Never thought I would become the emperor

Chapter 46 The Road to the Emperor
"I..." Dong Zhuo looked at Lu Bu in disbelief with his bronze bell-like eyes, but he couldn't speak from his throat.

Seeing Dong Zhuo's current appearance, the ministers in the audience were talking a lot.

"This Lv Bu really dared to contradict Dong Xiangguo."

"With General Lu around, how can the big man perish?"

Hearing the words in his ears, Li Ru in the crowd lost his composure all of a sudden, frowned anxiously, and shouted in a cold voice: "Above the court, how can you speak?"

Li Ru's voice was as passionate as music. Although it had been a long time, it still felt like it was still echoing in my ears.The ministers suddenly shut their mouths and stared at Li Ru, who was wearing official uniform, dumbfounded. They couldn't understand how a little Confucian scholar could have such momentum.

"You and a group of white-eyed wolves, if Xiangguo hadn't provided food and salary for the imperial court every month, how could you live in the corner of Luoyang city?"

Li Ru smiled coldly, as if mocking all the ministers present as dead, his voice was so harsh.

Lu Zhi pointed at Li Ru and said angrily, "I'm a 400-year-old man, how can I not afford the food and salary? Li Ru, don't talk nonsense here."

"Good, good, good!"

After Li Ru heard the words, instead of being angry, he laughed out loud, then turned his head and asked Lu Zhi with a smile: "Then let me ask you, how can a big man pay the food and salary of the 13 forbidden troops and [-] soldiers and horses in Luoyang City? Let alone the [-] troops guarding the frontier in Xiliang County, who can afford the food and salaries of the [-] soldiers in Chang'an?"

Lu Zhi opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but the words were stuck in his throat after all, and he couldn't speak.

The other ministers also consciously shut their mouths, and lowered their heads one by one.

Seeing this scene, Li Ru even sneered: "All the ministers are extremely wealthy, and are as rich as the country. They spend money like water in Luoyang City and enjoy all the glory and wealth. What? Now all of them refuse to speak? They are mute!"

No one spoke, because this took into account the interests of their own family, and no one wanted to get involved in this matter.

"You pile up gold and jade in Luoyang City, while we are far away in the frontier and suffer from desolation. At the beginning, Xiangguo made great contributions to resisting the Qiang, and the late emperor rewarded him with a thousand taels of gold. When he arrived in Xiliang, he sent only a hundred taels. Xiangguo asked me why I only had a hundred taels. Two gold, I smiled wryly."

Li Ru shook his head with a wry smile, as if lost in memory, he said: "Should I say that the emperor's reward, the Dasinong draws money, and after passing through Taicang, Junshu, Pingzhun, Dunei, and Jitian Wulingcheng, it becomes a hundred taels of gold Is it? Does the gold disappear when it passes through your hands?"

When Li Ru roared, all the officials were shocked. Everyone had greedy phenomena on weekdays, but most of them were not tracked down, and it passed like this. Today, for example, if he brought it up again, it can only be said that he was out of luck. good.Everyone thought this way, and then subconsciously searched among the crowd for people who would be the chief ministers, Taicang, Junshu, Pingzhun, Dunei, and Jitian Wulingcheng, but they found nothing.

Only then did everyone suddenly realize that when Dong Zhuo came to Beijing, the six people who served as the six officials had been killed long ago, and all their belongings were confiscated, and all their family members were demoted to slavery. They should still be serving hard labor in Xiliang.

Nowadays, drought and plague are widespread in the land of the Han Dynasty, and there is no grain harvest.Coupled with the Yellow Turban Rebellion, maybe their family members have already died.

Thinking of this, the ministers sighed again.

After listening to Li Ru's words, Dong Zhuo couldn't help recalling that when he was young, he fought against the Qiang in the frontier area against the Hu, and was ordered to resist the Xianbei's invasion of the Han Dynasty. He was also deeply moved, and his fierce tiger-like eyes couldn't help but turn red.

"Everyone, now that the big man has changed the sky, Xiangguo is the prime minister sent down from the sky, don't let your imagination run wild, just perform your duties and keep yourself safe, otherwise, the butcher's knife will fall on your heads at some point. I also ask all the ministers not to take off their hats, barefoot, hit their heads on the ground, and make some useless resistance."

Li Ru laughed for a while, and then, from outside the hall, the hulking Hu Zhen led hundreds of well-equipped Xiliang troops to force their way in. Looking at the terrified ministers, Hu Zhen cursed: "His mother!" Yes, the lord will give you good food and drink, what else do you want, I will cut it down with a knife, and let you see blood!"

As he said that, Hu Zhen drew the knife from his waist, and the vicious look scared even the emperor on the stage.

Looking at the ministers with fear written on their faces, Dong Zhuo couldn't help laughing, as if he was watching a group of monkeys, and said with a happy smile: "You go back and stay honestly for our family. If you want to cut off our family's head, then our family has to send you to the underworld to meet Hades first."

After saying these words, Dong Zhuo laughed, and with a wave of his right hand, Hua Xiong immediately understood, stepped forward and led two Xiliang soldiers to forcibly send Liu Xie away.

As soon as Liu Xie left, some ministers who pretended to be loyal ministers of the big man on the surface could finally take off their disguise, and turned their sad faces for the big man into full of fear.

Lu Bu stood silently.He realized something at this time. It was not that Dong Zhuo was good or bad, but that there was no distinction between good and bad in this troubled world. They were all plotting for their own purposes. So what was the point of using all means to conquer the world? Wrong?
Lu Bu was afraid, he originally wanted to emulate Dong Zhuo to control Luoyang and rule the world, but he was afraid of being charged with this eternal crime, so he hesitated to do so.Instead, he deliberately saved Dong Zhuo's life, and used Dong Zhuo to reconcile the relationship between the gentry and himself, but it seems that there is no need to do this from now on.

A look of ruthlessness flashed in Lu Bu's eyes. He had a big, big ambition, so big that it included the entire Luoyang, the entire world, and the entire thirteen prefectures of Han Dynasty.

"If you have nothing to do, go back first."

Li Ru waved his hand and said with a smile.

The ministers were relieved and fled the Weiyang Palace in a swarm, for fear of staying here for a second longer.

Lu Bu was not in a hurry, on the contrary, seeing that the great gods were almost gone, he stepped forward and walked out step by step.

Under the watchful eyes of hundreds of Xiliang soldiers, Lu Bu's originally burly and majestic figure now looked dignified under the background of this official uniform, as graceful and graceful as a nobleman.

"Wait a minute."

Li Ru opened his mouth and said casually.

"What's the matter?"

Lu Bu turned his head and asked coolly. Apart from the Xiliang Army and Dong Zhuo, there was no one else present, and Lu Bu no longer had so many scruples.

(End of this chapter)