My clone is on the other side of the starry sky

Chapter 321 Taking Salary

"Lord, this is a letter and a transfer order from Wudu." A counselor from Linjiang Mansion handed the letter and transfer order to Lu Bu.

"Did Xue Qing send it?" Lu Bu didn't read the letter, but just asked after reading the transfer order.

"Exactly." The counselor nodded and said, "Lord, we have just established a foothold in the southeast. If we are transferred at this moment, our hard work may be in vain. But if we don't leave, it will be disobedience."

Lu Bu nodded and said, "Is there any solution?"

"Yes." The counselor said solemnly: "Xue Qing is now relying on the favor of the emperor. Cholera has gone beyond the control, and the people of the world have been dissatisfied for a long time. If the lord draws a clear line with him now, he will be praised by the people of the world."

Lu Bu nodded and said: "It is also a way, but in the end it is disobedience and disrespect. Send this letter and the transfer order to Gong Yangyi, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. Take this as my certificate of surrender. Remember , in this game of chess in the world, don’t always think about playing alone, you have to be good at finding friends.”

"Yes." The counselor quickly bowed.

"Go ahead and do it." Lu Bu waved his hand and said.

"I say goodbye to my humble post." The counselor bowed and left with the transfer order and letter.

Lu Bu wrote a letter and asked Chen Chongzhi: "Go to Wudu and try to deliver this letter to Xue Qing. Remember, you can't let anyone know that I sent him a letter."

Wu Yuan noticed that the maid in the distance kept moving for a long time without moving. She turned her head and looked at Lu Bu: "Aren't you a Sima Aiqing?"

In Wu Yuan's calculation, Sima Xian would need at least a year to deploy, and then he would appear to seize power. Is it too hasty so quickly?

"Probably not." The visitor was Lu Bu. He sat casually aside, looked at Wu Yuan and said with a smile, "I'm here to take your majesty to another place."

"Your Excellency is able to appear here silently. I think you are quite capable. You should know that regicide will backfire." Wu Yuan looked at Lu Fengxian.

A few days later, the Ministry of Civil Affairs rejected Lü Bu's transfer order and sent him an appointment. Lü Bu had outstanding political achievements, led the military affairs of the seven southeastern prefectures, and controlled the seven prefectures.

Wu Yuan turned around and saw a strange man with an impressive appearance. She frowned: "Sima Aiqing took control of the government so quickly?"

At the same time, Xue Qing was a little puzzled by the fact that Lu Bu's transfer order was rejected by the officials. Lu Bu came directly over and asked what the officials were doing! ? Isn’t what you wrote in your letter clear enough? Or is he really not afraid of making his secret public? He is not some Linjiang Lu family. As long as it is announced, I don't believe it will have any impact at all.

In the palace, Xue Qing frowned and looked at the letter sent by Lu Bu, with a flash of fear in his eyes: "The old woman is not dead!? Why don't you kill that old guy Sima Xian!?"

The place where Wu Yuan was imprisoned was a very ordinary manor, which was naturally not as good as the palace. However, Sima Xian did not neglect Wu Yuan. The food, clothing, housing and transportation were of the best standards. Apart from the lack of freedom of movement, Wu Yuan's life was not bad. .

"A fortune teller told me before that your majesty will have a bad life in his old age. Now it seems that it has come true." A sudden voice brought Wu Yuan back to reality from his memories.

"Yes!" Chen Chongzhi nodded. He was a fortune teller. Although he was not good at fighting, it was not difficult to hide his whereabouts.

On the other side, outside Wudu City, is a village belonging to the Sima family. This is where Sima Xian placed Wu Yuan under house arrest. From the outside, it looks like an ordinary village, but here, all the dead soldiers of the Sima family are there. , anyone approaching this village will instantly trigger the village's alert.

It is impossible for outsiders to appear here. When someone comes, it seems that the time has come as Sima Xian said, but it is too fast.

"Yes." Lu Bu nodded: "I don't have the habit of forcing others to do things. If Your Majesty chooses to stay, Lord Sima will most likely get His Majesty's body."

He took out a jade seal from his arms, which was Wuhan's imperial seal. Originally, he wanted to wait for a period of time after Wu Yuan's death, and then let the puppet abdicate the throne to him, and then ask Sima Xian for it. Shanheyin, but after actually starting to take control of the power, he found that things were not as simple as he thought. The courtiers did not agree to many things, not to mention the fake Wu Yuan, even if the real Wu Yuan had this idea, he could not implement it!

"Do I have a choice?" Wu Yuan asked.

"You don't have to do it yourself to kill people." Lu Bu shook his head: "And even if I kill you, there will be no backlash!"

Looking at the rolling blue sky in the sky, Wu Yuan sighed. During this period, she looked back on her life more than once. When she was a teenager, she was selected into the palace because of her outstanding appearance and married an old man. Not long after, the old man After the man died, she became his son's woman, and then she took power, checked and balanced with the officials, and became the emperor. This life can be said to be walking on thin ice, but in the end it ended like this. Now that I think about it, it is very sad.

"It doesn't count." Lu Bu shook his head.

He was the king of a country, and when he fought with Wu Yuan, it was king versus king, a collision of the two countries' fortunes. Wu Yuan's death could only prove that he had won the battle of fortunes.

"Who are you?" Wu Yuan frowned and looked at Lu Bu.

"Here, my name is Lu Bu." Lu Bu said with a smile. Wu Yuan looked at him for a while and then said in a deep voice: "It seems that I have some impression. Although I am old, I don't want to die violently."

"Understood." Lu Bu smiled and nodded. With a wave of his hand, Wu Yuan was swept up by a gentle breath. Immediately after, Wu Yuan saw the world in front of her changing rapidly. Within a moment, she appeared in Lu Bu's mansion in Linjiang Prefecture.

"Fourth grade!? A member of the Dao Alliance?" Wu Yuan was a little surprised this time.

In the territory of Daqian, except for the Dao League, there are no other fourth-grades, and it is impossible for the fourth-grade to appear, but why did the Dao League appear in this way? For the seal of mountains and rivers?

"No." Lu Bu shook his head.

"Who are you?" Wu Yuan frowned and looked at Lu Bu.

"With your Majesty's lifespan, I'm afraid you won't be able to wait until the truth is revealed." Lu Bu sat down and said, "Your Majesty, please feel aggrieved during this period. If you stay here, you should be able to return to Wudu soon."

Wu Yuan muttered: "Sima Xian found out that I disappeared, and I am afraid he will launch a coup in advance. This will appear to be hasty. Either the various forces cannot coordinate well, or they will have to pay a huge price in exchange for the various forces. With your support, since you brought me here, I don’t think you will allow Sima Xian to take power smoothly.”

Lu Bu glanced at Wu Yuan and nodded in praise: "Your Majesty's strategizing skills are indeed not bad. The entrustment to others is probably related to the ups and downs of your life. Your Majesty seems to be eager to be loved."

"What woman doesn't desire it?" Wu Yuan sighed.

"Generally, after one or two emotional injuries, you will see through it. It is difficult to make this kind of thing last forever. You need to constantly invest your energy in nourishing it." Lu Bu invited Wu Yuan into the inner hall. It was rare to meet an emperor who could sit down and chat. , he also wanted to talk to the other party about his experience in governing the country.

"Have I not paid enough?" Wu Yuan looked at Lu Bu and said, "Your Excellency, please don't say everything. This will only nourish evil."

"This is not a question of whether it is enough, but from the very beginning, this relationship was not the kind His Majesty wanted. He is like a dog raised by Your Majesty. He needs to constantly wag his tail and beg for mercy to get His Majesty's reward. If it is just a pet, this The end of the relationship is that His Majesty returns to the West or loses power, but His Majesty gave him another way, a way for him to become a human being. You can't blame him for falling out. A man was born between heaven and earth, how can he live in depression for a long time? ?”

"What kind of thing do I want?" Wu Yuan asked, she was also a little confused at the moment.

"If Your Majesty had not entered the palace back then, but had married a well-matched person, and if the other person's appearance and character were not bad, he would probably be able to live the kind of life Your Majesty wanted. The couple were loving when they were young, and when the husband was at his lowest point, Your Majesty would never leave him. Abandoning each other, when the husband is prosperous, he will not forget his wife who is a chaff, support each other, and grow old together." Lu Bu said with emotion: "I think most girls have such a longing in their hearts, but it is a pity that sometimes beauty is really important to a woman. It’s not a blessing. From the moment His Majesty entered the palace, he was destined to never encounter such feelings.”

"Why?" Wu Yuan frowned.

"The late Emperor is too old and cannot stay with His Majesty for a few years. No matter what happens after that, he will not be able to survive in terms of human relations, and there are too many temptations around the Emperor. A woman only turns eighteen for one year, but there are eighteen-year-old women every year." Lu Bu sighed and said: "Let's not talk about this. I would like to ask Your Majesty to come and stay here for a while. I also want to ask Your Majesty for advice on how to govern the country. The love between children should not be a topic between you and me."

Wu Yuan sighed. In fact, she wanted to talk about the love between her children. After fighting for a lifetime, she was already tired.

However, Lu Bu obviously didn't care about her feelings. For a period of time, Lu Bu would come to her almost every day to talk about governing the country.

How to check and balance the powerful, how to improve national power, how to weigh internal forces, and how to compete with external forces.

Wu Yuan gradually discovered that the man who called himself Lu Bu did not look like an ambitious traitor. He had a very high vision in governing the country. He often considered issues that were hundreds of years old. His attitude toward the noble clans was not to suppress them blindly, but to suppress them. If you want to continuously lower the threshold for noble families, when everyone is a noble family, there will be no difference between the noble families and ordinary poor people. How to smooth out the contradiction between politics and religion so that both can Play a positive role rather than depleting each other.

"Who is your Excellency!?" A month later, Wu Yuan finally couldn't help but asked the doubts in her heart. Lu Bu's identity was by no means as simple as it appeared. Some questions were beyond the scope of his talent. You don’t even know what you saw from that position, so what should you think about?

"Is it important?" Lu Bu asked with a smile.

Isn't it important?

Wu Yuan didn't understand the other party's informal personality. Many things started from the smallest details.

"Lord!" The counselor hurriedly came in and interrupted the conversation between the two: "The coup in Wudu has begun!"

"Send orders to all the troops to prepare for war!" Lu Bu nodded.

"Yes!"

(End of this chapter)