Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 51 Mei Wu on Sun Jian

On the last night of the second year of Chuping, Dong Zhuo invited all the court officials to have a banquet in Meiwu to celebrate the arrival of the new year.

The people in Chang'an City know that the most magnificent palaces in Chang'an are the palaces on Longshou Mountain.But to talk about the truly magnificent imperial palace, it is Mei County in the southeast of Chang'an. There is a "Long Live Wu" there, which is no less than the ordinary residence of the emperor's Yanchu, but even worse.

The palace on Longshou Mountain in Chang’an City was barely supported by Dong Zhuo with wood from Longyou. He demolished Emperor Wu Liu Che’s palace in Duling, and used the bricks and tiles there to repair the roof of Chang’an’s palace walls. New and old, good and torn, like a tattered garment with beautiful patches.

In fact, it is not that there is no financial resources to repair the palace. The treasures moved from Luoyang piled up like a mountain, and all of them flowed into Dong Zhuo's personal hands.And the "Long Live Wu" where Dong Zhuo himself lived used hundreds of thousands of manpower, and it was almost built with the flesh and blood of the common people.Its walls are seven feet high, and the decorations inside are extremely luxurious. Inside it are his family and the treasures and beauties looted from Luoyang. The food stored alone is enough to last for 30 years!

Not only that, Dong Zhuo has long ignored the etiquette and imperial prestige, he is the grand master, and he calls himself "Shangfu".It is also stipulated that any official passing through his black dock must dismount and salute respectfully in his direction.Regarding this Wuwu, Dong Zhuo once said: "If you succeed, you will dominate the world; if you fail, you will be enough to keep it for life."

However, at this moment, in this extremely luxurious and luxurious harbour, what is unfolding is a strange hell on earth...

Inside the tent, Dong Zhuo was drinking freely, but the ministers sitting there were almost frightened to death!

During the banquet, hundreds of people whom Dong Zhuo accused of being criminals had their tongues cut off, their hands and feet cut off, their eyes were gouged out, and they were thrown into a cauldron and boiled alive.Those who were still alive struggled for their lives in the cupboard, and their blood even splashed on the solemn and clean official uniforms of the scholar-bureaucrats.Its miserable howl is comparable to that of a wild beast...

The participants were so frightened that the chopsticks and spoons in their hands were frightened. They were not afraid. Many of them had served in the army, killed people or seen killing people, but there was absolutely no such horrific scene. Seen, they are fear!

This is not a world, it is hell!This will become a nightmare they will never forget for the rest of their lives, and they will wake up from their sleep when they think of it.

But Dong Zhuo remained calm, drinking as he wanted, as if the more he heard the screams of these people, the better Dong Zhuo's appetite would be.

After a long time, the banquet was over, and some of these participants could no longer move their hands and feet, and were kicked out.And some, when being carried away by the strongman, vomited everything in their stomachs...

When the lanterns were lit again, Dong Zhuo was still in high spirits, and continued drinking with his confidants and generals.His two think tanks, Li Ru and Tian Yi, were like a cloud of shadows, hiding in the banquet.

"Hahaha, these cowardly scholar-bureaucrats all look dignified, but they don't want to be frightened when they encounter this situation!" Yang Ding, the general of the Zhonglang, was holding a pale-faced Gong'e in his arms at this time, triumphantly: "Sure enough Landlord Bo has a way, and treat these seemingly useless things like this!"

Tian Yi was not ashamed of Yang Ding's praise, and slightly raised his bottle to respect Yang Ding, but unexpectedly at this time, Yang Ding's hand had already reached into the obscene skirt of the maid, and there was no time to talk to Tian Yi.

Li Ru glanced at the lobby indifferently, seeing that Dong Zhuo's generals were either drinking with their heads down, or some were already drunk, and some even raped the court lady in front of Dong Zhuo, so he couldn't help frowning .Only Xu Rong, who saw the end of Xi, had a sullen expression on his face, and got up to leave the place where demons danced wildly.

But before Xu Rong opened his mouth, Dong Zhuo had already seen Xu Rong: "Xu Rong, you want to leave again this time?" Dong Zhuo had already drunk a lot of wine at this time, and when he saw Xu Rong, he also saw the ugliness of these generals, and was annoyed With a sudden slap on the table, the dishes jumped up, and everyone fell silent.Seeing this, Xu Rong had no choice but to say: "Grand Master, I just want to go to the back of the house."

"If you go to the latrine, go to the latrine. General Xu is different from us big bastards. He speaks so elegantly." Dong Yue is one of the more cunning generals like Dong Zhuo. said a word.

But this joke obviously had no effect, Dong Zhuo ignored him, and continued to say to Xu Rong: "Xu Rong, do you know why this old man is so happy today?"

Xu Rong stood silent for a while, and finally replied with a bit of loneliness: "The subordinates know that it is because the Jiangdong tiger Sun Jian died in Jingzhou..."

"That's right, Xu Rong is the one who knows my heart!" Dong Zhuo laughed suddenly, raised his wine bottle and looked around and said, "The heroes of the Kanto region, there are only two people who can catch my eye. One of them, Cao Mengde, is currently in Dongjun Competing with the Yellow Turban Army for Yanzhou, fighting against a hundred thousand Qingzhou Yellow Turbans with thousands of peasants, the death date is not far away; the other person is this Sun Wentai, when he entered the Kanto, the old man was terrified, and begging for marriage was not available. He is a real hero in the world Fortunately, Jingzhou died in the battle recently, otherwise, with Sun Wentai around, I would not be able to sleep or eat in peace."

Having said this, Dong Zhuo suddenly remembered something, and turned to Li Ru and asked, "Wen You, how old is Sun Jian's son?"

"Fifteen years old." Li Ru blurted out without thinking.

"15 years old? It's just a child with a yellow mouth!" Dong Zhuo laughed again, and poured another bottle of wine into his mouth, feeling very grateful.Seeing this, everyone stepped forward to toast Dong Zhuo, but when it was Xu Rong's turn, Xu Rong held up his bottle and couldn't help saying: "When Sun Wentai dies, there will be no more heroes in the Han Dynasty..."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone was very angry, saying that Xu Rong spoiled his own prestige by spoiling others' aspirations.Xu Rong suddenly knew that his misfortune came from his mouth, his face was bleak, and his heart was filled with grief - the relationship between Dong Zhuo and the emperor of Han Dynasty became increasingly tense these days, Dong Zhuo followed Tian Yi's plan and used brutal methods to intimidate courtiers.Unexpectedly, Dong Zhuo was cruel by nature, and at this point in his development, if his words slipped, he would be killed instantly on the spot.Even his adopted son Lv Bu was thrown at Dong Zhuo because of a wrong word. If Lv Bu hadn't been quick to kowtow and apologize, he might have died.

Xu Rong was not originally from Liangzhou, let alone have a good relationship with these Liangzhou generals.Seeing these people today, none of them tried to persuade them, but they fell into trouble instead, knowing that their fate is not long.But what he didn't expect was that Dong Zhuo, who was drunk, suddenly became sullen after hearing these words.But after the anger flashed across his face, he put down the wine bottle sullenly, waved to the generals with a desolate expression: "Sun Jian is indeed a hero, you people are not as good as Xu Rong, go down...Wen You, You stay."

At this moment, Xu Rong narrowly escaped death, his complexion naturally changed a lot.But when it came to Li Ru and Tian Yi, it became very strange. Tian Yi couldn't help but show a hint of jealousy towards Li Ru, but the shrewd Li Ru saw it, but only smiled wryly, which made Tian Yi feel as if he was in front of him. The archenemy retreats in embarrassment.

"Wen You, do you think Sun Jian is a hero?" After everyone left, Dong Zhuo took another sip of his wine and asked Li Ru absent-mindedly.

Li Ru knew that Dong Zhuo didn't care about Sun Jian at all, so he stepped forward and asked tentatively, "Father-in-law, did you think of Your Majesty again?"

When Li Ru mentioned Liu Xie, Dong Zhuo frowned almost reflexively, his expression was as if he swallowed a fly but couldn't spit it out, and replied slightly annoyed to Li Ru: "Don't talk to the old man. That ignorant kid!"

"Father-in-law, if my son-in-law remembers well, the words of the hero of Sun Jianshi must have come from His Majesty, right?" Li Ru said these words calmly, and he couldn't help but think of the deeds of the Jiangdong tiger in his mind.

Yes, in this period of history, Jiangdong Tiger Sun Jian was not one of the many generals who challenged Dong in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and he was not the foil for Liu Guanzhang, Huaxiong and Lu Bu. During this period of time, he was the only one who shined The protagonist, like the bright moon in the sky, shines on everyone under the gloomy sky of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Even the glory of the peerless traitor Cao Cao is just as dim as a firefly compared with him.

When the Eastern Front collapsed completely, the Northern Front did nothing, and the Southern Front Yuan Shu did not move and sometimes moved, he fought alone, fighting against Dong Zhuo, Lu Bu, Hu Zhen, and Hua Xiong. He led a large army and won victories one after another, forcing Dong Zhuo to bow his head to him, and even gave up the Luoyang area.

He played the final prestige of the Qinwang Army of the Han Dynasty. In this regard, although he committed crimes and forced the death of the former governor of Jingzhou Wang Rui, and killed the Nanyang prefect Zhang Zi, these shortcomings were ignored in the victory against Dong. .

However, for this miracle that once illuminated the sky, what Li Ru thought of more was Liu Xie's last comment on him: "Whether Sun Wentai or Cao Mengde, the last thing people like them should touch is power. Once they Awakening of ambition, the world will no longer have Han heroes! Their legend can only end like a meteor..."

Li Ru still remembers that it was a dark night. When he accompanied Dong Zhuo into the palace to show Liu Xie, the thin Liu Xie spoke to the brightest burning torch outside the Xuanshi Hall.

Li Ru understands that when the torch is at its brightest, it is the madness before it is about to go out...

(End of this chapter)