Chapter 79 2. The Son of Heaven Taken as a Hostage

Li and Guo Si still fought, and the fuse was said to be related to Mrs. Guo. According to the "Dian Lue", Guo Bang's wife is a famous jealous vat, and she is always worried that some woman will snatch her husband away from her.Li often stayed at home with Guo Si for the night, and Mrs. Guo suffered from headaches and always wanted to find an opportunity to separate them so that her husband would no longer stay out all night. It's understandable for a woman to have such an idea. Everything comes from love, and there is nothing wrong with love. However, at this stage, when the conflict between the two sides is on the verge of breaking out, such an idea is really terrible. If it is not done well, blood will flow into rivers and heads will roll.Mrs. Guo didn't think about these things.

Mrs. Guo finally waited for the opportunity.Li sent someone to bring some food. Mrs. Guo made some poison in advance and put it inside. Just as Guo Si was about to eat it, Mrs. Guo said, "It's better to check the food from outside." poisoned.Mrs. Guo further provocatively said: "One mountain cannot accommodate two tigers. I have long doubted about Li." This made Guo Si also become suspicious. Just two days later, Li invited Guo Bang to drink again. Because Guo Bang had something on his mind, he became high within a few drinks.This is also a common thing. Usually, the amount is eight taels, and when you are in a bad mood, you may get drunk after drinking half a catty.But Guo Bang didn't think so. Even though he was dizzy from drinking, he still maintained a high level of vigilance. He suspected that it was Li's fault again, so he left the table and sneaked into the toilet, got some feces juice and drank it, and his stomach Everything in it was vomited out.

These two people have indeed reached the point where they seem to be estranged and are suspicious of each other. It depends on who will strike first. Finally, Guo Si couldn't bear to attack first, and Li quickly fought back.Liu Xie ordered Shi Zhong, Shang Shu and others to go to mediation respectively, but both of them refused to accept it, and they would not stop until they were distinguished. Li received a report that Guo Si was conspiring to hijack the emperor and all the officials to his side, so he acted preemptively and ordered another nephew, Li Xian, to lead thousands of people to surround the palace and transfer the emperor and all the officials to the palace. Li's camp.

Taiwei Yang Biao still wanted to argue: "Since ancient times, there has been no precedent for the emperor to live in a minister's house. How can you act like this?" Li Xian ignored him: "No one can change General Li's decision!" Liu Xie had no choice but to follow.Li Xian only brought three chariots, Emperor Xian, Empress Fu, and Dong Gui each took one, and the rest of the palace and officials had to follow on foot.Empress Fu, the daughter of the attendant Fu Wan, was established as empress last year.Her mother is Princess Yang'an, daughter of Emperor Huan Liu Zhi, and Fu Wan is Liu Zhi's son-in-law.

As soon as everyone left, Li Xian's subordinates swarmed into the palace, snatching the royal items and the maids who had not yet left, and then burned the palace and government offices to ashes. Li and Li Xian's thinking is similar to that of Dong Zhuo: I burned the palace for you, so that you can't come back even if you want to!At the same time, there is another motive, which is to destroy the evidence of robbery.It's a pity that Luoyang Palace and Chang'an Palace, the essence accumulated in the Han Dynasty for four hundred years, were all destroyed by the warlords of Liangzhou.Emperor Xian sent hundreds of officials to Guo Bang to mediate, Guo Bang took the opportunity to take everyone as hostages, including Taiwei Yang Biao, Sikong Zhang Xi, Shangshu Wang Long, Guanglu Xunqing Liu Yuan, Wei Weishi Sun Duan, Imperial servant Han Rong, Ting Weixuan, Dahonglu Qingrong, Dasinongqing Zhu Jun, general craftsman Liang Shao, and Tunqi school captain Jiang Xuan.

In this batch of hostages, two Sangongs and five Jiuqings can form a temporary cabinet. Da Sinonongqing Zhu Jun is a veteran of the army and a hero of the empire. He has never been subjected to such a useless anger, and he was angered to death.Guo Si held a meeting to discuss how to attack Li.Yang Biao asked: "The subordinates are fighting each other, one hijacked the emperor, and the other hijacked a high-ranking official, what is it?" Si stopped angrily.Guo Bang secretly contacted Zhang Bao, Li's subordinate, and planned to do something behind the scenes. Li was not idle either. He recruited Qiang and Hu people to act as mercenaries to attack Guo Si.Li first rewarded them with some gold and silver property that had just been robbed from the palace, and promised to reward them to the maids after the matter was completed.

On April 25th, Guo Bang first launched an attack and went all the way to the gate of Li Daying. A burst of arrows shot even the curtain of Emperor Xian's imperial tent, and one arrow pierced through Li's left ear.In the confusion, Zhang Bao turned his back on the water and went to burn Li's camp, but for some reason, the fire could not be ignited.Li's command launched a counterattack against Yang Feng, repelling Guo Si and Zhang Bao. Li saw that the camp was not safe, so he transferred Xiandi and his party to another military camp in the north of Chang'an City. Xiandi was completely cut off from the outside world.The conditions here are extremely poor, and normal food cannot be supplied. Emperor Xian is better, barely having two meals a day, but the others have one meal without a meal, and all of them are so hungry that they look pale.

Emperor Xian asked Li for five buckets of rice and five bowls of beef, and planned to give them to the people around him.Li refused to give it, and said: "I have already given you two meals in the morning and evening, what do you need rice for?" When Emperor Xian asked for it again, Li asked someone to send a few stinky ox bones.Emperor Xian was furious and planned to send someone to question Li. There was a personal secretary (servant) named Yang Qi in front of Emperor Xian, who advised Emperor Xian, "I think your Majesty should forget about it. This Li Mingming knows that he has made a lot of mistakes, so he doesn't care anymore. I heard that he still wants to send His Majesty away." Send it to Huangbai City (now Sanyuan, Shaanxi), Your Majesty can bear it if you can."

The only one among the three princes who stayed with Emperor Xian was Situ Zhao Wen. He also heard that Li had plans to send Emperor Xian to Huangbaicheng, so he wrote to question Li.Li was furious and wanted to kill Zhao Wen. Li's younger brother Li Ying and others persuaded him again and again, but Li calmed down a little. Li seemed to be a sign of insanity. He found a group of sorcerers and goddesses to perform spells, and built a Dong Zhuo Temple at the gate of the barracks, where three animals were often used for sacrifices.When Li saw Emperor Xian, he called him "Your Majesty" for a while, and "Emperor Ming" for a while, which confused the two monks Liu Xiezhang and had to respond vaguely.

According to the book "Notes on the Living of the Emperor", Li often pretended to be ghosts at the gate of the camp and outside the offices of the imperial court, and went in to greet the emperor after he was done.When everyone saw Li coming in, carrying three knives on his back, a long whip and a knife in his hand, they thought he was going to commit murder, and the emperor's secretaries (servants and ministers) also picked up the guys and surrounded Emperor Xian , just in case. Li Ting wondered: What are these people doing?He was a little upset.Among the secretaries of the Son of Heaven was a man named Li Zhen, who was a fellow villager and knew Li very well. Seeing that Li was unhappy, he hurried forward to smooth things over and said a lot of good things to praise Li, so that he felt a little better.In fact, those guys brought by Li were all props for the sacrifice to ghosts and gods just now.The purpose of his coming to see the emperor is to sue Guo Bang for his crimes.When Li Yi talked about Guo Si's faults, he immediately eloquent, filled with righteous indignation, others couldn't even get in the way, so Emperor Xian had to deal with it.In this way, he must come here every now and then.

Li seems to have a problem with his leadership ability. Zhang Bao's rebellion has just happened, and another general under him, Yang Feng, is also going to rebel against him, and he is going to kill him directly.However, this time it was leaked ahead of time, and Yang Feng led his army to rebel. Li and Guo started a civil war near Chang'an, and tens of thousands of people died in a few months.Seeing this situation, another heavyweight in the Liangzhou Group couldn't sit still, and he was Zhang Ji. At the beginning, Li, Guo Si, and Fan Chou formed a "group of three" to exclude Zhang Ji from the core of power and let him be stationed in Shanxian County, Hongnong County (now Shanxian County, Henan Province) in the name of General Hussars.Seeing the situation like this, Zhang Ji came to Chang'an to mediate. Li and Guo can ignore the mediation of hundreds of officials, but they have to save face when old friends and colleagues come forward. With Zhang Ji's help, Li and Guo Si agreed to reconcile and were willing to exchange their beloved sons as hostages. Come on, the dawn of peace seems not too far away. However, something went wrong, and this time it was Mrs. Li. Li's wife liked her son very much, and when she heard that she was going to send him to the enemy camp as a hostage, of course she refused, and the plan of exchanging her beloved son as a hostage for each other was shelved. Liu Xie felt even more depressed.One day, he was sulking alone, when he suddenly heard the noise of people outside the camp gate, shouting continuously.Let people go out to inquire, and it turned out that it was the mercenaries Li had found, shouting outside the camp gate one by one: "Is the emperor in there? Where are the maids that General Li promised us?" Liu Xie was angry and scared, and Liu Ai, the servant, came up with an idea, saying that Jia Xu is not bad and has a certain prestige in the Liangzhou army, so it is better to ask him to come forward to settle the matter.Liu Ai talked to Jia Xu, and Jia Xu said that there was no problem, and everything was on him. Jia Xu held a banquet, invited the leaders of the mercenary army to eat, and promised to grant them marquis on behalf of the emperor, and rewarded them with many things. After they were satisfied, they went back home. Without the support of mercenaries, Li's strength was greatly reduced.Zhang Ji took advantage of the situation and proposed a new mediation plan. The two sides would no longer exchange their beloved sons as hostages, but their daughters as hostages. At the same time, since Chang'an was dilapidated and it was extremely difficult to raise food, Zhang Ji was willing to take the emperor and all the officials to his Hong Kong. Go to Nong County. After several months of fierce fighting, both Li and Guo Si could not move. They agreed to the new mediation plan.In this way, the officials who were detained in Guo Bang's barracks saw the emperor again, and everyone felt that they had to leave Chang'an immediately while Li and Guo Bang did not repent. Without further ado, go fast!