Chapter 171: Searching for the Jade Seal in the Jianzhang Palace
Chapter 171: Searching for the Jade Seal in Jianzhang Palace
The battle between several generals at the Hulao Pass stunned all the princes. They were not only surprised by Lu Bu's bravery, but also by Liu Zhang's ability. They had never thought that Liu Zhang was also a tiger general.
Just after Liu Zhang and Zhang Xiu decided the winner, Lu Bu forced Zhang Fei away with a halberd and ran towards Hulao Pass, followed closely by Hua Xiong. Zhang Fei and others wanted to chase, but Liu Zhang stopped them with a wave of his hand.
"Zhong Ying! I advise you to listen to me!" Liu Zhang rode his horse and stood at the foot of Hulao Pass. He raised his head and said to Dong Zhuo: "Send out the four Queen Mother He and I will withdraw the troops!"
"Marquis Champion, can you let me think about it?" Dong Zhuo stood at the door with a confused look on his face.
"You will not change your stubbornness!" Liu Zhang sighed: "Do you have to conquer Luoyang now before you are willing to obey?"
"This..." Dong Zhuo said with an aggrieved look: "The four champions, the Queen Mother He and the Queen Mother are important people in the country. How can I hand them over to you just for my own safety? Even if I want to hand them over, I have to cooperate with all the ministers.
Let’s discuss it!”
"Okay! I'll let you discuss it!" Liu Zhang said with a smile: "But if you dare to burn down Luoyang and dig up my ancestral graves, be careful that I won't let you go!"
"Uh..." Dong Zhuo was stunned. He didn't understand what Liu Zhang meant, but Li Ru, standing aside, was sweating profusely because he had already planned to persuade Dong Zhuo to retreat from Chang'an. With Dong Zhuo's character, if he really retreated from Chang'an, he would definitely
Luoyang would be burned down. However, Li Ru did not talk too much.
Lu Bu was defeated, and Liu Zhang also withdrew his troops and returned to the camp. After watching the good show for a day, the eighteen princes also withdrew their troops and returned to the camp. Only Cao Cao stared at Liu Zhang's back and secretly envied him.
In the Hulao Pass meeting hall, Dong Zhuo sat at the top, scanning everyone with a pair of tiger eyes. Lu Bu had already changed his clothes and sat at the bottom of Dong Zhuo indifferently. After all, he was defeated.
"Let's talk about it!" Dong Zhuo said expressionlessly: "The champion princes are coming so fiercely that even my son Fengxian was defeated. In addition to the champion princes, there are eighteen other princes. If they join forces, we will definitely not be able to resist them!
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"My lord, the purpose of the champion is just to bring back the four empress dowagers. They are just a deposed emperor and three women. Why don't you sell him a favor?" Hua Xiong didn't understand politics and spoke straightforwardly. Since he didn't understand, he
Just ask.
"General Hua, it's not that the lord doesn't give it, it's that the lord can't give it!" Li Ru said with a smile: "If it were just ordinary men and women, the lord would give away whatever the champion wanted, but the four empress dowagers were different. Ruo Hongnong
If the king falls into the hands of the champion, the champion can re-establish King Hongnong as emperor. With the support of the Queen Mother, we will be passive!"
"Oh! That's it!" Hua Xiong suddenly realized, and he muttered secretly: "I thought your lord was reluctant to part with the Queen Mother's beauty!"
Lu Bu, who was sitting next to Hua Xiong, grinned when he heard Hua Xiong's words. Dong Zhuo also heard it and couldn't help but shook his head. He was really speechless towards Hua Xiong, his confidant. Hua Xiong made a joke.
, and stopped talking.
Seeing that no one was talking, Li Ru smiled and said: "Marquis Wen is newly defeated and his troops have no fighting spirit. It would be better to lead the troops back to Luoyang and move the emperor to Chang'an to answer the nursery rhyme."
"What kind of nursery rhyme is it?" Dong Zhuo looked at Li Ru with a puzzled expression. It's not that Li Ru didn't report the nursery rhyme to Dong Zhuo, but that Dong Zhuo, apart from handling some military and government affairs, spent the rest of his time hanging out with palace maids and concubines.
Use your free time to find out what the street kids are singing.
Li Ru smiled and said: "Recently, there is a nursery rhyme in the market: There is a Han in the west and a Han in the east. It is not difficult for a deer to walk into Chang'an. I think this saying 'a Han in the west' is in response to Emperor Gaozu's prosperity in the Western Capital.
In Chang'an, there were 12 emperors passed down; the 'Han Dynasty in the East' was due to the rise of Guangwu in Luoyang, the eastern capital, and now there are 12 emperors passed down as well. The fate of heaven has come together. The prime minister will move back to Chang'an, so that there will be no danger."
"In this way, we can avoid the sharp edge of the champion!" Dong Zhuo said happily: "It's not what you said, I really don't know! Lu Bu, Hua Xiong, follow me back to Luoyang as soon as possible; Zhang Ji, you and Zhang Xiu are in Hulao
Stay at the pass for a few days, and when I give the order, you can abandon the pass and leave!"
Dong Zhuo arranged the affairs of Hulao Pass and rushed to Luoyang with Li Ru, Lu Bu and Hua Xiong at night. The next morning, Dong Zhuo proposed to move the capital at the court meeting, but the civil and military officials naturally did not agree. Dong Zhuo was furious and killed him again.
After many people were frightened, the ministers did not dare to have any objections.
Moving the capital was a major event and required a lot of money, so Li Ru spoke again: "Today there is a shortage of money and food, and there are many wealthy households in Luoyang, but they have lost their status and become an official. If Yuan Shao and other disciples kill their clan members and plunder their family income, they will get a huge sum of ten thousand."
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Upon hearing this, Dong Zhuo immediately sent out five thousand cavalrymen to arrest thousands of wealthy households in Luoyang. They placed flags with the words "Rebels on Ministers and Rebels on the Party" written on their heads, and beheaded them all outside the city. They took their money and waited for the wealthy households to copy them.
When the situation was almost over, Dong Zhuo ordered Li Jue and Guo Si to drive all the people in Luoyang to Chang'an. Each civilian was in one team and the army was in one team, dragging each other back. Countless people died in the ravines. He also ordered the soldiers to rape other wives.
Women, seize people's food; the sound of crying shakes the world. If anyone is late, three thousand troops behind him will rush to supervise. The sergeants holding white blades will kill people on the road. Of course, the Empress Dowager He and others have already been sent by Dong Zhuo to Hua Xiong.
Sent to Chang'an.
Before leaving, Dong Zhuo ordered all the sects to set fire to residents' houses, and set fire to the ancestral temples and palaces. He also sent Lu Bu to excavate the tombs of the late emperor and his concubines, and retrieve their gold and treasures. After hearing the order, Li Ru immediately stopped the generals and rushed to see Dong Zhuo.
Seeing that the fire was burning, Dong Zhuo was about to ask, but he saw Li Ru riding alone. He couldn't help laughing and asked: "The matter of moving the capital is still to be dealt with, why is the good son-in-law here?"
"I'm here to stop my father-in-law!" Li Ru asked, "Does my father-in-law want Liu Zhang to fight with you?"
"How do you say this?" Dong Zhuo looked puzzled.
Li Rudao: "The champion Hou once said that he asked his father-in-law not to burn Luoyang and dig up his ancestral graves. I wonder if my father-in-law still remembers it?"
"This..." Dong Zhuo remembered Liu Zhang's words, his face filled with astonishment. He couldn't help but ask: "The wise son-in-law is saying that the champion has long expected that we will move the capital? Also expected that I will burn Luoyang and dig tombs?"
Although Li Ru didn't want to admit it, he still nodded. Dong Zhuo was shocked and immediately withdrew his orders to set fires and dig graves. However, the imperial tombs could not be dug. A lot of tombs of common people and wealthy households were dug, and Dong Zhuo also collected them.
A lot of money.
Since Dong Zhuo withdrew from Luoyang, the guards of Hulao Pass and Sishui Pass immediately surrendered the pass, while Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu had already led their troops to evacuate. After all, the Xiliang army mostly consisted of cavalry, so it would be very difficult to evacuate when the princes were unprepared.
Easy. The general guarding Hulao Pass offered the pass, and the allied forces of the princes easily passed the pass, and Liu Zhang also went to Luoyang along the way.
When we arrived in Luoyang, it was getting late, and all the princes ordered to garrison, and Liu Zhang was no exception. However, Liu Zhang had a conflict with Sun Jian. Because Liu Zhang ordered garrison at Jianzhang Palace, but Sun Jian had garrisoned at Jianzhang Palace early in the morning.
"Marquis Champion, Luoyang is so big, why do you have to fight with me?" Sun Jian heard that his soldiers had a conflict with Liu Zhang's men, and immediately came out to pay homage to Liu Zhang.
Liu Zhang smiled and said: "Wen Tai, it's not that I want to compete with you, but that Jianzhang Palace has a special relationship with me. This is the palace of Queen Mother He. I often rested here when I was a child. Do you think I
Can outsiders be allowed to rest here?"
"This..." Sun Jian was hesitant when he heard this. He knew that Liu Zhang had said the truth, but if he were to retreat, his face would be completely lost!
Seeing Sun Jian's hesitation, Liu Zhang asked with a smile: "Wentai, don't you give me this little face?"
"Uh..." After being embarrassed for a long time, Sun Jian saw everyone looking at him. He gritted his teeth and bowed and said: "Please choose another place for the champion!"
"Okay! You have the guts!" Liu Zhang sneered and said: "The wings of the soldiers who used to be under the command of the Japanese Marquis have grown hard now! Pass the order, in the Jianzhang Palace, if I see another soldier who is not one of our soldiers, I will kill him without mercy!"
"Champion Hou, you..." Sun Jian was shocked when he heard this: "We are all the kings of Beijing, why do you need to embarrass me?"
"Wrong!" Liu Zhang said very seriously: "I'm just here to pick up my poor emperor's sister-in-law, emperor's nephew, and emperor's niece. I don't care about anything else! Whoever wants to live in Jianzhang Palace today is
Go against me! In the imperial sister-in-law's palace, apart from my brother and nephew, only I can sleep in it!"
"Champion Hou, I once regarded you as a hero, but today I am so disappointed! Please don't bully others too much!" A sixteen or seventeen-year-old young general had an unhappy face. Liu Zhang took a closer look and saw that it was Sun Ce.
Liu Zhang smiled and asked: "Bo Fu, your mother's bedroom, even if your father is gone, can you tolerate others resting in it?"
"Uh..." Sun Ce said in shock: "Of course not!"
"Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you!" Liu Zhang said with a smile: "The emperor's brother treats me as a brother, and the emperor's sister-in-law treats me as a relative. Now that the emperor's brother has passed away, the emperor's sister-in-law is in trouble, and I am not far away from you.
I came here just to pick up the emperor’s wife. This was originally the emperor’s wife’s dormitory. Could others be allowed to rest in it? Or are these rude and uncivilized sergeants!”
"This..." They knew that Liu Zhang's words were strong words, but Sun Jian and Sun Ce could not refute them. Seeing Liu Zhang's soldiers really surrounding his own soldiers, he had the intention of taking action if he disagreed. Sun Jian swallowed his anger and said: "Since the champion marquis
I am so attached to Jianzhang Palace that I cannot occupy this place by force. Farewell!"
"Send off to the desk!" Liu Zhang smiled and asked his soldiers to move out of the way. Sun Jian looked angry and led his troops away. In fact, Sun Jian really wanted to have a showdown with Liu Zhang, but he was defeated by Hua Xiong at Sishui Pass.
In one battle, there were only 3,000 old, weak, sick and disabled people left under his command. If he faced Liu Zhang's 80,000 strong soldiers, he would be seeking death.
After Sun Jian left, Liu Zhang immediately ordered Huang Zhong, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei to lead their troops to surround Jianzhang Palace. He also ordered Mi Fang to lead 17,000 tiger guards to surround Jianzhang Palace one more level. Finally, Zhao Yun was ordered to
He led three thousand tiger guards to search every well in Jianzhang Palace. Although everyone was puzzled by Liu Zhang's order, they still carried it out seriously.
Not long after the search, a small school suddenly reported that a female corpse was found in the well of Jianzhang Palace. The female corpse was also holding a wooden box, which looked like something very valuable. Zhao Yun knew that Liu Zhang was probably there.
After looking for this wooden box, he didn’t open it and gave it directly to Liu Zhang!