Chapter 20 3. There is a big fire in the backyard

Until Chimei was wiped out, Liu Xiu had participated in the revolution for five years.In the blink of an eye in five years, scenes of majestic historical pictures flashed before our eyes.There are times in my life where I go through life and death, and I have seen the magnificence of history once, but Liu Xiu has witnessed the cruelty of the wheel of history with extraordinary momentum. Wang Yi of the government army, Wang Lang of Handan, Liu Xuan, the emperor of Chang'an, and Fan Chong with the red eyebrows who used to be arrogant, all the old friends left one by one like leaves falling in the wind.Wild geese fly across the sky, but the sky leaves no trace of them.They came to this world, but they all made Liu Xiu's wedding clothes.

Looking around the world now, the north, Luoyang and Chang'an are all Liu Xiu's territory.However, before Liu Xiu had time to be proud, a bad news came from the north-Peng Chong, the prefect of Yuyang County, rebelled. Freezing three feet did not happen in a day, and Peng Chong's rebellion certainly did not happen in a day. We all know that three years ago, when Liu Xiu was chased by Wang Lang in the north, Peng Chong, the prefect of Yuyang County, and Geng Kuang, the prefect of Shanggu County, sent troops to rescue Liu Xiu and wiped out Wang Lang. However, after the success, Geng Kuang's son, Geng Yan, was made a great general, and Wu Han, who had been a county magistrate under Peng Chong, was even worshiped as a great Sima.Only Peng Chong was treated coldly by Liu Xiu, sent back, and continued to serve as his Yuyang County prefect.

Peng Chong was very unconvinced, and when he charged, he nodded and sent troops.When it came time to reward meritorious deeds, the subordinate official Wu Han actually climbed onto his own head. What is the reason for this?According to his thinking, if Wu Han named Da Sima, Liu Xiu should at least make him King. I can't figure it out, I'm not convinced, but it doesn't work.The leader told you to go back, and you have to go back.Peng Chong had no choice but to go back to be his old magistrate indignantly. After returning to Yuyang County, Peng Chong found that things were not as bad as he imagined.Among the northern counties, only Yuyang County has the strongest economic strength.Whether it is minerals or grain, the harvest is good.So under Peng Chong's management, Yuyang County became stronger and stronger.

At this time, Peng Chong also clearly felt that there was an inexplicable commotion deep in his heart. No matter how rich Yuyang County is, there are still people in charge of him.Peng Chong's boss is Zhu Fu, the governor of Youzhou.Zhu Fu is young, energetic, talented, and a typical retroist.He imitated the ancients, recruited many intellectuals, and even sent people to the Central Plains to dig out talents to serve as civil servants in Youzhou. Zhu Fu's above behavior, according to the ancients, is called keeping followers in captivity, and it is a business that wastes money.At that time, Lu Buwei had three thousand diners, who arranged accommodation and food supplies in three or six grades, and did not know how much silver taels they spent every year.

Zhu Fu is not Lu Buwei, he is the prime minister of Qin State, or Wan Hujue, and he will not blink his eyes even if he burns money.But he keeps so many diners in captivity, his own salary alone is not enough, he must have sponsorship. Of course, it would be unreliable to ask Zhu Fu to go out to solicit sponsorship. He has the power in his hands and can apportion it.So he convened a meeting of the leaders of all counties and counties, and charged all the expenses of all the food officials and family members of civil officials under his door to them. Zhu Fu's approach was first opposed by Peng Chong.Peng Chong told Zhu Fu, the world is uncertain now, and the front line is still waiting for food, why did you recruit so many civil servants all at once, wasting military funds.I think your approach is inappropriate and I don't accept your apportionment.

When Peng Chong did this, Zhu Fu jumped.One claimed to be a boss, and the other claimed to be a veteran, and the two started to quarrel.Finally, Zhu Fu sued Peng Chong to Liu Xiu with a petition. Zhu Fu told Liu Xiu that Peng Chong was gathering troops in Yuyang County and hoarding food privately. He didn't know what he wanted to do, so he had to be guarded. After Liu Xiu received Zhu Fu's letter, he deliberately forwarded Peng Chong to warn him.However, when Peng Chong saw it, he ignored it, not even apologizing or arguing. This is a big problem.Liu Xiu decided to call Peng Chong to Luoyang City to ask him a question.When Peng Chong heard Liu Xiu asked him to go to Beijing, he immediately went up and said, "I can go to Luoyang, but you also have to call Zhu Fu, so that we can confront each other on the spot."

Liu Xiu replied very bluntly: Don't worry about Zhu Fu, I told you to come, you just come by yourself. When Peng Chong heard Liu Xiu's tone, his heart turned cold.If he guessed right, Zhu Fu had already sold himself out.Isn't it like throwing yourself into a trap by going to Luoyang City like this?Thinking of this, Peng Chong feared and hesitated, not knowing what to do. At this time, someone said to Peng Chong: "Yuyang County has strong soldiers and horses, and plenty of food. I'm afraid he will be kicked. Don't go, just turn against his mother." Who do you think said that?It turned out to be Peng Chong's wife.

If others encourage you, you can say that he has bad intentions; if even your wife encourages you to rebel, is there any rebellion that you cannot rebel against?When Peng Chong heard this, he was very satisfied, and decided to rebel against his mother. Peng Chong decided to rebel, and got the support of many officials in Yuyang County. They were unprecedentedly united, and they regarded Zhu Fu as a deadly enemy, and hated them all to the neck.Therefore, after Peng Chong unified his thinking, he then dispatched 20,000 troops and went straight to Ji County, the capital of Youzhou. News of Peng Chong's rebellion soon spread to Luoyang, and Liu Xiu sent the guerrilla general Deng Long to assist Zhu Fu.After Deng Long arrived at the station, he immediately sent a commissioner back to Luoyang to report the military situation to Liu Xiu.However, when Liu Xiu saw Deng Long's report, he immediately jumped up and scolded his mother.

It turned out that the place where General Deng Long was stationed was a hundred miles away from where Zhu Fu was stationed.They thought that they could echo each other in this way, but Liu Xiu saw at a glance that they were too far away, and if Peng Chong attacked either side, the other side would have no time to ask for help. Sure enough, the situation was as Liu Xiu expected.Peng Chong thought that to kill Zhu Fu, he must first get help, so he sent Qingqi to attack Deng Long.Zhu Fu rushed over after hearing the news, but by the time he arrived, the day lily was already cold, Deng Long had been beaten badly by the group, and Peng Chong had closed the stall and left.

After defeating Deng Long, Peng Chong began to besiege Ji County.Soon, Zhu Fu ran out of food, and then a horrible scene of cannibalism occurred.Looking at everything in front of him, Zhu Fu was in despair, and he raised his head and shouted: "God, is it really going to kill me here?" At critical moments, it is still useful to raise your head and yell twice.Zhu Fu's roar was quite penetrating, and someone seemed to have heard his cry for help, and rushed to rescue him immediately. The person who came here to rescue him was Geng Kuang, the prefect of Shanggu County. Geng Kuang and Peng Chong are old acquaintances, and their circumstances are quite similar.After Liu Xiu established his capital in Luoyang, Geng Kuang, like Peng Chong, continued to do his old job with peace of mind.But Peng Chong couldn't do it, he defended himself and Geng Kuang.

When Peng Chong rebelled, the first person he thought of was Geng Kuang.So they sent people to lobby, saying that they would start a business together, open another branch company, and conquer the world.However, Geng Kuang remained indifferent, didn't say a word, and ordered someone to pull Peng Chong's emissary out and behead him. After Geng Kuang's cavalry arrived in Ji County, they finally took Zhu Fu out of the city, but they couldn't take the city for him.So, just after Zhu Fu ran out of Ji County, Peng Chong captured Ji County. Then, Peng Chong publicly announced that he would be the King of Yan. From a certain point of view, Peng Chong is kind.He used to be Wu Han's boss, and Wu Han was named the Great Sima, ranking among the three princes.If you rank seniority, you should be higher than Wu Han, and the one who is higher than Wu Han's position as Da Sima is Wang Jue.So Peng Chong didn't proclaim himself emperor, he only proclaimed himself king. He seemed to want to tell Liu Xiu that if you don't give it to me, I have no choice but to grab it myself. Of course Peng Chong knew that if he could put the King Yan hat on his head, Liu Xiu would definitely want to grab it back.In order to prevent Liu Xiu from stealing the cap, he made full preparations.First, make friends with the Huns in the north and borrow troops from them; second, form an alliance with Zhang Bu, the king of Qi in the south, and form an alliance with others. AD 28, May 1st.This festival is today's International Labor Day. Liu Xiu, who wanted to be an international model worker, announced on this day that she would personally lead the army in the Northern Expedition to attack Peng Chong. Liu Xiucai announced that someone stopped him. The person who stopped him was Da Situ Fuzhan.Fu Zhan told Liu Xiu that compared to the Central Plains, Yuyang County is just a small remote land.Now that you haven't settled the matter in the Central Plains, you want to give up the big and ask for the small, and go to fight Peng Chong, which is inappropriate.If you want to stay in Luoyang, Luoyang City cannot do without you, and the Central Plains cannot do without you.As for the Northern Expedition, you should leave it to others. Liu Xiu thought about it, and what Da Situ said seemed to be right.After Chimei's death, the land of Central Plains was not peaceful.The big ghost is dead, but many little ghosts are still making trouble.If we don't speed up the leveling, the little ghost will grow into a big one, and it will be difficult at that time. So if you can't go by yourself, who should you send to attack Peng Chong?Liu Xiu thought about it, and if he wanted to settle the north, he had to send someone who was familiar with the terrain.In this case, it must be Geng Yan. At this time, Jianwei General Geng Yan was in Zhuojun. He had just won a battle when Liu Xiu ordered him to attack Peng Chong.Geng Yan was stunned looking at the order, unable to speak for a long time. After a long time, he got up, wrote a letter, and sent someone to Luoyang quickly.Geng Yan's letter read like this: "Forgive me for not daring to march alone, let me go back to Luoyang City." What exactly is going on? In fact, it wasn't that Geng Yan was afraid of death, but rather jealousy.Peng Chong and Geng Yan's father, Geng Kuang, used to be comrades-in-arms, and Peng Chong rebelled because he complained that Liu Xiu didn't give him an official title.Liu Xiu didn't give Geng Kuang a title either, because Geng Yan was afraid that once he returned to Shanggu County, people would suspect that he also wanted to fight for his father, and rebelled with Peng Chong. Of course, Geng Yan can also go on a crusade, but the premise is that there must be relatives who stay in Luoyang as hostages.Only in this way, people will not guess at the back, and you can fight with confidence when you are on the front line.But the problem is that none of the Geng family members are in Luoyang now, so Geng Yan can only return to Luoyang to tell the world. In this way, Geng Yan's request was sent to Luoyang.Liu Xiu took a look, hehe, this kid thinks a lot.He issued an imperial edict, telling Geng Yan: Your whole family is contributing to the country, so why avoid suspicion, if I tell you to go, go bravely, don't return to Luoyang, let alone doubt me. Soon, Geng Yan received Liu Xiu's edict.When he was thinking about how to get things done, another order from Liu Xiu came again.It was a surprise this time, Liu Xiu actually told him, I won't force you to beat Peng Chong, I will assign someone else for this task. One edict followed another, making Geng Yan froze for a while.Dare to ask the leader, which one are you acting in? It turned out that the old father Geng Kuang learned that Liu Xiu was going to send his son to attack Peng Chong, so he immediately sent Geng Yan's brother Geng Guo from Shanggu County to Luoyang as a hostage.Seeing the attitude of Geng's father and son, Liu Xiu felt embarrassed to embarrass them like this, so she revoked Geng Yan's order to attack Peng Chong. As soon as Liu Xiu revoked Geng Yan's order, good news came from the north: Peng Chong didn't need to be beaten, he had already collapsed. When everyone heard it, they couldn't believe their ears. Isn't Peng Chong very good, why didn't he collapse himself.In fact, Peng Chong's newly listed company has really collapsed, and Peng Chong himself is dead. This matter is a long story, let's make a long story short.The thing is roughly like this: Peng Chong didn't know what was wrong with the court servants. One day when he was taking a lunch break at noon, his servant Zimi and three others tied him up and beheaded his wife.Immediately afterwards, a rebellion broke out in Yuyang County, and Liu Xiu's troops were surrendered in Kaesong. Just like that, a big fire was burning, and his heart and liver were almost burned.Unexpectedly, in just one night, he disappeared completely.