After Emperor Guangwu pacified Hebei, he began to use Hebei as a starting point to recruit rebel forces from all sides. In this process, although there have been life-threatening dangers, in the end they have been able to overcome the danger and the war can be smoothly advanced. However, when emperor Guangwu marched to Hezhou, the momentum of destroying the decay stalled.
The defender of the prefecture was Bao Yong, who had been under the command of emperor Gengshi. In the second year of the first emperor, Bao Yong was appointed as a servant of Shangshu, acting as a general, and commanded soldiers and horses to come to Hezhou with a rune festival and take root here. But who knew that not long after he arrived here, the first regime was destroyed by the Red Brow Army.
Regarding the destruction of the Gengshi Emperor, it was originally sent by the Guangwu Emperor to tell Bao Yong. At that time, although Emperor Guangwu had obtained Shangdang, he was never able to take the prefecture, so he sent emissaries to inform Bao Yong that emperor Gengshi was dead, so as to persuade Bao Yong to surrender. Bao Yong listened to the emissary's words and thought that this was a ploy by Emperor Guangwu to induce him to surrender, so he imprisoned the emissary and sent another person to Chang'an to investigate the truth.
When the news was reported to Bao Yong, he was sure that Emperor Gengshi was really dead. Without a monarch to serve, Bao Yong had no reason to resist emperor Guangwu's army anymore. Therefore, Bao Yong dismissed all the troops and took more than a hundred guests to Hanoi to surrender to the Guangwu Emperor.
Emperor Guangwu felt unhappy when he first saw Bao Yong, after all, he had dragged on for a long time and did not surrender himself. Originally, Emperor Guangwu still thought of getting the army of Hezhou, but Bao Yong dismissed the army, which made Emperor Guangwu even more dissatisfied. In order to vent his emotions, Emperor Guangwu gave bao Yong the most difficult task.
At that time, Liu Xiu was sitting in Luoyang, confronting the Chimei army in Chang'an, eager to capture Guanzhong. When marching west, it encountered the obstruction of the Green Forest Army in Huai County, and could not be captured for three consecutive days. Therefore, Liu Xiu sent Bao Yong to lead an army to attack Huaidi. Because Bao Yong had a high prestige in the Green Forest Army, after he arrived there, he did not need a single soldier to persuade the Green Forest's Hanoi Taishou to submit to Liu Xiu. After this battle, Bao Yong finally got the approval of the Guangwu Emperor.
Soon after, Bao Yong was appointed by Liu Xiu as the Taishou of Lu County. At that time, Lu County was the territory of the warlord Dong Xian, and his servants would have heavy troops here and arbitrarily infringe on the local people. After Bao Yong arrived in Lu County, he directly confronted General Dong Xianpi, and soon broke them, and thousands of people descended. Of course, after the war, there were also some fish that slipped through the net, namely More than a thousand people from Peng Feng, Yu Xiu, Pi Chang and so on.
At that time, the thorns in front of the Confucius Temple in Lu County suddenly disappeared for no reason, causing Bao Yong to wonder. So Bao Yong said to Fu Cheng and Lu Ling: "Now that I am in danger and am in a hurry, is this because Confucius asked me to be too polite and help me to be ruthless?" To this end, Bao Yong assembled the crowd, repaired the gift of shooting in the countryside, and asked Peng Feng and others to come and watch it together.
In fact, Bao Yong wanted to take this opportunity to eliminate Peng Feng and others. However, did Peng Feng ever think so? Although he promised Bao Yong to come and watch, he also made plans early, preparing to let his men come to the scene with weapons and wait for the opportunity to assassinate Bao Yong. In this way, both sides had their own thoughts and waited for the ceremony to begin.
When the ceremony officially began, Peng Feng and others came with beef and drinks. Bao Yong also sent eyeliner to secretly investigate which people were sent by Peng Feng. In the end, Bao Yong preemptively killed Peng Feng and others with his own hands, completely solving these rogue thieves.
After this incident, Emperor Guangwu was even more appreciative of Bao Yong and appointed him yangzhou mu. In fact, Yangzhou did not stop, there were many thieves wreaking havoc here, and the local officials and people were all miserable. After Bao Yong arrived here, he adopted a loose law to deal with the thieves, and he told the people that the government would only kill the leaders of the thieves who led the rebellion, and all other people who were coerced and followed would be pardoned. After the people received Bao Yong's promise, they broke away from the thief's power and stopped being thieves. Since then, Yangzhou has also settled down.
Bao Yong relied on these merits he had established, and finally won the trust of the Guangwu Emperor. However, these trusts were actually very fragile, but Bao Yong did one thing afterwards that completely reassured Emperor Guangwu.
After Bao Yong left Yangzhou Mu, he was recruited as a lieutenant colonel. On a tour, passing through Baling, Bao Yong actually personally visited the tomb of the Gengshi Emperor and wept to pay homage to this peasant leader who took the lead in overthrowing the Western Han regime. Fearing that he would offend Emperor Guangwu because of this, his entourage advised him not to bow down, saying that even if he was convicted of this, he would not be afraid to avoid it.
Emperor Guangwu watched Bao Yong do this, what would he think? In fact, Emperor Guangwu not only did not feel dissatisfied, but also trusted Bao Yong more. The reason was that if Bao Yong could be so loyal to the late Emperor Gengshi, then he would certainly be loyal to himself in the future. If Bao Yong had seen Emperor Gengshi but not worshipped him at that time, Emperor Guangwu would have been suspicious of him.
This time he completely gained the trust of emperor Guangwu, and also significantly improved Bao Yong's status in the capital. Once, Liu Xiu's uncle Liu Liang insulted the Zhonglang general Zhang Handan with his power, and when Bao Yong learned of it, he impeached Liu Liang for his bullying behavior, thus striking a blow to the arrogance of the nobles and rectifying the court law. After this incident, Liu Xiu often said: "Noble relatives and it is advisable to take hands to avoid Erbao." ”
Later, Bao Yong angered Emperor Guangwu for intercede for the grand chancellor Han Xin, and was demoted from the capital to serve as the minister of state of the East China Sea. Later, during the reign of Emperor Guangwu, he was worshipped as the Assassin of Yanzhou, and died of illness three years later in office.