Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

Guo Shao was leaning on the soft couch, his cheeks were visibly thinner, his powerless appearance was completely different from his upright posture, but there was still a happy expression on his pale face.

"I'm sick, I haven't seen you for a long time." Guo Shao said, "Sit down and talk to me."

Luo Yanhuan breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty." However, he was still a little nervous when sitting, not daring to lean his whole body on the couch like Guo Shao did.

Guo Shao didn't ask any questions, Luo Yanhuan was also cautious for a moment and remained silent for a moment. Luo Yanhuan saw that there was still a chessboard on the table, with black and white chess pieces intertwined, and finally found a topic and asked, "Your Majesty can play chess now?"

Guo Shao shook his head: "I won't play chess with General Luo."

Luo Yanhuan was slightly taken aback, and then Guo Shao said in a gentle and casual tone, "I'm out of energy now, and I'll be exhausted in a while."

"Your Majesty has to rest the body of the dragon and take more care of it." Luo Yanhuan said.

Guo Shao suddenly changed the subject, "General Luo went around outside the city several times, didn't he have something to say to me?"

Luo Yanhuan pondered, "It turns out that everyone in the palace has seen it."

Unexpectedly, Guo Shao shook his head and said, "Other people told me."

"Zuo Fuzheng?" Luo Yanhuan's heart tightened suddenly.

Guo Shao was noncommittal, slowly leaned his upper body forward, picked up a sunspot, and put it down on the chessboard.

Luo Yanhuan didn't even look at the chess game on the board, he was not a Confucian general Li Chuyun, he had no interest in games, and he was not in the mood to care about the plaything at this time.

His heart was in a state of confusion, and he didn't hear Guo Shao utter a word during the chaos. He subconsciously felt that he should say something, and immediately with a painful expression on his face, he suddenly left the soft couch and knelt down on the ground, "Your Majesty, I made a mistake! Minister, minister..."

Guo Shaodao: "I already know about it, I just heard about it from others."

Hearing this, Luo Yanhuan didn't allow him to think for too long, and was even more confused: The emperor just knew?

Guo Shao's sitting posture was not straight, but he sat there firmly, "Just now General Luo mentioned Zuo Fuzheng. At that time, Zuo Fuzheng formed an alliance with General Luo to advance and retreat together?"

Luo Yanhuan hurriedly replied: "No, at that time, the minister and the others barely met three times, and did not discuss important matters."

Guo Shao murmured in a tone like talking to himself, "I have to see Zuo Fuzheng as soon as possible and ask what's going on."

Luo Yanhuan felt that his limbs were not very obedient, and his back was sweating.

Guo Shao then asked again: "Then what did you say when you met?"

Luo Yanhuan frowned and said in a trembling voice: "Zuo Fuzheng is good at rambling. Looking back, it seems that he didn't explain anything clearly. I can't remember such messy rhetoric."

Guo Shaodao: "So, Zuo You is very reluctant?"

Luo Yanhuan could only say: "Yes."

"General Luo sure?" Guo Shao was more verbose than usual when he spoke today.

Naturally, Luo Yanhuan didn't dare to show the emperor's wordiness, so he nodded vigorously and said, "Return to His Majesty, yes."

Guo Shao's tone changed, and he sighed, "General Luo, you let me down very much."

"Your Majesty..." Luo Yanhuan almost pressed his face to the floor. He was very depressed and ashamed when he heard this. But it's not very scary, the people who came here have seen battles. The main reason is that Luo Yanhuan understands the great contributions he has made to Guo Shao, otherwise he would not have been named Duke; now that he has made a mistake and knows that he is wrong, he will inevitably be taught a lesson.

Guo Shao's voice said again: "Get up. Look at the things on the table."

After hearing this, Luo Yanhuan got up carefully, and glanced at the table. There was a folded piece of paper next to the chessboard. He picked it up and opened it according to the order, and he didn't need to read more after just one glance... Because it was his own handwritten letter, how could he not know the content of what he wrote?

Unexpectedly, what Guo Shao said was very unexpected, "It was found from Zhou Duan's house."

Luo Yanhuan's eyes widened, and he said in surprise, "How could this letter be in Zhou Duan's residence?!" He blushed, surprised and puzzled, "The letter was indeed written by the minister, but it was written to Brother Li (the founding father Li Chuyun). Tell Brother Li that His Majesty is seriously ill, and I want him to go to Beijing to meet the Holy Spirit..."

"General Luo wrote the second half of the letter?" Guo Shao asked softly.

Luo Yanhuan said: "That's what I mean."

Guo Shao nodded: "I believe in you."

Luo Yanhuan was in a panic: "Brother Li gave the minister's letter to Zhou Duan? When did Brother Li have anything to do with Zhou Duan...Your Majesty, who found the letter from Zhou Duan's residence?!"

Guo Shao spoke weakly, not as excited as Luo Yanhuan, and said slowly, "Eunuch Yang Shiliang."

Luo Yanhuan suddenly said excitedly: "The eunuch deceived the king, he lied! The eunuch is the most cunning, and his courage is getting bigger and bigger!"

Guo Shaodao: "Yes, people are becoming more and more courageous, and they don't understand what to do and what not to do."

The veins in Luo Yanhuan's temples were bulging, "Your Majesty, although no one's name was mentioned in the letter, it really wasn't written to Zhou Duan, it was written to Brother Li."

Guo Shao nodded again: "I believe in you."

"Your Majesty's lesson." Luo Yanhuan cried out anxiously.

Guo Shao didn't seem to be in a hurry, he raised his hand softly, pointed to the letter in Luo Yanhuan's hand, and said, "But there is a problem."

"What?!" Luo Yanhuan said inexplicably.

Guo Shao said slowly: "I believe in the loyalty of the founding father (Li Chuyun), and protect everything the Li family owns, such as the generous salary, noble status, and honor. I also believe that General Luo secretly wrote to the founding father to persuade him to be loyal to the country. But..."

Guo Shao said that he closed his eyes slightly and let out a sigh of relief.

Luo Yanhuan held his breath, didn't dare to blink his eyes, his ears were pricked up, and he listened carefully to every word. Fortunately, Guo Shao spoke very slowly today.

"But, after I believe it, how can I make everyone believe it too?"

Guo Shao speaks very slowly and in a simple way. Compared with Zuo You who is rambling, Guo Shao's words are indeed easier to understand. But Luo Yanhuan felt uncomfortable answering Guo Shao's question.

Luo Yanhuan asked in a daze: "Do you not believe in Brother Li's loyalty?"

Guo Shaodao: "General Luo, if it turns out that the founder of the country led troops outside at a time when the court was in turmoil, but secretly communicated with a general of the imperial guards in the capital. What do you want the people of the world to think of Li Chuyun?"

"This..." Luo Yanhuan's throat twitched.

After a moment of silence, Guo Shao said again: "No one can tell the people in the world what to think, and neither can I."

Luo Yanhuan's body softened, and he knelt down on the ground with a "plop", his face pale, "Your Majesty, what should I do?"

Guo Shao sighed: "I lived and died with all my brothers in the bloody storm. Li Chuyun is dead, but I don't want to tarnish his name. More importantly, I want to take care of everyone's relatives, family members, and people who I love with all my heart. General Luo, go back and think about it."

Luo Yanhuan knelt down silently for a while, then kowtowed and said: "Chen, please leave."

...As soon as Luo Yanhuan left, Guo Shao called someone in, and the eunuch on duty happened to be Yang Shiliang. Guo Shao asked, "Is Zuo You here?"

Yang Shiliang said: "The maidservant has arranged to pass the decree, and should be on the way now."

"As soon as Zuo You arrived, he brought him here to meet." Guo Shao said.

"The servants obey the orders."

Guo Shao sat weakly on the soft couch, closed his eyes and rested his mind. Sometimes I don't move for a long time, as if I fell asleep, but after a while, I let out a long moan, as if there is pain somewhere in my body, a very painful and sad moan, the sound is very small but very heartfelt.

After a long time, Zuo You came in and simply knelt down on the floor, with his upper body sticking piously to the floor and his buttocks sticking up, "Your Majesty will live forever, and Zuo You, the cabinet assistant, is hereby ordered to see you."

Guo Shao opened his eyes and waved his hand. The attendants of Yangde Palace hurried out.

Guo Shao refused to let Zuo You die, and said angrily, "Zuo You, I trust you so much that I even teach you my son, but something happened a while ago. What have you done for the court? Do you want to learn from Feng Dao, the 'tumbler'?!"

Zuo You trembled all over, "I deserve death for my crimes! Even if Your Majesty kills me, I feel that I deserve it!"

Guo Shao was annoyed: "Do you think I dare not kill you?"

"Don't dare...no! No! I dare not think so!"

Guo Shao couldn't hold back when he heard this, and cursed: "Fuck!"

Zuo You raised his head cautiously, "Your Majesty, I was helpless at that time. The empress did not allow me to participate in various affairs, so I couldn't do anything, and I didn't dare to act rashly. Luo Yanhuan and Zhou Duan were really harming my minister..."

Guo Shao said coldly: "Spit out the money that Zhou Duan gave you, and you will be fined for one year. I will only know that greed for money is hot."

Hearing this, Zuo You closed his eyes and exhaled inwardly, and kowtowed: "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Guo Shao said with a livid face again: "You go to Xuzhou immediately, according to my order, join Huang Binglian, and take care of the affairs over there with your heart."

Hearing this, Zuo You burst into tears of gratitude: "Your Majesty's generosity, I will remember it in my heart."

Guo Shao said in a deep voice: "The people around me, as long as they haven't done something too extreme, who can move?"

Zuo You kowtowed to thank you again and again.

Guo Shao waved his hand and said nothing more, Zuo You also went out respectfully, and the Hall of Yangde became quiet again.

He thought to himself: Being moody and frightening is not necessarily a good thing... People also need a sense of security. If you are with a king like a tiger, and you are anxious every day, and you are not sure if you will suddenly be unlucky, you may be able to behave more submissively and obediently, and dare not easily disobey the slightest bit. However, the pressure on everyone is too great.

Under high pressure, it is easy to cause everyone to be nervous. People are nervous, and Guo Shao himself can't relax.

Not long after, Yang Shiliang entered and whispered respectfully beside Guo Shao: "Your Majesty, Yang Ye has already entered Beijing, when will I summon you?"

Guo Shao estimated the time, and said: "Call him into the palace now, don't need to prepare too many useless battles. Call the Privy Council, the Political Affairs Hall, and several princes."

Yang Shiliang said softly: "The Lord Protector has just left, so the servants won't invite him?"

"Hmph." Guo Shao made a sound.