At this time, in a gorgeous mansion in the center of Guangzong, Wei Shou, the No. 3 figure on Taiping Road in Hebei Province, learned a piece of news from his subordinates.
One of the believers who originally monitored the Taishan Army envoys did not return.
The person responsible for reporting the news was a capable young man named Tao Sheng. He was Wei Shou's most capable general and the person in charge of the inspection team this time.
At this moment, Tao Sheng panicked a little when Wei Feng asked this question, but he still replied calmly:
"If you do bad things in your humble position, you should die."
Wei Shou waved his hand and said nonchalantly:
"When did I let you die? You are my heart. From now on, we will not only share the future, but also the wealth and honor. No words of mourning."
Tao Sheng blushed and calmed down for a moment before answering:
"Taoist leader, will the lost comrade be captured by the Taishan Army?"
Wei Shou pondered and asked:
"Do you know where the person was lost?"
Tao Sheng nodded:
"I asked the people who were in the same team with him and they said that they just passed an intersection and the people disappeared. It even scared those comrades."
Wei Ting was a little dissatisfied and frowned:
"These ignorant people are frightening gods and ghosts all day long. What can they accomplish with this group of people?"
In fact, what Wei Shou said is a bit excessive. Don't you know what the cause is and what the result will be. He, Wei Shou, relied on religious ghosts and gods to gather people, and now he requires the people below to think independently. Isn't he asking for help?
Tao Sheng didn't dare to talk because he was also one of these stupid people.
Wei Shou ignored Tao Sheng and thought of himself:
"I think they were probably taken by others. It seems that the Taishan Army has something special. It has strong beams that can fly over the walls."
Tao Sheng was a little panicked. He was worried that the Taishan Army went to find General Di Gong. When General Di Gong held him accountable, he would most likely be pushed out by his own Taoist leader to take the blame.
It's not that he doesn't have confidence in his Taoist leader, it's that he has done this before, so they are walking on thin ice.
So Tao Sheng, pretending to be decisive, knelt on the ground and cried:
"Taoist leader, it's my subordinate who didn't do his job well. Later I will go to the government to apologize and take everything on myself. I just hope that the Taoist leader will respect my humble position and stay with me for a long time, and treat my wife and family well."
After saying that, he bowed his head to the ground and started to move out.
Originally Tao Sheng pointed at the Taoist leader to persuade him, but unexpectedly he had already turned around and Wei Shou's voice was not heard from behind.
At this time, he was riding a tiger and couldn't get off. He could only bite the bullet and continue to move forward, but he had already made up his mind. As soon as he got out of the door, he would immediately throw himself into the inn where the Taishan Army was stationed. He had many things that the Taishan Army was interested in. I believe You will definitely be protected.
But he knew how ruthless Wei Shou was. Could he survive even if he fled into the post house? Tao Sheng couldn't say for sure.
But fortunately, after only taking three steps, Wei Shou's night owl-like laughter came out, and then he heard:
"A Sheng, you are still like that and don't believe me. I said I will bring you wealth and wealth, and I will do it naturally. I don't want to say it again, you will know the consequences later. Come back!"
Hearing this, Tao Sheng sighed secretly, then turned around and lowered his head to listen to Wei Shou's instructions.
In just this moment, Tao Sheng was sweating all over his back.
Wei Shou thought for a while and said to Tao Sheng:
"No one has come from the palace so far, which means that the Taishan Army probably has no one to join me. It seems that these people from the Taishan Army are a bit interesting."
To divert attention, Tao Sheng helped:
"Then why didn't they go to General Di Gong? Now General Di Gong has already regarded the Taishan Army as an important support and personally greeted the envoy at the city gate. What if they went to General Di Gong? Then..."
Wei Shou interrupted Tao Sheng rudely and scolded:
"What do you know? If you don't understand, don't say anything. It will only appear ignorant and ridiculous."
Tao Sheng was startled and nodded hurriedly, saying yes.
Fortunately, Wei Shou did not worry, but asked:
"Then what is the name of the Taishan Army envoy?"
Tao Sheng was still very capable. As a result of this investigation, he had basically figured out the identities of several chief envoys of the Taishan Army. So, he hurriedly said:
"The leader is called Dong Zhao, and he is the counselor of General Chongtian Nobushige."
Wei Shou thought and said:
"Dong Zhao?"
Just at this moment, a voice sang from outside the hall:
"Taoist leader, Dong Zhao wants to see you."
After saying that, a believer held a talisman and handed it to Wei Shou.
When Wei Shou took a look, he saw that it was the identity of "Ding Tao Dong Zhao". He was surprised at that time, what was this person doing here? Was he sent to investigate?
Does Dong Zhao really regard himself as a person? I am afraid that this person will not be able to get out after entering. I wonder if there will be another dead ghost under the locust tree outside the hall.
After thinking about it, Wei Shou called Tao Sheng over, whispered a few words, and asked Dong Zhao to be invited in.
Here, Tao Sheng hurriedly went down, and someone brought a fat black man into the hall over there.
Wei Shou looked Dong Zhao up and down, secretly thinking that this fat black man was Dong Zhao? He seemed to be blessed.
Wei Shou and Zhang Jiao had learned some physiognomy and were good at reading people. When they saw Dong Zhao's face and body, they knew he was blessed.
But Wei Shou also knew that that was what happened if the physiognomy was revealed.
This Dong Zhao can eat fat, so he is obviously a wealthy person. His eyes are cool, and he is obviously wise. His face is calm and composed, and he is able to handle things. With these, wouldn't he be blessed?
But this is just a possibility. If this person can't say it well, he will be blessed but not blessed.
So Wei Shoushi Shiran sat on the Hu bed and took the lead:
"You are Dong Zhao? You are the envoy of the local Qu Shuai. Do you know what a crime it is to make friends with important people in the Tao without any reason?"
Dong Zhao has a keen mind and is not good at secretly speaking.
Of course he was not frightened by these words. Who was he? A person who dared to go to the Junheji Base in Taishan alone to instigate rebellion against Dong Fang would be frightened by these words.
Dong Zhaodao was not good, because he heard the murderous intention from Wei Shou's words. Before he came to Wei Mansion, he never thought that his life would be in danger. After all, he also represented the Taishan Army, so how could he kill him?
But now, Dong Zhao obviously underestimated Wei Shou's unruliness and tyranny, and even more underestimated the intensity of the upper-level struggle in Hebei Taiping Road at this time.
Dong Zhaoguo was a wise man who could tell the autumn from a leaf, and he could sniff out so much information from just one sentence from Wei Shou.
After knowing that the situation was different from the original estimate, Dong Zhao Optoelectronics changed the original draft and adjusted the lobbying strategy.
Originally, he wanted to start with the standard of a strategist, which is to first create panic on the opponent and then guide him step by step. But now that he knows that the opponent has murderous intentions, if he tries to provoke the opponent, he will only lead to his own death.
So Dong Zhao bowed to Wei Shou politely:
"Does Chief Wei want to kill me so much? I am here alone, like a fish. My life and death are already in the hands of Chief Wei. But I can know why Chief Wei wants to kill me?"
Dong Zhao pointed out this matter directly, which went beyond Wei Shou's expectation. Dong Zhao didn't mention the supervision, so naturally he wouldn't, so what reason could he give for the killing?
But Wei Shou was not willing to weaken his momentum, so he thought of a random reason:
"Ever since I became Cardinal, I have been up early and awake all night, often sleeping poorly. You just came in and disturbed my rare clear dreams. Do you think you should die?"
Dong Zhao secretly thought that these words were very overbearing. Although these words were Wei Shou's random thoughts, what he subconsciously revealed was often his usual behavior. This shows that this person regards human life as nothing.
He also mastered a little bit of Wei Shou's character traits. In this way, Dong Zhao continued to improve Wei Shou's behavior pattern so that he could lobby in a targeted manner.
This Dong Zhao is a born strategist. If he were to be released to future generations, wouldn’t it mean that he would lose his gold medal with an annual salary of one million? It would be a waste of talent.
Wei Shou said with such murderous intent that a group of people would have jumped up and said who he was. For example, Dong Zhao could have said that he represented the Taishan Army. If you kill him, General Chongtian will not let him go.
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But Dong Zhao would say such stupid things?
If Wei Shou dares to kill him, does that mean he doesn't care about who he is? Saying this only makes him look shallow and ignorant, and does nothing.
So Dong Zhao seemed to have accepted his fate, and he calmly said to Wei Shou:
"Since I am already a fish on the chopping block, I will kill him early and later. I will follow the will of Taoist Wei. But if Taoist Wei can have the patience to listen to a few words from his servant before he dies, I think he will gain a lot in the future."
Dong Zhao's courage made Wei Shou a little impressed, but it did not hinder his determination to kill this man. But as this person said, it doesn't matter if he dies sooner or later, so what if he just says a few words?
So Wei Shouye Xiao laughed a few times and said:
"Well, it is said that when a person is about to die, his words are also good. Since Mr. Dong wants to say a few more words, then say more. I think it will be of some benefit."
Dong Zhao was not happy at all when he achieved his goal, because he already knew that Wei Shou was determined to kill him.
Dong Zhao's brain was spinning rapidly, his palms were sweating, and he just stayed there without saying a word.
At first, Wei Shou still had a smile on his face, but when Dong Zhao didn't speak for a long time, he said disdainfully:
"Dong Jun, didn't you teach me something? Why don't you say a word now? Are you just coveting this fleeting time and are you so afraid of death?"
As he said this, Wei Shou lost his patience and started to clap his hands.
Behind the wall of the hall, Tao Sheng and a group of guards were already hiding there. As long as this slap was taken, Dong Zhao would definitely die.
At this moment, Dong Zhao spoke, and he suddenly asked Wei Shou:
"Does General Di Gong want to kill Wei Dao leader?"
As soon as these words came out, Wei Shou, who had been sitting peacefully on the bed, could no longer hold on. He frowned and said nothing.
He was wondering how Dong Zhao knew about this.
That's right, his aunt's good friend really wanted to kill him.
Then why did Zhang Bao want to kill Wei Shou?
One is that Wei Shou, as the Taoist envoy of Taiping Tao in Hebei Province, was second only to the great virtuous teacher and had a high prestige among the Taoist disciples in the sect.
Since Zhang Jiao's health became worse and worse, he had to divide most of his affairs into two parts. One was military affairs, mainly handled by Zhang Bao, and the other was educational affairs, which was handled by Wei Shou.
Logically speaking, Zhang Bao should have little conflict with Wei Shou. But the Yellow Turban Army is not a simple armed force. It is the protective force of Taiping Dao. Most of the people in the army are Taiping Dao.
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Under this situation, Wei Shou controlled the ideology of the army and was actually dividing Zhang Bao's power from him. Especially since this person had repeatedly opposed Zhang Bao, it was even more intolerable.
But Zhang Bao is not someone who wants to kill blood relatives just for the sake of power. In fact, Zhang Bao, like Ji Sun, is suspicious of the death of his younger brother Zhang Liang.
Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang have a very good relationship. When they were young, because his brother Zhang Jiao had to preach everywhere and was away from home all year round, he and his third brother basically lived together. You can imagine the relationship between the two.
During the Battle of Julu, Zhang Bao was not in the army. He was in charge of another group of soldiers in Quyang. After he got the news of the death of his third brother, he hurried back to Guangzong, but by that time his third brother had already gathered his troops.
All he saw was a stiff corpse.
He also knew about the rumors about Zhang Liang's death in the army, and he specially sent people to investigate, not only to investigate the rumors of reinforcements, but also to investigate Zhang Liang's situation that day.
In fact, it is impossible to hide how Zhang Liang died.
On that day, Zhang Liang was organizing a retreat, but suddenly an arrow shot him in the back from behind. Then the general fell down in front of many defeated troops.
Therefore, Zhang Liang's people only made some inquiries and determined that it was indeed his own family who had assassinated the father that day.
So, Zhang Bao started a sensational investigation, but after a long investigation, not only did he not catch anyone, but he also aroused a backlash from the powerful people in the army.
They said that Zhang Bao wanted to clean them up, that Zhang Bao was going to seize power before the great virtuous teacher died. Even in the end, Zhang Jiao, who had been recuperating in a high-rise building for a long time, was alarmed and gave Zhang Bao a piece of paper.
, let him consider the overall situation.
In this way, Zhang Bao stopped investigating with regret and only focused on the war with the Han army in Hebei.
But again, as the saying goes, wherever there is action, there must be traces.
Although the powerful people successfully suppressed Zhang Bao with all the efforts they made that day, they exposed too much in the end. So Zhang Bao followed the clues and found his nephew and brother, Wei Shou.
Zhang Bao didn't believe it at first, but his intuition told him that this person could not stay.
In this way, Zhang Bao began to eliminate Wei Shou's wings, but Wei Shou also noticed it, so both sides were testing each other. It was against this background that the envoy of the Taishan Army entered Guangzong.
Now, when Dong Zhao told Wei Shou what he was most worried about, Wei Shou knew that this person could not be killed.
Why?
Because, originally, the reason why he regarded Dong Zhao as such was because he was the leader of the Taiping Dao and represented the Taiping Dao.
No matter how powerful the Taishan Army was, they would not dare to clash head-on with the Hebei General Road. As long as Wei gave the Taishan Army a justifiable reason when he received it, Dong Zhao would have killed him.
But things are different now. Now Dong Zhao has revealed the biggest contradiction among the top leaders in Hebei. What does that mean? It means that the Taishan Army is very aware of the current situation of the Hebei Main Road.
At that time, the Taishan Army will quickly move closer to Zhang Bao and deal with Wei Shou together. If there is no great righteousness at that time, with Zhang Bao inside and the Taishan Army as an enemy outside, it will be really difficult for Wei Shou.
So Wei Shou was in a bad mood at the moment. Even when Dong Zhao spoke just now, he didn't answer.
But he was silent, but Dong Zhao was not. This sycophant and fat man even said immediately:
"I can save Wei Daoshou, but I don't know if Wei Daoshou is willing to listen."
Wei Shou, who had been so anxious about this matter that he couldn't sleep, subconsciously said this when he heard this:
"Say it."
As soon as he said this, Wei Shou immediately regretted it.
Because he knew that from then on, the subject and the guest became interchangeable.