Two days later, Li Su and Huangfu Song arrived in Chang'an.

Along the way, Li Su also roughly figured out Huangfu Song's true attitude towards "taking the opportunity of the princess of Wannian to smuggle Chang'an ritual utensils":

The reason why Huangfu Song turned a blind eye to this extent was completely disgusted by Dong Zhuo's atrocities in Luoyang that "melted down the Dingsi Zhuli coinage". He also knew how ruthless and thorough Qiu Ba, who were illiterate and had no cultural reverence in the Xiliang Army, scavenged.

When the time comes, these things will not be lost, and the statistics will not be good at all, so it is better to pick the precious ones that are worth protecting and give them to Liu Bei, after all, Huangfu Song and Liu Bei have also known each other since they begged for the yellow scarf, and Liu Bei has respected him so much over the years.

In addition, if it is a peaceful era, even if Huangfu Song acquiesces, there will still be some complications in this matter - because even if the general of the chariot and cavalry is also the third assistant of the town, the old palace of Chang'an and the old temple are still theoretically under the jurisdiction of the guards.

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, Wei Wei is one of the nine kings of the imperial court, but since the middle of the Han Dynasty, because the number of palaces has increased, Wei Wei has also been added, for example, before Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there was only Weiyang Palace, and Emperor Wu built Jianzhang Palace, so he set up Weiyang and Jianzhang Weiwei, and also set up "Wei General", which was under the general and the general of the chariot cavalry, and commanded the palace guards.

However, Dong Zhuo's perverse behavior created convenience for Li Su and Huangfu Song - the last official guard of the imperial court was Yang Biao, known as the third prince of the fourth world. But this year, Yang Biao and others were first reprimanded because of their opposition to Dong Zhuo's relocation of the capital, and then they were reinstated and appointed Taichang, Dong Zhuo took advantage of the situation to remove the two Beijing guards, and there was no new appointment, so he was temporarily vacant-

Obviously, Dong Zhuo wanted him to loot the palace in order to facilitate him, so he didn't want any more Jiuqing-level guards to get in the way. After all, the rough generals under him can only actually take on the defense of the palace, but no one is qualified to be ranked in Jiuqing? As long as you have a guard captain? It's definitely not your own person, so it's better not to.

This side of Chang'an? Temporarily guarding the old palace Weiyang Palace? It's directly Huangfu Song's soldiers, and even Dong Zhuo's order to "melt ritual vessels for coins" has already been issued? The whole thing is a bunch of messy accounts, and Li Su is completely taking advantage of the chaos to make a time difference.

……

"Make Zhonglang General Su? See Her Royal Highness the Princess. ”

Because of Huangfu Song's acquiescence? Princess Wannian was taken to Chang'an one step earlier than Li Su, so the two sides directly paid homage to the harem side hall of Weiyang Palace.

Huangfu Song was also beside him, and he saluted together, which was regarded as an introduction and witness.

Weiyang Palace is the palace of the Western Han Dynasty? Older than Jianzhang Palace? But it has always survived and maintained. On the contrary, after Chang'an was no longer the national capital, the Jianzhang Palace fell into disrepair and was abandoned. Dong Zhuo is about to send someone to send Emperor Xian to Chang'an, and he will also live in Weiyang Palace at that time.

Princess Liu Miao also responded very politely, without the slightest dignity from a year ago: "Li Zhonglang is exempt, I heard that Dong Thief is about to come west?" Please also ask Zhonglang not to forget his promise to his mother in the past and save me from fire and water. ”

Li Su humbly arched his hand: "That's nature? Do you still remember, before Empress Lingsi left? once said to the minister, what if the princess's parents and brothers are no longer alive? Then transfer His Royal Highness to the care and care of Liu Xuande, the emperor's uncle and former Zongzheng's general of Zhengxi? Your Highness must have heard it at the time, so you won't be impressed, right? ”

This sentence? Obviously, it was said to the Huangfu Song who was witnessing next to him.

The last time Li Su saw Liu Miao was more than a year ago, so now Liu Miao should be twelve years old, and she is a lot more sensible, and her physique and posture have also grown a little.

For a little girl, whose parents and brothers died within a year, it is indeed easy to mature all at once, and to know some hardships and dangers in the world.

In this year, Liu Miao has heard a lot of rumors about Dong Zhuo's atrocities, and as a girl, Liu Miao's concern is not only about burning, killing, looting, stealing the imperial tomb, and stealing the Dingsi, but also a very crucial one: when Dong Zhuo was in Luoyang, he often stayed in the dragon bed at night, and insulted the princess and the concubines of the first emperor.

Although Emperor Ling only has this one daughter, Emperor Huan still left two younger daughters in his last years, and they are all "post-65s", the older Princess Liu Jian of Yingyin is over twenty-five years old, and the younger Princess Liu Xiu of Yangzhai is about twenty-three or four years old, and they should have been poisoned by Dong Zhuo. (Liu Hua, the eldest daughter of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty, is in her thirties, married to Fu Wan, and was not insulted by Dong Zhuo)

After Liu Miao learned about the tragedy of the two little aunts, of course she would be more sensible and more cooperative with the rescue.

Although Liu Miao had never heard anything from the queen mother, "let the imperial uncle raise you", the queen mother did take care of Li Su to protect herself, and it was nothing to follow.

Liu Miao agreed: "It's rare that Zhonglang remembers every word of the queen mother's words, so you must not let it down, and you must take the concubine to the emperor's uncle safely." ”

Huangfu Song was also relieved when he heard Liu Miao admit it in person, at least some of the guards and eunuchs next to him heard this, and he would not be able to bite him on the head in the future.

Liu Miao glanced at everyone: "Then you can retreat, and the palace will discuss with Li Zhonglang about the subsequent transfer of the domain." ”

"Retire!" Huangfu Songba had to be this light bulb and took everyone with him.

After Liu Miaomu sent Huangfu Song away, a trace of tears suddenly flashed in her eyes, and tears flowed down. She hugged Li Su weakly, and beat Li Su's back with her fist.

Of course, this does not carry any distractions between men and women, it is purely a little girl venting her emotions:

"Did you know? I hated you when you left me! Why can't you save my mother! Why can't you save my imperial brother! They all died after you entered the river! ”

The twelve-year-old girl was only five and a half feet tall, a full two feet shorter than Li Su, and her strength was also small, so Li Su certainly didn't need to dodge her fists. He just stood stiffly in place: "The minister is ashamed. ”

Liu Miao let out a long breath, stopped beating, and wiped her tears: "However, I have hated you for half a year, and now I have figured it out, I don't hate you anymore." ”

Li Su: "Thank you, Princess for your forgiveness." ”

Liu Miao stuck her waist and pointed at Li Su: "You are a dead man!" can't say a few heart-warming words, what is the princess worth now? The father, the queen, the queen mother, and the queen brother are all gone, and after Dong Zhuo killed the king, he was like a mustard, and he used you to deal with a princess with such a hypocritical gift?

I took you as a friend to say these heart-wrenching words, and you just dealt with me like this? Do you know how scared you are every day when you have no relatives? Don't you ask me why I don't hate you again? ”

Li Su also sighed, he knew that Liu Miao needed to burst out because of the pent-up fear and depression. After all, in the original year, she might have been afraid that the wall would have ears, and if she said something wrong, Dong Zhuo would find an excuse to get it back to Luoyang, and it would really be better to live than die.

After sighing, Li Su asked cooperatively in a warm tone with as much human touch as possible: "The minister really wants to know why the princess doesn't hate me again." ”

Liu Miaoxunran complained: "Because I see that loyal ministers of the Han family, such as Huangfu Song, are unwilling to go beyond the obstruction of Dong Zhuo, I am afraid that everyone in the world has their own last resort." I'm a weak girl, how much truth can I understand? What Huangfu Song didn't dare to do, I had the luxury of expecting you to be willing to risk death to do it, and it could only be extravagant. ”

Li Su breathed a sigh of relief: It turned out that it was all set off by his peers, so he didn't hate me......

"I am truly grateful that the princess is willing to put herself in such a position and be sympathetic to her feelings—this time it is really not a false courtesy, I am really grateful." Li Su is a straight man of steel, so he hurriedly added some vulgar words for fear that the words of thanks would be regarded as hypocritical politeness to abide by the courtesy of dignity and humility.

If only he could flirt with his sister, he would definitely be able to come up with more subtle words to win people's trust.

It's a pity that although he is eloquent and intelligent, he can't deal with women, and he doesn't need to deal with women at work.

"Poof-" Liu Miao looked at him for a while, and finally couldn't help laughing, the way this gambling curse swore was really ridiculous, "Okay, I didn't doubt you this time, then let's get down to business, and prepare to help me move." Also, whether you are sincere or not, I can see it, not by what words you say, anyway, I can see it. ”

Li Su: "How can the princess tell?" ”

Liu Miao: "Don't worry about this, I can't say clearly, anyway, I can see it - the woman's consciousness." ”

Li Su smiled bitterly: "It turned out to be a woman's intuition......"

Liu Miao was slightly stunned: "Intuitive-Jue? Straight straight? Eh, that's a good word, it seems to be a little more appropriate. I heard that you are a great Confucian in the world, what is the origin of this word? ”

Li Su: "There is no canon, I am thinking blindly, and the perception that hits the point of doubt is referred to as intuition." ”

Li Su stopped these unnutritious topics, and then roughly told Liu Miao about Dong Zhuo's behavior of melting and casting bronze artifacts in Luoyang, in exchange for Liu Miao's understanding of "saving ritual vessels", and then began to take action.

After Liu Miao heard this, she agreed: "I see, then I naturally want to help you, anyway, don't leave it to Dong Thief to destroy." In this Weiyang Palace, as well as the Taimiao, I will take you around for a while, and let people take whatever you like. ”

Li Su: "Thank you princess for your understanding, those daily bronze utensils, even if they are valuable things forbidden by the palace, you don't have to take more, after all, Your Majesty will use them after moving here." We took it, and then we will have to cast another one, which is also a disguised exploitation of the people, we only take the things that Dong Thief's rough embryo will not use. ”

Li Su still has a very positive posture at this point, because in his eyes, the necessities of court life, as long as Dong Zhuo does not destroy them, will still return to the hands of the imperial court after recovering Chang'an in the future, there is no need to move around, the bronzes are so heavy, and the transportation of Shu Road is difficult.

Even if it was a small number of classics in Weiyang Palace, Li Su didn't feel that he wanted to take them all away - when Luoyang wanted to take it away, it was because Luoyang was about to be burned by Dong Zhuo. But Chang'an is Dong Zhuo's base, he didn't set fire to the palace and won't set fire to the palace, just keep it. Dong Zhuo doesn't read either, so he must continue to eat ashes.

Unless it's a very precious one, and you can be sure that you've never seen it when you're in Luoyang, it's okay to take a little bit.

Liu Miao listened to Li Su's analysis and said that she would not use her imperial brother in his future life, and suddenly felt more and more in her heart that Li Su was a good person, and he really had the best conscience among many ministers in the court.

"If all the ministers of the court and the central government have such goodness, why is the world like this...... You don't want to be a princess, I'll call you brother in the future, okay? You can call me by my name, anyway, I have seen clearly this year, my princess actually has nothing left, you took me out of danger twice, deserve it. ”

Li Su inspected and searched while dealing with Liu Miao: "Princess...... Miaomiao, don't think like this, everything is temporary, and when you get to Uncle Huang, the status and courtesy will be valued again. ”

……

Li Su spent half a day hastily searching the Weiyang Palace, and finally selected a batch of Ding, Gui and Gui who were worshiped in Chang'an, and some of the bean zunjue (bronze vessels for sacrificing ancestors) that were still used for worship, anyway, they were not for the living to eat, plus some gilded palace lamps for lighting and burning incense during the sacrifice, and the wrong Jin Boshan furnace, all of which were listed and ready to be packed.

The Son of Heaven sacrificed, when the list of nine tripods and eight tripods, but the nine tripods of Zhou Tianzi could not be found as early as the time of Qin Shi Huang, and later all dynasties were recast tripods.

After the Eastern Han Dynasty moved the capital to Luoyang, the sacrifice of Chang'an is still not endless, after all, the tomb of the emperor of the Western Han Dynasty is still here, so the old Ding is also kept, and the Luoyang side is recast when Emperor Guangwu was recast, Li Su took the opportunity to take away all the nine tripods and eight tripods of the Western Han Dynasty and so on.

Anyway, it was melted into copper coins by Dong Zhuo.

In addition to the ritual utensils of the food utensils, there are also the wrong gold and copper bells required for "ritual music", each set is sixty-four pieces, a total of more than a dozen sets were looted - the Zeng Hou Yi bell unearthed in later generations is also sixty-four pieces, which is not to say that the technology of the Han Dynasty has not advanced compared with the Warring States, so that the bells of the late Han Dynasty are still only sixty-four pieces, but the etiquette has long been limited to death.

The ancient method of the Son of Heaven rewarded the "Eight Hundred Dance Music", the Eight Hundred is the phalanx of eighty-eighty-sixty-four dancing girls, and the bell of the soundtrack is also required to be sixty-four, so even if the Han Dynasty has developed science and technology, it will not be much.

Confucius complained in the "Analects" that "the eight dances in the court are tolerable, but they are unbearable", and criticized that the Ji Sun clan of the Lu State actually dared to use the dance music of the Son of Heaven, which was simply a bad etiquette. Even the idiom "is it tolerable or unbearable" comes from here.

After searching the two categories of rites and music, Li Su went to Jianzhang Palace again, searched for similar things, and then found some good goods unique to Jianzhang Palace.

"This Kirito, was it set up by Emperor Wu back then? The plate above is the dew plate used to seek immortal immortality? Li Su pointed to a bronze man standing on a twenty-zhang high pillar, and a huge copper plate with exquisite carvings dragged by the bronze man's arms.

"Yes, it is Emperor Wu who begged Xianlu to mix pills for medicine, and this plate requires seven people to hold hands and hug it to surround it." Liu Miao was obviously more familiar with the palace, so she told Li Su directly about eating the inside and out.

"Let's take it down and take it away with the bronze man. However, such a large item, it is good to walk Weishui to Chencang halfway, but it is really unlucky to go over the mountain from Chencang, maybe you have to hide halfway......"

Li Su didn't have much interest in this thing, just because he didn't want to be melted by Dong Zhuo and wanted to protect the cultural relics, so he reluctantly pulled it away, after all, it was too big and had no practical value.

As for the bronze man who lifted the plate, it had no artistic value, and the weight was too heavy, according to the record, it weighed 220,000 catties, Li Su felt that it would be better to melt this directly into money, after all, it was necessary to leave some heavy large-scale goods for Huangfu Song to melt the money, in order to cover up the things that were taken away and were not very heavy.

Don't look at Li Su took away dozens of sets of nine tripods and eight bells, dozens of sets of eight bells, each of these things is only a few thousand catties, and all the gains add up to only two or three times the weight of the bronze man.

After the Jianzhang Palace was also transferred, they finally came to the Western Han Taimiao with the acquiescence of Huangfu Song, and of course they also drove all the eunuchs and palace maids here away in advance, so as to facilitate the crime.

In the Taimiao, of course, there are more ritual and music vessels for sacrifice, and he also took some away, but at least there is a set left in front of each emperor's spiritual position, otherwise it is not good to completely cut off the incense.

At the end, Li Su noticed another treasure.

It was a sword enshrined in front of the spirit of Emperor Gaozu, placed in a long box of fragrant wood. "Colorful beads and nine jade are ornamented, and the five-colored glass of the miscellaneous toilet is the sword box."

Liu Miao told him very cooperatively: "This is Emperor Gaozu's snake sword, which is worthy of enjoying the Taimiao." ”

Li Su picked it up carefully, took out the sword and looked at it carefully, knowing that this sword must have been forged and far-fetched in the Western Han Dynasty.

Of course, the time of casting will definitely not be too late, it should be when Liu Bang was alive, he cast it himself for the sake of mythology.

The reason why it is said to be fake is because Liu Miao told Li Su that according to the official propaganda of the Han Dynasty: "This sword was cast as early as the time of the Shang King Wuding, and then it was lost to the heavens, and it was obtained by Liu Taigong, the father of Gaozu."

This is clearly a myth, this snake sword is obviously a well-cast steel sword, steel forged by a hundred refining methods, where did the Shang Dynasty get the wrought iron technology?

However, even in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, as long as it is not punctured, it is still very symbolic, and it should bring Liu Bei a lot of legitimacy bonuses.

Thinking of this, Li Su's heart moved: "It seems that later generations have seen a legend that after Sima Yan unified the Three Kingdoms, the snake sword was also obtained by a different surname. In the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Luoyang arsenal caught fire, and the three treasures were burned, 'Confucius, Zhibotou, and the snake sword'......

In this case, let's also forge the drama of 'White Rainbow Penetrating the Moon, Snake Sword Flying Ascension to Find the Lord'. It has been a year since the craftsmen in the army studied gunpowder, and although they have not made engineering-grade and weapon-grade gunpowder, it is still possible to make a firecracker to watch the light of the fire and listen to it...... Anyway, it will take a few days for the bronze to be loaded and shipped, let the craftsmen with the army tinker according to the recipe, and then add some materials according to the 'flame reaction', and then put a monkey with white light in the dead of night in the temple. ”

Thinking of this, Li Su put the snake sword back for the time being, and prepared that after all his goods were loaded on the ship, he would finally come to get the snake sword. At that time, Liu Bei said that the snake sword was flown from Chang'an to Hanzhong to recognize the master.

Everything went well, before the goods were loaded, the craftsmen used the so far local gunpowder formula to make what Li Su needed in the bamboo tube - the original firecracker, the reason why it is called "firecracker", is because it was originally packed in a bamboo tube, and the bamboo tube is convenient for binding the direction of the blasting and letting the fireworks spray up.

Li Su's side, he thought about it, it seems that there is no metal salt that can directly produce white light by flame reaction, and it is necessary to burn magnesium powder directly like the flash lamps of the 19th century in later generations, and magnesium powder cannot be made in this era.

In the end, he had to get some grass ash and salt casually, and mix and match it with the sodium salt flame reaction of yellow light and the potassium salt flame reaction of purple light.

Anyway, the people of the Han Dynasty should not have any strict requirements for "Bai Hong", and those palace maids and eunuchs should not have seen Bai Hong.

On the first day of October, Li Su packed up everything and left Chang'an with Liu Miao, and on the eve of leaving, the white rainbow in the Taimiao was really white and the moon ran through it, and then the snake sword disappeared.

Li Su passed through Meiyang and Yixian, and was about to continue to Chencang, but met a visitor on the way.

The visitors were Fa Yan and Fa Zheng's families who they had met two years ago, and they had also helped Liu Bei raise military rations at that time. At that time, Fa Zhen had just died for more than a year, so Fa Yan had not yet been filial, and only his son Fa Zheng had to be filial piety, so he had to let the fourteen-year-old Fa Zheng manage the affairs of the clan. Now another two years have passed, and the Legalists have finally made filial piety to the whole family.

Fa Zheng stopped Li Su's fleet under the pretext of saying that it was the labor army, offered some wine and food, and inquired about some news by the way: "Li Zhonglang, dare to ask Dong Zhuo if he is about to come west to Chang'an in person?" ”

"It is true, and there is nothing to be done." Li Su told the truth.

"Alas...... The younger brother and his father, a few days ago, I heard that Li Zhonglang had crossed the border and that the general of the Che Cavalry had also been transferred back to Beijing, so they knew that the land of Sanfu would not be peaceful. People have no long-term concerns, there must be near-term worries, from that time, the younger brother's family is ready to avoid chaos, I don't know that General Zhengxi and Zhonglang, can they still be willing to take in the deceased and entrust them to idle posts? Although the younger brother is only sixteen years old, he will be diligent in his work. ”

Li Su smiled proudly: "I can't ask for it, since the virtuous brother is determined to become a leader, does he have a word?" ”

Fa Zheng arched his hand: "The day before yesterday, my father just took the word for me, and since then the word has been filial." ”

Li Su: "Filial piety is straightforward, and if you are lucky and avoid evil, you will be able to make meritorious contributions." It's rare that you've all packed up in advance, let's go together. ”

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PS: This chapter stinks and is long...... So the writing is slow.

Tomorrow, or next Tuesday or Wednesday, maybe the third watch will be resumed on one day, and it will last for three or five days.

This period of time is mainly to hold 4,000 average bookings, so you can't add more, and the more average bookings will temporarily decline. After a few days, it rose from 3980 to 3993, and there were still 7 short of breaking 4,000. If you find out that it is more than 4,000 tomorrow morning, then you will start adding it tomorrow. Otherwise, you can only hold it back again. (In the future, the high order plus more will be canceled, and it will be counted in the average order, and the average order will be increased by 500 for every time, and the change will be added for a week, that is, ten thousand words for seven consecutive days)

This is very important and is related to subsequent recommendations. I'm faster, in fact, I get fewer recommendations than others, others are more than 4,000 a day, and I push it every six weeks, which is equivalent to a push for 200,000 words, and I only have one push for every 500,000 words. It is not possible to break through, let alone rank.