"Li Youjun is worthy of the world's genius and insight into the destiny of heaven. In just three years, he has repeatedly won awards, which is enough to be a model for the world. ”

"General Lao You also conveyed my lord Liu Jingzhou's thanks to the king of Hanzhong, if it weren't for General Zhao's strict management of the army, the rectification of the place, and the crackdown on the thieves, how could my lord slowly pacify the five counties of Jingzhou. Great kindness and great virtue, our Jingzhou army is all remembered. ”

After coming out of the Xuanshu Palace, all the envoys of the princes from other towns had to wait in a side hall alone, so as soon as Li Su went out, he was surrounded by Wang Lang, Yi Yuan and others, and the two touted Li Su and Liu Bei one after another.

When he was called "Li Youjun" by Wang Lang, Li Su was still a little awkward, but he quickly got used to it - the right general Wang Xizhi of later generations was called "Wang Youjun", so of course he Li Su could also be called "Li Youjun".

It seems that the official position of the right general is often used to seal the civil official, and in history, when Zhuge Liang first came out of Qishan, he lost the street pavilion because of Ma Tan, and after he came back, he asked to degrade himself by three levels, and he was demoted from the prime minister to the right general, and he still led the prime minister. Not to mention Wang Xizhi's kind of pure literati, the name of the general in the two Jin Dynasty has been messed up and rotten.

There is also an old acquaintance Liu Ye, who is Liu Yu's other driver, and he also said some sympathetic words to Li Su, but he didn't mean to be overly popular, and he seemed quite humble and not arrogant.

Mainly because Liu Yu, the head of his family, was also named King Yan by another edict in the follow-up agenda of the court meeting just now, so Li Su and Liu Ye can be regarded as equal friends, even if Li Su's own official position is much higher than Liu Ye.

Liu Ye has not had any chance to intersect with Li Su in recent years, so he still reminisced about some old things. From the time when Li Su and Duwei Wuqiu Yi were ordered by Liu Yu to recruit Danyang soldiers and rescue Liu Ye from the hands of Zheng Bao, the handsome commander of Danyang, they chatted and said a lot of words of thanks. He also said that after going back, he would assist the vassal king and defend the center.

Li Su could hear that Liu Ye's words were also reducing Liu Yu's hatred value.

After all, the clan was more or less jealous in this troubled era because of his merits, and while Liu Yu got the benefits, he also helped Liu Bei share the hatred. Now that there are representatives of non-clan princes such as Wang Langyi and Zhu Jun, of course, the two kings will play a modest drama together.

After two more days of entertainment in Chang'an, Li Su finally resigned to Wang Yun. He did not go directly out of the west gate of Chang'an to return to Nanzheng, but went out of the east gate first, followed Wang Lang, Yi Yuan, Zhu Jun, Liu Ye and others on the same road, and went to Bashang to drink and say goodbye. After sending away the messengers of the princes who were going east on the fourth road, Li Sucai turned back to the west alone, and the etiquette was very thoughtful.

And when he went back, Li Su didn't go to Liu Bei alone with the holy decree, and there had to be a special messenger to pass the decree - don't look at Emperor Han Xian's court meeting in the Xuanshu Palace, he had already read out the reward for everyone in Liu Bei's camp, but that was just a reading, and only Li Su's share was cashed on the spot.

For other people's sealing, the imperial court also has to send someone to witness it, which is in line with the etiquette law, and also avoids Li Su's false transmission of the holy decree or dropping the bag halfway (although Li Su will definitely not do this)

Moreover, the edicts of the Han Dynasty are issued in the palace to leave a copy, which can be used to check and check the files in the future, and it is not so easy to make an edict.

Historical Records. There is a clear record of this precedent in the Biography of Wei Qiwu Anhou Lie: when Wei Qihou Dou Ying was arrested by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he said that he was subject to the edict of Emperor Jing "There is inconvenience in the matter, and it is cheap", Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent someone to review, but did not find that there was this edict in the palace (the book was played, and the case was still in the book, and the edict was not left behind), but Dou Ying was killed for the crime of forging the edict.

Therefore, before the original discussion of Dong, Dongjun Taishou Qiaomao only dared to "falsify the letter of the three princes of Jingshi", which was not really a holy decree, and the edict was just a family dialect of romance.

And the envoy who went to Nanzheng with Li Su this time was Zhong Xuan, who had just become a waiter at the Yellow Gate last year, and he could be regarded as an acquaintance.

Five years ago, he was already thirty-six or seventeen years old, but because Emperor Ling had been depressed for a long time, he was not promoted after being a Lang official for more than ten years. At that time, Li Su saw that he was poor, and asked Zhong Xuan to help copy the book as a rubbing sample for engraving printing, and gave Zhong Xuan a large amount of polishing pen.

Now that Zhong Zhuo is over 40 years old, in the three years since Dong Zhuo came to power, on the one hand, when Dong Zhuo first entered Beijing, he wantonly reprimanded the bureaucrats who bought officials by the eunuch party, and later killed innocents indiscriminately, and a large number of vacant positions finally appeared in the Chang'an court.

Zhong Xuan finally got his head out, and was promoted several times in three years, first got the qualifications of the main place, and served as the county magistrate of the big county near Chang'an for two terms, and then transferred back to the center to grant a substantive position, from Tingwei to Huangmen Shilang.

And after being promoted to a high position, Zhong Xuan also hurriedly accepted several more concubines, and finally could no longer bear the daily beep of the wife who thought he was unproductive.

Li Su chatted with Zhong Xuan for a while, and he was quite emotional: Sure enough, the more ruthless the court is, the more senior positions are easy to vacancy, Dong Zhuo's slaughter is like the battlefield on the Eastern Front in 1941, a recruit only needs to live for a few months, and even everyone else dies, only you are left, and you will be promoted to company commander.

In history, Zhong Xuan, an official with low qualifications, just stayed in the capital and lived for six years in the era of Dong Zhuo and Li Guo, and when Guo Yan slaughtered the three princes and nine kings in 195, Zhong Xuan escaped the killing, and those who were taller than him died.

By the emperor's side, living a long life is the biggest advantage.

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After Li Su and Zhong Xuan left Chang'an, they arrived in Yixian County in three days, and spent another five days walking the Baoxian Plank Road and the Baoshui and Hanshui Waterways, and returned to Nanzheng on July 16.

Liu Bei personally went to Chuyang County to greet the angels of the imperial court, and after receiving Nanzheng back, he solemnly fasted and bathed, received the holy decree, and summoned some of the entitled generals to thank him.

When he heard that he was proposed to be named the king of Hanzhong, Liu Bei really showed great surprise and thanks, he first accepted the decree sincerely, and then repeatedly said that his merit was insufficient, and the name of the king of Hanzhong was too sensitive, and he should be thanked.

Zhong Xuan explained sincerely: "Your Highness doesn't need to be too humble, this time Your Majesty is not just a king. When Zhong went out of Beijing, my colleague Duan Xun also received a mission, and together with Liu Ye, who was not in Youzhou, he went to Jixian County with an edict and crowned Youzhou Mu Bo'an as the king of Yan.

Presumably, King Yan will accept the edict in the near future, and His Royal Highness will resign alone, wouldn't it make it difficult for King Yan to do it? I heard that King Yan and His Royal Highness and Li Youjun have great graces, don't you support King Yan to be crowned king? Unwilling to share the slander of the ignorant people in the world for King Yan? At this time of national crisis, it is not the time to protect oneself and cherish one's reputation. ”

Li Su also praised beside him: "The expedient system of the husband is a good thing to be a good one." ”

Liu Bei shook his head and sighed: "If you want me to slander Uncle Bo'an, of course, it is incumbent on me to slander Uncle Bo'an." Even so, it is also a king. However, as long as he is a prince, it is enough to slander Uncle Bo'an, and there is no need for the name of the king of Hanzhong.

Beya, you are humble for me. The words should be more sincere and straightforward, and I will say that I am willing to be the king for the slander of Uncle Bo'an, but I implore the court to lower the king's title at its discretion. ”

Liu Bei's attitude is obviously different from the kind of direct resignation of the prince, because he completely put on a righteous and awe-inspiring posture of "the soldier dies as a confidant, Liu Yu has great kindness to me, and I want to pull hatred for him and share the attacks of the world".

Li Su didn't say more, pushed the boat down the river to find Qin Mi, asked Qin Mi to consider the polish, and wrote the resignation according to the spirit of Liu Bei's explanation. Three days later, Li Su took the resignation watch again, and went out of the valley with Zhong Xuan again, took the ramp, and then went back to Chang'an to get the final version.

Zhong Xuan also couldn't say anything, and after coming out of the Nanzheng Marquis Mansion, he complained to Li Su in private: "The danger of this inclined plank road, we have only seen it in our lives, I thought that I only needed to go twice in this life, but now it seems that I will go at least four times." I hope this is really the last round, and if we really make another reason, our bodies can't stand it. ”

Li Su smiled bitterly: "Brother Yuan Chang, I have taken this two-hundred-mile plank road far more than four times, and I am more wronged than you." Not to mention, when I go to my house, I will rest for a few days with good wine and meat, and naturally there will be another ritual. ”

Let the angel of the imperial court take an extra plank road back and forth, which is a lot of expenses, and Liu Bei alone gave Zhong Xuan himself an extra errand money of thirty horseshoe gold cakes. Even the halberds of the guards in the mission were each given two loaves of bread. It was all from the money he took when he looted Dong Zhuoyiwu.

After taking the money, plus the barbecue ice drinks on Li Su's house are very energetic, and the high-quality bath enjoyment is also extremely relieving. Liu Bei also personally selected two of the beautiful girls in Hewu who were not finished to knead and relieve Zhong Xuan's fatigue, and all kinds of hospitality finally made Qin Cha very satisfied.

As an aside, Li Su is still more regarded as a servant girl who is assigned to his house, so he does not have the habit of letting his servant girl entertain guests again. Liu Bei needs to be entertained, so Liu Bei will find someone else by himself.

Everything was packed up, and Li Su and Zhong Xuan set off from Nanzheng again on July 20, and walked out of the plank road and arrived in Yixian County on the 26th. And when they arrived in Yixian, they found that the situation in the world seemed to be suddenly very different overnight.

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The words are divided into two ends. Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty and Wang Yun received the jade seal at the court meeting on the sixth day of the seventh month and announced that the two Han clan relatives were crowned kings.

In Puhanjin in Hedong County, Lu Bu, the general of Huben Zhonglang, had to cross the Yellow River and retreat along Weishui to Chang'an after two or three days of hard delay, because he could not wait for Wang Yun's edict to pardon Niu Fu's other subordinate officers, nor did he wait for Wang Yun to reward the soldiers.

After all, Lu Bu didn't receive any further orders to kill them all at that time, he felt that Niu Fu was dead and the matter was over, and Lu Bu couldn't be blamed.

However, only five or six days later, about mid-July, Niu Fu's old department was organized by Li Dao Guo Yan.

The reason is still the same as the inertia of history: Li Dao did not wait for the money for amnesty and pacification, and originally planned to pack up the gold and silver and abandon the army and flee back to Liangzhou.

But Jia Xu, the famous vicious old thief in Wuwei County, jumped out: "Has the general forgotten Niu Zhonglang's lesson?" Niu Zhonglang's death is only ten days away, and you are ready to repeat the mistakes of the past? Abandon the army and flee, and a county lieutenant can arrest Naer and so on. ”

Li Dao and Guo Yan asked in unison at that time: "What does Jia Gong think?" ”

Jia Xu: "On the grounds that the court is unkind and hostile to the entire Liangzhou army, unite the soldiers and soldiers, and enter Chang'an to set things right!" Even if it doesn't work out, it's not too late to loot and flee west, and you can still get some more women's property. ”

Li Dao thought so, and was not in a hurry to send troops, so he spent three days hyping up and down the rumors in the whole army, and brainwashed the lie that "Wang Yun has always looked down on the Liangzhou army, and sooner or later we Liangzhou people will be killed" in the army hundreds of times. Jia Xu made an unannounced visit to the army to observe, and after confirming that the morale was available, he told Li Wei that he could send troops.

So much so that this preparation was done very secretly, and when Hongnong crossed from Anyi to the south, there were already thirty or forty thousand Xiliang soldiers united to defeat Wang Yun.

On July 15, when he arrived in Huayin, the right Zhonglang who was in hesitation could not restrain his subordinates, Duan Xuan did not want to be a thief at first, but his lieutenants Wang Fang and Yang Ding responded to Li Dao Guo Yan one after another, Duan Xuan was afraid of being victimized by Li Dao Guo Yan's rebellious soldiers, and he was afraid that he would be beheaded by Wang Yun if he abandoned the army alone and returned to the court to report the emergency, so he had to be confused and follow the thief.

Dong Zhuo's old army had more than 200,000 Xiliang soldiers, 40,000 or 50,000 people under each of the four major Zhonglang generals, and Chang'an's descendants. So when Duan Xuan joined, it meant that the number of rebels had approached 100,000.

And Wang Yun didn't get an urgent report until Duan Xuan surrendered, and hurriedly sent someone to resist. It's a pity that Huayin, where Duan Xuan is stationed, is the location of Tongguan, and the fortress that entered Chang'an has already been a thief, Wang Yun hurriedly sent troops to resist, and he could only fight in the field in Xinfengdu and Ba Shangyuan, and could not defend the danger.

On July 18, three days after Duan Xuan became a thief, Lü Bu received an urgent report from Wang Yun, and first retreated from Lantian along Wuguan Road to the vicinity of Chang'an, and then rushed to Xinfengdu and Ba Shangyuan to meet the rebel generals.

Today's Lu Bu is stronger than the same period in history, because he is a tiger general after all, and he has 40,000 people to defend Wuguan Dao in name. But because he was in too much of a hurry, and Wuguan didn't say that he could completely ignore Yuan Shu and Liu Biao, some troops who were slower could not keep up, so Lu Bu only brought 30,000 people back to defense.

Among these 30,000 people, in addition to Zhang Liao, Wei Yue and other generals of the state, there are also Xiliang generals such as Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu's uncle and nephew, and the real Lu Bu lineage is actually less than 10,000 soldiers and soldiers.

As for Xu Rong and Hu Zhen, who were supposed to stop the rebels in Xinfengdu in history, one was taken to Liaodong by the butterfly effect, and the other was killed by Zhao Yun last year, so Wang Yun directly asked Lu Bu to defend.

But at the critical moment, Wang Yun still made the mistake of dividing the enemy's troops, he felt that the capital could not be defended without a general at a critical moment, so he left Lü Bu in Chang'an to defend the city, and promoted Zhang Liao under Lü Bu to the captain of the Yue cavalry, one of the five schools of the Northern Army, and let Zhang Liao be responsible for sending nearly 30,000 troops to meet the attack.

Of course, Wang Yun also had no choice, he was afraid that Lu Bu would not be in the city, in case of a surprise attack on Chang'an by a small enemy army, there would be no resolute resistance generals in the city, which would lead to a traitor in Xiliang opening the city and offering the door.

Zhang Liao's combat command ability is certainly very strong, but after all, he still lacks the command experience of tens of thousands of large corps, and he knows that his prestige is not enough to unite the captains, so he begged Lu Bu to personally lead the troops, or more stable, to directly defend Chang'an City.

Lu Bu sighed helplessly: "If you don't extinguish the anti-thief spirit, I'm afraid that there will be more and more people who follow the thief, and now is not the time to delay." The reason why their momentum is arrogant is because it has gone so smoothly since the rebellion that they have not been resolutely attacked. Don't worry that we have few soldiers, maybe the rebels will see that the court is resolute in suppression, so they hesitate and disperse. ”

Zhang Liao was helpless and was forced to lead his troops to the battle, but unfortunately the battle was not long in coming, and sure enough, Zhang Ji turned against Li Dao and surrendered directly before the battle. Rao is Zhang Liao can be called a famous general, and he can only stop the loss in time, and flee back to Chang'an with seven or eight thousand Bingzhou cavalry and a small number of cavalry of the fifth school of the Northern Army - if it weren't for Zhang Liao leading the troops, maybe five thousand people would not be able to come back, and it would be possible to be directly destroyed by Zhang Ji and Li Ji.

Wang Yun was furious and wanted to severely punish Zhang Liao for humiliating the country, but at this time, Lu Bu was still very righteous and tried to save Zhang Liao.

Only two days after Zhang Liao's defeat, that is, on July 20, the rebels rushed to Chang'an City one after another, and on the 22nd, they completed the siege of Chang'an City on all sides and began the siege of the city. The remaining rebel troops arrived one after another, all of them on the 24th, and the cumulative strength reached 120,000.

The defenders of the city have only more than 10,000 regular troops, all of which rely on the strong defense of Chang'an City, which is known as a tall and thick city.

When Li Su and Zhong Xuan arrived in Yixian, they heard the bad news from the people of Yixian County for the first time: "I got the news yesterday that Chang'an City was besieged three days ago!" I heard that it was Li Dao Guo Yan who made a rebellion! ”

Li Su, Zhong Xuan, and the people around them were all shocked, and some of the responsible civil officials, and even Xu Huang and Dian Wei, who provided the escorts of the mission, felt that they should immediately report the news to the lord.