Chapter 214: The Death of Emperor Han Ling
Dong Zhuo listened to Li Ru's advice and did not enter Beijing, and even Dong Min, who had passed the decree, did not let him back, but only sent a messenger to Beijing to restore his life, which caused panic among hundreds of officials.
At this time, Liu Hong also knew that he had no way to continue to hide, although he was mediocre, he didn't want his ancestors' 400-year-old social foundation to be buried in his hands.
In the Wende Palace, Liu Hong showed the officials the above table of Dong Zhuo's refusal to enter Beijing, and his brows were tightly locked.
"The matter of the general, I have heard about it, it is he who is to blame, the problem now is that the Black Mountain thieves and the white wave thieves are besieging Luoyang, Ding Yuan and Bao Xin are isolated, and the whip is beyond the reach of the whip, although the rebellious general Gao Yi captured the general, he was very entertained, and he did not make it difficult, but this Dong Zhuo refused to enter Beijing, what does it mean?"
Liu Hong sat on the dragon chair, holding the seal brought by Dong Zhuo's envoy in his hand, and was in a very bad mood.
"Your Majesty, Dong Zhuo annexed Han Sui's troops at this time, claiming to have 200,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and the position of a former general and state pastor is not satisfying him!"
"Dong Zhuo, what does he want to do? The position of the governor of the state is already the ultimate of the local magistrate, is it only satisfactory for me to give him the position of the emperor?" Liu Hong's face turned red with anger, and he couldn't help but say angry words.
At this time, among the courtiers, one person walked out and said loudly: "Your Majesty, don't be angry, Weichen has a suggestion, it is better to make Dong Zhuo a young mansion, so that you can ascend and descend secretly, and you can also remove Dong Zhuo's military power, which is to kill two birds with one stone!"
Liu Hong looked at him, it was actually Lu Zhi, this guy has been closed since he was demoted, he didn't expect to come today, he said to Lu Zhi: "What Aiqing said is extremely true, then the purpose is -"
Before the words were finished, Shangshu Zheng Tai came out of the class and said: "Your Majesty is slow, Dong Zhuo is a kind and ruthless person, a jackal heart, and there is a group of talents under his command to assist, An Neng can't expect this meaning?
Lu Zhi looked at Zheng Tai and asked with a smile: "Moving Dong Zhuo to the Shaofu is just a temptation, Dong Zhuo has harmed Huangfu Song, this matter is not far away, how can Your Majesty tolerate such a traitor?" Moreover, in Luoyang City, although 50,000 soldiers were taken away by the general, there are still 20,000 horses, and the soldiers in the city are well fed, enough for defense, I have sent people to spy before, Dong Zhuo now only has more than 10,000 people, just in Nanyang was defeated by Gao Yi, the morale of the people and horses is low, although there are follow-up 50,000 horses coming one after another, but they do not carry siege weapons, there is no need to be afraid at all!"
Liu Hong suddenly felt a lot more at ease: "It turns out that Aiqing has been prepared, and he is worthy of being the talent of my Han Dynasty, so I listened to what Aiqing said, and once again ordered Dong Zhuo to enter Beijing, and at the same time used Aiqing as the left general, commanding 20,000 soldiers in the city, and began to stop the defense.
Lu Zhi knelt on the ground and said loudly: "Obey!"
He Miao's face was a little ugly for a while, his eldest brother He Jin was caught by Gao Yi, Liu Hong not only did not show his attitude, but instead used Lu Zhi as a general to lead Luoyang's military power, and now the remaining 20,000 horses in Luoyang, 15,000 are He Miao's personal soldiers, Liu Hong is this a disguised eradication of the power of He's relatives?
He Miao's heart sank, there was still one person to find, that is, his sister Queen He, let Queen He blow the wind next to Liu Hong's pillow, and let Liu Hong take back his life.
Seeing that the court meeting was over, suddenly the front of the hall became pitch black, and occasionally heard the cold wind gusting, the hundred officials panicked, the voice was confused, Liu Hong shouted loudly, not long after, the bright candle was lit, and the frightened cries of the people outside the palace were vaguely heard: "The heavenly dog swallows the sun, the heavenly dog swallows the sun!"
Liu Hong listened to this, his curiosity was aroused, he grew up in the palace, heard the anecdote of the Tengu swallowing the sun, but he had never seen it with his own eyes, so he did not wait for the hundred officials to stop him, and looked up when he left the palace.
I saw that the sun was still scorching just now, and now the whole sky is pitch black, and the place where the sun is located is also blocked by a huge black shadow, and many strange colors can be vaguely seen around the black shadow.
"Is this the tengu?" Liu Hong looked very excited, completely ignoring the advice of the ministers chasing after him: "Your Majesty, you can't look at it, you will break your eyes!"
But it was too late, Liu Hong looked at this world's first spectacle in a daze, and suddenly had a feeling of wanting to reach out and touch it, in front of the absolute force of nature, anyone will feel that they will be particularly small, and insignificant, even the Son of Heaven Liu Hong is no exception, Liu Hong is stupid, he stretched out his hand, but he couldn't touch anything.
I don't want to sit in this seat of heaven anymore, and I don't miss this nostalgic world!
The sound of the hundred officials and the eunuchs and palace maids beating gongs and drums closely sounded in their ears, and each mouth shouted: "Tengu get out, return the sun to us, return the sun to us!"
"Tengu" may have been afraid of the protests of the world, and finally spit out the sun from his mouth, and the moment the sun returned to the world, Liu Hong only felt a stinging pain in his eyes, and then screamed and covered his eyes with his hands, and soon a lot of blood flowed out of his eye sockets, which was extremely terrifying, and he fainted to the ground after a short time, motionless.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"
In Luoyang City, the people had not had time to recover from the joy of celebrating the exorcism of the tengu, and they were shocked by the news that Liu Hong, the son of heaven in the palace, had broken his eyes and died because of this spectacle.
"Is the emperor crazy? Tengu is a god who even dares to bully the sun, and the emperor dares to look up directly, and no one in the huge palace tells him about this taboo?"
"That's right, he deserves to be a notoriously mediocre emperor!"
"Hehe, it's good to have a life, and our people will have a good life in the future!"
"What a good day, the ten permanent servants are still there, but they are just supporting a little emperor to exploit our people!"
"Be quiet, the ears and eyes of the ten permanent servants are omnipresent!"
Zhang Rang Fuzhong.
"Father-in-law Zhang, this time it is God who helps us, the people in the city are talking about it, and the news of His Majesty's death is already known to everyone!"
Guo Shenglai reported to Zhang Rang the news he had heard in the past few days, and there was a lot of flattery in his expression.
Zhang Rang Yiran smiled: "I thought that Your Majesty had become smarter, but I didn't expect that I would be so stupid and kill myself, is there any movement outside the city?"
"Your Majesty's affairs have been spread in the city, and the same is naturally true outside the city, Lu Zhi has been appointed by His Majesty, and now he and Zhu Jun are in charge of the people in the city, but He Miao seems to be very disgusted with Lu Zhi, so he ordered his subordinates to not obey Lu Zhi's dispatch, Lu Zhi and Zhu Jun can only mobilize the remaining 5,000 people, and even start recruiting troops from the people of Luoyang!"
"He Miao seems to be planning to take refuge in the people outside the city when the situation is not good, but it is difficult to say whether he will vote for Dong Zhuo or Gao Yi, how can he be so wishful? Send someone to inform Ye Qiqi, just say that we are ready, the guard of the north gate Dong Zhong is our people, and we will accept him into the city at any time, and when the time comes, we will take the opportunity to establish the prince of the association as the emperor, and I can't help but obey the hundred officials!" Zhang Rangyin said with a smile, the laughter was chilling.
"Understand, Grandpa Zhang just rest assured!" Guo Sheng said and withdrew.
Not long after Guo Sheng left, Zhao Zhong entered Zhang Rang's mansion in a hurry, and came straight to see Zhang Rang: "Father-in-law, Gao Yi refused to let He Jin go, not only swallowed the 30 million money I sent, but also asked us for 1 billion yuan before he was willing to let He Jin go!"
Zhang Rang listened, but he was not surprised at all: "I really misunderstood this Gao Yi at the beginning, he must have blamed us for not helping him when he was in the most difficult time, so he held a grudge, hehe, but it doesn't matter, you must not know that Your Majesty is dead, right?"
Zhao Zhong was shocked: "Dead, when did this happen?"
Zhang Rang said: "In a few days, now Luoyang is already floating in the hearts of the people, this is our chance to regain power, I have arranged everything, ready to establish the prince of Xie, but we are not courtiers after all, it is not easy to come forward, so Gao Yi is a good candidate, don't say it is a billion money, it is 10 billion money, it is not a problem!"
Duan Jue came in from outside at this time, sighed and said, "It's a pity, this Gao Yi doesn't know how to seize this opportunity, he doesn't know what kind of wind to smoke, and he actually went to Wu County!"
During this time, Duan Jue had been sending people to spy on Wen Chou and Pei Yuan Shaojun's things, Zhang Rang couldn't help frowning a little when he heard this: "In this way, it won't be easy to do, originally let Ye Qiqi and Gao Yi check and balance each other, so he was not afraid of being monopolized by one person, but at this extremely critical juncture, he actually didn't come to Luoyang, but went to Wu County——"
Duan Jue suddenly exclaimed: "Could it be that this Gao Yi wants to be self-reliant?"
"Whatever he wants, we don't have only a dead end, it's a big deal, first take the throne of the emperor, and then hijack the little emperor out of the north gate, enter Ye Seventeen's army, support the emperor there, have Zhang Yan as a backer, plus our mountain of wealth, the world is not to worry about, as for Dong Zhuo, we have Gao Yi to deal with, we are still the existence of power!"
Zhang Rangyin smiled coldly, as if this world seemed to him to be like watching a text in the palm of his hand.
Zhao Zhong and Duan Qi couldn't help but cast their heads on Zhang Rang's insight: "With my father-in-law, I can only keep the glory and wealth by waiting!"
Zhang Rang snorted coldly: "At this time, don't be a sycophant, continue to closely see the situation outside the city, Zhao Zhong, you will organize all the people and horses you can gather, Duan Jue, you spread rumors in all the small yellow gates of the harem that the new emperor will eradicate them after he ascends the throne, and let them all twist into a rope with us, and Gao Yi will also immediately send someone to send a billion silver coins to Nanyang, if he doesn't bring his own people to Luoyang, then our plan will not be implemented!"
"Father-in-law is clever!"
At this time, more than 100 miles south of Luoyang, in the camp of Pei Yuanshao in Liang County, there was an uninvited guest with a masked, Pei Yuanshao heard the introduction of the soldiers guarding the camp, and immediately went out of the camp to see, although this uninvited guest covered his face, Pei Yuanshao still recognized it at a glance.
"Lord!"