Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Long Journey
Looking north from the top of Huashan Mountain, if someone can really look north in the warm and cold season of early spring, from Chang'an City to the winding Huayin, cross Tongguan to Hongnong, the winding chariots and soldiers and horses along the way between the mighty scenery, will be extremely spectacular.
But if you are in it, you will know that even if all the dignitaries in the world are here, they are just mortals.
Sima Lang sat in the bumpy car, looking at the layers of heads on the official road full of smoke and dust with slightly dim eyes, and a voice kept telling him in his heart that everything was finally over, finally over.
Since Dong Zhuo moved the capital to Chang'an, he was forced to disperse his clan, and at that time he felt that it was a nightmare. Later, Dong Zhuo conspired with LĂź Bu to stab Wang Yun to death, and at that time he exchanged praise like many court officials, but it didn't take long for them to discover that it was just the beginning of another nightmare.
When the inherent hierarchy of power was broken, and when the officials of the 2,000-stone court did not have the slightest deterrence against the Liangzhou soldiers who rode strong horses and carried swords on their waists, they changed from rulers who gave orders to weak people who needed to be protected...... And Lu Bu, who is praised by the world for his bravery, is not enough to protect them.
Wang Yun fell from the city, Lu Bu was defeated and walked away from the east gate, and the Manchu civil and military were thrown to the fierce and vulgar Li Dao Guo Yan like lambs to be slaughtered, and it seemed that all that awaited them was to be eaten alive.
The Chang'an court is like a joke!
When he was in Luoyang, hundreds of officials were still able to govern the world with ease, but Chang'an became famine, could it be that these world's talents could only govern the world in Luoyang? Of course not, it's not that the hundred officials of the imperial court are incapable, but no matter how capable the officials are, they can't compare to the Liangzhou soldiers and don't let anyone take care of anything.
When the famine appeared, Zhong Xuan, the squire of the Yellow Gate, suggested that the emperor open a warehouse for disaster relief, okay, everyone opened a warehouse to help the people. Before the food that could be given to the people was sent out of Chang'an City, it was looted by the Liangzhou soldiers. Therefore, the chaos outside the city became more and more serious, but the princes of Liangzhou did not care about the crimes committed by their subordinates, and riveted their strength to fight with Ma Teng Hansui, who also belonged to Liangzhou.
After beating away Ma Teng Han Sui, he thought that he could stop for a while, and the hundred officials of the imperial court continued to come up with advice to reverse the situation in Chang'an. At this time, the famine had spread to Chang'an City, to the extent that it was no longer possible to ignore it, but the grain and grass that the hundred officials managed to raise was consumed by Li Dao and Guo Yan in the internal strife with Fan Chou.
This is good, even the clan children of the imperial court Jiuqing may starve to death in Chang'an City.
The officials of the court had no choice but to ask for help from the surrounding princes, hoping that they could pay tribute to grain and grass and pay taxes, but what could they come up with? Even they who don't have the slightest prestige over Li Dao and Guo Yan, can they still remotely control those remote princes?
Those people steal the emperor's life and take the painting as the king, and kill them in the sea of corpses and bones, even if they face Li Dao and Guo Yan, no one will be willing to bow their heads, let alone the court without the slightest prestige.
This time, Li Guo didn't stop it...... They can't help it, not to mention that the people of Chang'an have no food, and even their army is about to run out of food. The positions of the permanent liquidators in various places have been emptied, but the fields are barren and nothing can grow at all, and the famine has spread to the army, and no one can stop it.
Rebels are always much more terrible than mobs, but the princes of Liangzhou have no choice, their hometown is the territory of Ma Teng Han Sui, they can't go back, and there is no way to retreat.
When the wealthy Sanfu was eaten empty, the only choice they had was to go east and return to their hometown Luoyang.
Although they had a fierce and fierce army and all the officials in the entire imperial capital of the world, their essence was no different from that of the exiles...... They are the same, they just eat in the wild.
Sima Fang's eyes were full of bitterness, who would have thought that the dignitaries and nobles in the past, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, would flock to Luoyang like a wanderer? No, it wasn't their purpose to flock to Luoyang, their purpose was for General Yan Zhongqing's 500,000 stone of grain and grass that could live!
Li Dao also dreamed of going to Luoyang to take charge of the government, drove more than 100,000 people in Chang'an, and moved to Luoyang. They all know that there is no one in Luoyang, so let Luoyang have people. The Liangzhou army that lost Dong Zhuo is no longer the strong army that can show off the world in the past, and they who have lost their samurai ethics are no different from the bandits who are wandering around the country, they are thieves who need to rob to continue their lives, so Luoyang can't do without people.
Sima Fang had sent a message to Wen County, but did not get the news of his son, until the decision to move eastward was made, in Chang'an seemed to be Li Dao's subordinates, but it was actually the general Jiao Touch under the northern part of Yan that he found him, for his son, Sima Lang, who was already the Taishou of Liaodong, sent a message to him, informing him of the good news that the clan had lived in Liaodong.
Preconceived ideas and a long distance, so that the minister of Chang'an did not know much about Yanbei in Youzhou, but he knew that he killed Gongsun Zhan, who was dominant in the north for a while, and seemed to have fought a few battles with Yuan Shao, the third prince of the fourth world, and the other things, the minister of Chang'an probably didn't know.
The only thing they know is that Yanbei is very rich in the north, and he can take out 500,000 stone grains and grass to pay tribute to the imperial court, and this person should still have some loyalty.
However, Sima Fang is obviously not like others, reading between the lines of the letters sent by his eldest son Yao, so that he has more understanding of Yanbei and his power. It's just that no matter how much he knows, he can't fully understand what the two states of Youji are like today.
Passing through Hongnong, the imperial court car stopped for many days, and Duan Xuan of Huayin, who had been stationed in the rear, led the troops to escort along the way, although Li Wei Guo Yan was unwilling, but it was not easy to stop it, and the soldiers and horses from all walks of life were stationed in each other's places, and the march was even slower, and the long winter was passed in a blink of an eye.
After passing Hongnong, at the request of Li Dao, the queue marched even more slowly, and even sent cavalry to Hanoi, asking Yanbei to take out 100,000 stone of grain and grass first, otherwise he would not continue to march eastward.
No matter how sluggish Li Wei was, he could feel that as they went farther and farther east, his ability to control all the imperial court was slowly eroding. It scared him in his heart...... Although the princes of all walks of life have different understandings, they can always see their own shadows in others. What Li Wei looked at the most was such a submissive Baiguan and Liangzhou warlord, and deeply knew that they were no different in nature.
Hundreds of officials and ministers lost their prestige in ruling the world, and in the blink of an eye, they became weak and bullied; Dong Gong, who used to be in charge of the world, was so feared, and when Lu Bu's halberd stabbed out, all this collapsed.
So if he loses his authority, what awaits him?
He changed his mind and was unwilling to support the eastward move anymore, and ordered Yanbei to donate grain and grass to the imperial court now...... If Yanbei doesn't give it, he will let the imperial court issue an edict to let the princes everywhere crusade against Yanbei; If Yanbei handed over the grain and grass, he would take the grain and grass with him and let his subordinates hijack the emperor all the way to the west!
What moved the capital to Luoyang, go to your mother's!