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Chapter 20 Make a Decision

Xia Yue, who had been silent for a long time, then said, "So we cannot wait for the decision of the emperor to take action. When we came out, the emperor had already considered this situation. He explained to us. If the situation changes greatly, we and Envoy Luo can make a decision to resettle him and these refugees based on the actual situation. Someone believed that Li Te should be ordered to take the Di people and the refugees back to the junction of Yongliang, where they lived before, because since the rebellion of Qi, there has been no war in Yongliang, and these refugees have no reason to stay in the land of Bashu. What does Envoy Luo think?"

After hearing this, Luo Shang immediately responded: "General Xia's words are reasonable. Why don't we lead the army into Shu and urge Li Te to move the refugees back to Guanzhong."

...

More than ten days later, more than 10,000 Liangzhou soldiers and two thousand imperial guards led by Luo Shang entered Mianzhu from Brazil. This was the base camp of Li Te's refugee armed forces. Shortly after the three armed forces set up a camp ten miles outside the refugee camp, Li Te came to pay homage to Luo Shang and others in person.

At the banquet, after three tours of the wine, Li Te repeatedly expressed his willingness to guard Yizhou for the court. Luo Shang was silent, but his Guanghan prefect Xin Ran smiled and asked Li Te knowingly where the family was. Li Te said in surprise: "Don't Prefect Xin know who the family is? Te and these refugee brothers migrated from the Yongliang area, and they are all from Liangzhou or Yongzhou."

Xin Ran then twisted his beard and said, "As far as I know, it was because of the rebellion of Qi Wannian, that Brother Li led his tribes to join the rest of the refugees who had escaped from war to Liangzhou to visit the valley, and later entered Shu. Now Qi Wannian has been killed, and there is no war in Liangyong. Moreover, Zhang Gui, the governor of Liangzhou whom His Majesty personally, has been in good order, and it is time for all kinds of trouble to be restored. Why don't Brother Li return to Liangzhou with his fellow villagers to ensure peace in the country?"

Only then did Li Te understand what Xin Ran meant. After a moment of silence, he clasped his fists to Xin Ran and Luo Shang and said, "Since you have made such a suggestion, Li must consider it carefully. If it is the emperor's decision, it must be implemented. But he still needs to wait until the emperor issued an edict before he can act."

Xia Yue and Chen Hui looked at each other a few times, and were about to speak, but Luo Shang said first: "Since Brother Li said that, we will wait a few more days, and it will not be too late to wait for the emperor's decision."

...

At noon that day, Luo Shang was sleeping soundly in the camp before he woke up. He ordered the soldiers to tell him that Li Te's brother Li Xiang was waiting outside the tent for a long time. Luo Shang blinked and said, "See." Li Xiang entered the tent, without saying a word, and asked the accompanying people to carry out two large boxes. The boxes were opened, which were rare treasures. Li Xiang depressed Luo Shang's head and said, "This was entrusted by my brother to me to the envoy to thank the envoy for his righteousness and righteousness for my refugee."

Luo Shang was not polite, and waved his hand to signal his personal soldiers to take them down, and then slowly said to Li Xiang: "What I can do is to drag you up. If the emperor does not agree today, you will have to return to Liangzhou in the end."

Li Xiang said, "In this way, the envoy has helped us wait for the refugees. When we wait for the refugees to settle down in the future, we will thank you very much."

It turned out that Li Xiang and Luo Shang were old friends. On the way to Sichuan, Li Xiang took several trucks of gold, silver and jewelry to guard the Shu Road, General Luo Shang intercepted him and made him a "friend".

In another tent, Xia Yue and Chen Hui were listening to the information of secret scouts. At present, Li Te not only did not make any preparations to repatriate refugees to Yongliang, but instead bribed the hearts of other refugees in Shu through various means. This included spreading rumors and intimidating other refugees, saying that the court would pay a lot of money to reward some refugees and commanders to other refugees to deliver food and supplies to other refugees, and promised to report to the court to ensure that these refugees were not repatriated to Liangzhou to win the hearts of the people. For a moment, many refugees gathered in Li Te’s refugee camp, with nearly 100,000 people.

"It seems that Li Te is planning to rebel. Unfortunately, Luo Shang is still greedy for money at this time. He doesn't know that his life is hanging on the line!" Chen Hui sighed to Xia Yue. Xia Yue didn't say anything, looking like an old god. This made Chen Hui feel curious. He asked Xia Yue tentatively: "Whether we want to persuade Luo Shang to attack Li Te now? If it is too late, it will cause a big disaster."

"No, the emperor's edict should arrive soon. We don't have to rush these times. I absolutely believe in the emperor's decision." Xia Yue said calmly.

A moment later, Xia Yue looked at a pigeon flying in the air and said to himself, "This is the last pigeon." The five pigeons he brought from the pigeon cabin in Luoyang Acropolis released one every few days, and promptly transmitted the information he collected in front to Sima Yu.

Finally, the envoy who passed the imperial edict went through a lot of hardships to reach the Liangzhou army camp in Shu. After Luo Shang repeatedly asked, the envoy revealed the content of the edict [For the purpose of fighting against Zhao Li, Li Te was appointed General Xuanwei, his younger brother Li Liu was appointed General Fenwu, and the rest of his relatives were all granted marquis.] Luo Shang and others were stunned. This was only a reward, so why didn't they explicitly deport the refugees?

Luo Shang grabbed the sleeve of the imperial envoy and asked, "The only ones are the imperial edicts?" The imperial envoy answered with certainty: "The only ones." Luo Shang had no choice but to return to his tent in confusion. At this time, the imperial envoy whispered to Xia Yue beside him: "The emperor has a secret edict!"

...

Luo Shang was sitting in the tent thinking about the strangeness of the content of the edict, but Xia Yue and Chen Hui came in outside the door. Just as he was about to speak, a sword light came. When Luo Shang's head fell to the ground, his face still had a smile on his face.

There were sounds of drums from the camp. When the generals heard it, they knew that it was a signal of the gathering of the central army's tent, and they gathered towards the tent. When the people arrived, they did not see the governor Luo Shang. Those who came out were Xia Yue and Chen Hui, who were commanding the imperial guards.

There was a large group of people behind Xia Yue and Chen Hui, all of whom were waiting officials who followed the imperial envoy from the capital Luoyang to Shu. These people deliberately took a few steps later than the imperial envoy, so they just arrived.

Xia Yue placed the bloody thing in his hand on the table. When everyone saw that it was Luo Shang's head, they were very frightened. At this time, the envoy behind Xia Yue began to promulgate, saying that "Luo Shang was greedy for money, was bribed by refugees, and destroyed the country and the country. He should be punished. He appointed Pan Tao as the new governor of Liangzhou, and Xia Yue temporarily led the military commander of Liangzhou.

The generals did not dare to neglect them. After listening to the edict, they all visited the new governor and Xia Yue. Xia Yue immediately deployed the next action according to the edict.

...

Li Te had heard of himself being called General Xuanwei in the refugee camp, but he didn't know how to arrange himself and these refugees. He thought to himself; [Who is so fucking that General Xuanwei is a false reputation, anyway, the Lord of Yizhou is sure to be able to take it. If the emperor of Luoyang doesn't give it to him, he can win with his own strength!]

Just as he was thinking about it, Li Liu ran in panic and said, "Brother, the emperor's envoy has come to our decree to announce the edict. Should we go and receive the edict in person?"

Li Te asked vigilantly: "How many people have they come?"

"Not many, plus the envoys and hundreds of guards."
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