There was a quick knock on the door, and the doorman got up from the bed in a daze, and shouted impatiently: "Coming, coming, don't knock, who is it in the middle of the night?" ”

"Yuan Jin, the old servant in Taifu Yuan's mansion, is on the order of Taifu and has something important to ask to see King Chen Liu!"

If it were an ordinary person, this doorman would probably be scolding and driving him out, but if it was Yuan Kui's servant, this doorman would not dare to be too presumptuous.

The door opened a crack, and Yuan Jin flashed in, and thanked the doorkeeper: "Thank you, little brother!" So saying, he took out a silver ingot from his body and stuffed it into the doorman. When the doorman saw the silver ingot, he was completely sleepy, and said with a smile: "Good to say, easy to say!" Brother is waiting here, I'll go and report to the king! ”

Liu Xie, the king of Chen Liu, was looking at the book "quietly" in the study at this time, and it had been more than an hour, and the bamboo slip in his hand, which was only two hundred words, had not yet been finished. Reading books may just be a way for Liu Xie to hide his nervousness. Today, the situation in Luoyang will change, and Liu Xie, as one of the important participants, although he is outside the whirlpool, the tension in his heart is no less than that of Yuan Kui and others.

"King!" Seeing that there was still candlelight in the study, the doorman carefully called out the door.

"What?" Liu Xie put down the bamboo slip and frowned slightly.

"Someone outside the door is visiting late at night!"

"Nope!" Liu Xiexiang immediately refused without thinking about it, but his heart suddenly stirred, and he immediately asked, "Who is visiting?" ”

"Taifu's servant Yuan Jin!"

"Hurry up, please!"

The doorman was thinking about how to put the money in his arms with peace of mind, but he didn't expect the king to meet in such a hurry, but he also saved himself a lot of lips. The doorman trotted happily to the porter, ready to add fuel and vinegar to express his efforts to see if there was a chance to get some more "final payment".

"This old brother, hey, the king is already dying, and the younger brother has tried his best to agree to meet you!" The doorman panted and grinned to Yuan Jin.

"Thank you, thank you!" Yuan Jin didn't talk nonsense, he directly threw another silver ingot, and ran straight to Liu Xie's study by himself.

"Hey! Comfortable! The doorman threw the silver ingot in his hand into the sky, stretched out his hand to take it, hummed a little song, and went back to his room with joy and went back to sleep.

"Meet the King!" After Yuan entered the door, he carefully closed the door again, and bowed down in front of Liu Xie.

"What will happen?" Liu Xie's tone was very steady, but from the sound of his increasingly rapid breathing, he knew that Liu Xie was also very anxious at this time.

"The matter is revealed, Wang Situ's life and death are unknown, Taifu, Taifu he ......" Yuan Jin looked at Liu Xie with tears in his eyes: "Taifu has committed suicide by taking poison!" ”

"What?!" Liu Xie's voice raised an octave, he stood up from his seat with a pout, and then sat down limply, looking ahead with blank eyes, and muttering, "How could you be defeated?" How can it be that way? ”

Liu Xie seemed to remember something, and then stared at Yuan Jin and asked, "Since Lord Taifu committed suicide and died, Xiang must have never mentioned the matter of the holy decree to Guan Yan's subordinates, right?" ”

Yuan Jin glanced at Liu Xie, his face showed disdain, and said in his heart: It's all this time, and I'm still thinking about how to get rid of the relationship, but fortunately, there is Taifu's entrustment, if you want to run, it's not so easy!

Yuan Jin did not answer Liu Xiedi's words directly, but carefully took off the burden behind his back and put it lightly on Liu Xie's desk. I saw Yuan Jin open the layers of cotton cloth on the left and right three layers, and finally revealed a beautifully carved rosewood box.

This box is a little familiar, Liu Xiehu looked at Yuan Jin suspiciously: "This is?" ……”

Yuan Jin took a step forward and said softly: "This is the 'heirloom jade seal'!" ”

"What?!" Liu Xie shouted again in a faux parole, no wonder he looked at the box familiarly, when today's son Liu Wei only has Liu Xie's own brother, when he was a child, the Han Emperor Liu Wei only regarded this heirloom jade seal as a toy, and occasionally took it out to share fun with his own brothers, and later after the queen mother and many attendants stopped it many times, plus the two of them grew older, and after understanding the meaning of the heirloom jade seal more and more, they did not dare to take it out and play with it privately.

This heirloom jade seal is not the jade seal that Liu Xie built in the Deyang Hall at night.

According to legend, the jade seal of the country is carved by Qin Shi Huang with the He's bi, the jade seal is four inches in circumference, and the five dragons are handed over to New York, and the front is engraved with the eight seal characters of Li Si's book "Ordered by the sky, both longevity and Yongchang"; After the fall of the Qin State, the jade seal of the country was obtained by Liu Bang, but the jade seal of the country was only used as a mascot and enshrined aside, and the Son of Heaven basically did not use it. In the Han Dynasty, six seals were set up: the Emperor's Seal, the Emperor's Seal, the Emperor's Letter Seal, the Son of Heaven's Seal, the Son of Heaven's Seal, and the Son of Heaven's Letter Seal. The scope of each seal is different, for example, the emperor's seal is used to reward princes and kings, the emperor's letter seal is used to send troops to summon ministers, and the seal of the Son of Heaven is used to send documents between countries. For example, the jade seal that Liu Xie stamped in Deyang Point is the emperor's letter seal.

The jade seal is the tool of the emperor's office, and the jade seal of the country is the evidence of the emperor's orthodoxy. Luck is such a thing, modern people who have received scientific ideas since childhood are the ancient people who would rather believe in it than believe it, let alone have no science, believe in gods and ghosts, and worship their ancestors.

Yuan Jin took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Liu Xie: "This is the book written by Lord Taifu on his deathbed, please look at it, king!" ”

Liu Xie withdrew his complicated gaze from the jade seal of the country, took the letter in Yuan Jin's hand, and read it carefully:

Chen Liuwang Junqi:

The Han family collapsed, the thieves rose, and the thunder entered the matter, but it did not appear to the sky. Today, I am a national treasure, help the king to eliminate abuse, and I have a letter before, and I forgive myself: the king is virtuous, and he should be the emperor, go out of Luoyang in the east, and wave his army to the west. Write this hastily, pray for forgiveness! ”

This was written by Yuan Kui in a hurry, just a few words, but the meaning was very clear: Yuan Kui asked Liu Xie to take the jade seal of the country to the Shandong princes to claim the emperor, and then gather people from all sides to go west again, attack Luoyang, and exterminate Guan Yan. How the jade seal of the country was obtained by Yuan Kui, there is no way to know, and there is no need to know. This matter is too big, Liu Xie, who was still holding a fluke mentality, is now being put in front of such a big temptation, where should he go?

In the final analysis, Liu Xie is only fourteen or fifteen years old, even if he is talented, but he has no personal experience, and he has no sage to give advice. Liu Xie stood up, and although he was gradually sensible, he already coveted the throne, but when it was time for him to make a thunderous conclusion, he couldn't help but be a little stunned.