Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Moreover, under Chen Gong and Chen Qun's repeated questioning, Chen Zhong truthfully revealed the process of stealing the jade belt and fleeing Yuzhou.

Regarding this, Chen Gong was somewhat suspicious, but Chen Qun believed that it was Heaven's blessing, allowing Li Ji to not immediately realize the secrets that might be hidden within the jade belt, thus giving Chen Zhong a chance to succeed.

Chen Zhong also took the opportunity to weep and lament, explaining the sacrifices of the Chen and Deng clans of Yingchuan.

Even if the Chen and Deng clans who remained in Yuzhou and didn't have time to escape weren't completely exterminated by Li Ji, there would be no place for the Chen and Deng clans to stand in Yuzhou in the future.

In response, Lu Bu was undoubtedly not a stingy person. With a wave of his hand, he promised to compensate the Chen and Deng clans for their losses in Yuzhou with several times the amount of land, and even gave Chen Zhong a high position among the Nine Ministers on the spot.

This made Chen Zhong extremely grateful to Lu Bu, and he hurriedly presented the jade belt to Lu Bu.

Stroking the jade belt in his hand, Lu Bu carefully searched it and quickly found the gap that revealed the interlayer.

Lu Bu reached out and pulled out the cloth strip hidden within, unfolding it in front of him. A line of blood-written words came into Lu Bu's view.

"Good! Good! Good!"

Lu Bu laughed in anger. A feeling of being betrayed arose spontaneously, followed by soaring rage.

In the past, only Lu Bu had stabbed his adoptive father in the back, but Lu Bu never expected that after becoming a father-in-law, he would suffer a familiar backstab.

Lu Bu liked to backstab, but that didn't mean he liked to be backstabbed.

On the contrary, Lu Bu especially hated betrayal. In Lu Bu's eyes, the edict hidden in the belt in his hand was undoubtedly a blatant betrayal.

In the next moment, Lu Bu turned around and picked up the halberd placed on the weapon rack…

This scene undoubtedly frightened everyone, including Chen Gong, Chen Qun, and Zhang Xiu. This was clearly a posture of taking the halberd to question the Emperor.

"Great General, you mustn't!"

"Don't be impulsive…"

"Perhaps there are treacherous people interfering in this matter. It is not the Emperor's original intention."

Immediately, the entire General's mansion was in chaos. A group of military generals and strategists almost swarmed forward to stop Lu Bu, fearing that Lu Bu would do something treasonous in a moment of impulse.

Although the Han emperors after the Guangwu Restoration were a high-risk profession, with most emperors dying of unknown causes or being demonstrably poisoned, there had never been anyone who had personally killed an emperor.

Even a notorious figure like Dong Zhuo only deposed Liu Bian and then poisoned him, not breaking into the palace with a blade to kill the emperor.

Even though the Han Dynasty was now only nominally existent, the hearts of the people were still with the Han. Even a martial man like Zhang Xiu knew that if Lu Bu personally murdered the Emperor, it would not be as simple as cutting off his own arm, but rather cutting himself off from the world.

Chen Zhong, who had just arrived, looked at the chaotic scene in front of him and was stunned in place, not knowing what to do.

Fortunately, there were not only scholars like Chen Gong and Chen Qun present, but also military generals including Zhang Xiu, Gao Shun, and Wei Xu, who barely managed to appease the furious Lu Bu.

But after witnessing this scene, Chen Zhong was stunned for a long time before he faintly felt a trace of regret.

Under the rules set by Marquis Guoshi, the aristocratic clans of Yuzhou were naturally not living well at the moment, but following Lu Bu, who seemed about to attack the Emperor in anger, he felt that the Chen clan of Yingchuan… was in imminent danger.

Under everyone's earnest persuasion, Lu Bu reluctantly put down the halberd and still broke into the palace with the edict, throwing the jade belt and blood letter in front of Liu Xie, startling Liu Xie into turning pale and trembling.

"To prevent Your Majesty from being incited by treacherous people and throwing the world into chaos, please Your Majesty study peacefully in the Zhangde Hall from now on. After this General pacifies the world, I will invite Your Majesty to personally govern."

Lu Bu, with a face full of murderous intent, left these words and left directly.

Saying it was studying, it was undoubtedly imprisoning Liu Xie completely in the Zhangde Hall.

Chen Gong and Chen Qun, who accompanied Lu Bu, sighed in unison, even though the two mutually disliked each other.

However, the two Chens also knew that this was undoubtedly the best outcome at the moment.

Imprisoning the Emperor was undoubtedly a major event, but after all, it was not regicide. In addition, Lu Bu also had the identity of a maternal relative. Placed in the unique political structure of the Han Dynasty, it didn't seem so surprising.

After all, since the Guangwu Restoration, the Han Dynasty had fallen into a political structure where eunuchs and maternal relatives took turns holding power, so it didn't seem surprising that the Emperor was temporarily imprisoned in the Zhangde Hall by a maternal relative.

'Once the Great General's anger subsides, I hope that Changwen and I can persuade the Great General together…'

Chen Gong said to Chen Qun in a low voice.

This time, Chen Qun did not decline, but directly nodded in agreement.

The "Edict in the Belt" seemed to have subsided, and the two Chens also intentionally stopped actively mentioning the Emperor, waiting for a suitable opportunity to persuade Lu Bu.

Emperor Liu Xie seemed to have been forgotten, imprisoned in the Zhangde Hall all day long, living in constant fear.

Liu Xie, who didn't even have a confidant, naturally couldn't guess Lu Bu's intentions at all.

Trapped inside, Liu Xie couldn't help but think of his brother, Liu Bian.

Before Liu Bian was poisoned, he was imprisoned in a palace like this.

Whenever he thought of Liu Bian's fate, Liu Xie became more and more fearful and more and more angry.

But trapped in the palace, there was nothing Liu Xie could do.

Apart from the eunuchs sent by Lu Lingqi to seal off the Zhangde Hall, Liu Xie couldn't contact anyone, and he didn't even know how long had passed outside.

Until…

"Creak!"

A sudden sound of a door opening startled Liu Xie, who was already disheveled and looked embarrassed, in the Zhangde Hall.

This movement, apart from the regular delivery of meals every day, frightened Liu Xie so much that he trembled and shouted in horror.

"Who is it?"

In the next moment, the door of the Zhangde Hall was pushed open a crack, and a figure squeezed in.

It was already late at night, and the Zhangde Hall was also dimly lit. With the faint moonlight outside the hall, Liu Xie could barely distinguish that it was a eunuch.

The eunuch entered the Zhangde Hall, followed the sound and found Liu Xie, quickly walked to within three steps of Liu Xie, fell to the ground, and cried mournfully.

"Your Majesty has suffered."

Liu Xie calmed his mind and asked, "Who are you?"

"Has Your Majesty forgotten this servant? This servant is Zheng Bao."

A trace of confusion was revealed in Liu Xie's eyes, but he really couldn't remember who Zheng Bao was.

Moreover, Liu Xie had been a puppet from the time he ascended the throne until now, and he had no confidants to use at all.

More importantly, Lu Bu had carried out many purges of the palace, and all the middle-aged and elderly eunuchs in the entire palace had been killed, leaving only a part of the young eunuchs with clean backgrounds and re-employing a batch of eunuchs. (End of chapter)