When I returned to the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, I was in a good mood and had a good rest.

Since the afternoon of the same day, he has received invitations from all the ministers of the imperial court, all of whom want to feast and match, make friends with the power of the champion marquis, and leave a backer for the family, of course, Wang Yun is no exception, but he has other purposes.

Everything is left to Su Shuang, he is too familiar with the capital and is very handy in dealing with similar things.

Although Dong Zhuo did not invite the trial, Li Ru sent an invitation in the afternoon, inviting the trial to be a guest at his house tomorrow.

Su Shuang arranged these invitations according to their importance, and first of all, he had to participate in Li Ru's banquet.

Gao Shun is now wealthy, and Su Shuang has also made a lot of money, he no longer calls himself a businessman, but considers himself a cronie of the champion Hou stationed in Luoyang.

When the trial participated in everyone's banquet, Su Shuang carefully prepared gifts every time, and explained the situation of each family in detail to the trial in advance, so as to avoid the trial making wrong judgments and affecting the lord's affairs.

The judge was very satisfied with Su Shuang's care, the lord had considered everything so carefully, and the personnel arranged were too competent.

Accompanied by Su Shuang, the trial went to the banquet every day, and the days were very leisurely; The banquet party received the gift, and had a good relationship with the judge, and was also very happy to have a connection with the champion Hou.

Dong Zhuo was very aggrieved, and after consulting with Li Ru for several days, he failed to finally make up his mind.

It's been five days, and he can't drag it out any longer, Li Ru decided to come up with his final plan and talk to Dong Zhuo about it well.

Before Li Ru could speak, Dong Zhuo roared: "The champion Hou is too deceitful, if he stops paying the imperial court taxes, how will the imperial court operate?" If he is allowed to occupy, Yan, Yu, Xu, and Yang, is there still a need for the imperial court to continue to exist? The fat on his face trembled in anger.

Li Ru understood Dong Zhuo's mood, and hurriedly relieved: "Champion Hou is not an ordinary person, his strength is so strong, he still doesn't want to control the imperial court, he just wants to take advantage of it, so that we can withstand the attack of the scholar clan, it's really too smart." ”

Dong Zhuo asked: "We can't fight and fight, and we can't escape and have no place to go, are we waiting for death here?" ”

Li Ru thought to himself, if he didn't want to forge ahead, he would not be far from death, and once the champion Hou completed his control of the border prefectures and counties and formed a siege of Luoyang, they would be in a catastrophe.

According to Li Ru's plan, he threw Liangzhou to Gao Shun, hoping to let Gao Shun fall into the quagmire of the Qiang-Han War, so that the imperial court could get a chance to breathe, and then gather troops to seize Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Xuzhou, Jingzhou and Yangzhou one by one, integrate the resources of each state, and then fight against the champion Hou Gaoshun.

This already has the prototype of the two worlds, but Li Ruhao didn't realize it, and now he just wants to protect himself.

After Dong Zhuo finished getting angry, Li Ru stated his opinions to Dong Zhuo again in detail.

The situation in Liangzhou, Dong Zhuo and others are most familiar with, the Qiang people can't be killed, the imperial court is helpless about it, what can the champion Hou Neng do? If it is deeply trapped, it will not be able to go south.

It's just that what makes Dong Zhuo unwilling is that if Liangzhou is ceded to Champion Hou, then the Sanfu region, Beidi County, and Anding County must also be handed over to Champion Hou together, in this case, Luoyang will be even more dangerous.

Li Ru comforted: "Taishi doesn't need to worry too much, the champion Hou will not do anything to us in a short period of time, besides, even if the Sanfu region is handed over to the champion Hou, we can still guard Huayin, Hangu Pass and other natural dangers, and Luoyang's defense is still worry-free; More importantly, Niu Fu's army can withdraw to Luoyang, and we can concentrate our forces to take Yanzhou, Yuzhou and northern Yangzhou in one drum and then encircle Xuzhou, then the four states can go down and join Jingzhou, these five states are all rich prefectures and counties with large populations, and they will definitely be able to compete with the champion Hou. ”

Dong Zhuo was bitter in his heart, he wanted to control the court and live a stable life, but the champion Hou didn't want him to be idle, and forced him to fight with the Kwantung princes.

Li Ru seemed to see through Dong Zhuo's thoughts, and said with relief: "Don't worry, the most troublesome thing now is Yuan Shu, just send a Nanyang County Taishou to force Liu Biao in Jingzhou to fight with Yuan Shu; In addition, Tao Qian of Xuzhou can send troops to attack Yuan Shu, if he does not obey the order of the imperial court, he can let Qingzhou Mufangliang attack Xuzhou, it is estimated that Tao Qian has to obey the order of the imperial court, and we can take advantage of the situation to occupy Yanzhou and Yuzhou. ”

Dong Zhuo is not afraid of chaos, and even afraid that the chaos is too light, if it is according to Li Ru's plan, let the princes fight, it is a good policy, so Dong Zhuo agreed to Li Ru's overall plan, arranged by Li Ru, and negotiated with the trial, he is not willing to see the trial again, and be humiliated again.

Li Ru felt very perfect about his plan and confidently negotiated with the judge.

The negotiation skills of the trial match are not as good as Li Ru, but he oppresses people according to the situation, which makes Li Ru very depressed.

Li Ru said: "The character of the champion Hou is known all over the world, based on the frontier, protecting the family and defending the people, and the model of the world, Confucianism admires it, so the imperial court decided to divide Liangzhou as the defense area of the champion Hou, send troops to quell the rebellion in Liangzhou, and return the people to a stable life." ”

In this regard, the trial did not want to take it immediately, and when it came, the military division meeting decided to develop steadily for two years, and did not want to intervene too early in the Central Plains for hegemony, nor did it want to force Dong Zhuo too much, just stop the taxes in the three states.

Now Li Ru wants to exchange interests, he must not easily agree, so he said: "Haha, the imperial court looks down on my lord, now the border county is not stable, Liaodong Wuhuan is not peaceful, Yongzhou has not been fully accepted, if Liangzhou is added, I am afraid that it will not be able to do it, and Liangzhou is separated from the three auxiliary areas, how to go to quell the rebellion?" ”

Li Ru estimated that the trial was not good enough, so he said: "The Sanfu region, Anding County, and Beidi County are all assigned to the champion Hou, is this a good move?" ”

Since the other party gave up such a big benefit, and even gave up the nest, there must be a bigger plan, and the trial did not dare to accept this benefit, otherwise it would disrupt the lord's plan, so he objected: "The Qiang-Han War lasted for a hundred years, and the power of the court could not quell the rebellion, and my lord did not have such great financial resources, unless he stopped paying taxes to the court, he would not dare to take on this heavy responsibility, and it would ruin the plan of the court." ”

The judge thought to himself, if he could meet the requirements of the lord and take the Liangzhou and Sanfu regions in advance, it would be a great achievement.

Li Ru wanted to stuff Liangzhou to Gao Shun and become Gao Shun's burden; He did not dare to take it lightly, and his task was to reach an agreement with the imperial court to stop paying taxes to the imperial court.

After a long day of arguing, the two finally reached an agreement.

Liangzhou and Sanfu regions, as well as Anding County and Beidi County, all belonged to Gaoshun, and Gaoshun wanted to put down the Liangzhou rebellion.

All taxes in Yongzhou, Bingzhou, and Youzhou were used to raise soldiers for the champions; Jizhou and Qingzhou continue to pay taxes.

According to Li Ru's idea, he also hoped to use Qingzhou to contain Xuzhou, so as to suppress Xuzhou Mu Taoqian to attack Yuan Shu; Therefore, it is reasonable to argue that the imperial court must not lose control of Qingzhou in name.

Previously, as long as Taiyuan County and Shangdang County still paid taxes to the imperial court, the taxes of other counties were used as the cost of raising troops for Guangnian Hou and Champion Hou, and the situation in Youzhou was similar, so Li Ru and Dong Zhuo didn't care much about this; It's just that Dong Zhuo was very angry with the champion Hou's domineering, forcing him to give up even the nest, and he was very unwilling.

For the trial, it is not a loss to use Qingzhou's taxes to exchange so much land; As for the taxation of Qingzhou and Jizhou, we can only wait until we go back to continue to negotiate other methods with the lord, the military advisor and others.

Both sides rejoiced.