Three Kingdoms: I rely on system loopholes to survive

Chapter 6
Jiaxu Day, the first day of September in the first year of Zhaoning

Dong Zhuo summoned hundreds of officials in the Chongde Hall and forced Empress Dowager He to issue an edict to establish Liu Xie as emperor, depose Liu Bian as King Hongnong, and imprison him in Yong'an Palace.

After all the courtiers congratulated the new emperor, Dong Zhuo stood on the steps, and invited the emperor to hold a banquet, and gathered beautiful servants, concubines, concubines, singing and dancing to celebrate.

Before Liu Xie opened his mouth, Dong Zhuo turned his back and ordered the soldiers to "invite" the beauties in the palace. The officials mourned in their hearts, and at this moment they all covered their faces and wept, not many of them glared at Dong Zhuo.

Dong Zhuo didn't care either, he turned around and looked at Liu Xie. At this moment, His Majesty was sitting on the dragon chair.

This position has always been unattainable, but now he feels that it is too close and too short.

It seems that it is only in his palm, and he can let him watch and play at will.

But that's all...

For some reason, many images flashed through Dong Zhuo's mind. He remembered the night at Beiman Mountain, Liu Bian on the horse, and Li Ru's phrase "The Han lost its deer"...

At that time, after saluting to Liu Bian, he slowly raised his head.

He watched Yu Huan enter Luoyang directly.

Now he still bowed to Liu Xie, casually, more like a kind of charity.

With his stomach straight and his head raised, he walked to the dragon chair step by step and stood still.

Liu Xie didn't understand what he meant, so he could only look away and look up at Dong Zhuo.

"Why does Your Majesty look up to you?"

Dong Zhuo seemed to ask the question casually.

Liu Xie reacted immediately, gritted his teeth secretly, and clenched his hands tightly in the sleeves of his robes, almost piercing his palms with bleeding marks.

"A ruler who wants to rule the world and honor his name must respect the virtuous and become a corporal. "Yi" says: 'From top to bottom, the way is great.'"

This sentence comes from Liu Xiang's "Shuo Yuan Zunxian" in the Western Han Dynasty

It means that if the king wants to make the world stable and peaceful, and leave a glorious reputation in later generations, he must respect virtuous ministers and treat scholars with humility. "Book of Changes" said: "If the superior treats his subordinates with humility, his future will be very bright."

Liu Xie responded to Dong Zhuo with this sentence. At first glance, he praised Dong Zhuo as a virtuous minister, and also showed his humility and ambition.

However, the next sentence in this passage is "Big and humble, the big wins the people."

"Treating people of low status with respect and humility will win the hearts of the people."

Obviously Dong Zhuo didn't know that Liu Xie had silently fought back.

He laughed, the beard on his cheeks kept trembling, and he took the beauty who was pouring wine into his arms.

"I will drink with you today, you don't want to refuse!"

The officials felt sad and angry, even though they were presented with delicacies, they couldn't taste them, because of Dong Zhuo's power, they had to submit.

Chuan Ji felt bitter in his mouth, he secretly glanced at Xun You, wondering if the assassination plan should be carried out ahead of time...

He thought that Xun You would definitely nod his head and give him an approving look when he received his gaze.

In the end, Xun You met Zhong Ji's eyes, but his expression seemed a little weird.

Zhong Ji was at a loss.

After drinking for three rounds, Dong Zhuo squinted his eyes to enjoy the dance. The beauty in his arms was like peeling green onions, with long and slender jade bones, carefully peeling the eggshell for him.

Some of the officials had finished their meals, and they were about to start eating the last boiled eggs.

"ah!"

I don't know who uttered an exclamation first, and then there was a commotion during the banquet. From time to time, some people whispered, and the voices of "weird" kept coming and going.

Dong Zhuo was so disturbed that he slapped the table hard.

"What happened, why are you so noisy?"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and after a while, someone called an attendant and whispered a few words.

The attendant didn't dare to delay, walked quickly to Dong Zhuo's side, and told the truth.

Dong Zhuo's face sank, he grabbed the egg that the beauty in his arms was peeling, and threw the beauty to the ground.

Sure enough, there were faint words on the peeled egg.

Dong Zhuo called Li Ru and asked him to distinguish.

Li Ru took the egg and inspected it carefully. On the front of the egg was a stripped picture of Gen Shangkun Xia, and there were four lines of small characters on the back. He could only recognize the last two sentences: Greedy wolves devour the sun, breaking the army hinders the Lord.

Dong Zhuo was puzzled, and checked the eggs one by one for the officials, all of them were the same as those in his hands, and asked his attendants to bring up uncooked eggs and check them again.There is nothing wrong with it, but the handwriting and pictures will automatically appear on the surface of the egg after being cooked, which is really incredible.

Dong Zhuo pondered for a long time, but he didn't have the slightest clue, and he didn't understand the meaning of the sentence on the egg. He felt a little uneasy, so he broke up the banquet directly, leaving Li Ru alone to discuss.

"My lord, peeling, there is a disadvantage. The elephant says: five yins are at the bottom, one yang is at the top, the yin is abundant and the yang is isolated; the high mountain is attached to the ground. Both are peeling images, so it is the 'Peeling Gua'."

"In this hexagram, yin prospers and yang declines, the villain of Yu gains power, and the gentleman is in trouble."

"For those who get this hexagram, the fortune is not good, there will be many losses, and there will be obstacles in their progress. It is better to stop with the time and stay safe; if you are plagued by bad luck, you should redeploy it. It is not advisable to be smart, so as not to be troubled by women and villains."

"Looking at this wall chart alone, it looks like it was done by people facing the Han Dynasty in the center."

"It's just that the hanging sentence is hard to understand."

"Both the Greedy Wolf and the Pojun are stars, the Greedy Wolf should be violent and devour the common people; the Pojun is the general who will rule the battlefield."

"If the master behind the scenes uses a greedy wolf as a metaphor for the lord, what is the explanation for the devouring sun?"

Li Ruben guessed in his heart that Devouring the Sun was an allusion to the abolition of Li, but he felt that it was a bit far-fetched. Unless the emperor collapsed, it really shouldn't be "devouring".

"According to this speculation, Po Jun may refer to Du Tinghou."

Dong Zhuo frowned and said, "Although Feng Xian is brave, he can't be regarded as a general in the battlefield?"

After all, Lv Bu was only a master under Ding Yuan before, and he hadn't fought a serious battle under Dong Zhuo, so although Dong Zhuo praised Lv Bu for his bravery, he still felt a little disdainful in his heart.

Li Ru bowed his head respectfully: "Ru is just a hypothesis, if it is artificial at this time, the purpose must be the Lord."

"Man-made..." Dong Zhuo shook his head, "Such methods are unpredictable and beyond the reach of human beings."

"Then my lord will put this matter aside first, Confucianism thinks that ghosts and gods should not be completely believed."

"My lord, it is enough to respond to all changes with the same."

Dong Zhuo nodded slightly, but in the end he still took this matter to heart, and he had a lot of wild thoughts.

The study of prophecy and weft was prevalent in the Han Dynasty, and this stripping has a certain degree of correspondence with Dong Zhuo. Therefore, after the officials left the table, there were many discussions and many rumors spread in private.

Li Ru had already made some preparations, so these rumors did not cause much confusion in the city.

It’s just that within a few days, the children in the streets and alleys learned to sing the two lines of “Greedy wolf eats the sun, breaks the army and hinders the master”, but the identity of the person who started the singing could not be found out, and the children did not know the words and phrases sung in their mouths. What means.

Li Ru searched for a long time, but he had no clue, but he was even more convinced that someone must give instructions on this matter.

Dong Zhuo was also in a very irritable mood. He heard nursery rhymes when he went down to court, and for some reason he always felt that the tunes contained a sense of ridicule.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that what Li Ru said that day was justified, the greedy wolf was scolding him, and the villain in the strip was also referring to him.

Dong Zhuo wanted to trust Li Ru completely and treat this as artificial.

But he decided in his heart that this was a sign from heaven, so his mood became more cloudy and uncertain.

this day

Someone in the palace told Dong Zhuo that Liu Bian was composing a song in Yong'an Palace, and the song said: "Who is loyal to vent my grievances?"

Dong Zhuo immediately became angry and scolded: "Zhuzi, I would be lenient if I didn't kill you, how dare you have resentment in your heart?!"

Li Ru happened to be next to him, and he took a step forward to persuade him.

Dong Zhuo had accumulated anger in his heart these days and had nowhere to vent it. At this moment, Liu Bian was bumping into Dong Zhuo's hands, so he directly ordered Li Ru to bring warriors and enter the palace to kill the emperor.

Li Ru thought of the phrase "greedy wolf devours the sun", and was shocked, knowing that he could not persuade Dong Zhuo, so he could only bite the bullet and enter the palace.

Along the way, Li Ru's thoughts surged.

This fact is bizarre, could it be that the egg is really a prophecy, otherwise how can we predict the future?

As soon as he had this thought in his heart, he couldn't help being a little shaken, thinking of "breaking the army and hindering the master" in the future, he unconsciously became a little wary of Lu Bu.

Li Ru went straight into Yong'an Palace, saw Liu Bian and Concubine Tang, and presented the poisoned wine directly without saluting.

Liu Bian's face turned pale, knowing that he was doomed to die.

Concubine Tang stood in front of Liu Bian with tears streaming down her face.

Li Ru gave a look, and the warrior behind him stepped forward, pulled Concubine Tang away forcefully, and threw her to the side.

Liu Bian's body trembled slightly, looking at Concubine Tang on the ground, his eyes were full of tears.

"Up to now, I have nothing to ask for, I just hope that I can kill myself and preserve my dignity."

Li Ru thought for a moment, then nodded in agreement.

Liu Bian was about to reach out to pick up the poisoned wine on the chopping board, when Concubine Tang slammed her head into it with some strength, and the poisoned wine spilled all over the floor.

Seeing this, Li Ru directly asked the warriors to hang Concubine Tang.

Liu Bian had no time to grieve, and under the pressure of the warriors, he took Bai Ling in a hurry and hanged himself to death.

Dong Zhuo was killing Meiji for fun in the mansion, when suddenly the sky turned overcast, he looked up and saw dark clouds covering the sun, and he remembered with horror that Liu Bian should have died in Li Ru's hands at this time.

"Greedy wolf devours the sun..."

Could it be that God foretold me? !

(End of this chapter)