Although Liu Xie eventually fled to Hongnong County by chance, this is completely different from the mentality, environment and motivation he faced when he wanted to move east in another time and space.

In the original history, it took Liu Xie more than a year later, in June 195 to try to move eastward. The underlying reason was naturally that Li Jue and Guo Si's melee in Chang'an caused chaos and there would be dangers to stay.

In addition to the three major disasters of drought, locust plague and earthquake in Guanzhong in 194, the officials of the court and some troops who were not Li Jue and Guo Si were not in the direct lineage, so they had to leave.

To put it bluntly, the cause of war accounts for 60% and the famine accounts for 40%. At that time, the price of white rice in Chang'an soared to 50,000 yuan per stone, which was more than a hundred times higher than the bumper year. The wheat costs 30,000 yuan per stone, and even beans, beans and sorghum costs 10,000 or 20,000 yuan. Who can withstand such a food shortage?

However, in history, Liu Xie has really gained a little reputation as a "benevolent king" in this wave of food shortage. In the winter of 194 and the spring of 195, Liu Xie also tried to open the Taicang disaster relief of the Chang'an court, and distributed 50 stone wheat and 50 stone beans to the citizens of Chang'an every day to provide charity for charity.

Unfortunately, not only was the drop in the bucket, but also the official in charge of disaster relief, a censor named Hou Wen, corrupted most of the disaster relief grain. Later, Liu Xie asked someone to pick up wheat, five dou of beans in front of the emperor, and experimented with cooking a large pot of porridge in front of the officials, measured the volume, and calculated the expansion rate of the grain after being boiled, proving that Hou Wen was indeed corrupt.

But because Hou Wen was Li Jue's confidant and could not be killed, he was responsible for the 50th reign. However, Liu Xie was actually recorded in the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty" with this deed, and he also gained the reputation of "benevolent king" and "intelligent" at that time. At the age of fifteen, he finally got out of the shadow of his brother's cowardice and incompetence. He was able to be known by ordinary people outside the palace to be a little brainy and not a person who was unvirtuous.

However, by chance, Liu Xie in this life had to escape from Chang'an a year in advance in order to avoid the butcher knife that Li Jue pulled the emperor to bury himself when he was desperate to jump over the wall. But he lost the opportunity to show kindness to the people and show the moral image of a benevolent monarch.

This is easily regarded as "the court is unethical and when disasters are caused by heaven, they will directly abandon the people in dire straits and flee." After all, the history of later generations has repeatedly proved that if a monarch hides outside the country and spends his own peaceful life when the people are affected, he will easily be disgusted by the people - just look at Tyrande during the plague period in 2020.

Moreover, Liu Xie lost not only an opportunity to show kindness to the people, but also an opportunity to show kindness to the officials—

One and a half years later, on his way eastward, Liu Xie was chased by Guo Si twice in Dongjian, Shanxian and other places, and suffered heavy losses. Some people advised him to give up the imperial chariot and escape alone. At least he had the opportunity to say, "All officials are loyal and can't give up" to stabilize the hearts of the team.

When later historian Hu Sansheng of the Southern Song Dynasty was annotated by "Zizhi Tongjian", he commented on Liu Xie's remarks: "When the emperor's words are expressed in times of danger, how can the king who destroyed the country treat him?"

All of this has now become abandoning the concubines and abandoning all officials to escape directly. People's hearts are separated, and they must not be the only one end.

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After arriving in Huayin, what to do next has become the top priority that Liu Xie has to consider.

Because the timing and environment of the east return are different, after he came to Huayin in this life, he did not have to consider the question of "whether to continue to escape from the pursuit of the Western Liang warlords."

After all, during this period in history, two generals were stationed east of Chang'an, only Huayin was Duan Wei's defense zone, and Hongnong in front was not loyal to Zhang Ji of the imperial court. Duan Wei's direct territory was too small, so Liu Xie did not dare to live for a long time.

Now, history was split when Li Su killed Dong Yue two years ago, and Fan Chou broke up. Zhang Ji went to Chencang in the west, and now he has been dead for a few months. All defense areas between Guanzhong area and Henan Yin in the east are Duan Wei.

When Liu Xie was already setting out to escape, he learned from Dong Cheng and Liang Xing that Duan Wei had secretly negotiated to oppose Liu Bei to Li Jie on the Jingyuan front line. Duan Wei had no problem with his loyalty to the court, so he wanted to live as long as he wanted.

More importantly, in the Henan Yin area east of Hongnong, where Luoyang is located, it was also because of Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Zhu Jun and Sun Jian's internal and external cooperation in the Northern Expedition more than three years ago, and the bandit army that Dong Zhuo implemented the scorched earth strategy in advance, Luoyang was not completely burned, and Henan Yin was not completely destroyed. And now it is under the rule of Zhu Jun, the "last loyal minister of the Han Dynasty".

Zhu Jun has been in Henan Yin for three years, recuperating and gathering refugees. Now Henan Yin has recovered to a population of 300,000 to 400,000, and Zhu Jun can barely collect some grain taxes. Although it is much less than the peak period before being demolished, it is only more than 100,000 yuan left after Dong Zhuo's complete destruction in the same period of history, which is two or three times better.

Moreover, the land in Henan Yin is quite good and fertile. Although the population is small, as long as the society is not chaotic, the people can be organized to produce orderly. The human labor efficiency of the unit can be higher without worrying about no land planting.

Even if Liu Xie further returned to Luoyang, as long as the central government left fewer troops and streamlined the government, he could still survive by relying on the local finances of Henan Yin, and Cao Cao would never have anything to do.

If Cao Cao dares to "welcome the horse", it will definitely not be "rescuing the horse" but "robbing the horse". Both Yuan and Liu Bei can immediately find excuses to kill Cao Cao, who only has two states. Similarly, if Yuan Shu dares to rob and wants to rob, his fate will only be worse than Cao Cao.

The princes of all sides could only give the emperor money, food, clothing, and sponsor the court, but could not lead troops to Beijing to control the government. Just like the loyal and Han princes such as Liu Biao and Zhang Yang did in history, they helped the emperor restore the palace and provide daily necessities.

Therefore, regardless of whether Liu Xie went to Luoyang or not, he could at least be stable until Zhu Jun's death. In history, Zhu Jun received insult from Guo Si during his serious illness in 195, which caused his condition to worsen, but even if Guo Si did not anger him, his own illness might not be delayed for a few years.

These are all later stories. Liu Xie himself has not taken the perspective of God, so he doesn't know how many years Zhu Jun has left.

He had just settled down and had not yet wanted to go to Luoyang. On April 17, the day after arriving in Huayin, Liu Xie just felt that Huayin's small county was too narrow and that long-term residence would harm the decency of the royal family, so he asked Dong Cheng and Liang Xing to protect him and continue to travel east.

This time, because there was no hurry, I walked slowly on the road for three days, walked more than 100 miles, and arrived at Hongnong County, the capital of Hongnong County, and used Hongnong as a temporary trip to watch the situation of the war in Guanxi. I wanted to confirm that the war between Liu Bei and Li Jue was over and make plans.

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The words are divided into two ends, as mentioned earlier,

On April 17, when Liu Xie set out from Huayin to Hongnong, it was also the day when Li Jue's own vanguard of the cavalry retreated to Chang'an, and Li Jue's infantry rear army arrived in Chiyang.

On the same day, Ma Chao had already met with Zhang Fei in Huaili and restored all the counties west of Huaili. Zhao Yun chased Li Jue's infantry rear army and chased him to the east of Chiyang City.

Li Jue's infantry was like a frightened bird, afraid that he would be intercepted and defeated by Zhao Yun on the last few dozen miles of journey from Chi Yang to Chang'an, so he was forced to retreat directly into Chi Yang City, a small gateway county north of Chang'an.

Zhao Yun's troops were cavalry and could not directly attack the city. In addition, he was exhausted after several days of running around. He was afraid that he would give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of it. Zhao Yun ordered camp outside the northwest corner of Chiyang City, and then divided the light cavalry scouts to go around Chiyang City and go southeast to inquire about the news.

There is no doubt that it had been a whole day and a half since Liu Xie left Beijing, on the evening of the 16th, Li Ying's front army had failed to pursue and suffered certain casualties under Tongguan. Therefore, at the speed of fast horse transmission, on the 17th, Chang'an, Chiyang and other places had known that the emperor had been taken away by Dong Cheng Duan Wei.

Not only Li Jue knew, but the next day, even the scouts sent by Zhao Yun knew, and Liu Bei, who was late three days later, knew.

Of course, Li Jue was immediately furious when he heard the news. He killed all the officers under Liang Xing, who were the officers under Li Ying and Li Xian, who were apologizing to him, and kicked the heads as balls to vent his anger.

After all, in this battle yesterday, Dong Cheng's five hundred personal guards still killed hundreds of people. Liang Xing also had some troops with the rear left. In the battle with Li Juejun, both sides suffered more than a thousand casualties, and a group of people fought in a melee.

Therefore, although the emperor did not catch it, the officers who cut off the emperor's rear were killed and arrested a lot. Li Ying also hoped to use these heads to slightly calm his brother's anger.

"Baby! What's the use of killing these people? It's useless to kill a hundred Simas and a hundred lieutenants! I'm the emperor! Emperor! It's good now. In less than three days, the edict to declare that I am a traitor will fly all over the sky! You traitors! You can't even see an incompetent child! You can still run away!"

In Chang'an City, in the mansion of the General of the Cavalry, Li Jue drew his sword in anger and slashed and slapped Li Ying several times in anger. He kicked Li Xian under the crotch and flew backwards. But the two of them were slapped and did not dare to complain at all. After all, this disaster was too great and it was already a tragic disaster for the family to be destroyed.

Li Jue was still unable to relieve his anger when he kicked him. He waved his hand and asked his subordinates to drag Li Xian down, and killed him on the spot to send the first order.

Li Jin saw that one of his sons was killed, but he didn't dare to resist. Instead, he felt extremely sad. He probably died not long before his son. When Liu Bei came, the whole family would die.

The whole family was silent for a long time, and Li Jin just asked numbly: "How to avenge for the sake of the present? You can't die in vain. Dong Cheng and Duan Wei's accomplice could not be found out for a while. Otherwise, all the court officials who had some friendship with Dong Cheng and Duan Wei would be killed?"

Li Jue was like an angry leopard, and the nasolabial folds on his cheeks shivered as his muscles twitched: "Kill! Kill all the ministers who have a personal relationship with Dong Cheng... General, please let it go first, I will see you myself. Duan Gou is also a general in Liangzhou after all, and there are too many people who have a personal relationship with him. I have many in my own army. Don't worry about this matter!

By the way, there are also eunuchs in the palace, and there must be many helping the emperor to escape! You ask Li Jin to lead people to slaughter the palace, and you will be killed! I, Li Zhiran, want to die, and I have to drag thousands of people to take charge! A real man comes to the world and walks, how can he be as silent as Master Dong when he goes, hahahaha!

The palace maids in the palace were casually killed by the soldiers who killed eunuchs, but after the game, I remember to save my life. Before the decisive battle with Liu Bei, I promised those Hu and Qiang generals who followed me, saying that they would reward the women in the palace to them for some fun. Unfortunately, the emperor is still there, so I am not good at taking action. Since the little thief Liu Xie lost the palace and ran away, I can keep my promise and reward Hu generals with all the palace maids!"

Li Jue promised the palace maid to Hu General, which was true in history. In 195, when Liu Xie proposed to move eastward, the first people sent by Li Jue to stop him were the barbarian Hu generals, and some Qiang generals surrounded Liu Xie's palace to cause trouble, saying, "The Grand Marshal promised that we would send the palace maids to us as concubines. Now if the emperor leaves, we will ask who wants a woman."

Later, Liu Xie still found a way to ask Jia Xu. In addition, Li Jue was indeed betrayed by everyone, so he bleed a little and sent off some palace maids to quell the rebellion and then ran away.

But in this life, Jia Xu was not here at all, and he didn't want to help the emperor with his heart. Liu Xie himself ran away again. Naturally, his palace was the empress, the concubine, the uterus, the eunuch Li Jue, whoever he wanted to kill.
Chapter completed!