Chapter 167: The Imperial Seal, Sun Jian withdraws his troops from Luoyang

Author: Shenwen Benshen

Chapter 167: The Imperial Seal, Sun Jian withdraws his troops from Luoyang

Luoyang.

Looking at the dilapidated city of Luoyang, I also thought about the tragic situation of Luoyang without fireworks for hundreds of miles.

Sun Jian, Lu Zhi, Guan Yu and others were all melancholy and shed tears.

"Send people to clean the ancestral temple first, and then offer sacrifices with the Tailao ceremony." Sun Jian suggested.

Lu Zhi nodded.

Although the ancestral temple of the Han Dynasty was abandoned due to the destruction of Luoyang City, since we were here to visit King Qin, we naturally had to offer sacrifices when we encountered the ancestral temple.

The sacrifice is over.

Sun Jian and Lu Zhi stationed their troops in the south and east of Luoyang City respectively, organized their troops and horses, and then marched towards Xin'an and Mianchi.

The next morning.

A group of sergeants Sun Jian who were looking for money in the ruins of Luoyang salvaged a wooden box wrapped in brocade silk from a well, and found that there was a jade seal hidden in the wooden box!

Sergeant Sun Jian quickly handed the brocade box to Sun Jian.

I saw that this jade seal was four inches in diameter, with five dragons on it. Four corners were missing, and the eight words "Ordered by heaven, you will live forever" were engraved on it.

"This is the Imperial Seal?!" Sun Jian's tone couldn't help but be a little hasty.

The jade seal of the country!

Although he had never seen it with his own eyes before, Sun Jian had already heard about the description of the imperial seal.

Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Han Dang, Zu Mao and other generals also gathered around Sun Jian.

"According to legend, the national jade seal was cast by Qin Prime Minister Li Si from Lantian jade on the order of the First Emperor."

"After the Qin Dynasty, emperors of all dynasties used this seal as a symbol, regarded it as a rare treasure, and was hailed as an important weapon of the country."

"If you gain it, it means 'you have been ordered by heaven', and if you lose it, it means 'the energy has been exhausted'."

"Anyone who reaches a high position without this jade seal will be despised by the world."

"I didn't expect that the Imperial Seal would appear here!"

"The emperor supported by Dong thief did not pass on the imperial seal. Doesn't that mean?"

Cheng Pu's tone faltered, and he quickly dispersed the surrounding sergeants and asked them to maintain martial law a hundred meters away.

"Demo, what do you want to say?" Sun Jian's eyes narrowed slightly.

Cheng Pu glanced around and lowered his voice: "My lord, the jade seal passed down to the country is entrusted to heaven. No matter who the lord proclaims emperor in the future, he will be the legitimate emperor!"

"Even if my lord is determined to be independent, he still has this national jade seal."

Sun Jian shouted coldly: "De Mou, shut up! Don't say such treasonous words again! Since God has allowed me to obtain the imperial seal, it means that I have been ordered by heaven and am destined to help the world!"

"Immediately block this news, and the sergeants who know about the imperial seal will be separately classified as personal soldiers, and you will personally control it, Demo."

"No one is allowed to leak the national jade seal."

Zu Mao suddenly asked: "Can't Lu Shangshu and others also know?"

Sun Jian's eyes flashed: "Since this general has obtained this national jade seal, I have the right to decide where it belongs."

"Sun, be happy!"

Although Sun Jian had no intention of being independent at the moment, Sun Jian wanted to use this national jade seal to pursue greater fame.

With Sun's current reputation, if he really holds the national jade seal to stand on his own, he will immediately be labeled as a rebel, just like the Taiping Road in the past.

After a pause, Sun Jian said again: "Yi Gong, please return to Luyang immediately to see the general and tell him that I will send you generous gifts."

As soon as these words came out, Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Huang Gai and Zu Mao were all shocked.

Zu Mao was even more outspoken: "My lord, even if you can't stand on your own, if you hold this national jade seal in your hands, it will be a great contribution to the title of marquis and general in the future. How can you give it to others?"

Han Dang also said: "My lord, the general is also an ambitious man. If he gets the imperial seal, there is no guarantee that he will not be another Dong Zhuo."

Huang Gai had the same opinion as Zu Mao: "My lord, since you have the jade seal to pass down the country, how can you let others do it easily?"

Cheng Pu figured out Sun Jian's intention: "Unless we kill all the soldiers who saw the Jade Seal today, the secret of the Lord's getting the Jade Seal will not be hidden."

"However, even so, there is no guarantee that someone will peek into this secret secretly."

"Instead of being frightened, it is better to present the imperial seal to the general. Firstly, it can express the lord's loyalty to the general, and secondly, the general can also benefit the lord."

"Even if someone discovers that my lord has obtained the imperial seal, it will not cause any damage to my lord's reputation."

"After all, my lord is under the command of the empress general, so it is only natural that he should receive the imperial seal passed down as a gift to the empress general."

Sun Jian nodded: "It's better that Demou understands my general's intentions! The jade seal passed down to the country is hot, so why not use it in exchange for real benefits to the general?"

Immediately.

Han Dang left Taigu Pass overnight and went to Luyang to meet Yuan Shu.

When he learned that Sun Jian had obtained the imperial seal, Yuan Shu could not breathe smoothly.

"Is it really the imperial seal? Did General Sun see it wrong?" Yuan Shu suddenly stood up and stared at Han Dang.

What is the purpose of asking for the director?

To become the next Dong Zhuo!

But with the imperial seal, Yuan Shu could establish a new emperor of the Han Dynasty!

It is said that the imperial seal is here, then the new emperor of the Han family is ordered by heaven, and is the orthodoxy of the Han family, why is he crusading against Dong Zhuo?

"General Han, please quickly pass on my order to General Polu to withdraw his troops from Luoyang immediately!" Yuan Shu said decisively.

Han Dang was surprised: "General Hou, we have just defeated Dong Zhuo in Luoyang. We can just take advantage of the victory to pursue and completely defeat Dong Zhuo. Why do we need to withdraw our troops?"

Yuan Shi became more angry: "General Han, I don't want to retreat, but there are changes in Yuzhou! First, Yuan Shao, the governor of Yuzhou, represented by his concubine, came to seize Yuzhou, and now Chen Wang Liu Chong has joined forces with Qingzhou Liu Bei

I also want to seize Yuzhou."

"Even if there is no issue of passing on the national jade seal, I will let General Polu come back."

Han Dang was horrified and said: "But didn't Liu Bei form an alliance with the general? How could he seize Yuzhou? Could it be Yuan Shao's plan to alienate him?"

Yuan Shu was a little unhappy with Han Dang's questioning, but he still sighed and pretended: "At first, I thought it was Yuan Shao's concubine who was trying to divorce him, so he sent Han Yin to borrow food from King Chen to test King Chen's intentions.

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"But Han Yin was beaten back by King Chen with a stick!"

"Damn King Chen!"

Han Yin was indeed beaten back by King Chen with a stick, but the reason for the beating was that when Han Yin borrowed food, the lion opened his mouth and asked King Chen to borrow 100,000 shi.

King Chen was not someone who could swallow his anger. Chen Guobing had enough food and supplies and was not afraid of Yuan Shu.

King Chen, who was impatient with Han Yin's bullying, directly asked his warriors to beat Han Yin out of Chen State with a stick.

Han Yin failed in his mission and was worried about being punished by Yuan Shu, so he told Yuan Shu how arrogant Chen Wang Liu Chong was, such as "Yuan Shu is just a dog slave of my Han Dynasty, but he dares to be arrogant in front of me" and "Others are afraid of him Yuan Gongli.

I am not afraid." "If you have the guts, come and fight Chen Guo, if you don't, just get out." and so on.

Yuan Shu could not bear this anger. If Yang Hong and others had not advised him, he would have immediately raised troops to attack Chen Guo.

Now I just used this excuse to transfer Sun Jian back to Luyang.

Han Dang didn't understand the power and conspiracy involved. He thought Yuzhou was really going to change hands, and he was panicking.

Sun Jian is the governor of Yuzhou. If Yuzhou is taken away, can he still be the governor of Yuzhou again?

So Han Dang hurried back to Luoyang to convey Yuan Shu's military order.

"withdraw troops?"

Sun Jian was also stunned by Yuan Shu's order.

"Dong Zhuo's new defeat is a good opportunity to attack Chang'an in one go. How can we just withdraw our troops just because they want to?"

"If we retreat, wouldn't it mean that our entire campaign has been in vain?"

Sun Jian did not want to retreat.

He gave the imperial seal to Yuan Shu because he wanted to exchange this hot jade seal for benefits, but it did not mean that Sun Jian wanted to withdraw his troops!

Defeating Dong Zhuo, Sun Jian will surely make the world famous.

Even God sent Sun Jian the imperial seal as a reward, so how could he retreat at this time?

When Yuan Shu came to power, he, Sun Jian, led the troops outside to fight for the Han Dynasty in all directions.

When the four sides are calmed down, the Sun family will become a wealthy noble family second only to the Yuan family!

Is such a majestic future about to come to nothing?

"Lord, we can't do it unless we retreat!" Han Dang smiled bitterly: "If we don't retreat, Yuzhou will not be protected! If Yuzhou is lost, the general will not even be able to raise food and grass, how can he attack Chang'an!"
To be continued...