Lu Bu: My wife comes from two thousand years later

On the tenth day of the first lunar month in 195 AD, Yuan Shao surrendered Ye City, and Wei County in Jizhou was officially incorporated into the rule of Lu Bu. Yuan Benchu, who had been a third-generation official for four generations, withdrew from the stage of history.

Yuan Shao left gracefully, but Lü Bu was troubled. How should he govern Jizhou now? What should he do with all these former subordinates of Yuan Shao?

According to Amo's original expectation, a man as arrogant as Yuan Shao would definitely resist to the end, and then they could take the opportunity to eliminate some of the Jizhou aristocratic families and win over some more. However, what was unexpected was that Yuan Shao would actually give up resistance and directly hand over his entire team, and these people also took advantage of the situation to defect to Bingzhou.

He remembered that Amo had analyzed to him that the biggest reason for Yuan Shao's demise in history was the internal factional struggles. Because Yuan Shao had not truly risen in this life, the various factions were still relatively united. But now with the addition of a large number of civil and military officials from Jizhou, no matter how slow Lu Bu was, he realized that if he failed to handle these things well, there would be larger and more complicated factional struggles within his group in the future.

The Jizhou faction, Yingchuan faction, and Nanyang faction of Yuan Shao’s old subordinates, as well as his own Bingzhou old faction.

In addition to factional struggles, there are also the aristocratic families in Jizhou. What should we do?

Jizhou is one of the two major distribution areas of the founding meritorious families of Emperor Guangwu. There are many powerful families. The ones that Lu Bu knows include the Zhen family, the Geng family, the Qinghe Zhang family, and the Cui family. Previously, these families followed the lead of the super family, the Yuan family, because everyone's interests were basically the same. Yuan Shao also benefited from the help of the Jizhou families. After replacing Han Fu, he was able to quickly gain a foothold in Jizhou and become the spokesperson for the rule of the family. However, the political ideas of the Bingzhou reformers were obviously contrary to the interests of these families.

At present, Amo has only reformed some policies on taxes and land. In terms of talents, she trains and assesses some of them herself, and recruits some of them. To put it bluntly, the children from poor families who she trains or recruits are the disciples of the two ruling classes, Lu Bu and Zhang Mo. Among them, the main ones are the students of Zhang Mo's Juyi Village and Tulou. Judging from Bingzhou's economy and talents, Zhang Mo has actually become the largest family in Lu Bu's political group. It's just that as a ruling class, doing so is more conducive to future centralization.

Zhang Mo can centralize power, but other aristocratic families cannot. The aristocratic families own a large amount of land and control the channels for talent advancement, which has seriously threatened the status of the rulers.

Therefore, Amo set up schools in Taiyuan, Hanoi and Hedong, preparing to gradually develop the imperial examination system.

This one is to completely break the rule of the aristocratic family's monopoly on talents and shake the aristocratic family's rule, which will have the greatest impact on them. Once they feel that their interests are threatened, these people will seek other ways out and choose another wise leader. For example, Chen Gong rebelled against Cao in the dream, which was a fatal blow to Cao Cao.

Unless it was absolutely necessary, Lu Bu did not want to resort to violence like Hanoi did, killing people and causing a talent shortage, vacant positions and no one to govern.

There are still many vacant positions in Henei County. It is just a county, but there are five counties in Jizhou under his jurisdiction. It is absolutely impossible to take drastic measures. That will only bring greater damage and more problems.

Although Lu Bu had seen many political struggles in his dreams and also learned civil administration in Bingzhou, he himself actually had no political ideas. Over the years, Lu Bu played more of a role of a knife or a seal. The various systems in Bingzhou were generally based on the old system of the Han Dynasty, with some new policies of Amo added, and Lu Bu was responsible for promulgating them.

Now with a large number of civil and military officials pouring in at once, and facing such a large ruling area at once, Lu Bu was a little overwhelmed.

In the Yecheng government office, Lu Bu looked at the crowd sitting below. There were people from Bingzhou, Jizhou, civil officials and military generals. They were like a group of hungry babies, all waiting for him to feed them.

Headache!

"My lord, it's time to improve your position!" Jia Xu took a look at Lu Bu's furrowed brows and knew that his brain had short-circuited again, so he was the first to step forward and make a suggestion.

Give yourself a promotion first? What promotion? Lu Bu signaled Jia Xu to continue with his eyes.

Jia Xu said, "Now that the lord controls Bingzhou, five counties of Jizhou, and seven counties of Sili, it is no longer appropriate to call yourself the governor of Bingzhou. However, the Han Dynasty has fallen, and there is no emperor or court in the world. It is meaningless for the lord to call himself the General of the Guards or the General of the Cavalry of the Han Dynasty..."

He suddenly stopped here, put his hands in his sleeves, lowered his head, and looked like he was saying, "I'll stop here, you can imagine what's next."

Except for a few people, most people present knew what Jia Xu was going to say next.

It is strange to say that several months have passed since Emperor Xian fell to his death in Huayin, but no prince has pulled out a relative of the royal family to establish another emperor. It seems that everyone has deliberately forgotten the Han Dynasty.

If no one takes the lead in establishing a new or independent dynasty, everyone will be quiet. But if an emperor appears first in one place, then multiple emperors will emerge in various places one after another. At that time, there will no longer be various princes, but various vassal states. Most of them may have the same country name - Han, but other country names may also appear.

Regardless of whether it was called Han or some other name, everyone in the world knew that after the death of Emperor Ling's only bloodline, the Han Dynasty could no longer be revived. Because there were too many royal relatives, if there were multiple emperors at the same time, what difference would there be between having one emperor and not having one? Who was the legitimate heir?

Since Dong Zhuo's rebellious rule, the original aristocratic families can be divided into two factions, those who uphold the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty and those who wait and see.

Because the orthodox concept of monarchy advocated by Confucianism was deeply rooted in people's hearts, the faction that maintained the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty was the mainstream. These people supported Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, and even Liu Bei in history, hoping that they could turn the tide. The reason why Cao Cao was able to hold the emperor hostage to command the princes was because he catered to the support of the northern aristocratic families who held an attitude of maintaining the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty.

The wait-and-see faction has no clear political stance, they just want to preserve their property and status in troubled times. They will side with whoever is more powerful and can better meet their interests.

Now that Liu Xie is dead, the orthodox faction sees that there is no hope for the revival of the Han Dynasty, and some people have turned to wait-and-see. For example, Yang Biao, after running around in vain, no longer insists on establishing another emperor.

Of course, there are also some people who are determined to maintain the rule of the Han Dynasty. They are hoping that the Han Dynasty can produce another Liu Xiu.

Lü Bu didn't care whether he became emperor now or not. What difference would it make if he was the first to do so? Which other lords would dare to attack him now? It didn't matter if he didn't become emperor yet. He would still fight against whomever he wanted in the future.

Zhang Mo felt that the warmth of the Han Dynasty's four hundred years was still there, and it might not be a good idea to be the first to try it. Moreover, proclaiming himself emperor now would still arouse the resentment of the original orthodox faction, which was really unnecessary. After all, although Lu Bu looked powerful on the surface, his foundation was actually not stable. Especially after taking over Jizhou and Sili this time, internal problems suddenly increased a lot. With Gongsun Zan eyeing him covetously in the east, he might lose the newly acquired Jizhou before he could even warm it up.

Qu Yi, Han Lai, Cao Xing and others were waiting excitedly for Jia Xu's next words, while Hua Xiong was a little confused.

Xu Shu frowned slightly and wanted to say something, but after looking at Amo, he chose to keep silent.

Most of the civil and military officials in Jizhou were surprised for a moment, but said nothing. Now that they had chosen to join Lu Bu's camp and take him as their leader, they would naturally plan for him. It would definitely be inappropriate for him to become emperor. They would wait for someone to bring up the topic first, and then they would speak. However, everyone subconsciously looked at Tian Feng.

Sure enough, Tian Feng, still wearing the same sour face he had shown to Yuan Shao for years, stepped forward and asked Jia Xu, "Mr. Jia, do you want my lord to become emperor in place of the Han Dynasty?"

Jia Xu pretended to be innocent at this time and spread his hands. "Did I say that? I didn't say anything! I just said that the lord should ask for a higher position. Since the Han Dynasty is gone, it's meaningless to call yourself a general. That's all."

Seeing Jia Xu's eagerness to survive, Zhang Mo couldn't help but laugh. She said, "Yuan Hao, if you have any opinions, please speak frankly!"

Tian Feng still admired Zhang Mo very much, not only because she and Zhang Ji cured the plague in Yuan Shao's army, but more because of the series of policies she implemented in Bingzhou, which enabled Bingzhou to develop rapidly.

His expression softened, and he cupped his hands. "Then I'll speak frankly."

"The world is in turmoil today, with states and counties divided and wars raging everywhere. The common people have no place to stand, no food to eat, and are in dire straits. We need someone to come forward and bring order to the country and end this chaotic world. Based on your territory, military strength, civilian resources, and the policies you have implemented in Bingzhou, you are the perfect choice. It is perfectly acceptable for you to replace the Han Dynasty and claim the throne."

When Tian Feng said this, Lu Bu and Zhang Mo were all surprised. The civil and military officials in Jizhou were even more surprised. They thought this guy was going to oppose it, but they didn't expect that he actually supported the emperorship?

However, just as Tian Feng finished speaking, he changed the subject and continued, "Although the Han Emperor's death in Huayin was caused by the Yuan and Cao attacks on the carriage, my lord cannot escape responsibility. If you hastily proclaim yourself emperor, you will only confirm outsiders' speculation. For this reason alone, it is inappropriate to proclaim yourself emperor at this time."

By the way, the reason why outsiders speculated that the death of the Han emperor was also related to Lu Bu was all because of Yuan Shao's letter of self-criticism, in which he described Lu Bu's welcoming of the emperor as kidnapping the emperor. Even when Yuan Shao asked Lu Bu to release him, Lu Bu refused to do so.

This idea was proposed by Tian Feng. Ju Su, who knew the situation, couldn't help but glance at Tian Feng and thought to himself, "Tian Yuanhao, I'm afraid you never thought this day would come. Instead, you've shot yourself in the foot."