After appeasing Empress Dowager He, Li Su took Zhao Yundianwei to the Zhijinwu Mansion early the next morning and met Ding Yuan.

Li Su is the most businesslike in front of Ding Yuan, and he doesn't cherish his face very much - mainly because Li Su feels that no matter how Ding Yuan struggles, after Dong Zhuo's main army enters Beijing, Ding Yuan will definitely have no way to live. The difference is nothing more than whether Dong Zhuo looks good or ugly.

Therefore, although Li Su has superb acting skills, he is too lazy to act in front of a dying person, and he is even more unwilling to hide his appetite because of this kind of acting, which leads to a decrease in the actual benefits he obtains.

After the two of them greeted each other, Zhao Yundianwei and Lu Bu were waiting outside the door, and Li Su sat down in the inner hall and got straight to the point: "Jianyang Gong, don't come unharmed." Yesterday afternoon, I entered the palace to meet the Queen Mother, and took the initiative to present my feelings, you should have heard of it. ”

Ding Yuan was also a little ashamed of Li Su: "Li Zhonglang is loyal to the country, selfless, and is really a model for my generation." To be honest, I am still worried that Li Zhonglang will take the power of saving the Queen Mother, and ask for the important military position of the palace forbidden guard, which is the heart of a villain and the belly of a gentleman. ”

Li Su: "I can't talk about it, I have another mission in my body, and I must have a beginning and an end to be a man, if I live up to the unfinished work of the general of Zhengxi for the sake of temporary wealth, how different from the villain." However, after all, I have also risked countless adventures to have today's situation.

If I can't get some compensation that is beneficial to my original mission, and can't help me better complete my previous tasks, I can't be willing to go directly to Beijing. ”

Ding Yuan was stunned, he really didn't expect Li Su to be such an elegant and fraternous person who was praised by everyone, and he would directly reach out to ask for benefits.

Ding Yuan said vigilantly: "What do you want? I'm just holding Jinwu, I'm afraid I won't be able to give you anything. ”

Li Su: "When I return to Hanzhong this time, the key task is to force the usurper Liu Yan to give up his delusions, so that the people of Shu can be stable again, and I, the Taishou of Shu County, canonized by the imperial court, can take office." So, of course, I want some conditions that will help me do this. ”

Ding Yuan touched his beard and asked suspiciously: "Do you think that General Zhengxi's soldiers and horses can't make Liu Yan honest?" Are you afraid that Liu Yan will break off the Shu Dao and openly stand on his own feet and resist the imperial court with arms? You don't want to borrow my son, do you? That's impossible! ”

Ding Yuan's last sentence lowered his voice, and he didn't want Lu Bu at the door to hear it. Dealing with his son with others, even if it is not a deal, it will hurt his son's face very much.

Li Su smiled: "How dare you, Master Lu is a confidant of Jianyang Gong, and I am still measured." As for Zhang Miao and Zhang Liao, they are also your arms, arms, and humerus, and the general has been assigned important positions when he was alive, and you will not want to come to ......

In this way, I'll take a step back, aren't you the ruling Jinwu, you can always handle the internal personnel adjustment of the various armies in Beijing, right? How about transferring Gao Shun, who is directly under your direct lineage, to Zuo Zhonglang's subordinate Wu Kuang?

After all, Wu Kuang has the responsibility of directly protecting the general this time, although the Queen Mother said that he and Yuan Shao will not be held accountable for the crime of poor protection, but Wu Kuangbu's various acts of taking advantage of the fire to rob when attacking Nangong still need to be rectified. Even if he is not punished, there is nothing wrong with transferring the officers such as Sima of his subordinates and other departments, and selecting those who are capable of military discipline will be replaced, right? ”

Li Su did not say that he would directly transfer Gao Shun to him, but said that Gao Shunping would be transferred to Wu Kuang's subordinates, and everyone was still in the big system of the Jingshi garrison, and it was indeed within Ding Yuan's operational authority.

In addition, the reason why it can only be Gao Shun and not Zhang Miao and Zhang Liao is because Zhang Miao and Zhang Liao had already been recommended by Ding Yuan to He Jin before Ding Yuan entered Beijing, and He Jin gave them official positions, so they were already one step ahead of time and did not belong to the state army system, only Lu Bu and Gao Shun followed Ding Yuan into Beijing at the same time.

When Li Su said this, Ding Yuan also roughly understood, and he asked: "Do you want to instigate the Queen Mother to reprimand Wu Kuang?" ”

Li Su sighed: "It's not that I want it, but I calculate, Wu Kuang's position won't be long in his place." He has too many things on him, and you can help him suppress it when the general is alive, and after the general dies...... Hehe, why do you need me to liquidate him?

Jianyang Gong, be refreshed, just say it, are you willing to promote Gao Shun to half a level and transfer him to Wu Kuang's men. I promise, I will not frame and deal with Wu Kuang. ”

Ding Yuan gritted his teeth and thought for a while: "You Li Boya's foresight, I have also heard of it for a long time, you guess this, you must think that Dong Zhuo is unwilling to go obediently, and before leaving, you have to bite off some colleagues and take advantage of it......

Well, this is within my purview, and I promise you. Please also keep your promise and don't make false accusations against Wu Kuang in person! Also, if I can keep Wu Kuang, you can also stop and leave Beijing obediently, can you? ”

Li Su didn't bother to speak, just took a sip of his wine glass, got up and left.

Ding Yuan didn't ask, just assumed that Li Su agreed.

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After reaching a tacit agreement with Ding Yuan, Ding Yuan also kept his promise, adjusted Gao Shun's personnel arrangements within a day or two, and promoted Gao Shun's personnel to Wu Kuang's command.

At the same time, he also selected Wu Kuang's next Sima from another department, who had been particularly bad during the previous attack on the palace, and reprimanded him and took it out, and vacated the position for Gao Shun.

In this way, Gao Shun can be regarded as another Sima under Wu Kuang.

Although Gao Shun himself didn't understand it very well, he heard that Zhi Jinwu wanted to rectify the Beijing army, so he calmly carried it out-

It's like a future generation of professionals, you were originally just a supervisor. Your immediate supervisor and former department manager have been promoted to director, and you have multiple department managers under you. Then the director transfers you to another department manager as an assistant manager, half a level above the supervisor, still a subordinate of the new director. In this case, the person who was promoted will definitely not resist and will be grateful.

However, what Ding Yuan didn't expect was that Dong Zhuo's side was not idle.

At the same time that Ding Yuan wanted to weaken the strength of Dong Zhuo's claim, Dong Zhuo launched an attack on Wu Kuang! and co-opted Zhang Zhang, another lieutenant general who was a colleague of Wu Kuang.

Maybe Dong Zhuo used some ingenious tricks to promise Zhang Zhang greater benefits, or it may be that he coerced by force to make Zhang Zhang understand that "tens of thousands of Hedong troops will arrive in the capital in five days at most, and if you cooperate with me as soon as possible, you will get more benefits in the future."

All in all, Zhang Zhang's attitude and tendency gradually fell to Dong Zhuo - and in the original history, Dong Zhuo should have pulled Wu Kuang and Zhang Zhang over together and swallowed them all. Now it is obviously because the comparison of strength is not big enough, Dong Zhuo's heart is unstable, and he can't eat so much in one go.

Therefore, he only dared to use the posture of the greatest righteousness, first kicked out Wu Kuang, who was indeed flawed, and weakened part of the strength of the Beijing army, and then only focused on ensuring that Zhang Zhang was co-opted.

It's like being a fat man of 200 pounds and having an appetite of three pounds for a meal, you can eat three pounds of meat at once. But if you lose weight to 120 pounds, you can only eat two pounds. That can only weaken and cut off the three-pound piece of meat first, so as not to support himself.

On this day, many courtiers in the DPRK and China who were originally dissatisfied with Wu Kuang or He Jin's attitude of protection before his death, under Dong Zhuo's collusion, stabbed the matter of "Wu Kuang's niece was hired by Liu Yan as his daughter-in-law, and Wu Kuang and Liu Yan were suspected of colluding" to the top, and then combined with Wu Kuang's ineffective rescue of He Jin, they were impeached together.

Originally, Empress Dowager He had already spoken, if Wu Kuang only failed to protect He Jin, he would not be demoted. But if you combine the punishment for several crimes and bring up all the old things, you will not be able to bear it at all.

Wu Kuang cried bitterly and swore an oath, and played a game of guilt to make his intentions clear, but it didn't work.

In the end, it was Wu Kuang who recalled that when the general was alive, he went to the general's mansion that day to plead guilty, and as a result, the general invited Li Su to confront him, and Li Su said that "it can help General Wu clear his suspicions".

Wu Kuang grabbed a life-saving straw, and immediately took the initiative to ask the imperial court: "I am willing to give up most of the military power, only take my own relatives and guards, follow Cai Yong, the Taishou of Bajun, and make Zhonglang go to Yizhou with Li Su, help recruit Liu Yan under Li Su's surveillance, and recapture his nephews and nieces, so as to avoid his niece being married by Liu Yan, so as to show that he is absolutely loyal to the will of the imperial court and will never collude with Liu Yan." ”

When Wu Kuang expressed his willingness to give up his military power and ask for his release, Dong Zhuo's faction's firepower to impeach him immediately reined.

Dong Zhuo was originally afraid that the Beijing army would be strong, so it would be good to drive away one or two first, and he and Wu Kuang did not have a deep hatred, so there was no need to fight to death.

Didn't Dong Zhuo even do the same when dealing with Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu later - Dong Zhuo promoted Yuan Shu, who was also a lieutenant general in the Northern Army with Wu Kuang, to the rear general, at the cost of driving Yuan Shu to Nanyang, thinking that "I can give you more benefits, but the premise is that you have to leave, and you can't stay in the capital and get in the way."

"Give you a suite in Nanyang Bohai and take back a bed in Luoyang", this is Dong Zhuo's main method of dealing with the opposition forces in Beijing.

In the end, Wu Kuang was allowed to lead a battalion of 700 people from his headquarters, plus 700 people from a battalion of Sima Gaoshun from another department who had just arrived, plus his henchmen Ding and Yuan Rong from the cavalry, a total of 1,500 people, who were taken to Yizhou under the supervision of Li Su to persuade Liu Yan and prove his innocence.

In addition to these 1,500 people, Wu Kuang's other subordinates when he served as Zhonglang General in the Northern Army were all divided between Dong Zhuo's family and Zhang Zhang, who remained in office. Wu Kuang's own official position was punished from Zhonglang to "infantry captain", demoted by half a level, and was reduced to the same rank as Zhao Yun.

Ding Yuan thought about keeping Wu Kuang, but unfortunately Wu Kuang himself had too much black material, and he couldn't keep it on official business, so he had to watch this part of the people being eaten away.

However, punishment is punishment, after all, Wu Kuang has just been punished as an infantry captain from Zhonglang General, and when his soldiers go out of Beijing to do business, they can theoretically open the imperial court arsenal to get equipment - in fact, when Yuan Shu was released as a rear general in history, he also took the weapons and equipment from the arsenal that he deserved when he was a tiger general, so Yuan Shujun's early weapons were so sophisticated.

The Jingshi arsenal is now said to have a copy of the left and right Zhonglang generals, the tiger Ben Zhonglang generals, and Jin Wuwei. In history, Yuan Shu took away about twenty percent of the reserves of the Jingshi arsenal, and the rest was swallowed by Dong Zhuo except for sporadic receipts.

This time, it is equivalent to Wu Kuang's treatment when he played Yuan Shu out of Beijing, and he can also receive such a share.

Dong Zhuo saw that "anyway, the arsenal of the Jingshi is not mine yet, and it is good for me to seek the overall situation behind me by leaving a competitor early", so he did not feel distressed and obstructed.

The five schools of the Northern Army have a quota of 700 pairs of fish scale armor all year round, and the five schools have a total of 3,500 pairs of fish scale iron armor in the armed forces, and the total number of armor is 120,000.

Wu Kuang took away 700 pairs of fish scale iron armor (that is, Xuan armor, the surface is black because of the oxide layer) and 1,300 pairs of armor according to custom. In terms of quantity, Dong Zhuo didn't get stuck with him, so he tried to pick the old ones with a lot of rust to give him.

The reason why Zajia is one thousand and three is because the five hundred cavalry brought into the city under Zhao Yun participated in the rescue, so he can be generous and distribute Zajia. Wu Kuang's 1,500 people and Zhao Yun's personal soldiers are 500 people, a total of 2,000 people, and they can receive 2,000 pairs of armor - Liu Bei's camp has fought for more than three years, and it is estimated that all the family funds saved are less than 2,000 iron armor.

Then, the rest of the offensive weapons were basically 2,000 sets of full amounts: 2,000 long soldiers, 2,000 swords made of stainless steel, and 1,000 waist crossbows, 1,000 crossbows, and 100 bed crossbows.

After looting these weapons, and then with Lu Zhi's acquiescence and Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo's ignorance, they completely searched the cultural relics and classics of Dongguan and Lantai, and Li Su was almost ready to leave Beijing.

However, what he didn't expect was that seeing him loot the arsenal and fleeing, the butterfly effect actually led to another person being released - Yuan Shu actually reached a tacit understanding with Dong Zhuo a little earlier than the same period in history, and was promoted to a later general, and was transferred out of the capital.

It may be that Yuan Shu also expected that this matter would not be good, and he wanted to run away to accumulate strength. He also took a portion of about the same amount as Li Su and went to Nanyang.

At the time of the great court meeting on the first day of September, the tripartite forces of Li Su, Wu Kuang, and Yuan Shu, who could check and balance Dong Zhuo, were all leaving. Ding Yuan obviously didn't expect that his plan would be forced into such a precarious corner by Dong Zhuo's rough advance.

"Damn! Originally, he just wanted to go step by step, but as soon as he left Li Su, he used the name of righteousness to squeeze Dong Zhuo. But why was it that at the same time as Li Su left, so many comrades-in-arms also followed or were threatened and co-opted by Dong Zhuo? It's not the right rhythm. ”

Ding Yuan is like a person who originally planned to take a slight stab in exchange for a righteous reputation for legitimate defense, and then fight back.

But the scale was not calculated, and while making an excuse for a knife, Dong Zhuo actually savagely slashed three times in a row. I'm about to lose my combat effectiveness, and even if I grasp the righteous name of legitimate defense, I have already lost too much blood and can't cut it!

Dong Zhuo doesn't talk about martial arts! What a beast barbarian!

However, Dong Zhuo didn't do it immediately, he didn't care about waiting for another two or three days, waiting for his 20,000 main forces to completely control Luoyang.

Li Su will not wait for Dong Zhuo to control the situation, he has already arranged Cai Yong, Cai Yan, the second son of the Zhen family and the group of young ladies, and will go out of the city early tomorrow morning, take the Cuihan Road to Chang'an, Chencang, and return to Hanzhong.

The reason why he wanted to pick this day, Li Su also calculated - he hoped that Dong Zhuo's 20,000 rear army had already left Hangu Pass, and after leaving Hongnong County and entering Henan Yin, Li Su's own talents would leave Luoyang and go west.

Because only in this way can he avoid unnecessary troubles as much as possible, and not collide head-on with Dong Zhuojun's main force in the narrow Cuihan Road, more things are better than less things.

However, what he didn't expect was that on the eve of leaving Beijing, Empress Dowager He summoned him again, but fortunately she only gave him a temporary mission, not forcibly kept him.

When Li Su and Zhao Yun rushed to the palace nervously, they saw that the Empress Dowager He was already much haggard than four days ago, and she seemed to be afraid to wash her face with tears. But she no longer has the strength to confront the many complex decisions of the foreign dynasty - if she wants to keep Li Su again, she must not only persuade Li Su, but also deal with Ding Yuan's joint decision-making. In the case that there are no eunuchs around him who understand politics, it is impossible for the Queen Mother to operate a female stream.

Empress Dowager He said resentfully: "Li Qing, Zhao Qing, will Jingshi really not be messed up by Dong Zhuo?" In the past few days, I have become more and more restless, are there many veteran generals who have made mistakes and been transferred? Who else can Hongu trust? ”

Li Su had no choice but to prevaricate patiently: "Please be relieved, if the Queen Mother is really not at ease, after we complete the mission of appeasing Liu Yan in the future, we will naturally enter the court to serve." ”

Empress Dowager He smiled sadly: "Although I don't read much, I also know the three holes of the cunning rabbit, these days, some palace maids in the palace have disappeared, and the remaining eunuchs are less than three or four out of ten, and the palace forbidden guards are also full of loopholes!" I don't know who to ask if I want to be held accountable, Changqiu officials from Zhao Zhong down, all of them were killed by Yuan Shao-

Therefore, I have already pleaded with Situ today, and let Princess Wannian be a feudal lord. Li Qing, I want you to escort Tong'er to Chang'an, anyway, you have to lead the troops west. ”

Empress Dowager He has a son and a daughter, and her son is the Son of Heaven, so she can't run. The daughter's fiefdom of Wannian County is in Jingzhaoyin, where Chang'an is located, about a little northwest of Xinfeng County, about a hundred miles away from Chang'an.

She was obviously based on her motherly nervous sense of smell, and tried to be as cunning as possible.

Li Su was stunned for a moment: "Queen Mother...... The princess is a vassal and usually returns to the fiefdom after the wedding, is this in line with the etiquette? What's more, the Queen Mother just didn't worry about Dong Zhuo, but with all due respect, Dong Zhuo came from the west, and in the land of Jingzhao Sanfu, I am afraid that Dong Zhuo also has a lot of power, and it may not be safer than the capital. ”

Empress Dowager He suddenly returned to the light, her eyes were cold: "I have discussed and interceded with the three dukes, and let the left general Huangfu Song, who is stationed on the right side of the wind, be the general of the chariot and cavalry, and the third assistant of the town." I heard that when Dong Zhuoping was in turmoil, he had been Huangfu Song's subordinate for many years, so he would never attack Huangfu Song, right? I'll let the general protect Tong'er. ”

Huangfu Song is in Chencang, and there are 30,000 elite soldiers under him to deter the Qiang people and Han Sui, which is indeed a very strong arm in Guanzhong to deal with Dong Zhuo.

But Li Su knew that after the princes discussed Dong in history, when Dong Zhuo moved the idea of moving west to Chang'an, in order to solve his worries, he designed to recall Huangfu Song back to Chang'an, and tried to kill him. It's just that Huangfu Song's prestige and popularity are too high, so Dong Zhuo didn't dare to make a move, but he also demoted Huangfu Song to the captain of the city gate.

It can only be said that Huangfu Song is too stupid and loyal to the Han Dynasty, even if Dong Zhuo is so perverse, as long as Dong Zhuo is summoned in the name of the Son of Heaven, Huangfu Song still obediently obeys the edict to put down his military power and send him to death.

Alas...... It's a pity that these can't be told to the Empress Dowager He.

That's it, the Queen Mother thinks that this is okay, so let's take one step at a time, otherwise if she refuses her, and then force Li Su and Zhao Yun to protect the palace, it will be a collapse.

"Command! The minister retired. Li Su led the order to retreat.

Empress Dowager He: "Wait! ”

Li Su turned around: "What else does the Queen Mother command?" ”

Empress Dowager He rubbed her temples: "It's not about you!" I know that you have no power to restrain the chicken, I asked Captain Zhao to stay-the palace maid was lost overnight, and there is no serious discipline of Changqiu officials, I don't worry. Isn't it a dereliction of duty that Captain Zhao is a captain of the Northern Military Academy, and he has not performed his duties for the Beijing garrison for a day? Let him guard the palace ban today, and let him go back with you tomorrow. ”

Li Su shook his head helplessly: "Zilong, then you should be vigilant tonight, don't let the palace maid lose it again." ”

The next day, everyone was ready to stop, and Zhao Yun also caught up with Li Su and others, a total of 4,500 people in the whole army, plus other officials and family members who went west together, plus Princess Wannian who temporarily decided to return to the Jingzhao fiefdom and the palace maids around her, went out of the city together.