Chapter 6 Completed in the middle of the night on the thirtieth day of the day, in the prison of the Tingwei Mansion. The sound of horses' hooves and the running shouts of the guards suddenly resounded through the night.

Bands of soldiers rushed into the cell, holding torches aloft and guarding the doors of each cell. The people in the cell woke up, and everyone sat on the ground with a restless expression, waiting for the last moment to come.

Da Situ Zhao Qi, Da Sikong Liu He, Taichang Xun You, Guanglu Xun Xian Yufu, and Wei Wei Xu Rong walked into the prison one after another, and walked quickly along the long road.

The crowd stopped in front of Zhang Wen's cell. Zhang Wen slowly opened his eyes, lifted his upper body in pain, and looked at Zhao Qi with difficulty,

"The time has come?"

"My lord, the general is back." Zhao Qi had tears in his eyes and said excitedly,

"The Great General is back." Zhang Wen hesitated for a moment, a smile gradually appeared on his face, and then he let out a long sigh of relief and fell to the ground heavily.

"Oh my God...... He's finally back......" Xu Rong walked to Lu Bu's cell. Lu Bu sat close to the wall, raised his head and smiled bitterly,

"My lord, take care of Xiaoyue for me, and I will repay you in the next life." Xu Rong smiled,

"The Great General is back, and it's all over." Lu Bu's eyes widened suddenly, the tiger body jumped up, and asked in a loud voice, "Really?" The Great General is back? Xu Rong nodded,

"He's gone to ask for a holy decree." Lu Bu was ecstatic, suddenly grabbed his head, fell to his knees, and whimpered in a low voice.

The news of the general's return quickly spread to all corners of the prison, and the people were panicked and anxiously awaited the choice of fate.

Is the general going to kill them, or is he going to save them? Chun Yujia, Zhang Xi, Zhong Xuan, Jia Xu, Zhang Xiu and other former ministers of Chang'an were locked up in the deepest part of the prison, and when they heard that the general had returned, the last glimmer of hope for survival in their hearts was suddenly completely shattered.

Even if the general advised the eldest princess to pardon the falsely accused ministers, he would not pardon them. This is the best chance to eradicate the forces of the Son of Heaven.

Unless the general is insane, he will never do such an unthinkable thing. The knife has already been cut on the head of the old minister of Chang'an, and it will not be taken back.

In the early morning, the general Li Hong rushed to Longquan on horseback. Zhang Yan greeted him outside the gate. Li Hongfei dismounted and hugged Zhang Yan tightly,

"Thank you, brother." Zhang Yan smiled bitterly,

"I did my best, General, what happened in Jinyang, I can't stop it." Li Hong patted him on the shoulder, smiled and comforted: "I know, I don't blame anyone. This will happen sooner or later, and it is better to happen sooner rather than later. ”

"You're going to kill them?" Zhang Yan asked while accompanying Li Hong into the camp.

"What do you say?" Zhang Yan hesitated for a long time,

"Kill."

"The matter of the Son of Heaven has happened, whether it is a natural disaster or **, it has already happened, and it is irreversible." Zhang Yan lowered her voice and said,

The result is obvious, the general may be charged with killing the king, and Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, and Liu Biao may take the opportunity to attack Hebei. Judging from the current situation in Hebei, it is difficult for us to support a protracted war, and once a rebellion breaks out in Jinyang at the critical juncture of the war, Hebei will inevitably collapse instantly under the attack of internal and external troubles. Li Hong was silent and strode forward.

Zhang Yan grabbed him,

"General, you are now Dong Zhuo's second, if you don't kill it, the things in Guanzhong and Chang'an will definitely reappear in Hebei and Jinyang one by one. General ......" Li Hong stopped, turned to look at Zhang Yan, and then raised his hand and pointed to his chest,

"Did I commit the murder of the king and usurpation?" Zhang Yan shook her head.

"Since I didn't do it, why should I admit that I killed the king?"

"General, the question is not whether you admit it or not, but what the rebels in various states and counties think about this. They say that if you have done the murder of the king, then you are a rebel of the Han Dynasty. Zhang Yan eagerly persuaded,

"Liu Biao, Liu Bei, these royal relatives will jump out to crusade against you first, this time don't Yuan Shao bother, they will take the initiative to join forces and kill Hebei with great momentum. What options do you have in today's situation? ”

"I have a choice." Li Hong said confidently,

"Facts are facts, if I didn't kill the king, I didn't kill the king, I don't need to care about Yuan Shao's rebellious accusations. It's like those who are locked up in the prison of the Imperial Palace, they can't pay for what they didn't do. I'm going to let them go. ”

"General......" Zhang Yan looked at him in surprise,

"General, this risk is not worth taking."

"It's not a question of whether to take a risk or not, it's a question of the dignity of the law of the Han Dynasty." Li Hong pointed at Zhang Yan, and then pointed at himself,

"If the law of the Han Dynasty is not even the most basic right and wrong, the most basic justice, if we, the ministers, can wantonly trample on and humiliate our own laws, how can we still promote the Han Dynasty? What qualifications do we still have? Why should we command others to fight for the Zhongxing Han? Li Hong turned around and walked quickly.

Zhang Yan stood still and didn't move, he shook his head helplessly,

"General, how do you assume that they are not rebelling?" Li Hong looked back and smiled: "Brother Feiyan, why do you think that they must rebel?" Zhang Yan stomped her foot hatefully, raised her head and sighed.

Li Hong suddenly stopped. He saw a light rain through the flickering torches. Li Hongfei rushed over and hugged Xiaoyu.

The guards stopped where they were and lowered their torches. The darkness immediately obscured everything.

"You know I'm coming back today?"

"Your Highness said that you will definitely come back tonight." Xiaoyu hugged Li Hong's neck hard and cried with joy.

"Are the kids alright?" Xiaoyu buried her head in Li Hong's long hair and nodded gently,

"Where's Xiaoxue?" Li Hong's heartstrings trembled, and he said in a dumb voice: "I left her in the desert." There are still many things going on in the desert......" Xiaoyu's body shook slightly, Li Hong knew her thoughts, and hurriedly changed his words,

"I'll pick her up in the spring, otherwise the kids won't know her." Xiaoyu quietly snuggled in Li Hong's arms, sighing faintly,

"I ...... I did something wrong...... The chief prince of Yang'an hanged himself, and Mrs. Lu also came to cry and beg, many ministers were arrested and put in prison, I was afraid, I went to beg His Royal Highness to spare them, I did something wrong......" Li Hong closed his eyes, took a deep breath of the fragrance on Xiaoyu's long hair, and said in a low voice: "Just this once, just this once." Xiaoyu's tears rolled, hugging Li Hong tighter, eager to melt into his body.

Li Hong reached out and patted her on the back.

"It's too cold, go back to the military tent. I'm going to meet the eldest princess. "Light rain is tame

"Hmm" and let go of Li Hong,

"I'll wait for you."

"Don't wait for me. I will return to Jinyang as soon as I reach the forgiveness decree. ”

"You're not going to kill them?" Xiaoyu raised her head sharply and asked in surprise.

"Did I say I'm going to kill them?" Li Hong lowered his head with a smile and kissed Xiaoyu gently on the face.

"Go back quickly."

"I'll tell the eldest princess of Yang'an." Xiaoyu turned around and ran towards the military tent, ran two steps, she suddenly remembered something, and fell into Li Hong's arms again,

"Your Highness has been grieved recently because of the Son of Heaven, you have to comfort her well, don't provoke her anymore." Li Hong agreed with a smile.

The eldest princess had messy hair, a pale complexion, dark circles under her eyes, and blank eyes. The chin was also pointed, and the whole person lost weight, very sad and helpless.

She kept her head down, sitting behind the desk like a clay sculpture, and let Li Hong keep persuading without any response.

"Your Highness, aren't so many reasons enough? What kind of reasons would make you pardon them? Li Hong really had no choice, so he had to say weakly,

"Once Your Majesty is dead, the minister will go south to Jizhou, ready to stop the rebellious siege. The minister didn't have much time to stay in Jinyang. Jinyang is unstable, how can the minister stop the rebel attack on the Yellow River with peace of mind? Your Highness, please pardon them for the sake of the first emperor, for the sake of these ministers who are bent on following His Highness's Zhongxing Dahan Sheji. ”

"Why do you always have to go? Why can't you stay in Jinyang for a while? The eldest princess suddenly raised her head and asked loudly,

"You want to leave Jinyang, you can leave at any time, don't tell me."

"Your Highness......" Li Hong's face sank, and his tone suddenly became stern,

"The situation in Jinyang is in danger, if it is not saved in time, it is not Hebei that will be damaged, but Dahan Sheji. What is the reason why the minister is in a hurry to go to Jizhou, doesn't His Highness know? ”

"The situation in Jinyang is in danger?" The eldest princess glared at Li Hong, her cherry lips kept trembling, and tears rolled out in an instant,

"You blame me, why do you blame me? It was you who put me in charge of state affairs, it was you who left me alone in Jinyang, it was you, it was all you, and it was all caused by you. Li Hong was angry, and he opened his mouth to fight back, but when he saw the eldest princess's complaining eyes and emaciated body, a deep sense of guilt suddenly welled up in his heart.

All this, in the final analysis, is indeed their own responsibility.

"Your Highness, the minister is willing to bear all the responsibility, all the guilt, Your Highness can even kill the minister, but Your Highness will listen to the minister's words no matter what, and immediately pardon those ministers." Li Hong knelt down and begged again.

"You let me kill you......" The eldest princess pointed at Li Hong, grief-stricken,

"Can I kill you? Can I kill you? It's all because of you, it's all because of you...... You want me to kill you now......" The eldest princess stood up suddenly, and ran to the back tent as she hid her face and wept bitterly.

The eldest princess's heart-rending cry pierced Li Hong's heart like a sharp blade. Li Hong trembled, it was no longer possible to control his emotions, he turned over and climbed up, rushed up in three or two steps, and grabbed the eldest princess's arm,

"Your Highness......" The eldest princess struggled to leave.

"Your Highness, this is impossible, it is simply impossible." Li Hong said sharply,

"Now, it's even more impossible." The eldest princess stopped, turned to look at him suddenly, and cried like a tearful person,

"It's all you, it can't be all caused by you." Li Hong closed his eyes and was speechless.

"I didn't mean it, I really didn't mean to, I'm afraid they'll kill you, I'm afraid that after they kill you, I'll never see you again." The eldest princess hoarsely cried loudly,

"I just want to see you every day......" Tears suddenly welled up in Li Hong's eyes,

"Your Royal Highness, why are you doing this......" Li Hong pulled the eldest princess into his arms and hugged him tightly,

"I don't blame you, it's all my fault, it's all my fault."

"I don't want your gifts, I just want to see you." The eldest princess hugged Li Hong and cried,

"Why didn't you come to see me when you went to the desert? Why? ”

"You don't want me, Xiao Donghou forces me to marry every day, what do you want me to do? Xiao Donghou is going to die, I'm alone, what am I still alive for? ”

"Your Highness, don't blame yourself too much, Your Majesty's matter is an accident and a providence." Li Hong lifted the eldest princess's face from his arms, stared at her eyes and said lovingly,

"If Your Majesty is gone, the great cause of Zhongxing will be supported by you alone, if anything happens to you again, what will happen to Dahan Sheji? What about the millions of homeless people? Don't want it all? ”

"Little Donghou was killed by me, I killed ......" The eldest princess kept crying, crying loudly, as if she wanted to cry out all the grievances and pain of the year.

Li Hong kept consoling. The eldest princess was tired of crying, and curled up in Li Hong's arms and fell asleep. Li Hong hugged the eldest princess and sat on the desk until dawn.

The right generals Zhang Yan and Changshi Liu stood outside the big tent until dawn. Liu Fang looked at the morning glow in the sky, and suddenly asked in a low voice, "Is it possible?" Zhang Yan was silent for a long time,

"Do you see the rising sun? Although we can't see it yet, the morning sun is just below the mountain, and if we are patient enough, we can see the sunrise. "Jinyang City had an anxious night.

Zhao Qi, Liu He and other ministers walked around the Tingwei Mansion, and the more they waited, the less confident they became. Zhang Wen, Lu Bu and others sat in the cold cell, their mood as cold and lonely as this early winter morning.

Chun Yujia, Zhong Xuan and others wandered around in the cell, and the longer they waited for death, the more frightened they became.

The horse galloped back, and the result was the same. There was no news from the Longquan camp, and the messenger was blocked from the gate.

"Can the Great General do it?" Liu He looked up at the sky, as if he was talking to himself, and as if he was asking Zhao Qi.

Zhao Qi turned a deaf ear, lowered his head, and lingered. Li Hong was so tired that he fell asleep in a daze.

The footsteps of the guards on patrol outside the tent woke Li Hong. The jade man in his arms also woke up, sleepy-eyed, his face was flushed, and he looked very moving.

Li Hong smiled slightly,

"Are you feeling better?" The eldest princess's face was embarrassed, her hands hugged Li Hong's waist hard, and her delicate body curled up even more.

"Your Highness, do you remember when you arrived at the camp in the clouds eight years ago?" Li Hong said in a low voice,

"It was also winter, and your hands and face were red from the cold, and you often cried because you missed the emperor, and sometimes you had nightmares at night. It was a difficult time for us, but we gritted our teeth and survived. We are in much better condition now than then, and I believe that no matter how difficult it is, we will be able to overcome it. ”

"I'll get through it." The eldest princess nodded slightly in Li Hong's cup,

"But you have to promise me one thing." Li Hong hesitated for a moment, there were some things that he couldn't agree to casually.

"You are a great general, but you are pitifully small." The eldest princess looked up at him and said very solemnly,

"It's a small thing, but you must promise me." Li Hong said cautiously: "Your Highness will talk about it first. ”

"You and I moved to Jinyang City together." The eldest princess reached out and touched Li Hong's long hair, and whispered,

"You wear your hair because of your oath, but you can't wear it because of your oath and not in the barracks. I'm alone, and I don't ask for anything but to see you often. At noon, Li Hong and Zhang Yan accompanied the eldest princess's car into Jinyang City and went straight to Tingwei's mansion.

Zhao Qi, Liu He and other ministers had already received the news in advance, escorted all the criminals to the square outside the prison, and piled up all the documents of the Jinyang rebellion case in the center of the square.

In people's expectations, the eldest princess finally appeared. The eldest princess was dressed in a white robe, with a long sword hanging from her waist, and with her peerless appearance, she looked noble and heroic.

All the ministers bowed together. Liu Fang read out the holy decree, and the court believed that the case of Jinyang's rebellion had been investigated, and the rebellion involved had been punished.

Ministers such as Zhang Wen, the former Grand Situ, and Yang Biao, the former Grand Sikong, have been dismissed, no longer held accountable, and each went home.

More than 70 officials, including Zhang Miao, the court captain, the Shaofu Linghu Shao, the Dahonglu Guo Yun, and the Sili school captain Lu Bu, were reinstated.

In the original imperial history, Cheng Zhong Xuan, Shang Shufu Jia Xu and others temporarily went home to recuperate, waiting for the appointment of the imperial court. The rest of the persons involved in the case will be pardoned.

The ministers were grateful and knelt down to thank God. Then the eldest princess stood up and reprimanded the ministers.

The reason why the trial of the Jinyang rebellion case is out of control and why the ministers of the court are so widely implicated is not because of the imperial court, nor in the eldest princess's mansion, but because of yourselves.

From the beginning of Fu De's framing of Lü Bu, the ministers of the DPRK and China took advantage of the contradictions between each other and used Jinyang to plot a rebellion to frame and attack each other, including some military generals of the DPRK and China.

It is precisely because of your ministers' bad intentions, greed for power, and fear that the world will not be chaotic that the crisis in Jinyang continues to intensify.

"Today, I burn your confession, and I hope that with this fire, your enmity will be erased." The eldest princess looked around at the ministers, slowly pulled out her long sword, and cut off the case in front of her with a sword.

"If I find out in the future that any minister is taking advantage of this matter to deliberately attack and retaliate against the other party, I will settle the old account and the new account, kill him and kill his nine clans, and I will not tolerate it." The general Li Hong personally lit the scroll in the center of the square.

The fire was raging, the ministers let out a long breath, and the bloody wind in Jinyang finally stopped the day after the return of the great general.

December of the first year of Jian'an of the Great Han Kingdom (19 AD). On the second day of December, the Son of Heaven collapsed. Jump to