Chapter 481
By now, Luoyang had become an almost empty city, with not much population left, and it could be said that the city fell into their hands as soon as they arrived.
After a night of fire, half of Luoyang had been burnt to the ground. Cao Cao opened his mouth and looked at the city he had lived in for quite some time, and the feeling in his heart was not pleasant.
"Such a prosperous city is now a scorched earth." Li Linfei sighed, he had at least lived in the city of Luoyang for some time, thinking back to the days of drinking and bar-hopping with Meng Dejun and Ben Chujun, and then looking at the city of Luoyang now, it was a world of difference.
"Dong Zhuo is really too." Cao Cao clenched his hands and looked at the familiar city of Luoyang, baring his teeth.
He did not say the next words, but everyone knew what he meant.
"Is Luoyang ruined?" Guo Jia sighed, he had followed Li Linfei to Luoyang before after the destruction of the Yellow Turbans and had envied the prosperity of Luoyang.
Although many cities had sprung up in Yangzhou nowadays, they still fell short of Luoyang, which was the imperial capital after all, with a population of millions alone, but when he came to Luoyang again things were already different.
The three men had not brought many troops with them, but they had reached 20,000, which was barely enough to put out the fires in the city and maintain law and order, but there was more than enough to chase Dong Zhuo, so at least they had to put out the fires, right?
"I don't know if the troops that Lin Fei sent after Dong Zhuo have had any effect.
Meng Dejun had the intention of going after Dong Zhuo, but knew that it might not be what he wanted. He is not stupid enough to take these soldiers and horsemen to attack the Hangu Pass! It would never work, at least not until Yuan Shao and the others arrived.
"I don't know. "Li Linfei has been following the situation on He Qi's side, and they have caught up with Dong Zhuo's supply train troops and are preparing to give them an interception, again intercepting a good number of people.
'Shall we go to the palace first? See if there are any survivors?" At this point Sun Jian suddenly suggested.
Cao Cao did not think much about it and agreed to Sun Jian's proposal, the fires in the city needed to be put out, but the fires in the palace needed to be put out even more, after all, that was the royal residence and if there was a member of the royal family inside then it would be worth much more than the ordinary people.
Li Linfei didn't refuse, he was going to the palace to find the Jade Seal and was worried that he wouldn't have the chance to leave the other two!
The three men entered the palace and each took their own army to put out the fire and search for any survivors.
Li Linfei left the army to Guo Jia, and arranged for Deng Wei to protect Guo Jia, while he himself headed for the Jade Seal.
As for the location of the Jade Seal, the system map had a hint, after all, it was one of the treasures of this world.
Li Linfei quickly arrived at the dry well where the Jade Seal was located, originally Sun Jian was responsible for this piece, but because Li Linfei had the map, he was fast.
After getting the Jade Seal, Li Linfei didn't forget to trick Sun Jian by buying a high imitation of the Heji Bi in the system and putting it into the dry well.
The system's product is definitely a high-quality product, and the high imitation of the Jade Seal can definitely be so fake that Li Linfei believed that even if Liu Hong came to life, he would not be able to tell the difference between the two.
"My Lord, have you got it? !" Guo Jia asked in surprise when he saw that his lord had not long left.
They had considered the matter of the state seal before, it might not be useful in the early stages, but it could definitely play a vital role in the later stages, when the kingdom was asked for.
"Well, but I can't take it out now, I took a fake and put it there to see if anyone will enter the pit." Li Linfei nodded, there are definitely people who will enter the pit, the one he pitted was Sun Jian, no way, who let him be his neighbour!
Changsha is very close to Yangzhou, so when Sun Jian is destroyed by Liu Biao, Li Linfei can attack in a big way!
As Li Linfei had planned, Sun Jian did fall into the pit that Li Linfei had set up, and the imitation of the system was not something that could be seen by ordinary people.
Li Linfei's plan was successful, as Lu Bu escorted Dong Zhuo one step ahead, so there was no great general to guard the following troops, so He Qi and Zhou Tai were able to get their hands on them easily.
As for the number of people, He Qi had recruited several hundred thousand, and there were still 70,000 to 80,000 who did not want to leave Luoyang, so He Qi did not force them, and left some food for Zhou Tai to lead a thousand men to escort the treasure south to Yangzhou.
The order to escort the treasures back to Yangzhou was naturally from Li Linfei, so the gold and silver were naturally a step ahead.
And Ben Chu, who was eating and drinking in the camp, was astonished to hear this news, but he did not dare to blame Li Linfei and Cao Cao, of course he would not take revenge on Li Linfei and Cao Cao, these two men he was too familiar with.
Naturally, he shifted his revenge to Sun Jian, a martial artist with a simple mind and a small background, so it was easy to deal with him.
Determined to take revenge on Sun Jian, Ben Chujun led his army to Luoyang and arrived in the city that day.
Li Linfei and his men had only just extinguished the fires in Luoyang, but Dong Zhuo had been so insane as to burn down the whole city. And they didn't have enough men.
Li Linfei's 8,000 strong army had not joined in the task of putting out the fire after a night of fighting, and if not for the help of over 100,000 people, the fire would not have been put out so quickly!
Cao Cao had previously known that Li Linfei had sent an army to sneak up on Dong Zhuo and had not pursued him, instead leading his men who had been putting out the fire, only for He Qi to return with more than 100,000 people.
But it was disappointing not to see a single official. The people still didn't know much about what was going on at the top, and it was hopeless to find out what was going on at the imperial court.
Chapter 482
When Ben Chu came and then Sun Jian wanted to leave, Yuan Shao asked Sun Jian to hand over the jade seal, could Sun Jian have done so? No, he couldn't.
Then the two broke up and Sun Jian left.
And Yuan Shao no longer had any desire to save Liu Xie, he was now only thinking of going back to fight for his territory and picking the big banner himself.
And Li Linfei, still riding on the fact that the lords were in Luoyang, sneaked into Chang'an alone and kidnapped Jia.
Li Linfei was so skilled that it was still easy to sneak into Chang'an and kidnap someone out, especially Jia, a strategist, with or without martial arts.
Jia was now following Dong Zhuo's son-in-law and working as a captain to curry favour with the captain, which was quite in keeping with the character of this old fox, sometimes it was the ones hiding in the shadows that were the most frightening and scary.
When he arrived in Chang'an, Li Linfei easily slipped into Jia's temporary residence. At that moment, Jia was at home reading a book, which was just in line with his character, the death of others had nothing to do with him, and it was none of his business even if there was chaos outside, which was the reason why Li Linfei wanted to invite Jia.
As a famous poisonous scholar in history, Li Linfei would still need him to take the blame for any dirty deeds in the future. Of course Li Linfei would not make the mistake of unloading the blame, as long as Jia was responsible for being blackmailed and he was responsible for protecting him, it would be cool to think about it, what a tacit understanding.
So after going in and knocking him out, he took him to his own camp in Luoyang, and soon Jia woke up.
"Hello Mr. Jia, how are you?" Li Linfei said.
"You are." Jia froze, then his eyes widened, he was a little incredulous as to how he had ended up here, then looked around, well, it seemed he had entered a wolf's den.
As someone with a certain amount of insight, Jia had still seen Li Linfei's portrait, he still had some knowledge of this great scholar who was rumoured to be as good as a god among the scholarly clan, just how could he have robbed himself from Chang'an to here so quickly?
And what did he come to see him for? Could it be? Although he had a certain suspicion, Jia did not say anything, after all, he did not reveal himself before, it would be strange if the other party could know about him!
"Assassin Li, what is the meaning of this, kidnapping Jia Mou." Jia said.
"I kidnap you to come and ask you to come with me! As for the ransom is to work for me for the rest of your life." Li Linfei directly said his pronouncement, I believe that with Jia's character he would still work for himself after being kidnapped by himself, if he did not obey, he also had millions of ways to cure all kinds of disobedience, life and death talisman, chili oil tiger stool gods and horses were all available.
Jia's face was bitter, his worst fears had come true, not that he didn't want to work for Li Linfei.
The potential of Li Linfei in his eyes is still good, if he is not in Yangzhou, if he is in the north, he may be the most likely to unify the country, of course, he is now in Yangzhou is not bad, want money, want food, want people, himself may be the world's first martial arts general, in the family among the good reputation.
It was just that it was still difficult to fight north in the south, but he just couldn't figure out why he was seen by Li Linfei, he hadn't even shown it before, he had always kept his light under wraps, and finally smiled bitterly and said, "Lord Li."
"Alright, if you don't agree, I definitely have many ways to make you submit, and of course don't try to be negative when you get to my side, I know your abilities better than anyone, including yourself." Li Linfei said with a bad smile.
Jia was about to cry, seeing Li Linfei's expression he knew that if he refused the consequences could not be good, he felt he was a bad person, he did not expect Li Linfei to be even more of a bad person, he was no: match for him.
Now that this is the case, this is not Chang'an, can he refuse? Besides, Jia was a good strategist who knew what was going on, could he not give in? Would he dare not yield?
Jia's relatives were in Guzang and did not come with him to Chang'an, and there was nothing else to bring with him. When he returned to Yangzhou, Li Linfei had already brought his family to Yangzhou, and as for the method used, it was the same as inviting Jia.
After taking Jia in, Li Linfei took him to the crumbling Luoyang.
"You see, Dong Zhuo has burned Luoyang with a handful. "Li Linfei glanced at Jia and said, this was something that Jia might have done if he had been allowed to plan it, and it might have been done more ruthlessly.
"Eh," Jia was a bit speechless, he felt from the bottom of his heart that Li Linfei did not reject this approach, but was a bit happy, yes happy.
"These victims are homeless, we will have to spend a lot of time settling them down." Li Linfei added.
A big drop of sweat flowed from Jia's head, he just knew it was like this, Li Linfei had his eye on Luoyang's population too!
In an agricultural civilisation population is the key, with a population you can do so much, and in this respect Jia still approved of Li Linfei, nowadays the people of Yangzhou are estimated to have become the number one state in the world by now.
Chapter 483
After Li Linfei introduced Jia to everyone and gave him the title of Chief of Intelligence of the Black Cloth Guards, in principle he would only take orders from himself.
Originally, the Chief of the Black Cloth Guards was Guo Jia, but as he grew older, he had more things to do, and the most important thing Guo Jia did in the recent year was to work in the Assassins' Palace.
Jia also did not expect Li Linfei to give him such a position. He had already sensed Li Linfei's sincerity before, that he might be a high official himself all of a sudden, but he never expected that Li Linfei would give him such a challenging position.
The intelligence organisation was important, it was probably one of the most crucial departments in Li Linfei's hands, one that only a true crony could hold.
Guo Jia knew that his lord had gone in search of a great sage before, he just didn't expect to find this one person out and give him such high power all of a sudden, which made him even more curious about Jia. As for doubting whether Jia had the ability to do this, he wasn't worried in the slightest, who was his own lord? What a bully.
"''Well, now that Sun Jian has left Luoyang, it's time for us to leave too, the real battle that follows has just begun! '
Guo Jia and He Qi both began to surge inside when they heard Song Yichen's words, because according to the previous plan, after crushing Dong Zhuo they were going to use their troops against Jingzhou as well as Jiaoshu.
He Qi and Guo Jia were also promised that they would lead the troops in the Jiaozhou front. After all, the population of Jiaozhou was relatively small, it was located at the southernmost tip of the Han Dynasty, and there were many barbarians in the area, so they did not need many troops.
After all, one of them was a ghostly genius and the other a commander in chief, and to make them grow up they needed to be given a chance. The battlefield of Jiaoshu was not very dangerous, but it was still troublesome to really raid it, and it was the best place to train them.
"I'll leave it to you to fight the battle, while I'll visit the two military generals." Li Linfei admonished.
He looked at the city of Luoyang again, the next time he reached Luoyang would probably be the moment he really became the Lord of Luoyang.
Deng Wei looked at Li Linfei curiously, what warrior general was worthy of such high regard from Li Linfei!
Even Lord Lu Bu, whom he called the world's best warrior, did not have the desire to recruit him, and this was something that was clear to Deng Wei, who was excited, because with his martial arts nowadays it was hard to find a rival, and if there was really a warrior of his own class to spar with, that would be something to be happy about.
When Li Linfei saw Cao Cao again, although it had not been more than a few days since they had last met, Cao Cao's will seemed to have sunk quite a bit.
"Have you come to say goodbye too! ?" Cao Cao asked as he glanced up at Li Linfei.
"Yes, it's time to leave, staying here is just a waste of time, might as well go back and do something meaningful." Li Linfei nodded his head and admitted.
"Indeed, what you say makes sense, there is indeed no point in staying here." Cao Cao said with a bitter stifled sip of wine.
"After the capture of Luoyang, the nature of the vassals will be exposed, the world will really be in chaos, and I will have to start making early preparations, these nineteen vassals, I don't know how, many will be left after a few years." Li Linfei sighed.
"Is the world in chaos? Yes, the world is really going to be in chaos, His Majesty is also in the hands of the Dong traitors, Yuan Shao and the others are already playing with the idea of the throne, and now I can see through them."
"It is because of their existence that we have to work harder to defeat them, unify the whole country and finally hand back the power to His Majesty." Li Linfei said in a moralistic manner.
In fact, he did not care about the throne at all, but for the sake of his mission, he had to take this path of fighting for supremacy.
Meng Dejun looked at Li Linfei in bewilderment at his words. Just now, Li Linfei's words were like an enlightening experience that made him think about many things, and combined with his previous realisation, he decided to work hard to expand his power.
In the future, he and Li Linfei would work together to support the Han family, and at the same time, only when he was strong could he contain Li Linfei and give His Majesty the greatest authority.
After Li Linfei bade farewell to Cao Cao, He Qi and Guo Jia had long since made the preparations before leaving Luoyang, with nearly 100,000 people willing to follow Li Linfei, mainly young and strong.
Yuan Shao was happy that Li Linfei was leaving, he was afraid of Li Linfei, he could not help but let Li Linfei's prestige and strength were above him, although he was the alliance leader, but he could not control Li Linfei in any way, it was good that he left, it did not give him any trouble.