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The spring of February is the beginning of the day, and the spring light pond is a thousand doors.

Luoyang City is full of ruins and broken walls, and it is a mess.

There are only a handful of houses in the huge city that are still intact, and although the towering Zhengyang Palace Gate has not yet collapsed, it has also been burned to pieces, and the black charcoal ash has completely replaced the red paint on the doorpost. If you are not familiar with this place, you will not be able to see that this was once the main gate of the Luoyang Palace.

"Tom tom!"

The sound of chaotic and hurried footsteps broke the silence of the abandoned city, and then hundreds of people dressed in gray linen rushed into the city on foot, straight through the Zhengyang Palace Gate, and then passed through the black and incomplete gateposts like the Zhengyang Palace Gate, and ran towards the palace that was burned down by Yan Zòng, which could still be seen as a huge palace prototype.

"I'm back, I'm finally back in the Eastern Capital!"

"Luoyang, my 、、、 is finally back! Seven years, how many tribulations I have endured, nine deaths and one life, and finally returned to the real imperial capital of my Han Dynasty! ”

On the stone steps in front of the gate of Changle Palace, these sloppy homeless people dressed in gray linen clothes staggered up the stone steps, knelt on their knees, bowed their heads to the dusty and dilapidated gate of Changle Palace, and wept silently about the joy in their hearts and the hardships along the way.

Why did they weep with tears in their eyes, because this is the place where they have been haunted by countless nights, because they love this palace in ruins.

It is where all their dreams and aspirations are placed, and their future and destiny are carried. and even the entire stakes of the entire family's life and death.

In order to realize this dream, they made a desperate gamble and traveled hundreds of miles on foot. Climb mountains and wade through waters, dance with poisonous snakes and beasts, and deal with the rogues who have suffered a thousand knives and cannot die well. After a lot of hardships, they finally returned, to the place where they had been forced to leave, to the sacred place where they once commanded and could rule the world with a snap of their fingers -- Changle Palace.

In this palace, they are recorded in their former glory. Past achievements, former power and glory. Only here can they reclaim their lost souls. Regain your ambition and ambition and truly be yourself.

It's just that they may have forgotten, or they have consciously and selectively forgotten, which is why they are so chaotic today. These are the people who have done the great thing. Half of the blame lies with them. Their so-called achievements and glory are: deceit, intrigue, fame and fortune, framing and framing, and doing everything they can to create chaos, corrode the foundation of the Han Dynasty, and hasten the demise of the entire dynasty.

However, they themselves did not think that the current troubled times were caused by their respected ministers of the Three Dynasties, but instead angrily denounced the national thieves Dong Zhuo and Li Li. If it weren't for these two rebellious ministers and thieves, the world would be troubled. How did the Han Dynasty fall to such a point today. However, they subconsciously ignored how these rebels and thieves grew up step by step. If it weren't for their repeated opportunities, how could the princes of all walks of life grow bigger day by day, and then develop to the point where they are now self-reliant.

Yes, you officials are not mistaken, in the eyes of the old ministers of the Three Dynasties who are more than half a hundred years old, Xiliang Li Li is a more hateful, hateful, shameful, and vicious thief than Dong Zhuo, and his danger is ten times greater than Dong Zhuo's.

The so-called old ministers of the three dynasties are officials who have gone through the three changes of emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bian, the king of Hongnong, and Liu Xie, the current son of heaven. It sounds remarkable, but it's not. At present, as long as the officials in the states and counties of the Han Dynasty have been in office for more than seven years, they can be regarded as veterans of the Three Dynasties, and Li Li just stepped on the line, and he can barely be regarded as an old minister of the Three Dynasties.

Therefore, if you want to add up all the old ministers of the three dynasties, there are at least tens of thousands of officials, and the old ministers of the three dynasties are worthless and are everywhere. But the officials who really had the greatest impact on the current situation were the ministers and eunuchs of Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling, who destroyed the foundation of the Han Dynasty and single-handedly created a hotbed for nourishing the princes and overlords, and were also the main culprits in today's troubled times.

It is worth mentioning that the uprisings of all dynasties have a common feature, that is, the princes or leaders of the rebel army who are the first to commit rebellion often do not die well, and those who fail abound, so that the latecomers can pick up a big bargain and eventually become famous. At present, most of the princes and overlords of all walks of life in the world are listed here, such as Xiliang Li Li, Xuzhou Liu Bei, Jiangdong Sun Ce and others, they are the people who pick peaches, and they are typical representatives; The rest of Jizhou Yuan Shao, Yanzhou Cao Cao, Yangzhou Yuan Shu and Jingzhou Liu Biao, etc., are also considered latecomers.

At this moment, the group of people kneeling on the stone steps in front of the hall are Liu Xiehe and the hundred officials who fled back to Luoyang from Chang'an. And this palace in ruins is the former Changle Palace Palace, that is, the Eastern Capital that haunts them, a city that has been completely reduced to ruins.

The stone steps in front of the main hall were originally paved with jade, and many of them were of high quality, which were very valuable, so many of them were stolen when the palace burned down. After the city was abandoned, all the valuable things in the palace were looted, and even the jade steps and stones in front of the palace gate were taken away and became pitted, and the remaining stone steps were indiscriminately filled with defective products, which were themselves stones.

Therefore, it is not so much that the Luoyang Imperial Palace was burned down, but that it was forcibly demolished by the displaced people, the surrounding people, and the army passing through here. Otherwise, by burning alone, it would definitely not have been burned so completely, and some palaces could not be burned at all, at most the pillars and beams would have been burned, and the general structure should still be there. But at present, this ruined wall is indeed a real ruin, and the entire palace complex has been destroyed, and even the ruins and broken walls are not more than a zhang high. It can be seen how clean this complex that was once the most majestic building complex of the Han Dynasty was demolished, and many places were dug into the ground, and it is difficult to find even a complete tile.

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On the stone steps, Liu Xie and the officials knelt down for a long time, sighing, crying, scolding, and sighing, and had to face the reality.

The huge ruins in front of them were much more dilapidated than the abandoned Taoist temple where they had lived for three days. There is no place in the pitted ruins, and it is better to sit than to stand. And this is the eastern capital that they did everything possible and worked tirelessly to rush back on foot, and it is the palace where their dreams come true. However. When they calmed down and carefully inspected the once high-sounding Changle Palace, they were most of the cold in their hearts, how did Changle Palace become what it is now? Where is the main hall, where is the dragon chair, is this still the eastern capital of Luoyang?

At this moment, Liu Xie and the officials were extremely sad and sad in their hearts. Everyone supported each other and walked on the rubble. With the general location of the main hall in his memory, he staggered forward and sat down in a relatively flat ruin.

"I'm hungry. Eat and drink. Sitting on a relatively smooth wall, Liu Xie looked at the desolate and barren ruins in front of him, his eyes were blank and his expression was confused. However, the stomach is empty. Forcing him to mumble feebly to eat.

This was obviously said to Dong Cheng, because he was responsible for raising dry food and clothing and distributing food along the way. But at this moment, Dong Cheng looked bitter after hearing this, and pieces of broken skin appeared on his chapped lips, and blood was overflowing from the cracks between the broken skins, which made people unbearable to look at.

"Your Majesty is patient for the time being, there is indeed no bread in the burden on Weichen's back. Just now, Wechen had sent people out to look for food. I thought I would be able to eat after a while. Dong Cheng licked his chapped lips and said softly with an embarrassed face.

Liu Xie's face was gloomy when he heard this. was very displeased, but he also knew that what Dong Cheng said was the truth, everyone's baggage had long been empty, only a few changes of clothes were left, and there was not even a piece of bread left.

"I want to drink water, give me the water bag." There was no food to eat, so Liu Xie retreated and turned his head to ask Dong Cheng for water.

"This ??????" Dong Cheng was speechless for a while, took the empty water bag in his hand, and turned upside down to show Liu Xie, but he didn't see a drop of water for a while. Obviously, if there is still water to drink, Dong Cheng's lips will not be dry and chapped like this, and it would be good to take a sip to moisten his throat. It's a pity that from the night before yesterday to now, everyone has already run out of water and food, and everyone is only thinking about running away, thinking about rushing to Luoyang as soon as possible, and they don't have the heart to find water at all. Unexpectedly, after entering Luoyang City, I found that hundreds of wells in the city had all dried up, and even the moat was so dry that I couldn't find a drop of water. Now Liu Xie asked him for water to drink, but the moat had dried up, where could he find water?

Therefore, at present, the group of people is really exhausted, thirsty and hungry, but they still have nothing, so they can only hold on, hoping that the young and strong armorers sent out can find a little food, even if they bring back a little water, they can be sleepy for a while.

"Hey! Could it be that God really wants me and Zhongqing to starve to death in the Eastern Capital? Liu Xie stared at the water bag for a long time, and then took it and shook it, but there was not a drop of water. Then he sat down on the cold and hard wall, sighing and disappointed.

In addition to being lonely, Liu Xie couldn't help but set his eyes on Fu Shou and Dong Guiren who were sitting in the distance. However, the moment he saw the two of them, Liu Xie's eyes naturally revealed an extremely complicated look, resentment, disgust, shame, pity, many complex and contradictory feelings appeared in his eyes, and he seemed to be very displeased with the two daughters, or disgusted that their bodies were not clean.

In the past four months, Liu Xi and his entourage have been on the edge of hell almost every day, living a life that is worse than pigs and dogs, life is worse than death, and it is unspeakably miserable. The day after leaving the Taoist temple in the middle of the mountain, they were robbed by the rogues, and then they were kidnapped by a group of four or five hundred rogues into the cottage, and then they tried every possible way to escape, but unexpectedly escaped from the wolf's den with their front feet, and fell into the tiger's den with their back feet. Hijacked again and again, fleeing again and again, and trying their best to deal with the robbers again and again, the entourage is decreasing day by day, and many soldiers are either killed in battle or fleeing, making the escort force of the group weaker and weaker.

At the same time, the leaders of the rogues and the leaders of the thieves repeatedly bullied the families of the officials, and even Fu Shou and Dong Guiren could not escape the fate of being humiliated. At that time, Liu Xie was in front of him, but he didn't dare to stand up to protect his woman, and he didn't even say a word, watching his queen and concubine being torn off by the robber leader, and then laughed wildly and picked up the second daughter and walked into the inner room?????? Afterwards, the two of them said that the robber leader had not violated their bodies, and that the unbearable voices in the inner chamber were not their doing, but the wanton screams of the leader's woman. But Liu Xie was very disdainful of their explanations, and didn't believe that they were still clean at all, but thought that the second daughter had humiliated him, and tried to quibble to cover it up, which was really shameless.

Since then, Liu Xie didn't even look at them, as if he would insult his true destiny by looking at them, and drove the two of them far away, and didn't let them get close to him again, for fear of defiling the dragon body of the Son of Heaven.

"Dong Cheng, have all the edicts of King Qin been sent, have you missed them, why haven't you seen the princes come to greet you until now?" After taking his eyes off Fu Shou and Dong Guiren, Liu Xie became inexplicably irritable and asked in a deep voice.

When Dong Cheng heard this, he hurriedly confessed: "Your Majesty is angry." King Qin's order has already been sent to all states and counties, and it has been half a month now, presumably the princes are on their way to Luoyang. The closest princes to Luoyang were Yuan Shao of Jizhou and Cao Cao of Yanzhou, and it was expected that they would be able to rush to pick them up later. ”

"Report--" Dong Cheng's voice did not fall, but he saw a small official guarding the city gate running and crawling in front of Liu Xie in the ruins, panting and saying urgently: "Your Majesty, the cavalry 、、、 cavalry are here, and they have arrived at ??????the city gate."

"Ahh The Xiliang Army caught up so quickly? Liu Xie screamed, stood up suddenly, and ran away without waiting for the official who reported the news to finish speaking.

At this time, Dong Cheng grabbed Liu Xie, for fear that he would fall, and angrily reprimanded the little official: "You can see clearly, is it really the Xiliang cavalry?" ”

"No, no, it's not the Xiliang Army, it's the cavalry under Cao Cao of Yanzhou." The little official hurriedly shook his head and said.

"Ahh Liu Xie and Dong Cheng were shocked when they heard this, and then Dong Cheng laughed with surprise on his face: "Just talking about Cao Cao, I didn't expect him to come immediately, it's really God bless my big man, Your Majesty is full of blessings!" Hahaha??????"

"Cao Cao, Cao Mengde?" Liu Xie groaned, frowned slightly, and said suspiciously: "Why is it Cao Cao instead of Yuan Shao in Jizhou, Yecheng is closer to Luoyang than Dongjun, why didn't Yuan Benchu come to greet him?" ”

Dong Cheng's expression changed suddenly when he heard this, his laughter stopped abruptly, and he thought about it and said: "Weichen knows His Majesty's intentions, Yuan Shao IV and the third duke, and the Yuan family has been loyal and good for generations, and they are actually the pillars of the auxiliary country. Maybe he was on his way at the moment, and Cao Cao was just rushing to get there. Your Majesty is not in a hurry, now that the princes have come to greet us, this means that we are safe and completely out of danger! ”

Liu Xie nodded lightly, his tense expression gradually relaxed, and he said happily: "Dong Qing's words are reasonable, I and Zhongqing finally don't have to be afraid, and really get rid of the coercion of Li Thief." Hahaha! ”

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