Dahan first prince

Chapter 184 Luan Bu, a native of Wuyan, is also!
The breath of Xia Wuyue, along with the news that the emperor Liu Bang set off from Handan and returned to Chang'an, descended on the land of Kanto together.

After receiving the news, the various forces in the Kanto region, such as Huainan, Changsha and other vassal states with different surnames, as well as the clan vassal states such as Chu, Jing, Qi, etc., the atmosphere in their capitals became inexplicably agitated.

——What does it mean for the emperor to return to Beijing?
Before Chen Xi was completely defeated and Dai and Zhao were not completely settled, the emperor Liu Bang returned to Chang'an first, which can only explain one thing.

——For Chang'an Chaotang, the traitor Chen Xi who made himself king is no longer a worry!
The reason could not be simpler: since the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang, the king of the Han Dynasty, became the emperor in Luoyang, and since he established Han Guozuo, every time there was a rebellion by a prince with a different surname, all of them were conquered and put down by Liu Bang himself!
From the earliest Yan Wang Zang Tu and Linjiang Wang Gongwei to the later Han Wangxin and Chu King Han Xin, whether it was the real rebellion or the "like rebellion", it was Liu Bang who went to pacify Ding in person.

Even his son-in-law Zhang Ao was "suspected of treason", Liu Bang once went to Handan, the capital of Zhao, in the name of visiting his daughter!

Starting from these bloody examples, and looking back, it is not difficult to draw a conclusion when the emperor Liu Bang returned to Chang'an in advance when Chen Xi had not yet been completely pacified.

——For Emperor Liu Bang, Chen Xi's defeat is only a matter of time.

And this is precisely the reason why the vassal states in the Kanto, especially the vassals with different surnames such as Huainan Wang Yingbu, are worried.

In the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang, the king of the Han Dynasty, was the emperor. When the Han Guozuo was established, there were eight princes with different surnames in the world.

These eight people are Yan Wang Zang Tu, Linjiang Wang Gongwei, Zhao Wang Zhanger, Liang Wang Peng Yue, Huainan Wang Yingbu, Han Wangxin, Chu Wang Hanxin, and Changsha Wang Wu Rui.

But now, it has only been six years since the Han Dynasty, and five of these eight princes with different surnames have lost their titles, titles, and even their lives.

——December in the winter of the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, Linjiang Wang Gongweifan was captured alive for Xinwu Hou Jinshe, and killed in Luoyang for the emperor Liu Bang;
——In the autumn and July of the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, Yan Wang Zang Tu turned against him, and the emperor Liu Bang personally marched, and captured and killed Zang Tu in September;

——In the sixth year of the Han Dynasty, Han Wangxin surrendered to the Xiongnu, and the emperor Liu Bangyu drove himself to conquer. Through a Han-Hungarian battle of Pingcheng, the pro-Xiongnu forces in Taiyuan and Yanmen areas were completely wiped out!
——In the sixth year of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Er, the king of Zhao, and Zhang Ao, the crown prince, took the throne of Zhao;

——In the sixth year of the Han Dynasty, Han Xin, the king of Chu, was suspected of treason and was demoted to Marquis of Huaiyin;

Gong Wei, Zang Tu, and Han Xin, who were ruined by the country, and Han Wangxin, who has been entrusted to the Huns until now, and married the eldest princess Lu Yuan Princess, Fang was lucky enough to protect the ancestral hall Xuanpinghou Zhang Ao...

Excluding these five people, there are only three princes with different surnames left in Kanto.

Among the three princes with different surnames, Changsha Wang Wu's family is basically regarded as the "Nation of No Conquest" by the whole world, and even the court of Chang'an.

——As long as the Wu family did not really rebel, at least until the Nanyue king Zhao Tuo died and Lingnan returned to Huaxia, the Changsha king's lineage would not be regarded as a thorn in Chang'an's side.

Among the remaining two, Liang Wang Pengyue finally waited for his fate in the summer and May of the 11th year of the Han Dynasty...
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Summer in early May, Luoyang.

As the temporary "capital" of Liu Bangli and Han Guozuo, Luoyang can still show a prosperity that is obviously different from other places even in the current era of endless wars and ruins.

——At the very least, compared to the 'Chang'an City', which is like a village surrounded by an imperial palace, Luoyang City is undoubtedly more of a prosperous city at the capital level.

Since it is a prosperous 'metropolis', the streets and alleys of Luoyang are naturally crowded with people.

It's just that today, almost half of the pedestrians in Luoyang did not walk on the streets, but gathered outside the city gate by coincidence.

As for the reason why these merchants, scribes, traffickers, pawns and other people from different backgrounds gathered outside the city gate at the same time, it was undoubtedly the head hanging above the city gate, swaying in the wind.

"Eh?"

"Who is this?"

"What crime is it that His Majesty loathes it so much, hanging his head on the top of the city to show the public?"

Hearing a doubtful inquiry from the corner, the soldier holding a sword on guard under the city tower was struck, and a figure slowly walked out involuntarily.

Seeing that the armored soldier bowed his hands to the surrounding audience, Fang turned around again, pointed at the head hanging high above the tower with a serious expression.

"This is the head of the old Liang king Peng Yue!"

"—Last year, Chen Xi rebelled against Dai and Zhao, and His Majesty called Peng Yue to lead the army to accompany him. Peng Yue, a thief, dared to say that he was sick!"

"Later, he secretly stored dead soldiers in Suiyang, intending to assassinate His Majesty!!!"

After a few stern friendly voices, the soldier turned the subject around and waved his hands towards the Luoyang city behind him.

"Fortunately, Your Majesty's eyes are as bright as a torch. When he set off from Handan, he took General Wang Tianqi as the Prime Minister of Liang, and entered Suiyang first to thoroughly investigate Peng Yue's criminal evidence!"

"In the end, the Prime Minister of the State of Liang found out that Peng Yue had objected earlier, and the objection had already taken shape. After asking Your Majesty, the prince rashly entered Suiyang, took Peng Yue to the Liang Palace, and ordered him to be punished in Suiyang City!"

As he said that, the expression on the soldier's face became more and more serious. He squinted his eyes and looked around the crowd before pointing to the head behind him, which was shaking from side to side in the wind.

"Your Majesty hangs the head of Peng Yue above the gate of Luoyang City, in order to warn the people of Liang: Don't think of judging Han!"

"If anyone dares to follow Peng Yue's example, this will be the end of the traitor!!!!!!"

With a stern scolding, the soldier turned sullen, looked around sullenly, and then returned to the sentry post under the city gate.

But the crowd around the audience were shocked by the unceremonious words of the soldiers, and they all froze in place.

"Liang..."

"King Liang!"

Several whispers came from different directions at the same time, and everyone's eyes widened, looking at the head hanging by the hemp rope above the city gate.

"King Liang, you should also be a prince!"

"Dignified princes, if your majesty said to kill, did you kill him?"

A voice of inquiry full of horror immediately caused the people around to shrank their necks.

In the end, it was a younger, bolder man dressed as a ranger who shook his head in amazement, and answered the previous man's doubts.

"What about the princes?"

"No matter how big the princes are, can they still be bigger than the emperor?"

"—You must know that when the emperor was angry, he laid down millions of corpses and blood flowed for thousands of miles!"

"To claim illness should not be summoned by His Majesty is to deceive the King; to conspire to assassinate His Majesty is to plot rebellion!"

"Don't say hanging your head above the city tower, even if you ransack your family and exterminate your family, that's considered light!"

Listening to the interpretation of the young ranger, everyone's faces were horrified, and finally slowly turned into endless bewilderment.

The crowd was silent for a long time, and there was another murmur from a certain corner.

"No matter what, King Liang, the hero of Yiguo..."

"His Majesty hangs the heads of the heroes on the tower..."

In the middle of speaking, the extremely slight muttering completely disappeared.

——Because under the city gate not far away, the soldiers who had previously warned the onlookers once again cast their eagle-like sharp eyes on the onlookers...
"Ugh······"

"This world..."

Shaking his head and sighing, he took a last look at the bloody head. The crowd was about to disperse, but they saw a tall and burly figure walking forward from the crowd.

Seeing someone approaching, the soldier before him frowned subconsciously.

After seeing the tall and burly figure of the man, the official clothes on his body, and the seal ribbon hanging around his waist, his expression suddenly became a little hesitant.

That is to say, at the moment when the soldiers hesitated to move forward, the tall and burly figure wearing the official mansion had already arrived under the empty city gate.

Boom!
A low, muffled sound caused everyone to stop their steps of leaving and turn their eyes back to the city gate.

I saw the burly man kneel down under the hanging human head at some point, and forcibly smashed two small holes in the dirt road that had been compacted...

"King..."

"King~"

The most miserable wailing resounded outside the east gate of Luoyang, causing the audience to stand on tiptoe.

Even the soldiers and soldiers under the martial law at the city gate couldn't help cast their strange eyes on the figure that was obviously different from ordinary people.

Then I saw the big man wailing, knocking his head dozens of times under the city gate. When his forehead was stained white by dust and a third small hole was smashed into the ground, the big man straightened his upper body a little, but he didn't stand up. Kneeling before the hanging human head.

"I follow the order of the king to envoy Qi. Today, the mission is completed..."

"The king of Qi personally promised that from the beginning of the next year, all Qi's riches will be sent to Suiyang by [-] horses, and the goods will be sold to the people of Liang..."

"And this year, the food shortage in Qi is even worse. The king of Qi also asked the king to promise that starting from the next year, more grain and rice will be purchased from Guanzhong to send to Linzi."

"Where the grain and rice in Guanzhong are, the king of Qi is willing to pay the king with a price of three thousand yuan..."

Weeping and talking, I saw the big man sucking his nose again and looking up at the man's head.

"The king of Qi has also promised that when he enters Chang'an again, he will speak kindly to His Majesty face to face on behalf of the king."

"The king of Qi also wants to invite the crown prince to Linzi, so that weng's wife can marry the king..."

Hearing the big man choked up and said this sentence, everyone in the audience stared at his companions who were equally as surprised as him.

"This person······"

"Are you Peng Yue's minister?"

"Ugh······"

"Xu Shi was ordered by Peng Yue to go to Linzi to make friends with the king of Qi."

"Unexpectedly, before the mission was completed, Peng Yue was decapitated..."

"What's wrong with me~"

"What's wrong with me..."

The big man seemed to turn a deaf ear to the sighs and feelings of the onlookers. He just knelt down and wept, reporting the work of this trip to the head hanging high above the city gate.

At this time, the soldiers under the city gate finally came to their senses, as before, the soldier who warned the audience with his words came from the side of the big man.

"Who are you?!"

With a sharp shout, the crowd around the audience immediately frowned and made looks filled with righteous indignation, but no one dared to speak up.

When the big man heard the words, he turned his eyes numbly to the soldiers, turned around again, and kowtowed heavily to the hanging head.

Then, the big man stood up slowly and bowed his hands to the soldiers.

"May I ask the general: Are the parents, wife and children of King Liang still alive today?"

Seeing that the big man didn't answer his question, but asked himself instead, the soldier was annoyed, and subconsciously put his hand on the hilt of his waist!
After he regained his composure, he looked at the tall and burly body of the big man, the official uniform he was wearing, and the seal ribbon hanging around his waist, and then he remembered that the big man just now seemed to be calling himself "General"...

"Your Majesty's order: Liang Wang Peng Yue conspired to rebel, the crime should be punished by the family!"

"Peng Yue has been dead for seven days now, fearing that there will be no Peng family left in the land of Liang."

After yelling these two sentences with an air of selflessness, the soldier lowered his face again and looked at the bruised face of the big man.

The big man didn't seem to notice the soldier's hand that was always on the hilt of his sword. Hearing what the soldier said, he sighed sadly and sniffed his nose again.

Turning around, looking around as if looking for something, the big man finally found his target at the root of the city wall dozens of steps away.

"King..."

Choking with sobs and letting out a soft murmur, the big man faced the headless corpse at the foot of the city wall, arranged his clothes solemnly, and immediately bowed deeply.

Seeing the posture of the big man, the soldier's hand on the hilt of the sword involuntarily became tighter.

"What do you want?!"

The big man stepped forward and took a step forward, and saw the soldier yelled hoarsely as if he was facing a formidable enemy!

In an instant, dozens of soldiers under the city gate surrounded him and formed a circle around the big man.

Looking at the dozens of soldiers surrounding him and the sharp halberds pointing at him, the big man turned his head calmly and raised his head towards the soldier.

"My humble servant is the minister of King Liang."

"Now that the King of Liang is dead, the ancestral hall is even more ruined. I consider myself a minister, and I should collect the corpse for the King of Liang, and carry out all the funerals, in the way of a master and a servant."

But when the soldier heard the words, his complexion became more gloomy.

"——Order of His Majesty: Peng Yue is the thief of the Han Dynasty!"

"—Anyone who dares to grab Peng Yue's body is guilty of the same crime!!!"

The soldiers sternly shouted, and the crowd of onlookers suddenly became restless, and the already weird atmosphere outside the city gate suddenly became more tense.

At this moment, the big man turned around slowly, put his hands behind his back, and looked at the soldier without evasion.

"The servant collects the corpse of the master. This act of benevolence and righteousness, even if the country's laws are imposed, there is no reason to punish the crime."

"What's more, I just said that I want to collect the corpse of King Liang, but I haven't implemented it yet."

"As much as the general wants to capture this servant, he should wait for this corpse to be collected. Is it not too late?"

Hearing what the big man said, the soldier frowned.

Just as he was about to open his mouth, he saw the big man's hand, and at some point, he quietly put it on the sword hilt at his waist...
"How dare you!"

An outraged shout, but it didn't frighten the big man in the slightest, on the contrary, the soldier was resolute and retreated a little unconsciously.

"Humph!"

"How dare you say your name?!"

Seeing that the soldier clearly gave up his intention to fight, but still did not forget to say a harsh word, the big man finally smiled contemptuously, slowly retracted his hand on the hilt of his sword, and put his hands behind his back again.

"If you don't want to change your name, you won't change your surname when you sit down!"

"—Old Doctor Liang, a loyal servant of the King of Liang, and Luan Bu from Yan!!!"

(End of this chapter)