Two days later, Li Su and Huangfu Song arrived in Chang'an.

Along the way, Li Su also roughly understood Huangfu Song's true attitude towards "taking the opportunity of taking over the Wannian Princess and smuggling Chang'an ritual vessels":

The reason why Huangfu Song turned a blind eye to this level was completely disgusted by Dong Zhuo's atrocities in Luoyang's "melting the rituals and coins in the mint and uncultural fear of Qiu Ba of the Western Liang army was plundered and thoroughly.

At that time, these things will not be counted well at all. It would be better to choose the precious ones worth protecting and give them to Liu Bei. After all, Huangfu Song and Liu Bei have known each other since they were seeking the Yellow Turbans. Liu Bei has also respected him so much in recent years and followed suit.

In addition, if it was a peaceful era, even if Huangfu Song acquiesced, there would still be some troubles in this matter - because even if the general of the chariot and cavalry were also in charge of the three servants, the old palace and the old Taimiao of Chang'an were still under the jurisdiction of the Weiwei.

Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Weiwei was one of the nine ministers of the court. However, since the middle of the Han Dynasty, because the number of imperial palaces increased, the Weiweiwei was also added. For example, there was only the Weiyang Palace before Emperor Wu of Han. Emperor Wu built Jianzhang Palace, so he divided Weiyang and Jianzhang Weiwei, and also set up "Gui Generals", who were under the general and the general of the chariots and cavalry, commanded the Weiweiwei in the palace.

However, Dong Zhuo's rebellious actions created convenience for Li Su and Huangfu Song - the last official Weiwei of the court was Yang Biao, who was known as the third generation of the fourth generation. However, this year, Yang Biao and others were first demoted because they opposed Dong Zhuo's move to the capital, and then re-transferred to Taichang. Dong Zhuo took advantage of the situation to remove the Weiwei of the two capitals, and there was no new appointment, so they were temporarily vacant.

Obviously, Dong Zhuo was trying to make it easier for him to loot the palace, so he didn't want the guards at the level of the Nine Ministers to get in the way. After all, the coarse generals under his command could only actually take on the court defense, but no one was qualified to be the Nine Ministers? As long as you set up the guards? You are definitely not your own, so it's better not to.

In Chang'an, the one who temporarily guarded the old palace, Weiyang Palace, was directly Huangfu Song's soldiers, and even Dong Zhuo's order to "cast ritual vessels into coins" had been issued? There was a whole bunch of random accounts, and Li Su was just taking advantage of the chaos to make a time difference.

...

"Send the Chief Secretary Su? See Your Highness the Princess."

Because of Huangfu Song's acquiescence? Princess Wannian was taken to Chang'an one step earlier than Li Su, so both sides directly paid a visit to the side hall of the Weiyang Palace.

Huangfu Song was also beside him and greeted him together, which was considered an introduction and witness.

The Weiyang Palace is the imperial palace of the Western Han Dynasty? It is older than the Jianzhang Palace? But it has always been preserved and maintained. On the contrary, the Jianzhang Palace was disrepair and abandoned after it was no longer the capital of Chang'an. Dong Zhuo was about to send someone to send Emperor Xian to Chang'an, and he would also live in the Weiyang Palace at that time.

Liu Miao, the Wannian Princess, also responded very politely, without any noble airs as she had been a year ago: "Li Zhonglang is exempted from rituals. I heard that Dong Zhe is coming to the west? Please don't forget your promise to your mother in the past and save me from the fire."

Li Su humbly bowed: "That's natural? I still remember that before Queen Lingsi left, I once told me that if the princess's parents and brothers were no longer alive, then I would turn your highness into entrusting the emperor's uncle and take care of Liu Xuande, the general of Zongzheng's expedition, to take care of and raise it? Your Highness should have heard it at that time, wouldn't he be without an impression?"

This sentence is obviously what Huangfu Song, who was witnessing next to him, heard it.

Li Su met Liu Miao more than a year ago last time, so Liu Miaosun should be twelve years old, he has become much more sensible, and his physique has also grown a little.

For a little girl, her parents and brothers died within a year, and it is indeed easy to mature all of a sudden and know some sufferings and the sinisterness of the world.

During this year, Liu Miao heard a lot of rumors about Dong Zhuo's atrocities. As a girl, Liu Miao was concerned about other things, in addition to burning, killing, looting, digging the imperial tombs, and stealing the Dingsi, there was another very important point: when Dong Zhuo was in Luoyang, he often stayed in the dragon bed at night, insulting the princess and the concubines of the late emperor.

Although Emperor Ling only had this daughter, Emperor Huan still left two young daughters at the end of his life. He was considered to be the cousin of Emperor Ling in terms of generations, both of whom were "post-65". The older Princess of Yingyin Liu Jian was over 25 years old, and the younger Princess of Yangdi Liu Xiu was about 23 or 24 years old. Both should have been killed by Dong Zhuo. (The eldest daughter of Emperor Huan of Han was in her thirties. She married Fu Wan and was not lewdly humiliated by Dong Zhuo)

After Liu Miao learned about the tragedy between the two little aunts, she would of course become more sensible and cooperate with the rescue.

Although Liu Miao had never heard anything about "let the emperor raise you" from her mother, her mother did take care of Li Su to protect herself, and it was nothing to say about it.

Liu Miao agreed slowly: "It is rare that the Chief Secretary remembers every word of the mother's words, but he must not let him down. He must take his concubine to the emperor's uncle to take him to the place of hiding."

Huangfu Song was relieved when he heard Liu Miao admit it personally. At least some of the guards and eunuchs next to him heard this and would not bite his head in the future.

Liu Miao glanced at everyone: "Then you go back, and I will discuss with Li Zhonglang afterwards."

"I'm leaving!" Huangfu Songba had to be the light bulb and took everyone away.

After Liu Miao watched Huangfu Song leave, a trace of tears suddenly flashed in her eyes, and tears dripped down. She hugged Li Su weakly and pounded Li Su's back with her fist.

Of course, this does not bring any distractions between men and women. It is simply a little girl venting her emotions:

"Do you know! I hated you after you left me! Why can't I save my mother? Why can't I save my brother! They all died after you entered Sichuan!"

The twelve-year-old girl was only five and a half feet tall, two feet shorter than Li Su and had less strength. Of course, Li Su didn't need to avoid her fists. He just stood there stiffly: "I am ashamed."

Liu Miao then let out a long sigh, stopped beating, and wiped her tears: "But I have hated you for half a year, and now I figured it out, I don't hate you anymore."

Li Su: "Thank you Princess for forgiveness."

Liu Miao pointed at Li Su with his waist and said, "You are dead! You can't say a few heartwarming words. What's the point of the princess worth now? My father, mother, and brother are gone. After Dong Zhuo killed the king, he was like a grass, and he still used such false gifts to deal with a princess?

I used you as a friend to say these heartfelt words, and you just deal with me like this? Do you know how nervous you are every day without relatives? Don’t you ask me why I don’t hate you anymore?”

Li Su also sighed. He knew that Liu Miao had to burst into confession because of the accumulated fear and depression. After all, in the past year, she might have been afraid that she would hear the sound of the wall. If she said something wrong, Dong Zhuo made excuses to get it back to Luoyang, then she would be worse than death.

After sighing, Li Su tried to speak with a warm tone of humanity and feelings, and asked in cooperation: "I really want to know why the princess doesn't hate me anymore."

Liu Miaoxuan complained: "Because I saw that the loyal ministers of the Han Dynasty, such as Huangfu Song, were unwilling to surpass and obstruct Dong Zhuo. I am afraid that everyone in the world has their own necessities. How many great principles can I understand as a weak girl? What Huangfu Song dared not do, I hope you, a general, would risk your life to do it, but I could only hope."

Li Su breathed a sigh of relief: It turned out that it was all due to the concise of his peers, so he didn't hate me anymore...

"I am sincerely grateful to the princess for being willing to put herself in her shoes and be kind to her. This time it is not a false politeness, I am really grateful to her." Li Su is a relatively straight man, afraid that thanking words will be considered as hypocritical and politeness to uphold the ritual of superiority and inferiority, and quickly added some vulgar tone.

If only he could flirt with girls, he would definitely come up with more subtle and trustworthy words.

Unfortunately, although he is eloquent and versatile, he can't deal with women, and he doesn't need to deal with women at work.

"Puchi--" Liu Miao looked at him for a long time and finally couldn't help laughing. The swearing was so ridiculous, "Okay, I don't doubt you this time, so let's do the serious business and prepare to help me move. Also, are you sincere? I can see that it's not what you say, but I can see it anyway."

Li Su: "How does the princess see it?"

Liu Miao: "Don't worry about this, I can't explain it clearly. Anyway, I can just see it - a woman's perception."

Li Su smiled bitterly: "It turns out it's a woman's intuition..."

Liu Miao was slightly stunned: "Straight--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Li Su: "No dictionary, I'm thinking nonsense, the perception of directly hitting doubts is called intuition."

Li Su stopped these unnutritional topics, and then roughly told Liu Miao about Dong Zhuo's actions in Luoyang to cast bronze ware in exchange for Liu Miao's understanding of "saving rituals", and then began to take action.

After hearing this, Liu Miao agreed: "So that's the case, so of course I want to help you. Don't leave it to Dong Zhe to destroy it anyway. In the Weiyang Palace and the Taimiao, I will take you around in a while, and if you like something, you will take it away."

Li Su: "Thank you for your understanding. Even those daily bronze ware, even the precious things that are prohibited by the palace, don't need to be taken too much. After all, Your Majesty will use it after he has moved it. We will take it away and cast it again at that time. It is also a disguised exploitation of the people. We only take things that Dong Tie would not use."

Li Su's attitude was quite right, because in his eyes, as long as Dong Zhuo did not destroy the necessities of palace life, he would return to the court after he recovered Chang'an in the future. There was no need to move it around. The bronze ware was so heavy, and transportation on Shu Road was difficult.

Even if it was a small number of classics from Weiyang Palace, Li Su didn't think he wanted to take them all. Luoyang was going to take them away because Luoyang was about to be burned by Dong Zhuo. But Chang'an was Dong Zhuo's base, and he wouldn't set the palace without setting fire, just keep it. Dong Zhuo didn't read books, so he must have continued to throw away the ashes.

Unless it is very precious, you can be sure that you have never seen a book in Luoyang, it is okay to take a little bit of it.

After hearing Li Su's analysis, Liu Miao said that she would not use what her royal brother needs to do in the future, and she suddenly felt that Li Su was a good person, and she had the best conscience of many ministers in the court.

"If all the ministers in the court are so kind, why is the world like this... Don't call him Princess, right? I'll call you brother in the future. You can call me my name. Anyway, I've seen clearly this year. I've actually nothing left, you've taken me out of danger twice, you're going to be there."

Li Su was patrolling and plundering while dealing with Liu Miao: "Princess... Miaomiao, don't think so, everything is temporary. When you arrive at the emperor's uncle, your identity and courtesy will become more expensive."

...

Li Su spent half a day plundering the Weiyang Palace, and finally selected a batch of tripods and guis that were accompanied by sacrifices in Chang'an, and some of the more popular beans (bronze ware that contains food for ancestor worship). Anyway, they were not used for living people to eat. In addition, some gilded palace lanterns used to light lamps and burn incense during sacrifices, and the Jinboshan Furnace was listed and prepared to be packaged.

When the emperor sacrificed his sacrifice, he should have nine tripods and eight guis. However, the nine tripods of the Zhou emperor were no longer found when he was Qin Shihuang, and later all dynasties recast the tripods.

After the Eastern Han Dynasty moved its capital to Luoyang, the sacrifices in Chang'an were still not extinguished. After all, the tomb of the Emperor of the Western Han Dynasty was still here, so the old tripods were kept. Luoyang was recast during the reign of Emperor Guangwu, so Li Su took the opportunity to take away all the nine tripods and eight guis from the Western Han Dynasty.

Anyway, it was melted into copper coins by Dong Zhuo.

In addition to the ritual vessels of food, there are also the gold and copper chimes required for "ritual and music". Each set is 64 pieces, and a total of more than a dozen sets were plundered. The Zeng Houyi chimes unearthed in later generations were also 64 pieces. This is not to say that the Han Dynasty's technology did not improve compared to the Warring States Period, which led to the fact that there were still only 64 pieces of chimes in the late Han Dynasty. It was because etiquette and law had long been restricted from death.

The ancient emperor praised the "Baoyi Dance Music". The Baoyi is a square formation of 8864 people, and the chimes for the music are also required to be 64 pieces, so even if the Han Dynasty has developed technology, there will be no more.

Confucius complained in "The Analects of Confucius" that "the eight verses dance in the court is tolerant, but who is intolerable?" and criticized that Ji Sun, a member of Lu, dared to use the emperor's dance music, which was simply a collapse of rituals and music. Even the idiom "Is it tolerant, but who is intolerable" comes from here.

After plundering the two major categories of rituals and music, Li Su went to Jianzhang Palace to search for similar things, and then found some unique good goods there in Jianzhang Palace.

"Is this Kirito established by Emperor Wu back then? The plate on it is the Chenglu plate used to seek immortality and immortality?" Li Su pointed to a bronze man standing on a twenty-foot-high pillar, and a huge copper plate with exquisite carvings dragged by the bronze man's arms.

"Yes, it was for Emperor Wu to ask for the immortal dew to adjust the elixir. This plate requires seven people to hold hands and hold hands to surround it." Liu Miao was obviously more familiar with the palace and told Li Su directly.

"You can also take it off and take it away with the bronze man. But it's okay to walk the Wei River to Chen Cang halfway, but it's not good to cross the mountains from Chen Cang, so you might have to hide it halfway..."

Li Su was not interested in this thing either. He simply did not want to be melted by Dong Zhuo. He wanted to protect the cultural relics, so he reluctantly pulled it away. After all, it was too great and had no practical value.

As for the bronze man holding the plate, it has no artistic value and is too heavy. According to the record, it weighs 220,000 pounds, Li Su thought it would be better to melt it into money. After all, he had to leave some heavy large items for Huangfu Song to pay the money to cover up the things that were not very heavy that were taken away.

Although Li Su took away dozens of sets of Nine Cauldrons and Eight Gui, dozens of sets of Eight Chimes, each of these things was only a few thousand kilograms, and all the harvests were only two or three times the weight of the bronze man.

After the Jianzhang Palace was transferred, they finally came to the Taimiao of the Western Han Dynasty with Huangfu Song's tacit approval, and of course they also drove away all the eunuchs and palace maids here in advance to facilitate the crime.

In the Taimiao, there were more ritual and musical instruments for sacrifices, and he also took some of them away, but at least one set must be left in front of each emperor's spiritual throne, otherwise it would be better to completely cut off the incense.

Turning to the end, Li Su noticed another treasure.

It was a sword enshrined in front of Emperor Gaozu's spirit, placed in a long box of fragrant wood. "The seven-color pearls and nine-flower jade are decorative, and the five-color glass in the toilet is used as a sword box."

Liu Miao told him very cooperatively: "This is Emperor Gaozu's snake-killing sword, which is worthy of the Taimiao."

Li Su picked it up carefully, pulled out the sword and looked carefully, and knew that the sword must have been re-made during the Western Han Dynasty and was forged by far-fetchedly.

Of course, the casting time will definitely not be too late. It should have been when Liu Bang was alive and he cast it himself for the sake of myth.

The reason why it is false is that Liu Miao told Li Su that according to the official propaganda of the Han Dynasty: "This sword was made as early as the time of King Wu Ding of Shang, and later it fell into pieces and fell into heaven and was obtained by Liu Taigong, the father of Emperor Gaozu."

This is clearly a myth. This snake-slaying sword is obviously an exquisitely cast steel sword. It is made of steel forged by hundreds of refining techniques. Where did the Shang Dynasty get the wrought iron technology?

However, even in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, as long as it is not exposed, it is still very symbolic, and it should have given Liu Bei a lot of orthodox bonuses.

Thinking of this, Li Su's heart moved: "It seems that later generations have read the legend that after Sima Yan unified the Three Kingdoms, the Snake Sword was also obtained by a different surname. In the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Luoyang Armory broke out and the three treasures "Confucius Lu, Zhibo Tou, Snake Sword". The first two items were directly burned, and the Snake Sword turned into a white rainbow and soared into the sky...

Since this is the case, it would be better to fake the drama of "White Rainbow Punching the Moon, Snake Sword Ascends to Seek the Lord". It has been a year since the craftsmen in the army studied gunpowder. Although they have not made engineering-level and weapon-level gunpowder, they can still make a firecracker and watch the firelight and hear it... Anyway, it will take a few days for the bronze ware to be shipped, so let the craftsmen follow the prescription to tinker with the prescription, and I will add some materials based on the "flame color reaction". Then in the late night in the Taimiao, people will release a monkey with white light. "

When Li Su thought about this, he temporarily put the Snake Sword back and prepared to finally get the Snake Sword after all his goods were loaded on the ship. At that time, Liu Bei would say that the Snake Sword was flying from Chang'an to Hanzhong to recognize his master.

Everything went smoothly. Before the cargo was loaded, the military craftsmen used the current civilized gunpowder formula to make what Li Su needed in the bamboo tube - the original firecrackers, which were called "firecrackers" because they were originally installed in the bamboo tube, and the bamboo tube was conveniently bound the direction of the blasting and allowed the fireworks to spray up.

On Li Su's side, after thinking about it, it seemed that no metal salt could directly produce white light when the flame color reaction was reflected, and it would directly burn magnesium powder like flash lights in later generations. In this era, magnesium powder could not be created.

Finally, he had to make some wood ash and salt casually, and mix it with the yellow light's sodium salt flame reaction and the purple light's potassium salt flame reaction.
To be continued...