Chapter XXXVIII

Dong Zhuo got Lu Bu and was busy discussing with Li Ru about becoming emperor. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Li Ru said: "Your Majesty, now our army is short of talents, General Guo Yan was killed in battle the previous time, and General Fan Chou was also cut down by you, and now it will be no more than Li Dao Zhang Ji Lu Bu is high, it is really a bit ......"

Dong Zhuo frowned and agreed: "Yes, there are many soldiers in our army now, all of them are brave and brave, but there are very few good generals, I don't know what good strategies Aiqing has to help me recruit talents?" ”

Li Ru cardinally stroked a small handful of beard and smiled: "Your Majesty, after our army settles down, Weichen thinks that Your Majesty can widely distribute recruitment stickers, although it is difficult for us to set foot in the Central Plains, but there must be a lot of talents in the vast Yongliang land, as long as you dig hard, our army will definitely be full of talents in the future!" ”

Dong Zhuo stretched his brows when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Okay! According to what Aiqing said, widely spread the recruitment stickers! ”

Li Ru stepped forward to salute: "Your Majesty, if there is nothing else, the minister will retire first." ”

Just as he was about to go out, Dong Zhuo suddenly shouted, "Slow! ”

Li Ru stopped suddenly, turned his head and said, "Your Majesty, what's the matter?" ”

Dong Zhuo beckoned: "Aiqing come here." ”

Li Ru walked over with a puzzled face, and Dong Zhuo said: "How can we explain the matter of our family being the emperor to everyone?" ”

Li Ru slapped his forehead: "It's Weichen's negligence, and he actually forgot such a big thing!" ”

He paced and thought about countermeasures, and after a while, he arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, Fan Chou, Zhang Ji and others are all your cronies, and they will definitely support it, mainly because those former ministers of the imperial court and officials of Xiliang are uncertain. ”

Seeing Dong Zhuo's embarrassed face, Li Ru continued: "But Your Majesty doesn't have to worry, Xiliang is not a problem, as for the old ministers in the court, the ministers have their own ways to deal with it!" ”

Dong Zhuo was overjoyed when he heard it: "Aiqing speak quickly!" ”

"Most of the old ministers of the imperial court are some powerless civil officials, although they are loyal to the Han court, but if today's son is in the hands of Xu Qi, and our army is far away in Chang'an, even they are helpless, Your Majesty can give a strict order, if any minister dares to oppose you as emperor, you can punish its nine clans, kill chickens and monkeys, and coerce them to be loyal to you; If there are dismissals, they will be registered and given house arrest; If you want to go south or east after the dismissal, Your Majesty can instruct the guards of Wuguan and Tongguan to prevent them from passing. ”

Dong Zhuo narrowed his eyes with a smile: "Hahaha, what Wen Wei said is very good, very good!" So what about the Xiliang officials? ”

Li Ru smiled: "Xiliang is a remote and desolate place, and most of the people who serve there are degraded, so their sincerity towards the Han Dynasty is not as good as those old ministers of the Han Dynasty. ”

"Hahaha! Great, good! Wen worried, pass the order, and tomorrow the whole army will leave for Chang'an! ”

Li Ru smiled extraordinarily brightly: "Weichen obeys the order!" With that, he left the room and went about himself.

Dong Zhuoli straightened his clothes, looked at the bronze mirror, and laughed proudly: "Look at our family's wealth, if our family is not the emperor, who can be the emperor?" After saying that, he patted his clothes and walked to the boudoir where the concubine was placed with a lewd smile on his face.

Since Luoyang said goodbye that day, he left Xu Jue and Cao Cao successively, and not long after he returned, Gongsun Zhan also withdrew to Beiping under the suggestion of Liu Bei to find another opportunity; Ma Teng saw that it was difficult to do anything to fight Dong, and also led the troops back to Xiliang; Coupled with Sun Jian, who left angrily before, although there are still fourteen roads left among the princes of the Nineteenth Road, there are no elite soldiers among the remaining people, and the combat effectiveness is a big difference.

In the Allied camp, Yuan Shao has been frowning, pacing back and forth, while Yuan Shu has raised Erlang's legs and crossed his fingers, looking like he doesn't care about a few things; The rest of the princes such as Wang Kuang, Bao Xin, Liu Dai and others were also expressionless and did not know their respective attitudes; Only Tao Qian Kong Rong looked sad and lamented.

After a long time, Yuan Shaocai stopped pacing and asked the princes: "Now that the Dong thief has retreated to Chang'an, there is Wuguan in the south, and Tongguan in the east, and we are short of soldiers and horses, and there is not enough food and grass, Boyu is guarding Bishui Pass, and Wentai Mengde and others have also left, what should we do?" ”

Tao Qian, who was over sixty years old, opened his mouth and said: "Lord Yuan, according to the old man's opinion, we should take advantage of the fact that Dong Thief's foothold is not stable, quickly pursue and rescue the Han Emperor." ”

Yuan Shu snorted coldly: "Pursuit? Didn't you hear that Cao Apu was ambushed because of the pursuit and almost died in the Horse Valley? ”

Tao Qian looked at Yuan Shu, who was hanging his son, speechless for a while, shook his head and sighed, and said no more.

"What the highway says is extremely true, although the Xiliang army has an unstable foothold, but the iron cavalry is invincible in the world, and there are ghosts and gods like Lu Bu, as well as Li Ru's ghost scheme, and our vanguard has left the alliance, how can we pursue these horses, if we run all the way to the past, I am afraid that we will follow in the footsteps of Meng De." Yuan Shao nodded at Yuan Shu's words and agreed.

Seeing that everyone was speechless for a while, Yuan Shao frankly admitted what he thought in his heart: "Everyone, I mean that since the war, we have successively broken through the water and the tiger prison, and now we have won Luoyang, and the Dong thief has retreated to Chang'an, and our army has no pioneer generals, so we might as well return to our own stations and discuss the next step." ”

Tao Qian sighed when he heard this, and the rest of the people talked about it and chattered non-stop.

Kong Rong sighed: "It's just that Emperor Han is going to suffer in that desolate place." ”

Yuan Shao listened and said: "Even so, we can't do anything!" ”

Kong Rong sighed again, brushed his sleeves and retreated.

Yuan Shao looked at the rest of the princes, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Do you have any objections?" ”

The princes were suddenly silent, only Yuan Shu laughed insolently: "Lord Yuan, I agree with the retreat, and now it is difficult for me to do anything great to beg the thief, so let's disperse." Before Yuan Shao could express his position, Yuan Shu burst out laughing and disappeared.

Yuan Shao looked at the other ten people in the account, and said loudly: "Since this is the case, we will disperse separately!" With that, he waved his hand and walked out of the tent.

The remaining ten people looked at each other, some smiled bitterly, and some also left the camp, and in short, they finally broke up unhappily, and each of them reorganized his troops and horses, and retreated to his own territory.

On the way out, Yuan Shu met Qiao Mao, the Taishou of Dongjun, and saw that he only had a little soldiers and horses, but he was escorting so much grain and grass, so he suddenly felt evil, slapped his horse and accosted him, and said: "It turned out to be Qiao Taishou, there is a reluctant request below, and I hope Your Excellency can agree." ”

Qiao Mao didn't have any skills, nor did he have any scheming, he was originally the assassin of Yanzhou, but later because of Liu Dai's slanderous accusations, he was demoted to the Taishou of Dongjun, and he didn't know it.

Qiao Mao knew Yuan Shu's character, and asked cautiously, "I don't know what Yuan Taishou wants?" ”

Yuan Shu sneered: "There is no food in the lower army, so I borrow food from Your Excellency." ”

Qiao Mao thought for a while and said, "How much grain and grass does Yuan Taishou want to borrow?" ”

Yuan Shu stretched out his five fingers: "Fifty thousand stones!" ”

Qiao Mao was taken aback when he heard this, and a cold sweat broke out: "There is not much grain and grass in the lower army, and this time to ask Dong Nai is almost pouring out, if Yuan Taishou wants to borrow 50,000 stones, we and other sergeants will have no food to eat." ”

Yuan Shu's face turned cold: "Then Your Excellency means not to borrow?" ”

Qiao Mao hesitated for a long time, and before he could speak, Yuan Shu suddenly shouted: "Rob me!" ”

Behind Ji Ling, Le jumped out of the horse and waved his army to kill Qiao Mao's army, Qiao Mao's subordinate general Zang Tao was furious, brandishing a big knife and rushing over, but as soon as he was closed, he was cut off the horse by Ji Ling.

Qiao Mao saw that his subordinates were about to be killed in seconds, and tried to turn the horse back, but he didn't want to be caught off guard in a panic, so he was picked by Le and fell off his horse and died.

The rest of the soldiers saw that the main general was dead, and surrendered one after another, Yuan Shubing snatched Qiao Mao's grain and grass bloodlessly, incorporated the surrendered soldiers, and obtained more than 70,000 stone grain and grass, and the number of soldiers also increased from 23,000 to 26,000, which was really a lot of money.

Yuan Shu laughed proudly, waved his hand, and led his subordinates to Nanyang.

The rest of the princes also returned to their own territory, planning for the next step, regardless of the Son of Heaven who was still in the hands of Dong Zhuo. Of course, they didn't know that the Son of Heaven was in Xu Jue's hands, otherwise they would have done everything possible to attack Xu Jue.

With the departure of the princes and the dissolution of the Dong Alliance, the term "Dong Dong" became a thing of the past.

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