The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 173 Chapter 173
Zhang Yan immediately opened the secret letter and read it carefully, but he saw in the letter: "I have heard that father and son are the first in the great relationship between people; The calamity, recently Li Jue and Guo Si are fighting each other again, oppressing the ruler and father; linking up with the party and corrupting the government; rewards, seals and punishments are not up to my lord. I worry about it day and night, fearing that the world will be in danger. I heard that you will stay After the marquis, he was also a minister of the country, so he granted Qing the title of Marquis of Liu. I hope that Qing can inherit the ambition of being a Marquis of Liu. Remember the difficulties of Emperor Gao in starting a business, unite the martyrs who have both loyalty and righteousness, wipe out the traitors, restore the country, and the ancestors are very lucky. The world What a blessing! I wrote an imperial edict to Fu Qing, be cautious again and again, don't disappoint me!"

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

In fact, Zhang Yan is still concerned about the situation in the Guanzhong area, but it is because it is too far away from him, and his powerful enemies are Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shu. , Guo Si and the others couldn't get anything done, so they didn't take it seriously.

Anyway, Zhang Yan knows exactly how the annual rings of history work, so the situation in Guanzhong is only heard, but he has never really cared about it.No matter how chaotic Guanzhong was, he would send envoys to court with gifts as always.

The emperor of the Han Dynasty was cut off from the Kwantung heroes after Dong Zhuo coerced him to Chang'an.
After Dong Zhuo's death, his subordinates Li Jue, Guo Si, Fan Chou, Zhang Ji and others led a counterattack, drove away Lu Bu, captured Chang'an, and killed Wang Yun.

Afterwards, under coercion, the Son of Heaven appointed Li Jue as General of Chariots, Kaifu, Lieutenant of Sili, Jiajie, and Marquis of Chiyang; Guo Si as General of Empress and Marquis of Meiyang; Ji was named General Zhendong and Marquis of Pingyang.

But Zhang Ji did not stay in Chang'an. Instead, he led his troops and horses and went out to station in Hongnong.Therefore, the government was controlled by Li Jue, Guo Si, and Fan Chou.

Ever since Li Jue, Guo Si, and Fan Chou took control of the government, the Kwantung heroes were busy expanding their territories, and no one paid any attention to the emperor in Chang'an City, and even less recognized the imperial court controlled by Li Jue, Guo Si, Fan Chou and others. .

Therefore, Zhang Yan, as always, sent envoys to come to have an audience with gifts, which is tantamount to voluntarily acknowledging the imperial court dominated by Li Jue, Guo Si, and Fan Chou.Therefore, Li Jue, Guo Si, Fan Chou and others encouraged the emperor to give Zhang Yan a big reward.

And in March of this year, Ma Teng and Han Sui joined forces with some scholar-bureaucrats in Guanzhong to attack Li Jue. Li Jue sent Guo Si, Fan Chou and his nephew Li Li to fight Ma Teng and Han Sui in Changping Guanxia.Ma Teng and Han Sui were defeated, losing more than 1 people, and had to retreat to Liangzhou.

But this year is another year of severe drought. Not only has the Central Plains suffered severe drought, but the drought in Guanzhong is also very serious.The people had no harvest, which directly caused the great famine in Guanzhong.Because the army was short of food, Li Jue and others robbed the money that the emperor originally intended 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, causing a more serious famine. Tens of thousands of people in Guanzhong starved to death and fled, and moved south to Liu Biao, Liu Yan, Zhang Lu, etc. People's territory has created a situation in Guanzhong where ten rooms and nine empties.

However, Li Jue, Guo Si, and Fan Chou also gradually began to fight for power and profit. The three arbitrarily arranged their cronies in the court, and the conflicts became more and more intensified.

With the seriousness of the famine, Fan Chou was going to lead his troops to leave Chang'an and go to Luoyang for food, but he was worried that he would be attacked by the Kwantung heroes, so before leaving, he asked Li Jue for more soldiers.

Li Jue was worried that Fan Chou was brave and good at fighting and had a strong military spirit, coupled with the intensification of conflicts, he was always afraid that Fan Chou's soldiers would outnumber him and would turn to attack him.

So Li Jue set up a Hongmen banquet and invited Fan Chou to the banquet. At the banquet, Li Jue asked his nephew to stab Fan Chou to death and annexed Fan Chou's army.

After that, although Guo Si was more friendly with Li Jue, he was worried that Li Jue would plot against him, and became more suspicious of Li Jue.

Li Jue and Guo Si took power, and the grown-up emperor was worried when he saw that the country and society were about to be ruined by people like Li Jue and Guo Si.

Therefore, the emperor secretly cultivated his cronies, looked around for powerful heroes, and wanted to borrow external forces to rescue him from his current predicament.

As a result, Dong Cheng, who was then a servant and the emperor's father-in-law, gradually became the emperor's confidant.Dong Cheng is the nephew of the Empress Dowager Dong, the mother of Emperor Han Ling, and he is also considered a relative with the current emperor.

Dong Cheng was also one of Dong Zhuo's subordinates at first, and later followed Li Jue and Guo Si to counterattack Chang'an, and was appointed as a servant.But when he saw the great power of Li Jue, Guo Si and others, he felt jealous, so he wanted to say that Li Jue, Guo Si and others should be brought down.It just so happened that his daughter was a noble person appointed by the emperor. By coincidence, Dong Cheng hit it off with the emperor and began to help the current emperor find candidates.

Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Cao Cao, Liu Biao, Gongsun Zan, Zhang Lu, Liu Yan, Ma Teng, Lu Bu and others were all candidates for the emperor and Dong Cheng, but they had no chance to contact them.

However, Zhang Yan's rapid rise gave the emperor and Dong Cheng a chance to see a chance. It happened that Tao Qian and Zhang Yan sent envoys to meet the emperor one after another, which made Li Jue and Guo Si feel very honored. Only then did Dong Cheng have the opportunity to bring The imperial decree came to Xuzhou.

The emperor saw the right time, so he secretly wrote a secret letter, asked the queen to sew it in the brocade robe, and gave it to Zhang Yan as a gift, and secretly ordered Dong Cheng to give Zhang Yan a reminder.

Obviously, Dong Cheng accomplished this mission very well, and Zhang Yan saw the secret letter that the emperor wanted him to see.

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

For him, coercing the emperor to order the princes must be the path that must be taken.

But as far as the current situation is concerned, the time is not yet ripe.

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

At this moment, Li Jue and Guo Si have not yet turned against each other, and it is impossible for him to go all out to capture Chang'an for the sake of the emperor.

However, Zhang Yan still wrote a reply letter to the emperor. The general meaning is that he has understood the meaning of the emperor, but he needs to rectify the soldiers and horses. He can only make the emperor suffer a little more in Chang'an. Next year, he will definitely Lead the army personally and bring the emperor to Pengcheng!
After the letter is written, how to dedicate it to the current emperor has become a difficult problem.

Therefore, Zhang Yan thought hard for a while, and decided to send a woman to the current emperor, hide the secret letter on the woman's body, and then the woman would forward the letter to the current emperor.

When deciding to send a woman, Zhang Yan deliberately chose a very ugly woman, and sent someone to Chang'an to dedicate to the current emperor.

The reason why Zhang Yan chose to send an ugly girl instead of a beautiful girl.It's because beautiful women are men's favorite. Li Jue and Guo Si are both men, and men are all lustful. If they see a beautiful woman, they might take her.If it is an ugly girl, then Li Jue and Guo Si will not be interested in her, and at the same time, it can attract the attention of the emperor, making him aware of the abnormality of the matter, so that he can smoothly receive his letter.

Things can be done as soon as they are said, without delay, but Zhang Yan is very cautious in selecting candidates.This person needs to be both dependable and alert.

After a day of observation, Zhang Yan finally locked his target on his wife Mi Zhen's nanny.

Zhang Yan called the nurse to his side alone, and then said that he would send the nurse to the palace to be the nurse of today's emperor.

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

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

After the nanny received the order, Zhang Yan sent someone to send the nanny to Chang'an, Qian urged, Wan enjoined: "You must hand over the brocade robe to the emperor with your own hands, and no one else can touch it!"

So, the nurse went on the road, and headed for Chang'an with Zhang Yan's mission...

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