Inside the palace.
The eleven-year-old little emperor Liu Xie was sitting on the dragon couch. Seeing Lu Bu, who was nearly two meters tall, walking towards him majestically like half an iron tower, he couldn't help but retreat in fear.
Liu Xie had met Lu Bu before, but this time he felt an invisible pressure that made him almost forget to breathe.
"Lü Bu, your humble minister, is here to see your majesty." Lu Bu cupped his hands in a symbolic gesture.
"No courtesy at Lu Qing's house..." Liu Xie tried his best to calm down.
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Lu Bu was not polite and sat down on the couch beside him.
"I heard from the prince that the Qing family has a good plan to kill Grand Master Dong?" Liu Xie asked.
"Exactly!" Lu Bu replied.
"Then...can the Qing family please tell me?" Although he is young, Liu Xie has the airs of a little emperor.
Lu Bu chuckled and said, "Your Majesty, didn't the prince tell you about the small requests I made?"
Liu Xie glanced at Wang Yun and then said: "General Lu, I have a sister, Princess Wannian.
If you can really kill the old thief Dong Zhuo and save the Han Dynasty from fire and water, I will make the decision and betroth Princess Wannian to you. How about it? "
Lu Bu was speechless for a while, and then glanced at Wang Yun. It was probably Wang Yun's idea!
He originally wanted to be Liu Xie's godfather, but you, Liu Xie, want to be my brother-in-law?
However, when Lu Bu made this request, he was just raising the price. He didn't really want to be Liu Xie's godfather.
But Lu Bu still had some concerns about marrying Princess Wannian.
Because he asked: "But I don't know if Princess Wannian... was raped by Dong Zhuo?"
Ever since Dong Zhuo deposed Liu Bian and established Liu Xie as emperor, he began to indulge in unscrupulous lewdness in the harem.
Many of the concubines of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, including the Queen Mother He, could not escape Dong Zhuo's clutches, so Lu Bu asked this question.
Both Wang Yun and Liu Xie looked a little embarrassed.
Liu Xiedao: "Princess Wannian is still young, so she has not been bullied by the old thief Dong Zhuo..."
Wang Yun said hurriedly: "Why don't you invite the princess to come out and meet General Lu?"
Liu Xie nodded in agreement and hurriedly asked people to
Lu Bu thought about it too. Han Ling Emperor Liu Hong "had more than thousands of women in his harem and spent hundreds of gold on food and clothing every day"!
Although Dong Zhuo was lustful, he was already an old man. Even if he had sex in the harem every day, how many of them could he have?
When she saw Princess Wannian, who was only twelve or thirteen years old and had not yet developed, she believed Liu Xie's words.
"I've seen the general..." Princess Wannian didn't dare to raise her head and wished Lu Bu a long blessing.
"I've met the princess!" Lu Bu also cupped his hands and looked at her carefully.
Princess Wannian has big eyes and double eyelids, and she is a little scared, which makes her look adorable.
But it's just affection. Logically speaking, as a princess, you should be well-nourished, but Princess Wannian is so thin and small that she is just like a child!
"I wonder what the princess's name is and how old she is this year?" Lu Bu asked the most rude question without any hesitation.
Princess Wannian raised her eyes and glanced at Lu Bu. When she saw Lu Bu staring at her, she lowered her head and murmured:
"My name is Liu Xiao, I am... thirteen years old..."
Lu Bu couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this: Liu Xiao is a normal person's name.
There were too many princesses with weird names in the Han Dynasty. Starting from Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty’s princess Liu Piao, there were quite a few with weird names.
In the Han Dynasty, it was stipulated that women must get married before they are fifteen years old. If you are not married by the age of fifteen, you will have to pay a fine of 600 yuan every year until you get married or until you are thirty years old.
Lu Bu didn't think this law had anything to do before. After all, it was meant to stimulate population growth.
But now facing Liu Xiao, I realized the cruelty of this law.
Looking at the poor Liu Xiao, Lu Bu couldn't help but feel a sense of pity in his heart.
As a princess of the Han Dynasty, she should have been well-dressed and well-fed, but she happened to be born in troubled times, with an unreliable father who died long ago.
Two brothers became emperors, one was poisoned to death by Dong Zhuo, and although the other had been emperor for more than thirty years, he was just a puppet in the hands of others. Even he lived in fear, so how could he care about her?
This Wannian Princess is mentioned briefly in various historical materials. Her year of birth and death is unknown, her name is not known, and there is no record of even who she married.
It's pathetic enough.
Yin waved his hand and said: "Princess, please go back and rest. I have something important to tell your Majesty and Wang Situ."
Liu Xiao couldn't help but said blessing again and went out.
Wang Yun and Liu Xie looked at Lu Bu eagerly. They didn't know whether Lu Bu had fallen in love with this princess of ten thousand years.
Lu Bu's heart was full of contempt. Wang Yun was just cunning and calculating, but Liu Xie didn't care about his sisters' lives for his own benefit!
"General Lu, look at the assassination of Dong Zhuo..." Wang Yun asked.
"Kill! Must kill!"
As he spoke, Lu Bu took out a pile of silk with writing on it from his arms and handed it to Liu Xiedao:
"Your Majesty, take a look at this first. If you think there is nothing wrong with it, let someone draft an imperial seal."
Wang Yun couldn't help but stretched his neck to take a look. It turned out that Lu Bu had already made various imperial edicts, some to exonerate himself, some to make him a marquis, and some to make him an official.
After looking at it for a while, Wang Yun couldn't help but ask: "This... General Lu, are you repeating this?
This one is for you to be Xuzhou Mu, why is there still a Youzhou Mu here, and..."
Lu Bu laughed and said, "Ah, I am also taking precautions to prevent problems before they happen.
When the time comes, I will take out the imperial edict and take up the post wherever there is a vacancy.
Wang Situ doesn’t think that I want to be the state pastor of so many states at the same time, right? "
Wang Yun was speechless for a while: Lu Bu is really thoughtful!
But now that the emperor Liu Xie is too busy taking care of himself, who will take his imperial edict seriously?
Even if you take the imperial edict and take office, the local bureaucrats may not let you do it!
Whether you can be fooled or not depends on your own ability!
Even if Lu Bu had an imperial edict, the most he could do was seize the land of a state and change its name.
The first priority is to kill Dong Zhuo first.
So he winked at Liu Xie, and Liu Xie gave it to the eunuch to copy.
Lu Bu then said: "It is not difficult to kill Dong Zhuo, the old thief, but the most important thing is to stabilize the situation without causing chaos after killing him.
In addition to Dong Zhuo, these people must also be eliminated!
The first one is Dong Zhuo's counselor and his son-in-law Li Ru!
Then there are Guo Si and Li Jue! The two of them control Dong Zhuo's direct troops. They are large in number and well-equipped, and they are the biggest hidden danger! "
"General Lu is right..."
Wang Yun was talking, but he was making his own calculations in his heart.
Li Ru was just a counselor, and he was deeply trusted by Dong Zhuo. He gave Dong Zhuo many bad ideas, so he just killed him.
But if Guo Si and Li Jue were killed, who would be able to take over Dong Zhuo's troops?
There is a 80% chance that Lu Bu will take advantage of the loophole. When the time comes, Lu Bu will have a large number of troops, will he become the second Dong Zhuo?
But you can't listen to everything he says!
And since Dong Zhuo is dead, how much trouble can the two warriors Guo Si and Li Jue create?
When the time comes, with the promise of high-ranking officials and generous salaries, are you still afraid that the two of them will refuse to surrender to you?
In this way, he not only expands his own strength, but also can contain Lu Bu and prevent him from getting bigger. Isn't this a clever plan that kills two birds with one stone?
