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

Yuan Shu raised his hand, and immediately, a large group of Tiger Guards rushed in from the entrance of the garden.

The armor on these Tiger Guards was more refined than that in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony. Although there were only about fifty of them, the aura of each of them was shockingly higher than that of Zhang Liao.

Undoubtedly, these soldiers are the elite among the elite, and are the most core elite troops of the Huben Army.

Yuan Shu and He Jin's alliance did not use their full strength, he was just waiting for the fishermen to reap the benefits.

And now, he felt that it was time for him, the "fisherman", to kill the clams.

"Marquis Changping, you don't need to be so nervous." Yuan Shu seemed to be in a better mood at this time. He even wanted to comfort Liu Zhaoqing and no longer called him by his real name.

"It is the best outcome for both He Jin and the Ten Attendants to suffer heavy losses. This is true for you, me, and the whole world, isn't it?"

"What are you going to do? Execute the eunuch party or... hold the emperor hostage?"

Liu Zhaoqing asked Yuan Shu coldly.

"Of course it is 'Serve the king and punish the eunuchs, and return the Han Dynasty to heaven.'" Yuan Shu repeated the slogan of serving the king, but with a frivolous smile on his face.

Obviously, he was not interested in either the first or second half of the slogan.

Yuan Shu's sister Yuan Shao had already reminded Liu Zhaoqing of his ambition, but Liu Zhaoqing knew it better than Yuan Shao. Yuan Shu's ambition was not just to become a powerful official. His ultimate goal was to become the emperor.

"Yuan Gonglu, was it you who attracted this evil creature?" Liu Zhaoqing said in a deep voice.

"Me? I'm not that capable." The attendant brought a black horse over. Yuan Shu climbed onto the horse and looked down at Liu Zhaoqing and Zhang Liao.

"Do you know why His Majesty ordered my uncle Yuan Wei, Lu Zhi, He Jin, Wang Yun and others to come to the palace overnight last night?"

These four people were either representatives of interest groups or absolutely loyal ministers. After the imperial audience last night, only the rumor that the Ten Eunuchs were plotting to murder Liu Hong spread, and no details about the other four people entering the palace last night were known.

Liu Zhaoqing waited for him to continue.

"Your Majesty wants the Ten Eunuchs to handle state affairs." Yuan Shu sneered.

"The eunuch party's disorderly politics is intolerable. If we let the Ten Eunuchs govern the country, at least half of the people in Luoyang will be beheaded."

"If we don't do anything, and the Han Dynasty really produces a 'eunuch emperor', then we will all be recorded in history, right?" Yuan Shu said sarcastically.

"Now that we know why we attacked the palace, the rest of you have accepted it, right?"

Although the news was shocking, Liu Zhaoqing was not surprised.

Zhang Rang was extremely vicious, but he was truly loyal to Liu Hong. Even if Liu Hong was sober, he would let Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong accompany him, not to mention that he didn't know what state he was in at this time.

"So, Yuan Gonglu, are you trying to kill the king?" Liu Zhaoqing asked calmly. Otherwise, Yuan Shu would not have laughed and said "God helps me" after seeing the commotion deep in the West Garden.

Yuan Shu narrowed his eyes and looked at Liu Zhaoqing: "I am a Han official, how could I kill the king?"

Then he stood on his horse and bowed towards the depths of the West Garden: "I will eliminate the eunuchs and slay the evildoers for Your Majesty, and restore the purity and brightness of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty."

"This is a supreme achievement. If I can achieve this, I will be named the historian. Then I will be able to achieve something. I think you think so too, right?"

Liu Zhaoqing was about to say something when suddenly there was a noise coming from the right.

Then a large group of soldiers armed with swords and spears surrounded them from another direction. When Yuan Shu saw the middle-aged general in the lead, his face changed slightly.

"Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun, why are you here?"

Zhu Jun looked at Yuan Shu expressionlessly and said, "We saw evil spirits coming out of the palace when we were outside Luoyang City, so we hurried over with our troops."

"General Hu Ben, aren't you and your elite soldiers here to serve the king?" Huangfu Song, who was wearing yellow armor beside him, asked indifferently.

Yuan Shu seemed to have his thoughts seen through; he felt a burning sensation on his face as he was stared at by the scorching gazes of these two famous Han generals.

"Marquis of Changping."

Suddenly Zhu Jun called out to him, and Liu Zhaoqing hurried to look.

Then Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song both took a look at the sword in Liu Zhaoqing's hand and the object on the hilt.

"You and your entourage come with us, and we will go to the king as soon as possible."

Zhu Jun then looked at Yuan Shu on his horse and said, "General of the Tiger Guards, go and support the general, and then you and the general will support us together."

There was no change in Yuan Shu's expression and figure, because Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song might have higher official positions than him, but as the General of the Tiger Guards, he did not have to take orders from others. He only took orders from the emperor.

But the next moment, Huangfu Song took out an axe-like object emitting golden light from his arms.

"Do not disobey orders, or you will be executed according to military law!"

When Yuan Shu saw that thing, he was stunned for a moment. It was the "fake festival" representing the emperor. His face changed, but he finally bowed and saluted, indicating that he accepted the order.

"Roar!"

Another roar came from deep within the West Garden. Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun no longer cared about Yuan Shu, who had evil intentions. They gave an order and led a large number of elite soldiers towards the depths.

Liu Zhaoqing and Zhang Liao also hurriedly followed.

Before they had passed through the dense bamboo forest for long, the leader Huangfu Song shouted: "The monster in front is Jian Shuo, he has transformed into a demon, and I can feel that Your Majesty is deeper in the forest!"

"Then I will send a team to chase him, and you can kill Jian Shuo!" Zhu Jun said immediately.

"it is good!"

Liu Zhaoqing and Zhang Liao hurriedly caught up with Zhu Jun's team again. After Huangfu Song held a long sword and emitted a ray of light that shone on all the soldiers, he commanded the soldiers to rush towards the huge, non-human black monster in an orderly manner.

Zhu Jun's team also sent out a row of soldiers to resist Jian Shuo's attack. The remaining soldiers, led by Zhu Jun, went deeper into the West Garden.

Not long after, after the team passed through a wooden corridor next to a pond and a large forest, Liu Zhaoqing discovered that Zhu Jun and the team in front suddenly stopped.

Liu Zhaoqing immediately came to the front, and Zhu Jun also got off his horse with a serious look on his face.

Looking forward, there is a cobblestone path. Even in the dark night, you can see that the path is surrounded by greenery and there is no ambush.

What stopped Zhu Jun was not the trap, but a person.

Zhang Rang, who was eight feet tall and had a pale face and was dressed in a dark eunuch's uniform, was standing on the path. His expression was calm, but there seemed to be a hint of inexplicable melancholy in his eyes.

"Zhang Rang, where is His Majesty?" Zhu Jun asked coldly.

Zhang Rang pretended not to hear what was said. He put his hands in his sleeves and crossed them across his chest. He looked at the surrounding scenery and spoke softly, "This is the path that Your Majesty often walks on. I have often helped Your Majesty walk along this path in the past. Every time we passed by that stream, Your Majesty would say that there seemed to be fewer fish and shrimps in the stream, so I would go and ask someone to add more fish and shrimps."

"Next time His Majesty comes, he will smile and say, 'Look, there are more shrimps.' I will be happy at that time."

"A hypocritical person." Zhu Jun snorted coldly and didn't want to listen to Zhang Rang's story at all.

"If you are truly loyal to His Majesty, you would not do such a thing as to invite evil spirits to poison His Majesty!"

Zhang Rang was silent, then sighed slightly.

"I just... want His Majesty to stay a little longer."

"As long as Your Majesty is here, the Han Dynasty will exist. As long as Your Majesty is alive, the Han Dynasty will prosper."

"I am not your enemy, General Zhu. The person next to you is our real enemy."

Chapter 108 The old slave understands!

As soon as Zhang Rang said this, all the soldiers led by Zhu Jun looked at Liu Zhaoqing.

Seeing this situation, Zhang Liao put his hand directly on the knife at his waist, his expression tense and his eyes alert.

The soldiers that Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song brought into the palace to defend the king were all strong soldiers. Not to mention that Zhu Jun was also an outstanding commander. Under his leadership, the strong soldiers would only become stronger.

Even if Zhang Liao and Liu Zhaoqing had great cooperation and could share the gift of heaven, they would certainly be no match for the well-trained and powerful troops commanded by Zhu Jun.

However, Zhu Jun, the leader, did not do so. His eyes were always on Zhang Rang and he was not affected by Zhang Rang's words at all.

"What a joke you are talking about. You, Zhang Rang and the other eunuchs are the enemies of the Han Dynasty. Zhao Qing was personally conferred the title of Marquis of Changping by His Majesty. You keep saying that everything you do is for His Majesty. If that's the case, why are you stopping us?" Zhu Jun shouted.

Zhang Rang shook his head, his expression like a kind elder: "I am not trying to stop you, I am just reminding you."

"remind?"

"The Han Dynasty has long been on the verge of collapse. The collapse of the river map and the white rainbow piercing the sun are just manifestations of the results, not a prophecy of the beginning."

Zhang Rang looked at Zhu Jun and said, "The decline of the Han Dynasty is not the fault of the emperor alone, nor is it something that I, the Ten Eunuchs, could have caused alone."

Hearing this, Zhu Jun almost laughed out loud: "What absurd words are you talking about? If it weren't for the extortion and tyranny of the Ten Eunuchs, and the widespread disaster victims and refugees, and the people had to sell their land and children to make a living, without these hardships, how could there be the Jiazi bandit army that risked their lives to rebel against the court?"

"That being said, even without my Ten Eunuchs, there would still be the 'Eight Princes' and the 'Kyushu Governors'."

Zhang Rang sighed slightly, shook his head and continued, "We have never coveted the imperial power, we only want to consolidate its existence. If it weren't for us, the provincial governors, royal family members and even prefects would have been like the princes of the pre-Qin period, ignoring the royal family and competing for supremacy under the eyes of the Han emperor."

"The reason why the Han Dynasty was difficult to revive is that there is no talent in the court who can revive it. Your Majesty knows that you are not Emperor Xuan, and there is no such talent in the court. Although Wang Yun and Cai Yong are highly educated, they are not as good as Zhang Liang and Xiao He."

"Although Lu Zhi is a man of both civil and military talents, and the court also has great generals like you and Huangfu Song, military force alone cannot save the country from collapse. Otherwise, there are countless outstanding people in China, and the Han Dynasty would not have fallen all the way."

"It's different now... The destiny of heaven is about to fall, and troubled times are coming. This is a hardship for the Han Dynasty, but also a blessing for the destiny of heaven."

"The rise of the Han Dynasty lacks a once-in-a-millennium man of destiny."

"His Majesty told me the day before yesterday that he had finally found such an outstanding person."

As he spoke, Zhang Rang looked at Liu Zhaoqing again: "He is one of them."

"However, this is not a blessing for the Han Dynasty, because perhaps Liu Zhaoqing does have a place for the people in his heart, but I am sure that he has no king in his heart."

Zhang Rang's words were extremely confident. Liu Zhaoqing's expression remained unchanged, and Zhu Jun also looked at Zhang Rang.

"He has the talent to restore the country, comparable to a man of destiny, but he has no heart for a king."

"Therefore, he will definitely conquer Han." Zhang Rang stated his conclusion.

Looking at Zhu Jun, Zhang Rang asked again: "In this case, Zhu Jun, do you still think he is a loyal and good person?"

"Zhang Rang, you are not a fortune teller. Do you dare to regard the words of a eunuch as a prophecy?" Zhang Liao on the side said coldly at this time.

Zhang Rang glanced at Zhang Liao, his pupils flashed with gold, and then he smiled: "You are a loyal and righteous person."

"I'm not fortune-telling, I'm just stating a fact."

After he finished speaking, he pointed to his eyes and said, “I have a gift from heaven that can break people’s hearts.”

"For example, this little girl." Zhang Rang smiled gently, as if he was really chatting with a friend he met on the road. "She has a distinct red color on her body. This is the color of loyalty and righteousness, and also the color of Yanhan."

"But Liu Zhaoqing, in my eyes, is half red and half gold." Zhang Rang looked at Liu Zhaoqing again.

"I thought you would approach the former, so I told you that day, but now you don't listen to me and take the initiative to participate in the attack on the palace tonight. Then, I know what you are thinking."

"You don't aspire to be a king, you want to conquer the world, am I right? Marquis of Changping of the Han Dynasty."

Liu Zhaoqing raised his eyebrows and looked at Zhang Rang who was not far away: "I am just a commoner, I don't have such thoughts, but you, Zhang Rang, have already done so. His Majesty is just a tool for you to maintain your authority. The reason why you hope that His Majesty is safe is that you are afraid that your power will fall into the hands of others."

"Afraid?" Zhang Rang smiled. "I have never been afraid."

"Enough!" At this moment, Zhu Jun shouted.

Then he drew out the sword in his hand.

"If it is true as you said, His Majesty would have revoked the title of Marquis of Changping long ago. Are you trying to alienate us with your own conjecture? It is really ridiculous."

He pointed his sword at Zhang Rang, his face furious: "The reason why the Han Dynasty continues to decline is precisely because of the rebellion of you eunuchs and relatives of the emperor before and today."

"The great Han people are so brilliant, you have the gift of winning hearts and minds, but you deliberately use this gift to deceive the emperor and ignore the loyal and good people!"

"Zhang Rang, you are the thief who took over Han!"

"Hahahaha, fools, you are all a bunch of fools, fools!"

Zhang Rang burst into laughter.

"You can only see the gains and losses in front of you, but not the essence of things. That's why your majesty needs to be alive. Only if the mandate of heaven is not dispersed, can the Han Dynasty be in your majesty's hands and return to the time of Jianyuan Xiaoxuan Heaven!"

"General Zhu, he is delaying time!" Liu Zhaoqing immediately reminded Zhu Jun beside him.

Zhu Jun also realized this at this time. Zhang Rang said so much and used such a clumsy strategy of sowing discord just to delay time.

Although Zhu Jun didn't know why the delay was happening and what the delay was for, he knew it was definitely not a good thing.

"Everyone line up! Crossbowmen, release your arrows!"

The well-trained soldiers immediately raised their crossbows and shot at Zhang Rang.

Zhang Rang's figure flashed and disappeared on the spot.

Then everyone saw Zhang Rang floating in the air, pulling up the bamboos beside the path with one hand and cutting them diagonally in mid-air.

"Zhang Rang is a man of extraordinary talent, and the earth spirit is a auspicious beast that can control things with thoughts." Zhu Jun said loudly, reminding everyone in the team.

"Shield Soldier!"

The people in the back row stepped forward and raised their tall steel shields to protect everyone. The bamboo spears controlled by Zhang Rang hit the shields and broke instantly.

"Drop the shields! Tie your hands and move forward!"