There are gentlemen in the Three Kingdoms

Cao Cao: ""

Chapter 74 Luoyang

The pottery merchant greeted Xu Chu and asked him to gather the capable soldiers of the Xuzhou Tiger Guards, and he, Cao Cao and Wang Yun marched towards Luoyang City by night.

Along the way, the potter asked Cao Cao many times what personal business he had to go to Luoyang, but Cao Cao always laughed and didn't answer.

It wasn't until the potter that he couldn't help it that Cao Cao said to the potter in a very mysterious way: "Cao just wants to find someone who has long admired his name!"

For Cao Cao's mystification, the pottery merchant gave him a big blank stare.

Tao, Cao and others camped in the western suburbs of Luoyang, not too far from the main city of Luoyang. The group of people walked not slowly, and arrived at the west gate of Luoyang in a short time.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Luoyang had a civilization of more than 3000 years on the land of China, and myths such as Emperor Ku, Tang Yao, Yu Shun, and Xia Yu, who built the city for more than 2000 years, were all passed down here.Xia Taikang moved the king's capital to Zhenfu, and Shangtang's king's capital to Xibo, all of which are now the surrounding areas of Luoyang; then the eight hundred princes Huimeng Jin, Duke Zhou Fuzheng moved Jiuding to Luoyi, King Ping moved to the east, and Guangwu Zhongxing were all located here Or is not far.

There is no doubt that this was once the center of civilization and a transportation hub extending in all directions.

But only once.

After Dong Zhuo's tyranny, burning, and looting, Luoyang is now empty and desolate.

After entering the city, although it was midnight, looking around, although the former pavilions, towers, bluestone streets, and houses were all there, they no longer had the charm of the past, and became dilapidated due to deliberate destruction. They are everywhere, and smelly charred corpses can be seen on the street from time to time, and some residents who have been displaced are hiding in the streets and corners of the city, disheveled, cursing and crying, and there is a miserable look everywhere. scene.

Based on these alone, one can imagine what a bleak and terrifying hell scene it was on the day the city was burned.

Wang Yun drove up in the car, and seeing such a situation along the way, he couldn't help but burst into tears again, full of emotion.

Old man Wang has cried so many times in the past few days, and there is nothing he can do. The stage where he has struggled for half his life has become like this in an instant. The career and dreams of the best years are here, just crying , indicating that the old man is very strong, if it were someone else, he might cry to death.

The number one city in the world, but within a few days, it has become such a dream of decay, and has since become a second-rate city.

"What a crime!" Cao Cao rode on his horse, swiped his whip angrily, and said through gritted teeth, "Our ancestors worked so hard for thousands of years to make this place so prosperous, but the old thief is so easy to burn, how immoral!"

The pottery merchant was silent for a long while before he said: "Although it is a pity to break up and then erect, but things have already happened, and there is no way to turn around. If the world is peaceful in the future, this city will be repaired and rebuilt. Goodbye to the prosperous days."

At this moment, Diao Chan poked her head out from the curtain of the frame, and nodded slightly to the potter, asking if the potter could come closer.

The potter was quite puzzled and rode his horse past.

But seeing Diaochan looking around, she whispered to the pottery merchant, "My lord, can you send some trustworthy guards to send the little girl to Situ's mansion."

The pottery merchant said curiously: "Girl, didn't you come with us to see Yuan Shao? What are you going to Situ Mansion for?"

Diao Chan smiled shyly, and said softly: "The little girl is just a girl, what did you do to see Mr. Yuan? It's just that the last time I promised you the lottery, I feel a little sorry for him. Taking the opportunity of going to the city, the little girl wants to go to Situ Let’s see if the soft food hasn’t been burned.”

The pottery merchant was stunned when he heard this, and couldn't help but feel a little more moved, and said: "Young lady, why be polite, Tao was just joking that day, can I really ask you if you want money?"

Diao Chan looked at the potter with a pair of beautiful eyes, and asked doubtfully, "Young master, you really don't want it?"

"Ah..." The pottery merchant hesitated after hearing the words: "Young lady, if you really have nothing important to do, you can go back to Situ's mansion to have a look."

After hearing this, Diao Chan smiled coquettishly and gave the potter a soft look.

This man, with his words out of his mind, clearly wanted to do what he wanted, so he wanted to pretend to be serious.

The potter turned around and said to Xu Chu: "Let the four brothers of the Pei family choose half of the elite tiger guards to protect Miss Diaochan and go back to Situ's mansion. Then wait there, and when we finish our business, we will go meet with them." .”

When Xu Chu heard the words and said his promise, he made arrangements immediately.

Diao Chan can also ride a horse, which is much more convenient. She stated the details with Wang Yun, said goodbye to the potter and Cao Cao, and then went to the former site of Situ Mansion under the protection of the four Pei brothers and the Tiger Guards.

Cao Cao looked at the figures of these people leaving, and suddenly turned his head and whispered to the pottery merchant: "My fair lady, a gentleman loves my fair lady, my fair lady who is longed for, and my fair lady who is a friend of the piano, let the bells and drums be merry!"

The potter turned his head to look at Cao Cao in amazement, and asked curiously, "Are you sick?"

Cao Cao's face straightened, and he said dissatisfiedly, "You are the only one who is sick!"

"You're not sick, what kind of nympho are you?"

Cao Cao smiled, showing a self-satisfied look like a good player, and taught: "You idiot, could it be that you can't see that this girl is interested in you!"

The pottery merchant asked in surprise, "How did you find out?"

"Hey!" Cao Cao pretended to be mysterious, and said, "It's not that Cao is bragging! When it comes to the way of flowers, Cao is really a good player, boy, you have earned it! This woman is not only beautiful in the world, but also Situ I heard that Wang Yun has three sons, but they have already established their own families. The old man Wang has no daughters under his knees, so he specially accepted this girl as a righteous daughter. Climbed relatives?"

Tao Shang looked at Cao Cao in confusion, and said curiously: "He is just a bare-bones Situ with no official position, no power, no soldiers and no money. Why is it so rare for me to have a relationship with him?"

Cao Cao's eyes widened immediately: "My dear brother, are you really stupid or pretending to be crazy! Wang Situ was born in the Wang family of Bingzhou."

Seeing that the potter still didn't understand, Cao Cao immediately explained it to the potter, and after the potter listened for a while, combined with some understanding of his later generations, he suddenly realized and recalled.

The Wang family of Bingzhou, traced back to the origin, is the descendant of the Yellow Emperor, that is, the legendary Gongsun Xuanyuan. Calling it the Wang family, they took Wang as the surname and became the ancestor of the Wang family. After more than [-] years, it has become a family that is becoming larger and larger in the world.

But now the royal family of Bingzhou, which is at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, is a rare aristocratic family in the world, and it is not in the most prosperous period, so the potters didn't recall it for a while, but after a long time of thinking and association, the potters suddenly realized , the so-called Bingzhou Wang family, the most glorious period in history is not the present, it should be from Wei Jin to Tang Dynasty.

But now the so-called Bingzhou Wang family actually has another name, Taiyuan Wang family.The Taiyuan Wang family was listed as one of the five surnames and seven clans in the next 400 years. In Chinese history, it was one of the leaders of the world's gentry from the Jin Dynasty to the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Although the current Wang family has not had as much influence as it did in the next few hundred years, it is still a family with more than 700 years of heritage. It is no wonder that Cao Cao treats Wang Yun differently.

While the two were talking, they saw soldiers and horses driving to a withered house next to Qingshi Street. A few soldiers who didn't know whose subordinates were moving out two large boxes and some ancient artifacts. Drain left over after mopping up.

Seeing this, Cao Cao couldn't help being furious.

"Hey! Who are you and others in the army who dare to commit such a theft?!"

The soldiers couldn't help but jump when they heard the words, but they soon came back to their senses!

I saw one of the chiefs raised his head and stepped forward, dissatisfied and said: "We are the cavalry battalion under General Yuan Gong's account. We are ordered by the general to search the city! What do you want to say?"

"How courageous!" Cao Cao stretched out his hand angrily, and was about to pull out the sword at his waist, but the potter reached out and held his hand that was already touching the hilt of the sword, and said, "Brother Mengde, forget it. They are not the only ones doing this kind of thing in the city? The soldiers of the princes from all walks of life are probably searching for them. If you kill these few, can you kill all the soldiers under the princes’ command? It’s just an offense.”

Cao Cao frowned when he heard the words, let go slowly, and shouted at the soldiers: "Get out!"

Although the few soldiers were not angry, they also saw that Cao Cao was not easy to provoke. In addition to the purge of soldiers and horses behind Cao Cao and the pottery merchant, they knew that a big man had come to patrol the city.

They were also considered sensible, and each of them dared not say much, and hurried away with their things in a desperate manner.

Inside the carriage, Wang Yun let out a weak sigh, and said: "Forget it, forget it, this old man has seen too much of this kind of thing, let's just leave it alone."

Chapter 75 The Embarrassed Courtier

A team slowly set off in the direction of Luoyang Palace.

Yuan Shao and the commander-in-chief camps of all the princes are now stationed in the palace of Luoyang City.

Luoyang Palace is located in the central area of ​​the whole city. As the capital palace of the Great Han Dynasty, it covers an area of ​​nearly [-] mu. There are Jiacheng in the west, Dongcheng in the east and round wall in the north. Autumn Palace, Yongan Palace, Yongle Palace; on the north-south central axis, from north to south: Simamen, Duanmen, Quefeimen, Quefeidian, Zhanghuamen, Chongdedian, Zhongdedian, Qianqiu Longsui Palace Heping Shuo Hall is composed of five halls and four gates.With the continuous expansion and revision, the magnificence of the year has reached its peak.

It's a pity that it was only back then, but now the palace has been burned for several days, but it has become a dead city with almost ruins.