Chapter 35: Li Ru
After taking all of Chenhan's territory, just as he had just occupied Ma Han and Ben Han, Lu Bu naturally wanted to consolidate it as soon as possible, which would be conducive to his future rule!
Fortunately, because Chenhan is adjacent to Lelang County, compared with Mahan and Benhan, there are more Han people who come to Chenhan to escape the war, and it is easier to accept the rule of a Han like Lu Bu.
In addition, Lü Bu treated the poor people of Mahan and Benhan better and reduced their taxes, and Lü Bu, who already had a good reputation, made the Chenhan people quickly accept Lü Bu's rule.
In the face of such acquaintances with the Chenhan people, Lu Bu naturally would not treat them badly, just like Ma Han and Benhan, he reduced their heavy taxes at the first time, after all, they will be his own people in the future!
As for those who didn't know each other, Lu Bu wouldn't be polite to them, the bright butcher's knife stretched out to them, and suddenly, corpses were all over the field, and blood flowed like a river!
After taking possession of Chen Han, Lu Bu did not return to Xingba City in triumph as soon as possible to accompany his wife, concubine and daughter, who he had not seen for a long time, but sat in Chen Han.
After all, there are still many things here that need to be done by Lu Bu himself!
For example, Gongsun Du of Liaodong has sent an envoy to redeem Gongsun Gong, the second son who was captured by Lu Bu, and Liu Yi, the talented general.
However, Lü Bu did not receive the envoy from Liaodong, but handed it over to Chen Gong to deal with it with all his powers.
If you want Gongsun Du to pay a huge price to redeem Gongsun Gong, it is not possible to reach an agreement between the two sides for a while!
After the two sides reached an agreement, Lu Bu only needed to meet with the envoy from Liaodong!
As for Liu Yi, Lu Bu planned to make him surrender to himself, so naturally it was impossible for Gongsun Du to redeem him, and the person who Gongsun Du could redeem was only his second son Gongsun Gong, who did not act!
And Lu Bu himself met with the emaciated scribe who was taken back from the hands of Chen Han's soldiers by his own soldiers when the city was broken, and that helped Chen Han was actually not helping Chen Han, but a thin scribe who helped his brother-in-law Han Zhi give advice.
At the first glance of the emaciated scribe, Lu Bu already recognized who he was!
Li Ru Li Wenyou!
Lu Bu's previous guess was correct, the master in the Chenhan Imperial City was Li Ru, and Lu Bu and he had served under Dong Zhuo together.
Lu Bu also didn't think that one day he would meet Li Ru, who had worked with him.
Li Ru is a great talent, and he is as poisonous and cunning as the poisonous Jia Xu!
It can be seen from his many siege battles against Lu Bu's army and his plan to attack the camp twice in one night, but what he encountered was Lu Bu, who had completely become different from Lu Bu in history, so that his plan of attacking the camp twice in one night was not successfully carried out, otherwise, it may be uncertain who wins and who loses on both sides!
Since Dong Zhuo was beheaded by Lu Bu, Li Ru's deeds have rarely been recorded in the history books.
Of course, there are also some wild histories that say that after Dong Zhuo was killed by Lu Bu, he also killed Li Ru, if Lu Bu can meet the authors who wrote these unfounded wild histories in the future, Lu Bu will definitely sue them for slandering himself!
The real history is that Li Ru has been mixed with Li Dao after Dong Zhuo's death, and after Li Dao was defeated and killed by Cao Cao, Li Ru fled to Chenhan alone, and has lived in seclusion here ever since.
Then he met Han Zhi, and he married someone else's sister, who had just given birth to a big fat son!
Li Ru, in his early forties, wore a wide scribe's uniform with a thin figure, and the long hair on his cheeks set off his very scholarly demeanor.
It's just that Li Ru's eyes burst out with cunning from time to time, which makes people feel nervous, feeling that this person is not a simple reader, and needs to be guarded against him, lest he may be eaten by him when there are no bones left.
"Haha...... Feng Xian, you still think that you don't want to see me, an old friend who hasn't seen me for many years, and you want to lock me in a small dark room forever? Seeing Lu Bu, a person who can decide his life and death, Li Ru didn't feel afraid, everything seemed so casual, as if he and Lu Bu were really good friends who hadn't seen him for many years.
Seeing this, he couldn't help but make Lu Bu smile with disdain, this thing had also helped Chen Han to Yin himself before, if he wasn't smart enough to guess Li Ru's trick, I am afraid that his army would suffer a big loss in his plan to attack the camp twice in one night, and then be killed by Chen Han's soldiers and defeated!
And the old friend in Li Ru's mouth made Lu Bu extremely disdainful.
Although the two have worked together, under Dong Zhuo's account, one is the first military general, and the other is the first minister, but, in private, the two rarely intersect, both are the first people under Dong Zhuo's account, and the two are even guarding each other!
"Huh, old friend? Ben Hou doesn't dare to be it! If it weren't for your Wen You, Ben Hou's army would have swept away the alien barbarians in the land of Sanhan! Lu Bu sneered.
"Hahaha...... Let Bong Xian you see the smile! Li Ru smiled, and then sighed: "I heard that XX's plan to attack the camp twice was cracked by you first!" I haven't seen you for many years, I didn't expect you to grow to such a point, which makes you a little unrecognizable! Sure enough, from Xuzhou to this alien land, you have experienced a lot, so that Fengxian you grow up quickly! ”
"Haha...... Are you praising me or am you hurting me? If you praise me, you can be praised by a resourceful person like you, and Ben Hou will still be very useful! If it hurts me, then make your so-called old friend laugh! Lu Bu smiled, and then didn't care about it.
"Haha...... I praise you! Li Ru replied with a smile, and then he quickly withdrew his smile when he thought of something, and asked lightly: "You have been locked in a small black room by Fengxian for several days, I don't know what happened to a certain family and a certain brother-in-law's family?" Fengxian, how are you going to arrange them? ”
Although Li Ru's tone was very flat, as if he didn't care about the life or death of his family, Lu Bu could hear the trace of worry in his flat tone, obviously, Li Ru cared about his family very much.
After all, Li Ru's original family was affected by the war, and he is no longer alive, and now he has a wife, and his wife gave birth to a big fat son for him, he is forty years old, and he doesn't know how long he can live, how can Li Ru not care about his only blood descendant now? !
After all, in ancient times, there were three unfilial pieties, and no queen was greater, and this truth Li Ru knew and profound, as a scholar, better than anyone else!
"Don't worry! Ben Hou is not a murderous person, your family is fine now! As for your brother-in-law's family and Han Zhi, who was captured by Benhou, they are also alive and well! After speaking, Lu Bu changed his words and said a little angrily: "Wen You, you said twice that you were locked up in a small black house by Ben Hou, Ben Hou remembers, in addition to having no freedom, in a big house with slaves, you are served with good food and drink every day, saying that Ben Hou seems to abuse you, you have the meaning of burying Ben Hou!" ”
Hearing Lu Bu say that his family and his brother-in-law's family are now safe, Li Ru breathed a sigh of relief.
As for Lu Bu saying that he himself is not a murderous person, Li Ru is very despised, Li Ru, as a person who has worked with Lu Bu, still doesn't know Lu Bu's personality? !
and Lu Bu said that he buried him, and Li Ru smiled indifferently.
Indeed, in addition to not having freedom, Lu Bu has treated him well with good food and drink in the past few days, but Lu Bu did not meet his old friend for the first time, which still made Li Ru feel very angry!
Li Ru even felt that he had lost at the hands of Lu Bu, which made Lu Bu, who had become a little different now, look down on him, otherwise, he wouldn't even bother to see him!