In late April of the second year of Gengshi, in Wancheng, Nanyang, Liu Xuan didn't care about playing games with his powerful wife on the desk. When he heard that the Red Eyebrow Army attacked Runan and the local Green Forest Army was defeated and the entire county was trapped, he was immediately frightened.

"The Red Eyebrow agreed to go to Yingchuan to reorganize and enter the pass to attack the fifth reunion, but why did he suddenly rebel!"

"Those who are rebellious and difficult to control, I am also prepared, but Runan is a big county, and King Yan is stationed there with the king, recruiting 40,000 soldiers. The King of Wuyin followed my order to guard against Li Xian in Huainan in Runan, and also commanded 20,000 troops, which was 60,000. Why was he suddenly defeated?"

The King of Wuyin Li Yi was in a mess. He was stationed in Xincai County in southern Runan. The Red Eyebrow attack was too sudden. When he heard the news, King Yan, the King of Sui, was defeated and both died in battle. The Red Eyebrows' army was still surrounding him.

Li Yi was stunned and could only respond in a hurry. In the battle of Xincai, the Green Forest, which was originally a savage green forest, was frightened by the lifeless fighting style of Red Eyebrows. There were no rules on the battlefield. In the end, Red Eyebrows had the advantage of the number of people and momentum. Li Yi left the large army and almost fled back alone.

At this point, he could only throw all the blame on the dead.

"Your Majesty." Li Yi said sadly: "It's all because of King Yan. He followed the king to collect bribes in Runan. He was called soldiers, but actually bandits. At that time, he was famine. The two kings sent troops to the countryside to collect grain, and the land was scraped a layer. Not only did the people feel distressed, but even the local heroes were very resentful."

But in the final analysis, this matter is still Liu Xuan's problem. Last year, a guy who became emperor was a relative of the Liu family of Chongling, and also from the Zhongwuhou family of the King of Changsha. After Liu Xuan sent troops to destroy this person, he hated the usurper, so he supported Liu Sheng's powerful and powerful liquidation and sent two vicious Green Forest Commanders to come over. These two men did not understand the way to govern the county. In just half a year, they tortured the wealthy Runan to the decline of the people's livelihood.

Since Gengshi was unpopular, when the Red Eyebrows arrived, the huge refugees in the local area were united and the Red Eyebrows grew stronger. The powerful people were panicked and hoped that the Green Forest would stay. However, the Green Forest Army was defeated and their help was dropping the bucket. In less than a month, the entire Runan area fell.

The Green Forest Army, which was able to chase the new army in the past, was in just one year, but when facing the more scattered and unconditional Red Eyebrow, it suddenly stopped fighting.

Liu Xuan murmured: "No wonder I suddenly ran away from the palace a few days ago, and the horse suddenly ran away and hit the iron pillar gate of the Beigong Palace. Three horses killed two of them. It turned out that this omen was fulfilled."

If three horses were killed, even Li Yi might not come back.

Liu Xuan was blinded by wine and sex for a while. At this moment, he woke up from his dream and found that he was not safe. He had no ability and could only be anxious. Looking at the princes and kings in court, the ministers and ministers said, "You are here to do what you do?"

The "General of the Central Army under the stove", "Raw Sheep's Gas Commander", and "Raw Sheep's Head Neihou" he recently appointed, pleased Liu Xuan and enjoyed him. How could he understand the major issues of the country's survival? He hesitated for a long time before someone stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the reason why Red Eyebrow rebelled was because he was not satisfied with the reward, and he was given the throne of marquis before he could send an envoy to promise to be king, so that he could appease the people."

Everyone was frightened by the fighting power of Red Eyebrows. Liu Xuan was so panicked that he wanted to agree, but was scolded by someone in the hall and said, "Your Majesty, please kill this person!"

"When the Green Forest is weak, Chimei is afraid she will be more ambitious and will come straight to attack Wancheng!"

However, after Liu Bosheng's death, he replaced him and became the "Da Situ".

Speaking of which, Zhu Yu is also quite strange. When Liu Xuan wanted to confer the title of the generals of the Green Forest as king, everyone accepted it happily, but Zhu Yu said that he would abide by the High Emperor's White Horse Alliance and was unwilling to accept the title of "King of Jiaodong".

Liu Xuan was greatly moved and trusted Zhu Yu. The other generals sent to the outside countries as chief officials, but Zhu Yu stayed in Nanyang and held the military power in the capital.

When Liu Xuan wanted to send Liu Xiu to the east, Zhu Yu was quite opposed. Now that Liu Xiu has become a climate and has gotten rid of his control, Liu Xuan regrets it very much. At the same time, he pays more attention to Zhu Yu's proposal and said anxiously: "What advice does Da Situ have?"

Zhu Yu said: "Runan is adjacent to Nanyang, and the army can reach Wancheng in ten days. Red Eyebrow is a major concern and the most urgent task is to summon the kings to go south to wipe out!"

"Your Majesty should send an edict to order King Huaiyang to come from Chenliu, King Biyang to come from Luoyang, King Rang to come from Yingchuan, and King Ruyin to come from Huaiyang to join forces with the army, and the five groups joined forces to fight 100,000 to attack and destroy Red Eyebrows in Runan!"

"I'm going to discuss it!" Xiping King Li Tong stood up and said, "Runan looks north to Ying, Luo, Nantong Huai, Mian, rely on the heroes of Jingchu, walk on the way of Chen, Wan, mountains and rivers are dangerously blocked, fields are flat and relaxed, and the war is in order to rely on the farming and trestle, and the farming and trestle are the key points. When the red eyebrows are here, it is difficult for the court to sleep, so we should gather all our efforts to clear it."

"At the moment when Hebei is in a melee, neither Liu Ziyu nor Ma Yuan have time to look south. Just leave a few soldiers in the counties to guard the county, but the two princes of Wuguan cannot be withdrawn."

Of course, in this way, the Hanzhong King Liu Jia naturally would not respond to the bitter begging under the attack of the Shu army.

However, although Li Tong supported the recall of the kings, he believed that peace talks should not be left behind.

"The kings will return to their ranks after receiving the news, as short as two months, as slow as one season. The envoys will be allowed to calm the red eyebrows and let them stay in Runan for food."

According to Li Tong's understanding of the Red Eyebrow Army, these group of priests, like locusts, will stop for several months, eat up all the food, and then wipe their mouths and head to the next place, hoping that they will do the same thing this time.

Liu Xuan agreed to the proposal of the ministers, but after the court was dispersed, Li Tong deliberately walked behind and asked Liu Xuan for a separate visit.

Liu Xuan glanced at his servants and asked them to go out. Li Tong bowed and said, "Your Majesty, the Red Eyebrow is known as 300,000 yuan. If you just go west and attack Wancheng before the kings return to the aid, the consequences will be unimaginable. I have three more proposals. If you can adopt them, you will be a complete solution."

"Speak quickly!"

Li Tong said: "First, Red Eyebrows have always plundered the rich family. I am willing to summon the surnames of Nanyang for the king to explain it to them and tell them that if Red Eyebrows enter Wan, no one of the surnames can live, so that they can unite and fight against the bandits together."

“This strategy is very good.”

Li Tong said again: "The second reason why Runan was lost was related to the general's mediocrity."

The King of Wuyin who was defeated was his cousin, so Li Tong directly scolded him. His younger brother is good at fighting for power and profit to engage in conspiracy, but when it comes to war, he is an outsider. His biggest victory was just in Kunyang, one of the thirteen cavalry who left the city, and was attracted by someone's light.

This also made Li Yi feel jealous of Liu Xiu, but is jealous of such a thing useful?

Li Tong: "The former King Wuyang, the court lieutenant Wang Chang, was a long-time general in the Green Forest. He was demoted for his personal support to Liu Bosheng. Now he is thinking about his mistakes in Wancheng; General Zhenwei Ma Wu also made many military achievements and is now training troops and farming in Huyang County; Deng Feng, the new head of the Deng family, was a young talent, and once defeated Dou Rong, who was as famous as King Lun of Wei..."

"The situation is urgent now, I hope Your Majesty can use all the people to resist the Green Forest together!"

After a little hesitation, Liu Xuan agreed. Although the first two tended to be Liu Bosheng's brothers, Liu Bosheng is now dead.

Deng Feng was a young general who Liu Xuan admired more. If he had not decisively held the Deng army to retreat south, Liu Bosheng would not have been surrounded by the fifth reunion...

After Li Tongguan withdrew, he attracted the most trusted family.

"Take a few people with you, try to walk through Jiangxia, pass Yuzhang, and take a detour to Jiangdong."

"Meet the King of Wu for me and send me a letter."

"Tell him, Wang Chang, General Ma Wu and other generals will regain military power, and General Lulin Qu fought against Chimei. When both of them were defeated, it was the time when the King of Wu returned and regained power!"

Li Tong no longer expressed any expectations for Liu Xuan. Yu Gong and the interests of the Nanyang surnames need a capable general or a new emperor to protect him. Looking at the crowds of Chongling, only Liu Xiu has this ability.

For personal gain, Liu Xiu is his brother-in-law...

Li Tong raised his head and looked at the gloomy sky in Wancheng, worried. It was too far apart. Even though Liu Xiu led his army back, it was several months later: "I don't know if the Red Eyebrow can be held back. Time is still there!"

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In the palace of Wancheng, Emperor Gengshi, who had a lot of fish and meat every day, could not see the famine.

But this disaster was indeed rampant on the land of Nanyang. In terms of the worst places in the war, Nanyang is definitely not inferior to the East. In the late Wang Mang, the new army and the green forest were here, and it took more than half a year to siege Wancheng. Most of the strong laborers were used as the source of soldiers on both sides to participate in the fierce war, with countless casualties and displaced, and production naturally delayed.

In the Wancheng Palace, there were fat meat and fat horses in the stable; when they left the capital, there were hungry people and hungry horses.

This is what Wang Mang saw when he entered the "Fore Team County" under the protection of Juwuba and Cui Fa.

Ju Wuba got a mule and asked Wang Mang to ride it, dressed up as the former emperor who was the same as the white-haired old man next door. He couldn't help but feel indignant when he saw the "front team" so desolate.

"The former team was a prosperous place between Jingyu and Wancheng ranked in the fifth capital, but now it is like this!"

Cui Fa sighed so much that as Wang Mang Yuan's minister, he has been following him since Xindu and still has some feelings for this county.

In order to find out whether the destination they were going to be safe, Cui Fa kept asking refugees along the way.

"Xindu? We are from Xindu!"

When he heard that these ragged people were people in fiefdoms, Wang Mang, who was taciturn, suddenly raised his head and listened to Cui Fa chatting with them.

There were more than ten refugees in Xindu. They had no good intentions at first, but when they saw the tall and big Giant Wuba, they put aside the idea of ​​robbing the group of people, snatching the donkey and killing it, and they just responded obediently.

"You ask why we don't stay in Xindu for farming? There's no land!"

The young farmer whose ears were cut off in the war told Wang Mang and others about his miserable experience.

"When Green Forest attacked Wancheng, I heard that people could make money by entering the army and did not have to worry about food and clothing. They were confused and searched the guys to join the army. When General Bo Sheng burned the Xindu Palace, I was there."

Hearing this, Wang Mang frowned his white eyebrows, but still said nothing.

"The battle of Little Chang'an was also fought, and I lost one ear there. But I missed Kunyang and only surrounded Wancheng."

"You ask me if I live the good life I hoped for when joining the army? Bah! I was fooled! I was not even as good as a dog during this period! We are not the direct lineage of General Bosheng, and we have no clothes or military rations, so we have to rob them myself."

When they saw the light heroes who fooled themselves to go to the battlefield and claimed to be a marquis, they were shot down by crossbow arrows when they saw them fooling themselves. A certain Green Forest Qu general led his troops over and loudly announced that everyone belonged to him now.

He participated in war again and again, and had just half of his injuries, and he was injured again. He was never full, his shoes gradually disintegrated during the endless march, his clothes were rotten into strips of cloth, and many people died of illness, more than those who died in battle.

The Liu surname of Chongling, the powerful Nanyang and the Lulin Qushang, would only surround Emperor Gengshi with great vigor and shout arrogantly, asking them to climb the walls of Wancheng like moths.

"Reward? Reward? The reward? The reward is just a meal for climbing the wall. If you don't climb, you will be hungry. After capturing Wancheng, the right men of Qu Shuaihao might have obtained a lot of money. We didn't even rush to have a piece of cloth, and we handed them all over the people who came in first to grab them."

After witnessing too many deaths in the gully, he was fed up with the war.

"The Qu generals were going to the northern counties to prevent the soldiers from returning to their hometowns. I thought that I would go with them like in Nanyang, and I could not get any benefits, so I ran away secretly."

However, when the self-cultivated farmer who was confused and carried into the war returned home, he found that his hometown was broken, rabbits entered through dog stones, and pheasants flew from the beams.

He felt a little sad when he said this: "I heard that Emperor Gengshi married 100 concubines, and I only have one wife. When I returned home, I disappeared. I don't know if it was abducted by the rioters or fled to the famine, and now I am alive or dead."

The sadness comes and goes quickly. If your wife is gone, you can remarry it. There are also many orphans in troubled times. What’s more excessive is that their land has been happily divided up by local tyrants!

"Litigation? Reasoning? Where to go?" The refugees in Xindu were quite indignant: "The one who occupied my land was the local Xin County Magistrate! The county magistrate was his in-laws! The county magistrate was his nephew."

"Someone gathered to ask for an explanation, and was shot by a powerful crossbow, and the leader was hung on the fort."

Lulin Qushuai, Chongling royal family, Nanyang Haoyou, this is the delicate triangle balance of the Gengshi regime.

After the war, Lulin Qu Shuai, most of the Chongling royal families were granted the title of kings in other counties, and the fertile land of Nanyang was allowed to be divided by the surnames. They supported Gengshi in the war, and Liu Xuan had to repay him. Almost every family was granted a marquis and had the dual identities of a high-ranking official in the court and a local tyrant.

In this way, Nanyang and Runan, where land contradictions are already sharp, the rich are wider in the fields, while the poor are really gone.

Most of these farmers who were bleeding and sweating for the Gengshi regime could only accept their fate and became tenant farmers. In the huge Nanyang, there were almost no small farmers who were self-cultivated!

Being a slave can get it, this is the only reward they received from this new war to restore the Han Dynasty.

"If you can survive, the tenant farmers will be tenant farmers, and the slaves will be slaves. But recently, even the tenant farmers will be unable to be."

"Last year, I collected 70% of the rent, 70%! After paying it, I can only barely fill my stomach and leave some seeds."

"Unexpectedly, after entering the summer, he said he would conquer the Red Eyebrows and sent someone to add 10% and he couldn't survive!"

The people of Xindu widened their eyes, their tone was exaggerated and their anger was soaring. Famine swept the world, and Nanyang could not be avoided. In order to maintain the pleasure, Liu Xuan asked the powerful people to hand over the food, and the powerful people refused to make excuses.

But recently, the Red Eyebrows invaded in large numbers, and Runan was lost. The Nanyang powerful men were anxious. Then they responded to Gengshi's call and began to contribute food and efforts. In fact, they passed the burden on the tenant farmers. They were so overwhelmed by the heavy burden that they heard that they were going to recruit soldiers to fight against the Red Eyebrows.

But those who have been fooled once will never believe it anymore.

"Anyway, my wife has gone and her son dies, so I don't have much concern. As soon as I threw my hoe, I took the villagers out to be refugees!"

"That's right, even if you change to Red Eyebrow, it's better than to give the New Emperor!"

"Who thinks about Han? It's like this? Life is not as good as before!"

People in Xindu talked about the encounters. At the end, the words they blurted out made Wang Mang, who was already disheartened and as if he was dead, suddenly looked up, and seemed to have come alive, with his eyes emitting strange brilliance.
Chapter completed!