Chapter 204

"General Fengxian, don't be impatient."

"Look, what is this?"

Gu Yi took out the thing that looked like an imperial decree from his pocket.

Lu Bu's gaze was instantly attracted to this thing.

"General Fengxian, at the next grand court meeting, you will be officially appointed as General of the North!"

"The rank is the same as Xu Rong's position as General of the West."

The thing in Gu Yi's hand was a draft imperial decree.

As long as he reached an agreement with Lu Bu today,

the position of General of the North would become Lu Bu's from now on.

However,

this was just a prelude dish.

Before Lu Bu could respond, Gu Yi continued:

"Besides General of the North, the Prime Minister also intends to expand the establishment of the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry under General Fengxian."

"The number of people will be set at about three times the original!"

"In addition, all the money for raising the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry in the future will be paid by the Prime Minister's side!"

"But the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry will still be under General Fengxian's leadership!"

"General Fengxian, do you want this big gift, or not?"

Hearing this,

Lu Bu's breathing couldn't help but gradually become rapid.

The Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry was his trusted elite force!

It was also one of the top cavalry forces in the world!

It was even more the foundation Lu Bu relied on for his life.

But the awkward thing was... due to the difficult situation faced by the Bingzhou army,

the number of Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry under Lu Bu had always been only about two thousand.

These two thousand people consumed a large amount of the Bingzhou army's military funds.

The little money left over also made the lives of the other soldiers of the Bingzhou faction extremely miserable.

But there was no way; this was Lu Bu's elite force and the pride of the entire Bingzhou faction.

Even if everyone was dissatisfied with the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry occupying most of the military funds,

it was impossible to let Lu Bu lower the treatment of the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry.

Raising cavalry burns money.

Raising elite cavalry burns even more money.

The Xiliang Iron Cavalry under old Dong was also just as expensive.

But old Dong had money!

The treatment of the Xiliang loyalists was much better than that of the Bingzhou faction.

The military funds for expanding the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry that Gu Yi mentioned were not just unilaterally increasing the number of people.

More importantly,

six thousand Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, under the premise of being under Lu Bu's command, would no longer occupy the Bingzhou army's military funds from now on, and all expenses would be paid by old Dong!

For Lu Bu, this was no longer a big gift, but a favor of rebirth!

However,

as the saying goes,

when a pie falls from the sky, there must be a trap.

For this "dangerous person" Gu Yi, Lu Bu always kept his spirits up to the highest level.

He saw him say to Gu Yi with vigilance:

"Gu Linzhi, such a heavy gift, you certainly wouldn't give it to me for nothing, right?"

"Tell this general, what exactly do you want to do?"

Lu Bu really wanted to eat this pie that Gu Yi had drawn for him,

but his intuition told him that what Gu Yi was plotting was certainly no small matter.

"Hahaha, as expected of General Lu, your reaction is indeed fast."

"Actually, it's nothing; I just want to have a heart-to-heart talk with General Lu."

"General, have you had a pile of worries bothering you lately?"

Being asked this by Gu Yi, Lu Bu was slightly stunned, and then said:

"That is indeed the case."

"But in the end, aren't you, Gu Linzhi, the one who knows the reason for these worries best?"

"Gao Shun, Cao Xing, Song Xian, Wei Xu, Hou Cheng."

"These five people were all sent to the Chang'an prison thanks to you, Gu Linzhi!"

Lu Bu became angrier the more he thought about it, but he couldn't vent on Gu Yi.

After all,

it was indeed the Bingzhou army that mutinied first.

The impact was extremely bad!

Gu Yi took this opportunity to purge the Bingzhou faction, and Lu Bu couldn't find a reason to refuse.

"General Fengxian, if I remember correctly, rather than saying I sent the five of them to prison,"

"it would be better to say that the three of them, Wei Xu, Song Xian, and Hou Cheng, wanted to betray you first, right?"

"The three of them were going to openly take the soldiers under your command to leave the Bingzhou army and defect to the Xiliang army."

"You, the leader of the Bingzhou army, could you really tolerate them being so arrogant?"

Gu Yi's words made Lu Bu fall into silence.

That day, besides anger,

his emotions were more helplessness, hesitation, and guilt.

Although it was Wei Xu and the others who wanted to leave first,

it was indeed Lu Bu who felt guilty toward the soldiers of the Bingzhou faction!

He, as their leader, did not give them a good future and did not lead them to live a good life.

"Gu Linzhi, you are right."

"But no matter what, the three of them, Wei Xu, Song Xian, and Hou Cheng, were my subordinate generals and once had merits for me."

"How could I kill them on the spot?"

Lu Bu was more conflicted than anyone else.

He wanted to lead his Bingzhou brothers to live a better life,

but his intelligence and vision were not enough to achieve this.

So much so that the soldiers of the Bingzhou faction suffered a lot following him.

Some even almost couldn't eat.

"General Fengxian, what exactly are you plotting?"

"Can't you consider yourself more?"

Gu Yi suddenly jumped up and slapped the draft imperial decree in his hand heavily in front of Lu Bu.

"Do you really think the reason the Prime Minister is wary of you is because you killed Ding Yuan?"

"I can tell you very clearly."

"There is indeed this layer of reason, but this is not the main reason!"

"The main reason is because you killed Ding Yuan and still have the entire Bingzhou faction following you!"

"They take you as their leader, instead of taking the Prime Minister as their lord."

"General Fengxian, you are actually not a general under the Prime Minister."

"Your true identity has always been a warlord subordinate to the Prime Minister!"

"Do you think you are suitable to be a lord?"

"The reason you took these Bingzhou brothers to kill Ding Yuan and defect to the Prime Minister back then was because you wanted to obtain the power in Ding Yuan's hands?"