"My lord, there is a person from outside the camp, who claims to be an old man, and wants to find you by name." At night, Ye Chen was thinking about things in the camp tent when a soldier from the guard battalion came in to report.

Ye Chen was stunned for a moment, thought about it, and couldn't guess who would come to him at this time.

"Ask him to come in." Ye Chen waved his hand, and the soldiers of the escort battalion retreated.

After a while, the sound of footsteps approached, Ye Chen cheered up and sat up straight.

When people came in, Ye Chen's eyes widened, and he thought about many people, but he didn't expect him to come, he was Li Ru in disguise.

Li Ru stood without speaking.

"Go down first, and no one is allowed to approach the tent without my orders." Ye Chen said to the guards.

When the guard battalion soldier heard this, he clasped his fists and saluted Ye Chen, and took three steps back before turning around and going out.

"Confucian, I've seen General Ye." After the guards went out, Li Ru stepped forward and said.

"Wen Xian, visiting late at night, there must be something important, it is inconvenient here, it is better to say it directly." Ye Chen's face remained unchanged, but he didn't want to play any dumb riddles with Li Ru, so he directly let him get down to business.

"Okay, since General Ye is quick to talk, then Confucianism will also speak directly." Li Ru straightened up, flicked his sleeves and pinned his hand behind him and said, "Taishi Dong wants you to join forces with him to attack the Kwantung princes." ”

"Haha..."

Ye Chen laughed out loud and said after a while: "Wen Xiansheng, I respect you for being a wise man, but don't you think your words are too naïve?" ”

Li Ru was not angry, he was still indifferent, he shook his head and said: "As long as there are enough interests, nothing is impossible." ”

Ye Chen agreed with this, but he didn't think that Dong Zhuo could give him enough benefits.

"That's right, I'm a businessman, and anything can be traded as long as it's valuable. It's just that I don't think Dong Zhuo can offer a starting price. Ye Chen looked at Li Ru with a faint smile, waiting for his answer.

Li Ru also stared at Ye Chen closely, without any fluctuations in his eyes, it seemed that he had made preparations before coming.

"If all the princes of Kwantung are not here, no one in the Central Plains will be your opponent, and then you will be able to share the world equally with Dong Taishi." Li Ru's words were shocking, and after speaking, he looked at Ye Chen, wanting to see something from his expression.

Ye Chen was a little agitated in his heart, most of the princes who came here were later figures, if they all died here, then there might be fewer opponents when the soldiers went south in the future.

But Ye Chen is not so stupid, whether he and Dong Zhuo can join forces to annihilate the princes of the Eighteenth Road does not say, even if it succeeds, first, Ye Chen has lost his judgment of the general trend, and second, Ye Chen has to take huge political risks, his reputation will be completely stinky, and it will cause people in the world to spurn.

If it fails, naturally needless to say, the princes of the Eighteenth Route will definitely join forces to deal with Ye Chen, where is Ye Chen their opponent at this time.

Develop with peace of mind, and it won't take long for you to compete with the princes for domination, so why risk overturning.

"The kid is not talented, he just wants to do business well, if Wen Xiansheng wants to do business with him, then he is very welcome, even if he is an enemy, I will earn the enemy's money." Ye Chen rejected Li Ru's proposal.

Li Ru didn't seem to be surprised at all, his proposal was nothing more than to stimulate Ye Chen's ambitions, if his ambitions were inflated, then this matter could be successful, since Ye Chen was not fooled, then he could only do "business" with him.

"Okay, in that case, why don't we make a deal?" Li Ru saw that Ye Chen's eyes were clear and he was not fooled by him, so he knew that he had to change his strategy.

"Haha, okay, I'm the one who likes to do business the most." Ye Chen said with a smile.

Li Ru was a little harsh when he heard this, he used to think that Ye Chen was more interested in doing business than about other things, but when Ye Chen deceived Dong Zhuo and rescued Empress Dowager He and Liu Wei, Li Ru knew that this Ye Chen was very strategic and ambitious, so he wanted to fool Ye Chen and let him fall into the trap.

Now that I heard Ye Chen say that he likes to do business, he will no longer be deceived by Ye Chen's appearance.

"Okay, as long as you declare that you will not participate in dealing with Dong Taishi and return to Liaodong, Taishi can give you the second rank of official promotion, have the right to open the mansion, and seal the marquis of ten thousand households." Dong Zhuo said it word by word, trying to knock Ye Chen's heart with words to make him accept.

It's just that Li Ru still underestimates Ye Chen too much, and he understands what he thinks better than anyone else.

"Mrs. Dong has sealed it, and Empress Dowager He has also sealed it."

Although the Empress Dowager He does not have the jade seal in her hands, now except for Dong Zhuo, everyone respects the Empress Dowager He and Liu Wei, so as long as they hold official positions, they can still play a role.

Li Ru suddenly felt that he really didn't have any bargaining chips in his hand, the emperor was originally a trump card in his hand, but let Ye Chen rescue the Empress Dowager He and Liu Wei, and the people had the capital to fight against them.

Seeing Li Ru sigh, Ye Chen continued: "But I am an old friend with Master Dong, and I also said just now that the enemy belongs to the enemy, and the transaction can still be traded." Ye Chen said with a smile.

When Li Ru heard this, he was a little confused, Ye Chen had rejected all of them just now, but now he wanted to do "business" with him, Ye Chen did not agree to the conditions proposed by Li Ru just now, what business did the two sides have to do, but since they came, of course they had to listen to what Ye Chen said.

"General Ye, please tell me, what business do we still have to do." Li Ru bit the word "business" heavily, and was deceived by Ye Chen with business before.

"It's very simple, Dong Zhuo wants to fight against the Kwantung princes, he can't be without money and food, he can't be without weapons, we can continue to trade." Ye Chen said.

"You're not afraid of being spurned by the world?" Li Ru asked.

"I'm afraid, of course I'm afraid, but who told me that this man likes money? Besides, business is business, and it has nothing to do with position. ”

"How can I trust you?" Li Ru was tempted, salt and weapons were indeed the things they needed, but Ye Chen had a criminal record, so he didn't want to be cheated by him again.

"Inspect the goods in person and pay the money."

Li Ru thought about it for a while and felt that this proposal was okay, but he was still very uneasy, and he always felt that Ye Chen had some conspiracy.

"Okay, I'll agree to continue trading with you."

"The price is still the same as before, but the conditions still have to be changed."

"What do you want?" Li Ru guarded against Ye Chen carefully, afraid that he would do something again.

"I want the general of Erpin Zhenbei and the marquis of Wanhu." Ye Chen replied solemnly.

"Shameless." Li Ru scolded in his heart, this condition was obviously the condition he had just offered, and Ye Chen directly rejected it, and now he actually took it out as a condition.

Have you ever seen something shameless, and have you ever seen something so shameless?

"General Ye, your conditions are a bit big." Li Ru sneered, the conditions of the two sides were not equal at all.

Ye Chen didn't feel embarrassed at all about Li Ru's ridicule, smacked his lips, stretched his body for a while, and then said to Li Ru: "I still have one condition, that is, I will not launch a surprise attack on Dong Zhuo from the waterway." ”

Li Ru was taken aback, it was not that they had no defense on the waterway, but they did not invest too many troops, because the Kwantung princes did not have many naval troops at all, or there was no naval army at all, so they just set up some defenses on the Yellow River, but at this time, Ye Chen blatantly proposed it, or it was simply a threat.