Chapter 108 How can a coward be an emperor in troubled times
Seeing that the young emperor was finally kidnapped by Zhang Rang, Li Su couldn't tell what he felt.
Calm down and think about it, this may be the result of the greatest benefit to Li Suyuan's plan and the least damage to the historical trend.
That is a hot potato. It is best to either surrender or be enemies of the world or throw it to Dong Zhuo according to its original inertia.
However, there was still a little bit of unwillingness to accept it - this mainly comes from frustration with Li Su's usual sense of superiority in IQ.
"I have used so many tricks and used some foresight, and finally played such a small role in pieces."
This mentality is mostly understood by anyone who is proud of his IQ.
"I underestimated the heroes of the world and underestimated the adaptability of all forces. I have tried not to regard heroes such as Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Liu Biao and Dong Zhuo as NPCs, and have also deduced the possibility that they may follow due to my changes.
But in the end, I still miscalculated one or two steps - I imagined the mediocre people like He Jin and the Ten Changshi who had not left any rich colors in history as NPCs. Unfortunately, at the critical moment of life and death, mediocre people would adapt to the situation and cause historical disturbances and force me to be dragged into the vortex.
Forget it, after this incident, the historical trend is probably completely shattered. You must not have preconceived stereotypes in the future. You must design countermeasures based on the facts, otherwise you will suffer a loss."
This is the alarm bell that Li Su sounded to himself after the rescue operation was over.
Also, don't be too greedy in the future, take all the benefits-
The reason why he had to stay until He Jin was in a panic in the capital after his death was mainly because he hoped that Lantai and Dongguan would be lax in management and help Cai Yong save more cultural heritage. In addition, he wanted to wait and see and persuade Wu Kuang, who might be squeezed out in the future, to take away some elite Northern Army troops from Wu Kuang and take some savings from the capital arsenal, to weaken Dong Zhuo's military strength after occupying the capital.
If these two parts of the profits were willing to give up, there would not be such things.
Fortunately, there was no danger.
After Li Su breathed evenly, the empress dowagers, princesses and princesses almost came to their senses. Li Su stepped forward and saluted: "I am incompetent and failed to rescue Your Majesty together. But please be content with the empress dowager for a while and take charge of the major issues."
This is what Lu Zhi means.
Queen Mother He looked confused: "What should I do when I suffer such a chaos? You can continue to find a way to save the emperor first!"
Li Su: "It is precisely because of this that the Empress Dowager needs to calm people's hearts now--the Empress Dowager follows us to accept the worship of the generals who suppressed the rebellion last night, and explain the ten regular attendants' rebellion. Only in this way can the fight against the thieves be justified and prevent the indiscriminate killing of innocent people."
Queen Mother He didn't understand: "What's the use of this?"
Li Su said anxiously: "Let me say that, so far, the generals who attacked the palace and suppressed the rebellion have not been explicitly ordered by the court. The empress dowager did not come forward to prove that the general was not summoned by the empress dowager himself last night, but was summoned by the ten eunuchs. So how can the generals who attacked the palace feel at ease? Will the soldiers worry that their generals are indestined to do their own business?
In addition, as far as I know, the Central Army Captain Yuan Shao was ordered to protect the general last night. He was extremely frightened because the general was killed and was afraid of being responsible for the crime of not protecting the whole country. Therefore, after attacking the palace, he killed innocent people indiscriminately.
Whether it is the Ten Eunuchs who deserve the crimes, or the ordinary innocent eunuchs who work hard, they are all killed in order to relieve their own guilt. If the Empress Dowager can be asked to understand his fear in public and limit his range of killings, it can also save the innocent."
Li Su's words were very beautiful: Should the eunuchs be destroyed? Of course, it should be, but it does not mean that all the eunuchs should be killed. Just kill those who hold power, isn't it enough? There is no need to kill those who do coolies.
If you kill all the eunuchs, then unless you don’t recruit new ones in your harem in the future, you won’t use eunuchs to only use palace maids or allow men to use! Otherwise, you wouldn’t have hurt the heavens and the other ones, and they would have damaged their good deeds after killing one group!
After hearing this, Lu Zhi couldn't help but feel nervous and secretly praised Li Suzhen for being loyal and kind, and thoughtful, and was much smarter than Yuan Shao.
Of course, Lu Zhi did not expect this problem, mainly because he did not notice Yuan Shao's unpopular atrocities that "when he entered the palace, he would kill all those who had no beards." He did not realize the political significance of asking Empress Dowager He to immediately comfort Yuan Shao.
Lu Zhi: "I will discuss it! Li Zhonglang is very thoughtful and is really a Gancheng of the country. Please ask the Queen Mother to follow his advice!"
The Empress Dowager also figured it out, so she took several other royal relatives, under the protection of Lu Zhi and Zhao Yun's five hundred cavalry, and rode around the palace wall for half a circle, hurried back to the inner palace, and found Yuan Shao, Wu Kuang, Yuan Shu and others.
Even King Chenliu, who was only nine years old, thought that Li Zhonglang was really a loyal and kind person. He was still careful in the face of such a national crisis and refused to kill innocent people close to the emperor.
"The Empress Dowager is here! The Empress Dowager has been rescued! The army will stop quickly and will not kill innocent people indiscriminately! The eunuchs only kill those who have ministries, and those who are mates and other innocent people do not need to be killed! The army will quickly obey the Queen Mother's orders!"
Li Su and Lu Zhi asked the soldiers to shout loudly. It took a long time to finally persuade Yuan Shao and the others. Queen Mother He also shouted a few words to ask the people of Wende Palace to open the door. The last time Nangong entered the hall, it was considered bloodless to open the door.
Empress Dowager He just hurriedly chose a few officials who had affairs. The eunuchs who had collusion with the Ten Constellations were killed, and all the other small eunuchs were pardoned. She also clearly stated that after the Beigong recaptured the Beigong in the future, the eunuchs in the Beigong would be the same: only the ten constellations and the eunuchs with their management positions were killed.
In this way, only Nangong's first five eunuchs were killed. Most of the sixth and Beigong could survive, and Empress Dowager He would not have to recruit people in the future.
Yuan Shao still looked angry and didn't exhaled. Cao Cao repeatedly advised him to relieve his anger, and secretly praised in his heart: "This Li Boya actually did not make a secret relationship with me. I said at the beginning that I just killed the chief evil and paid a prisoner to a prisoner. If you want to slaughter all of them, it will be leaked. If this matter is defeated!
Unfortunately, Benchu and the general didn't listen to me, and I couldn't stop him. Not only did Li Boya see the same as me, but he could also think of remedies when he was anxious, killing innocent people less and stabilizing the court. I would be better than me!"
Moreover, Cao Cao is worthy of being the second highest IQ among everyone in the palace at this moment, except Li Su. With his gloomy and carefulness, he quickly thought of another terrible possibility:
"Not good! Although the ten regular servants can be punished today, the Empress Dowager will be promoted from young eunuchs who have no duty in the future. Changshi, Changqiu, these promoted people, even if they do not understand foreign affairs for a while and have no knowledge and strategy, will they grow up after ten or eight years?
At that time, these newly-grown eunuchs with power will definitely regard Benchu as enemies because Benchu wanted to kill them back then. Li Su, who saved their lives from Benchu's sword, would definitely be regarded as a benefactor of recreation. I am afraid that a few years later, the Empress Dowager and the Young Master, in the inner court, could only hear words praising Li Su's merits, and no one on the left said bad things about Li Su!
This plan is so vicious. If Li Su stays in the court as an official, with his connections and reputations from both inside and outside, he may be ranked third in the age of thirty!"
The conscience of heaven and earth. At this point, Cao Cao's thinking reaction was actually faster than Li Su. Li Su didn't expect this level and didn't care about gaining gratitude from a group of pickled people. Regarding the political sensitivity of Beijing officials, Cao Cao is still stronger than Li Su.
Cao Cao was still fighting wits and courage with the air, and Empress Dowager He had already announced some other conclusions to relieve the doubts in public:
"Don't be surprised by the generals. I am here to declare three things in public: First, the generals who have made contributions and no faults to suppress the rebellion, and there is no need to blame themselves for failing to protect the general. The general was summoned last night, and the ten regular attendants made edicts. The palace did not summon him, and he never conspired to murder his brother. This matter should not be implicated innocence again.
Secondly, Li Su, the general of the Central Army, entered the palace last night before the general. This matter was summoned by the palace to comfort him, and it had nothing to do with the ten regular attendants who had made a proclamation of the general. The general was summoned by the ten regular attendants to another place to murder. Li Su should have never seen him. In the end, he broke into the door with Zhao Duwei to help the battle, and made meritorious service for righteous indignation.
Third, before the palace read out this decree, no one will be held accountable for the crime of murder during the chaos, but after the decree is issued, those who kill indiscriminately will be punished!”
After saying that, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Wu Kuang, and Yuan Shu all felt relieved and breathed a sigh of relief.
Especially Yuan Shao, he completely cleared away the possibility of the time bomb "protecting He Jin is not effective" backlash, and was temporarily panicked and grateful.
"Thank you for your kindness and kindness, and your compassion for me! I am grateful for my kindness!" Yuan Shao was so moved that he bowed in tears.
Cao Cao was so sad again: Li Boya... She obviously took such a big advantage in Benchu, and in the future, Benchu would probably be excluded by the surviving eunuchs and could not become a Beijing official, but he actually has the ability to make Benchu thank him! And you must know that Benchu had no friendship with him before! What a shocking and terrifying manipulation!
After Queen Mother He finished speaking, she couldn't help but look at Li Su with her eyes and wanted to ask him, "I'm right, these lines."
How dare Li Su look at the Empress Dowager in public? He can only nod his head slightly with his eyes.
There is no way, who asked him to "get the other party to relieve his guard"? That was the practical experience he learned from persuading the outlaws hundreds of times in his previous life!
The end result is that everyone except Dong Zhuo must remember his goodness.
Seeing that everyone had comforted each other, Empress Dowager He finally said, "Then you discuss it yourself and rescue the emperor as soon as possible. I am a little scared, so go back and rest first."
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In the subsequent stage of saving the emperor, because he had won too many favors before, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, and Wu Kuang had to respect Li Su's opinions and ask him and Lu Zhi how to command.
But Li Su was exhausted, and now he didn't want to stop the young emperor from falling into Dong Zhuo's hands, so he refused to let him go to the front line to compete for merit. He just said, "If the Ten Eternal Assassins lose, they may continue to escape from the city directly to the north", so he asked everyone to leave some troops and consider siege or ambush at the North Gate.
Cao Cao also agreed with it after hearing this and was the first to discuss it.
That morning, they continued to attack Beigong while splitting their troops out of the city and surrounding the exit of the imperial city from various city gates.
However, it was precisely because of their great fanfare that Dong Zhuojun, who had arrived at the west gate of Luoyang in the morning and was unable to enter, finally found his companions outside the north gate after a little round the city.
Dong Zhuo's people immediately used the money to open the way. Senior generals of the Beijing Army refused to make their family scandals public and could always bribe a few intermediate officers who were willing to speak. So Dong Zhuo quickly learned that the soldiers and horses that set up ambush and besieged at the gates in the north of the city were to prevent the Ten Changs from failing to defend the Beigong and then fleeing to the north.
Since that's the case, Dong Zhuo certainly joined them without hesitation and "shoulder to go" together.
How can you miss this opportunity to gain the power of protecting the horse in vain? Even if it is an opportunity to share the power of protecting the horse with others.
After another day of attack, when it was the night of August 24, Zhang Rang and others finally couldn't hold on. They knew there were soldiers outside the North Gate, but they wanted to take advantage of the night to avoid turrets, if they could slip out of the gap.
Moreover, they did not walk through the city gate in a big way, but instead dug holes in the city wall on the north side of the Beigong-they were also betting that the soldiers only focused on guarding the city gate, and ignored areas without the city gate, so they tried to survive.
Unfortunately, this bet was obviously lost because there were too many defenders in the north of Luoyang Imperial City, especially the cunning Dong Zhuo's troops were not deployed very densely during the day, but after night, the density was increased to prevent poor vision from being stolen.
As expected, Zhang Rang and his party were caught after leaving the city without walking 500 meters. Zhang Rang did not dare to murder the emperor, so he was killed by the soldiers in the army. Four of the Ten Generals were killed in Nangong last night. The remaining five and some other eunuchs who were lower than the Generals died in the army in the north of the city.
The young emperor Liu Bian was just taken away from the palace for less than five miles of travel, and was sent back.
"I am hereby ordered to save the emperor! Fortunately, Your Majesty is safe!" Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, and Wu Kuang all rushed over to show that they were not without efforts. The reason why they encountered Zhang Rang on Dong Zhuo's defense section was just a matter of division of labor and luck.
This time, the young emperor had no younger brother to help him answer the minister's questions, so he could only return to the palace without saying a word.
After a trip, Dong Zhuo didn't hear any thanks for the help of the master of saving the horse. He was also a little depressed when he saved the car.
But when he and other troops protected the emperor back to the city, Dong Zhuo heard more insider news.
"Have you heard it? In fact, there was no need to be war-torn in Beigong anymore, and there was no need to die so many people and even mobilize the army. Yesterday morning, Shangshu Lu had a strange plan to save all the emperor and empress in the corridor of the North and South Palaces, which was very safe.
Unfortunately, Your Majesty was too timid and dared not jump, so that the Empress Dowager and King Chenliu were rescued, and even the Concubine Tang and the Princess were saved. Only Your Majesty was kidnapped by the Ten Eagle's Office for so long. If it was true that the war was at the time of war, such a cowardly Your Majesty was held by the bandits and asked him to order the court army to surrender. I wonder if he would really admit defeat - the warriors of Xiliang had never heard of the commander who would admit defeat and persuade the entire army to surrender when they were captured."
"Didn't it mean that King Chenliu is only nine years old and His Majesty is fourteen years old? Why is he so brave? He dare not do anything that even a nine-year-old brother dares. But this kind of rebellious words, let's talk about it privately, don't spread it! Be careful to punish the crime!"
These rumors in the army came to Dong Zhuo's ears, and Dong Zhuo suddenly felt that the reason was quite sufficient - how could he make a coward an emperor in troubled times?
Chapter completed!