Three Kingdoms: Ten Times Speed, Diao Chan Says I'm Too Fast

"Wenyou is here."

Just as Dong Zhuo was about to press Duan Yu further, he saw Li Ru hurriedly walk into the main hall.

"Lord."

Li Ru, dressed in a black official robe, entered the main hall and bowed. He then turned to Dong Yi and smiled slightly, saying, "Miss Yi."

Dong Yi nodded slightly.

"What is it, Wenyou?" Dong Zhuo asked.

Li Ru turned around and smiled at Dong Zhuo, saying, "My lord, it's about Duan Yu."

"Oh?"

Dong Zhuo raised an eyebrow and couldn't help but turn his head to look at Dong Yi sitting to the side.

Dong Yi's beautiful eyes widened slightly in surprise.

"Haha." Dong Zhuo laughed heartily and said, "Look, we were just talking about this kid."

"I didn't expect Wenyou to also send news about this kid."

“My daughter Yi’er is now interested in news about this kid.”

"Father~"

No sooner had Dong Zhuo finished speaking than Dong Yi looked at him coquettishly and said, "What kind of father talks to his daughter like that..."

"Haha." Dong Zhuo laughed and said, "What's there to be afraid of? My daughter, Dong Zhuo's daughter, why should she act so coy? If you like her, you like her."

"Wenyou, tell me what news this kid has this time."

Li Ru smiled and glanced at Dong Yi, then straightened up and said, "My lord, I just went to the county government."

"I heard from the officials in the county that they were going to suppress the bandits and had dispatched Duan Yu to Jinyang to suppress the bandits."

Ok?

As soon as Li Ru finished speaking, Dong Zhuo frowned immediately.

"Why would the county government need to dispatch village patrols to suppress bandits?" Dong Zhuo asked, somewhat puzzled.

Li Ru nodded in agreement.

"I think so too."

"The county government should send troops to suppress the bandits. Even if they are short of troops, they should ask the lord for help. Why should they send out guerrillas from the village?"

"Even if Duan Yu has some reputation, I'm afraid this matter won't fall to the village's wandering minions."

"So I was curious and inquired about it."

"What do you think, my lord?"

Li Ru kept everyone in suspense.

Dong Yimei stared intently at Li Ru, her expression attentive.

Dong Zhuo frowned and rubbed his chin curiously.

Jinyang was the seat of Taiyuan Prefecture.

Although there was a county government, there was also a prefect and a governor above Jinyang County.

In other places, the head of a county would be the county magistrate.

But the situation was different in Jinyang, the capital of Taiyuan.

A county magistrate is merely someone who is at the behest of the prefect or governor.

Dong Zhuo, the magistrate of Jinyang County, naturally knew this as well.

He was a protégé of Prefect Liu Wei, and his daily work mainly consisted of carrying out Prefect Liu Wei's orders.

This is very strange.

Could this matter be somehow connected to Prefect Liu Wei?

"My lord, I have done a little investigation. The magistrate said he was suppressing bandits, but he was actually suppressing the bandits in Longshan."

"Ok?"

Dong Zhuo asked in confusion.

Dong Yi, who was standing to the side, was completely confused, but seeing Dong Zhuo's puzzled look, her already worried heart jumped into her throat.

So he hurriedly looked at Dong Zhuo and asked:

"Father, what exactly is the problem?"

Dong Zhuo turned to look at Dong Yi, who had a worried expression, until he realized that Dong Yi was concerned about Duan Yu.

So he spoke directly:

"Yi'er, have you ever heard of raising bandits to enhance one's own power?"

Dong Yi nodded, her brows furrowed.

Dong Zhuo took a deep breath and then said, "When I first came to Bingzhou, I thought that to establish a foothold, I had to first establish my authority."

"So he thought of taking some heads to establish his authority."

"At that time, I also heard that there was a group of thieves who were very arrogant in Longshan near Jinyang City."

"So they decided to carry out a crackdown."

When Dong Zhuo, a powerful warlord from the border region, came to take office from Liangzhou, he naturally brought with him a large number of soldiers and trusted generals.

Logically speaking, wiping out a gang of thieves should be a simple matter.

But then a problem arose.

At that time, Dong Zhuo led his troops into the mountains to suppress the bandits, and he had already figured out the location of the bandits.

But when Dong Zhuo sent troops to besiege them, he found that the bandits had left and the entire camp was deserted.

At first, Dong Zhuo thought that he had been discovered by thieves.

So they decided to investigate and then launch an encirclement.

After all, he had already made his bold statement, and the entire Jinyang officialdom knew that he wanted to establish his authority.

So, if we can't wipe out this gang of thieves, wouldn't we lose face?

Not only will you fail to establish your authority, but you will also be ridiculed.

So he once again ordered his men to search for the whereabouts of the bandits of Longshan.

Fortunately, it was found within two days.

So he once again led his troops to encircle and suppress them.

Dong Zhuo looked at Dong Yi and said, "At that time, my position was not yet secure, and you were still at home in Liangzhou, so you were unaware of these things."

Dong Yi nodded, then frowned and asked, "And then?"

"Did Father succeed in the encirclement and suppression?"

Dong Zhuo took a deep breath, then frowned and shook his head.

"what?"

Dong Yi was taken aback.

Outsiders have no idea how strong her army is.

But how could she not know?

"Why?" Dong Yi asked in disbelief, "Could it be that those bandits are stronger than Father's troops?"

"But if that's really the case, how could the county magistrate dare to launch a siege?"

Dong Zhuo remained silent, but Li Ru, who was standing to the side, took over the conversation and said:

"Miss Yi misunderstands. How could a few thieves possibly be stronger than the soldiers under our lord's command?"

"only....."

"This second siege was just like the first one. When the lord's troops surrounded the stronghold, it was deserted."

Upon hearing Li Ru's words, Dong Yi immediately understood.

"Did someone report this?"

Li Ru smiled and nodded, saying, "Miss Yi is right, someone did indeed report it."

"However, my lord did not expect that the messenger was actually a subordinate of Prefect Liu Wei."

After Li Ru explained it to her, Dong Yi finally understood why her father had said that raising bandits was a way to maintain one's own importance.

After figuring it out, Dong Yi's worry was written all over her pretty face.

"The bandits on Longshan Mountain were left behind by Prefect Liu Wei to maintain his power."

“Miss Yi knows that Bingzhou produces furs, and every year a large number of merchants come from Xuzhou, Yanzhou, Yangzhou and other places to purchase them.”

"Among them were some disobedient merchants."

"As the prefect, Liu Wei, being the local official in charge of the people, naturally cannot personally deal with these disobedient merchants."

"And so, the bandits of Longshan came into being."

“These bandits from Longshan usually deal with disobedient and disrespectful merchants like Liu Wei.”

"Therefore, Prefect Liu Wei naturally could not agree to the lord's wish to wipe out the bandits of Longshan."

"It was only after the lord learned of this matter that he gave up on clearing out the bandits of Longshan. However, Liu Wei did not embarrass the lord too much."

"We obtained some heads to serve as the heads of the bandits in Longshan, which saved our lord some face. Now we can consider this a closed case."

Dong Yi had no interest in these things in officialdom.

I don't want to know.

Her only worry right now is Duan Yu.

Since the county magistrate was a protégé of the prefect, how could he order the suppression of the bandits he himself had raised?

This is inherently illogical.

Why is this happening?