Lao Ji is in the woods, and his ambitions are thousands of miles.

Recalling the scene of visiting Cai Yong with everyone ten days ago, Xu Chu only felt that this sentence was very suitable for Cai Yong.

Not only did Cai Yong not become old, but because of the courtesy of the scholars of Yan and Henan, he seemed much more energetic. The sentence "The old decay is about to die, can you encourage the prince and the marquis?" It was very exciting for everyone present.

During the banquet, it was learned that Chen Liutai was guarding Zhao Qian, and wrote to Cai Yong a month ago to invite him to Chen Liu, but Cai Yong did not agree.

The old man talked about juvenile madness, Cai Yong's heart has always been in the court of Luoyang. The 'educating the people and clarifying the rule of officials' that he had in mind could only be realized in Luoyang City, which is the center of the world.

Although Cai Yong had no intention of being a county official for Chen Liu, he still agreed to Xu Chu's request to 'go to the Cai clan in Xinyu County' without hesitation. With Cai's support, Zhang Feng was worry-free in Yu County.

So when the matter on Xu Shu and Fei Liang's side came to fruition, Xu Chu immediately ordered all the people and rushed to Lujiang.

The cart is not counted, and the herd is like rain. Xu Chu's movements even alarmed the counties near and far, Yingchuan, Chenliu, Runan and other counties, almost everyone knew that Xu Chu went to Lujiang County with 5,000 parts to take up the post of Taishou. The name of "Yuzhou Tiger" once again resounded in the Central Plains.

Sun Jian, another fierce tiger far away in Changsha County, Jingzhou, laughed left and right after learning about this: "I only hate Zhaowu Hou for not being born a few years early!" "In the third year of Zhongping, there was a rebellion in Liangzhou. Sun Jian followed Zhang Wen, the 'representative cavalry general', to quell the rebellion in the name of joining the military, and Dong Zhuo was a Zhonglang general at that time, and he was also under Zhang Wen's control. Once Zhang Wen issued an edict to summon Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhuo deliberately delayed, and it took a long time to arrive, and after Zhang Wen blamed him, Dong Zhuo made insulting remarks. Sun Jian left the table and whispered to Zhang Wen, suggesting that Zhang Wen kill someone like Dong Zhuo, but unfortunately Zhang Wen didn't listen. Sun Jian lamented that Xu Chu was not born a few years earlier, and what he meant was that if Xu Chu could also be present at that time, maybe Dong Zhuo had been dealt with by military law, and there would not be so many things today. Sun Jian's left and right generals naturally understood these words as soon as they heard them, and it has always been a big regret in Sun Jian's heart that Zhang Wen did not kill Dong Zhuo back then.

Of course, Xu Chu only learned about this matter later.

——From Yanling County to Tatexian County in the northwest of Lujiang River, it is necessary to pass through the two counties of Chenguo and Runan. After walking for nearly a month, I passed the original Lu County of Runan County, and it was only a few dozen miles away from Tateshi County. Xu Shu looked back and forth at the team that was several miles long and did not see its beginning and end, and still sighed with emotion. When he first came to Xu Chu's side, there were only dozens of people in total, and in less than a year, they had grown enough to alarm the state and county, so he was embarrassed.

The five hundred tiger guards were the front army, and at this time they were all dressed in armor, holding long knives in their hands, and carrying iron spears, how majestic; Le Jin and Li Ping led two hundred pioneers to guard the left and right; These 700 men were for the former army. After the front army, there were a thousand parts of Wang Yan and Gong Su, as well as a thousand soldiers who had been to Luoyang led by Guo Jia and Xi Zhong, who were responsible for escorting the baggage; On the left and right are Li Tong and Chen Gong's Jiangxia athletes. The rear army is the righteous servant of Shu County of Ganning, and the number of thousands has been made up by Xu Chu. In addition, the manpower sent by some large households in Yanling County was handed over to Xu Shu for control, with a total of more than 4,000 entourage.

"It's a pity that Zaojun doesn't want to go to Lujiang as an official." Xu Shu sighed in his heart.

Zao only declined Xu Chu's invitation and stayed in Yingchuan to continue serving as Wei Cao Peng. In addition to Zaoyi, those big and small heroes in Yanling were also reluctant to leave their hometowns, that is, they all sent their family guests, disciples and even children to follow Xu Chu, but they themselves still stayed in Yingchuan.

"The prince has an order, stop the march!"

Xu Shu looked up at the sky, it was only noon, why did the army stop? Beat the horse to find Xu Chu, and happened to bump into the commander, saluted Xu Shu and said: "Xu Jun, the prince asked you to go to him to discuss matters." Following the direction pointed by the soldier, Xu Shu rushed to Xu Chu's car.

Not only him, but Guo Jia, Xi Zhong, Gan Ning, and Le Jin also came.

After setting up camp, everyone came to Xu Chu's big tent, but there was new news in the direction of Luoyang.

Xu Chu supported his forehead with his hand, twisted his eyebrows and said: "Cao Mengde, Xun Wenruo, and Zhong Yuanchang jointly wrote a letter and delivered it to me, I have just read it, you can also take a look." ”

Looking at Xu Chu's expression, something big should have happened. At this time, they didn't care about etiquette, and the five of them gathered together to read the letter.

After only a few glances, Guo Jia was shocked and lost his voice: "Ding Yuan was actually murdered by Dong Zhuo!" ”

While everyone sighed, they looked down again, and Xi Zhong sneered: "Hey, it turned out that Dong Zhuo used the trick of drawing salary from the bottom of the kettle. Hehe, I didn't expect it, I didn't expect that Dong Zhuo not only defeated the Yuan family in terms of military strength, but also was better than the Yuan family in terms of strategy. ”

The story of the matter was written in detail in the letter, after Dong Zhuo became the secretary, Yuan Kui, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and others, who felt that their situation was unfavorable, stepped up their contact with Ding Yuan, and Ding Yuan also realized that this time was a good time for him to 'send charcoal in the snow', so he showed goodwill to Yuan Shao and others on the one hand, and played the court on the other hand, and reprimanded Dong Zhuo for being arrogant. But he didn't want Dong Zhuo to regard Ding Yuan as the biggest threat at the moment, and there was a general named Li Su under his command, who took the initiative to ask Ying to induce Ding Yuan's subordinates and Lu Bu, a native of the state, to kill Ding Yuan, and Ding Yuan, Yuan Shao and others were careless, so they made a big mistake. After Ding Yuan was murdered by Lu Bu, his annexation of states was mostly annexed by Dong Zhuo.

The Yuan family was the head of the Shishi clan, and the strong reinforcement he fancied was actually eliminated by Dong Zhuo like this, and the situation in the Luoyang Imperial Court was already in danger, so it was no wonder that Xi Zhong ridiculed.

And Xu Chu is thinking a little more at the moment, if he blames Yuan, it doesn't seem reasonable. The plan to induce Lu Bu to murder the deceased master can be said to be a strategy to win in the midst of danger, needless to say if it succeeds, and the consequences of failure are unimaginable. Imagine that the plan failed, Ding Yuan would definitely make a desperate gamble and hug the Yuan family, and at that time, Dong Zhuo's superiority in strength would disappear. Without the advantage of military strength, with his identity as a warlord, can he be as long as the Yuan family in the court? Apparently not.

This kind of risky plan, if it is said that Dong Zhuo came up with it himself, Xu Chu does not believe it. Thinking of the more famous strategists around Dong Zhuo in later generations, Xu Chu could only think of two people - Li Ru and Jia Xu. Whether it was Li Ru or Jia Xu who came up with this plan to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, it was much unexpected by Yuan Shao and others. In addition, Xu Chu remembered that Li Su and Lu Bu were from the same county, so Yuan Shao did not expect that Dong Zhuo would be able to plot against a subordinate who had great kindness to Ding Yuan to murder the deceased master.

"Who of you knows who this Lu Bu is?"

Xu Chu followed the sound and looked, but it was Gan Ning who spoke. Lu Bu is famous in the world for the name of 'Bingzhou Flying General' is a later thing, and now Lu Bu, like Dong Zhuo and Xu Chu, was born as a martial artist, and has never left Bingzhou, although he is brave and able to fight, he is only famous in this state. Therefore, Gan Ning didn't know who Lu Bu was, and neither did Xi Zhong, Guo Jia, Xu Shu and Le Jin.

Xu Chu knows.

"Lu Bu is a native of Wuyuan County, and he is from the same county as Li Su, Dong Zhuo's envoy mentioned in the letter. When Ding Yuan served as the assassin of Bingzhou, he took Lü Bu as the cavalry captain to lead an army, and then was ordered by the late general He Jin to garrison Hanoi, and used Lü Bu as the main book. Thinking that this person was capricious, Dong Zhuo sent Li Su as an envoy to lure him with his official position as a treasurer, so that he would betray the master. Ding Yuan has always valued Lu Bu and treated him like a son, so he was killed because he was not afraid of Lu Buli's desire. Ding Yuan died, and Lu Bu was feared by the brave and brave soldiers, so most of Ding Yuan's subordinates also defected to Dong Zhuo with Lu Bu. ”

After listening to Xu Chu, Gan Ning gritted his teeth and said: "This person betrays the Lord and is unjust, which makes the world despised!" ”

Let's not talk about it, Lu Bu is very good at leading troops to fight, especially when he grew up in Bingzhou, and commanding the cavalry is a rare opponent in the world, Dong Zhuo won Lu Bu, it is really like a tiger with wings, Yuan Shao's escape should not be far away.

Guo Jia pondered: "My lord, according to Jia's opinion, Yuan Sili should be thinking about staying in Luoyang at this time, probably useless, or have other plans. ”

Yuan Shao sought Lujiang County for Xu Chu and Chenliu County for Zhang Miao, and he should have already had the idea of fighting against Gyeonggi in other counties. At this time, Dong Zhuo was very difficult to control, and he himself should have the heart to leave Beijing.