Li Dao fought very well here, but within a few days, his subordinate generals Zhang Bao and Zhang Chong betrayed him.

The two colluded with Guo Yan and opened the camp gate, and Guo Yan's army entered it, and arrows rained down.

In the fierce battle, Li Dao's ears were shot through, and the arrows even affected Liu Xie in the barracks, and they all shot at Liu Xie's feet, and if it was a little higher, something big would have happened.

This has to be said to be the sequelae of Li Dao's assassination of Fan Chou at the banquet, and since then there have been betrayers in Li Dao's army, and they have never been able to live in peace.

After the war, Li Dao moved Liu Xiehe and his ministers to other places, and sent troops to strictly guard them, so that they were isolated from the inside and outside, Liu Xiehe and his ministers were very hungry, and Li Dao actually took a small amount of grain and rotten beef bones to deal with it.

Liu Xie was very angry, but as an emperor who had no real power in his hands, he was helpless.

The matter lasted until mid-November, when the former general Zhang Ji rushed back from Hongnong County to persuade for peace.

Li Guo and the two fought for several months, and the lives around Chang'an were devastated, and they couldn't fight anymore, and because Zhang Ji rushed back, the two had the momentum of reconciliation.

Liu Xie was finally liberated and was released back to the palace by Li Dao, and finally had a place to sleep peacefully.

However, the severely damaged Chang'an City can no longer exist as an imperial capital.

Liu Xie's heart became stronger and stronger about returning to Luoyang to get rid of the clamping of Li Guo's two thieves.

At this time, Zhang Ji also had the idea of taking Liu Xie to leave Chang'an to go to Hongnong, so with the assistance of Liu Xie, as an intermediary, he had a tug-of-war peace talks with Li Dao and Guo Yan for more than two months.

The peace talks were not settled until the end of January of the second year of Xingping.

Because Chang'an is really dilapidated, most of the households fled, and most of the people who did not escape died, the corpses piled up into a mountain of blood and flowed into a river, and there were many dead people around, although the weather was cold, the corpses were still rotting, exuding bursts of stench.

Zhang Ji said to Li Ji and Guo Yan that if they continued to stay in Chang'an, a great plague broke out, and the emperor's safety was threatened, what would they do?

Li Dao and Guo Yan thought about it, and they really didn't dare to bear such a responsibility, so under Zhang Ji's guarantee and Jia Xu's persuasion, Li Dao and Guo Yan agreed to Liu Xie's return to the east.

In exchange, Li Dao became the Great Sima above the Three Dukes, Zhang Ji was the Hussar General, the Marquis of Pingyang, the False Festival, Guo Yan was the General of the Che Cavalry, Yang Ding was the General of the Hou, and Dong Cheng was the General of Anji.

At the beginning of February, Liu Xie, who was like an arrow, happily embarked on the return journey from Chang'an to Luoyang.

However, when I went to Chang'an, it was a smooth journey, but it was not a smooth road to leave Chang'an and return to Luoyang, but an extremely bumpy and dangerous road.

This was reflected when Liu Xie's convoy had just left Chang'an City and had not crossed the moat.

Li Dao and Guo Yan's soldiers made trouble at the bridgehead and obstructed the convoy from crossing the bridge, but Liu Xie had the courage to personally stand up and show that he was the Son of Heaven and angrily reprimanded the rebels.

The rebels were afraid, and they knelt on both sides of the road, saying long live, and this difficult road to the east officially began.

As a result, within a few days of walking this road, something went wrong.

Guo Yan was probably worried about Li Dao's hijacking of the Son of Heaven to deal with him, so he also thought of taking revenge on Li Dao with the addiction of the Son of Heaven, and began to obstruct Liu Xie's return to the east.

This obstruction has been thwarted for more than a month.

In this month, in mid-February, the news that Liu Xie's convoy left Chang'an and headed east was quickly delivered to Guo Peng.

At that time, Guo Peng was happy because Xia Houlin and Tian Rou were pregnant, and he was holding a family banquet.

Because the two concubines were both pregnant, Guo Peng was very happy, so he called the relatives of the Cao family and the Xiahou family, invited Mi Zhu and Tian Feng, and everyone held a family banquet together.

At the banquet, Guo Peng and Cao Cao danced together, sang together, drank together, and were very happy.

After the banquet, in the evening, Guo Peng inquired about their physical condition from Xiahou Lin and Tian Rou's room, and then after comforting them gently, he was ready to go to sleep with Cao Lan.

Hearing the news that Liu Xie had left Chang'an City and headed for Luoyang, Guo Peng attached great importance to it and immediately sent someone to call Cheng Yu, and he returned to the study.

Long before Dong Zhuo marched into Luoyang, Guo Peng installed his first intelligence team in the Luoyang area.

After the establishment of the Linzi camp, more than 100 secret agents were sent into the Luoyang and Chang'an areas more than a dozen times in succession, during which many secret agents died in accidents.

Or die of rebellion, or of bandits, or of other accidents, or of disease.

After losing dozens of well-trained spies, Guo Peng established a relatively complete intelligence transmission route, and after Dong Zhuo moved west to Chang'an, the intelligence troops also followed into the Kansai region, and gradually gained a firm foothold in the Kansai region, and a lot of news could be quickly sent to Guo Peng.

This time, it took half a month for the news to be sent from Chang'an, and Guo Peng was quite satisfied.

However, since Liu Xie came out of Chang'an, it means that the situation in the world is about to change.

The short-lived antagonism between the Chang'an court and the Kwantung clique would end, and the real great upheaval would come.

A long time ago, Guo Peng thought about what he should do at such a historical juncture, and now, it is time to make a decision.

This news cannot be leaked, Guo Peng chose to only discuss the matter with his absolute confidant Cheng Yu.

"I see, the Son of Heaven has returned to the east......"

Cheng Yu finished reading the information, stroked his beard, and said, "What does the lord think, how should we act?" ”

Guo Peng was silent for a while.

"Zhongde, do you think it is good for me to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes?"

Cheng Yu shook his head decisively.

"There is only harm, no good."

"Why?"

Guo Peng looked at Cheng Yu.

"The name of the lord's loyalty and righteousness is far and wide, and everyone in the world thinks that the lord is loyal to the Han family, and now, this is the lord's greatest advantage, and once the Son of Heaven is mastered by the lord, it will become the lord's biggest weakness, and then it will be troublesome."

Cheng Yu is not taboo at all, of course, Guo Peng will not care, a few years ago, the two talked about it heart-to-heart and knew each other's ambitions.

Therefore, when Cheng Yu said this, Guo Peng was quite happy.

"Zhongde is right, as far as I am concerned, I will never tolerate the Son of Heaven coming to me, otherwise will I give up power or become a thief?"

Guo Peng shook his head: "This is handed over to the power, isn't it equivalent to turning your own business for many years into someone else's, even if I agree to this kind of thing, it is estimated that there are many people who will not agree, and the good situation will be ruined, who will do it?"

But if I don't hand over power and become a thief, not to mention that my reputation for my painstaking management will be ruined, will the Son of Heaven be willing to be a puppet? Today's son is not a simple person, he still did a lot of things in Chang'an, these things are put on a Taiping emperor, it can be said that he is a model of Mingjun. ”

Guo Peng took a deep breath and looked at Cheng Yu.