Chapter 992: Alliance of Heroes

"My lord, Yuan Shao, the prefect of Bohai Sea, invited my lord to a banquet!"

Wang Hu pushed open the tent door, clasped his fists and said.

Shang Ji and Guo Jia next to him looked at each other, with a helpless feeling of "here we come again".

It has been eight days since Shang Ji arrived in Suanzao. During the eight days, he attended thirteen banquets, and the one invited by Yuan Shao was the fourteenth!

Shang Ji felt distressed for the princes. Tens of millions of troops are stationed here by wartime standards, and people eat horse chews every day, and the food consumed is an astronomical figure. Although the military rations are jointly borne by the heroes, a lot of supplies are consumed for nothing every day of delay, which makes Shang Ji feel sorry for it.

However, the princes did not have this awareness at all, and they continued to feast every day.

If you're discussing business, that's okay, but this banquet is just eating and drinking, listening to music, watching singing and dancing, it's like an outing, and you don't do any important things.

It can be said that Shang Ji participated in more banquets these days than in the past year!

Guo Jia smiled helplessly, and said to Shang Ji: "Master, let's go, otherwise people will say that we don't understand etiquette!"

Shang Ji shook his head with a wry smile, and got up to prepare for the banquet.

Shang Ji is not afraid of falling out with the princes, but it would be ridiculous to break up because of the reason of "not wanting others to treat guests to dinner".

On the way, Shang Ji and Guo Jia chatted while walking. The Shang Ji army dispatched 300,000 troops to conquer Dong Zhuo this time, but Xi Zhicai did not come. Guo Jia took over the post of military adviser and served as the think tank of this expedition.

"My lord, according to Jia's estimate, this day of feasting every day should be coming to an end soon."

"Oh? How did you see Feng Xiao?"

Shang Ji became interested and asked in a low voice.

"My lord, all the heroes gather here to feast all day long. It's not because the princes are bored, but to form cliques and transfer benefits through banquets. After such a long period of negotiation, we should also discuss a The general plan is in place. Once there is a result, the war will really begin!"

"Clique formation? Benefit transfer?"

Shang Ji was stunned for a moment, and then asked subconsciously: "Why didn't anyone come to win over this general!"

But as soon as the words came out, Shang Ji laughed. With his situation, who can win him over!

Among other things, he is an official of Zuo General, Pingzhou Mu, named Ninghou, sits in the two states of Pingchen, has a strong army under his command, and has a territory of thousands of miles. Who is qualified to win him over?

And he only brought 300,000 troops to participate in the discussion, and he made it clear that he was here to join in the fun. For this kind of person who can't afford to offend and doesn't have much interest in him, it's better to confess high.

In fact, Shang Ji had already had a hunch before that the princes were very respectful to him, but the respect always revealed alienation.

Soon, everyone came to Yuan Shao's handsome tent, and Yuan Shao's nephew Gao Gan was welcoming guests outside the big tent. Seeing Shang Ji, he hurried up to greet him: "Ninghou, you are finally here, all the guests are waiting for you, Ninghou. own!"

Shang Ji smiled and didn't speak, Gao Gan welcomed Shang Ji in very politely.

Before he entered the big tent, he heard the sound of cups and cups in the tent.

The waiter at the gate of the big tent saw Shang Ji approaching, and immediately helped to open the gate of the tent. At the same time, the waiter in charge of the roll call shouted: "Ninghou, General Zuo, and Lord Mushang of Pingzhou are here!"

All the princes stood up one after another to salute, and Shang Ji also responded one by one.

Immediately after being seated, the waiter brought delicious food, wine and wine, and the ingredients were all rare treasures. Shang Ji also saw Lingmi, a specialty of Pingzhou, and fine wine, a specialty of Dong Zhuo's control area.

As far as the food and drinks in front of Shang Ji are concerned, there is absolutely no way to get them without five hundred gold.

There were as many as nineteen princes present, and there were also some famous people who were not princes but had a high reputation. Yuan Shao had to spend at least 20,000 gold coins for this banquet, including other miscellaneous things. The total consumption has to go to 50,000!

This extravagant way made even wealthy merchants gasp.

Moreover, every prince is accompanied by at least five beautiful maids who serve attentively,

All kinds of novel ways of playing made Shang Ji stunned. He can only say that the fourth generation and the third father are worthy of being a wealthy family, and they just know how to play!

The banquet lasted for two full hours, during which the drinking and merrymaking continued, the silk and bamboo orchestra played continuously, the literati princes and celebrities headed by Kong Rong wrote poems to add to the fun, and they watched the performance of the dancing girls (God knows why Yuan Shao would do it when he was marching and fighting) with a large number of dancers), the waiter presents a large number of precious melons and fruits for consumption.

In the end Yuan Shao clapped his hands lightly, a large number of waiters stepped out of the big tent, and those celebrities who acted as mascots also exited the venue with interest, leaving only the princes and their close friends in the venue. fun

Yuan Shao, who was sitting at the head, suddenly said: "The thief Dong has no way, and he conspired with the Yellow Turban thief to assassinate the late emperor (Meng's, buckle the shit basin) and steal the imperial court. From His Majesty, the Empress Dowager, down to all the officials and common people, he was killed by him." Harmful, his crimes are unforgivable, and heaven and man will be slaughtered together!

My father, my uncle, and more than 50,000 people in the whole family were brutally murdered..."

Having said this, Yuan Shao began to choke up, tears streaming down his face. Looking at the sad posture that seemed to be unstoppable, who would have thought that he was happily feasting with the princes five minutes ago?

It can only be said that the princes are all movie kings!

The high-ranking narrator hurriedly supported Yuan Shao, and the lower princes also stood up to comfort him.

Under the persuasion of the princes, Yuan Shao finally "cheered up" and continued: "Today, we and other loyal people are gathered here to follow Lu Gong's last wish, to fight against the Dong thief and help the Han Dynasty, and to restore the world to a bright future! "

"General Yuan said it well, it is our destiny to help the Han family and kill the Dong bandits!" Yuan Shao just finished speaking, someone said loudly.

According to Shang Ji's reputation, it turned out to be Yuan Shao's loyal younger brother Yuan Yi!

Yuan Yi and Yuan Shao, you can tell from their names that the two are related by blood. In fact, Yuan Yi is Yuan Shao's cousin, but Yuan Yi has been Yuan Shao's little follower since he was a child, even if he became a prince.

"That's right, that's right, what I said at the beginning is correct, Thief Dong and I have a sworn hatred, if I don't eat his flesh raw, I, Yuan Shu, will be in vain!"

"What General Yuan said is true, if Dong Bandit is not eliminated, the world will be in trouble!" This time it was Wang Kuang who spoke out.

Immediately afterwards, the princes spoke up one after another, and they all agreed with Yuan Shao's words, and all of them were righteous, as if they had really become loyal ministers of the Han Dynasty.

Shang Ji just watched with cold eyes, watching the funny performances of the princes.

After flattering for a while, Wang Kuang suddenly said: "Today, out of righteousness, we raise troops to punish the thieves, and we must set up an alliance leader. The generals will respect his orders and then march into the army. He will definitely kill the Dong thieves and help the Han family!"

"Here we come, we finally got to the point!"

Shang Ji was startled when he heard this, and finally became interested.

Cao Cao hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "Brother Benchu ​​is the fourth generation and third lord, and his disciples are all over the world. After he is a great man, Brother Benchu ​​should bravely shoulder the heavy responsibility and lead the heroes to punish Dong Kuanghan!"

A look of joy flashed across Yuan Shao's eyes, and then he forced himself to calm down and said: "It is impossible, General Zuo is a high-ranking and powerful man, victorious in every battle, and has a great reputation. It is reasonable for General Zuo to be the leader of the alliance!"

After finishing speaking, he looked at Shang Ji with hope.

However, Shang Ji was very keenly aware of the nervousness in Yuan Shao's eyes.

Shang Ji knew that this was a trick of his three words and three concessions, and he couldn't help laughing in his heart, wondering what would happen to Yuan Shao if he just agreed to it like this?

However, Shang Ji knew that since he only brought 300,000 troops, it was impossible for him to be the leader of the alliance.

Smiling, he got up and said: "The major generals are few, and the army to fight against the thieves is completely inspired by loyalty and Lu Gong. An dare to covet the position of the leader, brother Benchu, don't joke!"

Seeing Shang Ji's resignation, Yuan Shao was obviously relieved, and then turned to look at Lu Bu: "Feng Xian's bravery is well known in the world, and he has inherited Lu Gong's last wish. Why don't you let Brother Feng Xian be the leader?"

Lu Bu was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, then got up with a happy face, and just as he was about to speak, Chen Gong next to him coughed lightly. The joy on Lu Bu's face disappeared immediately, and he postponed, "How can Bu Hede be the leader of the alliance, I think the leader must be Brother Benchu!"

"Brother Xuande is a clan member of the Han Dynasty, so the position of alliance leader should be taken by Brother Xuande!"

Liu Bei waved his hands again and again: "It's absolutely impossible, absolutely impossible, Brother Benchu, don't want to break evil. It will be enough for Bei to be able to fight against the thief Kuang Han together with all the loyal people. How dare you covet the position of leader?"

"Brother Meng De is the host, this leader..."

Before Yuan Shao could finish speaking, Cao Cao got up immediately and said, "Brother Benchu, according to my opinion, the position of leader must be Brother Benchu, so don't postpone it any longer!"

"Yes, yes, it is General Yuan!"

Wang Kuang, Yuan Yi, Zhang Miao and others started to make a noise, shouting that it was Yuan Shao. Although some princes were unwilling, they did not dare to speak out against it.

The joy on Yuan Shao's face was even greater, and he finally said: "Shao is ashamed, thanks to everyone's trust, he has the audacity to temporarily act as the leader of the alliance. In the future, a virtuous and talented person will be born, and Shao will step down again!"

As soon as these words came out, the position of leader fell on Yuan Shao's head, no matter whether they were close to Yuan Shao or hostile to Yuan Shao, they all came forward to congratulate him.

Looking at this noisy scene, Shang Ji felt very lucky that he didn't invest too many troops in the fight against Dong.