"Your Majesty, it's been a long time."

A voice came in from outside the hall, it seemed gentle and cordial, like a greeting from a family member who had been separated for a long time, the voice sounded familiar, but the emperor couldn't remember for a while in a trance, who was the voice.

A purple robe entered from outside the hall, with a gold seal and purple ribbon, the official quality was above the hundred officials, and a gentle smile overflowed in his eyes, but it was like a cold and solemn north wind, which made people shudder.

The emperor's pupils constricted, his body shook violently, his legs were paralyzed and he sat on the ground, his face suddenly turned pale, and he trembled and said, "Prime Minister, are you back?" ”

Another voice shouted in his heart: "Lu Bu is not dead!" ”

Lu Bu smiled and said, "Your Majesty has been disappointed." ”

The emperor finally recovered from the previous shock, but in his heart there was a kind of relief that the clouds and rain had begun to disperse and the flowers had fallen into mud. Looking at Lu Bu, who was as tall as a god in front of him, the emperor couldn't muster up the courage to resist.

"When did the prime minister come back?" The Emperor's voice was slightly hoarse.

"I arrived in Anyi last night, and I came to see Your Majesty early in the morning, and I wanted to surprise Your Majesty, which seems to have disappointed Your Majesty." Lu Bu spoke without a little warmth, and looked at the emperor fixedly, only looking at him with a creepy look.

"The prime minister returned to the city but deliberately concealed it, just waiting for me to transfer the empty garrison and send out all the internal guards, so that I can enter the palace to see me." The emperor looked indescribably lonely.

Lu Bu shook his head with a chuckle, personally opened the door of the hall one by one, stretched out his hand and pointed outward: "Your Majesty, please see, this is the internal guard you rely on, in my eyes, it is not as good as ants, even if there are tens of millions of people, I can go at will." ”

The emperor got up and walked to the beginning of the palace gate, only to see more than 100 people under the long steps outside the palace, all of whom were kneeling in the courtyard, trembling all over, and did not dare to raise their heads, like prisoners waiting for the final verdict.

The emperor bit his dry lip and said, "Since the prime minister has already arrived in Anyi last night, why do you want to deliberately hide it?" ”

"Your Majesty has great ambitions, and the minister has always known that this expedition, the minister has fought against Liu Bei and Cao Cao, and every time he faces off against him, His Majesty will ring in his heart, Your Majesty knows why?"

Lu Bu reflexively returned to the hall, sat cross-legged on the side, and asked a little lazily.

"Why?" The Emperor asked dumbly.

"Because they are the same as Your Majesty, they always want to get something that they can't get, if they keep to themselves, I don't want to be embarrassed by them, I'm a lazy person, I just want to live a peaceful life, but there are always people who don't know the height of the sky, and want to cut flesh from me, Your Majesty looks at me like a coward."

In the eyes of the emperor, although Lu Bu sat there, lazy as if he had no strength, he still had an illusion, and the body in front of him was like a mountain, like a pine, as if it was full of wild power, and it would burst out at any time and tear people to pieces.

Seeing that the emperor shook his head and was silent, Lu Bu's laughter turned cold, as if the sun was shining into the clouds.

"Ants boast of a big country, and it is easy for a grasshopper to shake a tree. The minister tolerated His Majesty's nonsense three times, but His Majesty was too young to distinguish the priority of the situation. But now the emperor is no longer small, but he still only thinks about fighting and demanding, Your Majesty, the emperor, if he is not a minister, he will not know. How many people will want to take their place. Your Majesty only saw the power of the ministers, but he did not know that none of them fell from the sky, they were made of countless people with flesh and blood, and if anyone wanted to steal for personal use, I would not share the sky with him. ”

Looking at Lu Bu's cold expression, the emperor only felt his heart beat wildly, and said in a hoarse voice: "The prime minister wants to kill me? ”

"The minister doesn't want to embarrass His Majesty, but if he is forced to do something against his will, he doesn't mind doing something against his will."

The emperor rarely raised his courage and looked at Lu Bu and said: "It seems that the prime minister is still reluctant to kill me for a while, is it because I still have a role?" It's not boring for me to do this emperor, otherwise it's better for the prime minister to do it, right? ”

Lu Bu looked at the cockfighting emperor in front of him, and a sense of sadness and helplessness surged in his heart, he originally handed over a piece of sincerity to help him prosper the world, but in the end, he still had to fall into the infamy of stealing the country and favoritism. Knowing this, he might as well be a prince who is partial to the state and annex the state, why should he welcome the emperor in distress into Anyi, serve carefully, never lack of support for the inner court, and almost spend most of the state finances.

Lu Bu didn't want to be the king and hegemon, but he wanted to stabilize the chaotic court and eliminate the ambitious princes of the Quartet.

"I have no interest in being the emperor, in the future, the palace will be under your control, don't meddle in the affairs outside the palace, my words are here, if Your Majesty is obsessed, you won't be able to complain about me then."

After Lu Bu finished speaking, he didn't look at the emperor again, turned around and went out of the hall.

"Prime Minister, you haven't answered me yet, why did you endure last night and didn't do it until today, just to catch my handle?" Seeing that Lu Bu was leaving, the emperor hurriedly shouted loudly.

Lu Bu stopped, turned around, and said: "Your Majesty is the emperor, and he should be a respectable opponent, I entered the city without telling everyone, just to hope that Your Majesty will learn from his way and not cause an irreparable situation." If I return to the Prime Minister's Mansion and come to the palace with all the ministers of the Prime Minister's Mansion, it will not be the peaceful situation I have now, and under the pressure of the situation, even I cannot guarantee the safety of His Majesty. ”

Looking at the pale-faced emperor, there was a faint sound of rapid gasps, Lu Bu shook his head and sighed, and continued: "I have warned Your Majesty twice, once when the Praetorian Guards went out of the city, I ordered someone to light a fire on the road that the Forbidden Army must pass to warn, but the eunuch generals appointed by His Majesty were unmoved, and let the fire spread, almost igniting the nearby houses, and they were not moved at all. Once when the first batch of internal guards left the palace, I asked Wei Yue to capture all of them, just to let His Majesty retreat in the face of difficulties, but I didn't expect His Majesty to advance instead of retreating, and the internal guards in the palace poured out, and I hated to kill all the subordinates' families. The minister warned His Majesty twice, which can be regarded as the end of benevolence and righteousness. ”

The emperor's heart was cold, no wonder the fire broke out in the city last night, and Shangshu Province reported early in the morning that it had been extinguished by Wei Yue, the defender of the city. It's no wonder that the internal guards he sent have always been lost in the sea, and there is no news of them returning. It turned out that he had already fallen for Lu Bu's calculations.

A sense of powerlessness arose spontaneously from his heart, accompanied by hatred, and he said fiercely: "But the prime minister may not know that your family is on the way to meet you, and I have ordered the forbidden army to set up an ambush, and they are probably already more than lucky." ”

Lu Bu shook his head and said lightly: "Your Majesty's biggest mistake is to overestimate yourself and underestimate the people of the Prime Minister's Mansion, even without me Lu Bu, the power of the Prime Minister's Mansion alone is enough to level the entire palace." Yan was not born with a gentle temperament, when he was a teenager in Bingzhou, he was also a figure who rode a horse and stretched a bow, but later he was in a prominent position, which gradually closed up a little. If it weren't for Gu Nian, I might still be alive, but I'm afraid that this palace would have been in ruins a long time ago. ”

Lu Bu paused and said: "I know that Your Majesty sent the forbidden army out of the city, and secretly wooed Hou Cheng, but what Your Majesty didn't know was that the Yan clan had already ordered Shuo Fang's recruitment to lead 20,000 cavalry to the nearest place, and now he has already hidden in Fenglingdu, once Hou Cheng has a different heart, he will die in the chaos." ”

The emperor's eyes were glazed, as if he had been drained of the shell of his soul, and he opened his mouth, but he couldn't say a word.

Lu Bu glanced at him sympathetically, walked outside the hall by himself, and walked down the long steps step by step, but he felt a little lonely in his heart, as if it was a farewell to his old friend.

The emperor sat paralyzed in the palace hall, watching Lu Bu's back disappear under the steps little by little, and two lines of poetry jumped out of thin air in his mind: The king of hegemony is sudden, and his love is thinner than a yellow flower.

Lu Bu walked out of the palace, and saw that Wei Yue had blocked a group of ministers who wanted to enter the palace to face the saint outside the palace.

A group of ministers were forced by the sword soldiers and did not dare to approach, so they could only jump their feet in the distance and scold Wei Yue.

"Ignorant puppeteer, do you want to rebel? Dare to lead troops to surround the palace! ”

"Reckless man, don't hurry up and step back, be careful of your majesty, old man, and treat you for a crime of bullying the king."

"Bastard, it's amazing to have a knife!"

"Martial arts are a disaster to the country, martial arts are a disaster to the country, sad!"

Dozens of officials ignored the etiquette of the court and the central government, and shouted and scolded Wei Yue, who was colorless, and Wei Yue, who was also at a loss, had already received a strict order from Lu Bu: "No one is allowed to enter the palace again, and anyone who takes a step will be killed!" ”

These officials obviously also knew the severity, that is, they were scolding outside the palace gate, and did not step into the palace at all, which made Wei Yue's teeth itch with hatred.

At this time, Lu Bu walked out of the palace gate, and the eyes of a group of ministers were finally attracted, and when they saw Lu Bu walking out of the palace, a group of ministers were like seeing ghosts, with expressions on their faces, all of them were shocked.

"What's the fuss here?" Lu Bu's face was uncertain.

Wei Yue strode up to Lu Bu and bowed: "These people are clamoring to see the emperor, and they refuse to leave anything. ”

"Are you going to see the Emperor?" Lu Bu's eyes coldly glanced at the ministers.

The ministers pushed and shoved, but they refused to speak, and it was a long time before an old minister came out of the crowd.

"As a scholar, Lao Yu should write to His Majesty every day to manage the government, and the prime minister should not stop Lao Yu and others."

The person who spoke had gray temples, and even walked a little old. This person from Lu Bu is the emperor's newly appointed Shang Shuling, who was also one of the three princes before, and Yang Xiu's father, Yang Biao, the elder of the two dynasties in the court.

Seeing Yang Biao speak, a group of ministers suddenly became emboldened, and shouted one after another: "Exactly, the prime minister shouldn't stop me from waiting to see Your Majesty." ”

Lu Bu frowned secretly, Yang Biao has always been tactful, in countless times when the princes were in power, he can be in a high position and stable as Mount Tai, first of all, because his family background is illustrious and has his own prestige, so that the people in power have to reuse to win him over, and secondly, Yang Biao is also a bit insightful, and he moves the truth of the three holes of the cunning rabbit, for example, his son Yang Xiu is a heavy minister of Lu Bu, he has always been loyal to the emperor, that is, he can complete the name of loyalty and righteousness, and he can also avoid risks, even if one party is in trouble, the other party can also help, for the family, it can be regarded as a perfect strategy.

At this time, he jumped out to deceive people's hearts, and he was really a little out of his mind. I don't want to think about it, when I return to the city, the emperor has no chance of winning, and his actions are just self-inflicted humiliation.

"It's not impossible for Sikong to see His Majesty, as long as Sikong will stay in the palace in the future and don't take a step out of the palace gate, I can let Sikong enter the palace, so that you can accompany Your Majesty every day." There was almost no emotion in Lu Bu's words, cold as a blade.

"Prime Minister, is this to imprison Your Majesty? Aren't you afraid of being reviled by the world? Yang Biao looked extremely excited.

Lu Bu shook his finger and said: "No, no, no, I don't limit Your Majesty's childhood, he can go wherever he wants, and I will even shoot soldiers to escort him, but from now on, foreign ministers are not allowed, they are not allowed to enter the palace to face the saint, and those who disobey will be punished with rebellion." ”

The ministers were in an uproar, and they all shouted in their hearts: "You are plotting rebellion!" ”

Yang Biao's face changed several times, and the wrinkles on the old Long Zhong's face became more profound because of anger, crisscrossing and intertwining, forming a series of raised horizontal flesh, jumping a few times, and finally returning to soothing.

"Okay, good, the prime minister really has good means, I just hope you can treat Your Majesty well and don't let him suffer."

"You don't have to worry about it." Lu Bu was noncommittal.

"Hmph, let's go." Yang Biao shouted at the ministers and wanted to leave.

Behind him, Lu Bu sneered: "Heh, you just want to leave like this?" ”

Yang Biao's body was shocked, he just raised first and then wanted to take the initiative, so that Lu Bu forgot to punish their crimes and seize the opportunity to retreat.

Unexpectedly, Lu Bu was not only a reckless man who was good at fighting after all, but his talent and reaction were not inferior, and he reacted so quickly and saw through his intentions.

"How will the prime minister be treated?" Yang Biao asked in a dry voice.

Lu Bu and the others snorted, and did not answer, but only said to Wei Yue: "These people bewitched the emperor, disturbed the court, and caused the court and the opposition to fall apart, and the people were worried, so they took them all down, and searched for those who participated in the rebellion in the whole city." ”

Wei Yue received the order, and immediately issued an order, and more than 100 swords and soldiers were hidden from the palace gate, each holding a big sword, and surrounded the ministers in the middle.

The ministers were originally weak, but they were close to the fierce swords and soldiers, and they were like chaff for a while, and some young and timid people were full of feces and urine.

For a moment, the air was filled with the same smell.

In Yang Biao's shouting and scolding, Lu Bu called Wei Yue to go into the distance, and asked him to immediately order Yan Chao to come to help him arrest the rebels, why should some small injuries be so fine, what is this injury on the battlefield, it is not to fight bravely to kill the enemy.

Today's situation is several times more dangerous than the battlefield, and if it is not eradicated, it is inevitable that it will happen again.

Wei Yue had other thoughts, and hesitated: "Madame and Miss are still outside the city, and they don't know that the prime minister has returned to the city, if they get the news, they will be overjoyed, do you send someone to greet them?" ”

Lu Bu shook his head and said: "Originally, it was just a fake information by themselves, and they wouldn't have thought that I would really return today, if it was just a message, they might not believe it, they must have thought it was the emperor's trick, and it was not good to mess up their minds, and although there was an opportunity to wait for the side, Hou Cheng had followed me to fight for many years, and it was by no means easy to match, their situation was not safe, you should give me a good look at the situation in the city, and I would personally go to meet them." ”

It was already afternoon after dealing with the affairs of the palace, and taking advantage of the sunset, Lu Bu only took a dozen guards and rode his horse to Fenglingdu.