The armband of the Discipline Inspection Commissioner, with a pitch-black leather uniform and a black military cap, Xun Yan was deeply moved by this dress that did not look like a Wenchen, but it was not suitable for an attack. Sitting in the office of the headquarters of the "Discipline Discipline Commissioner" is like sitting in a cold palace. At this moment, Xun Yan really has a kind of concubine who was beaten into the cold palace by the emperor, and the emperor is Su Trun, so the queen is Guo Xing.

Xun Yan fell out of favor, but he still retained an official position. The work of the "Discipline Commissioner" was not so troublesome, but he lost the opportunity to meet directly with Sutrun. He sat and pondered, and the dim yellow candle flame could not illuminate the dark corners of the room, let alone penetrate the gloom in his heart. In his mind, the fragments of memory are pieced together in loneliness, unable to forget, and the memory is vague, like the shadow of a past life in a dream.

Close your eyes and detach yourself from the space of reality. Xun Yanmeng returned to the past, the cloudy sky announced the message of falling rain, a desolate and dead ruins of the town, traces of fire everywhere, the air was filled with the smell of Mars, the charred ground, the houses burned to sawdust, the messy street market, stepping through the neat and strict army, the soldiers were expressionless, and the blades were stained with blood. The big banner of the word "Cao" fluttering in the wind was erected in this lifeless city, and Xun Yan couldn't control himself, he just watched the man who looked exactly like himself as a bystander, and walked silently behind "that person" with his head down.

The long-bearded man in the red robe had a cold and arrogant face, and his figure was not tall, but the domineering spirit of the king was exposed layer by layer. He spoke behind the overlord, his tone full of coldness, coldness, and a slight melancholy.

"Lord...... Why do you want to do this? Why?" The tone of questioning seemed to be condensed by frost, and he was afraid of domineering coercion, and he didn't dare to raise his voice, "Why do you still want to slaughter the city? Aren't the people of Wancheng the people of the Han Dynasty? The lord is the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, and he raised troops to rebel against the Son of Heaven, so why would he do such a cruel and intolerable thing?"

"Wen Ruo, are you questioning my determination again? What reason do you need for the strong to bully the weak and foolish, and to vent their personal anger with slaughter? Why can't you be as knowledgeable as Feng Xiao?" The overlord didn't even look at him straightly, and he was not interested in his words at all.

The corpses all over the ground are the traces of killing, and sin will not be hidden with a fire. The piles of human heads were shocking, and there were no living creatures left in the city. The overlord disagreed, chuckling, and a hint of horror appeared. The king didn't want to care about the lives of the ants, and it was not the first time he had done something cruel. When killing becomes a habit, no one can make them put down their butcher knives.

"Lord...... Last time, there was still a justifiable excuse for slaughtering the city in Xuzhou, but what about this time? Only those who win the hearts of the people can win the world, and if the lord wants to support the Han family, he can't do this kind of thing again...... You are the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, not the king of the Han Dynasty!"

"Isn't it, what does it have to do with you? I'm slaughtering the city, what do you want?" the overlord glared back at him angrily, staring at him coldly, "I'm a tyrant......?" hum I don't care about this kind of thing...... Since this place has been conquered by me, it is my freedom to do whatever I want to do with it. You scholars, you all day long know that you are pretentious, and I'm fed up......"

"My lord......" He was speechless for a while, and his mind was disheveled. He prides himself on being a "righteous man and gentleman", and sometimes he is indeed a little higher, but he can distinguish right from wrong no matter what, and he must not agree with the evil act of depriving thousands of innocent people. In any case, the "slaughter of the city" is an unforgivable sin, and the lord he approves of should not be an executioner who regards the slaughter of the city and the people as child's play.

"Wen Ruo......" The overlord suddenly turned pale, his eyes flashed with divine light, he looked directly at him, and there was a hint of suspicion in his tone, "You are my Zhang Liang, my right-hand man, but I want to understand...... Are you really faithful to me?"

"I ......" he understood that the lord was suspicious, and he would never dare to support me, so he said, "The lord is a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, and I am naturally loyal to the lord." ”

"Oh, a loyal servant of the Great Han?" the overlord smiled, "It seems that you are much more pedantic than I expected...... What if one day I'm not a loyal minister?"

"This ...... No...... In his early years, the lord assassinated Dong thief alone, which shows that he is brave and loyal......"

"How long are you going to deceive yourself! I'm afraid you don't even believe in this kind of lie, right?" the overlord first looked up to the sky and laughed, "Hahaha...... Wen Ruo, Wen Ruo, are you just as clear as this muddy sky? People will change, because people themselves are containers that carry desires and ambitions, and once ambitions swell, they will be like flooded rivers, don't you understand? In this world, is it the emperor who laid it, or did I Cao someone lay it? If I want to work tirelessly to help the Liu family do day work and clean up the broken mountains and rivers, although it can go down in history, it is impossible for me to draw it. ”

The person in front of him is not a mortal, he is a person who adheres to "pragmatism", he never knows how to do good deeds and accumulate virtue and cultivate the next life, just to satisfy his dissatisfaction with his ambitions and fight in the north and south, in the eyes of the hegemon, even the emperor is just a pawn for him.

"Lord...... I...... I don't know which to follow...... But I ......" He didn't say any more, but sighed softly, and he knew that it would be useless to go on. It was he who raised the demon called "ambition" in the lord's heart, and that demon would slowly accumulate and become stronger as his own strength grew, and in the end, no one could resist it.

If the subordinates are stronger than the Lord, then the subordinates will not be able to be controlled by the Lord for a long time, and this kind of truth does not need to be taught by others. The monarch who is bright and weak wants to control the ministers of Eagle Yang is tantamount to a fool's dream. Nowadays, how many people only have rice in the bowl and clothes on their bodies in their eyes, do they have a big man in their hearts? Since they are all ruled ants, who of them cares which surname they are ruled by? After thinking about life countless times, do those scholars and doctors who strive for power and profit really represent "justice"?

But...... His principle of being a man is to be above board, and he cannot be in the same stream, and he must not ...... If the lord is a hero for a day, then he will also be a loyal servant for a day, but if the lord's heart is completely devoured by the devil and becomes a traitor who usurps and eats blood, then he should disappear from the lord's side, disappear forever...... One day in the future, a tragedy will definitely happen, and the value of his existence is only to help the devil kill the Li people and help the traitors to pervert, then he would rather not exist himself......

The world that gradually blurs turns into a new chapter, just like watching a movie, but it is immersive. That person, his life, has lived too tired and hard, because he adheres to too many principles and too many dogmas, but he has no regrets.

"Mr. Xun is too unwise, who is the prime minister? Once the power in his hands reaches the extreme, who can continue to be stable? If he doesn't take it now, others will take it first, the Han Dynasty has gone through 400 years, as today's fate goes, it is a great rebellion not to usurp. ”

It was the man who was drinking face to face with him, and now he was full of vicissitudes, and the person sitting opposite him looked very young, and it was that young man whose aura overwhelmed him, the "elder".

"I know everything. He sighed, lamenting desolation, cloudy wine, painful and unspeakable, "Power will devour people's hearts, I know that the Han family can no longer be revived, but why am I so stupid? I just pinned my hope on a demon...... I can't ask him how, and I'm not qualified...... I've long since taken a back seat, and in my place, it's a young man like you, and I'm old...... I'm no longer the prime minister's 'my son', I'm just an old stubborn who doesn't know the number of days......"

Ambition intensifies with the growth of power, and when power is in hand, you can't help yourself, and there are some things that you don't want if you want or not. I thought I could follow that person and help the Han family together, but I was really naïve and stupid at that time. Once upon a time, the lord no longer believed in morality, only in the power firmly held in his hands, but this is the irresistible reality, what can he do?

"If you knew today, why bother in the first place? The greater the power, the darker the heart, but the human heart is not white, it just doesn't have the strength to blacken. With strength, it is natural to do what you once dared not do, which is the essence of human beings. "The young man's eyes are bright, penetrating people's hearts, as if they are aware of the heavens, which seems unfathomable, and even has an eerie and terrible smell emanating from it.

"But if he doesn't do it, who else can do it? After pacifying the world, it will inevitably lead to a change of dynasty, I know that my idea is too naïve, but I don't regret that I was naïve. His helplessness was expressed in the drinking room.

"Then Mr. Xun, why didn't you follow Uncle Liu Huang, who was benevolent and loved the people, instead of following the treacherous and ferocious Prime Minister Cao Cheng?"

"Don't mention it...... That big-eared thief is not a good thing! Do you think he is a righteous man and a gentleman? Do you think he really wants to help the community? Although he is better than the devil who slaughters the city and loves to kill, he is only 50 steps and 100 steps. He was suddenly excited, acting very disdainful, but he couldn't help but care about something, "Besides...... When I persuaded the prime minister to kill him, I was more active than anyone else, but that Guo Fengxiao tried his best to dissuade him. At that time, I just saw through that this person had great ambitions, and sooner or later he would divide one side and endanger the imperial court, but where is the current Han court? The previous insistence was only exchanged for three traitors to control three puppet regimes that were out of the emperor's control, but ...... the word 'traitor', in the troubled times, is it still convincing?"

"Mr. Xun's heart is very conflicted. The young man was very relaxed, listening to him like an outsider, "You know that your ideals are impossible to realize, but you still refuse to face the reality." I know what reality is and what providence is, but I can't convince myself to accept it. You can't even defeat yourself, you can't free yourself from the sea of suffering you have created, what kind of wise man are you?

"Then do you mean that you want to work with Hua Xin and others to help Cao Wei abuse and help him plot to usurp the throne......? I misread you......"

"When did you miss it? It's just that you're just deceiving yourself. It's not that you don't know the destiny of heaven, but you don't dare to accept it, that's all. The young man smiled, "Only with strength can we win the world, didn't Liu Bang and Xiang Yu also take the country of Yingzheng? Why does the lord of the world have to be surnamed Liu? Besides, does this Han family still need to usurp it? The country of the Han Dynasty has long ceased to exist!"

"yes...... There is no more......" He seemed to be stupid, his eyes glazed over, as if he was still living in illusion, and did not dare to accept the real reality. Reality is cruel, but if you don't accept it, you can only be pushed to death by the torrent of reality.

"Well...... I, Sima Yi, have always regarded Mr. Xun as a teacher, for individuals, there is no benefit at all in usurping the Han, rather than usurping the Han, it is better to eat up Cao Wei from the inside little by little. The young man sneered, with a sinister look on his face, "Mr. Xun, I can assure you here that I will definitely let these demons who slaughter the city and harm the people, and the traitors who plot to usurp the throne not die well! Even if the Han Dynasty does not exist, I will definitely let the Cao thieves suffer retribution." I can't protect the Han family, but I'll at least do what I can...... Trust me......"

"But...... I can't see this day......" sighed longly, and he didn't want to know if the young man's promise could be fulfilled, and his gaze stayed on the empty box of food sent by the "lord" in the corner of the room...... He knew that his value had long been emptied, and that he had no need to exist...... In the end, his ideals are no match for the Mandate of Heaven, his loyalty is only exchanged for the calamity from the Mandate of Heaven, and his enthusiasm is only married to the ambition of the devil, he deserves to die......