Chapter 18 4. Melee, curtain call

However, what happened next made Liu Ju dumbfounded.After Ren An took the talisman, he turned around and left without saying much.Then, Liu Ju discovered that instead of sending troops, Ren Anfei closed the city gate, blocking his way out. What exactly is going on? very simple.The reason why Ren An didn't send troops was because the talisman that the crown prince gave him was fake.Liu Ju didn't know that Liu Che had expected that he would use the talisman to mobilize the army.Therefore, Liu Che temporarily changed the characteristics of the talisman, that is, he added yellow tassels to all the poles of the original red talisman.

The talisman that Liu Ju sent to Ren An did not have Huang Ying.According to the rules, Ren An should not be so polite to Liu Ju, he should be captured immediately and sent to Liu Che.However, Ren An did not do this. There is only one reason, human feelings. I won't hit you, hold you back, scold you, and don't want to see you.They should all understand each other.I have paid off what I owed you to the Wei family in the past.Since then, the two have never owed each other, and have forgotten each other in the rivers and lakes.Even if they meet each other, I am just a passerby in your life.

Ren An seemed to pour cold water on Liu Ju's head.Liu Ju wanted to get out of the city, but he couldn't get out, and it was even worse if he wanted to do something.In the end, he had only one option, to withdraw. Where to withdraw?Withdrew to the city.However, when Liu Ju was on his way back, there was a person who had been waiting for him for a long time.This person is Liu Quyao, the prime minister who ran away. At this time, Liu Quyu was full of anger.After all, he and Liu Shi are also cousins.But Liu Zheng was really outrageous, and even shot him behind his back, and put the hat of the world's biggest runaway coward on his head, causing the emperor to call him a coward.If you don't let out such bad breath, how can you have the face to hang out in Chang'an in the future?

Changle Palace, Ximen, and Liu Qushou put on a tough-guy stance, ready to fight.Facts have proved that if you want to be a tough guy, it depends on your strength.Now, he has no reason to be afraid of Liu Shi.With the support of the emperor and the authority to command the troops, I'm afraid that he will be a bird.Therefore, from Prime Minister Liu's point of view, that Liu Zheng had no way out and was pursued by soldiers. Rebelling only with the prisoners in Chang'an was simply seeking his own death by twisting his thighs with his arms. Come on, Prince, Ximen is your ghost gate closed.

Liu Quyu is very confident.However, he was too confident.Soon, he discovered that Liu Zheng was really not someone to mess with.Because Liu Ju was not fighting alone, nor was he fighting with the Chang'an prisoners, but the entire Chang'an citizens were fighting side by side with him. It turned out that the citizens of Chang'an who were just watching the fun were mobilized by Liu Ju to join his team, and the number continued to increase, even reaching tens of thousands.This group of people not only vented their anger for Liu Ju, but also vented their anger for themselves.The traitor Jiang Chong entangled a group of people and made Chang'an restless. Now that the opportunity has come, if you don't beat them, who will you beat?

Now, Liu Quya was really anxious and stared blankly.The citizens of Chang'an were all taken advantage of by Liu Ju. If, if, if the news spread out of Chang'an, then those prefectures and states repaired by Jiang Chong would also rebel, and the world would be in chaos that day. Thinking about it, Liu Quya felt his scalp go cold.Just as Liu Quyao's head was hot and cold, the battle started.I don't know which side launched the attack first. Anyway, both sides were jealous, and they started fighting as soon as they met.This battle, we can call it a melee.A jerk is a jerk.The reason why he is said to be a battle of bastards is because of the accounts involved, and neither side can tell who is right and who is wrong.

It was both a melee and a bloody battle.This battle lasted for five days.What did Liu Che say in Ganquan Palace?Avoid hand-to-hand combat - it's just bullshit.Tens of thousands of people against tens of thousands of people, if there is no hand-to-hand combat and everyone just shouts, then what's the point?If this is the case, for the citizens of Chang'an, wouldn't the excitement be in vain? After five days of bloody battle, blood flowed into rivers in Chang'an.The streets were littered with dead bodies, and ditches overflowed with blood.It is really tragic and tragic to beat one's own family.

Five days later, the situation tends to de-escalate.There were two reasons why the situation was brought under control: one was that the empty-handed ones were no match for the latte ones, and the citizens of Chang'an suffered greatly, and everyone wanted to rest.The second is that the central government of the Han Dynasty launched an emergency plan and sent a large number of work teams to clarify the facts to the citizens of Chang'an.Let them know that they were stirred up, because the prince was using the Jiang Chong incident to rebel. Therefore, under the attack of the iron rod of the Han Dynasty and the persuasion of the carrot of the work team, more and more citizens quit the prince's front.Overnight, Liu Ju changed from a star sought after by everyone to an orphan abandoned by everyone.Now, he was really done.

On July 17, Liu Ju finally couldn't hold on anymore. Thirty-six strategies, running is the best policy.Where are you going?The west gate is blocked, but the south gate is open.Liu Ju fled to Fu'an gate in the south. At this time, the gatekeeper is Tian Ren, the executive officer (Sizhi) of the Prime Minister's Mansion.No one expected that Liu Ju slipped out of Chang'an smoothly without any effort. To be precise, Liu Ju did not escape, but was released by Tian Ren. Tian Ren, son of Uncle Tian.Uncle Tian was the envoy who went to Liang Guo on behalf of Liu Qi to investigate Yuan An's murder.We should remember that Uncle Tian found out that the mastermind of Yuan Ang's murder was Liang Wang Liu Wu.But halfway back, he actually burned Liu Wu's criminal evidence.

There is only one reason, Liu Wu is the darling of Empress Dowager Dou, and also Liu Qi's younger brother, he doesn't want to break up the bond of flesh and blood.Therefore, when he later told Liu Qi this great truth, Liu Qi not only spared him, but also rewarded him, and at the same time, Queen Mother Dou was so happy that she burst into tears. However, the reason why Tian Ren was able to climb to the position of Si Zhi was not because of his father's great merit, but because of another person.This person is the good old Wei Qing.At the beginning, Tian Ren was appreciated by Wei Qing because of his strong physique, so he joined Wei Qing's family and became Wei Qing's family.Later, Tian Ren followed Wei Qing to conquer the Huns many times, and made many achievements in battle, so he was recommended by Wei Qing and became a doctor.Several years later, Tian Ren climbed the ranks all the way, and finally made a fool of himself and entered the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Now, we finally understand.Why did Liu Ju run towards Fu'an Gate? He probably came here with the intention of winning a lottery ticket.Because this Tian Ren, like Ren An, was once Wei Qing's person.Although Ren An did not let Liu Shi go, he was polite enough.If Tian Ren is more polite, the hope of escape is not impossible. Sure enough, good luck was really hit by Liu Ju.Uncle Tian's lofty integrity that he would rather tear down one more bridge than tear down the flesh and blood in the world was fully reflected in Comrade Tian Ren.Therefore, Tian Ren said to others: "The prince and the emperor started fighting because of internal conflicts in their family. Now that the prince is in trouble, it is not easy for others. Let him go." In this way, Liu Ju escaped from Chang'an smoothly. Liu Ju was temporarily out of trouble, but Tian Ren's troubles had just begun.How did the emperor give orders to the prime minister's mansion in Ganquan Palace?One of the most important ones is that no traitor can be let go.Now it's all right, the biggest traitors are all let go, isn't that a huge dereliction of duty? Therefore, when the prime minister Liu Quzhen heard that Tian Ren had let Liu Zheng go, he was furious, and immediately sent someone to take down this disobedient subordinate and prepared to kill him. At this time, someone stood up and said a word for Tian Ren. The person who stood up to speak was the doctor Yushi who won the victory.Bao Shengzhi's year of birth is unknown, his birthplace is unknown, and his origin is simply unknown.As the saying goes, heroes don't ask where they come from, and violent victory is not a hero, but this guy of unknown origin was at least considered a great man in the Han Dynasty.The reason why he won the reputation of a great man because of his violent victory was that he did a great thing with great influence in the local area. We know that at the end of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the economy of the Han Dynasty was not very prosperous because of years of foreign wars.When the economy is sluggish, there will naturally be more unemployed people.At that time, the government did not have unemployment insurance, and the social tertiary industry was not doing well.Therefore, in order to be self-reliant, these unemployed people worked hard and created an "industry" with considerable income.This industry is theft.Because of its large scale, it later became a group of thieves. The thieves in ancient China lived in an extremely abnormal way.The more stable the society, the smaller their living space and the smaller the industrial scale.If there are troubled times, the living space will expand rapidly, and its "career" will also flourish with each passing day.At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang shouted, and the poor people all over the country followed them to become thieves, which is evidence of history. From a certain point of view, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty expanded the territory and created an unprecedented living space for the Chinese nation.We should keep in mind the martial arts he left for future generations.If you look at it from another angle, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is like a watershed in the Western Han Dynasty. The Western Han Dynasty started from prosperity to decline, starting from him.During the lifetime and after the death of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the weather of the Western Han Dynasty was divided into ups and downs. The decline of the Western Han Dynasty had signs in the Han Wu period.Because the living space of thieves in local counties and states has increased, there is a phenomenon of endless wildfires and rebirth when the spring breeze blows.Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty attached great importance to the rectification of thieves, and appointed cruel officials to govern the county.Yu Shengzhi rose rapidly after he was appointed by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty as the directing messenger to vigorously control the thieves. How did Bao Shengzhi subdue the gang of thieves in the county?He not only sits in command, but also personally participates in the arrest of thieves.Every time he plays, he always wears gorgeous clothes.Once a thief is caught, he always swings an iron ax and rushes forward.That scene, that momentum, can be described as thrilling and exciting. Think about it, everyone, if the Minister of Public Security was wearing a straight suit and holding an ax in Guangzhou Railway Station, chasing the leader of a certain ax gang madly.This kind of news is guaranteed to be popular on TV, the Internet, and all media the next day. At that time, Bao Shengzhi relied on this iron wrist to scare all the bandit groups in the county.Because of his outstanding political achievements, he couldn't even cover him, and the officials became bigger and bigger, and he became the doctor of the royal history today. Back to the front, what did Bao Shengzhi say for Tian Ren?This is what he said to the prime minister Liu Quyu: Tian Ren, as Si Zhi, is a ministerial cadre of two thousand shi. If the prime minister wants to kill him, he must first ask the emperor for instructions. What qualifications do you have to kill him like this? When Bao Shengzhi said this, Liu Qushu felt that it made sense, so he had to let Tian Ren go. Why did Bao Shengzhi speak for Tian Ren?I have no idea.What I don't know is whether he saved Tian Ren because of his good relationship with Tian Ren, or because he sympathized with the prince Liu Shi.But all I know is that Liu Che was very upset after Bao Shengzhi rescued Tian Ren. There are too many things that Liu Che is unhappy about.What makes him most displeased is that Prince Liu Zheng slipped away despite the restoration of Chang'an's iron network.As a result, Liu Che, who was so angry, began to lose his temper.The first person he asked to settle accounts was Doctor Yushi, who was violently defeated. Liu Che sent someone to send a word to Bao Shengzhi, and he was dealt with.This probably means that Si Zhi let go of the leader of the rebel party on purpose, and it is only natural for the prime minister to kill him, so why do you dissuade him without authorization? When Bao Sheng heard it, he knew that he was done for, so he had to commit suicide to apologize. The second person Liu Che wanted to deal with was Empress Wei.He gave an order to Zongzheng Liu Chang, who was in charge of royal affairs, to enter the palace to confiscate Queen Wei's seal.Wei Zifu heard about it and committed suicide.This former Cinderella has been around for several years, and finally ended her mythology. Next, Liu Che will pack the third and fourth together.These two people are Ren An and Tian Ren.Liu Che believes that Ren An is a treacherous and cunning old man with two heads.The reason why he closed the city gate was not to fight Liu Ju.It's just having two hearts, wanting to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, and only vote for whoever wins.This kind of hard-core wall-riding faction, if he doesn't kill him, who will he kill?As for Tian Ren, there is no need to talk about the truth.As a result, the two were taken to the execution ground at the same time and cut in half. In the end, there are three types of people Liu Che wants to deal with: the prince's teacher Shi De, and all the guests who have been in and out of the prince Liu Ju's palace will be punished; Group officials, exiled. Things are far from over.Liu Che believes that Liu Ju fled, and he may return to his carbine at any time.Therefore, in order to prevent Liu Ju from counterattacking, Liu Che ordered all the gates of Chang'an to garrison with heavy troops. Terror enveloped the entire city of Chang'an.From the ministers of the central government to the citizens of Chang'an, everyone is in danger. In fact, Liu Che worried that the prince's counterattack would be superfluous.At this time, the orphan abandoned by fate was fleeing eastward.He fled all the way to Hu County (west of Lingbao County, Henan Province), where he hid in the home of a poor family.At critical moments, poor brothers are still reliable.This bitter brother, who was not even as good as the subsistence allowance, finally took in Liu Shi. Anyone who comes from a poor family knows a saying: It is better to add a load of food, but also have a pair of chopsticks.One less pair of chopsticks means one less mouth.With one less mouth, how much rice can be saved in a year?However, Liu Ju did not flee alone, and two children followed him.For a poor family, having a few more pairs of chopsticks is no less than pressing a mountain on him. However, this bitter brother is very interesting.He didn't complain of suffering or tiredness, and he still insisted on weaving and selling straw sandals to support Liu Ju and his party.Now, it was Liu Ju's turn to be embarrassed.At this time, Liu Ju suddenly remembered a rich man. The rich man that Liu Ju remembered was in Hu County, and he was an old friend of Liu Ju.When Liu Ju thought of him, he didn't want to switch to his family, but to borrow money from him.Thinking of this, Liu Ju sent someone out to borrow money from the other party. Facts have proved that some money cannot be borrowed indiscriminately.Liu Ju didn't expect that he sent someone out to borrow money, but the local officials were already alarmed before the money was borrowed. On August 8, the local officials sent people to surround Liu Ju's hiding place. Chang'an used to be Liu Shi's territory.There, fate once favored him.However, in this foreign land where he is single and weak, he has deviated too far from the track of fate, and he can no longer be favored by God.Death, it seems, has never come so suddenly and violently as today. Liu Ju peeped out from the crack of the door, and there were many people outside the house.He knew that everything was irreparable. So he bolted the door tightly and pushed the door to death with a top stake.Then, he took out a strand of silk and hung it on the roof beam, and tied it tightly.Then, propping himself up on a bench, he thrust his head into the circle of death.In the end, he kicked the bench away and bid farewell to this charming and sentimental but cruel and cold world. After a long time, the officers and soldiers didn't hear any noise in the house, and suddenly felt that something was wrong.A soldier kicked open the door, and everyone rushed in.When everyone hugged Liu Ju down, he was no longer angry. I have been in this world, my steps are hasty, my face is covered by wind and dust; I left again, waving my sleeves, bid farewell to the clouds in the west, and took away all the sorrows in the world. When Liu Ju died, he was only thirty-seven years old.