"Give you a cup of tea, if you can come up with a solution to our army's current predicament, I will let you be promoted to three levels in a row, if not, I will make your head fall to the ground!"

Dong Zhuo didn't know which tendon was wrong again, so he actually made a big fuss and started a fire against Li Ru.

Without knowing this, he also ordered the soldiers in a cold voice: "Look at the tea!"

Everyone in the tent was silent, and a soldier came up with a cup of boiled tea with some trepidation, Jia Xu stopped him, took it, glanced at Li Ru, and sent it to Dong Zhuo.

"Did the lord take the wrong medicine today?" Li Wei asked Guo Yan beside him in a low voice with some confusion.

Guo Yan shook his head: "I don't know, doesn't the lord never take medicine?

Li Dao was speechless for a while: "You pig's head, this is not the point!"

Not only the two of them whispered, but the other generals were also puzzled, Dong Zhuo heard it in his ears, but pretended not to know anything, he picked up the teacup with a cruel smile, lifted the lid of the tea bowl, blew lightly, looked at Li Ru with a normal face, and reminded in a deep voice: "The old man drinks tea, but it is very fast, Wen You can think faster!"

As Dong Zhuo drank one sip after another, the generals couldn't help but worry about Li Ru's safety, because they all knew that Dong Zhuo was a person who said nothing, and now he dared to treat Li Ru like this, I was afraid that he had some trick to doubt Li Ru's loyalty.

What the generals think, is also what Dong Zhuo thinks, Hu Tu came this time, not only arrested Yuan Shu, but also brought Dong Zhuo a bad and not bad news: Li Ru had close contact with Cao Cao long before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Li Ru is from Yingchuan after all, even if he was born in a poor family, but he also has dealings with several major families in Yingchuan, although Dong Zhuo was not worried about this before, but just a few days ago, Li Ru went back once in the name of settling the Yingchuan family, in fact, he met Cao Cao secretly, the two did not know what they had discussed secretly, obviously Dong Zhuo was extremely interested in this。

Li Ru probably guessed this layer, but he was not afraid, seeing that Dong Zhuo was about to finish drinking only one sip of tea, Li Ru slowly said a word: "Grain!"

Dong Zhuo stopped suddenly, looked at the last sip of tea in the teacup, slowly put it on the table, stared at Li Ru's wise eyes, and asked a little playfully, "What do you mean?"

The generals knew that Li Ru couldn't die for the time being, and they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and several people's backs were soaked with sweat, as if they were scared by Dong Zhuo just now, especially Li Dao and Guo Yan, who actually started a fight.

And Jia Xu is more interested in what Li Ru will say, at least for now, Jia Xu has not thought of any good way to deal with the difficulties.

Li Ru said calmly: "Gao Yi's men and horses are no more than 60,000, and the lord's men and horses are roughly no less than 150,000, Gao Yi has been fighting for several months before, and the grain and grass must have run out, even if he can barely gather some, it will not exceed the number of months, so on the one hand, he will definitely seek a quick victory with fighters, and on the other hand, he will use all kinds of means to buy grain and grass from the people and merchants, even at a high price, because he is now rich and has no food!

"Hehe, it's kind of interesting! Go on!" Dong Zhuo swallowed the tea in his mouth, clasped his hands around his chest, and prepared to hear what Li Ru would say.

Li Ru glanced at Jia Xu, signaled that Jia Xu didn't have to worry about his own safety, and continued: "And the lord here is just the opposite, the grain and grass can be used for a month, but he has no spare money to do other things, so why doesn't the lord lay out an overall situation, on the surface he wants to fight a decisive battle with Gao Yi, but in fact he doesn't give him this opportunity, and at the same time send people to contact those rich families and businessmen, so as not to stop them from selling grain and grass to anyone at the cost of paying taxes for the coming year, of course, this requires Ye Qiqi and He Miao to unite and issue a decree!"

Dong Zhuo's body was shocked, this Li Ru is really worthy of the name of "ghost fox" mentioned by Jia Xu's saliva, he can actually come up with such a complete method in such a short period of time, the shortage of grain and grass was originally Dong Zhuo's hard injury, but now Li Ru said this, and skillfully grafted it to Gao Yi, could it be that he was too careful this time?

Li Ru noticed the change in Dong Zhuo's expression, and suddenly his tone changed, and he asked a little strangely: "My subordinates dare to ask, is it because the lord is so angry, is it because his subordinates went to Yingchuan to see Cao Cao without the permission of the lord a few days ago?"

Dong Zhuo saw that the words had already been spoken, so he sneered, and then shouted: "Wen You is also a cheerful person, if the old man can even treat this kind of thing as if it didn't happen, then he will be a fool in the future!"

The atmosphere changed suddenly, and the generals in the tent were still worried about Li Ru's safety just now, but now they were surprised when they heard Li Ru say this, and they all thought in their hearts, could it be that Li Ru was ready to change hands? But there was no reason!

The corners of Li Ru's mouth twitched slightly, and he asked Dong Zhuo rhetorically: "It seems that there are still capable people under the lord's command, since the lord's subordinates have revealed the whereabouts of their subordinates, then presumably the matter of the subordinates' conspiracy with Cao Cao, the lord's guild is even more interested!"

Dong Zhuo took the case: "What else can it be, it must be to betray the intelligence of our army, conspire with Cao Cao to seize power, and after I and Gao Yi are both defeated, we will reap the benefits, because no matter the old man or Ye Seventeen, they are incompatible with those Qingliu families, and Gao Yi and Cao Cao are different, both of them have powerful supporters behind them and you are from the Kanto region, since ancient times, the Kansai generals and the Kanto are incompatible, how can you and I have the same heart?"

Li Ru smiled dumbly: "It turns out that in the eyes of Dong Gong, am I, Li Ru, such a person?"

Dong Zhuo also knew that he was a little absolute in what he said, but he had always been a straight person, and he was not ready to take it back, so he shouted angrily: "Then tell me what you said about Cao Cao's conversation in private, and also dispel your suspicion!"

The generals in the tent listened for a long time, and then they reacted, this is the reason why Dong Zhuo was angry, and they stopped squeaking one by one, and there was a sudden silence in the tent.

Li Ru changed his cautious tone of speech before, and said sharply: "Dong Gong only knew that I was going to see Cao Cao, so he thought that I had a conspiracy, but why did he deliberately ignore the fact that Cao Cao's father, Cao Song, had been a great farmer? The decree I just mentioned restricting the sale of grain and grass, Cao Song can speak!"

Liaoxi County, Guanzi City

Riding Duwei Gongsun Chan in this city by the Wuhuan Qiu Liju tens of thousands of horses surrounded by more than 200 days, did not wait for the imperial court reinforcements, but waited for Gao Yi under the tent of a fierce general named Dian Wei led by two thousand men and horses, this force is very strange, camped in a place less than a few miles away from the Wuhuan enemy army outside the city is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but is not in a hurry to attack the enemy, nor is it in a hurry to rush into the city to merge with Gongsun Zhan's men and horses, because Guanzi City is located in the high ground, so Gongsun Chan will see all this clearly, Dian Wei this force of people, more like to act perfunctory, Qiu Liju himself has also attacked a few times, but because Dian Wei camped is more special, so after a few times without results, I don't care anymore.

Gongsun Chan was extremely anxious, because the imperial court saw that he had been invincible for a long time, and had previously sent Zongzheng Liu Yu as the pastor of Youzhou, intending to resolve the conflict by diplomatic means, which was tantamount to a nightmare for Gongsun Zhan, originally Liu Yan suggested to the Son of Heaven that the matter of the assassin Shi Hua Zhou Mu was extremely sensitive, and the assassin was only an official with only 600 stones of Yulu in the past, and it was not as good as the Taishou and the minister of the state of Yulu 2,000 stones, but the state pastor is different, with the military and financial power of the entire state, which is equivalent to a soil emperor, Liu Yu has always advocated a gentle treatment of the foreign problems in the north, if this person has the right to speak in Youzhou, then Gongsun Chan can only live by relying on this person's snort, which is simply unimaginable for Gongsun Chan, who believes in the principle of the supremacy of solving problems by force.

But it was useless for Gongsun Chan to think about it, because now that he was trapped in this pipe city by Qiu Liju, no matter how high his heart was, he could only sigh.

"Give you a cup of tea, if you can come up with a solution to our army's current predicament, I will let you be promoted to three levels in a row, if not, I will make your head fall to the ground!"

Dong Zhuo didn't know which tendon was wrong again, so he actually made a big fuss and started a fire against Li Ru.

Without knowing this, he also ordered the soldiers in a cold voice: "Look at the tea!"

Everyone in the tent was silent, and a soldier came up with a cup of boiled tea with some trepidation, Jia Xu stopped him, took it, glanced at Li Ru, and sent it to Dong Zhuo.

"Did the lord take the wrong medicine today?" Li Wei asked Guo Yan beside him in a low voice with some confusion.

Guo Yan shook his head: "I don't know, doesn't the lord never take medicine?

Li Dao was speechless for a while: "You pig's head, this is not the point!"

Not only the two of them whispered, but the other generals were also puzzled, Dong Zhuo heard it in his ears, but pretended not to know anything, he picked up the teacup with a cruel smile, lifted the lid of the tea bowl, blew lightly, looked at Li Ru with a normal face, and reminded in a deep voice: "The old man drinks tea, but it is very fast, Wen You can think faster!"

As Dong Zhuo drank one sip after another, the generals couldn't help but worry about Li Ru's safety, because they all knew that Dong Zhuo was a person who said nothing, and now he dared to treat Li Ru like this, I was afraid that he had some trick to doubt Li Ru's loyalty.

What the generals think, is also what Dong Zhuo thinks, Hu Tu came this time, not only arrested Yuan Shu, but also brought Dong Zhuo a bad and not bad news