Zhuang Shaoyou returned to the house to handle official business, and not long after, he received several urgent summons from the intelligence department.

The first is that Wu Liang has returned to Puyang from Yuzhou, and this time the plan to arrest people has little effect! It is also accompanied by a detailed report by Wu Liang, although the land of Yingchuan is virtuous, it has already been scattered during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and some of the people on the list are still minors, just a few years old, and they are not useful at all. Zhuang Shaoyou couldn't cry or laugh after seeing it, this matter seemed a bit self-defeating.

However, it was not without gain, when Nanyang was looking for news, Wu Liang still found a famous general, Huang Zhong!

Huang Zhong, a native of Nanyang, was originally a hunter in the mountains, by chance was discovered and appreciated by Qin Jie, the Taishou of Nanyang, and promoted him to a captain, participated in the crusade against the Yellow Turban Army, and later Qin Jie was killed by the Jiangxia thief Zhao Ci, Huang Zhong avenged Qin Jie alone, lurked and tracked for a month, and finally found an opportunity to shoot Zhao Ci, and then was chased and killed by Zhao Ci's subordinates, seriously injured and escaped, and lived in seclusion in the mountains.

When he returned to Nanyang after recovering from his injuries, Huang Zhong was removed from the army, and later returned to the army as a 100-degree commander. Half a year ago, Hu Ben Zhonglang defeated Yuan Shu in Luoyang to Zhuang Shaoyou, and was demoted to Nanyang Taishou by Emperor Liu Hong, Huang Zhong was squeezed out by Yuan Shu's subordinates because of his strong personality, and left the army angrily, returning to the mountains to resume his old business.

When Wu Liang arrived in Nanyang, he accidentally heard the name of Huang Zhong, looked through the list, and found that this person was ranked extremely high, obviously a person who was highly valued by the general, so he recruited Huang Zhong with a lot of courtesy.

In addition, seven talented people were recruited from Nanyang, Zhuang Shaoyou's eyes lit up, although six of them had never heard of it, but one of them was Wenpin!

Zhuang Shaoyou was overjoyed and won two generals, and they were both loyal and righteous people! It's a blessing to be able to recruit when they're in the opposition, and once they've chosen their master, it's even harder to win them over!

The first is great news, although Wu Liang said in the report that he was very ashamed, but Zhuang Shaoyou was not impressed, and lost the mulberry in the east corner! Yingchuan's virtuous ability already has Xun Yu and Xun You's uncle and nephew here, and the rest of the people are not in a hurry! Now the army is in urgent need of talents, Huang Zhong is a super fierce general, a sharpshooter, and he may be a little inferior in commanding troops, but it doesn't hurt! And Wenpin should be a type of talent with Lejin, Yunwen Yunwu! This kind of person is actually the most suitable for commanding troops!

Zhuang Shaoyou immediately asked Cai Yan to ghostwrite, and directly appointed Huang Zhong as the deputy commander of the First Infantry Division, with the rank of colonel; Wen was hired as the deputy commander of the Second Infantry Division, with the rank of colonel, and the post of temporary commander! With these two people, Lejin's pressure will be greatly reduced, and he will be able to better handle the affairs of the Ministry of Military Affairs. At the same time, Zhou Tai was also appointed as the captain of Zhuang Shaoyou's ship, with the rank of major, and was under the command of the first brigade of the naval division.

After receiving several famous generals in a row, Zhuang Shaoyou was in a good mood, and his mind began to be lively again, should he send someone to get Zhao Yun here? But that's on Yuan Shao's territory, it's really not easy to do! Zhuang Shaoyou strengthened patrols on the south bank of the Yellow River, and Yuan Shao was not to be outdone, and sent people to strengthen vigilance on the north bank, and the patrol intensity was greater than Zhuang Shaoyou's, because Zhuang Shaoyou's sailor division was strong, and it was not a problem to cross the Yellow River forcefully!

If you think about it carefully, there are indeed not many generals who can lead troops and fight very well, and there are only a few who can be counted, and they basically already have masters, what a pity!

Look at the second piece of news, the price of grain in Luoyang exceeded 3,000 yuan! The people have been emptied of their families during the summer floods, and now the price of food is soaring, and there is no momentum to stop, 3,000 yuan a day, which is an astronomical amount for ordinary people! This is still a year ago, and when there is a spring famine in the next year, no one will be killed?

As a result, the people of Luoyang and Sili were angry again, and they jointly petitioned one after another, asking the imperial court to open a warehouse and release grain to stabilize grain prices! But He Lian and Dong Zhuo didn't pay attention to it at all, Dong Zhuo didn't have time to deal with it, the large number of troops who came from Xiliang last time were about to eat Dong Zhuo poor! I bought 300,000 grains from Zhuang Shaoyou before, and I thought it was enough, so there was no limit, and everyone ate with an open stomach, but now the number of people who eat is constantly increasing, and it has grown to 70,000, and the Xiliang soldiers are also strong and have pros and cons, and they are brave in battle, and they can eat a lot! There are also more than 10,000 war horses with enough feed to give people a headache! It's not going to be a good winter! I can't take care of it myself, how can I care about the life and death of those people?

Like the people of Luoyang, Dong Zhuo also began to look forward to Zhuang Shaoyou's return to the dynasty, but Dong Zhuo knew that this was impossible! However, Dong Zhuo still sent people to buy grain everywhere, although the price was not low, but it was much lower than the market price, but relying on the prestige of the Taishi to forcibly buy, the major grain merchants in Luoyang were also in danger, and they were busy hiding the grain, and even smuggling it out of Luoyang.

Lu Bu's merger state army and the newly recruited 20,000 Janissaries were not having a good time, they were in a hurry to empty and replenish their strength, and they were too ruthless at once, but now such a big mess of people, not only did they not come in handy, but they also ate Lu Bu as pants when they were fed by horses, and finally understood, this is not a family that does not know the price of firewood and rice, this is true!

So, Lu Bu thought of a way to send his subordinates out to perform official duties, called suppressing bandits, which was actually a robbery! And Dong Zhuo also learned the same way when he saw this, at first the two sides only sent cavalry out, but later even the infantry was sent out, and the 100,000 army was full of robberies, and there were ghosts if nothing happened!

The people of Sili were angry and organized to resist the tyranny, but they suffered a joint attack from Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu, suffered heavy casualties, and fled in all directions, and Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu were also out of control, at first they were just grabbing food, and later they directly slaughtered the village in blood, raped and plundered! And the scope of the spread is getting wider and wider, from the vicinity of Luoyang, all the way to the entire Sili, the northern part of Yuzhou, the western part of Yanzhou, Yongzhou Jingzhao and other areas have all been ravaged by Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu's army.

The people were panicked and fled for refuge, and the place within a radius of thousands of miles was desolate, with ten rooms and nine emptiness, which was not a lie! And the atrocities of Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu also caused unanimous dissatisfaction from all over Luoyang, and countless civil and military generals wrote to criticize, but Lu Bu and Dong Zhuo and the Empress Dowager He Lian ignored them, and once someone made a fuss, they pulled them out and cut them down.

As a result, the hundred officials of Luoyang City also began to miss Zhuang Shaoyou, although Zhuang Shaoyou was also chaotic when he was there, and there were often fires, but the basic order was still there, but now it is good, two foreign domains, one Xiliang Dong Zhuo, and one and Lu Bu, the capital of the Han Dynasty will be in a miasma, and everyone is in danger!

Many powerful ministers in Luoyang moved their families away from Luoyang to avoid being looted by Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu, including the former Taiwei Cao Song. Seeing this, many large businessmen in Luoyang also fled from Luoyang one after another, bribing the gatekeepers overnight and fleeing at night. Seeing that the situation was not good, Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu ordered the city gate to be blocked, and they were only allowed to enter but not leave! In particular, it is forbidden to leave Luoyang with family wealth!

Zi said: There are policies at the top, and there are countermeasures at the bottom.

Zi said again: Money can make ghosts grind!

The wealthy merchants directly abandoned their family property, carried only the most valuable goods and their closest relatives, contacted the low-level generals and ordinary soldiers on duty, and fled out of the city overnight. And the big houses close to the city walls arranged for people to dig tunnels around the clock!

The slogan is: dig a way to live!

It has only been two months since Zhuang Shaoyou left, and Luoyang was already on the verge of collapse, but the three most powerful people in the city, the Empress Dowager He Lian, the Taishi Dong Zhuo, and the Weiwei Lu Bu, turned a blind eye to this and still went their own way.

No way, I have to eat too! Since it is clear that there are many people and there is little food, if you don't eat, you will starve to death, and whoever eats will live!

Then, you still die, I live!

On September 29, a sensational event occurred in Luoyang.

Cao Cao attempted to assassinate Dong Zhuo and ran away overnight!

For a time, Cao Cao, who has always been an inconspicuous official, entered people's field of vision, and when he saw everyone opposing Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao was brazenly close to Dong Zhuo, and was appreciated and promoted by Dong Zhuo, all the way up, who would have thought that this person was actually a committed thief, and the plot was not small! This person is scheming, and it doesn't seem to be a simple character!

After reading this news, Zhuang Shaoyou smiled slightly, Cao Cao? Of course, a character, more famous than most emperors in history!

However, Cao Cao's assassination of Dong Zhuo remains to be considered, did he really assassinate Dong Zhuo? Not necessarily, right? Dong Zhuo was in the palace all day long, and he was heavily guarded, how could he let Cao Cao assassinate? And Cao Cao is short in stature, and it is absolutely impossible to be Dong Zhuo's opponent, one of them. Second, if Cao Cao went in to assassinate Dong Zhuo when he was asleep, how could this be possible? Dong Zhuo is super energetic, how can he be sleepy and napping? Even if the Queen Mother has done it and her body is tired, then there should be guards outside Yemen, how can the Taishi call someone in to disturb him when he is sleeping?

It's hype! Identification done!

After some thinking about the simulation, Zhuang Shaoyou has already guessed the general course of the matter, Cao Cao deliberately got close to Dong Zhuo, it should be true, but the purpose may be to be promoted and have a good future! Because the biggest backer of the Cao family is the eunuch group, and the eunuch group was completely eradicated by Yuan Shao before, Cao Cao no longer has a backer, although his father has been a captain, but his father is also a second-generation official, and he doesn't have much influence! If it weren't for the fact that the predecessor Da Changqiu Cao Teng was enough to fork the bull, Cao Cao's generation would definitely decline!

Later, Cao Cao found that Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu had gone against the grain and gone too far, this kind of rule was too fragile, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that it would definitely cause chaos in the world, and Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu were the fuse! Since the world is going to be in chaos, these two guys must be the targets of crusade, so Cao Cao decided to stay away from this person as soon as possible!

And Cao Cao, who didn't have much reputation, thought of such a way to hype up and assassinate Dong Zhuo and gain fame! Earn some political capital, go back to your hometown and take out all your father's old books, and recruit troops! What kind of prince will Xiangning have?

The focus is on participation!

After Zhuang Shaoyou finished thinking about it, his expression suddenly became serious, and he sighed: "Is it really this far?" Yuan Shao arrived in Jizhou, Cao Cao left Luoyang, Sun Jian was still in Changsha, Liu Bei didn't know where to run the trick, and the competition was about to begin! ”