Chang'an City.

Since the first year of the first year of the early peace, the emperor moved westward, it has been several years, the former imperial capital, once again glowed with the atmosphere of prosperity, the city wall was rebuilt one after another, and the infrastructure in the city made this city more majestic and magnificent, even if it was not as good as the former Luoyang City, it is also the most populous city today.

The situation in Chang'an is not as peaceful as it seems.

Since the beginning of the fifth year of the first peace, there has been some undercurrent surging in the court, as the royalist party and the Taishi party have torn their faces, the struggle between the two sides has begun to enter the open battle directly from the dark fight.

Especially last year, in the past year, Dong Zhuo did not raise troops to fight abroad, and deliberately calmed down to sort out the government.

Dong Zhuo is good at fighting, but he is not as good as Wang Yun and Yang Biao in government affairs, these old foxes, but he has the ruthless Li Ru and the poisonous Jia Xu under his command to help, Li Ru has a clear view of the overall situation, takes charge of the overall situation, stabilizes the situation, Jia Xu's methods are ruthless, and he does things like thunder, with the cooperation of the two, the officials of the royalist faction have fallen one after another, and they are basically either imprisoned or degraded and exiled.

It has only been more than a year, and the royalist party that was still able to compete with Xiliang's henchmen above the court has now been beaten.

Led by the royalists, there are only two people who have survived the situation in the imperial court, one is Situ Wang Yun and the other is Sikong Yang Biao.

Even Sima Fang of the Guanzhong family, in August last year, because of a very small matter, was made a big fight by the Taishi and his party in the court, almost forcing the palace emperor to behead him, and finally he fled back to his hometown in Hanoi, so that he saved his life, but all his official positions were deposed and he was idle at home.

In addition, even the uncle of the Son of Heaven, Fu Wan, was thrown into the prison because he offended Lu Bu, and he has not been released yet.

With the monstrous power of the Taishi party, even Wang Yun and Yang Biao have to become obscure, and in the court, they are almost obedient to the Taishi Mansion, and they dare not make big moves easily, and the entire government has been firmly controlled by the Taishi Mansion.

The edict of Liu Xie, the son of heaven, couldn't even get out of Weiyang Palace.

Of course, although Dong Zhuo controls the imperial court, he is not without worries in his heart, he has one of the biggest worries, which has not been solved so far, and it also suppresses him from easily mobilizing troops and horses to start a war with foreign countries.

Nanyang is too protective of the emperor's Fu Song.

Huangfu Song supported his troops in Nanyang and relied on the land of Nanyang to feed the Guanzhong Army, making the Guanzhong Army a big problem for the Xiliang Army.

Dong Zhuo had tried to lure Huangfu Song back to Beijing several times.

But Huangfu Song was never fooled.

The people under his command even sent people to assassinate Huang Fu Song, but they were also dodged by Huang Fu Song one by one, Huang Fu Song is a famous general in the world, holding heavy soldiers, and he does not dare to directly threaten with a knife and a gun.

Once Huangfu Song is directly reversed, it will definitely be a big favor for the imperial court.

The strength of the Guanzhong army is not the strongest, but against the Shangxi Liang army, there are two advantages, the first is that the Guanzhong army is established by Guanzhong Erlang as the foundation, they have a lot of influence in the land of Guanzhong, if other soldiers and horses attack Guanzhong, the Xiliang army is not afraid, but if the Guanzhong army kills back, I am afraid that this Guanzhong land will not be able to stop it at all.

And the second advantage is the ability of Huangfu Song himself.

Huangfu Song's ability to lead troops is recognized as the first in the world, even Dong Zhuo has to agree with this, if it really starts, even if it can annihilate Huang Fu Song's Guanzhong army, the Xiliang army will be greatly damaged.

So for Huangfu Song, Dong Zhuo is delaying again and again.

This dragged on his patience and made him start to become a little manic.

On this day, Dong Zhuo was furious in the lobby of the Taishi Mansion: "It's been more than a year, an Huangfu Song, don't we have anything to do with him?" “

It's not that he wants to be angry.

It's that he is really angry, and the general situation is in his hands, but even Huangfu Song can't solve it, like a thorn stuck in his throat, he can't pull it out, and it's very uncomfortable.

"Lord, Huangfu Song has lived in a simple place for the past two years, and has become a little low-key, we have no way to start, the edict of the Son of Heaven was sent, but he did not return due to illness and forcibly recalled, but the holy decree could not even enter Nanyang, and the angel who delivered the decree was already sniped and killed on the road!"

Li Ru smiled bitterly: "This Huangfu Song should have a master around him to help him, with a trick of procrastination, he took off the situation forcefully, he just expected that we would not dare to turn our faces first, so there is no fear!" ”

"No matter what the reason, this Huangfu Song can't stay, he can't continue to wait, it's really not good, just attack directly!" Dong Zhuo said.

He was impatient because of the news from Yizhou.

Mu Jing pacified the four counties of Nanzhong and subdued the barbarians, and the news seemed to pierce his heart, making him feel a trace of fear out of thin air.

He didn't forget that there was no hatred between him and the Mu family.

Once Mu Longtu became a momentum, in the first time, I was afraid that he would go north to deal with him, so he was anxious, anxious to pinch the entire imperial court into a ball before starting a war with the Minghou Mansion in Yizhou, instead of needing to guard against the whole defense of that.

"Once attacked, just Nanyang, there may still be hope, but once Yizhou takes advantage of the danger at this time, we will face the attack of Nanyang and Yizhou, and some gains outweigh the losses!" Jia Xu said in a dark voice.

"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, how can I do it!"

Dong Zhuo stood up, a hideous look appeared on his fat face, and his eyes like copper bells exuded a dangerous light.

"My lord, Runan is in a hurry!"

A soldier trotted in and handed the bamboo tube containing the message to Li Ru.

Li Ru is in charge of Xiliang's intelligence network, and there are countless moles of all sizes under his command, in order to develop this network, he has started to operate since he entered Luoyang City, and he has made some achievements.

"Go down!"

Li Ru took the bamboo tube and snorted.

"No!"

The soldiers quickly departed.

Li Ru knew that his subordinates, if it weren't for a hundred thousand urgent things, they wouldn't have sent the news here, so in front of Dong Zhuo, he opened the bamboo tube and carefully looked at the news sent back from Runan.

"Lord, Yuan Shu has been proclaimed emperor in Jiujiang Shouchun!" Li Ru's face changed slightly, and he handed the cloth strip of news to Dong Zhuo.

"What?"

Dong Zhuo's breath trembled, he hurriedly looked at the news, his pupils changed color all of a sudden, and his face was a little cold: "Yuan Highway is really looking for death!" ”

"We have to send troops!"

Li Ru said: "Maintaining the orthodoxy of the imperial court can command the world, once he indulges Yuan Highway to be the emperor, it is equivalent to setting an example for the princes of the world, and it is necessary to thunder and defeat Yuan Shu!" ”

"It's also an opportunity!"

Jia Xu's reaction was very fast, and he added: "In the name of the Son of Heaven, the lord can order the princes of the world to send troops to fight, and then order Huangfu Song to lead the Guanzhong army as the vanguard, so that they will lose both!" ”

"Take Yuan Shu's knife to kill Huangfu Song, this is a good idea!"

Dong Zhuo's eyes lit up, but he was a little worried: "But what if Huangfu Song shouldn't?" ”

"He didn't dare!"

Li Ru said: "This Yuan Shu is called the emperor, it is a great disobedience, if he is like this, he is not willing to send troops, then we will send troops to Nanyang, and the division will be famous!" ”

"Wen Wei, you go to Weiyang Palace and let the Son of Heaven issue an edict!" Dong Zhuo said: "In addition, order Lu Bu to lead the Bingzhou army to the south, enter Yuzhou, and press the battle for Huangfu Song!" ”

The two words of pressure array, he said very heavily.

"Good!"

Li Ru nodded, he knew what Dong Zhuo meant, and after they lost both of them, they cleaned up together.

"Wenhe, I asked you to keep an eye on Yizhou, how is the situation in Yizhou?"

Dong Zhuo suddenly asked, what he was most afraid of was Yizhou.

"Yizhou is currently very stable, after the Ming Marquis conquered Nanzhong, it seems that he has deliberately become a little low-key, he should want to digest the results of the conquest of Nanzhong!" Jia Xu said: "But maybe some people don't want him to keep a low profile, the news I got is that Liu Bei in Youzhou, Yuan Shao in Jizhou, Cao Cao in Xuzhou, and Sun Jian in Jiangdong seem to have sent envoys to Yizhou!" ”

"Is the trend coming?" Dong Zhuo sneered.

"Last year, the Qiang army was defeated and Guanghan, we lost the hope of moving troops in Yizhou, and later put hope on Liu Zhang, but Liu Zhang is a state pastor who has nothing to support, even if he has the name of the state pastor, he has no ability, and now it is estimated that he has been put under house arrest by Mu Longtu, and if he wants to use this chess piece to deal with Mu Longtu, it is no longer very useful!"

"If I could have killed him in Guanzhong at the beginning, there wouldn't be so many things now!"

Dong Zhuo clenched his fists: "If this person is still alive for a day, I will not be at peace for a day, and it will be difficult to sleep and eat!" ”

Over the years, Dong Zhuo has the ability to have fun, but on the contrary, he just remembers that he still has an enemy in the world, so often when he wants to have fun, there is a motivation that makes him dare not relax.

He never dared to underestimate the young man who was only a weak crown.