Li Ru is very resourceful, he knows that stability is temporary, and when Cao Cao and Lusu in Jiangbei and Qinguan in Jiangdong have the conditions for attack, he will definitely launch an attack on Jingnan without hesitation.

They are now surrounded on all sides and have nowhere to go, and there is still Liu Pan in Jingnan to make trouble, what they need is military attaches and troops who can fight well, and those literati and civil servants are useless, including the emperor, no one pays attention to it, and there is no use value.

When Li Ru was desperate, he remembered Gao Shun again, all forces, except for the scholars and local tyrants, the rest of the people, whether they were yellow turban thieves, mountain bandits, or traitors from one side, as long as they surrendered to them, they had to be reused; Should he make secret contact with him as soon as possible and leave a way out?

To take refuge in Champion Hou, you must have some decent greeting gifts to gain Champion Hou's trust.

With his mind decided, he immediately went to meet Dong Zhuo, and told Dong Zhuo about the rebellion of Jiaozhou Assassin Shi Ma Riyan against the imperial court, and pointed out the harm that must be severely punished.

Dong Zhuo was furious and immediately ordered Li Ru to behead all his family.

Li Ru stated that he wanted to behead Ma Riyan's family, but was blocked by Wang Yun and others.

Dong Zhuo was even more angry, feeling that Wang Yun and the others would have an affair with Ma Riyan, so in anger, he ordered Wang Yun to personally supervise and behead Ma Riyan's family, in this case, Wang Yun would be tightly tied to his chariot.

Li Ru's strategy was ruthless, first letting the literati kill each other, and then he finally cleaned up the mess and removed all the important ministers of the court; Letting Wang Yun behead Ma Riyan's family is only the first step in his strategy, and it is also a test of the attitude of people in the world, including Gao Shun, Zhou Fei, Feng Yong, Fang Liang and others, as well as Cao Cao, Lu Su and Qin Guan and others.

After all, Ma Riyan is a great Confucian in the world, if he beheads his family and causes the people of the world to attack, he can push Wang Yun and others out to take the blame and calm the anger of the people of the world.

Li Ru considered it very comprehensively, and at the same time immediately ordered to closely monitor the officials of the imperial court and collect evidence of the officials' rebellion.

Subsequently, a proclamation was issued on the orders of the imperial court, and the news spread everywhere, Ma Riyan rebelled against the imperial court, and his family was beheaded.

Gao Shun in Jizhou also got the news, and Xi Zhicai asked: "Lord, are we just sitting idly by?" ”

"How? How? Gao Shun asked rhetorically.

Gao Shun did not dislike Confucianism, but did not like the closed Confucianism at that time, Confucianism based on family tradition, he wanted to reorganize the Confucian materials, so that Confucianism can have a new livelihood, like other disciplines, to achieve the effect of a hundred flowers blooming and a hundred schools of thought contending.

So Gao Shun had no reaction to the beheading of Ma Riyan's family.

Fang Liang, Zhou Fei, Feng Yong, Qin Guan and others took Gao Shun's opinion as their opinion, and Lu Su and Cao Cao were in the same situation.

Shixie of Jiaozhou also learned the news that Ma Riyan's family was beheaded by the imperial court, and he was very guilty, but he did not inform Ma Riyan and remained under house arrest.

Two months later, after three months, the major forces still did not express any dissatisfied opinions, which made Li Ru feel very moved, which was tantamount to Gao Shun's acquiescence to the behavior of the imperial court, confirming his previous speculation, Gao Shun did not oppose the killing of the Yuan family, the killing of the Yang family, etc., and now there will be no opinion on the extermination of the Shi clan.

As a result, Li Ru regarded the extermination of the Shi clan as a means to deal with Gao Shun, and intensified the attack on the Shi clan and the Great Confucian.

Hu Muban, Han Rong, Yang Xun and others were killed one after another, and the prisoners were all Wang Yun; For the sake of the big plan, Wang Yun endured humiliation and carried out Dong Zhuo and Li Ru's orders, and sure enough, he won Dong Zhuo's trust, and Li Ru's attitude towards him also changed slightly.

After that, Li Ru targeted Liu Bei.

Liu Bei, as a general, has been obscure in recent years, has little contact with outsiders, and runs his manor with peace of mind, but he regards himself as an imperial uncle everywhere, and has a good reputation for benevolence among the people and ordinary people.

Lu Bu is from Bingzhou, and his personality is upright and bold, which is incompatible with Liu Bei's style.

When Li Ru found out what was wrong, he prepared to use Lu Bu's power to get rid of Liu Bei, and promised Lu Bu to divide Liu Bei's soldiers and his family property equally.

Lu Bu was overjoyed and readily agreed to Li Ru's suggestion, he had already seen Liu Bei unpleasantly.

Liu Bei is always cautious, low-key work, and low-key behavior, but he didn't expect disaster to suddenly befall him.

Lü Bu led an army of 5,000 and surrounded Liu Bei's manor outside the city.

At Xu Sheng's suggestion, break through as soon as possible.

Liu Bei was afraid of being poor, he had been poor all his life, and the family wealth that he had finally obtained was given up like this, which was very unbearable.

However, the situation forced him to flee for his life.

Under the protection of Xu Sheng and Chen Zhi, the guards desperately fought their way out of a passage and fled southwest through the back door.

Liu Bei is best at escaping and protecting himself, how can Lu Bu compare? However, after escaping from Lu Bu's encirclement, there were only Xu Sheng and Chen Zhi on his side, only Jian Yong was left among the literati, and there were less than 100 guards, and all the family funds that had been saved for more than ten years were all wiped out.

Liu Bei couldn't help crying, tears flowed sideways, crying sadly, and the guards were all moved.

At Xu Sheng's suggestion, Liu Bei stopped crying and hurried south.

Although Liu Bei escaped, Lu Bu was still very happy, at least more than a thousand prisoners were captured, and Liu Bei's family property was seized.

Li Ru was very dissatisfied in his heart, and actually let Liu Bei run away, it seems that his judgment is right, Liu Bei is by no means an ordinary person; He had no choice but to comfort himself, and if he ran, he would run, which could be regarded as getting rid of the threat around him; Lu Bu was Dong Zhuo's trusted general, and Li Ru didn't want to offend, so he still shared Liu Bei's family wealth and Liu Bei's captured soldiers with Lu Bu according to his promise.

Originally, Liu Bei wanted to take refuge in Liu Pan, have a place to settle down for the time being, and then make long-term plans; However, Jian Yong suggested that Lingling County and Guiyang County should be occupied first, these two counties are empty in defense, and in the name of their imperial uncle, they will be able to take over smoothly.

Liu Bei was overjoyed and adopted his opinion.

Now Liu Pan has retreated to Yuanling in Wuling County, relying on the power of the barbarians to fight against Dong Zhuo, which is very embarrassing; Both Hanshou City and Wuling County were occupied by Dong Zhuo.

Liu Bei fled all the way to Lingling County, at this time Lingling County had surrendered to Dong Zhuo under the blow of Zhang Xiu, but Dong Zhuo had not yet sent troops to take over, which allowed Liu Bei to seize the opportunity to kill the Taishou and Du Wei of Lingling County, and announced that he would be appointed as the Taishou of Lingling County, and take over the counties and troops in the name of the general and the emperor's uncle in the future.

Xu Sheng was ordered to be the Taishou of Guiyang County, and Chen Zhi was appointed as the Governor of Lingling County, and he held high the banner of anti-Dong, and took this as a call to recruit talented soldiers.

Liu Bei's behavior quickly won the support of the local clans and local tyrants, and those who had money and grain contributed money and grain, and some people gave people out of people, and successfully controlled the two counties, which made Liu Bei very happy.

So, while rectifying the internal and strengthening control, Liu Bei successively sent people to contact Liu Pan, Ji Ling, Sun Jian, Ma Riyan and others to jointly oppose Dong; Even Yizhou and Yangzhou sent people to publicize it, hoping to gain wider support.

The fastest to return the news were Liu Pan and Liu Du brothers, and the two said that in the future, the general Liu Bei would be the head of the horse and jointly crusade against Dong Zhuo.

This made Liu Bei very happy, and with Liu Pan's support, he had a legal status and could rightfully manage Lingling County and Guiyang County.

The consequences were so serious that Lu Bu regretted it very much, so he offered to let Wei Xu lead his troops to crusade against Liu Bei.

Li Ru was afraid that Liu Bei would become bigger and stronger, and should be exterminated as soon as possible, so he agreed to Lu Bu's application.