After Lu Bu returned to Bishui Pass, he informed Dong Zhuo of all the princes, Dong Zhuo was naturally furious, and wanted to come to this Guandong in person, these local chickens and dogs would never dare to move forward, but who would have thought that these people not only did not retreat, but put on an attitude of vowing to attack Bishui Pass and even Luoyang, so Dong Zhuo turned around and asked Li Ru.

Li Ru was silent, of course he knew Dong Zhuo's thoughts and desires, but this was not enough to shake Li Ru's judgment of the overall situation, in terms of strength, no matter how powerful the princes were, it would never be possible to cross the Bishui Pass out of thin air, but Dong Zhuo actually did not have a sufficient number of soldiers for him to drive. More importantly, Dong Zhuo has aroused the anger of the people of Luoyang, and if this continues, if the princes do not break through the Bishui Pass, Luoyang itself will be in chaos first, and then the situation will become out of control, and Li Ru's choice is to give up the immediate temporary interests to save the next longer-term development.

The suspicious Li Ru's answer was very simple: "Zhangren, now that Wenhou has been newly defeated, the soldiers have no heart to fight." It is better to lead the troops back to Luoyang and move the emperor's capital to Chang'an, in response to the nursery rhyme. Recently, there is often a nursery rhyme in Luoyang Market: A Han in the west, a Han in the east. When the deer enters Chang'an, there is no difficulty. Confucianism's saying 'a Han in the west' probably means that Gao Zuwang passed on 12 emperors in Chang'an, the western capital, and 'a Han dynasty in the east', which means that Guangwu Wang was in Luoyang, the eastern capital, and now it is also passed on 12 emperors. Fortune is back. The father-in-law moved the capital back to Chang'an, so that he could be safe. ”

Li Ru also took great pains, for this move, he arranged for many people to spread this nursery rhyme in advance, so Li Ru was not worried about Dong Zhuo's suspicions. Dong Zhuo originally planned to stay in Bishui Pass and fight the princes head-on, but when he heard Li Ru's words, his heart instantly cooled. Dong Zhuo has always believed in his own luck very much, and he was almost punished for his crime when he was in the Yellow Turban incident before. It was precisely because of the previous relationship that he was able to escape, and Dong Zhuo was extremely sensitive to these things from then on. So after listening to Li Ru's words, Dong Zhuo smiled and said, "If it weren't for Wenyou." I almost made a big mistake. After saying this, Dong Zhuo paused and asked, "Wen You, who does he think should be left behind?" ”

But to Dong Zhuo's surprise, Li Ru waved his hand lightly and said, "Why should the father-in-law worry about this useless pass? After the Zhangren moved the capital, Bishui Pass had nothing to do with the Zhangren, and now the prestige of Wenhou is still there, how dare the princes enter recklessly? The father-in-law planted the flag, leaving an empty Bishui Pass and these princes who did not know the height of the sky. Dong Zhuo was also stunned when he heard this, and then lowered his head and thought for a while, and after careful consideration, Dong Zhuo found that what Li Ru said was indeed very reasonable. Once he moves the capital to Luoyang, then Hangu Pass will become Dong Zhuo's defense line, and this Bishui Pass is naturally impossible to have any impact on himself, but if he wants to have enough soldiers under his command to drive, then it is obviously impossible to leave too many garrison troops in Bishui Pass, so it is better to simply abandon it, which will make his series of actions in Luoyang faster and more efficient.

Thinking of this, Dong Zhuo immediately made a decision, and he ordered Li Ru to stay and arrange the affairs of Bishui Pass. And he himself took Lu Bu back to Luoyang in the starry night first, and the reason why Dong Zhuo was in a hurry to rush back to Luoyang was very simple, he needed to suppress the somewhat chaotic situation when he heard that the princes were crusading against him, and the matter of moving the capital must also be prepared. And Li Ru was responsible for delaying the speed of the princes' attack, at least after Dong Zhuo's side was all prepared.

Of course, this is not too difficult for Li Ru, because Lu Bu's comings and goings during the day have made the princes feel extremely tired, and they have to be wary of Dong Zhuojun's sneak attack, Li Ru does not have any pressure at all, and Li Ru's plan is also very simple, he stays just to delay time. Then there is no need to sacrifice the lives of the soldiers easily, it is enough to just hold on to the pass, once Dong Zhuo has something to do, he will naturally not need to defend it here.

As soon as Dong Zhuo returned to Luoyang, he immediately convened the generals under his command to discuss the meeting, and this was naturally Li Ru's plan to move the capital. Everyone naturally has no opinion, and Dong Zhuo is not surprised, there are few of these rough men who can read. It was really a bit embarrassing for them to say this, but Dong Zhuo knew the importance of this operation, so he did it. Now that he knew that there was no objection from his subordinates, Dong Zhuo immediately ordered his subordinates to go and inform the ministers that he had summoned him again.

These civil and military officials in Luoyang were originally very pleased with Dong Zhuo's departure, who could have guessed that Dong Zhuo would come back after a day. But despite this, they didn't dare to anger Dong Zhuo at all. Regardless of whether Dong Zhuo's side won or lost, he was obviously not a person who could be provoked, so everyone had to obediently gather in the court according to Dong Zhuo's wishes.

Dong Zhuo was already waiting in the court. Seeing that the ministers were almost ready, he said loudly: "Luoyang, the capital of eastern Han, has been more than 200 years, but the number of qi has declined. Some time ago, the star official watched the stars and learned that the prosperity was in Chang'an, and I wanted to drive the west. You and others should be promoted. Dong Zhuo said this without the slightest sense of discussion, obviously he deliberately showed his determined attitude, but he did not mention the result of the battle of Bishui Pass, which still made many ministers above the court have different thoughts.

When Situ Yang Biao heard this, he turned out of his hand and said: "Guanzhong is broken and scattered, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the country." Now there is no reason to abandon the temple and abandon the imperial mausoleum, but I am afraid that the people will be alarmed and chaotic. As the saying goes, 'It is easy to move in the world, but it is difficult to be safe'. I hope that the prime minister will inspect it. When Dong Zhuo heard this, his eyes kicked and he immediately said angrily: "Yang Wenxian, are you obstructing the country's plans?" Yang Biao dared to answer, and immediately retreated.

But although Yang Biao chose to retreat, there are still people who are unwilling to make such a choice, when Yang Biao returned to his previous position, Taiwei Huang Wan also came out to salute, and said slowly: "Yang Situ's words are yes." When Wang Mang usurped and rebelled, he burned Chang'an, and now Chang'an is a land of rubble, which is difficult to settle down; It is also the flow of people, which is unique. It is not appropriate to abandon the palace of Luoyang and go to the wasteland of Chang'an. Of course, the one thing Huang Wan omitted was the emperor's face, but he also knew that Dong Zhuo didn't care about the idea of a puppet at all, so he didn't say it.

Of course, Dong Zhuo is not ignorant of this, but he has a way to force people to obey him, he waved his hand and stood up and looked at the people in the court, "Now the Kanto thief rises." The world will be in chaos. Chang'an has the risk of Kuihan; Closer to Longright, wood, stone, bricks, tiles. Keri can be done, and the palace is built. It doesn't take more than a month. I have made up my mind, and if you wait for any more nonsense, you will be punished as a conspiracy! This was said loudly, and the full hall of civil and military did not dare to speak out for a while.

But after all, there are still people who don't give up, such as Situ Xunshuang, who has a high status, and is also a very famous Confucian in Yingchuan. And Xun Shuang only advised at this time: "If the prime minister wants to move the capital, the people will be in turmoil." And when Dong Zhuo heard this, he just smiled coldly and said, "If it's for the world." Can Ann pity a little people? Xun Shuang was speechless for a while, but in his heart, he still saw Dong Zhuo as a person, and he had already made up his mind that he would not continue to stay in the center.

Seeing that Xun Shuang had also returned in vain, everyone knew that Dong Zhuo was already resolute, so they went back to their homes to prepare for everything. On the same day, Dong Zhuo ordered the removal of Yang Biao, Huang Wan, and Xun Shuang as commoners. Yang Biao and Huang Wan are unwilling to still hope to stay and wait for the opportunity, but Xun Shuang has already seen through Dong Zhuo's character, he has also received a letter from Xun Yu of his own nephew and nephew to say that the current situation, he originally scoffed, but now he looks at it again and finds that every sentence is fine, so when Yang Biao persuaded him to stay, Xun Shuang refused on the grounds that he was old and wanted to return to his hometown for retirement.

But in fact, Xun Shuang has not yet reached the age of retirement. What he is most curious about now is how his nephew, who has only a few supports, sees the current chaotic situation. With such a strong curiosity, Xun Shuang of course rushed back to Yingchuan non-stop.

As for Dong Zhuo, he came out of the palace early in the morning and wanted to get in the car to go to the palace to go to the court, but when he turned his head, he saw two people looking at the car. So Dong Zhuo said curiously: "Why are you waiting here for a long time?" When Zhou Bi heard this, he bowed his hand and said: "Now I heard that the prime minister wants to move the capital to Chang'an. Therefore, I came to admonish my ears. But these two people didn't see the coldness on Dong Zhuo's face, Dong Zhuo's memory is not too good, but it is by no means bad, he still clearly remembers that when he wanted to kill Yuan Shao, it was these two who saved Yuan Shao. Now the reason why Dong Zhuo didn't vent his anger immediately was because before returning to Luoyang, Li Ru told Dong Zhuo to act according to his own temperament.

But no matter how good-tempered Dong Zhuo is, he can't stand such a thing, not to mention that Dong Zhuo was originally a person with an extremely violent temper. When he heard this, he was furious and said: "I listened to you two at the beginning, and I used Yuan Shao; Now Yuan Shao has reversed. It is expected that you must be one of its parties! After saying this, the warrior pushed the two out of the capital gate and beheaded them.

With the lessons of these two lives, no one dared to oppose the relocation of the capital, and Dong Zhuo immediately took action. At this time, Li Ru also returned.

It is said that as soon as Dong Zhuo left that day, Li Ru ordered the soldiers to be closed, but Li Ru did not expect that all this had already been expected by Xu Ji, so when there were only hundreds of guards left in Bishui Pass, Xu Ji brazenly launched an attack, with the efforts of the elite soldiers of Lejin's department, Xu Ji forcibly broke through the defense line of Bishui Pass, Li Ru did not have many people around him at that time, and he was always worried that Xu Ji was just a striker, so he had to ignore Xu Ji's hundreds of people for the time being, but then Li Ru felt that he had been fooled, After Le Jin and the others broke in, they scattered, Li Ru couldn't pursue them at all, and he didn't dare to delay Dong Zhuo's plan to move the capital, so he had to give up finding these soldiers who forcibly broke into Bishui Pass.

But the only thing that comforted Li Ru a little was that the soldiers who forcibly broke into Bishui Pass didn't seem to have the intention of helping the princes, since they entered, there were tentative sieges by the princes for several days, and Li Ru also deliberately made several signs of defeat, but these people did not have the slightest reaction and action, Li Ru also had to stop paying attention to these people for the time being, because the princes' attacks were becoming more and more strict and neat, which made Li Ru feel a lot of pressure, but fortunately, he didn't need to fight with these princes for a long time, After estimating the time, Li Ru roughly figured out the time when he needed to be stationed, so on the night of the third day, he led the guards to quietly leave Bishui Pass and return to Luoyang.

What Li Ru didn't know was that on the night he left Bishui Pass, all the soldiers under Xu Ji and Sun Jian also passed through Bishui Pass at the same time, relying on Le Jin and others who had forcibly broken into Bishui Pass before. It was only at this time that Sun Jian understood all of Xu Ji's plans, it turned out that Xu Ji had never thought of breaking through Bishui Pass by force, and Sun Jian also saw the situation of Bishui Pass, and there were actually not too many soldiers left here. Thanks to the advantages of the terrain, there is indeed not much need for soldiers here, but Sun Jian still has to admire Xu Ji's vision. No one could have guessed that Dong Zhuo would give up the Bishui Pass at this time, but Xu Ji judged the decrease in the number of soldiers by the fading of the cooking smoke on the Bishui Pass.

At this time, Sun Jian also had a goal again. Now that Dong Zhuo is about to flee, Sun Jian will naturally never let go of such an opportunity to become famous and immediately pursue him, but Xu Ji stopped him, and then explained to him: "Brother, Li Wenyou is by no means simple, don't worry, I expect that this person will have a backhand, not to mention that Dong Zhuo can't get away for a while, we can wait for a while." "If it was two days earlier, Sun Jian would never have listened to Xu Ji's words. But now that he has seen Xu Ji's ability, Sun Jian will naturally not disobey. As Xu Ji expected, although Li Ru had to rush back to Luoyang to assist Dong Zhuo in dealing with Luoyang affairs, he did not forget the existence of Lejin's gang, and all the previous temptations had no effect, which also proved that the opponent's goal was not to assist the princes in attacking the city, so it was obvious that the opponent was obviously going towards Dong Zhuo, so of course Li Ru also left the corresponding means, if Sun Jian was really in a hurry to pursue, then he would inevitably fall into the ambush set by Li Ru.

But at this time, Dong Zhuo encountered an extremely thorny problem, there was a shortage of food and salary in the army. Originally, Dong Zhuo's corporal Dong Zhuo was naturally able to supply, but since he entered Luoyang, the troops who incorporated He Jin and the soldiers who were looted from various families certainly needed food. In this way, Dong Zhuo was naturally a little stretched, and at this time, Li Ru returned, so Dong Zhuo hurriedly asked Li Ru for advice.

Li Ru has always been a benchmark figure who harms others and benefits himself, and when he heard Dong Zhuo's question, he immediately said: "Now that there is a shortage of money and food, it is natural that someone needs to fund it." The father-in-law has forgotten that there are many wealthy households in Luoyang, but they have not entered the government. But all the subordinates of Yuan Shao and other Kwantung princes killed their sects and copied their families. and shall receive a great deal of money. Dong Zhuo was immediately shocked when he heard this, although Dong Zhuo himself was also an extremely crazy person. But Li Ru's strategy is still a little chilling. Seeing Dong Zhuo's hesitation, Li Ru naturally guessed Dong Zhuo's thoughts, but Li Ru only smiled faintly and said, "Why is it difficult to make a decision?" ”

Dong Zhuo was stunned when he heard Li Ru's words. Then he showed a wild smile and said: "It's better for Wen You to know me, so you can go and give the order, everything is arranged by you, I just look at the result!" Hearing this, Li Ru could be regarded as a big stone in his heart, and Dong Zhuo's hesitation before seemed quite unpredictable, but in the end, Dong Zhuo still agreed to Li Ru's strategy, which was enough. So Li Ru immediately sent 5,000 iron horsemen to arrest the rich in Luoyang City, and confiscated thousands of families in just one day, which was not the end, and after the collection, he also planted a flag in front of his door, and wrote "anti-ministers and anti-party" on it. In order to prevent some of them from leaking the news, Li Ru ordered the armor soldiers to behead all the rich families and eunuchs who were arrested in prison outside the city, and used all the gold hidden in their homes as food.

After solving the problem at this time, Li Ru urged Dong Zhuo to implement the relocation of the capital as soon as possible, Dong Zhuo naturally knew that this matter should not be delayed, not to mention that now there was a lot of panic in Luoyang City, and almost everyone knew that Dong Zhuo wanted to force everyone to move to Chang'an.

Seeing this situation, Dong Zhuo ordered Li Dao and Guo Yan to lead their headquarters to expel all the ordinary people in Luoyang City from Luoyang and drive them to Chang'an, but the people of Luoyang had as many as one million people, all of whom went to Chang'an in parallel. There is a team for every people, and there is a team of corporal under Dong Zhuo in the middle, dragging each other down. All of a sudden, it was spectacular. However, those who died in the ravine. The number of people who died of disease and famine is innumerable.

And Dong Zhuo's corporal has always been loose in military discipline, and Dong Zhuo even connived at the sergeant's wife and daughter and took away food. In this way, the sound of crying shook the heavens and the earth. For a while, the voice of grief filled the long official road from Luoyang to Chang'an. Moreover, in order to reach Chang'an before the princes catch up, Dong Zhuo even ordered that if anyone was late on the way, the three thousand sergeants behind him would immediately urge the superintendent, and these sergeants were all armed with sharp blades. Along the way, there were many old people who were difficult to move, and these sergeants were not merciful enough to kill people on the road.

Dong Zhuo taught the people to go first, and he didn't slow down, but he was afraid of death, just after the people left, he immediately concocted a subordinate in the palace and the current emperor on the road, and Dong Zhuo walked with the emperor, in the name of escort, but everyone understands that Dong Zhuo is clearly holding the emperor in his hand so that people dare not do anything to him.

And Dong Zhuolin also did a more crazy thing when he left Luoyang, he not only kidnapped the emperor and others, but also ordered his subordinates to set fire to the gates of the palace, and burned the houses in Luoyang City, this is not over, Dong Zhuo even ordered someone to set fire to the Liu family's Zongmiao Palace.

For a while, the north and south palaces were connected, and the flames were connected; The once magnificent palace was scorched after a fire.

When passing through the imperial tomb, Dong Zhuo had a temporary idea, so he sent Lu Bu to excavate the tombs of the first emperor and his concubines and take their golden treasures. The sergeants took advantage of the situation to dig up the graves of officials and civilians. Dong Zhuo loaded thousands of carts of gold, beads, satin, and goods, and went to Chang'an. (To be continued......)