the Huben Army around to hold them in. To put it bluntly, they are hostages.

Of course, at this time, these heads of the family could not see Lu Bu's ingenuity.

Because this was the rule of the Western Han Dynasty and Eastern Han Dynasty, Yulin Lang was added from the children of good families, so they did not hesitate at all and quickly sent all the children in the family who were unlikely to win in the competition for selecting civil servants and officials in the yamen in the next few days to Yulin Lang. In the end, each family had two to three, a total of five hundred people, and was added to the Yulin Army, led by Wu Chong, the commander of the Yulin Duwei.

Wu Chong knew Lu Bu's intention, so he only took care of the children of the red and yellow family lists inside, and appointed them as sergeants, two commanders and captains at all levels.

As for those gray and white-listed families, most of them are small soldiers in the Yulin Army, and there will be no room for growth, and they will be deliberately monitored. Once their family is dissatisfied with Lu Bu or even disagrees with Lu Bu, these children will be killed off the sacrificial flag like cattle and sheep.

When the heads of the family were happy for Yulinlang's selection, Lu Bu stood up and said calmly: "The selection of Yulinlang is not enough to express the kindness of the emperor and the cabinet ministers to you. I have an initiative, and I would like to ask the heads of the family to agree?!"

"General Lu, please explain in detail." The heads of the family who had established strategic cooperative relations with Lu Bu said one after another.

Lu Bu pointed to Luoyang in the southwest and said, "There are more than 100,000 cavalry of the Xiliang who are the old thief Dong Zhuo, which always threatens the personal and property safety of our Yecheng court and all your aristocratic families."

Compared to the poor son Lu Bu, who is now trying hard to please Lu Bu, the aristocratic families who hate Dong Zhuo, who can't give him any of them, but always threatens his benefactors. After hearing what Lu Bu said, they listened to the chopsticks and wine bottles, and listened to Lu Bu's speech with all concentration. The shrewd heads of the aristocratic families had probably heard what Lu Bu was about to say.

Lu Bu pointed to the rolling Taihang Mountains west of Yecheng again: "Although the bandits in this area were ambushed by me one after another, flooding more than 200,000, there were still 600,000 black bandits on the mountain, threatening the court of Yecheng and the safety of everyone's personal and property."

Lu Bu pointed to the southeast again: "On the other side of the Yellow River, there are more than one million Yellow Turban Remnants active in Qingzhou. A few days ago, they plundered the grain purchased by our army from Xuzhou. These Yellow Turban Remnants have always hated the aristocratic families. How much threat they are to you is, I don't need to give any more tips to the general. Think about the catastrophe five years ago."

Sixty-seven million black bandits and more than one million yellow turbans in Qingzhou, Yanzhou were all remnants of Zhang Jiao five years ago. The heads of the families present remembered the powerful "The sky should die, the yellow sky should stand" five years ago, and the Yellow Turban soldiers who were crazy about attacking their own Wubao at that time were chilling.

Lu Bu pointed to Youzhou north of Jizhou: "The total number of nomadic barbarians such as the Southern Xiongnu, Wuhuan, Xianbei, etc. is about one or two million. They come to Jizhou every year, burn, kill, plunder, and do all evil, whistling and leaving. All the Han people are the only vast and vast worldly scattered. I believe that all the aristocratic families here have been robbed by them to a greater or lesser extent."

Lu Bu waved his hand again, indicating that this was within Jizhou, and said seriously: "There are many Yellow Turban Remnants in Jizhou now, and some families are obscene and short-sighted, stupid and damnly colluding with the old thief Dong Zhuo, the Black Mountain bandits, and the Xianbei and other barbarians. They use these hostile forces to weaken their opponents, making this fertile land of Jizhou become the desolate now."

Speaking of this, Lu Bu paused for a moment. Seeing that his words had successfully mobilized the fear and anxiety of the heads of these aristocratic families, he shouted again: "This situation has existed for five years, you have been afraid for five years, and the people of Jizhou have also suffered for five years. Now the emperor is coming to Jizhou. The emperor is kind and will never allow this situation to continue. I will fully entrust me to rectify the public security of Jizhou and merge Jizhou, Henei County and Dong County into Sili. I am now the Sili School Captain, responsible for the public security in Sili area. I will never allow all the aristocratic families loyal to the court to be threatened by those thieves again, and I will never allow the Sili people to suffer so much."

Shen Pei, who was wearing a green robe, asked with ridicule and sarcastic expression: "General Lu, this situation has lasted for five years. Jia Cong, the governor of Jizhou, was known as a capable minister in governing the world, and he had no choice but to do anything about it. The general was young and poor, and he didn't know how to change this situation? Do you think those thieves are as stupid as Yu Du, and will be flooded with your clumsy plan by you?!"

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