The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

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On the way back to the prefect's mansion, Luan Gu met Dian Wei and others.

With the addition of Dian Wei and others, not to mention that Zhao Ran still doesn't know about this matter, it is useless to know about it.

The first person to report to Zhao Ran was a neighbor of Li Hu.

Li Hu is the governor of the county. The county provides him with a house, but he thinks the house is too small and refuses to live in it. The house he often lives in now is rented by himself. Since most of them were close to Zhao Ran, after seeing that Luan Gu was ordered to arrest Li Hu, several people from the nearby neighbors rushed to send messages to Zhao Ran.

Like Li Hu, Zhao Ran didn't wake up, and he also learned the news of "Xun Zhen arrested Li Hu" in bed.

Different from Li Hu's daze and shock when he heard the news, Zhao Ran's first reaction was to suspect that he had heard it wrong.

He rubbed his eyes and said sleepily, "Yuzhou sent Luan Gu to arrest Li Cheng?"

"Yeah yeah."

"Aren't you awake?"

"what?"

"Li Cheng is the chief of my county, and the imperial court has six hundred stone ministers. How could Yuzhou's children have such courage?"

"This is what I saw with my own eyes!"

"You saw it with your own eyes?"

"Yeah yeah."

"Where is Luan Gu now?"

"When I came, he had just brought the officials and soldiers into Li Cheng's house."

At this point in the conversation, Zhao Ran's reaction began to be the same as Li Hu's. He was stunned at first, and then greatly surprised. He leaned up and asked, "What crime did Yuzhou Er arrest Li Cheng for?"

"It is said that Li Cheng sent someone to stab Shou Fanyang Cheng Li Xiang to death."

When Zhao Ran heard the words, he suddenly became furious. He lifted the quilt, slapped the bed board hard, and said angrily, "How dare Yuzhou's do this!"

Zhao Ran didn't sleep alone. There were two beautiful maids on the bed. As soon as the quilt was lifted, the bodies of these two beautiful maids were exposed. Seeing from the outside, the man who came to report the news was kneeling outside the curtain.

Zhao Ran was furious, but he didn't care about it. He ordered the two beautiful maids to get up and wait for him to put on his clothes. There was no time to tie a bun and wear a crown. With his arms open and his feet bare, he opened the curtain and strode out. A group of voices urged the slaves outside the door to call for the leaders of the dead warriors and swordsmen under the door.

The man who came to report the news knelt down on the ground, turned his butt, kept his head facing Zhao Ran, and asked cautiously, "Young Master urgently summons the guests, do you want to?"

Li Hu could guess that Xun Zhen arrested him because he bought Li Xiang, and of course Zhao Ran could guess that, he gritted his teeth and sneered: "I just walked away, I didn't see that Yuzhou'er was a ruthless man. Disciple! Stabbing Li Xiang to death?" He snorted several times and asked the human, "Is Li Xiang really dead?"

"This..., I don't know, but since Fu Jun arrested Li Cheng on this charge, then Li Xiang should have been stabbed to death."

"well!"

"You dare to ask the young master, what is 'good'?"

"Yuzhou is good!"

The person who came to report the news was inexplicable, confused, and didn't know what Zhao Ran meant. He thought to himself: "Li Hu was arrested by the government, but the young master praised him instead? Could it be that he is confused?" asked, "I'm stupid, I don't know Where is Fu Jun's 'good'?"

Zhao Ran looked at him and hesitated.

It is not uncommon for local nobles and even cunning officials in the county to hold onto the prefect of the county to coerce him to be obedient, but after all, it is something that cannot be put on the table. You can do it in private, but once it spreads, it will cause "public outrage", which is equivalent to "declaring war" on the prefect of Erqianshi County, even the prefect of the state, and even the high officials and officials of the DPRK. ? To engage in "spy politics" is "indignation between people and gods", so Zhao Ran could not let outsiders know about bribing Li Xiang and others.

The more he couldn't let outsiders know, the more aggrieved he felt.

Li Hu and him have worked so hard for so long, and they have invested so much money, not to mention the cost of Cheng Jia and others, but the cost of Li Xiang alone is no less than one million, and it is only for Li Xiang. Those good wines are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and there are other gifts, big and small. Zhao Ran really spared no expense. He managed to turn Li Xiang back and win Li Xiang over. He paid so much. , When it was time to harvest, Li Xiang was "stabbed to death"! And it was "stabbed to death" by Li Hu! Unless Li Hu was insane, how could he stab Li Xiang to death? This must have been done by Xun Zhen, stabbing to death would mean stabbing to death, and in turn framed Li Hu for doing it. Zhao Ran couldn't tell how bitter this rake was.

When Li Hu learned that Xun Zhen had sent people to arrest him, all he thought was: "If Xun Zhen takes him, he will have no good fruit to eat." The situation at the time did not allow him to think too much, but Zhao Ran thought more than that. With this in mind, he thought even more: Xun Zhen could frame that Li Hu sent someone to stab Li Xiang to death, so after capturing Li Hu, Xun Zhen could also "bend and beat Li Hu into a trick" and make Li Hu confess. The person who instructed Li Hu was Zhao Ran.

That's right, Li Xiang is just a guardian of Fanyang, who was appointed by Xunzhen, not a real imperial minister, but in any case, his current status is also "Fanyang", "the deputy of a county", If Xun Zhen used this as an excuse to send someone to arrest Zhao Ran again, Zhao Ran could not escape death. According to the Han law: instructing someone to kill is the same crime as the murderer.

If Xun Zhen convicted Zhao Ran of this crime, even Zhao Zhong could not save him.

Zhao Ran was horrified just thinking about this "consequence".

If it were another prefect, even if Li Xiang was stabbed to death by Zhao Ran's instructions, the other party might not dare to arrest him, but to Xun Zhen, thinking about Xun Zhen's past behavior, and killing an officer in the county army , expelling the county officials, and expelling Liang Qiling, in terms of controlling power, it seems like a "torture face", Zhao Ran is really not sure, really not sure whether Xun Zhen will make trouble by this.

Therefore, whether it was to save Li Hu or to protect himself, the first thing that came to his mind was: Li Hu must be taken out, and Xun Zhen could not let Li Hu catch him.

He gritted his teeth and replied to the person who came to report the news: "What's so good about Yuzhou's children? I'll tell you in four words: You are a jerk!"

"……Yes Yes."

The room was silent for a while, and the man who came to report the news peeked at Zhao Ran, and saw that he was anxiously walking around the room, waiting for the leader of the dead warrior and swordsman to come, so he picked up the question that Zhao Ran didn't answer just now. , said: "Young Master is calling for the guests to come?"

"What do you say?"

"Be bold, I have a word to remonstrate with Shaojun."

"you say."

"If Young Master wants someone to rescue Li Cheng, I secretly think it's absolutely impossible."

"Why?"

"Although there are many diners under Shaojun's family, there are many brave swordsmen, but there are few people. Even if Li Cheng can be rescued for a while, what about the barracks outside Nai County?"

A word reminded Zhao Ran.

If a few months ago, when Xun Zhen first arrived in Wei County, Zhao Ran might have been able to send someone to grab Li Hu by force, but now it is absolutely impossible. Because at that time, there were county soldiers stationed in the barracks outside the county, and there were Zhao Ran’s cronies in the county soldiers, and they could fight Xun Zhen recklessly, but now the barracks outside the county were all stationed by Xun Zhen’s righteous followers The earlier county soldiers were either killed by Xun Zhen, or eliminated by Xun Zhensha, or sent by Xun Zhen to the remaining counties in the county in the name of "suppressing thieves", but there was not a single Zhao Of course available people.

No matter how many disciples Zhao Ranyang has, and no matter how brave and brave his disciples are, can they compare to the one or two thousand Xun Zhenyi who are stationed in the camp outside the county?

Zhao Ran thought: "If I send someone to **** Li Hu, Yuzhou Er Xiaoxuan, with his boldness, he will probably transfer Yi Cong from the barracks outside the county into the city, and wait until then... ah, maybe It is not impossible for him to kill me while he is in the chaos!"

The word 戆 means stupid, stupefied, reckless. Because of the hostile relationship, Zhao Ran's evaluation of Xun Zhen has always been low, but he has never thought of Xun Zhen as "ruthless" before. When Zhen arrested Li Hu, Xun Zhen was put on Xun Zhen's head.

If Xun Zhen finds out about this, she will burst into laughter. He was a "Confucian student" and "Scholar" who was born in a famous Confucian school. He knew the army and was good at fighting, was a virtuous corporal, and was benevolent to the people. However, Zhao Ran scolded him with shame and annoyance as "Xi", which is indeed ridiculous.

Zhao Ran didn't know that Xun Zhen had the will to kill Zhao, but at this critical moment, the worst consequence he could think of was that he was killed in the chaos. The possibility of convicting the entire Zhao clan in Ye County—but then again, Xun Zhen has only been in Wei County for half a year, and in less than a year, he has not been able to show the world and Shilin that he can not only fight wars , will also rule the people. This important goal has not yet been completed, and it has not yet established a firm foothold in Wei County. It has not reached the point of being unequivocal. Even if Zhao Ran really sent someone to rob Li Hu, he may not take the opportunity to take it. Zhao uprooted.

Thinking of the possible serious consequences, Zhao Ran hesitated.

However, it was also a fan of the authorities and a clear onlooker. The man who came to report the news turned hesitant when he saw Zhao Ran, and said, "If Young Master wants to save Li Cheng, you don't need to send a guest to rob him."

"Oh?"

"Shaojun is like sending a doorman to rob people. This is to use weapons to gather a crowd to fight against the county government. It will greatly damage the reputation of the young master in the state and county. Feng, send someone to rush to the capital, please help me?"

Zhao Ran paced the room with his hands behind his back, thinking silently.

"The permanent servant has a high reputation and is the mainstay of the country. He is always relied on by the emperor. The permanent servant only needs to send a single envoy with a letter to him.

"This……."

"What's so difficult about Young Master?"

Zhao Ran said in his heart: "My clan brother ordered me to guard the house, if I can't even protect a county chief, how can I see my clan brother again?"

As Xun Zhen expected, Zhao Ran's first consideration was his own face. In order to buy Cheng Jia, he made a promise to give Cheng Jia a "Xiao Lian Lang". "Three Departments" but must pass through Zhao Zhong, which already requires "troubling" Zhao Zhong. If he disturbs Zhao Zhong again for the sake of a small Six Hundred Stone County Chief~www.wuxiaspot.com~ it will also appear that he is too incompetent .

He made up his mind, thought for a while, and said to himself, "Yuzhou'er didn't hesitate to kill Li Xiang, it can be seen that he must have secret things. Although Li Xiang was killed, there are still Cheng Jia and others who have not been discovered by Yuzhou'er. If you can buy Cheng Jia, you can also catch his **. Well, it's not worth it because of the small loss, so Li Hu will let Yuzhouer catch him, and when I rescue Li Hu, I will pay him back. Yuzhou's color!"

A decision was made and the plan to rob people was given up.

It's just that he gave up the plan to rob people, and he didn't want to ask Zhao Zhong for help, so how should he save Li Hu? He quickly came up with an idea: "Zhengsu, the supervisor of my Wei County, is close to my family. I can write a letter and ask him to come to Wei County and order Yuzhou's release."

At this time, several leaders of the swordsmen and dead men under his door came, knelt down and bowed outside, and asked, "Young Master invited me to wait, what instructions do you have?"

Zhao Ran went to the room and sat down after a few minutes, and asked the person who came to report the news to study ink for him, wrote a letter, sealed it, went out to the door of the room, and handed it to one of the leaders, saying: "Ride a fast horse now. Go to Gaoyi and give this letter of mine to Gong Zigong."

The leader complied with his promise and left with the letter in hand.

Zhao Ran instructed the rest of the people to go to the county house, Li's house, and the county center to inquire about Li Hu's current situation.

After a while, a leader came back and reported: "Not long after the villain left the village, he saw hundreds of knights of Xin Ai rushing into the city on the middle road of the county, heading for the county house."

When Zhao Ran heard it, he shouted that he was lucky, and he brought some money and silk to the person who came to report him.

Without the advice of this person, it would have been extremely difficult to stop Xin Ai's hundreds of cavalry with just the hundreds of guests under Zhao Ran's sect, Zhao Ran secretly said: "Maybe I have been arrested by Yuzhou'er at this time, or The corpse is in the house."