Chapter 329

"Alright!"

Su Xuan naturally wouldn't refuse: "I will arrange it tomorrow;"

"Actually, I have already told her to join the women's academy class of you, Cai'er, and little Cai Yan to study first;"

"When the time comes, after more contact, you will naturally be able to see her character and conduct!"

"Moreover, I have only met her once; whether it can work out is still uncertain!"

"When the time comes, remember not to bring up this aspect, lest people think I want to force something."

"Whether we can be together in the future, we'll see!"

This is not Su Xuan's character.

He does like beauties, but he never forces them.

For the sake of inner-residence harmony, he won't just take people in casually.

"Alright!"

Xun Cai nodded with a smile upon hearing this.

Zhen Jiang and the others also smiled knowingly.

This is not bad; at least there is no need to worry about adding some people of dubious character and conduct.

2 days later,

After Sun Jian received the forged Yuan clan order from Cao Yin,

The next day, he led several thousand troops under his command and set off directly for Linyuan City, the capital of Wuling Commandery.

Using the excuse of demanding money and grain to suppress bandits, he approached Wang Rui.

As a result, Wang Rui naturally couldn't give it.

He even scolded Sun Jian for being inexplicable.

As a result, his head was cleanly chopped off by Sun Jian with a single blade.

Afterwards, Sun Jian annexed the several thousand troops under Wang Rui, and the troops in his hands directly expanded to nearly 10,000.

Furthermore, he also emptied out all the money, grain, and military equipment that Wang Rui had accumulated over the years.

"Lord! Should we pass through Nanjun, or go through Jiangxia?"

After Zu Mao reorganized the troops, he asked Sun Jian.

The Yuan clan asked him to lead the army to Nanyang to rendezvous.

Naturally, he had to head north next.

Sun Jian was not really willing to be the Yuan clan's dog.

Rather, he felt that the next step was an opportunity.

Dong Zhuo deposed the Son of Heaven and wanted to commit treason.

According to the Yuan clan, they would inevitably call upon the warlords of the world to jointly suppress the bandits later.

The credit for this would be immense, so he naturally had to participate.

If he participated alone, given his background, he would inevitably be looked down upon or even squeezed out.

But if he relied on the Yuan clan, it would be completely different.

Once he felt his wings were full, he could naturally break away from the Yuan clan at any time and no longer follow their orders.

Sun Jian had always been a pragmatist.

Whatever was most beneficial to him, he would do.

He had never cared that much about face or anything like that.

"Let's go through Jiangxia!"

Sun Jian thought for a moment and decided: "Actually, I feel that the matter of killing Wang Rui may not really be the Yuan clan's order; it is very likely the means of the Administrator of Wuling, Cao Yin. We must have fallen into a trap!"

"What?"

Zu Mao was shocked upon hearing this, then said angrily: "This Cao Yin actually dared to scheme against us? Is he courting death?"

"Also, since you guessed it, Lord, why did you still do it?"

Zu Mao couldn't understand Sun Jian's thoughts at all.

"Hehe!"

Sun Jian laughed lightly upon hearing this: "Because, for the subsequent crusade against Dong, I need more troops, money, and grain!"

"Otherwise, how could the 5,000 troops we originally had be enough?"

"Even if we participated, I'm afraid we wouldn't be valued, and we wouldn't get many opportunities to make contributions!"

"Wiping out this Wang Rui is the best opportunity to strengthen our forces!"

"Anyway, as long as we insist that this was the Yuan clan's order, that the order we received was exactly this, and if it really doesn't work, we can push it onto Cao Yin;"

"In short, the fault for this matter doesn't lie with us; we were just the executors of the order!"

"In this way, we can shake off the responsibility completely!"

He wasn't really stupid.

Did he really think that just because Yuan Shu sent a letter ordering him to kill an Inspector of a province, he would just do it without thinking?

Then how could he become a qualified warlord and ambitious person?

"So that's how it is?"

Zu Mao was amazed by Sun Jian's analysis: "The Lord is wise! In this way, all the benefits go to us! But the responsibility is all dumped onto the Yuan clan and Cao Yin; it's really a good thing!"

"However, since Cao Yin fooled and schemed against us like this, are we not going to counterattack?"

Apparently, Zu Mao was still resentful and didn't want to let Cao Yin off so easily.

"No need!"

Sun Jian shook his head and said with a light smile: "Because, after we killed Wang Rui, that Cao Yin sent someone to deliver 50,000 shi of grain and fodder to us;"

"It's enough for our nearly 10,000 troops to consume for a long time!"