I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 218, Dong Zhuo's Response
The massacres that happened in more than a dozen noble families quickly spread throughout Luoyang City. For a while, the entire noble family was frightened by the brutality of the Xiliang Army.In the past, house raids required some interrogation, and at any rate they had to be punished according to the law. How can anyone be like Xiliang soldiers who kill the whole family if they say they want to kill the whole family? There is no way to play political struggles like this. Dong Zhuo is really not the same as them!

Luoyang City, Yuan Clan!

He Yong excitedly told Yuan Kui the news of Hu Zhen's killing spree.

"It is impossible for other families to stay out of the matter now, and Dong Zhuo has already provoked public anger!"

Yuan Kai didn't show much expression, because he knew the news a long time ago, and even the conflict between Dong Zhuo and the Luoyang clan was secretly planned by him. Of course, he didn't expect Hu Zhen to be so cruel, but it finally achieved the effect he wanted. !

"It's not enough. Benchu ​​doesn't have convincing legal principles. Huangfusong, Liu Bei and Liu Yu will all become obstacles to Benchu. If Dong Zhuo orders them to attack Benchu's coalition forces, Benchu ​​will undoubtedly lose. You can find a way to get in touch." King Hongli, let him make an edict to crusade against Dong Zhuo, so that they will have legal principles at the beginning, and the war with Dong Zhuo at the beginning will become a war between King Hongli and His Majesty, and the clan will no longer help Dong Zhuo !"

He Yong said: "No!"

Then leave slowly!

On the other side of Luoyang City, Dong Zhuo, who had just become the prime minister of the country, heard the news and said angrily, "Catch this barbarian Hu Zhen immediately!"

Hu Zhen was quickly taken to Dong Zhuo's mansion!Other generals of the Xiliang Army were also called!
After Hu Zhen was brought in, she still didn't know the seriousness of the consequences of what she had done, so she said triumphantly to Dong Zhuo: "Minister Guo, after being cleaned up by your subordinates, there are no rumors about you in the whole Luoyang City!"

When Dong Zhuo heard Hu Zhen's words, he kicked over the desk in front of him furiously, found a leather whip and beat Hu Zhen repeatedly, and said while beating: "A group of guys who are not successful enough to fail, what do you want to do?" Do you want this old man to die?

What do you think this is?
This is Luoyang Cheng, the center of the world!

Do you think you killed the Qiang people in Xiliang, or the common people in Bianjun!
They are the powerful family of the big man, aristocratic family!
Every family can easily pull out tens of thousands of people, do you think they are afraid of such a bloody suppression?

Won't!They will only be my enemies!
You, Chaos, killed indiscriminately and brought more than 10 enemies to the Prime Minister of the country! "

Dong Zhuoyue said that the more angry he was, he could have fought with Yuan Wei and the others, but now he was dragged down by Hu Zhen, a pig teammate. With the help of Hu Zhen, a pig teammate, his strength has at least doubled.

And he is going to find a way to find a way out. His subordinates have killed so many nobles in Luoyang City, which can be said to have completely cut off the bond of trust between the two parties. If the nobles in Luoyang City do not trust him, it is impossible for him If he continued to trust them, Luoyang City could no longer be his base.

The more Dong Zhuoyue thought about it, the more he attacked Hu Zhen, and soon Hu Zhen was beaten and bruised all over her body!

Niu Fu and the others are also saddened by the death of the rabbit. Hu Zhen's way of doing things is their habit in Xiliang, which is nothing to Niu Fu and the others!Who knew it would be unacceptable in Luoyang City, Hu Zhen caused a big disaster today, who knew it wouldn't be them tomorrow.

So they pulled Dong Zhuo one by one to persuade: "Guo Xiang, Hu Zhen didn't do it on purpose, this is the person from Luoyang who bullied us in Xiliang, Hu Zhen just followed your order to arrest those who spread rumors, who Knowing that they would actually assassinate Hu Zhen, if Hu Zhen had not had Mayi's steel armor, he would have died under the assassination of the Luoyang people. Live in Luoyang!"

Dong Zhuo looked a little better, and then asked them to let go of their hands. After venting in this way, most of his anger was consumed.

He looked at Niu Fu and the others and said word by word: "All of you remember to me, this is Luoyang, not Xiliang, put away your tricks. If this happens again, I will kill you!"

Dong Zhuo originally wanted to find someone to discuss how to deal with the following matters, but his master Susukita Yi commanded Lu Bu and his [-] Bingzhou Army in Shangdang County, and his long history Li Ru went to look for Lei Gong again, and the two left.Dong Zhuo found himself surrounded by reckless people, and there was no one to discuss with him.And he couldn't believe these so-called great Confucian scholars recruited in Luoyang City.

"Go away, get angry when you see you fools!"

Niu Fu and Zhang Ji dragged Hu Zhen away!The others also left here in a panic!
No one could be found to discuss it, so Dong Zhuo simply pretended that this incident did not happen, and Yuan Kai did not take any other actions. Although the people in Luoyang City knew about this incident, they were also frightened and died thousands of times at once. People, this is even more bloody than the Luoyang mutiny back then. Everyone discovered Dong Zhuo's brutality for the first time. The entire Luoyang city was bleak in autumn, and no one dared to go to the streets!

As soon as Li Ru returned to Luoyang City, Dong Zhuo immediately found him, and told Li Ru what happened in Luoyang City to Li Ru with a wry smile! "

Then Dong Zhuo said helplessly: "Now the nobles in Luoyang City don't care about me as the prime minister anymore. I spent several months trying to get the scholars to agree with me, but it's not easy to improve, but now I'm dragged down by Hu Zhen. , All previous efforts have been wasted, the old man is also dizzy now, I don't know how to go forward, tell me, should we leave Luoyang City now!"

After pondering for a long time, Li Ru said to Dong Zhuo: "Prime Minister, Luoyang City is no longer safe in this situation. We need to find a retreat just in case, and Chang'an is close to Xiliang, and the Prime Minister has served for many years. Fundamentally, Chang'an will be our best escape route, so the Prime Minister must now find a way to mobilize the elite to station in various places in Chang'an, occupy the dangerous passes around, and make Chang'an our territory!"

Dong Zhuo said solemnly: "But Liu Bei has 4 troops in his hands. If he is persuaded by Yuan Kai, the old man will really die without a place to bury him!"

Li Rudao: "So the Prime Minister of the country must find a way to remove Liu Bei's military power and prevent future troubles. If we want to control the 4 army in Liu Bei's hands, our chances of winning will be higher. Even if we cannot control the 4 troops in Liu Bei's hands, we must transfer Liu Bei Get out of Xiliang."

Dong Zhuo doubted: "But now that the old man's reputation is so bad, will Liu Bei, under Yuan Kai's bewitching, use all his troops to capture Chang'an City, and then the old man will really have nowhere to go!"

But Li Ru smiled and said: "President of the country, you have forgotten that Liu Bei's reputation among the nobles is even worse. He was driven from Jizhou to Xiliang by the nobles. It is impossible for Liu Bei to have a good impression of the nobles!"

"Besides, Yuan Shao's rebellion is already messing up the big Han. As long as Liu Bei is loyal to the Han Dynasty, it is impossible to do anything that will affect the reputation of the Han Dynasty!"

Speaking of this, Li Ru thought of what Lei Gong said to him, and said solemnly: "Lei Gong said something to his subordinates, and I think it is very suitable for the current prime minister!"

"What?"

"Who is our friend and who is our enemy!" Li Ru said word by word.

"Who is our friend and who is our enemy?" Dong Zhuo savored this sentence carefully, and found that the more he thought about it, the more reasonable it became.

"It's true that all the nobles in the world are the enemies of this old man, but where is this old man's friend?"

Li Rudao: "The Prime Minister thinks that Yuan Shao's army will cause the greatest harm to the Prime Minister?"

Dong Zhuo said: "Isn't it? I, the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty, can only command this Luoyang city now!"

Li Ru smiled and said: "This is why Liu Bei and the others hate Yuan Shao and the others the most. The prime minister's actions are at most just a powerful minister, but Yuan Shao and the others rebelled to split the big man and weaken the prestige of the big man. If everyone in the world learns from this What Yuan Shao and the others did, if they were dissatisfied with the imperial court, they rebelled, and even became officials themselves, wouldn't that mean that the great man would be torn apart. Yuan Shao and the others are the national traitors of the great man, and now the clans all over the world may hate Yuan Shao and the others to the bone!"

At this time, Dong Zhuo suddenly realized: "Wen You means that the clans in the world are friends of the truth! So Liu Bei is also the friend of the truth!"

Li Ru smiled and said: "I can't tell you my friend, but Liu Bei definitely hates the two brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu the most. What they have done is simply stomping the face of the big man. Prime Minister, represents the face of the great Han, whether Yuan Wei and the others like it or not, but other than the prime ministers of the country, they are all promoted by the three princes and nine ministers of the court! The Yuan brothers are attacking the prime ministers of the great Han, and what they have done is in the world. Split the Han, and now all the states and counties in the world don't agree with the imperial court's order because of Yuan Shao's affairs, and they have become princes of one side, and the whole Han has been torn apart by the Yuan brothers, how could Liu Bei agree with them!"

"It may not be easy for your subordinates to persuade Liu Bei to give up the 4 army, but it is still very simple to transfer Liu Bei out of Xiliang. Although we are politically weaker than Yuan Kai and the others, if the prime minister unites the entire Han Dynasty Clan, even if Yuan Wei is the number one clan of the Han Dynasty, he can't resist the power of Liu's clan.

The general can designate Liu Bei as the shepherd of Jingzhou, and let Liu Bei deal with Yuan Shu. With Liu Bei's ability, maybe he doesn't even need the truth, and he can wipe out Yuan Shao and the others by himself! "

Dong Zhuo's mind was wide open now. That's right, Yuan Kai can use the power of powerful clans to deal with the truth, and the truth can use the clan to deal with the Yuan family. He said enthusiastically, "Isn't it right that Liu Biao should be named Yanzhou pastor? Liu Yao is Jizhou Mu to deal with Yuan Shao!"

Then he said regretfully: "The clansmen of the Han Dynasty don't have many talents, and this old man can only think of these few!"

But Li Ru stopped him and said: "Minister of the State, Liu Biao and Yuan Shao have a close relationship. Liu Dai is Liu Yao's brother. They all have good friends with the gentry. They may not be willing to help the Prime Minister. If they help Yuan Shao, the Prime Minister will be burned!"

Thinking of Liu Dai, Dong Zhuo said angrily: "This Liu Dai's loss is still the clan of the Han family, can't he see that the Yuan brothers want the country of the great man, and the truth is to defend the country of the great man. !"

After being relieved by Li Ru, Dong Zhuo finally knew how to deal with Yuan Kai and the others.

After talking about these things, Li Ru began to report to Dong Zhuo the results of his meeting with Xu Wei: "Lei Gong is willing to sell 5000 sets of armor and 5000 swords to the Minister of State, but these Lei Gong wants the Minister of State to use Shangdang County!"

Dong Zhuo said nonchalantly: "For Lei Gong! It just so happens that this old man can also bring Mingwei and his [-] troops back to Luoyang City. Now both the northern and southern armies are a little uneasy. We need to strengthen our strength!"

After Yuan Shao occupied Hanoi County, Dong Zhuo had already had the idea of ​​transferring Lu Bu and the Bingzhou Army to Luoyang City. After all, Shangdang had become an enclave for him, and he needed to strengthen his strength in Luoyang City. After all, Dong Zhuo really Only the 6 troops can be trusted.But now he can use a Shangdang that he wants to give up, and exchange equipment for another battalion is a pure profit for Dong Zhuo!

Li Ru continued: "In addition, Lei Gong said that he can sell us weapons and equipment at the benchmark price of grain?"

Dong Zhuo asked strangely, "What does the benchmark price of grain mean?"

Li Rudao: "Lei Gong originally only wanted food, but his subordinates knew that there was not much food and grass in Luoyang City, so Lei Gong took the grain we traded with Lei Gong as the price, and then used the current grain price to calculate the money. Basically, the price of weapons will increase by more than 3 times!"

Dong Zhuo said in a big way: "Right now Luoyang city doesn't have much food, but money is there! Get ready and ask Lei Gong if he has weapons and equipment for 10 people to fight. If there is food, even if the price is expensive, I will You can buy some!"

Speaking of it, Dong Zhuo was helpless, because of Hu Zhen's relationship, he had an extra 100 billion in a day without reason. Now he has almost 300 billion in his hands, but he really wants the money!If those people were alive, he would rather return all the money!

Luoyang City is a consumer city, and Dong Zhuo's money is useless. He can neither sell food, nor buy weapons and equipment. dismissed.

It can be said that the entire big man can provide 10-level weapons and equipment, and only Lei Gong in Bingzhou, that is to say, if Dong Zhuo wants to spend the money, he can only spend it on the territory of the Tengjia Army. This is a seller's market. So Xu Wei tripled the price, and Dong Zhuo had to buy it from Xu Wei, otherwise the money would really have been left to the Yuan brothers.

Li Ru nodded and said, "This subordinate will do it now!"

At this time Dong Zhuo said: "Wen You, do you have any friends who can be recommended to this old man? The nobles in Kanto are not trustworthy, and you are the only person around me who can discuss things, but once you leave, Ben Not a single staff officer in a row!"

Li Ru thought for a while and said, "My subordinates know Jia Xu, a famous scholar from Xiliang, he was not famous when he was young, only Yan Zhong, a famous scholar at that time, thought he was different, saying that he had the wisdom of Zhang Liang and Chen Ping.

In his early years, Jia Xu was recruited by Cha Xiaolian and resigned due to illness. He returned to his hometown in the west and arrived at Qiandi.Jia Xu said: "I am Duan Gong's grandson, please don't hurt me, my family will pay a lot of money to redeem me."

The Di people were afraid of Duan Jiong's majesty, so they didn't dare to harm him, and even made an oath with him and sent him back. It can be seen that Jia Xu has such a strong ability to adapt! "

Dong Zhuo said: "He's one of his own, and he's still a little smart. Truth let him become an official of the Xiangguo Mansion first. If he is really capable, Truth will not hesitate to promote him!"

Li Ru continued: "The prime minister must immediately find someone to issue an edict to Liu Bei to let him go to Jingzhou as soon as possible. He still doesn't know what happened in Luoyang City. If it is too late, he may not leave Xiliang, and even Liu Bei was killed by Yuan. Kui and the others bewitched and led an army to occupy Chang'an, and we couldn't retreat even if we wanted to."

"My subordinates will go to Lei Gong and immediately transport the traded weapons and equipment to Luoyang City. The war between us and Yuan Kai will not be delayed. If we can annihilate the main force of the Yuan brothers in one battle, the rebellion in Kanto will definitely come down. At that time, the Prime Minister of the country will be regarded as the real master of the power of the big man!"

Dong Zhuo reacted when he heard Li Ru's words: "That's right, I'm no match for the old fox Yuan Kui when it comes to party disputes, but it's better than leading troops to fight. The two brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu combined are not enough for me to fight with one hand!"

Then Dong Zhuo sneered and said: "The only thing Yuan Kai miscalculated is that he wanted to use war to drive the old man out of power. The old man has fought for 30 years, and the two boys of the Yuan family became 2000 shi schoolboys before the first battle. Wei, what qualifications do they have to be the opponents of this old man!"

Dong Zhuo has been exhausted by the political struggle in Luoyang City for the past few months. He is not Yuan Wei's opponent at all and can only be led away. But compared to fighting, Dong Zhuo will use his 30 years of combat experience to teach the Yuan brothers how to behave !

Without hesitation, Dong Zhuo immediately asked someone to draw up the imperial decree, and let Liu Bei become the general of Zhennan, Jingzhou Mu, and let Liu Bei lead an army of 4 to attack Yuan Shu who was entrenched in Nanyang from Wuguan.At the same time, let Niu Fu lead 1 soldiers to follow Li Ru to Shangdang County to trade equipment!

In the first month, Anding County, Linjing City.

Attendant Wang Yun took the imperial decree and appointed Liu Bei as Zhennan General and Jingzhou Shepherd!

"Sir, Liu Bei accepts the order!" Liu Bei accepted the imperial order with a blank expression.

Although he dealt with Han Sui and him in Xiliang during this period, he knew a little about the changes in the court, but he didn't expect the changes in the court to be so fast. At first, he heard that the general and Zhang asked them to be killed. At that time, Liu Bei I thought that the Han Dynasty would be completely new without these two factions.

But in fact, he was thinking too much. It didn't take long before he heard that Dong Zhuo and Yuan Kai's alliance abolished the emperor. The two fell out this month, and now they want to attack Yuan Shu too much. Aren't you Dong Zhuo from the Yuan family?

This year's government is really changing, and even Liu Bei can't see it clearly.

But there is one thing Li Ru is right about. For Han family members like Liu Bei, it is unacceptable for Yuan Shu and the others to rebel against the imperial court!
After Wang Yun read the imperial decree, he took out a secret letter from Yuan Kai, and told Liu Bei what Dong Zhuo had done in Luoyang City, and then saluted and said: "Dong Zhuo is cruel and heartless, and now he has shown his face. Now the big man The rise and fall of the army is determined by the general!"

Liu Bei's face was grim. After so many things, he is no longer the political novice he was back then.

"Isn't Dong Zhuo a student of Yuan Kai?"

Wang Yun immediately said: "Of course not, Dong Zhuo defected to the eunuchs more than ten years ago, these things are well known in the world!"

Liu Bei sneered and said, "Everything Dong Zhuo did in Luoyang City was to help the Yuan family. Now you say that Dong Zhuo is not from the Yuan family. You think I will believe it. Without Yuan Kai's help, how could Dong Zhuo from Xiliang Able to control the government of the entire Han Dynasty!"

Wang Yun didn't expect that Liu Bei would not be deceived by them at all, so he quibbled: "Dong Zhuo brought 3 Xiliang troops, and the Taifu and all the civil and military officials of the court had to succumb to his sword. Now all the officials in Luoyang City are not Anyone who obeyed Dong Zhuo was killed by him!"

Zhang Fei sneered and said: "You deceived us for fools. When Dong Zhuo first went to Luoyang City, there were only 3000 cavalry. It was easy to drive Dong Zhuo away with an army of nearly 10 in Luoyang City. Even now, with 7 to 8 forbidden troops in Luoyang City The strength is also enough to beat Dong Zhuo away, there is no need for the Yuan brothers to rebel, you are just distributing the spoils unevenly, and you want to trick us into becoming your thugs, this is simply wishful thinking!"

Liu Bei and his party clearly made great contributions, but they were driven to Xiliang by the elite clan headed by Yuan Kai to eat in the wind and sand. It is strange that Zhang Fei and the others would have a good look at Wang Yun.

You must know that Han Sui's Xiliang rebellion is no better than Zhang Yan's. Han Sui and others have experienced many battles, and the soldiers in their hands are also very elite. Liu Bei has suffered a lot during the half a year since he came to Xiliang!
Wang Yun could only say embarrassingly: "I never thought that Dong Zhuo would win over the imperial court's imperial army, so we had to start an incident. But it is a fact that Dong Zhuo killed Zhongliang. Thousands of aristocratic families in Luoyang City were killed by Dong Zhuo." , It can be said that the blood flowed like a river, could it be that the general ignored these things!"

Zhang Fei said with a disdainful smile: "There was no coup in Luoyang that year. When Emperor Heng removed Liang Ji back then, thousands of people died. Aren't they from aristocratic families? Nearby, there were also generals who made them fight with Zhang, and thousands of eunuchs They were killed by you, and thousands of people from the He family were also killed by you. These people are not counted as human beings, and their blood does not become a river. The blood of a general can be shed. Why can't the blood of your aristocratic families be shed? It seems that there are still fewer streams, if Dong Zhuo kills them all, the world will be quiet!"

Jian Yong stopped immediately: "Yide, don't talk nonsense!"

Liu Bei already had a bad reputation among the nobles. If Zhang Fei's words were spread, it would be even more difficult for Liu Bei to gain a foothold among the scholars. Jian Yong already realized that the world seemed to be in chaos at this time. If the prestige continues to deteriorate like this, who will come to rely on him in the future? As Liu Bei's counselor, of course he has long-term plans for Liu Bei.

Liu Bei said coldly: "For me, Dong Zhuo is the prime minister elected by the court, and Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are the biggest traitors of the Han. I will not read this letter! This general will also organize the army to prepare for war and eliminate the rebellion of the Han. Idiots! We won’t entertain angels anymore!”

Wang Yun found that Liu Bei had too much prejudice against them, and it was impossible to stand on their side, so he had no choice but to leave.

(End of this chapter)