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Chapter 157: Everyone in Yecheng is in danger, Youzhou issues a secret decree!

The General’s Mansion, the meeting hall.

"boom--!"

A tea bowl whizzed past Ju Shou's ear and hit the pillar behind him hard, causing fragments to fly everywhere, leaving a tiny cut on his face, from which trickles of blood flowed out.

Yuan Xi's face was filled with murderous intent. He stared at Ju Shou, Shen Pei, and Tian Feng, his eyes filled with rage. He shouted, "Tell me! Who spread the rumor that I killed my brother and imprisoned my father?"

"Did you, Ju Gongyou, do it, or were all three of you involved?"

Recently, the news about Yuan Xi killing his brother and imprisoning his father has spread widely in Yecheng. Such remarks can be heard in almost all major restaurants and teahouses.

What’s even more frightening is that many people have begun to believe that this is true!
Even Yuan Xi's childhood friend, the commander guarding the west gate, secretly told him that the city defense forces also began to discuss the matter.

This made Yuan Xi very angry.

The reason why he was able to imprison Yuan Shao safely and without worries was because he deceived the city defense troops in the city.

Once they launch an attack and demand to meet with Yuan Shao to find out the truth, he will be helpless.

So far, the only ones who know the truth are a few high-ranking members of the Tiger Camp, as well as Ju Su, Shen Pei, Tian Feng and Jia Xu who has already escaped!

Yuan Xi would not doubt his own private army, because these people were already on the same side with him;

They would not suspect Jia Xu, because the news began to circulate long after Jia Xu left, and Jia Xu had no motive.

Therefore, the three people with the greatest suspicion are Ju Shou, Shen Pei, and Tian Feng!
Especially Ju Su!
"This matter has nothing to do with us." Ju Su raised his hand to wipe the blood off his face and said calmly, "The three of us are in front of the Second Young Master every day and cannot leave the house at all. How can we pass on the news?"

"Besides, we won't risk the General's life."

Yuan Xi's face was clouded with gloom. Even though he knew that what Ju Shou said was true, he still did not let go of his doubts and just sneered.

"If it's not you, then who could it be?"

"Was it Yuan Shang or Feng Ji, or Guo Tu or Xin Ping, who sent a message to the people outside in their dreams? Tell me about it!"

"You are all father's capable advisers. Aren't you all good at making decisions? Then give me a reasonable explanation!"

Faced with Yuan Xi's anger, Ju Su and the other two remained silent.

Not to mention that they really don’t know who is spreading the rumors behind the scenes, even if they know they will never tell it.

Seeing this, Yuan Xi became even more annoyed.

When these counselors were working for his father, they would rush to offer suggestions and express their opinions whenever a problem arose. But when it came time to work for him, they all started to play dumb!

This is definitely intentional!
Jia Wenhe was right, I should have killed these guys before. As long as my father is not dead, they will never return to me, let alone be of any use to me!
Yuan Xi began to regret not listening to Jia Xu's advice. At the beginning, he had been dreaming that he could take over everything from Yuan Shao.

He recruited those strategists who were truly capable and had the support of aristocratic families to serve him.

Now it seems that it was totally wrong!
But things have come to this point, he has missed the best opportunity, and it is impossible for him to continue killing people at this critical moment, otherwise the rumors outside will confirm his evil deeds of killing his brother and imprisoning his father.

After glaring at Ju Su and the others hatefully, Yuan Xi left the meeting hall angrily.

After he left, Shen Pei breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Ju Su, and asked in a low voice: "Gong Yu, who do you think spread the news? Was it Xun Chen or Xin Pi? Or was it Xu You?"

In fact, they had some guesses in their minds.

It was simply that someone saw through Yuan Xi's lies and wanted to use public opinion to put pressure on Yuan Xi, inducing the city defense troops to take action in order to rescue Yuan Shao.

The only people in the entire Yecheng who are able to see through this and are still free are these three people.

"I can't analyze it for now." Ju Shou shook his head, touched his chin and said, "But this is a good thing for us. I hope the city defense army can react as soon as possible and not be deceived by Yuan Xi."

Shen Pei sighed helplessly: "I hope so."

Tian Feng, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly said, "If we could find a way to pass the message to Xu Ziyuan or other city defense forces, we wouldn't have to be so passive."

Ju Su let out a breath of turbid air in frustration, "It's a pity that we are trapped in the mansion and can't get out at all."

……

Five days later, Yuan Xi's face gradually became grim as he looked at the investigation information presented to him.

"Good! Good! Very good!" Yuan Xi laughed in anger, tightly grasping the briefing in his hand, with a strong murderous intent in his eyes, "I didn't touch you because I wanted to keep things quiet and not make things worse. I will have a chance to gain your loyalty in the future!"

"But you are so good, not only are you not grateful, but you come to cause trouble for me!"

"Wenhe is right. If we want to achieve great things, we must root out the problem completely!"

In the past few days, he mobilized all his personal connections to investigate where the rumors came from.

After a lot of investigation, the source of the rumor was finally identified.

It is the Feng family and the Guo family who are leading and pushing the issue from behind!

There were also secret reports that Feng Wei and Guo Kai had been to the Xin Mansion, which meant that the Xin family was also involved.

Yuan Xi also instantly understood the person behind all this - Xin Ping's younger brother, Xin Pi, another strategist under Yuan Shao!
This person is quite intelligent and has a grudge against him for killing his brother, so it is very likely that he will see through the truth!
"Humph!"

After confirming the person behind the scenes, Yuan Xi could no longer suppress his anger. He threw the briefing in his hand to the ground, grabbed the sword hanging on the wall, and said coldly:
"Send the order!"

"Leave one hundred people in the mansion, and the rest of you, follow me to kill the remaining traitors!"

"promise!"

Late at night, four hundred members of the Tiger Camp followed Yuan Xi out to kill people.

……

Xin Mansion.

Although it was late at night, Xin Pi had not yet fallen asleep. He was discussing the next course of action with Feng Wei and Guo Kai in the study.

Feng Wei said: "Now, everyone in Yecheng knows that Yuan Xi killed his brother and imprisoned his father. However... there is a new piece of news circulating."

Xin Pi frowned and asked, "What new news?"

Feng Wei was a little hesitant when he heard this, as if he didn't dare to say it.

Finally, it was Guo Kai who said, "Some people say that the general held the emperor hostage and was plotting a rebellion; Yuan Xi imprisoned the general in order to purge the emperor's entourage, which was an act of sacrificing one's own family for the sake of justice."

"What nonsense!" As soon as he finished speaking, Xin Pi started to curse: "The general is a role model for the world, a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty who led an army to kill Dong Zhuo. Who doesn't know this?"

"This is clearly a rumor that Yuan Xi deliberately spread in order to escape punishment!"

Xin Pi was a little annoyed. He didn't expect that Yuan Xi would dare to release such news in order to escape punishment. This would completely ruin the reputation of the Yuan family!
It is much more serious than killing one’s brother and imprisoning one’s father!
"Then what should we do?" Feng Wei asked, with a worried look on his face. "Yuan Xi has been sending people to investigate who is spreading the news recently, and he has arrested many people. If this continues, he will track us down sooner or later."

To spread rumors, you can't just find someone to talk to. You have to spend money to hire a large number of people in the city to chat and spread the news inadvertently.

Doing so will definitely leave evidence, and as long as we follow the clues and spend time, we will eventually trace it back to them.

"Don't worry, the time is almost here. I will go to the palace tomorrow and ask the emperor for an order to investigate the murder of Yuan Xi's brother and imprisonment of his father on the grounds of public opinion in the city." "Then we will just need to go to the general's mansion to meet the general, and we will make sure that thief Yuan Xi has nowhere to hide!"

Xin Pi vowed that except for the message "Yuan Xi killed his own relatives for the sake of justice", everything was going according to his plan.

It is not long before the villain is brought to justice and revenge is avenged for my brother.

However, as soon as Xin Pi finished speaking, the door of the study was kicked open from outside.

A cold laugh came into the study along with the cold wind.

"You guys really have a good way!"

Yuan Xi appeared at the door of the study wearing armor and holding a sword.

At the same time, a large number of fully armed soldiers from the Tiger Camp rushed into the study and surrounded Xin Pi and others.

Seeing this scene, Xin Pi's face suddenly changed. He stood up and stared at Yuan Xi with resentment.

"Thief! Why are you here?!"

"Why can't I be here?" Yuan Xi's face was full of sarcasm, but murderous intent surged in his eyes. "If you don't come to see me, I will come to see you! Xin Congshi!"

"No... you should be called the remnant of the traitor!"

When these words were spoken, Feng Wei and Guo Kai were both shocked.

Yuan Xi is going to use his old tricks again and label them all traitors!

Xin Pi was furious, and pointed at Yuan Xi's nose and cursed: "You thief! You killed your brother and imprisoned your father. You killed loyal people without permission. You are a traitor! I curse you to die a miserable death!"

"puff!"

Yuan Xi didn't waste any time talking to him. He slashed with his sword and sent Xin Pi to see Xin Ping on the spot.

Then he looked at Feng Wei and Guo Kai who were trembling with fear and grinned grimly.

"Kill them!"

"No one in the Xin Mansion will be spared!"

Inside the house, blood was splattered everywhere.

Outside the house, the waning moon is like a hook.

The next morning, a shocking news spread.

The Feng, Guo, and Xin families were suspected of rebellion, so Yuan Xi led his troops to visit them. Overnight, hundreds of people from the three families were slaughtered!
This news instantly shocked all the aristocratic families in Yecheng!
All the noble families in Yecheng were in a state of panic because of this.

For a time, there was panic and everyone was in danger.

Three days later.

The heads or elders of the major families in Yecheng secretly came to the Xun Mansion to discuss with Xun Chen how to protect themselves under Yuan Xi's bloody suppression.

……

at the same time.

Youzhou, Yicheng, and the prefectural government.

Gongsun Zan sat in the main seat, looking at the urgent report delivered by the spy at full speed, a look of ecstasy appeared on his face.

"Brother, how is it?" Gongsun Fan asked anxiously.

"What Jia Wenhe said is true. Half a month ago, all four gates of Yecheng were sealed, and no one was allowed to enter or leave. At the same time, Yan Liang led the Jizhou Army and stationed near the city gates."

Gongsun Zan handed the urgent report to Gongsun Fan and said to his son Gongsun Xu: "Go and invite Jia Xu to come quickly. Don't be negligent in the slightest."

Gongsun Xu took the order and turned to invite Jia Xu.

Gongsun Fan, who had also quickly read the urgent report, laughed and said, "Brother, God is helping me! I didn't expect that the old villain Yuan Shao would be rebelled by his son! With such a good opportunity, we must take Jizhou!"

"Ha ha ha ha--!"

Gongsun Zan also laughed heartily.

Since the campaign against Dong Zhuo, he began to compete with Yuan Shao.

At first, he relied on the elite troops of the White Horse Volunteers and always had the upper hand.

They even reached Jizhou at one point and occupied many of Jizhou's counties.

Later, the Battle of Longcou was just a defeat, but it resulted in heavy losses, and the army no longer had the capital to compete with Yuan Shao.

This is the huge gap in background between the two.

Yuan Shao occupied the wealthy Jizhou, while he occupied only the poor and cold Youzhou.

Yuan Shao could lose many times, but every time he lost he would be seriously injured.

Gongsun Fan said with some concern: "Although Jia Wenhe has good ideas, his reputation is not very good. My brother previously paid homage to the emperor in front of the two armies and used the name of clearing the court of evil officials to fight against Yuan Shao. If we use Jia Wenhe now..."

"If you don't tell me and I don't tell you, who would know that he is Jia Wenhe?" Gongsun Zan said indifferently.

He is so short of advisers.

Jia Xu followed Dong Zhuo, Guo Si, Li Jue, Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu successively, although he was a treacherous minister at first glance.

But this also just shows his ability!

Otherwise, why do rebels repeatedly use him?
As the two were talking, Zhao Yun frowned slightly.

If Gongsun Zan really uses a traitor like Jia Xu, he will be greatly disappointed.

Just as he was about to persuade Gongsun Zan, Gongsun Xu came in with Jia Xu.

As soon as he entered the door, before Gongsun Zan could speak, Jia Xu took out the imperial edict from his arms.

"Youzhou Mu Gongsun Zan receives the order!"

　There have been a lot of rhythmic ones recently.

　　Basically, I guessed the plot of "I" and guessed that Yuan Shao would not die, and the protagonist would continue to pretend to be a grandson. It was inevitable that Yuan Shao would not die, and the introduction hinted at it. It was nonsense for the protagonist to pretend to be a grandson.

　　I didn't want to pay attention to it at first, but the pace is getting faster and faster, which seriously affects the senses of new readers. I really think that the protagonist has always been a waste.

　　But in fact, everyone knows that the protagonist of Yecheng must be captured. It's just not captured as the readers guessed, not by letting Yuan Xi kill Yuan Shao directly, which is too unreasonable.

　　Some people are saying that the protagonist has no power if he doesn't seize power. After reading this, my dear ministers, do you think the protagonist really has no power? Does he really not seize power? Have you really guessed the direction of the plot?
　　Definitely didn't guess it!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)