In mid-August of the fifth year of Zhongping, looking at the sun, if it is in later generations, it should be the Mid-Autumn Festival.
It's a pity that the Han people don't celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, so there is no festive atmosphere on the streets.
Chen Mu and Dian Wei left the east gate and arrived outside Ma Market.
Luoyang East Market is the most lively place. Horse markets, millet markets, and commercial markets are lined up in rows. People come and go every day, making it extremely prosperous.
When Liu Bei came from Qingzhou, he naturally took Wei County, passed Yangwu, and headed west, passing through Mangshan to reach Luoyang.
There are no telephones or mobile phones these days, so it is difficult to know the news in advance.
However, Liu Bei didn't take charge alone, so he could naturally send someone over in advance so that he could be sure of where he was going.
Two miles away from Ma Market, in Donggang Longhu Township at the foot of Mangshan Mountain, there are countless people passing by the pavilions. At the foot of the Emperor, people from nearby counties and villages come into the city every day to sell goods, and there is an endless stream.
In the distance, a group of people came slowly from the east. Liu Bei rode a white horse at the front of the group. He did not drive away the people, but followed the flow of people and gradually moved forward.
Dian Wei saw it from a distance, and while waving to Liu Bei, he said to Chen Mu, who was sitting next to him in the pavilion drinking tea and playing chess: "Zi Gui, the envoy is here."
"Oh, I see."
Chen Mu smiled. It was not a good thing that Liu Bei came to Luoyang to take up his post this time, because he lost Jinan, but it was not a bad thing either. After all, he was going to Luoyang in the first place.
But according to the original plan, we would bring troops here next year. Now that I am taking charge alone, I have to bring more than 20 guards with me, so my strength is much less.
But it doesn't matter, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are still staying in Qingzhou anyway, it's okay to let them come over when the time comes.
The white horse is quite prominent among the crowd. Liu Bei, who is already twenty-eight years old this year, is still so handsome and has a face as beautiful as a crown jewel. He has attracted many young women to look at him and cast their eyes over him.
"Liangbi!"
Liu Bei noticed Dian Wei waving at the door of the pavilion. He felt happy, got off his horse, and led the horse quickly forward.
After a while, I finally arrived at the entrance of the pavilion. I saw only Dian Wei. I couldn't help but wonder, "Where is Zigui?"
"here I am."
Chen Mu shouted to the outside world, put down the tea cup in his hand, and used the last chess piece to surround the opponent.
The fifty-year-old pavilion chief was stunned for a moment and said with a wry smile: "Shang Shuling's chess skills are superb, but I am far behind."
"Concession."
Chen Mu stood up, wrapped a white silk scarf around his face, and then walked out quietly.
Liu Bei wondered: "Fourth brother, why do you cover your face with a scarf?"
The Han people value being aboveboard. When meeting others, covering your face is either out of shyness or out of necessity because you have something growing on your face, but no matter what, it is impolite behavior.
Dian Wei said with a smile: "I don't know what you know. Zigui has to sit in a carriage every day when he goes to court. He can't see anyone, otherwise the women of Luoyang will go crazy."
"Oh."
Liu Bei suddenly realized, and then he remembered that his fourth brother had a "beautiful appearance" and a delicate face that even women were jealous of. It was indeed inappropriate to appear in public.
Chen Mu said: "This is my first time coming to Luoyang, so I should go shopping, but it's getting late, so I'll go back first."
"Let's go."
Liu Bei followed Chen Mu's carriage slowly into Luoyang.
Luoyang is more than a hundred times more prosperous than Jinan.
It was also the first time for Liu Bei to see such a lively scene. He looked around curiously on his horse and marveled.
Passing through the horse market and reaching the outer city, the streets are crowded with people, there are many signboards, and various shops are lined up. The smell of food is sold, the turbid sweat of the crowds, the aroma of wine from the wine shop, and the pungent smell of horse manure comes from the horse market.
All these seem to overlap, telling Liu Bei that this is the real Luoyang.
Compared with Chen Mu's disappointment when he came to Luoyang for the first time, Liu Bei's eyes were full of shock and pride when he came to Luoyang for the first time.
What is shocking is that there are actually such big cities in the world, with populations that are endless as far as the eye can see.
Although he had also traveled to study, Liu Bei's furthest trip was only near Jizhou, and the study tour funds given by his uncle could not support him to go further.
So he has seen the most prosperous city, that is, the Julu generation in Jizhou.
Now that he has arrived in Luoyang, he understands what it means to be able to stand up to one another, what it means to sweat like rain, and what it means to stand shoulder to shoulder.
Compared with Luoyang, whether Jinan, Julu, or Qingzhou as a whole, they all look like rural villages and towns.
A sense of pride arose spontaneously from deep within Liu Bei's heart.
What I am proud of is that the founder of this city, like him, is a descendant of the great ancestor.
This was the first time Liu Bei intuitively felt the greatness of the Han Empire and the strength of the Han's national power.
This land was laid down by my ancestors, and this city was built by the descendants of my ancestors. Like myself, they all have the blood of the Liu family flowing through them.
When I enter Luoyang now, I am fighting for this land, working hard for the peace of this city, and helping my brothers to stabilize this country.
At this moment, Liu Bei's heart was full of pride and fighting spirit, and the blood in his body seemed to be burning and surging with passion.
If the emperor, who was sitting high in the palace at this time, asked Liu Bei to die, he would probably be willing to do so.
At this moment, a burst of noise suddenly came from ahead.
Liu Bei looked around and saw a chaos not far away. Dozens of people were beating each other. To be precise, there should be forty or fifty people besieging more than ten people. However, there was a man on the besieged side who was quite powerful. In a short time,
Unable to hold it back, people on both sides have begun to draw knives, and the situation is about to get out of control.
The surrounding people walked away. It is forbidden to bring swords into the city of Luoyang, but this is the outer city and the place where more than 90% of the population of Luoyang lives. It is too difficult to control this population of more than one million, and it is impossible to impose a ban.
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Therefore, every time there was a fight or fight, there would be sword fights and fatalities.
Although this is the jurisdiction of the Luoyang Order, Henan Yin is also qualified to handle it, because Henan Yin is the superior of the Luoyang Order. Including Luoyang, more than 20 counties in Henan are under the jurisdiction of Liu Bei.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! So when he saw this scene, Liu Bei immediately shouted: "Stop the war!"
But no one listened to him.
Firstly, the scene was too chaotic, and secondly, the voices were noisy. Unless Liu Bei had Zhang Fei's voice, he would not be able to persuade the red-eyed people.
In desperation, he could only rush forward while patting his horse, and said to the surrounding guards: "Evacuate the people and control them."
"Dian Wei, go help."
"Where is your son?"
"It doesn't matter, I'm safe in the car."
"Okay, then I'm going."
Dian Wei also rushed over with two short halberds.
Liu Bei rushed into the crowd, drew beautiful sword flowers with his two swords, and separated several people in an instant before anyone was killed.
Dian Wei arrived shortly afterwards. His majestic body was like a giant. He could knock someone down with just a wave of his hand.
In just a moment, the men and horses on both sides fell to the ground, leaving only the man with good skills.
Chen Mu lifted the car door curtain, his pupils shrank, and one of them turned out to be Peng Cen.
The rangers of the Eastern Han Dynasty were called rangers in a nice way, but in a bad way they were actually gangsters, and they were underground forces that had no place on the stage.
Peng Cen is a force in the underground world of Luoyang. He has more than a hundred brothers under his command, and they usually hang out in Dongshi.
Strictly speaking, Peng Cen was not Zhang Rang's subordinate, but a subordinate of Zhang Rang's nephew.
After all, it is almost impossible for a local gangster to get close to someone of Zhang Rang's level.
But since Peng Cen is involved, it also means that there is a eunuch involved, but we don't know who it is.
Ding ding ding!
Liu Bei Dianwei and more than 20 guards swarmed forward, first knocked down all the besieging parties, and then turned to attack the besieged party.
It's just that although the number of the besieged party was small, they were well-trained. One man was very powerful. He actually withstood the attacks of Liu Bei and Dian Wei in a short period of time, but was unable to take them down.
However, Liu Bei's combat power is at least 80%, and with Dianwei who is over 90%, ordinary people can't stand it. Soon the man was also repulsed and had to stay a little further away, not daring to join the battle circle. The scene
He was under control for a while.
Liu Bei shouted: "In the imperial capital of Luoyang, under the emperor's feet, you dare to gather people to fight, and even take swords. Are you not afraid of official laws?"
"You are so brave. Do you know who I am?"
A white-faced and beardless boy shouted sharply.
Liu Bei frowned and said, "I don't care who you are, as long as you break the law, you should be arrested and imprisoned."
"Let me see who dares to catch me and put me in jail."
At this moment, a young man arrived with dozens of soldiers from the city gate captain, and vaguely surrounded Liu Bei and others.
Seeing the master coming, the young boy was so happy that he crawled up from the ground, rushed to the young man's feet and cried: "Young Master, I originally bought a horse for the Young Master, but I didn't know that the man raped him and even injured him.
If you leave us, Young Master will make the decision for us."
"fart!"
The repulsed man said sternly: "We are under the command of Ding, the governor of Bingzhou. The governor asked the general for help earlier and bought a batch of war horses to transport to the front line to fight against Xiutu. Who knew that you would jump out to snatch them?
Why are you still slandering us now?"
Even in the Luoyang Horse Market, war horses are a scarce resource. Firstly, they are expensive, and secondly, horses are living creatures after all. The amount of food and drink they eat every day is not a small sum. No horse merchant would have a large number of war horses in their hands.
Therefore, every time there is a trade in war horses, they are usually ordered in advance, and then the horse dealers transport them to Luoyang through their own channels from Youzhou, Bingzhou, Liangzhou and other places.
Just like before, Hou Xu asked Old Man Sun to get war horses. He only wanted five horses and had to wait for several days. It can be seen that war horses cannot be bought anytime and anywhere.
There is a war going on in Bingzhou, and no matter how stupid the Xianbei people are, they cannot trade such strategic materials with their enemies during the war.
Therefore, the war horses from Bingzhou were definitely not available, and they could only be purchased from Youzhou and Liangzhou, which were relatively stable, and then transported to Luoyang.
Because Youzhou and Liangzhou are remote, the cost is higher, the price is more expensive, and the time required will naturally be longer.
Ding Yuan received He Jin's order to regain Bingzhou. Therefore, he recruited troops and horses in Hanoi earlier and ordered a batch of war horses one after another.
Huangfusong, Dingyuan and the Xiutu tribes are now in a stalemate. They are in urgent need of horses. They ordered another batch last month and the goods just arrived today. As a result, something like this happened.
The young man was the son of a powerful man. Yesterday, he suddenly wanted to buy a group of war horses for hunting, so he sent his servants to buy horses.
As mentioned before, the war horses had to be ordered in advance, but the young man could not wait that long and insisted on keeping these ready-made war horses, which triggered a conflict with the soldiers under Ding Yuan's command.
Liu Bei also figured out the cause and effect, and said loudly: "You have robbed other people's horses, gathered people to fight, and violated the law. Come with me back to Luoyang Yamen for trial!"
The young man's face turned pale as he asked, "Who are you? Do you know who I am?"
"snort."
Liu Bei snorted coldly: "This is the new Henan Yin Liu Bei. You have committed a crime and you should be punished."
The young man sneered and said: "It turns out he is Henan Yin. He is such a big official. My father is Zhao Yan, the captain of the city gate, and my uncle is Zhao Zhong, the regular servant. You are just a Henan Yin, how dare you control me?"
When the people watching around heard that it was this person, they immediately stepped back and did not dare to come near.
The bad reputation of Zhao Zhong's nephew Zhao Lin is well known in the outer city of Luoyang.
Because his father was the captain of the city gate, he often used the soldiers of the city gate captain to bully the people, but the people dared not speak out in anger.
"You're the one in charge."
Liu Bei was a typical stupid young man with a bad temper. He didn't know the power behind this, so he was ready to go up and capture this man on the spot.
At this moment, Chen Mu took off his scarf, got out of the car, coughed and said, "Zhao Lin."
"oh?"
Zhao Lin looked over and saw Chen Mu. His expression softened slightly and he cupped his hands and said, "It turns out to be the minister's order."
In the officialdom of the Eastern Han Dynasty, what was judged was not how high your official position was, but how favored you were in front of the emperor.
For example, Le Song and others from Hongdu Palace only had 600 shi, but because they were favored, they were even feared by the three gongs and nine ministers. They were later included in the "Book of the Later Han·Biographies of Cool Officials", which is evident from this.
Therefore, although Chen Mu was only the Minister of the Qianshi Order, he was one of the three most powerful ministers. Secondly, he was favored by the emperor and could be described as a man of great influence.
Even Zhao Lin had to be afraid of him.
"Today's matter, for my sake, let's just let it go."
Chen Mu said slowly.
Zhao Lin did not dare to offend Chen Mu, so he glanced at Liu Bei and said proudly: "Since it is the minister who has spoken, let's just forget about it and leave."
After saying that, he waved his hand and left with the Chengmen Lieutenant's soldiers and servants, as well as Peng Cen and other rangers. Only Liu Bei and Ding Yuan's soldiers were left in shock.