Chapter Twenty-Four: Parting Ways and Destiny

Cao Cao's team had the blessing of Xiahou Yuan, and they ran relatively fast, and they just happened to see the Xiliang army that was set on fire in Luoyang to evacuate, so they naturally chased after it.

Chen Chen also just knew that Cao Cao's team was still chasing after him as in his previous life, and wanted to take back Emperor Han Xian, but this time it was different, and Liu Bei was also ready to catch up.

Because in this Luoyang, there is not much to search for.

Chen Chen set his target on the broken Xiliang army and the people they had taken away.

If there is more population, more land can be developed, more living space, and the development speed of the state can be improved.

And with the blessing of Chen Chen, Bingzhou is developing like a snowball, and the population that can be grabbed this time can produce huge value in the future.

Therefore, Liu Bei's robbery of the population this time was also in the form of grabbing money.

Cao Cao's purpose was Emperor Han Xian, and Liu Bei's purpose was the people.

Therefore, the demands between them did not conflict, but they formed an alliance and continued to pursue in the direction of the retreat of the Xiliang army.

When Liu Bei asked if the other princes had pursued Dong Zhuo together, no one was willing to follow him.

Because in their opinion, by capturing Luoyang, their goal has been achieved.

As for the rest, there isn't much more to be done.

Even if the alliance of the princes catches up with the Xiliang army, what can they do, the main forces of the people are all cavalry, and most of them are infantry, so they can't catch up at all.

The princes gathered in the Jinluan Hall at this time, one by one they were talking to each other about the loss, and they were all heartbroken, and Yuan Shao was also expressing his opinion.

"Dong Zhuo has been defeated, Chang'an has been broken for many years, even if he goes to Chang'an, he can't develop."

"Although the Son of Heaven is held in Dong Zhuo's hands, but now that Dong Zhuo's general trend has gone, presumably he doesn't dare to do anything more to the Han family, so you have done a great job, now just put Your Majesty with Dong Zhuo, and wait until everyone develops well, and then snatch the Han Emperor back to Luoyang."

The princes all stood on the dilapidated Jinluan Hall, and after listening to everyone's complaints, Yuan Shao knew that his chance to perform had arrived.

The previous position of alliance leader was not successfully obtained, and he was still unwilling, but now it is a new opportunity.

Yuan Shao walked to the top of the ladder and spoke loudly to everyone.

Cao Cao suddenly appeared outside the main hall and stretched out his hand to push aside the princes who were standing around Yuan Shao, and beside him, there were Liu Bei and Chen Chen.

They met on the road, the Xiahou brothers first led the troops to pursue, Cao Cao waited for a while and still did not wait for the other princes to continue the march, he originally thought that Liu Bei knew, the alliance would continue to advance, but he did not expect that except for Liu Bei and Gongsun Zhan's soldiers and horses waiting at the West City Gate, none of the other families came.

On the way back to Luoyang, he met Liu Bei and Chen Chen again, at this time he didn't care about the original love and hatred, Liu Bei told him the reaction of the princes and the news that they were now discussing the future in the Jinluan Palace, so he asked Cao Cao to go straight to the Jinluan Palace.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he came in, Cao Cao heard Yuan Shao's words here to persuade everyone to relax.

He has been friends with Yuan Shao for many years, so naturally he will not dismantle his stage in person, but change his words.

"Now that the Dong thief is fleeing to the west, we can just take advantage of the situation to pursue and win! Why did you stand still? Why did you stand still? ”

But his emotions were still a little excited,

The voice inevitably became louder, echoing throughout the hall.

Yuan Shao replied in a deep voice.

"The princes' soldiers and horses are tired and tired, and their combat effectiveness is limited, so I'm afraid there is no benefit in pursuing it again, so it's not suitable."

Yuan Shao's explanation and exculpation sounded quite reasonable, which made Cao Cao turn his attention to the princes.

"Dong thieves burned the palace, excavated the imperial tomb, deceived the king, plundered the Son of Heaven and burned Luoyang, isn't this sin enough to make you sad? At this time, the Dong thief fled, the army's defense was limited, as long as we won in this battle, the world would be able to settle down, why can't you see it clearly! ”

Cao Cao looked extremely angry, and even Chen Chen felt a little strange.

Cao Cao didn't show much enthusiasm before, why was he so irritable after entering Luoyang after inspecting it?

None of the princes in the hall responded, they looked at each other, but it was impossible for Cao Cao's words to be provoked to pursue Dong Zhuo, they wanted to stay in Luoyang and end the battle.

After all, how many of the people who participated in this discussion of Dong were really for the Han family?

It's hard to say.

"Mengde ......"

Yuan Shao on the steps frowned, and wanted to appease Cao Cao, who was like a fried lion, but was interrupted before he could speak.

"Lack of erection and conspiracy!"

Like a slap in the face, it hit Yuan Shao firmly in the face.

Cao Cao turned around and waved his robe, leaving a back for the princes present, and strode out of the palace gate angrily.

Chen Chen and Liu Bei, who were quietly watching the play on the side, also saluted the princes and turned to leave.

It was a long time before the sound of deliberation resumed in the main hall.

Liu Bei, who had a good mentality, had forgotten his identity as the leader of the alliance and accompanied Cao Cao with Chen Chen.

Now the people who have the same goals as themselves are teammates, so there is no bloody dispute between the three of them walking together.

Chen Chen looked at Cao Cao, who still had anger on his face, hesitated again and again, and finally asked.

As soon as he opened his mouth, Liu Bei, who was walking with him, secretly pricked up his ears and began to eavesdrop on the content of their conversation, but Chen Chen did not shy away from it, and he could hear it clearly without eavesdropping.

Trust must still be very trusting, but this must prevent his own cabbage from being arched by other pigs, and he is not guarding against Chen Chen, but Cao Cao.

"Why is Cao Gong so angry?"

Chen Chen asked softly, not wanting to exacerbate Cao Cao's emotions, just asking.

"I grew up in Luoyang, and I saw the place where I grew up turn to dust, how could I let him go?"

Cao Cao sighed, the anger on his face eased somewhat, and he continued to speak.

"When I entered Luoyang, I saw that all the memories related to me were turned into ashes, and I don't know if he burned out my youth or erased my past, maybe I will be a little different in the future."

Cao Cao lowered his head, in this gentle chat environment, he let go of his guard and said a few more words to Chen Chen.

Chen Chen thought for a while, so he didn't ask any more questions, they rushed to the West Gate in silence, and continued to march with the Bingzhou Army and the Youzhou Army, following the direction of the retreat of the Xiliang Army and the pursuit of Cao Cao's troops.

I have to say.

The improvised patchwork alliance of the Dong Alliance is indeed weak.

Even if Liu Bei was the leader of the alliance before, in this kind of matter involving interests, everyone is still very clear, and it is impossible to pay much for this alliance that has been gathered temporarily.

So when Yuan Shao mentioned it, everyone knew that he was going to dissolve the alliance, and this time, Yuan Shao was like the leader of the alliance.

However, with Chen Chen's advance reminder, Liu Bei has not been very angry, and he actually didn't expect this group of improvised guys, but Gongsun Chan still wanted to accompany him because of Liu Bei's relationship.

Brother Gongsun is actually okay with all kinds of interests, compared to Luoyang, which has been burned almost completely, he feels that Liu Bei's brother is more important to him.

Therefore, Gongsun Zhan also joined Liu Bei and Cao Cao in the team that continued to pursue the Xiliang army, which was formed and said to have tens of thousands of people.

After parting ways.

The other princes are still looking for all kinds of financial resources in Luoyang City, and they want to return blood to this loss, after all, the consumption in the Tiger Prison Pass is really a lot, and each family can be regarded as a ruthless blood, and they can catch as much as they can after the war.

The same is true for Sun Jian.

Sun Jian was the pioneer of the first battle of Bishui Pass, and he was also at the forefront of the chaos of the Battle of Tiger Pass.

Even if the Tiger Prison Pass is more exciting except for the opening three-British battle against Lu Bu, the battle behind it has been more intense for a few days, and the others are paddling.

However, Sun Jian's troops have gone from more than 20,000 people he had just brought in to only about 15,000 now, and he has lost nearly half of them.

So he didn't have the idea of continuing to pursue, he just wanted to get a little bit of something in this Luoyang City, and then run back to Changsha to develop well.

The palace is the focus of Dong Zhuo's looting, and the princes understand that there is not much value here after entering the palace, naturally no one wants to stay here to fight the fire and collect, and at this time, even the palace where the golden tiles have been pried away is not as good as those big families with things left.

So the area of the palace was left to Sun Jian, the most outer.

Sun Jian didn't dislike it, so he started to put out the fire in the ruins of this palace, and used this place as a place for a short rest and garrison.

Even if there is no food here, and there is nothing valuable, he still doesn't care, no matter how you say it, he, Sun Jian, can be regarded as a person who has lived in the palace now!

However, Sun Jian's mood is not so optimistic.

In the alliance of princes, he is still more affectionate towards the imperial court, because the imperial court treats him very well.

Now seeing such ruins, his mood is also extremely heavy, no one in the ancestral land of the Han family is willing to guard, so let him come.

organized his subordinates to set up a camp on the ruins of Jianzhang Palace, and then led the soldiers to clean up the rubble in the palace, and more or less gave the palace a decent and clean appearance, so as to end the cleaning of the palace.

And all the ancestral tombs of the imperial tombs that were excavated by Dong Zhuo's people, he also asked people to take soil from the imperial garden and bury them again.

On the ruins of the Taimiao, he also asked people to cut down some trees from the imperial garden, temporarily built three temples for use as the Taimiao, and then temporarily made some spirit tablets and replaced them in the hastily built Taimiao.

Then invite the princes to come here to worship the saints of the Han family.

This is just a formality for the other princes, after they finished worshipping, they did not say hello, they all dispersed to collect the materials looted today, and prepared to withdraw their troops, and finally left Sun Jian alone in this temple.

Gazing at these hastily formed spirit cards, Sun Jian sighed, bowed deeply, and returned to his camp.

On this night, Sun Jian was inevitable all night.

He often thought of the ruins of the imperial palace and the excavated imperial tombs he saw, and he seemed to have seen the ancestors of the Liu family go through the motions and meet with him.

Coming out of his tent and sitting on the ground outside, his great sword resting on his lap, he looked up at the starry sky.

Tonight is not a moon with stars, nor is it a starry night.

It is a rare vision of the stars and the moon, if you don't look at it seriously in the sky, it is difficult to see, Sun Jian has rarely seen such a scene in his life, he has also learned some astronomy-related content, and he feels that there is such a vision, and the fortune of heaven and earth will naturally change, so he moved his gaze to the place where he guessed in his heart.

The white air in the purple micro wall is diffuse, and the purple micro star flickers in and out, and it seems that it is difficult to see its appearance clearly.

It seems to be in decline and has no vitality.

Sun Jian closed his eyes and sighed, this brave man on weekdays rarely sighed like today, maybe it was because of feelings, or maybe he really had some understanding, Sun Jian muttered to himself.

"The emperor star is unknown, the thieves are in chaos, the people are in misery, the capital is empty, the Han Dynasty is dead, and Kyushu is dead."

After speaking, I couldn't help but choke speechlessly.

He sat still until one of his subordinates broke his silence.

"Is there a colored glow in the well on the south side of the palace?"

Sun Jian frowned, looking puzzled, looking at the soldier who came to report to him, this soldier he knew, he brought it out from Jiangdong, but how could there be a colorful brilliance in the middle of the night?

Could it be that Dong Zhuo didn't clean it when he searched the palace, and there were still rare treasures left?

Just after feeling the sadness of the big man, but as soon as he heard that there might be a strange treasure, Sun Jian instantly got up and ran towards the south of the palace.

There is one thing to say, everything that should be done has been done, maybe this is because he treated the palace well, treated the ancestors of the Han family well, and cleaned up the imperial tomb clearly, what is the reward of these ancestors for themselves?

Although he didn't particularly expect anything particularly good to make up for nearly half of his soldiers, something was better than nothing.

With his most trusted personal soldiers, Sun Jian went straight to the south of the palace in the middle of the night.

When I arrived at the scene, there was really a faint colored light shining in the well.

"Light the torch and take a closer look."

Sun Jian instructed his guards to surround the place and prevent outsiders from entering or leaving, and also told them to light torches and explore the well to observe the source of the colored light.

The dark well was illuminated by the fire, revealing two corpses in the well, and the decoration should be the eunuch and the palace maid who wanted to escape, but they fell into the well, or were thrown into the well by the Xiliang army, so they died in this well.

Needless to say more about Sun Jian, the soldiers tied up the ropes, and went down to salvage the two corpses in the well, and saw that on the corpse of the palace maid, there was indeed a colorful light flashing, and Sun Jian was sure that it was really a treasure.

"Take a look."

The guard touched the corpse, felt a bag in his arms, and handed it to Sun Jian.

Sun Jian opened the bag and found that there was a small vermilion box in the bag, the box was firmly locked by a golden lock, and he didn't find the key or anything, so he could only use the big sword in his hand to cut off the golden lock and open the box.

"This ......"

Against all odds.

The contents of this box were not in Sun Jian's expectation at all.

In this small vermilion box, there is a jade seal of the country!

It is four inches in circumference, and five jade dragons are engraved on it; One side of the jade seal was missing a corner, and it was filled with gold; On the jade seal, there are eight characters engraved with seals.

"Ordered by the sky, both longevity and eternal prosperity"

"Where did this thing come from?"

Sun Jian looked at the words on the jade seal, read it again, and handed it to Cheng Pu beside him, asking him the origin of this thing, whether it was really a jade seal.

Cheng Pu is older and understands more culture than Sun Jian, and Sun Jian thinks he can understand it better.

Cheng Pu took the heirloom jade seal handed over by Sun Jian, looked at it seriously a few times, and then put this precious thing into the box and covered it, and handed it back to Sun Jian.

His expression was serious, his demeanor was solemn, and he looked very serious.

This attitude made Sun Jian think that there was something wrong with this, and he frowned.

"I ......"

"Actually, I don't understand."

After Cheng Pu finished speaking, Sun Jian breathed a sigh of relief, pursed his lips helplessly, shook his head, and didn't know if this jade seal was true or false, although it should be true, but if it was fake, it would be embarrassing to be recognized by someone who knew the goods at that time?

"But I do know where he came from, I'll talk about it, and Wentai will make a judgment for himself."

Cheng Pu stroked his beard and smiled.

Seeing that Sun Jian nodded, he told the story of He's Bi to Sun Jian, and introduced Qin's eldest grandson to present this heirloom jade seal to Liu Bang, and then during Wang Mang's usurpation, the Empress Dowager Xiaoyuan used this jade seal to beat Wang Xun and Su Xian, and then kowtowed a corner and patched it with gold.

"What a loser."

Sun Jian heard that the golden horn of the jade seal was knocked because it was taken by a woman to beat him, and he couldn't help but stroke the golden horn of the jade seal and sighed.

"Okay, so be it."

Sun Jian closed the lid and put the jade seal in his arms.

"It is rumored that this jade seal of the country was when the ten permanent servants were in turmoil, and they hijacked the young emperor out of the palace and lost it outside the palace, but I didn't expect to find it here today, which may indicate that Wentai you have the luck of the Ninety-Five."

Cheng Pu leaned into Sun Jian's ear and whispered to him.

"There are many dreams at night, we can't stay here for a long time, now we should hurry back and discuss what should happen next."

Looking at Cheng Pu's somewhat pale and constantly shaking eyebrows, Sun Jian suddenly felt a little funny, but now is the time for the true scripture, he nodded and said his arrangement.

"Then I will leave tomorrow as sick and go back to Changsha immediately."

After discussing the arrangement, Sun Jian gathered all the soldiers who went with him to salvage the strange treasure tonight, and instructed them to keep a good secret and not allow it to be leaked.

But there's a good saying.

When the stakes are big enough, the risks do not deter some careerists.

Among Sun Jian's personal soldiers, there were Runan people, and he felt that if he informed Yuan Shao of this news, would he be able to exchange it for the benefits of being promoted to a high position.

Sun Jian didn't find that any of his soldiers left the camp overnight, because he was so excited that he couldn't sleep holding the jade seal.

He didn't know that he had the world's greatest treasure in his arms.

The encounter with him was destined not to change.

And this treasure did not bring him the luck and opportunity to ascend to the position of the Ninth Five-Year Plan.

It was a murder he didn't foresee.

"Sun Jian found the heirloom jade seal in the palace?"

Yuan Shao met with the fellow who came to vote late at night, looked at him in the dress of Sun Jian's Changsha army, and thought about the credibility of his words.

"Okay, you have a good rest first, I have arranged your rewards, and I will confront Sun Jian tomorrow, and you will be the general of our army after the matter is completed."

Yuan Shao patted the person on the shoulder and smiled affectionately.

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