Hearing the words of the messenger, everyone present changed their expressions. Now that the Shu people were approaching the city, people were caught off guard, and the emperor actually came out of the palace at this time. It was obvious that the two had premeditated it. How could this not prevent people from being prepared?
Horrified?
The emperor's departure from the palace this time is different from the last coup plan. At this time, he no longer has many cronies and power in the capital, let alone dispatching troops to kill important ministers. However, when he leaves the palace personally with a sword, it is obviously to do something.
The plan of fighting to the death was made. It should be known that the Han Dynasty has been in existence for 400 years. Since the founding of the Han Dynasty, the emperor established the system and established the rituals and music. In order to maintain the emperor's majesty, the emperors of the past dynasties never personally held a sword to kill people. Even though they were famous for their good fighting skills, they did not do so after they ascended the throne.
There are few personal expeditions, and most of them are in Luoyang Palace, where they just draw up strategies to order the generals. But now that the emperor is going out to kill people in the streets, he has put such a difficult problem in front of the officials of the two governments: Either kill the emperor in the streets, or prove that he is a traitor to his ministers.
If you want to gain the status of the Shu people, or let them go south with the Shu people, you will lose the great sense of respecting the king and resisting the barbarians.
There was a commotion in the city, and everyone had different opinions on this. Some said they would lead troops to stop the emperor, others said they would go out of the city first to repel the Shu soldiers, and some even hinted to Liu Xie that they were willing to bear the charge of regicide.
, but it immediately caused an uproar among the crowd, making the scene even more chaotic.
Seeing such a scene, Liu Xie felt as if he was listening to the croaking of frogs and the buzzing of flies, and he felt very bored. Seeing that the argument lasted for a long time, he simply drew his sword in public, cut off a flag beside him like a thunderbolt, and shouted to his staff: "Cut the tangled mess,
Only a sharp sword! With your posture like this, the Shu thieves under the city will also laugh at the fact that there is no one in the house!"
After saying this, the city fell silent. Liu Xie scanned the crowd around him and found Zhuge Liang, who was bowing his head in deep thought. He walked up to him, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Brother Kong Ming, I plan to let the emperor leave the city. What do you think?
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Everyone was frightened when they heard this, but Zhuge Liang raised his head and agreed and said, "I have the same idea. Now that the emperor has revealed his will to die in public, even if the emperor is stopped, there is no guarantee that he will not commit suicide by imitating Xiang Jiui and frighten everyone. It is better to be more generous."
, just let him go, this will be considered as fulfilling the duty of a minister." At this point, Zhuge Liang paused, then pointed to the city and said: "But considering the dignity of the country, we cannot let the Shu people leave easily." p>
Liu Xie was very pleased to see that Zhuge Liang was completely consistent with what he thought. He immediately said: "I will delay the emperor's time, and you go and deal with this matter. Since the south side only plans to pick up people, it must not have many soldiers."
, If you still want to scare Nai Gong, I will make them homeless!"
After that, he no longer looked at the others, but walked quickly downstairs alone, and then strolled towards Taichang Street. Yu Fan and others followed Liu Xie hurriedly as if they had just woken up from a dream. After a while, they saw in front of them
There were about forty soldiers crowded in the street, walking slowly backwards as if forced by some extremely terrifying monster.
When Liu Xie's followers saw this, they shouted loudly: "Your Majesty is here, make way for Your Majesty! Make way for Your Majesty!" When the soldiers in front heard this, they felt as if they had been granted amnesty and spread out to both sides in cold sweat.
Open. Liu Xie squinted his eyes and looked up and down, and saw the emperor in military uniform standing in the center, holding a three-foot long sword dripping with blood in his right hand, and followed by seven or eight palace servants who were trying to show courage, heading towards
When he looked behind him, he could see the corpses of four or five soldiers lying on the street. They were all obviously killed by him.
The emperor had never killed anyone before, but today he had killed eight people in a row. At first, his arms were shaking and his heartbeat was timid, but at this moment, he only felt tired and numb, so he simply took off his turban and robe,
Only a military uniform was left outside. When he heard the footsteps approaching and recognized Liu Xie's voice, he hurriedly raised his head to observe. In the streets and alleys, he squinted his eyes, and his handsome face suddenly looked like a ferocious one.
Beast. Seeing Liu Xie standing in the middle of the crowd, he couldn't help but sneered, walked forward, pointed his sword at him and said, "Do you want to block my way too, Prince Dai?"
Liu Xie looked at the emperor playfully, as if he was looking at some strange object, and he quickly said: "What are you talking about, your majesty? The whole world is not the king's land, your majesty can go wherever he wants, since the south is coming
The royal ministers are welcoming you, and your majesty intends to hunt south, how dare I not let you go?"
After that, he waved to the soldiers, took the initiative to make way for the emperor, and then slowly led the way, as if the two were not fighting for life and death, but were inviting the emperor to be a guest.
This made the emperor at a loss. He was not a murderous person. Although he didn't know what Liu Xie had planned, it was always a good thing to be able to leave the city easily, so he followed behind without saying a word with his sword. But before he stopped
The emperor's soldiers hurriedly reported to Liu Xie: "His Majesty has just left the palace with a sword. Sun Shaofu and Chen Lingjun tried to stop them, but His Majesty did not miss the old friendship and slashed the Shaofu with his sword in public. Lingjun could not stop him.
He had to stay, so he had to ask us to stop him first and take the young master to treat his injuries."
Liu Xie nodded slightly, then turned to ask the emperor: "Your Majesty, do you intend to leave the palace alone this time?"
When the emperor heard the words, he immediately stood up, his face was uncertain, and he didn't know how to answer. When Liu Xie saw three cautions in his eyes, he also knew that he was thinking wrong, so he said in public: "The so-called happiness of family relationship is inseparable from flesh and blood. This is
Even a three-year-old child knows this truth. Since Your Majesty is determined to travel far away, how can you not take your family with you? If Your Majesty is interested, I will immediately send someone to pick up the concubine in the harem, prepare a car and drive cattle and horses, and I have spent more than ten years.
The love between monarch and minister."
After saying that, he ignored the emperor and still held the blade, walked about a foot in front of the emperor, and then took out a sachet from his chest, which was slightly smaller than a human fist. He untied the sachet and took out an extremely large and round sachet.
Even in the daytime, everyone felt that this snow-white bead was sparkling. It was obviously an extremely precious night-light pearl.
Liu Xie said: "Your Majesty, please don't laugh. I just hope that we will see each other on the battlefield in the future, so please be considerate."
Seeing that Liu Xie was so knowledgeable, the emperor couldn't help but secretly thought: "It seems that this person also knows how to take care of everyone, so I can save a lot of trivial matters by going south this time." Thinking of this, his face couldn't help but relax a little.
, nodded slightly to Liu Xie and said "good". Then Liu Xie opened the gate of Xi'an grandly, walked to the gate with the emperor, and sent envoys to negotiate among the Shu people.
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Wu Ban and others had gone back to report to Dong Zhao when they saw no response from the city for a long time. Then the Shu cavalry in the south of the city began to advance forward, openly cutting down trees and building ladders on Longshou Plain, as if they were about to attack the city. At this time, suddenly
Dong Zhao was surprised when he received the news from the city. Zhang Liao also asked, "Is there any fraud in it?" But seeing that the city gate was wide open in the distance, it didn't look like it was a fraud, so Dong Zhao ordered Zhang Liao to follow him and took his two men.
More than ten people rode their horses to the city to take a closer look. They recognized the emperor immediately. The two saw each other again after more than ten years, and they felt deeply sad for a moment.
Then Liu Xie came forward and said: "I have heard of Dong Gongren's name a long time ago. Today, he traveled thousands of miles over the mountains and came to this humble place. I really admire him." Dong Zhao heard the introduction from others and learned that he was the current representative.
Prince Wang. Seeing how calm Liu Xie was among his enemies, Dong Zhao couldn't help but admire him secretly.
He originally wanted to take the emperor and leave directly, but just as he made a move, he heard Liu Xie say: "But please wait a moment, I am sending someone to pick up the queen and the prince, as well as the emperor's ceremonial car." This reason is irreproachable.
Dong Zhao glanced at the emperor and found that he had a longing look on his face, so he had to stop and wait while calling Zhang Liao and other knights to come closer.
Zhang Liao led about 500 cavalry into the archery range, but still did not dismount, and the archers on the city did not withdraw. The two armies conducted a handover in a state of half confrontation and half cooperation. About two quarters of an hour later,
One after another, palace servants rushed to the door carrying things, and donkeys and horses were led out in groups. Occasionally, women's cries were heard, and it was a mess. It was obvious that Liu Xie had brought a lot of things for the emperor. Zhang Liaoming knew that the other party was stalling for time, but he didn't show it on his face. He just kept looking around to see if he could capture the prince alive. Liu Xie, on the other hand, leaned next to the emperor calmly and faced Dong Zhao.
Explained: "Your Majesty is the emperor after all, so it is better not to lose some things. Speaking of which, when your Majesty goes to Shu, how does the King of Shu plan to receive it?"
Dong Zhao didn't want Liu Xie to see his anxiety, so he actually chatted with him for a while. Speaking of the situation in Nanyang, he crossed his arms and smiled and said: "Although Longshou is good at planning, he is getting older after all, and he is no longer what he used to be."
.The King of Shu not only prepared a palace for His Majesty in Mianzhu, but also prepared a mansion for the King Dai and the Sili Xiaowei, waiting for the two Dukes to move in."
Dong Zhao talked about his acquaintance in Xijing again and asked about the current situation of Cui Yan and others. Liu Xie replied: "Cui Gong was originally a scholar of Qingjie. He just relied on your high reputation and could not be used for many years." Dong Zhao laughed after hearing this, obviously
I don’t really care about this.
About half an hour later, people such as Queen Fu Shou, noble concubine Dong Man, prince Liu Qi, princess Liu Miao and others also came out. Seeing that most of the people had come outside, Zhang Liao discussed with Dong Zhao that it was better to go first.
Take the emperor, queen, and princes with you to go first, and let the rear team load the goods on the auxiliary horses. The donkeys and chariots can't keep up with the big team, so they are all gone.
Soon, the Shu people under the city began to unload the belongings from the donkeys and load them on the auxiliary horses they brought. The emperor's family, plus the trusted palace officials, also began to get on their horses and follow the Shu people out of the city. After a while, the team members
There was a sound of a woman scolding. The emperor heard it and looked back from the city. It turned out that Concubine Dong was dissatisfied with several palace people and was cursing them. He immediately chased after the concubine and shouted at the concubine: "What time is it? What are you arguing about?"
If you don’t want to leave, just stay here and wait to see your father!"
This sentence made Concubine Dong blush, and she wanted to argue with him, but she held back. The emperor was usually very polite to Concubine Dong, but his sudden change of attitude confused her. She was a little scared, so she just muttered a few words,
He was supported on his horse and left the city. After his family members left, the emperor was ready to go on the road. Unexpectedly, Liu Xie suddenly asked: "Your Majesty, do you have anything to say to your aunt when you leave?" The aunt Liu Xie was talking about.
, which is Princess Wannian, Chen Chong’s wife.
The emperor's face suddenly became embarrassed. He thought about it for a long time, and finally sighed, turned his head without saying a word, and disappeared into the green mountains of the south surrounded by hundreds of Shu riders.