Infinite war begins with Cao thief.

Chapter 365: Xue Nu and Duan Mu Rong
Time goes back to before Zhao State moved its capital from Handan.

At that time, Li Ru was still playing role-playing games in Handan, developing his confidants, and preparing for an opportunity to harm Li Mu and the war agent.

Li Ru's first wife Dong Yi wanted to visit Handan because she missed Li Ru.

Although Dong Yi's name has not been recorded in history and he is very likely just a fictional character, because he is considered a non-blood relative of Dong Huang in the first mission world, he was fortunate to obtain the ability template of Xiahou Shang, one of the Eight Tiger Riders of Cao Wei. His loyalty is locked and his ability is almost up to the level of a quasi-first-line general.

In any case, Xiahou Shang in history led troops for many years, became the governor of Jingzhou, and won several battles.

Even if they are relatives of someone with connections, they are quite capable people with connections.

Dong Yi, who has the ability template of Xiahou Shang, is very good in all aspects. He is both civil and military, and quite capable. The only problem he has is that he is jealous.

Dong Yi's management of Li Ru was very strict, so that Li Ru had the fewest offspring among all the civil and military officials under Dong Huang, only slightly more than the eunuch Ling Jingshan.

In order to give Li Ru a real surprise, Dong Yi specially asked for the help of his younger sister Dong Hui this time. He borrowed Bai Ze's power to confuse Di Ting's information, and thus arrived in Handan and went straight into Li Ru's mansion without Li Ru's knowledge.

Naturally, no one dared to stop Dong Yi, as they knew his identity. The clever ones shouted "joyfully": "The Madam is here, go and invite the Master, the kitchen should prepare dinner, and so-and-so should tidy up the room!"

This shout immediately discouraged the Li Ru brothers who were working hard on Song Ji.

This is not the lady coming, but the ghost that is coming to punish her.

"Go out the back door!"

Li Ru hurriedly picked up the clothes, threw a few pieces to Song Ji, and told her to leave quickly.

Song Ji, who was not satisfied, had a face full of resentment. Although she really wanted to see who the "Madam" was who made the man who treated her like a dog and played with her like a dog shudder at the mention of her, as the queen of King Zhao, she did not want her secret to be known to everyone and hinder her ambition of killing Queen Zhao and regulating the country.

So Song Ji could only hurriedly put on her clothes and prepare to enter the tunnel.

However, before she could enter, Dong Yi rushed in with a sword in hand.

"You are so good, Li Wenyou. I am alone at home, taking care of my husband and children, and you actually! You actually! Look at the sword!"

Dong Yi thrust his sword straight at Li Ru in three directions.

After all, Dong Yi had been with a group of sinister people for thirty or forty years, so his eyesight and scheming had been honed. When he heard the clever ghost shouting, he knew there was a problem, so he drew his sword and rushed in.

As soon as he came in, he saw two people in disheveled clothes and a seductive pregnant woman with marks all over her body crawling into the tunnel. He was immediately furious and wanted to do something evil.

Okay, the tunnel is ready, right?

Okay, you already have kids, right?

Okay, you like to cheat, right?
Xiao Li Ru, look at the sword!

"Ma'am, you can't help me!"

The unarmed Li Ru hurriedly threw the clothes in his arms at Dong Yi, trying to block Dong Yi's sight and interrupt Dong Yi's attack.

His plan was successful. Dong Yi subconsciously swung his sword and picked up the clothes that Li Ru threw at him.
However, his plan also failed, because among the clothes he threw over, there was a sexy bellyband belonging to Song Ji, and the sexy bellyband happened to fall on Dong Yi's face.

Li Ru felt numb instantly.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Song Ji did not care about the loss of her bellyband and hurriedly went into the tunnel and fled in embarrassment.

Dong Yi, on his side, was quiet for a while, then completely exploded.

"Li Wenyou, go to hell!"

Dong Yi, who was furious, used every move he made to risk his life.

During this time, Li Ru finally picked up the sword and started to defend himself desperately.

He knew that if he didn't defend himself, he would really lose his relatives, friends, and brothers.

But his defense made Dong Yi even angrier.

"Li Wenyou, you still want to kill me, right? Come, come and kill me, rush at this stab!"

Dong Yi threw away his sword and pointed his chest at Li Ru: "Come on, stab me to death with one sword!"

Li Ru: ...

Li Ru was helpless.

He couldn't really do anything to Dong Yi, so Li Ru put down his sword and explained, "Madam, please listen to my explanation..."

"I don't listen, I don't listen, I don't listen..."

Dong Yi sneered.

Li Ru: ...

"I'm doing this for Dayu!"

Li Ru felt that he still had to explain his good intentions. He really married the queen reluctantly for the sake of Dayu. His loyalty is evident to all God.

However, Dong Yi just sneered and uttered two words: "Divorce."

Divorce means I want to divorce you, and my children will take my surname!
Li Ru: ...

Li Ru was helpless, but Dong Yi refused to communicate like an angry female boxer. Not only did she refuse to communicate, she also conducted a major inspection of Li Ru's base, looting all the women including Chang Ji, who was the Queen Chang of Zhao in history, and left after leaving a letter of divorce.

This made Li Ru feel even more wronged.

God have mercy on him. He really intended to raise such a charming beauty as Chang Ji and give her to Dong Huang when the chance came. The reason why he didn't send her to him right away was that he was debating whether to send Chang Ji to the Zhao Palace first, give her a layer of queen's buff before sending her, or to send her directly.

As we all know, His Majesty the Emperor of Dayu seems to have a special liking for the Queen, the Queen Mother and the like.

Of course, Li Ru also had to consider the Emperor's hobbies.

But now, it's too late.

Queen Zhao Chang, who did not have enough buff bonus, was taken away by Dong Yi and sent directly to Dong Huang's palace.

Dong Huang, who is busy with his work, only has time to taste it now.

The prostitutes had no surnames and were lowly prostitutes for generations.

In this era, a singing girl generally refers to someone who entertains people with singing and dancing, but it also refers to a prostitute.

In history, Queen Chang of Zhao was first a prostitute, then married to a member of the royal family of the State of Zhao. After her husband died, she was made queen by King Yan of Zhao. After King Yan of Zhao died, she committed adultery with her younger brother-in-law.

In short, she is a woman with no moral integrity.

The education she received since childhood did not allow her to have moral integrity.

However, at this time, she was still pure and innocent. The reason for her purity was that she was a rare commodity at the beginning, and after she fell into Li Ru's hands, Li Ru did not touch her.

But Dong Huang was not polite.

The prostitute had an enchanting figure, wearing only a red gauze palace dress. She had a white and slender neck, smooth and round shoulders, distinct collarbones, a chest as white as jade, a ravine as deep as an abyss, and a slender waist. The most amazing thing was the chest chain she wore, which stretched from her neck to her navel and was connected to the navel stud inlaid with red gems, outlining a breathtaking curve and revealing the temptation of beauty and soul.

Seductive and charming, gorgeous and seductive.

She stared with her eyes that were like rippling water, her mouth slightly open, her hands and feet curled up, and there seemed to be endless charm.

Although he was surprised by the falling red rain, he had more fun than anyone else.

"I saved at least two lives!"

Dong Huang couldn't help but feel moved by himself.

If it weren't for Dong who risked his life to cure diseases and save lives, and if it weren't for the fact that his waist was not swollen and his illness was not cured, if history had unfolded, both of her husbands would have been sucked to death by her.

This is a fairy who can charm everyone and suck their essence out of them.

In other words, Dong Huang, who is good at slaying demons and eliminating evil, can subdue him.

The energetic Dong Huang let the prostitute go.

He wants to eat fish.

As we all know, the bigger the wind and waves, the more fish kneel.

"Bring the fish."

Dong Huang clapped his hands.

Hu Sanniang, who was on duty today, immediately came over with her long legs and a crystal glass in her hand.

There happened to be a small red koi in the crystal glass.

Hu Sanniang dumped the little koi on...

A full cup of water, without a drop leaking out, the little koi can even turn around in it.

However, the little koi soon learned what the calm before the storm meant.

Suddenly, as if a volcano encountered an earthquake, thunder roared out of nowhere, and the little koi struggled in fear in the shaking water.

However, as the waves became more and more violent, the water source on which the little koi depended for survival eventually became less and less, and it shook away.

The little koi fish became more and more panicked, but it was of no use and could only struggle desperately.

At some point, a huge earthquake struck and the poor little koi was thrown into the air and landed on the carpet.

[I...I can't breathe! ]

If the little koi on the carpet understood human language, it would definitely say this.

After all, what's a fish without water?
The water it needed did not come, but the earthquake-like shaking continued.

A long time, a long time...

The little koi's consciousness was almost blurred. It knew that it would die without water. Suddenly, a heavy rain began to fall from the sky...

Like a jet of heavy rain.

The little koi breathed in the rain water greedily, knowing that it could extend its life for a while.

【The heavy rain must not stop! 】

The little koi thought so. Perhaps the little koi's prayers moved the heavens, and tonight, whenever it was about to die of thirst and suffocate, a torrential rain would fall from the sky...

Relying on the occasional rain, the little koi that had been out of water for a night miraculously survived...
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The fact that Li Ru was able to get a beauty like a prostitute right under the noses of the Zhao people undoubtedly shows the effectiveness of Li Ru's infiltration into the Zhao State.

Relying on Ji Song and his disguised identity as Ji Song's father, the low-key Li Ru has already established a certain base in the State of Zhao.

Moreover, as staunch "resistance factions", Li Ru and Song Ji always had a good reputation in the military. After the capital was moved, because of Li Ru's "ruining his family to help others" support for Zhao Wangyan, Li Ru was even named Yanchun Jun by Zhao Wangyan.

Recently, Prince Yan of Zhao felt increasingly unwell. Under the influence of Song Ji and others, he gradually came up with the idea of ​​letting Li Ru be the prime minister to assist in the administration.

The war agents were not without doubts about Li Ru, the upstart. However, firstly, Li Ru was in his prime; secondly, Li Ru was a staunch advocate of war; and thirdly, Song Ji's family had a clean background and were not war agents. Therefore, most of the war agents simply regarded Li Ru as a rural talent who was not recorded in history books.

There are still many such talents in this era.

In fact, before the Han Dynasty, there were too many talented people whose names were not recorded in history books.

Li Ru, who was divorced by his wife at home, became a rising star in the court of Zhao State.

However, Li Ru refused the position of prime minister on the pretext of "limited talent". Instead, he selflessly recommended several war agents or their subordinates to take up official positions. He gave the position of prime minister to another favorite of King Zhao.

However, the more Li Ru did this, the more the King of Zhao and the people of Zhao wanted Li Ru to be the prime minister.

After becoming the prime minister, Li Ru began to fully mobilize the national strength of Zhao State and concentrated all his efforts to support Li Mu in the decisive battle with Qin State. However, he secretly replaced all the defenders of the dangerous passes on the east side of Zhao State with his own people, laying a solid foundation for Dayu to attack Zhao.

Not only that, when Li Ru was arranging the matters of destroying the country, he did not forget to prepare gifts for the beloved Emperor.

He snatched a girl with skin as white as snow and silver hair as cascading as a snow elf from the famous Feixue Pavilion in Yan, adopted her as his adopted daughter, and announced to the public that he would present the girl to King Zhao when she grew up, but in fact he wanted to present her to Dong Huang.

The girl is naturally the snow girl who has not yet grown up.

Not only that, Li Ru also actively contacted the Mohist school.

The Mohist school in this world actually no longer has a strong presence. The once prominent school of thought has suffered from successive splits and the deaths of many elites for morality, resulting in a clear gap.

The Mohist School is now divided into three factions, namely Qin Mo, Yu Mo and Zhao Mo. Among them, Qin Mo has existed for many years and has long been deeply bound to the Qin State. They are also an important support for the Qin State's weapons to surpass all other countries;

Yu Mo's predecessor was Chu Mo, and now it has basically merged with the Ministry of Industry of the Yu State;

The most interesting one is Zhao Mo. They were not originally Zhao Mo, but a branch of Mohists who claimed to have inherited the orthodox Mohist school and adhered to the idea of ​​"universal love and non-aggression". Their leader, the Six-Fingered Black Knight, was also a great hero.

The six-fingered black knight originally wanted to lead the Mohists to uphold the moral principles of "universal love and non-aggression", to help the weak and suppress the strong, and to uphold justice. However, before he could formulate a specific plan, five of the seven countries had already been destroyed.

It was not that this branch of Mohists favored Zhao, but that they found that apart from Zhao, they were even less willing to assist the other two countries.

Of course, they also hated the State of Zhao.

Zhao State was able to survive only after almost destroying Yan State, so it was not a good thing either. Therefore, the attitude towards Zhao State has always been lukewarm until now.

Now, Zhao Mo has realized a serious problem. If the State of Zhao is gone, they will really have nowhere to go.

So the Six-Fingered Demon also started to contact Li Ru, and the two hit it off immediately.

The Six-Fingered Demon of the Lute also left Li Ru a person who made his anus tighten as a contact person - Jing Ke.

If the plot had developed according to the anime, the Six-Fingered Demon would have accepted Prince Dan as his apprentice. However, in this seemingly real time and space, the young Prince Dan was killed by Xiang Jun sent by Dong Jun. The Six-Fingered Demon came to the Yan area where wars had been raging for years, and failed to find his dream apprentice, but unexpectedly found Jing Ke.

Is it going to be a scene of Jing Ke stabbing Emperor Yu?
Li Ru found it a little funny.

Given the wisdom and bravery of Emperor Dayu, how could he allow a male assassin to get close to him?

Maybe it is possible that Jing Ke had a wife as beautiful as a flower.

Li Ru skipped the topic of Jing Ke.

After this incident, Li Ru became closely associated with the Mohist school, and also vaguely discovered the location of the core of the Mohist school - the Mechanical City.

Dayu is still very interested in the Mechanical City.

The combat effectiveness of the mechanical beasts in the Mohist Mechanical City is extraordinary, but their biggest weakness is that they cannot be mass-produced.

If we were to ask what Dong Huang is most interested in in the plot of Qin's Moon, it would undoubtedly be the extra-story Loulan Demon Soldiers, the Qin State's mirage, and the Mohist mechanical city.

The direction of Dong Huang's strength development has basically been determined, that is, to develop mainly in the direction of fantasy and establish a fairyland and dynasty. In this process, it is necessary to vigorously develop rune technology and rune mechanisms, and mechanical beasts are actually one of their branches.

In the final analysis, whether it is technology or cultivation, they actually end up in the same place. To put it bluntly, they are all about controlling and utilizing everything in the world. The only difference is that cultivation is to cultivate oneself first and then external things, while technology is to cultivate external things first and then give feedback to oneself.

The good relationship between Mohism and Li Ru also allowed Li Ru to understand the distribution of the forces of many schools of thought that were friendly with Mohism.

Dong Huang originally did not have much idea about the various schools of thought. He would only stay in this world for a few decades anyway. His focus was on how to earn more war points, complete more hidden tasks, and get more generals and warriors. Management and other things did not matter to him.

However, the appearance of the world mission card gave Dong Huang more ideas.

This made Dong Huang not only want to conquer all the schools of thought, but even want to steal... and do archaeology.

In short, as Dong Huang explores this world more and more, he has more and more ideas.

It's fine for other schools of thought, but Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism, which may be somewhere unknown, definitely have a large number of quest world cards and hidden quests to explore. Even in more distant places, some regions related to the Western world in Dong Huang's previous life, there will definitely be quest world cards.

Dong Huang had already sharpened his knife.

Li Ru naturally obeyed Dayu's strategy unconditionally.

After all, at this time, he had just been divorced by the nominal sister of Emperor Dayu.

In order to show his own value, he not only trained the Snow Girl and sent this goddaughter to Dong Huang's palace, but also sent a pair of master and apprentice - Nian Duan and Duanmu Rong, the heirs of the medical family.

Xue Nu and Duan Mu Rong are still underage now, so Dong Huang doesn't have much interest in them, but he finally understands Li Ru's feelings.

Dong Huang was also helpless about Li Ru, his confidant who did the dirty work.

Dong Huang doesn't think there is anything wrong with men being lustful. Throughout history, the vast majority of capable men will definitely have more than one woman.

It’s the nature of men. It’s not the man’s fault, it’s just the instinct of life to reproduce!
So Dong Huang felt a little sorry for Li Ru because Dong Yi was so strict with him.

But there were some things he couldn't say much about.

During the last days of the 30th year of Dayu and the 4th year of Qin Wang Zheng, Dong Huang lived a very comfortable life. Except for some back pain, everything else was going in the right direction.

This is how the Immortal Kingdom and the Divine Dynasty works. As long as it gets on the right track, the emperor doesn't need to worry too much about the rest.

So the emperor only had sex.

Grungy and realistic.

But the other two countries were not so lucky.

The King of Qin and the King of Zhao were almost dying of anxiety.

The King of Qin wanted to lead the army himself, but no one in the court listened to him.

Lu Buwei, Zhao Ji, the Queen Mother Huayang and the Chu clique had already monopolized the power in the Qin court, and the underage King of Qin had no room to play.

The national strength of Zhao State was so depleted that it had to sign a traitorous agreement with Yu State, ceding the entire Yellow River flood area to Dayu in exchange for Dayu's support, especially in terms of food and fodder.

However, even with Dayu's support, it would be difficult for Zhao to persist.

The gap in national strength determined that Zhao would inevitably fall into a disadvantage in the confrontation, and in terms of military, it was obviously impossible for Li Mu to defeat the elite generals of the Qin Dynasty including Wang Jian.

In the last few months of this year, Li Mu had no choice but to launch a fierce attack from the direction of Julu, successfully covering a cavalry unit to penetrate into Handan, risking his life to confirm Handan's intelligence, and conveying to Handan the information that Li Mu was launching a flank attack, asking Handan to hold on.

Sometimes, having hope and having no hope are two completely different things.

This is just like when Li Xin broke into Li Mu's encirclement and joined forces with Li Yao, Li Mu knew that Li Yao's troops could not be easily defeated.

However, how long can this persistence last?

In the spring of the 31st year of Dayu and the 5th year of Qin Wang Zheng, Handan fell.

King Zheng of Qin ignored the advice of civil and military officials and insisted on going to Handan in person in the name of revenge. He killed the people of Zhao who had bullied him and his son, but he comforted the other people of Zhao.

Of course, revenge was one of King Zheng of Qin's goals, but it was not the main goal. His main goal was to reward the troops, and he lavishly praised Wang Jian, who was once his attendant, and other generals.

His action made Lu Buwei and others deeply uneasy.

Lu Buwei felt that this was because King Zheng of Qin finally realized the importance of military power and wanted to first control the military power and then seize power and control the court.

Xu Shu also felt uneasy.

Xu Shu also realized that after Qin's many defeats, King Zheng of Qin, who was ambitious and deeply dissatisfied with the current situation, might want to seize power.

In fact, the only person Qin Shi Huang relied on was Wang Jian, who was once his attendant.

【Wang Jian...】

Lu Buwei was very dissatisfied with this rising star in the army.

He made a decision to marry his daughter to Wang Jian's eldest son Wang Ben as his legal wife.

This is a test, but also a decisive move.

If Wang Jian disagreed, he would inevitably fall out with Lu Buwei and officially become Lu Buwei's enemy; but if Wang Jian agreed, he would inevitably have a rift with King Zheng of Qin and even be hated by King Zheng of Qin.

Politics has always been dirty.

Wang Jian, who won the battle, never expected that he would have to face enemies from within.

The political situation among the Qin state's top leaders suddenly became delicate.

Wang Jian was at a loss.

What Wang Jian didn't expect was that at the critical moment, Meng Ao actually helped him again.

Meng Ao personally went to Lu Buwei to ask for marriage on behalf of his eldest grandson Meng Tian, ​​requesting to marry Lu Buwei's daughter.

As a smart man, Lu Buwei naturally understood what Meng Ao meant.

Lu Buwei could not fall out with the current number one military figure, and Meng Ao did give Lu Buwei enough face, so Lu Buwei could only agree to the marriage with a wry smile, and the war to destroy Zhao could continue.

Without any worries, Wang Jian officially gained command of all the Qin troops in Zhao. He marched to Julu and launched another fierce attack on Zhao.

Li Mu had no choice but to go to Julu in person to resist the Qin army.
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I drank too much, I will correct the typos tomorrow...

(End of this chapter)