Chapter 453 Man is not as good as heaven
When Jia Kui hurriedly sent them to Luoyang one after another, he didn't know that Li Yan, who was in Luoyang at this time, was bigger than two heads, and he was about to be annoyed to death by some ministers in Luoyang City.
There is only one Hongnong County between Luoyang and Chang'an, although the two cities are occupied by different forces, but no one can completely block the news exchange between each other, when Li Dao, Guo Yan and others and Lu Bu began to fight in Guanzhong, Luoyang soon received the news, and then, Li Yan's ears were never clean.
Although Sikong Zhao Wen does not have much real power in Luoyang, and he usually doesn't speak out much, but this time he seems particularly stubborn, he has led people to the Taifu Mansion several times to block the door, and there is only one request, that is, to force Li Yan to immediately send troops to Chang'an and take the Son of Heaven to Luoyang. General Wei Zhu Jun was not in good health, but he seemed to support Luoyang, the capital of the Son of Heaven, and although he did not come to block the door, he secretly sent people to contact Zheng Tai and Zhang Miao and other famous figures to support Zhao Wen's actions together.
At first, Li Yan excused himself on the grounds that Zhao Yun led the army to Hanoi, and the troops who stayed in Luoyang were insufficient and could not send troops to Chang'an. After Zhao Yun withdrew from Hedong to Hanoi, he didn't know that the fast-talking guy had sent the news back to Luoyang, and the ministers loyal to the royal family in Luoyang City made even more trouble. In the past, Li Yan could still use the crisis in Hanoi as an excuse to resist everyone's spittle, but now he didn't know what excuse to find, he had no choice but to call himself sick in desperation, hiding in the mansion and no one could see him, but even so, he couldn't live in peace, because many of the scholars in the mansion Cao Peng also told Li Yan to ask Li Yan to send troops to Chang'an.
Just when Li Yanru was roasted by the fire, even worse news came from Guanzhong - Lu Bu was defeated and was escorting the Son of Heaven to the east!
This time. Luoyang City almost fryed.
If it weren't for the fact that the Dragon and Tiger Guard soldiers guarding the inner city of Luoyang were all children of Youzhou, and they had also been personally taught by Liu He, maybe there would be chaos in the troops this time.
After Li Yan found that the situation in Luoyang was becoming more and more unstable, he suspected that someone was secretly planning these things, the purpose was to mess up Luoyang under the banner of welcoming the return of the Son of Heaven, so he sent all the intelligence agents in his hands out to reconnoitre, and sure enough, he found some traces.
It turned out that Cao Cao's military advisor Xun You left Chang'an after provoking a melee between Lu Bu and Li Dao and others in Chang'an, and then secretly entered Luoyang. With Xun You's resourcefulness. In addition, he had been an official in Luoyang for several years, and he was very familiar with Luoyang, and it was not difficult to avoid the interrogation of the Luoyang defenders and quietly enter Luoyang.
After Xun You arrived in Luoyang, he quietly contacted some scholars who came out of Yingchuan Academy, and asked them to secretly visit Zhao Wen, Zhu Jun and others, and encouraged these ministers and some famous figures to stand up and force Li Yan and Zhao Yun to send troops to Guanzhong as soon as possible to welcome the return of the Son of Heaven to Luoyang.
These ministers and heads of prominent families who did not know the inside story were encouraged. felt that as long as they welcomed back the Son of Heaven, they would have made a contribution to the dragon, so they worked extra hard to make the originally stable Luoyang more and more chaotic.
Seeing that the situation in Luoyang is becoming more and more chaotic. Li Yan wanted to ruthlessly dispatch the Dragon Tiger Guard to kill some people several times, but when he thought of Liu He's reminder, he was worried and didn't dare to act rashly. It's actually easy to chop off some heads. The key is how to end up after the cut, which is a big problem. Although Liu Yu's father and son are not in Luoyang City now, anything Li Yan does must ultimately be counted on their heads. If Li Yan indiscriminately kills the old ministers of the royal family and the children of the Luoyang Wang clan this time, it will make people think that Liu Yu's father and son are no different from Dong Zhuo.
Li Yan, who threw the rat trap, finally caught Xun You after some investigation, but it was impossible for him to push Xun You out to take the blame, because no one would believe that Xun You did these things secretly. When Xun You was caught, he looked very calm, and he said to Li Yan that even if he didn't secretly contact him, there would still be many people in Luoyang City who would ask to welcome back the Son of Heaven.
Li Yan asked Xun You to be locked up in the secret dungeon of Taifu Mansion, and then sent a messenger to transmit the predicament faced by Luoyang to Yecheng as quickly as possible.
Just when Li Yan was worried, the first letter sent by Jia Kui arrived. In the letter, Jia Kui reminded Li Yan that the Son of Heaven may have taken the Yellow River waterway to enter Luoyang, and in order to prevent accidents, it is best to block Luoyang as soon as possible, and take the first step to control the emperor before others find the emperor.
After Li Yan read Jia Kui's letter, his heart was galloping, he didn't resent Jia Kui for letting the ship that the Son of Heaven was riding slip into Luoyang because of carelessness, but hated Lu Bu and Huangfu Jianshou, who were still messing around, and ended up causing such a big mess.
The letter sent by Jia Kui was so shocking that Li Yan did not dare to be careless, and he immediately ordered the whole city of Luoyang to be under martial law, impose a curfew, and stop all people from entering and leaving. At the same time, Li Yan hurriedly reported the matter to Zhao Yun, who was stationed in Yi County, and suggested that Zhao Yun send troops to search along the banks of the Yellow River to prevent the Son of Heaven from falling into the hands of others.
Half a day later, Zhao Yun of the garrison in Yixian County received an urgent report from Luoyang, and he was also very surprised. Zhao Yun knew that all matters involving the Son of Heaven were the most sensitive matters, and there was no room for the slightest negligence, and the slightest carelessness might cause irreparable losses, so he immediately sent out all the 3,000 cavalry in his hands, and asked these cavalrymen to search in teams of 100 people according to the pre-demarcated river section area.
However, even though Li Yan and Zhao Yun moved very quickly, and there was almost no hesitation, they still missed the opportunity to intercept the emperor.
If it was just Huangfu Jianshou and Wang Ling and others who planned this incident of the Son of Heaven's departure, there might be many loopholes, but if Sima Yi, who was bent on returning to Wenxian County in Hanoi with his family, then the whole thing would become uncontrollable.
On that day, Sima Yi accompanied the Son of Heaven from Shaanxi County, because he was worried that the Luoyang soldiers stationed in Shaanxi County would attack the boat, Sima Yi deliberately put all the old people and children standing on the right side of the ship, and also asked all the soldiers guarding the Son of Heaven to hide in the cabin and not show their heads, which made Jia Kui feel compassion and did not order the attack. After successfully passing through the Shaanxi River section, Sima Yi asked to see Liu Xie alone, and he didn't know what he said to Liu Xie, and the emperor finally gave the order to the two ships to sail continuously without stopping, and after reaching the territory of Wen County, they would dock north and enter Wen County.
In other words, the emperor would not go directly to Luoyang, but first to Sima Yi's hometown of Wen County.
When Jia Kui sent someone from Shaanxi County to Luoyang to deliver the letter, the Son of Heaven's boat had already gone downstream, even if the speed of the stagecoach on land was faster than that of the boat, but it was more than twice as fast, so when Li Yan received the urgent report from Jia Kui, the Son of Heaven's boat was not far from Luoyang. At this time, if Li Yan had enough soldiers and horses in his hands, he could naturally quickly send out to build several blockade lines near Luoyang, but the situation in Luoyang was already very unstable, and Zhao Yun took away 20,000 main troops, so Li Yan could only block the inner city of Luoyang while quickly notifying Zhao Yun stationed in Yi County, so that Zhao Yun could send troops to intercept and blockade.
When the messenger sent by Li Yan arrived in Yi County, half a day had passed, and at this time, the Son of Heaven's boat had successfully passed through the Luoyang section of the river and was steadily heading towards Wen County downstream.
When Zhao Yun sent 3,000 cavalry to the bank of the Yellow River as fast as he could, Sima Yi had already helped Liu Xie's hand to step on the land of Wen County.
Searching for and intercepting the Son of Heaven is a very taboo in the first place, so it is impossible for Li Yan and Zhao Yun to carry out it with great fanfare, they endured the anxiety and torment in their hearts in the next few days, and as a result, there was no news or results left and right, which made Li Yan and Zhao Yun so anxious. Zhao Yun has always been known for his calmness and composure, but this time in the face of the sudden disappearance of the Son of Heaven, he was also a little clueless, it was too much to do, and he felt that he couldn't bear it.
Just as the city of Luoyang was full of voices against Li Yan and martial law, an astonishing news came from Huai County, Hanoi: After a heavy blockade, the Son of Heaven has safely lived in the mansion of Zhang Yang, the Taishou of Hanoi!
This news was so shocking that when it reached Luoyang, the people who were still protesting outside the Taifu Mansion couldn't close their mouths in surprise, and the noisy Luoyang City became silent for half an hour.
After a terrible silence, I don't know who suddenly shouted: "Go, go to Huai County, protect the Son of Heaven!" ”
Then, many people flocked from inside Luoyang City to the North Gate and the East Gate.
When the guards blocking the north gate and the east gate saw the surging crowd, cold sweat suddenly broke out on their foreheads, and they did not dare to give the soldiers an order to kill, so they had to quickly send someone to Taifu to ask for instructions. Li Yan, who had already received accurate information, sat in the Taishi's chair a little weakly, and said to the two junior officers who came to ask for instructions: "Open the city gate immediately and let these people leave freely." ”
After the two officers guarding the city left in a hurry, Li Yan sighed and said to himself: "Alas, after thousands of calculations, I still didn't prevent it, and now, I can only ask Gongzi to come to Luoyang to preside over the overall situation." ”
Zhao Yun received the news almost at the same time as Li Yan, and he also knew that the development of the situation had far exceeded the original plan, since the news of the Son of Heaven in Hanoi had been known to the world, then it would be very unwise to block it at this time, so Zhao Yun ordered the troops to immediately move out and go straight to Wen County, Hanoi, and the banner he played was to protect the safety of the Son of Heaven. (To be continued......)