Chapter 547: Suppression from the Pure Stream, the game begins! [1]

With Yuan Shao and Cao Cao returning to the capital, the banner of the great victory in the Liangzhou War was finally unveiled.

Duan Yu's name once again resounded through the streets and alleys of Luoyang.

Within one year, Duan Yu had achieved two great victories.

Fighting across Monan, burning Mount Tanhanshan, and shooting the Xianbei Chanyu.

The battle in Liangzhou was even more bloody, with one hundred thousand Qiang people executed.

At this turn of the old and new, Duan Yu's great victory seemed to be a celebration for the New Year.

Yuan Shao returned to Luoyang, and along with him, the former Liangzhou Inspector Liang Gu and the Liangzhou Administrator Cheng Qiu were escorted back to Luoyang.

The day after they were escorted to Luoyang by Yuan Shao, Liu Hong ordered them to be executed.

But for Liang Gu and Cheng Qiu, this was not a bad thing.

During the time they were imprisoned in Jixian.

Cheng Qiu had seen what it meant to be worse than dead.

He regretted not seeking death wholeheartedly when he was in Jincheng, only to be sent to Jixian.

Bai Tu, who wore a black robe and smiled very shyly, had left indelible trauma in Cheng Qiu's heart and on his body.

So much so that when Cheng Qiu was sent to Luoyang to be beheaded, he actually had a smile of relief on his face before he died.

As for Liang Gu.

Liang Gu's death caused quite a stir in Luoyang.

Although Liang Gu was not very good as an official.

But Liang Gu had extremely high academic attainments.

Liang Gu's "Eight-Part Script" calligraphy was as famous as Cai Yong's "Flying White Script" throughout the world.

And in Luoyang, Liang Gu's old friends and teachers blamed Duan Yu for Liang Gu's death.

For a time, the Pure Stream faction in Luoyang continuously submitted memorials to impeach Duan Yu, claiming that his large-scale war against the Qiang people would easily lead to a shift in the situation in Liangzhou, thereby triggering a comprehensive rebellion of the Qiang people in Liangzhou.

This indirectly led to the delay in the rewards that Duan Yu should have received immediately.

And regarding the rewards for Duan Yu, several different voices suddenly appeared in Luoyang.

In November, the temperature in Luoyang plummeted like a slide.

The Luo River, which surrounded Luoyang, was like a sleeping giant dragon, with a thin mist rising from the water surface after the sun rose in the morning.

Looking from afar, Luoyang city looked like a mysterious city-state shrouded in mist, appearing and disappearing.

The gray-white and towering city walls stood like loyal guards in the embrace of the thin mist.

Compared to the desolation of Liangzhou, even though the temperature plummeted, the peddlers and laborers waiting in line to enter the city at the Luoyang city gate in the morning still formed a long line, waiting by the drawbridge of the moat that had not yet been lowered.

Luoyang city was the residence of the Son of Heaven, and it could be said that every inch of land was worth an inch of gold.

Apart from the vast land occupied by the towering imperial palace, the city was filled with the mansions of the Three Excellencies, Nine Ministers, and other high-ranking officials.

As for the common people, the vast majority could only live outside Luoyang city.

As the golden sun gradually climbed, the shops on both sides of the main street inside the Pingcheng Gate opened their tightly closed doors one after another.

In Buguangli, on the east side of the Northern Palace, mansions with vast areas were scattered like chess pieces surrounding the Northern Palace, arranged in an orderly manner.

In front of a high-gated mansion, a luxurious carriage was waiting quietly.

The coachman stood in front of the horses, holding the reins in one hand and a whip in the other, wearing a coarse gray cloth garment and a khaki square scarf on his head.

A large plaque hung on the porch of the two vermilion-painted mansion gates.

The font was flamboyant, and just looking at the characters, it carried an air of scholarly arrogance.

The two large characters "Cui Mansion" were on the plaque.

Before long, Cui Lie, dressed in a black official robe and neatly attired, walked out of the mansion and boarded the carriage.

Inside the Hao Gate on the east side of the Southern Palace.

The mansions of the Three Excellencies—the Grand Excellency, the Minister of Works, and the Grand Marshal—were arranged from north to south.

At this time, several carriages had already arrived in front of Yang Ci's Grand Marshal Mansion.

When Cui Lie's carriage arrived, the people in the other carriages had already stepped down one after another.

And Yang Biao, the son of the Grand Marshal Yang Ci, was already standing in front of the mansion gate waiting.

After getting off the carriage, Cui Lie greeted the many Pure Stream members who had walked into Yang Ci's mansion together, such as the Grand Master of Splendid Happiness Ma Ridi, the Grand Historian Zhang Xun, the Five-Official Central Gentleman Tang Xidian, and the Remonstrance Official Han Shuo.

Yang Biao stood in front of the mansion gate, ushered everyone into the mansion one by one, and then ordered the attendants to close the gate.

Before long, everyone took their seats in the main hall of the Grand Marshal Mansion. ===== CHAPTER 549 =====