Chapter 34 Emperors, Eunuchs, and Clansmen

"Drive ~ 800 miles of urgent report!"

The sky was slightly bright, and on Luoyang Avenue, a flying horse came towards the imperial city.

At this time, Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty was sleeping soundly on the dragon couch with a ** woman in his left and right hands. At this moment, it is like a mess of mud, and I am asleep.

"Majesty!" Suddenly, a shrill call made Liu Hong open his eyes slightly, and turned his head to look, it turned out to be Zhang Rang standing next to the dragon couch, as if he was in a hurry.

Liu Hong saw that he hurriedly got up, and he didn't care about the two women who were overturned and got out of bed, and said with a panicked face: "Father, what's wrong, is it the Yellow Turban thief who came in?" ”

In fact, these days, Liu Hong's life is not good, since he heard the news of the Yellow Turban Uprising, every day is like sitting on pins and needles, and now as long as anyone in the government and the opposition says that there is a motion to pacify the Yellow Turban, he does not hesitate to answer one by one. However, nearly three months have passed, and there has been no progress at all, and I heard that the anti-thieves have invaded Yingchuan, and you must know that Luoyang to Yingchuan is only three or four hundred miles, which shocked Liu Hong. Later, upon recommendation, two Zhonglang generals, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, were appointed, and each led seven or eight thousand people to quell the rebellion. But he still has no bottom in his heart, according to what he heard, the yellow turban thief is good at sprinkling beans into soldiers, calling for wind and rain, which is something that people can contend with. At this time, seeing Zhang Rang running early in the morning to call him, Liu Hong's first thought in his heart was to attack Luoyang against thieves.

Zhang Rang glanced at the Han Emperor who was panicked on the bed, couldn't help but change his face, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, don't panic, those anti-thieves are being blocked by General Huangfu Song in the Changshe first, and they can't come!" ”

When Liu Hong heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, straightened his sitting posture, and closed his head: "In that case, why is Father so eager just now?" ”

"Your Majesty, here's the thing......" Zhang Rang paused, and said the truth with a flattering face.

It turned out that Zhang Rang received an urgent 800-mile rush from Huangfu Song at the same time, and also received a secret report. The content of the eight-hundred-mile expedited is very simple, that is, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun are trapped in the Changshe, hoping that the imperial court will send another reinforcement army to defeat the thieves. In that secret report, it was stated that Liu Chang had sold his property since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, formed a righteous army, and then stayed in the territory to fight to the death with the Yellow Turban thieves several times, and then came to Yingchuan, and recently captured a grain storage base of the Yingchuan thieves, and now it has become a corner with the imperial army, but because of its own weak troops, it does not dare to act rashly, and it still needs instructions from the imperial court.

Liu Hong listened to the secret report, looked at Zhang Rang suspiciously, and asked a little angrily: "Zhang Aiqing, who is this Liu Chang?" Why did you send information to this chamberlain? ”

When Zhang Rang heard this, he immediately knelt down in a hurry, knowing that since he beat Xu Feng and others to secretly communicate with the yellow scarf, this Liu Hong was very taboo about the secret contact between the inner servant and the outside world, obviously, the secret report just now had already committed a taboo. But who is Zhang Rang? Who is Liu Chang? A power eunuch, a traverser, how could these two people do something they are not sure of. Immediately, Zhang Rang raised his head slightly, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, have you forgotten the Yin Ruin Ding and the musk snow lotus soup last night?" ”

"Huh?" As soon as Liu Hong heard these two things, he became a little interested. The Yinxu Ding can be said to have been lost for hundreds of years, only recorded in the book, but few people have seen it, not to think that a few days ago, Zhang Rang actually carried a tripod to tell sΓΉ that he was the Yinxu Ding, I thought it was a fake made by Zhang Rang in order to please himself, but after the identification of the Manchu Dynasty bachelor, this turned out to be genuine, which made Liu Hong happy, and immediately rewarded Zhang Rang with a lot of gold jewelry. As for last night's musk snow lotus soup, I don't know where Zhang Rang got the secret recipe, it turned out to be amazing, which made him seem to have reached the moment when he went through the war, and his combat effectiveness was directly off the table, and there seemed to be no side effects, unlike the scum decoction given by the imperial doctors, who didn't have half the strength after the battle. And now, Liu Hong looked at his body and said in his heart: At this time, even if he fights for another 300 rounds, it doesn't hurt.

Thinking of this, Liu Hong couldn't help but get off the bed, came to Zhang Rang's side, and slowly helped him up, while saying: "Let my father's heart, I understand it very well." Don't kneel next time, it's cool underground! ”

"Hey!" Zhang Rang listened to Liu Hong's words and immediately burst into tears and responded vigorously. But in his heart, there were countless grass and mud horses galloping, and his heart said: You are a king and eight calves, if it weren't for your words that scared me, could Lao Tzu not kneel! Of course, what he thinks in his heart is what he thinks in his heart, at this moment, Zhang Rang is already smiling all over his face, waiting for Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty to change his clothes.

Liu Hong said while putting on his clothes: "Father, who do you say this Liu Chang is?" Where did he get so many treasures? ”

Zhang Rang heard the question, quickly thought about it, and then said: "Back to Your Majesty, as far as the old slave knows, this Liu Chang's ancestor is the lineage of King Jing of Zhongshan, in the early years, his grandfather was far away from his homeland and fiefdom, and went south and north to make a living as a peddler, and I don't know how the head of this family grows, but it has accumulated a lot of property in just ten years. Later, he settled in Jiwu County, Chenliu County, and often helped his neighbors. It is known as the House of the Best. Then the industry was passed on to Liu Chang's generation, which was originally good, but unfortunately the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion made him have to sell his property to resist the thieves. It is said that on the eve of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there was a riot of Taiping Christians in Jiwu County, and all the officials of Jiwu County at that time were killed. Later, he was elected as the county commander, and then he wrote a letter to tell the Taishou Zhang Miao about the Taiping Dao's rebellion, and then this Zhang Miao informed the court of this information, so that His Majesty could discover the hidden traitors in Luoyang in time. As for those rare treasures, I heard that they were obtained by accident during the merchants. ”

After listening to Zhang Rang's tirade, Liu Hong couldn't help but ask excitedly: "You said, he first noticed the rebellion of Taiping Dao?" ”

"Yes", Zhang Rang didn't know the reason for Liu Hong's excitement for a while, so he had to answer respectfully.

"You say he is really the grandson of King Jing of Zhongshan?" Liu Hong asked again.

"The slave maid has checked the clan genealogy and has confirmed that he is the grandson of King Jing of Zhongshan." Zhang Rang still didn't understand Liu Hong's questioning, so he had to tell the truth.

Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty, after listening, he stretched out his hand and brushed the dragon robe, straightened the crown of the nine Liuping heavens, and said loudly: "Okay, good!" I can't imagine that at this critical juncture, my Liu family can still rely on it! Father, according to the genealogy you have seen, what is his relationship with me? ”

"Returning to Your Majesty, according to the genealogy of the clan, he is your clan brother!" When Zhang Rang heard this, he finally put down his hanging heart, it seems that Emperor Han is going to greatly promote his brother, but when he remembered that he was worried before, he couldn't help laughing and scolding fiercely: Okay, you Liu Chang, the bad Lao Tzu is so worried, wait for you to come to Luoyang in the future, see if our family is good at beating you! I'm going to have to dig up one or two more of your treasures for me. Suddenly remembering the Changxin Palace lamp that was hanging in the mansion at the moment, Zhang Rang couldn't help but laugh secretly.

"Ah sneeze ......" hundreds of miles away, Liu Chang, who had just gotten up at the moment and was about to eat breakfast, sneeze involuntarily. Diao Xiu'er next to her couldn't help frowning and asked, "Big brother, are you okay?" In the past two days, you have stayed up late to read books, have you caught a cold? ”

Liu Chang glanced at Diao Xiu'er, who had to go down to the kitchen to make breakfast for him before she got up in the morning, and felt even more beautiful at the moment, so she couldn't help but reach out and brush her hair, and said softly: "I'm fine, I guess which villain is cursing me, or which beauty is thinking about me!" ”

"Nasty!" When Diao Xiu'er heard this, she pretended to be angry, and suddenly handed over the white steamed bun she wanted to give to Liu Chang in her hand to Li Cunxiao who was not far away, "Come, Cunxiao, eat more, I heard my grandfather say that you boys are growing up at this time, and if you eat more, you will grow taller and more powerful, and you will definitely not become like his winter melon!" ”

For a while, Liu Chang's face was full of black lines, and Li Cunxiao could only awkwardly glance at the brother-in-law who was said to be a winter melon, and couldn't help but take it helplessly. When Diao Xiu'er saw Li Cunxiao like that, she couldn't help giggling. Liu Chang, who was sitting next to him, couldn't help but shake his head and said: Hey, I haven't married yet, that's it, if I marry myself, I can clean up this girl! But after thinking about it, I was also relieved, Xiao Yu'er called her mother can be said to be a natural phenomenon, but for some reason, I found that Li Cunxiao has also listened to her recently, and has treated her as an elder, and even some scenes like Liu Li and Li Cunxiao at the beginning, it seems to be more cordial and well-behaved like a mouse seeing a cat. This made Liu Chang can't help but love Diao Xiu'er even more, if it weren't for her age, it is estimated that this product would have been impatient to eat her.

Not to mention Liu Chang and his family. At this moment, Liu Hong, who was neatly dressed, looked at himself in the bronze mirror, feeling much more handsome than before, and couldn't help but admire the elixir offered by the clan brother named Liu Chang. On the way to the main hall, Liu Hong kept asking Zhang Rang how he got acquainted with his brother, and Zhang Rang also responded half-truthfully that it was because of a palace property sale that he met Liu Chang, and then he felt that this person was extraordinary, so he secretly sent someone to check the details, and after knowing that it was the emperor's family, he often came and went. Anyway, at this moment, Zhang Rang has found out from Liu Hong's expression and tone that this Liu Chang will be a celebrity around Emperor Han in the future, so he will try his best to say some good things at this moment, and even try his best to tell Liu Hong, you see that this is the person I Zhang Rang brought to you, how about it, not bad! All in all, at this moment, Liu Chang was inexplicably tied to his rope by Zhang Rang.

Liu Hong was also very happy when he heard his father praise this Liu Chang like this, so he decided to give him an official promotion and a knight, and then reward him after the yellow scarf was pacified. Of course, Liu Hong didn't say anything, he just hoped that Liu Chang would make some more of that kind of decoction and let him ride a thousand.

When he was about to arrive at the main hall, Liu Hong suddenly stopped, turned his head and asked, "Father, did you say that the West Garden has been idle for too long, and it is time to move?" ”

Zhang Rang and the others, who were following Liu Hong's forward, were panicked by Liu Hong's sudden braking behavior, and after adjusting their bodies, they lowered their heads and said: "Your Majesty, the Xiyuan Army has been abandoned for a long time, and it has been idle since the previous dynasty. ”

"Okay, I got it!" After speaking, he strode into the main hall, and Zhang Rang and a group of eunuchs and palace maids behind him hurriedly chased after him.