Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 121
After the rainstorm ended, God still didn't give the big man a good face, and it rained for another two days.The embroidered flags and bead curtains hanging high in the post houses, restaurants, and brothels outside the gate of Chang'an hang down in the rain; the wide streets are all illuminated into jade belts in the rain.The evening drums and morning bells of the entire city, the sound of buying and selling in the turbulent market, and the sounds of each household working were all soaked by the lingering summer rain, losing their former vitality and brightness, and becoming gloomy and dull.

Fortunately, the initial labor pains have passed, and the next two days are just a dawdling.On the third day, the sun finally lit up in the sky, and the increasingly sweltering heat was swept away from the air, and the entire Chang'an Avenue became much cooler.

However, Liu Xie, who was walking on the street, did not dare to take it lightly. After the rain for the past three days, he always felt an indescribable boredom in his heart, as if something big was about to hit him.But after thinking about all the things carefully, he couldn't grasp the main points no matter what.

"Ma Chao hasn't returned to Xianyang these days?" Liu Xie asked Leng Shouguang beside him seemingly casually, holding a bunch of grapes into his mouth.

Speaking of grapes, you can think of Ma Chao, which is not without cause and effect.In Liu Xie's perception, he thought that there were no grapes in the Han Dynasty.But after coming to this world, I realized that as early as when Zhang Qian emptied the Western Regions, he brought back a lot of grape seeds and planted them in Longxi.The string of watery and round varieties in Liu Xie's hands is called Caolongzhu, and it matures very early in Longxi where the sun is very good.

And the place in Longxi was the place where Ma Chao fell into the sand later, and a generation of heroes came to an end.

"Master, Ma Chao just set off today." Leng Shouguang replied quietly. Of course he knew that Liu Xie didn't just want to know this, and added: "Ma Chao has been quite restless these days. Not only did he visit as we expected Situ's mansion also secretly visited the mansions of some courtiers."

"Oh?" Liu Xie nodded, thinking of something, he asked, "But Liu Fan, the censor, Liu Dan, the counselor Zhong Shao, and the counselor Ma Yu?"

The attendant Liu Fan and the censor Liu Dan are not ordinary people. They are also serious clansmen of the Han family and descendants of King Lu Gong of the Han Dynasty.These two people may not be well-known in history, but their father is very good, that is, Liu Yan who separatized Yizhou.When Liu Yan, an old conspirator, fooled Emperor Hanling into restoring the state pastoral system and allowed the state pastors to rule over the power of a state, he himself joined the vanguard who benefited from the system reform. A group of people who benefit from the system.

The first thing the old man did after taking office was to order the Governor Yi Sima Zhang Lu and the other Sima Zhang Xiu to join forces to attack and kill Su Guo, the prefect of Hanzhong, cut off the praise ramp, kill the Han court envoys, and claimed that the thieves had cut off the road and could not contact the court. .He also used excuses to kill more than ten people including Wang Xian and Li Quan from the middle and middle clans of the state, so as to gain prestige.Before long, Ren Qi, the prefect of Qianwei, and Jia Long, the school lieutenant, attacked Liu Yan and were killed.Liu Yan's momentum became more powerful, and all his sons were in Chang'an at that time. Emperor Xian sent his son Fengche Duwei Liu Zhang back to Yizhou to explain his interests.Liu Yan made him stay in Yizhou and never return.

Liu Zhang is the youngest son of Liu Yan, Liu Fan and Liu Dan are the eldest son and the second son, but the old man Liu Yan is very single, he got a son, and when he saw that he had a son, he acted like a hooligan, domineering in Yizhou, and Building the emperor's chariot aroused the desire to be an emperor.But maybe after all, he was concerned that all his sons hadn't returned to their full potential. Liu Zhang's youngest son's intelligence seemed to be underdeveloped, so he didn't have too much trouble with the Han Dynasty.But for the Han Dynasty, they have long been disobedient and disobedient, just like the local emperor who ruled one side.

The reason why I think of these things is because Liu Xie has read some materials in his previous life, which mentioned that Ma Chao in Liangzhou wanted to join Yizhou.And later, Ma Chao also contacted these four people as internal responses, planning to capture Chang'an.As a result, these four people succeeded more than they failed, and Li Jue and Guo Si learned in advance that they defeated Han Sui and Ma Teng in Changpingguan.In the end, relying on Han Sui's friendship with Fan Chou's fellow villagers, he fled back to Liangzhou in despair, and Liu Fan and the other four also died in the war.

This is Ma Chao's first attempt to fight for hegemony in the world. It is not the same thing as the scene in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" about how Ma Teng supported the Han Dynasty, and how Ma Chao, a white-faced young general, killed the Quartet with majesty.At that time, the Liangzhou soldiers under Li Jue and Guo Si were still as fierce as wolves and tigers, and their combat effectiveness was extremely strong.First of all, Ma Chao's party has different leadership and leaked secrets. It is lucky to be able to go back alive.

However, now it seems that even if Ma Chao successfully hooked up with Liu Fan and others, but fortunately Li Jue and Guo Si have not yet occupied Chang'an, even if Ma Chao had ten guts, he would not dare to collude with these four to overthrow the Han Dynasty.Although he is young, passionate and aggressive, he is definitely not as arrogant as Wang Yun.

This time, the best way to do this is to deal with these people first and establish a network, so that when he wants to deal with Han Sui or then ambitiously attack Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, he can use these people to create some solidarity that both the Han Dynasty and Yizhou agree with. That's all, there is no threat to Chang'an.

Since Ma Chao didn't make any movement, the only thing left is the Liangzhou tribes.Liu Xie slowly ate up the grapes in his hand, reluctantly spat out a few grape seeds, and looked at the magnificent gate of Chang'an City with his eyes, as if he had passed the gate and Chang'an, and saw the villages in Liangzhou outside the pass. A murderous look of chaos and panic.

There he had arranged a wonderful show, just waiting to be played.

And just when Liu Xie's mind flew to Shan County, an old man's mind also flew to Chang'an City in a military camp in Shan County.

The thin old man casually played with the knife-shaped bronze vessel in his hand. Six incomprehensible characters were engraved on the several-inch-long knife, which was said to be in ancient Qi script.The old man's fingers were no longer flexible, but his eyes were a little obsessed, and he didn't have much emotion for what Duan Yan, who was supposed to be his boss, said in front of him.The old man raised his head slightly when he heard that the Han Dynasty sent Hu Zhen out of the city to occupy the dangerous place and pardoned the tribes of Liangzhou.

"Your Majesty really issued such an edict?" The old man gently turned the knife and coin in his hand, under the dim light of the fire, people couldn't see his face clearly at all.

"Yes." Duan Yan walked back and forth uneasily, and finally couldn't help asking: "Wenhe, do you think the court is guarding us, or is it going to pardon us?"

The old man finally raised his head completely, revealing an ordinary face under the dim light, his reaction was very calm, compared to Duan Yan, it was like cloud and mud.He beckoned Duan Yan to sit down, and said softly: "Your Majesty intends to accept our Xiliang soldiers, but some people in the court may not want to see this scene. It seems that our plan for tonight has to be changed for the better." changed."

Duan Yan was shocked when he heard the words, he didn't understand Jia Xu's plan at all, but only paid attention to Jia Xu's superficial meaning: "Wenhe, you mean the little sincerity you want to dedicate to the court before?"

"That's right." Jia Xu nodded slowly. Seeing Duan Yao's appearance, he didn't intend to explain too much to him, but just comforted Duan Yan and said: "General Duan, you and I have fellowship, and we take care of my husband's family. Little, the old man will not harm you."

When Duan Yan heard the words, he repeatedly said yes.Long before he entered Chang'an, Jia Xu persuaded him to meet the Holy Majesty first no matter what method he used. As a result, he thought that Wang Yun was in charge of the court, so he rushed to visit late at night, was scolded and almost lost. killed.Later, for some reason, he went to the front hall of Weiyang Palace, but he got the imperial court's pardon.

However, after all, he was still a little worried. The moment he finally left the tent, he couldn't help but turned his head and asked Jia Xu: "Wenhe, you said, should the court be on the side of His Majesty or the side of the prince? How do I think, Your Majesty seems to be at odds with Lord Situ?"

"Oh, you also feel that Your Majesty is at odds with Lord Situ?" Jia Xu glanced at Duan Yan with some surprise, and after hearing what he said, he could see the strangeness, and couldn't help but smile slightly: "General, it's best to ask for help." Ask ourselves, we ultimately rely on ourselves. As for the imperial court, wouldn’t it be better for us to make some noise and let them stand on our side?”

"Wen He, why do you always talk like this?... Sigh!" Duan Yan sighed, completely unable to understand what Jia Xu was talking about, so he could only shake his head and back away.

Afterwards, the bored Jia Xu also walked out.Looking up at the vast clouds in Shan County, he squinted his eyes and nodded: "There are no clouds in the sky, tonight is a night as dark as ink..."

(End of this chapter)