Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 410
In history, there have been many shabby incidents that were wrong by the slightest bit and thousands of miles away, but the one that Liu Xie remembers most is the murder caused by the bowl of mutton soup in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods.

In that period of fragmentation, the vassal states attacked each other.One year, Hua Yuan, a doctor of Song State, led the army to attack Zheng State. In order to boost morale, Hua Yuan ordered the cooks to give everyone extra meals, stew mutton in a big pot, and reward the soldiers.One piece per person, the soldiers happily gnawed on the mutton bones.

It happened that Yang Chu, Hua Yuan's coachman, was here, and he was gone.Yang Chu didn't eat the mutton, so he was depressed and drank cold water beside him.It turned out that Hua Yuan was busy with military affairs, so he forgot to ask for a share for Yang.Seeing that other people's faces were flushed with food, Yang Chun couldn't help being angry: They say that you get the moon first if you are close to the water, and there are many benefits to follow the leader. Why, as the leader driver, I am so obsolete!Isn't this humiliating me sincerely?

It is not a gentleman not to take revenge, so Yang Chun secretly made up his mind and decided to retaliate with an eye.

The next day, Hua Yuan set off in a chariot driven by Yang Chu.When the two armies of Song and Zheng met, the two sides opened up and fought each other.Just when the fierce battle between the two armies was in full swing, Yang Zhen suddenly flicked his whip and drove the carriage towards Zheng Jun's camp like lightning.

Hua Yuan in the car was shocked, and shouted to Yang Zhu: "Are you dizzy? Where are you going? Over there is the enemy's camp!" , today’s affairs I’m in charge of politics!” You decide how to divide the mutton, but I decide where to go buddy!
In this way, Yang Zhu drove his chariot straight to Zheng Jun's base camp.As a result, the Song army was defeated, and the poor Hua Yuan became a prisoner in a daze before he had studied the art of war for a whole night.

Everything started from that bowl of mutton soup.

In Liu Xie's era, Zhang Kai's murder of Cao Song was actually a replica of this story.Because of Zhang Kai's greed for money, Cao Cao had an excuse to attack Xuzhou, and directed the massacre of 10 people-according to the conversion of the population ratio, this tragedy is no less than the Nanjing Massacre that shocked China and the world later!

Although, because of Liu Xie's troubles, this incident did not happen as it did in history.However, Liu Xie would not stop the death of Bian Rang, which caused the great turmoil in Yanzhou, but would rack his brains to facilitate it.

On the night when Cao Cao's troops arrived in the East China Sea, three fast horses rode into Chenliu City in the dim night...

Zhang Miao was not surprised by the arrival of Chen Gong, Li Feng, and Xue Lan, but he was still a little uneasy.After asking them to enter his study, he waved away all the soldiers and family members.Finally, a secret room was opened and everyone was invited to enter.

Li Feng and Xue Lan hesitated about Zhang Miao's invitation to enter the secret room, but Chen Gong glanced at Zhang Miao, with a strange smile on his stern face, and strode into the secret room.Seeing this, Li Feng and Xue Lan stepped into it with their hands on the hilt of their swords.

The secret room is extremely simple, with only a table and some food to feed the hunger.But after Chen Gong circled around, he found that unless outsiders knew about the mechanism of this secret room, the main room must be demolished in order to get Zhang Miao out of it.

Zhang Miao lit the candle in the secret room, and the smell of candle immediately permeated the small space.Under the dim light, Chen Gong's face looked a little distorted, but he still maintained the posture of his colleagues, and said calmly, "General Zhang, have you heard what Cao Cao did in Xuzhou?"

Zhang Miao nodded slightly, and replied, "You have won the victory."

Zhang Miao is a man of righteousness and wealth, and he was born as a scholar. He is better than Cao Cao in terms of fame and qualifications.Therefore, even though Cao Cao was already in charge of Yanzhou in name, Zhang Miao never called Cao Cao the "lord" to show that he still wanted to retain his special nobility and dignity.

Seeing that Zhang Miao kept taboo about the massacre, Chen Gong sneered with disdain this time and said, "I remember the county general, you are also a local from Yanzhou, right?"

Zhang Miao was choked by Chen Gong, and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't speak.

"Since Cao Mengde was stationed in Yanzhou, he has promoted private parties, monopolized military power, and privately appointed Xiahou Dun as the prefect of the East County. Are you not clear about these things?" Chen Gong emphasized a little bit, seeing that Zhang Miao still did not respond, he continued: "In one day, Cao Mengde killed the three wise men, Bian Rang, Yuan Zhong, and Huan Shao, and exterminated their families. Wen Li over there is also from Yanzhou!..."

When Chen Gong said these words, tears welled up in his eyes.In fact, Chen Gong personally introduced Bian Rang to Cao Cao.Unexpectedly, after Bian Rang met Cao Cao, he only said one sentence: "How can killing innocent people be considered filial piety? How can you say loyalty when you take away people?" Beheaded on the spot!
Chen Gong didn't even have time to react to this sudden turn of events.Then he asked his own soldiers to kill Yuan Zhong and Huan Shao, and Cao Cao just turned his head to himself in dissatisfaction, and said: "Gongtai, in the future, these useless people with wine bags and rice bags and fame and fame should not be sent to the guillotine."

At that moment, Chen Gong couldn't even see a trace of regret and sadness in Cao Cao's eyes!That is completely a wolf, with the peaceful eyes that only treat sheep! ——Peaceful as if it is only right and proper!
At this very moment, the shock and compassion in Chen Gong's heart instantly turned into resentment: for his own sake, and for the people of Xuzhou, he must drive Cao Cao, a wolf in troubled times, out of his own Yanzhou!
At the beginning, he invited Cao Cao to enter Yanzhou. Chen Gong believed that he could still drive Cao Cao out now!
Withdrawing his sad and angry thoughts, Chen Gong looked at Zhang Miao quietly, trying to see the same anger from Zhang Miao's eyes.Unfortunately, Chen Gong was soon disappointed: there was no trace of anger in Zhang Miao's eyes, only endless fear.

At this time, Li Feng suddenly took over the words: "That's right! Cao Cao just wanted to attack the powerful families in Yanzhou and plunder soldiers, horses, food and grass. If this continues, our Yanzhou will be destroyed by Cao Cao sooner or later, and all scholars and wealthy households will be killed by him." Light!"

Li Feng didn't speak at this time because he loved Yanzhou so much, what he was brooding about was actually hating Cao Cao's division of their Li family's power.

The Juye Li family used to form their own faction and separate the county seat, but after Cao Cao took control of Yanzhou, now Li Qian and Li Jin, the main branches of the Li family, are willing to follow Cao Cao, but he, Li Feng, can never feel at ease. Using his own family members will surely turn against each other one day, so he resolutely opposes Cao Cao.

"It's not just people like Brother Li, but also the people of Yanzhou!" Xue Lan didn't show weakness, and stepped forward angrily: "In the battle of Xuzhou, how many people were slaughtered by Cao Cao, and Sishui didn't flow for it! Today he can harm Xuzhou, you can come back tomorrow to harm Yanzhou, don’t you want to do something for the common people in the world?”

Don't look at Xue Lan's benevolence and righteousness. In fact, he and Li Feng are like dogs, and they also have selfish intentions.Although he is from the Xue family of Hedong, because his father Xue Shengsheng was the Minister of Donghai before, his family has property in Donghai.Now that Cao Cao has reached the East China Sea, his son Xue Yong is still with Tao Qian. If he doesn't think of a way to make Cao Cao withdraw his troops, if Tancheng is broken, the lives of that family will be over.

Zhang Miao knew the details of these people very well, and he also knew that they all had selfish intentions, but what Cao Cao had done was right in front of his eyes, and it was impossible for him to say a few good words for Cao Cao.He had no choice but to sigh deeply, spread his hands together and said, "I know why you are here, but..."

"Now I can't allow the general to think about anything anymore! If you don't do it for others, you have to do it for yourself." Chen Gong suddenly raised his voice, he had already grasped Zhang Miao's weakness, and deliberately swayed his gun and said: "Now that the heroes are together, The world is falling apart, and you, with thousands of miles of people, in the land of four battles, holding your sword and Gu Yu, is enough to be proud of others, but to counter others, isn't it contemptible?"

Obviously the voice in the secret room could not be heard outside, but when Zhang Miao heard this, he suddenly raised his hand like a frightened quail, and hurriedly raised his hand to signal Chen Gong to keep his voice down, and hurriedly said: "I am not good at running an army, what can I do?" If you can't do such a big thing, you should find someone else, please please..."

Zhang Miao was the prefect of Chenliu, if he didn't get involved, it would be impossible for him to succeed.At this time, Chen Gong saw that the aggressive methods had no effect on Zhang Miao, so he suddenly took out his trump card, and said with a sneer, "General Zhang, are you still deceiving yourself and others? Your good head is just stored on your neck. Someday, Cao Cao will take it away. Yuan Shao told Cao Cao to kill you, do you think I don’t know?”

Zhang Miao suddenly shivered, stretched out his hand and touched his neck involuntarily, and asked in surprise, "How did you know this?"

"When Yuan Shao sent people, I was by Cao Cao's side." Chen Gong had already made up his mind, and approached Zhang Miao step by step.He already knew that people like Zhang Miao did not have the guts to fight for justice in the world.But fortunately, being greedy for life and fearing death, sometimes using it properly is also a good breakthrough...

(End of this chapter)