At the invitation of Geng Bi, the governor of Liangzhou, Dong Zhuo led five thousand iron cavalry to Rongxian Town with the consent of the Grand Marshal Zhang Wen.

Song Dian immediately boldly and invited Zhen Ju to discuss, suggesting that Liangzhou Geng Bi, the governor of Liangzhou, temporarily presided over the Xiliang Suhuang. He said to Zhen Ju: "Sir, you and I are all military supervisors. It is not appropriate for either party to preside over this matter. It is better to let Geng Bi do it and let the people of Xiliang handle the Xiliang affairs. We want to explain everyone, ask him to come forward and let him do the offending things. In this way, if any unexpected situation occurs later, we can give up everything."

Zhen Ju did not dare to make his own decisions and did not agree. He wrote to consult Zhang Wen. Zhang Wen replied that there was no reply to Li Zhonglang's recruitment of the rebels, and he did not know his life or death at present. Whether this matter should be urgent or not should be urgent. After hearing what he said, Zhen Ju understood it and immediately let the virtuous.

Li Hong did not discuss anything with Geng Bi, and did not report to the governor's office afterwards. Geng Bi was always angry. This time, with the support of Grand Marshal Zhang Wen, Zhongchang Shi Song Dian and other adults, he asked him to preside over the Xiliang Suo, which made him very excited. He was ambitious and wanted to do something that satisfies all forces in the court, end the Xiliang Suo as soon as possible and let Xiliang get on track.

The first thing he did was to release Cheng Qiu. Cheng Qiu was very good, which was the unanimous evaluation of him by all parties. Although he was detained by Li Hong for a long time and was tortured in the camp, he never confessed anything, including Geng Bi and many of his former governors and prefects who were corrupt and abused the law. He gritted his teeth without mentioning it. So Geng Bi and some people were very grateful to him. They were grateful to him. On the first day after the emperor posted the list of redemption lists, these people paid for Cheng Qiu's life through relatives and friends in Luoyang.

As soon as Li Hong left, the emperor's special amnesty order was at the Xiliang Governor's Mansion. Xian Yufu, the commander of Zixiushan Camp, was very reasonable and responded to his requests. After receiving Geng Bi's letter and the emperor's pardon, he immediately ordered someone to send Cheng Qiu out of the camp. Cheng Qiu returned to Long County and was grandly received by many friends. He seemed to have endless money, so the next day he sent someone to the Daying Military City to redeem his wives and concubines' family. In the following days, Geng Bi took the amnesty order almost every day to bring people to the camp.

On this day, the lieutenant Huangfu Hong and Li Su rushed to the camp with a special amnesty order. Huangfu Hong led his army to Yicheng. After Zhou Shen was ordered to return to Luoyang, the Grand Marshal Zhang Wen transferred him to the Northern Army to lead the army. This time Zhen Ju asked the Northern Army to support him and ordered Huangfu Hong to lead the army from Huaili Daying to Long County. Li Su was ordered by Song Dian to come to Meng Tuo, the governor of Liangzhou, and Huangfu Hong came to come to the three prefects of Hanyang County under the order of Zhen Ju. After the two explained their purpose, Xian Yufu immediately asked his men to come and brought them. Before a cup of tea, the camp was in chaos and the prisoner camp started.

Although the Zixiushan camp is large, it is still difficult to accommodate 100,000 people. Now the prisoner camp is larger than the soldiers camp. The place where prisoners are imprisoned is in the prisoner camp. When a few small people were released a few days ago, the prisoners did not pay attention, but today the release of Meng Tuo and several former prefects immediately attracted the attention of the prisoners. Everyone spread the news from ten to ten, and they spread a hundred, and they gathered around the way to watch, and the more people gathered.

The prisoners of Xiliang were heavily oppressed by these people in the past, but now they saw that they were going to escape sanctions and get away with the law. They were both angry and hated. With excitement, some people began to curse, and then some rushed up and kicked them. After a while, the scene was a little out of control. Someone shouted: "Beat them to death...", and as a result, a great chaos in the prison camp suddenly triggered thousands of people. Meng Tuo and three former prefects were beaten to death by the unreasonable prisoners on the spot, and their bodies were trampled on by the prisoners who were still unsatisfied. When Xian Yufu and Qu Yi heard the news, he led the army to the scene to disperse the crowd, he saw several meat pies stuck to the ground.

With a look of apology, Xian Yufu and Qu Yi sent away the angry Huangfu Hong and Li Su.

When Qu Yi saw them walking away, he finally couldn't help laughing wildly. Xian Yufu smiled and said in a low voice: "We'll be careful these days and be careful of their revenge."

"Haha..." Qu Yi laughed and said intermittently, "My lord is such a bad idea. He doesn't even spit out a bone when he kills people, haha..."

Xian Yufu smiled and said, "Your Majesty said that you should collect money and kill people." After that, he couldn't help himself and opened his mouth and laughed.

After this incident, Song Dian and Zhen Ju held the pardon order in their hands, they did not dare to let Geng Bi send people to Zixiushan Camp to recommend people. They knew that there was a name here, but they had no evidence to accuse Xian Yufu. Now they killed all the prisoners and could not save them. It was nothing if the person died, but the amount of money used to redeem people was large, which was too wasteful. They discussed it and decided to wait. As long as Li Hong died in Jincheng, everyone in Zixiushan Camp would have to be slaughtered.

At this time, Cheng Qiu came up with an idea: only provide 50,000 troops of military rations to Zixiushan Camp, cut off the prisoners' food, force Xian Yufu and others to punish the prisoners who made trouble, and send all the redeemed people to Longxian City. Geng Bi was a little scared. This matter was not handled well. Once the 50,000 prisoners were extremely hungry and launched a rebellion, the matter would be a little out of control. Cheng Qiu kept inciting him, but in the end he persuaded Geng Bi. Geng Bi ran to seek the opinions of Song Dian and Zhen Ju. Both of them had nothing to do with their own affairs, and they both said, "It's up to you, you are the supervisor, you have the final say, and you can do whatever you want."

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Li Hong was very surprised to see Bian Zhang. Although Yang Qiu had already explained Bian Zhang's story in detail on the way to accompany Li Hong to Bian Zhang's house, Li Hong still felt it was difficult for him to accept it. He saw a famous figure lying in front of him with his own eyes and saw his life being lost from this strong body with his own eyes. Li Hong was in a heavy mood and speechless.

Bian Zhang was very happy and in a good mood. He first thanked Li Hong on behalf of the rebels of Xiliang, then asked about his recent situations of several friends, and finally talked about the corruption in Xiliang.

"It is admirable to ignore the tyranny of the traitors of the dynasty, and torture the administration of Xiliang, uphold justice, and give justice to the people of Xiliang.

Li Hong smiled, said humbly, "We have too little evidence and corrupt officials are extremely cunning, so so far, Xiliang has not achieved much results in the anti-corruption efforts."

Bian Zhang exclaimed: "Sir, I am too humble. Cheng Qiu, Meng Tuo, and Yang Dang are all corruption in Xiliang and Guanzhong. They usually rely on their power, domineering and lawless, and don't know how many bad things they have done. We all think that the world is their world, and no one can control them. Fortunately, God has eyes, and they will be arrested for one day. It's so good. This is all the credit of the adults."

Li Hong shook his hand and smiled, "Sir, praise me. Although we have arrested a few notorious officials, many of the corrupt officials who are hidden deeper are unable to arrest them because there is no evidence or because there is insufficient evidence."

"As long as the lord is determined, there should be a way." Bian Zhang said, "No matter how cunning they are, they will inevitably be secrets and there will always be some clues."

Li Hong nodded slightly, pondered for a moment, and said, "I'm leaving Yunwu soon. I don't know what Mr. is doing to suppress the corruption in Xiliang, but what better advice do you have?"

Bian Zhang asked in surprise: "Sir, will we settle the agreement with us so soon?"

Li Hong nodded and asked back, "Don't you know, sir?"

Bian Zhang hesitated for a moment and said, "Didn't you just arrived yesterday? You guys..."

Li Hong immediately realized that something was wrong with the rebels. The meeting between the two sides last night and the request made by Han Sui on behalf of the rebels, Bian Zhang, as the leader of the rebels, knew nothing about it. This was a bit abnormal. In terms of Bian Zhang's prestige, no one could shake his position as the leader of the rebels, but in terms of Bian Zhang's current physical condition, it was completely normal for him to be undermined by his subordinates. Can this be used to achieve the purpose of pleading? Li Hong thought secretly.

The conditions proposed by Han Sui yesterday were outrageous, and there was no sincerity in negotiations at all. Li Hong used the promotion of the new government and threatened to refuse negotiations, and forced Han Sui to a dead end. He thought Han Sui would give in and continued to invite him to continue the negotiations, but what disappointed Li Hong was that he saw Han Sui calmly this morning and did not change his course at all, and he seemed to be determined not to talk. Li Hong was very depressed.

Of course, Li Hong did not want to return empty-handed. In order for the emperor to agree to recruit the rebels, Li Hong took great risks and tried all kinds of thoughts. He finally got such an edict from the emperor. If he wasted it casually, it would be unreasonable. Moreover, after returning, how could he explain to the emperor and the emperor? Xiliang has been delayed for a long time and took time, but also money and food. In the end, the people suffering were the people of Xiliang. If they could completely resolve the problem of the rebellion in Xiliang without a fight, it would be a good thing for the people of Xiliang.

Li Hong felt that from the moment, when it comes to recruiting rebels, the Taiwei and a group of bureaucrats were still too confident and wishful thinking. Of course, he was one of them. Although the rebels were beaten up badly, they still had territory, the support of the people of Xiliang and the Qiang and Hu outside the country. If they really wanted to continue fighting, it would be not necessarily the one who wins and who loses? Another key problem is that they are rebelling and are not afraid of killing the nine clans. What are they afraid of? At worst, they will die. Now the court is taking the initiative to recruit them, and the rebels make some unfair demands and exploit more benefits. It is normal.

But Han Sui's request was too much. The conditions for recruitment must comply with the Han laws anyway. Otherwise, how could His Majesty agree? Li Hong looked at Bian Zhang's expectant and disappointed look and suddenly thought that he could put some pressure on Han Sui through Bian Zhang to force Han Sui to change the requirements of separatist parties?

"Sir, Mr. Han and your subordinates formally negotiated the court's pacification last night, but the request you made was really unacceptable to the court." Li Hong thought for a moment and said slowly, "Sir, you said that you do not oppose the Han Dynasty or Your Majesty, but you are the treacherous and powerful ministers around Your Majesty and the corrupt officials in Xiliang. But depending on the conditions you put forward, there is a big gap between this statement."

Bian Zhang did not make a sound, and he focused his thoughts.

"Sir, rebellion is not your purpose after all, nor is it your means to satisfy your personal desires, but a means to let everyone live a good life. Therefore, this time, His Majesty issued an order to appease him, which is indeed an opportunity, an opportunity to let everyone live a good life. What do you think?"

Bian Zhang closed his eyes and fell into deep thought. He didn't say anything, and Li Hong couldn't find any topic. After sitting for a while, Li Hong felt bored, then stood up gently and said respectfully: "Sir, I won't disturb you to rest, I'll say goodbye."

Bian Zhang slowly opened his eyes, but still didn't say anything, and didn't even say a polite word. Li Hong looked like he was thinking about something, and he looked dazed. He guessed that Bian Zhang felt uncomfortable when he heard his subordinates abandoned him.

"Before leaving, I was entrusted by Lord Fu to bring a letter to Mr. Li Hong took out a roll of red silk from his arms, carefully placed it on Bian Zhang's hand, bowed and said, "I wish Mr. to recover soon."

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Xu Rong and Zhao Yun welcomed Li Hong who walked out of the house.

"Sir, what do you say?" Xu Rong's huge hand tightly grabbed his black beard and asked in a hurry, "Have he tried to keep you?"

Li Hong shook his head, he raised his eyes to look at the flowers and trees in the yard, and smiled and said, "Mr. Bian is very elegant. There are so many flowers in his home."

Xu Rong looked worried and said nothing.

Zhao Yun asked in a low voice: "Sir, when will we set off?"

Li Hong smiled slightly, pointed to the courtyard gate in the distance and said, "We are enjoying the flowers and chatting. If we walk to the courtyard gate, Mr. Bian has not called us yet, we will go back immediately." After that, he took a step forward.

"Zi Lie, why are you careful?" Li Hong looked at Xu Rong and asked, "It's normal that the talk cannot be reached. In this way, the two sides will start another war, which should be after October. In total, we will have to spend three or four months together. If the war is delayed until next spring, we will be together for a longer time."

Xu Rong was happy.

"The Chief of the Commander is worried about our return safety." Zhao Yun smiled, "It is secondary whether the two sides can reach a conclusion. There are too many people who want to kill you now."

Li Hong waved his hand indifferently and said, "Everyone has his own destiny, why do you want to do a lot?"

The three of them were chatting, and a servant who was serving Bian Zhang ran over like a flying man.

Li Hong looked at the two of them in surprise and said, "So quickly, Mr. Bian is very decisive."

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"Sir..." Li Hong bowed and asked, "Is there anything wrong with sir?"

Bian Zhang held Fu Xie's letter in his hand, sighed and said, "Sir, don't leave Yunwu for the time being, wait for another day. If there is no news tomorrow, I will personally send you across the Yellow River the day after tomorrow."

Li Hong shook his hand repeatedly and said with a smile: "I dare not take it, I dare not take it, sir, you must not, your body..."

Bian Zhang interrupted Li Hong and said, "Sir, you are a friend of Brother Nan Rong and a bloody man. I admire you, so I will tell the truth. Sir, you have been fooled."

Li Hong was a little confused, but when he saw Bian Zhang's seriousness, he didn't seem to be joking, he suddenly became nervous.

Bian Zhang sighed again and said helplessly: "Actually, just a letter from Nan Rong can do it. Can I still believe him? I will die at any time. Why do I keep it for?"

He looked at Li Hong and smiled bitterly, "What are you doing? Can this be negotiated just by coming? Zilie is the chief lieutenant of the Liangzhou Governor's Office, and he can definitely talk on your behalf. Then the Grand Marshal Zhang Wen tried his best to come to Jincheng to seek peace, and Nan Rong also tried his best to encourage you to come to Jincheng to find me. Why?"

Li Hong was frightened and silent.

Bian Zhang waved the letter in his hand and said, "Nan Rong is a straight and loyal good man. He respects you, so he will naturally not kill you, nor will he instigate you to come to Jincheng. Now that he does this, he must be under pressure from Shangguan. Fortunately, he has not yet been ignorant of his conscience and wrote this letter to me."

Bian Zhang shook his head in pain and said, "Sir, just like me, I was so brave and brave. But when I died, I realized that I had done something wrong."

"In this world, no matter what you do, there are thousands of ways. I used the most expensive method just like you now. Although I have gained a lifetime of fame, I have been in exchange for life's pain and regret, and I can't find the lost things again."

Li Hong suddenly thought of Fengxue. In an instant, a heart-wrenching pain and regret suddenly surged into his heart. His heart felt sore, and tears involuntarily moistened his eyes. Li Hong suddenly felt tired all over, and his legs could not support his huge body, and he slowly sat down to the edge of the bed. At this moment, he no longer had the intention to listen to Bian Zhang's words, and his whole body and mind seemed to be buried in Fengxue's tears.

"The lord in Xiliang has made drastic moves and aroused his grudges. Unexpectedly, it has endangered the forces of various factions in the court and completely broke the balance of power between the court and the opposition. How could the aristocratic clans who regard themselves as Liang in the country see the shaky Han country again stir up? Do you know what this wave is? It's not the small matter of you're greedy in Xiliang, but another huge force formed by you greedy in Xiliang."

Li Hong suddenly looked up at Bian Zhang and asked in surprise: "Strength? What power do I have?"

Bian Zhang's face was solemn, and he raised his voice slightly, saying, "A foolish emperor, a minister holding heavy troops. If these two forces are combined very cleverly, what does it mean for the entire court and for all forces in the court? Sir, do you know?" Bian Zhang suddenly grabbed Sijuan in his hand, with a look of shock, "The powerful ministers in charge of the country, and there are hatred of the country's destruction in front of them, and there are many hatreds in history."

Li Hong widened his eyes and pointed at his nose in disbelief and asked, "Me?"

Bian Zhang stared at him fiercely, and a smile suddenly appeared on his thin face. He nodded and said, "Yes, it's you, the second disaster for this dynasty."

"The second one?" Li Hong asked, "There is still the first one?"

"Huangfu Song." Bian Zhang said, "The first one is Huangfu Song."

"Brother Yizhen was so powerful that he was the world after he wiped out the Yellow Turbans. What about you? Although your background, qualifications and reputation are not comparable to Brother Yizhen, you are young and have military achievements. You are like Brother Yizhen, and you will be trusted by today. If you are like Brother Yizhen, you are very wise and smart enough to stop and avoid disasters when you see the opportunity, you will not be regarded as a thorn in your eyes and regarded as a must-killer."

Li Hong asked strangely: "General Huangfu saw the opportunity to avoid disaster? What do you say?"

Bian Zhang smiled and said, "Don't you know about this?"

Li Hong suddenly woke up and said, "Sir, General Huangfu was falsely accused of being a traitor and his Majesty, but was dismissed by His Majesty? I heard that General Huangfu was dismissed mainly because he and His Majesty had serious differences on the issue of suppressing the rebellion of Xiliang and suppressing the rebellion, so..." Li Hong immediately thought of Fu Xie who had told him that Huangfu Song and Bian Zhang and Han Sui had been in love for decades, so Bian Zhang certainly knew the inside story of Huangfu Song being dismissed.

"What sir means is that General Huangfu did this on purpose so that he could lose trouble if he was deprived of the people and to be detained?"

Bian Zhang nodded and said, "This is the truth. Two years ago, after Yizhen wiped out the Yellow Turbans in Jizhou, the Xindu of Anping County in Jizhou, Yan Zhong once persuaded Brother Yizhen to raise the flag to rebel. Yan Zhong is also our friend, and now lives in Longxi. Brother Yizhen has been loyal and wise for generations, so how could he rebel? But I don't know why this matter was spread to the court. The emperor trusted Brother Yizhen very much at the time and did not care about this rumors. However, the traitor and a group of aristocratic bureaucrats in the court were very vigilant, and all the big and big things were interfered with. Brother Yizhen's friends also knocked on it.

He attacked him sideways and reminded him to be careful. Although this kind of thing is to catch the wind and shadow, if someone accidentally catches the handle in the future, it will be a disaster for the genocide. Therefore, Brother Yizhen immediately took advantage of the opportunity to suppress the rebellion in Xiliang, delayed military discipline and had a feud with the emperor, so he was quickly dismissed from office and returned home. After he went home to work and did not care about political affairs, all kinds of rumors and hostility disappeared immediately. His potential harm to the court and others disappeared due to the loss of his power, so he and his family and his disciples were soon safe."

Li Hong understood as soon as he heard this. Last year in Youzhou, the governor Liu Yu and the prefect of Shanggu County, Liu Fan, both resigned from office to avoid disasters. Unexpectedly, Huangfu Song, who was famous all over the world, were like this.

"But now look at you and your anti-corruption campaign in Xiliang, you will know that the worries of the ministers in the court are completely correct, and people like you cannot exist."

"Your emperor's imperial edict was made. You rely on your heavy troops and immediately began to eradicate the corruption that had been deposited in Xiliang for decades. You have no family, no disciples, and no power to rely on in the court. What you have is military merit, loyalty, and bloody. As a result, the stern slander in Xiliang was broken by your thunderous attack, breaking the balance of power in the court, forcing all the sects of the court to join forces to fight back and attack you in groups."

"What does this mean? It means that the current emperor and a powerful minister guarding the border have joined forces to develop into a huge new force. This force is used in the hands of the emperor. He can capture all the imperial power and wantonly deprive the power of the traitors, relatives and aristocratic families in the court. If this force is used by you, you can dominate one side or even directly threaten the safety of the Han Dynasty."

"General Huangfu carefully avoided this situation; but what about you? You showed it to the fullest and exerted its power to the fullest, which is well known to everyone."

"If you don't die, they will die in the future."

Li Hong smiled bitterly and said, "How is it possible? I saved myself and those subordinates who followed me. I would think of these questions? Who knows that things will develop like this?"

Bian Zhang sighed, "Before the matter is over, who knows which one will the future of the matter fly towards? Everyone is not taking one step at a time." Then he shook Sijuan in his hand and said, "Nanrong asked me to save you? How could he know what I am now? I don't know what the next step is, just like I don't know Wen's rebellion and refuses to be pacified by the court. All I can do is accompany you to Jincheng. If you die, I can't live. For me, fulfilling my promise to my friends is also a relief."

Li Hong lowered his head and asked tentatively: "Mr. What he meant is that this matter was designed in advance, including Mr. Han's refusal to persuade me, all for the purpose of killing me."

Bian Zhang nodded and said with great pain: "Their design is perfect, and the only loophole is Nanrong. Nanrong does not care about your life and death, but about the evidence in my hand. I guess the aristocratic clans have compromised with the traitors. They need this evidence to threaten the traitors in order to get more benefits in the court."
To be continued...