Chapter 198, Keeping Promises

A wave of unevenness has risen again and again. At this time, in the allied army's village, Yuan Shao couldn't be calm for a moment: in just two days, several princes followed Sun Jian's example and left with their troops one after another, and he couldn't stop it, which greatly reduced his prestige as the leader of the alliance.

Now, on the third day after Sun Jian left, he wanted to gather the strength of the remaining princes and march towards the Tiger Prison Pass, but unexpectedly got news that "the reason why Sun Jian withdrew from the alliance was that he inadvertently obtained the jade seal of the country." This made Yuan Shao's face gloomy and furious.

These messages were discovered by the troops of Shanyang Taishou Yuan Yu while patrolling the woods. At that time, there were many letters in conspicuous positions on some roads in the woods, and the contents of them were written without exception: Wucheng Hou Changsha Taishou Sun Jian inadvertently obtained the jade seal of the country, God blessed Jiangdong, and went back to plot a great cause......

Who put these letters in the woods - naturally Zhang Liao and Zhao Yun were the masterpieces that Zhang Liao and Zhao Yun had arranged last night on the orders of Lu Zhan, Yuan Shao did not know, but he preferred to believe them.

What is the heirloom jade seal? He Yuan Shaohao has also been a lieutenant in the Chinese military, and he knows very clearly: the jade seal of the country is the most precious thing in the imperial court, with the meaning of passing on the country, the symbol of the orthodoxy of the dynasty, and the meaning is self-evident: the fortune of the country is tied to this person, and in the future, this person has the potential to create a country and achieve the ability of the Ninth Five-Year Plan.

At this time, there were only three people in the Chinese military tent: Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, and Yuan Yi. The three of them are related to each other, and their speech is naturally less restrained and more direct.

"Cousin, is this something credible?" Yuan Shu frowned and said, "I still suspect that Sun Jian withdrew from the alliance under the pretense of being unwell, and it seems that he probably got the jade seal of the heirloom country. ”

"What a good Sun Jian, he got a national treasure, he actually wanted to swallow it alone, and kept us all in the dark. Hehe, I wanted to do big things but came up with the bad idea of having an old illness and quitting the allies. Then I will curse you to be sick and sick. Yuan Shao clenched his hands into fists and gritted his teeth and said.

"Cousin, do you believe that Sun Jian got the jade seal of the country? How is that a plan for the present? Yuan Yi touched a handful of beard on his chin and asked.

"It's definitely not groundless. Sun Jian has the ability and ambition to withdraw from the Allied Forces for no reason, and there must be a great ulterior reason for withdrawing from the Allied Forces. Yuan Shao said.

"It's that he got the heirloom jade seal, he really took shit luck." Yuan Shu said with some jealousy, "The mysterious person who left a letter in the woods, should we check?" ”

"Investigation is to investigate, but now the main thing is to recover the heirloom jade seal from Sun Jian's hands." Yuan Shao thought.

"Besides, do you want to fight this battle today?" Yuan Yi asked.

"No more fighting." Yuan Shao raised his hand and said quickly, "I don't want the allies and the Zhuo army to lose both and cheapen Sun Jian." ”

"Since you don't fight, you have to have a reason to quit, right?" Yuan Shudao.

"Reason? Later, you will lie to the other princes that most of the grain and grass are moldy and inedible, and we will withdraw our troops in the next two days. However, before that, I can't let Sun Jian feel better. After Yuan Shao finished speaking, he immediately wrote a book, and sent his henchmen to Jingzhou overnight to send it to Liu Biao, the assassin, and teach him to recover the jade seal of the country.

After a pillar of incense, when Yuan Shu, the grain supervisor, informed the rest of the princes who had already assembled their troops and horses to attack the Tiger Prison Pass with the extremely bad news that the grain and grass were moldy, they were immediately stunned: At this juncture, why did such a major event happen? Fortunately, there was no fight, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

At this time, Yuan Shao rushed to hear the news, first "fiercely" criticized Yuan Shu, and then appeased those princes who were in a bit of a hurry, and then announced: cancel the plan to attack the Tiger Pass. scolded Dong Thief for his life, and everyone will have the opportunity to unite to crusade against Dong Thief in the future. Now let's go back to our places.

Among the princes, Cao Ying raised his eyebrows and walked out and said: "The weather is cold in winter, how can the grain and grass become moldy?" I'll take a look. If so, providence will not do it, so let everyone disperse. ”

Yuan Shu's face changed on the spot, but he didn't speak, but followed behind Cao Ying, thinking to himself: Fortunately, I have been prepared.

At this moment, I saw smoke rising from the rear of the Allied Dazhai -- the granary was on fire.

"As a grain overseer, what do you say about the highway?" Seeing that the granary was on fire, Cao Ying stopped and looked at Yuan Shudao.

"It's no wonder, it's just that I burned the moldy grain and grass, and saved people and animals from eating it, getting sick or even dying." Yuan Shu said calmly.

"Hah—good reason. I'm going to leave first, everyone. Cao Ying said, walked away without looking back, and immediately led 20,000 soldiers to embark on the way home in the scene of thick smoke.

"Lack of erection and conspiracy!" For the Yuan brothers' singing and harmony, he knew in his heart that they must have something to hide from him, looking at the black smoke rising from the sky, he couldn't help but scolded-Yuan Shao was very wrong when he ordered his brother to supervise the grain, and now the grain and grass are innocently moldy and on fire, which is even more unforgivable. But he knew that Yuan Shao would never punish Yuan Shu, because they were a "family". It's like this, it's useless to talk too much, only to leave.

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Soon after, another prince departed. In the next two days, Sanyuan also left. The Allies collapsed. After receiving Yuan Shao's letter, Liu Biao, the assassin of Jingzhou, opened it and looked at it, was startled, and hurriedly led troops to pursue Sun Jian. It's a pity that Sun Jian has returned to Changsha at this time. They returned in vain.

Lu Zhan, who was still in the Tiger Prison, only smiled slightly after receiving the spies' report that "all the allied forces had retreated", and was not complacent. On the contrary, Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun, Zhang Ji and others admired his "knowing things like gods": they really let him say it accurately, and let the allies retreat without labor.

In the afternoon, Lü Zhan rushed back to Luoyang alone and went to Situ Mansion. Now is the time for Situ Wang Yun to fulfill his promise: if you want to marry Minchan, you must first get rid of Dong Zhuo. Now that Dong Zhuo is dead, even if he doesn't marry Minchan first, he can be with her openly.

Now that the allies are crusading against Dong Zhuo, the emperor has no intention of going to the court - the power is in Dong Zhuo's hands, he says what he wants, the allies want to get rid of him, where is he still in the mood to pay attention to the government? It is to prevent the emperor from going to court.

In this way, old ministers like Wang Yun will be at home.

When Lu Zhan came to him, he was frowning and reading a book in the study: he couldn't read it when he thought about it, but he was bored if he didn't read. So I had to take the bamboo slip and think about it: How is the battle situation in the Tiger Prison Pass? Why hasn't Lu Zhan acted yet? If Dong Zhuo died, would there be a major disturbance in Luoyang City......

Hearing that the next person reported that Lu Zhan was coming, he came back to his senses, cheered up, and planned to urge him to get rid of Dong Zhuo quickly.

In the lobby, Wang Yun made tea to entertain Lu Zhan, and without saying three words, he went around to Dong Zhuo.

Lu Zhan knew that he would definitely ask this question, and when Xiaoxiao was about to speak, a figure flickered at the gate, and when he turned his head, it was Minchan and Xiaoxue Girl who came.

Seeing these two beautiful women who had a skin-to-skin relationship with him, Lu Zhan felt tenderness in his heart and got up to greet him. (To be continued.) )