Chapter 51: The Scapegoat
Tian Feng nodded slightly, this was originally one of his thoughts, at this time, the court thought that he had returned to his hometown, but he didn't know that he had been taken under Cheng Liu's command, and he could hide people's eyes.
"Further north, it's Jizhou."
Cheng Liu lifted the curtain, and at this time the carriage had moved slowly, and there were many corpses of homeless people on both sides of the way, even if passers-by saw it, they only glanced at it and hurried by themselves.
The carriage traveled all day, and after nightfall, the convoy entered the station, which was also a hidden stake in the layout of the sweet potato.
Although there are many homeless people passing by on the official road, and there are also many beggars who want to come in to beg for food, the door is closed on weekdays, and they will only open the door to do business when Cheng Liu comes.
Cheng Liu got out of the carriage, first went back to the room, and then put down his things before going to the wing room in the backyard.
The meal was ready, Cheng Liu sat on the main seat, and after signaling everyone to move the chopsticks, Xu Shu and Tian Feng picked up the chopsticks.
And Sweet Potato and several other dead soldiers have always been guarding outside, and the servants outside have also taken advantage of the night to hide themselves, paying attention to the surrounding movements at any time.
The more displaced people, the more mixed they are, and the more Cheng Liu, who does not disappear, also understands that they should be cautious.
"From today on, Tian Feng will be in my account, as a strategist in our army, Jizhou will be led by him alone, and 50,000 military horses will be able to deal with it at any time. The road is long, I hope Brother Tian can successfully recruit good generals and participate in the grand event! ”
Tian Feng picked up the wine glass, didn't say much, and drank it directly.
"Thank you for your love!"
Xu Shu pursed the corners of his mouth: "Either call the son with the sweet potato girl, or call the lord with me, he doesn't like to hear the big officials." ”
Cheng Liu smiled: "Yes." ”
After three rounds of drinking, the three of them ate some more vegetables, and when it was almost time, the sweet potato brought a new piece of information, removed the leftovers, and put them on the table.
The content of the intelligence is very simple, Zhang Jiao's forces went all the way to the north, but they were still secretly accumulated, except for some local refugees, none of the local officials stopped them, and even many soldiers and horses were merged into a column.
In addition, there were many mountain bandits in Xuzhou and Yanzhou at this time, and they joined in with the trend, and Zhang Jiao's power became much stronger again.
Because the states and counties are also secretly accumulating forces, almost no one has reported Zhang Jiao's forces, and even Luoyang City is closed, and he doesn't mention the situation in these eight states.
The reason is actually very simple, even if you know that in the previous situation of buying officials, many rich people have also secretly accumulated troops, and there are also important ministers in the court, and under mutual interests, they all know what to say and what not to say.
Coupled with the eunuchs in power, even if Empress He and Liu Bian knew that the world outside was about to change, they couldn't spare the mind and ability to deal with it.
Xu Feng and Feng Yu naturally don't need to say much, I'm afraid that they have already prepared their forces and will respond to the soldiers and horses of Zhang Jiao and others at any time, so whether the rest of the eunuchs know it or not, they are blocked by these two people, and it is not easy to say it clearly.
After all this information was gathered, Cheng Liu suddenly realized a serious problem.
Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty in history did not rest on his laurels, and also made corresponding responses at this time, such as giving a strong response to some states and counties that supported their own troops, and bought everything that could be bought, and those who could not be bought were also deceived into the palace, at least restricting the behavior of its leaders.
But after Emperor Han Ling was assassinated by him, Empress He seemed to have lost that bit of courage, and the eunuchs were more arrogant than Emperor Han Ling, and even the entire Luoyang City was blocked.
After Sweet Potato combed through the information on the intelligence, he told Cheng Liu another piece of news, that Yu Youkui had arrived in Runan.
Runan is located in the hinterland of Jingzhou, why did Yu Jukui take the first step to occupy Jingzhou?
Cheng Liu didn't dare to think about it, if she still had a back hand, maybe even he would be put on the table.
But this can't affect the danger of his life, so Cheng Liu is not very worried.
Tian Feng smacked his tongue and asked a little inexplicably: "This fish is young, but the goddaughter of the rich man?" ”
Cheng Liu was a little surprised, even Tian Feng knew that this was for the rich man?
But then he went on to say: "It's a pity, the rich man died a few days ago, and I heard that the corpse was separated, and the scene can be described as extremely miserable, and I don't know whether this murderer killed him for his money, or because he couldn't stand what he did, he killed him." ”
Cheng Liu subconsciously asked: "But the rich man has always been low-key, and it stands to reason that he will not offend people, if it is not because of money, is it because of revenge?" ”
"This can not be said, in the fifth year of Guanghe, the rich man Yu had a conflict with a Beijing official, although in the end he also used the official bank to settle it, but this feud is settled. At that time, he didn't know what to think, but he actually wanted his goddaughter to do that Luoyang Order! ”
Even Cheng Liu was taken aback by these words, and he was a little confused.
A year ago, Yu Youkui should have started the layout, so this kind of requirement must be made by Yu Youkui in order to facilitate his own forces to take root in Luoyang, but he didn't expect that the relationship between the palace and the original Luoyang Ling was different, and some people supported it and some people opposed it.
So the contradiction at the beginning was huge, and in the end, although the rich man gave up his money, he had a hostile relationship with the one in this palace.
If you analyze it according to the timeline, this official should have attacked him early on, at least last year, and would not wait until this winter.
But the most bizarre thing about this matter is that Tian Feng revealed another important news, and even Cheng Liu broke out in a cold sweat behind his back.
"Emperor Ling was assassinated in the palace, although Empress He did not investigate the matter thoroughly, but all the people related to it were executed, and the rest was the official, because of the last twist and turn, but openly and secretly accused Emperor Ling, and even threatened with his own life, saying that the Han family would fall, and the national fortune would never come."
"Empress He immediately used the physical evidence of the fold and directly sent someone to take him down, this official was arrogant, even in front of Empress He, he had a great momentum of neither humility nor arrogance, until the punishment was exhausted, he finally couldn't support it, revealing the inside story of the death of the Spirit Emperor."
"The rich man spent a lot of silver taels to buy the Luoyang Order and bribe the palace officials, the purpose is to kill the Spirit Emperor!"
Hearing this, Cheng Liu swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and then asked, "And then?" ”
"After that, Queen He somehow let this person go, and let him be promoted three times in a row, and he didn't return to his hometown until after the autumn of this year."
Cheng Liu gasped, then before retiring, Empress He must have given him an order to 'avenge' Emperor Ling, that is, to kill the rich man.