Naruto Puppet Master

"The prime minister is wise." Li Ru congratulated.

"Ha." Dong Zhuo chuckled and said, "Do you know why I want to keep you here?"

"Confucianism doesn't know."

"I remember that you once told me that since the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors in ancient times, human emperors who have become immortals will no longer be allowed to appear. Even someone as powerful as the First Emperor cannot escape the plots of the monks, gods and Buddhas."

"What about the real person?" Dong Zhuo looked at the shocked Li Ru and said, "The real person is just the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty. Even though the actual power is huge, he still lacks a reputation. Can such an original person embark on the path of cultivation?"

"This." Facing Dong Zhuo's ambitious and oppressive eyes, Li Ru completely lost his composure.

Having followed Dong Zhuo for many years, he knew very well that Dong Zhuo was a man with extremely strong ambitions and desires, so he could continue to move forward bravely. This was also an important reason why Li Ru was willing to surrender to Dong Zhuo. He saw in Dong Zhuo that he could prove himself. The hope and possibility of success and fame.

Facts have also proved that Li Ru's ability and vision are correct. He, a poor scholar from a poor family, and Dong Zhuo, a border landowner and a good son from a rich family, brought the Xiliang army, which was poor and did not even have weapons and armors, together. , actually climbed to the pinnacle of power of the Han Dynasty at this time by relying on their own efforts without the intervention of other external forces. What a legendary story this is.

To be honest, Li Ru was already satisfied at this time. Unless he found another way to support Dong Zhuo to the throne, he would have reached the pinnacle of his life at this time.

However, Li Ru did not want Dong Zhuo to fight for the throne. The position of power was the position Dong Zhuo was truly suitable for.

Because Dong Zhuo had two fatal flaws, even if he climbed to the throne with all his efforts, he would never be able to secure the world.

The first is that Dong Zhuo has no direct heirs, only one granddaughter, and Dong Zhuo himself is over fifty years old. He was fine when he was in power, but if he really wants to fight for the throne, it will be the biggest hidden danger for the Dong Group to fall apart.

Secondly, the Dong Group is an out-and-out military force. Except for the numerous grain and grass officers in the army, Dong Zhuo has no literati at all who can help him.

When he is in power, the major gentry families can still tolerate it, but if he really takes that step, the world will repeat itself in an instant.

Li Ru explained this to Dong Zhuo when he first entered Luoyang, and Dong Zhuo agreed clearly at that time.

But unexpectedly, although Dong Zhuo did not regret it today, he set his sights on seeking immortality.

This made Li Ru a little shocked and at a loss, because he had never thought about this problem. As a scholar under the culture of various scholars, Li Ru's lifelong ideal was to rule the country and bring peace to the world, and to be famous for his great achievements throughout the ages.

As for immortality, although Li Ru knew that it was true, immortality was hard to come by. Although Li Ru had some teachings about the heretical people, he had never seen a real enlightened person.

"Asking for immortality is not what Confucianism is good at, and Confucianism doesn't know this at all." Li Ru replied with a troubled expression.

"Well, the truth is that you don't know much about it, but I also know that you have some serious connections with those heretic people."

"Now that I am the powerful Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty, with a position below one person and above ten thousand people, it shouldn't be difficult for you to summon some capable people and strangers in my name!"

"This is not difficult. My subordinates have had good cooperation with some heretical people for the convenience of marching and fighting."

"Nowadays, there must be many dignitaries in the prime minister's country, these heretical people who have almost no hope of immortality, and they must seek refuge in the prime minister's country for glory and wealth. Just the promise of some official positions and gold and silver rewards are enough to recruit a large number of these people." Li Ru assured. said.

"Well, in that case, let's go!"

"Remember, it doesn't matter if you gather more people from the heresy, but forget about the devil who is so lawless that he has no scruples and will do whatever he wants to practice evil skills on infants, women and children. I don't want to touch this kind of lunatic."

"Practicing magic skills is nothing, but if you practice it to the point where you go crazy, then you should stay away from me." Dong Zhuo instructed.

"Yes, Ru understands." Li Ru nodded.

In fact, even if Dong Zhuo hadn't told him, Li Ru would never have introduced that lunatic to Dong Zhuo. For Li Ru, who had learned some strange methods of luck, although luck was wonderful, it was not completely undetectable and estimable. of.

Just by looking at a person's origins and acquired experiences, you can roughly estimate his luck and his future achievements.

The people who are heretical in the world of cultivation are just because they do not have the title of orthodox practitioners.

Most of them are people who are trying to practice by relying on some short stories about residual skills. Because they do not have a complete inheritance, they can only try to practice on their own. Therefore, in order to move forward, they have to dabble in various other miscellaneous studies in order to learn by analogy. Therefore, this kind of people All can be called casual cultivators.

Although there are some who are unreasonable and have bad luck, most of them are not serious, otherwise they would have been in trouble long ago.

Most of them can only be regarded as good and bad. Although recruiting them will cause some damage to Dong Zhuo's luck, it is definitely not big. The impact and benefits are almost equal.

But it's different if you are the kind of demonic person who has no scruples at all.

Even people like Li Ru knew that the orthodox magic ways had been extinct in the human world long ago, and all that were left were the magic ways with no future. They belonged to the kind of cultivation path that, as long as you practiced it, would definitely lead you to becoming a demon.

This kind of person has no regard for human nature and fate, and is a lunatic who will do anything to practice magic. They are 100% people with deep karma.

In addition to greatly implicating Dong Zhuo's own luck, calling them together is simply not worth the gain.

Although he didn't know why Dong Zhuo understood this truth, Li Ru would only be happier about it.

If Dong Zhuo knew how happy Li Ru was feeling at this time, he would definitely sneer at his idea.

"I came here just to collect the cultivation techniques. Those heretical people will give anything in order to seek immortality. While glory and wealth corrode their hearts, I also seduced Bajiu by integrating and compiling the cultivation techniques for the benefit of immortality. Achievements will allow them to obediently hand over their incomplete skills."

"But those guys who practice magic skills and become crazy, no matter what I think, I can't make them obey. Why don't I wait until my strength increases to kill people and take the power directly!"

"It can be regarded as doing justice for heaven."

"When you do this later, take Cao Cao with you. Let him read out everything when the appointment is announced. You just need to control the general direction and select the candidates." Dong Zhuo finally said casually.

"Um, yes, Prime Minister." Although I don't know when Cao Cao caught Dong Zhuo's eye, such a trivial matter

Li Ru never raised any opinions.

Not to mention the private meeting with Dong Zhuo.

On the other side, in Taifu Yuan Gu's house, Taifu Yuan Gu and a group of veterans were also holding another collective meeting. Of course, the content was probably anti-Dong.

This time is no exception.

"What does Dong Zhuo want to do? He dares to interfere in the appointment and dismissal of our scholars. Is he crazy? The veteran Yang Biao shouted angrily.

"Yes, the appointment and dismissal of officials has always been done by our scholars. Even when His Majesty comes to court, he relies heavily on the power of our scholars. Now Dong Zhuo, a mere man from Xiliang, dares to personally intervene in this matter. He simply does not know his capabilities. ." The great Confucian Ma Rixi shouted angrily.

"That's right, Grand Tutor, we can't just let Thief Dong do this. Do you have any ideas?" Another person asked.

Hearing this, Yuan Xu, who had always been with the old god, opened his eyes, looked at everyone, and said, "Yuan understands your feelings, but it is too early to speak now."

"You all must have forgotten that this big man is still in the hands of our family. No matter what Thief Dong does, he cannot do without the help of our family."

"Although we have to compromise for the time being because of the Xiliang army's front, but except for the area near Luoyang and Chang'an and Xiliang, he, Thief Dong, has the power to interfere in local affairs."

"The land of Guandong is our territory. No matter what plots Thief Dong has, as long as we work together to seal the news, we can show him whatever he wants to see. The things on paper are still left to us to write. ."

"I still don't believe it. He, a good family man with no foundation, can really have the ability to get past me and interfere in the place." Yuan Xing said with a sneer.

"Master, you are so clever!" After hearing that Yuan Shao had made it clear that he wanted to bully Dong Zhuo, but he had no ability to know, and even if he knew, there was no way to deceive him. Everyone immediately came back to their senses and said congratulations.

"Yes." Yuan Xu, who was being congratulated by everyone, smiled and nodded and said: "Compared to the first thing, it is the matter of amnesty of taxes all over the world. We can do a lot of work!"

"Oh, what do you mean, Master?"

Yuan Xu said with a sinister smile: "Didn't Dong Zhuo want to amnesty the world's miscellaneous taxes? That's fine! I'll just help him later, and the whole world won't have to pay taxes. I don't see how he can use his Xiliang army to Do you need to rely on looting to survive? Ah! Hahahahahaha"

"Hahahahaha..." Everyone laughed in understanding.

After solving the two ideas that suddenly popped up by Dong Zhuo today, many representatives of the world left lightly one after another.

"Benchu, come with me!" After seeing off the last Yang Biao, Yuan Wei ordered Yuan Shao, who had been following him.

"Yes, uncle." Yuan Shao, who originally planned to say goodbye and pay his respects, responded respectfully.

"This is the beginning, our Yuan family's opportunity has come." In the study, Yuan Wei excitedly said to Yuan Shao.

"You mean uncle?" Yuan Shao asked carefully.

"I know you must have wondered before why I asked you to induce He to go in and lure Dong Zhuo into Luoyang!" Yuan Gui answered the question and said, "That Dong thief is not a good man at first glance. His luck is like a greedy wolf. He is an out-and-out villain on the battlefield. This person can only be sent out, and must not be drawn into the central power. Otherwise, due to the true nature of the greedy wolf, there will be a danger of backlash without the suppression of the real dragon."

"But that's what I did!"

Yuan Shao listened with cold sweat on his forehead. He knew that he was about to be involved in a huge secret, a secret belonging to the Yuan family.

At this time, Yuan Shao was both scared and excited.

"You must not know why?" Yuan Xu said to himself: "I tell you, because our ancestors of the Yuan family once received the blessing of the immortal, there will definitely be a person with a phoenix destiny among the descendants."

"If a person with the phoenix destiny has the opportunity to survive the death of rebirth in human affairs, he will be able to transform into the fire dragon destiny and have the destiny to reach the top of the dynasty."

"The ancestors have been planning for this for many years. Now your generation is the generation that the immortals calculated to have people with phoenix destiny. You and Gu Gu are the most outstanding people in the Yuan family's generation. Although I like you more, but just in case , we can’t give up on the highway either.”

"What do you mean, uncle?" Yuan Shao swallowed and said.

"Yes, the big man is going to die." Yuan Wei said without hesitation: "The one who does it must be Dong Zhuo."

"You understand that."

"Shao understands." Yuan Shao nodded in shock.

"Yes." Yuan Xu nodded and continued: "Dong Zhuo's movements are getting bigger and bigger now. I think he has lost his patience with us people. You should complete the tasks he assigned as soon as possible this time and go there after you are done." Let’s wait for the opportunity in Bohai!”

"You have to pay attention to the Kanto tax amnesty. It must be known to everyone."

"This is not only to trick Dong Zhuo, but also to trick other dragons who rise up in the future after the world is in chaos, giving you and the highway a better starting point."

"Compared with family wealth, my Yuan family is the best in the world. It is enough for you and the highway to rise south and north. When the time comes, you two brothers will compete with each other to see whether they are dragons or insects!"

"After all, they are all named Yuan."

"Yes, uncle." Yuan Shao responded respectfully.

"Well, let's go!" He suddenly spit out the secrets he had buried in his heart for many years. Yuan Wei was also a little tired, and immediately waved to Yuan Shao to tell him to go and rest!

In the next few days, while everyone was seizing the time to make secret arrangements, Dong Zhuo made some big moves.

First, the four commanders of the Xiliang Army confessed their crimes and apologized for the previous plunder.

Although the people did not believe it at the time, the Xiliang Army did indeed begin to sweep away its looting habits in one fell swoop and began to independently maintain public order for the common people, especially the streets, shopping streets and other places. After that, the entire Luoyang City The Xiliang Army's reputation towards Dong Zhuo also began to change.

"Although these Xiliang elders look at people with panic and something is not right, at least now these elders no longer cause trouble and harm people, but have begun to do some serious things, but they are better than the original officials of Luoyang Tingwei Much stronger." This was the new perception that most people had about the Xiliang Army a few days later.

And just when the major aristocratic families began to speculate about the conspiracy intentions of the Xiliang Army and Dong Zhuo, the news and messages that the powerful Dong Xiangguo was actually interested in seeking immortality, and openly recruited people to seek advice from immortals were here. The news spread throughout Luoyang City.

Some people felt incredible about this, some people sneered, and some people were gloating about the misfortune. But when the announcement of this kind of recruitment really came out from the Prime Minister's Mansion, everyone understood that Dong Zhuo was serious.