On the second day of September, early in the morning.

Li Sujun, who had left Luoyang for a day and traveled west, had already walked a full hundred miles and arrived at the border between Yin and Hongnong County in Henan.

Because the vast majority of the troops were cavalry, and the infantry such as the trap camp could also be divided into horses or carts to hurry, the troops marched relatively quickly.

In addition, he came by the emperor's order, and all parties in the capital hoped that Li Su would leave as soon as possible, and the supporting facilities for him were also very good, as long as Li Su took out the edict to the local officials, all localities had to provide grain and grass, which saved Li Sujun's big cart and small cart to transport grain, as long as he brought two or three days with rations.

The slowest in the ranks was the 300 ox carts—an army of 4,500 men brought a full 300 ox carts, which was also a very high proportion.

One hundred of them were loaded with rations, daily necessities, a hundred iron armor, and a hundred books.

In a non-combat state, it is very tiring to march in iron armor, so they load the car, and each car has twenty pairs of iron armor, which is five or six hundred catties of load.

As for the book, it is also very heavy, after Li Su and Cai Yan organized the book into a line and folded pages, there are still 20,000 tomes, more than 100,000 light and thin folded pages, and a large wooden box four feet long and two or three feet wide and deep can only hold 200 tomes, and if the pages are folded, they can probably hold more than 1,000 volumes.

If it weren't for the original operation to miniaturize the books, today the books alone would have to be loaded with 300 carts, and all luggage would have risen to at least 500 carts.

Last night, the army was stationed on the easternmost slope of the mountain for the night, and if you look down to the north, you can see the valley.

Liu Miao, the princess of Wannian, sat sullenly in a comfortable carriage with one or two wheels wrapped in pigskin and soft lining in the carriage.

She slept in the car last night. She had just left her mother and her royal brother for a day and a night, and came to this kind of place, with only some palace maids who served daily, which made her very confused and panicked about the future.

Fortunately, there are not no female dependents in the convoy, so when she feels lonely and helpless, Liu Miao invites other little girls to talk together. Not counting those palace maids and maidservants, there are a total of Cai Taishou's daughters and Zhen Zhen's five younger sisters who can talk to her in the entire team.

After Liu Miao chatted a little bit, she admired Cai Yan's intelligence and vision, Cai Yan was four years older than her, but she was not much more intelligent in all aspects.

Among the five sisters of the Zhen family, the third and fourth are the closest in age to Liu Miao, so that she can regain the sense of superiority in front of some of her peers, and she has the most fun along the way.

As for the fifth Zhen Mi, although he is only seven years old, a full four years younger than Liu Miao, he gives people an indescribable sense of distance. It may be that she is too young and old to deal with people, and her eldest sister Zhen Jiang, who is twice her age, still abides by etiquette, speaks softly and smiles without showing teeth.

Liu Miao doesn't read much, so she can't talk about this feeling. But if there is a traverser here and contacts Zhen Mi in person, he will instantly get an impression: This is a woman with Xue Baochai's personality! is too good at being a person, but people can't rest assured that they can communicate with her.

Liu Miao slept in the car, woken up by a distant but vast noise from the north, she lifted the curtain sleepily and looked at it for a while, and saw a steady stream of soldiers and horses coming out of the valley, she had never seen so many soldiers and horses in her life, and the size of Li Su's troops was at least several times larger.

Liu Miao pushed Cai Yan in a bad mood: "Sister, wake up, there are a lot of soldiers and horses over there, is it ......?"

Cai Yan picked up the lamp to read last night, slept late, and couldn't afford to be confused for a while, but Zhen Mi, who was asleep next to her, was very eye-catching, and woke up immediately when she heard the princess's voice. ”

Although the word "Dong" has many strokes, and the Han Dynasty did not have a "Hundred Family Names", the ancients used to read from the surname since childhood, and the seven-year-old girl can also know the word Dong as long as she studies hard.

At this time, the sleepy-eyed Cai Yan was also awake, propped himself up and said: "That must be Dong Zhuo's main rear army, the reason why Senior Brother ordered the camp to rest before it was completely dark last night was also because he was afraid that he would bump into Dong Zhuojun in the Han Valley and cause trouble." ”

The three girls were chatting, and the other people next to them also woke up one after another, and the palace maids in the car next to them hurriedly came over to serve and wash, and by the way, Cai Yan and the young ladies of the Zhen family also enjoyed the reduced version of the palace treatment (there is no condition to use the full version for the field march).

After all, Liu Miao is the princess's style, even if she is a simple vassal because of her ugliness, she still brings more than twenty palace maids, but she knows that two of them are quite beautiful palace maids, who have been rewarded by the queen mother to the Zhao school captain, so as to win people's hearts and let the Zhao school captain be more careful to protect him on the road.

After arriving in Chang'an, the two palace maids would not continue to return to Wannian County with her, but would lose their palace status and become the maidservants of Zhao Xiaowei to go to Hanzhong.

After wiping it clean, drinking some water, and eating the skewers sent by the palace maid, Liu Miao almost cried because the fireworks were too heavy.

"Your Highness, bear with me, do you want to drink porridge? Camping in the wilderness, there is really no more decent food. Zhen Mi reminded sensibly.

"It's okay, it's just that I'm not used to it for a while, these are quite delicious, the smell is a little heavier, and it also covers the meat." Liu Miao ate a few more bites, and gradually got used to the use of radical spices in Li Sujun.

Li Su is a luxury master who puts pepper on barbecue, even the emperor and princess have never seen this kind of usage. In the future, he will still use cumin - in the Han Dynasty, cumin was actually introduced from Central Asia and West Asia like pepper, but cumin has no market and has been ignored as a weed for a long time, so it is relatively rare not to deliberately seek visits from merchants in the Western Regions.

Liu Miao wiped her tears, leaned on the window of the car and watched for a whole hour, only to see that the 20,000 army had finished, and Li Sujun had waited for the other party to go away before he pulled out the camp and went down the mountain in the opposite direction into Hangu.

Liu Miao couldn't help but burst into tears: "Alas...... Dong thief! It is precisely because of his great power that Li Zhonglang does not dare to speak up, so he can only avoid his edge. ”

Cai Yan was relieved: "Don't think so, princess, the imperial court has its own laws of the imperial court, and my senior brother can't help it, he forcibly stayed in the capital, didn't he become a person who was disloyal to the imperial court?" ”

A few girls said a lot of comforting words, and only then did Liu Miao clean up her ruined mood because she saw the army of Dong thieves.

Liu Miao thought for a while, and suddenly gossiped: "Sister, you know so much, and you are so beautiful, you are really a good match with your senior brother, why are you not married at the age of fifteen?" Li Zhonglang was also unmarried in his twenties, and was finally ...... Eh, by the way, which of your sisters is going to marry Li Zhonglang? ”

Liu Miao said and said, obviously because she had a better impression of Cai Yan that day, so she led the topic to the grievances and regrets that Cai Yan failed to marry Li Su.

Zhen Mi next to her was stunned when she heard this: "My family...... The three sisters, this time they made a marriage contract with General Zhengxi, and they didn't hear that they had a marriage contract with Li Zhonglang. As for the fourth sister and I, we are still young, we just live with the second brother who went to Hanzhong to become an official. ”

Liu Miao: "Impossible, he said in front of my mother that he was married to the young lady of the Zhen family." At the beginning, the queen mother saw that he was young and successful, and his appearance was quite handsome...... He will not deceive my mother. I know, he is just timid and afraid of things, afraid of the right and wrong in Beijing, so he is afraid that the queen mother will marry my cousin to him!

The people who claimed to be so loyal and righteous also rushed to the border counties one by one. Although Liu Yan is a thief who trespasses his self-defense, I understand them a little, and if he stays in Beijing, he is like being in a fire pit all the time, and he wants to escape, what is wrong......"

Liu Miaoben doesn't know much about politics, and he can't talk about how smart he is. It's just that he was born in the heavenly family and is used to seeing the cruelty and bloodshed of the palace struggle, so he has a mature sense of smell beyond his age in terms of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages.

When Cai Yan next to him heard Liu Miao say "Li Su has a marriage contract with Miss Zhen", his heart couldn't help but ache, and he was relieved after listening to the second half.

After all, how dangerous the capital is.

Cai Yan comforted Zhen Mi in a very elegant manner: "Sister, don't mind, the princess is a benevolent person, she won't say these words, and you don't have to worry about the reputation of you and the fourth sister being damaged." ”

Zhen Mi bowed her head gently and softly: "My sister is serious, my little sister has no virtue and no talent, even if someone rumors Li Zhonglang and my family...... Outsiders won't believe it. ”

Liu Miao was beside her, although she couldn't say anything, but her intuition told her that there must be another conspiracy in Li Su's marriage.

Lu Yao knows that the horsepower has been popular for a long time, so let's see Li Su's performance in the future, whether he is loyal or traitorous.

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Three hundred miles of Kun Han Road, Li Su asked the troops to speed up the horses, and passed in three days, and spent one night in Mianchi and Hongnong in the middle, all of which were stationed in the city, saving the pain of sleeping in the wilderness.

The princess and the ladies had been acquainted with each other for a few days, and had become accustomed to this level of turbulence and fatigue, and there had been no further incident.

On the evening of the third day, I had already passed through Tongguan and arrived at Huayin, which was officially out of the mountainous area.

Liu Miao and others have lived so much, and it is the first time they have seen the danger of Huashan, and they can't help but sigh with emotion. Especially when crossing the Tong Pass, there is the Yellow River in the north of the wall, and the south reaches Huashan, which is magnificent, and the gossip shadow that was stuck in the heart a few days ago is also blown away.

After Huayin, it is not Hongnong County, it is the boundary of Yongzhou. Although there are still 300 miles to Chang'an, it is much easier to walk than the previous 300 miles in the mountains.

Li Su asked people to prepare a boat and go up the Wei River, which was very relaxed, and the female dependents could sleep on the boat all day.

It's just that Liu Miao has lived in the deep palace for a long time, and she is not familiar with water, so she was seasick and vomiting on the first day on the boat, and Li Su changed her to the largest and most stable boat. However, the little girl was also sensible, and knew that it was worth this difficult autumn, so she did not pretend to let the troops slow down, and forcibly endured it for one day, and the next day she got used to it.

Wannian County is east of Chang'an, on the seventh day of the ninth month, when there are still 100 miles away from Chang'an, it will arrive in Wannian first. The army stayed here to rest for three days, so that the princess could settle down in the mansion and wait for the chariot general Huangfu Song to personally arrange the guards.

However, on the third day of the rectification of the princess's mansion, a fast horse from the direction of Luoyang to report the emergency military situation came and sent a message to Chang'an.

Li Su's troops met them halfway, and specially revealed the identity of the escort princess, and wanted to know the current situation in Luoyang, so they could predict it.

"Lu Bu, the original master of Jin Wu Ding, killed Yuan, and his subordinates voted for Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhuo was promoted by the three dukes, and he was in the empty position! Dong Zhuo agreed to establish King Chen Liu with cowardice and unfilial piety to abolish the Son of Heaven, and changed the Son of Heaven to King Hongnong. ”

Except for Li Su, the rest of the high-ranking members of his team were shocked, and Princess Wannian was even more frightened and sat on the ground, frightened for her mother and royal brother.

Li Su was still relatively calm, because he wanted to find out some questions, so he took a piece of gold to reward the messenger and asked, "What day is this?" Killing Ding Yuan, is there no crime? ”

For the sake of the bounty, the messenger was not afraid to delay for a few more minutes: "It was three days ago, that is, on the sixth day of the ninth month. Ding Yuan was held accountable for the crime of 'great rebellion', because he violated Sikong and Sangong's determination of the fault of the Son of Heaven and did not admit that the Son of Heaven was unfilial, so it violated the Han Dynasty's principle of ruling the world with filial piety. ”

Li Su calculated, he left on the first day of the ninth month, that is, on the sixth day after leaving, he finally launched the matter of killing Ding Yuan and abolishing the establishment.

He walked for seven days and rested for two days in ten thousand years, but the messenger who was hurrying to the horse was finished in three days, so the news could catch up.

As for why the reason for the deposed emperor was added to unfilial piety, Li Su also took a little time to figure it out: because "weakness" is consistent with the original historical reason, this time Chen Liuwang jumped off the bridge to escape and he didn't dare, so he was even more weak.

And "unfilial piety" is actually because "the Empress Dowager He jumped, but he didn't dare to jump, resulting in thieves holding him hostage and threatening his mother", this kind of behavior is also far-fetched into the category of Confucian unfilial piety. Of course, just like Cao Cao can use the charge of unfilial piety when he kills Kong Rong, Dong Zhuo wants to abolish the establishment, he must use it with a little bit of edge, and there is no excuse for the crime he wants to add.

It's just that the excuse for changing the establishment of King Chen Liuwang this time is not "smart and studious", Dong Zhuo directly wrote that King Chen Liuwang "is clear and resolute, and has the virtue of setting the world in chaos", and pushed him to the throne. Anyway, because of that jump, he changed his way to blow the emperor into the sky, as if he was brave and fearless, which is rare in the world.

"Brother Huang...... Woo woo woo ......" Liu Miao sat down on the ground and cried bitterly for a while, then timidly crawled next to Li Su and hugged her thighs, "Li Zhonglang, will Dong Thief find trouble with his mother?" Will they come to arrest me? Is it safe in 10,000 years? Or I'll live in Chang'an, right? What's the big deal with me from the belongings I brought out from the palace maids and another mansion? The queen mother asked you and Captain Zhao to protect me, you can't ...... because of the queen mother and the royal brothers."

Li Su bit his lip: "The princess can't make a mistake, it's the same wherever she goes, in my opinion, although Dong Zhuo has a foundation in Yongliangguang, but since he has been transferred back to Beijing, it's not up to him to decide here."

Although the Son of Heaven was transposed, the Queen Mother was still the mother of the new emperor, and Dong Thief did not dare to make too much trouble. Before leaving, the queen mother said that he instructed the general of the chariot and cavalry, Huangfu Song, to guard the three assistants and protect the princess, did the princess forget?

In this way, the minister has a word, please rest assured that the princess will rest assured: as long as the general is in Chang'an, the princess will live in Chang'an...... Unless, one day, even the general of the Che Cavalry is summoned by Dong Zhuo to the Beijing Division, then it shows that Dong Zhuo really has the intention of usurping rebellion, not just abolished.

At that time, the princess could take advantage of the fact that the general was not gone, and sent a letter to Hanzhong in advance, and the minister was entrusted by the queen mother, so she should protect the princess when the general could not perform his duties - rest assured, I will let Captain Zhao personally lead troops to escort you to Hanzhong. ”

Liu Miao thought for a while with a panicked expression, and was finally appeased by these words.

Indeed, when the queen mother had a premonition that something was wrong, the person who directly entrusted it was Huangfu Song. As long as Huangfu Song is still there, his priority to protect the princess is of course higher than Li Su.

"This Li Zhonglang is really ...... Obey the law of court, what kind of person is he? He didn't dare to confront Dong Zhuo, just because he was stupid and pedantic? Why are good people more constrained than bad people, but bad people are always unscrupulous? I heard that the emperor is also a person who is loyal to the imperial court, but unfortunately he is also pedantic and cannot be changed, alas......"

Liu Miao thought about it, and became more and more suspicious of life.

Perhaps only a flexible loyalty can suppress the unscrupulous rebels.

Li Su was ruthless, and after handing over to Huangfu Song, he left the princess and took the rest of the people to Chencang, and returned to Hanzhong through the Guandao.