Three Kingdoms: I don’t want to fall in love in troubled times

Chapter 28 Unlocking New Characters

Snow falls on Mang Mountain, and the short-lived era of [Yonghan], which lasted for several months, has come to an end.

In the past year (189), there have been successively the [Sixth Year of Zhongping] of the late emperor, [the first year of Guangxi] and [the first year of Zhaoning] of the deposed emperor, and the [first year of Yonghan] of the current emperor. A whole four years.

Each of these later era names is more straightforward than the last. They are both "Zhaoning" and "Yonghan", revealing Dong Xiangguo's strong desire for peace in the world so that he can securely take power.

The new era name also has the same style. It is called Chuping, which is the first year of Chuping.

The meaning is probably equivalent to the imperial court holding a loudspeaker and shouting at the coalition forces gathering east of Hulao Pass: "We are celebrating the New Year, can you please stop?"

The response was also very simple and rude - in the first month of the first year of Chuping, the states and counties in the Kanto region elected Yuan Shao as the leader of the alliance, leading the chariot and cavalry generals and responsible for leading the coalition to attack the national traitor Dong Zhuo.

The reason is ready: Dong Zhuo, a national thief, is doing things to abolish the establishment of the country. We must bring order to the chaos!
The deposed emperor Liu Bian was still under house arrest in the Beigong as King Hongnong at this time. As the eldest son of the late emperor who had been the emperor, it was justifiable and appropriate to use him as the banner.

In just two months from Yuan Shao's escape to the present, the princes have completed a series of processes of recruiting troops, gathering in series, and electing leaders. The speed is not unsatisfactory. The dark cloud in Dong Zhuo's heart has finally become a reality.

The coalition troops were divided into three groups: Yanzhou and Yuzhou troops were stationed in Suanzao; Jizhou troops were eyeing the battle in Hanoi County; and Jingzhou troops were stationed on the Luyang front line.

Since then, all the key routes from Luoyang to the east have been occupied by the coalition forces, forming a three-sided attack on Dong Zhuo.

Luoyang's response is that it's useless to do so many things, just drink tea first!
No kidding, it's true.

When people in the Han Dynasty celebrated Zhengdan (the Spring Festival in later generations), they usually held sacrifices and drank peach juice, which is tea made from the stems, leaves, and branches of peach trees. It was used to suppress evil spirits and cure all kinds of diseases. meaning.

In the imperial court, in addition to more solemn sacrifices, a large court meeting was also held. The ministers congratulated the emperor in order of status. The local accounting officials sent to Luoyang presented the income and expenditure documents for the past year. Those with outstanding performance would be Remain as Lang Guan.

After the court meeting, the emperor would entertain the ministers at a banquet in Deyang Hall and have fun with the subjects.

The so-called major affairs of the country lie in sacrifice and military affairs. The above procedures are the top priorities of the country, and they will not be stopped just because someone in the east is clamoring to help the deposed emperor Liu Bian regain the throne.

Attendant Cai Yong also presented a new calligraphy at the New Year's banquet and asked for the "Xiping Stone Classic" to be re-engraved. Because he felt that this calligraphy could be a model for scholars all over the world, he conveniently called it regular script.

The young emperor Liu Xie secretly glanced at Dong Xiangguo and saw that he did not express any objection, so he agreed in public. Re-engraving the stone scripture became the first order of the first year of Chuping. Cai Yong, who presided over this matter, was not unfavorable.

As the assistant requested by Old Man Cai, Xu Jiashu was also granted permission to enter and exit the Nangong Palace. Although he was not as free as the Attendant to enter and exit the entire inner city, it was the first time for a young Doctor of the Five Classics to receive such treatment.

"There are many dignitaries in the palace, so you must be careful and don't rush into them randomly."

Cai Yong told him so.

The North and South Palaces were not only the living quarters of the emperor and his family, but also the core of power of the Han Dynasty. The only person who could enter and leave here was a Langguan who worked at the Shangshutai.

As an important official of the Qing Dynasty, the Shizhong had his own duty room in a small corner in the southeast of Nangong, which was called Shizhong Lu.

Several servants were on duty in turn, ready to be summoned at any time by the emperor who lived in the North Palace. In addition, the Dongguan where Xiu Shi was located was also in the South Palace, not far from the Shizhong House.

What Cai Yong meant was that except for Dongguan and Shizhonglu, the two places where he worked, Xu Jiashu could not go to other places without authorization, otherwise he would be discovered by the officials and charged with evil intentions, which was not something he, a doctor of the Five Classics, could do. Can bear it.

"Okay, okay, I see."

Xu Jiashu agreed, but his attention was attracted by a new system prompt - [New simulatable object: Liu Ying].

You can't run around, right?

It doesn't matter, I'll take action in the simulation.A few days later.

North Palace, a small attic.

Li Ru was a little impatient waiting.

"Your Majesty, it's cold in winter. If you take this medicine, you won't get sick."

He coaxed.

The attendants on the left and right were all dismissed, leaving only the deposed emperor Liu Bian and his wife Tang Ji. The "medicine" placed in front of the young couple was obviously a cup of poisonous wine.

There was only one cup, which meant that the only person who had to die was Liu Bian. Sometimes Li Ru felt that he was really kind.

"What disease do I have? The doctor just wants to kill me!"

The teenage boy sat on the ground blankly, as if all the bones in his body had been taken away, tears kept falling on the floor, and he murmured to himself.

Li Ru, on the other hand, waited without saying a word, not exceeding the etiquette at all, just like a real Lang Zhongling of Prince Hongnong.

The deposed emperor raised his head and tried to find Li Ru's eyes. He asked reluctantly:
"Sir, you are also a subject of the Han Dynasty. Do you really want to kill the king?"

Li Ru lowered his head and stared at the floor of the palace in a daze. The sunset shone through the window of the attic, and the shadow of the deposed emperor huddled into a ball, looking like some kind of dying beast.

He didn't raise his head to look at Liu Bian, he only felt the noise.

Dealing with fools is really a tiring thing. Li Ru thought, when will the rebel alliance take up the banner of deposed emperor, when will the deposed emperor die? The son of the old Liu family, do you still need me for this matter? Say it clearly?

The political life of the power animal is more important than the physical life, because the loss of power means death.

The converse is also true. Only death can completely erase a person's political life. For the sake of his brother Liu Xie's uniqueness, Liu Bian must die.

As for regicide, is it a problem?

What a joke, if a man holds a three-foot sword in his hand, there is nothing he cannot do!
However, when he thought that Liu Bian was raised in a commoner's home when he was a child, it was normal for him not to be as sensible as his younger brother. Li Ru felt a little relieved - the only way to die after all the hardships was to commit suicide after all, so he had to be patient.

It's just that the emperor is so important to the country, and it's really not honorable to cry like this before dying.

Seeing that Li Ru was silent, Liu Bian, who was holding on, stood up and sang: "The way of heaven is easy for me, how difficult it is for me! Abandon ten thousand chariots and retreat to Tibet. The rebel ministers see the pressure and their lives will not be postponed. You are about to die and you will be in the mysterious world!"

The young emperor's voice echoed in the cramped attic.

Until the last moment of his life, he still couldn't figure out what he had done wrong. Why could he not become a living person after becoming the only deposed emperor in the Eastern Han Dynasty?
Li Ru endured his disgust and listened to Liu Bian's death poem until he saw him drinking the poisonous wine, twitching and gradually losing his vitality. Then he sent someone to drag away the body of the deposed emperor. Before leaving, he still saluted Tang Ji. "Your Majesty Li Ru takes his leave."

Things are over now, but in order to keep his father-in-law, he still has a lot to do.

In the first year of Chuping, on the twelfth day of the first lunar month, the deposed emperor Liu Bian died in the palace.

The world was in an uproar.

(End of this chapter)