Zhang Yan immediately opened the secret letter and looked at it carefully, but saw that the letter wrote: "I have heard that the people are great, and the father and son come first; The difference between respect and humility is important to monarchs and ministers. Since I ascended the throne, I have been a traitor and a male, first suffering from Dong Zhuo, and recently Li Dao and Guo Yan have played with each other to power and oppress the monarch's father; Forming up the party and destroying the government; Reward and punishment are not up to me. I have been worrying all night, and I am afraid that the world will be in danger. I heard that Qing was the Marquis of Liuhou, and he was the minister of the community, so he was named the Marquis, hoping that Qing could inherit the ambition of the Marquis, and remember the difficulties of Emperor Gao's entrepreneurship, entangled the martyrs of both loyalty and righteousness, annihilated the traitorous party, and restored the society, the ancestors were very fortunate and the world was very fortunate! Edict Fu Qing, be cautious again and again, don't be disappointed! ”

After reading this secret letter, Zhang Yan breathed a sigh of relief, and then recalled why Dong Cheng always spoke to the point when he met Dong Cheng. The two people who followed Dong Cheng should have been sent to monitor Dong Cheng.

In fact, Zhang Yan still paid some attention to the situation in the Guanzhong area, but because it was too far away from him, and his strong enemies were Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shu, the Shili territory he occupied could not be beaten by Li Dao, Guo Yan and others in the central area, and he never took it seriously.

Anyway, Zhang Yan knows exactly how the rings of history work, so what the situation in Guanzhong is, he has only heard about it, but he has not really cared about it. No matter how chaotic Guanzhong was, he would always send envoys to the court with gifts.

Since Dong Zhuo coerced the emperor of the Han Dynasty to Chang'an, he has been isolated from the Kwantung heroes.

After Dong Zhuo's death, his subordinates Li Dao, Guo Yan, Fan Chou, Zhang Ji and others led their troops to fight back, drove away Lü Bu, and broke through Chang'an. Kill Wang Yun.

Afterwards. The Son of Heaven is under duress. Feng Li Qicha Cavalry General, Kaifu, Lingsi Lixiao Lieutenant, False Festival, Chiyang Marquis; Guo Yan is the later general and the Marquis of Meiyang; Fan Chou is the right general, the marquis of ten thousand years; Zhang Ji was named the general of Zhendong and the marquis of Pingyang.

However, Zhang Ji did not stay in Chang'an, but led the troops and horses of his headquarters and went out to station in Hongnong. Therefore, the government was controlled by Li Dao, Guo Yan, and Fan Chou.

Since Li Dao, Guo Yan, and Fan Chou took control of the government, the heroes of the Kwantung region have been busy expanding their territory, and no one pays attention to the Son of Heaven in Chang'an City, and they don't recognize the court controlled by Li Dao, Guo Yan, Fan Chou and others.

So. Zhang Yan, as always, sent envoys with gifts to the audience, which was equivalent to taking the initiative to recognize the imperial court controlled by Li Dao, Guo Yan, and Fan Chou. Therefore, Li Dao, Guo Yan, Fan Chou and others encouraged the Son of Heaven to give Zhang Yan a big reward.

In March of this year, Ma Teng and Han Sui joined forces with the Guanzhong priests and doctors to attack Li Dao, and Li Dao sent Guo Yan, Fan Chou, and his nephew Li Li to fight with Ma Teng and Han Sui under the Changping Guan. Ma Teng and Han Sui were defeated, losing more than 10,000 people, and had to retreat to Liangzhou.

However, this year is another year of great drought, and not only the Central Plains have suffered a serious drought, but even the drought in Guanzhong is also very serious. The people did not harvest, which directly led to the great famine in Guanzhong. Li Dao and others were not enough food for the army. Embezzled the money that the Son of Heaven was supposed to use for disaster relief. Then Li, Guo, and Fan allowed the army to plunder the people because the army was still short of food. As a result of a more serious famine, tens of thousands of people in Guanzhong fled to starve to death and moved south to the territories of Liu Biao, Liu Yan, Zhang Lu and others, resulting in a situation where Guanzhong had ten rooms and nine emptiness.

However, Li Dao, Guo Yan, and Fan Chou also gradually began to compete for power and profit, and the three of them arranged their cronies in the court and China at will, and the contradictions became more and more intense.

With the severity of the famine, Fan Chou prepared to lead his troops out of Chang'an and eat in the Luoyang area, but he was worried that he would be attacked by the Kwantung heroes, so when he left, he asked Li Wei for more soldiers.

Li Wei was afraid that Fan Chou was brave and good at fighting and was very popular with the army, coupled with the intensification of contradictions, he was always afraid that Fan Chou would outnumber him and would turn to attack him.

So Li Wei set up a Hongmen banquet and invited Fan Chou to the banquet, at which Li Wei let his nephew stab Fan Chou to death and annexed Fan Chou's army.

After that, although Guo Yan was more friendly with Li Dao, he was worried that Li Dao was plotting against him, and he was even more suspicious of Li Dao.

Li Dao and Guo Yan are playing with power, and the Son of Heaven, who has grown up, is worried when he sees that the country and society are about to be corrupted in the hands of people like Li Dao and Guo Yan.

Therefore, the Son of Heaven secretly cultivated his cronies, looking for powerful heroes everywhere, and wanted to borrow external forces to relieve him from his current predicament.

As a result, Dong Cheng, who was a servant at the time and the father-in-law of the Son of Heaven, gradually became a close confidant of the Son of Heaven. Dong Cheng is the nephew of Emperor Ling's mother, Empress Dowager Dong, and he is also related to today's son.

Dong Cheng was also a subordinate of Dong Zhuo at first, and later followed Li Dao and Guo Yan to counterattack Chang'an, and was appointed as a servant. But when he saw the great power of Li Dao, Guo Yan and others, he was jealous, so he wanted to talk about Li Dao, Guo Yan and others to be overthrown. It just so happened that his daughter was a noble person of the Son of Heaven, and by chance, Dong Cheng hit it off with the Son of Heaven and began to help the current Son of Heaven find a candidate.

Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Cao Cao, Liu Biao, Gongsun Zhan, Zhang Lu, Liu Yan, Ma Teng, Lu Bu and others were all candidates for the Son of Heaven and Dong Cheng, but they have never had the opportunity to contact.

And Zhang Yan's rapid rise made the Son of Heaven and Dong Cheng see a glimmer of life, and it happened that Tao Qian and Zhang Yan sent envoys to meet the Son of Heaven one after another, so that Li Dao and Guo Yan also felt very faced, and Dong Cheng had the opportunity to come to Xuzhou with the holy decree.

The Son of Heaven saw the opportunity, so he secretly wrote a secret letter, asked the queen to sew it in the brocade robe, gave it to Zhang Yan as a gift, and secretly sent Dong Cheng to ask him to give Zhang Yan a hint.

Obviously, Dong Cheng's mission was completed very well, and Zhang Yan saw the secret letter that the Son of Heaven wanted him to see.

However, after reading this secret letter, Zhang Yan was indifferent.

For him, coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes must be the way to go.

But as things stand, the time is not yet ripe.

In Zhang Yan's view, the annual rings of history will continue to turn forward until the time he is waiting for, and then he can lead his troops westward and bring the wandering Son of Heaven to his Shili territory.

At this moment, Li Dao and Guo Yan have not turned against each other, and it is impossible for him to do his best to capture Chang'an for the sake of the Son of Heaven.

However, Zhang Yan still wrote a reply letter to the Son of Heaven, which roughly means that he has understood the meaning of the Son of Heaven, but he needs to rectify the soldiers and horses, and can only let the Son of Heaven suffer a little more in Chang'an, and next year, he will definitely personally lead the army and bring the Son of Heaven to Pengcheng!

After the letter was written, how to dedicate it to the Son of Heaven today became a difficult problem.

So, Zhang Yan pondered for a while, and decided to choose a woman to send to the current Son of Heaven, hide the secret letter on the woman's body, and then the woman will pass the letter to the current Son of Heaven.

When deciding to send a woman, Zhang Yan deliberately selected a woman who was extremely ugly, and sent someone to Chang'an to dedicate it to the current Son of Heaven.

The reason why Zhang Yan chose to send ugly girls instead of beautiful women. is because beautiful women are men's favorites, Li Dao and Guo Yan are both men, and men are all womanizers, if they see beautiful women, they may take possession of them. If it was an ugly girl, then Li Dao and Guo Yan would not be interested in it, and at the same time, it could also attract the attention of the Son of Heaven, so that he could notice the abnormality of things, so as to receive his letter smoothly.

Things are said to be done, and there is no time to delay, but in the selection of people, Zhang Yan is very cautious. This person needs to be both reliable and alert.

After a day of observation, Zhang Yan finally targeted his wife Mizhen's wet nurse.

Zhang Yan called the nurse to his side alone, and then said that he would send the nurse to the palace to be a nurse for the current Son of Heaven.

The nurse was suspicious, so Zhang Yan took out the holy decree to testify, and the nurse believed it, so she happily agreed to Zhang Yan.

After that, Zhang Yan secretly stuffed a brocade robe to the nurse, and told the nurse that this brocade robe was dedicated to the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven must try it on to see if it fits.

The nurse received the order, and Zhang Yan sent someone to send the nurse to Chang'an. ”

So, the nurse went on the road, taking Zhang Yan's mission and heading towards Chang'an...... (To be continued......)