If you dare to continue to appoint Qin Wen at this time, even a wise king may not have such courage, let alone Liu Hong, who is recognized as a faint king?
Many loyalists thought Liu Hong had changed his gender, so they knelt down and shouted, "Your Majesty is wise," "The man is saved," and the like.
Imperial Palace of the Han Dynasty, Weiyang Palace.
After simple renovations, this palace, which has stood for more than 400 years, has not yet restored its splendor during the Han Dynasty, but it has become much more prosperous and can fully bear the weight of the palace again.
Accompanied by Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong, Liu Hong took a walk in the harem and admired the ancient palace. Only at this time did he let go of his worries.
"After all, Chang'an is still inferior to Luoyang. I don't know if I will have the chance to return to Luoyang in this life." Liu Hong sighed lightly.
"Why would your Majesty say such depressing words? If even you lose confidence, then the big man will really have no hope." Zhao Zhong said.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Zhang Rang followed.
Liu Hong couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this. After thinking of Guiguzi's big plan, he couldn't help but regain his confidence.
"You two are right, I will never give up hope, and the big man will not die in my hands." Liu Hong said firmly.
"Father."
After hearing the shouts not far away, Liu Hong finally showed a smile on his face. When Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong saw Liu Hong showing such a smile, they immediately knew who it was.
Liu Hong had two sons and one daughter. The eldest son Liu Bian had a dull personality and was not favored by others, but the eldest daughter Liu Mu and the youngest son Liu Xie were favored the most. Liu Hong would only smile happily when he saw these two children. Seeing Liu Mu trotting up to him, Liu Hong pretended to be unhappy and reprimanded: "Mu'er, you are a princess. You are so arrogant, how can you look like a princess?"
Liu Mu naturally knew that his father was not really angry, so he spat out his tongue playfully, then hugged Liu Hong's arm and said coquettishly: "I'm here to thank my father, why are you lecturing me?"
"Thank me?" Liu Hong was stunned, then smiled and said: "As father and daughter, what can we thank you for?"
"Father, my daughter knows that not only did you not take away General Qin Wen's military power, you also gave him an official position."
When all the civil and military officials in the dynasty proposed to seize Qin Wen's military power, only Princess Wannian, who was Qin Hao's fiancée, stood up to speak for Qin Wen. However, Qin Wen not only was not deprived of his military power, but was promoted to an official position. The simple Liu Mu thought it was him
What’s the credit?
"You are really a bad girl. You haven't even married yet, and you are just looking at your husband's family. My father's love for you is really in vain." Liu Hong scolded with a smile.
"No way, my daughter is just talking about things."
After Liu Mu hesitated again and again, he said coyly: "Father, can you promise your daughter something?"
Liu Hong naturally knew what Liu Mu was thinking and refused directly: "No."
"They haven't said anything yet?" Liu Mu said angrily with his eyes widened.
"Besides saving Qin Hao, what else can you do?"
"Father, even if you can't rescue me by force, why don't you try diplomatic means?"
Liu Mu came up with a self-righteous idea, but he didn't know that Qin Hao had a complete plan from the beginning when he was captured. If Liu Hong didn't know, how could he continue to trust Qin Wen?
It was a matter of life and death for the big man, so Liu Hong would naturally not tell Liu Mu, and would only use a lame excuse to excuse it.
Looking at his father leaving in a hurry, Liu Mu stamped his feet angrily and said angrily: "Humph, if you don't save me, save me. But what should I do? By the way, find the master."
As one of the three commanders of Hehe, Wang Yue had many things to deal with. Naturally, it was impossible to follow Liu Curtain every day.
Liu Mu directly broke into Wang Yue's office and said straight to the point: "Master, can you personally take action to rescue the champion from Xiang Yu?"
Wang Yue wiped the cold sweat from his head and said with a wry smile: "Your Highness, Xiang Yu is the most powerful general in the world."
"Master, you are a sword master."
"The prince-in-law is trapped in an army of 300,000 men." Wang Yue said with a bitter smile.
"Master, you are a sword master."
"I..."
Wang Yue was immediately speechless, and he had no way to communicate with this kind of girl who was in love.
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Luoyang.
"Father."
Dongfang Sheng respectfully handed Zhang Jiao a roll of information. Zhang Jiao opened it and took a look and sighed.
"As expected, Qin Wen still refused. Even the life of his son cannot shake Qin Wen's loyalty. This man is respectable, ahem..."
As he spoke, Zhang Jue coughed violently, and there were even blood stains on his handkerchief. However, in order not to worry his daughter, Zhang Jue pretended to be calm and put away the handkerchief.
As soon as Qin Hao was captured, Zhang Jiao wrote several letters to Qin Wen persuading him to surrender. However, no matter how Zhang Jiao tried to seduce and raise the stakes, Qin Wen was not moved and showed no regard for Qin Hao's life and death. This also made Zhang Jiao
I have completely given up on Qin Wen.
After that, Zhang Jiao took a series of measures, the purpose of which was naturally to force the Han Dynasty to replace Qin Wen. Of course, it would be best to force Qin Wen to rebel.
However, these dirty tricks failed in the end. Not only was Qin Wen not deprived of his military power, but he was promoted to an official. The strangeness of this made Zhang Jiao speechless.
However, the unexpected surprise was that under the Yellow Turbans' rumor offensive, the morale of the Han army was inevitably turbulent. Then Zhu Yuanzhang seized the opportunity and took the opportunity to capture the two fortresses of Yiyang and Yewang.
Now, between Yongzhou and Sizhou, there is only the Hangu Pass fortress left. As long as Hangu Pass is broken, the Yellow Turban Army can march straight in and directly attack Chang'an.
But how could Hangu, which resisted the Six Kingdoms, be so easy to break?
After Dong Zhuo's Liangzhou reinforcements arrived, more than 300,000 Han troops were concentrated on the front line of Hangu Pass. Coupled with the natural danger of Hangu, it can be said to be impregnable.
If we force a breakthrough, we don't know how many lives will be needed to fill it. Zhang Jiao will naturally not attack forcefully, so the 700,000-strong army and the 30 Han troops faced off, and the war on the Eastern Front fell into a stalemate.
After much hesitation, Dongfang Sheng plucked up the courage and asked, "Father, Qin Wen doesn't want to surrender, what should Qin Hao do?"
Looking at Diao Chan's flawless face, Zhang Jiao said with a smile: "What, you want to intercede for him?"
When Dongfang Sheng heard this, he quickly waved his hand and said: "No, my daughter just thinks that if Qin Hao can be made to surrender, it will be of greater benefit to me, the Yellow Turban."
"Haha." Zhang Jiao laughed and said: "The third brother wrote in a letter that he used his position as my heir as a bargaining chip to persuade Qin Hao to surrender and asked him to persuade Qin Wen to surrender, but Qin Hao refused."
"What?"
It was not difficult for Dongfang Sheng to understand why Qin Hao refused. What was really difficult for her to understand was how could Zhang Liang think of making Qin Hao emperor?
Dongfang Sheng didn't know Qin Hao's plan, but after hearing the news, he probably guessed that there must be many hidden secrets in it.