Wandering the Heavens

Chapter 368 New 3 Kingdoms 8

"We treat these black-hearted ministers well!" Dong Zhuo almost crushed the book in his hand.

"Prime Minister, now the minds of all the civil and military officials in the court are focused on the surface, and the army listens to you. Why not take this opportunity to promote the matter of replacing the Han Dynasty and becoming emperor?"

It has to be said that the thing on Li Ru's shoulder was not as useful as a chamber pot. The most important thing at this time was to stabilize people's hearts and find out the origin of the booklet and what could be done with it, but he actually wanted to use it to force the ministers to support Dong Zhuo's enthronement.

The information above is true and false. How can you convince people by making up something without any evidence?

People can't be arrested randomly. The system of recommendation has become distorted by now. The civil and military officials in the court are not only powerful themselves and their families are powerful, but also have all kinds of messy relationships with other powerful people and families. It's hard to arrest a person without evidence.

Stability is paramount now, and we cannot resort to violence lightly. Unless someone resorts to violence against Dong Zhuo in public like Wu Fu did, the Yi clans can only be angry but not speak out.

Li Ru doesn't have any constructive suggestions here, so he can only ask for other people's opinions.

"Fengxian, my son, what do you think?" Dong Zhuo looked at Lu Bu who was standing aside.

"My child...I will listen to my foster father."

Yes, it’s no use asking.

"By the way, where is Li Su?" Dong Zhuo seemed to remember something.

"Prime Minister, there is no such person in our Xiliang tent?" Li Ru thought for a long time before replying cautiously.

"XX's director and screenwriter didn't write Li Su into our list. You guys go down first and let me think about it." Dong Zhuo slammed the table in an unlucky tone.

After hearing these incomprehensible words, Lu Bu and Li Ru could only look at each other, bow and leave Dong Zhuo's mansion.

Chang'an was in a state of panic, but Wang Yun was not anxious about the booklet. Instead, he felt that he was doing well again. The plan was to collude with the ministers in the booklet to pretend to surrender to Dong Zhuo and gain his trust by supporting him to become emperor in exchange for a chance to live. Then, he found someone to kill Dong Zhuo at the abdication ceremony.

This was the plan, but the person who would kill Dong Zhuo was nowhere to be found. As we all know, Dong Zhuo had been surrounded by a group of people since he went from being a knight-errant to a frontier soldier of the Han Dynasty and now the prime minister. The Xiliang army and the old subordinates of the emperor's uncles He Jin and He Miao were not easy to kill.

Therefore, before assassinating Dong Zhuo, he had to find a way to alienate and split the Xiliang Army. Wang Yun counted and counted, and was surprised to find that there was no one to choose from, just like when he assassinated Dong Zhuo.

In this eerie silence, the arrival of a person broke the awkward situation in Chang'an City.

When Wang Yun returned home that day, the housekeeper came to report that a stranger had come to visit, and said that the man did not treat him as an outsider at all. Not only did he not tell his origins, but he also wanted food and drink. Wang Yun felt very strange and went in to take a look. The visitor turned out to be Chen Gong.

The two of them talked for a long time, and Chen Gong volunteered to lobby Lu Bu, and he actually succeeded.

It wasn’t that Chen Gong was lucky, but it was the assist given by Dong Zhuo.

The story goes like this: Dong Zhuo was upset about the book, so he went to Lu Bu's house to relax. This led to a problem.

In order to please his adoptive father, Lü Bu, the fool, specially asked Diao Chan to come out and dance to cheer him up. Diao Chan became more and more attractive under Lü Bu's development. Dong Zhuo, the lsp, drank two cups and asked Lü Bu to take Diao Chan away. (Diao Chan was a concubine, not a wife.)

Of course Lu Bu disagreed, but he had no choice but to rely on Li Ru, that scoundrel who came with Dong Zhuo. He made Lu Bu feel that he would be punished by heaven and earth if he didn't send Diao Chan away.

When Lu Bu sobered up, he found out that he had been fooled! Every day, he would either miss the girl by looking at her things or wander around Dong Zhuo's mansion. One day, he met Diao Chan, who had been abused and exhausted, in a small pavilion.

When old friends meet, they naturally want to reminisce about the past. They were so engrossed in the conversation that they forgot where they were and what time it was. Then they were discovered by Dong Zhuo who had returned home. He almost stabbed the fleeing Lu Bu to death with a halberd.

His concubine was robbed and he was almost beaten to death. After Lü Bu escaped, he was drunk for three days. He visited Chen Gong drunk and said something that helped him see the light, thus splitting Dong Zhuo's forces.

Yu Xian was stunned. Even though Diao Chan was taken away, he still couldn't avoid the chain of tricks and Feng Yiting.

What else can we do? Let's spread the word and use some feudal superstition to get the people to seek refuge with Zhang Lu and Ma Teng! In three months, more than half of the registered residents in Guanzhong had fled, and the remaining ones were basically rich households and hidden populations.

Zhang Lu had a dream. In the dream, Laozi asked him to take in and resettle the people who fled from Guanzhong. If he did not do so well, he would not be allowed to ascend to heaven and would be expelled from his sect.

Ma Teng also had a dream. The Empress Dowager Ma and his ancestor Ma Yuan asked him to take in and properly settle the people who fled from Guanzhong. If he failed, he would be expelled from the family.

The situation of the people's escape was sent to Dong Zhuo's desk by the local officials in Guanzhong. Dong Zhuo ignored it because he was preparing to ascend the throne. Li Ru did take a look at it and then threw it away.

His father-in-law was about to become emperor, and the time was good. How could a large number of people flee?

Chang'an City came to the day when Dong Zhuo ascended the throne in a strange atmosphere. The protagonist Dong Zhuo stood beside the ceremonial guard in the early morning wearing the dragon robe of the emperor and waiting. When the chosen time came, he would board the emperor's chariot in the ceremonial guard and go to the ceremonial platform to be crowned and ascend the throne.

Dong Zhuo felt like he was dreaming. The Han Dynasty, which had been established for 400 years by Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang, ended in his hands. At the same time, the glory of the Dong family would also begin in his hands. As both of them were knights, I, Dong Zhuo, might not be inferior to Liu Bang!

Liu Bang's foundation can last for four hundred years, and I, Dong Zhuo, want it to last for eight hundred years, a thousand years, or even ten thousand years!

The time had come. Dong Zhuo, dazed, let the eunuchs help him to the carriage. Lu Bu rode in front and led the ceremonial procession towards the abdication platform.

The road from Meiwu to Shouchan Terrace was both short and long. After the ceremonial procession stopped, Dong Zhuo was helped down from the carriage by the eunuchs in a daze to the sound of melodious drums and music.

After standing firmly, Dong Zhuo raised his head and looked forward. The long spears in the hands of the soldiers shone coldly in the sunlight. The civil and military officials wearing the latest court robes stood on both sides of the passage leading to the abdication platform.

"The auspicious time has come!"

Following the eunuch's voice, the sound of drums and music became solemn. Dong Zhuo suppressed the boiling blood in his body, controlled every slightly twitching muscle in his body, held his head high and chest out, and walked one step at a time on the footsteps marks on the ground towards the Zen platform a hundred steps away.

Ten steps!

Twenty steps!

Fifty steps!

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Finally, Dong Zhuo reached the steps of the Shouchan Terrace. Wang Yun, who was in charge of the coronation ceremony, was standing on the eighteenth step of the terrace waiting.

Dong Zhuo stopped and thought about the next steps. He first climbed the 45 steps to the top, read the edict of accession to the throne, put on the imperial crown with twelve tassels, offered sacrifices to heaven and earth as an emperor, and then left the abdication platform and went to the main hall where the grand court meeting was held to accept the worship of all officials.

Dong Zhuo didn't notice at all that the hands of the civil and military officials on both sides of him who were holding their swords were also shaking slightly, and their knuckles had turned white.