Chang Xi instigated his soldiers to rebel in Yanzhou, and was soon pacified by the Cao army led by Yu Ban and others.

Sun Guan and other former Qingzhou army generals, who had originally discussed with Changxi and waited until he raised troops, immediately responded to the army, but after Changxi's rebellion, they all hid and kept silent about the rebellion.

Chang Xi, who was weak and weak, was finally broken by Cao's army after holding out for less than ten days, and was escorted to Xuchang.

In Xuchang City, Cao Cao walked around Chang Xi a few times with his hands behind his back, and finally opened his mouth to ask Chang Xi: "Chang Xi, are you guilty!" ”

I didn't expect to be stabbed by Sun Guan and others, and after being captured by Cao Jun, Chang Xi, who asked himself to die, heard Cao Cao open his mouth to ask him, and hurriedly bowed down, trembling all over, and said to Cao Cao: "The last general is guilty!" ”

"Leading the army to rebel, backsliding, you are not the first time!" Standing in front of Chang Xi, Cao Cao said to him in a cold voice: "How do you want to spare you?" ”

Cao Cao's tone was very cold, and after hearing this, the cold Chang Xi couldn't help but tremble, as if he was frozen by Cao Cao's cold tone.

"I'm going to ask you!" Seeing that Chang Xi was trembling all over, he was already frightened, Cao Cao asked him, "Sun Guan and the others, are they here now?" ”

originally thought that he was stabbed in the back by Sun Guan and others, and scolded Sun Guan and others in his heart.

Hearing Cao Cao ask him about Sun Guan and the others, Chang Xi was also stunned, raised his head to look at Cao Cao, and said to Cao Cao with a blank face: "The last general doesn't know that Sun Guan and the others are safe?" ”

"Nonsense!" As soon as Chang Xi's words came out, Cao Cao categorically shouted at him and said to him: "You conspired with Sun Guan and others to rebel in the Yanzhou area, don't you think you don't know?" ”

"Return to Cao Gong!" was cut off by Cao Cao, Chang Xi looked at Cao Cao with a bitter look, and said to Cao Cao: "That Sun Guan really looked for the last general, and wanted to conspire with the last general to rebel." It's just that after a certain army was raised, Sun Guan and the others did not raise an army to respond, and they really don't know where they are now! ”

After Chang Xi explained, Cao Cao narrowed his eyes slightly and stared at him coldly.

Cao Cao's eyes were colder than Fang Cai, and his cold gaze was like a sharp blade, as if he could be skinned alive just by staring at Chang Xi.

"Enlighten Cao Gong!" Just as he was coldly looking at Chang Xi, a soldier quickly ran to Cao Cao, clasped his fists and bowed to Cao Cao and said: "Tanma returns, Sun Guan and others have led hundreds of thousands of Qingzhou troops to Xuzhou!" ”

"To Xuzhou?" Before the soldier's words fell, Cao Cao was stunned for a moment and asked him, "Is there a detailed investigation?" ”

"It's been investigated!" Maintaining the posture of clenching his fists and bowing, the soldier said to Cao Cao: "Sun Guan and the others, I'm afraid they want to break through Xuzhou, use Xuzhou as their base camp, and confront Cao Gong!" ”

"Let's take Chang Xi into custody!" Cao Cao was about to give an order to the soldier, when he turned his head and saw Chang Xi looking at him with round eyes, so he waved his hand at the two soldiers standing behind Chang Xi.

Picked up by two soldiers, Chang Xi was almost dragged by the two soldiers like a dead dog to the direction of the prison, and while being dragged forward, he turned his head and shouted to Cao Cao without a mouth: "Cao Gong spares his life, the last general will never dare again!" ”

Chang Xi's shouting became farther and farther away, and when he couldn't hear his voice clearly, Cao Cao turned his head and smiled at Guo Jia.

"Feng Xiao came with so-and-so!" After greeting Guo Jia, Cao Cao waved his hand to everyone again, and went to the back garden first.

followed Cao Cao into the back garden, and as soon as he stepped into the garden gate, Cao Cao, who was walking in front, asked Guo Jia: "Sun Guan and others have already led the army into Xuzhou, and they will attack Liu Bei and Lu Bu." It's just that Changxi, how to let go, Feng Xiao has an idea? ”

"It's much cheaper to let one person leave Xuchang than to capture him!" Guo Jia smiled slightly and said to Cao Cao: "Tonight, the two of them will enter the prison in black clothes and let Na Changxi go." Inform Chang Xi that it was the people who admired Liu Bei who saved him, and asked him to go and inform Liu Bei that Sun Guan and others had entered Xuzhou and were about to attack Liu Bei. Chang Xi thought that he was betrayed by Sun Guan and others, and hated them to the core, sneaked into Xuzhou, and definitely joined Liu Bei! ”

"Hit and grab, let go, and after a few steps, Chang Xi became a plaything in Feng Xiaogu's palm." Turning his head to look at Guo Jia, Cao Cao smiled and said to Guo Jia: "If you have to be filial, why worry about the uncertain world?" ”

"Ming Gong is too praised!" was praised by Cao Cao, Guo Jia hurriedly hugged his fists and bowed to Cao Cao, and humbly excused himself.

The Qingzhou army, under Cao Cao's secret arrangement, advanced to Xuzhou.

Yuan Shu in Shouchun City, the heart of the emperor is already unbearable, and the entire Shouchun City is in full swing to prepare Yuan Shu to be the emperor.

At this time, Liu Wei was still in Chang'an City.

After Liu Wei ordered the seizure of a lot of grain and grass that had been privately hoarded, and urgently allocated grain and grass from Luoyang and other places for disaster relief, the victims were finally able to fill their stomachs, and order in Chang'an City was slowly restored.

When Luoyang was rebuilt, Liu Wei once ordered Xu Shu to run a polemic hall, because Chang'an was in urgent need of officials, low-level officials could still be selected from the people, and high-level officials could only choose some talents with outstanding talents.

Xu Shu reopened the polemical hall and selected officials.

The newly selected officials were all assessed by their character and confirmed to be upright before they were appointed to Jing Zhaoyin and Zuo Fengyi.

With the arrival of new officials, the two places were quickly revitalized, and when there was enough food, merchants from the Luoyang area first entered Jing Zhaoyin and Zuo Fengyi, driving the commercial recovery of the two places.

Soon, businessmen from all over the country gradually settled in the two places, and the economies of the two places also showed some signs of recovery in the short term.

After several days of rectification, some shops on the streets of Chang'an City have opened their doors.

The people walking back and forth in the city are all yellow and thin, but their complexion is much better than when Liu Wei first entered the city.

With a team of guards, inspecting Chang'an City, where Liu Wei went, the people knelt down one after another, kneeling on both sides of the road to greet him.

The people knelt to greet and send them off, which made Liu Wei feel very uncomfortable.

The residents of Luoyang City have long been accustomed to seeing Liu Wei and not kneeling, but the residents of Chang'an City do not know much about the temperament of their Qin kings, so when they see Liu Wei, they kneel on the side of the road to meet each other as if they were seeing other nobles.

However, unlike other nobles who knelt down, they knelt down to worship Liu Bian, and they revered Liu Biao from the bottom of their hearts.

If it weren't for Liu Wei becoming the king of Qin, and if it weren't for the Luoyang army sending countless carts of grain and grass to Jing Zhaoyin, I'm afraid that hunger would have made Chang'an a dead city.

"When you see this king, you don't need to kneel!" Restraining the war horse and standing on the street in Chang'an City, Liu Wei turned his head to look at the people kneeling on both sides of the road, raised his hand at them, and said to them: "Get up, when you see this king in the future, you just need to clasp your fists and salute, kneel down to this king, this king is really a little difficult to adapt!" ”

After listening to Liu Wei's words, the people stood up very hesitantly, looking at each other one by one, not knowing what this King of Qin meant.

"Folks!" When the people looked at each other head-on, pondering Liu Bian's temperament, Wang Liu, who was following Liu Bian, shouted to them: "In Luoyang City, the people will not kneel when they see His Royal Highness. His Highness has said that true respect is in the heart, not on the knee. ”

As he spoke, Wang Liu patted his chest and shouted to the people of Chang'an on both sides of the street: "Let's go and get busy, the reconstruction of Chang'an depends on you!" ”

Listening to Wang Liu's words, Liu Wei was very satisfied.

The reason why the two sisters Wang Liu and Wang Zhen were brought with them was not only because of their superb swordsmanship, but also because they were sometimes able to play a role in advocating for Liu Wei.

The people kneeling on both sides of the street stood up one after another, and Liu Wei led Wang Liu, Wang Zhen and a team of guards, and said to Wang Liu while advancing along the street: "What Fang Cai said is exactly what this king wants to say. ”

"Your Highness!" Hearing Liu Biao praise her, Wang Liu hurriedly asked Liu Bian: "There are people kneeling on the side of the street to greet each other, which is a symbol of status, but why doesn't Your Highness want to do so?" ”

"A status symbol?" Turning his head to look at Wang Liu, Liu Wei twitched the corners of his mouth, and said to her: "This king is inspecting, first, I don't want the people to kneel to greet him, and second, I don't need officers and soldiers to open the way for this king." This king once said that true respect comes from the bottom of the heart. Even if the people knelt down to greet and send them off, they were scolding the eighteenth generation of their ancestors in their hearts, and it was better to live than to die! Where else is there any identity? ”

Wang Liu and Wang Zhen glanced at each other, and their eyes flashed with heavy approval.

They are also very disgusted by the behavior of some nobles or officials who go out to be full of style.

Except under Liu Wei's rule, officials and generals often appeared in the street market, shopping like ordinary people to buy what they needed for their families, and the two had never seen such a scene anywhere.

Walking along the street, Liu Wei watched the scene on both sides of the street as he walked.

Many shops have opened their doors, but the goods in the shops are very monotonous.

Liu Wei also came to Chang'an at the beginning, and although the Chang'an rebuilt by Dong Zhuo was not as prosperous as Luoyang before it was burned down, it was not as depressed as it is now.

It can be seen that the countless battles that took place around Chang'an have tormented this place from a prosperous city to a depressed ruins.

Looking at the depressed streets and the yellow-skinny pedestrians on the streets, Liu Wei couldn't help but sigh a little in his heart.

When he came to this era, he seemed to be wiping his ass and cleaning up the mess for some nobles of this era.

The places that were trampled by others to the point of being completely ruined by others were finally handed over to him, and he was responsible for completing the reconstruction, so that these cities could be restored to their former prosperity and majesty.

"Your Highness!" was patrolling along the street, a fast horse galloped from the direction of the city gate, and went straight to Liu Bian, and when Liu Bian approached, the knight on horseback turned over and jumped down, hugged his fist Liu Bian and said: "The Qingzhou army rebelled by Cao Cao, and now most of the Qingzhou army has broken through the Cao army's defense line and entered the Xuzhou territory!" ”