Liu Xie put down his brush and rubbed his eyes. Fu Shou hurriedly came up and squeezed Liu Xie's shoulders. She looked at the bamboo slips piled up like a mountain on the table and thought to herself that there were a lot of things going on during this period. Liu Xie would read them at least a day.
There are hundreds of recitals, almost without stopping, from getting up early in the morning until the lights come on at night.
Now that there are almost no constraints in the court, Liu Xie has rarely experienced the feeling of monopolizing power in the past few years. This sudden power is like a good medicine. At first, he was full of energy and enjoyed it.
But after a month, Liu Xie's initial excitement began to gradually become a little dissatisfied. He looked at the seemingly endless stamps in front of him and wished he could knock them all to the ground with a slap.
He has to personally approve everything no matter how small or small. This is not an easy task at all. After these days, he is almost exhausted!
Even when Liu Xie was sleeping, his mind was filled with the sound of turning bamboo slips, endless writings, endless memorials, and endless seals.
For the first time, he felt that having to do everything himself might not be a good thing!
He deeply understood why the previous emperors had allowed the eunuchs to take over all the power. The ministers in the court could not fully trust him and could not take matters into their own hands, so they had no choice but to let the eunuchs do the work for them.
But after experiencing the eunuch's chaos and the party's imprisonment, Liu Xie obviously did not want to make the same mistake again, but this was not the way to go. He had to cultivate his confidants.
Thinking of this, he began to curse again, Lu Bu was too indifferent!
I gave him the power to open a mansion, and my original intention was to let Lu Bu recruit a group of people who would reassure him and share his worries. As a result, up to now, Lu Bu still has two or three big cats and kittens under him. Let alone exceeding his authority, it is within his duties.
None of the things I took on were taken up.
In contrast, although Dong Zhuo and Wang Yun both had their own problems, they managed to straighten things out in the Han court. Only major matters that required Liu Xie's personal approval would be brought to the table.
Although Liu Xie felt restricted at the time, looking back now, he also gradually understood the operation of the imperial court in the process.
In comparison, Lu Bu's internal affairs abilities are a bit too strong.
Liu Xie really wanted to ask how Lu Bu managed to survive all these years and became a general. Why did he still behave like a bandit leader?
However, Liu Xie also understood that Lu Bu betrayed his master twice and was suspicious of his subordinates, which caused people who wanted to take refuge in him to have many concerns. He could be said to be the most isolated general in the past decades.
But it is precisely because of this that Cao Cao and others would agree with Lu Bu taking this position, right?
Liu Xie couldn't see through Cao Cao.
Although he seemed loyal, he was secretly very full of ideas. Yang Biao and Kong Rong had hinted to them many times that they must take precautions.
Especially Kong Rong, after Chen Liu came back with his Zhang Miao brothers, he severely read Cao Cao's book, saying that he killed the people of Chen Liu indiscriminately and did not respect the emperor's will.
Liu Xie could only turn a blind eye to this. Everyone was killed, what else could he do?
Moreover, Zhong Yao, who had recently attached himself to Cao Cao, also made a great contribution by convincing Zhang Yan of the Black Mountain Army to surrender with ten thousand soldiers.
With these people, Liu Xie can incorporate them into the garrison directly under him, and from then on he will have his own power. If anyone wants to threaten him with soldiers in the future, the princes and ministers will have to weigh the amount.
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Moreover, after Cao Cao's purpose of inviting him to Xu County failed, he did not persist and returned to Yanzhou.
Does this mean that he doesn't covet him too much? I'm afraid that Cao Cao still loves the Han Dynasty, right?
It is really strange to say that there are several parties who are trying to please him. Anyi is Lu Bu's hometown, so it is reasonable for Lu Bu to stay with him.
But the other two parties surprised Liu Xie.
Not to mention Cao Cao, the fierce tiger of the Yuan family also seemed to keep a distance from him.
He received a reward from himself, but he didn't seem to have any intention of planting spies around him and cultivating party members and cronies. He even left Anyi immediately, lest he become suspicious.
Liu Xie couldn't understand. Previously, from Dong Zhuo to Wang Yun, from Li Jue to Guo Si to Bai Bojun, they all controlled themselves tightly, so Cao Cao and Xiu Hu didn't play their cards according to common sense?
Play hard to get?
In particular, this fierce tiger kept a distance from himself because he was afraid of Yuan Shao's suspicion. It seemed unreasonable. In this case, why should he come to please him?
Liu Xie shook his head and stretched, deeply understanding that he still had a lot to learn. This fierce tiger was not much older than him, but he was already far ahead in many things. He wanted to conquer this kind of
People still have a long way to go if they want to possess the magnanimity and strength of an emperor.
At this time, in the Black Mountain, Yuan Xi also felt that he had a long way to go back.
He pursued Yang Feng that day. He held his breath and led his men to pursue him in Heishan. Although Yang Feng was familiar with the terrain of Heishan, Yuan Xi also had soldiers who had defected from Heishan. Both sides were equally familiar with the shortcuts and trails.
So Yang Feng did not let go of Yuan Xi in the end.
Instead, Yuan Xi listened to Jushu's suggestion and asked Yan Rou to make a big circle in advance through the Black Mountains and directly into Bingzhou, blocking the direction in which Yang Feng might escape, and as expected, Yang Feng's retreat was cut off.
Now that Yang Feng and the remnants of the Heishan army have been captured, everyone is returning along the way they came. There is no need to march in a hurry this time, and they have just realized how difficult the road to Heishan is.
Because they had to walk for five or six days with wounded soldiers and prisoners, they were still a hundred miles away from the camp where they came from. They were unlucky and might have to walk for several days.
Yuan Xi turned his head and looked at Yang Feng, who was tied to a horse and unconscious in heavy iron shackles. He didn't feel happy at all.
Regardless of whether Yang Feng was the mastermind behind Qu Yi's death, it was impossible for Qu Yi to come back to life. Lu Lingqi still did not kill Yang Feng. Yuan Xi finally decided to take Yang Feng back to Qu Yi's tomb in Beixin City.
Then sacrifice a human life.
Dark clouds slowly gathered in the sky, and with a thunderbolt, raindrops as big as soybeans fell.
Yuan Xi cursed secretly, the weather in Montenegro is indeed changing quickly. It's already autumn, and it's still raining so heavily!
He asked the soldiers to take out their rain-proof clothes while looking for a place to hide from the rain, but this was the Black Mountain Trail. Where could he find a suitable place in a hurry?
Within a moment, everyone was drenched like a drowned rat. Sun Li quickly took out a raincoat and a bamboo hat from his bag and handed them to Yuan Xi.
Yuan Xi handed the coir raincoat to Lu Lingqi and motioned for her to cover her head. Lu Lingqi took it, but turned around and put it on the unconscious Yang Feng.
Yuan Xi was quite surprised and whispered: "This may be the murderer of your master, and you still take care of her like this?"
Lu Lingqi said softly: "I don't know either."
"But when I think about my fate on the battlefield in the future, I may not be as good as her, maybe I feel some compassion that I shouldn't have?"
Yuan Xi sighed and put the bamboo hat on Lu Lingqi's head, "No, since Marquis Wen entrusted you to me, I won't let this happen."
"It seems that Yang Feng has reached this point because she was abandoned by the Black Mountain Army. It seems that she is also gullible and brings the blame on herself."
After hearing this, Lu Lingqi snorted coldly, "I think this matter belongs to the Montenegrin Army."
"How can anyone regard a person who has been divorced as an abandoned son?"
"After letting her die, you turned around and sold her?"
"I don't think that Zhang Yan is a thing!"
Yuan Xi agreed in his heart that this kind of despicable thing was indeed not very kind. However, the result was brought about by the joint efforts of Cao Cao and himself, and it was indeed a bit overwhelming.
Just as he was thinking about it, Lu Lingqi came over and raised the bamboo hat above their heads. The two walked side by side silently on the muddy and slippery mountain road, holding their wooden sticks.
The autumn rain continued, rain and mist arose in the mountains, and the coolness of autumn swept over everyone's body, but everyone followed Yuan Xi, always walking firmly in the same direction.
The bigger the storm, the more we need to work together. Even if the road ahead is unknown, even if we are temporarily on the wrong path, as long as we keep going, we will be able to get out sooner or later.
Yuan Xi looked behind him at the crowds of people following him silently, and couldn't help but feel a little moved.
At this moment, he was finally no longer alone.
The earthy-smelling rainwater flowed through the hair on the back of Yang Feng's neck, along her cheeks, and into her mouth. The hot cheeks and forehead were diluted by the cold rain.
He slowly opened his eyes, spit out the rainwater in his mouth along with a mouthful of blood foam, and then slowly sat upright from the horse, the shackles on his hands and feet jingling.
Zhao Yuntian came to his senses when he heard the reputation, and immediately looked away. In this situation, it was impossible for Yang Feng to escape under the eyes of several people.
Yang Feng raised her head to the sky, opened her mouth, and rainwater fell into her mouth. She took a few sips before she became more awake.
She has had a fever for several days, and even Yang Feng herself is a little confused that she can survive until now. Does she not want to die in her heart?
Also, who would want to die?
She endured the raging rain, and the autumn rain was cold and cold. Even the horse under her crotch sneezed, and her feet slipped from time to time. Only then did Yang Feng notice the raincoat she was wearing.
She looked around and saw that everyone around her was unobstructed, thinking deeply.
Then she slowly moved her eyes and looked at the two figures in front of them who shared a bamboo hat.
Yang Feng naturally recognized these two figures from behind.
One is the fierce tiger of the Yuan family, who killed his sworn brother, defeated the Black Mountain Army several times, and finally defeated the Black Mountain Army, even falling into the enemy's hands.
The other one is an extremely talented daughter of Marquis Wen. Both physically and intellectually, she is even better than herself back then. She even took action when she assassinated the ferocious tiger, causing her to fail.
The two people's shoulders were very close and their heads were nestled together, which gave Yang Feng a strange feeling in her heart.
Since my father died of illness, I have been alone until now. No one can understand me, no one is willing to understand me, and I don't want others to see through me.
Even if they are the Yellow Turban Army, how many people can truly inherit Huang Tian's ambition and save all people from fire and water?
Will any of these people really succeed in the end?
At this moment, Yuan Xi's voice came from the front, reciting a very strange poem.
Different from the four or five characters used in poetry, the number of words is uneven and has a unique rhythm.
"Don't listen to the sound of gold and iron horses. It's hard to walk lightly on the dirt road. Look for your home under the stars and the moon. On the ground, half a pair of iron armor washes away the autumn wind."
"The weather is cold and the rain is hitting me lightly. It's slightly cold. Steel swords and iron spears are ringing in the night. Wind and frost are passing by in search of peace. There is no hunger or cold in the world to welcome the first clear sky."