Three Kingdoms: I rely on system loopholes to survive

Chapter 8 Hulao Pass (Revised)
Guan Yu warmed the wine and cut Hua Xiong, and the Allied troops approached Hulao Pass.

Luoyang City
Dong Zhuo was drinking with Lv Bu in the residence when suddenly a soldier came in to report the news of Hua Xiong's defeat.

Dong Zhuo's face suddenly changed, and he scolded: "The people of the noble family are really untrustworthy."

"At the beginning, Wen You persuaded me to get close to the gentry in order to gain power."

"So even if I know that these nobles disdain to associate with people from Xiliang like us, and even if some of them secretly plan to assassinate them, I will not pursue them."

"Unexpectedly, at this time, they all joined forces and really wanted to put me to death!"

"Since that's the case, I don't have to give them any good looks anymore, just kill them all!"

"I'd like to see what tricks this coalition can pull out!"

Dong Zhuo sent someone to summon Li Ru, intending to attack the gentry in the city.

In his heart, he still hated Yuan Wei for showing his eyes to Yuan Shao and using him as a raft to gain prestige.

This time the Eighteenth Route princes challenged Dong, and Yuan Shao became the leader of the alliance.

Even with the background of the fourth generation and the third father of the Yuan family, isn't there any credit for Yuan Shao's daring to draw his sword to confront him?
Thinking this way, Dong Zhuo intends to attack Yuan Kai first.

Seeing Dong Zhuo's messy eyebrows twitched, Li Ru had already guessed what his lord was thinking, so he said, "My lord, it's Xiao Qiang's disaster."

"Yuan Kai is Yuan Shao's uncle. If you pass the news in the city and cooperate with the outside, the lord will definitely suffer."

"Confucianism, please get rid of it first."

Li Ru's words were in line with Dong Zhuo's wishes.

After hearing these words, Dong Zhuo's heart was full of murderous intentions, and he ordered Li Jue and Guo Si to lead the troops to kill all the Yuan family, old and young.

Li Ru sighed secretly, since Dong Zhuo poisoned the young emperor, he was trapped by nursery rhymes in the city, and his behavior became more radical, it can even be said to be crazy...

He faintly smelled the decadent smell behind Dong Zhuo, but...

Li Ru recalled Dong Zhuo's gaze at Liu Bian's frame that day.

Trampling the declining Han Dynasty underfoot, trampling on the imperial power; burying the young seeds of desire for power in the hearts of the people of the world, and watering them wantonly...

Such a lord, even if he is insane and mediocre, I, Li Ru, would like to help him with all my strength.

Dong Zhuo glanced coldly at the bloody head.

"Old man, when you led me to Luoyang, did you ever think about today? I, Dong Zhongying, am not just a pawn on your chessboard..."

"You want to use me to take the throne? The military power is in my hands, and the emperor is in my hands. This rule, I should wait for a barbarian from Xiliang to set it once!"

Yuan Kai's head was sent to the front of the pass. Dong Zhuo led Lv Bu and other generals, mobilized an army of 20, and headed for Hulao Pass in a mighty manner.

The Yuan family was slaughtered.

When the news came out, the nobles all over the world were shocked.

Even Wang Yun and Xun You didn't expect Dong Zhuo to do this.

It is estimated that Yuan Kai never considered that Dong Zhuo would attack him.

After all, this is an era when the gentry was in power, and the aristocratic families controlled all the power.

Even the emperor would not directly attack the gentry.

The Emperor Ling wanted to support a group of eunuchs even if he was involved in the disaster of the party.

How dare Dong Zhuo?
He is going to be an enemy of the nobles all over the world, so he wants to lose his reputation?

It really is the thief of the country!
Everyone gets it and kills it!
After Dong Zhuo left Luoyang, it was rare for the city to regain some peace.

Zhong Ping sneaks to Xun You's house every night, keeps a high degree of attention to Hulao Pass, and is on the front line of eating melons every day.

After Yuan Kui's death, Dong Zhuo's reputation fell into the abyss.

Under the aggressive attack of the gentry, it is estimated that even a dog passing by Dong Zhuo would have to spit twice.

Zhong Ping thought it was quite interesting, when Dong Zhuo used poison to kill the young emperor before, the group of people were not so happy.

At this moment, he and Xun You were at Wang Yun's mansion, discussing how to continue to drive a wedge between Dong Zhuo and Lv Bu.

In fact, Zhong Ping didn't want to come, he thought Wang Yun and Xun You would be enough for the future plan, and he was a 13-year-old kid!
It's just soy sauce coming here.

Moreover, he had been sneaking out for a long time these days, and Zhong Ping always felt that his father seemed suspicious.

Zhong Ping slowly emptied his mind, and on the surface he still sat quietly on his knees, giving people a feeling of "hmm, I'm listening carefully".

"... Gongye makes sense." Wang Yun stroked his beard and nodded repeatedly.

He looked at Zhong Ping who was in a daze, and remembered that when he first saw this boy in Beimanshan, he didn't take him seriously, he just thought that he was a little clever and not worthy of attention.

Unexpectedly, this child is really beautiful and can be called the talent of a unicorn.

The intention of accepting disciples was moved in my heart.

Zhong Ping didn't know that he was being missed by Wang Yun, and his thoughts drifted to Liu Bian at this moment.

I don't know if Liu Bian survived successfully?
When Dong Zhuo established Liu Xie as the emperor and held a banquet to celebrate, those eggs were not only on the table of the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty.

After all, he was the emperor who had just been deposed and could not be treated harshly, so Dong Zhuo also ate the same meals for Liu Bian and Concubine Tang.

Naturally, there are also tampered eggs.

Zhong Ping didn't know how Xun You managed to replace the original egg without being discovered.

He knew too little about the gentry in the court and the loyal people.

In short, Xun You was indeed successful, and it can even be said that he implemented the plan of species leveling perfectly.

What Zhong Ping left for Liu Bian and Concubine Tang were two bad eggs.

He knew that Liu Bian was cowardly and he was no longer the emperor.

Under the circumstance that there might be guards around him, Liu Bian didn't dare to speak out when he ate bad eggs.

Of course, after he tasted it and found it was bad, he would not continue to eat it.

At this time, if Liu Bian is lucky enough not to eat the side where You Zhongping left the message, he will find that there are faint writings on the egg white.

The palace guards who watched him would naturally report this matter to Dong Zhuo, but Dong Zhuo should also be in a mess because of the writing on the egg.

The palace man didn't know many characters, so he wouldn't know that the characters on Liu Bian's egg were different from those on Dong Zhuo's side.

He only heard that all the eggs on the banquet today had pictures and words.

At that time, Dong Zhuo's surveillance of Liu Bian was not so blatant that the palace servants could directly take out Liu Bian's half-eaten eggs and send them to him for identification.

After Dong Zhuo heard the palace man's report, he would subconsciously think that Liu Bian's eggs were the same as his own.

After all, everyone's eggs during the banquet were randomly distributed, and the description of the palace staff was that the eggs seemed to be hexagrams, and there were four sentences below, and the last two sentences contained "day" and "lord".

Who would have thought that Zhong Ping would be so bold as to directly give Liu Bian and Tang Fei two bad eggs?
And this is also the brilliance of peace.

The daily food ingredients in the palace are fixed.

Since Dong Zhuo ordered to give Liu Bian and Concubine Tang the same food, the palace people would not dare to disobey.

After the carefully selected good eggs were delivered to the banquet, only bad eggs were left to Liu Bian.

Zhong Ping is sure that the palace people would rather send villains than let Liu Bian's case miss one dish.

Zhongping was right.

The words he left for Liu Bian were "Confucianism enters the day of poison, hanging or living master".

Zhong Ping knew that his words were very unreasonable, but he had no choice but to change them to other words, what if they were recognized by others?
He only hoped that Liu Bian would be smart enough to understand what he meant.

Liu Bian is not a great prophet.

He didn't understand what the words meant at all, but he knew that someone had tried their best to send him a message, and there must be a lot of intentions in it.

So he kept these two sentences in his heart, endured his nausea and ate the bad guy.

Completely cut off the possibility of Dong Zhuo knowing the clues.

Until Li Ru took the poisoned wine and brought the warriors into the palace.

Only then did Liu Bian realize what these two sentences meant.

When Li Ru brought poisonous wine into the palace, he chose to hang himself and there was a possibility of surviving.

Concubine Tang also ate bad guys that day.

She knew that if Liu Bian voluntarily chose to hang himself, Li Ru would definitely give Liu Bian this dignity because he knew enough about current affairs.

But she also knew that Li Ru was a smart person, if he didn't resist at all, he would be suspected instead.

So when Li Ru came in with poisoned wine, Concubine Tang chose to stand in front of Liu Bian.

This is not enough, what if Li Ru is determined to use poisonous wine?

She must not let this happen.

Concubine Tang struggled to get up from the ground, slammed her head against the chopping board, and spilled the poisoned wine all over the floor.

"Hu'er, what do you think of the current situation at Hulao Pass?"

Xun You's voice brought back Zhong Ping's thoughts.

Zhong Ping actually wanted to ask about Liu Bian, but he knew that Xun You would not answer his own question.

Xun You's concern for Zhongping is reflected in the fact that he will hide things that he thinks are not suitable for Zhongping and now know.

This kind of thing is often mixed with too many interest disputes.

Thinking about it carefully, Zhong Ping's method of conveying messages to Liu Bian is really full of loopholes. Once something goes wrong in a certain link, what awaits Xun You is a situation of eternal doom.

But Xun You still did it without hesitation.

This is probably the first time that Zhong Ping has truly understood the "loyalty" mentioned in the book.

Where righteousness comes, dare not refuse.

(End of this chapter)