Chapter 842 Weakening the Royalists
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Looking around the Han Dynasty, Lu Bu arranged Taishi Ci, Yu Jin, Tian Chou to deal with Goguryeo and San Han in the northeast, Huangfu Song, Tian Yu, and Tuo Yi to deal with the western Xianbei, Ma Teng and Zhu Ling to deal with the Qiang people in Liangzhou, Lu Xun and He Qi to deal with Shanyue in Yangzhou, Huang Gai to deal with the Wuling barbarians at the junction of Jingzhou and Yangzhou, Zhuge Liang, Fa Zheng, Pang Tong, Wei Yan, Ma Dai, Ma Zhong and Zhang Yi to deal with the Nanman and Qingqiang in Yizhou, Sun Ce and Lu Su to deal with the local barbarians in Jiaozhou. The timetables given by Lu Bu were five to ten years respectively, and the local barbarians must be eliminated and the local barbarians must be achieved.
In the next ten years, Lu Bu wants to extend the territory of the Han Dynasty to all the territory that the Han people once occupied in history.
In the northwest of Yizhou, close to the boundary of Liangzhou, there was an active ethnic group. Although the customs of Di were similar to that of Qiang people, they were good at farming and brave and good at fighting. In 221 AD, when Ma Chao brought troops to rebel against Cao Cao, the Xingguo Di and Baiqing Di tribes of the Di tribe also joined Ma Chao. After the Three Kingdoms era, because the Di tribe lived between the borders of Wei and Shu, they were often involved in the war between the two countries. By 304 AD, Li Xiong, the chief of the Di tribe, took advantage of the civil strife in the Western Jin Dynasty to send troops to attack Chengdu and then proclaim himself emperor, establishing the so-called Cheng Han. Li Xiong also appointed Liu Chan's great-grandson Liu Xuan as Anle Gong and succeeded Liu Chan's title.
In the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Di and Qiang in Guanzhong were gradually established as households, with a lot of taxes and labor, which often aroused resistance. However, local officials were rewarded, ate, and profited, and slaughtered. During the reign of Emperor Hui of Jin, the Jin army split and the kings rebelled. In the sixth year of Yuankang (296), the Di Qiang in the two prefectures of Yong and Qin rose up to rebel against Jin. The Di people Qi Wannian became emperor, and the northwest was shaken. The Di Qiang was directly approaching Chang'an, and Qi was captured in the ninth year of Zhiyuankang (299), and was defeated for two and a half years. However, the Jin Dynasty was also severely hit and soon entered the "Five Barbarians and Sixteen Kingdoms". Among the sixteen countries, the Di nobles established the Former Qin and the Later Liang.
In the sixth year of Yonghe in the Jin Dynasty (350), Pu Hong, the Di leader of Linwei in Lueyang (now Qin'an, Gansu), was called the King of the Three Qins, and changed his surname to Fu. He was assassinated and his son Jiansi was killed soon after. After Zhao was destroyed. In the great rebellion of Ran Wei, Fu Jian advanced to Chang'an. In the seventh year of Yonghe (351), he was called the king of heaven, and the country was named Qin. The next year he became emperor, and he was the Former Qin. When Fu Jian succeeded to the throne, he appointed Wang Meng, a Han native, and successively destroyed the Former Yan. He conquered the Hanzhong of Jin and took Chengdu. He also destroyed the Tuoba clan, destroyed the Former Liang, and pacified the Western Regions. He once unified the northern part of China and became the largest territory among the sixteen countries. In the eighth year of Taiyuan in the Jin Dynasty (383), Fu Jian attacked the Eastern Jin Dynasty in a large number. As a result, he was defeated in the Feishui River. In the tenth year of Taiyuan (385), he was killed by the Qiang chief Yao Chang, and the Former Qin was basically disintegrated.
A year before the Battle of Feishui, Fu Jian sent General Lu Guang, a Di native of Luyang, to pacify the Western Regions. Fu Jian was defeated in the following year of Feishui, and Lu Guang had pacified more than 30 countries in the Western Regions. Returned to Liangzhou, the capital of Guzang (now Wuwei, Gansu), first called Jiuquan Duke, and then became the King of Sanhe. In the 21st year of Taiyuan in the Jin Dynasty (396), he was promoted to the king of heaven, and his country was named Liang, which was known in history as Hou Liang. He was passed down for two generations and was destroyed in the Later Qin Dynasty in 403 AD.
In addition, there is another Di regime in southern Gansu and northwestern Sichuan - Qiuchi. Since Emperor Xian of Han Dynasty, the Di leader Yang Ju moved to Qiuchi (Since he was the ruler of the Di tribe in this area. In the sixth year of Yuankang in the Jin Dynasty (296), the Di chief Yang Maosou led his troops to become king in Qiuchi. Although his descendants migrated many times and changed their names even more, they always had this area and were finally destroyed by Emperor Wen of Sui, and were passed down for 286 years. If calculated from Yang Ju, it has a history of nearly 400 years.
Lu Bu ordered Ma Chao to lead 20,000 people to guard Wudu County, to deal with the Di tribe, win over the friendly tribes such as Xingguo Di and Baiqing Di, and to deal with tribes such as Qiuchi Yang and the Yang family that were not in harmony with the Han Dynasty. Considering that Ma Chao was brave but not smart enough, Lu Bu ordered Su Ze to join the army for him and implement the strategy of destroying Di for ten years.
Lu Bu brought Zhang Fei, Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun, Yan Liang, Wen Chou and the main force back to Luoyang. All the soldiers from Yizhou who were from Yizhou or frequently visited Yizhou were left to Zhuge Liang. In addition, most of the civil and military generals from Yizhou or Jingzhou were left to Zhuge Liang. Lu Bu hoped that Zhuge Liang could completely pacify the Southern Barbarians and Qing Qiang within ten years, preferably within five years.
Huang Zhong led most of his troops back to Luoyang, while Lu Bu led Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Yan Liang, Wen Chou, and under the protection of Baima Yicong and Qilin Guard, he came to Zhu Yan's military camp outside Chang'an City. He lifted Zhu Yan's military power on the spot, and invited the imperial edict of the young emperor Liu Bian, named Zhu Yan Sikong, and appointed Duke of Lelang County, and asked Zhu Yan to lead 100 guards to take office in the Luoyang court. Lu Bu asked Zhang Fei to command Zhu Yan's 20,000 troops. Zhang Fei was grateful and swore allegiance.
Then, Lu Bu and his group arrived at the military camp of Huangfu Song in Shuozhou like lightning. They removed Huangfu Song's military power. They used Liu Bian's imperial edict to grant Huangfu Song the Grand Marshal and the Duke of Jiuquan County. They asked Huangfu Song to lead a hundred guards to serve in the Luoyang court. Huangfu Song's men and horses were led by Yan Liang and Wen Chou, and all the men and horses in Shuozhou were handed over to Tian Yu. Yan Liang was under his command and completely pacified the western Xianbei within three years.
Tuo Yi, Wen Chou sent 20,000 troops to Yumen Pass in the Western Regions to replace Ma Teng, and Ma Teng was transferred to the court to take up the position of Weiwei. Tuo Yi took up the position of general of the Western Regions. Lu Bu gave Tuo Yi five years to let him insert the flag of the Han Dynasty on Mount Altai, and the Western Regions Protectorate was changed to Xinzhou.
Lu Bu was determined to reform the court, and the Grand Sima Mansion became the highest authority, and the six cabinet ministries became the highest authority. However, the previous three Dukes and Nine Ministers did not all become decorations, but transformed into supervisors. The Taiwei supervised the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Justice, the Sikong supervised the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Works, the Situ supervised the Ministry of Personnel, and the Ministry of Rites. At the same time, the Three Dukes also managed the Nine Ministers, the Ting Wei, Guanglu Xun, and the Weiwei and the Taiwei; the Taipu, Taichang, the Grand Honglu, and the Situ tribes; Zongzheng, the Grand Siong, the Shaofu tribe and the Sikong tribe, and the Nine Ministers were promoted to the Three Dukes.
All the nine ministers remained. Taichang was in charge of the ancestral temple etiquette and had a high status and was the leader of the nine ministers; Guangluxun was in charge of the palace guards; Weiwei was in charge of the palace guards; Taipu was in charge of the palace horses and the state horse government; Tingwei was in charge of judicial trials; Dahonglu, was in charge of diplomatic and ethnic affairs; Zongzheng was in charge of royal family and royal family affairs; Grand Secretary was in charge of taxes, taxes, money, and financial income and expenditure; Shaofu was in charge of royal finance and government handicrafts. Among them, Taichang, Guangluxun, Weiwei, Taipu, and Dahonglu, Zongzheng's basic rights remained unchanged. Part of the power of the Tingwei was delegated to the Ministry of Justice, the financial income and expenditure power of the Grand Secretary was in charge of the Ministry of Revenue, and the official handicrafts of the Shaofu were placed in the Ministry of Industry. The direction of reform was to try to equalize the power of the six ministries and nine ministers.
With his personal lofty prestige in the army, Lu Bu personally went to Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun and other royal party camps, and promoted Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun and others openly and secretly. He transferred them to the court, and all the military power was returned to Lu Bu's confidant and direct descendants. The Yi Ji, who had been to Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun's military camp, was captured by the agent of the Military Intelligence Department. He did not complete the task, because Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun were old at this time. They did not dare to resist Dong Zhuo ten years ago, and now they dared not resist Lu Bu. Moreover, the conditions offered by Lu Bu were very generous. They would rather support Lu Bu to change the dynasty than serve the Liu Han royal family, who was in name only.
Yi Ji refused to surrender and was executed on the spot. Chen Qun, who had the same fate as him, was followed by a military intelligence agent on the way to Qingqiang. Lu Bu was stole from the ninth-rank Zhongzheng system he proposed and did not give Chen Qun any chance to beg for mercy and surrender, so he ordered someone to kill him on the spot. Chen Qun was very regretful when he died. He remembered the scene when Lu Bu personally went to Yingchuan Academy ten years ago. At that time, Lu Bu surrendered and wanted to ask him to govern, but he was short-sighted and could not see Lu Bu's ability, so he refused Lu Bu's enlistment. Now Lu Bu's civil servants are everywhere. Naturally, he doesn't care about his aristocratic family. Chen Qun regrets it, but it's too late.
In order to win the support of all classes in the society, Lu Bu issued two laws. The first is to establish a preliminary social security system. Everyone starts paying personal pension security at the age of fifteen, and after the age of fifty, they can receive pensions without paying any taxes. The pensions are determined based on the amount paid before and the price level at the time of receipt. There will never be a ten-fold price expansion and the pensions are the same as before. If they die before the age of fifty and die in battle, and the pensions paid before are returned to their immediate family members, there will never be any pensions.
More importantly, there will be no gap between officials and the civilians in pension security, and there will be no dual-track system. It is determined based on how much each person pays and the price level when he starts to collect it. There will be no extreme unfair situation where bureaucrats can receive it several times without paying it.
All pensions are operated by a unified social insurance fund. Lu Bu runs these funds with the best operating talents in the world to ensure that the annual profit margin can survive the expansion of prices and will have a greater surplus. The annual revenue and profit of the social insurance fund will be announced to the people of the world, and there will be no understatement.
Lu Bu will never allow the shameless behaviors he ruled to have when the court he once hated. Not deceiving the people, not harming the people, and not insulting the people's IQ is Lu Bu's bottom line of rule.
When Lu Bu confirmed that his rule was solid, he issued another decree, abolition order. All slaves from Han people who had no crimes were converted into free people. There was an employment relationship with the employer rather than a slave relationship. Employers and employees chose two-way choices. If the employer felt that the employer was not good, the employer could propose to terminate the contract, because there were only two ways for slaves who were guilty or not Han people to be converted into free people. The maid gave birth to children for the Han people, and the male servant made outstanding contributions to the Han people, such as inventing something.
In fact, under the current Han Dynasty, until the Republic of China, landlords, long-term workers, short workers, servants, and maids mostly had employment relationships rather than serf relationships. However, some aristocratic families enslaved this employment relationship. Lu Bu was targeted at them. Before this, Lu Bu had tried his best to weaken their military power, but for the sake of temporary stability, he did not completely wipe them out. This time, the abolition order was strongly promoted, which was Lu Bu's test of them. If he raised an army or complained too much, he would all be exterminated. After ten years of cultivation, most of the talents under Lu Bu came from middle and lower classes, so he could attack any aristocratic family without hesitation.
Chapter completed!