Liu Xiu immediately saw Mao Yan with a helpless face behind Wang Chu, he was a little disappointed in his heart, but he was not depressed, he didn't dare to expect Wang Chu to promise him because of the grace of saving his life, but after nodding politely, he turned his gaze away calmly.

"Chengming, why did you run to the camp of Badun?" Liu Xiu was suspicious in his heart: "Have you seen Xuande?" ”

"Xuande is also in the camp of Badun?" Mao Zong's face was surprised, and when he asked a little, he became angry, and scolded: "This grandson, since you know that the master is your brother Liu's friend, how can you keep throwing me in the prisoner camp, he didn't take you seriously." ”

Liu Xiu was speechless, and said in his heart that this is not just a matter of not taking me in his eyes, he is very capable and deliberate, he even kept Liu Bei in the dark, and probably planned to send Mao Zong and Wang Chu to Huaizong a long time ago, if Liu Bei didn't slip away quickly, it is estimated that he would meet Mao Zong in Huaizong's prisoner camp.

Liu Bei really has talent, but he was not caught. This dog thing, he's really bold, he thinks I can't help him if I can't catch the real handle? Doesn't he know that I can talk about things without a shadow?

Liu Xiu didn't say this, but just comforted Mao Zong a few words, telling him to hurry up and rest, go to the city to fight in a few days, and strive to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions. Mao Zong listened, and immediately became energetic, he grew up with Zhang Fei since he was a child, and the two of them parted with each other for not a day or two, and now Zhang Fei followed Liu Xiu to the front line many times to fight and kill, and successively caught such cattle as Huaizong and Fengli, and made miraculous achievements, but he became Huai Zong's prisoner, and compared the two, which made him ashamed and embarrassed, how not to be red-eyed, Liu Xiu just didn't say it, he also had to find a chance to take revenge.

Liu Xiu immediately went to see Xia Yu, the Xianbei people were hesitating, it was a good time for me to go out of the city to contact the Wuhuan people. Xia Yu was overjoyed and immediately arranged for someone to escort Liu Xiu out of the city. Liu Xiu refused, as long as Zhang Wu was alone, saying that there were not enough troops in the city, I just needed to take Lou Lu and his Black Feather Guard away.

Xia Yu couldn't ask for it, so he readily agreed.

Liu Xiu immediately went to find Lou Ban, and Lou Lu was dancing with his hands and spitting to boast about his merits to Lou Ban. When Liu Xiu attacked and killed Dou Gui, Lou Lu wanted to take Hei Lingwei to help, but he was unexpectedly rejected by Liu Xiu, he was unwilling to be a spectator, so he slipped into the city while Xia Yu was commanding in the city, and before being driven down by Lu Min, he shot three arrows and shot a Hun man, which of course became his boasting capital, and in the process of telling many times, from three arrows to one arrow, from shooting to shooting, and it was an arrow through the throat.

"Brother Liu, what's the matter?" As soon as Lou Lu saw Liu Xiu, he immediately gave up the audience and walked over enthusiastically. Since he captured the wind crack in front of the eyes of more than 2,000 Xianbei people outside the city, Liu Xiu is the omnipotent god of war in the eyes of Lou Lu and Lou Ban, plus Liu Xiu will tell jokes to make them happy, as long as time permits, they like to follow Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu said what he meant, but Lou Lu didn't say a word, and raised his hands in agreement: "I will immediately recruit the Black Feather Guard to go out of the city with you." ”

Lou Ban was not happy, "My White Wolf Guard is no worse than his Black Wolf Guard, why don't you take him with me?" ”

Liu Xiu hesitated for a moment, and told the story that Badun was defeated by Huai Zong, and the 5,000 army was lost, and Badun himself had run away without a trace, and he lost several of his good friends to Huai Zong as prisoners, forcing himself to let go of the wind and snow. Although he did not explicitly say that Badun and Huaizong colluded with each other, he expressed doubts about Badun's easy defeat, and suspected that the combat effectiveness of the Wuhuan people in Liaoxi was not very good.

Lou Ban suddenly became angry, and said without thinking that it was not the poor combat effectiveness of Liaoxi Wuhuan, but the incompetence of Badun. Liu Xiu expressed his disapproval, saying that when he first saw Badun in Ningcheng, everyone said that Badun was the most capable handsome in Wuhuan in Liaoxi, and Huai Zong also said so at the time. It's good that he didn't mention Huai Zong, as soon as he mentioned Huai Zong, Lou Ban immediately "understood", gritted his teeth with hatred, and shouted that he had to shake the matter to Lao Tzu Qiu Li.

After the fire was raised, Liu Xiu took Lou Lu and Hei Lingwei, who were ready to stop, out of the city, followed by Zhang Fei, Lan Lan, and more than ten warriors who followed him out of the city to attack Dou Gui and survived, Mao Zong originally wanted to follow, but was stopped by Mao Yan, saying that he was not in good shape, and it was not suitable to follow Liu Xiu and them for a long distance.

After leaving the city, Liu Xiu quickly got in touch with the scouts sent by Zhao Yun and Yan Jie, and met Zhao Yun in the Xiushui area.

Lu Pofeng is tall and strong, with a mighty demeanor, a handsome face with Chinese characters, and a pair of sharp eyes. He is only in his twenties at most, perhaps because he sat in the position of the leader of the White Deer tribe at a very young age, he looks very mature and stable, and the arrogance and impulsiveness of young people can no longer be seen in him.

A tall and thin man beside him is his younger brother Lu Huanyang, who is said to be an archer like an iron wolf, and a short, middle-aged Han Heng Priest whose eyes are full of aura, these two are Lu Pofeng's two most trusted partners.

As soon as he saw Liu Xiu, Lu Pofeng explained that the Lu Rufeng brothers had been walking far away from them, and after Lu Rufeng's death, Lu Anhou complained that the difficult building was eccentric and bullied them, so he moved the tribe to outside the Saiwai, and he hadn't seen them for more than a year.

Liu Xiu doesn't care, this matter was originally an excuse, and now that Lou Lu has become his follower, where is he still interested in pursuing Lu Anhou's broken person.

"I believe in Hao Shuai." Liu Xiu said seriously, "Otherwise, I wouldn't have come to ask Hao Shuai for help this time." ”

Lu Pofeng breathed a sigh of relief, but he still looked at Liu Xiu vigilantly, "My lord, please speak." ”

Liu Xiu broke the storm by Huai Zong, and had already left Shanggu, and now there are nearly 20,000 people in Huai Zong, and the food in the city is already insufficient, although he knows that the wind crack has passed through the mouth of the wind and snow, so that Huai Zong and they will retreat, but Huai Zong will not obey the order of the wind crack, it is difficult to say now, so I hope that the Wuhuan people in Shanggu will increase the power of the attack and disturb, and try to force the Xianbei people to leave as soon as possible.

Zhao Yun and the others already knew about the defeat of Bun Dun by Huai Zong, but they didn't expect the matter to be so serious, Liu Bei was missing, and Mao Yan's younger brother and cousin actually became Huai Zong's prisoners, and they also felt that it was a little weird, but no one could take the initiative to say it. Now that the Wuhuan people are gone, there are only 3,000 Wuhuan people who are harassing in the periphery, and the strength has been greatly reduced, even if the tribe of Lu Pofeng is added, it is not enough to offset the losses brought by the Badun, not to mention that it is Huai Zong's tiger butt to touch, even if Lu Pofeng is the first warrior of Wuhuan in the upper valley, he can't help but hesitate.

"Huai Zong is very powerful in using soldiers." Heng Priest said very carefully: "Although the Crack Wind is a little simpler, far less than his father's Wind Split, it is not easy to deal with. They have 20,000 men, and they have many times more troops than we do. ”

Lou Lu was very dissatisfied, felt that Lu Pofeng was timid, and muttered that he wanted to go back to Baishan to move the rescue soldiers.

Liu Xiu smiled: "I don't want you to fight head-on, I just hope you can put a little more pressure on him." He looked at the sky, "Hao Shuai thought, how long will it snow?" ”

Lu Pofeng understood what he meant: "There is probably half a month, a month at most." ”

"As soon as it snows, Huaizong will definitely leave Ningcheng and return to the grassland." Liu Xiu continued: "Their baggage was robbed by you, although some of them were recaptured from Badun, but the gap is still not small, as long as we stuck their grain channel, we stuck their necks. Although Huai Zong is very powerful, but Dou Gui is dead, they don't have enough ability to attack the city, if we add pressure from behind, what else can he do except retreat? ”

Lu Pofeng agreed. His garrison grazing land is between the Sangqian River and Macheng, and originally had the task of assisting the Han army in combat, and the Xianbei people transported baggage within the scope of his station, if he broke through Ningcheng, he could not escape the responsibility, as long as he did not meet the main force led by Huai Zongqin, to deal with the baggage team, he was still sure enough, and what was more attractive was that he could also get a piece of the spoils, which was a windfall, enough to make his subordinates excited.

Lu Pofeng held a welcome banquet for Liu Xiu, although there were no exquisite dishes, nothing more than some beef, mutton, and then some wine, but he was very enthusiastic and asked his three wives to come out to toast. Liu Xiu was surprised to find that his three wives were actually Han Chinese, and they spoke fluent Chinese, and when he asked, he learned that all three of them had escaped from the Central Plains, and two of them were forced to flee because their families were on the list of party members.

Facing these three women with happy smiles on their faces, Liu Xiu didn't know what to say, and then thought of Dou Gui, who was killed by him, and suddenly felt a little bitter in his mouth. He didn't regret killing Dou Gui, because of Dunwu, no matter whether Dou Gui did Han Annihilation or not, he had to kill Dou Gui to avenge Dunwu, but from the perspective of the Dou family, what choice did they have except to work for the Xianbei people? These three women married Lu Pofeng, and it was the result they wanted, but it was not the worst result.

There were former wealthy families, former party members, and ordinary people, Liu Xiu learned all kinds of escapees, all kinds of people, and half of the displaced people in Ningcheng planned or were about to flee to the grassland. The reason why they left their homeland and would rather go to the grassland to be slaves for the Hu people than stay in the land of the Han Dynasty, for what?

In order to survive, in order to have a bite to eat, in order to live.

Should an empire that cannot meet even the most basic requirements for the survival of its people perish, be swept into the dustbin of history, and be spurned by its people?

The demise of the Han Dynasty, is it long before the demise, the fire has been planted, just waiting for someone to ignite it, the so-called Three Kingdoms troubled times, in fact, has sprouted now, and Cai Yong wrote to Lu Zhi that Jingshi has just set up a stone tablet of the Five Classics in Taixue and unified the text of the Five Classics, which seems to be a proud cultural event, is it just a shroud draped on the rotten bad flesh of the Han Dynasty?

Liu Xiu, who has always been dismissive of those scholars who say "political absolutes" at every turn, and feels that they are exaggerated has doubts about his own views for the first time, and he even feels that in this dark era, there is at least a little right to freedom of speech, and those scholars are seeking fame or genuinely worrying about the country, at least they still have the freedom and consciousness to express their true opinions on politics. Compared with those experts who sing about the peace of the world and the collection of prosperous times in the media every day, these scholars still have a bit of conscience and courage, and they have respected Confucianism for two or three hundred years, and they have not turned all of them into slaves of the imperial power, and there are still so many people who dare to stand on the opposite side of the imperial power.

"Zilong, what is the problem of the big man?" Liu Xiu turned his head and looked at Zhao Yun, whose eyes were shining in the light of the fire. Zhao Yun was stunned, smiled silently, picked up the wooden bowl, and touched Liu Xiu lightly: "Such a big problem, how can I talk about it as a martial artist." ”

"Well, there are no outsiders, so you don't have to be so modest." Liu Xiu took a sip of wine and laughed softly: "You and I are both young people, why be so sophisticated, the future of this big man is on the shoulders of our generation." ”

Zhao Yun thought for a while: "On the Son of Heaven." ”

Liu Xiu was stunned for a moment, "Why do you say that?" ”

"The Son of Heaven is the head of all peoples, and if the Son of Heaven does not cultivate morality, how can he govern the world well?" Zhao Yun put on the wooden bowl, thoughtfully, and said softly: "Now that the eunuch is in power, the gentleman has retired, the party members have imprisoned the five subordinates, and the vitality that has been cultivated for one hundred and fifty years since Emperor Guangwu has been destroyed by the two party committees, who are the rest of them?" Those people may be masters in fighting for power and profit, and they know what the truth of using talents and abilities and governing the country is great, and the Son of Heaven relies on them to assist, how can he govern the country well. ”

Liu Xiu smiled to himself, he originally thought that Zhao Yun thought the same as he thought, and thought that the reason in the final analysis was the system, but it was not strange to think about it, Zhao Yun was not a traverser, how could he know that there was a political system without an emperor in this world, and the world was in turmoil, and the crime was not in the emperor, but in the emperor's system.

Even if he is just a crowd, he may not know the truth.

"Then if you change the heavens, you can have peace in the world?"

Zhao Yun looked around vigilantly, and seeing that there were no outsiders next to him, he hurriedly lowered his voice and said, "Deran, you can't talk nonsense, if someone with ulterior motives listens to it, you will be in trouble." ”

"You're going to denounce me?" Liu Xiu smiled and disagreed.

"This ...... It's not a good idea. Zhao Yun saw that Liu Xiu regarded him as a confidant, and he no longer covered it up: "The Son of Heaven is the eighth on the throne, and there is no heir so far, maybe he will die without a queen like Emperor Huixiaohuan, and then he will naturally choose the successor in the clan, and there are hundreds of thousands of descendants of the Liu family. ”

Liu Xiu blinked, a little incomprehensible: "Don't you know the suffering of the people today?" ”

"Him?" Zhao Yun couldn't help but laugh softly: "Didn't you hear a nursery rhyme between the rivers?" ”

Liu Xiu is even more confused, what does this have to do with the nursery rhymes between the rivers?

Zhao Yun saw it, so he had to explain from the beginning, "As early as the beginning of Emperor Xiaohuan, there was a nursery rhyme in the Hejian and Zhongshan areas, which said, 'The city is black, the tail must be gone, the father is the official, the son is the apprentice, a fugitive is dead, a hundred cars, car classes, into the river, the female workers in the river count the money, take the money as the room gold for the hall, the stone is sorrowful and the yellow beam, there is a hanging drum under the beam, I want to hit the Chengqing anger'." At that time, who knew what this meant, and then Emperor Xiaohuan died, no children, and the monarchs of the court chose to be today's son, everyone then understood, it turned out that this nursery rhyme was about the Jie Ting Hou at that time, and the current son of heaven mother and son. He glanced at Liu Xiu and added: "The mother of the Son of Heaven, Empress Dowager Dong, is from Hejian. ”

Liu Xiu seemed to understand a little: "Their mother and son love money? ”

Zhao Yun nodded: "Not bad." Before being the Son of Heaven, the Hou family of Xie Du Pavilion had been in decline for a long time, but it was just ......" Zhao Yun felt a little incredible: "He is now the Son of Heaven, how can he only think about collecting money?" The whole world is his, isn't he enough? ”

Liu Xiu thought about it, but instead of laughing, he shook his head: "I don't think that's the problem. ”

Zhao Yun was puzzled: "Then where do you think the problem is?" ”

"It was none other than the general Dou Wu who decided who would be the successor to the throne, and Chen Fan, a famous man who was called the Three Monarchs with him." Because of the Dou family, Liu Xiu asked Lu Min about some things about the Dou family, and by the way, he learned some about the process of today's son's accession to the throne, and knew that it was the so-called celebrities who decided this major event, and it should not be a wrong choice, and he didn't dare to say how right it was, at least it shouldn't be ridiculously wrong, unless it was said that those celebrities had bad intentions from the beginning. "Even if they occasionally make mistakes, what about the emperor in front?"

"Emperor Xiaohuan's accession to the throne was originally a mistake." Zhao Yun sneered: "Originally, the famous man Li Zijian (Li Gu) chose Liu Garlic, the king of Qinghe, but the Liang family was powerful and wanted to coerce the young lord to govern the dynasty, so they chose Emperor Xiaohuan, and before the Liang family made him the emperor, they had already married the queen mother's sister to him. My sister is the queen mother, and my sister is the queen, do you think this is ridiculous? However, they may not have thought that even if they did everything possible, they were finally exterminated by Emperor Xiaohuan, but unfortunately Liang Boxia (Liang Shang) was ruined, and the Liang family also flourished and declined, and finally ended up dying and the family was wiped out, and the century-old family disappeared. ”

"So, Emperor Xiaohuan is not very incompetent, right?" Liu Xiu smiled.

"At least he still has the courage to do this." Zhao Yun smiled bitterly and shook his head: "It's a pity that he gave up so many scholars and gentlemen, but relied on eunuchs, his relatives fell, the eunuchs were in power, a tiger was down, and a group of wolves came." ”

"What are the gentlemen doing? Now the Yuan family and the Yang family, who are known as the two fourth generations and three princes of my Han Dynasty, what are they doing? ”

"Baume & Mercier?" Zhao Yun was stunned for a moment, he didn't know how to answer this question for a long time, right, what were the celebrities doing at that time? He shook his head awkwardly: "I don't know this, I shouldn't be in power." ”

"I don't think it's that the castration is too powerful, it's that these celebrities are incompetent." Liu Xiu stood up and patted his buttocks: "So many people have been picked up by a few eunuchs, what will they do besides scolding?" What I don't understand even more is that they scolded the eunuchs as worthless, so they were embarrassed by the worthless eunuchs, doesn't it mean that they are even less worthless? ”

Zhao Yun didn't dare to agree, but he couldn't think of anything to refute Liu Xiu, he thought about it, and said half-jokingly: "In my opinion, if you win the battle this time, Lord Assassin Shi should arrange for you to go to Beijing to repay your merits." ”

(To be continued)