Chapter XXXVII: Huge Compensation
Li Ru's sudden surrender to his actions made Lu Bu, who was happy that his wife was pregnant again, and was stunned for a moment, feeling unable to adapt.
However, Lu Bu quickly came back to his senses, Li Ru's surrender was because Lu Bu could still have a queen, even if Yan Yao was pregnant again, she would still give birth to a daughter, but Lu Bu had so many wives and concubines, maybe when Lu Bu's wife and concubine could give birth to an heir, so as to inherit the foundation that Lu Bu had worked hard for!
After all, the princes who have no heirs in this era, no matter how loyal the prince's subordinates are, they will inevitably have two hearts in the end!
Because, the princes who have no heirs mean that the hard-earned foundation will have no successor, and when the princes die, the princes' inheritance will fall apart immediately without thinking too much!
And as the subordinates of the princes, the merits that they have worked hard to build up all their lives will naturally follow, if so, how can they glorify their ancestors or seal their wives and sons?!
In fact, Li Ru has long wanted to assist Lu Bu to establish a great cause, Lu Bu now occupies the land of Sanhan, and then as long as he strengthens his troops and strengthens the rear, he can go north to conquer the territory of Gongsun Du or Goguryeo, and then when the time is right, he will return to the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, and Lu Bu's future achievements can be described as clear!
With a resourceful person like Li Ru, he can naturally see that the two princes of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao will eventually have a battle, and in this way, Lu Bu's opportunity will come!
What's more, what Lu Bu said is right, as a person with a bad reputation, he is indeed the most suitable to assist Lu Bu, who is also infamous!
In addition, Lu Bu was no longer the brave and scheming Lu Fengxian he knew, and he also defeated him once, which made Li Ru's opinion of Lu Bu suddenly change dramatically.
Lu Bu has Chen Gong, Chen Qun, plus himself and others, and Wu has Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, Zang Ba, Cao Bao, Hao Zhao and others, perhaps, maybe they can really break through a foundation in this chaotic era!
"Okay, with your assistance from Wen You, you can fight the enemy's 100,000 army!" Lu Bu didn't care about what Li Ru thought in his heart.
What Lu Bu cares about is that Li Ru has surrendered to him now, and in the future, Chen Gong and him will be his left and right military advisors, and he will give advice to himself by his side, so why not be afraid of the enemy's powerful tiger and wolf heroes?!
"The lord praised it!" Li Ru hurriedly said modestly.
"Haha...... Wen You will still be called Ben Hou's word in the future! Suddenly being called like this by you, I'm a little unaccustomed to it! Lu Bu laughed.
"My lord, no! You must know that the gift cannot be wasted! As the right army division under the main account, he is in a high position, and he should set a good example for others! Establish the supreme majesty of the lord! Li Ru said very solemnly.
"Whatever you want!" Lu Bu heard the insistence in Li Ru's tone, and in the end, he could only go with him.
Establish supreme majesty for yourself! Anyway, it doesn't do you any harm to yourself!
"Lord, I don't know what you do to a certain brother-in-law? Although a certain brother-in-law is not a great talent, he still has some skills in defending the city! Li Ru, who suddenly thought of his brother-in-law Han Zhi, hurriedly asked Lu Bu.
After all, Han Zhi was his wife's elder brother, and Li Ru naturally didn't want anything to happen to Han Zhi or let him spend this life ordinarily from now on!
"If Wen You can persuade him to surrender and serve Ben Hou from now on, it doesn't hurt for Ben Hou to give him a captain!" Lu Bu thought for a moment and replied.
"Haha...... Don't worry! That brother-in-law is a smart man, he knows how to choose the most correct! Li Ru said with a smile.
Then, after the two chatted for a long time about the general trend of the world or some inconsequential gossip, Lu Bu asked Li Ru, who had not gone home for several days to see, to go back first, and asked him to accompany his family, so as not to worry and fear his family.
At the same time, he also asked Li Ru to persuade his brother-in-law Han Zhi to make a correct choice.
After Li Ru's persuasion of Han Zhi, as Li Ru said to Lu Bu, Han Zhi was a smart man, and when he saw that his country had been destroyed and the king of Chen Han he was loyal to was dead, he couldn't do anything, so he made a right choice and finally surrendered to Lu Bu!
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In a few days, through many negotiations between Chen Gong and Gongsun Du's envoys, the two sides have also reached an agreement.
Gongsun Du wants to exchange for his second son Gongsun Gong, yes!
However, Gongsun Du must give Lu Bu 100,000 stone of grain, 5,000 fine war horses, and all the families of the 1,000 Liaodong Army surrendered by Liu Yi and Lu Bu, as long as Gongsun Du's compensation is delivered, Lu Bu's side will release them!
In order to save his second son, even if he was so humiliated by paying a huge amount of compensation to Lu Bu, Gongsun Du could only send what Lu Bu needed unwillingly and reluctantly, even if he lost Liu Yi, a general, from now on!
However, in the eyes of Gongsun Du, his son is the most important, after all, Liu Yi is always an outsider no matter what, no matter how loyal he is!
What's more, he only has two sons at his age now, and his second son Gongsun Gong has no children now, if Lu Bu is just asked to kill his second son Gongsun Gong, where will Gongsun Du, who can only watch, suffer? !
Although he is now very humiliated and compensated a huge amount of money to Lu Bu, as long as the second son Gongsun Gong is safely replaced, Gongsun Du will naturally not give up like this, Gongsun Du believes that Lu Bu, who has just occupied the power of Sanhan, is definitely not their opponent under the front of their Liaodong Army!
And the huge amount of compensation given to Lu Bu is only temporarily stored here by Lu Bu!
When the time comes, it's not too late to get Lu Bu back!
Now that the two sides have reached an exchange agreement, it doesn't take long for both sides to get what they want.
Lu Bu watched the 100,000 stone of grain compensated by Gongsun Du being transported to Xingba City by truckload, which made Lu Bu extremely satisfied!
These 100,000 stone of grain are enough for Lu Bu's army, including those Han people who followed Lu Bu to the land of Sanhan and have not yet harvested, for a long time.
It can be said to solve Lu Bu's urgent need, after all, there have been many wars in the process of taking possession of the land of Sanhan, and there is not much food that Lu Bu brought from Xuzhou!
Lu Bu was even thinking about how to catch Gongsun Du's second son, Gongsun Gong, again, and exchange such a useless person for huge benefits with Gongsun Du!
And the 5,000 fine war horses compensated by Gongsun Du have also been delivered!
Lu Bu considered using these 5,000 war horses, plus the 2,000 war horses that Lu Bu got from the conquest of Sanhan, plus the 1,000 war horses ridden by the wolves in Bingzhou, a total of 8,000 war horses, which could allow Lu Bu to increase the number of wolf horses in Bingzhou to 4,000, and it was still the kind of one person and two horses, which could give full play to the combat effectiveness of the wolf riding in Bingzhou!
As for the small families of the Liaodong army who surrendered to Lu Bu for a thousand, Lu Bu also allocated them a field house as soon as possible, so that they could settle down in the land of Sanhan and increase the number of Han people in the land of Sanhan.
Regarding the huge compensation sent by Gongsun Du, what Lu Bu valued the most was the arrival of Liu Yi's family.
With them, Liu Yi will have no worries about who he will surrender to in the future, Liu Yi is not afraid that Gongsun Du, the old master, will settle accounts after the autumn and find a little trouble for his family, which can make Lu Bu's success rate of subduing Liu Yi for his own use become higher!