Before they knew it, Ma Fu and Yun Ying had spent half a day in the broken temple, and after Ma Fu kicked the letter into his arms in a hurry, stuffed the robe into his baggage, turned to Yun Ying and said, "We will put the four sacred objects in the box, bury them, and then set off!" ”

Although Yun Ying's mind was full of doubts at this time, she also knew that these doubts could not be solved in a while, so she hurriedly helped the groom bury the four artifacts and the box.

According to the groom's judgment, the box and the four artifacts were of little use, and only the letter and the robe were valuable, so after burying the box and the artifact, he did not worry about others digging them up.

After turning over and getting on the horse, the groom and Yunying went straight to Chengdu. After the two of them galloped in the starry night for most of the day, they arrived in Chengdu at the second watch of the day.

The prosperity of Chengdu is beyond the imagination of the groom, who has always thought that the night is not closed, and the road is not left behind, but in Chengdu he did see the shadow of the night and the road is not forgotten. At this time, it was already the second watch, but there were still many people on the road, and the city was brightly lit, and its prosperity was not inferior to Luoyang before it was set on fire by Dong Zhuo.

Maybe it's because it's outside of war and it's a country of abundance, so ordinary people seem to be living quite comfortably.

Ma Fu and Yun Ying found a nearby inn, but to Ma Fu's great dismay, the inn was already overcrowded at this time.

The groom is puzzled, why are there so many people in the inn when this is not a year, and the second is not a festival!

At this time, Yun Ying, who was following behind the groom, took off the hat on his head, walked in front of the innkeeper and said, "There really are no two?" ”

Between the words, she had already taken out a white ingot of silver and put it in front of the boss.

To the surprise of both Mafu and Yunying, the boss behaved quite indifferently after seeing the silver: "You guys hurry up and take it back!" We really only have one inferior room here, you can live if you want to, if you don't live, hurry up to other inns to have a look! But I have to warn you. Although there are many inns in the city, I am afraid that there are few rooms available tonight. If you want to stay, hurry up, or in a while, I am afraid that there will be no more of this inferior room. ”

The groom took the opportunity to ask, "Why are there so many people tonight?" ”

The shopkeeper smiled and said, "I see that you two are from outside the city, and you don't even know this?" The Son of Heaven has issued an edict to crown Liu Muzhou as 'Taifu'. After Dong Zhuo moved to Chang'an, he crowned himself as "Taishi" and was called "Shangfu", which was only above this Taifu. In our Han Dynasty, the position of Taifu was not often placed. Usually when the emperor first ascended the throne, the important ministers who guided and assisted the emperor were set up and placed above the three dukes. Now Liu Muzhou is more prestigious, not only has he become a Taifu, but he has also been crowned as 'Marquis of Wucheng'. Even his sons were all named 'generals', and I don't know their titles, but I heard that the major general was also named 'General Pingbei', all of whom are townspeople. Now all the people living in the Chengdu Inn are people from all over the world who came to congratulate Liu Muzhou. ”

It is said that the Liehou was originally the highest level of military merit of the Qin State, originally known as "Che Hou", and later avoided Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and changed it to Liehou, also known as "Tong Hou". The liehou had a fief (i.e., a fief). According to the size of the food estate, the liehou is divided into county marquis, township marquis, and pavilion marquis.

The county marquis is the highest rank of marquis. For example, Yuan Shao was named the Marquis of Ye. Those who eat more than 10,000 households are also commonly known as 10,000 households. The township is the administrative unit at the lower level of the county, and in history, Zhang Fei was named the Marquis of Xixiang. The pavilion is an administrative unit at the rural level, and Liu Bang once served as the pavilion chief. Tinghou is to eat one pavilion or several pavilions, such as in history, Guan Yu is Hanshou Tinghou (Hanshou is the name of the pavilion). The Duxiang Marquis is located at the penultimate level of the liehous. Above the Duting Hou, there are fiefs and three hundred households. The Marquis of Duting is located under the Marquis of Duxiang, with fiefs and 200 households. The Marquis of Guannei was originally the nineteenth lord of the Qin Army, located under the liehous, and had hundreds of households. "Minghaohou" means that there is only a name and no fiefdom. Historically. Cao Cao also set up the name Hou and Guanzhong Hou to reward military merits, and there was no fiefdom for the fictitious seal.

Ma Fu once heard Yang Fu talk about the liehou, and when he heard that Liu Zhang was named the marquis of the capital, and he was also located above the marquis of Guannei, who had been rewarded by the Son of Heaven, which made him angry. In order to win over Liu Yan, Dong Zhuo was really willing to be rewarded.

However, there is one thing that the horseman doesn't understand, so Liu Zhang was obviously defeated by him, and there were only a few thousand remnants left of the 50,000 soldiers and horses, why did Dong Zhuo reward him like this? His instincts told him that this must be another big conspiracy.

"Didn't you hear that the young general with an army of 50,000 was defeated when he attacked Anyi?"

Seeing the groom ask, the shopkeeper suddenly said very angrily: "If Ma Teng hadn't betrayed the young general, then the groom used witchcraft, how could our dignified army of 50,000 be defeated?" Fortunately, today's Shengshang and Dong Xiang distinguish between right and wrong, not only did not blame the young general, but also rewarded them greatly. In the past few days, the major general has just returned from Luoyang, and Liu Muzhou has already spoken, this time he will lead 100,000 male soldiers in Yizhou to personally set foot in Xiping! Dong Xiang also said that the horseman went against the grain, used witchcraft, and harmed the common people, and he would personally lead an army of 100,000 from Chang'an to completely destroy the horseman with Liu Muzhou! ”

When the horseman heard this, he was stunned for a moment, 200,000 troops! Fortunately, he took precautions and thought of assassination, otherwise no matter how strong his tiger and leopard cavalry was, in front of an army of 200,000, each of them would be able to drown his army with a mouthful of spit.

"Boss, do you still have a superior room here?"

As soon as Yun Ying turned around, he saw a brightly dressed man walking into the inn with a group of people.

Yun Ying saw that the groom was still standing there pondering things, and she hurriedly said to the shopkeeper, "We want the house!" We're going to get it! Hurry up and have someone show us the way! ”

"Turn left on the second floor and the first room!"

After speaking, the shopkeeper put aside the groom and Yun Ying, and hurried to the man and said, "Yes, yes!" The best room is for you! Come on, come on, hurry in! There are so many of you, how many rooms do you need? ”

"Five rooms, we're going to put one single gift for this gift!"

After hearing this, the shopkeeper hurriedly said, "Okay! Hurry upstairs please, upstairs please! ”

After Yun Ying saw this scene, she was almost angry and wanted to vomit blood, at this time she had already clenched her fists, maybe as long as she stretched out her arm, maybe a dozen people in front of her would die immediately!

Just when Yun Ying was about to teach a lesson to these people who gave congratulatory gifts, the groom grabbed her arm and said, "Let's go, let's go up!" ”

When Yun Ying heard him say this, he had to give up in order not to make extraneous branches.

When he arrived in the room, he could hardly find anything other than a bed and a table.

"Why don't you even have a stool?" Yun Ying sat on the bed angrily, but quickly stood up again, if nothing else, there was too much dust on the bed!

The groom said quite indifferently: "Don't be angry, don't be angry, there are more people in this world who look down on people!" We'll teach him a good lesson later! It's just that at this time, we still hurry up and think of a way to get into Liu's Mansion! ”

Yun Ying said: "What's so difficult about that, then Liu Mansion is not a palace!" If you want to get in, it's so easy! But you, now you should think about what to do after assassinating Liu Yan? Do you want to continue to assassinate Dong Zhuo? Without Liu Yan's 100,000 army, Dong Zhuo's 100,000 army could directly set foot in Xiping! ”

After the groom put down the burden, he held his chin and thought for a while, and now he realized that Liu Zhang did not go back to Yizhou directly after the defeat, but went to Luoyang, according to his understanding of Liu Zhang, he would never have come to such a move, unless it was after Liu Zhang fled to Jincheng County, Cheng Gongying taught him to do this, his move is really ruthless, originally Mafu thought that the three-way army was almost all defeated, and there should be no more troops to attack Xiping in a short time, but Cheng Gongying's move undoubtedly fully captured the psychology of Dong Zhuo and Liu Yan.

Liu Zhang was placed high expectations on Liu Yan, and Liu Yan must be very frightened by this defeat, which will directly affect whether his particularly favored son can successfully become the lord of Yizhou in the future. And if the reason for the defeat is attributed to the betrayal of the allied Ma Teng and the witchcraft of the horseman, it undoubtedly alleviates all kinds of pressures on Liu Zhang due to incompetence or lack of command. And if Liu Yan positions Yan and Zhang Ren as traitors, then the pressure on Liu Zhang's body will be reduced a lot.

Now that the imperial court has come forward and rewarded Liu Yan and Liu Zhang's father and son, Dong Zhuo also agreed with Liu Yan to lead a large army to attack the horseman, so that he has no intention of satisfying Liu Yan's vanity while saving some face of Liu Yan, and it can even be said that Liu Zhang, the future lord of Yizhou, has not had much impact, as long as Liu Yan and Dong Zhuo win the horseman in the next battle, and cover up the ugliness with one victory, the previous defeat will be diluted a lot.

"High! That's a high move! Cheng Gongying likes to act in the opposite direction! What a talent! ”

Yun Ying heard the groom talking to himself, and hurried to say something to him. After the groom told Yun Ying about his straightened out, Yun Ying raised his eyebrows: "To put it bluntly, Dong Zhuo has been greatly injured in the previous Tiger Prison War, and this time he formed an alliance with Liu Yan just to keep his position, and Liu Yan has always ignored the imperial court, this time it is self-defeating, and he has nothing to do." Since the two have common interests and enemies, and they can use each other, it is not surprising! But now you should think carefully about how to break the enemy, what you are facing now is not an ordinary small role, if you don't handle it properly, I'm afraid it won't be as simple as giving up your previous efforts. ”

Ma Fu smiled: "The book of heaven is in hand, I have it in the world!" If I find the Heavenly Book this time, even if there are millions of troops, I will not take it seriously! ”

As soon as Yun Ying heard the Book of Heaven, his tone immediately changed, and he hurriedly said, "It's too!" If there is a book from heaven to help, they will not be in trouble! (To be continued......)