Chapter 1098

Waiting for everything to settle, whether to be enfeoffed or whatever, it would be much more natural at that time.

Besides, Empress Dowager Dong... in the end, she was just a woman.

A former wife of a Pavilion Marquis.

Deep down, she still had the same small-minded thoughts as Liu Hong, where would she know anything about politics.

Associating this with what just happened.

Yuan Kui already had a very bold guess in his heart.

"The news in the palace still needs to trouble you to keep an eye on it. I suspect that there may be a problem with Shi Hou Liu Bian. You watch carefully, and if there is any important news, send someone to tell me immediately," Yuan Kui said in a low voice.

Yuan She nodded quietly.

The two parted ways when they turned a corridor.

Jiade Hall.

"What!"

Empress Dowager Dong looked at Jian Shuo in shock.

"Say it again, he's lost?"

Jian Shuo lowered his head extremely guiltily.

"Reporting to Empress Dowager, last night, Li Hu's home was attacked by someone unknown. Li Hu, including his younger brother Li Yu, all died, and more than a hundred wandering knights also died."

"And Li Hu's house was also ignited by a big fire."

"Shi Hou... Shi Hou's whereabouts are unknown."

This...

Empress Dowager Dong, wearing a black long dress, stood on the hall full of shock.

How could this be.

It was clear that Liu Bian was just sent out yesterday.

How could there be a problem before half a day had passed.

Who is it!

Someone must have kidnapped Liu Bian!

Who is it!

Empress Dowager Dong looked at Jian Shuo in a panic and scolded angrily: "Didn't you say it was foolproof? Didn't you say that it was safest to hide him outside!"

"How do you explain this now!"

Jian Shuo, wearing armor, knelt on the ground with a thud.

From yesterday to today, it was really a series of bad news.

Duan Yu entered Luoyang.

Liu Bian went missing.

"Empress Dowager, this general... this general is guilty."

Jian Shuo, kneeling on the ground, lowered his head.

Empress Dowager Dong bit her back teeth tightly.

"You are more than guilty!" Empress Dowager Dong pointed at Jian Shuo and said: "Find him, why don't you send someone to find him quickly!"

Outside Luoyangcheng.

After the early morning, Liu Bian, who was sweating profusely, sat in a room with Duan Yu eating after changing his clothes.

There were only Duan Yu and Liu Bian in the room.

Even the servants who served the dishes were not used, but Tie Shitou and Wang Hunu were used.

Liu Bian was now a trump card in Duan Yu's hands.

But Duan Yu hadn't thought about how to use this trump card yet.

Looking at Liu Bian, who was gobbling up the food, Duan Yu suddenly asked Liu Bian: "Does Your Highness want to be Emperor?"

Liu Bian, who was gorging himself, was stunned.

He looked up at Duan Yu with confused eyes.

Then he put the mutton in his hand on the vermilion-painted wooden tray, wiped his hands, knelt upright, and shook his head at Duan Yu.

"Master, I don't want to be Emperor."

"Oh?"

Duan Yu raised his eyebrows: "Why?"

"Isn't it good to be Emperor?"

"You can command the world, you can have fine clothes and food, you can grasp the supreme power of the world?"

"You don't want any of these?"

Liu Bian shook his head and said: "Master, I don't know why, but I just don't want to be Emperor."

"I want... I want to be a person like Master."

"I heard Mother Empress talk about Master, saying that Master is the number one hero in the world, saying that Master rode horses in the north and killed the aliens until they all submitted."

"Mother Empress also said that Master is the world's tiger general, invincible."

"Master killed the Qiang people in Liangzhou until they dared not disobey."

"I want to be like Master, leading troops to fight, making those aliens who covet the Great Han look on with fear."

Duan Yu twitched the corners of his mouth.

He thought to himself, your Mother Empress is really...

However, Liu Bian's answer was indeed somewhat beyond Duan Yu's expectations.

"Then do you know what war is?" Duan Yu looked at Liu Bian and continued to ask.

Liu Bian shook his head again.

Duan Yu took a deep breath and said: "War is just a means."

"The people of the world are already suffering. No matter why a war is launched, the ones who suffer the most are always the common people."

"If the war is won, the fruits of victory will be picked by the superiors who launched the war, and those who died in the war, the common people of the world, can never be reborn."

"Their families will be sad because of this."

"But most of these superiors will not see this scene."

"And if the war is lost, the ones who need to bear the most serious consequences are never the superiors who launched the war."

"But the common people at the bottom."

Liu Bian knelt behind the desk and listened carefully.

"Launching a war requires consuming financial resources, material resources, and human resources. These always come from the common people at the bottom."

"Therefore, war is an advanced path paved with blood and white bones, piled up by superiors using the blood and sweat of the common people of the world."

"One general succeeds, ten thousand bones wither."

Duan Yu shook his head slowly.

Whether it was modern war or ancient war.

Duan Yu had seen it and experienced it personally.

Everyone remembers the achievements of Wu Di of Han.

Everyone has heard of the prestige of the Champion Marquis.

But how many people know that just in the reign of Wu Di of Han, Liu Che, the Great Han Empire, which had been nurtured for several dynasties from the end of Qin and the beginning of Han, directly reduced its registered population by half just because of launching wars during the reign of Wu Di of Han?

The socio-economic foundation at the bottom collapsed, and heavy taxes caused people to be displaced.

Everyone knows about sealing the wolf at Juxu.

But how many people know that the uprisings caused by the decline of people's livelihood during the reign of Wu Di of Han were also spread all over the Great Han.

Rise, the people suffer; fall, the people also suffer.

"Remember, as a superior, don't launch wars easily."

"The way to take the world is a combination of the Kingly Way and the Hegemonic Way."

"Kingly Way and Hegemonic Way?" Liu Bian looked at Duan Yu with some confusion and asked: "Master, what are the Kingly Way and the Hegemonic Way?"

"The Kingly Way conquers people with virtue, the Hegemonic Way uses force to borrow benevolence."

"The Kingly Way takes the people as the foundation, builds order, makes society harmonious and long-term peaceful, makes the people of the world submit, and gathers the talents available in the world!" ===== CHAPTER 1100 =====