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Chapter 16 The Butterfly Effect

Three days before the Lantern Festival, after eight days of hard work with one man and two horses, Li Su arrived at Luoyang City safely and vigorously under the protection of Zhao Yun and dozens of personal guards.

The Shangyuan Festival of the Han Dynasty did not have as many folk entertainment celebrations as in later generations, but it was also an important festival, mainly offering sacrifices to the god "Taiyi" - Mr. Mao Dun, a later generation, said in his book "Research on Chinese Mythology" that ancient Chinese mythology was actually very scarce, with only saints and no gods.

The so-called gods and immortals are fabricated from generation to generation. The older the gods, the later the dynasty they make. As early as the Qin and Han Dynasties, Buddhism and Taoism did not exist, and there were almost no gods and immortals. There was only one Taiyi God who represented the "Tao".

In Luoyang City, you can also see some festivals approaching atmosphere.

When Li Su walked slowly across the market, he heard the people saying from time to time that this year, Your Majesty would personally go to the southern suburbs to set up an altar to worship Taiyi God. The ritual was Taizhu, and Taichangqing had to preside over the ceremony himself. Moreover, Your Majesty also made a particularly ingenious design for the altar and used a new water utensil made by Bi Lan, one of the ten regular attendants, to demonstrate the way of heaven of "Taiyisheng Water".

Li Su couldn't help but shook her head when she heard this: It wasted people and money!

Emperor Ling is addicted to the water supply and drainage major for a day or two. Various bronze fountains emerge in Biguiyuan. Now, even the Taiyi God Festival, which is rare for a few years, has to specially build copper fountains. It is really a sign of a country that has been destroyed.

He whispered to Zhao Yun beside him, "The atmosphere of Luoyang is more peaceful and peaceful than when he left Beijing in April last year. People did not mention traitors and chaos in the streets. Do you really think the world is peaceful? Although Qu Xing and Zhang Ju successively awarded the title of the head, Bian Zhang and Beigong Boyu also died in internal strife.

However, after the Western Liang Han Sui, the kingdom of the kingdom just killed Geng Bi, plundered the Sanfu's property and retreated slightly; the Marquis of Subu Gudu in Hetao still stole the position of Shanyu and plundered Hexi. There are still some fighting in this battle. Luoyang's top-superior area was not in a state of danger in times of peace, alas."

Zhao Yun did not know the future historical trend, so he just spoke cautiously to comfort him: "Maybe I am not waiting in the center and I don't know the love of the world. Maybe that kingdom, Han Sui and others will be destroyed by the court soon."

Li Su sneered, so what if it is put out? The Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, Gebi Yellow Turban Army, and Baibo Army that broke out later this year... aren't these things a problem?

Zhao Yun didn't know why Li Su sneered, but just continued to comfort him: "Just heard the business travelers who had walked over to prepare for the festival mentioned that Taichangqing, who presided over Taiyi Festival, had replaced him three days later. His ex-girlfriend Taichang was transferred to Yizhou. I heard that he had already taken office safely.

There was a slight chaos in Yizhou before, and it was also pacified. The kingdom and Han Sui were unable to block the kingdom of Sanfu into Hanzhong. The court must have felt that the bandits in recent years were not scared."

Li Su was just making jokes and complaining, and didn't expect Zhao Yun to tell him any valuable information.

But unexpectedly, because Zhao Yun was born with sharp ears and superb archery skills, he could hear such a low whisper that ordinary people could not hear within dozens of steps around him. Zhao Yun could even hear such a piece of information for Li Su.

Li Su was riding on the horse and was drinking water with a skin bag. He quickly put it down when he heard this to avoid being surprised and choked:

"What? Taichangqing has changed? This time I went to Beijing, and I plan to visit Liu Yan and follow the envoy's order to have a good relationship with him. Fortunately, he made a good relationship in the court, and he actually left? Did the businessmen just mentioned who the new Taichang was?"

Zhao Yun: "I can't tell you clearly, it seems that it's called Ma Ridi, so I don't know the specific words."

Li Su: "It's Ma Rizhao, with a single next to the character "Shi". Since it's him, there is no need to make friends. Ma Rizhao is also a great scholar. He is a grandson of the Ma Rong clan. He and Shangshu Lu and Cai Shi studied "The Records of the Han Dynasty" in Dongguan. He is also considered a historian. This is from Taishi Ling to Taichang."

The official system of the Han Dynasty, Taishi Ling, and Taile Ling are all "orders" of Taichang's subordinates. These orders are outstanding and have a long enough time, and they may rise to Taichang (of course, during the Ling Emperor's reign, they mainly rely on buying them)

Li Su thought about it and asked Zhao Yun what else he heard.

But the group of merchants had already walked away. No matter how good Zhao Yun had a hearing, he was not a supernatural person after all, so he didn't ask anything more.

"Let's go, let's go to the Zhen family business first and find Zhang Liang. The merchants have a lot of information and should know the recent situation in the capital in the past few months. There are quite a few doubts to ask them."

As he said that, Li Sudang first spurred his horse and headed straight to the semicolon of the Zhen family's business in Luoyang.

When Zhang Liang saw Li Su visiting, he was extremely attentive. "Shi Shi Li! It's been a long time since you are willing to visit, which really makes the small trumpet shine. The "Theory of the Palace of the Rise of Blessings" written by you and Mr. Cai is now more popular than the "Theory of the Disaster and Disaster" four months ago. I heard that the emperor personally praised it several times.

By the way, since you are here, there are more than 10 million yuan here, all of which are profitable for sale in "Dianxing Youfu Lun" and you can spend as much as possible to avoid withdrawing it from another place."

More than 10 million yuan? That's a fucking thing to sell for 50,000 rolls!

Is it really a life-saving straw for consolidating the orthodoxy of imperial power by the Han Dynasty? The official ideology is so crazy and strong?

Li Su asked with the situation: "I heard that Liu Yan of Taichang left Beijing? Or entered Sichuan. Could it be that he became the governor of Yizhou as he wished? Since Liu Yan had left, did Ma Taichang still support my writings with Mr. Cai like Liu Yan? I have no friendship with Ma Taichang."

Zhang Liang was well-informed and said in a row: "Liu Yan was appointed as the governor of Yizhou in early November. Matthew Chang also took care of him. Like Liu Taichang, he secretly asked each student to buy one volume and read it to achieve such sales. Perhaps Matthew Chang was because he and Mr. Cai were in Dongguan and practiced the Han Dynasty?"

Li Su: "Then Liu Yan's entry into Shu will always have a reason? I guess, could it be that Yizhou also had a thief chaos, and Your Majesty ordered him to take office to quell the rebellion?"

When Zhang Liang heard this, he quickly flattered in an exaggerated tone: "Li Changshi is really a god. His former governor of Yizhou, Xie Jian, was greedy and despicable, which aroused the civilian rebellion in Yizhou. A thief called himself the Yellow Turban, and invaded the state and killed Xie Jian. That was October.

The news took a month, and the fast horse was sent back to the capital. Liu Yan took the initiative to ask for his order, and the emperor let him go to Hanzhong. Before he could even arrive in Mianzhu, he heard that Jia Long, a county-level army in Yizhou, had already quelled the rebellion and killed the Yellow Turban thief Ma Xiang.

But the emperor still regarded Liu Yan as the merit of suppressing the thieves, believing that it was the news that Liu Yan was about to take office, which greatly boosted the morale of the people of Yizhou and dared to stand up to attack the thieves, so he was appointed Liu Yan as the Marquis of Yangcheng."

hehe……

Li Su was speechless.

After Liu Yu became the governor of Youzhou, Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun have not yet ended their rebellion, and they have not yet been granted the title of county marquis among the marquis.

Liu Yan actually relied on a small group of rioters whom he had pacified before he even took office. Because of this group of rioters, he was named the Yellow Turban, and he was appointed as the marquis of the county?

Li Su knew the direction of history and knew Liu Yan's ugly appearance after entering Sichuan, so he almost immediately suspected that the so-called Ma Xiang Rebellion could not have been directed and acted by the Shu tribes in cooperation with Liu Yan, right? Otherwise, how could Liu Yan be expelled after being ordered by the governor of Yizhou and then destroyed it with one turn?

If you are engaged in Yizhou, you are not a high-ranking official! Li Su, Ju Su, are engaged in other people's business, and Xin Ping's business is also engaged in literature!

One person who was engaged in the process of bringing hundreds of officers and soldiers killed a battle of the Yellow Turban?

The acting was too fake.

However, the chat with Zhang Liang was not completely rewarding. Because of the doubts in his heart, Li Su asked Liu Yan's time, route, and situation in detail about the time, route, and situation in Sichuan, and finally understood what the problem was.

Before coming, Li Su always took it for granted that Liu Yan's entry into Sichuan was not so fast, and he would definitely delay the sun and the moon due to "road blockage". That was because in history, Liu Yan's entry into Sichuan was on the road from Jingzhou to Yizhou, and he had to walk the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River.

After Sun Jian quelling the rebellion of Changsha, the four counties in Jingnan and Jiangling and other places were harassed by some Wuling people. Therefore, Liu Yan had delayed for a while in history and had no time to make many games in Shu before Emperor Ling died.

But in this life, he actually left Wudu Dao, which was much faster from Chen Cang to Sanguan to Hanzhong.

"Then why didn't Liu Yan go to the end of the road in his previous life? Since this road is much more convenient... Ah! I understand! It's because Liu Yan entered Sichuan at least half a year earlier!

In the second half of this year, Han Sui and Wang Guohui once again marched from Tianshui to besiege Huangfu Song and Dong Zhuo in Chencang City. Chencang City was surrounded by rebels in Liangzhou, so of course the Sanguan Road under Chencang City could not leave! Then he retreated and went from Jingzhou to Yizhou.

Li Su is quite familiar with the battle between Han Sui and Chen Cang in the second half of this year.

This is also a battle that most ordinary people who are relatively novice in history are more likely to know about - because it was this battle that eventually intensified the conflict between Huangfu Song and Dong Zhuo, and Dong Zhuo could not work with Huangfu Song on the front line. In addition, the Baibo army in Hedong had just risen and needed someone to quell the rebellion, so Dong Zhuo by chance got the opportunity to return to the army east to approach Luoyang.

"That's how it happens, before Dong Zhuo invaded the capital, Liu Yan could at least steadily plant a year and a half in Yizhou to lay a solid foundation. Liu Yan really made a fortune with us. However, I wonder if he would release Zhang Lu, a thief in advance...

Zhang Lu was openly urging the banner of anti-Han. If he really dared to show up, would he persuade Liu Bei to encircle him? Liu Bei seemed to be in this life with the anti-Han leader named Zhang. He dealt with Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang when he was young. Now he has just gone to Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun. If Zhang Lu is added in the future..."

He is simply going to become the nemesis of the traitor of the surname Zhang.

However, it is too early to say that Zhang Chun from Liaodong has not finished killing, and Zhang Lu has not appeared yet, so Li Su just thought about it a few times.

Li Su temporarily put these too long-term plans behind his mind and continued to ask Zhang Liang: "Say something else. The "Dianxing Youyou Fu" is popular in Luoyang, and there are really no one who opposes it at all? These great scholars of the world are very hard and dare to say it. They won't all want to keep their wishes and flatter the master."
Chapter completed!
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