Chapter 872: The Visit (Part II)
Just as Liu Bei came out of Yunting's residence, outside the city, outside the city, there were also people coming out of the camp gate of the Nanyang Army's garrison that He Jin had summoned from all over the country because he wanted to exterminate the Ten Standing Attendants.
"Dong Zhonglang, go slowly, I won't be far away." Qin Jie, who was wearing a general suit, hugged his fists.
Accompanying him were Huang Zhong and several guards, and in front of him, standing outside the camp gate were the burly Dong Zhuo and Li Ru, who was standing behind Dong Zhuo with a flat expression.
Due to the previous attack, Dong Zhuo often has dozens of guards around him, including Hua Xiong, who is also often by his side. Even in the barracks, he was still secretly speculating that among the soldiers and horses in these places, someone might be the mastermind behind the scenes. Or maybe in Luoyang City, there is a pair of eyes staring at him, looking for an opportunity to erase him completely.
He couldn't help but be careless, no matter how arrogant Dong Zhuo was, he understood that this was not in his Liangzhou. He has such a great power in Liangzhou, there are many soldiers and horses under his command, there will still be enemies, and he has also suffered some assassinations and the like.
This is still the case in the place where he has the strongest control, not to mention that he is still outside Liangzhou, where the capital Luoyang is located.
There is no need for Hua Xiong to worry about things in the barracks, with Xu Rong here, with Xu Rong's ability, he can be fully qualified to manage the army for him. Only then did he simply transfer Hua Xiong over to protect him full-time, coupled with the well-trained guards around him who were extremely loyal to him, with this protection, Dong Zhuo was a little relieved.
He has also reduced the number of times he goes out recently, and he basically won't go to Luoyang City except for the few times he has to go to Luoyang City. The only few times he had passed had been under strict guard.
Although he didn't think that his secret enemies would do anything in public, there were exceptions, and they were really mad and stabbed him to death. Waiting for the court to investigate? By the time the court tracked down the murderer, he had already become a dead man.
Don't look at the fact that he was reported to be raided by soldiers and horses, it caused a stir in the court, and someone was sent to investigate it. So far, there is no clue at all, and those people have found out to the end, and there is only one, which is a premeditated operation with the participation of strangers.
Nonsense, these things don't need to be investigated at all, he knows it himself! If he wanted to get such a result, he didn't need to tell the story of the attack, although there was no result, but he also let Dong Zhuo know. The group of people who secretly attacked him either had a huge power in the court, or they were well-organized, and it was easy for nothing else to be revealed.
"No, Mrs. Qin stays." Dong Zhuo thought about other things, his movements were not slow at all, and he replied with a smile in his fists.
After finishing speaking, under Qin Jie's gaze, Dong Zhuo slowly turned around and walked in the direction he came. Except for Qin Jie, he will go to other people's residences to visit later, in short, he has a lot of things to do now, and there are many things he needs to do in person.
For example, this simple visit, the people who came were all the Taishou of a place, the history of a state, and in terms of official positions, it was not much different from ah. Besides, their original function is also the kind of real power they hold and control the resources of a place.
For example, he only mastered the resources of Liangzhou at first, and finally operated to the point where he is now. These guards are no exception, and they can't be supervised by what they are doing in various places.
Don't look at the ministers in the court who have a much higher status than them, in fact, it is nothing. The high status is only in status, and there is no substance, and it is far inferior to the actual controllers of these states, counties, and cities.
This is also the reason why he refused the emperor to summon him to Luoyang in the first place, and he prevaricated for a reason. In fact, the emperor also knew that he was just an excuse, but the emperor had no way, no way to get him, so he could only let him continue to stay in Liangzhou.
Is this going to be in Luoyang City? Is the status of the Three Princes high enough? High! It can be said that in addition to the emperor, the three people with the most official positions in the court are the three people with the highest official positions, but they were still executed by the emperor when they deserve to die? That's because they are in the court under the emperor's nose, although they have some power in their hands, that power can't be turned into real strength!
He was in Liangzhou, and the strength he had accumulated over the years was exactly what he dared to refuse at that time! Without these strengths, even if he Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang City, he would only be able to live trembling like those officials in the court in the end.
Is Lu Zi strong? He was famous in the court, and in those battles to suppress the Yellow Turban, Dong Zhuo witnessed his strength with his own eyes. But even such a person, now his official position is the same as his, and he is still pressed in Jizhou to continue to exterminate those Yellow Turban remnants, and there is no way to return to Luoyang City.
These are concrete examples of involuntarily being self-conscious, and they are also lessons for him. He is not a fool, how can he let go of all that he has in his hands and pursue those illusory things?
As long as you have a sword in your hand, then naturally you will have everything, as long as the sword in your hand is fast and sharp enough, then no one can work to ignore you. If you want to kill it quickly, you must also consider all aspects of things, and you can't start at will, because you may not be able to take this knife down, and you will hurt your own hand.
It was precisely because of this kind of concern that the original emperor continued to let him stay in Liangzhou, if he didn't have the strength in hand, he didn't want to go at that time. It's just that when I returned to Luoyang City, the original emperor was already dead.
For the original emperor Liu Hong, he was still very jealous, no matter how mediocre he looked on the outside, Liu Hong was always a qualified emperor. Coupled with the loyal ministers and good generals in those states, Dong Zhuo thought that he would have no chance in his life, but the arrival of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and now that the emperor has died, the old and the new are alternate, it is undoubtedly his best opportunity.
If you miss this opportunity, it may take a lot of time to wait for the next opportunity, or it may not appear at all. In short, he won't be willing to give it a try. At least in his eyes, the current Liu family should also have the time to let others sit down.
"What does Hansheng think of Dong Zhongying?" Looking at Dong Zhuo and his party who left, Qin Jie stood at the camp gate and didn't turn around for a long time.
When Huang Zhong heard this, he was a little stunned, he thought for a while before replying, "Tiger wolf." ”
This is his most intuitive view of Dong Zhuo, whether it is him as a person or his temperament as a person, it gives him a feeling of being like a wolf and a tiger. What is Wolf? What is Tiger? They are absolute beasts of prey and can hunt other animals, including human beasts.
In their bones, there is only the meaning of the law of the jungle, plundering everything. In short, he didn't think that it would be a good thing for someone like Dong Zhuo to stay in Luoyang City, such a vicious tiger wolf, if he couldn't control it, he would only eat himself.
Just like he taught the soldiers in the army to practice knives, if he didn't even know the knife yet, if he rashly practiced the fast knife, he would only hurt himself. In addition, the knife may be extremely sharp, and there is also a blood groove, so if you can't control it this time, it may be fatal!
Dong Zhuo is a tiger wolf, a fierce beast that needs a clever hunter to domesticate. But it is still unknown whether it can be domesticated successfully, because it is difficult to remove the habits in the bones of the beast. It's like a dog, even if it's domesticated, at some point, it won't fail to bite.
Dong Zhuo is also a sharp blade, a sharp blade that only a clever person can grasp. Only if you know how to maintain it and use this sharp blade, you will not be injured by the sharp blade.
You must know that there are many divine weapons and sharp weapons, all of which are in the way of the Lord. If the master is not strong enough, he will have all kinds of problems because of the divine weapon, and he will die because of the divine weapon.
That's the reason for the guilt of guilt.
The tigers and wolves are like this, and the blades are like this, not to mention that Dong Zhuo is still a person? How could the people who had the army of tigers and wolves in Liangzhou under their command be simple?
Huang Zhong had just caught the kind of aggressive gaze that Dong Zhuo appeared from time to time, this person was not someone who would be willing to be lonely and content with the status quo.
"Tiger wolf?" Qin Jie's eyes flashed, and Huang Zhong's words allowed him to catch a glimmer of aura that flashed in his mind just now, but he couldn't figure it out.
After Huang Zhong said this, he realized what the feeling that had just appeared in his mind, what that glimmer of aura was. That's right, it's a tiger wolf, Dong Zhuo gives him the feeling that he is a fierce tiger wolf.
How could such a tiger wolf have nothing to visit him? Presumably for...
"So what do you think he's here for?" Qin Jie asked again. He likes to ask Huang Zhong some clueless questions, Huang Zhong sometimes answers according to intuition, without much thought, but often gives him a lot of inspiration.
"I'm supposed to be tempting, right?" Huang Zhong replied with some hesitation.
"Temptation?" Qin Jie carefully tasted the meaning behind these two words, and indeed figured out a lot of things from them.
He suddenly saw Dong Zhuo come back and glance at him, a smile appeared on Qin Jie's face again, and he stretched out his hand and raised it.
It wasn't until Dong Zhuo turned around that the smile on his face gradually faded. No matter whether Dong Zhuo is tempting or what he does, there is no specific evidence to explain now, he has no way to take the corresponding behavior, only continue to take a look, and wait until Dong Zhuo completely exposes the purpose behind his series of actions before he can take targeted action.
(End of chapter)