The time has entered September, and all the work is going on, and more than 500 large cars have been built. The rabbit is also in its second litter, and the preparations are almost ready. Li Jie still often goes to the royal family to get some rewards and comes back, and there are more and more homeless people on the road. The situation was getting worse and worse, and the Huangchao thieves occupied Huainan and began to rage in Latin, with a sharp increase in men and horses, claiming to be an army of 600,000 to the outside world. When the news came, the court shook, in fact, Huang Chao's men can fight at most tens of thousands of people, and the rest are cannon fodder. But this is an era of who is worse than whom, not very bad, only worse.

Xi Zong finally stopped playing, and Tian Lingzi finally felt bad. The imperial court finally began to discuss how to face the problem, but Li Jie stood on the main hall and found that the eunuch showed that he meant to run, while the family showed that it didn't matter. At this time, the eunuch Tian Lingzi realized that the situation was worse than he expected, but he was unwilling to lose control of the emperor. He started a small abacus to anoint the soles of his feet. He first recommended his younger brother Chen Jingxuan (Tian Lingzi's original surname was Chen, and then worshiped the eunuch surnamed Tian as his father-in-law, and assumed the surname Tian) to the main hall to Xizong to go out of the town of Shuzhong. If you want to learn from Xuanzong back then, once there is any trouble, you can take the emperor hostage and flee to Shuzhong for refuge. The family didn't care and agreed in unison, so the Emperor agreed.

But what is ridiculous is that Xi Zong let these four people decide the winner by hitting polo, betting on Sanchuan, and using winning or losing to determine the official title awarded. Chen Jingxuan and the other four galloped on the court, competing on horseback. As a result, Chen Jingxuan won the first place, and because Xichuan was the richest, he was immediately appointed as the envoy of Xichuan Festival. Yang Shili is second, and he is the envoy of the Dongchuan Festival; Niu Miao is the third, and he is the envoy of Shannan West Road; And Luo Yuangao is the last place, so he is not allowed to move. This is the "batting gambling Sanchuan" created by Xi Zong, an ancient anecdote.

Li Jie looked at everything in front of him and felt deeply sad! also made up his mind to leave Chang'an. Before that, when he and Liu Qi and others discussed the timing for several days, they unanimously agreed that the opportunity had finally come. When the appointment of Sanchuan was issued, Li Zhuolai stood in the hall and arched his hand, "Your Majesty, although Your Majesty has decided to hunt Sanchuan in the west, but the situation has not yet reached the worst, the younger brother is willing to lead more than 1,000 people from the house to Luoyang to supervise the battle, in order to ensure that Henan does not lose "Tian Lingzi was surprised" What does this kid want to do? Just as he was about to open his mouth, Li Jie spoke again, "However, the minister's brother is not strong enough, please ask Your Majesty to transfer another 5,000 troops, and the minister's brother will do his best to ensure that Henan is not lost!" Tian Lingzi was relieved, the generals of the Shence Army were all his people, but he didn't expect that the generals of the Shence Army were all stupid. Xi Zong looked at Tian Lingzi, saw that he nodded slightly, and said, "The seventh brother is so for the country, I am very relieved!" Proclaim! Special seal Shouwang Lu Longjie envoy, Youzhou Metropolitan Governor, Huainan Jiedu envoy and Henan disposal envoy! The soldiers and horses under his jurisdiction will all be transferred by King Shou! In addition, the fighter plane will be lost at a moment's notice, and the right to act cheaply will be given to King Shou! Five days later! "When the decree is given, everyone rejoices! Only the gloomy clouds in the Shence army are bleak. Most of the soldiers of the Shence Army were the children of the wealthy families of Chang'an, and these people did not really want to be soldiers at the beginning, but relied on bribing eunuchs to register their names in the army, so as to get rich gifts. In normal times, these Shence sergeants from rich families are usually dressed in gorgeous clothes and angry horses, and they are comfortable and comfortable, and they rarely practice, let alone experience battle formations. As soon as he heard that he was going to go on the expedition, he was so frightened that the father and son hugged their heads and cried. Many soldiers of the Shence Army secretly used gold silk to hire the poor people of Chang'an to go out on their behalf. What are you kidding, can you stop doing your job, we are extorting merchants, and we have nothing to do to coerce and coerce the emperor. Going on the expedition, that's going to be a dead man!

Li Jie's palace knelt down with a Shence army general, Li Jie looked at it and sneered in his heart, but said on his lips: "Why do the generals do this? The people looked at each other, but no one spoke. Li Jie said, "Since there is nothing to do, let's send off the guests!" In desperation, a general arched his hand and said, "Your Highness, I don't know what Your Highness wants to lead the troops to go out, now the thief army is strong, our army has been sparse for a long time, if the battle is defeated, I am afraid that it will ruin the major events of His Royal Highness King Shou!" Li Jie said: "What should I do!" The decree has been made! Holy will is hard to do! Today, let's discuss with the generals, and the general will lead the army with me! Again, they did not speak. Li Jie sighed, "Alas! In this way, this king has a plan, I wonder if the generals are willing to listen to it? When the people heard this, they hurriedly said, "I wish to hear about it!" Li Jie thought for a while and said, "The soldiers will still come out in a few days, and there is a valley in the east of the city after leaving the city. Let's convert it all into cash! "Li Jie stopped talking, I just don't point it out, you tens of thousands of people will do it yourself, if you don't want to be selected by me, you can! Pay! The generals retreated into the courtyard and discussed for a long time, then came back and knelt down, "Your Highness, I am willing to give 500,000 taels to Your Highness!" Li Jie smiled when he heard it, "Send me to the house after three days!" Leave in five days! The generals were depressed, but seeing that Li Jie didn't mean to say it, he had no choice but to go back and collect money.

Looking at the people in the distance, Xue Liang arched his hand and said, "Your Highness, why do you have to leave Chang'an?" Li Jie smiled: "Come with me!" Xue Liang looked at it, ordered Jinyi to guard the hospital, no one was allowed to approach, entered the study Li Jie sat down, Xue Liang knelt and sat opposite, Li Jie said, "You are my close person, so I will give Manniang a name!" Xue Liang was startled and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed. Li Jie put his hands together, "It doesn't have to be like this, it's just that what I want to say next, you must keep it secret, no one can say it, it must rot in your stomach!" Xue Liang hurriedly said, "Your Highness, then you don't have to say it!" Li Jie said, "I must say, because it's time for Jinyiwei to act!" Xue Liang gave up his hand helplessly, "Your Highness, please speak!" Li Jie said, "Judging from my current strength, the problem of controlling Chang'an is not too big, but I don't want to, because even if I control Chang'an, what will happen to those families?" What to do with eunuchs? What about the generals? ”

"One, the family. Since the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the family of gate lords has gradually formed, they monopolize the court, almost all the officials are served by the children of the family, if the emperor is strong or conservative, they will be attached to the court, use their resources to occupy the court, in turn use the court to monopolize more resources for them, they occupy a large amount of farmland, so that many farmers are dependent on them, the size of the land and the population is unimaginable! For example, Yuan Shao and Sima Zhao are the representatives of the family. And if the emperor is weak, these families are the grass on the wall, betting on both sides at the same time. Such as Zhuge Liang and so on. To them, the emperor is like a piece of clothing, and it doesn't matter who they change! Because that dynasty needs officials, and they just need to catch this official! ”

"Second, eunuchs. Originally, the eunuchs were attached to the royal family, and everything they had was given by the royal family. But what the emperor didn't expect was that people are greedy, and you can't see it when the emperor is strong, but when they succeeded in leading troops to support the emperor for the first time, the subsequent emperors basically became their puppets! If you want to scrap it, you can stand it if you want to! And the emperor has to bear the charge of disturbing the dynasty and harming the country and the people! ”

"Third, military generals. How many of these generals now take the emperor in their eyes. The eunuch of the family is a puppet when he is the emperor, isn't the general? They are attached to the family and the eunuchs, and how many of them are loyal to the emperor? As long as the eunuch of the family wants to change this emperor, Wu will immediately put the knife on the emperor's neck! ”

"So, I don't want them, I just want the people! If I occupy Chang'an, I will still be their puppet in the future, and if I occupy Chang'an, how will the local warlords deal with it, and let them divide it? As long as they don't openly divide their territory, I have no reason to clean them up, so I don't want Chang'an. I'll go to places to develop my own power, doesn't Huang Chao like to kill? I will give him a target to kill, and I will tell him that the family is very rich and rich, and there is enough food to support hundreds of thousands of troops! There is so much money that you can build as many cities as you want! When he kills all the family for me, I can destroy him. I can't bear the notoriety of killing the family, since there is such a good backing, why don't I use it? And as long as I don't claim to be the emperor, I can keep forcing those warlords to fight me, and I can kill him justifiably! The warlords of the family are gone, so the eunuchs are like floating roots. And what you Xue Liang have to do now is to send Jinyi Wei to the Huangchao army, go to Luoyang to spread the news, force the whole family to run to Chang'an, and lead Huangchao to capture Chang'an! Xue Liang was shocked, he didn't expect Li Jie to be so small but ruthless! But he also knows that doing so is actually the long-term solution. In the end, Xue Liang gave up his hand, "No!" ”

Three days later, 500,000 taels of silver were sent to the house. Looking at the generals who looked at him, Li Jie smiled, "Five thousand people, each of you will share it equally!" "The generals are so angry! But I couldn't say anything, so I had to leave. Five days later, the army set out for the expedition, and the Emperor sent him off in person. Li Jie had already sent the nurse and others out of the city two days ago, and Huangzhuang also began to prepare. Li Jie strictly ordered all families to go on the road, all food was managed in a unified manner, only one pair of rabbits were left in each family, the rest were all killed, and all the furs were processed and taken away. The rabbit meat is all smoked and dried. The bankers were reluctant, but when five hundred pikemen appeared, they succumbed. Although many people cried and cried, they still loaded the poor belongings into the car. After the five thousand gods went out of the city for ten miles, they turned to the northeast, and when they reached the mountain pass, a small colonel came over to the side of the road and saluted, "Your Highness, the military camp in the valley has been set up, please enter and rest." Li Jie nodded, glanced at several generals of the Shence Army next to him, and several of them hurriedly ordered them to enter the valley to rest. As soon as 5,000 men and horses entered the valley, 2,000 cavalry appeared to block the pass. When 5,000 people entered Gushan and saw that a military camp had been set up, they were very satisfied. At this time, Li Jie spoke: "Several generals and leading troops will rest here, and they will leave the valley in ten days." "A few people were about to agree, but they saw a pikeman suddenly appear, and on the other side another team of archers, and they were surrounded!