On the sixteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, the Dongwang Army began to enter Luoyang in batches.

Because the fighting around Luoyang has not yet subsided, the main force of the Dongwang Army is still fighting with the remnants of the Beiwang Army on the northern front of Luoyang. After the initial rout, the Northern King Army stabilized its position, and many of the cities that had been conquered by the Northern King Army were reoccupied by the Northern King Army in recent days.

The counties around Luoyang have become depressed due to the war, and even the counties occupied by the Eastern Wang's army cannot even guarantee the basic livelihood of the people.

On the eighteenth day of the lunar month, the main force of the Eastern King Army began to enter Luoyang.

Early in the morning of this day, Han Jian first invited the empress and met with the empress with some ministers who came from Luoyang. And these ministers are officials of the Luoyang Provisional Imperial Court, in the final analysis, they are just puppets, and recently Luoyang is considered a military buffer period, and the political affairs in the city are almost deserted, and the military is responsible for every decision. These civil officials are just filling the scene.

After the meeting, the empress was to officially move Luan Jia to Luoyang City.

Originally, when the people in the city learned that the empress was going to return to the court, they spontaneously organized to come out to greet them. However, for the sake of public security, Han Jian directly vetoed it. Now is an eventful period, so he wants to keep a low profile. Especially this time, the empress promised him, just to go back to Luoyang City to see, and then the empress will issue an edict to "patrol the Jiangdu". From then on, until the north was completely pacified, Jiangdu would be stored in the form of accompanying the capital. As the political center of the Central Plains, Luoyang's position will be replaced by Jiangdu for the time being.

The Chinese army has more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, plus the people who accompany the army. There are more than 30,000 people. It is somewhat difficult to move more than 30,000 people to the city at a time, but the soldiers and horses stationed outside Luoyang City will be in danger of being attacked. Han Jian still decided to temporarily garrison his soldiers and horses in Luoyang City.

By noon, the Empress had entered the newly prepared luan. Han Jian, as the king of the east, and Yang Luochuan, the king of the south, will accompany Luan into the city, and Yang Li'er's carriage is not too far from the empress's Luan, but it is also heavily guarded.

At noon, the group officially set off.

Because the Chinese army camp had moved closer to Luoyang before. This line is only more than 20 miles. arrived in Luoyang City. The road to the palace is about six or seven miles. Together, it is less than thirty miles.

On weekdays, because it is a continuous march, the infantry will not go too fast. Thirty miles can barely be completed in a morning or an afternoon. But after all, the Central Army of the Eastern King Army has been resting for many days. This is more than 20 miles of road. It's a no-brainer.

An hour later, Luan Jia and his entourage had arrived at the Yonghua Gate in Luoyang City. The city gate was heavily guarded, and the army was stationed. Although it has been ordered that the people are not allowed to come out to greet them, after entering the Yonghua Gate, it can still be seen that there are people in the alleys looking into the distance. When the Empress Luan drove by, the people even bowed to the ground, looking so disrespectful.

In the eyes of ordinary people, the empress is the lord of the Wei Dynasty after all, and the turmoil in Luoyang for more than a year is also caused by the empress's suffering in the eyes of the people. Now that the empress has returned to the court, the people think that they can live a peaceful life in the future, and they are naturally very excited.

Originally, there were not many people in the alley, and even if there were a few, they were blocked in the alley by officials and soldiers. But in the back, more and more people walked out of their homes. When they arrived in the inner city of Luoyang, it was already a different scene, the people were all gathered in the alleys along the street, even if they could only see Luan Jia from a distance in a short period of time when the empress Luan was passing by, they were all cheering excitedly, even if the soldiers stopped them, they still couldn't dampen the enthusiasm of the people.

Han Jian rode a horse to accompany the Empress Luan's side, and when he saw the situation of the people in the city, he also felt a little emotional.

Over the past year or so, Luoyang has changed hands twice. Although it was peaceful at the beginning of Yang Yu's reign, it was followed by the defeat of Yang Yu's party in the Battle of Jiangdu. After that, the rebels turned Luoyang City upside down. The city has long since lost its former prosperity. Later, Yang Yu also chose to flee north when the Dongwang army approached the city because of Luoyang Xiaosuo.

Han Jian deliberately glanced at the empress, who came all the way to watch the people along the way. The guilt in her eyes for the people was very obvious. Han Jian couldn't help but sigh, after all, the empress agreed to return to Jiangdu with him because he was invited and forced by him. If the empress had a choice, she would definitely choose to stay in Luoyang City, even if Luoyang would fall tomorrow, and she would suffer with her own people.

Han Jian asked himself, he still didn't have the courage of an empress. Although he has lived in this world for nearly eighteen years, he only treats himself as a passer-by after all. I don't feel the responsibility to the people of the world.

Luan Jia and his entourage arrived at the gate of the palace, and the civil and military officials and some princes and nobles who were waiting for them all saluted. And just a year ago, it was they who worshipped the newly enthroned Yang Yu in the palace. In the eyes of these princes and nobles, it is of little significance who governs, and the most significant thing is how to win over the powerful without making the family neglected by the royal family. It's like some of the old nobles in Luoyang, many of them have taken root in Jiangdu City and will not return to Luoyang in a short time.

Most of these princes and nobles in Luoyang are closely related to Yang Yu. But when Yang Yu fled north, he obviously didn't take care of these people. Even if Yang Yu informed these people in advance, these people would not be loyal enough to follow Yang Yu to the Beiwang Mansion.

"Your Majesty returns to the palace!"

One of the eunuchs shouted loudly, and then the phalanx of eunuchs shouted the same sentence together. For a while, the sound could be regarded as resounding inside and outside the palace gate.

In the midst of the hundred officials kneeling to greet her, the empress slowly walked down Luanjia, she first glanced around, and seemed to be a little unfamiliar with the surrounding environment. After that, she didn't choose to go straight into the palace gate, but glanced at Han Jian and raised her left arm, meaning to let Han Jian step forward to help.

This surprised Han Jian a little.

The empress didn't want to make her relationship with him public, this was agreed between the two before, and even if the empress was tired from walking or needed someone to help her, she should be a palace maid or a eunuch. It is unthinkable to let him go up and help each other like this directly in the era of male and female defense.

But Han Jian also realized that the empress might be using this to show his respect for the Eastern Palace, and he went up to help him, so that the officials could see his respect for the empress. Although it was all a scene, it had to be done enough. Han Jian stepped forward directly and took the empress's hand, and the empress smiled at him, but this smile lacked a bit of the usual solemnity and majesty, which made Han Jian look much more friendly.

"Flat." The Empress said aloud.

But after all, the palace gate is very big, and the empress's voice can't reach everyone's ears. Then the phalanx composed of eunuchs once again delivered a message to the empress, and after the strange "flat body" resounded through the palace gate, the civil and military officials and princes and nobles also slowly got up from the ground, but they were all respectfully facing Luan's side, and no one dared to face it squarely.

"King Dong, you help me into the palace, I want to see the minister in Luoyang." The Queen's Road.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Han Jian was supporting the empress by his side, and his attitude was not very respectful, after all, his status was different from before. In the past, he was only a courtier of the Wei Dynasty and a vassal king with a foreign surname. But this time, he entered the palace as the empress's future husband, and after entering the palace, within a day or two, he would have a "round room" with the empress. At the end of the year, the party will leave Luoyang and return to Jiangdu, which is all discussed.

Han Jian helped the empress to walk in front, the palace maids, eunuchs, the eastern princess Yang Li'er and the southern king Yang Luochuan walked behind, and behind were the kings and grandsons and civil and military officials.

After the empress entered the palace, she did not go back to the palace or the Ye'an Pavilion where she usually worked, but went directly to the temple of the palace to worship.

When the empress returns to the dynasty, the first thing she does is to pray to her ancestors and ancestors, which is considered a form of shì. After that, the empress will meet the courtiers and feast the courtiers in the Wenwu Hall in the evening. These are all steps that have been drawn up by the Ministry of Rites for a long time.

The royal affairs cannot be done rashly. There are many things that cannot be omitted even if the empress omits them.

Han Jian accompanied the empress to the temple in the palace, where the spiritual seat of the ancestors of the Wei Dynasty was placed. All the officials can only wait outside, and the empress should personally enter the palace to offer incense before coming out, and here, even Han Jian, who is the king of the east, is not allowed to enter.

Outside the temple, Han Jian stopped, and the palace maids, eunuchs, and ministers behind him also stopped until the empress issued a new order.

"I personally worship the royal family ancestors and ancestors." The Empress said aloud, "King Dong, you go in with me." ”

When Han Jian heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned. He hadn't figured out the situation yet, and the empress hadn't said before that she was going to let him enter the royal temple. Usually in this temple, only those who can be placed in the spiritual seat are qualified to enter, and ordinary people's families, women are also not allowed to enter, because their spiritual seats are not qualified to be placed in. And the general royal princess, after getting married, also follows her husband's surname, and naturally the spiritual position will not be placed in it.

Now that Han Jian, as a foreign vassal king, enters the royal temple, it will seem unreasonable.

"Your Majesty, this seems to be inappropriate." Lin Ke, who entered Luoyang two days earlier and was responsible for the etiquette of the empress's return to the court, stepped forward and said with some embarrassment.

"The king of the east has made great contributions to the Great Wei, why can't he enter?" The Empress questioned sharply.

Lin Ke was speechless. According to some rules in the court, the spiritual positions of some founding heroes can indeed have special "grace" and sacrifice the spiritual positions to the royal temple, which is also a way for the emperor to win people's hearts. Now that Han Jian was allowed to enter, Lin Ke said that the empress was probably preparing to sacrifice the East King as a meritorious service in the future.

Lin Ke didn't say anything at the moment, stepped back and stood aside.

"Come in with me." The empress whispered, her voice not like an order, but like discussing with Han Jian, who was beside her.

Han Jian didn't say much, this time he came back with the empress, just because the empress insisted repeatedly. Now there was no reason for him to refuse something from the Empress on such an important occasion. (To be continued......)