"Your Majesty, Your Majesty! It doesn't matter. Seeing that my expression was wrong, the warden hurriedly asked. I shook my head, signaled that it was okay, and let him continue to lead the way.

The earth dungeon and the water dungeon are a long corridor away, and everywhere you go, all you can hear are the helpless sighs and painful wails of the prisoners. "Zhang Liang is locked up there." The warden pointed to the innermost cell. "Open the cell door, I want to speak to him alone." I said, the warden was a little embarrassed, "this ......," he couldn't speak. I know what he's hesitating about, Zhang Liang is not handcuffed or handcuffed, and if he opens the cell door, he will be in trouble if he takes the opportunity to escape. In addition, it is also for the sake of my safety, if Zhang Liang assassinates at this time, once I make a mistake, his life will not be guaranteed.

"Open!" I raised my voice, and he pulled out a bunch of keys, picked one of them, and removed the brass lock from the cell door. I pushed open the cell door and saw Zhang Liang sitting in the cell, with a table next to him with several plates of food and a pot of wine, but the chopsticks did not seem to move. When Zhang Liang saw me coming, he said unhurriedly: "If you want to kill or chop, listen to you!" Why do you want to do these things, if you want to know, I will never say. ”

I just sighed and said, "Sir, I misunderstood, I came this time to let you go." When Zhang Liang heard my words, he raised his head, looked at me, and said, "You let me go?" Jokes, there must be deception in this! I just smiled and said, "The door is open, and as for the gentleman to stay or not, he will be the master himself." As I spoke, I walked out of the cell door and said to the warden, "Don't lock the door." The warden's eyes widened and he was speechless. I laughed out loud and left.

Outside the prison, Guan Yunyong and the others were anxious, and when they saw me coming out, they hurriedly asked me about the situation in the prison, and after listening to me, he couldn't help but be shocked, and said: "Your Majesty, this move is absolutely impossible, we worked hard to catch Zhang Liang, did we just let him go?" I shook my head and said something that shocked him even more: "Not only Zhang Liang, but the captured generals, let him stay if he wants to surrender, and let him go if he doesn't want to!" Guan Yunyong was silent for a long time before he said: "The emperor is really a benevolent monarch through the ages!" ”

I returned to the palace and strolled alone in the back garden, looking at the flowers that were about to wither, and felt a little more sad in my heart, it was early summer, and the flowers were supposed to be vigorous, but they were languishing because of successive droughts and rains, and no one took care of them. An old man came from afar with a kettle, and when he saw me and hurriedly said hello, I sighed lightly and asked, "Old man, weren't there several gardeners in the past?" Where are they at this time? The old man put down the kettle and said with some tears in his eyes: "The emperor doesn't know, the recent war between Luo and Han has caused refugees everywhere, and there is a drought, and the crop harvest is extremely bad. Xiao Yi, the grandson of the old slave, was originally a gardener in this garden. But my daughter-in-law, Xiao Yi's mother, became increasingly ill and had no money for medical treatment, and when there was a war, Xiao Yi took his mother to flee. I'm old, I have bad legs and feet, and I can't live for a few years, so I volunteered to stay here, so I should atone for Xiaoyi. As he spoke, he knelt down before me.

"Old people, old people can't be like this. Hurry up and clear up. I said as I lifted him up. Now that the fighting is tense and people are displaced, this is also my fault. At this point, I sighed and said, "Old man, although this is the capital, it is not very peaceful. I've got some pieces of silver here, so take them. There will be a great battle in three days, so you better go quickly. As I said and handed him a bag of silver, he was stunned for a moment, burst into tears, and said in an old voice, "The country is in trouble, and the husband is responsible." Although I have a limited leg, I want to do my part. If the kingdom is destroyed, how can I live? ”

I was a little moved, and I put the money into his hands and said, "In that case, let's live well!" With that, I turned and left.

In the early morning of the second day, there was a quick horse report, saying that Xiao He, Fan Xu, and Han Xin's three-way army could not attack the city for a long time, and heard that Liu Bang's army had lost Daliang City, so they were busy dispatching troops to come to the rescue.

I sat down in my chair and took a sip of water without hurrying. Sima Jin looked at me calmly, and didn't take this matter to heart at all, and immediately waved his goose feather fan, and said with an indifferent smile: "Could it be that the lord already has a countermeasure in his heart?" I nodded slightly, and ordered the rest of the people to stand down. When Sima Jin was the only one left, I stood up, pointed to the topographic map on the wall, and said, "Strategist, please take a look." If the three armies of the Han army want to converge, they will inevitably choose the boundary of 'Zheng County'. And for now, it will not be easy for them to converge. Subject to the three defenders of Hebi, Luoyang, and Huaiyang, a certain number of troops must be left to garrison, which greatly limits the number of troops that can be sent. In addition, due to the different topography and the different distances from Zheng County, the time to reach the meeting point is not the same. If Han Xin's army wants to reach Zheng County, it will inevitably pass through 'Xinxiang' and cross the Yellow River in the south, at this time it is the beginning of summer, the rain will increase, and the water of the Yellow River will be fierce, and it is expected that they will have men and horses to lose here; if Xiao He's army wants to go to Zheng County, it will inevitably pass through the area of 'Songshan', where the mountains are endless, and it will be difficult to walk, and the roads will be muddy due to rain. If an ambush is set up, it will definitely be able to be caught off guard, and Zhao Meng can be sent to lead 50,000 soldiers to take advantage of the terrain and attack the army with rolling stones, falling logs, rockets, etc.; If Fan Xu's army wants to go to Zheng County, it will inevitably pass through the intersection of the three cities of 'Xuchang', 'Pingdingshan' and 'Luohe', so that the three defenders can be combined to make one place, and send 300 elephant soldiers and more than 5,000 cavalry to support the convex forehead, and take advantage of the repaired moat and city wall to defeat the enemy army under the city of 'Xuchang'. After hearing this, Sima Jin couldn't help but clap his hands and say "wonderful", and immediately retired to me and went to make specific arrangements.

I took a sip of tea, and at this time, a voice suddenly came from outside: "Report, General Guan has something to bother the emperor to check it out." I stood up, walked out of the tent, and said to the herald, who was on one knee, "Got it, stand down." Then the soldier got up, said "yes," and withdrew.

I looked up at the sky, and at this time, the clouds gathered in the sky, vaguely in the shape of a green dragon, "Could it be that this is some kind of omen?" I thought to myself, and walked towards the main general's camp.

In the main general's camp, Guan Yunyong saw me coming, and hurriedly got up to greet him: "See the emperor." I waved my hand: "The general doesn't have to be polite, look for what I am talking about." Guan Yunyong took out a talisman from his bosom, handed it to me, and said, "Your Majesty, please take a look." ”

I stretched out my hand to take it, only to see that it was a bronze talisman made of bronze, which weighed a little bit in my hand, and the front of the talisman was engraved with a dragon, and there were two words written in words I had never seen before, and I looked at those two words, "Could it be related to dragons?" I thought to myself, and then asked, "General Guan, where did you get this thing?" Guan Yunyong thought for a moment and said, "My subordinates led people to chase Liu Bang and picked up this thing." ”

"Then General Guan can recognize these two words?" I asked, pointing to those two words. Guan Yunyong glanced at it, his face was embarrassed, and said: "I also looked through ancient books for these two words, but I couldn't find any basis. ”

I said in my heart: "Sima Jin may know." He hurriedly said to the guards outside the account: "Go and invite Sima Junshi to come." The guard said "yes" and went to find Sima Jin.

After a while, Sima Jin walked into the camp tent and saw me and Guan Yunyong standing, and hurriedly asked, "Emperor, General Guan, who are you?" I smiled slightly, handed him the bronze talisman in my hand, and said, "Prime minister, look at it, what is this?" Sima Jin took it, glanced at it, and was suddenly shocked, and said: "Your Majesty, this thing is an unlucky thing, so it's better to throw it away quickly." As he spoke, he took the bronze talisman and disposed of it.

I hurriedly stopped him and asked, "Can the prime minister explain?" Sima Jin wrapped the bronze talisman in cloth, put it beside it, sighed and said, "This is the Xianbei Four Holy Runes Qinglong is also." At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Donghu was defeated by the Xiongnu Mao Dunshan Yu and was divided into two parts. Wuhuan Mountain and Xianbei Mountain were surrendered respectively, and the name of the mountain was used as the clan name, forming the Wuhuan and Xianbei tribes, which were enslaved by the Xiongnu. The Xianbei people are good at witchcraft, and their sacrificial elders can communicate with ghosts and gods. These four holy talismans are its holy relics, and collecting four of them can gather the power of ghosts and gods. ”

I thought for a moment, and then asked, "Since you can gather the power of ghosts and gods, why don't the Xianbei people use this to resist the rule of the Xiongnu?" Sima Jin sighed and said, "The emperor doesn't know that although this thing can gather the power of ghosts and gods. But it is not overnight, it requires continuous human sacrifices, 7749 days, 100 people a day, to summon ghosts and gods. ”

"Forty-nine days? Is that not a sacrifice of four thousand nine hundred? I patted the table and said. Sima Jin frowned and said, "Not only that, if the holder of this talisman is not a person with great blessings, if he has this talisman, he is afraid that he will only have a disaster, ranging from serious illness to death and even his family. ”

Guan Yunyong listened on the sidelines, and said at this time: "If it is as the prime minister said, it is better to dispose of this talisman as soon as possible." Sima Jin took a few steps and said, "Not really. If this charm falls on those who are shallow in blessing, it will become a calamity. But if the lord is as blessed as the king of the East China Sea, it will only be beneficial and harmless. ”

I said in my heart, "If I am blessed, I am afraid that I will not be killed by this talisman." He immediately said: "It is best to hand over this talisman to the prime minister for safekeeping." Sima Jin seemed to understand my thoughts, and hurriedly said: "The emperor doesn't have to worry too much, what is about this talisman is just a legend." There are four of these four holy talismans, which are engraved with the patterns of the green dragon, the white tiger, the vermilion bird, and the Xuanwu. Legend has it that only by collecting the four talismans can you summon ghosts and gods."

I looked at the green dragon talisman and fell into thought, "The green dragon, the white tiger, the vermilion bird, and the Xuanwu are the four Taoist elephants, and the four elephants can gather the power of ghosts and gods, so what is the mystery in this?" ”