Chapter 176: In the Palace
Four thousand people and horses from Bi Guiyuan all the way to the east, arrived at Luoyang City, it was already noon, at this time the east of Luoyang City, the south of the city was already a fireworks, far away you can see the thick smoke billowing overhead, a radius of dozens of miles, has been unable to keep people, birds extinct. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
As for the Luoyang Palace, which is located in the north of Luoshui, it is still quite complete at the moment, but it is only a matter of two or three days, and sooner or later it will be reduced to ashes.
Zhang Liao sighed secretly, but it's a pity that the hundred-year-old imperial capital, such a prosperous Luoyang City, I don't know how many people's efforts have gathered, but it is about to be burned. Dong Zhuo is bent on cutting off the way forward for the Kwantung princes and razing Luoyang to the ground, and no one can stop it!
They soon arrived at the palace and entered from Guangyang Gate, Zhang Liao looked at the towering palaces in front of him, and suddenly remembered something again, when he left Xiaopingjin, Tang Wan asked himself to find a palace maid named Gu Caiying, who had been busy all these days in the dark, and actually forgot about it!
He couldn't help but smile bitterly, the first thing his little wife entrusted him forgot about it, although she wouldn't blame herself, but she broke her trust, and I was afraid that there was nowhere to put this face.
Along the Imperial City Avenue, when passing by the Qingzuo Gate of the Imperial Palace, he saw that there were still Qianghu soldiers searching and churning inside, Zhang Liao's heart moved again, and he ordered his soldiers: "Go in and have a look."
Entering the palace, the purpose is a devastation, the north and south palaces, the middle pavilion road, everywhere are Hu soldiers searching around, the gold, jade, including pearls, copper ornaments inlaid on the palace, everything of some value, have been scavenged, even the decorative curtains have been torn everywhere.
When the Qianghu soldiers who were churning around saw Zhang Liao coming in, they immediately recognized this Zhang Violent Tiger, and they were immediately silent, dropped their things, and saluted obediently.
Zhang Baohu's prestige of killing thousands of robbing Hu soldiers in Luoyang is still there, not to mention that Dong Zhuo has already told the army two days ago that Zhang Liao has been promoted to the captain of the tiger, and now everyone knows that Zhang Liao is a hot celebrity under the command of Xiangguo, not inferior to the generals of the lineage, how dare they slack off.
Zhang Liao ignored these Qiang Hu soldiers, but led people straight to the nearest Hongdu Gate in the palace, Hongdu Gate was once the place where Emperor Ling set up Hongdu Gate School and trained students to compete with the family, and there were many books hidden here.
But after Zhang Liao came in, he saw that this place had been destroyed, and all kinds of books, books, and silk books, including bamboo slips and turtle boards, were thrown everywhere, and the bamboo slips were dissected and the silk was torn.
Zhang Liao walked to several places in a row, Dongguan, Lantai, Shifu, Xuanming, these places where the palace hid books were also as messy as Hongdumen, and as many as tens of thousands of books were not taken away.
He didn't know that in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu moved the capital to Luoyang, and the catalogue of the classics he carried was loaded with more than 2,000 cars.
But the move of the capital to Chang'an, can be described as extremely hurried, even under the full efforts of Situ Wang Yun, he only carried more than 70 cars of classics, and most of them were Confucian classics, and the rest of the classics and catalogues were scattered in this palace, which was destroyed by those Qiang Hu soldiers.
Zhang Liao is also a book lover, especially in this era, books are even more rare, once damaged, it is likely that some materials and technology will be permanently lost.
In the stone room, he picked up a book casually, looked at it, and couldn't help but change his face slightly, he saw that the words "Shang Fang Codex" were written on the top of the book, and there was a name hanging at the bottom, Cai Lun!
Zhang Liao's heart jumped, and he hurriedly opened it and took a look, good guy, it was really left by Cai Lun, and there were dozens of skills recorded in it, including papermaking!
Good baby! Zhang Liao's eyes lit up suddenly, looking at the Qianghu soldiers who made a mess of books, and shouted: "Don't destroy books!" Get all these books in order!"
Seeing these books, an idea that had come to his mind became stronger and stronger, if he sorted out all these books and moved them away, as many as tens of thousands of volumes, then in the future, he would be able to build a big academy when he settled down, just like the Jixia Academy during the Warring States Period, attracting a large number of readers.
When the printing press was developed, he could print countless books and launch a tough battle against the imperial examination system, even if the process took ten or twenty years, but at that time, he could change a lot of things.
When those Qianghu soldiers heard Zhang Baohu's order, they didn't dare to slack off, and immediately packed up carefully.
At this moment, Sima Lang, Zhou Hui and others, who were investigating the situation everywhere, also hurried over, just in time to hear Zhang Liao asking Hu Bing to sort out the books, and they all showed joy: "Zhang Duwei has made great contributions to this move. ā
"These books should be preserved." Zhang Liao looked at them: "Boda, Brother Zhou, I bother you to take care of them, be careful not to damage them." ā
"Good!" Sima Lang and Zhou Hui all happily agreed.
Next, Zhang Liao mobilized his 4,000 soldiers and rangers to collect and sort out the books, carry them and load them, and he wanted to transport these books back to Xiaopingjin first.
That night, they rested in the palace.
Zhang Liao didn't feel sleepy, lit a torch, stayed in the east view to read, and suddenly heard a shouting sound not far away.
He couldn't help but be surprised, immediately got up, pulled out the long sword at his waist, and went out to check the situation, followed closely by Shi A and the two guards outside the door.
When he arrived at a side hall not far away, Zhang Liao saw more than 20 Qianghu soldiers holding torches and besieging a woman in a palace costume in white.
"What's going on?" Zhang Liao asked in a deep voice.
A Hu soldier and marquis hurriedly said: "Captain Zhang, this palace maid is secretly hiding here, and she is going to be arrested." ā
Zhang Liao frowned, looking at the palace maid, but she was nearly thirty years old, with a beautiful face, holding a long sword, with evil in her eyes, dressed in palace clothes, stained with blood, she obviously knew swordsmanship very well, and several Hu soldiers had fallen on the ground, but fortunately, she was only injured, and there was no worry about her life.
However, the condition of the woman in the palace costume is not good, under the crazy siege of more than 20 Hu soldiers, she is already out of breath, her physical strength is exhausted, and her left arm has been injured.
Zhang Liao instructed those Hu soldiers: "You should retreat first, rest early, and sort out the books early tomorrow morning." ā
"Yes!" The Marquis of Qiang Hu glared at the woman in the palace costume fiercely, although he was a little unwilling, he did not dare to disobey Zhang Liao's order, and retreated with a group of Hu soldiers.
After those Hu soldiers retreated, the woman in palace clothes held a long sword and looked at Zhang Liao vigilantly.
Zhang Liao said in a deep voice: "Who are you?" The palace has all gone west, why are you here? ā
The woman snorted coldly, ignored Zhang Liao, and turned around to leave.
Zhang Liao raised his eyebrows and waved his hand: "Ah Heng, take her down." ā
Shi A's voice was indifferent: "The servant never makes a move on a woman. ā
Zhang Liao's expression froze, and he subconsciously touched his nose...... This Shi Ah is too faceless.
Do it yourself? It doesn't seem to be right, Shi Ah doesn't beat women, can he be justified in beating them?
He looked at the woman helplessly, his voice was as soft as possible, and said, "Now that the palace is surrounded by soldiers, if you go out like this, you will inevitably fall into their hands, and the consequences will be unimaginable." ā
The woman in palace clothes stiffened, turned her head, and glared at him fiercely: "Look at you a little human, I didn't expect you to be so despicable!" ā
The corners of Shi A's mouth couldn't help twitching.
Zhang Liao touched his nose in embarrassment, did this woman eat gunpowder? Why is your temper so impulsive? I don't think I've done anything.
He darkened his face and said, "Captain Bendu just asked about your name, surname and origin, why is it despicable?" ā
The woman snorted coldly: "What are you talking about, if you want to kill or chop, listen to it." ā