Chapter 312 The Gathering of Ten Warlords – Part Two (2/2)

Yuan Shao, Tian Feng, and Jiang Man grinned. Getting Tong to fall out with Liu Bei was a part of their plans.

Because Lu Zhi was still alive in this world, chances that Liu Bei would be forced to join Tong by Lu Zhi still existed. To get Liu Bei out of Tong's influence, they had to make Liu Bei hate Tong more.

Causing misunderstanding and Shaming both of them at the same time was the trick!

Tong disregarded the guards and strode into the tent.

As soon as he entered the tent, he noticed the weird stares from all lords right away. Looking around a bit more, Tong understood the problem.

Tong recognized the red face man with a long beard, the long ear man whose arms were absurdly long, and a burly man with a messy beard. They were the three legendary brothers.

'So the other one is Jiang Man. Another threat … Wait a minute. I remember this guy! That son of a bitch almost killed me in the Battle of Ji!'

A sinister smile appeared on Tong's face for a split second before it disappeared.

'Good. Now that you're presenting your heads altogether. I can easily kill all of you. Still, using 50 seconds [Time Stop] to kill every lord here can be counterproductive. How am I going to explain to their subordinates that they're all dead and all of them have to listen to my command? No, no. That's a bad idea. I don't want any no-name local to show up and ruin the historical flow that I set up for them. Having strong but predictable opponents that can develop their cities is better than having unpredictable suicidal idiots that do nothing to help the people. I still have a country to run after the unification!'

Tong swallowed his temptation of killing all rivals right now for his long term goal. He wore his façade mask and cupped his fist toward Liu Bei, who insisted on sitting.

”We can finally meet face to face, senior brother Liu.”

Liu Bei flinched. However, upon seeing the chance for the recovery, Liu Bei stood and returned the greeting, ”Well met, junior brother. Ha-ha, I'm sorry that I mistakenly took your seat. Here you can have it back, we'll be standing behind you.”

Jiang Man, Yuan Shao, and Tian Feng frowned as they thought, 'They are not fighting?'

Tong laughed and waved his hands, ”No, you can take the seat. Actually, it's not your fault for sitting on any seat. Looking at the prepared reception, we can all see that we're short by one table. I'll just start the meeting as I'm standing. It's better this way since I'll be the one speaking the most. Well, it's better than stealing a place to sit from someone else to satisfy my ego. I'm not low enough to pick a fight with sore losers or retard dogs. When a stupid dog take a piss at a tree to mark their territories, as a human, will you pee on the same tree to show it who the boss is, senior brother Liu?”

Yuan Shao and Tian Feng glared at Tong in anger.

Gongsun Zan, Lu Zhi, Cao Cao, and Cheng Yu withheld their laughter.

Tao Qian shook his head as sighed while he muttered to himself, ”Karma exists.”

Kong Rong and all minor lords glanced back and forth between Yuan Shao and Tong in nervousness.

Liu Bei, who was gullible and ignorant in politics and sarcastic comments, did not understand the hidden meaning.

”Of course not. I'd rather beat the dog or chase it away. Why should I piss at a tree?”

Jiang Man's face twitched. Tong had indirectly called Liu Bei a stray dog as well, yet his idiot sworn brother did not even realize it.

Jia Xu and Xun Yu glanced at Liu Bei, pitied him.

'Foolish trash.'

'Is he really senior Lu's disciple? How can he be this stupid?'

Yuan Shao slammed his fist on the table before him, ”Lord Zhang Tong, this still doesn't change the fact that you aren't the boss of everybody here. If you consider the noble tier, you are at the lowest among us. I'll lead the coalition and fight back the Xiongnu. You can go back to the supply base and give us the food like your mother belongs, in the kitchen!”

Tong raised his eyebrows in surprise, wondering what this egotistic noble was planning.

”Do you want to be the leader of the coalition, Lord Yuan?”

”I AM their leader! I'm the successor of an aristocrat family, and the Emperor bestowed me the title of the Grand Chancellor. I have the highest tier of all nobles here!”

Tong shrugged, ”A title from your son. Does that count as a legal title?”

Several lords sweated as they sensed the smoke of the internal fighting before the war. All of them knew about how Yuan Shao enthroned his son as the new Emperor using He Jin as a sole supporter, plus nobody wanted to follow this bogus family.

Tong ignored Yuan Shao's reaction and glanced at Cao Cao, whom Tong also recognized through the facial expression and manner.

”So he said, Lord Cao Cao? Didn't your empress give you a similar promotion, too?”

The face of Cao Cao twitched this time. He also forced the false empress, Diaochan, to give him the Prime Minister title, which equaled to the Grand Chancellor title of Yuan Shao.

This meant the noble tier of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao were the same. As a result, Yuan Shao's claim was invalid since Cao Cao was also a candidate for the leader of the coalition.

Furthermore, it revealed the dark sides of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao's political moves, discrediting both lords at the same time.

At air in the tent grew more menacing as Tong provoked the powerhouse left and right.

These three people were considered the dominant forces of the country at the moment. Yet, instead of uniting their forces and fight the Xiongnu together, Tong was doing the opposite.

Tong's supporters, Gongsun Zan and Kong Rong, were looking at this young immortal with concerns.

'What are you doing, Zhang Tong?'