Of course, Cao Ju didn't take Lai Ying'er away immediately, that would be too anxious, besides, Lai Ying'er's heart is already Cao Ju's, can she still run far?

As soon as Cao Ju left on the front foot, Ying'er went to Feng Sanniang on the back foot and told her about the agreement with Cao Ju.

Of course, Feng Sanniang was happy for Lai Ying'er, so she immediately began to prepare to put Fangze Pavilion out, and then followed Lai Ying'er to the Horse Mansion.

The war in the south has also entered a state of stalemate, Xu Rong is not the first handsome talent under Dong Zhuo, and he is definitely very good at leading the army to fight, and he stubbornly blocked Yuan Shu's 100,000 army in Liang County, south of Luoyang.

Yuan Shu attacked Liang County for a long time, and he jumped like thunder, and every day he ordered the army to forcibly attack the city, regardless of the life or death of the soldiers.

The mortality rate was almost one to five, and Yuan Shu's army had more than 6,000 casualties after attacking the city for ten days, but Xu Rong's army had more than 1,000 casualties.

Later, Sun Jian gave Yuan Shu an idea to divide half of his troops to bypass Liang County and attack Luoyang.

However, Xu Rong had long been on guard against this move, and when Yuan Shu's army had just moved, Xu Rong personally led his troops to ambush in Linru County, twenty miles east of Liang County, and successfully ambushed Yuan Shu's army, beheading 5,000 and capturing 5,000.

In this way, Yuan Shu did not dare to act rashly, and the two sides confronted each other in Liang County.

Sun Jian, to be honest, opposed Yuan Shu going north from the beginning, but he couldn't persuade Yuan Shu, he could only grind foreign workers, and he didn't contribute much, otherwise, the battle of Liangxian would definitely be more intense.

After the confrontation, Yuan Shu's mind gradually calmed down, and he regretted a little, he shouldn't have been so enthusiastic about a woman, leading to this dilemma.

Sun Jian saw that Yuan Shu regretted it, so he said to him: "Ming Gong, Dong Zhuo is powerful, with more than 300,000 soldiers who can fight well, and there are handsome talents such as Cao Ju, Xu Rong, Hu Zhen, and other tiger generals such as Lu Bu, Dian Wei, and Huang Zhong, who are not the 100,000 people of our army. ”

After Yuan Shu calmed down, he had already taken these into account, and what he was worried about now was how to break the current deadlock, so he couldn't help frowning and asked, "Does Wentai have a good plan?" ”

Sun Jian said: "Duke Ming, the princes of the Eleventh Route crusade against Dong Zhuo is the righteousness of the world, and it is not the ability of our army to go all the way. At present, our army and Dong Zhuo's army have fought bloody battles repeatedly, and the princes of the Northern Nine Roads have not moved, and only Yingchuan is to withstand Cao Ju's Eastern Expedition. Therefore, this time to attack Luoyang, the lord can send people to the north, ask the alliance leader to lead the army south, and at the same time let Kong Ling lead the army west, so that the three roads are concurrent, it is possible to go down to Luoyang in a battle, kill Dong thief, and save the emperor from fire and water. ”

Yuan Shu is a concubine, Yuan Shao is a concubine, but because he was passed to Yuan Cheng, he also became a concubine, under Yuan's legacy, but above his Yuan Shu.

Therefore, Yuan Shu was very unconvinced, a lowly person from a concubine was actually above him. In addition, Yuan Shao is better than him in terms of appearance, ability, and handling of things, which makes Yuan Shu very jealous and dissatisfied with Yuan Shao.

This time, the Kwantung Righteous Army Alliance, headed by the fourth and third dukes of the Yuan family, should have been his Yuan Shu, but almost all the princes elected Yuan Shao, so Yuan Shu was very angry, and he did not lead troops north to meet the alliance, which meant not to recognize Yuan Shao as the leader of the alliance.

Now let Yuan Shu beg Yuan Shao to send troops, if it weren't for Sun Jianxian's strategy, he would have been kicked out by others a long time ago.

Sun Jian couldn't know more about Yuan Shu, and seeing that his face was uncertain, he continued: "Duke Ming, how should Duke Ming care about Dong Zhuo and the loss of soldiers and generals?" ”

Yuan Shu loved to hear this, his eyes lit up, he nodded, stroked the beard under his chin with his hand, squinted his eyes, and said with a smile: "Wentai's words are very true, Shu will write a letter to Yuan Shao, and order him to send troops." ”

"Order?" When Sun Jian heard this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, and secretly thought, compared to Yuan Shao now, you can't compare to anything, how stupid it is to order him to send troops.

However, Sun Jian really didn't bother to persuade him, and estimated that no matter how Yuan Shu's letter would be written, Yuan Shao would not let other princes see it, and he would definitely send troops.

However, it was said that Yuan Shu's army was blocked by Xu Rong in Liang County, and Dong Zhuo was of course extremely happy and praised Xu Rong.

At the same time, Yuan Shao and other princes of the Sour Jujube Alliance have been sour jujubes and have not moved, coupled with Cao Ju's great victory in the Eastern Expedition, Dong Zhuo became a little proud, and gradually did not take the Kwantung princes in his eyes.

The palace maids in the palace have suffered more and more from Dong Zhuo's claws, and many of the concubines of the Spirit Emperor have been slept with by Dong Zhuo.

Originally, after getting Diao Chan, Dong Zhuo's mind was only on Diao Chan. However, Diao Chan was unwilling to accompany this annoying guy every day, deliberately fanned the flames, and pushed Dong Zhuo into the palace, which not only made Diao Chan breathe a sigh of relief, but also made Dong Zhuo bear the charge of defiling the palace all the time, killing two birds with one stone.

Emperor Xian is young, not yet the age of a concubine, so almost all the women in the palace are Dong Zhuo alone. As long as he goes in, it is like a wolf entering the sheepfold, as long as he sees it, he can do whatever he wants.

As for those palace maids, there are many who avoid Dong Zhuo, but there are also many who hope to be favored by Dong Zhuo. And the latter is also divided into two kinds, hoping to seduce Dong Zhuo, get rid of the boredom of the palace, enter the Xiangguo Mansion, and obtain considerable rights and a free life far higher than the palace.

There is another one, because it is too lonely, and I hope to have a man, but in the palace, except for the young emperor, there are only incomplete eunuchs.

However, Dong Zhuo crisscrossed the palace, and there were countless royal maids, but there was one place where he would not go, and there was one woman he would not go, that is, the Empress Dowager He in Yongle Palace.

After being taught a lesson by Cao Ju, Empress Dowager He had already thought about it completely, no longer complained about anything, and her life was quite comfortable.

Since getting the news of Cao Ju's triumphant return, Empress Dowager He has an extra expectation and question in her heart, will Cao Ju come to visit her in Yongle Palace.

Several times, when Liu Mu came to visit her, Empress Dowager He wanted to ask Liu Mu to bring a message to Cao Ju, hoping that Cao Ju could come and visit her.

However, several times, when these words came to her lips, Empress Dowager He couldn't say it, she really couldn't say it, after saying it, it was equivalent to her being like Liu Mu robbing a man.

On this day, Empress Dowager He was basking in the sun in the courtyard, lazy, and almost asleep, when she suddenly heard the two palace maids who were serving her suddenly shouting together: "The slave maid has seen the horse." ”

Bridegroom?

Empress Dowager He immediately fell asleep, opened her eyes, and looked in the direction of the gate of Yongle Palace, and sure enough, it was Cao Ju walking towards her.