Chapter 275
"We have indeed been trapped. News came from Wudu County in the south that Wang Yi's entire army was wiped out in the battle of Kunyang in Yingchuan, and the Green Forest was still there! Now we have sent troops to attack Hanzhong and we are in Wu Pass!"
"I had known that Feng Yan's words were unreliable!"
Fang Wang only regretted that everyone was deceived by Feng Yan's sweet words, and the damn Lu Fang was supported by the Huns to proclaim himself emperor, which forced them to do so, but instead took advantage of the fifth relationship.
However, he had asked Wei Xiang to "behead Feng Jingtong" before, but in fact he was just deliberately telling it to scare him, hoping to threaten Feng Yan and let him explain the true purpose of the fifth reunion.
But Feng Yan knew that Longyou was already in a difficult situation, and now he was afraid that he would have to rush to establish a good relationship with the fifth reunion, so how could he dare to kill him? So he insisted that they also believed the rumors: "It must be the bluffing of the new disabled party in Wang Yi and Wang Xun and other new families, and deliberately spread the rumors."
Fake news!
Wang Mang used to do this kind of false news to fool public opinion. For example, Lian Dan and Wang Kuang Chengchang were defeated. After the transmission was sent back, Wang Mang called it a great victory and ordered the Eastern Sill Truck to transmit several people, saying that "Fan Chong and others are all killing each other." To safeguard the hearts of the people in Guanzhong, but this happened again and again. The Wang army suppressed 100,000 bandits and retreated to Luoyang. Even the common people knew that they were cheating.
The goal of the fifth relationship has been achieved. Feng Yan now doesn’t need to do anything, he just needs to continue to wrap his sleeves, smiles in his heart and feels proud.
"Ming Gong's plan is a clever plan, and I look down on you. Now it is no longer a conspiracy, but an open conspiracy!"
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"Anyway, this matter has not been spread yet, so why would you let Liu Ying abdicate? I have something to do with Liu's family in Chongling, Nanyang, so I can explain it to Emperor Gengshi."
Wei Xiang was already in a state of great anxiety, and the people below were divided into two factions, one was led by General Anzhong Liu Long. He was from Nanyang and had old friends with Liu Bosheng and Liu Wenshu, so he tended to respect Emperor Gengshi together. At the same time, he did not respect the fool emperor who supported Longyou.
"Explanation? We support orthodoxy, so why should we explain it to those who usurp the throne?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Old Liu Xin scolded him: "Liu Yuanbo, you are also a relative of the Han Dynasty. Your grandfather once raised troops to attack Mang for the Emperor of Yuantong. He was destroyed by the clan in failure. You dare to call him the emperor directly. This is very disrespectful!"
He also said: "The so-called Emperor Gengshi, and the Marquis of Chongling are just remote branches of the King of Changsha, and their blood ties are alienated, so how dare you usurp the Nine Five?"
Liu Xin has regarded Liu Ying as his last hope to make up for his mistakes in his later years and supported him: "The Emperor of Yuan Dynasty ascended the throne, and stood in the south of the Emperor Jian, established the year name, and summoned the sixteen surnames of Longyou to attend the meeting and reported to the ancestral temple. All the people of heaven and earth know that if it is suddenly abolished and established, Longyou will be a joke!"
Indeed, it is not only their so-called "restoring the Han cause", but from Liu Xin to Wei, they will be laughed at by the people in Guanlong, and the political prospects of this group will be destroyed.
Wei Cui is a rough man and a rookie. He is most afraid of being said to be cowardly. He slapped the table and said: "Mr. Liu said it well! He is all emperors, and he is green and can't be established in Longyou? I can clearly be a master of strategy, so why should I rush to lick the stinky feet of Jingchu?"
Since Yuancheng, foreign wars have basically stopped, and the children of the six counties have become increasingly difficult to survive in the capital. They have already held their breath, how could they let the people of Guandong ride on their heads?
But Wei Xiang was quite worried: "There is no two days, and the supreme is no two. Gengshi is the Emperor of Han, and our Yuan Dynasty emperor is also the Emperor of Han. Now the Han and Han dynasties are not in harmony, and there will be a battle between the two Han dynasties!"
Fang Wang figured it out and shook his head and said, "General, there are more than two suns like today. The Han Dynasty established by the Green Forest is called the Green Han. With Lu Fang's Hu Han and our Western Han Dynasty, it has been together for three days."
Moreover, Hu Han is close and green Han is far away. Gengshi's responsibility for the fight will be at least next year, but the competition with Lu Fang is imminent!
"And this is the purpose of the fifth relationship!"
Fang Wang believed that he had seen through the trick of the fifth relationship: "The fifth relationship was self-reliant and the first hero of the chasing Mang, unwilling to surrender to Gengshi, became a marginal one, and was slaughtered."
He shook his palm-leaf fan and said, "But the fifth reunion was afraid that Longyou would follow Gengshi and let him be attacked from both sides, so he ordered Feng Yan to spread rumors and asked Longyou to quickly establish the Yuan Dynasty. In this way, we have no chance of joining forces with Nanyang, and the fifth reunion will benefit from the middle fisherman."
"But I forgot the fifth reunion. He was caught among the two emperors, and Chang'an was the imperial capital. Everyone wanted to get it. If Gengshi sent his generals to the pass, the fifth reunion would still be the one who was beaten!"
Fang Wang stroked his beard and said, "We might as well use the plan and call on Bingzhou, Hexi to honor the kings and barbarians, fight against the Huns and the Hu Han, accumulate troops, horses, food and fodder, and draw Yizhou in the south. As for the east, we will give the title of the fifth reunion and one third reunion, so let him stand in Guanzhong!"
Now that things have come, this is the best way, so Wei Xiang summoned Feng Yan and asked him about his attitude towards the fifth relationship.
Feng Yan knew that the matter had been done, and was overjoyed, so he sweared to the sky: "There is no more than two days. In the heart of the fifth general, there is only one emperor, "Yuan Tong"!"
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The year name Liu Xin chose for Liu Ying was Yuan Tong to clarify his orthodox status. In just a few days, the platform of the "Western Han" small court was quickly built.
"The new system has been abolished, and the Chinese system should be reused."
On the issue of the system, the four auxiliary, three male and four generals set up by the Xin Dynasty according to ancient etiquette were of course to overthrow and beat up and stomp on ten thousand feet, and they must not be adopted. Liu Xin helped Wang Mang change the official system beyond recognition, but now they have to change them all back.
But the question is, the emperors of the Han Dynasty also like to change the official system. When should this version be reprinted?
The great scholar of Guanzhong who came to surrender to Wei Xiang should be proposed to the time of Emperor Ai of Han. The correction must be too correct. Since Wang Mang is bad, what Wang Mang opposes is good!
Isn’t this openly slapping Liu Xin in the face? He was also a member of the deposed Emperor Ai Dynasty, so he said: “Emperor Ai’s policy is also quite unclear. The demise of the former Han Dynasty was actually due to Cheng Ai!”
He also praised: "The Han Dynasty ruled the world at the time of Zhongzong. The politics and education were clear, the laws and regulations were implemented, the borders were safe, the four barbarians were clear, the Shanyu was blocked, the world was rich, and the people were happy, and their governance was too much as the literary and beautiful!"
Liu Xin and his father Liu Xiang were the most "overbearing and tyrannical" during the reign of Emperor Xuan of Han. The father and son's evaluation of this emperor was even higher than that of Emperor Wen, who was regarded as a saint among the people.
Therefore, the official system of the "Western Han Dynasty" was based on the three dukes and nine ministers during the reign of Emperor Xuan. Because the three dukes were not divided enough, they followed the story of the early Han Dynasty and added the Taifu, Taishi, and Taibao San Shanggong.
Wei Xiang was the Grand Sima General, Wei Cui was the Censor, Liu Xin was the Taifu, and Yang Guang was the Taibao.
As for the fifth reunion, at Fang Wang's suggestion, he was directly appointed as the prime minister and the chief tutor with his merit of expelling the Mang and protecting Chang'an!
The Fifth Prime Minister and the Fifth Grand Master, can you always be satisfied?
Then he was awarded the title, and with Fang Wang's opinion, he suggested: "It is better to give the fifth reunion a king of different surnames directly! You must give enough benefits to make the fifth reunion devoted himself to his heart."
Then he was so happy that he was so stupid that he was used as a shield for Longyou in Guanzhong, blocking the remnants of the Green Forest and the Xin Dynasty, and sharing the pressure of Hu Han in the north.
But Liu Xin, who is old-fashioned, insisted with a calm face: "Although the Han Dynasty is in decline, the alliance of Emperor Gaozu's White Horse is still effective. If it is not the Liu family, the king will be attacked by the world! This example cannot be opened."
Wei Cui and Wei Xiang looked at each other in this way. In this way, no matter how hard their Wei family worked, they would not be able to become king?
Although the two had ideas in their minds, everything was invented and there were many crises, which was not the time to compete for a false reputation. So after everyone discussed it, they decided to abolish the fifth-class title of Wang Mang and still implement the system of the Marquis and the Marquis of Guannei.
Yang Guang said: "The Fifth Reunification was the Reformed Duke in the New Dynasty. Now he has become a marquis. I am afraid he is dissatisfied."
"Just seal more household registrations." Liu Xin had a way: "If you don't return home if you are rich and noble, you will be like walking in brocade clothes at night, so you will be granted it with Changling County! Changling households have 50,000 households and 170,000 households, and all of them are granted to Boyu, which is comparable to the prosperous time of Xiao Xiang's country!"
You should know that the number of Wei, Huo and even later Huo Guang and Wang Mang were not as large as this number.
Fang Wang objected: "Now the fifth reunite has three counties, namely Liewei, Jingwei and Guangwei. Anyway, it is better to be generous than to be generous and directly enthrone the ten counties of the new era, namely Liewei, with 150,000 households!"
It makes sense, but since that is the case, why not give him the Jingwei? In this way, although his name is not a king, his power is comparable to that of a king.
Fang Wang smiled a little, "How many heroes have risen up with the Fifth Reunion to expel Wang Mang? How can one reward be given to him?"
"In my opinion, the ten counties including Jingwei Maoling can be divided into ten generations under the command of the fifth reunion."
"No matter how many envoys are sent, he will be sent to the descendants of the former Han marquis of Qiongcheng, Wang Yuan and Changling, and the twenty former Han marquis of Yangling. He will also rename his title and grant him ten counties of Guangwei, Weinan. If it is not enough, the smaller ones will be given a village."
The purpose is to seize the seal of the Emperor Yuantong, and to divide the power of the fifth relationship! The subordinates of the fifth relationship will be turned into subordinates of the Emperor Yuantong.
Fang Wang's thoughts were comprehensive: "In addition, Lu Yu, who occupied Chen Cang, owned Yuanshe, the local Fu family and Gan family, and Zhang Chun in the New Qin Dynasty, and even the Ma Yuan of Shangjun, were also given official positions and granted the title of Marquis, and gave them the land they occupied, and took back the new seal and replaced it with the Han seal."
The ones in the east were naturally also in the west. Except for the uncle and nephew of the Wei clan, the "Horse of Chengji" and "Horse of Gaoping", each with tens of thousands of households, basically divided the Tianshui and Anding counties, and the sixteen powerful men in Longyou who raised an army to support the Emperor Yuantong, everyone was assigned to fruit, and basically used the counties and townships of their respective families as marquis.
"The three counties are not enough to divide them. It will be enough to wait for Jincheng, Wudu and Hexi to surrender."
In this way, the Western Han Dynasty seemed to be a feudal system!
But only in this way can Fang Wang's catchphrase "issuing an edict" be realized. Wei Xiang, the Grand Sima, opened the shogunate, and Wei took the emperor to order the princes!
In the end, even Feng Yan, who had packed his luggage and thought that he would be praised by the fifth reunion when he went back, got into the Hou!
Wei Xiang summoned Feng Yan and personally awarded the temporary marquis seal: "Congratulations to Jingtong, Duling Feng's family has another marquis!"
What? Feng Yan was shocked and was told that he was named "Secret Hou" by Emperor Yuan Tong.
"Jingtong should receive this honor when he works hard!"
Wei Xiang sighed: "When I was in Beijing, I didn't know that Jingtong's talent was great. Now I will be both the emperor and the court officials of the Yuan Dynasty. We should have a lot of contact with you and I will only be a chief minister under Boyu's command. It's really a small matter."
Feng Yan's performance in Longdi surprised Wei Xiang and felt like he was trying to win over. He whispered to Feng Yan: "If you can't stay in Guanzhong, you will be able to wait for the position of the nine ministers of Longyou."
Xia Du is the hometown where their Feng family lives. He holds the seal of Guanneihou and listens to this flattery, Feng Yan feels something is wrong.
Oh no, it’s a feeling of heart!
But he soon woke up again. Now he controlled Du's fifth reunion, and Wei Xiang's words in Longyou were not very useful. He was just a short-selling marquis, and he was just a cake for his title.
What's more, Wei Xiang already had Fang Wang around him. This person was quite arrogant, had a high opinion of himself, and was jealous of talented people. He was the same type of person as Feng Yan.
If you are together for the same day and no one accepts each other, then you shouldn't be able to get the dog's brain?
So Feng Yan agreed with him, and then he walked with Liu Gong: Liu Gong became one of the nine ministers of the Western Han Dynasty court, and wanted to go there again to give the fifth reunion three seals, namely Prime Minister, Grand Tutor, and Weihou.
When leaving Cheng Ji, Feng Yan only looked at the rough scenery of Longyou, secretly comparing the advantages and disadvantages of Guanlong.
In the short term, Longyou has military advantages. The children of the six counties are indeed brave and good at fighting, but they are sparsely populated. The so-called "Western Han Dynasty" seems to occupy the orthodox justice, but when there is more than one Emperor of Han, it is not very useful. Can you send an edict, but other families can't?
On the other hand, the territory of Guanzhong and Weibei, which is based in the fifth reunion, seems to be small and the location is also attacked from all sides. However, its wealth and population can be one county that can be the three counties of Longyou. Especially Maoling and Changling, a single county can be used to defeat the four counties of Hexi. That is a good place to accumulate strength and fight for the world!
So when he rested in the evening, Feng Yan took off his seal and threw it at the bottom of the box. Isn’t it a marquis? I guess with his great achievements, he will be able to get it sooner or later under the command of the Fifth Reun.
He warned himself: "There is no two days, and I have no two masters. In my heart, there is only the fifth uncle, Yu, and a Ming Gong!"
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When Feng Yan completed his mission and returned east quickly, the fifth reunion had already taken all the Hexi, and Liu Jingdan, Wan Xiu stayed behind, and he himself returned to Chang'an without stopping. Now Wuguan has surrendered and openly shot out the Han flag. The forward of the Green Forest will arrive. The fifth reunion must complete one thing as soon as possible.
"Empty the Qilin, Shiqu and Tianlu Pavilions in the palace!"
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Chapter completed!