Volume 1 Chapter 409 Spider Web (I)
Luoyang May
The midsummer sun shines, the weather is scorching and hot, burning people dizzy, a few days ago it had a few light rains, and then stopped, there is only a thin layer on the street, the wheat withering in the field has been slightly alleviated, but the spring drought has greatly damaged the farming, only less than half of the survival is left at this time, and this year's autumn harvest is a foregone conclusion.
But the foundation of Luoyang City is extremely thick, accumulated for four hundred years, and it is the real king's capital.
Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, the people attach importance to the economy, although the imperial court treasury is empty, often close even the rats are not willing to patronize, but there are many rich households in Luoyang City, although the people are short of grain, they can still support it for a while, the key is that since the pre-Qin Dynasty, many deep wells have been handed down, which ensures domestic water and some agricultural water, and the agricultural work in the fields outside the city is barely maintained, and people do not starve to death.
100 meters away from a yamen, in a hotel, the owner and a few guys are serving wine to the guests with their chests and stomachs, but the popular spirits in the past few years have finally faded, except for the Dong Taishi Mansion where the feast is feasted day and night, ordinary people still can't afford to be extravagant, and even the low-water wine is difficult to drink, and most of them have changed to cool and slightly sour rice milk.
A black-flopped oxcart with ordinary decoration drove through the streets in the south of the city, the hardwood wheels were used for a few years, the rims were somewhat worn, and it seemed that the owner's family was average.
And no one bothered to pay attention to these small details, at the beginning of the month, the Xiliang army set out to march to the people of Luoyang suburbs to Chang'an, because they had to haul a large number of Dong Zhuo's looted property from the emperor's mausoleum, the first batch of 50,000 people who moved away died of exhaustion, thirst, and starvation on the road...... Nearly half of the down, the matter was reported back to Luoyang, and the people in the city were panicked.
"Dong Zhuo is afraid that we will resist, and he will consume us little by little......"
In normal times, there is no way, the people's hearts can't resist the strength, and no matter how angry they are, it is difficult to transform into resistance, or a few people come forward, but they are only suppressed by Dong Zhuo, and even brutally poured oil on the sky lantern, and used this naked display of brutality to create terror, which is undoubtedly a big killer that has always been accustomed to suppressing people's hearts, and it is enough to flatten everything before Dong Zhuo's military strength collapses.
Historically, this was the case, the road to moving the capital became a bloody road, and half of the people died on the road.
However, in the past two days, it has been rumored that the Dong coalition army has gathered troops outside the Tiger Pass, and this kind of terrorist suppression has gone wrong, leaking a glimmer of light in the black clouds above, allowing people to see a "choice".
There was a kind of spark ignited, and it was passed uncontrollably among the people in Luoyang.
Especially at the bottom where Dong Zhuo can't penetrate, he has said everything, he can't catch it, and he can't kill it.
Half a month ago, there was a kind of Chixiao Heavenly Destiny at the earliest, which spread quickly among the markets in Luoyang, not only the Qinglou tavern where the news was scattered, but even the pawns of the traders in the remote alleys could vividly say that the Chixiao Flying Away was vivid, and the spread speed was as fast as wildfire.
"Dong Zhuo is chaotic, Chixiao is gone, this is the destiny of heaven, the Xiliang Army is going to be finished......" In the hotel, someone lagged behind in information, and said mysteriously about the original version: "This is the White Snake Sword, I heard Fang Shi say, Dong Zhuo is not a Western ......"
"Ignorance, listen carefully, the Xiliang Army is generally a black genus, this is based on Han Keqin. "Some people have heard it a long time ago, and they are taking advantage of this time to show their wisdom.
But some people didn't care about the details, but only asked: "In short, Hande is not finished, but I don't know where this sword falls?"
"Among the heroes of the Kanto region, which one is better than Dong Hei......"
The place where people and things gather in the world, Luoyang City is so big, 500,000 is so much, but the black canopy ox cart drives all the way, and there are always similar discussions in different places.
At this time, someone would "just happen" to refute: "Since he is Liu Yuanjun who sent a document to discuss Dong, the Empress Dowager Feng drove to Xuchang, and there is also the edict of the second emperor"
"Shh......h
"What are you afraid of, I have a cousin who is on an errand in the Tiger Prison Pass, and I heard that Liu Yuanjun is about to call, but I didn't see the faces of those Qiang soldiers in the Dong army getting ugly day by day......"
The clear stance is simply to break through the barrier of social class, or at this time, as long as you scold Dong Zhuo, it can immediately resonate between two strangers.
And what they heard along the way seemed to confirm this, and the people in the ox cart fell into deep thought and estimated.
The sound outside the car gradually became quieter, and as soon as it turned to the main street, a group of soldiers patrolled, there would be no such contradiction, the people were very realistic, they couldn't live anymore, and no one wanted to really look for death.
Then there is the fact that the news of ordinary people is relatively closed, even if someone is behind it, the news circulating is actually not the latest.
"This point should be considered clearly, ...... when it is stimulated" Someone in the ox cart whispered, and then the maid said in confusion: "Childe?"
"Nothing ......"
Luoyang South Street is wide, the ox cart drives through the southeast of the city to open the Yang Gate, because of the inspection in and out of the city and lined up, the guard Wu Chang rudely lifted the curtain and looked at it, his eyes swept over the young man in the center.
In the incense commonly used by the nobles of Luoyang in the Western Regions, I saw this male scholar sitting in a precarious position, wearing a simple bent-lined red clothes with a magnificent taste, looking no more than eighteen or nineteen years old, with a handsome face but a compelling manner, and a faint hint of noble pressure.
The commander of the guards who inspected couldn't help but lose his momentum, didn't dare to look more, and fell on the pretty maid behind him, his eyes flashing with a hint of greed.
On the orders of the Taishi, the woman codenamed Yinyue was hunted down, and the people below were very powerful, and from time to time they saw beautiful girls and took advantage of this to plunder.
It can be seen that the owner of the car is so noble, most of them are too students who skip class, and they can't tell what kind of foot it is - you must know that Dong Hei will not wait to see the official eunuchs of the original imperial court, and the energy of these eunuchs can crush a guard to death with a finger.
After making a big fuss, it was a small person like Wu Chang, who still didn't dare to take advantage of the pretty maid, but just knocked on twenty copper coins and let it go.
Looking at the ox cart out of the city, Wu Chang recalled the beauty of the maid, and muttered hatefully: "In a few days, on the way to move the capital, there will be chaos, no matter if you are a noble private maid or a noble girl of a family, we can play with it as much as we want......"
In the ox cart, the young man frowned slightly and twisted his slender five fingers.
"Whoosh-" An ice crystal silver needle flashed in an instant, piercing into the captain's heart ten meters apart.
This Wu Chang was licking his mouth and smacking his tongue, secretly proud, suddenly felt a pain in his heart, a little uncomfortable, the left and right guards saw it, and hurriedly asked: "Wu Chang, this is the hottest hour, how cool it is inside, you go in to rest, we can do something."
"No need. The chief smiled gloomily and said, "I don't know how much copper money I receive for each car, and I'm really a little worried about you."
As he was talking, he saw a car coming over, and he felt that the slight pain had decreased, so he didn't think it was strange and continued to step forward.
The two guards slapped the horse's legs, couldn't help but look at each other, and secretly spitted, so they had to continue to laugh and follow.
"Childe...... Just now?" in the carriage, the maid saw the movement and asked.
"Hmph, my ice crystal silver needle, killing is invisible, this person is okay for the time being, when this person goes home from a shift change, he will suddenly die of heart hanging, die at home, and no one will care. ”
"However, Dong Hei is secretly protected by judges around him, and my little tricks are useless. ”
Speaking of which, at this time, the ox cart had already left the city gate for five miles, and when it came to a large open building, it took the initiative to slow down
Not far from the Kaiyang Gate are many official ceremonial buildings, all of which are built along Luoshui from west to east.
First of all, the most west Lingtai, this covers an area of 60 acres of huge buildings is the national astronomical observatory for stargazing, two hundred years ago Emperor Guangwu was founded, subjective clouds, Chafurui, waiting for catastrophe, Zhang Heng has served as Taishi Ling for the second time, during which he presided over astronomical observation and astronomical research on the central high platform, thus inventing the geodynamic instrument that perceives the seismic orientation is still under the stage, famous in the sea.
Further east on the riverside is the larger "Mingtang Biyong", which has been passed down from ancient times to be used by the clansmen to discuss politics, and also doubles as an auditorium for receiving pilgrimages and sacrificing to the gods of heaven and earth as well as various state affairs of ancestors......
The main body of this multi-functional building is a tall and magnificent square house, each side is forty meters long, surrounded by clear water channels on all sides, and the periphery of twenty-eight pillars leads to the sky, symbolizing the twenty-eight stars, or the twenty-eight generals of Yuntai, if Ye Qing is stunned here - is it not the Great Hall of the People?
But these are not the reasons why the car stopped, but the large-scale building complex with an area of up to 200 acres in front of it - the highest university in the empire built by Emperor Guangwu, Taixue, which has a wide range of pavilions, continuous fine houses, and green shades, and 30,000 students.
Just like when Ye Qing first came, the speed of anyone here had to slow down, because of the traffic jam.
At dusk, when school was out, tens of thousands of Taixue students poured out from the various school gates of Taixue, the flow of people was chaotic, some walked together, some drove in person, and some servants came to pick up, for a time the flow of people and cars occupied the field of vision, clothes like clouds, sweating like rain, blocking the nearby street of a hundred steps wide in this sunset.
Some students even scolded Huai Huai on the street, discussing the government and politics, and they were not afraid of being caught by Dong Zhuo to pour oil on the sky lanterns.
In fact, those who dare to do this are all deep-rooted, either from the gate valve or a famous teacher and apprentice, embodying the spirit of righteousness in the late Han Dynasty, and the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, and he is really not afraid of Dong Zhuo's tyranny.
The guards of the Xiliang Army who opened the Yang Gate not far away could all hear it, and they could always guess whether they understood it or not, but they just pretended not to hear it.
Or choose to denounce it, but the gate valve is rising vigorously, and the overall strength is extremely terrifying, even Dong Zhuo can only appease, after the matter is over, they will be pinched to death by these little people, and when they were dragged into the alley by a group of students with cloth bags and beaten to death, I don't know how to go.
There have been a few such precedents, but no one dared to come forward, and Qiang Bing did not understand Chinese, so he allowed this strange anti-director situation to happen again and again at the gate of Luoyang.
In the black canopy ox cart, he remembered the unpleasant blackmail just now, so he listened to the maid's complaints: "When you see a cart of power, you dare to abuse, and when you see the power of ten thousand times, you shrink your head, and the Xiliang army is called a jackal, but in fact, it is a coward......"
What kind of lord there is, what kind of maid will be infected, this angry catharsis is too literary, which makes a chuckle in the car, it is the voice of the young man, and he whispered again, and calmed down.
Although the master and servant are profound, they know that they are just disguises, not really students, and there is no need to learn to be angry and cause trouble.