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Chapter Two Hundred and Twenty-Three Lu Bu's Rebellion

After two consecutive days, Dong Zhuo stayed silent and refused to fight, which made Lu Bu outside the city feel a little anxious. After asking Zhang Liao, Lu Bu was even more confused about Huo Hai's intentions.

Huo Hai just asked him to continue to fight outside Luoyang City. Not only did he not lead the main force to follow Luoyang City, he also sent soldiers to the counties and villages around Luoyang City, not to burn, kill, loot, or conquer the city. He just posted various propaganda notices in various villages and villages, and ordered people to read them loudly and explain to the people.

The content is nothing more than the war in Luoyang, and the people should not stay for a long time. We will give land and houses in Bingzhou, and we will not collect taxes from the people. If there are people in Sili who want to move to Bingzhou, the Bingzhou army will arrange ships to pick them up and drop them off, and there will be a large army to protect their safety. When we arrive at the place, we will divide the houses and place the fields.

At first, everyone avoided these soldiers responsible for preaching, but after two days, someone was moved.

Because the military records of these soldiers sent by Huo Hai were really great. They didn't rob the people of anything, but they would give them some food to the children who came out to watch because they were hungry.

Many families were really unable to extricate themselves or were afraid that the war would affect their people. After all, the atmosphere of avoiding disaster in Bingzhou has been formed in several adjacent states in Bingzhou since last year, and the prosperous Sili Land is no exception.

After Dong Zhuo took office, he did impose heavy taxes on the people, which made the lives of ordinary people worse.

On the third day, someone was finally willing to leave with the Bingzhou army. Although there were only a few dozen households, it caused a lot of sensation because everyone saw that the Bingzhou army sent carriages to help the people pull farm furniture and furniture, and provided them with food all the way, unlike being trying to harm them.

The most important point is that the court sent people to the Bingzhou Army camp to negotiate peace.

Dong Zhuo submitted a petition to the emperor and appointed Huo Hai as the governor of Liehou, General of Cavalry, and as governor of Bingzhou.

He was granted the title of Lu Bu as the Marquis of Guannei, the General of Pingxi, and the Chief of the Secretariat.

In addition, they were rewarded with tens of thousands of stones of grain, thousands of pounds of copper, hundreds of horses, ten cars of gold, silver and jewelry, and hundreds of beauties. Regardless of whether Huo Hai accepted it or not, they first brought all the rewards and official seals to Lu Bu's camp.

As long as Huo Hai accepts and recognizes the legitimacy of Dong Zhuo and the new emperor he established, he will have no reason to conquer Luoyang.

His actions undoubtedly sent a signal to the people, that is, Huo Hai's rule over Bingzhou was recognized by the court, and Dong Zhuo could not beat him and was afraid of him.

The people naturally wanted to follow the strong and live a stable and comfortable life, so they all followed the Bingzhou army to Bingzhou to move.

Huo Hai had expected Dong Zhuo's actions and responded that day, ordering Zhang Liao to escort all the money and grain beauties to Yanjin Camp, and returned the official uniforms and seals to the envoy, which immediately caused a sense of displeasure on Lu Bu's face.

In his opinion, half of these gold and silver beauties were rewarded to him, and it was mainly because he defeated Dong Zhuojun in Luoyang that Dong Zhuo had to come out to seek peace with these good things.

But now, Huo Hai took all of him away. The most important thing is that he is not allowed to be an official of Dong Zhuofeng.

That was the real position of Guannei Hou, General Pingxi, Sili's Captain, and Two Thousand Shi.

Isn’t the lifelong pursuit of military generals appointing marquis and being appointed as generals?

Lu Bu's pursuit was about to come true, but Huo Hai took it away.

But it doesn't matter. After Zhang Liao took the world away and returned the seal, Dong Zhuo sent an envoy over the next day, saying that he admired Lu Bu's reputation and gave him some gold, silver and jewelry to serve as military supplies.

Lu Bu accepted it and did not report the matter to Huo Hai.

Another day later, the messenger sent a lot of gold, silver and wealth, and brought good wine and meat, saying that he wanted to reward the soldiers.

To put it bluntly, it was to invite Lu Bu and several generals under him to have a big meal.

The news soon reached Huo Hai's desk, so he asked Zhang Liao not to return to Lu Bu Camp and directly organized the relocation of the Sili people to Bingzhou with everyone.

In the next few days, every day, generals under Dong Zhuo came to Lu Bu's camp to invite him to eat and drink, gold, silver, treasures and beauties. Lu Bu's hands became weak when he received them, flattering words made his ears numb.

It was not until more than ten days later that a Bingzhou general named Li Su asked Lu Bu to go outside the camp to see the horses, and the story was on the track of history again.

The Red Rabbit Horse made Lu Bu so moved. This guy is the top strange beast among the horses. He can not only travel thousands of miles a day and eight hundred miles a day, but also jump three feet high, ignoring the attacks of ordinary crossbows and swords.

The most important thing is that its own strength can be integrated with the energy emitted by Lu Bu, strengthening Lu Bu's combat power.

When Lu Bu rode on it, he had a kind of heroic spirit that was as strong as walking on flat ground, rising from his chest, and he could no longer let go.

And the green light in his heart continued to magnify until it influenced his reason.

This is a kind of ability that Li Ru realized after the change. He himself called it the light of greed. People whose minds are polluted by this light will become indulgent and greedy.

He has tried it on Dong Zhuo and it is very effective. Now it seems to be successful when used on Lu Bu.

So, Lu Bu finally agreed to Dong Zhuo and was willing to serve under his subordinates.

Soon, the court issued a notice, proposing that Lu Bu killed Wu Kui and suppressed the previous achievements of the Xiongnu. He was named Marquis Wen, General Pingxi, and Chief of the Si Li, and the eight powerful generals under his subordinates were awarded the reward. The second most was also Marquis outside the Pass, and the Central Army General who was more than two thousand stones.

However, even with such a reward, Dong Zhuo did not leave everyone brought by Lu Bu. More than 2,000 people rushed out of the camp when Lu Bu accepted Dong Zhuo's reward and went to Yanjin Ferry.

Their wives, little family and fields are all in Bingzhou, and they have never thought of rebelling against Huo Hai.

Lu Bu did not chase these soldiers who resolutely returned. Huo Hai rewarded them after they returned. Then he announced that Lu Bu surrendered Dong, the vanguard of Bingzhou Army had been lost and the troops were withdrawn back to Bingzhou.

Moreover, it was really removed and took away all the people in the western counties of Sili, but even the people in the family were not spared.

Of course, the people in the Luoyang court did not pay much attention to these news. After all, it is common for soldiers to rob the people during wars and is not worth paying attention to. They only think that Huo Hai robbed the people in these places.

However, Lu Bu turned against Huo Hai, which made Huo Hai lose more than 2,000 elite cavalry, and made the princes from all sides mixed joys and sorrows. Everyone found that Huo Hai also had weaknesses and was not invincible.

However, Dong Zhuo, who has become new to Lu Bu, is even more frightening. Many people even flatter Dong Zhuo, including royal families like Liu Biao and Liu Yao.

In fact, Huo Hai, who made a fortune in silence, was stationed in Hanoi County to count money, no, it was a few people.

In more than half a month, he almost emptied one-third of Sili, and obtained more than 79,500 households. Based on the average of four households per household, this is a population of 300,000.

These people are enough to enrich the two to three counties in Bingzhou, and they are almost half of the population of Bingzhou.

After all, Bingzhou's biggest weakness is its vast land and sparse population.

Nowadays, with the more than 3 million people collected from Heishanzhai, the people under Huo Hai have nearly 5 million. Although they are not as popular as large states such as Hebei and Henan, Xu Jing, etc., they have much greater potential in war than Qingyou Yan and Liangyang, and are not inferior to Yizhou.

Huo Hai thought it was very cost-effective to lose one Lu Bu and gain more than 300,000 people. According to the current total population of the Han Dynasty, the people under his rule accounted for nearly 10% of the entire country. Although there are many old and weak, young and strong, the situation will be different after a few years.

Next, he wanted to settle the newly moved people, wait for the other princes to rebel against Dong, and then come out and take advantage of it.

As expected, not long after, news came from Luoyang City that Cao Cao failed to assassinate Dong and fled in a hurry.

People all over the world praised Cao Cao as a true hero and helped him escape back to his hometown. Among them was Chen Gong, a wise man who had realized his special abilities.

Yuan Shao also raised a banner in Bohai County and called on all the princes in the world to fight against Dong. He even sent an invitation to Huo Hai, asking him to raise an army to fight against Dong again.

"Tell me, how should we reply to Yuan Shao's post?" After Huo Hai read the post, he circulated it to the generals in the camp.

"Yuan Shao is quite capable. In half a month, he formed a 50,000 army in Bohai County. It seems that the three eastern counties in Jizhou will be completely controlled by him in the future."

"Yuan Shao must have been planning for a long time. He deceived the princes of the world to act together, but in fact he wanted to embellish his unjust intentions. The lord did not post him first, but he was afraid that it would be difficult for him to take the position of leader after the alliance."

"What after the princes of the world have defeated Dong Zhuo? Divide land, money, and power?"

"According to my opinion, as long as we do not send troops in Bingzhou, they may not defeat Dong Zhuo. Don't forget that Lu Fengxian is now a subordinate of Dong Zhuo."

“…”

In the military tent, everyone started to discuss this matter in a verbal way. Huo Hai was actually very happy to see such a situation because his subordinates were used to thinking before doing things and weighing the gains and losses. In the future, they would not be fooled when they commanded the war.

Of course, the highlight of the discussion was still on several strategists.

Now, among the five major strategists in Bingzhou, Tian Feng, Jia Xu and Liang Xi are all in Hanoi County. Huo Hai looked at them, and the three of them who knew it were ready to speak.

First, Liang Xi said, "Since the lord has not accepted the official position of Dong Zhuo, he just refuses to admit it and disagrees with Dong Zhuo as the governor of the world. If a person disagrees, of course, it is not as effective as the princes of the world disagrees.

Therefore, from the perspective of justice, the lord should agree to Yuan Shao send troops to attack Dong, but his subordinates did not agree with the lord leading the troops personally.

First of all, who will be the leader of the lord or Yuan Shao will inevitably cause controversy.

Secondly, the lord is in the army and his safety is not guaranteed.

Third, when the princes ask the lord to fight, will the lord fight or not? If there is any loss in the battle, the princes will attack and cheat, and their face will be ruined.
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