Chapter 78: Fifteen Marquis

Kyoto Luoyang, the Prime Minister's Office.

It was the coldest time of the year, and the streets were bustling with endless streams. People were wearing new clothes, not afraid of the cold, and led the whole family out for fun. Vendors carrying cargo loads wandered back and forth on the street, performing juggling and trying their best to win the rewards of the onlookers. As for the wine shops, they were even more lively. The dignitaries and nobles booked private rooms and came to drink and have fun just when it was dark.

It turns out that today is New Year's Day, and the people are all coming out to celebrate the New Year.

All kinds of noises kept coming from outside the door. The housekeeper was afraid that Dong Zhuo would disturb him, so he ordered a few fierce servants to go to the door to disperse the people. Dong Zhuo waved his hand to stop him and said, "Forget it, it's the New Year. Besides, I will bring all the officials into the palace later."

The housekeeper took the servants back and muttered in his heart: My adult must be in a very good mood today, otherwise he would have been kind-hearted.

After a while, all officials arrived. High officials gathered in the Prime Minister's Office. Everyone first congratulated Dong Zhuo on the New Year, and then greeted each other. Everyone looked relaxed, and they seemed to be infected by the New Year atmosphere.

Dong Zhuo led all officials to the Nangong to pay homage to Emperor Xian. Emperor Xian issued an edict saying that the New Year changed the Yuan Dynasty to Chuping, which was the first year of Chuping. According to the convention, he said something about everyone's hard work, and then dispersed the court. Emperor Xian returned to the palace. The officials returned home and reunited their families to celebrate the New Year.

When Dong Zhuo returned to the mansion, he was in a very good mood, so he gathered a group of white noodles and greasy heads to have a banquet all night long, and enjoyed peace and peace.

After about 10 years of the Lantern Festival, Dong Zhuo arranged a Lantern Festival lantern mat in his mansion and invited his own group of confidants to drink, enjoy dances, and guess riddles in the mansion. It was so lively.

Dong Zhuo was in a good mood. He held the newly-acquisted concubine in his left hand and the beautiful palace maid who had just been snatched out of the palace with his right hand. His confidants came to toast frequently. The compliments made Dong Zhuo feel very uncomfortable. He couldn't help but drink a few more glasses, and was already a little drunk.

On the center of the banquet, more than ten beautiful dancers were dancing "White Dance".

"White Dance" vividly depicts the music and dance. This dance is often performed in court night banquets, and the scenery and costumes are extremely luxurious. The dancers wear white dance clothes like light Luowu fog, long and wide dance sleeves, jade tassels and jade boots, beads, green belts, and dance with all their beauty. The use of sleeve dance skills, light gaits and eyebrows, eyes and expressions has reached a perfect level.

Dong Zhuo's confidants shook their eyes and applauded. The drunk man staggered and walked to the middle of the dancers, posing in various strange postures. The rest of the people laughed loudly after seeing it.

Dong Zhuo was dancing and suddenly saw Li Ru walking in from outside the house with a gloomy face. He couldn't help but feel a slump in his heart: Li Ru usually does not show his emotions. What's wrong today? Something must have happened.

Li Ru walked quickly to Dong Zhuo and said in a hurry: "Lord, something big happened!"

Dong Zhuo was a little panicked, but shouted, "What are you panicking? Come on, speak in the study."

After saying that, Dong Zhuo pushed the woman beside him, stood up, and walked towards the study room with a sway. Li Ru hurriedly followed Dong Zhuo. After entering the study room, Dong Zhuo did not care about asking Li Ru to sit down, and asked, "Son-in-law, what happened?"

Li Ru looked around and turned around and closed the door. She took out an urgent news report from her arms and handed it to Dong Zhuo and said, "According to the Hulao Pass Express, the Mushou of Guandong, joining forces to condemn it, openly wanting to take your lord's life and thank the people."

"Bold!" Dong Zhuo couldn't help but feel evil and said angrily: "Who has such a courage?"

"It's not just one person, but many people." Li Ru said with a wry smile.

"Tell me! Who are they? I think they are impatient!" Dong Zhuo slapped the table and sat down heavily.

Seeing that Dong Zhuo didn't read the express newspaper, Li Ru took it over and looked at it, and said to Dong Zhuo: "So far, there are a total of fifteen people who have raised the flag to respond."

"Fifteenth Route? There are so many...Which Fifteenth Route is it?" Dong Zhuo was stunned, his leopard eyes widened.

Li Ru coughed lightly and started to recite as the book on the paper:

"The first route, the latter general Yuan Shu."

"The second road, Han Fu, the governor of Jizhou."

"The third road, Yuzhou Governor Kong You."

"The Fourth Road, Liu Dai, the governor of Yanzhou."

"Fifth Route, Wang Kuang, the prefect of Hanoi County."

"The sixth route, Chenliu's prefect Zhang Miao."

"The Seventh Route, Qiao Mao, the prefect of Dongjun."

"The Eighth Route, Shanyang Prefect Yuan Yi."

"The ninth route, Bao Xin, the prime minister of Jibei."

"On the tenth road, Zhang Chao, the prefect of Guangling."

"On the 11th Route, Zhang Yang, the prefect of Shangdang."

"On the twelfth road, Sun Jian, the prefect of Changsha, Wucheng Hou."

"On the 13th Route, Yuan Shao, the prefect of Bohai, the Hou of Qixiang."

"The 14th Route, Cao Cao, the Dianjun Academy."

"The Fifteenth Route, Lu Kang, the prefect of Lujiang."

Li Ru finished reading it, and Dong Zhuo became more and more annoyed. He took out the hand halberd he wore around his waist and threw it hard on the wall. With a "stern" sound, the hand halberd was nailed straight to the wall.

Dong Zhuo cursed angrily: "These traitors! Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Cao Cao... I regret that I shouldn't have let you leave Luoyang at the beginning! Sun Jian was originally a thorn in my side. I was about to get rid of him, but he came to the door! Han Fu, a pedantic scholar, we recommend him as the governor of Jizhou, so he betrayed me! Wang Kuang, Zhang Miao, Qiao Mao, Bao Xin, a nest of snakes and rats, villains! Lu Kang, Yuan Yi also came to join in the fun..."

Dong Zhuo cursed and scolded everyone on the road. After scolding, Fang felt a little more comfortable. Seeing Li Ru standing aside and thinking, he asked, "What are you thinking about when you are bored?"

Li Ru was stunned, then came to his senses and said, "I was thinking that just a quick report is not enough to make a decision. Lord, the first step we have to do now is to quickly send various sentry detectives to various places to confirm this information. Then we make a decision."

"Well..." Dong Zhuo realized that he was too impulsive just now, and almost became confused. After a moment, Dong Zhuo said to Li Ru: "Just do what you said. At the same time, you need to make some precautions in advance, and ordered Xu Rong to lead 50,000 cavalry to Hulao Pass to guard, and ordered Niu Fu to seize the time to eliminate Guo Tai's Yellow Turban bandits, and then return to Luoyang, and order Guo Si to return to Xiliang as soon as possible, and recruit another 100,000 troops to be reinforcements."

Li Ru said in a deep voice: "Abide by the order!"

"By the way..." Dong Zhuo seemed to remember something and added: "I ordered Fengxian to lead the Yulin Army to arrest all the families of the traitors involved this time, especially the Yuan family! Yuan Shao... Yuan Shu... Humph! I once valued you so much..."

Lujiang County, Shu County.

Zhou Yu was dressed neatly and led the two thousand elite soldiers in high spirits all the way to the sour jujube.

Looking back at Shu County, Zhou Yu felt that there were only fourteen teams in history to fight against Dong. Now he convinced Lu Kang, the prefect of Lujiang, to agree that he would join the team to attack Dong Zhuo in the name of Lujiang County, and become the fifteenth team.

Before leaving, Lu Kang held Zhou Yu's hands tightly and said, "Nephew Gongjin, I really want to go to the front line to attack Dong Zhuo's traitor. It's a pity that I have a health and cannot travel far, so I'll ask you everything."

"Look at your subordinates, soldiers, generals and brave, my soldiers will not join in the fun. In terms of logistics, I will assign the magistrate of Liu Jun of Shu County to support you. Now I will allocate you two thousand stones of military rations, three thousand stags of copper coins, and five thousand wolf teeth arrows to serve as military supplies. Don't think that there are few."

After Zhou Yu thanked him, Lu Kang repeatedly reminded: "We must bring glory to the people of Lujiang."

Away from Lu Kang's earnest gaze, Zhou Yu said to Zhou Dao beside him: "Brother, don't send him far away, please go back. Tell your mother that I will definitely return safely."

Zhou Dao nodded, raised his hand and slapped Zhou Yu's shoulders heavily, and said, "Brother Yu, my mother said, I'll let you get married quickly when you come back. You must keep it in mind."

Zhou Yu smiled bitterly and said, "Mother thought too early, I'm still young. Brother, don't worry, I will definitely marry a beautiful wife... By the way, my mother's family will be here in the past few days. You must settle down, and do as we agreed on the previous two days."

Zhou Dao nodded and agreed, stopped the horse and left Zhou Yu. He looked until he could not see Zhou Yu's army, and then turned his head and ran back to Shu County.

He rode like a flying horse and chased Zhou Yu.

The one riding on the horse was a picture-like and heroic female general. Who wasn’t Xiaoyuer?

Xiao Yuer's equestrian has made great progress, and the Western Regions horse under her crotch has sprinted very fast. After a few whips, he rushed to Zhou Yu.

"Brother Yu, how far is it to Sour Jujube from here? How many days will it take?" Xiao Yu'er's cherry lips opened gently.

Zhou Yu looked up at the distance and replied, "It's probably three days' march."

"Okay. Brother Yu, don't you know that the man named Hou Jing sent by Gan Ning really has a good idea. The dozens of new female soldiers from our female barracks originally knew nothing about nursing skills, but with his guidance, they actually did things as if they were doing things well. There are three days left... when camping in the evening, you can ask him for advice."

Zhou Yu teased and said, "Since you think Hou Jing is so good, just send it to your female barracks."

Xiao Yuer stuck out her tongue and shook her hand, "This is not allowed. Our female barracks are all female soldiers, so men are not welcome."

"Oh..." Zhou Yu replied slowly: "I don't welcome men, I understand. Oh, I originally wanted to go to your female barracks to guide you to read and write."
Chapter completed!