Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 208 Your Majesty has a request
"How do you know that the knight who came is here to assassinate me?"

In a large marching tent in Weinan, Liu Xieduan was sitting on a carpet.In front of him was Ma Chao, who was wearing a brocade robe and playing with an exquisite knife in boredom.

After hearing Liu Xie's question, Ma Chao's expression was a little astonished. He looked back at Liu Xie slightly, and said hesitantly, "Your Majesty really doesn't know?"

Liu Xie was even more confused by Ma Chao's attitude: "If I knew, why would I ask you?"

"This?..." Seeing this, Ma Chao blushed a little, dodged his sharp eyes, and then said: "There is only one person and one rider here, which is not in line with the hospitality of the Huns. this……"

"From this, you conclude that he is not the envoy sent by Qubei and Liu Bao to meet me?" Liu Xie glanced at Ma Chao, took the knife in Ma Chao's hand and cut his nails, looked up at Ma Chao contemptuously: " After all, you are also a son and daughter of the prairie, and you pay attention to kindness, kindness, and openness, how come you have learned to lie and not draft after you have been an official in the court for only one year?"

Ma Chao was not at all embarrassed when Liu Xie exposed the lie. Instead, he glanced regretfully: "Your Majesty really wants to know the reason?"

Liu Xie didn't bother to answer this time.

"Your Majesty, the Xiongnu, like the Qianghu, are nomadic peoples. They think differently from the Han people. They always only respect warriors on horseback. And the honorary title of Supporting Lida Shanyu will not be easily dedicated to them. Weak Han people who speak for themselves. The assassin used this title to deceive you when he came up, and it would be strange if he said that he had no conspiracy."

After Ma Chao said this, Liu Xie almost cut his nails with a knife—well, no wonder Ma Chao asked himself if he really didn't know?It turned out that the biggest flaw came out here.

It is easy for a harsh person to blame himself, but once something happens to him, it is easy to be in the mountains and not know the truth.

However, Liu Xie is also human, after hearing this answer that hurt his self-esteem.Although he knew that what Ma Chao said was the truth, Liu Xie couldn't help but argue: "I admit that I really can't convince the Huns at this time, but I can't guarantee that there are people who are pro-Han in the Huns tribe." One faction, if the person who comes here is really a Hun who yearns for a big man, what will happen if you kill him by mistake?"

"If they look forward to the life of the Han Dynasty, then they are not worthy of being called the Huns on the grassland." Ma Chao said these words very seriously, and Liu Xie could even see that these words came from Ma Chao's heart.However, the next sentence made Liu Xie feel slightly chilled.

"Even if the killing is wrong, then kill it. The Huns will never blame me for the life of an envoy."

Even after time travelling, Liu Xie has seen too many deaths.He even caused a lot of deaths by himself, but today he heard Ma Chao's words so lightly.Liu Xie feels that there is indeed a gap between him and this era that is not easy to get out of.

After Ma Chao said this, the two people in the big tent fell into a kind of speechless embarrassment.Fortunately, at this moment, the tent door was opened by one person. After seeing Liu Xie, Xu Huang cupped his fists and saluted, "Your Majesty, you are right. After Qubei and Liu Bao returned to the city, Yu Fuluo immediately sent People have sent a lot of condolences, I implore Your Majesty not to leave in a fit of anger."

"Where are those people?" Liu Xie asked.

"According to His Majesty's will, let the last general block it back."

"Yeah." Liu Xie nodded, and said to Xu Huang: "Good job, you all go out first. Remember, you must have more snacks tonight. If I guess well, I'm afraid something interesting will happen tonight. thing."

"Are they still wicked?!" Xu Huang became angry when he heard the words, his scorched beard began to tremble and said: "If they dare to come tonight, the general will definitely let them come and never come back!"

"Don't be so nervous, we don't know what will happen tonight." Liu Xie waved his hand to signal Xu Huang not to be so excited: "Anyway, there is nothing wrong with being more careful when you go out."

"The last general knows." Xu Huang nodded and clasped his fists, and retreated as he said.

Hearing that something might happen tonight, Ma Chao also bid farewell to Liu Xie.Liu Xie knew that this guy would probably sleep in his tent.Unlike Xu Huang, he was quite lazy in running the army, but if there was any trouble, he would definitely lead his guards to the front earlier than Xu Huang.

When meeting with Qubei and Liu Bao, Liu Xie had actually walked outside the city of the Huns.But when such an unexpected thing happened, Liu Xie would naturally not enter the account of the Huns so easily.Otherwise, the face of the emperor of the Han Dynasty is really worthless.

In order to let the Huns know his anger, Liu Xie also deceived Qu Bei and Liu Bao to return to Chang'an immediately.Of course, this is just a matter of attitude.Although Qubei and Liu Bao knew that Liu Xie was unlikely to leave, they still listed more than a dozen reasons, such as 'it's getting late', 'Your Majesty's pommel horse is tired', 'the Huns' camp is close at hand up' and so on.

When it was really getting late, Liu Xie ordered to be stationed on the spot like an angry and arrogant little daughter-in-law-of course, although he compromised in action.But his words are still very strong, saying that he will leave for Chang'an early in the morning.

From this, Liu Xie concluded that something will definitely happen tonight.But whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, he couldn't guess it.

When the entire big tent was empty, Liu Xie also followed Ma Chao's example, throwing the knife in his hand back and forth in boredom.Then, after the butter lamp in the big tent flickered suddenly, he asked without looking back, "How is the investigation going?"

"It should be Yuan Shu." The voice was deep and mysterious, which was Li Ru's unique accent.

Hearing this answer, Liu Xie suddenly felt a sense of loss for some reason.Before this assassination, all the deaths he passed by were related to Dong Bai who vowed to take revenge.But this time when he suddenly heard that it wasn't her, Liu Xie didn't know whether he should be lucky or something else.

Ever since the incident in Mei County, Dong Bai seemed to have evaporated from the Han territory.Diao Chan is such a capable woman, she used all her strength to search for a trace of Dong Bai's figure, but she still found nothing.

From this point of view, Dong Bai has become more calm and mature. For more than half a year, she must be like a jellyfish accumulating venom, quietly lurking in the deepest part of the seabed, waiting for the most appropriate time for her to appear.

After sighing, Liu Xie put aside the distracting thoughts in his mind, turned to the business and said, "Whether the assassin belongs to Yuan Shu or the Huns. Have you found out about this?"

"Your Majesty understands what Your Majesty means." Although Li Ru's expression could not be seen, from this sentence, Liu Xie could hear Li Ru's surprise at his sharp judgment now.After Yuemo paused for a while, Li Rucai continued to speak leisurely: "The Black Ice Terrace has investigated the life of the assassin. Although he is very lonely among the Huns tribe, many Huns can prove that he entered Han with Yu Fuluo. , is an out-and-out Hun."

"Then why do you say that this matter should be instigated by Yuan Shu behind the scenes?"

"Because the crossbow used by the assassins is not something that the Huns can make. Although the crossbow has been worn off, but judging from the skills and materials, it must be a military crossbow produced in Wan County. Only the best iron smelting crossbow Only Wanjun can create such a refined iron crossbow."

Liu Xie nodded, and after connecting the fragmentary clues, the conspiracy that had already been outlined in his mind became clearer and fuller: "It was done by the Huns, but they were produced by Yuan Shu's lair." Moreover, at the time when Fuluo was seriously injured, Qubei and Liu Bao tried to cover up the matter... From this point of view, the Xiongnu tribe has begun to split."

The corners of Liu Xie's mouth twitched, and he felt that this matter had a little meaning: "Some people tend to cooperate with the Han Dynasty and hope to follow me; while the other part of the Huns still do not give up and hope to cross Mounting a steed, holding a scimitar to conquer the Central Plains... Oh, it's really interesting. I can probably guess what will happen tonight."

And just as soon as Liu Xie finished speaking, Liu Xie heard Xu Huang's voice outside the tent: "Your Majesty, I will have something to report at the end."

Liu Xie waved his hand, and the butter lamp in the tent flickered slightly.The slanting shadow behind Liu Xie disappeared immediately: "Let him in."

Xu Huang who was outside the tent was slightly startled, he had already heard clearly that what Liu Xie said was 'let him in' instead of letting himself in.In this way, not only did the Son of Heaven already know that there was a visitor tonight, he even knew the identity of the visitor.

So, Xu Huang backed away slowly, revealing the rough-decorated carriage behind him.With a wave of his hand, he withdrew the interception of the Huben army, and said: "Your Majesty, please."

(End of this chapter)