Chapter 16 4. Chaotic Chang'an City

Although Liu Xiu became the emperor, some people have already seen that he still lacks something decent.This thing is the capital.In the vastness of the world, there are only two places with the most royal aura, one is Chang'an and the other is Luoyang.Don't even think about Chang'an, Liu Xiu only thinks about Luoyang as the capital. At this time, Luoyang City was surrounded by groups, and sooner or later it would fall into Liu Xiu's hands.But when it will be sooner or later, Liu Xiu is not sure.A few months passed in a blink of an eye, and Liu Xiu was really anxious to see Zhu Tuan in Luoyang City stubbornly.

Human nature has weaknesses, as long as we grasp their weaknesses and do things, we will get twice the result with half the effort, just like how we dealt with Li Yi, we can kill him without firing a shot.But this Zhu Tuo in front of him, how can he get rid of him? Liu Xiu thought hard and thought of another trick. Liu Xiu thinks that since Zhu Tuna doesn't eat hard ones, why not try feeding him soft ones.So, he thought of a person. The name Liu Xiu thought of was Cen Peng.Cen Peng, courtesy name Junran, was born in Jiyang, Nanyang (now Xinye, Nanyang, Henan).At first, Cen Peng was a county magistrate in Wang Mang's government. Later, Liu rebelled and surrendered. After Liu was beheaded, he belonged to Zhu Tuan's subordinates as a school captain.Until Liu Xiu crossed the Yellow River north and voted under his tent.

Liu Xiu summoned Cen Peng and said, "You used to be Zhu Tuan's subordinate. I sent you a mission to lobby and persuade him to surrender." Cen Peng took the order and came to the city of Luoyang.Zhu tuna stood on the wall, looking at each other.Cen Peng talked to the city for a long time and did ideological work for a long time. At the end, he only heard Zhu Yu say: "I understand what you said. The problem is that Liu Yi and I planned to kill Liu. If I voted for Liu Xiu, will he let me go?" Cen Peng was taken aback, that's right, I have to go back and ask the leader about this question first.So he turned around and left to report to Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu replied: "Tell Zhu Yu like this, those who do great things will not take these small envy and hatred to heart. As long as he is willing to vote for me, it is too late to make him an official title, how can I kill him." Liu Xiu added another sentence: "The Yellow River is the proof, I will not break my promise. If I break my promise, the sky will be struck by lightning." When Cen Peng got the answer, he jumped on his horse and ran to the city of Luoyang again, shouting Liu Xiu's words to Zhu Tuan on the city.However, after Zhu Yu heard this, he lowered a ladder made of soft rope from the city, and shouted to the city: "Cen Peng, if what you said is true, come up and have a good talk with me."

Cen Peng stared at the rope ladder, was taken aback for a moment, grabbed the rope, and was about to climb up.At this time, I saw Zhu Tuan laughing up to the sky in the city, and shouted: "Okay, you don't have to come up. I believe you." Zhu Yu told Cen Peng that he was willing to surrender, and that he would visit Liu Xiu in person five days later. Five days later, Zhu Tuna really left the city.Before departure, Zhu Tuan had ordered the generals to defend the city.He told the guards like this, you must be optimistic about Luoyang City.Go out this time, if I can't come back, you will lead your army to another place.

After all, Zhu Tuan still doesn't trust Liu Xiu very much.Zhu Tuan asked someone to tie him up, and went to see Liu Xiu with Cen Peng.After Liu Xiu saw it, he untied him personally and served him with a banquet.Immediately afterwards, he ordered Cen Peng to send Zhu tuna back to Luoyang City that night. What is mind, this is the mind of those who achieve great things.Zhu tuna was completely convinced.The next day, the army surrendered. Two hundred years ago, when the great ancestor Liu Bang rebelled, he captured Fengyi County, his hometown, and entrusted his fellow villager Yongchi to garrison it.Unexpectedly, when Liu Bang was defeated at the front line, Yong Chi stabbed upside down and led the villagers to rebel against Liu Bang and insisted on not letting him enter the city.Later, Liu Bang took Fengyi, and Yongchi also surrendered to Liu Bang.

But after that incident, Liu Bang felt a dull pain in his heart when he thought of the group of people who stabbed in the back.However, after Liu Bang pacified the world, he listened to Zhang Liang's plan, not only did not kill Yong Chi, but made him a marquis.From Liu Bang, we see not only a broad mind, but also superb political art.Especially the latter, made Liu Bang's great achievements. Two hundred years later, from Liu Xiu, we seem to see a revived Liu Bang.Liu Xiu once again demonstrated the emperor's art and excellent political art, and took in the brother-killing enemy Zhu Tuan, which greatly reduced administrative costs and greatly improved the efficiency of dominating the world, thus completing the emperor's career of revitalizing the Han Dynasty.

In 25 AD, on October 10, Liu Xiu entered Luoyang and made Luoyang the capital of the dynasty.Adhere to fire and morality, the color is red, and the rules and regulations are all based on the former Han Dynasty. Now that Luoyang is settled, the next step is to see how Deng Yu takes Chang'an City.However, Liu Xiu soon discovered that Chang'an City was really in a mess, and Deng Yu alone could not clean up the huge mess in Chang'an City. What kind of corps is Liu Xuan's rebel team?Anyone with a longer memory knows that Liu Xuan's team is not a teacher of benevolence and righteousness, but an army of robbers.

Back then, when brothers Liu and Liu Xiu first rebelled, they united with Xinshi Bing and Ping Lin Bing.However, as soon as these people arrived on the battlefield, they were like rogue robbers, grabbing good things whenever they saw them.In the end, those who couldn't grab Liu's troops had to fight with them.At that time, if Liu Xiu hadn't come forward to mediate, both sides might have lost. Ever since Liu Xuan led Xinshi Bing and others into Chang'an City, it was like a countryman entering a big city. He couldn't get used to such a big scene all at once.During the court meeting, all the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty came to the meeting, and Liu Xuan sat in the hall at a loss, so he kept picking his fingernails.

Suddenly, he realized that he was about to say something, so he asked, "Excuse me, how many things did you rob today?" As soon as Liu Xuan said a word, everyone was stunned on the spot.I used to be a robber, but I didn't expect to become an emperor and treat myself as a robber. But thinking about it seriously, the change of role was not Liu Xuan's fault.After entering the city, no one has ever given him special training. How can he know anything about the court ceremony? Of course, it's normal to be an emperor for the first time and not get used to everything.As long as you study hard, there is no difficulty that you cannot overcome.The problem is, Liu Xuan is not a good boy, nor is he a good student.After he lived in Changle Palace, he seemed to have begun to forget his roots.Before long, he was obsessed with beauty.

Liu Xuan, who was fascinated by beauty, soon learned to be lazy and handed over the power to his father-in-law Zhao Meng.After Zhao Meng took power, on a whim, he promoted a large number of low-level cadres who could do things. It's ridiculous to say that these people promoted by Zhao Meng are experts in all walks of life, many of them are specialists in slaughtering cattle and sheep, and chefs who cook in the palace. Liu Xuan didn't care about things, Zhao Meng managed things in disorder, so the generals of Chang'an City followed suit.Everyone seized the territory, disobeyed the command, and even fought for the territory. In short, what a mess of characters. Seeing the chaos in Chang'an City, Deng Yu couldn't help but feel agitated.After Liu Xiu ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he attacked Liu Xuan with red eyebrows.After several months of fighting, he killed tens of thousands of enemy troops, and even defeated Wang Kuang, the leader of Xinshi soldiers, and let him escape back to Chang'an. After Wang Kuang's defeat at the front, the rebel regiments in Chang'an City expected to be unstoppable, and all of them were prepared to retreat.First of all, a general under Chang'an, the King of Xiajiang Bing, proposed: Hundreds of thousands of Red Eyebrow troops are about to enter Chang'an, and Deng Yu's army is also waiting for us over there. If we want to protect Chang'an, there is no hope. Chang'an robbed them all, and it would not be too late to escape. This wonderful suggestion was immediately supported by the generals.So they played Liu Xuan, but Liu Xuan's face turned black when he heard it. In the face of a catastrophe, if you don't want to resist, you just want to snatch him away, which is really destroying your own prestige.Seeing that Liu Xuan was so angry that he could not utter a word, the generals saw that the situation was not right, so they had to retreat. At this time, Liu Xuan summoned Wang Kuang, the leader of the Xinshi Bing, Chen Mu, the leader of the Pinglin Bing, and even his father-in-law Zhao Meng.Tell them that no matter what, they must organize soldiers and horses to resist the Red Eyebrow Army, and they cannot just give up Chang'an City. Wang Kuang, Chen Mu and others took orders.But the group of generals who wanted to snatch them away before didn't obey their orders.They discussed in secret and took advantage of the Liqiu Festival to kill Liu Xuan and leave. But they didn't expect that Liu Xuan loves to play, but he didn't delay the intelligence work, and actually intercepted the intelligence. Liu Xuan decided to do whatever he could, and on the occasion of the Liqiu Festival, he claimed that he was sick and invited the generals to the palace to discuss matters.This is what he thought, as soon as they arrived in the palace, one would behead one, and two would behead one pair. That day, everyone was about to come together, but Liu Xuan hesitated again.Seeing that the situation was wrong, everyone drew their swords to break through, and the two factions fought in the palace. Liu Xuan couldn't do anything to others, so he had to escape from Chang'an City first and go to his father-in-law Zhao Meng. After this disastrous defeat, Liu Xuan summed up the lesson that these generals would not have made waves without the support of Wang Kuang, Chen Mu and others to rebel.To capture the thief, the king must be captured first, and Wang Kuang and Chen Mu must be dealt with first. So Liu Xuan summoned Chen Mu and others.Chen Mu didn't know much about the news, so he arrived early and was beheaded by Liu Xuan.When Wang Kuang heard that Chen Mu had been beheaded, he ran away and led his army into the city of Chang'an to join up with the generals who had rebelled first. Soon, with the support of his father-in-law Zhao Meng and others, Liu Xuan returned to Chang'an City and drove Wang Kuang and others out. When Liu Xuan returned to Changle Palace, he couldn't help but feel happy.However, when he was immersed in the joy of victory, a terrifying cloud that crushed the city was drifting towards Chang'an City.