The revival of the Han Dynasty must start with Dong Zhuo

Chapter 138 Gongyang Spring and Autumn
Li Ru.

Li Ru who killed the young emperor!

Just hearing the name, Yuan Shao began to feel confused.

When Yuan Shao heard Li Ru say that he was sent by the emperor to Hebei as a spy, he was extremely confused.

"Is it possible that someone is talking nonsense outside? Why did Li Ru come to Hebei? And he even directly said that he was a spy from Guanzhong?"

After Yuan Shao reacted, he immediately made a judgment -

The guest outside is definitely not Li Ru!
But if he was just a crazy person, why would Guo Tu bother Yuan Shao for such a thing?

"Mr. Yuan, I used to be a clerk under the Yingchuan governor Yin Xiu. When I was a clerk, I went to Luoyang several times and studied the classics in the Imperial Academy."

"At that time, Li Ru was still a doctor of the Imperial College, so it is absolutely impossible for me to admit my mistake!"

Doctor of Classics holds a high status.

Even though he was a high-ranking official with a salary of two thousand stones, he was still an unattainable figure for Guo Tu, who was still an accountant at the time, so how could Guo Tu admit his mistake?

When Yuan Shao heard Guo Tu say this, he felt itchy all over.

"Is it really Li Ru?"

"Yes!"

"Why report it to me? Just kill him directly!"

After all, Yuan Shao still has the image of a "loyal minister of the Han Dynasty".

No matter what, he could not let Li Ru, the criminal who killed the young emperor, go!
"That's what I thought."

Guo Tu hesitated, "But Lord Yuan, he said he was a spy sent by the emperor. How should we deal with him?"

Yuan Shao was about to think about it, but he found something wrong and immediately scolded him -

"What do you mean a spy sent by the emperor? There is only one emperor of the Han Dynasty! He is in Yecheng! Not in Chang'an! Do you understand?"

Guo Tu was a little unhappy at being scolded for no reason: "It's my fault for not speaking well."

But Guo Tu still asked Yuan Shao: "Do you want to meet this person or not?"

……

If Yuan Shao only knew that it was Li Ru who came, he would be shocked, but he would not spare Li Ru's life.

But Li Ru's next words made Yuan Shao a little curious. He wondered what Li Ru was up to.

Cui Yan beside him also advised: "Mr. Yuan, although Li Ru is extremely evil, he is from Guanzhong after all, and he may be of great use."

Hebei scholars like Cui Yan would of course continue to compete with Yuan Shao for power in the Hebei court internally, but when facing the powerful enemy Dong Zhuo, they would still temporarily unite together.

Now Li Ru came from Guanzhong and appeared in front of Yuan Shao openly. Everything he said and did was meaningless. It was really strange no matter how you looked at it.

If Li Ru is really useful to the Hebei court, I'm afraid he should not be killed rashly.

"Then let Li Ru come in."

But Guo Tu smiled bitterly again -

"Mr. Yuan, I'm afraid Li Ru can't come in."

"Why? Is he still being arrogant?"

"Of course not."

Guo Tu sighed: "He came here exhausted and hungry, unable to even stand. I was kind enough to have someone give him some food..."

"But I really didn't expect that a former doctor of classics, who was more or less a famous scholar, could eat so rudely. I'm afraid he ate as much as five people. Now his stomach is as bloated as a ball, and he's rolling on the ground crying..."

Yuan Shao was puzzled again.

With such behavior, could he be a Doctor of Confucian classics, or Li Ru who poisoned the emperor?

I'm afraid Guo Tu's eyesight is not good and he recognized the wrong person?
"In that case, I will go out and meet him in person!"

Yuan Shao became more and more curious about Li Ru's condition. He wondered why this ruthless man, who was known throughout the world, had become like this.

"vomit!!!"

When Yuan Shao saw Li Ru, Li Ru was holding a clay basin and vomiting violently!
Just as Guo Tu said, Li Ru ate too much and his stomach couldn't bear it, so he could only vomit out what he had eaten.

For a moment, the whole hall was filled with the stench of eggs, causing Yuan Shao and Cui Yan to cover their noses unconsciously.

"Ugh! Ugh!"

Li Ru was still vomiting violently.

Only after he had nearly filled the pottery basin did he turn around and look at Yuan Shao, laughing wildly: "Yuan Benchu! I never thought that you and I would meet again in this lifetime!"

Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Yuan Shu and others were all young men who were in the limelight in Luoyang City in the past. They must have hung out in places like the Imperial Academy, so naturally they knew Doctor Li Ru.

But it was precisely because of this that Yuan Shao became even more unwilling to recognize him!

"Li Wenyou! How did you become like this today? Isn't this the retribution for helping the tyrant and poisoning the emperor?"

Li Ru casually tucked the hair that had fallen from his mouth due to vomiting back onto his head: "Retribution? Yuan Benchu, have you forgotten? When I was teaching at the Imperial College, I taught the Gongyang Spring and Autumn Annals!"

"If I really believe that there is retribution in this world, then what kind of knowledge am I studying? What kind of life am I living?"

Yuan Shao was already depressed enough from discussing Confucian classics with Cui Yan just now, and he didn't want to debate with Li Ru, a decent doctor.

"Li Wenyou, you have committed a heinous crime, yet you still dare to come before me. Aren't you afraid that I will kill you?"

Who would have guessed.

Li Ru suddenly laughed so hard that he fell backwards and sat on the ground.

"It's been only a few years since we last met, and yet you, Yuan Shao, are already claiming to be alone?"

"Yuan Shao, do you want to be the second Dong Zhuo or the second Wang Mang?"

Grit your teeth!

Yuan Shao, who had long since given up on Li Ru, called his left and right guards and ordered them to arrest Li Ru.

"Suppress it. After I have Chen Lin write an article exposing his evil deeds, I will immediately behead him!"

Hearing this, he was annoyed! Yuan Shao had a lot of troubles to deal with, so he really didn't want to pay attention to Li Ru. Immediately, a soldier stepped forward and locked Li Ru's shoulders, trying to drag him away.

Li Ru was still laughing wildly.

"But you, Yuan Benchu, can neither be Wang Mang nor Dong Zhuo!"

"As long as the imperial court in Guanzhong still exists, everything you have done in Hebei is nothing but playing house!"

"Yuan Benchu, I thought you were somewhat heroic in leading the Guandong princes to attack Dong Zhuo, but today I find that you are nothing more than a bear!"

By the end of the scolding, he was already hysterical!

"Wait!"

Calling the guards, Yuan Shao drew out the sword from his waist and put it on Li Ru's neck: "Li Wenyou, do you want to test whether my sword is sharp?"

Li Ru said disdainfully: "I am not even afraid of Dong Zhuo's sword, so why should I be afraid of your sword, Yuan Benchu's?"

Yuan Shao paused, unable to believe it: "Dong Zhuo wants to kill you?"

"When the cunning rabbit dies, the running dog is cooked. When the high bird is gone, the good bow is hidden! This has been the truth since ancient times!"

As he spoke, Li Ru looked at Cui Yan behind Yuan Shao, and regardless of whether he knew him or not, he shouted loudly: "Tell me, aren't all the people in this world such ungrateful villains?"

Yuan Shao's veins jumped, and the blade in his hand moved a few inches closer to Li Ru's neck.

"Li Wenyou, you came all the way from Guanzhong to Hebei, just to seek death?"

"hey-hey."

Not only did Li Ru not avoid Yuan Shao's sword, he also took the initiative to rub his face upwards.

"Of course I'm not here to seek death, but it's no different from seeking death."

"I have made it clear why I came to Hebei. Guanzhong sent me here as a spy. What else is unclear?"

Yuan Shao understood every word Li Ru said.

But if you put them all together into a sentence, it's completely incomprehensible.

How could there be a spy like Li Ru?

Don't spies have to be extremely cautious and try hard to conceal their intentions?
Yuan Shao had never seen a spy with the word "spy" engraved on his forehead!

"You don't want to work for Dong Zhuo anymore?"

But Yuan Shao was not stupid and he immediately figured out the key point.

Li Ru didn't say anything, but just put his hand on his belt and pulled it away!

Clothes fell.

Countless tiny wounds appeared on Li Ru's body.

This was the wound Li Ru got when he stood in front of Liu Xie in Chang'an and asked for forgiveness.

Because I have been traveling so fast and so displaced, after such a long time, the wound has not only not improved, but has become more shocking!
Guo Tu frowned, and Cui Yan turned his gaze away.

Yuan Shao: "Did Dong Zhuo torture you?"

Li Ru shook his shoulders and shook off the soldiers' hands that were suppressing him, but Yuan Shao did not stop him.

After putting on his clothes again, Li Ru said, "Dong Zhuo tortured me to test whether I was still loyal to him!"

"He tortured me for ten days before releasing me and sending me to Hebei to serve as a spy."

Yuan Shao: "But you betrayed Dong Zhuo?"

betray?

Li Ru shook his finger.

"I, Li Ru, am a doctor of the Han Dynasty! I am an official of the Han Dynasty! I am not a subject of Dong Zhuo!"

"If what you said is true, does it mean that you, Yuan Benchu, also betrayed Dong Zhuo?"

Guo Tu scolded: "How outrageous!"

"Who is Mr. Yuan? How could he be the same as you?"

Li Ru spread his hands: "What's the difference?"

"I just poisoned a deposed emperor, a minor clan of the Han Dynasty. But Yuan Benchu ​​directly established a branch of the King of Donghai as the emperor... Between me and him, who is more rebellious?"

"you!"

Guo Tu wanted to continue charging for Yuan Shao, but found that Yuan Shao raised his hand to stop him.

Yuan Shao removed the sword from Li Ru's neck and asked, "Do you want to take revenge on Dong Zhuo?"

"Yes!"

The anger in Li Ru's eyes did not seem fake——

"Can revenge be taken after nine generations? Even after a hundred generations!"

This is the core idea of ​​Gongyang Chunqiu:

Great revenge!
Moreover, Gongyang Chunqiu's revenge was extremely extreme.

Not only does it encourage ordinary people to take revenge on each other and encourage the avengement of national hatred, it also believes that subjects can take revenge on their monarchs!
For example, Wu Zixu's revenge on the King of Chu was highly praised by the Gongyang Chunqiu.

If a king kills his father innocently, his son should avenge his father, and in this way he is avenging his king!
If a king kills his son's father for no reason, the son should avenge his father! Treat the king in the same way!

Yuan Shao came from a family of Confucian classics, so he naturally knew the core of the Gongyang Chunqiu.

"Li Wenyou, so you want to be Wu Zixu? You think I am Helu, the King of Wu?"

Yuan Shao put the sword on Li Ru's shoulder again.

"But who knows, will you be the Zhang Yi of Qin or the Su Qin of Yan?"

"You, do you really think that I, a fool, can be deceived?"

(End of this chapter)