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After Sima Yan fled back to Luoyang, his whole person changed.

She is no longer confident and graceful as before, depressed, with sunken eye sockets, and often smells of alcohol and makeup on her body.

The first thing Sima Yan did when he returned to Luoyang was to spend two days and two nights with the harem beauties.

Only in this way can the restlessness and fear in his heart be relieved.

Sima Yan was originally quite feminine, but he just kept restraining himself.

In this big defeat, the Central Plains completely lost the strength to contend with Qin, and the only thing left was to linger on, so he indulged.

The atmosphere in the hall was extremely dull.

All the ministers who had been chattering endlessly and full of wisdom and tricks in the past were all silent.

Sima Yan glanced back and forth, looking at anyone with chills in his eyes, "The country is so difficult, do you want to stand on the sidelines?"

"Hedong and Hongnong have been lost, and Luoyang can no longer be the capital. I implore Your Majesty to move the capital!" Only Sima You can say this, and no one else dares to touch Sima Yan's bad luck.

What is the fastest way for an emperor who has lost his prestige to regain his prestige?
Kill the chicken and show it to the monkey!

There was still no sound in the hall.

Even Sima Yan didn't know how to answer the words.

He always felt that the gentry officials looked at him with some malicious eyes.

"Luoyang has lost its barrier. For the current plan, we can only move the capital to Yecheng or Xuchang, temporarily avoiding the edge of the Qin thieves. With the strength of the Qin thieves, the world cannot be settled in one battle. Your Majesty can join the Eastern Wu in the south and fight against Qin. Just like the alliance between Wu and Shu!" Jia Chong cupped his hands.

In fact, he doesn't want to stand out, but right now he is the only one who can speak.

Chen Qian died in battle, Shi Bao was seriously ill, and he was the only one left.

Wang Xiang, He Zeng and others were silent.

Sima Yan's eyes showed sadness, "I want to declare that the emperor will wipe out the whole world, and no one in the world can stop him. I didn't think of Zhen, but I want to move the capital to take refuge. The descendants are incompetent and ashamed of their ancestors..."

Sima Yan was talking about himself, but he was actually talking about the courtiers present.

The ancestors of each of them were famous officials and virtuous generals during the Cao Wei Dynasty.

Jia Chong blushed, and Sima You felt ashamed.

But the faces of the others remained the same.

Sima Yan let out a long sigh.

"Yecheng is vast, with three towers of Bingjing, Tongque, and Jinhu. The people from Hebei can compete with the Qin thieves. It is advisable to move the capital here." Jia Chong even thought out the place for him.

"Although Yecheng is good, it is not as good as Xuchang. Once your majesty moves the capital to Yecheng, Jing, Yang and other places will be invaded by thieves. Xuchang is close to the Central Plains, with abundant money and food, so it can rush to help Luoyang, and it can also rely on Jingzhou to suppress the Qin thieves in the country. West of Xiaohan." Xun Xu said, clasping his hands.

Sima Yan moved the capital to Xuchang, and the Yingchuan gentry grew stronger again.

Wang Xiang also persuaded: "Taiyuan is in the hands of thieves, and Qin thieves can invade Hebei at any time..."

The people in the palace immediately divided into two factions. Officials from Hebei gentry advocated moving the capital to Yecheng, while Yingchuan gentry and Shandong gentry advocated moving the capital to Xuchang.

The father said that the father was right and the wife said that the mother was right, which made Sima Yan a headache.

Moving the capital is never a trivial matter, and there are huge political interests in it.

Even if the state of Jin is in danger today, it does not prevent them from fighting for power.

Sima Yan watched coldly, and suddenly found that these people were gradually getting out of his control.

Without waiting for a result, he said coldly: "Discuss this matter later, retreat!"

The ministers stopped abruptly.

Sima Yan felt infinitely desolate.

There is always an explanation for a big defeat.

The people of Luoyang and the soldiers in the army secretly complained.

Sima Yan still couldn't find a suitable person to take the blame.

Jia Chong, Shi Jian, and Sima You couldn't move.

Sima Yi and Sima Xun were his uncles.

It is useful to keep Wang Jun and Liu Hong, after all, there are fewer and fewer generals in hand.

Sima Yan thought about it, and for some reason, he thought of Pang Hui...

And a bigger crisis is yet to come.

Just not far from Luoyang, the people in Chen County, Guling, and Yangxia in Yuzhou cannot bear heavy taxes, and the life and death of their children are unknown, so there is not even a theory. , raised rebellions, people all over the country responded one after another, and even the defenders in the county town followed suit. Within a few days, Yang Gu gathered tens of thousands of people, broke through the county town, and killed the county magistrate and captain of the Sima family...

Zhao Feiniu, a strongman from Jixian County, Hanoi, led three thousand bandits to revolt in response to the Qin army. He was very courageous. In order to build momentum, he led more than a hundred strongmen to sneak into Wen County. He wanted to dig the ancestral grave of Sima's family. The rest fled back to Ji County...

The Taishan bandits in Shandong are ready to move again.

As if overnight, the Central Plains seemed to be subjugated.

Although it was only a small rebellion, Sima Yan was extremely annoyed that someone missed his family's ancestral grave.

Just when Zhang Hua, the attendant, came to see him, "The country is in such a crisis, Your Majesty must not listen to what others say. Once the capital is moved, the big things will be gone!"

Zhang Hua was born in a poor family, so he looked at the problem from Sima Yan's point of view.

"However, the Qin thieves are rampant, and Luoyang has nothing to rely on!" Sima Yan lost his mind after a big defeat.

"Forgive me, your majesty is still your majesty in Luoyang. If you leave Luoyang, you must be controlled by others! Luoyang has eight golden locks, with Dahe and Mangshan in the north, Weihan in the west, Hulao in the east, and Yique in the south. If your majesty moves the capital, the people will be in turmoil, the gentry will be eccentric, and the country will not be guaranteed, and although the Qin bandits win, they may not have the strength to annex the Central Plains. If your majesty cannot hold on to Luoyang, you will not be able to hold on to Xuchang and Ye. City! The only way to stick to Luoyang is to settle the hearts of the people first, and then discuss the matter of moving the capital!"

Move is certain, but definitely not now.

"Fortunately, Mao first helped me!" Sima Yan's soul finally returned to his body.

Luoyang itself is a military fortress, and it is the throat of things.

Throwing away here, Sima Yan retreats to the ends of the earth is useless.

"One minister is not enough. If your Majesty wants to defend Luoyang, he needs the help of the Great Sima!" Zhang Hua reminded.

Shi Bao said that she has been ill for almost half a year.

Sima Yan is like a drowning man, grabbing at every straw.

"I know!"

Immediately, he drove to Shifu and greeted Shi Bao.

Shi Bao had a premonition that this battle would be lost, but he did not expect such a miserable defeat.

When the state of Jin is destroyed, his chief Sima will be finished. He doesn't care about pretending to be sick, so he goes out to stabilize the morale of the army, and trains young and strong.

Sima Yan's decision not to move the capital temporarily stabilized people's hearts.

Just after he breathed a sigh of relief, he received the news that Shangdang had fallen, and Yang Zheng personally led an army of [-] into Hanoi to spy on Mengjin.

The hearts of Luoyang monarchs and ministers reached their throats.

The ruling and opposition parties were panic-stricken again, and the proposal of moving the capital to avoid disaster was rampant again.

Shi Bao persuaded: "Yang Zheng's [-] people, can they break through Luoyang? Your Majesty can rest easy."

Sima Yan dispatched 3 young and strong men in Luoyang, and asked Shi Bao to lead the troops northward to defend Mengjin.

Shi Bao lived up to everyone's expectations. He set up many banners and straw people in Mengjin, thinking that they were suspicious soldiers, and beat drums day and night to strengthen the momentum of the defenders.

Wang Hun was also a good general, and the two guarded Mengjin.

The Qin army on the opposite side did not continue to attack after several trials.

Meng Jin defended, but Hanoi County was lost.

So far, the four counties of Hedong, Shangdang, Hanoi, and Hongnong have fallen into the hands of the Qin army.

In Nanyang County, Wang Jun, Zhuge Xu, Zhang Fang and others joined forces and managed to hold on.

At this time, Pang Hui returned to Luoyang with his defeated soldiers...