I will be the master of Xuande

Chapter 480 The Future of Montenegro

After Zhang Niujiao died, the leader of the Black Mountain Army became Zhang Yan.

The Black Mountain Army in Bingzhou Taihang Mountain has changed from what it was back then.

As the world becomes more and more chaotic, the local warlords become more powerful, and the Yellow Turban uprisings in various places become more frequent, the Black Mountain Army led by Zhang Yan has become more and more powerful in a sense. It's normal.

All the dozens of Qu Shuai under the Black Mountain Army used the name of Tianbu Junping to absorb the people at the bottom, expand their power, and train regular troops.

In a sense, because Tianbuping gave the Black Mountain Army a slogan to absorb ordinary people, the strength of the Black Mountain Army is basically the same as in history.

Logically speaking, the Black Mountain Army has become more attractive to the people at the bottom of the North. Why is its strength still the same as in history and has not increased?

In the final analysis, the reason is that Hebei is too strong.

Historically, the Black Mountain Army took the Taihang Mountains as the center and absorbed most of the refugees and low-level people in Jizhou, Youzhou, Bingzhou, and Qingzhou. However, in this era, under the governance of Liu Jian, Hebei lived a stable life, and the people lived a peaceful life. I am very hopeful, and the days are getting happier.

As long as life is peaceful and happy, who wants to go to Montenegro to live the life of hanging their heads on their belts?

Therefore, the Black Mountain Army is actually in conflict with Liu Jian's Hebei forces in a strategic sense.

Montenegro needs chaos, and Hebei needs tranquility.

The more stable and happy Hebei is, and the more vibrant it is, the less aggressive the Black Mountain Army will be.

Logically speaking, the Black Mountain Army should be at odds with Liu Jian, but Zhang Yan himself has a very deep personal relationship with Liu Jian.

Since Zhang Niujiao's death, many commanders in the Black Mountain Army strongly urged Zhang Yan to lead them to Jizhou to rob, but Zhang Yan denied them all.

Zhang Yan was once captured alive by Liu Jian. Although the two were enemies in the early stage, Zhang Yan was attracted by Liu Jian's means and ambition later, and he aroused infinite admiration for Liu Jian.

In his opinion, his ambition is too small compared with Liu Jian.

People like myself who just want to take advantage of the opportunity of peasant uprisings to separate themselves in the local area are really different from Liu Jian.

Therefore, he fought against all opinions, led dozens of Heishan Qushuai, and established a deep friendship with Liu Jian.

And he tried his best to restrain his subordinates, preventing them from robbing Jizhou and Youzhou.

Liu Jian was very moved by Zhang Yan's behavior and his sincerity.

Moreover, although the Montenegro Army appears to be a powerful low-level rebel army, the existence of this force also shows from the side that there are indeed many people living in dire straits in this era.

It is wrong to just blindly eliminate and suppress. In Liu Jian's view, although the world is unfair, no matter how unfair it is, it is impossible to be so unfair as to deprive everyone of the right to survive.

Liu Jian can't eliminate the injustice between people, because since the existence of human beings, injustice has existed, and this kind of thing should be accompanied by the complete extinction of human beings.

What Liu Jian can do is to enable every Han Chinese to survive relatively well in this unfair world while he is alive.

The premise is that only people from the Han Dynasty, and only people from the land of China Shenzhou have this power.

Others can't.

It's not that Liu Jian is selfish, but the development of the times has proven that the world's resources cannot allow people in every country to live so well. In the system of human society, some people always need to be at the bottom.

There are only [-] million people in the beautiful country, but they use a quarter of the world's resources and wealth. People all over the world use their hard work to support the beautiful people.

Cruel as it is, that's how the world works.

If the various departments of the Black Mountain Army do not plunder Jizhou and Youzhou, it will be more difficult to operate.

The advance route of the Black Mountain Army was also a difficult task for Zhang Yan.

After all, there are people who join the Black Mountain Army.People of all ages, men, women, and children are considered to have millions of people, which is equivalent to the sum of several counties.

It can even be said to be the total population of a state.

Such a large group of people is divided into many canals, led by canal commanders of different qualities, there is no unified plan, no unified method of appeasement, and although these canal commanders are under the unified management of Zhang Yan, they are actually independent of each other. Its independence is very strong.

How can it be managed well?
Although Zhang Yan strongly urged the various departments of the Black Mountain Army not to allow the robbing of the official offices of Jizhou and Youzhou, the commanders of all walks of life still acted secretly.

There are conflicts between the Black Mountain Army and the Jizhou government, and the counties and counties under Liu Jian's command are still looted by the Black Mountain Army from time to time.

Zhang Yan didn't know about these things at all. Even if he knew, the matter would have been over long ago, and he couldn't find out.

What's more, the Montenegrin Army now has millions of people, and two-thirds of these millions of people are old and weak, women and children, and these people all need to eat.

The Black Mountain Army under Zhang Yan needed to eat, but the wealth of the people under Liu Jian's rule, as well as the taxes of the government, were not brought by the strong wind.

Since the Black Mountain Army dared to rob them, the local government offices would naturally organize troops to kill them.

The two sides fought openly and secretly, and fought each other, and many people were killed or injured.

But the level of friction is increasing.

It is impossible for Liu Jian not to deal with the friction with the Black Mountain Army.

Even the people in the Black Mountain Army were refugees, but Liu Jian did not allow the people under his rule to be persecuted and harassed by these bandits.

In the past, Liu Jian had a serious talk with Zhang Yan about this matter.

Regarding these matters, Zhang Yan was also scratching her head.

Although his soldiers and horses can be used to plunder other places, but Hebei is too rich, Zhang Yan does not let them go to Hebei to fight autumn fat, but these marshals under Zhang Yan can't control themselves. , secretly went to Hebei to rob, Zhang Yan didn't know.

Of course, he couldn't point to Zhang Yan to solve this problem for him.

Liu Jian proposed a method to Zhang Yan.

That is to let him lead all the Montenegrin Army under his command.

And he, Liu Deran, in the territory of Jizhou, allocated land to the ordinary people of the Black Mountain Army in the form of rent and mediocrity, so that they had land to grow and food to eat.

As for the strong members of the Black Mountain Army, Liu Jian can take them under his command and form an army to serve the country and honor their ancestors.

From Zhang Yan's personal point of view, he agrees with this matter.

But the problem is that this matter is not yet easy to implement.

First of all, the most important point is that the Black Mountain Army is not entirely decided by Zhang Yan alone.

The canal commanders under Zhang Yan are in charge of the troops and population respectively. Although Zhang Yan is the supreme commander of the Black Mountain Army, he does not have the ability to manage all the soldiers and horses of the Black Mountain Army.

The autonomy of the dozens of commanders in the Montenegrin Army is still very strong.

It's useless for Zhang Yan to agree to Liu Jian alone.

Mainly, some of these Montenegrin army commanders did not have a long-term vision.

Many of Qu Shuai's backgrounds are reckless, and they only care about themselves in their eyes. They don't have any plans for the future, and they just live a life of being drunk today.

Instead of being subordinate to Liu Jian and being a horse boy for Liu Jian, how can he feel at ease when he is the king of a mountain in the Montenegro army?

Zhang Yan didn't even wait to talk about these things with his subordinates, Qu Shuai, but just showed some signs of it, and immediately received strong opposition from Qu Shuai.

Zhang Yan has nothing to do with this matter. After all, if he pushes forward with this matter, it is very likely that the Black Mountain Army will fall apart. leave.

Of course, for Zhang Yan, it doesn't matter to him even if some people escape from the rule of the Black Mountain Army.

Then he will lead the remaining Black Mountain Army to Liu Jian's command.

But Liu Jian disagreed with this matter.

And a group of officials under him disagreed.

Tian Feng believes that the Black Mountain Army is huge, but one advantage is that it can attract all the remnants of the Yellow Turbans in the Hebei border of the Han Dynasty.

In this way, whether it is to exterminate or subdue, it is relatively easy for the government. Once these Montenegro armies go their separate ways and fall apart, they will become one after another fleeing groups.

Although they are scattered, they cannot form a subversive influence on the ruling class, but they will become very difficult to destroy.

At that time, the government will spend a lot of energy digging them out.

Because they become too loose.

By that time, the material, manpower and financial resources consumed may not be as much as they are now.

Jushou and the trial match also agreed with Tian Feng's opinion.

After Liu Jian seriously considered their opinions, he felt that the Black Mountain Army could not be split for the time being.

So, he and Zhang Yan conducted in-depth communication again.

He hoped that Zhang Yan could find a county town around the Taihang Mountains where he could garrison troops and people, so that the Black Mountain Army could gradually become more organized.

After the death of Zhang Yi, the governor of Bingzhou, Li Yue from Liangzhou was appointed governor of Bingzhou by Dong Zhuo. The boundary of Bingzhou belonged to the place that Dong Zhuo had commanded in the past, and Dong Zhuo himself still had a certain deterrent power there.

And Li Yue from Liangzhou had stayed in Bingzhou with Dong Zhuo back then, and was very familiar with the land of Bingzhou. Dong Zhuo sent him there to let him control Bingzhou's border county on his behalf.

But it is a pity that the current situation in Bingzhou is much more complicated than it was back then.

First of all, Zhang Yang, Yuan Shao's younger brother, gathered troops in Bingzhou, followed Yuan Shao's orders, made trouble there, and opposed the court everywhere.

And Luan Tiyu Fuluo, a Hun, also brought his own troops to make troubles in Bingzhou, and colluded with Zhang Yang to make the place uneasy.

This caused a lot of trouble for Li Yue and the county guards in Bingzhou. When Lu Bu surrendered to Dong Zhuo, all the elite soldiers and generals trained by Bingzhou were taken to Luoyang by Lu Bu. The expenditure is also very large, and there is no surplus money for the Bingzhou people to form a new army.

The central government can't allocate money, so it has to be solved by Li Yue and the county guards from all over the state. But the problem is that these people's connections, abilities, and wisdom are really limited, and they can't organize a decent team at all. The new army came to suppress the rebel forces in Bingzhou.

In addition to Luan Tiyufulo, the fleeing prince of the Huns, the headquarters of the Southern Huns has also been eager to move in Bingzhou in recent years.

Bingzhou is in chaos, but Liu Jian has not been in a hurry to use troops in Bingzhou these years. In Liu Jian's view, Bingzhou will be his sooner or later, and he is not in a hurry to occupy this vast land. He needs to make a plan.

And the first step in this plan is the Black Mountain Army.

Liu Jian's plan for Zhang Yan was to let their Heishan army people come out of Heishan, go to Bingzhou to occupy a piece of their own territory, and carry out farming, breeding, weaving and other industries there.

After all, there are so many people to support, if there is no relatively stable survival system, the Montenegrin Army, which only relies on robbing, will not be able to persist no matter what.

Zhang Yan accepted Liu Jian's suggestion, so the Black Mountain Army was fully mobilized, taking advantage of Bingzhou's current weakness and instability, and when the official power was in a weak position...occupied eleven counties in Taiyuan, Xihe and other counties.

Residents of the Black Mountain Army were also relocated from the Taihang Mountains to these counties by Zhang Yan.

At his strong request, the Black Mountain Army began to reclaim land in these occupied counties, grow food, and relieve part of the pressure on military supplies.

This kind of behavior is a bit similar to the Production and Construction Corps, which is also fighting and farming.

Of course, it would be very difficult for the Black Mountain Army to complete such a large set of industrial processes in Bingzhou so quickly.

Not to mention anything else, they couldn't even get together the grain seeds for cultivation.

But with Liu Jian secretly supporting them behind the scenes, the effect is different.

The Black Mountain Army gained a foothold in Bingzhou, and Liu Jian was able to provide them with these early rice seeds and similar support.

Due to Liu Jian's secret support, Zhang Yan's Black Mountain Army gained a foothold in Bingzhou.

The Montenegrin army also planted and plowed. Men farmed the land and women weaved. The soldiers and civilians gradually entered a normal life.

This is what Liu Jian wants to see.

As long as this normal life spreads among the Montenegrin Army, slowly, most of the soldiers and civilians of the Montenegro Army will not want to return to the life of thieves who lick blood at the edge of their knives.

When the time comes, Liu Jian can still recruit them smoothly.

But those handsome men under Zhang Yan don't think so.

Seeing that the Black Mountain Army is gradually getting on the right track in the local area.

These warlords under Zhang Yan will quit.

How did this start to develop into farming again?Don't you agree to be the king of the mountain?
Because Zhang Yan made the Black Mountain Army walk out of the Taihang Mountains and set up a base in Bingzhou, it also gave the soldiers and civilians of the Black Mountain Army land to grow and food to eat. Therefore, Zhang Yan's prestige and reputation in the entire Black Mountain Army Unprecedentedly high, it greatly overwhelmed the handsome men below.

Zhang Yan's actions affected the power of these commanders, and these commanders began to move around, and they began to strongly demand military training.

They asked Zhang Yan to lead them to fight against rich households, landlords, and powerful people.

The current Montenegro Army, like the Yellow Turban Army, relies on the slogan of heaven to mend the balance to win people's hearts.

Zhang Yan just asked everyone to farm the land. Although these Black Mountain troops could be fed and stabilized, in order to realize the ideal of equalizing the sky, they still had to base themselves on war.

They used this reason to force Zhang Yan to fight.

It was at this time when these people were arguing with Zhang Yan that Liu Jian's emissary, Sun Gan, arrived.

Sun Qian's mission this time was arranged by Jia Xu. When he came to see Zhang Yan, he wanted Zhang Yan to send troops to Guanzhong to help Liu Jian frighten the current emperor.

And now the warlords of the Black Mountain Army are furious, and they can take advantage of this incident to send them all to the front line of Guanzhong.

After receiving this invitation from Liu Jian, Zhang Yan hesitated.

"Mr. Sun, Zhang and General Zuo have dealt with each other not once or twice over the years. General Zuo has always helped Zhang and the Black Mountain Army. Zhang has always remembered it in his heart. General Zuo asked Zhang to send troops to help him. In order to fight for the position of General Yuan, Zhang will certainly accept his orders."

"Based on the strength of our Black Mountain Army, if we want to enter Guanzhong, we may not be the opponent of Dong Zhuo's Xiliang Army."

"The second one doesn't seem to have anything to do with General Zuo's appointment as General Fuyuan, does it?"

Sun Qian said with a smile: "Zhang Qushuai, you must know what General Zuo is capable of. Don't worry, General Zuo will certainly be able to think of anything you can think of."

"It's not without any slogans and reasons for you to send troops this time."

"General Zhang sent troops to Guanzhong this time, not in the name of looting, but in the name of supporting justice."

"what?"

Hearing this, Zhang Yan was a little bit dumbfounded.

When will the Montenegrin Army have anything to do with the word justice?

"General Zuo has a lot of talents, from all walks of life, especially those who are good at copying and sculpting. To be honest, General Zuo had Feng Hejin colluding with Dong Zhuo's handwriting in order to deal with eunuchs. General Zuo would let people Copying He Jin's handwriting, using He Jin's tone, forged the evidence that He Jin secretly colluded with Dong Zhuo to enter Beijing and usurp the throne."

"Although today's son was established by the late emperor."

"But once He Jin's reputation is tarnished, his mother, the Empress Dowager He, was a rebellious minister in the past, and the legitimacy of the Empress Dowager's son as the son of today will be somewhat questionable."

"As for Zhang Qushuai, he needs to contact Baibojun, Zhang Baiqi and others, and use the excuse of supporting King Chenliu to march into Guanzhong and threaten to overthrow the false emperor."

"In addition, I will recommend to Zhang Qushuai a few well-known people who are famous in the world, let them use the way of gods and ghosts to deny the status of today's emperor, and give evidence that King Chen Liu should inherit the throne, and spread the word among the people. , In this way, Zhang Qushuai is not fighting alone...At least in our general's view, the Baibo Army and Zhang Baiqi will definitely respond to Zhang Qushuai."

Zhang Yan nodded if she realized something.

"I understand. Although this behavior is not enough to overthrow the current emperor, it will definitely cause an uproar in the court. The current emperor was only a young man, and he has not yet taken charge of the government. Now, we have to fight the king of Chenliu, why should he inherit?" The banner of Datong...he will definitely be in chaos, and King Chen Liu is still in the hands of General Zuo."

"At this time, General Zuo's attitude is very important."

Sun Gan nodded: "And our General Zuo means that General Zhang can use this opportunity to eradicate those who do not obey your orders, and the Black Mountain Army can also use this opportunity to completely restructure, and it will be fully controlled by Qu Shuai from then on." in hand."

(End of this chapter)