The beginning of the Three Kingdoms Cheng Yuanzhi

Chapter 116

How much are thirty thousand horses worth?Cheng Yuanzhi still knew it in his heart.

A horse is worth 20 taels of silver. Compared with the price at this time, one tael of silver can be equivalent to 10 renminbi, so a horse is equivalent to [-] renminbi.

Of course, this is just an ordinary prairie horse. If it is a tall war horse, the price will be doubled or tripled.

30 yuan a horse!
In other words, the total value of 90 horses is 180 billion yuan, or [-] million taels of silver.

Where is the 180 million taels of silver used?

In short, it is too bad to repay the horse money.

Therefore, when Yu Fuluo's envoy put his hand on his chest, leaned forward, and said the phrase "Dear Lord Mu of Jizhou, the 120 million taels of silver owed to us by Zhang Yang, governor of Bingzhou, is due."

Cheng Yuanzhi immediately patted the table and stood up, staring wide-eyed: "What money?"

The envoy was stunned: "Horse...horse...horse money..., didn't Zhang Yang buy [-] horses from our tribe back then, and the guarantor was your father Yuan Kai. Look, the sheepskin contract clearly states .”

"Now that Zhang Yang refuses to pay, we can only come to you."

Bingzhou has no money, but Jizhou has it!
Jizhou is so rich!
"Horse money? Didn't Zhang Yang give it to you?" Cheng Yuanzhi took the parchment and glanced at it, then threw it back casually.

"Have you given it?"

"Given it!"

Cheng Yuanzhi said decisively: "Yu Fuluo must be getting old and forgot about it, why don't you go back and ask."

"At that time, when Zhang Yang bought horses from your tribe and two other tribes, he gave him a total of 180 million taels of silver in cash."

Cheng Yuanzhi opened his hand, gestured a large and high area and said, "I was at the scene and could see clearly that there is such a huge pile of money."

Although he said that he had a nose and eyes, as if he had really paid, the messenger still felt that there were ten thousand grassland beasts galloping past his head.

His heart is like a mirror.

This money is definitely not given!
And looking at this posture, the guarantor of the other party does not intend to give money.

The envoy quickly saluted, took his leave and left in a hurry.

Going on, the emissary was worried that his life would be lost.

As soon as Yu Fuluo's emissary left, under the instruction of Cheng Yuanzhi, a series of "finding faults" against Yu Fuluo's tribe began.

First of all, Zhang Yang, the governor of Bingzhou, came up with a reason that made people laugh: "The crusade against Dong Zhuo" is not fighting for ourselves, but for the whole Han people.

Because you Southern Xiongnu are also a member of the Han Dynasty (the Southern Xiongnu have moved inland for a long time, and they are nominally subjects of the Han Dynasty), and a member of Bingzhou, so your horse should sponsor me as the governor free of charge.

Supported by such reasons, Zhang Yang unilaterally proposed not to repay the debts of the Southern Huns.

The other two ministries of the Southern Huns categorically rejected Zhang Yang's proposal of refusing to pay back the money!
The response of Yu Fuluo's department was: "I deeply regret the decision made by the new governor of Bingzhou, and it is unacceptable."

Yuvro's words left some room.

The unspoken meaning is: Don't be so ugly when you eat, we can talk about it first, maybe you can pay back a little less.

We know 120 million taels of silver, and the poor Bingzhou can’t afford it all at once. Let’s discuss it, wipe out a zero, and you can just pay back 100 million taels.

If it doesn't work, we can accept payment in installments.

But Zhang Yang, who received the instruction, was determined and did not intend to quarrel with Yu Fuluo at all. He immediately proposed another one: the Yu Fuluo tribe of the Southern Huns had committed treason and crimes against humanity.In the first half of 188, together with Baibo thieves, they gathered in Baibo Valley, plundered places, and ignored human lives.

As a result, wars in Bingzhou and Hedong County continued, and the people were displaced. The Han court lost a total of 180 million taels of silver.

And the 180 million taels of silver were originally allocated by the imperial court to counter the rebellion in Bingzhou.

This reason is a bit ridiculous.

In fact, it was not the Yufuluo tribe that rebelled against the Southern Huns at that time, but the Xiutu tribes.

Not only that, Hufro was the one who was beaten and was forced to take refuge in Hedong.

And after Ding Yuan put down the rebellion in Bingzhou, they quickly left Baibo Valley.Go back to Bingzhou and get rid of the relationship.

As for looting places, it's a trivial matter, well, in the past, when Bingzhou Sihu didn't eat in winter, which year didn't they come to loot?
Generally, in this situation, the imperial court turned a blind eye.

They can barely accept that the rebellion is involved. Whoever called Zhang Yang is now the boss of Bingzhou, his immediate boss, at worst, he should pay some compensation.

But what is this crime against humanity!

If you don't pay back the money, you won't pay it back, and the big hats will be buckled one by one. Is this appropriate?

But it's not over.

Zhang Yang quickly proposed the third reason: tax theory.

This one is the most deadly: the three counties inhabited by the Southern Huns have been an inalienable part of the land of the Han Dynasty and an inalienable part of Bingzhou since ancient times, and should not be independent and free from taxation.

Since other counties have to pay a large amount of taxes to the governor of the state every year, the three counties where the Southern Huns live should also pay a corresponding amount of taxes to the Governor of Bingzhou.

Counting from the day when the Southern Huns moved inland, the taxes owed and paid in the past 140 years totaled 7000 million taels of silver!
This statement made the Southern Huns even more unacceptable.

Historically, it was Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu who asked the Southern Huns to move inward and live in Bingzhou to resist the Hu people further north.

To put it bluntly, in the past 140 years, it was the Southern Xiongnu who had been bleeding and sweating to protect the safety of the Han Dynasty's northern frontier.

What's more, in recent years, there have been constant wars in various parts of the Han Dynasty. Whenever there is a war, the imperial court will send young and strong Huns to fight, and hundreds of thousands of young and strong Huns died in the battle.

It's fine if the court doesn't come to provide pensions, but also to collect taxes?
We Southern Huns don't farm land, just a group of herders, so where do we get the tax from?

This statement immediately made all the Sanhu tribes in Bingzhou furious.

A majestic man who is the governor, it’s okay to buy a horse without paying, but he uses arrogance to blackmail him?
The Sanhu quickly reached an alliance, and Chen Bing 15 in Shangjun (two hundred miles due north of Chang'an City, inside the bend of the Yellow River), vowed to ask for an explanation.

They didn't dare to offend Zhang Yang of Bingzhou, and Cheng Yuanzhi who killed Wuhuan like a dog, and decided to ask the court for an explanation!
Because Dong Zhuo looks easier to bully.

In the spring of 191, after the mediation of Dong Zhuo, who was then Xiangguo and Taishi, Zhang Yang, the governor of Bingzhou, and envoys sent by Sanhu held peace talks outside Chang'an.

This was not a successful peace talk.

At the meeting, Zhang Yang put forward extremely harsh demands on issues such as taxes, obligations, and debt repayment, and even directly proposed that in view of the recent poor performance of the Yufuluo tribe, the autonomy of the Yufuluo tribe should be taken back, and another Officials managed the Huns.

The Yufuluo tribe expressed that they could not accept it, as did the three tribes of the Southern Huns and the other two tribes of Hu people.

However, although the talks collapsed, both parties said that the follow-up talks will continue in Taiyuan, the prefecture of Bingzhou.

Although the talks were unsuccessful, Dong Zhuo and even the court officials believed that the two sides would communicate further to narrow their differences until a settlement was reached.

But no one expected that just an hour after the meeting collapsed, Zhang Yang, governor of Bingzhou, would use force.

At noon on the first day of April 191, [-] Bingzhou cavalry suddenly launched a full-scale attack on the Yufuluo tribe living in the eastern part of Shangjun.

Five thousand Bingzhou wolf cavalry led the way, and [-] elite cavalry rushed towards the almost unarmed Yu Fuluo tribe like a tide.

Despite some psychological preparations, Yu Fuluo's tribe, which has a small number of soldiers and horses, could not resist the group of tiger and wolf troops who had just experienced the battles of "three eradication of Wuhuan" and "crusade against Dong Zhuo".

In just half a day, all the Yufuluo tribe fell.

Yu Fuluo got the news on the way back to Shangjun. He vomited a mouthful of blood on the spot, fell off his horse, and was unconscious.

　In the winter of 50 A.D., the Han court promulgated an edict ordering the Shanyu of the Southern Huns to establish a royal court in Meiji, Xihe County.At the same time, the Eastern Han Dynasty sent an army composed of 2000 cavalry and 500 criminals to station near Shan Yu's royal court in the name of guards.

　　In addition, the Eastern Han Dynasty also immigrated a large number of Han people from the interior and mixed with the Huns.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)