"Li Youjun is worthy of the genius in the world and has seen the destiny of heaven. He has made many special achievements in just three years, and is worthy of being a model in the world."

"I also asked the Right General to turn his gratitude to the King of Hanzhong to send our lord Liu Jingzhou. If General Zhao had not been rigorous in governing the army, purging the local area, and attacking the gangsters, how could our lord slowly pacify the five counties of Jingzhou? The great kindness and virtue will be remembered by our Jingzhou army."

After the Xuanshi Hall came out, all the envoys of the princes from the outside town had to wait alone in a side hall, so Li Su was surrounded by Wang Lang, Yi Ji and others as soon as he left the door, and the two praised Li Su and Liu Bei one after another.

When Wang Lang called him "Li Youjun", Li Su was a little awkward, but soon got used to the later generations of Wang Xizhi, who was called "Wang Youjun", so Li Su could of course be called "Li Youjun".

It seems that the position of the right general is often used as a civil servant. In history, Zhuge Liang's first trip to Qishan was the one who lost Jieting because Ma Su lost his position. After returning, he asked to demote himself to the third level, and demoted himself from the prime minister to the right general, and still took over the prime minister. Not to mention the pure literati like Wang Xizhi, the general's name was already messed up during the Jin Dynasty.

There is also an old acquaintance Liu Ye, who is Liu Yu's other friends. He also said something to Li Su with a sympathy, but he did not mean to be overly sought after and seemed quite humble or arrogant.

The main reason is that his lord Liu Yu was also named King of Yan by another edict in the subsequent agenda of the court meeting, so Li Su and Liu Ye were considered equal, even though Li Su's official position was much higher than Liu Ye.

Liu Ye has no chance to get along with Li Su in recent years, so he still talks a little bit. From the time when Li Su and Duwei Wuqiu Yi were ordered by Liu Yu to recruit Danyang soldiers, rescue Liu Ye from Danyang Haoshou Zheng Bao, and said a lot of thanks. He also said that after returning, he would assist the vassal kings and guard the center.

Li Su could hear that Liu Ye's words were also reducing the hatred value for Liu Yu.

After all, the royal family was more or less jealous in this chaotic world because of their merits. While Liu Yu was benefiting, he also helped Liu Bei share the hatred. Now, with representatives of Wang Langyi and Zhu Ye, who were not royal princes, were present, the two families were crowned kings and had to perform a humble play together.

After two more days of social engagements in Chang'an, Li Su finally said goodbye to Wang Yun. He did not go out directly to the west gate of Chang'an and returned to Nanzheng, but went out the east gate first, followed Wang Lang, Yiji, Zhu Ye, Liu Ye and others to the same route, and went to Bashang to drink and farewell. After sending away the messengers of the princes who walked east from the four routes, Li Sucai made a trip to the west alone, with very thoughtful etiquette.

Moreover, when he went back, Li Su did not go to Liu Bei alone with the imperial edict. He also had to have a special envoy to send imperial edicts. Although Emperor Xian of Han had already read out the rewards to everyone in Liu Bei's camp at the court meeting in Xuanshi Hall, he had just read it, and only Li Su's share was fulfilled on the spot.

The imperial court also had to send people to witness the additional titles of others, which was in line with etiquette and law, and avoided Li Su's false dictatorship or the bag was dropped in the middle (although Li Su would definitely not do this)

Moreover, the Han Dynasty imperial edicts were issued to leave copies in the palace, which could be checked and filed in the future, so it would not be so easy to prosecute the edict.

There is a precedent in "Records of the Grand Historian. Biography of Wei Qiwu'an Hou" that clearly records this aspect: When Wei Qiwu Dou Ying was arrested by Emperor Wu of Han, he claimed that he was given the imperial edict of Emperor Jing, "there is inconvenience in matters, and the best is to be considered." Emperor Wu of Han sent someone to review it, but he did not find that there was this imperial edict left in the palace (the document was reported, and the court had no imperial edicts in the case). Instead, Dou Ying was killed for forging the imperial edict.

Therefore, before the Dongjun prefect Qiao Mao, the prefect of Dongjun, only dared to "produce the letters of the three officials in the capital", which was not really correcting the imperial edict, but just the words of the novelist of the Romance of the Romance.

The envoy who went to Nanzheng with Li Su this time was Zhong Yao, who had just become the minister of the Huangmen last year, and he was also an acquaintance.

Five years ago, he was already thirty-six or seven years old, but because Emperor Ling had been depressed and wasted his time, he became a Langguan for more than ten years and could not be promoted. At that time, Li Su saw that he was poor and asked Zhong Yao to help copy books. As a rubbing for woodblock printing, he gave Zhong Yao a large amount of brush.

Now that Zhong Yao is over forty years old, in the three years after Dong Zhuo came to power, on the one hand, Dong Zhuo slandered the bureaucrats who bought officials when he first entered Beijing, and later killed innocent people indiscriminately. The Chang'an imperial court finally had a large number of vacant positions.

Zhong Yao finally succeeded and was promoted several times in three years. He first gained the qualifications of the government, became the magistrate of two major counties near Chang'an, and then transferred back to the center to be given a real position, and went from Tingwei to the Huangmen Minister.

Moreover, after reaching a high position and becoming a prosperous person, Zhong Yao quickly took several concubines, and finally he could no longer bear the wits of his wife who thought he was useless every day.

After chatting with Zhong Yao for a while, Li Su was quite moved: As expected, the more ruthless the imperial court, the more senior positions were, Dong Zhuo's massacre was like the Eastern Front battlefield in 1941. As long as a recruit lived for a few months, one of them died, and only you were left, you were promoted to company commander.

In history, officials like Zhong Yao, who had poor qualifications, lived for six years only because they were both in the capital during the reign of Dong Zhuo and Li Guo. When Guo Si slaughtered all three dukes and nine ministers in 195, Zhong Yao escaped the killing, and all those who were higher than him died. He became the chief censor and the chief minister of the Secretariat, which was equivalent to being directly ranked as the Nine Ministers.

Being by the emperor, living long lives is the greatest advantage.

...

After Li Su and Zhong Yao left Chang'an, they arrived in Mei County in three days. They took another five days to walk the Baoxie Plank Road, Baoshui and Hanshui Road, and returned to Nanzheng on July 16th.

Liu Bei personally went to Mianyang County to welcome the angels of the court. After taking them back to Nanzheng, he was solemnly fasting and bathing, received imperial edicts, and summoned some generals to thank them together.

When he heard that he was intended to be named King of Hanzhong, Liu Bei showed great surprise and gratitude. He first accepted the order sincerely, and then repeatedly said that he had insufficient merit and that the title of King of Hanzhong was too sensitive and shouldn't be gratitude.

Zhong Yao sincerely explained: "Your Highness does not have to be too humble. Your Majesty did not only grant him one king this time. When Zhong left the capital, my other colleague Duan Xun also took the mission. Together with Liu Ye, the deputy governor of Youzhou, he went to Ji County with the imperial edict and granted Youzhou Mu Bo'an Gong the King of Yan.

I believe that the King of Yan will accept the order soon. Will Your Highness give in alone? Isn’t it going to make it difficult for King Yan to do it? I heard that King of Yan Yu and Li Youjun both have great graces. Don’t you support the King of Yan’s title of King Yan? Are you unwilling to share the slander and slander for the King of Yan? Now in the national crisis, it is not a time to protect yourself and cherish your reputation."

Li Su is also supporting the role next to him: "If the husband's expedient means, it is not a pity to be famous if he benefits the country."

Liu Bei shook his head and sighed: "It is of course a slander for Uncle Bo'an, and he is unavoidable. Since this is the case, it is a king. However, as long as he is a king, it is enough to slander for Uncle Bo'an, and it is not necessary to be the name of the King of Hanzhong.

Boya, you make a humble statement for me. The words should be more sincere and straightforward. I would like to say that I would slander the king for the sake of Bo'an and become king, but I beg the court to consider lowering the title of king."

Liu Bei's attitude was obviously different from the one who directly resigned the king, because he was completely righteous and righteous in his attitude of "a scholar who died for his confidant, Liu Yu had great kindness and virtue to me, and I wanted to raise hatred for him and share the attacks of the whole world."

Li Su didn't say much, and went with the flow to find Qin Mi, asking Qin Mi to consider the polish, and wrote the word and handed over according to the spirit of Liu Bei's explanation. Three days later, Li Su took the word and handed over to Chang'an again with Zhong Yao, and took the Baoxia Road back to Chang'an to get the final version.

Zhong Yao was also indescribable. After leaving the Nanzheng Hou Mansion, he complained to Li Su privately: "We have only seen this dangerous plank road in our lives. We thought we only had to go twice in this life, but now it seems that we will take at least four. I hope this is the last round. If we really make a decision, our body will not be able to bear it."

Li Su smiled bitterly: "Brother Yuan Chang, I have walked this 200-mile plank road more than four times. I am even more unfair than you. I won't say anything, when I go to my mansion, I will have a few days of resting my feet, so I will naturally have another way of doing it."

It would cost a lot to ask the court's angel to walk the back and forth of the plank road. Liu Bei's extra errand money to Zhong Yao alone was thirty horse-hoof golden cakes. The guards and halberds in the delegation each gave two cakes. They were all paid from the money they took when they were plundering Dong Zhuo's marble.

After getting the money, the barbecue and ice drinks at Li Su's house were very exciting, and the high-quality bathing enjoyment was extremely relieved. Liu Bei also personally selected two of the beautiful girls from the Meiwu who had not finished the meal to help Zhong Yao to relieve his fatigue. All the hospitality finally made the imperial envoy very satisfied.

To put it bluntly, Li Su is a man who is quite considerate of maids and servants assigned to his house, so he has no habit of letting his maids entertain guests. If Liu Bei needs to entertain, then Liu Bei will find someone else himself.

Everything was settled. Li Su and Zhong Yao set out again from Nanzheng on July 20th, and walked out of the plank road to reach Mei County on the 26th. When they arrived in Mei County, they found that the situation in the world seemed to be very different overnight.

...

The conversation was divided into two ends. Emperor Xian of Han and Wang Yun received the jade seal at the dynasty meeting on the sixth day of the seventh month and announced the title of two Han clans as kings.

In Puyangjin, Hedong County, Lu Bu, the general of the Huben Central Army, was unable to wait for a long time to receive the edict from Wang Yun to pardon other officers under Niu Fu, and did not wait for Wang Yun to reward the soldiers. After two or three days, he had to withdraw his troops and cross the Yellow River and retreat along the Wei River to Chang'an.

After all, Lu Bu did not receive any further orders to kill him. He felt that Niu Fu was dead and the matter was over. This cannot be blamed on Lu Bu.

However, just five or six days later, about mid-July, Niu Fu's old subordinates were organized by Li Jue and Guo Si.

The reason is still the same as the inertia of history: Li Jue did not wait for the money used for pardon and appeasement, and originally planned to collect the gold, silver and soft troops and abandon the army and flee back to Liangzhou.

But the famous vicious old thief Jia Xu of Wuwei County jumped out: "Did the general forget Niu Zhonglang's lesson? Niu Zhonglang's death is only a few days ago, and you are ready to repeat the same mistake? Abandon the army and flee, and a county lieutenant can capture you and others."

Li Jue and Guo Si asked in unison: "What should Jia Gong think?"

Jia Xu: "On the grounds that the court was unkind and hostile to the entire Liangzhou army, united the soldiers and entered Chang'an to make trouble! Even if things fail, it is not too late to rob and flee westward, and you can still get more women's property."

Li Jue deeply agreed and was not in a hurry to send troops. He spent three days spreading rumors across the army, and brainwashed the lie that "Wang Yun has always looked down on the Liangzhou army, and sooner or later he killed all of our Liangzhou people" in the army. Jia Xu secretly visited and observed the army and confirmed that morale was available, so he told Li Jue that he could send troops.

So this preparation was done very secretly. When Anyi crossed south to Hongnong, 30,000 to 40,000 Xiliang troops had already united Wang Yun.

On July 15, when he arrived in Huayin, Duan Wei, the right-ranking general Duan Wei, who was hesitant, could not restrain his subordinates. Duan Wei did not want to follow the thief at first, but his lieutenant Wang Fang and Yang Ding responded to Li Jue and Guo Si. Duan Wei was half-pushed and half-willed for a while, and was afraid that he would be killed by Li Jue and Guo Si's riots, and that he would be executed and punished by Wang Yun when he was abandoned alone and returned to the court for emergency, so he had to follow the thief in a confused manner.

Dong Zhuo's old subordinates had more than 200,000 Xiliang soldiers, and the four generals had 40,000 to 50,000 under their command, as well as the direct troops of Chang'an. So when Duan Wei joined, it meant that the number of rebels had approached 100,000.

It was not until Duan Wei surrendered that Wang Yun received an urgent report and hurriedly sent someone to resist. Unfortunately, Huayin where Duan Wei was stationed was at Tongguan. The fortress entering Chang'an had already been thieves. Wang Yun hurriedly sent troops to resist, and could only fight in Xinfengdu and Bashangyuan, and could not defend the danger.

On July 18th, three days after Duan Wei was thief, Lu Bu received Wang Yun's urgent report and retreated from Lantian along Wuguan Road to Chang'an, and then rushed to Xinfengdu and Ba Shangyuan to fight against the rebel generals.

Nowadays, Lu Bu is stronger than the same period in history, because he is the General of the Hu Ben, and nominally has 40,000 people defending Wuguan Road. However, because he was too hurrying, and Wuguan did not say that he could not guard against Yuan Shu and Liu Biao at all, and some slow-mobile troops could not keep up, so Lu Bu only brought 30,000 people back to defense.

Among these 30,000 people, in addition to Bingzhou generals such as Zhang Liao and Wei Yue, there were also generals of Xiliang such as Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu’s uncle and nephew. The true Bingzhou soldiers who were directly affiliated with Lu Bu were actually less than 10,000.

As for Xu Rong and Hu Zhen, who were supposed to block the rebels in Xinfengdu in history, one was taken to Liaodong by the butterfly effect, and the other was killed by Zhao Yun last year, so Wang Yun directly asked Lu Bu to defend.

But at the critical moment, Wang Yun still made the mistake of underestimating the enemy and dividing his troops. He felt that in the critical moment, he could not defend himself without generals in the capital. He left Lu Bu in Chang'an to defend the city, promoted Zhang Liao under Lu Bu to the Yueqi Captain, one of the five Northern Army schools, and asked Zhang Liao to send nearly 30,000 troops to fight.

Of course, Wang Yun had no choice. He was afraid that Lu Bu would not be in charge in the city. If he was attacked by a small enemy troops by a detour and there would be no generals of the resolute resistance in the city, it would lead to a traitor from Xiliang who opened the city and offered the gate.

Although Zhang Liao had strong combat command ability, he still lacked the command experience of a large army of tens of thousands of people. In addition, he knew that his prestige was not enough to unite the captains, so he begged Lu Bu to lead the troops himself, or even more stable, he would directly defend Chang'an City.

Lu Bu sighed helplessly: "If we don't extinguish the spirit of the rebels, we're afraid that more and more people will follow the thief. Now is not the time to delay. The reason why their aura is arrogant is that they have been too smooth since the rebellion and have not been hit hard. Don't worry about our few soldiers. Maybe the rebels will hesitate to disperse the birds and beasts when they see the court's determination to suppress the situation."

Zhang Liao was helpless and forced to lead his troops to fight. Unfortunately, shortly after the battle, Zhang Ji turned against him in front of the formation and surrendered to Li Jue directly. Even though Zhang Liao was a famous general, he could only stop the loss in time. He brought seven or eight thousand Bingzhou cavalry and a few cavalrymen in the Five Northern Army to flee back to Chang'an. If Zhang Liao had not led his troops, he might not have returned, and he would have been directly attacked and destroyed by Zhang Ji and Li Jue.

Wang Yun was furious and wanted to severely punish Zhang Liao for losing his troops and insulting the country. However, at this time, Lu Bu was still very righteous and tried his best to protect Zhang Liao.

Just two days after Zhang Liao failed in the battle, on July 20, the rebels rushed to the city of Chang'an one after another. On the 22nd, the siege of Chang'an City was completed and the siege began. The remaining rebel troops arrived one after another, and on the 24th, all of them arrived, with a total of 120,000 troops.

There were only more than 10,000 regular defenders in the city, and they all depended on Chang'an City, which was known as seven feet tall and thick, and they were defending the city.

When Li Su and Zhong Yao arrived in Mei County, they immediately heard the bad news from the people of Mei County: "I got the news yesterday that Chang'an City was besieged three days ago! I heard that it was Li Jue and Guo Si who caused rebellion!"
Chapter completed!