A Journey Through the Worlds of Film and Television.

Chapter 701: Fooling Liu Xie

The next morning, after a night of fighting and chaos, Chang'an City had completely quieted down. The people in the city didn't know what was happening outside, so they didn't dare to go out. They hid in their homes, either opening a crack in the door to peek out or lying on the wall to look out.

Then, teams of soldiers in bright uniforms and full of energy walked through the streets, beating gongs and shouting loudly: "Dear citizens of Chang'an City, don't panic. We are the troops of General Lu, the General who conquered the north. We have come to rescue Chang'an and save the king.

Li Jue, Guo Si and others have disturbed the government and have been executed. From today on, porridge and grain will be distributed throughout the city. Please pay attention, every household, every household should send women and children to receive the grain, and women and children will be given priority! "

At this time, there were such patrol teams in almost every street and alley in Chang'an City, constantly beating gongs and making propaganda.

At first, the people in the city were a little afraid and did not dare to go out.

But soon, when clay pots and large iron pots were set up in various places in the city for cooking porridge, and the aroma of cooked corn grits mixed with millet spread, the people in the city began to get excited and rushed out of their homes and rushed to the nearest porridge distribution site.

Each porridge distribution site is guarded by dozens or even hundreds of guards to prevent chaos.

When the civilians saw the soldiers with guns and swords, they were obviously a little afraid.

The soldiers immediately organized the people to line up, giving priority to the elderly, women and children.

Driven by hunger, many people began to line up according to the soldiers' instructions. Soon, some people were given half a bowl of hot porridge. They didn't care that the porridge was still steaming and drank it impatiently.

After drinking the porridge, some people couldn't help but shed tears, perhaps because they thought of their relatives who had starved to death.

At the beginning, some people wanted to rush forward, but after being taught a lesson by the guards, they all lined up obediently.

Soon, all the soup kitchens in the city became quiet, with only people drinking porridge in silence, with occasional sobs.

At the same time, inside the palace.

"Your Majesty has been imprisoned by Li Que, Guo Si and others and is not allowed to go out. I guess you don't know what the situation is like in Chang'an City now? I wonder if Your Majesty is interested in going out for a walk with me?"

"This..." Liu Xie hesitated for only a moment, but when he looked up and saw Lu Cheng's determined eyes, he knew that he had no room for refusal.

However, Liu Xie had actually heard about the scene outside. The entire Chang'an must have been in a state of disarray due to cholera caused by Li Jue, Guo Si and others, right?

"Thank you, my dear, for accompanying me for a walk."

"Your Majesty, please change into casual clothes, which will be more convenient for walking around outside."

Liu Xie looked up and saw Lu Cheng, who was wearing a green shirt and no official armor, and nodded: "My dear minister, what you said makes sense."

Afterwards, Liu Xie changed into casual clothes, took two personal eunuchs with him, and followed Lu Cheng out of the palace gate.

Ever since Li Jue, Guo Si and others occupied Chang'an, in order to prevent Liu Xie from contacting ministers outside, they kept the young emperor imprisoned in the palace and did not allow him to step out of the palace. Everything in the palace was strictly controlled.

Now, after such a long time, when Liu Xie stepped out of the palace again, he did not feel like a bird out of a cage. Instead, it was like he had entered a bigger cage from one cage.

Liu Xie remembered that the last time he walked out of the palace was when Li Jue and Guo Si led their troops to approach Chang'an and forced him to hand over Prime Minister Wang Yun. Now that Li Jue and Guo Si were executed, it could be considered as revenge for Prime Minister Wang, right?

Thinking of this, Liu Xie felt extremely complicated.

After leaving the palace, Dian Wei followed Lu Cheng and Liu Xie with a team of guards wearing soft armor inside and robes outside.

After walking a short distance forward, Liu Xie suddenly smelled a foul odor coming towards him. He felt nauseous and wanted to vomit out the food he had just eaten in the morning.

Lu Cheng glanced at Liu Xie who was like a primary school student beside him, and pointed to an alley not far away: "Your Majesty, Li Jue, Guo Si and others let their soldiers commit crimes and rob the people, leaving no family in Chang'an without surplus food and starving everywhere. Those people who couldn't survive, after eating everything they could eat, could only exchange their children for food. The bones piled up in this alley are the bones of the people who were eaten..."

When Liu Xie heard this, he looked up and saw a few bones scattered on the street. He could no longer control himself and started vomiting as he walked to the side of the street.

Although Liu Xie often suffered from hunger during this period, Li Jue, Guo Si and others would not really starve the emperor to death, and they would still send him some food every day.

Now seeing this hellish scene outside, Liu Xie finally understood how tragic it was to talk about "exchanging children for food" and "people eating each other during famine" as described in the books.

Lu Cheng waited until Liu Xie had just finished breakfast and then brought him out to see the human bones that had not yet been cleaned up. This was to leave a deep impression on Liu Xie and let him know how chaotic this world was.

Seeing Liu Xie vomiting by the wall, two young eunuchs rushed forward to help him, but Lu Cheng waved his hand and asked the two young eunuchs to step back. Then he patted Liu Xie on the back, took a bamboo water bottle from Dian Wei, and handed it to him: "Your Majesty, rinse your mouth first."

Liu Xie didn't say much. He took the kettle and rinsed his mouth. He didn't dare to look at the human bones scattered in the alley again, but he couldn't help but cheer himself up in his heart: I am the emperor of the Han Dynasty, how can I be afraid of these?

"Your Majesty, do you want to return to the palace?"

"No, I won't go back. I want to take a good look at Chang'an City and my people. As the emperor of the Han Dynasty, I failed to protect them. It is my fault..."

"Your Majesty, you are still young and cannot protect yourself. This is not your fault. Let's go and take a look ahead."

After walking forward for a distance and turning a street corner, I saw a temporary shed in front of me. There was a team of armored and armed soldiers guarding it, and many people lined up in a long queue to receive corn porridge.

"My dear, are you the one who ordered the soldiers to distribute porridge?"

"That's right. Every citizen in Chang'an is a Han citizen. Now that I'm here, I have to take good care of them for Your Majesty. I can't let the people continue to starve."

"My dear minister, you have a heart of benevolence and justice, and you help all people. This is a blessing for the people and a blessing for the Han Dynasty."

"Your Majesty, you are overpraising me. This is what I should do. I have heard that every man has his share of responsibility for the fate of the country. If you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight. If Your Majesty wants to restore the Han Dynasty, you must understand the responsibility on your shoulders. That is the livelihood of hundreds of millions of people on the land of China."

"I... understand. Thank you for your reminder, my dear."

Lu Cheng laughed and said, "Your Majesty, let's go look somewhere else."

No matter how smart Liu Xie was, he was only eleven years old and his mind was not fully mature.

With thousands of years of experience and hypnosis skills, Lu Cheng is confident that he can brainwash Liu Xie and make this young emperor grow and develop in the direction he wants.

Even after being completely brainwashed, Lu Cheng will not completely restrict Liu Xie's freedom.

As for Liu Xiehui, he will not disguise himself unless his disguise can deceive the thousand-year-old fox Lu Cheng and deceive the system's identification skills.