Chapter 146 First, the Dead Soldier and Blood Decree

After hearing Dong Cheng's words, Emperor Xian was stunned for a while.

Emperor Xian is still eleven years old now. According to modern sayings, he is just a shit child. His analysis and ability to recognize people are very limited. Otherwise, based on Wu Fan's style of conduct, it would be obvious how much moisture Zhang Gui's words contained.

As for Dong Cheng, Zhang Gui was a servant who was favored by his mansion. He was indirectly beaten to death by Wu Fan's subordinates. With the invigorating description before his death, Dong Cheng knew that there must be moisture in it, but he still used it as a basis.

After all, Dong Cheng wanted to use Emperor Xian to get rid of Wu Fan. The reasons are the personal grudges of Zhang Gui being beaten to death, and the public revenge of Wu Fan overthrowing Emperor Xian. Like Wang Yun, Dong Cheng is also a loyal monarch. On the surface, he goes with the flow, but secretly is very dissatisfied with Wu Fan. This time, the Zhang Gui incident was actually a fuse, which directly detonated the hatred that Dong Cheng had accumulated for a long time.

Emperor Xian was stunned for a while and asked cowardly:

"That's what Zhang Gui said?"

Dong Chengdao:

"Real"

Emperor Xian couldn't help but say with a sad face:

"What should I do? Wu Fan holds heavy troops and has many subordinates. Even if I do, I can't do anything to him."

Dong Chengdao:

"Don't be surprised by Your Majesty. Wu Fan is the governor of Cao's army, and the one who is most afraid of Cao's army is Yuan Shao. As long as we can get Yuan Shao's help and kill Wu Fan, Your Majesty can take advantage of the opportunity to escape from Luoyang and hide in Hebei. At that time, Cao Cao will not dare to lead his troops to chase him, and Your Majesty can rest assured."

Dong Cheng was also naive enough. He thought that only Cao Cao would underestimate Emperor Xian, and the other princes were all dedicated to the Han Dynasty. Little did he know that Emperor Xian would be even more miserable to Yuan Shao’s subordinates.

Emperor Xian frowned and said:

"Didn't my dear friend tell me before that Yuan Shao is unable to support the war because he cannot provide military rations? Since that's the case, how can he let Yuan Shao send troops to attack Luoyang? Besides, Wu Fan's bravery is beyond the reach of thousands of people. I have seen it with my own eyes that even if the entire Luoyang is surrounded by Yuan Shao's army, Wu Fan may not be able to be killed."

Dong Cheng shook his head and said:

"Your Majesty, I am not trying to let Yuan Shao lead the army to capture Luoyang, but to let Yuan Shao send a team of elite troops to ambush Wu Fan."

Under Emperor Xian's confusing gaze, Dong Cheng continued:

"I heard that Yuan Shao had a group of extremely elite troops, carefully selected from hundreds of thousands of troops, and only a thousand people were named the First Deadly Soldiers. They were all very skilled and fearless. If Your Majesty could get the help of these First Deadly Soldiers and ambush secretly in the back garden, Your Majesty would invite Wu Fan to come. At that time, even if Wu Fan had the ability to ascend to heaven and earth, he would definitely die just..."

Emperor Xian said anxiously:

"Just what?"

Dong Chengdao:

"The first to climb the dead soldiers is the most elite troops under Yuan Shao. They will not easily go to the battlefield, and will not leave Yuan Shao easily. If Your Majesty wants to borrow these first to climb the dead soldiers, you must write a blood edict and then send it to me personally, so that you can succeed."

Emperor Xian acted according to his words, ordered the eunuch to take the short blade, cut the middle finger of his right hand, write a blood edict, and hand it over to Dong Cheng.

The latter put the blood edict in his arms and said goodbye to Emperor Xian, and was about to leave. Emperor Xian called Dong Cheng again at this time, and hesitated:

"My dear, I just thought about it. What your servant named Zhang Gui said is true? Don't blame Wu Fan for wrongly."

Dong Cheng didn't expect that Emperor Xian was still able to think of such details. He paused and said:

"Your Majesty is so kind. When Wu Fan defeated Your Majesty and even transferred Your Majesty's ministers to other places, did you ever think about Your Majesty's feelings? For the sake of the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty's country, Your Majesty must not hesitate."

Dong Cheng played a way to divert attention, cleverly avoided Emperor Xian's inquiries, and further strengthened Emperor Xian's determination.

This method worked very well. Emperor Xian murmured:

"For the sake of the Han Dynasty, for the Han Dynasty's country... For the sake of the Han Dynasty..., according to my beloved, I will take the blood edict to Hebei."

Dong Cheng resigned from Emperor Xian again, left the study room, and came straight to the main entrance of the palace.

At present, the army in Luoyang is divided into two factions, with the palace walls as the boundary. The palace walls are the heavy infantry belonging to the emperor, with less than 200 people. Outside the palace walls are the Second Corps of Cao Army belonging to Wu Fan, with more than 60,000 people. At this time, the army on duty outside the palace gate is naturally the Cao Cao army in blue uniforms.

When Dong Cheng walked out of the main gate, he deliberately pretended to be nothing, and took the initiative to talk to Zang Baxu who was on duty here. Then he bid farewell to Zang Ba, returned home, prepared horses and other things, and immediately left the mansion and looked at the east gate of Luoyang City.

Not long after leaving the mansion, a voice came from behind:

"Dong Gong Stays"

When Dong Cheng heard this voice, he was shocked and sweated. The person who came was none other than Cao's army governor and Luoyang prefect Wu Fan

Dong Cheng stood there, closed his eyes and calmed down his breath, raised his sleeves and wiped his face, then pulled his head and turned to face Wu Fan, who was walking towards him, and immediately bowed:

"I wonder what the hell is asking for?"

Dong Cheng has a higher official rank than Wu Fan, and the two have no friendship. Therefore, Dong Cheng's response immediately did not feel anything wrong with Wu Fan, who usually doesn't put on airs.

At this time, Wu Fan had already come to Dong Cheng's horse and observed Dong Cheng for a while, especially Dong Cheng's expression. Dong Cheng's whole body was shaking. Just when he thought he was seen by Wu Fan, Wu Fan suddenly spoke:

"Mr. Dong, why did you suddenly appear on this street when you heard you were sick? "

When Dong Cheng heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief and said:

"I just felt sick last night, but now I'm fine, so I want to go out of the city to have a walk."

Wu Fan said oh, nodded, then looked at Dong Cheng's face and said:

"Since Mr. Dong is already safe, why are he sweating heavily during this dead of winter?"

Dong Cheng stammered for a moment and said:

"It should be because I haven't ridden for a long time, and my body is still weak, so I feel sweaty."

Wu Fan nodded again and asked again:

"I wonder where Mr. Dong wants to go when he leaves the city this time?"

Dong Cheng replied:

“Hang around, without purpose.”

Wu Fan suddenly said:

"How about strolling out of the city with Mr. Dong?"

When Dong Cheng heard this, he was speechless and didn't know how to answer. Wu Fan smiled and said:

"I'm joking, I'm still in need today. Let's go with Mr. Dong later."

Dong Cheng felt relieved, and a little smile appeared on his face. He bowed to Wu Fan and left.

Just after walking less than ten meters, Wu Fan whispered loudly behind him:

"Mr. Dong, please wait."

Dong Cheng's heart, which had just been put back in his stomach, immediately hung in his throat, and forced himself to calm down, turned around and said to Wu Fan:

"I wonder what else is going to do with the governor?"

Wu Fan walked towards Dong Cheng and said:

"Yesterday, Zhang Gui, a servant of the Donggong Mansion, was angry with the governor for oppressing civilians and despising the court. He was punished by the governor and beaten him up with a stick. He must have known about this?"

After the morning court ended this morning, as soon as Wu Fan returned to the main hall of the palace, he received a report from the guards at the station saying that Zhang Gui was missing outside the wall. At present, no restaurant in Luoyang City had a business in the human char siu bun. When Wu Fan heard this news, he knew that Zhang Gui must have been carried back by someone from Dong Cheng's mansion.

When Dong Cheng heard this, his heart was relieved and said relaxed:

"I know, the Governor taught a very good lesson."

Wu Fan sighed:

"As a second-rank court official, there are many servants in the palace, and they still need to be strictly controlled to avoid these dirty people from ruining Dong Gong's reputation."

Wu Fan's words were honest. If Dong Cheng could understand Wu Fan's sincerity from it, he would give up and at least start and end well like other court officials in the future. But he did not stop his plan and still believed that his plan was absolutely perfect and 200% could be successful.

So, Dong Cheng, who didn't take these words at all, responded:

"The governor said very well that from then on, he should strictly discipline the servants in the palace."

Having said this, Wu Fan stopped saying anything and silently bowed to Dong Cheng. Seeing this, Dong Cheng hurriedly bowed to Wu Fan, and then rode his horse out of the city.

Until Dong Cheng had gone far, Wu Fan looked at Dong Cheng's back and slowly lowered his hands.

Then, Wu Fan said to a guard beside him:

"Finish Xun Yu immediately and ask him to send a capable spy to follow Dong Cheng secretly and see where he goes."

Xun Yu has the "spy" skill and has many spies under his command. Wu Fan does not have this skill, and even if he wants to train spies, he will not be able to do so. Therefore, Wu Fan always handed over to his subordinates for such secret intelligence work.

The guards took the order and ran away like a flying one.

After that, after a while, Cui Yingying, Diao Chan and Ling'er rushed over from the street behind.

What Wu Fan said to Dong Cheng earlier is actually to compensate the two wives to watch the show. At present, everything in Luoyang City is in order and the public security level is as high as the level of public security. It is perfectly fine to hand over other military and political affairs to the generals. Wu Fan has nothing to do now.

When I was intrigued, I watched plays, drank, played chess, and visited friends, life was so beautiful.

Today, when Ling'er was buying vegetables in the morning market, she heard that the shadow puppetry troupe of a large restaurant in Luoyang City had a new filming called "Governor Wu's anger to punish evildoers". As soon as it was staged last night, the restaurant was immediately popular. People who heard the news inside and outside Luoyang City flocked to watch it.

After Ling'er returned to the mansion, she told Cui Yingying and Diao Chan about the news. The two of them were very excited and pestered Wu Fan to take them to see the play. Wu Fan didn't care much about this, because yesterday after teaching Zhang Gui a lesson, the system had already reminded him that "your deeds are widely circulated among the people." The practice of this shadow puppetry is just one way to spread his own deeds among the people. Maybe in order to attract the audience, they can also bring some artistic processing elements. That's all, what's good about it.
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