"Oh yes, there's one more thing for my lord to know. When Li Ru ordered me to lead the army to carry money, grain, ordnance, and burn Xicheng, he said that he would personally lead people to the palace to take away the Son of Heaven and the hundred officials of the Manchu Dynasty to wait for Dong Zhuo at the West Gate. At this time, even if Li Ru heard the news of Dong Zhuo's death passed by a little defeated army, but the Son of Heaven and Baiguan were different from the ordinary Xiliang cavalry, and their marching speed would definitely not be very fast. As long as the lord leads the army to kill in the direction of the West Gate now, the traces of the Son of Heaven and the hundred officials can be found within an hour at most! When the time comes," Yang Feng didn't say in detail about the benefits of getting the Son of Heaven and the hundred officials, but he knew that with Lu Bu's shrewdness, he would definitely be able to guess.

Lu Bu touched the stubble he had just shaved some time ago, and was silent there.

"If it's inconvenient for the eldest brother to go by himself, let me lead 10,000 iron horsemen to go, and I promise to bring back the Son of Heaven and the hundred officials!" Zhang Fei saw that Lu Bu was silent, thinking that Lu Bu was worried that doing it himself would damage his reputation. So Zhang Fei volunteered to come forward to ask for battle, but Lu Bu only shook his head gently.

"What's in the heart of the eldest brother?" Zhang Liao asked with some confusion.

"This Tianzi and Baiguan, I decided to give up." Lu Bu finally made up his mind, but Lu Bu's decision made Yang Feng, Zhang Fei and others stunned!

"But" Zhang Fei still wanted to persuade again.

"That's how it was decided for now! Yide, you and General Yang Feng led 5,000 Bingzhou Iron Cavalry to stay here, one is to prevent more than 10,000 Xiliang troops here, and the other is to ask you to guard the two major treasury mansions of money, grain, and ordnance for me. Wen Yuan, you quickly go to the east of the city and let Jia Xu and Chen Gong come to the palace in the west of the city to see me, and then send 30,000 infantry troops from the camp to clear the Xiliang rout army in the west of the city, and also send people to close all the three gates of Luoyang, east, west, north and south, and don't let anyone leave Luoyang! As for Li Ru, after they learned that our army had invaded Xicheng, they should have fled a long time ago. Lu Bu stepped on the stirrups, climbed onto the back of the red rabbit horse, and walked in the direction of the palace.

When Lu Bu brought Dian Wei, Xu Huang and others to the palace, looking at the palace maids and little eunuchs with panicked faces, he couldn't help frowning.

"A smell of pee!" Dian Wei fanned his big hands, trying to fan the fishy smell emanating from the eunuchs on both sides.

"For the time being, send these eunuchs to the side hall, and after a while, I will have them sent to Chang'an." Lu Bu waved his hand and asked the sergeant behind him to escort all the trembling old and young eunuchs to the side hall of the palace.

"Obey!" Lu Bu's personal guards stepped forward and took away all the eunuchs, leaving only the pale palace maids kneeling there.

"You all get up, after a while, I will select a group of experienced palace maids from among you and send them to Chang'an, now you can disperse for the time being, remember not to move around during this time to avoid being killed!" Lu Bu shouted with a serious face.

"Does the lord really not want to seize the Son of Heaven and the hundred officials?" Xu Huang, who was behind Lu Bu, still asked a little unwillingly.

Lu Bu smiled and said, "That Son of Heaven belongs to Dong Zhuoli, and leaving him here is just to add trouble." ”

Lu Buzheng was talking to Xu Huang, and a soldier of the pro-guard army hurriedly stepped forward to report: "My lord, Mr. Jia and Mr. Chen are here." ”

"Invite them in." Lu Bu waved his hand and motioned for the soldier to bring Jia Xu and Chen Gong in.

A moment later.

"Meet the Lord!" Jia Xu and Chen Gong chanted in unison.

"Two gentlemen, please get up." Lu Bu hurriedly helped Jia and Chen up.

"The lord came to me and the two of us, is it about Li Ru's robbery of the Son of Heaven and the hundred officials?" Jia Xu was the first to ask.

"Yes, I have made a decision on this matter, but I would like to discuss some arrangements with the two gentlemen." Lu Bu said with a smile.

"Seeing that the lord is calmly talking to the two of me here, my subordinates dare to guess, is it the lord who decided to give up the little emperor and the hundred officials who accompanied him?" A smile flashed in Chen Gong's eyes.

"Hahaha, exactly! There are three reasons why I gave up the little emperor and the accompanying hundred officials. First, that little emperor was established by Dong Zhuo after all, and we still have a better and more justified candidate in our hands than him - King Hongnong! During this time, Tian Feng wrote from there that after King Hongnong and Empress Dowager He escaped and died, not only did their power greatly decrease, but they were also grateful to us and the state army. As long as we welcome their mother and son back to the Luoyang Palace again, I believe it is definitely better than catering to the rumored and intelligent Emperor Han Xian, after all, smart people are generally unwilling to be lonely and unwilling to be controlled.

Second, Luoyang, as the Han Yanjing, has always been a mixed force here. If we want to completely control Luoyang, we must clear out a large number of local forces. But once we start to kill, we will inevitably become as vicious as Dong Zhuo, in that case, we will be besieged by all the surrounding princes, and when the time comes, our army will be struggling and unable to move an inch, and the world's elites will regard our and state troops as savages, and they will never come to join us! In this way, there is no need to mention nature, which is the difficulty of competing for the world. So after I heard that Li Ru had plundered the Son of Heaven and the hundred officials of the Manchu Dynasty, I immediately thought that this was a good opportunity to eradicate all the hostile forces in Luoyang in one fell swoop and not be criticized by the people of the world!

The most important thing is actually the first thing I thought of, our army did defeat Dong Zhuo's hundreds of thousands of Xiliang troops, and also captured at least more than 100,000 Xiliang soldiers! But it was precisely these captives that forced me and the state army to send at least nearly 100,000 sergeants to guard them in a short period of time! At this time, there are only tens of thousands of sergeants available to our army, but they need to patrol the entire Luoyang to sweep away the remnants of the Xiliang Rebellion. In addition, the number of people we can send out to fight for the Son of Heaven is only more than 20,000 at most, but according to the spies I sent outside the city, the more than 100,000 troops led by Dong Zhuo's henchmen, Li Xuan and Guo Yan, not only did not suffer any losses, but also collected at least 80,000 Xiliang defeated troops! With more than 20,000 people embracing each other, the Son of Heaven and the hundred officials were obtained from Li Xuan and Guo Yan, who had nearly 200,000 troops, even if I personally went into battle to the death, it would be absolutely impossible to succeed. Lu Bu carefully explained the three reasons why he did not pursue the Son of Heaven and the hundred officials to a few people around him. Many generals who have always been unwilling to let go of the Son of Heaven and hundreds of officials easily, after listening to Lu Bu's words, their hearts suddenly brightened.

"Can the lord think about what to do with the families of those ministers? I heard that they were looted directly by Li Ru and the Son of Heaven in the court, and all their families were left in Luoyang City. Since the lord wants to get a complete Luoyang, then these people can't stay, if the lord doesn't want to send these people to Chang'an, he will quickly send someone to light a fire in their mansion now, and then put all the responsibility on Li Ru's head afterwards, anyway, Li Ru has already robbed the Son of Heaven and hundreds of officials, and it is not impossible to set a fire again, even if there are one or two people in the world who suspect the lord, but most people will still point the finger at the Xiliang army. Jia Xu narrowed his eyes and said in an indifferent tone a poisonous plan that made everyone around him shudder.

"No! The Lord must not do this! Not to mention whether this will make the people of the world scold us and fight with the Xiliang army, causing the Yanjing of the Han dynasty in Luoyang to be burned. Even if you take 10,000 steps back, and the people of the world don't scold, how can many people in the west of Luoyang City sit back and watch the fire break out? Once the surrounding people come to put out the fire, if we stop it, we will inevitably suffer infamy, if we don't stop it, we are afraid that those fires will be extinguished by many people. Chen Gong immediately vetoed Jia Xu's strategy.

Jia Xu smiled silently, with his wisdom, it is naturally easy to use some ways to stop the people who want to put out the fire around the fire point in Luoyang, which is still in chaos, and even he has a plan to let those who originally wanted to put out the fire add firewood to the fire! But Jia Xu, who didn't like to be sharp, saw Chen Gong come out to oppose it, so he stood there quietly without saying a word. Anyway, Jia Xu, who knew something about Lu Bu, knew that if Lu Bu wanted to use his poisonous tricks, Lu Bu would not ask in front of so many people.

Lu Bu looked at Chen Gong and Jia Xu, two famous strategists who were ranked in the top of the top and even super top in the Three Kingdoms, and made suggestions for themselves here. The corners of his mouth smiled slightly: "Regarding the problems of the families of these officials, I have already thought of a way to deal with them." I will send a military force to bring these people to the West Gate in the Ming Dynasty, and all their land deeds, houses, money, food, books, and slaves must be left behind, except for some carriages, warm clothing, dry food, and inferior horses! After noon tomorrow, I will send a cavalry force of 3,000 men to escort them to the boundary of Hangu Pass. How Niu Fu will treat them is none of my business with the state army. And those mansions and slaves, I will distribute them to some meritorious soldiers after welcoming King Hongnong and Empress Dowager He, the money, grain and land deeds will be confiscated, and the books will be placed together in the Luoyang Taixue Pavilion for my father-in-law Cai Yong to be used after returning to Luoyang. In your opinion, is this arrangement appropriate? ”

Chen Gong and Jia Xu glanced at each other, and shouted in unison: "The lord is wise!" There is no objection from the subordinates. ”

On the second day, a group of well-disciplined troops armed with sharp blades and strong shields entered the mansions of hundreds of officials' families one by one. In the face of Lu Bu's order, some people agreed with the mentality that as long as their family master was there, no matter how many things would come back. In the face of the families of these cooperating officials, the sergeants of the Bingzhou Army who received Lu Bu's instructions would add some extra money to these people's luggage and let them take some slaves. And some people are used to being domineering, and in the face of the state army, they still don't know the current affairs and take out the official position of the head of their family to scary. And for these people, the soldiers of the state army used their knives and guns to tell them who is the master now!

Although there were some hiccupes, in the face of Lu Bu's expulsion order, the officials and their families who were eager to meet with their own family leaders all came to the west gate of Luoyang to gather. After boarding their carriages one by one, the three thousand iron horsemen of the Bingzhou Army began to escort these people slowly towards Hangu Pass.

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