Chapter 36: Li Ru's poisonous plot against various princes! (2 in 1)
"Do you all hope that Lu Bu can break into Luoyang and take our heads off?"
"But I'm telling you that we only used a thousand men to kill Lu Bu's eight thousand cavalry to pieces!"
In the imperial palace of Luoyang City, Dong Zhuo was showing off his victory over Lu Bu in the main hall.
But the civil and military officials dared not speak out in anger.
"Report~"
"To the Prime Minister, Lu Bu has replied!" A soldier held up a letter with both hands and handed it to Dong Zhuo.
Dong Zhuo took the letter and looked at it. On the surface he was calm, but in fact he was uneasy inside. He was 90% sure that Lu Bu would exchange, but there was still 10% that Lu Bu wanted to kill him, right?
It wasn't until he opened the letter that Dong Zhuo could let go of his hanging heart.
The letter stated that Lu Bu was willing to exchange, as well as the time and place of the exchange. After the exchange, you will walk on your Yangguan Road, and I will walk on my single-plank bridge.
"Hahaha, Wang Yun, you have adopted a good daughter!" Dong Zhuo walked up to Wang Yun and laughed, handing the letter in his hand to Wang Yun, letting Wang Yun watch with his own eyes that his only hope was shattered.
After Wang Yun took the letter tremblingly, when he saw the content inside, his legs went weak and he almost fainted. Now his only hope is gone. What a forgetful man!
"Li Que, Guo Si, and Niu Fu listened to the order. After the handover is completed, the entire army will immediately move to Chang'an!" After seeing Lu Bu agree to the exchange, Dong Zhuo's biggest crisis was relieved, and he launched the command with high spirits.
Suddenly, the city of Luoyang was filled with wailing, and people everywhere were wailing, and the sound of crying shook the heaven and the earth.
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"Second brother, do we not want the book today?" Zhang Fei asked Guan Yu unwillingly.
At this time, Guan Yu had also found Zhang Fei who was preparing to seize the Heavenly Book. Fortunately, Zhang Fei was not reckless but was looking for an opportunity.
"Third brother, do you think there are many princes heading to Luoyang?" Guan Yu asked Zhang Fei.
"There are Yuan Shu, the governor of Nanyang, Han Fu, the governor of Jizhou, and Kong Niao, the governor of Yuzhou. Anyway, except for Gongsun Zan who returned to Youzhou, and those who were called by the immortal like the elder brother, basically all the other princes came!
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"I'll just go back with my second brother!" Zhang Fei waved his hand impatiently and replied, agreeing to go back with Guan Yu.
He also understood what his eldest and second brothers meant. Among all the forces, they had the fewest soldiers and were the weakest. This trip was too dangerous.
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On the other side, Lu Bu has completed the handover with Dong Zhuo, and Dong Zhuo exchanged Lu Bu's family and Diao Chan for the Xiliang Army and Li Ru as promised.
"Wen You, you are finally back!" Dong Zhuo saw that Li Ru was safe and sound, and immediately held Li Ru's hand with joy. During this period, he had no advisers around to advise him, and he had lost a lot of hair.
"Thank you to the Prime Minister for rescuing me." Li Ru was very moved when he saw the Prime Minister treating him like this. He originally thought that he would die in Lu Bu's hands, but who knew that the Prime Minister actually redeemed him as well.
"Wen You, you're just getting into trouble with our family!" Seeing that Li Ru was so polite to him, Dong Zhuo pretended to be angry and said he was dissatisfied with Li Ru's behavior.
"Yes, yes, Ru Zhi was wrong." Li Ru immediately admitted his mistake to Dong Zhuo.
"Wen You, now that the capital security department is ready, what should we do next?" Seeing that his wisdom bag had returned, Dong Zhuo was too lazy to use his brain and asked Li Ru directly.
Li Ru rolled his eyes and thought for a moment before replying: "Back to the Prime Minister, if we move the capital now, we will be jointly pursued by other princes. Ru has a plan that can not only ensure that no one will pursue the Prime Minister, but also make the princes fight among themselves!"
"Wen You, tell me quickly, what's the plan?" Dong Zhuo urged Li Ru. He already hated the princes to death. If they hadn't been forced to move their capitals, the best thing would be to make them kill each other.
!
"Back to my lord, may I ask if anyone else besides Xiangguo has seen Tianshu?" Li Ru asked Dong Zhuo extremely seriously. This is related to whether this plan can be implemented.
"No, I haven't seen anyone except our family."
"Even this, we can't understand." Dong Zhuo took out a chemistry book from his arms and handed it to Li Ru.
Li Que, Guo Si, and Niu Fu also poked their heads in to see what was recorded in the heavenly book.
Li Ru looked through it and found that although he had read more books than Dong Zhuo, there were too many things recorded in them that he couldn't understand, so he could only wait to study them slowly in the future.
Looking at the cover of the chemistry book, Li Ru was cruel and ripped the cover completely off the book.
"Wenyou, why are you doing this?" Dong Zhuo didn't understand why Li Ru destroyed the fairy book!
"Back to the prime minister's country, we want all the princes to fight among themselves. We need this thing." Li Ru explained, and then said to Niu Fu: "General Niu, please also find a book with the same thickness and size as the fairy book."
Books come!”
"Yes!" After receiving Li Ru's instructions, Niu Fu immediately went to look for it.
"Prime Minister, I still need you to spread a message, saying that the fairy book has been stolen and the thief's leader has been caught, but the fairy book is lost in Luoyang City!" Li Ru told Dong Zhuo and told him his plan.
Dong Zhuo digested it for a while and finally realized what Li Ru was going to do!
Not long after, Niu Fu found several books of similar thickness and size and handed them to Li Ru.
Li Ru selected a book that recorded various elixirs, carefully affixed the cover with the word "chemistry" on it, and then sealed it in a wooden box.
On the other side, Lu Bu, who was heading to Bingzhou, opened the curtains of Diao Chan who was sitting in the carriage and asked inside: "Why has the lady been so depressed from the beginning? Is it because you don't want to go to Bingzhou with me, Lu Bu?"
"General, don't get me wrong. Diao Chan doesn't have this intention. But now that her adoptive father is still with Thief Dong in Luoyang, and she doesn't know whether she will live or die, how can my little girl be happy?" Diao Chan looked towards Luoyang with a sad and reluctant look.
"Miss, there is no need to worry. My foster father is my foster father, Lu Bu. When I kill the barbarians, I will definitely return to the Central Plains to save my foster father from the fire and water!" Lu Bu assured Diao Chan.
"Thank you so much, General!" Diao Chan said with a slight salute to Lu Bu.
"Lord, good news, good news!" Yan Xiang trotted into Yuan Shu's tent with a happy face.
"But Zhang Liao agreed?" After hearing this, Yuan Shu immediately stood up and asked Yan Xiang eagerly regardless of the image of the Fourth World and the Three Dukes. With Zhang Liao around, he couldn't do anything.
"No!" Yan Xiang replied.
When Yuan Shu heard that Zhang Liao was not willing to surrender, he immediately lost interest.
"What the hell is that!"
"Back to my lord, although Zhang Liao did not surrender, he has withdrawn his army. It seems that Lu Bu made some kind of agreement with Dong Zhuo and returned the Xiliang army to Dong Zhuo. He led the Bingzhou troops and advanced to the west and north." Yan Xiang
Reporting.
"Northwest direction? Isn't that Bingzhou? What is he doing back to Bingzhou?" Yuan Shu thought for a while and asked.
"This... I don't know." Yan Xiang couldn't guess what Lu Bu was doing when he returned to Bingzhou.
"What about Diao Chan!" Yuan Shu then continued. His original purpose for coming here was to snatch Diao Chan. Later, after Dong Zhuo obtained the Heavenly Book, his primary goal was the Heavenly Book.
"He was also taken away by Lu Bu!" Yan Xiang replied truthfully.
"What should we do?" Yuan Shu walked back and forth in the account and thought. Now that Diao Chan is gone, only the Book of Heaven is left. If Dong Zhuo had not had the Xiliang army before and Lu Bu had withdrawn his troops, he would have launched an attack on Luoyang without hesitation.
, but now Lu Bu has returned the Xiliang army to Dong Zhuo. Now Dong Zhuo is a tiger full of sharp teeth, which is difficult to deal with!
"Report, thick smoke and fire broke out in Luoyang City, and news came from Luoyang City that a thief had stolen Dong Zhuo's Heavenly Book. Now the thief has been killed, and the Heavenly Book has been lost in Luoyang City!" At this time, a man ran in.
The famous soldiers reported the situation in Luoyang to Yuan Shu!
When Yuan Shu heard this, he hurried out of his tent and looked in the direction of Luoyang City. As the soldiers said, the flames were soaring into the sky, and the thick smoke that blocked the sky covered the entire Luoyang City. Even other princes who had not arrived a hundred miles away had not arrived yet.
They also saw billowing smoke coming from Luoyang City.
"Is the information in the Heavenly Book accurate?" Yuan Shu immediately asked the soldier who reported the news to him.
"Back to my lord, it's accurate. The people of Luoyang City have already spread the news. My subordinates also worked hard to save a commoner who was taken away by Dong Zhuo. I learned from him." The soldier replied with confirmation.
"Send the order, the entire army will go to Luoyang to put out the fire!" Yuan Shu couldn't help but become anxious upon hearing this. The Heavenly Book is still in Luoyang. Diao Chan has been picked up by Lu Bu. If the Heavenly Book has also been burned, wouldn't his trip be in vain?
trip?
So Yuan Shu ordered the entire army to go to Luoyang to put out the fire and look for the Book of Heaven!
After everything was ready, Dong Zhuo robbed Liu Xie and his concubines, drove out millions of people, and led hundreds of thousands of Xiliang troops to Chang'an.
Before Dong Zhuo left, he ordered people to set fire to residents' houses, temples and palaces. When the flames met, Luoyang City was instantly reduced to ruins. He also ordered people to excavate the tombs of the late emperor and his concubines to obtain their treasures. Luoyang, the capital of the Han Dynasty for two hundred years, was in Dong Zhuo's house.
It was destroyed in a fire.
"Hahaha, Wenyou, what do you think it will be like when the princes finally find out that the fairy book they are fighting over is fake!" Dong Zhuo, who was sitting in the carriage, thought of the princes fighting to the death over a fake book.
I couldn't help laughing.
"The Prime Minister has newly moved to the imperial capital. We should not take it lightly. We should send people to Xingyang to inform the prefect Xu Rong to set up an ambush beside the mountain dock outside the city to guard against pursuers. If there are pursuers during the introduction, let Xu Rong pass by and wait for us to repel them.
If they pursue the army, let Xu Rong intercept their retreat, which will make the princes from all walks of life fearful and dare not pursue them again!" Li Ru continued to offer advice.
"Okay, we will follow your advice and send someone to inform Xu Rong now." Dong Zhuo now obeyed Li Ruyan and immediately sent someone to Xingyang to inform the prefect Xu Rong to set up an ambush at the mountain dock outside the city.
"Why are you still standing there, put out the fire quickly!" Yuan Shu led his troops to the outside of Luoyang City and looked at the burning city of Luoyang, with black smoke covering the ground and no human beings for two to three hundred miles.
"Yes Yes Yes!"
Fortunately, there was a moat in Luoyang. After receiving the military order, Yuan Shu's army began to carry buckets to put out the fire. If there were not enough barrels, they cut down wood to make barrels.
But even if the entire army is mobilized to put out the fire, it will still be a drop in the bucket for Luoyang, which is 200 to 300 kilometers away!
As time went by, Yuan Shu couldn't help but become anxious. If this continued, other princes would arrive, and there would be more competitors!
"Report!" Han Fu, the governor of Jizhou, had already arrived with his troops.
"Report! Xiliang Prefect Ma Teng has arrived!"
"Report, Beihai Governor Kong Rong has arrived!"
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Military information was reported to Yuan Shu one after another, and not long after, except for Gongsun Zan, Sun Jian, Yuan Shao, Liu Bei, and Cao Cao, other princes arrived one after another!
"General Highway, if you don't go after the Dong thief, what are you doing here? What happened in Luoyang City? Where is the Dong thief?" Ma Teng, the governor of Xiliang, asked Yuan Shu.
"The thief Dong fled to Chang'an westward and burned Luoyang before leaving. I can't bear the two hundred years of the foundation of the imperial capital being destroyed in the hands of the thief Dong, so I want to put out the fire in Luoyang!" Yuan Shu said to the princes with great righteousness.
"Highway General Gao Yi is truly a role model for our generation!"
Everyone praised Yuan Shu one after another.
"What can't bear to have the emperor be destroyed at the hands of the Dong thief!"
"Bah!, I think our deputy leader is thinking about the Heavenly Book lost in Luoyang City!" Liu Dai revealed Yuan Shu's plan with one word.
"What! The Book of Heaven is in Luoyang City?" When the princes heard this, they all pointed at Luoyang, which was burning with raging fire!
"Liu Dai, don't be slanderous! I have never cared about the Heavenly Book!" Yuan Shu immediately retorted. He originally asked other princes to pursue Dong Zhuo because they did not know the news that the Heavenly Book was lost in Luoyang, but now Liu Dai was
Tell the truth in one sentence.
Yuan Shu's face darkened. There must be people from Yuan Shao in this army, and Liu Dai was a good friend of Yuan Shao, so he came out to cause trouble for himself!
"Have I lied, General Highway? You know in your heart that the Book of Heaven was stolen, the thief was killed, and the Book of Heaven was left in Luoyang City. Does General Highway want me to tell you each of these things one by one?"
Listening to Liu Dai's words, many princes began to believe what Liu Dai said. The Book of Heaven was really lost in Luoyang City!
"Come and put out the fire!" Bao Xin, the governor of Northern Qi, took the lead in asking people to put out the fire.
"Quickly put out the fire!" Other princes also joined the army to put out the fire.
With the efforts of hundreds of thousands of people, the fire in Luoyang was finally extinguished. All the princes gathered in the Luoyang Palace. When they first put out the fire, they began to look through bricks and tiles to see if there were any fairy books. So far, only
No one checked the palace which had been burned down in the afternoon.
"Everyone has agreed, whoever finds it will belong to him!" Yuan Shu said to the other princes in advance.
"Of course it is!" The other princes also agreed that whoever finds it will belong to him.
"Humph!" Yuan Shu entered the palace first, followed closely by the others, and then each looked for their own.
"Lord, could this be a trap by Thief Dong to draw our attention to this abandoned Luoyang!" Yan Xiang, who followed Yuan Shu to Yuzhang Palace, guessed to Yuan Shu.
When Yuan Shu heard this, he thought it was reasonable, so he cursed: "The thief Dong Zhuo dares to play tricks on me!"
After saying that, Yuan Shu prepared to lead his army to pursue Dong Zhuo!
However, at this moment, a sergeant came running.
"Report, there are five colors of light shining in the well in the south of the hall!"
When Yuan Shu heard this, his eyes lit up immediately. Besides immortals, what else could shine? God has favored me, Yuan Shu!
"Take me there quickly!" Yuan Shu ordered people to take him there quickly.
Then he ordered people to light torches and go down to the well to fish. They found the corpse of a woman, who was decorated like a palace. She was obviously a member of the palace. The corpse was tightly holding a vermilion wooden box, which was locked with a gold lock. The lid and the box body were
It is glued with unknown things, and the five-color light emanates from between the lid and the body of the box.
"Open it quickly!" Seeing this, Yuan Shu impatiently ordered his men to open the golden lock on the red wooden box.
I saw a piece of jade seal placed inside: four inches in diameter, with five dragons intertwined on it, with a missing corner on the side, inlaid with gold, and eight characters in seal script on it: I have been ordered by heaven, and I will live forever.
Everyone present was dumbfounded. This object was the imperial seal, made by Qin Shihuang!
Li Ru was afraid that the princes could not find the "immortal book", so he asked Dong Zhuo to put the imperial seal together with the "immortal book".
Under the Chuan Guo Jade Seal, there was a book written on chemistry, which was exactly the same as what they had seen before!
"Duang!" Yuan Shu immediately used the lid to cover the imperial seal and the "Book of Heaven" again.
"No one is allowed to tell anything about today's events. Return to Nanyang immediately, and at the same time convey to the outside world the cunning of Dong Thief and the Immortal Book of Luoyang!" After Yuan Shu got what he wanted, he was both happy and afraid, and decided to return to his hometown of Nanyang immediately.
