"It's snowing, I didn't expect the year to pass so quickly."

The weather seems to be getting colder and colder every year, although the weather fluctuations in previous years are also very drastic, and there is a lot of snow in winter, but the snow days are generally after the winter festival, at most only a day and a half in advance.

But now, there are nearly seven days left before the Winter Festival, and the sky has begun to sprinkle a little bit of crystal.

Of course, if it is in the history books, today's snowfall will be a little earlier, after all, the previous Chang'an offensive and defensive battle was a blizzard from the sky, even if it was "Heaven saw the Xiliang Army rain down heavenly punishment for the sake of disaster in the world", but it is also the first snow of the new round of four seasons.

However, those who know know what is going on, and even the Xuanwu Imperial Sister, who is the person concerned, also admits that it is the full version of the divine art. The power of Xuanwu, it's just that a certain Lori played too high, and the result was out of strength, otherwise the effect would be better.

Well, yes, it took Chang'an soldiers and civilians more than two days just to clean up the "incomplete version" of the heavy snow, and if a certain royal sister let go of the play, it is estimated that the snow is enough for Chang'an to get a new nickname of "Frost Fortress".

Or simply use ice and snow to build a satellite fortress of considerable size outside Chang'an City.

"Time is so wonderful, sometimes you want to make her pass quickly, but she's so slow that it makes you upset. But sometimes you wish she could slow down a little and wait for you, but eventually you find that you are getting farther and farther away from her. ”

Su Xiaololi also responded with a little sadness. Her love for the past few days doesn't seem to be too high, not only is she not in the mood to tune that little kid like Dead Ant and Tuoba Liwei. Even the thought of cooking has faded a lot, and he is either sitting around the stove all day quietly looking at the "ghost drawing talisman" that Li Shushi can't understand at all, or just lying on top of a guqin with his face sideways, occasionally plucking the strings a few times, and emitting a string of notes that are not very harmonious.

What is this lazy Lori thinking, Li Shushi knows that his IQ is not enough, and his EQ is not high, and the most important thing is that his love quotient is estimated to be even lower, so he can't guess what an over-aged legitimate Lori thinks at this time.

Perhaps, as the latecomer Li Shangyin children's shoes said. "Jin Se gratuitously fifty strings. One string and one pillar Sihua Nian, Zhuang Zhouxiao dreamed of butterflies...... "Maybe what distant memories did she evoke in this Chang'an City?"

Or is it simply because there are too many men here, and this Lori, who only opened the Lily Palace, is bored because she doesn't have Ji Friends by her side?

That's a sad story.

"Stupid!"

"Uh, what are you talking about?"

"I mean, somebody is a big idiot!"

Because Su Xiaololi is right. Li Shushi felt that he was speechless.

"That's right. Qing'er, when are they coming? And little Negne, I haven't seen her for a long time, and I don't know if I can pronounce a few syllables now. Or maybe there's another way to communicate, sign language or something, it's too hard to learn. ”

This year's Winter Festival will not be able to return to the state to celebrate, and even a large number of family members will need to be sent to Chang'an.

Because the focus of the work of the next state army will be on the restoration of the Guanzhong region, the importance of this matter is even higher than that of Luoyang, which is the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the center of the world, and Yin, Henan, where it is located.

Compared with the complicated situation of the Central Plains, the Guanzhong region will not be inferior to the Central Plains in terms of folk customs and development potential, and even in some places, it is still victorious, and this is the place where a dynasty can really be created.

Well, because he won the entire Xiliang including Guanzhong, Li Shushi's inner ambition seems to be irrepressibly inflated, because he has not only seen the strength of the Qin and Han dynasties from the history books, but also heard the greatness of the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the center of that glorious era is undoubtedly the land under his feet.

Chang'an may be a little too far away from the Central Plains or even the south of the Yangtze River, but it is closer to the Western Regions and closer to the world.

This may not be the center of the Han Dynasty, but it can be the center of China - not the narrow sense of the central country represented by this era, but the Chinese empire from his time, that is the goal of his efforts, and only beyond that goal, maybe he can be qualified to hold his chest up when he encounters other time-travelers underground or in the interdimensional space.

We haven't lost the face of the majority of traversers - although if you think about it carefully, you will still be a little weak.

Okay, let's get down to business.

Although there are still some corners and corners in the Guanzhong area, it can also be regarded as basically in the bag, probably because the Xiliang Army was a little ruthless here, and the heroes here are unexpectedly cooperative, even if there are some spontaneous Tuntian guests, they are also exceptionally friendly to the Bingzhou Army, and by the way, Li Shushi's medical school has recruited a large number of new students.

Well, those people are definitely here for a certain sacred Lori, referred to as Shenluo.

After that, there was a lot of work to pacify and deal with the aftermath, but Li Shushi didn't seem to be satisfied, and wanted to make his bureaucrats more busy, even the rest time after the winter festival, and the power oppressed them.

Because, Li Shushi proposed a proposal that surprised everyone - to split the original Liangzhou and Sili regions, so that the originally large state with a huge area of management became a small state that was relatively easy to control. As for the template for reference, it is naturally the same huge area but now it is divided into two states.

Speaking of this matter, it is simple and simple, complicated and complicated, simple because it is just to break up the original Liangzhou and Sili, and then recombine it into three or four new states, and even the names of two or three states do not need to be thought about - Yongzhou was set up in the south of Sanfu and Liangzhou in the Qin Dynasty, and Yongzhou was once set up in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Li Guo also wanted to turn the three counties controlled by Li Shushi into Yongzhou when he was in chaos, so he couldn't see it and not be bothered.

But when it comes to complexity, it's really not ordinary complex. Because only the administrative units at the national level can do this kind of thing with the right to do this, Li Shushi thought that it was really arrogant enough for an official at the level of a provincial governor to want to do this kind of thing.

And because of this incident, it has led to a new problem, which is also an extremely troublesome problem.

Where did the emperor go?

This is indeed a question that makes Li Shushi feel crying, laughing and helpless.

Because this is not his own willingness, but just like Lu Zhi, Huangfu Song, and Zhu Jun before, the person who cheated him this time was Li Ru and Li Wenyou, and he had nothing to do with Li Ru. Can you still say in front of the other party, "I'm much stronger than Dong Zhuo." So I will definitely be able to defend the emperor" Yunyun? In other words, even he himself doesn't quite believe it, although the times don't seem to be quite the same as when Dong Zhuo came to power, but with the speed at which politicians turn their faces, he really doesn't dare to completely guarantee it.

And it is unknown whether he has the confidence to raise a butcher's knife to insiders like Dong Zhuo. After all, it was easy for him to achieve a relatively stable balance with the powerful family. Weaken Haoqiang's influence in a more stable way. At the same time, with the acquiescence of the other side, we will weed out a group of old diehards and support some new generations that are acceptable to both sides.

Therefore, even now, if the emperor falls into his hands, perhaps the situation he will face will be more severe than Cao Cao. And with a large area of land in Guanzhong, Wanluo and Bingzhou, it seems that he does have the possibility of winning the world, and it seems that the other princes who are most likely are either dogs guarding the city or don't even have a stable base area.

Yes, even Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu's desire for a completely stable base now seems to be a luxury—the former's Jizhou is still under Gongsun Zhan's troops, and even most of Bohai and Hejian are still in the hands of the other party, while Wei County in the south is controlled by Li Shushi. As for the latter, he has just gained a foothold in Yuzhou, but this year's drought and locust plague have made Yuan Shujun miserable, and Cao Cao in the north is also brewing a counterattack, and Liu Biao in the south has always been attitude**.

As for Cao Cao, he seems to be even worse than the same period in history - Lu Bu did not come, but Chenliu, Jiyin, Shanyang and other counties in the south of Yanzhou were all captured by Yuan Shu, although Sun Ce suffered a small loss on Li Shushi's side, but it still made Cao Cao feel the huge pressure brought by strong force, and Zhou Yu beside Sun Ce was far more suitable than Chen Gong to be a battlefield staff officer.

Xuzhou seems to be in the best situation, Liu Bei is even about to take the whole territory of Qingzhou, but according to reliable information, Tao Qian Tao Gongzu, who is the lord of Xuzhou or the pillar of Xuzhou, suddenly fell seriously ill, and now he is terminally ill, and it seems that he may go west at any time, and now his two sons are actively expressing Xiàn, perhaps it is not surprising that Xuzhou is divided because of this.

Therefore, strategically throwing away the hot potato of the emperor, but maintaining the influence around him, and making guidance that is beneficial to his side, Li Shushi seems to have only so much, but it is no longer clear which part of the situation will develop.

The course of history has long been shattered by the wind blown by his little butterfly.

Although he believed that Jia Xu could help him get it done, Jia Xu never let him down.

Unfortunately, even if he quickly made the most beneficial adjustments, some things did not change because of this.

At least it was impossible for him to tell the ministers who had gathered outside his palace and the exact location of the emperor and the destination he was going to reach.

The former didn't even know to him, and the latter obviously couldn't tell these complicated old fritters now.

Therefore, he has to bear the consequences of this qiē.

Where did the emperor go?

Li Dao and Guo Yan actually already knew about this matter, but in the face of the menacing Bingzhou army, the only thing they could do was to conceal it, hide it to cause possible shocks in Chang'an City, and wait until the Bingzhou army left to solve the problem, or they didn't need to think about it in the future.

So up to now, the ministers had actually thought that the emperor was still in the dilapidated palace, but he was hidden by Li Guo in a secret place.

This is a very normal conjecture, in fact, if it weren't for the sudden disappearance of the little emperor, Li Guo and the others would have planned to do so, because they knew too well that those ministers would definitely see the opportunity to rescue the little emperor during the battle - maybe they were all insidious and cunning, and they were all full of bad water. But the ministers who have been able to endure humiliation and bear the burden to support them until now must still have a certain degree of loyalty to the Han Dynasty and have a deeper understanding of the responsibilities they shoulder.

Even if they take 10,000 steps back, those ministers must master the emperor before they can do what they want to do, otherwise it will be like the problem that Li Shushi had to face when he planned to divide the state - if the name is not right, it is not good, and it is very suitable for both ancient and modern China and foreign countries.

Now that the battle is over, and the state army has controlled every corner of Chang'an City, but he told the emperor that it is gone?!

If it weren't for Li Shushi's reputation that was not bad, perhaps most people would suspect that Li Shushi had secretly killed the little emperor, as for whether to set up a puppet or go on his own after that, it was a choice, anyway, he still had several princesses of the Han Dynasty in his hands. There is no precedent for a female emperor or something. But God knows whether the people of Bingzhou, whose force even exceeds that of the Xiliang Army, will do it.

Well, in fact, I still suspect that Li Shushi did such and such a bad thing to Liu Xie and should be harmonized.

It's really hard to argue.

You say that the little emperor has run away before - some people believe it, but there are many more people who don't want to believe this explanation at all, because it means that their original efforts may be in vain. Even once the wandering little emperor suffered some accident and died, these ministers seemed to be a little to blame.

Most importantly. Once the little emperor was obtained by the other princes and the court was re-established. Will they still be given a chance to conquer? Or is it that once a son of heaven and a courtier, these old courtiers who have endured humiliation for so many years have finally become the tears of the times?

It's so sad to think about it.

For the responsibility in my heart, but also for my own future. These people put a lot of pressure on Li Shushi, but most of them are still the kind of people who are quite famous among the scholars, even Huangfu Song, Yan Zhong and others who are hiding in Bingzhou to enjoy leisure were also found by them, and Hu Zhao, who has a supreme reputation in the education system of Bingzhou, was also found by them to be foreign aid.

Well, in the face of an old gentleman like Zhao Qi, who is a protégé of Ma Rong and has a slightly higher status than Lu Zhi in Confucianism, Li Shushi doesn't want to refute it, even if he thinks about those dark thoughts in his heart, it seems very rude.

Li Shushi wanted to pretend to send troops to scatter to search, but those old people were worried that the noise was too loud and all kinds of mountain bandits coveted the emperor. But if he just waited, Li Shushi would already be annoyed.

Sometimes he really envies Dong Zhuo's demeanor of washing thousands of miles in blood, too domineering and too inhuman.

In the end, he was forced to be helpless, and Li Shushi adopted a method proposed by Su Xiaololi to keep the method - open and honest.

Of course, although he intends to talk openly and honestly, there will still be choices in the selection of candidates, such as an upright old man like Zhao Qi, and a guy like Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun who is not too pedantic, as well as a backbone of Shilin like Ma Riyan who has a special relationship with Li Shushi but has a family history, as well as powerful leaders like Wang Rou and Sima Fang who support the Bingzhou army.

However, he can't say that the people of Bingzhou don't dare to ask for the emperor, and if the emperor is besieged by the princes of the whole world, it can't be said that Li Ru is a guy who makes his own initiative to let the emperor fend for himself, and Li Ru is still enjoying a quiet balabala here......

People who tell such straightforward truths are absolutely stupid.

So what exactly is the so-called "openness"?

"Well, in fact, this time His Majesty's disappearance does have the most direct relationship with me, and it can even be said that I made His Majesty disappear."

Li Shushi's posture was very low in front of his grandfather and uncles, and he almost didn't have five bodies to apologize to the world.

"Lord Zhou Mu's words make us different, Lord Zhou Mu just said a while ago that His Majesty's disappearance was when the traitor Li Guo controlled Chang'an, and at this time he said that His Majesty's disappearance is directly related to you, isn't it contradictory between the two?"

Among these people, Zhao Qi is naturally the most concerned about the whereabouts of the little emperor, but the old man cares about it, not to mention Sima Fang and Wang Rou, who have long guessed that they know some internal information of the Bingzhou Army, even Ma Riyan is also thoughtful, but he is not in a hurry to question Li Shushi.

"It's not a contradiction, it's actually something I want to tell you today."

Although many people have some ideas in their hearts, after all, they are not characters in the inner circle of the Bingzhou Army, and even if they guess, they can't verify the authenticity of their ideas, and more often than not, they just pretend to be "smart". Therefore, when they heard Li Shushi's words at this time, they all showed a serious listening look.

"Xue has always been very concerned about His Majesty's situation, but he is too far away from Chang'an to be out of reach. Later, I heard that Li Guo and the two traitors bullied His Majesty and brutalized Zhongliang, and I was even more deeply saddened by this. In order to be able to rescue His Majesty as soon as possible, he raised troops to crusade against Li Guo and the two traitors, but in the mainland, he was worried that the rebel thief dog would jump over the wall and make some crazy moves, which would hurt His Majesty's safety. So, Xue took advantage of some of his connections in the Xiliang Army to send many subordinates to infiltrate Chang'an City, and took advantage of the internal strife in the Xiliang Army to bring His Majesty out of the cage. ”

"In other words, His Majesty is now in the hands of Lord Zhoumu!"

"Yes and no." Facing the questioning of the old man Zhao Qi, Li Shushi was unusually calm and calm.

"What do you mean by this?" Li Shushi's attitude made Ma Riyan a little incomprehensible, after all, if it was really as Li Shushi said, then what Li Shushi said to the ministers before was a big lie, even if those ministers couldn't do anything with Li Shushi, but in public opinion, if they wanted to spray Li Shushi to death, they could still make some contributions.

Well, adding Li Shushi's psychological endurance is the same as Wang Lang in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

"Although I have rescued His Majesty, but My Majesty is the Majesty of the Han Empire, 'the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king', under the premise of His Majesty's safety, where the land in the Han Empire likes to go is the freedom of His Majesty, and I can't imprison His Majesty's freedom because of my own selfish interests like Dong Zhuo. Although it is very shameless to say this, since His Majesty is unwilling to stay in a sad place like Chang'an and Luoyang, I, as a courtier, can only meet His Majesty's requirements. ”

"So where is His Majesty now?"

"Maybe in the mountains and rivers, maybe in the place you like, you don't dare to interfere with your Majesty's choice, the only thing you can do is to choose a strong pawn to protect your Majesty's safety, if Your Majesty needs it, it is the 'Ruishi' under Your Majesty."

Li Shushi's explanation made everyone present, including the old man Zhao Qi, who had a hot temper before, fall into deep thought, maybe there are many loopholes in his words, and there are many places that can be blamed, but those are all problems in some details, but there are not too many mistakes in the general direction.

Moreover, even if Li Shushi concealed something, at least if something went wrong with the little emperor, then the source of responsibility would inevitably fall on Li Shushi's head, and he couldn't clear the charge by jumping into the Yellow River. So it's understandable that he chose to make such facts public on a small scale rather than shouting them out so that the whole world wouldn't know about them.

As for speculation about the real role of those soldiers, it seems that it is nothing compared to the risk taken by Li Shushi.

In this way, with the help of Old Man Zhao Qi, a brewing storm finally calmed down.

It's just that Li Shushi and the Bingzhou Army, who have eaten such a huge territory, are destined to experience waves of unsettled turmoil. (To be continued......)