3. Can the emperor really command the princes? (Part 1)
The reception room in the back hall of the Huai County Prefecture has never been a spacious place. After all, it is usually only used as a private place for the prefect to receive a few guests. But today, uncharacteristically, more than ten people were squeezed in, including many.
As a result, this small reception room became crowded.
However, the guests were not dissatisfied with this arrangement. Although the sweltering summer heat made everyone here sweat profusely at this moment, none of them noticed the loss of moisture in their bodies. Instead, they all lowered their heads in thought.
The living room is unusually quiet. You can clearly hear the chirping of cicadas outside and the crackling of ice cubes in the ice bucket inside. It seems that no one wants to break the silence in front of you, or maybe no one is willing to break it.
Know how to break the silence.
"Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh! Why do you think so much? If you like it, grab it, and if you don't, just turn it away!"
After a long time, one person finally couldn't stand the atmosphere and shouted loudly as if to vent his anger.
"Fengxian, I know you hate thinking about these things, but if we don't want to know it clearly now, what Dong Zhuo encounters today will be our fate tomorrow, and we are not like Dong Zhuo who has been operating for decades and has the support of the powerful people in Xiliang
.”
There are not many people in the Bingzhou Army who dare to speak like this to Lu Bu, a high-ranking and extremely arrogant guy in the Bingzhou Army, but Cheng Yu can definitely be counted among them - even Lu Bu has to admit that if not
The conscientious and outstanding work of this uncle who was kidnapped by them would definitely turn Xihe into chaos and Bingzhou now.
Of course, another reason is that he himself also knows that his speech just now is somewhat inappropriate. The reason why he still stands up is purely because he is upset and complains. Otherwise, Lu Bu will definitely fight back forcefully instead of just imagining that he is just like this.
He simply muttered, "I'm just here to liven up the atmosphere, why do I want to do so much..." and sat back down again.
But this guy’s thoughts are actually easy to understand. If Li Shushi is going to face a situation like Dong Zhuo’s, then Lu Bu will definitely agree with it, because he can take the opportunity to challenge all the powerful generals in the world. As for Li Shushi’s disagreement, for
Our Xiaoqiang children’s shoes didn’t suffer much, anyway, at most we could just take a group of people and go for a walk on the grassland to vent their anger, right?
Therefore, Lu Bu's opinion is actually to put it bluntly - he has no opinion. Anyway, no matter which plan seems to be harmful to him, if it weren't for his status as the leader of the Bingzhou Army and he had to stay here, Xiaoqiang
Children's Shoes didn't want to suffer like this. After all, even a warrior like him was almost soaked through his underwear.
After Lu Xiaoqiang's children's shoes passed, the atmosphere became a little more lively. At least someone was the first to come forward and said something that basically touched the bottom line. After that, everyone didn't have to worry about what they said was not good enough.
"Okay, it seems that everyone has already thought about it. Let's talk about it now. Anyway, Fengxian has already thrown the brick out."
Li Shushi had a slightly tired look on his face. To be honest, he really understood Lu Bu's mood at this time, because since Xu Huang and Zhang He accompanied Qu Yi to the Linli front line that day, they had already discussed whether they should rob the emperor.
More than once. Of course, the result every time was no result.
The most critical reason for this is that although there are not many "royalist" forces around Li Shushi, they all have high status. Although Yan Zhong did not attend in person, he still wrote a personal letter to Li Shushi.
Letter, hoping that Li Shushi can "rescue" the emperor from Dong Zhuo. If you don't want to cause trouble, you can send it to him.
In exchange for some political capital, Zhong Yao also attached his name to the end of Yan Zhong's letter. Obviously he agreed with the other party's ideas. And beside Li Shushi was Huangfu Song, who was ordered by Li Shushi to "propaganda"
"Military, instructing generals", the principal of the military academy, and Zhao Yun, the second-ranking figure in the military who looks very upright and looks different from his master Tong Yuan.
As for the others, Li Shushi had no chance to know because he did not participate in such a level of discussion.
Although they had different ideas on how to deal with these people on the Little Emperor, they were unanimous in their desire to rescue the Little Emperor, especially after hearing about the atrocities committed by Dong Zhuo and Dong Zhuo's troops in Luoyang City.
However, because of Dong Zhuo's experience, there were many voices of opposition, including Qu Yi, who was invited by Lu Zhi.
Well, Lu Zhi can be regarded as the wrong person this time. Perhaps he himself is very aware of this and the stakes involved. It is just that as a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty and a famous scholar, he was driven to do that kind of knowing thing.
A decision that cannot be done but must be done
Determined. And judging from the situation at the time, the task Lu Zhi gave Qu Yi looked like he was asking Qu Yi to die. If Lu Zhi and Qu Yi hadn't cooperated for many years in Xihe, I think if Lu Zhi had given this task to Zhang Yan
Otherwise, the result can only be a one-shot and two-parter.
"Wen He, you should make a noise after sleeping here for so long."
Seeing that this time there seemed to be a tendency to break up on bad terms again, Li Shushi shook Jia Xu, who was dozing next to him.
Jia Xu and Li Shushi may be the only two people who did not participate in the discussion for so many days. The latter was because he could not express his position, while the former was completely like "Let him be strong if he is strong, and the breeze will blow over the mountains. He will be allowed to do whatever he wants."
, "The bright moon shines on the river", even if someone brought the topic to him, he would either remain silent or say that he had not thought clearly yet. In the end, he couldn't shirk it, so he simply pretended to be asleep, which became a joke in the venue.
Unique scenery.
But this time, it didn't matter whether he was pretending to sleep or kicked away his sense of existence, because it was time to make a decision. And the reason was the scroll of silk sent by Dong Zhuo that Li Shushi was holding in his hand at this moment.
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There is not much content in Silk Silk, but it can be summed up to the same meaning - Dong Zhuo wanted to move everything that could be moved from Luoyang to Chang'an, and then lead his troops to retreat to the Hongnong-Chang'an line. However, he could not move away due to the pressure from the coalition forces.
, so I hope to hand over the population and wealth gained from protecting the emperor and plundering Luoyang to Li Shushi's Bingzhou Army. Of course, the benefits are absolutely indispensable.
Would Dong Zhuo be so kind as to hand over the emperor to Li Shushi?
That's obviously impossible.
If Li Shushi chooses to greedily bring both the wealth and the emperor back to Bingzhou, then there is no doubt that all eyes in the world will be focused on him, because that is the wealth of Luoyang City, the most prosperous city of the Han Dynasty, even if the wealth accumulated by the royal family is put aside
As well as the wealth that the rich and powerful have hoarded in Luoyang for daily expenses, the wealth of ordinary people alone is quite astonishing.
In other words, even if there is no emperor, as long as Li Shushi brings the wealth back to Bingzhou, he will inevitably become a public enemy in the world.
The emperor is just a matter of great justice. Even if he dies, he can still find another royal relative named Liu to elect him as the emperor. Anyway, there are countless royal relatives in the world who claim to be or have documented evidence, and this does not count those who change Liu for some reason.
Royal relatives with other surnames (such as the Chen family in Guangling to which Chen Deng, Chen Lin and Chen Jiao belong).
But the meaning of wealth is completely different. Whether it is recruiting troops or winning people's hearts, although money is not everything, it is absolutely impossible to be without money. This is a truth that is common to ancient and modern times. Not to mention that it may also include
Skilled craftsmen who could make various weapons, armors and instruments, as well as a huge population, gave Li Shushi the ability to sweep Hebei in an instant.
As for giving up wealth and only taking the emperor? Well, Comrade Dong said that he is completely willing to shrink back to Xiliang and eat delicious food at home, and then just sit and watch the changes in Guandong like a theater. Anyway, Li Shushi is not here
How many benefits.
So take nothing?
Well, maybe the next day there will be rumors all over the world that the Bingzhou Army has joined Dong Zhuo's Army. You must know that although the Bingzhou Army seems to be wearing the same pants as Dong Zhuo's Army, it is maintained under the name of imperial power.
, privately, the two groups of people had no control over each other at all. Even Dong Zhuo did not dare to use the tone of order to Li Shushi but adopted the form of transaction. The personnel sent to announce the decree would not pretend to be pretentious. The reason is that the relationship between the two parties is
equal.
As for not agreeing to Dong Zhuo, there would be no loss for the Bingzhou Army and even Dong Zhuo would give some "gifts", because if Li Shushi did not intend to intervene, then Dong Zhuo would be completely at ease and carry out his retreat plan with confidence and boldness.
Therefore, this scroll of silk is both a temptation and a temptation. It depends on how the Bingzhou Army chooses.
If the emperor was sitting in the fortified city of Luoyang a few days ago, although Dong Zhuo led his army to leave, Duan Xuan, who stayed in Luoyang, was not only stable and suspicious, but also had a group of elite soldiers under his command, making it extremely difficult for Luoyang city to attack, so Li Shushi's side
If we can delay the discussion slowly, then we must come up with a plan now.
Once the emperor really moved safely from Luoyang to Chang'an, Li Shushi would really have no chance to take action - unless Dong Zhuo still died unexpectedly like in history and then there was discord within the Xiliang army and eventually the emperor fled.
But now Xiaoqiang's shoes are wandering around not far away from him with his eyes dripping, and the "mastermind" who caused the emperor's escape is also playing with him. As for Diao Loli, considering all the various kinds of things in the palace,
There are a lot of women like this, so it’s not really a necessary condition, so just pass.
(Diao Loli, who was messing around with Lai Ying'er for some reason, suddenly let out a cute little sneeze, and then murmured to herself with red ears under Lai Ying'er's concerned gaze: "It should be Sister Su who is thinking about me, right?"
It must be...")
It was precisely because he clearly realized that the influence of his butterfly was no longer small that Li Shushi needed to rely on the wise men of this era to clear up the fog ahead for him.
Therefore, Jia Xu can't escape no matter how much he lowers his sense of presence, even if he shouts "Akarin"!
