Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Poisoner Jia Xu
Wang Yun united with the ministers of the court and China, relying on the courage of Lü Bu to control Chang'an. Li Dao, Guo Yan, Zhang Ji, and Fan Chou each led their troops and horses, and withdrew from Chang'an in chaos. Wang Yun was in power, triumphant, and ordered to pursue the remnants of Dong Zhuo, Zhang Wen said that Wang Yun said: "Dong thief is dead, the remnants of the army are defeated, and they can still fight." Now appeasement is the best, and extermination is the second. Wang Yun didn't listen, and said: "Dong thief's evil deeds are monstrous, Li Dao, Guo Yan, help the evil Piffle, now there is Lu Bu, it is advisable to cut the grass and eradicate the roots." Zhang Wen sighed. Wang Yun ordered Lü Bu to exterminate Dong Zhuo's rebellious party, and Lü Bu received the order and led an army of 50,000 to attack Li Dao and Guo Yan.
Li Dao, Guo Yan, Zhang Ji, and Fan Chou saw Lu Bu attacking, and hurriedly discussed how to meet the enemy. Li Dao and Guo Yan have the most soldiers and horses, and they naturally have a great right to speak. Li Dao said: "Lu Bu is brave and invincible, and everyone needs to work together to break it. Guo Yan said: "You and I still have more than 100,000 troops, why are you afraid of Lu Bu?" When Lu Bu comes, he will attack him and kill him. Li Dao looked at the middle-aged Confucian dressed person under the tent and asked, "I don't know what Mr. Wenhe has to say?" Jia Xu stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Chang'an is not stable, Wang Yun is bent on destroying the general, etc., and the way to take trouble is also." Guo Yan knew Jia Xu's ability, and hurriedly said: "Please Mr. teach me to wait." Jia Xu smiled and said: "As long as this is so, Lu Bu will be broken." Li Dao and the other four applauded and said wonderful.
The next day, Lu Bu's army set up a position and fought against Li Dao and others. Suddenly, the scouts came to report, and Li Dao and Guo Yan sent another army to attack Chang'an. Lu Bu was shocked and hurriedly returned to the army. Li Dao and Guo Yan waved their troops to kill, but Lu Bu did not dare to fight, and hurriedly retreated to Chang'an. As he was walking, the ambush soldiers on both sides of the road protruded, and the army behind them attacked Lu Bu, Lu Bu knew that he was in the middle of the plan, fought hard, broke out of the encirclement, led less than 20,000 soldiers, and rushed back to Chang'an. Li Dao and Guo Yan surrendered, originally Dong Zhuo's subordinates, and more than 20,000 soldiers immediately joined Li Dao and Guo Yan's camp. Jia Xu said: "Now it is advisable to go all out and recapture Chang'an." Li Dao and the other four led troops to surround Chang'an.
Wang Yun was shocked, the scholar was angry, and only now did he know that something bad was wrong, and hurriedly asked Zhang Wen for a plan. Zhang Wen said: "Lu Bu is newly defeated, the army has no fighting spirit, and the city is fortified, waiting for the opportunity." Wang Yun had no choice but to let Lu Bu guard the city.
The army of Li Dao and Guo Yan besieged the city, and issued countless letters of surrender to the city*, claiming that they were only to avenge Dong Zhuo, and asked the emperor to kill Wang Yun and Lu Bu, and then withdrew the army. In Chang'an City, there are many of Dong Zhuo's original old subordinates, and for more than ten years, under the favor of Dong Zhuo, seeing Li Dao, Guo Yan and others besieging the city, they can't help but move stupidly. Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty, the sad son of heaven, couldn't help but be moved when he heard the conditions of Li Dao and others. Seeing this, Wang Yun asked Liu Xie to go to the city to pacify the rebellious army, promised to be a high-ranking official, and asked Li Dao and others to withdraw for the time being. I can free up my hands and stabilize the interior of Chang'an.
Liu Xie and Wang Yun each had their own hearts and went to the city. When Li Dao's army saw Luanyi, the son of heaven, he knelt on the ground, and Liu Xie couldn't help but feel a little satisfied. Liu Xie stood at the head of the city and said loudly: "The four generals Li Dao, Guo Yan, Zhang Ji, and Fan Chou, Prime Minister Dong Cheng is dead and cannot be resurrected, and the four generals have worked hard and made great achievements, and they have specially promoted General Li Dao as a general; General Guo Yan was a hussar general; The two generals, Zhang Ji and Fan Chou, were the left and right chariot generals. The four generals, temporarily retired, each led his own guards to receive the seal. Li Dao and Guo Yan shouted: "Wang Yun and Lu Bu will not be removed, and the ministers will not retreat." Liu Xie glanced at Wang Yun with difficulty, and said to the following: "Wang Situ is a veteran of the Three Dynasties, and he has made great contributions to the country. Where did Li Dao and the other four people agree, threatening to attack the city. Wang Yun was furious, pointed to the four people under the city and said, "Rebel ministers and thieves, Wang Yun is here." Li Wei scolded Wang Yun endlessly. Wang Yun ordered the arrows to be released, and Li Dao and others immediately commanded men and horses to attack the city. The defenders of the city, the army was unstable, seeing that Li Dao and others attacked the city, Wang Yun knew that it was difficult to protect, shouted, jumped off the city, and died under the city. Seeing that Chang'an was not safe, Lu Bu hurriedly led his descendants and troops to escape from Chang'an to attach himself to Yuan Shao.
When Jia Xu returned home, he saw that there was no one at home, and a sense of foreboding hit his heart, and he staggered and shouted the names of his family, and the guards with him hurriedly dispersed to help the group find people. A guard took a letter and said to Jia Xu: "Sir, a letter was found on the case in the lobby. Jia Xu took it, and when he opened it and looked at it, he wrote:
Jizhou Liu Ze worshiped Jia Gong. Jia Gong has great ambitions and good plans, but in troubled times, he is not allowed to show his genius. Ze's subordinate Shi A, hidden in Chang'an, heard that Wang Yun and Lu Bu were implicated in the killing, fearing disaster to Yan Jia's family, and secretly escorted the family out of Chang'an. When the public got the book, the public family was already on the way to Jizhou. Mr. Wang left the land of right and wrong early and came to Xiangping to gather with his family. The family of the public will be properly settled, and there will be no mistakes. The heart of the fist, looking at the public to observe.
Jia Xu sneered: "What a Liu Jizhou, can you be unpredictable?" I will be scheming, hijacking my family, and forcing me to comply. Jia Xu looked at the deserted mansion, feeling bored, go back to the army, the big tent in the barracks is also deserted, turned to his own soldiers and said, "You go back to the barracks first, and I will go out with Jia Hong and a few people." Jia Xu came to the street, Chang'an, which was originally quite lively and prosperous, is now extremely depressed, and Li Wei and others are calling friends and companions on the street, holding the looted property in their hands, looking for a tavern. Jia Xu shook his head, and walked to a familiar tavern, the tavern owner knew Jia Xu, and when he saw Jia Xu coming in, he hurriedly greeted him, and said, "Mr. Jia is here, but there is no wine in the small shop." Jia Xu looked at the smashed tattered wine jar, guessed something, didn't speak, turned around and walked out. When I turned around the street, I didn't find a tavern with alcohol. Jia Xu was sullen and prepared to go home. A big man walked out of the alley next to him and said to Jia Xu: "Mr. is looking for wine, and he is in the middle of nowhere, but fortunately he was not looted." Jia Xu was overjoyed and walked towards the big man. Jia Hong and the others raised their spirits and beware of them.
The tavern is not big, only three or two people sit and drink. Jia Xu found a place, asked Jia Hong and the others to sit down, and ordered the big man to serve wine. The big man was very attentive and kept sifting wine and serving food. Jia Xu picked up his wine glass and said in surprise: "I don't think there is such a good wine in a small tavern?" The big man said: "Sir is really a master, he has not yet drunk, and he knows that this wine is extraordinary just by the aroma of wine." Jia Xu drank it slowly and said: "This wine is refreshing, it must be Jizhou burning knives." Woody man, Shi Ake? The big man was taken aback, and Jia Xu smiled and said, "Let Shi Ah come to see me." It turned out that this tavern was the secret place arranged by Shi A in Chang'an, and the big man who greeted Jia Xu just now was named Feng Xi, Feng Xi saw Jia Xu's eyes like this, and was secretly frightened, and was just about to say that he didn't know, and a person stood up, holding a wine glass, and came to Jia Xu's case.
"In Xia Liu Ze, I have seen Mr. Jia." "What? You, you...."Jia Xu, who had always been calm, actually became stammering. "I'm really here for Mr." Liu Ze said with a smile. Jia Xu waved his hand, Jia Hong and the others hurriedly got up and stepped aside, and Liu Ze sat down calmly. Jia Xu took a deep look at Liu Ze and said, "What a serial plan." Liu Ze said secretly, sure enough, it was an old fox, his eyes were vicious, he raised his glass to invite a drink, and when Jia Xu drank it, he said: "Dong Zhuo is deeply rooted in Chang'an, but his disaster to the country and the people is like this, Mr. Wenhe didn't say a word?" Jia Xu said gloomily: "How can you get into the eyes of the prime minister." "Dong thief misled the country and harmed the people, Ze had the intention to get rid of it, Naiji Prefecture was thousands of miles away, so he had to make this decision, but he didn't expect it to succeed. Wang Yun talked to the guests and did not listen to good advice, which caused the two thieves Li Dao and Guo Yan to enter the city, and Chang'an was turbulent again. Jia Xu said: "Liu Jizhou is thousands of miles away and deceives my family. Although he is not talented, he will not be able to turn back to Jizhou when he raises his arms. Mr. Jia laughed. Wang Yun and Lu Buzhulian are innocent, Mr. is in Li Dao's camp, can his family be safe and sound? Jia Xu was silent. Jizhou is thousands of miles wide, and the soldiers under Ze who can fight, more than 500,000, have the heart to remove the small night, and also the Han with majesty, Mr. is willing to help? "Is Liu Jizhou persecuting the old man?" "No, no, Ze sincerely respectfully invited, Mr.'s family is really hiding in the tomb outside Chang'an City. If the gentleman doesn't believe it, send a guard to see it. When Jia Xu saw Liu Ze say this, he had already believed it in his heart, how could he lie and deceive. Jia Xu said: "So what is the interpretation of the state pastoral letter? "I didn't expect Chang'an to be so easy to break, Zeyi, wait for Mr. to arrive, and leave to return to Jizhou." Jia Xu said: "Jizhou is gracious, and Xu knows it well. However, Li Dao obeyed my words and couldn't bear to abandon them. "Mr. Li Ruzhi knows that Mr. Li's family is not there, and with his temperament, it is not difficult for Mr. to guess the consequences." Rao is Jia Xu's old scheming, listening to Liu Ze's words, his back also broke out in a cold sweat, Li Dao and Guo Yan are just local warlords, clinging to Dong Zhuo, and it has only been a few days since this situation arrived, if he knew that his family was rescued by Liu Ze, think about it with his toes, Jia Xu's life would not be better.
Liu Ze looked at Jia Xu and said, "If Mr. goes to Jizhou, he will live up to what Mr. has learned." Jia Xu sighed and said, "Jia Xu has seen the lord. ”