Chapter 230: Dong Zhuo's Grand Gesture

"My lord, after you left, Dong Zhuo secretly sent someone."

Su Fan took Xu Chu and the others back to the original water camp at Heyang Jin, and Xi Zhicai found him for the first time.

"Who is it? What are their thoughts?"

Su Fan's first thought was who the envoy was. If it were Li Ru or Jia Xu, he would directly order them to be tied up and not let them go back.

After all, these two are absolutely top-tier talents and top-tier strategists in the early stages of the late Han and Three Kingdoms period.

Not to mention Jia Xu, who is called the Poisonous Strategist, whose strategy is not weaker than Guo Jia's, especially in the control of human hearts, he is absolutely the most top-tier existence.

Su Fan naturally would not let go of such talent, it is just that the other party has always been in Dong Zhuo's base camp, and it is difficult for him to snatch him away now.

If it were a historical plane, he would dare.

But this is a fantasy world. Like Jia Xu, he absolutely has a very high cultivation. Once the soul Dao reaches the Soul Refining realm, that combat power is absolutely not to be underestimated.

If martial generals of the same realm are not careful, they might not necessarily be able to take them down.

Even in terms of lethality, soul Dao scholars might be even stronger; after all, some of them can change the world.

Perhaps the TV series about the Eight Trigrams Formation in the previous life truly exists in this world. Zhuge Wuhou might have such ability in the future.

As for Li Ru, he is naturally not bad either. Being able to plan for Dong Zhuo and make Dong Zhuo the Three Excellencies who is now above one person and below ten thousand, the number one warlord in the world, Li Ru absolutely deserves the credit.

As long as he encounters these two, even if he offends Dong Zhuo to death, he is willing.

It is a pity that the person Xi Zhicai mentioned is not the one Su Fan wanted.

"Li Su."

Su Fan naturally knows this person too. Although the other party is from a martial general background, he can be considered a rare existence under Dong Zhuo who is both civil and martial. Of course, neither is very good.

But his eloquence is not bad; otherwise, how would he have been sent to be an envoy?

"My Lord, Dong Zhuo has sent word: if you join his ranks, he is willing to grant you a marquisate and a generalship—Marquis of Anyi and General Who Pacifies the South."

To tell the truth, this is also a grand gesture from Dong Zhuo. Marquis of Anyi is a County Marquis, which is the highest among the Shenhan titles.

At the same time, General Zhennan is also a high-level military official, a second-rank general only after the Generals of the Front and Rear.

After all, Yuan Shu at this time was only the General of the Rear, and he also relied on the name of the Yuan clan. Because Dong Zhuo was wary of the Yuan clan's power and also wanted to win over the scholar-gentry, he gave Yuan Shu some treatment.

It is a pity that this is like throwing a wink at a blind man; the scholar-gentry simply look down on Dong Zhuo. No matter what Dong Zhuo does, it is wrong.

Didn't the Yuan family turn around and come to slap him in the face? The disciples of the Yuan family who could lead troops all came.

It can be said that among the many warlords in the coalition, quite a few were promoted by Dong Zhuo, but in turn, they all came to clear the monarch's side and execute him, their "benefactor."

An absolute joke.

This also shows that Dong Zhuo's politics are low, or even if Li Ru's political means are not high, he really cannot play against those old foxes in the imperial court.

However, Dong Zhuo now promises to enfeoff Su Fan as a County Marquis and General Zhennan, which is already very high. If he really went over, he would absolutely be the number one person under Dong Zhuo.

Even Dong Zhuo's younger brother does not have such a big official position.

Unfortunately, Su Fan naturally looked down on this. Firstly, he needed to contend for the world and obtain the luck of humanity; otherwise, perhaps joining Dong Zhuo's ranks would have been a decent choice.

After all, Dong Zhuo at this moment is indeed the number one warlord in the world, possessing the strength of the Qin State in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods with the solid defense of Xiaohan.

As long as he guards a few places like Hulao Pass and sits in Luoyang City, he does not fear the warlords of Guandong at all, and then he can implement a strategy of division, divide the coalition, and sit and watch these Guandong warlords fight each other.

Accumulate strength and slowly unify the world.

It is a pity that the old Dong in the history of the previous life truly lost his ambition to playthings, resulting in him being a hero in the early stage and a coward in the later stage.

Perhaps this may be because of his low background, his will was not firm enough, and suddenly walking to a high position, he would lose himself.

So Su Fan also looks down on Dong Zhuo, and the benefits he gave are naturally unrelated to him.

"The County Marquis can be refused, but this General Zhennan can be planned."

With General Zhennan, even if he does not have the position of Prefect of Yangzhou, it is not impossible to want to attack Yangzhou. After all, a second-rank general already has the right to open a government and build a banner. If he takes a name at will, he can attack Yangzhou, and no one will say anything.

"Can be discussed with Dong Zhuo."

"Is the lord not afraid of angering Dong Zhuo?"

Xi Zhicai asked with a laugh.

"What is there to fear? He is wary of me instead. If I cross the river, he will inevitably be a bit panicked."

Su Fan laughed. He was not joking. Once he crossed the Yellow River, he would directly threaten Luoyang City.

He is also a powerful warlord who just defeated Niu Fu's army of 200,000. Most of Dong Zhuo's elites are at Hulao Pass. Can he be at ease?

"Haha!"

Hearing this, Xi Zhicai laughed even more: "I think Dong Zhuo must be very angry and aggrieved, but he has to agree to the lord."

"Then I will trouble you, Zhicai, to 'communicate' with that Li Su." Su Fan really had no interest in seeing that Li Su; the other party was simply not worth his meeting.

He is now thinking more about one thing.

The Gao clan of Bohai. Before in the coalition camp, Su Fan did not see Gao Lan. At that time, Gao Lan had not yet arrived with Han Fu.

The Gao clan of Guangling is a branch of the Gao clan of Bohai, and it also walked out of Bohai, although it has been several hundred years.

But the bloodline has always remained unchanged.

In these years, the Gao clan of Bohai has also become somewhat desolate and no longer has much influence in the Shenhan imperial court.

In the last hundred years, they have only produced one Prefect, and several Commandery Assistants and Chief Clerks, and their influence in Jizhou is not as good as before.

The Gao clan of Guangling has developed quite well these years, not only becoming a hegemon in Guangling, especially with the appearance of Su Fan, it has gone to a higher level.

After all, a Commandery Prefect is almost the peak of an official position. Rising further would be the Three Excellencies and Nine Ministers, which is not something an ordinary noble family can do.

The Gao clan of Bohai also has a thousand-year history, but they have only produced one of the Nine Ministers.

The main branch becomes weak, and the branch becomes strong. For the Gao clan of Bohai, saying it is not a good thing is indeed true.

But in this chaotic world, having a powerful branch is not necessarily a bad thing.

These two years, both sides have also strengthened their connections.

What Su Fan wants is to take in the entire Gao clan of Bohai. After all, not to mention anything else, Gao Lan is at least a martial general of the third level of Gang-Refining or above, and he is also a great general who leads troops.

In the Jizhou army, he is only second to that peerless general Pan Feng.

Pan Feng is a joke in historical novels, but Su Fan has met the other party and knows that he is indeed a fierce general, with martial power not under Chen Dao's, and much more powerful than Zang Ba.

He is worthy of being the peerless general of Jizhou and Han Fu's trusted general.

Gao Lan being only second to Pan Feng shows that his ability is very strong.

The key is that Gao Lan has a good relationship with Zhang He and Pan Feng.

Han Fu has no ambition and cannot keep such a large family business. It would be a pity if it went to Yuan Shao in the future.

He has no power to reach Jizhou for the time being, but if he can pack up and take away a group of martial generals like Gao Lan, that would be killing several birds with one stone. ===== CHAPTER 231 =====