The team slowly set off towards the Luoyang Palace.
Yuan Shao and the commander-in-chief camps of all the princes are now stationed in the palace in Luoyang City.
Luoyang Palace is located in the center of the city. As the capital palace of the Han Dynasty, it covers an area of nearly a hundred acres. There is Jiacheng in the west, Dongcheng in the east, and a round wall in the north. The main palace is divided into: South Palace, North Palace, East Palace, West Palace, and Long Palace.
Qiu Palace, Yong'an Palace, Yongle Palace; on the north-south central axis, from north to south: Sima Gate, Duan Gate, Quefei Gate, Quefei Hall, Zhanghua Gate, Chongde Hall, Zhongde Hall, Qianqiu Longsui Hall
The Hepingshuo Hall is composed of five halls and four gates. It was continuously expanded and revised, and its splendor and magnificence reached its peak.
Unfortunately, it was only back then, but now the palace was burned down by fire for several days, and it has turned into a dead city with almost ruins.
Yuan Shao's main force was stationed in the square in front of the Luoyang South Palace. This was the place where the emperor and his officials congratulated and discussed government affairs. It was guarded by five gates and four halls, and it was geographically in the middle.
After Cao Cao and the pottery merchants entered the palace, under the guidance of Yuan Jun soldiers along the way, they arrived at the Quefei Gate in the West Square of the South Palace.
Before they could enter, they saw an extremely huge bronze-armored general with a complexion like the bottom of a casserole, thick eyebrows, big eyes, a couch nose and thick lips, blocking everyone's way.
The general was wearing gray bronze armor and an ox helmet, and he looked extremely tough.
"My lord has rested. If you have anything else, please come back tomorrow!"
When Cao Cao saw the appearance of this general and listened to his tone, he knew that he was not an ordinary person. He said politely: "Cao Cao, I have brought Wang Situ here late at night. I have something important to do and I want to see Benchu. I would like to bother you to inform you."
The general seemed to have heard of Cao Cao's reputation and said: "It's Mr. Cao, I'm disrespectful! Due to the relationship between Mr. Cao and my lord, Chou shouldn't have stopped you, but it's too late now. I hope Mr. Cao will do it."
Don't make me wait."
When Cao Cao heard this, he suddenly said: "So you are Wen Chou? I have admired you for a long time."
When the pottery merchant heard that this man was Wen Chou, he couldn't help but look at him a few more times.
It's strange. I remember that when Yuan Shao went out to fight against Jujube, he didn't lead Yan Liang and Wen Chou into battle. Why did this future famous general in Hebei suddenly appear after the battle? Is it possible that he came to pick up the slack? There is nothing left to pick up.
But after thinking about it carefully, the potter figured it out.
Luoyang has been "battled", and Dong Zhuo has also moved west to Chang'an. Next is the stage of dividing the interests among the princes. Yuan Shao secretly transferred people from Hebei to this side in order to increase his strength and grab chips!
Hehe, all this evil spirit has been used on this...
Seeing Wen Chou, Cao Cao refused to give way and explained: "Cao and Ben Chu have been friends for many years. It doesn't matter whether Ben and I have met him or not. It's just that this Wang Situ is one of the three princes and is an important minister of the imperial court. This time
I have something important to discuss with Benchu, so please do it as a convenience and send someone to report it."
Wen Chou's face did not change, and he still said stubbornly: "I don't know Situ Situ! If you say no, you can't do it."
As an important minister in the court, Wang Yun had never been so slighted before. He frowned and opened the curtains to show up. He wanted to accuse Wen Chou, but when he saw Wen Chou's burly and fierce figure, the old man hesitated a little, and the words came to his lips.
Swallowed it back again.
Wang Yun's insults depended on who he was. For example, someone like Tao Shang, who looked like a well-educated person at first glance, would dare to make a few insults. But someone like Wen Chou, who looked like a scoundrel at first sight, was generally unwilling to provoke Wang Yun.
Behind Cao Cao, Xia Houyuan was not as good-tempered as Wang Yun. He said boldly: "You fool, how can you be so rude! In front of you, the three princes of the Han Dynasty must be humble and submissive to you?"
At first glance, Wen Chou looked like a piece of meat that would not be eaten. He pointed at Xia Houyuan and said loudly: "My nature is like this! What can I do? To persuade you to go back is to give you face. If it were someone else, I would just punch and kick you."
Say hello and send him out!"
Xia Houyuan sneered and said: "Let me see what you are capable of, how dare you make such big statements!"
After that, he got off his horse and rushed towards Wen Chou. Cao Cao hurriedly shouted to stop him, but he was unable to stop him.
Xia Houyuan punched the head and went straight to greet Wen Chou. Wen Chou didn't move. He also threw out one punch. The two fists intersected and made a crisp sound. However, Xia Houyuan took three steps back, but Wen Chou stood still.
Staying in place, motionless.
"Great!" Xu Chu, who was behind the pottery merchant, couldn't help but admire when he saw this.
The pottery merchant turned his head when he heard this and asked Xu Chu: "How does that ugly martial artist compare to you?"
Xu Chu shook his head uncertainly and said: "It's hard to say without fighting, but the punch he just punched was extremely powerful! In terms of strength alone, he may not be inferior to a certain family... If you lose your mother, I don't want to be under Yuan Shao's tent.
There are actually such brave men."
Xia Houyuan suffered a secret loss, threw away his hand, and wanted to step forward to ask for advice, but he saw a soldier quickly walking out of the Qufei Gate, whispered a few words in Wen Chou's ear.
Wen Chou nodded, then stepped to the side and said to Cao Cao and others: "My lord, please enter the Chefei Gate!"
The potter raised his eyebrows and got an idea.
Yuan Shao, I'm having trouble.
Everyone entered the Quefei Gate and went to see Yuan Shao under the leadership of the Yuan sergeant. However, Cao Cao slowed down his horse speed, leveled his horse's head with Tao Shang's, and said in a low voice: "Brother Tao, do you see anything?"
The pottery merchant nodded and said with a smile: "I see... I'm showing off my power."
Cao Cao sighed and said, "Yes, I'm showing off my power. It seems that I didn't want to accept these court officials at first."
Tao Shang laughed when he heard this and said: "Actually, this is not the fault of Alliance Leader Yuan. Brother Meng De, if it were you, would you originally want these officials from the DPRK?"
Cao Cao raised his head and said, "How could Cao be so lucky?"
Tao Shang secretly sighed in his heart, it seems that how to arrange the ministers of the court and the central government headed by Wang Yun is indeed a problem... Judging from the current situation, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, not even himself, none of the princes are really willing to accept them.
This is also a normal thing. The status of princes in today's world is originally a special case. They are nominally subordinates of the imperial court, but in fact they are feudal officials. They dominate one area and are controlled by the military and government in the local area.
If Cao Cao, Tao Shang, Liu Bei, Sun Jian and others rescued the emperor this time, the princes would surely be vying to flatter each other, wishing they could immediately carry the emperor to their own territory in a sedan chair.
But the emperor didn't grab it, but he grabbed some of the courtiers, which was a bit embarrassing.
If the emperor were here, these ministers would be needed to build the ancestral temple and the court, but now that the emperor is away, these ministers would be useless.
Bringing them to their own territory would be a waste of food on the one hand, and on the other hand these courtiers come from aristocratic families and are not easy to offend, and their official positions are very high, most of them are not under the princes. Their status is too embarrassing... If you really want to bring them
When I go back, do you listen to me or do I listen to you? It’s really too restrictive!
The princes cannot imitate Dong Zhuo. Whoever refuses to obey will be beaten until he obeys, right?
And the third most important thing is that even if all the courtiers listen to me, what kind of combination is a prince leading a small number of ministers who have the title of the imperial court and the title?
A state within a state? A dynasty within a dynasty? Or a prelude to becoming a king?
Even if the princes themselves don't have that ambition, people in the world are full of talk. If you can control your own behavior, how can you control everyone's mouth?
Doesn't this make it clear that it gives political opponents excuses to plot against themselves? If it is not handled well, it will be criticized by the public.
Therefore, this small half of the court's servants are like water without roots and a hot potato that no one wants.
Cao Cao led Wang Yun to see Yuan Shao. With the number of spies Yuan Jun had stationed in Luoyang City at the moment, how could Yuan Shao not know?
Even if he knew it, why did he let Wen Chou deliberately block him at Chefei Gate? And let him act rudely!?
To put it bluntly, he did not want to accept the courtiers of this small dynasty headed by Wang Yun! Therefore, he made some rude gestures to scare Wang Yun away and retreated when he saw the difficulty.
If a person from a famous family like the Fourth Generation and the Third Duke doesn't know etiquette, then I'm afraid no one in the world will know how to be polite.