—181 A.D.——

In the first year of Guanghe, after pacifying the rebellion of Xiliang, because no one dared to guard this place of rebellion for many years, Emperor Ling according to the advice of the ten permanent servants, after consulting with the courtiers, named the local Haoqiang as the governor of the counties of Liangzhou, and named Dong Zhuo as the Liangzhou Assassin History to control the Qiang people in the northwest, and rewarded him greatly, but he was not allowed to enter Beijing without a swamp.

Dong Zhuo didn't care about this, distributed the rewards to the volunteers and rangers under his jurisdiction, and led the soldiers and generals who were still willing to follow him to Liangzhou Zhishu Wuwei to take up his post.

Achievements have long been out of office for many years, but the achievements are still in Wuwei to open a restaurant, to provide tasks for the rangers, the network is more and more extensive, Bian Zhang, Han Sui when the chaos, do not dare to be too embarrassed by it, heard that Dong Zhuo was promoted to Liangzhou Assassin History, took the initiative to repair the Assassin History, and a feast to entertain Dong Zhuojun lieutenant generals.

At the banquet, the results of the sixtieth year were talking with Dong Zhuo with a wine glass: "Creation makes people, who would have thought that the reckless young man who could sweep away more than a thousand horse thieves with only a few hundred rates is now a state assassin." ”

This is a bit unruly, but firstly, Dong Zhuo doesn't care about this, and secondly, with the age and identity of the grades, no one will be harsh.

"Haha, I was probably planning to be a county lieutenant or a county lieutenant," Dong Zhuo said with a smile: "But if I was really given such a position by Brother Ling, I would probably be cold now." ”

When Bian Zhang Han rebelled, he might still show mercy to the county commander and the county commander, but those military attachés who had soldiers in their hands, if they were either coerced into trouble, they were directly killed, at least in the census after Dong Zhuo was promoted to the assassin history, the civilian positions were basically still there, and all the military positions were empty, but this just gave him the opportunity to install his subordinates.

Although it is rumored that many military attaches have fled back to their hometowns, Dong Zhuo has no trouble recruiting them back.

"Well, the old man realized that you were not a subordinate person," the result took a sip of wine: "The old man is old, and he is ready to transfer the restaurant to Wu'er successfully, and he will have to ask Lord Assassin Shi to take care of him in the future." ”

"Hehe, that's a natural ......" Dong Zhuo also took a drink, the corners of his eyes twitched slightly, the naming level of this Cheng family has really remained unchanged for twenty years.

"Oh...... Let the old man guess that the tall and strong descendant is Lu Bu Lu Fengxian, who is known as 'unparalleled in the world'. The results did not leave, and began to taste Dong Zhuo's subordinates with a wine glass: "It looks quite powerful." ”

On the other side of the banquet, Lu Bu, who was dressed in civilian clothes, was drinking with Gao Shun, Zhang Ke, Guan Hai and Hua Xiong, Niu Fu was already drunk, and Zhang Liaozheng, who was unattended, secretly took a glass of wine and quietly sipped it, coughing from time to time, making his face red.

Dong Zhuo shook his head and said, "My half of my son only has bravery, if there is no strategist to complement me, most of this battle will suffer a big loss." ”

"Oh? Speaking of strategists, don't you have two to help you, 'looking ahead' and 'looking behind'? One of them is also an east bed? The score shifted slightly, pointing to the several scribes who were debating something in the room.

Those people seemed to be full of wealth, but many of them were just scribes who were responsible for scheduling the logistics of the army and arranging ranger missions, and if they were expected to be in charge or give advice, they couldn't.

At present, what can really come in handy is "Looking ahead" Li Ruwenyou and "Gu Hou" Jia Xu Jia Wenhe, these two seemingly complementary titles, but the causes have nothing to do with each other.

The so-called "forward-looking" means that the troops under his command do not have to think much at all, and will successfully achieve their goals by moving forward according to the instructions.

And the other one, referring to Jia Xu's enemy, anyone who is an enemy of him, must always be careful that their back road is cut off, is to "take care of the back", this is really because Jia Xu in the battle of Liangzhou, first cut off Chencang, and then cut off Jincheng, those rebels fled back to the grassland with great difficulty, only to find that even the foundation was broken, and had to surrender to Dong Zhuo and the Qiang people who favored Dong Zhuo, if it weren't for the fact that this group of aliens could not come in handy immediately, Dong Zhuo could already claim to have an army of 300,000 at this time.

"As an old man, you should know that literati are light, so the more strategists, the better, as the lord, it takes considerable decisiveness to choose one from many opinions to implement," Dong Zhuo responded: "As the master of the people, there is a big taboo called 'good strategy and no decision'." ”

"Uh-huh, Lord Man." The results took another sip of wine, and glanced at Dong Zhuo with a smile on his face, but because he didn't say anything specific, Dong Zhuo couldn't argue, just drank another glass with him.

"Ahem......" The results no longer deliberately stared at anyone, but just looked at the many civil and military generals in the banquet in general: "The old man finally asked, Zhong Ying, what do you think of 'betrayal'?" ”

"Betrayal has existed from the beginning," Dong Zhuo said as soon as he muttered, "What we have to do is not give it any chance." ”

"Huh...... Hahaha......" The result drank the wine in the cup in one gulp, and walked out with a sway: "I'm old, I'm not strong enough to drink, the next thing is to leave it to the young people, Dong Liangzhou, remember to continue to take care of our business after officially taking office?" ”

Did the old man just talk about things or did he see something? Or ......

Dong Zhuo was pondering, but saw Li Ru and Jia Xu arguing with each other about something and came to him.

"My lord," Li Ru, who was never wrong when outsiders were present, arched his hand: "This time I suddenly took charge of a state, and our army was short of manpower, so we had to promote many warriors, and they needed to be registered, but the list of Qiang warriors handed in by Wenhe could not be used. ”

"As you know, the specific names of the Qiang tribes and individuals have special meanings, and most of them can only be transliterated," Jia Xu spread his hands: "Wen You wants me to hand over a roster that conforms to the habits of the Han people, which is simply difficult for a strong man." ”

"Regarding this, Wen You, you should be more responsible," Dong Zhuo said: "There are very few Qiang names that happen to be in line with Han names, such as 'Beigong Boyu' and 'Li Wenhou', and most of them are hard-to-read names such as 'Ermarla' and 'Mogu Muha'. ”

"Okay...... The subordinates try to make those names as smooth as possible......" Li Ru frowned, saluted and prepared to retire.

"Wait," Dong Zhuo, who remembered the words about "betrayal" just now, suddenly felt that it was not appropriate to do so, so he added: "If this matter is done, Wen You's Yulu will add five hundred stones." ”

"......" Li Ru and Jia Xu looked at Dong Zhuo with the eyes that found the sun coming out of the west.

"Oh, Bong Xian also added five hundred." Dong Zhuo added.

The two strategists retired with a clear expression of "it turned out to be a distressed daughter".

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If you feel sorry for your daughter, it's just incidental.

After Dong Zhuo left the banquet in advance, he walked to the back house, thinking as he walked.

He seems to trust his relatives too much, such as Lu Bu and Li Ru, who are far superior to him in force or wisdom, can they really rely on the master-slave relationship between Weng and his son-in-law to control it? At least the emperors of the four dynasties have proved it personally, even if they are relatives, once they get in their way, they will do it mercilessly.

Farther afield, how many princesses did the Han Dynasty kiss the Xiongnu? Didn't those aliens say that they would rebel and rebel, and they would rebel if they wanted to?

So, as I said about the results, you must not give anyone a chance to betray, especially when certain plans may cause dissatisfaction among your subordinates.

Specifically, it is money and power, and give those subordinates and soldiers a reward to the level of "even if they betray, it is impossible to obtain", then, there is no such thing as betrayal, Dong Zhuo nodded in conviction.

As for the kinship, it's not that it can't be used, but it can't be based on the daughter, it should be the blood relationship that they can't cut off, that is, the "offspring" as the focus, specifically, yes, it is Lu Lingqi.

His granddaughter Dong Bai always treats her as a maid and a follower, and she must persuade the little girl to change her ways.

"Princess, that can't be eaten." "That ......" "That can't either."

Dong Zhuo had just walked in the courtyard of the house when he heard his granddaughter from stopping his granddaughter from eating indiscriminately, and it was naturally a good thing that the two girls had a good relationship, but this title ......

The last county guard who lived here had already fled when Han Sui raised his army, and this residence can be said to have been abandoned for nearly a year, and many servants and maids were cleaning up the rooms, so whatever Dong Bai found, it must not be edible—at least for ordinary people.

However, what his granddaughter can really "eat", presumably there must be a lot of former county guards who like to collect and plant all kinds of strange plants, Dong Zhuo saw Dong Bai in a pink dress and Lu Lingqi who liked black and white clothes from a distance, and was about to go to say hello to express the concern of his grandparents, but saw that they suddenly stopped looking for something to eat and stopped eating, and looked to the east together.

Dong Zhuoxun looked at it, and saw that in the far east place, there was a blazing red light and colorful clouds flickering, but because the distance was too far, he could hardly see the details.

"...... [brother] brother?"

"It seems to be a military general"

"Can you eat [cloud]?"

Dong Bai and Lu Lingqi discussed the strange scene.

Well? Dong Zhuo paused, did the two little girls say, "The emperor will fall?" ”

Although only a few words fall into the ears because of the distance, what is seen and heard in such an unclear situation is like the kind of children's rhyme that circulates for unknown reasons and is eventually proven to have a foreknowledge of the future, whether it is taken too seriously or ignored outright.

Dong Zhuo waited for a while, and the words that leaked out when the two little girls whispered formed a barely complete sentence: "[Emperor General, when the eastward journey, ten days-"

Dong Zhuo took a few steps forward in surprise to almost completely describe the "sentence" he intended to speak, wanting to hear what the "Decameron" representing him was, but as Dong Bai and Lu Lingqi's voices became clear, they could hear that it was a discussion about food, and that kind of mysterious, predictable "sentence" disappeared directly.