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Tao Gong walked in front with Cao Bao and I following behind him. I was unhappy when Tao Gong mocked and ridiculed me along the way.

It's impossible for me to straight up break all decorum and speak. After all, temporarily entering the Meeting of Heroes with Tao Qian's aides was already a very difficult thing to come by.

I nodded my head, thinking that I must do so too. As long as I can enter, it wouldn't be a problem to bring a few less people with me. I said to Xu Zhu and Cheng Yaojin: "Brothers, you two can stay here and suffer for a while, I will be quick."

After that, he used sufficient food to secretly recruit refugees around Huai Nan and Lunan. In a short three months, he had expanded his military strength to 50,000 people.

Even his own brother, the chief of the Guan Dong Alliance, Yuan Shao, was not taken seriously. The food he provided was often late, or he was short of supplies, or he used everything at his disposal to make the dukes complain.

Taking advantage of the time when the other dukes and the West Cold were fighting to the point of no return, Yuan Shu sent troops to secretly attack the Nine River County with Ji Ling, and killed the taiwai that Dong Zhuo had appointed as his disciple. They changed the name of the Nine River County to Huai Nan County and used the longevity spring as their base, and appointed their own brother, Yuan Yin, as Huai Nan as their taiwai. After taking down Huai Nan, Yuan Shu became even more confident.

Of course, as an envoy of the Alliance, Yuan Shu could not run around casually. He was still guarding the Allied footholds and fodder for the army sixty miles away from the main camp of the Jujube, but this did not stop Yuan Shu from sending troops and generals to attack and raid the cities to increase his strength while the dukes and the West Cold were still in a difficult situation.

Therefore, for this first meeting, I have to let Tao Qian or anyone else obtain this position, because if Yuan Shu obtains this position, then it will indirectly lead to the failure of the The Eighteen Roads Thief.

However, on our first meeting, I saw a person who should have died, and that person was Liu Bian.

This Liu Bian actually became a duke on nineteen roads. Logically speaking, after offering the emperor up for election, Liu Bian should have been killed by someone else and shouldn't have appeared here. My intuition tells me that this Liu Bian isn't simple, and he might even be from the Spirit Master.

When Liu Bian saw Master Tao, he immediately cupped his hands and said: "So it's Duke Tao who has come again, excuse me!"

"Your majesty, please do not do this. This subject has a guilty conscience, now that Dong Zhuo is in the middle of a chaos in the capital, for Your Majesty to be covered in dirt, it is all our fault." Tao Qian said.

"As long as all of you help me destroy this Dong Zou, this big person can recover!" Liu Bian said.

Many of the surrounding dukes began to laugh.

He, Liu Bian, for some unknown reason did not get poisoned to death, but now, he still wanted these ambitious people to call him emperor. He had underestimated the ambitions of the Marquis.

Yet, there were more people who came out to flatter Liu Bian, which made me feel extremely awkward, because that was too fake.

Amongst them, Liu Ye was the most courteous, and when Liu Bian saw Liu Ye's respectful and humble attitude, he started to speak carefreely, seemingly wanting to win him over. Liu Ye was gentle, and furthermore, they were both descendants of the High Ancestor, so it was not difficult for Liu Bian to take them in.

After greeting each other, Liu Sha then asked about Liu Ye's background and found out that he was the sixth generation descendant of Liu Yan, the King of Fuling, who was of the same generation as him.

Furthermore, the relationship between Liu Ye and Liu Ya was a big step closer than that of Liu Biao, Liu Yao, Liu Yan and the other dukes. Liu Biao and Liu Yan were both descendants of Western Han Dynasty's King Lu Gong, Liu Yu, and they needed to go back a dozen or so generations to find the root of the problem.

To put it bluntly, if Liu Ya wanted to become a family with these dukes with the surname Liu, it would have to be traced back to Emperor Han Jing at the very least. On the other hand, Liu Ye was different. The grandfather of the two were the founder of the Eastern Han Empire, the Light Martial Emperor Liu Xiu.

"Aiya, I didn't expect Mister Ziyang to be the seventh generation descendant of the Light Martial Emperor. In terms of reputation, I need to call you Elder Brother."

Liu Shi said as he bowed and bowed to Liu Ye, "Brother, please accept this younger brother's bow!"

Liu Ye hurriedly returned the greeting, "I dare not accept it, although we are both warriors of the light realm, but the Zheng Clan has already started to decline, how could they dare to accept your highness' gift?"

The two of them chatted and laughed as if they were the main characters of this feast. On the other hand, Yuan Shao looked at me with a murderous expression, as if he wanted to eat me whole.

After three rounds of drinking, Liu Ya stood up and cupped his hands, "All of you present here are light emperors. Although Gu Ruoyun is young, she isn't willing to give up. Therefore, she has entangled a bunch of loyal people, vowing to eradicate the traitor Dong Zhuo, and revive my big man's heroic spirit. I sincerely request that all of you lend a hand to me. On the day that I once again ascend the great treasure, I will inevitably bestow upon you the title of Viscount, allowing Cheng De, Liu, to regain your former glory! "

Liu Ye had long been waiting for these words, he immediately stood up and bowed: "I am indebted to the King's great honor, furthermore, we are all descendants of the Effulgence Weapon, how can we allow traitors to ravage the entire Liu Family. Although we are not talented, we are also willing to serve the King, and eliminate traitors, to help the Han family, we cannot escape the responsibility!"

"Good, good, good to have royal brother's help, just like when the High Ancestor obtained his concubine, he still lacks a leader. From today on, you will take up your role and travel alone to Henan to join the Eastern Alliance."

A group of people greeted each other, but at this time, Yuan Shao suddenly shouted, "Your Majesty, although we say that the matter of asking the Dong Zou for help is big, the matter of the traitor seems to be even bigger!"

"A traitor?" Everyone looked at Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao said angrily, "It's Lin Mubai, Master Tao's subordinate, who killed many of my generals and also my daughter.

"Is that true?" Even Liu Bian immediately looked towards me.

Yuan Shao laughed coldly, "Do you think I would lie?"

"If that's the case, then this child shall be killed!" Yuan Shu tried to please his.

Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao were originally from the same family, so it made sense that they were targeting me, but to slander me in front of the The Eighteen Roads, this was obviously a way to use someone else's hands to kill me.

Thinking about it, I cupped my hands towards Tao Qian: "Master Tao, may I say a few words?"

As a lowly guest, I naturally had to give face to Master Tao.