Three days before the Shangyuan Festival, after eight days of hard work by one person and two horses, Li Su arrived in Luoyang City safely and in high spirits under the protection of Zhao Yun and dozens of personal guards.

The Shangyuan Festival of the Han Dynasty did not have so many folk fun celebrations in later generations, but it was also an important festival, mainly because there were activities to worship the "Taiyi" god - Mr. Mao Dun's book "Research on Chinese Mythology" said that the myths of ancient China were actually very scarce, only saints, no immortals.

The so-called immortals are fabricated from generation to generation, and the older the immortals, the later the dynasties that are often fabricated. As early as the Qin and Han dynasties, Buddhism and Taoism did not exist, and there were almost no fart gods, only one god who represented the "Tao".

In Luoyang City, you can also see the atmosphere of some festivals approaching.

When Li Suce walked slowly through the market, he heard the legend of the people from time to time: This year, His Majesty will personally go to the southern suburbs to set up an altar to worship the Taiyi God, and the sacrifice is too strong, and Tai Changqing will personally preside over the ceremony. Moreover, His Majesty also made a particularly ingenious design for the altar, using a new water vessel made by Bi Lan, one of the ten permanent attendants, to demonstrate the heavenly way of "Taisheng Water".

Li Suzhi couldn't help but shake his head when he heard it: Labor and money!

Emperor Ling is obsessed with water supply and drainage, and it is not a day or two. All kinds of bronze fountains emerge in an endless stream in Bigui Garden, and now even the Taiyi God Festival, which is rare for a few years, has to make copper fountains specially, which is really the appearance of the dead country.

He sighed to Zhao Yun beside him in a low voice: "The weather in this Luoyang is quieter and more peaceful than when he left Beijing in April last year. Although Ou Xing and Zhang Ju were successively conferred the head, Bian Zhang and Beigong Boyu also died in internal strife.

However, Xiliang Han Sui and the kingdom were just killed Geng Contempt, and the property of the three auxiliaries was plundered and retreated; The Marquis of Hetao Xubu Bone is still stealing his position and plundering Hexi. There are still some battles in this battle, and the first good district in Luoyang has not seen the state of being prepared for danger in times of peace, alas. ”

Zhao Yun didn't know the future historical trend, but cautiously comforted him: "Maybe it's because I'm not in the center, and I don't know the situation of thieves in the world." Maybe the kingdom, Han Sui and others will soon be extinguished by the imperial court. ”

Li Su sneered, even if it is extinguished? The Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, the Gepi Yellow Turban Army, and the White Bo Army that broke out later this year...... Isn't that a problem?

Zhao Yun didn't know the reason why Li Su sneered, but continued to comfort: "I just heard the group of business travelers who prepared for the festival mentioned that Taichangqing, who presided over the Taiyi Festival three days later, has been replaced, and the predecessor Taichang has been transferred to Yizhou, and I heard that he has arrived safely."

Yizhou had a little chaos before, but it was also calmed down. Wang Guo and Han Sui also failed to block the royal road of Sanfu into Hanzhong. The imperial court must have felt that the thieves in recent years should not be afraid because of this. ”

Li Su was originally just teasing and complaining, not expecting Zhao Yun to tell him any valuable information.

But he didn't expect that Zhao Yun was born with bright ears and eyes and superb archery skills, so within dozens of steps around, Zhao Yun could hear the whispers that ordinary people couldn't hear, and he actually broke such a story for Li Su.

Li Su was riding on horseback and was drinking water with his skin, and when he heard this, he hurriedly put it down, so as not to choke in surprise:

"What? Too Changqing replaced? When I entered Beijing this time, I also planned to visit Liu Yan and further make friends with him on the order of the envoy, so that I could form a good relationship between the court and China, but he actually left? Did the businessmen mention who the new Taichang is? ”

Zhao Yun: "I can't tell clearly, it seems to be called Ma Ridi, and I don't know the specific words." ”

Li Su: "It's Ma Riyan, a single next to the stone character." Since it's him, there's no need to make friends, this Ma Riyan is also from Confucianism, and he is the grandson of the grandmaster Ma Rong, and he studied "Dongguan Hanji" in Dongguan together with Lu Shangshu and Cai Shi, and he is also a generation of historians. This is too often from the Taishi Ling. ”

The official system of the Han Dynasty, Taishi Ling, Taile Ling, these positions, are some "orders" of Taichang's subordinates, these orders have been done outstandingly, and the years are long enough, it is possible to rise to Taichang (of course, during the Lingdi period, it was mainly bought

Li Su thought about it in his mind, and then asked Zhao Yun what else he heard.

But the group of businessmen had already gone away, and no matter how good Zhao Yun's hearing was, he was not a person with extraordinary abilities after all, so he didn't ask anything more.

"Let's go, let's go to the Zhen family business first and find Zhang Liang. The businessmen have a lot of information, and they should know the recent situation of the Jingshi in the past few months, and they happen to have a lot of doubts to ask them. ”

Saying that, Li Sudang spurred his horse first and went straight to the branch of the Zhen family's business in Luoyang.

Zhang Liang saw Li Su's visit, and he was very attentive, "Li Changshi!" It's been a long time, and you are willing to come to patronize, which really makes the trumpet shine. The "Treatise on the Prosperity of the Temple" written by you and Cai Gong is now even more popular than the "Refutation of Disasters and Differences" four months ago, and I heard that the Son of Heaven has personally praised it several times.

By the way, since you are here, there are still more than 10 million yuan here, all of which are from the sale of "The Blessing of the Palace", and you can spend it as much as you can, so as not to withdraw it from other places. ”

More than 10 million dollars? This is going to sell 50,000 rolls!

Was it really used by the Han Dynasty as a lifesaver to consolidate the legitimacy of imperial power? Is the official ideology so crazy and supportive?

Li Su took the opportunity to ask: "I heard that Liu Yan left Beijing too often?" Or into Sichuan, could it be that he became the pastor of Yizhou as he wished? Since Liu Yan has left, is Ma Taichang still as strong as Liu Yan supporting my and Cai Gong's writings? I have no friendship with Liu Yuanjun and Ma Taichang. ”

Zhang Liang was well-informed, and said in a vague manner: "Liu Yan did get the appointment of Yizhou Pastor at the beginning of November, and Ma Taichang also took care of it as before, like Liu Taichang, openly and secretly asked Tai students to have one volume each, and they had to buy it to read, so that it could be sold. Perhaps, Matthew often saw that he and Cai Gong were in the same Dongguan to practice Hanji? ”

Li Su: "Then Liu Yan always has a reason to enter Shu, right?" I guess, could it be that Yizhou also had a thief rebellion, and His Majesty ordered him to take office to quell the rebellion? ”

When Zhang Liang heard this, he hurriedly slapped his ass in an exaggerated tone: "Li Changshi is really like a god, the predecessor of Yizhou Assassin Shi Xuanjian, greedy and despicable, provoked the Yizhou people's rebellion, Mianzhu has a thief and a horse who claims to be a yellow scarf, and he made a rebellion to invade the state and kill Xuanjian, which was in October."

The news took a month, the fast horse was transmitted back to Beijing, Liu Yan took the initiative to ask for help, and the Son of Heaven let him go outside, and he went to Wudu Road in November to enter Hanzhong, and before he arrived in Mianzhu, he heard that Yizhou was engaged in Jia Long led the soldiers of Benzhou County to quell the rebellion and kill the Yellow Turban thief Ma Xiang.

However, the Son of Heaven still regarded Liu Yan as the merit of the thief, thinking that it was the news that Liu Yan was about to take office, which greatly boosted the morale of the people of Yizhou and dared to stand up to fight the thief, so he crowned Liu Yan as the Marquis of Yangcheng. ”

Hehe......

Li Su was speechless.

After Liu Yu added Youzhou Mu, because Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun's rebellion had not yet ended, they had not yet been sealed to the county marquis level among the princes.

Liu Yan actually relied on a small group of thieves who he had pacified before he even arrived in office, and because of this group of thieves who fraudulently called the Yellow Turban, he was named the county marquis?

Li Su knew the direction of history, and he also knew Liu Yan's ugly appearance after entering Sichuan, so he almost immediately suspected that this so-called Ma Xiang Rebellion would not be directed and acted by the Shuzhong clan with Liu Yan, right? Otherwise, how could Liu Yan be the Yizhou pastor after the order was drawn out, and he would be destroyed as soon as he turned his hand?

Yizhou is engaged, that's not a big official! Li Su and Fu Zhu are engaged in other driving activities, and Xin Ping is also engaged in literary activities!

One engaged in it, brought hundreds of officers and soldiers, and wiped out a yellow scarf?

It's too fake.

However, chatting with Zhang Liang was not without gain, Li Su was puzzled in his heart, and carefully tortured Liu Yan's time, route, and situation in Shu, and finally understood what the problem was.

Before coming, Li Su had always taken it for granted that Liu Yan did not enter Shu so quickly, and he would definitely delay the sun and moon because of the "road blockage". That's because in history, Liu Yan entered Sichuan by taking the road from Jingzhou to Yizhou, and wanted to take the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River.

And after the Changsha thief district star was rebelled by Sun Jian, the passage into Sichuan in the four counties of Jingnan and Jiangling and other places, as well as some Wuling barbarian harassment, so Liu Yan really dragged on for a period of time in history, and he didn't have time to set up many bureaus in Shu before the death of Emperor Ling.

But in this life, he actually walked the Wudu Road, that is, from Chen Cang to Hanzhong, which was much faster.

"Then why didn't Liu Yan go away in his previous life? Since this road is much more convenient...... Yes! I know! It's because Liu Yan entered Sichuan at least half a year early!

In the second half of this year, Han Sui and Wang Guohui will once again advance eastward from Tianshui and besiege Huangfu Song and Dong Zhuo in Chencang City. Chencang City is surrounded by Liangzhou rebels, and of course the Sanguan Road under Chencang City can't go! Only then did he retreat from Jingzhou to Yizhou. ”

Li Su still has a good understanding of the battle of Han Sui Siege Chencang in the second half of this year.

This is also a battle that is relatively easy for most ordinary people in later generations who are relatively innocent of history to know - because it was this battle that finally intensified the contradiction between Huangfu Song and Dong Zhuo, and Dong Zhuo could not work with Huang Fu Song on the front line. In addition, the Baibo Army in Hedong had just risen and needed people to quell the rebellion, so Dong Zhuocai coincidentally got the opportunity to return to the east and approach Luoyang.

"In this way, before Dong Zhuo messed up the Jingshi, Liu Yan could at least plant a field in Yizhou for a year and a half and lay a good foundation. Liu Yan really made a fortune with us. However, I don't know if he will also release Zhang Lu, a rice thief, in advance because of this......

Zhang Lu is clearly playing the banner of anti-Han room, if he really dares to show his head, do you want to persuade Liu Bei to encircle and suppress him? Liu Bei seems to have been in love with an anti-Han leader surnamed Zhang in his life, dealing with Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, and Zhang Liang when he was young, and now he has just gone to Zhang Ju Zhang Chun, if he adds Zhang Lu in the future, ......"

is almost going to become the anti-thief nemesis surnamed Zhang.

However, it is still too early to say, Liaodong Zhang Chun has not finished killing, Zhang Lu has not yet appeared, and Li Su is just thinking about it.

Li Su put these overly long-term plans behind him for the time being, and continued to ask Zhang Liang: "Let's talk about something else, this "Theory of Prosperity and Blessing" is spreading in Luoyang, and there is really no one who opposes it at all?" These great Confucians in the world, but their bones are very hard, and they dare to say it. It's not all about flattering the Lord. ”

Zhang Liang scratched his head: "Yes, there are, but I don't dare to attack too much, mainly Dong Fu, Shang Shulang Huaxin and others, accusing one or two of them, thinking that the theory of Dianxing is too radical and not conducive to educating people's hearts." I don't read, I can't go into details. ”