Chapter 335

At the same time, inside the Grand Preceptor's Mansion,

Dong Zhuo received the news that Yuan Shao had raised an army in Bohai and issued a crusade manifesto to crusade against him, the "national traitor."

Dong Zhuo was furious: "Bastard! Presumptuous! Presumptuous!"

"How dare he, Yuan Benchu, do this?"

"How dare he treat me like this?"

"Haven't I been good to him?"

"At the beginning, he took the lead in drawing his sword against me in the court hall, and I didn't take action against him; even afterwards, I agreed to Yuan Kui's invitation and appointed him as the Administrator of Bohai;"

"Is this how he repays me?"

"Also, what exactly does the Yuan clan mean?"

"It's a pity that I even allowed Yuan Shu the position of Administrator of Nanyang a few days ago, and I didn't even care that he killed the former Administrator of Nanyang, Zhang Zi; they are deliberately making things difficult for me;"

"Deliberately playing with me, right?"

Dong Zhuo felt that he had been betrayed.

He had been so dedicated to making friends with the Yuan clan and other scholar-official clans.

It could even be described as fawning.

He originally thought he could gradually be accepted by them.

As it turned out, what he got in return was this result.

This time, Yuan Shao issued a crusade manifesto, and afterwards, quite a few warlords responded one after another.

Among them, there was no lack of that group of people he had bestowed titles upon earlier.

At this time, Li Ru received the news and walked in, bowing to Dong Zhuo: "Grand Preceptor, calm your anger! Anger cannot solve problems!"

"Li Ru? You still dare to come and see me?"

Seeing Li Ru, Dong Zhuo was furious, grabbed Li Ru by the collar, and roared: "It was all your bad idea at the beginning, letting me make friends with and bestow titles upon these scholar-official officials"

""Now, it's fine, people have come to rebel against me, and I have become a national traitor?"

"Simply ridiculous!"

"Wasn't all this caused by the Yuan clan from the beginning?"

"Do they think I can't see the Yuan clan's plans at all?"

"If it weren't for me, the Yuan clan might have already deposed the Son of Heaven and changed the dynasty by now!"

"Their Yuan clan's ambition is much bigger than mine; by what right do they say I am a national traitor?"

"I am not! On the contrary, it is I who preserved the Great Han!"

Li Ru just listened silently the whole time.

He didn't express an opinion.

He waited until Dong Zhuo finished speaking and let go of his collar before he said: "Grand Preceptor, what you said is the truth, but the truth is often the most useless thing!"

"I advised you, Grand Preceptor, to bestow titles and win over these scholar-official people earlier because I wanted to ease the relationship, hoping to gain their recognition;"

"To let your achievements, Grand Preceptor, be maintained for a long time!"

"But now it seems that they, in their arrogance, obviously never had this intention;"

"Then naturally, we cannot sit still and wait for death; we should naturally carry out a counterattack!"