Chapter 350 The Yuan family loses power and Lu Bu flees
Ma Su was not at all afraid that he had been caught by Cai Yong. The battle of just a few hours last night had caused a huge change in his temperament, and he was full of chilling air.
Originally, in Cai Yong's eyes, Ma Di was just a bigger naughty kid, and his old father could do whatever he wanted. But when Ma Di really turned his head, Cai Yong's expression instantly turned suspicious, or rather
Frightened.
Especially when he saw Ma Su's eyes that looked down upon the common people and regarded all things as ants, Cai Yong was so frightened that he didn't sit down on the ground.
What a look that is.
It was a look in a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. It was a look that had seen everything in the world and looked down upon the world. That look was so sharp. With just one glance, it pierced Cai Yong's mind, exploded, and continued.
Creating destruction.
He rubbed his old, somewhat dim eyes vigorously, and looked intently again, and found that the adopted son Ma Su in front of him had returned to his harmless appearance.
Cai Yong was stunned and remained silent for a long time, wondering if he had been dazzled just now. How could an eight-year-old child have such sharp eyes?
"Father, am I going back to study?"
Seeing Cai Yong holding a ruler in his hand and not coming to beat him for a long time, Ma Di asked tentatively.
Cai Yong came to his senses, waved his hand, turned around and left in a hurry.
Ma Su scratched his head inexplicably, and probably understood what was going on.
In fact, he was a little puzzled last night. Originally, the commander of the three thousand soldiers and horses was Captain Bao Xin, but when he stood next to Bao Xin, the soldiers would involuntarily look at him instead of Bao Xin.
Moreover, when he gave orders, there was almost no obstacle, and the recruits obeyed his orders very obediently.
Ma Su didn't think there was anything wrong with this at the time, but now that he thinks about it, it is indeed a bit abnormal.
Perhaps it was the aura of commander he had cultivated in his previous life that was causing trouble. Ma Su shook his head and smiled. Suddenly he heard someone calling him softly. He turned his head and saw that Cai Yan was sticking out his pretty face from the front room and waving to him.
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"Brother Su, come quickly!"
Ma Su entered Cai Yan's room and found her pacing back and forth in the room, struggling. When he saw him coming in, Cai Yan quickly asked:
"Brother, what did you do last night?"
"I..." Ma Di opened his mouth, suddenly at a loss for words. At the age of eight, it was very difficult for him to find a deceptive excuse. He said he went to a brothel, because he was not old enough; he said he would visit friends, eight
What kind of friends can an eight-year-old child have? Say that you are too playful and can't find your way back. There is really nothing in this era that can make an eight-year-old child addicted to the point of staying up all night.
Just as he was about to start brainstorming and make up a reason, he suddenly saw Cai Yan wave his hand.
"Forget it, forget it, it's not important."
Ma Su secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Cai Yan bit his lip and said, "Brother Su, Brother Wei Shi invited me to play chess tomorrow, but I haven't played for a long time and my hands are tight, so I might be embarrassed. Can you practice with me?"
"What chess?"
"It should be Go."
"What's so fun about Go? It's too mentally taxing. Let's play chess instead."
"Um...okay."
Xiaocui quickly set up the chessboard in the backyard pavilion, and the two siblings started competing.
Ma Di took the red lead and went first. As soon as he came up, he used his double cannon to shoot down Cai Yan's two horses.
Cai Yan took charge of the situation and left behind. He took advantage of every move and worked step by step. In a short time, he killed Ma Su's old commander and had no way out, winning his first victory.
She clapped her hands and said with a smile: "Yeah~, Brother Su, I won!"
Ma Su didn't take it seriously. He looked at his two intact elephants on the chessboard and said with a smile: "Sister, although I lost, I still have someone else. Do you have someone else?"
"Sister, you can lose in chess, but your partner can't die... Hahaha."
Cai Yan was stunned for a moment, and his smile froze, "It's disgusting, my partner has been eaten by you, come again, come again..."
The word "object" originally had no special meaning in this era, but Cai Yan and Ma Su got along for a long time and heard many strange names, including the saying "object = future other half".
After a while.
Cai Yan won again, but he had a sad face and was about to cry.
Her target was killed by Ma Su again.
"My dear brother, I hate it. Why do you keep killing my opponent? Why do you use two rooks to protect your opponent, but not your handsomeness? You win the chess game, wuwuwu..."
As he talked, Cai Yan couldn't help but want to cry.
Ma Su suppressed his laughter and lowered his head to place the chess pieces.
So, a very strange scene happened next, Cai Yan was wiping tears while winning the game.
The cry quickly attracted Wei Zhongdao's attention. He held a folding fan in his hand and walked over with square steps, watching intently as the siblings played chess.
After only watching for a moment, he couldn't stand it any longer. He actually saw that Cai Yan and Ma Di had deployed heavy defenses around their targets, while the most critical commanders and generals had no defense at all, and only a small soldier could do it.
You can kill the opponent's general (handsome).
After Wei Zhongdao silently recited "A true gentleman watches chess without speaking" more than a hundred times, he finally couldn't help it anymore.
"Yan Mei, Di Di! This is not how chess is played! If you don't know how, I can teach you!"
"Oh? Then how do you think chess should be played?" Ma Su killed one of Cai Yan's targets with a snap, raised his head and said, "In chess, isn't the bishop the most important?"
Wei Zhongdao shook his head, "No, no! The general is the most important."
"Oh? It seems that Brother Shi has unique insights into chess. Please feel free to teach me." Ma Su said with a smile, raised his hand and killed another bishop of Cai Yan with a snap.
Cai Yan stood up silently, gave up his seat, came to stand behind Ma Su, and pinched Ma Su's back with his little hands.
Ma Su grinned and raised his hand to signal to Wei Zhongdao.
Wei Zhongdao was also unambiguous. He put away the folding fan with a bang, sat down opposite him, set up his position, and started to fight with Ma Su in a serious manner.
After a stick of incense.
"Snapped!"
"General!"
"Brother Shi, you lose!"
Ma Su looked at Wei Zhongdao with a smile, his eyes showing "Is this the level he is at?"
Wei Zhongdao looked at his bare veteran on the chessboard, then at Ma Su's remaining half set of chariots, horses and artillery, and said awkwardly, "Mistake, mistake, come again!"
After another stick of incense.
…
"Snapped!"
"General!"
"Hahaha, brother, accept, accept." After a set of three consecutive rounds, Ma Di laughed extraordinarily wildly.
Wei Zhongdao's face turned red for a moment and he hesitated: "I'm careless, I'm careless. Victory or defeat is a common thing for military officers. Come again!"
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"Snapped!"
"General!"
"Brother Shi, you're not very good~ Hahaha..."
Wei Zhongdao felt a rush of blood rushing to his forehead, "Do it again! I don't believe I can't win today."
Two hours later.
Wei Zhongdao covered his chest and walked away awkwardly.
I really can't win today.
He simply couldn't stand Ma Su's method of eating the elephant first and then the general.
At the beginning, he thought that they were just the same person. Let you eat and exchange for two elephants. It would not be a loss if you exchanged two elephants with one shot! However, as soon as the elephant array was broken, the situation took a turn for the worse, and his defense range suddenly changed from the river to the river.
Nearby, it narrowed down to around the two men. Especially the two lines at positions 3 and 7, which simply became the exclusive routes for the opponent's vehicles, horses and artillery. They kept pulling up and down, and they pulled him to death in a short time.
Today's disastrous defeat made Wei Zhongdao seriously doubt his more than ten years of chess skills, and even his cognition collapsed.
Chess, chess, is the bishop really the most important?
Aren't generals important?
Isn’t it important?!
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"Hahaha……"
Outside the pavilion, Ma Su laughed and followed Cai Yan, dancing and happily.
Cai Yan pouted and walked quickly ahead, feeling happy and depressed at the same time. What was happy was that this younger brother seemed to know how to let her win, but what was sad was that none of his targets survived.
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While Ma Su was teaching Wei Zhongdao how to play chess in Cai Mansion, the situation in Luoyang City became even more turbulent.
Regarding Bao Xin's act of killing Dong Zhuo, Emperor Liu Zhui, civil and military officials, and even the traffickers and footmen in the capital all applauded. But for the Yuan family and even brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, the news could only be regarded as mixed.
Accompanied by Empress Dowager He, Liu Zhui, who had just recovered from his shock, praised Bao Xin and rewarded him with a thousand pieces of gold. Then he sent the latter to the Kingdom of Jibei to become prime minister.
Among the remaining "meritorious ministers", Taifu Yuan Wei and Taipu Yuan Ji each received rewards; Yuan Shao, the Sili Xiaowei, was promoted from Sili Xiaowei to the general, and he and his uncle Yuan Wei jointly assisted in the administration and recorded the secretarial affairs; Yuan Shu (due to Dong Zhuo)
After entering the capital, he fled to Nanyang) was also recalled to the capital and resumed his position as Huben Zhonglang General, taking charge of all the troops and horses around the capital.
Since then, the Yuan family has dominated the government and the public, and has monopolized power.
Only the orphaned Emperor Liu Zhu and the Queen Mother He were left, with almost no right to speak.
Fortunately, the Great Han Dynasty is still there and will not collapse.
Because of his close relationship with Yuan Shao, Cao Cao also fulfilled his wish and became the general of the Han Dynasty's expedition to the west. After waiting for the situation in Luoyang to stabilize, he led his army to Guanzhong to quell the rebellion of Ma Teng and Han Sui.
The capital gradually calmed down from the turmoil, and people's lives returned to their usual order.
As for what great contributions the Yuan family made in this national crisis? No one bothered about this, or some people struggled, but it could not be spread to the court level.
However, the imperial court - to be precise, the imperial court controlled by the Yuan family still gave a statement: the Yuan brothers killed the eunuchs, which contributed to the country and benefited the future.
Soon, Cai Yong was appointed as Yushi Zhongcheng because of his good teaching skills, and was given a salary of two thousand dan.
But Bao Xin, the man who really helped put down the rebellion, was not mentioned at all in the imperial announcement.
When the censor came to Cai Mansion to convey the decree, Cai Yong was confused. He had no idea why he was suddenly promoted.
Did he teach his children well? He would never believe this reason. There are so many people in the world who teach their children well, why don't they see them being promoted to official positions?
But no matter what, Cai Yong took office in such a confused manner.
Luoyang, Beigong.
The first court meeting after the execution of Dong Zhuo was unprecedentedly fierce.
Emperor Liu Zhui sat on the throne tremblingly, watching a group of old men in their forties, fifties, fifties and sixties confront each other, grinning, and having all kinds of hysterical quarrels.
There is only one subject of the quarrel, that is, Dong Zhuo's remnant party and the rebel Lu Bu. How should we deal with it?
Everyone has different opinions on how to deal with Dong Zhuo's remnant party, because so far, only Dong Zhuo has clearly committed the crime of contempt for the imperial court, and his former subordinates have not had time to make mistakes, and secondly, they have all made mistakes for the Han Dynasty.
A great general with great achievements.
After a cordial and friendly exchange, all the civil and military officials agreed that the Dong Zhuo clan and Li Su should be killed, and Lu Bu should be designated as a traitor. His murder of Zhi Jin Wu Ding Yuan was a heinous crime that could not be forgiven.
Therefore, when tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from the fifth school of the Northern Army came out of the city to arrest Lu Bu, Lu Bu had disappeared, and only Zhang Liao and more than a thousand people were still stationed at the same place.
Lu Bu actually sensed something bad in the second half of the night that Dong Zhuo was killed. The plains southwest of Luoyang City were filled with the light of torches, and the scouts sent out also said that Dong Zhuo's troops were moving.
However, Lu Bu did not act rashly at that time. On the one hand, he was not sure what was going on in Dong Zhuo's camp, and on the other hand, he was worried about fraud and did not want to get involved in a fierce battle without knowing the situation in the middle of the night.
Lu Bu knew that his act of killing Ding Yuan would definitely lead to the court's condemnation. The fighting on the battlefield was far less brutal and bloody than the one in the court hall. In the chaos in the capital, he seemed to be in a turbulent sea.
The small boat can only drift powerlessly with the waves, unable to control its own destiny.
From the moment he saw Dong Zhuo and his party being arrested, he felt the danger was approaching.
This is the warrior's intuition.
Lu Bu had the idea of escape, but where to escape? He didn't know, he could only stay away from Luoyang and the court as much as possible.
When escaping from the military camp, Lu Bu didn't take any of his old generals or soldiers with him. He walked through the night, whipping his red rabbit horse as hard as he could, and rushed toward the southwest. He rushed out all the way.
For two hundred miles, they did not stop until dawn when the red rabbit horse was exhausted and covered in blood and sweat.
Lu Bu found a small river near the official road. He lay down in the water and sucked the wind directly into the water, which finally calmed his panic. Then he came to the water and saw a face with lingering fears.
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Is there anything in the world that is not the land of kings? If you are guilty, where can you escape to?
Only then did Lu Bu realize that he had done something extremely stupid. He didn't know what kind of madness he had gone so crazy that day that he actually killed his adoptive father Ding Yuan in a flash of his mind.
When the fear gradually subsided, endless regret emerged in Lu Bu's heart. He had a lingering sense of guilt for the death of his adoptive father Ding Yuan. He didn't know how to face himself. Ding Yuan had taken good care of him over the years.
Pictures and scenes appeared in his mind repeatedly.
Now that Ding Yuan died in his own hands, Lu Bu suddenly came up with the idea of killing himself to apologize. But this thought passed away in a flash. What was more, he felt resentment towards Li Su. He wanted to kill Li Su.
The corpse was broken into thousands of pieces. If this person hadn't been so beguiling, how could he have gone to a dead end? How could he have become a bereaved dog?!
Lu Bu rested against a big tree for a while, and with extremely complicated and contradictory emotions, he continued to flee toward the southwest. Along the way, he almost didn't dare to close his eyes. As soon as he closed his eyes, he kept having nightmares over and over again.
Ding Yuan's face before his death.
At the same time, he had to endure hunger and the wild beasts at night in the Songluan Mountains - because of his haste to escape, he only brought some gold and silver, but no tent or fire, not to mention wine and meat, which he had already eaten.
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But it's not all good news. Along the way, Lu Bu got some good news from the mouths of local woodcutters and hunters, at least it was good news for him.
Ma Teng and Han Sui from Xiliang are causing trouble in Guanzhong.
Therefore, Lu Bu came up with the idea of passing through Wuguan and heading to Guanzhong to join Ma Teng. As soon as this idea emerged, it completely took root.
Lu Bu threw Fang Tian's painted halberd and stabbed a hare to death. After feasting on the raw meat, he mounted his horse and continued heading southwest.
