Chapter 311 The Gathering of Ten Warlords – Part One (2/2)

Minor lords began entering the tent with their two followers.

Kong Rong, Kong Zhou, Qiao Mao, Zhang Miao picked their seats which located far away from the main seat at the end of the center carpet.

Yuan Shao, who had the biggest army, shamelessly sat on the center seat, which was the main seat prepared for Tong. Following after Yuan Shao, Tian Feng and Wen Chou stood behind him.

Tao Qian and Gongsun Zan sat at their perspective place, which located next to the main seat. As the only two Viceroys in this gathering, they had the honor of being next to the main guest.

Lu Zhi and Yan Gang, who was Gongsun Zan's best general, stood behind their lord as well.

Behind Tao Qian, Cao Bao and Ze Rong, the best generals of Tao Qian Army, attended the meeting like the others.

However, as soon as they saw that Yuan Shao stole Tong's main seat. They frowned.

Gongsun Zan wanted to protect his junior's honor and face, he coughed and politely reprimanded Yuan Shao right away.

”Lord Yuan. That seat has been prepared for Zhang Tong. I think you have made a mistake.”

Yuan Shao chuckled, ”No, Lord Gongsun. I think I'm sitting on the right seat. This seat has been prepared for the leader of this coalition, no?”

”Yes. But the leader of this coalition is Zhang Tong.”

”Since when has Zhang Tong become the leader of this coalition?”

Tao Qian coughed, ”Lord Zhang has sent this gathering invitations and has renumerated us with the food supplies. Isn't he the leader of the coalition by default?”

Yuan Shao was still laughing, ”No, no. You are the one misunderstood something, senior Tao. The one that is responsible for running and donating supplies isn't our leader but an errand boy.”

On Gongsun Zan's face, traces of blood veins bulged as his anger soared. To Gongsun Zan, looking down on his family, friends, and juniors was equally looking down on himself.

”Don't you dare to call my junior an errand boy, you loser! Don't you think we didn't know about your past grudge against him? How many times had you tried to attack Zhang Tong but you were chased back with your tail tugging between your legs!?”

This time, Yuan Shao was infuriated. However, he did not reveal in on his face as he had prepared his mental psyche for the political façade.

”This doesn't change the fact that he has to tribute us his supplies for us to come here. It shows that who is superior and who's not! Besides, I've contributed the most by bringing 100,000 men here. How many has Tong brought? Only a meager of 60,000 weak militias in weird clothes! Do you think someone who begged for us to help him fighting a barbarian tribe deserve to be our leader? Heck, I don't think he has grown a hair yet. HAHAHAHA!”

Wen Chou sniggered, and Tian Feng smirked. While they were listening to the pointless quarrel, Tian Feng reported the incident to Jiang Man via clan chat.

Tian Feng: ”My lord has stolen the main seat as you have ordered. It's your turn.”

Jiang Man: ”We'll be right there. Tell the guards to let us inside.”

Tian Feng: ”On it.”

Tian Feng walked to the sentry guards in front of the tent and whispered to the ear, giving the permission to allow a team of four men to enter the tent using the name of Yuan Shao.

Meanwhile, Lu Zhi peered at Yuan Shao with the corner of his eyes. Even though he and Yuan Shao were colleagues in the past, there was a limit on how someone could insult his proud disciple.

Gongsun Zan's face also reddened while Tao Qian gave up bickering and sighed in resignation.

As Gongsun Zan was about to give Yuan Shao a good scolding, a group of four men barged inside the tent.

It was Liu Bei and his brothers.

The crowd got inside while everyone's attention was on the quarrel between Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao. Aside from Tian Feng and Wen Chou, no one noticed their arrival.

”Oh, look! Xuande, there's an available seat. We can sit there!”

Zhang Fei pointed at the empty seat, which was designated for Yuan Shao.

”Alright. Let's sit there and join the meeting.”

With a smile, Liu Bei strode to the table and sat on the prepared seat.

At this time, all lords realized the newcomer, but most of them had never met Zhang Tong face to face, so they thought Liu Bei was Zhang Tong.

'Did Zhang Tong yield the seat?'

'Is he Zhang Tong?'

'Is he a coward? Doesn't he want to fight back for the seat of the commander?'

'Wait, he's brought in three retainers? Hasn't anyone inform him that he can only bring two!?'

All minor lords had a bad first-impression on Liu Bei, who they mistook as Tong, right away.