The fire in Luoyang City has been extinguished.

The first official meeting of the princes into Luoyang was held in the dilapidated imperial palace.

It's just that Cao Cao and Sun Jian are missing.

Everyone knew that Cao Cao was going to pursue Dong Zhuo, but knew why Sun Jian was not there, and now there is only Zhao Hui.

Zhao Hui has no interest in the heirloom jade seal, after all, it is just a dead thing.

Originally, according to everyone's guess, this should be a meeting to divide the spoils.

But three days ago, everyone didn't expect that Dong Zhuo would be so mad that he didn't even want to leave a grain of rice to them.

All the things in the palace were emptied, the people in the city were all forced to leave, and even the imperial tombs outside the city were thrown away by Dong Zhuo, and the funeral goods of more than a dozen emperors and queens inside were taken away.

Yuan Shao said: "Dong Thief has moved the capital to Chang'an, what do you think now?" ”

Zhang Yang said: "Although we have the heart to destroy the thief, Chang'an is far away, and we are already powerless. ”

Liu Dai nodded and said: "After years of war, the consumption of grain and grass is huge, and the existing grain and grass may not be able to support our expedition to Chang'an." ”

Not only did Dong Zhuo not want to continue this war with no results, but these princes in the alliance army also began to get bored in their hearts.

A loose alliance that can't work out at all, it's just a waste of everyone's time here.

As the leader of the alliance, Yuan Shao was the first to realize this.

Although many of these people had followed him before.

But when these people become Taishou, more often than not, they think about their own interests.

Zhao Hui didn't want to listen to these people, and used various reasons not to pursue Dong Zhuo's words, he opened his mouth and said: "Now there are five thousand civilians in the city, I wonder if you have a way to take them in?" ”

Zhao Hui's territory is in Shanggu County, which is too far away from Luoyang, even if Zhao Hui has the intention to take them back, few of these civilians who survived are willing to follow Zhao Hui to Shanggu County.

Zhao Hui's voice fell, and these Taishou were silent.

If it were ordinary people, they would be more than willing to accept it and bring it back to their place.

But now the 5,000 people have nothing, which means that whoever takes them in will be responsible for the food and shelter of the 5,000 people for at least half the year.

If you can't arrange it properly, you may have a mess on your own turf.

These people are not savages, not captives, but ordinary people who were mutilated by Dong Zhuo.

If they take over, they will have to settle these people well. If you don't get it right, there will be countless scholars who spray them with saliva, no different from Dong Zhuo, they are all raccoon dogs.

If these 5,000 civilians could be taken as prisoners and slaves, these people would have robbed them a long time ago.

In the end, Yuan Shao said: "In this case, these civilians should follow me to Bohai." ”

Compared with others, Yuan Shao is still very confident that he can settle these 5,000 people.

Bohai is a large county, with a larger population than other counties.

In times of war, population is very important.

If it weren't for the fact that Shanggu was too far away from here, Zhao Hui would not have let Yuan Shao take over the five thousand civilians.

Zhao Hui obtained these 5,000 people, and after they were settled, he would be able to provide at least 5,000 soldiers with food and grass next year.

After everyone dispersed, Yuan Shao found his confidant: "Quickly go and find out where Sun Jian went." ”

Soon the henchmen came back and reported to Yuan Shaoyu: "Sun Jian has led troops to withdraw from Luoyang. ”

Sun Jian was the first to enter Luoyang, and now he is the first to leave Luoyang. Yuan Shao became suspicious and sent someone to continue to inquire.

Cao Cao, who was chasing Dong Zhuo, returned with the remnants of his army.

has the intention to kill the thief, but no one wants to be with him.

Cao Cao, who returned with the remnants of the army, did not stay in Luoyang, but returned to Yanzhou with the remnants of the army.

The other princes also returned to their own territory with their own people.

Zhao Hui also set off towards Youzhou with his soldiers and horses.

When he came, Zhao Hui's 10,000 people were divided into three batches, and when he went back, Zhao Hui did not take the cavalry first.

This time to crusade against Dong Zhuo, Zhao Hui only fought with Lu Bu, and did not achieve the goal in Zhao Hui's heart.

The main reason is that Zhao Hui didn't expect that Dong Zhuo would withdraw not long after he came.

But fortunately, in the battle with Lu Bu, Zhao Hui can be regarded as making his own reputation.

After getting a batch of grain and grass from Yuan Shao, Zhao Hui went back at a slower speed than when he came.

Although he and Gongsun Chan belong to the same Youzhou, the two did not go together. The two of them didn't say a word, and each moved forward along their own path.

However, Gongsun Zhan's speed is a little faster than Zhao Hui, and he is already ahead of Zhao Hui.

On the other side, Yuan Shao had already inquired that Sun Jian had obtained the jade seal of the country in the palace.

Yuan Shao directly sent someone to tell Liu Biao the news.

As a member of the royal family, Liu Biao did not participate in the crusade against Dong Zhuo this time, except because he knew that even if Dong Zhuo was eliminated, it would be difficult to change the current state of the Han Dynasty.

In addition, when the alliance army began to crusade against Dong Zhuo before, Liu Biao had just taken over Jingzhou, and had just controlled the overall situation of Jingzhou through the Jingzhou Kuai family and the Cai family, and Liu Biao still needed to sit in Jingzhou at that time.

After a year's war between the Alliance Army and Dong Zhuo, Liu Biao had taken full control of Jingzhou.

Knowing that Sun Jian had secretly hidden the heirloom jade seal in the Imperial City of Luoyang, Liu Biao immediately sent a large army to attack Sun Jian.

And Yuan Shao did not stop his actions after revealing the news to Liu Biao.

Yuan Shao, who returned to Bohai, began a series of layouts.

A secret letter was sent to his brother-in-law, Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou.

Liu Dai, who received the secret letter, sent someone to Dongjun to borrow grain from Qiaomao.

Although most of the grain and grass of the alliance army was supplied by Jizhou Mu Hanfu, these princes also mobilized a lot of grain and grass from their own territory.

Regarding Liu Dai's borrowing of grain from himself, Qiao Mao refused in one bite.

He himself still has 20,000 soldiers under his command, and if he lends Liu Dai grain and grass, his own soldiers will have nothing to eat.

Liu Dai's borrowing of grain was just an excuse.

Before Qiao Mao could react, Liu Dai directly led his troops to destroy Qiao Mao.

Subsequently, Yuan Shao immediately played Cao Cao as the Taishou of Dongjun. Let Cao Cao have a place to stay.

As soon as the front foot walked to Gongsun Zan in Youzhou, he heard the news that Liu Dai had killed Qiao Mao.

After discussing with Liu Bei, he was not in a hurry, but asked Tian Kai to hurry back to Beiping and quietly take the people and horses of Beiping to the south.

The current Zhao Hui is already Gongsun Zhan's confidant, and he wants to take the opportunity to cut off Zhao Hui's way back.

Zhao Hui also received the news, but he didn't know it for the time being, and Gongsun Chan was already ready to deal with him on his way back.

For the time being, it is still normal to advance with the army.

"Lord, Yun wants to go home, please agree." When entering the territory of Zhongshan, Zhao Yun said.

"Zilong is there something important to go back?" Zhao Hui said.

Zhao Yun nodded and said, "There are still children in the village who are willing to join the army, and Yun wants to go back to recruit them." ”

Zhao Hui nodded in agreement, Zhao Yun wanted to go to the village to recruit soldiers, which was also a good thing for Zhao Hui.

The army continued to advance, and after Zhao Yun recruited soldiers, he came to make peace with the army.

(End of chapter)