Li Jue was fighting very well, but a few days later, his general Zhang Bao and Zhang Chong betrayed him.

The two colluded with Guo Si and opened the camp gate. Guo Si's army entered, and arrows fell like rain.

During the fierce battle, Li Jue's ear was shot through, and the arrow even hit Liu Xie in the military camp, and they all shot to Liu Xie's feet. It would be a big deal to go a little further up.

This has to be said to be the sequelae of Li Jue's assassination of Fan Chou at the banquet. Since then, betrayers have been constantly appearing in Li Jue's army and have never been able to live in peace.

After the war, Li Jue moved Liu Xie and his ministers to another place and sent troops to guard them to isolate them inside and outside. Liu Xie and his ministers were very hungry, and Li Jue actually took a small amount of grain and rotten cow bones to deal with it.

Liu Xie was very angry, but as the emperor who had no real power, he could do nothing.

The matter continued until mid-November, when former general Zhang Ji rushed back from Hongnong County to persuade him to reconcile.

Li and Guo fought for several months, and the lives around Chang'an were in trouble and could not continue to fight. Because Zhang Ji rushed back, the two of them had the momentum to reconcile.

Liu Xie was finally liberated and was released back to the palace by Li Jue. Finally, there was a place to sleep peacefully.

However, the severely damaged Chang'an City is no longer able to exist as an imperial capital.

Liu Xie's idea of ​​returning to Luoyang to the east to get rid of the clampdown of Li Guo and the other thieves was getting stronger and stronger.

At this moment, Zhang Ji also had the idea of ​​taking Liu Xie out of Chang'an to Hongnong, so with the help of Liu Xie, he had a tug-of-war peace talk with Li Jue and Guo Si for more than two months.

The peace talks were not finally settled until the end of January 2, Xingping.

Because Chang'an is really ruined, most of the households fled, and most of the people who did not escape died. The corpses accumulated into mountains and blood flowed into rivers. There were many people dead around them. Although the weather was cold, the corpses were still rotten and emitted a stench.

Zhang Ji told Li Jue and Guo Si that if he continued to stay in Chang'an, a big plague broke out and the emperor's safety was threatened, what should they do?

Li Jue and Guo Si thought about it and did not dare to take such responsibility. So under Zhang Ji's guarantee and Jia Xu's advice, Li Jue and Guo Si agreed to Liu Xie's return to the east.

In exchange, Li Jue became the Grand Marshal above the Three Dukes, Zhang Ji was appointed as the General of the Cavalry and was granted the title of Marquis of Pingyang. He was appointed as the General of the Cheqi and Cavalry, Yang Ding was appointed as the General of the Hou, and Dong Cheng was appointed as the General of Anji.

In early February, Liu Xie, who was eager to return home, was excited and embarked on the way back from Chang'an to Luoyang.

However, when you go to Chang'an, the road is smooth, leaving Chang'an and returning to Luoyang is not a smooth road, but an extremely bumpy and dangerous road.

This was reflected when Liu Xie's convoy left Chang'an City before crossing the moat.

Li Jue and Guo Si's soldiers were causing trouble at the bridge and obstructed the convoy from crossing the bridge. Liu Xie had the courage to stand up and show that he was the emperor and angrily rebuked the rioters.

The soldiers were afraid and knelt on both sides of the road, saying long live, so the difficult road to the east officially began.

As a result, there was a problem after walking this road for a few days.

Guo Si was probably worried about Li Jue's hostage to the emperor to deal with him, so he also wanted to take revenge on Li Jue with his addiction to the emperor, so he began to obstruct Liu Xie from the east return.

This obstruction has been blocked for more than a month.

During this month, in mid-February, the news that Liu Xie's convoy left Changan and headed east was quickly delivered to Guo Peng.

At that time, Guo Peng was happy that Xiahou Lin and Tian Rou were pregnant one after another and were holding a family banquet.

Because the two concubines were pregnant, Guo Peng was very happy, so he called relatives of Cao and Xiahou, invited Mi Zhu and Tian Feng, and held a family banquet together.

At the banquet, Guo Peng and Cao Cao made an appointment to dance, sing, and drink together, and they had a lot of fun.

After the banquet, in the evening, Guo Peng asked about their physical condition from Xiahou Lin and Tian Rou's room, and then comforted her warmly, and prepared to go to sleep with Cao Lan. Walking on the road, he received a secret report from a secret spy in Linzi Camp.

When Guo Peng learned that Liu Xie had left Chang'an City and headed towards Luoyang, he attached great importance to it and immediately sent someone to call Cheng Yu, and he returned to the study.

Long before Dong Zhuo marched into Luoyang, Guo Peng installed his first intelligence team in Luoyang area.

After the establishment of Linzi Camp, more than a dozen consecutive times, more than 100 secret spies were dispatched to Luoyang and Chang'an areas, and most of the secret spies died unexpectedly during this period.

They either died of rebellious soldiers, thieves, bandits, or other accidents, or died of illness.

After losing dozens of well-trained spies, Guo Peng established a relatively complete intelligence transmission route. After Dong Zhuo moved west to Chang'an, the intelligence troops also entered the Kansai area and gradually gained a foothold in the Kansai area. Many news can be delivered to Guo Peng quickly.

This time, this news took half a month to deliver it from Chang'an, and Guo Peng was quite satisfied.

However, since Liu Xie came out of Chang'an, it means that the situation in the world is about to change.

The short-lived confrontation between the Chang'an court and the Kanto group will end, and a real upheaval is about to come.

Since a long time ago, Guo Peng has been thinking about what he should do at such a historical node, and now it is time to make a decision.

This news cannot be leaked, so Guo Peng chose to discuss the matter with his absolute confidant Cheng Yu.

"So that's it, the emperor is coming to the east..."

After reading the information, Cheng Yu stroked his beard and said, "Lord, what should we do?"

Guo Peng was silent for a while.

"Zhongde, do you think it is beneficial to me to use the emperor to command the princes?"

Cheng Yu shook his head decisively.

“There are only harms, no benefits.”

"Why do you say that?"

Guo Peng looked at Cheng Yu.

"The lord's name is full of loyalty and righteousness. Everyone in the world believes that the lord is loyal to the Han Dynasty. Now, this is the lord's greatest advantage. Once the emperor is controlled by the lord, it will become the lord's biggest weakness, and it will be troublesome at that time."

Cheng Yu was not at all taboo, and of course Guo Peng would not care. A few years ago, the two of them talked about each other's ambitions.

Therefore, Guo Peng was quite happy to say this.

"Zhongde is right. As for me, I absolutely cannot tolerate the emperor coming to me, otherwise would I give up my power or become a thief?"

Guo Peng shook his head: "If you hand over the power, isn't it equivalent to turning your business for many years into someone else's. Even if I agree to this kind of thing, many people will probably not agree to it. If the good situation is ruined, who will do it?

But if I don’t hand over power and become a traitor, I would not say that my reputation for hard work was ruined, and the emperor would be willing to be a puppet? Today, Zi is not a simple person, he has done a lot of things in Chang'an. These things can be said to be a model of a wise ruler if he put them on a Taiping Emperor."
Chapter completed!