Big Ear Thief Selling Straw Sandals

Chapter 254 Dong Zhuo left Yangguan in the west, and the heroes divided Liangzhou

Li Que's rebellion shocked Dong Zhuo.

"Wen You, now...what's the best plan?"

Li Ru also frowned. The opponent had mastered most of Liangzhou's elites. Now, with a single attack, the Liangzhou system was about to fall apart.

"For the present solution, we can only negotiate and make slight concessions."

Dong Zhuo was dejected, silent for a long time and nodded dejectedly, leaving Li Ru in charge of negotiating with the court.

In front of Hangu Pass, Li Ru, wearing a blue Confucian shirt, walked proudly into Zhang Fei's camp.

Also following him was General He Jin, who had been running around for several days and was haggard, with sunken eye sockets and a disheveled look on his face.

"To show his sincerity, the marshal sent the general back."

Zhang Fei said nothing, but Yuan Shao sneered.

"Do you dare not let it go?"

Li Ru raised his hand to Yuan Shao and said, "The marshal has a hundred thousand troops and millions of people. The mountains are high and the passes are dangerous. What should we fear?"

Yuan Shao laughed again and said, "If that's the case, why did Dong Pifu send you here to say surrender?"

Li Ru also laughed and said to the other party: "The marshal is a Han official, how can he 'suggest surrender'? The marshal and you are all princes of the same side, when will we repay each other's grievances? It's better to turn the war into friendship. Besides, I can stand here, just It shows that both sides have the possibility of 'harmony', right?"

Indeed, even though Dong Zhuo broke the drum and was beaten by thousands of people, the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse. The terrain of Hangu Pass was dangerous. How many people would die if we really tried to attack by force?
Zhang Fei and other princes actually do not want to die.

If you really want to fight, wouldn't it be easier to just kill Li Ru?

Cao Cao coughed and said, "The Queen Mother has a decree to protect hundreds of officials, save all people, and kill Dong Zhuo."

Li Ru immediately replied: "All officials and people can be released immediately. As for the marshal, he has always been loyal to the Queen Mother. It is indeed wrong to misunderstand the villain's slander this time, but it is not a bad idea to offset the merits."

Zhang Fei exchanged glances with the generals and decided to report the negotiations beforehand. After all, they had stated that they were admitting defeat. Even if they wanted to fight now, they would not be able to do it because the logistics and supplies could not keep up.

In the end, the two parties reached an agreement and released another [-] people, a group of petty officials, and thirty carts of documents and antiques from the palace as a meeting gift, and sent them to the Eastern Capital together with He Jin.

At the same time, Li Ru quietly sent a batch of wine and food to each prince in front of Hangu Pass, plus 2000 million yuan in consolation money.

The confrontation in front of Hangu Pass seemed to be the second Hulao Pass, but there was no fighting.

Three days later, the Queen Mother's decree came from Huangmen: Dong Zhuo could avoid death, but he had to travel eight thousand miles.

Li Ru's expression changed immediately after hearing this. Dong Zhuo was a famous figure, and as a son-in-law, he would never sit back and watch Taishan die.

The 30 billion promised to be given to the province cannot even buy a life, so what nonsense is that?
"If you want to kill someone, just say it bluntly. Why humiliate people? We absolutely cannot accept this condition."

Yuan Shao couldn't help but jumped out and mocked again: "Are you just buying food? Isn't it embarrassing to bargain?"

Li Ru, whose shame is small but power is big, whose wealth and life are tied to Dong Zhuo, can only resort to a trick.

"Since we can't reach an agreement, let's fight!"

Yuan Shao was furious, drew his sword and shouted: "Fight if you fight, break through the pass, no chickens or dogs left!"

Li Ru sneered and said, "All the officials and people are at the top of the city. Do you want to attack?"

Yuan Shao opened his mouth but couldn't say anything.

He can be cunning and arrogant, but he can't do the stupid thing of killing hundreds of officials and people as well as the defenders, and he can't even say it out loud.

Li Ru said again: "It doesn't matter if we attack, we still have the Empress Dowager and Shi Hou, you just attack and kill!"

Now, even Zhang Fei didn't dare to act rashly.

The Empress Dowager is nominally the mother of the Empress Dowager He, and Shi Hou Liu Bian is the biological son of the Empress Dowager He. Who dares to say one more word between these two?

However, Xiao Huangmen, who came to convey the order, was Zuo Feng's godson. He was very clever and took Li Ru to have a private conversation alone.

"Five billion, Dong Zhuo can't stay in the country, and he must die once in name. Everyone just needs to have a step."

Li Ruduo is very smart, and he knows everything at once.

It turns out that it can be worked around, that would be easy.He returned to Hangu Pass that day and reported the results of the negotiations to Dong Zhuo.

In return, [-] people were released this time, plus officials worth less than [-] shi, and another billion in goods were packed and given to the Queen Mother.

In this way, for five consecutive days, nearly 20 people, thousands of officials and family members, and [-] billion worth of property were released one after another.

Everyone didn't understand why Dong Zhuo was dawdling, like squeezing out toothpaste, but soon, news came from Jin Yiwei's spies.

Dong Zhuo commanded the army to plunder the people in the name of "conquering the Western Regions", and even kidnapped strong men and marched into the Western Regions.

On the sixth day, Dong Zhuo came forward in person, came to the pass, and cut off a strand of long hair in public.

"Dong knows that he has committed a serious crime and should have died to thank the world. However, the war in the Western Region is urgent and we cannot give up halfway. Therefore, today, I will give my hair to the Queen Mother to give an explanation to the world!"

Dong Zhuo knelt on his knees and kowtowed three times and nine times in the direction of Dongdu.

After the ceremony, he stood up, got on his horse, raised his hands to Zhang Fei and others, and said, "I leave the great rivers and mountains to you, sir!"

I saw him beating his horse and whip, passing through Hangu Pass, leading tens of thousands of horses and horses, and heading towards the Western Region.

This is Li Ru's golden cicada's method of escaping from its shell, taking away all the essence of Guanzhong and creating a new territory in the Western Region, circumventing the bottom line set by the Queen Mother.

Dong Zhuo left, and Li Ru kept his promise and ordered the release of all officials and civilians, plus 20 billion in property, to end the Liangzhou military coup.

Yuan Shao was impatient and seized Hangu Pass first, and sent his general Xingye to capture Chang'an.

This guy wants to be the boss of Liangzhou, everyone can tell.

Among them, Li Que and Guo Si were very disgusted.

Are you so damn good at following the rules?Everyone has chased away Fatty Dong. If you want to eat alone, please save some face!

Cao Cao smiled and was not nervous at all, because he had already arranged a backup plan.

Cao Ren fought his way out of Ziwu Road and entered Chang'an City at the same time as Yuan Shao's generals.

The two groups of people collided head-on, trying to strike first and had a ping-pong-pong fight.

It was not until dawn that both sides reported that they were "friendly forces". Yuan Shao's troops suffered a disadvantage and only occupied about one-third of the territory northeast of Chang'an.

When Yuan Shao learned that Cao's army had captured Chang'an, he was angry and anxious. However, the generals in his army were few and Cao Ren was well-equipped both offensively and defensively, so he would definitely not be able to defeat him.

So he could only bring Zhang Fei and Cao Cao together to negotiate.

Zhang Fei said: "I only want Longxi. I won't interfere with anything else."

Cao Cao secretly contacted Li Que, Guo Bang, Zhang Ji and Duan Xuan a few days ago, and everyone reached a consensus.

Chang'an will most likely be taken away by the court bosses, and Zhang Fei will take Longxi for the Ma family, but there are only these two places in Liangzhou.

Now that Yuan Shao has taken Chang'an, it was not part of their plan, so Cao Cao wanted to wait for a price and sell it.

Yuan Shao not only wanted to take Chang'an, but also wanted to occupy half of Liangzhou's territory. There was no way Liangzhou's local faction would agree.

Cao Cao's condition was that taking Wudu himself would be regarded as a tie-up in Guanzhong.

The Western Capital of Chang'an returned to Yuan Shao. After all, the Yuan family had a good reputation in the imperial court, so it was really inappropriate for him to stay in Nanjun.

The rest was divided among the four local generals in Liangzhou. In short, Dong Zhuo took away a bunch of horse thieves, big and small, and there was plenty of territory.

Yuan Shao finally agreed. First of all, the situation was stronger than the man. Lao Cao attacked too quickly and it was impossible to separate the flesh.

Secondly, regarding the local department, he cannot bully them too harshly, otherwise it will not be beneficial in the future.

After several days of wrangling, many parties reached a consensus with difficulty, and Liangzhou opened a new situation.

However, all the officials and the people traveled all the way back to the Eastern Capital. Things were different and people were different, and they shed tears before saying anything.

When Empress Dowager He summoned Liu Bei to return to the court, more than ten princes from Guandong rushed into the eastern capital.

A new round of political competition has heated up.

(End of this chapter)