Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 858 Kowtow to Chang'an (6)

   "Hehe, why do you listen to a certain command? Good question!" Li Jue laughed loudly, the slight haze before was swept away, and he seemed to be in high spirits, "It's because such a person has money and food!"

   Fan Chou was originally a part of Dong Zhuo's trilogy. He was appreciated by Dong Zhuo because of his bravery, so he was able to lead the army alone. After Dong Zhuo was killed in Chang'an, the leadership was in chaos, so Fan Chou took some soldiers and hid in the surrounding areas. He didn't come out to meet him until he heard that Li Jue and Guo Si were attacking Chang'an with troops.

   Although Guo Bang didn't speak, he turned his head slightly and glanced at a scribe behind him. This scholar is none other than Zhao Wen.

  Li Jue and Guo Bang, who had received the support of grain and grass, immediately gained courage, and almost immediately led their soldiers to march towards Chang'an with great momentum. When they met Fan Chou, they also regarded themselves as leaders.

  Although Fan Chou was a little unconvinced, what Li Jue said was also reasonable. Since Li Jue can provide money and food, it is not unacceptable to listen to Li Jue's deployment...

   "Forget it!" Fan Chou stared at Li Jue for a while, and finally bowed his hands and said, "If you can provide Erlang with food and grass, I will obey your orders!"

   "It's easy to say! Easy to say!" Li Jue helped Fan Chou up, and then said vigorously, "I will swear to my teacher within three days, and then I will send troops to Chang'an! Help the country and cut out the evil thieves in the court!"

   "Oh oh oh oh..." The surrounding Xiliang soldiers also cheered with high morale.

  Zhao Wen nodded in satisfaction, the momentum is to be bigger, so that's good...

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   But when Li Jue used the newly arrived money and food to gather scattered soldiers from Xiliang, and gathered his troops to rush towards Chang'an, Lu Bu couldn't even gather the money, food and equipment for 5,000 soldiers...

  The warehouse of money, food and equipment prepared for Lu Bu has leaked!

   Burned clean overnight, leaving nothing.

  Wang Yun was furious, and took all the soldiers guarding the warehouse, as well as the relevant warehouse management officials, and directly killed a dozen people on the spot, and the rest were also dying and thrown into the prison.

  However, no matter how many people are killed, food, grass and weapons cannot be transformed immediately, and they have to be deployed again, so Lu Bu can only continue to wait...

  Day after day, many people don't know much about the approaching crisis, and even think that Chang'an City seems to be safe for a long time just like its name.

  The plane of Han Chang'an City is slightly square, but it is not a very regular square. Since the city wall was built after the completion of the two major palaces, Changle Palace and Weiyang Palace, in order to accommodate the location of the Second Palace and the river, it had to be formed in the shape of the southern city wall curved like the six stars of the Southern Dipper and the northern city wall curved like the Big Dipper. , so it is also known as "Doucheng".

There are three gates on each side of the city wall, Anmen in the south wall, Fu'an Gate and Xi'an Gate on the east and west sides; Chucheng Gate in the north wall, Luocheng Gate and Hengmen on the east and west sides; Qingming Gate, Bacheng Gate and Xuanping Gate on the north and south sides; Zhicheng Gate in the west wall, Zhangcheng Gate and Yongmen on the north and south sides. Each city gate has three gates, a total of twelve gates and thirty-six gates.

  Under normal circumstances, the four main gates in the east, west, north, south, and north are not open on weekdays, and only the side gates are open for the common people to use. On this day, when the bell at Mao time rang, the soldiers at the city gate on routine duty yawned, lazily opened the city gate halfway, and shouted: "Those who go out of the city and enter the city are welcome!" They're all lined up! Come on, take out all your records and check them out!"

There is a large population in Chang'an City, and there is no such thing as natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas in this era, let alone an induction cooker. Naturally, firewood is indispensable for living and cooking. , even dignitaries may have to stop cooking.

Among the bustling crowds, a group of men, carrying loads of firewood, are coming towards the Xuanping Gate. The firewood is heavy on their shoulders. With such an accent, no one can detect any flaws.

A strong man was in the middle of the queue, with a worn-out cotton hat covering most of his face. He was probably carrying a load of more than a hundred catties of firewood, but it seemed to be as light as clothes, and it didn't slow him down at all. In the meantime, I squeezed into the flow of people entering the city with these men...

  In the Han Dynasty, Chang'an City was built next to the Wei River in the north and the Bi (three points of water plus one soap) water in the west, and the Wang Canal was dug in the east and south, and the river water was introduced as part of the city defense.

However, due to the fact that Weiyang Palace and Changle Palace were originally located in the south of Chang'an City, Chang'an City is not like other cities with a layout where the north is expensive and the south is poor. Instead, some ordinary residential houses are located in the northerly area. Hexishi, although the name has an east-west orientation, are actually concentrated in the north.

  Entering Zhangping Gate is Shangguan Back Street, and Dongshi is on this street. Therefore, the number of people entering the city through this gate is the largest every day, and the soldiers guarding the gate are the hardest.

  The most important thing is that there is no oil or water.

Because Jingzhao Mansion and Chang'an Palace are relatively south, all officials, big or small, who have a certain status, will not go through these gates in the north. It is a desperate search and exploitation, and there is not much left to spend money.

   But relying on mountains to eat mountains, relying on water to drink water, of course the city gate guards rely on the city gate to eat the city gate.

  Checking the people coming in and out is secondary, leaving some of what they can use for their own use is the source of motivation for these city gate soldiers to check.

When you see a pear seller and a jujube seller, you pull up a pocket; It's just that the guards at the top of the city can take all the extra chewing heads of the day, except for a portion for their superiors, to take home.

  Of course, these vulgar things are not worth a lot of money, so most of these soldiers are lazy. Only when they encounter some rare things occasionally, they will open their green eyes and surround them with great interest.

  Now the city gate has been open for a while, and the flow of people slowly passes through the city gate. There are also a lot of messy things piled up around every guard soldier, including food and everything. As for what happened, although they yelled loudly, in fact, the eyes of each soldier were just staring at the utensils carried by the people entering and leaving the city gate, to see if there were any for their own use.

   I saw soldiers at the city gate checking at the suspension bridge, and the group of strong men carrying firewood gradually approached the suspension bridge with the flow of people. Seeing the soldiers guarding the city getting closer and closer, the burly man covering his face with an old hat muttered something in a low voice, the group of men slowed down a bit and moved closer together, Slowly approaching the city gate...

  (end of this chapter)