Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 364 Contradiction
"My fair lady, a gentleman is so good. This lady has bright eyes and good dancing skills, and she can make your majesty look happy. Why not?" Dong Zhao came to the court with an extremely embarrassed face. He was originally a cunning and decisive strategist Unexpectedly, a banquet turned him into a clumsy sycophant, and it really made him taste the pain of a dumb man eating coptis.

"It's more appropriate to become a beauty by rushing to the crown." Liu Xie turned around and gave the dancer a wink. The dancer was so ashamed that she buried her head in Liu Xie's chest.The people in front of him were all stunned: Our emperor is not only proficient in government affairs and war, but also a master at picking up girls!

Dong Zhao and Liu Xie wanted to expose this matter so that they could get into today's business as soon as possible.Unexpectedly, Sima Fang's high-minded scholar-bureaucrat's temper turned upside down. He was upright by nature, and valued the prestige of family education the most. He couldn't help but sneered at Liu Xie: "Your Majesty, do you want to follow the example of Cao A?"

What Sima Fang said was referring to Mrs. Bian, Cao Cao's concubine.Mrs. Bian was originally a dancer in Langya. When Cao Cao married her, she had a deadly feud with the Huan family, a prominent family in Yanzhou, which caused a lot of controversy.

When Sima Fang was in Luoyang, he didn't like Yuan Shu the most, and he didn't care much about Yuan Shao.But Cao Cao was the only one who looked at him with admiration. He even recommended Cao Cao as Luoyang North Captain—that was Cao Cao's first official position in his life.

This is how the relationship between the Cao family and the Sima family was established.It can be seen from this that Sima Fang attaches great importance to Cao Cao.But after the Bian incident, Sima Fang felt very sorry for Cao Cao, thinking that it was an unwise move for Cao Cao to offend the scholar family because of a small loss and a big loss.This time Sima Fang was talking about this matter, obviously he was accusing Liu Xie of not delaying military affairs because of women's sex.

This made it unbearable for anyone with IQ and self-respect. Liu Xie had never been an idiot, so he turned around and smiled coldly at Sima Fang: "Master Sima, do you think you look down on these actresses?"

Sima Fang is an upright gentleman, he most believes in Confucius' saying that "there is no distinction between teaching and learning", and he has always treated people without distinction of superiority or inferiority.Liu Xie's question was taken out of context, but he was speechless for a while.After furrowing his brows deeply and feeling angry for a moment, he finally said: "My humble minister... the grassroots don't mean that. It's just that your majesty is still a prisoner, and instead of thinking about his family and country, he is jealous of people like Zhang Yang. What the Son of Heaven did."

Hearing that Sima Fang didn't insult the singer anymore, Liu Xie seemed a little relieved.But seeing Sima Fang's gloomy and angry face, he couldn't help feeling very bored, so he simply stretched out his hand and let go of the singer, returned to his seat and poured a glass of wine: "There are nine times out of ten times when you are unhappy in life. As the Son of Heaven, Stealing the floating life for half a day is not enough...forget it, Diao Chan, let me tell you all the things you have found out."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone was at a loss.But then, they saw that the coquettish singer just now changed her face, and said coldly like a cold female strategist: "Return to Your Majesty, the reason why Mr. Dong Zhaodong came to Hanoi is It was not Yuan Shao's assignment, but Hanoi, where our army fled. There are several secret letters written in the mansion, some to Cao Cao in Yanzhou, some to Yuan Shu in Yangzhou, and some to Liu Yan in Yizhou... It seems that our Mr. Dong is a lost wild horse, looking for the grassland that belongs to him."

Dong Zhao looked at Diao Chan in disbelief. He never imagined that such a seemingly simple girl was actually a master craftsman of the Han Dynasty.Suddenly recalling her seemingly unintentional stumble just now, she immediately turned pale with shock and said, "Did you just want to kill Zhang Yang?!"

"Yes, I did have that intention just now. In fact, as long as Zhang Yang dies, the Han army outside the city will launch a night attack. In this way, the Hanoi army has no leader, and your majesty's five senses are on standby at any time. Mr. Dong can stop Can His Majesty get out of trouble?" After saying this, Diao Chan was not a magnanimous gentleman after all, she turned her head to look at Sima Fang and said back: "Mr. Sima, do you still think that Your Majesty is a prisoner at this moment?"

Sima Fang's face turned red. He had seen all the conflicts in his eyes just now, but he thought it was just the emperor and Zhang Yang who were jealous. Unexpectedly, this dancer girl turned out to be a secret agent of the Han Dynasty.And in the blink of an eye, the emperor even avoided a sword fight... Such ingenious and unparalleled calculations are already much better than him knowing the situation but having no plan.

For a while, Sima Fang was ashamed and ashamed, prostrated himself on the ground and pleaded guilty to Liu Xie: "The grass people are old and dim-sighted, and they missed His Majesty's important affairs a few times, and they deserve death."

"You, you... this, him?" The one who was most shocked at the moment was Dong Zhao on the field. He first pointed at Diao Chan, then looked at Liu Xie, but he couldn't even ask a word.

"Don't think about it too much. Since I was able to contact Sima's family before the siege, I naturally arranged for others to be in Hanoi. Diao Chan didn't sneak into the city after you captured me, but she was already in the city." Speaking of this, Liu Xie's eyes gradually became cloudy, he suddenly drank the wine in the cup, and shouted angrily: "It's just that I didn't expect that someone in the small Hanoi county would dare to attack my Jinyiwei!"

Liu Xie dropped the wine bottle to the ground with a 'snap', but it was a pity that the wine bottle was made of bronze and lacked the momentum of broken jade.But Liu Xie's anger kept rising, and he walked up to Dong Zhao step by step, like a dragon looking at its prey: "I have known you Dong Gongren for a long time, but I didn't expect you to have the courage to fight against me." enemy!"

Frightened by Liu Xie's momentum, Dong Zhao hurriedly bowed to the ground, but Liu Xie was unmoved, and continued to sarcastically say: "If the people behind Zhang Yang this time are Yuan Shu and his ilk, I'm afraid you would have persuaded Zhang Yang to surrender to you. I understand, but behind Zhang Yang is Yuan Benchu, the four generations and five lords after all. You can’t be sure who will be the one who will sit in the world in the future, so you have to pretend like this, on the one hand, pretending to do your best to resist the Han army, and on the other hand On the other hand, I want to get some promises from me, so that you will have a way to advance and retreat..."

Speaking of this, Liu Xie flicked his sleeves in disgust, as if Dong Zhaonai was such a dirty person: "I have never opposed smart people, but I hate people who pretend to be smart the most. You really think Yuan Benchu ​​is deaf, or is he Do you think I’m blind? Let me tell you, at this moment, your banquet not only didn’t make me happy, it also made Yuan Benchu ​​very unhappy!”

After being reprimanded by Liu Xie, Dong Zhao calmed down strangely. He closed his eyes, and after planning all the situation in front of him in his mind again, he bowed and smiled and said, "Everything your Majesty said is like gold. , I admire you. I thought that a young man like His Majesty must be extremely proud and fragile. If he makes a mistake, he may fall into the abyss and fall into despair. Unexpectedly, His Majesty is not only talented, but also has an iron heart... ...It's just that, even though His Majesty has a chest, you may have forgotten that you didn't choose to escape and ascend to heaven just now."

When it comes to the last sentence, Dong Zhao's tone is very strange and dangerous, and a trace of coldness that only a ferocious beast can't help flashing across his eyes, he sneered and said: "This time I know your Majesty's plan, if I act first, control Your Majesty, once again, we will plan to lure the Han army into the city and wipe them out..."

Unexpectedly, Dong Zhao threatened so much, but Liu Xie became calmer and calmer.He took a step back slowly, relieving the oppression on Dong Zhao, but in fact he used retreat as an advance, and calmly said something like a cheetah poised to leap: "Dong Zhao, do you really think that I can't be bullied when I'm young? Even vulgar people like Zhang Yang just now know that turning against the Han Dynasty is a matter of harm to oneself and no one else. Even if you control Zhen, what can you do? Shut it up, or kill it? Then sit and wait for Yuan Shao, who is overjoyed, to treat you as Scapegoat attack and destroy, and then step on your corpses to make a name for yourself?"

Liu Xie is right, the Han Dynasty today is not the Han Dynasty of the past after all.The reputation of Zhengshuo in the world is there, and the princes of the four directions have nothing to do about it.Those who are not powerful, try to actively establish a relationship with the Han Dynasty in order to be orthodox; those who can rival the Han Dynasty, even if they hate the Han Dynasty, they dare not openly act as traitors.

There is no doubt that Yuan Shao will benefit the most from defeating Liu Xie.But will Yuan Shao accept Zhang Yang and Dong Zhao's love because of this?No, he will only thank these two people on the one hand, and on the other hand actively be the vanguard of the crusade against Zhang Yang and Dong Zhao, so as to raise his reputation of four generations and five princes to the point of serving the country and hating the righteous.

This is why Liu Xie dared to attack Zhang Yang just now.

And people like Dong Zhao who are good at calculating, it is even more impossible not to see these things.The reason why he always wants to show a strong side is nothing more than trying to bluff Liu Xie, and then defraud Liu Xie of greater benefits.But in this process, he has to haggle over every detail and walk on thin ice.

After all, Dong Zhao wanted Liu Xie to see their abilities, but he couldn't really upset the Han Dynasty.At the same time, they had to be on guard against Yuan Shao's sudden intrusion and disrupt their overall situation.Therefore, this time Dong Zhaojin is not, nor is he retreating.

When Liu Xie completely uncovered this fig leaf, Dong Zhao stood in the hall as if he had been stripped naked by Liu Xie, embarrassed and helpless.

"Now, you should tell me how you, a newcomer to Hanoi, uncovered the identity of the Jinyiwei and ruined my plan to cooperate with outsiders here?" Liu Xie finally looked at Dong Zhao, his eyes as if at this moment The wine bottle in his hand: "Or, at this point, do you still have a plan?"

(End of this chapter)