Chapter 104 The unstoppable chain is self-defeating
"In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, what is the specific number of Dong Zhuo going to Beijing? It seems that I can't remember it clearly. Alas, it's all because I read books in my previous life. I was too lazy to calculate the specific lunar calendar date when I encountered the branch and stems. But anyway, it's not the end of this month or the beginning of next month.
He Jin's deployment has been made with some new actions because of my appearance. Will Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong not be able to hold it in advance? It seems very likely. As long as Zhang Rang takes action and the emperor is robbed out of the city, then for Dong Zhuo, he actually wants to go to the city to protect the carriage whenever he wants, and the entire timeline will be in advance..."
After coming back from He Jin, he soaked in his own bathtub that night. Li Su used his IQ to receive a temporary bonus. After adding this disturbance factor, he roughly deduced the possible changes that may occur.
In general, his estimate conclusion is that Zhang Rang may take action in advance! The time difference between He Jin's death and Dong Zhuo's entry into Beijing should not be affected! However, after Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, the time spent on the deposed emperor would be greatly extended, and even Dong Zhuo had to wait for the arrival of the Hedong infantry reinforcements to completely settle the situation.
Of course, once this process is prolonged, if Dong Zhuo wants to avoid being driven out and does not change during this period of time, he will definitely give more benefits to all parties, such as enthroning more officials to the great families of the Party and the Criminal Family and Combating them, and promoting more people like Cai Yong and Wang Yun to share power together, etc.
Human rights and internal power are all bargaining chips that Dong Zhuo may have to sacrifice.
In general, everything should be under control.
After taking a bath, Li Sumei took a nap and continued to wait and see what happened.
The next day, Zhao Yun expanded the guards that Li Su brought into the city to 500, and Dian Wei rushed back to Luyang. On the third day, the cavalry in Luyang began to head north and outside Yique Pass, and everything went smoothly.
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On the evening of August 22, about three days earlier than Zhang Rang's plan to kill He Jin in history.
The remaining people of the Ten Etiquettes were plotting in the side hall next to the Jiade Hall. Many people had sweat on their foreheads, obviously knowing that everything had reached the critical moment of life and death.
Zhang Rang, who was in the leadership, was already an old eunuch in his fifties and sixties, but his face was not as ugly as he was in later TV series. Instead, he was a person with very smooth skin and slightly white and fat, and he couldn't even see wrinkles.
Eunuchs who can be valued by several emperors often look good, otherwise the emperor would have lost favor after watching him miserably every day.
Zhang Rang didn't talk nonsense, and directly ordered with his old partner Zhao Zhong and several other colleagues: "The general summoned foreign troops more and more. I heard that Dong Zhuo was not in a predicament, but was stopped by the general's order to Zong Shao, so Dong Zhuo had to wait for the rear army.
I have always known that Dong Zhuo is a jackal. When his troops are far more than the general's direct troops, Dong Zhuo can do anything. Even if the general orders him to stop moving forward, he will do his own thing! By then, you and I will be fine!
But if you are just afraid of Dong Zhuo and Hu Wei, you can wait and see for another three or four days, so you won’t have to send it. But I heard that the day before yesterday the general added a whole lot of foreign troops, and it was the cavalry of Liu Bei, the general who fought against the west, and those were the elites of Youzhou. Yesterday, five hundred cavalry had entered the city, and three thousand cavalry would arrive in Yique tomorrow. At that time, the queen mother would definitely be afraid and would never dare to stop the general. Since this is the case, why not take action tonight! If you fight to the death, there might be a glimmer of life!"
If Li Su was present, he would be amazed after hearing these words: Li Su, he, actually became the last straw that forced the Ten General Assistants to take action in advance!
Zhao Zhong lowered his head and said nothing about Zhang Rang's plan. Obviously, he knew that it would be difficult to have a good ending no matter what, so he could only be a gamble.
I gamble for a lifetime of death, and I don’t gamble for a lifetime of death.
"That's all..." Zhao Zhong sighed.
Then Duan Gui, Guo Sheng and others all agreed, but asked the "famous water supply and drainage engineer" of the Ten Generals. When Bi Lan was ordered by the Yeting Order, Bi Lan was a little resistant. He emphasized in a strange way:
"But I heard that Li Boya, the general who led the Youzhou cavalry, and the general who fought in the west behind him, were always loyal to the court, and we may not have a glimmer of hope.
You should know that the general can only replace the young master with the Junshi who is in normal circumstances. However, there is only one situation: when the general's Junshi is contrary to the emperor's clear edict of the empress dowager, for those who are absolutely loyal to the court, do not know how to adapt, and dare not change forcefully, the Empress Dowager's clear edict of the emperor should be the prevailing edict of the emperor!
Since Li Suzhong is unparalleled, he will not give private permission to each other, and will not ignore the Chaogang and privately surrender to the general for his promotion and wealth, why don’t we summon Li Su to the palace to comfort him in the name of the Empress Dowager and let him promise to obey the empress dowager directly? In this way, can we still expect him to help the empress dowager resist Hu Wei, who used Dong Zhuo to threaten the empress dowager?"
Bi Lan may be born with a favorable impression of other people who like water supply and drainage. When Ling Emperor was alive, he liked to play with the fountain water tower tap water. Bi Lan had the opportunity to show off his skills. Now I heard that there is an unparalleled loyalty among the court officials, but in terms of private life, he is similar to Ling Emperor. They all like to take baths in the fountain tap water, so it is inevitable that they pay more attention to Li Su.
Bi Lan's words were originally not in history, and were obviously a pure butterfly effect.
After hearing Zhang Rang's ears, Zhang Rang couldn't help but nodded slightly: Yes! Since Li Su is so loyal to the court, let him directly be loyal to the Queen Mother and the Young Emperor! Usually, everyone regards He Jin and the Queen Mother as one, which gives He Jin the right to be arbitrary. If the Queen Mother and He Jin disagree, of course, they will be loyal to the Queen Mother who is absolutely foolish and loyal!
If the Empress Dowager just asked Li Su to summon Li Su to ask about his attitude first, it would not be wasted much time. It would be so long tonight. Even if the first wave was not successful, the Empress Dowager summoned Li Su and then summoned the general, and there would still be time...
Moreover, maybe Li Su, who also held a smaller military power in the capital, went out alive after entering the palace, which further highlighted that "the empress dowager had no malice to summon foreign generals tonight", thereby reducing He Jin's vigilance...
"Since it's not too late, let's try it. Anyway, the original plan is a life-and-death life. Just think it's a way to waste one more time and a life-and-what do you think?" Zhang Rang made a formal statement.
None of the others responded, and only Zhao Zhong, who served as Da Changqiu, questioned: "The general and the queen mother are brothers and sisters after all, so it would be fine to summon him at night. Then Li Su is just a general in the foreign town, and she is young and handsome. It is really inappropriate to enter the harem at night! We are loyal to the late emperor and clear the palace. We would rather die than let the queen mother act and lose the trouble!"
To put it bluntly, the ten regular attendants are all mainly "Zhongchangshi". This is an official with a rank of two thousand stones, and nominally belongs to the young ministers among the nine ministers.
Among these people, Zhao Zhong held an additional official position of "Da Changqiu" with two thousand stones, half a level higher than the Central Secretariat. Da Changqiu only had one, which was equivalent to the general manager of the harem, responsible for the affairs of the empress and the empress dowager, and was directly responsible for not allowing outsiders to be filthy in the palace.
When Emperor Ling of Han was alive, he often called "Zhang Changshi was my father and Zhao Changshi was my mother" because Zhao Zhong was in charge of the harem and Zhang Rang was in charge of the government affairs.
Although Zhao Zhong is despicable and shameless in politics and jealous of talented people, he is still responsible for his job. In history, after the palace was broken, Zhang Rang Duan Gui and others took the emperor hostage because of government affairs, but Zhao Zhong did not dare to take the empress dowager out of the palace (of course, other attendants tried to rob, but were stopped by Lu Zhi). In the end, Zhao Zhong was wherever Queen He was. He was hacked to death in the palace and did not dare to leave his post without permission.
However, at this moment, his position would obviously not be accepted by other swearing servants.
Zhang Rang made a quick decision: "I don't care about the details of planning major events. I am waiting for you, and I will not leave the empress dowager. I am afraid of being filthy in the palace. To put it bluntly, Li Su is so young...huhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Zhao Zhong sighed and was powerless to stop him. He still asked Zhang Rang to go to Empress Dowager He to speak sweetly, begging Empress Dowager He to summon Li Su to the palace in the name of the emperor, seeing that he would not lead troops to protect the palace part-time.
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Li Su was having supper at home at that time, and was shocked when he heard that the Empress Dowager had summoned him in the name of the emperor.
"Damn it! You go and kill He Jin! Why are you summoning me? Although I brought 500 people into Luoyang, I am not going to command these 500 people to kill all the eunuchs! You have to be injustice and have a debt! Damn, don't take it off!"
Li Su was almost immediately worried about death and collapsed. She threw down her bowl and shrank back, catching sorrow all over her body, like malaria.
"Why is Zhonglang scared?" Zhao Yun, who was having dinner with Li Su and always protecting him, quickly cared about it.
Li Su seemed to have not left yet, so he said with the situation: "Marsia caused by the Qinling Mountains has recurred again, so he beat me up - I was caught in Nanyang for half a month and didn't rush to travel last month, maybe it wasn't easy. Please wait a moment!"
When Li Su pretended to be sick, the eunuch had no choice but to give him half a stick of incense to solve the problem. If it didn't work, he would have to pass on the imperial physician.
After Li Su took advantage of the situation and sent the eunuchs, Zhao Yun asked in a low voice: "What do you know about Zhonglang?"
Li Su: "The general transferred foreign troops to Beijing. Everyone in the world knew that it was to force the queen mother to massacre eunuchs. Now Dian Wei's 2,500 cavalry will arrive in Yique tomorrow. But they summoned me like the general who led the troops into the palace at this time. I am afraid that it was not the empress dowager's order, but the ten eunuchs who were prosecuting edicts!"
Zhao Yun was shocked: "This...that's better than bringing more guards to escort the Central Army into the house? What if it's not a forgery of the imperial edict, it would be a serious crime to refuse to obey the imperial edict."
Li Su waved his hand and thought of He Jin's fate in history: "If it were really a forgery, how could the Ten Eunuchs allow the guards to enter the palace together?"
Zhao Yun thought for a while: "But... all the troops in the capital were in the hands of the general. The Northern Army and the Jinwu Guard were led by Wu Kuang, Zhang Zhang, Yuan Shu and Ding Yuan respectively. The ten regular attendants were trying to harm people. At most, some eunuchs in the palace could only pick up weapons to count them temporarily, right?"
Li Su was angry and patted Zhao Yun twice: "So what! The eunuch's knife is as sharp as it can kill people!"
Zhao Yun gritted his teeth: "Since that's the case, why not ask Zhonglang to wear bright light armor and cover the court uniform for a while. When he arrives outside the palace gate, even if others are stopped, as long as I am a specific cavalry general, I will come to see you together.
If the Empress Dowager really wants to ask about the military and horses, it would not be more reasonable for me to go together, and they would not be wary of me alone. After entering, if there are indeed eunuchs who make trouble, even if there are hundreds of people, I will definitely protect the Central Secretary from the palace again! Then I will shout loudly, saying that it was the eunuch who forged the edict!"
Li Su thought about it and regretted sending Dian Wei to pick up the remaining 2,500 cavalrymen in person. If Dian Wei was there, it would be great to bring more individuals and insurance!
He bit his lip: "Even if I speak cleverly and make them not wary of you following you, when you enter the inner palace, you will definitely not be able to carry weapons such as guns, spears, long spears, and other weapons. You can only hide the sword in secret, or even too long..."
Zhao Yun said arrogantly: "So what? It's not that I look down on the martial arts of those eunuchs. If they all use swords, I will be more than enough to kill the Hundred-Man Guardians with one sword. If they are plotting to kill the soldiers with spears, I can kill and take their spears."
Li Su took three deep breaths and finally made up his mind to call the eunuch at the door, saying that he had finished his blow and was healthy and could enter the palace, but he was not the actual commander of this army, so he asked Zhao Yun to join him, so he would not mislead the matter when the queen mother asked questions.
This excuse was finally passed, and the other party said that he could make arrangements like this.
Then Li Su brought some people to the palace gate, and then only him and Zhao Yun entered the Jiade Hall.
"I hope I just let me pretend to test the trap for He Jin, so that they will not attack me and expose their true motives..." Li Su silently comforted herself.
I can only believe that the armed eunuchs in the entire palace could not beat Zhao Yun.
In a play like Zhongyi Wushuang, it turns out that if you act too hard, you will still have side effects.
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Chapter completed!