In a large mansion in the gold market of Luoyang City, Mi Zhen sat in the gatehouse, looking out in a daze through the door curtain.

It's been more than half a year since I came to Luoyang, and I have some things in my heart, but I don't know what kind of mood to face them.

She's here for the man, and everything seems to be going pretty well. It's just that what to do next, sometimes my heart is still full of confusion.

The second brother Mi Fang returned to Xuzhou from Chang'an a few months ago, but did not bring her back when he passed through Luoyang. He seemed to have vaguely known her feelings for the young man, and Mi Zhen seemed to see some kind of expectation in his playful eyes.

After the second brother went back, the eldest brother Mi Zhu should have also understood some things, but he didn't mention anything from the letter he wrote to himself, just saying that the girl was alone and wanted to send someone to take her home.

However, because of Yuan Shu's rebellion in Yuzhou recently, I don't know what the situation is when the trade route is interrupted.

Many worries rushed to her heart, and Mi Zhen let out a long sigh.

The maid Gan Qian opened the curtain and walked in, looked at Mi Zhen's frowning appearance, and said distressedly: "Miss, the Son of Heaven sent the army out today, I'm afraid he won't come." You're tired of waiting like this. ”

Mi Zhen's face turned crimson, and her expression seemed to deny it, but in the end, she just said faintly: "I'm just watching here, even though I know that he won't come, thinking that he may be able to come from the other side of the street soon." ”

Since meeting Liu Wei at the Diaoyutai Restaurant, the contact between the two has gradually become more frequent. Liu Wei arranged her in this house, naturally because he was afraid that it would not be safe for him to live outside as a girl.

Although the mansion does not have the style of the palace, it was built by Liu Wei in imitation of the architectural style of the Ming and Qing dynasties, which is also mixed with a lot of practical and comfortable constructions of the era before Liu Wei crossed. In the entire Luoyang City, only close ministers like Lu Zhi and Xun Yu have a few of Liu Bianci, and they are basically in Yonghe, where dignitaries and nobles haunt. And in a civilian community like Jinshi, there is only the one where Mi Zhen lives and the emperor's residence, which has gradually fallen into ruin because many people died when he captured Dong Zhuo.

In fact, if you use the financial resources of the Mi family, it is easy to buy a big mansion in Luoyang, and there are many business stewards and guards here, and Mi Zhen will never let a girl alone. Liu Wei's actions seem to be a bit of a trick, but Mi Zhen also understands that he does have to avoid people's eyes and ears when acting as an emperor. It's just that occasionally I will hate and think: Didn't he treat me as a woman raised outside?

However, the relationship between the two has not yet reached that point.

Liu Wei would come to her from time to time to sit here, and the two chatted and drank tea. Mi Zhen's skills in cooking tea are not good, but Liu Wei is also willing. Mi Zhen once heard her brother Mi Zhu say that today's young son of heaven is scheming, but during the time she got along with Liu Bian, Mi Zhen only felt that Liu Bian was like an eccentric ordinary teenager, always with incredible ideas and unbridled creativity, just the jokes and stories she told every time could make her and Gan Qian come together.

Gradually, Liu Wei's occasional visit to her has become an indispensable habit in her life. I don't know when it started, Mi Zhen began to wait for Liu Bian's arrival here in the gatehouse, and her mood of anticipation was like waiting for Liu Bian's concubine to be fortunate - thinking of the word Linxing, Mi Zhen would blush.

The moment she saw Liu Wei coming from the side of the street from a distance was the moment when she was most excited and happy. Then he hurriedly ran back to the room, pretending not to know that Liu Wei was coming, and he didn't look like he was waiting for him at all.

Sometimes she is also very distressed about why she is so self-deprecating, and Liu Wei is actually not so clear about her feelings. As a girl's unique sensitivity, she may be able to feel that Liu Bian's feelings for her are not ordinary, but Liu Bian has always maintained a kind of distance from her, and has no further plans, which can almost be regarded as being out of affection and courtesy.

In fact, compared to Mi Zhen, if Liu argued with her, she would nod her head and agree. I also have some thoughts in my heart that Liu Wei can take her into the palace and see him every day.

But on the other hand, she also likes the mode of getting along with Liu Wei now. Once she enters the palace, she may have to share Liu Wei alone with the other women in the palace, and in this house, Liu Wei belongs to her alone.

The two of them drank tea, chatted, and even laughed and played here. When getting along with Liu Wei, Mi Zhen got a feeling that she had never had before. As an ancient woman, marriage was decided by her father and brother, and under blind marriage and dumb marriage, she could not talk about being able to freely associate with the man she liked. As early as when she was sensible, she understood this truth, she would marry one day, and occasionally she would look forward to her future husband.

However, since she met Liu Bian, Liu Biao brought her another feeling that she had never experienced. With the man she likes, that kind of heartbeat, anticipation and happiness, and even some fear of this strange feeling, she can't describe what this feeling is, but if she asks Liu Bian, a modern person from the future, Liu Bian will naturally give the real answer:

It doesn't matter, it's love.

In the spring of the fifth year of Guangxi, the warm spring breeze blew away the cold of winter, and also blew open the girl's heart. Mi Zhen sat here, experiencing the feeling of love that man had never brought her, everything was so beautiful, everything was so unknown, Mi Zhen no longer thought about what would happen in the future, now she just wanted to grasp this beautiful moment.

On the other side of the street, the man she was looking forward to slowly walked over.

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In March of the fifth year of Guangxi, Yuan Shu launched a sudden attack in Yuzhou.

In fact, the imperial court has always adopted a policy of appeasement towards Yuan Shu. Stabilize Yuan Shu, and first deal with Yuan Shao, whose strength and ability should not be underestimated.

Although the idea of the imperial court is very good, Yuan Shu is not a fool, and when the imperial court is trying its best to strangle Yuan Shao's living space, Yuan Shu also started his own actions.

At the beginning, Yuan Shu was still very restrained, just expanding his strength in secret, and did not make big moves on the surface. After all, the imperial court had just worshipped him as a general, and publicly stated that he had nothing to do with Yuan Kui's rebellion, but he had no reason to rebel against the imperial court immediately. The most important thing is that Zhu Jun's army is in the Yingchuan area, and he is still very afraid of Zhu Jun, one of the three famous generals who exterminated the Yellow Turban Uprising.

But soon, a sudden disaster made Yuan Shu unable to restrain it any longer.

There was a severe drought in the area of Yuzhou.

This natural disaster, which was also extremely famous in history, ravaged the Han Empire for a whole year, and it would not reach its ** until July, when it was just showing its hideous face.

The princes of all places can rely on last year's autumn grain to support for a period of time, and if they are careful to manage, it will not have much impact on their foundation. However, Yuan Shu was too poor in internal affairs, seeing that the drought was getting worse day by day, and his own grain and grass could not be sustained, so he asked Chen Guo for grain in the name of the general.

The state of Chen was a fairly wealthy vassal state in the Yuzhou region. Chen Wang Liu Chong is brave and fierce, good at using a longbow, and his arrows are 100 shots. When the Yellow Turban rebelled, Chen Wang Liu Pet gathered troops to guard Chen Guo, so that the Yellow Turban thieves did not dare to attack. And Chen Guoxiang Luo Jun is good at internal affairs, has a good way of governing the county, and is quite prestigious in Chen State and even in Yuzhou, and cooperates with Chen Wang Liu Chong with one article and one martial arts, and Chen Guo's strength is thriving.

Yuan Shu had coveted Chen Guo's piece of fat for a long time, and asking Chen Guo for food was just an excuse. Chen Guoxiang Luo Jun was loyal to the imperial court, and he had long been unaccustomed to Yuan Shu's various behaviors, so he naturally refused to ask him for food at this time.

Yuan Shu, who was refused, was furious, and attacked Chen under the pretext that Luo Jun wanted to support Liu Chong, the king of Chen, as emperor, and attacked Chen in the name of counterinsurgency. Because he was afraid that Luo Jun and Liu would cooperate with each other in civil and military affairs, Yuan Shu's subordinate Zhang Kaiyang disguised himself as a homeless person and blended into Chen Guo.

At that time, due to famine and war, many victims flocked to the wealthy Chen Kingdom. And Luo Jun treated these victims like Chen Guo's own people, opened the public warehouse to distribute food to them, and donated his own money to make clothes for the victims.

Therefore, Luo Jun was very loved by the people, and Zhang Kaiyang pretended to be a common man who had received Luo Jun's favor, and came to Luo Jun's residence with wine and meat to express his gratitude. He first praised Luo Jun's kindness in helping the needy, and then presented Luo Jun with a glass of rice wine.

Luo Jun was so enthusiastic that he drank all the rice wine. Who knew that Zhang Kaiyang poisoned the rice wine, and Luo Jun died of poison in an instant.

After getting rid of the great trouble, Yuan Shu immediately sent the general Ji Ling to lead the army to attack Chen State. Chen Wang Liu Pet couldn't resist it, so he had to ask Zhu Jun for help from the garrison in Yingchuan.

When Zhu Jun was training in Yingchuan for a long time, he had been monitoring Yuan Shu's every move. After receiving Liu Chong's request for help, he immediately led the army to the rescue.

Zhu Junjun galloped through the starry night and soon rushed to the city of Chenxian County. Ji Ling didn't expect Zhu Jun to come so quickly, but he was attacked by Liu Chong and Zhu Jun inside and outside, and was defeated. The remnants of the army retreated to the area of Dancheng.

On the one hand, Zhu Jun sent troops to surround Ji Ling in Dancheng, and on the other hand, he personally led his army to attack halfway by Yingshui, defeating Zhang Xun, another general of Yuan Shu who rushed to the rescue. Seeing that there was no hope for reinforcements, Ji Ling had no choice but to abandon Dancheng and flee back to Runan County.

Zhu Jun defeated Yuan Shu's two generals in a row, and the morale of the army was greatly boosted, and he also became proud, leading the army into Runan to take advantage of the situation to eliminate Yuan Shu. Only this time he met Sun Jian, the most capable general in Yuan Shu's camp.

The two sides fought fiercely in the Xincai area for several days without a victory, Zhu Jun pretended to be defeated and retreated, luring Sun Jian to lead the army to chase after him, but Sun Jian was ambushed by Zhu Jun, and the whole army was defeated, and he was also shot by stray arrows.

Although Sun Jian was hit by an arrow, his injuries were not serious, but under the strategy of his Sun Sun Ce, Sun Jian pretended to be seriously wounded, ordered the whole army to retreat, and retreated the next day.

In fact, Sun Jian used his own way to govern others, pretending to retreat but ambushed on both sides of the mountain road. Zhu Jun didn't know what the plan was, and when he saw that Sun Jian's army was dressed in plains, he thought that Sun Jian was dead, and ordered the whole army to pursue, and sure enough, he was ambushed in the end, with countless casualties.

Zhu Junjun won first and then lost, morale was low, Sun Jian took the opportunity to send Sun Ce to attack Zhu Junjun's grain route, Zhu Junjun had no choice but to retreat to Yingchuan County.

Zhu Jun was a famous general who was as famous as Lu Zhi and Huangfu Song in the suppression of the Yellow Turban Uprising, but he didn't expect to be defeated by Sun Jian, so everyone was surprised.

Sun Jian immediately took advantage of the situation to march into Yingchuan and besiege Zhu Jun in Xuchang.

The siege of the city was very urgent for several days, and Zhu Jun knew that it was difficult for the defeated army to defend the city, so he had to ask the imperial court for help.

Liu Wei was furious when he learned of Zhu Jun's defeat in Yuzhou, and the erosion of Yuzhou directly affected the layout of the imperial court in the north facing Yuan Shao. At this time, Huangfu Song's injury had not healed, and Liu Wei moved the idea of pro-conquest.

At this time, Lu Zhi thought that Sun Wujun, who was besieging Xuchang, was just a partial division, so why did he need the Son of Heaven to personally recruit and lead the army to solve the difficulty.

Liu Wei followed Lu Zhi's advice, worshipped him as the general of Dangkou, and led a total of 20,000 troops from the Northern Army and the Silifu Army to Xuchang to relieve the siege. At the same time, he ordered Yangzhou Mu Liu Miao to enter Yuan Shu's old nest Shouchun and forced Yuan Shu to withdraw his troops.

On the day of the expedition, Liu Wei personally sent the army out of Dongzhimen, and before leaving, he held Lu Zhi's hand and said: "The danger of Yuzhou depends on Lu Gong's maneuvering. ”

Lu Zhi replied: "Chenzhi will never live up to His Majesty's trust. ”

At this time, a palace person came with wine and said: "The Queen Mother knows that Prime Minister Lu Cheng has worked tirelessly to fight for the country, so she will give a glass of wine to express her heart." ”

Liu Wei tilted his head, feeling a little strange, Empress Dowager He has been ignoring political affairs since she retired to Yongle Palace, how could she join in this excitement today?

Lu Zhi frowned, took the wine glass and thanked: "Courtier Lu Zhi, thank you for the gift of the Queen Mother." ”

After raising his head and drinking wine, Lu Zhi said goodbye to Liu Wei and immediately set up troops to the east.

On the way back to Maolong Garden, Liu Wei felt a little depressed, thinking that he hadn't seen Mi Zhen for a long time, so he ordered the guards to escort the empty chariot back, and he secretly took a few guards to pay a private visit.

(To be continued, stay tuned for the next chapter.) ）