The Reincarnation of Lu Bu at the End of the Han Dynasty

Chapter 876 Entering Luoyang
After staying in Wen County for two days, the migrating team then headed south.

Compared with the slow speed before, this time the marching speed was significantly faster.The mountain people had confidence in Lu Bu, so they all looked forward to going to Luoyang as soon as possible.

Near the Zhuohe River, the turbid and majestic river is turbulent, splashing billowing waves and roaring at dangerous places, which is daunting.

The mountain people were divided into hundreds of groups, and they began to cross the river in an orderly manner.

At the same time, Lu Bu received information from Chang'an.

The letter said that the officials quarreled endlessly in Weiyang Palace, and finally, the emperor decided to make Lu Bu king.

Upon learning of this, all the soldiers under Lu Bu's command raised their brows with joy and congratulated Lu Bu one after another.However, there was no joy on Lu Bu's face, instead, there was a deep sense of worry.

In the hundreds of years of the Han Dynasty, there was no example of excessively conferring kings with different surnames. If the emperor conferred the title of king, it would undoubtedly push Lu Bu to the forefront of the storm and make the scholars criticize him.

Lu Bu was not afraid of war, but the hundreds of thousands of mountain people now bound Lu Bu's hands and feet, making it impossible for him to do anything.

"My lord, it seems that you are not very happy."

Guo Jia came forward and stood with Lu Bu on the edge of the Zhuo River, looking at the river flowing eastward.

"I have returned to the court memorial, please the emperor withdraw his will to make me king."

Lu Bu seemed to be speaking indifferently, but Guo Jia could still hear a little unwillingness in his words.

For so many years, Lu Bu fought for the Han Dynasty, helping the emperor and bringing peace to the people. It can be said that he worked hard. With his outstanding achievements in these years, he fully deserves the word "king".

But right now, it's not the time to become king.

Lu Bu knew it in his heart.

If he becomes king, the princes from all over the Kanto region will inevitably form a coalition again to question him.What's more, there is Liu Bian, an extremely unstable factor, drifting outside.

What Lu Bu has to do now is to take a good rest and recuperate, to expand the land, and when the hundreds of thousands of mountain people have settled down completely, they can provide food for the court as military pay.Only then can Lu Bu free his hands and concentrate on dealing with Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and others.

Just be afraid, Yuan Shao will start a war with him at this time.

With the grain stored in Guanzhong and Bingzhou, it is okay to feed the hundreds of thousands of mountain people, but if the cost of the war is taken into account at the same time, it may not be able to last for two years, and the treasury will be emptied.

This is also Lu Bu's concern.

"Your Majesty, don't worry. Yuan Shao has a gentle temperament, he is always scheming, and he is not the master of major events. Although he has many advisers, they are independent and full of conflicts. The lord only needs to send a debater, or provoke them, or perhaps use them The advantage is that it will be completely divided, leaving Yuan Shao with no time to invade the south."

Guo Jia calmly said that Yuan Shao is the only one who can threaten Lu Bu among the princes from all over the world.

Cao Cao and Liu Bei are weak, and together they don't have half of Yuan Shao's troops. Even if they dare to send troops, they are not enough to shake Lv Bu; Look for Lv Bu's bad luck; as for Gongsun Zan in Youzhou, after several battles with Yuan Shao, he was defeated, and now he is hiding in Yijing City, so he can basically be judged and withdraw from the stage of hegemony; is nothing to worry about.

The current situation, which seems to be perilous, is actually as stable as Mount Tai.

Hearing Guo Jia's analysis, Lu Bu was relieved a lot.

After nearly four months of migration, millions of mountain people finally entered Luoyang without any danger.

As the former capital of the Han Dynasty, Luoyang City was burned down by fire after Dong Zhuo's misfortune, and it has not been rebuilt for so many years.Entering the city, a sense of desolation rushed over.

After returning to the old mansion, after some cleaning, Lu Bu made the next plan and deployment.This is also the decision he made after repeated discussions with Guo Jia, Pang Ji and others on the way.

First of all, it is necessary to arrange a place to live for these hundreds of thousands of mountain people, then register their household registration, survey the land, distribute according to the number of households, and formulate the annual tax payment...

In short, most of them are trivial and complicated things.

As a result, more local officials are needed.

Because Sima Lang has been undercover for many years and recruited the thieves in the Taihang Mountains, he ranked first. He was appointed as the Luoyang Commander by Lu Bu and was in charge of all the affairs of the governor Luoyang.

As for the other officials, Lv Bu had already sent a letter to Chang'an, ordering various families to recommend family scholars and select young talents from the Imperial Academy to take up official positions in various places in Luoyang, as a test of experience.

In addition, Lu Bu also extended an olive branch to the Yuzhou aristocratic families and local gentry near Luoyang, inviting them to send talented and educated children from their clan to take up positions in Luoyang.

Regardless of success or failure, at least it can leave a good impression on them, which can also pave the way for the future capture of Yuzhou.

After talking about internal affairs, agriculture and mulberry, let's talk about military affairs.

This time, there were more than 2000 bandit leaders who surrendered to Lu Bu.The strength of the bandit chiefs varies from tens of thousands to tens of thousands, and only one to two thousand. But when they are all added up, they are close to one hundred thousand, which is not a small number.

Prior to this, when Lu Bu fought against them, he found that these bandit soldiers generally had low combat effectiveness. Many of them could not even use the basic assassination moves, and there were not even a single one who was truly bloody and dared to fight.

To put it bluntly, most of these thieves were civilians in exile, forced to make a living, and had no choice but to join the ranks of thieves.

In response to this matter, Lu Bu has ordered disarmament and transferred Gao Shun from Chenliu.Ask him to retrain the remaining [-] thieves so that they can get used to the way of life in the barracks and understand the collective honor.

Lu Bu also specially formulated a new designation for them, called "Black Mountain Army".

As for those leaders who surrendered, Lu Bu also made it clear to them: "He welcomes them very much if they are willing to stay in the army; if they don't want to serve, Lu Bu can also give them land and money because of their merits in surrendering and guarding along the way. Allow them to return home."

Among them, Zuo Miao Zhangba was the first to stand up. He said that he was old and frail, and even if he wanted to, he was unable to make a greater contribution to the general, so he asked to leave.

Lu Bu said nothing, and agreed immediately.

With Zuo Miaozhangba as an example, the thieves in the northern mountains came out one after another, expressing their willingness to disarm and return to their hometowns, and honestly work in the countryside.

Before they surrendered, they were forced by Lu Bu's prestige.Now that they can get together and relax, they naturally don't want to stay here for longer.What's more, in their hearts, there will always be only Zhang Yan who can truly convince them.

Lu Bu agreed together, and he didn't have much regret in his heart.These thieves are neither literate, nor have amazing courage and strategy. To him, whether to go or stay is irrelevant.

As for the remaining Sui Gu, Bai Rao and others, they were all willing to follow Lu Bu's tent and obey orders.

(End of this chapter)