The Collection of The End

——AD 187——

Luoyang, the General's Mansion.

"No, this is wrong," Yang Xiu paced back and forth in the meeting hall, looking anxious: "We have been plotted against!"

This meeting hall belonged to General He Jin two days ago. It had many splendid decorations. Perhaps he had proudly issued orders to attack the palace here, but now, there are not only many decorations on the walls and pillars, but Traces of weapons and various furnishings were also missing.

"Fell into a trap? But we clearly have the advantage at this time." Sun Jian, who was sitting on a grand master's chair, asked in confusion as he watched the young man spinning around.

"That's right," Cheng Pu, who was wearing the uniform of a palace guard, responded: "If Huang Gai and I hadn't knocked out the Diao Chan who was monitoring He Jin's movements and taken them away in advance, Zhang Rang, who knew the details, would have definitely summoned more police. With so many subordinates, it’s not certain who will win.”

"Hey," Huang Gai also said, "We didn't know before that the ten regular servants actually instigated the rebellion of some of the Queen's subordinates, Diao Chan, and then used them to monitor the Queen's brother. This royal family is really chaotic."

"I will not mention for the moment whether the 'Diao Chan' who claims to be the 'last work' is reliable or not," Yang Xiu glanced at the two of them: "The problem now is that the Hongnong Yang family, the Hedong Wang family, and the Guanzhong Li family are all local officials. The family has completely exposed its manpower and trump cards in Luoyang, but the situation still has not calmed down. The Shi Changshi and the Queen, who were originally supposed to be on the same side, united to blockade the two conflicts after Zhang Rang and He Jin disappeared. In the imperial palace, our current strength is simply not enough to rescue the emperor. It can be said that the night is full of dreams, and things will change later..."

A few days ago, the originally stable situation in Luoyang, which was dominated by relatives, eunuchs and courtiers from aristocratic families, suddenly changed. General He Jin gathered a large number of his men for unknown reasons to raid the first minister of the Ten Changshi, and successfully killed him after paying a heavy price. , but when he further wanted to directly control the emperor, he was blocked by the sword spirit thrown out by the sword master, so he instead searched for the remaining members of the Shichang servants throughout Luoyang.

The power of the Shi Changshi has been deeply rooted after many years of management. Even if Zhang Rang is dead, the small bosses everywhere are still unwilling to surrender. Their resistance has even caused a lot of losses for He Jin's subordinates who underestimated the enemy.

Seeing this opportunity, Zhu Jun immediately sent an order to the King Qin team he brought from Xuzhou, asking them to march to Luoyang at the same time, take advantage of the conflict between the two clams and cranes, capture them in one fell swoop, and return power to the emperor.

Because of the help of the Yang family, Sun Jian's team entered Luoyang easily without any fighting, but there was no news about Zang Ba's team that was originally scheduled to pass through Hangu Pass.

Due to lack of manpower, Sun Jian waited for them for half a day, but the situation in Luoyang changed again.

Fearing He Jin's cruelty, the other ten permanent servants except Zhang Rang's original faction voluntarily surrendered to the queen to seek protection. He Yao, who held tens of thousands of "Diao Chan" in hand, agreed and sent people to stop He Jin. Jin's subordinates continued to hunt down the minions of the Ten Constant Attendants, but as soon as she did so, she immediately discovered Sun Jian's team of King Qin who was fishing in troubled waters, so she sent a messenger to inform her brother that he wanted him to wipe out this team, and she learned this from Xiao Diao Chan Afterwards, Cheng Pu and Huang Gai immediately hurried back to seek help from Sun Jian.

Sun Jian wanted to start an attack in advance, but he was seriously short of troops. He had to ask Yang Xiu to mobilize all the local wealthy families in Luoyang who were on the same side, such as the Yang family, the Wang family, the Li family, the Guo family, etc., and all his cards were revealed. , was able to subdue He Jin. Naturally, He Jin was not a regular servant. He resolutely refused to surrender to his subordinates. However, these wealthy families did not dare to kill him, so they had to divide their troops to deal with the people scattered throughout Luoyang who were causing trouble for them. The influence of relatives.

At this time, their main force was confronting the Queen and the remnants of Shi Chang's servants across the palace wall. Both sides were fully aware of the other's true strength and the means they could use, but neither could do anything to the other, just like playing chess. When encountering an endless loop of endgame, whoever changes his moves first loses.

"If what I expected is true,

These local aristocratic families plan to hide their strength until the dust has almost settled before they can take action. Even if they don't get much benefit, they won't take any risks." Yang Xiudao: "At this time, they are standing here like extremely conspicuous targets. Their behavior was definitely not what they wanted. They originally wanted to benefit from it, but instead they became a 'clam' and a 'crane'. "

"Then...who is the real 'fisherman'? Cao Mengde?" Sun Jian asked.

"He only learned the news in the middle of your operation. There is no way he could have planned this." Yang Xiu shook his head and suddenly stopped: "Wait? Where did Zhu Jun go?"

"This..." Sun Jian and Cheng Pu looked at each other: "After learning that Zang Ba had not arrived, he seemed to have personally gone to Hangu Pass to investigate, but he has not yet returned."

"Dong Zhongying? He is indeed qualified to be this fisherman," Yang Xiu began to pace faster: "No, if he arrives in Luoyang, all the previous plans will be in vain. We must..."

"Report——" A messenger rushed in, but was stopped by Zhou Tai, who had to report loudly at the door: "Later General Yuan Shu and Yuan Gongjiu led people to kill the palace!"

"It's actually a foreign wealthy family in Luoyang?" Yang Xiu suddenly looked out the window: "We can't let them succeed! These wealthy families with roots outside Sili will never care what Luoyang will become!"

"I always feel that the forces in Luoyang like to 'split into two factions'..." Sun Jian said.

"I was blinded by the appearance of harmony between those 'adults'," Yang Xiu said angrily: "As a member of the Sili family, the chaos in Luoyang will inevitably affect my own family. Even if I plan to take action in Luoyang, I will try to maintain a basic Stable, but those guys whose families are out of town are different. It would not be surprising for them to kidnap the emperor and move the capital."

"Don't panic, this is not a joint action of out-of-town aristocratic families, it's just a single Yuan family." Sun Jian stood up calmly with his hand on the handle of the knife, and walked out at a fast pace: "Cheng Pu and Huang Gai, continue to listen to Yang Xiaolangjun here. Order! Han, Dang Zhoutai, come with me to meet that Yuan Shu!"

"Here!"

After the heroic figure who stepped out of the room, he was naturally followed by two equally tall and strong generals. Their outlines seemed to be dyed with a layer of gold under the sunlight.

"..." Yang Xiu was stunned for a moment and said to himself: "Maybe he can really do something?"

But the next moment, he saw Cheng Pu, who was crying with joy and chanting "Master, did you see it?", and Huang Gai, who was hammering his chest vigorously.

"Haha, it really is an illusion."

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Wujun, along the coast.

The Sunjialou boat was docked in a fishing village for supplies.

To return to Fuchun from Xiapi by water, you need to go down the Yangtze River to the seaport, bypass the coastal Wu County, and go up the Qiantang River to Jiujiang County.

Such a long time was enough for everyone on the ship to repeatedly check and make sure that Qiao Xuan was safe and sound, and it was a blessing in disguise that they realized a kind of "unparalleledness" that they didn't know exactly.

As a result, the old man's daily life changed from being pushed around to being led around by two granddaughters who were still not sure about him, but looking at his expression, he was quite satisfied.

As for Sun Quan... he was punished by a group of elders and was prohibited from boarding the deck of a building ship with more than the second floor.

Sun Quan felt that no one would believe him even if he said he saw the black dragon's black line, but if he said that he was framed by Yu Ji, it would feel a bit deceptive, so in the end he just accepted the punishment honestly.

However, Sun Shangxiang didn't care about this and still followed him wherever he went.

Sun Quan had some ideas about those black dragons.

It is said that Qin Shihuang saw a black dragon in the Wei River before he ascended the throne, so he adopted black as his national color. His imperial robe was also black, and he called himself "Shui De". Later, the Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty killed the white snake and revolted, calling himself "Red Emperor". Red is the national color, nicknamed "Fire Virtue". The previous scene may be because the Han Dynasty is about to fall, and the black dragons who have been suppressed for four hundred years are dancing in ecstasy.

But if those fools don't go to the descendants of the Qin people to show their spirits, why are they dancing in front of him, a descendant of Sun Bin?

As for the black lines, because they caused the paralysis of Qiao Xuan, Sun Quan initially thought they were "disease", "disability" or "death". However, these speculations were based on the fact that there were people on the ship who were not acclimatized, encountered disabled sailors, and encountered people with bad eyesight. The pirates were later overthrown.

Finally, when Sun Quan was docking at the dock for supplies, he saw a black line again on the leg of a lame old man. After that, he gave full play to his and Sun Shangxiang's advantages as children and successfully got words out of the old man's mouth.

The old man originally felt that his life was over and was lying in the house waiting to die. Unexpectedly, when he woke up, except for one leg that was not working, there was nothing wrong with his whole body. So based on the idea of ​​"living is earning", he limped My feet continued to wander around the dock.

At this point, Sun Quan concluded that those black lines should be the "price of life extension". Although the standard of "obtaining life extension" cannot be determined, in terms of effect, it is better to be gradually paralyzed than to suffer from chronic illness and spend a lot of money to seek medical treatment. Better.

As for who did it? Anyway, it’s right if it’s not Yu Ji.

Soon the ship was replenished and ready to set sail. Sun Quan then said goodbye to the old man and returned to the ship. But as soon as he stepped onto the deck, he saw Zhuge Liang looking at him with a half-smile.

"..." Sun Quan was still a little guilty at first, but after seeing this expression, he gave up on himself: "Yeah! I'm pretending to be cute again, do you have any objections?"

"No," Zhuge Liang looked up at the flag on the pier, turned away, and said, "Well, there is a southeast wind blowing in Jiangdong at this time of the year, so we should write it down."

"What?" Sun Quan looked up and saw that many flags on the docks and on the ships were indeed flying to the northwest: "Is this strange?"

"Brother Quan, you're not pretending to be cute," Sun Shangxiang said seriously, "You are actually very cute."

"Thank you!" Sun Quan raised his hand and ruffled his sister's hair.