Chapter 181 The princes fight for hegemony on the way home
The fire in Luoyang City has been put out.
The first formal meeting of the princes entering Luoyang was held in the ruined palace.
It was just that Cao Cao and Sun Jian were missing.
Everyone knew that Cao Cao was chasing Dong Zhuo, and knew why Sun Jian was not here, and now only Zhao Hui was the only one.
Zhao Hui was not interested in the imperial seal, and it was just a dead object after all.
According to everyone's guess, this should be a meeting to share the spoils.
But three days ago, no one expected that Dong Zhuo would be so crazy that he didn't even want to leave a grain of rice for them.
All the things in the palace were emptied, all the people in the city were forced to leave, and even the imperial tombs outside the city were abandoned by Dong Zhuo, and the funeral belongings of more than a dozen emperors and empresses were taken away.
Yuan Shao said: "Tong Zhe has moved the capital to Chang'an. What do you think now?"
Zhang Yang said: "Although we have the will to destroy the thieves, the journey of Chang'an is long and we are powerless."
Liu Dai nodded and said, "There are many food and grass consumption in the war for years. The existing food and grass may not be able to support us in our expedition to Chang'an."
Not only did Dong Zhuo not want to continue this war with no results, but the princes in the Alliance Army also began to get bored.
A loose alliance can't do anything at all, it's just a waste of everyone's time here.
As the leader of the alliance, Yuan Shao realized this first.
Although many of these people followed him before.
But when these people become prefects, they often consider their own interests.
Zhao Hui didn't want to hear these people. He used various reasons not to pursue Dong Zhuo. He said, "There are still five thousand civilians in the city now. I wonder if you can take them in?"
Zhao Hui's territory is in Shanggu County, which is too far away from Luoyang. Even if Zhao Hui wanted to take them back, few of these civilians who survived by chance were willing to follow Zhao Hui to Shanggu County.
Zhao Hui's voice fell, and the prefects were silent.
If they are ordinary people, they are very willing to accept and bring people back to their territory.
But now there is nothing in these five thousand people, which means that if anyone accepts them, he will be responsible for the food and shelter of the five thousand people for at least half a year.
If you cannot arrange it properly, you may cause chaos in your territory.
These people are not savages, not prisoners, but ordinary people who were murdered by Dong Zhuo.
If they take over, they must place these people well. If they don’t do it well, countless scholars will squirt them with saliva, which is no different from Dong Zhuo, and they are birds of a feather.
If these five thousand civilians could be regarded as prisoners and slaves, these people would have robbed them long ago.
Finally, Yuan Shao said: "Since that's the case, these civilians will follow me to the Bohai Sea."
Compared to others, Yuan Shao is still very confident that he can accommodate these 5,000 people.
Bohai is a big county with a larger population than other counties.
Now is the time of war, and population is very important.
If Shanggu hadn't been too far from here, Zhao Hui wouldn't have let Yuan Shao take over the 5,000 civilians.
Zhao Hui obtained these 5,000 people and placed them, he would be able to provide food and supplies for at least 5,000 soldiers next year.
After everyone dispersed, Yuan Shao found his confidant: "Go and check where Sun Jian has gone."
Soon his confidant came back and reported to Yuan Shao: "Sun Jian has led his troops out of Luoyang."
Sun Jian was the first to enter Luoyang, and now he is the first to leave Luoyang. Yuan Shao became suspicious and sent someone to continue inquiries.
Cao Cao, who was pursuing Dong Zhuo, came back and returned with the remaining soldiers.
If you are determined to kill the thief, no one is willing to be with him.
Cao Cao, who came back with the remaining soldiers, did not stay in Luoyang, but returned to Yanzhou with the remaining soldiers.
The other princes also brought their troops back to their territory.
Zhao Hui also set out towards Youzhou with his own troops.
When he came, Zhao Hui divided into three batches of 10,000 people. When he returned, Zhao Hui did not take the cavalry first.
This time, Zhao Hui only fought with Lu Bu and did not achieve the goal in Zhao Hui's mind.
The main reason was that Zhao Hui did not expect that Dong Zhuo withdrew shortly after he arrived.
Fortunately, Zhao Hui also made his reputation after fighting with Lu Bu.
A batch of food and grass was obtained from Yuan Shao, and Zhao Hui returned slowly than when he came.
Although they belong to Youzhou with Gongsun Zan, they did not travel with each other. They did not even say a word, and each followed their own choices.
However, Gongsun Zan's speed was a little faster than Zhao Hui, and he was already ahead of Zhao Hui.
On the other hand, Yuan Shao had already found out that Sun Jian had obtained the imperial seal in the palace.
Yuan Shao directly sent someone to tell Liu Biao the news.
As a royal family, Liu Biao did not participate in the attack on Dong Zhuo this time, except because he knew that even if Dong Zhuo was eliminated, it would be difficult to change the current state of the Han Dynasty.
In addition, when the Alliance Army began to attack Dong Zhuo, Liu Biao had just taken over Jingzhou and had just passed the Jingzhou Kuai family and Cai family to control the overall situation of Jingzhou. At that time, Liu Biao still needed to take charge in Jingzhou.
During the battle between the Alliance Army and Dong Zhuo for one year, Liu Biao had completely controlled Jingzhou.
When Liu Biao learned that Sun Jian had hidden the imperial seal in Luoyang Imperial City, he immediately sent a large army to attack Sun Jian.
After Yuan Shao revealed the news to Liu Biao, he did not stop his actions.
Returning to Bohai, Yuan Shao began a series of layouts.
A secret letter was delivered to his brother-in-law, Liu Dai, the governor of Yanzhou.
Liu Dai, who received the secret letter, sent someone to Dongjun to borrow grain from Qiaomao.
Although most of the food and grass from the Alliance Army were supplied by Han Fu, the maid of Jizhou, the princes of these lords also mobilized a lot of food and grass from their territory.
Qiao Mao refused Liu Dai's borrowing of food from him in one go.
He now has 20,000 soldiers under his command, and he lent the food and grass to Liu Dai, and his own soldiers had nothing to eat.
Liu Dai borrowed grain was just an excuse.
Before Qiao Mao could react, Liu Dai led his troops to destroy Qiao Mao.
Then Yuan Shao immediately reported that Cao Cao was the prefect of Dongjun, giving Cao Cao a foothold.
As soon as he walked to Gongsun Zan of Youzhou, he heard the news that Liu Dai killed Qiao Mao.
After discussing with Liu Bei, he did not rush to travel, but asked Tian Kai to rush back to Peking and quietly took the men from Peking south.
Zhao Hui is now a big concern of Gongsun Zan, and he wants to take the opportunity to cut off Zhao Hui's return.
Zhao Hui also received the news, but he didn't know yet that Gongsun Zan was ready to deal with him on his way back.
For the time being, I am still moving forward with the army normally.
"Lord, Yun wants to go home, so I beg you to agree." Zhao Yun said when he entered Zhongshan.
"Is there something important about Zilong going back?" Zhao Hui said.
Zhao Yun nodded and said, "There are still children in the village who are willing to join the army, and Yun wants to go back and recruit them."
Zhao Hui nodded in agreement. Zhao Yun wanted to go to the village to recruit soldiers, which was also a good thing for Zhao Hui.
Chapter completed!