The revival of the Han Dynasty must start with Dong Zhuo

Chapter 286 Volume Guo Jia, Guo Fengxiao
Liu Bei followed Zhuge Liang's plan and revealed the news to Yuan Shu first.

Yuan Shu was really shocked, and immediately ordered Ji Ling to lead 50,000 troops to set up camp in the Caishiji area to resist Sun Ce's army coming downstream.

While resisting, Yuan Shu scolded Sun Ce and ordered his men to bring Sun Ce's family to him to vent his anger.

Li Ru, with a "bitter face", came to Yuan Shu and told him that Sun Ce's family had escaped.

Yuan Shu was wearing the emperor's robes at this time, with the sun, moon, stars, mountain, dragon and Chinese insect woven on the clothes, and Zongyi, algae, fire, powder rice, Fu and Fu embroidered on the skirt. He also wore a black robe, a yellow skirt, a white silk belt, a yellow knee-covering, a plain yarn middle singlet and red shoes. He wore a twelve-crown crown on his head, twelve colorful silk threads, each threaded with twelve colorful jade beads. Red silk ropes were hung on the left and right of the sash, and topaz was hung on the tassels, hanging beside his ears, showing his wealth and nobility.

But for some reason, Yuan Shu's outfit looks so out of place no matter how you look at it.

It’s like... a monkey in human clothing!

"Oh!"

Yuan Shu slammed his fist on the table, his anger evident in his words: "How could Sun Ce's family members disappear without a trace?"

As he spoke, Yuan Shu's angry eyes swept over the ministers below, full of scrutiny.

Only in front of Li Ru, Yuan Shu's gaze did not stop.

Because the proposal to use Sun Ce's family to restrain Sun Ce was originally thought of by Li Ru.

As expected, Li Ru was not wrong. Sun Ce actually rebelled!

But at this time, Sun Ce's family disappeared?

"who is it?"

"Who is it?"

Yuan Shu's voice came out from between his teeth, like an evil ghost from the underworld, but it was destined that no one would stand up to answer his question.

"His Majesty."

It’s still Li Ru.

"Sun Ce's father, Sun Jian, once served in your majesty's service, and he must have made friends with many officials. It is estimated that these people were entrusted by Sun Ce to secretly take Sun Ce's family away."

As he spoke, Li Ru knelt down in regret and self-blame: "This is all my fault for not keeping a close watch on the enemy. I didn't expect the enemy to be lurking around me! Your Majesty, please punish me!"

Yuan Shu was originally very angry.

But seeing Li Ru like this, and seeing that he had such a loyal minister by his side, Yuan Shu felt a little relieved.

"Wenyou, you don't have to do this. This is all the fault of those traitors. What does it have to do with Wenyou?"

After comforting Li Ru, Yuan Shu stared angrily at his civil and military officials again.

"I don't know how many of these are the traitor Sun Ce's men!"

"Wenyou! I give you five days, you must pick out the traitor for me!"

"If you dare to betray me, I will tear you into pieces!"

Li Ru gladly accepted the order: "Yes!"

The rest of the officials, on the other hand, were trembling in fear.

Faced with a powerful enemy, Yuan Shu's first action was not to appease the people and fight against the enemy together...

How can such a "court" resist Sun Ce's army?

Li Ru also followed Yuan Shu's orders and completed the task meticulously.

After arresting many officials who had previous grudges against the Sun family, Li Ru finally knocked on someone's door.

Yan Xiang.

When Yan Xiang saw Li Ru coming to find him, he was not too surprised.

The clothes look like new, the person remains the same, and the mood is calm and relaxed.

Li Ru couldn't help but laugh when he saw Yan Xiang like this.

"When I went to other places, they immediately kowtowed and begged for mercy after seeing me, and distanced themselves from Sun Ce. How come Yan Zhubu was so calm?"

Yan Xiang sat on the couch and looked at Li Ru with disdain.

Li Ru was not annoyed when he saw this, but came to Yan Xiang, poured a glass of wine for him, and then filled his own glass.

After his lips touched the wine, Li Ru shook his head and said, "It's really not as good as the tea from Shu. The tea leaves are all made by the emperor according to a secret recipe. After it goes down your throat, the fragrance lingers on your lips and teeth... I'm used to drinking those, so I don't have much attachment to this wine."

After hearing this, Yan Xiang finally raised his eyebrows and asked, "You admit it?"

"Admit what?"

"You are the emperor's man?"

Unlike the previous time when Yan Xiang asked Li Ru whether he was "Dong Zhuo's man or Yuan Shao's man", Li Ru did not deny it this time and chose to remain silent.

"You really are the emperor's man!"

It seemed like Yan Xiang had caught some huge evidence!

He glared at Li Ru and said, "Although the emperor is still young, I don't believe he has the wisdom to send you to Yangzhou as a spy in advance!"

"But that emperor could even defeat Yuan Shao. He must be a genius whose ambitions and strategies are no less than those of Emperor Xiaowu and Emperor Xiaohe!"

"In that case, it doesn't seem so crazy to let you sneak into Yangzhou as a spy!"

Yan Xiang quickly sorted out the whole relationship from the sip of tea mentioned by Li Ru!

Yan Xiang suddenly stood up and wanted to walk out: "I will report to His Majesty and expose your true face!"

After saying that, Yan Xiang quickly drew out his sword and stared at Li Ru vigilantly to prevent Li Ru from making any trouble.

But Li Ru didn't react at all.

"Yan Xiang, do you think His Majesty trusts you or me now?"

"I am now investigating Sun Ce's spies under the order of His Majesty, but you suddenly falsely accuse me of being a spy for the Emperor of Han... Do you think His Majesty will choose to believe that I am really a spy after hearing such a ridiculous thing? Or will he think that you are biting to protect yourself?"

As for Yuan Shu, Li Ru seemed to be able to fully understand his thoughts.

"Although Yuan Shu has always been ashamed of being of the same bloodline as Yuan Shao, there are still many similarities between them."

"If you go and expose me to Yuan Shu at this time, you will definitely not end up well."

Yan Xiang glared at him: "So what?"

"To die for the righteousness in one's heart is the right way!"

"Morality?"

Li Ru sneered.

"Is your moral obligation to serve a Han thief who usurped the throne?"

"The real emperor is in Guanzhong! In Chang'an! Not in Huainan! In Shouchun!" Li Ru sneered: "If you insist on morality, then what am I insisting on?"

"..."

Yan Xiang was suddenly speechless.

After a while, Yan Xiang finally came to his senses: "So what exactly do you want to do by coming here today?"

"Could it be that you came here today just to show off to me?"

"Of course not."

At this moment, Li Ru had completely lost the "loyalty" he had shown to Yuan Shu during the day.

"Yuan Shu's defeat is only a matter of time."

"After Yuan Shu is defeated, I will need someone to help me deliver a vital item to the imperial court... Because this item is so important, there are actually few people I can trust, so I can only ask you to go."

Yan Xiang:?
"Li Ru, are you crazy?"

"You, trust me?"

"Ah."

Li Ru bowed to Yan Xiang and said, "Yuan Shu has many civil and military officials under his command, but you are the only one who can be called a gentleman."

"If I let the others return the item to the court, I'm afraid he'll have evil intentions and let the Han people down."

"Therefore, I can only come here to ask you to return this item to its original owner."

Yan Xiang felt it was ridiculous at this moment: "Then why don't you go and send it off?"

"Because after Yuan Shu is defeated, I will continue to serve Sun Ce."

?

Yan Xiang felt his mouth dry at this moment: "Li Ru, you are really a lunatic..."

Li Ru actually wants to be undercover!

Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, and Sun Ce!
Every time, it's like dancing on the edge of a knife!

If an ordinary person were to be undercover for such a long time, he would probably be exhausted and have lost all his energy.

But looking at Li Ru's expression, instead of being exhausted, he seemed to be... enjoying it?
Yan Xiang took a deep breath and said, "So, today you are here to beg me?"

"It can be said like this."

"Then I have conditions too!"

Li Ru nodded slightly.

Yan Xiang looked at Li Ru and said, "After all, the Yuan family has been very kind to me... The general's claim to the throne is already irreparable, but when the general is defeated, I hope you can protect his descendants and give him a chance to live, so that the Yuan family can keep a branch of incense!"

Li Ru showed surprise for the first time at this moment.

He originally thought that Yan Xiang would use this condition on himself.

Unexpectedly, Yan Xiang still left this opportunity to the Yuan family and to Yuan Shu's descendants.

"I was not mistaken. You are indeed a gentleman."

After a slight surprise, Li Ru agreed to this matter.

"Okay! I will send General Hou's legitimate son Yuan Yao to Jingzhou and let him live in peace."

Hearing Li Ru's agreement, Yan Xiang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"So, what exactly is the thing you asked me to deliver to the court?"

Li Ru raised his lips: "I was given the mandate by heaven, and I wish you a long and prosperous life!"

Yan Xiang's pupils shrank!
The national jade seal!

No wonder Li Ru was so cautious that he even went so far as to reveal his identity and allow a gentleman like Yan Xiang to return it!

As Li Ru said, there are few people in the world who would not have evil thoughts in front of this thing!

"it is good."

Yan Xiang also cupped his hands and said, "I am willing to return this item to its original owner."

"Please don't forget the agreement between you and me!"

"nature."

Li Ru was confident: "It's just one person. I can easily get him out of Shouchun."

"Unlike before, we had to send dozens of people out in a row, including many female relatives. That was really time-consuming and laborious..."

Yan Xiang looked strange: "You also gave away Sun Ce's family members?"

"Exactly."

"Li Ru..."

"Ok?"

"You really deserve to die!"

"hehe."

……

As Yuan Shu's troops were mobilized, Zhuge Liang revealed the news to Cao Cao.

When Cao Cao heard the news, he naturally knew that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

But this time, Cao Cao was not as decisive as before. Instead, he locked himself in the house for a day and a night out of boredom.

Cao Cao's subordinates looked at each other in confusion, but they didn't know how to relieve Cao Cao's frustration.

Even though Mrs. Ding and Cao Ang wanted to see Cao Cao, they were still driven out by Cao Cao.

Just when everyone was at a loss, someone finally spoke up: "Just let me go see Cao Gong."

When everyone looked over, they saw a young man who looked a little unfocused, with cynicism in his eyes.

"Fengxiao, are you sure you can relieve Cao Gong's worries and anger and call him out?"

Guo Jia smiled confidently, looking at the closed door in front of him——

"If even I can't solve Cao Gong's problem, then I'm afraid no one else in the world can solve it!"

(End of this chapter)