Duan Wencao, the prefect of Lu County, received an alarm letter from General Dong Chun, the Zuo Xiaogu in Juping City.

Lu County is adjacent to Qi County, and the two sides use Mount Tai as the boundary. If there is a rebellion in Qi County, it will inevitably affect Lu County. Therefore, when the Qi County Magistrate Zhang Xutuo tried his best to encircle and suppress the rebels, the situation in Lu County became tense.

Qi County and Lu County are the core area of ​​Qilu area. They are not only rich in population and rich in economy, but also because of their long history, they are also the hometown of Confucius, the founder of Confucianism, and the birthplace of Chinese civilization. This makes the people of Qilu have a sense of superiority in their innate sense of superiority. Especially since the Five Barbarians and Invasion of China, the people of Qilu have regarded themselves as the upright Middle-earth culture.

When the Central Earth unification is unified, the winner is not the Shandong people, but the Guanlong people who are despised as barbaric by the Shandong people. This seriously hurts the self-esteem of the Shandong people. The winner is king and the loser is a bandit, and if he loses, he will be defeated. The city is changing with the king's flag, and it is normal for the dynasty to change. Besides, history has proved that no matter who is in the country, the actual control of the power are the aristocratic families, and the nobles are always the ruling class of Middle Earth. However, the Guanlong people finally completed the unification of Middle Earth. How could they share the power and wealth of Middle Earth with their former enemies and today's defeated generals?

The Guanlong people were emerging nobles, and most of them started their own business with military merits. To put it bluntly, they were nouveau riche. The Shandong people were old nobles with a long history, passed down from classics and passed down their families for generations, and were real nobles. There is no comparison between the two. Just imagine that in this context, how could the Guanlong people let the Shandong people take control of their power? That would not be equivalent to giving up their throne and giving the country they had built up with hard work to the Shandong people? Therefore, the Guanlong noble group, whether it is the Han nobles or the nobles of the surnames of the Han, Longxi, Hedong and even the Heluo nobles, spared no effort to curb and attack Shandong people and resolutely defend their rights.

However, when Middle-earth was unified, political reforms were carried out in order to maintain the cause of unity, and a centralized system must be implemented. Only centralization can ensure long-term peace and unity of Middle-earth. In this way, the aristocratic politics that flourished during the Middle-earth split period lost its foundation for its survival, but the existence of aristocratic families relies on the basis of aristocratic politics. If this foundation is destroyed, aristocratic families will find it difficult to survive and will inevitably perish.

It is necessary to carry out political reform after the unification of China and Turkey, but if the reform touches the fundamental interests of the aristocratic families, or even directly affects the life and death of the aristocratic families, can the reform continue? Therefore, the late emperor adopted moderate reform measures, gradually eased conflicts and reduced conflicts as much as possible, but even so, political storms continued. After ascending the throne today, he was determined to reform. With the support of the Shandong and Jiangzuo noble groups, he accelerated the pace of reform, increased the central government's possession of power and wealth, and spared no effort to curb and crack down on the strength of various aristocratic groups, especially the Guanlong noble groups. As a result, the contradictions within the ruling class suddenly became fierce.

Today was a great hero of the unification of China-Turkish forces. He led the army to conquer Jiangzuo and guarded Jiangzuo for ten years, stabilizing and developing Jiangzuo and consolidating the great cause of unification. Therefore, the Jiangzuo noble group became the strong backing of today. In the early emperor's dynasty, the fate of the Jiangzuo people and the Shandong people was the same, and they were both the targets of the Guanlong people's containment and attack. Now the Jiangzuo people succeeded in entering the court and reaching the core of power, so the Shandong people naturally became ally of the Jiangzuo people to fight against the Guanlong people. Entering the core of power is something that Shandong people dream of. So the Jiangzuo people and the Shandong people hit it off, and the two sides joined forces to support the emperor's radical reform strategy, trying to use reform to counter the Guanlong people, curb and weaken the Guanlong people's control of power, and realize their dream of making a comeback.

Reform entered the fast lane, and the contradiction between the reformists and the conservatives intensified, and the conflict between the Guanlong people, Shandong people and Jiangzuo people also became fierce.

As part of Shandong people, the Qilu people are farthest from Guanlong, and the gap with Guanlong people is too deep. You can imagine how fierce the conflict between the two sides is. Wang Bo and Meng Rang were from Qilu people, and Changbaishan Rebel Army was also from Qilu people. It is inevitable that they became the first group of people who raised the flag and opposed the Sui people on the land of Central China. This not only has profound historical reasons, but also has anger and hatred for the real political situation. The first group of people who opposed the Sui people were nominally anti-East expeditions, anti-Correspondents, and anti-Guanglong people were actually a total outbreak of the resentment of the Guanlong people and Shandong people. In a sense, it was also the failure of the radical political reform strategy of the emperor and the central government with the central government's goal of centralization.

The nobles in the Qilu area and even the entire Shandong were very concerned about the rebellion that occurred in Qi County. Duan Wencao was particularly concerned about it as the prefect of the neighboring county.

Duan Wencao was from Qilu, living in Beihai for generations, and Duan was also a wealthy family in Qilu. When the Tuoba clan split the Northern Wei family, Duan Wencao's father Duan Wei followed Emperor Xiaowu to enter the pass, and since then he served in Guanlong, and spent the Western Wei and Northern Zhou dynasties. Duan Wencao was not famous, but his elder brother Duan Wenzhen was a famous general in the Middle Land and had outstanding achievements. Duan Wenzhen made many achievements in the Unification War and foreign wars, and once served as the Taipuqing. Guanlong people's Shangshu Youpushe Su Wei had hatred with him, and he designed to frame Duan Wenzhen and expelled him as the people. Fortunately, the Shandong nobles worked together to avenge him. The late emperor immediately appointed him again and appointed him as the general. Now he ascended the throne and valued the Shandong people. The first choice was Duan Wenzhen, who was appointed as the high position of the Minister of War and was attracted by him.

At that time, Duan Wencao was a general of Wu Ben in the Wei Mansion. The two brothers were both high-ranking officials in the army, which was also a taboo thing, so they were "attacked" by the people of Guanlong. The emperor then transferred Duan Wencao from the army and asked him to supervise the bachelor's degree in the Secretariat. All the bachelor's degree were elegant. Duan Wencao, a vulgar martial artist, could he be competent? As a result, the conflict intensified. Duan Wencao beat the bachelor's degree in anger and was impeached by the censor. The emperor had no choice but to release him out of the local area and become the prefect of Lu County. The meaning behind it was to use his identity as a Qilu person and Duan's prestige in Qilu to ease the conflict between the central and local areas, help the central government promote reforms in the Qilu area and implement reform measures.

When Duan Wencao arrived in Lu County, he was naturally welcomed by the nobles of Qi and Lu, and to a certain extent eased the conflict between the central and local governments. This was originally a good thing, which helped the advancement and implementation of the central reform measures, but the development of things deviated from the expected track.

Since Duan Wencao was in charge of Lu County, the people of Qilu felt that they had reliance, leaders, and backbone, and their morale suddenly increased and their courage became great. Just imagine Duan Wencao's brother Duan Wenzhen was the Minister of War, the prime minister of the dynasty, and was deeply trusted by the emperor. With such a hard relationship, what else did the Qilu people fear? As a result, the conflict between the nobles of Qilu and the Guanlong bureaucrats quickly intensified and became more and more intense. Duan Wencao was tough and rigid, and he valued the interests of the group and the regional interests of the Guanlong people. He felt uncomfortable in how he looked at the Guanlong people, and he was always safeguarding the interests of the Qilu people and condoned the Qilu people to fight against the Guanlong bureaucrats. As a result, since he entered Lu County, he not only failed to help the central government promote reforms in the Qilu area, but instead hindered the implementation of the reform policies. Everyone focused their main energy on "internal fighting", and the result can be imagined.

The floods of the river were flooded, and Qi County was affected. Qi County was in the lower reaches of the river, and the disaster was not very serious. However, because the Qilu nobles and Guanlong bureaucrats fought fiercely, the government was of course "ineffective relief". The disaster victims could not get relief, and the Qilu nobles were furious, so of course they had to instigate them and deliberately intensify the conflicts. So Wang Bo and Meng Rang gathered a large number of displaced and homeless victims and raised the flag to rebel in Changbai Mountain.

When did Zhang Xutuo open the warehouse and release grain? After Wang Bo and Meng Rang led the crowd to raise the flag to rebel.

Therefore, Duan Wencao had reason to believe that the sharp deterioration of the situation in Qi County was Zhang Xutuo's conspiracy. Zhang Xutuo wanted to force Qi people to rebel, and then disrupt the situation in Qilu, and in the name of suppressing thieves, they started a large-scale killing, eliminate dissidents, and attack Qilu nobles. In this way, even if Dongdu wanted to rectify the officialdom of Qilu, they could only fight fifty slaughter each, but Zhang Xutuo's conspiracy could succeed, and the people of Qilu would pay a heavy price for this.

Duan Wencao was very angry about this. In a letter to his brother Duan Wenzhen, he scolded Zhang Xutuo and the Heluo noble group behind him, and threatened to take revenge on Zhang Xutuo and eradicate the murderous butcher for the Qilu people. Duan Wenzhen knew his younger brother's character and was careful that his younger brother would lose his mind and commit illegal acts. It would be considered a treacherous plan for his opponent. In the end, not only could he not save the Qilu people, but he also compensated himself. Duan Wenzhen immediately asked his second son Duan Lu to rush to Lu County day and night, staying with Duan Wencao, and beingware Duan Wencao's "excessive" actions.

But Zhang Xutuo drove Wang Bo, Meng Rang and Changbaishan rebels out of Qi County, rushed into Lu County, and pointed the spearhead directly at Duan Wencao. Will you suppress the thieves? If you don’t suppress and let the thieves escape, then let this group of thieves burn, kill and plunder on your territory. And I have a reason to impeach you, so that you can’t afford to take advantage of it. Let’s take a step back, even if your brother Duan Wenzhen tried his best to protect you, my impeachment did not work, but if this group of thieves keeps away from your territory and you have been repeatedly suppressing unfairly, how can you explain to the east?

Duan Wencao was furious, but he was anxious to find a solution and could not find a way to deal with it.

At this moment, General Dong Chun of Zuo Xiaogu sent another letter saying that a group of Xuzhou thieves fled into Lu County, asking him to be careful and to encircle and fight with all his strength.

Too much bullying! Duan Wencao was angry, cursed and murdered. Okay, you are a good person in Guanlong, and you must kill me. Okay, you are not kind and I am unrighteous. You forced the thief to my territory and wanted me to suppress the thief, but I just didn't. What can you do to me? Bite me?

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