Chapter 123: Liu Shi Remarries The Emperor Goes East
This matter made Wen Ji want to leave, and Bai Peony and Red Peony also had to leave Nanyang. Liu Shi, the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun", knew that he was wrong, but he couldn't explain it.
In the end, after Liu Yi knew the truth of the matter, he discussed it with Mi Zhen. Mi Zhen was originally an open-minded person, and only asked Liu Shi not to welcome the new and abandon the old, and counted Liu Shi well, and the last sentence "You're cheap." "Agreed to marry the three daughters into the Hou Mansion, Cai Ji is the second marriage, is in the father's filial piety, after many persuasions, Cai Ji named the concubine, filial piety full of Fangyuanfang.
As for Bai Peony and Red Peony, Liu Yi asked someone to propose marriage to Mr. Kang Cheng, and Mr. Kang Cheng came from Nanyang for this matter, and took a hexagram for Mi Zhen, Bai Peony, Cai Ji, Red Peony, etc., which shows that several people have the life of serving a husband, and the four of them are all indescribably expensive, and there may be sisters to get along with in the future. Mr. Kangcheng sighed. Bai Shao, Chi Shao, and Cai Ji lived in the same courtyard in the mountains, and they got married half a year later, and the house was lively.
Although Liu Shi solved the matter and several people married as wives and concubines, he always felt that this matter was a bit of a loss to Mi Zhen, Red Peony, Bai Shao, etc., and he was a little empty in his heart, so he was embarrassed to stay in the Hou Mansion, so he found a reason and instructed Mi Zhen to return to Nanyang with a few words.
In March of the first year of Xingping, Ma Teng begged Li to urge him for personal matters, but Li urged him not to allow it. Ma Teng was dissatisfied with Li Xuan, and the ministers of the central government, Chong Shao, Zuo Zhonglang, Liu Fan, and Ma Yu, the servant, conspired to recruit Liu Yan, the pastor of Yizhou, to attack Li Xu, Guo Yan, and the three of them were internal responses. Hearing that Ma Teng and Li Xuan had settled a grievance, they wooed Ma Teng and conspired to get rid of Li Xuan and Guo Yan.
Ma Teng was a martial artist, loyal to the court, but also dissatisfied with Li Xuan, and when he heard the schemes of Chong Shao and others, he thought that the opportunity was rare, which could save the Son of Heaven from fire and water, and make meritorious contributions to the court. He was able to avenge his own personal vendetta and agreed to send troops.
The two sides made an appointment, and Ma Teng gathered more than 20,000 troops and Qiang people to attack Chang'an.
Li Xuan and Guo Yan were very angry when they saw Ma Teng's menacing, and they didn't listen to Jia Xu's persuasion and led a large army to greet them. Ma Teng was defeated and was repelled by Li in the first battle.
Han Sui heard that Ma Teng was fighting with Li Xuan, and led his troops to help.
Ma Teng got Han Sui's help and fought Li and Guo again.
Li Xuan and Guo Yan's army couldn't resist the enemy, and they folded the general Wang Meng, so they had to listen to Jia Xu's words, retreat to various dangerous places, and wait for Ma Teng and Han Sui to run out of food.
In less than a month, as Jia Xu said, Ma Teng and Han Sui were running out of grain and grass, and Liu Yan in Yizhou still had no troops to arrive, and there was no news from Neiying, so there was no hope of attacking.
In Chang'an City, Ma Yu was discovered by Ma Yu because of his scholar's fornication with his concubine, Ma Yu was furious, beat the scholar severely, and threw him in the firewood room to be executed in the next day.
It is also the life of the scholar who should not be killed, and the person who tied him had a very good personal relationship with him, and he couldn't bear it in his heart, so he was lightly bound.
The scholar escaped in the middle of the night, and angrily told Li Yu about Ma Yu's private conspiracy with Chong Shao and Liu Fan.
Li Xun got the news and sent troops to arrest Ma Yu, Chong Shao received an internal response in Li Yu's mansion, and when he learned that Ma Yu had an accident, Chong Shao immediately notified Liu Fan and fled to Yizhou with Liu Fan. As a result, he was chased by Li and killed Liu Fan and Chong Shao on the spot in Huaili.
Li urged to hate Ma Teng, and deliberately spread the matter of planting Shao and Liu Fan, and Ma Teng was even more panicked when he heard about it, and immediately sent troops.
According to Jia Xu's plan, Li urged to follow and chase, and broke the army of Ma Teng and Han Sui.
Han Sui was chased by Fan Chou, and turned around and said: "Everyone is a neighbor, today you chase me, tomorrow I will chase you." I am in trouble today, don't you want to think about it, everyone is doing things for the court, maybe they will be officials in the same court in the future? Then we will meet again. Let me go today, and I will remember your kindness in the coming day. ”
This Fan Chou heard that Han Sui was reasonable, so he let him go and returned to Chang'an.
Who knew that Li Xu's nephew was in Fan Chou's team, and when he saw that Fan Chou and Han Sui were intimate, he didn't know what to say, so he let Han Sui go. After going back, he told Li Xuan about it, and Li Xuan was furious when he heard the words and hid in his heart.
In March of the second year of Xingping, the famine in Chang'an became more and more serious, and there was cannibalism in the land of Sanfu. The court army was also facing the dilemma of having no food to eat, and Fan Chou planned to go to Hedong to garrison troops.
However, Hedong is now rampant with the Huns and white wave thieves, so he wants Li Dao to give a little more soldiers in order to protect himself.
Li Daoben was suspicious of Fan Chou, pretended to promise, and sent him off with wine.
At the send-off banquet, Li Wei accused Fan Chou of colluding with the traitor Han Sui, in a vain attempt to get rid of the court and seize Hedong. He instructed his nephew to kill Fan Chou in public and divide Fan Chou's tribe with Guo Yan.
In order to solve the problem of grain and grass, Li Xun and Guo Yan robbed and killed the people and plundered the rich households. Every time they came back, the two would drink and have fun together, never return home at night, and praise the court, and the ministers of the court dared to be angry and did not dare to speak.
Although the Son of Heaven is young, he is extremely smart, and he can't bear to be fooled by Li Xuan and Guo Yan, and often sighs and cries in the palace.
Yang Biao found Huangfu Artemisia to discuss and set a plan for discord.
One day, Guo Yan's wife visited Huangfu Hao's house, and Huangfu's wife had no intention of mentioning that the Li family had recently recruited several extremely beautiful prostitutes. Guo Yan's wife listened to it in her heart, worried that her husband would be bewitched by a prostitute and abandon her, so she secretly prepared.
On this day, Li Wei sent a servant to send wine to Guo Yan, Guo Yan's wife secretly put some poison in the wine, and when the servant sent the wine to Guo Yan to drink, his wife said: "You and Li Gong hold the government, Li Gong is the only one who is jealous, it is better to give it a try, if it is not toxic, drink it again." ”
As soon as Guo Yan heard the reason, he immediately asked someone to bring a chicken, poured a cup of wine, and in less than a cup of tea, the chicken was poisoned and died. Guo Yan was shocked: "Li Dao harmed me." ”
Madame said: "Not necessarily, it is also possible for the drinker, and you must be careful in the future." ”
Since then, Guo Yan has been suspicious and afraid of Li Dao, and he dare not stay at Li Dao's house.
After another period of time, after this day of court discussion, Li Dao invited Guo Yan to drink at home again. Unexpectedly, on the way back, the cool breeze blew, and the abdominal pain was unbearable. Guo Yan was shocked, thinking that Li Dao had harmed him, so he hurriedly asked the servant to carry a bucket of urinal water to detoxify, which was laughed at by the sergeant with him.
Guo Yan was angry in his heart, and immediately led his troops to attack Li Dao to avenge this.
Li Dao was wronged by him, angry and counterattacked, and the two fought outside Chang'an City, and countless people died.
Guo Yan and Yang Ding discussed to hijack the Son of Heaven to their own camp and dominate the government, the news was learned by Li Wei, and he urgently sent his nephew Li Li to take the lead and snatch the Son of Heaven and the ministers back to the camp and move them to the North Dock, where a fire burned down the palace, and sent the captain to guard the dock door day and night.
The minister was hungry, the Son of Heaven begged Li Dao for five rice to give the minister, and Li urged someone to send five cow bones to the Son of Heaven, saying: "Now that Chang'an is short of grain, why do you use rice when the minister eats?" ”
At this time, the weather is hot again, and these beef bones have some flavor.
The Son of Heaven was furious, and Yang Qi played in the middle of the service: "Li Dao, a contemptible person, is accustomed to the habits of life, and does not intend to slack off the minister, now Li Qi knows that he has committed rebellion, and he is often irritable in his heart, please Your Majesty hold back, and do not reveal the intention of blaming him." ”
The Son of Heaven had no choice but to endure in his heart.
Guo Yan saw that the Son of Heaven was robbed by Li Wei, and he was even more furious, and the two fought for several months, and the Son of Heaven had to send the minister to persuade peace, but Guo Yan detained the minister instead.
Hongnong Zhang Ji got the news and led troops to persuade him, threatening that if one side did not listen, he would join the other side and destroy the other side.
Both of them were afraid of the other party's alliance and agreed to persuade peace, because the palace of the Son of Heaven had been destroyed, all the people of Chang'an had fled, and there was no food, and they planned to go to Nanyang.
A minister said: "Although Liu Shi was included in the clan by the first emperor, he has an old relationship with His Majesty, and he has the grace entrusted by the first emperor." Recently, I have not forgotten Your Majesty and never paid tribute. But he is young, his reputation is not high, he has always been disliked by the family and the big family, and he has had dealings with Dong Table and Li Xun, and his heart is unpredictable. Once he has the power to turn against the strong face, he will enter the tiger's mouth again. It is better to go east to Luoyang, recruit ministers to guard the eight passes, order Liu Shizhen to the frontier, appease the princes, clans, and heroes of Guandong, and charge them to pay tribute and pay grain. At that time, wouldn't it be better for the government to return to the throne, appoint the virtuous and capable, and Your Majesty to be the master? ”
The ministers agreed.
The Son of Heaven also felt justified and decided to go east to Luoyang.
Li Dao, Guo Yan originally refused, but under the persuasion of Zhang Ji, he pardoned Li Qi and Guo Yan for the crime of kidnapping the Son of Heaven and the minister, and then agreed to the Son of Heaven to drive the Eastern Capital.
Li Wei led his troops to be stationed in Chiyang, moved Zhang Ji to be a hussar general, stationed in Hongnong, moved Guo Yan to be a chariot general, Yang Ding to be a general, Yang Fengxingyi to be a general, and Dong Cheng to be an Anji general, and returned east with the Son of Heaven.
When the army marched to Xinfeng, Guo Yan regretted it and wanted to take the Son of Heaven hostage to Yi County, but Yang Feng, Yang Ding, and Dong Cheng disagreed.
Guo Yan and Yang Feng and others fought in a big battle, and fled to Chiyang after defeat, Guo Yan and Li Wei made peace and joined forces to attack again.
Liu Shi heard in Nanyang that Li Dao and Guo Yan were attacking each other, and Li Dao heard that Guo Bi was going to kidnap the Son of Heaven, so he preemptively robbed the Son of Heaven and the minister to the military camp, and burned down the Chang'an Imperial Palace with a fire. Furious! Immediately led the troops to come to the rescue.
Li Ru persuaded: "The general goes, and there are external forces, Li Xuan and Guo Yan will inevitably reconcile, but they will make enemies with Li Xuan and others." What will happen if the general urges Li to be urgent, harms the Son of Heaven or threatens the world to withdraw from the army with you? ”
Lu Su also expressed the same worry, after facing Li Xuan, it would be even more difficult to save the emperor.
Liu Shi had no choice but to give up and ordered Zhao Yun, Liu Hu, and Fa Zheng to closely monitor the situation in Chang'an. He also increased his army and stored grain and grass. Hearing that, under the persuasion of Zhang Ji, Li Dao and Guo Yan quit the army and sent the Son of Heaven back to Luoyang. Immediately took Liu Zhen, Li Ru, Shi Lian, and Gan Ning back to Lantian, and let Peng Tuo, Guan Hai, and Yan Rou increase their troops and Shang Luo, and stay in Lusu, Gao Shun, Dian Wei, Liu Feng, Liu Bao, Jiang Qin, etc. to garrison Nanyang.