Three Kingdoms: From Hulaoguan to Global Hegemony

Chapter 58

After thanking Xu Rong for his reminder, Liu Yu led a group of people into Luoyang City.

At this time, Xu Rong, who had returned to the city tower, called a junior school under him. If Liu Yu was still there at this time, he would definitely recognize this schoolboy with loose hair.

Because this person is one of the group of riders that Liu Yu met outside Kangjiazhuang.

"Are you sure that person just now is the one who helped Li Jue find the entrance to the underground palace?"

"If you go back to the general, the villain will never make a mistake, and the spy lurking next to Wu You even told his name, it is Zhongshan King Liu Yu."

After hearing this, Xu Rong nodded in satisfaction, "I heard that Liu Yu lives in the southern part of the city. You ask Ma Teng to prepare some generous gifts for him. We should make friends with this Luoyang upstart."

Xiaoxiao took the order to leave, while Xu Rong continued to look at Liu Yu's back with interest.

"The king of Zhongshan is actually a great expert in the fight, which is really surprising!"

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Walking on Dongshi Street, Liu Yu felt that the place was too deserted. Not only was there no bustling people, even the shops on both sides of the street were closed.

Dongshi Street is the most prosperous street in Luoyang City. People's daily necessities are sold here, and all food and clothing can be bought here.

Over time, Dongshi has not only become a bustling market that Luoyang people visit every day, but also a paradise for merchants from all over the world.

But at this moment, Liu Yu and his party passed through Dongshi without any difficulty. Seeing that several major grain stores had sold out plaques, Liu Yu thought that Luoyang really seemed to be short of grain.

Now that the East Market has been so depressed, the West Market probably has even less people.

Because most of the goods sold there are rare treasures, it is a place where rich people are qualified to spend, but Luoyang is short of food, who has the leisure to buy luxury goods, and the rich don't dare to show off their wealth at this time.

Although he entered the city, Liu Yu couldn't go home to rest directly, because all the officials and generals who returned to Beijing had to go to the imperial city to report and register as soon as possible.

The Imperial City is located in the middle and north of Luoyang City, divided into the South Palace and the North Palace, and is a city within a city.

The South Palace is the place where the ministers discuss and work, and the North Palace is the place where the emperor meets and sleeps, but now besides the emperor lives there is the grand master Dong Zhuo.

This is simply the shame of the emperor, the shame of the royal family of the Han Dynasty.

After passing through Dongshi Street, Liu Yu and his party came to the outside of the imperial city, and a towering and magnificent palace came into view from a distance.

Liu Yu knew that it was the Chongde Hall in the North Palace, the place where the emperor met and the tallest palace in the imperial city.

Liu Bei, who came to pass the order, waited here for a long time, and when he saw Liu Yu coming, he took his men back to the queue.

At this time, several people from the palace walked out from the Zhongping gate, and the leader was Han Rang, the permanent servant of the palace.

Han Rang had benefited a lot from Liu Yu when he was a messenger, and he naturally greeted him with a smile when he met him.

"The king of Zhongshan has worked hard all the way!"

"Thank you, Chang Shi Han, to welcome you. From now on, you will have to rely on Chang Shi to take care of you in Luoyang!"

The two exchanged a few polite words, and then Han Rang read out an imperial edict in recognition of Liu Yu's military exploits.

"The Son of Heaven said that King Zhongshan should rest at home for the next two days, and that you will be formally promoted and rewarded at the court meeting in three days. Don't forget to go to court on time, King Zhongshan!"

Before Liu Yu was named King of Zhongshan, there was only one imperial edict, so the emperor planned to hold a ceremony for him to be honored, and then officially announced it to the world.

After Han Rang read out the emperor's will, he passed on a few words of Dong Zhuo's oral order.

Han Rang said: "The grand master read Zhongshan King's letter, and he praised the battle of Dagu Mountain very much! I think Zhongshan King will be promoted again soon!"

Speaking of this, Han Rang suddenly coughed twice, and then stopped chewing.

Liu Yu also felt that he was hesitant to speak, and tentatively said: "It is a great honor to be appreciated by the grand master, and I would also like to thank Han Changshi for helping to submit the letter to the grand master!"

When Han Rang took Cai Yong back to Luoyang first, Liu Yu once asked him to help bring a private letter to Dong Zhuo.

The letter described the details of the Battle of Dagu Mountain. Of course, this version must have been carefully revised by Liu Yu.

And this detailed battle report is actually just a cover, the point is that there is a gift list at the end.

Bribing and flattering Dong Zhuo are Jia Xu's suggestions. He believes that this can not only gain more trust from Dong Zhuo, but also express Liu Yu's attitude of wanting to be attached to him.

But Liu Yu didn't get any more information from Han Rang after making such a trial. He only heard that Dong Zhuo was busy with business today, and he might not be summoned until tomorrow.

After conveying Dong Zhuo's oral order, Han Rang turned and returned to the palace, when another general-looking man came from the side.

This person, Liu Yu, also had acquaintance with Hulao Pass once, and he was Guo Si, one of the Four King Kongs under Dong Zhuo's command.

"Welcome King Zhongshan back to Luoyang, please come with me to Canglong Gate to register!" Guo Si is known as a smiling tiger, and he always smiles when he sees everyone.

"Then General Lao Guo will lead the way!"

Taking advantage of each other's courtesy, Liu Yu checked Guo Bang's ability value with the system's visual function.

"Ding, Guo Si's force is 82, leadership is 81, resourcefulness is 75, mind is 77, and friendship is -10."

The ability is fairly average, but the friendliness is negative.

"I'll go! When did I offend this person?"

Liu Yu didn't expect that he had just entered Luoyang City, and he would meet two powerful figures in the Xiliang Army.

Just judging from the friendship between the two, Guo Bang is not as sincere as Xu Rong.

Canglong Gate leads directly to the Mansion of Sangong, who was the most powerful court official in the late Han Dynasty, namely Taiwei, Sikong and Situ.

Among them, the Taiwei is in charge of the soldiers and horses, so the generals who return to Beijing must hand over their military power to the Taiwei's Mansion after returning to the city.

But now in the imperial city, what Dong Zhuo said is right, the Taiwei Mansion has long since lost its real power, and Guo Si is the person Dong Zhuo specially appointed to be in charge of the affairs of the Taiwei Mansion.

When he came to Canglongmen, Liu Yu signed in according to the regulations, and the formalities for returning to Beijing were completed.

Then Liu Yu can go home and rest.

Before leaving, Guo Si said with a smile on his face: "The king of Zhongshan really deserves to be a person valued by the Grand Master. In order to guard Hulao Pass, he left all his troops there. This kind of courage is not something that ordinary generals can achieve. of."

Guo Si was smiling and very sincere. If ordinary people heard this, they would really think he was praising and wooing.

But Liu Yu could see from the system that Guo Bang's friendliness hadn't changed at all, it was still a negative number, and he knew that he was not as admired as he said.

So Liu Yu also pretended to be upright and replied: "Sun Jian is entrenched in Chengmou County and is getting stronger and stronger. I am about to ask the Grand Master to increase troops at Hulaoguan. How dare I bring the Yulin Army back to Luoyang so easily."

Guo Si nodded and smiled again when he heard the words, but there was a little more contempt in the smile.

In his opinion, Liu Yu's Habayashi Army only has two thousand people, and it doesn't make much difference whether they stay in Hulao Pass or not.

And Liu Yu returned to Beijing without bringing troops back simply to please Dong Zhuo, making people feel that he is willing to do practical things but will not support himself.

It's just that Dong Zhuo deliberately recruited Liu Yu as his confidant, and Liu Yu also showed his extraordinary ability through several battles, and he also showed an active attitude towards Dong Zhuo during his return to Beijing.

Judging from this momentum, no one can stop Liu Yu from becoming an upstart in Luoyang and even the Xiliang Army, but this will inevitably share the interests of some generals of the Xiliang Army.

(End of this chapter)