The Three Kingdoms: My Wife is a Great and Good Teacher

Those ministers close to Dong Zhuo were stunned for a moment, then jumped out and pointed at Yuan Shao.

"How dare you, Yuan Benchu, slander Prime Minister Dong?!"

"Yuan Shao, do you think that just because you have a little fame you can ignore the rules in this kind of situation?!"

Yuan Shao glanced at them with his peripheral vision, snorted coldly, and said indifferently:

"The rats hiding in the dark corners accuse the eagles standing in the candlelight."

"Sad, ridiculous."

Chapter 231 My Sword Is Not At All Disadvantaged4.6K

"He Jin has been executed by the Prime Minister. The 'Wang Mang' you mentioned has had his head cut off by the Prime Minister himself and hung in front of the main gate of the Imperial Palace for three days. The people cheered at the time."

At this time, a strategist with a mustache who was sitting on the left side of Dong Zhuo stood up and spoke coldly to Yuan Shao.

"Yuan Shao, don't you think that your little tricks to win people's hearts can compare to the prime minister's military achievements in ending the chaos caused by the eunuchs?"

Yuan Shao narrowed his eyes slightly. Once a person loses his shame, he is indeed almost invincible.

The so-called Dong Zhuo's end of the eunuchs' relatives was purely a great bargain. The real heroes either kept silent or left the capital long ago.

"What you mean is that you think the Prime Minister is a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty?" Yuan Shao asked with a sarcastic look on his face.

"Yuan Shao, what do you mean?" Li Ru asked, "If the Prime Minister is not a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, who is?"

At this time, Yuan Wei, who was sitting in a high position not far away, also frowned and looked at Yuan Shao: "Benchu... stop messing around."

Yuan Ji beside him also looked at Yuan Shao with concern, only Yuan Shu beside Yuan Ji watched coldly.

"Gong Lu, go and persuade your sister." Yuan Wei said to Yuan Shu.

Seeing that Yuan Shu was unmoved, Yuan Wei continued to frown and whispered: "This concerns the reputation and future of the Yuan family. Don't act on impulse."

Yuan Shu then slowly stood up and said to Dong Zhuo: "My second sister is not good at drinking normally, but she became like this after just a few drinks. I hope you don't mind my drunken words, Grand Tutor."

This doesn't seem like the attitude of asking for help, and the words don't seem too sincere.

However, Li Ru nodded slightly to Dong Zhuo at this time, and Dong Zhuo's brows furrowed slightly and then relaxed again.

"It's okay. As the saying goes, young people are young and frivolous. How can you be frivolous if you don't have some ability and talent? The Yuan family has you, your second sister and Yuan Ji. The family will have three officials for five generations." Dong Zhuo said with a smile.

Although the Yuan family had previously attached themselves to He Jin, there were also people like Yuan Shao who opposed He Jin. Moreover, the Yuan family had so much prestige and so many disciples that if you randomly pick a handful of them in the prefectures and counties around Sili, you will find that there are several people from the Yuan family.

For example, Dong Zhuo himself could actually be considered a former official of Yuan Wei.

Therefore, the Yuan family was not liquidated, and it was impossible for them to be liquidated. Instead, Dong Zhuo needed to stabilize prominent families like the Yuan family so that his position as "Prime Minister" would have "legitimacy."

After all, the basis of title and power comes not only from one's own strength, but also from the recognition of the ruled.

Simply put, even if Yuan Shu did not stand up and speak for Yuan Shao, Dong Zhuo would not do anything to her because of Yuan Shao's nonsense.

At the current stage, Dong Zhuo is listening to the advice of Li Ru and Jia Xu, and he must win over the hearts of the ministers and aristocratic families in the court.

"Oh? Then the fifth generation of 'Five Generations of Three Dukes', I wonder if he was one of Your Majesty's Three Dukes, or yours, Dong Zhongying?" Yuan Shao said coldly.

This behavior, which completely disrespected her, made Dong Zhuo narrow his eyes slightly.

It would be fine if it was just once, but Yuan Shao seemed to be getting too aggressive. Even if Dong Zhuo couldn't kill her, there were many ways to weaken her prestige and let her know who was in control of the court now.

"Yuan Benchu, are you really determined to go against us?" Dong Zhuo gave Yuan Shao one last chance.

"Why don't you take a look at your former colleagues and see what positions they have held now? With your ability and reputation, as well as the relationship between the Yuan family and us, you should not be limited to the position of 'General of the Palace'."

At this time, Yuan Shao took out a black document from his bosom with an expressionless face. When most people at the meeting didn't know what it meant, he spread out the document, held it in one hand, and let it hang to the ground.

Due to the distance and the interference of the flickering candlelight at the banquet, no one knew what was written on the document that Yuan Shao took out at first.

Even Dong Zhuo was a little confused, until Li Ru, who was standing beside him, saw what it was and tilted his head to remind Dong Zhuo softly, then Dong Zhuo frowned slightly.

The others didn't understand either and started asking questions.

"What is this?"

"Yuan Shao, what on earth did you take out? The Prime Minister asked you a question, but you haven't answered it yet."

"This is my answer." Yuan Shao said calmly.

He glanced at the people present and said, "It seems that many of you have poor memories. You have forgotten something you just saw this morning."

Isn't this morning the morning court session?

Having said that, many people remembered that this was the memorial that was stopped by Dong Zhuo and not presented to Your Majesty.

Although there was more than one memorial that was intercepted or read by Dong Zhuo during the morning court session, because it came from Liu Yu, the Minister of the Imperial Clan, people were indeed more concerned about what was written in it.

So the question is, how did Yuan Shao get this document?

Obviously, Yuan Shao knew that this issue could not be mentioned, otherwise the focus would be diverted, so she had to take the initiative and strike while the iron was hot.

"This is a letter from Liu Yu, the governor of Youzhou and the heir apparent of the Han Dynasty, and your Majesty's uncle." Yuan Shao said loudly, starting with Liu Yu's identity to point out its importance.

Then he continued, "The book talks about what happened recently in Youzhou."

"Dong Zhuo melted one of the twelve golden men despite the objections of his ministers, causing the Han Dynasty to lose a strand of destiny and collapse in Hebei."

No one was too surprised, because even if the truth of the matter had not spread widely on the surface over the past few days, officials in the capital city had already known the seriousness of the matter through various channels.

"Grand Tutor Dong didn't do it on purpose. She wanted to rebuild Luoyang and melt gold to mint coins to fill the financial gap." Someone defended Dong Zhuo.

"It does seem so on the surface, but if there is really a lack of money, the money collected by the imperial palace and the Ten Attendants would have been enough for disaster relief." Yuan Shao said coldly.

"The reason why the golden man was melted was to prevent Your Majesty from carrying out the ceremony of accepting the Mandate of Heaven. Your Majesty, who has lost the Mandate of Heaven, should be deposed."

"Right, Dong Xiang?"

Facing Yuan Shao's questioning, Dong Zhuo remained calm and said, "It's just your conjecture."

"I want to depose the emperor because he is unworthy of the throne."

Yuan Shao laughed when he heard this. This explanation was simply treating everyone as fools.

However, powerful officials can also call a horse a zebra. Dong Zhuo has now completely controlled the court, and there is no force like the "Ten Attendants" to counter him. Such "speculation" reasons alone are indeed not enough to prevent Dong Zhuo from deposing the emperor.

So Yuan Shao sneered twice and continued, "Then, if the second emperor appears in Hebei, will Prime Minister Dong continue to depose the emperor?"

"What? The second Mr. Right?"

"How can it be?!"

"How could there be two emperors at the same time in the three hundred years of the Han Dynasty? Yuan Shao, don't lie."

"Yuan Shao, you must have drunk too much to say such nonsense."

Yuan Shao said calmly: "If you think that Lord Bo An is talking nonsense and wrote such a document because he was drunk, then I have nothing to say."

"This is from the documents. Not long ago, I learned from a letter from Hebei that auspicious signs of the Son of Heaven descending on Youzhou were coming, and someone in Hebei claimed to be the Son of Heaven."

Looking at Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao said, "He is the emperor recognized by Heaven and the Mandate of the Han Dynasty. At this time, you want to depose the emperor. Do you want to give our great country to that fake emperor?"

"The Prime Minister naturally doesn't think so." Li Ru said.

"If you don't think so, then why don't you raise an army to fight against the fake emperor?" Yuan Shao said.

As soon as these words were spoken, all the ministers at the meeting began to talk about it.

Dong Zhuo suppressed the incident in Hebei and the matter of the fake emperor, and all the letters entering the palace would be reviewed by her and her staff.

The purpose of doing this is of course to avoid being distracted by Hebei affairs.

He had just taken control of the capital, but he was sending troops to expedition to Hebei. The empty capital might cause big problems.

The purpose of deposing the emperor was to eliminate the forces supporting Liu Bian's lineage. Liu Bian, who was already seventeen years old, was not easy to control.

Even though he is timid and cowardly, there are still people with ulterior motives who will instigate him to do harm to Dong Zhuo.

Unlike the current emperor, the new emperor he supported was still young. He was trained from the basics and ascended the throne with his support. He would definitely fully support Dong Zhuo and obey his orders.

This is the most important thing for Dong Zhuo.

Although going to Hebei to attack the false emperor could earn him prestige, no one could guarantee that he would be able to come back after leaving Luoyang again.

"The court will dispatch 3,000 soldiers to fight." Dong Zhuo said calmly.

"The chaos in Hebei this time is not only caused by foreign races, but also the princes of Hebei are not united. Prime Minister Dong is from Xiliang and has fought for many years. He should know that three thousand soldiers cannot solve the problem." Yuan Shao said.

"The false emperor is not the real emperor. Even if they are a foreign race, the Prime Minister also fought and slaughtered many when he was in Xiliang. Those barbarians are nothing to be afraid of." Li Ru also spoke calmly.

"The northern Hu tribe is completely different from the western Qiang. The documents say that they have flying soldiers and have also seized divine weapons." Yuan Shao said.

"Divine artifact? What kind of artifact could it be? The Jade Seal?" someone asked.

However, Yuan Shao could not answer this question.

At this time, Wang Yun bowed to Dong Zhuo and said, "Even if we don't support Liu Yu in his crusade against the false emperor, I think... the prime minister should not depose the emperor."

"The situation in the world has just stabilized. If the emperor is deposed, it will not only cause instability among the people, but it may also provoke people who have ill intentions towards Luoyang and use the name of 'clearing the court' to attack the prime minister. At that time, Luoyang will suffer a great disaster again."

This script seems familiar, or rather, the person sitting in the highest position did this to gain control of the capital.

"Of course the Prime Minister knows about this, so Minister Wang doesn't need to worry too much." Li Ru stroked his mustache and said with a smile: "Now, the Prime Minister not only has nearly 100,000 troops from Sili, Bingzhou and Liangzhou."

"And Wu also has powerful generals like Hua Xiong and Lu Bu." Li Ru looked at Lu Bu standing aside, and Lu Bu still had no expression on his face.

"Wen has all the ministers in the court, so those scoundrels dare not be greedy."

Dong Zhuo's advisers must have evaluated the move to depose the emperor.

Now Dong Zhuo already has the capital to depose the emperor, as long as he does not send tens of thousands of troops to attack the fake emperor of Hebei who is doomed to fail. As long as he has a large number of troops and the other hostages in the hands of the heads of the ministers and aristocratic families in the court.

Even if the governors of the two states joined forces, they would not be able to pass Hulao Pass.

Even Yuan Shao himself frowned when he heard that Dong Zhuo had 100,000 troops.

It was thought that Dong Zhuo's army was no more than 50,000, but after the Bingzhou governor Ding Yuan was killed, Dong Zhuo directly swallowed up the Bingzhou tribe, and then took the entire Sili and Luoyang garrisons into his possession.

Such a military force is indeed superior to other forces. No wonder he wanted to depose the emperor.

"In that case, I believe you all have no objection to my proposal just now?" Seeing that Yuan Shao did not say anything more, Dong Zhuo spoke to the ministers.

In the face of absolute strength, all conspiracies and tricks will disappear.

Some of the ministers bowed their heads, some smiled apologetically, and some didn't know what expression to make. They didn't have the courage to resist this behavior that was almost like stepping on a big man.

After looking at everyone, Cao Cao shook his head slightly.

Sure enough, this once again proved that Zhao Qing was right to leave.

With such a group of weaklings around, how could the Han Dynasty possibly prosper?

People who are truly capable have already started planning for the future.

Yuan Shao also looked around at everyone, and then said loudly: "Do you really want to watch the traitorous ministers seize power and make our Han Dynasty exist in name only?!"

A loud thunderclap sounded in the sky.

Everyone looked at Yuan Shao in shock.

Can you say that? ?

It would have been fine if he had just called Dong Zhuo a "traitorous minister", but he actually spoke frankly about the rise and fall of the Han Dynasty.

Dong Zhuo put down the wine glass in his hand and placed his hand on an exquisite sword on the table.

"Will you use your own neck to test the sharpness of my sword?"

Yuan Shao looked at Dong Zhuo, and with his left hand he drew the sword from his waist. His eyes lit up with a hint of gold, and he said to Dong Zhuo: "My sword is not bad either."

She slashed the document in her right hand with a sword, and several cold rays of light flashed.

Three or five pieces of documents fell to the ground.

Yuan Shao threw the remaining documents in his hand to the ground, and it seemed like a human head, slowly rolling towards Dong Zhuo's desk, and finally stopped in front of the stairs.

After doing all this, she glanced at everyone with cold eyes and shook her head at the documents on the ground: "What a pity."

It seems like it's a pity that this document is just a document, but not a living person.

Then she turned around and left the banquet with a sword in her hand, without any regrets.

Dong Zhuo pondered for a moment and looked at Li Ru. Li Ru whispered, "Don't kill him, but make him suffer."

Dong Zhuo nodded slightly and looked at the people around him: "Are there still people who object?"

No one dared to respond.