The Jagged Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 998 Wei Yanqin King ([-])

While Sima Zhao was discussing with the Jin Zheng brothers about the assassination of Liu Chan in Dali City today, there was already movement in Linjin City at this time.

Linjin City was the seat of Feng Yi County, and Wei Yan, the current prefect of Feng Yi County, naturally settled here to handle official duties.

Since Fengyi County was used to defend the west area of ​​Chang'an, it was established for the sole purpose, and indeed it was only because of this.Therefore, the city here in Fengyi County has been continuously repaired by successive emperors.

The city of Linjin was built in a very unusual way.

But now, with the continuous wars in the Guanzhong area in the past few decades, the Han regime was driven out from here, and the Han people also fled from Sanfu one after another, which caused the people's livelihood in the Sanfu area to become extremely depressed.

Another situation is that with the weakening of the power of the Han people in the extreme west of the Guanzhong area, Chang'an's defenses have also become very fragile.This has led to a very serious problem. The center of political power in the country has been completely transferred from Chang'an to Luoyang further north.

As a result, the status of Feng Yi County and Fufeng County, which were originally used to defend Chang'an, of course dropped sharply.In this way, of course, the investment in the city defense of the two counties will also be reduced.

Therefore, when Liu Chan's army entered Fengyi County at that time, the city with strong defenses that Wei Yan and others imagined was actually very rare.As a result, the walls of many cities are severely dilapidated.

In fact, in a place like Guanzhong, the technical difficulty of using loess ramming to build a city wall is not very high.It is indeed not easy to build a city that is very strong, but the technical difficulty of repairing it is also not high.

Therefore, facing the ruined city, the only explanation is that the local government either has no money to repair it, or has no intention of repairing it at all.

With the two prefectures of Yongliang and Liangzhou falling into the hands of the Shu Han army, Feng Yi County among the three assistants of Chang'an, just like Xiangyang County in Jingzhou, became a window to directly confront the Cao Wei army.

Although the government affairs ability of the prefect Wei Yan is questionable, he is indeed a very military minded person.

After he went to be the prefect of Fengyi County, he mobilized the army to strengthen the city defenses in various counties, and prepared in advance for the possible outbreak of Cao Wei's army to launch a large-scale counterattack to the west in the future.

Liu Chan very much agrees with Wei Yan's approach.In fact, Liu Chan has already had such an idea.Now the population of Chang'an Sanfu is actually very small, and the population of other places in Yongliang and Liangzhou is even smaller.

This is an era when the government's fiscal revenue capacity is determined almost entirely by the size of the population, so it is not difficult to understand why the Celestial Dynasty always likes to encourage people to have more children in history.

In terms of the population of Yongliang, it actually helped the Shu Han regime to strengthen its own strength, which was almost zero.Even the worst situation is that the Shu Han regime may not only be unable to obtain benefits from here, but will continue to use the taxes paid by people and horses from other regions to support Yongliang and Liangzhou!
This question is actually a very hidden and deep-seated question.After all, as long as you are the people of a country, there are almost no people who are not sensitive to taxes.

This is the truth that everyone understands.

Therefore, this reason is actually the reason why Shu Han became completely inactive in the later Northern Expedition in history.

Because Yizhou people are unwilling to pay taxes by themselves, they are eventually used in Yongliang and Liangzhou.In a way, this is just like the mentality of today's Beijingers, who are unwilling to open up the city's various resources to the people of the whole country, just because they are afraid that their own interests will be taken away by people from other places.

At the same time, in history, the later Jiang Wei inherited Zhuge Liang's behest for the Northern Expedition, and his imposing generals sent out only a few thousand troops at a time.He is not a fairy descending to earth, it is almost enough to spend a few thousand to defend a city on the border, does he still want to attack the city from Cao Wei's territory? !
And this problem, which is temporarily hidden now, may be detonated in the future.But the severity of the problem may have become less serious, because the territory of the Shu Han regime has now changed from a single incomplete Yizhou in history to the entire southern region plus the northwest region.

Therefore, it should be said that the Shu Han at this time has become much stronger in terms of its ability to raise finances, and the Shu Han in history, and its ability to bear is also relatively strong.

Having said that, the white-eared guards sent by Zhao Feng sent Liu Chan's latest order to Wei Yan, the prefect of Fengyi County, as quickly as possible.

Wei Yan couldn't help being surprised when he heard that it was the Baier Imperial Guard who came to issue Liu Chan's latest order.The white-eared guards are the personal guards appointed by His Majesty the Emperor, and they are closer to His Majesty than the Guards under Zhao Yun's current command.

Generally speaking, the white-eared guards would not easily leave His Majesty's family.Not to mention, they are used as messengers for sending letters.

Wei Yan's mind turned very fast, and he immediately guessed that something big must have happened.

Therefore, Wei Yan immediately met with one of the white-eared guards. After checking the identity of the other party, Wei Yan finally met him.

Then, Wei Yan learned from the white-eared guard that Liu Chan was assassinated by an unknown assassin on the way out of Chang'an City.

Wei Yan was immediately dumbfounded.

On the one hand, Wei Yan was very surprised that Liu Chan dared to run around Yongliang territory with only [-] white-eared guards, and the object of inspection was the border area!This is really a very dangerous move, and Wei Yan couldn't help being surprised that Liu Chan was so courageous.

On the other hand, Emperor Bixuan was assassinated in the area under his rule. Although His Majesty has always been extremely tolerant towards others, the responsibility he has to bear this time is probably not small.

After thinking of this, the surprise on Wei Yan's face disappeared immediately, and turned into deep worry, and then asked the white-eared guard Liu Chan's physical condition.

To Wei Yan's relief, Liu Chan's body was intact, except for some bruises from being pushed off the horse by Zhao Yun immediately, there was no other problem at all.

But from the mouth of the white-eared guard, Wei Yan once again received a very shocking news.That is, Gao Shili would rather fly to block the assassin's attack for Zhao Yun in order to save Zhao Yun, so that he is still unconscious.

The white-eared guard also told Wei Yan that His Majesty has assigned 200 white-eared guards to escort Gao Shili to the military camp in Linjin City along the way, and asked Wei Yan to let the doctors do their best to rescue Gao Shili. .

This is Liu Chan's order to Wei Yan, and it is also a request.

Wei Yan immediately said loudly: "There is no problem with this at all. I will immediately send someone to the barracks to invite the doctor over."

Then, the white-eared guard conveyed Liu Chan's second order, asking Wei Yan to immediately dispatch a team to block all the passages around Dali County, and then began to search for all the remnants of the enemy in the territory.

There was nothing wrong with this order at all, not to mention that it was an order to arrest those villains who dared to be proportional to the emperor. Of course Wei Yan didn't dare to do anything, and immediately accepted Liu Chan's order again.

Then, Wei Yan asked the white-eared guard and all his companions to stay in the mansion to rest together, while he himself got on the horse and ran straight into the barracks.

Wei Yan then ordered Chen Shi to lead a 6000-strong army to block the passages in the east, west, and south directions of Dali County, and set up checkpoints layer by layer, and no suspicious person was allowed to let go.

And all the traffic from the north of Dali County to Bingzhou should have been cut off by the 2000-man cavalry team sent by Gai Meng, so there is no need for Wei Yan to bother.

Then, Wei Yan led an army of 3000 people, and took two doctors, and rode straight to the direction of Gao Shili Lai Road again.

(End of this chapter)