Chapter 28 Get rid of the golden corpse, receive confidential letters and sneak to Chang'an 9

Yu Du and others were defeated in the battle, and Black Mountain Zhang Yan and Bai Bo Guo Tai naturally got the news. They had gained a lot of benefits from following Nanye's robbery and killing Dong Zhuo. Originally, after they agreed with Nanye to return to the mountain, they persuade Zhuzhai to lead troops to join forces, but Yu Du and others did not obey Zhang Yan's order and both had ambitions to compete for hegemony.

Zhang Yan and Guo Tai knew that the princes were powerful and strongly persuaded the villagers to join Nanye. On the one hand, I hope that the people of the villages will not be injured with stones, and on the other hand, I also want to bring more people to Nanye to show their credit. However, before the two succeeded in persuading, Yu Du, Bai Wei and Su Gu were defeated by Cao.

Zhang Yan and Guo Tai thought that they should listen to their own persuasion to join Nanye. But I didn't expect that although Yu Du and others were defeated, they also tasted the sweetness of looting the treasury. The dead and injured in the battle were all the lower-class soldiers, but Yu Du and other generals got a lot of gold and silver, and they couldn't listen to Zhang Yan's persuasion.

With all kinds of helplessness, Zhang Yan and Guo Tai had to decide to lead the headquarters and the Montenegrin people to move to Jiaozhou, and they could not take care of the villages who were willing to stay in Montenegro to compete for hegemony.

There are millions of people following Zhang Yan and Guo Tai in Ji and Erzhou. The group began to migrate under the banner of Nan Ye, and there must be a local bodyguard bureau to respond to every place. Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were all involved in the war situation and could not take care of Zhang Yan's actions at all. When the princes saw that Zhang Yan and Guo Tai fought under the banner of Nanye without disturbing the people, they closed their eyes and let them go. In fact, even if they wanted to intercept, they did not have the strength.

Zang Ba heard that Zhang Yan and Guo Tai had begun to migrate and ordered the yellow scarves in Qingzhou and Gozhou to gather and move south. As soon as Zang Ba moved, He Yi and others got the news and began to organize the migration of people in Xuzhou and Yuzhou.

When the three people gathered in Jingzhou, they almost scared Liu Biao to death. There are millions of people on each of these three roads. Even if they are all people, three million people are scary enough. The total population of Jingzhou is only more than 6 million, and this migration team is equivalent to half of Jingzhou. How can it not be frightening?

Fortunately, Xi Zhi, who was sitting in Jiaozhou, had already received the news that the three parties came to submit. He ordered Zhao Yun, Shi A and Gan Ning to respond and sent many gifts to Liu Biao to reassure him. Since Nanye robbed Dong Zhuo, he has not been short of money, and it is very cost-effective to get some gold and silver gifts for Liu Biao's assistance.

Seeing that Jiaozhou was increasingly worried about the safety of Jingzhou, he advised Liu Biao not to accept gifts and intercept three million people for his own use. However, Liu Biao can't do such a thing. First, this move was contrary to faith, and second, Liu Biao was worried that Nan Ye would send troops to attack. Once these people are detained and led to Nanye's attack, the three million people who are devoted to Nanye will inevitably make chaos at the same time, and the whole Jingzhou will not be able to protect. Therefore, Liu Biao did not use good tricks, but helped the people cross the river and let the people go as before.

The population of 3 million is by no means a small number, even more than the total population of Jiaozhou and Luoyang. If it had been two years ago, Xizhi would not have dared not accept so many people at all, because Jiaozhou could not produce so much food to feed these people. However, at this time, Xi Zhicai no longer has to worry about food. The intensive farming advocated by Nan Ye has greatly improved grain production, and experienced farmers have offered two-season rice cultivation methods to the recruitment hall. In addition, Nanye encouraged merchants to trade, especially foreign trade, which made border trade frequent and introduced many high-yielding crops from South Vietnam and other countries. Today, Jiaozhou has no problem supporting millions of people. Even if there is some food shortage in a short period of time, it can still be purchased from surrounding states and counties. Anyway, Nanye is the least short of money.

Of course, not all princes are as rich as Nan Ye. Yuan Shu is a master who can only spend money but can't make money. When he heard that Yuan Shao had newly arrived in Jizhou in Nanyang, he sent an envoy to ask Yuan Shao for thousands of horses. Yuan Shao himself is still short of horses, so how can he take advantage of Yuan Shu? Naturally, I don't agree. Yuan Shu was angry because of this, and his brothers have been discording since then.

Yuan Shu sent an envoy to Jingzhou to borrow 200,000 stones from Liu Biao. It is said that he borrowed grain, but in fact, he borrowed food but did not return it. Of course, Liu Biao would not agree. Yuan Shu also hated Liu Biao. He knew that Sun Jian had a grudge against Liu Biao, so he secretly married Sun Jian and provoked Sun Jian and Liu Biao to fight.

All princes in the world are busy fighting in secret, but Dong Zhuo is the busiest. He is not busy grabbing territory, but scratching people's fat and ointment. Originally, Dong Zhuo plundered Luoyang's property and became the richest person in the world. But I didn't expect that in the end, all the wedding clothes were made for others, and the people's property was robbed by Nanye halfway.

Dong Zhuo originally planned to rebuild the Chang'an Palace with the property seized by Luoyang and enjoy the glory and wealth. But when he arrived in Chang'an, he found that he was short of money, which made Dong Zhuo very anxious. I don't know who gave Dong Zhuo a bad idea to make his own money. How does Dong Zhuo know the law of currency circulation? I thought it was a wonderful plan, and I was overjoyed at that time. He immediately ordered people to destroy the passage of five baht, and also ordered to break all the copper men, bells and bronze horses and recast them into small coins.

The crude small money is not only lighter than five baht, but also has no coat of arms, and the edge of the money has no outline, which is not resistant to wear and tear. The circulation of small money directly led to severe inflation, currency depreciation and soaring prices in the Sanfu area. It costs tens of thousands of yuan to buy a stone valley in Chang'an City, and the people of Chang'an are suffering unspeakably.

Dong Zhuo was not finished, and he ordered Lv Bu, Li Wei, Guo Yan and others to search the prison in Luoyang. Not to mention that the rich people in Chang'an were looted, even the graves of the dead were not let go. Dong Zhuo also used the name of Emperor Xian to recruit civil husbands to build palaces, and also issued an imperial edict to officials at the state, county and county levels, so that officials all over the world could have money and make a strong contribution.

Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and Nan Ye naturally ignored Dong Zhuo's edict. However, many county guards and county magistrates have never seen the imperial edict in their lives and dare not disobey the emperor's order at all, so they sent money and grain to Chang'an for crossing. When the money was also delivered, officials from all over the country knew how worthless this imperial edict was, from the three princes to the county magistrates.

Dong Zhuo tried his best to search for a lot of money, and at the same time, his reputation also fell to the bottom. Not only did the officials in the world no longer listen to Dong Zhuo's orders, but also the common people were looking forward to his early death. There is a nursery rhyme in Chang'an: "Thousands of miles of grass, He Qingqing. Ten-day divination, no birth." It can be seen that children want to curse Dong Zhuo to death.

No matter how much the people of Chang'an hate Dong Zhuo, he still goes his own way and even becomes more and more arrogant. He called himself "Shangfu" and goes to the honor of the emperor. Dong Zhuo also appointed his brother Dong Min as General and Marquis of Zuo, and his nephew Dong Huang as the commander-in-chief of the imperial army. Dong's clan, whether they are old or young, are all marquis.

Dong Zhuo also knows that he is not popular with the people. He is afraid that one day the princes will unite to fight in Chang'an again. At that time, the people of Chang'an will certainly not help him defend the city, and there may be the possibility of rebellion in Kaicheng. In order to eliminate this possibility, Dong Zhuo imitated Nanye's Science City and built a giant dock castle 250 miles away from Chang'an City, known as "Hangzai Dock", which is also known as Yuwu because of the docking in Lidi.

Dong Zhuo was extremely impressed by the robustness and militarization of Science City. He got Luoyang and did not break through the Science City. In the end, Nan Ye not only did not die under siege, but jointly drove himself out of Luoyang with the princes, which made Dong Zhuo angry and also saw the power of the Science City. So this time he made great efforts to build a dock and used 250,000 people. The city is as thick and thin as Chang'an. It has a palace inside, and the warehouse has accumulated grain for 20 years. Eight hundred young people and beautiful women have been selected to serve as slaves in the dock. There are countless gold and jade, colorful silk and pearls piled up, and Dong Zhuo's family also live in the dock.

On the day when the dock was built, Dong Zhuo said to himself, "If everything is done, it will be strong in the world. No, it's enough to die." From then on, Dong Zhuo went back and forth between Chang'an and Yuwu. In order to facilitate the exchange, he also specially built a driving road. This road is more than three meters high, with a top width of 14 meters and a bottom width of 21 meters. It is built with loess and is magnificent like a modern highway, but it is dedicated to Dong Zhuo.

Dong Zhuo's permanent account gathered with the public secretary next to the road. One day, Dong Zhuo went out of the horizontal gate, and all the officials sent him away. Dong Zhuo stayed for a banquet, which coincided with the recruitment of hundreds of soldiers to Chang'an. Dong Zhuo ordered people to kill the soldiers in front of their seats, or break their hands and feet, or chisel their eyes, or cut their tongues, or cook them in a large pot. The sound of wailing shocked the sky, and the officials trembled and lost their chopsticks. Dong Zhuo talked and laughed freely to help the program.