67. Death

Yan Xing looked at the gray and hazy moonlight in the sky, and his heart was also full of emotions for a while, and he was full of emotion. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

He was reborn a few years old, from the initial panic to trying to adapt to this era, from the fresh clothes and angry horses to the broken corporal, to make friends with the light chivalrous young men in Yunwu City, from forbearance to popular people, to squeeze out and eliminate the restless elements in the clan, from watching the general trend of the world, secretly comparing with his own memory, to inferring the general trend, actively participating in the troubled times, fighting for his life······

He originally wanted to make a meritorious career in the army to help Yan's father consolidate his position in the clan, strengthen the strength of the Yan family, and expand his family's reputation in the land of Liangzhou and among the families, but in the end, he failed at a critical moment, and he had to lurk in Dong Ying's camp after several tosses, gathering wings, and waiting for the wind, trying to use Dong Zhuo's power to seek the foundation of his career in the troubled times.

Next, the gains and losses in the troubled times are especially unknown, and as for the return date, it is even more far away. Now I think about it, the rain and snow are falling", but I don't know what winter it was when I returned to Yungo's house.

It's just that these can't be explained to Father Yan or his little sister, Yan Xing's heart is difficult to settle, he took a deep breath, and exhaled a long breath, calming down the turmoil in his heart, before slowly turning around, walking back to the desk in the room quickly, looking at the letter that the ink was about to dry, and picking up the pen again to fill in a few lines at the end.

"The boy is determined to go out of the country, and he will not return his name.

Why bury bones, there are green mountains everywhere in life. ”

Yan Xing came from later generations, so his font followed the italics commonly used in later generations, and quickly wrote a seven-character poem with a square font and strict rules, dried the ink, put it in the letterbox, sealed the wax seal with the opening, moved the pace, and solemnly handed it to Yan Xing in front.

There is no word for the return date, and a thousand words are in this poem.

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After sending Yan Xing and the others away the next day, Yan Xing continued to lead the men and horses to practice equestrian archery skills, and took these Dong soldiers out to hunt in his spare time.

In the blink of an eye into May of the sixth year of Zhongping, Li Ru, who had met with various families in Liangzhou and had not returned for a long time, finally reappeared and returned to the manor of the Dong family in Lintao, because of a shocking news from Hedong.

When the son died today!

This is already what happened in mid-April, although Dong Min, who was in the middle of Luoyang, as soon as he got the news, he immediately sent people to Hedong to report to Dong Zhuo, who had moved to Hedong and was ready to wait and see the situation between the DPRK and China before deciding whether to join the merger, and after Dong Zhuo got the news, he sent people to use fast horses to spread the news from Hedong to Lintao.

Although the message is very simple, there are only a few words: "The son of heaven collapsed, the prince took the throne, and the matter returned quickly!" But after Li Ru saw it with his own eyes, he knew that the big things of the Han family were coming, although he did more ridiculous things during his reign than the previous emperors, but after all, he has been on the throne for a long time, has the prestige accumulated as a more than ten generations of emperors of the Han family, and can barely use the power in the central position to maintain the balance of forces within this empire in this devastated country.

But now, the last pillar of the stable court has fallen to the ground, and the Han family, which is a high-sounding temple on the surface, is actually crumbling is about to collapse, Li Ru can feel the sword light and sword shadow above the court of Luoyang thousands of miles away, and the danger is much more dangerous than the charge on the battle array.

Li Ru knew that Dong Zhuo's current mood must be both excited and nervous, he was excited that he had bet on the right chess piece, and he was nervous about the subsequent changes in the situation, so he quickly summoned himself back to discuss the next major events.

At present, it is an eventful autumn in the country, and most of the affairs in Liangzhou have been completed, no matter what the reaction of each family is, Li Ru knows that his side will not wait to wait for his other party to take the bait, but to take the initiative to strike first, only if he is strong enough, only the strong Liangzhou families will be willing to obediently bow down and obey their own dispatch.

Therefore, from the day he received the news, Li Ru straightened out his men and horses, prepared horses, dry food and other things, and prepared to set off early the next morning.

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Thousands of miles away in Luoyang, the development of events proved that Li Ru's ideas were still too conservative, and the Han Empire, which had accumulated shortcomings for a long time, because of the death of the Son of Heaven, was like an old man who was struggling to breathe and ended the symptoms of returning to the light, and all kinds of intricate power struggles broke out in an instant, and the Han court entered the countdown to its demise.

The Son of Heaven died, and the first person to get the news was naturally the little Huangmen Jian Shuo who was waiting by the emperor's side, and he also wanted to block the news at that time, induce He to enter the palace, and kill the maternal uncle of the prince Liu Wei, the biggest reliance in the court, the general who nominally commanded the world's soldiers and horses, and then took advantage of the situation to support Liu Xie as the emperor.

It's a pity that He Jin has already buried a secret son by Jian Shuo's side, and Jian Shuo's Sima Pan Yin reported Jian Shuo's conspiracy to He Jin in time, which allowed He Jin to escape a catastrophe and began to hide in the military camp, leading his own soldiers and horses, uniting inside and outside the court, jointly exerting pressure, and supporting the emperor to become the son of heaven.

Previously, the General's Mansion had created a legal momentum for the prince's discernment, and now it was the time for the prince to discern the expectations of the public and ascended to the throne of the emperor of the Han Dynasty with an unquestionable attitude. According to the story of the Han family, when the young lord was in the dynasty, Yuan Kui, the third prince of the fourth dynasty and the famous sea, was promoted to the position of Taifu, and he and He Jin, the general of his relatives, jointly presided over the affairs of Shangshu, becoming the two most powerful people among the foreign ministers.

He Jin had already reached a political alliance with these families and party members before, and these scholars above the court supported his nephew to ascend the throne and reciprocated the favor, and He Jin, who held great power, also widely recruited and resourceful. High-name scholars entered the court as officials, and successively appointed He Hao as the marquis of the Northern Army, Xun You as the Huangmen squire, Zheng Tai as Shangshu and other more than 20 scholars.

All of a sudden, the scholars gathered together and sat down with the Son of Heaven to discuss, as if returning to the grand occasion when the scholars were in the court before the party. Once the Son of Heaven and a courtier, on behalf of the newly enthroned Son of Heaven's maternal relatives He Jin's side, is the arrival of the end of the old people of the deceased Son of Heaven, such as Jian Shuo and Dong Chong.

The open and secret battles in the imperial court were in full swing, and a group of men and horses who had set off from Liangzhou early in the morning were also hurrying to the next destination. One of the young men galloping on horseback was at the front of the procession, and his heart stirred as he looked meaningfully at the rising sun in the east.

He knew better than anyone that the next situation in the Luoyang Dynasty would never end hastily because of the new monarch's accession to the throne, which was like the calm before the storm, and the bloody storm that swept the entire Han Empire was coming.