A fire broke out in the Luoyang Imperial Palace.

The fire started from the South Palace and spread so rapidly that all the buildings and palaces south of the palace were not spared.

The fire was so fierce that it was impossible to extinguish at that time.

The emperor took the queen mother, empress, prince, and concubine to move to the West Garden to hide, and the eunuchs and Yulin retreated to the North Palace for temporary resettlement.

As soon as the gates inside and outside the palace were closed, the fire was isolated, and then we could only hope that it would rain, but the heavens were not beautiful, and when the nectar from the sky was needed, there was not even a drop of rain, and the fire burned endlessly.

During these days, the entire city of Luoyang was illuminated by firelight, and the night was like day.

The fire continued to burn for half a month, until the Nangong complex was completely reduced to rubble and charcoal.

Liu Hong returned to Luoyang City, saw the tragic situation and regretted it, after learning from the pain, he was determined to repair the South Palace, and to build it more magnificent than that of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiuxiu.

So he immediately issued a decree on the ruins of Nangong, announcing that the world's tax would be raised to ten yuan per mu.

Liu Hong wanted to use this way to raise money to support the Nangong project, but the increase in taxes once again aroused the dissatisfaction of the people, even so, the emperor still did not give up the oppression of the people, and it seemed that he would not give up until the Nangong was repaired.

All counties that can be controlled are ordered to insist on a tax of ten dollars per mu of land, and those who violate it will be severely punished.

The Xiliang Rebellion had just subsided, and Emperor Liu Hong, regardless of the safety of the world, returned to the previous state, on the one hand, he squandered it wantonly, and on the other hand, he attacked the heroes and reused the eunuchs.

The ten permanent servants were pampered and arrogantly sold their official beards, and almost squeezed out the officials of Geng Jiezhi in the capital, and the original was just that the people were dissatisfied with the imperial court, and now the scholars and local heroes no longer buy it.

Under the pressure of the faint monarch and the ministers, all kinds of rebellions and uprisings continued one after another, Jingzhou Zhao Ci beheaded the Taishou Qin Jie, the Changsha District Star Uprising, the Lingling Zhou Dynasty uprising, the Guiyang Guoshi uprising, the Xianbei tribe plundered Youzhou, Hutu Gehu harassed Longxi, Liaoxi Karasuma Qiu Liju rebelled, and Zhongshan Taishou Zhang Chun rebelled......

The urgent books in the province were piled up, and the things that the imperial court dealt with every day were to transfer troops back and forth, and there was endless quelling of chaos.

Today, there is a rebellion, tomorrow to exterminate it, the day after tomorrow to rebel, the day after tomorrow to put down the rebellion, the cycle of vicious circles, Youzhou in the northeast, Jingzhou in the Central Plains, Jiaozhou in the southeast are completely out of control, the twelve states in the world have lost almost one-third.

After Emperor Liu Hong repaired the South Palace, in order to surpass the prestige of Guangwu Yutang, he requisitioned countless bronze coins from all over the country, and cast them into four bronze figures with hands on the open plate after dissolving, each of which was more than two zhang high.

There are also four yellow bells, as well as Tianlu, toad, and water-swallowing beasts, all of which are huge and majestic and exquisitely crafted, and the palace is magnificent, but the people are scarce in money, and it is difficult to trade without goods.

Liu Hong also ordered the original five-baht coin to be recast into a thin four-out coin, this kind of money is rough in workmanship and bad quality, although the quantity is too large but the value is low, so the money is cheap and expensive for a while.

And because of the turmoil, the value of grain has doubled, and if people in towns want to buy a bunch of grain, they have to go out with baskets of money, so that the common people have to barter and return to the era of ignorance.

Could it be that the blood and sweat of hundreds of thousands of border soldiers were exchanged for such a result? Chu Feng looked at the smoky Han Empire, hung the golden seal in frustration, resigned from the hussar general and the Marquis of Wuping, and disappeared into Luoyang City like air.

At the end of the same year, an incident occurred in Hedong, which became the laughing stock of the local people after tea and dinner.

Here's the thing, just after the first month, Wei Zhongdao, the son of the Wei family, couldn't wait to go to Chenliu to marry, and the line of relatives stretched for several miles, blowing, playing and singing.

But the good times didn't last long, the wedding team encountered robbers on the way back to Hedong, and the bride Cai Yan was robbed, how many robbers are there? Hmph, no more, no less, exactly two of them.

The Wei family is a Hedong Wang family, since Wei Qing and Wei Fuzi, the Wei family has been on the rise from that moment, and the robbers actually committed crimes in Hedong, isn't this a tiger plucking his hair?

At the request of the Wei family, Dong Zhuo, the assassin of Yongzhou and the Taishou of Hedong, immediately sent troops to arrest him everywhere, but the robbers disappeared from the land east of the river like a stone sinking into the sea.

Cai Yong, who was in Luoyang, heard the news, and he was not as violent as he imagined, but just sighed: "Alas, bad fate!" ”

From winter to spring, the sunshine in Jingzhou is always like the water vapor of the river water, and every light spot is moist like a drop of water that has been sleeping in the deep sea for thousands of years, burrowing into the hair and pores, and it cannot be wiped out, as if the sunshine containing water has since penetrated into the blood, making the person who bathes in the southern sunshine become drenched and wet.

Chu Feng looked up, there were no clouds in the sky, the sun was lonely, and he couldn't help but laugh.

"Why is General Chu laughing?" The princess asked.

Chu Feng pointed to the sun: "It's just watching the sun and thinking about eclipses." ”

Behind the princess, a beautiful woman suddenly turned out, so beautiful that it was suffocating, so beautiful that it made a hundred flowers lose color, she squinted her eyes and stared at the sun for a while, and suddenly smiled: "After this day, I don't have a cottage, I don't encounter a reverse journey, I'm hungry, Brother Chu and the princess can hold it!" ”

Chu Feng sighed teasingly: "I am not an immortal, I can make a living by eating and drinking snow, and people eat grains, but what!" ”

Cai Yan said with a smile: "All the way from Hedong to Jingzhou, if you can eat and drink snow, it is also very good, but you have to eat grains and drink elixir." ”

Chu Feng looked into the distance and said happily: "In front of you is Xinye City, the three laymen who can't be immortals, let's fill our stomachs first." ”

Chu Feng, Cai Yan and the princess left Longzhong and trekked on foot, all the way to the south, one was to observe the scenery and people north of Jingxiang, and the other was to relax their hearts for a long time.

On the hundred-mile road, the three of them walked and stopped, turned over the mountains and hills, waded through the rivers and streams, went to the farmhouse's cottage to taste the new wine that had just been brewed, and also talked all night to sit on the edge of the field, and really had to practice reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles.

Xinye City is a small city, in the south of Zhiwan City, Nanyang County, located in the heart of the Nanxiang Basin, the terrain is a horse Pingchuan, the territory of the water, the White River, the Zhao River, the Tang River staggered and flowing, the tributary rivers provide abundant resources for farmland irrigation, so the Nanyang area is rich in grain production, has always been called the granary of Zhongzhou.

If you take Nanyang as the center, enter the Yellow River in the north, enter Qinchuan in the west, go south to the south of the Yangtze River, and move into Huaiying in the east, it can be said that you can look at the Quartet with one foot, and the Han Guangwu raised troops in that year, and it was initiated in Nanyang, so to speak, Nanyang is the base for the revival of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The three of them entered the city, Chu Feng took the two beautiful women to find a wine shop and restaurant, and at first glance saw a noodle shop on the side of the street, and the guy in charge was scooping soup into a large cauldron, the hot aroma spread, seducing the greedy worms in the stomach more and more rampant, and rushed over with a roar, shouting: "Three bowls of noodle soup!" ”

Seeing Chu Feng's impatient foraging appearance, Cai Yan smiled and lay on the food table: "The people take food as the sky, and I really know it today." ”

Chu Feng picked up a pair of bamboo chopsticks and knocked on the desk: "Zhao Ji is a talented woman, but you can know that Guan Zi said: 'Cang Liao knows etiquette and knows honor and disgrace when he has enough food and clothing. 'It does not stand at all, and the people's will is not good. ”

Cai Yan smiled even more happily: "However, Shang Jun Yiyun: 'Hungry and begging for food, working and begging, suffering is pleasure, humiliation is begging for suffering, and the feelings of this people are also.'" 'Brother Chu is deeply rooted in the nature of the people, Zhao Ji might as well be too! ”

The princess's eyes darkened, she couldn't interject a word about the conversation between Chu Feng and Cai Yan, Cai Yan was full of poetry and books, no wonder General Chu was so concerned.

Cai Yanxiu was wise, and seeing that the princess was sullen, she hurriedly changed the topic: "Wenjun, why do you keep using a Chinese name, don't you have any other names?" ”

When Chu Feng heard this, he looked at the princess with a smile in his eyes, as if he was waiting for her to answer.

The princess smiled: "My name in the Xiaoyue clan is Amelia, and my grandfather longed for the Central Plains culture, so he gave me a Central Plains name when I was born. ”

Chu Feng shrugged indifferently: "I still like to call you princess!" ”

As he spoke, three bowls of steaming noodle soup were served, Chu Feng picked them up, took a big sip of soup first, swept away the full bowl of noodle soup three times and divided it by two, licked the corners of his mouth with infinite nostalgia, and sighed with satisfaction: "It's enough, it's enough to eat and die at night." ”

At this moment, a big man sat not far from Chu Feng and the others, and saw that he was eight feet tall, his black hair was splashed at will, his slanted sword eyebrows, slender black eyes, thin lips, and angular outlines.

And his slender and tall figure is not rough, and the whole person looks like an eagle in the night, cold and arrogant but arrogant but imposing, and he exudes a strong force that stands out from the crowd when he is alone.

But what is incompatible with him is that his brow is filled with sorrow, and he looks like a lone wolf in the wilderness, tragic and desolate.

Chu Feng was suddenly shocked: "Who is this person?" ”

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