The son of Yuan Shao who traveled through the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 267

"Don't do it, Your Majesty, think twice. Does Your Majesty know why Liu Bei deployed a water army by the river and is still busy building warships?"

I understood: "Sir, Liu Bei wants to attack Jiangdong." Jia Xu said: "This is obvious. It seems that Zhuge Liang has the intention of plotting six counties and 81 counties."

"Then shall we take advantage of the chaos?" I said with a dark smile.

"When Yuan Bing is here, Sun, Liu, and Cao will never go to war. Once Yuan Bing withdraws, there will be bloody storms all over the south of the Yangtze River. It is the best policy for our army to withdraw immediately after we get Jiangling." Jia Xu laughed and said: "Sun Quan If you are embarrassed, you will definitely return Wancheng, Jingling, and Juchao to the king. You will even surrender in name and send your son to the court as a hostage in order to get foreign aid. By then, it is not too late for the king to send troops."

"Sure enough, sir. But, sir, Gan Ning, Feng Xiao and Sima Yi's decisive battle at Xiaoting is still undecided, what should we do?"

Jia Xu said: "Feng Xiao is standing still these days. He wants to wait for Liu Bei to be defeated first, and then to defeat Sima Yi. He may have guessed that Liu Bei has the intention of plotting Jiangdong. Sima Yi is waiting for Liu Bei to strike first. Yiling, Xiling, Trapped in the cracks of Jingzhou, there is no way to keep it safe. With Sima Yi's knowledge, he will not understand. He will take the initiative to give up Yiling and go down the river."

I thought for a while and said: "Tomorrow, we will start resting. Let Zhuge Liang have time to prepare. Let Xi Zuo spread the news of our army's water transport of food. Disturb his mind. After seven days, the army will regroup. Put on the posture of attacking the city with all your strength .Let’s see whether Liu Bei will leave or not.”

Six days later, Jiangling City was completely empty.Zhuge Liang took Liu Bei down the river to Hanyang Xiazhai.It is less than eighty miles away from the Soochow Navy.Everything was within Guo Jia's expectation.On the fourth day after the main force occupied Jiangling, Guo Jia's entire army withdrew to Zigui.

At this time, a major event happened that made me scream and lose my voice. I fell ill and vomited blood and died.When he was dying, he left a will to let Sima Yi, Cheng Yu, and Hua Xin be the governors of the three armies.Immediately afterwards, Cao Zhang cried to death while crying before his father's death.It was also spurting blood and heart failure.This has to arouse suspicion.

In the 16th year of Jian'an, on the first day of February in 211 A.D., Cao Cao, Cao Zhang and his sons died of illness one after another. Cao Pi proclaimed himself King of Wei, set up an altar in Yidao, and lined up the soldiers to solemnize the matter. , Cao Pi received Wei Wang's seal and ribbon, and was crowned the crown.Cheng Yu is the prime minister of Wei, Hua Xin is Situ, Sima Yi is the general, the governor of Jingzhou, the governor of Cao Jun's soldiers and horses, and all the generals must be controlled by him.

Immediately after ascending the throne, Sima Yi wrote a letter requesting the king of Wei to evacuate Xiaoting and enter Wulin, the Yangtze River waterway.Before Cao Pi had time to think clearly, Sima Yi stood up and announced: "The King of Wei has agreed to withdraw the troops. Cheng Situ, you can go deliver the decree." Cheng Yu repeatedly bowed and turned to go out.The two sang together, treating Cao Pi as a transparent porcelain vase.Sima Yi then ordered that his eldest son, Sima Shi, be in charge of the imperial guards in charge of 'protecting' the safety of King Wei.Cao Pi groaned in his heart, and only he knew how this king of Wei became the king.

After his father and brother Huang Xu died, Cao Pi felt subtle changes around him.The familiar soldiers, servant girls, servants, and servants were all replaced with new faces.The generals of the Cao family were all changed to Sima.Sima Yi stopped discussing all important military and state affairs with him, and just did what he said.These days I don't even have personal freedom.Whenever he was about to go out, the face-faced soldiers would respectfully say, "General Sima has already ordered you not to go out if you have nothing urgent to do. Beware of assassins and rebels."

Cao Pi was confused at first, and shouted loudly: "I want to see Cao Zun, Cao Chun, and Xia Houdun. Get out of the way." The soldiers actually said impatiently: "Xia Houdun and Cao Zun were sent to the riverside by General Sima. Supervising the building of warships. Cao Chun and Xiahou are still in Xiling. You should not walk around casually, my lord."

Cao Pi immediately understood that although he was a dude, he was by no means an idiot.Sima Yi, Cheng Yu, and Hua Xin are about to rebel.Sure enough, a few days later, Hua Xin came to inform him carelessly: "General Sima, I plan to let you be king. I wonder if you are willing?" The tone, I feel very uncomfortable.He sneered and said: "To be king, there are only three cities within a hundred miles, and you are still called king? You are not even worthy of a marquis." Hua Xin said angrily, "General Sima has already decided, you should prepare. In addition, Sima The general wants to marry his daughter Sima Huan to you as his wife, so do it yourself."

Cao Pi burst into anger, and grabbed Hua Xin by the collar: "Hua Xin, you are rebellious and dare to talk to me like that, come and arrest him." No one moved.The guards stood at the door like a pole.As soon as Hua Xin opened his mouth, he immediately came to life: "Take the young master down to rest, the young master is too tired.",

The soldiers immediately turned around, broke into the hall, clamped Cao Pi from left to right and said sharply: "My lord, please go back to your room to rest." Do you want to die?"

The two soldiers could not tell each other, each with one arm, picked up Cao Pi and dragged him to the bedroom, threw him on the couch, walked out, closed the door with a bang, and locked it from the outside.

Cao Pi could no longer get up from the couch, it was over, it was all over now.It seems that the death of his father and younger brother has a lot to do with Sima Yi Huaxin, maybe he was poisoned to death by them.

Cao Cao was indeed murdered by Sima Yi, Hua Xin, and Cheng Yu.The reason is very simple, because the three of them, Lu Qian and even Xia Houshang have strategic differences with Cao Cao.Sima Yi and others suggested that Cao Cao surrender to Soochow, and then rise up from it and seize the six counties.When Cao Cao thought of how old he was, he still had to serve Sun Quan's son in a humble way, and he felt sick in his heart.Do not agree anyway.

Said that he started the incident, but in fact Sima Yi just wanted to surrender to save his life.He knew that if Liu Bei was defeated, would Xiaoting county be able to attack Soochow at all?To put it nicely, first-class warriors like Zhou Yu and Lu Meng are easy to deal with?Sima Yi persuaded Cao Cao to give up Yiling City because he wanted to avoid Yuan Bing and preserve his strength.As a bargaining chip in negotiations with Sun Quan.

Even Lu Qian, Cao Cao's veteran general, and his relative Xia Houshang, knew that sooner or later he would die if he continued like this.There is no other way but to surrender to Sun Quan.Cao Cao flatly rejected the proposal.In order to save their lives, these people colluded internally and externally and reached a consensus to get rid of Cao Cao and establish another Cao Pi.But Xia Houshang did not expect that Sima Yi's ambitions were far more than that.Cao Chun and Xia Houdun were completely kept in the dark about Cao Cao's death.Xia Houshang was also taken aback by Cao Zhang's death.But the two of them had already boarded the pirate ship, they could not turn back, they could only swallow their anger and keep silent.

Sima Yi forced Cao Pi to become king because he wanted to raise his own value. When he surrendered to Sun Quan, he would be taken seriously.On the 15th day when Cao Pi became king, Sima Yi sent the envoy Da Sikong Chen Qun to Soochow to return to Xiaoting and said: "Sun Quan has promised to accept us, please write the letter of surrender immediately and let the world know."

Sima Yi thought it would be easy to handle, it's not up to us to decide.When he found Cao Pi, he directly said: "Your Majesty, I have discussed with the ministers and decided to surrender to Wu. Please write a letter of surrender immediately and submit to the King of Wu."

Cao Pi said angrily: "Sima Yi, what do you mean? Why did you surrender to Wu, but the widow did not surrender?" Sima Yi drew out his saber with a clang, and roared, "I'm afraid you can't help this. Come and serve me with pen and ink." Master Sima He and Liu Zhu rushed in, one left and one right, still writing and writing on the red sandalwood short table in front of Cao Pi: "You better hurry up, King Wu is still waiting for news." Sima Yi sneered.

Cao Pi suddenly collapsed on the ground.This surrender letter was obviously intended for people like Xia Houdun and Cao Chun.If he didn't write it himself, Sima Yi was afraid that Xia Houdun might be able to survive if he led the army outside. If he wrote the letter of surrender, he might vomit blood and die.

"The widows don't write, the widows don't write. Don't force me." Cao Pi supported his body with his hands, sat on the ground and backed away.

Sima Yi said: "The king of Wu promised to make the king the Marquis of Nanchang, so that the king can live comfortably in Wu country. It is a hundred times better than worrying about it every day here. Hurry up and sign."

Cao Pi leaned against the corner tremblingly, covered his face with the wide sleeves of the Suzaku robe, and said in a trembling voice: "I wrote it, and the general will kill me." Sima Yi said: "Sima Yi can swear to the sky that if someone rises in the future, I will kill you." The heart is full of thoughts of murdering the king and destroying the three clans. Now, the king can rest assured." Cao Pi also really didn't want to be the fearful king of Wei, so he asked tremblingly: "Really." Sima Yi said: "This general has already made a poisonous oath. , How can we not take it seriously." It took Cao Pi a long time to calm down, and said with a mournful face: "Just write it, the general situation is over, so what if you don't surrender?" He picked up a pen and wrote the surrender letter on the white silk, and handed it to Master Sima.Sima Shi took the surrender letter and looked at Sima Yi.Sima Yi said with a smirk: "Order the generals to gather by the river. When King Wu has news, immediately take a boat to Fankou."

Hua Xin was ordered to go to Soochow to deliver the letter of surrender. After returning three days later, he said to Sima Yi, "The King of Wu has already made preparations. Please, Marquis of Nanchang and the General, set off quickly and go to Fankou."

Sima Yi smiled and said, "There are still some things to finish."

When Cao Chun and Xia Houdun received the order to surrender, they were foolish. Cao Chun was better off, but he just smacked his lips and sighed, never expecting to end up in such a situation.Xia Houdun didn't have such sense, angrily tore up King Wei's decree, and threw it in Du Xi's face: "I want to see King Wei. I don't want to surrender? Is it Sima Yi's idea? I think something is wrong with him. The Prime Minister and Young Master Cao Zhang must have been killed by him, he surrendered to Soochow so grandiosely. Get the hell out of here and tell Sima Yi that I won’t surrender until I see King Wei.”

Du Xi laughed and said, "The general thinks too much. The order to surrender was given by the king of Wei. General Sima is also quite dissatisfied with this, but the king of Wei insists on this. What can we ministers do?"

Xia Houdun stared at a single shining eye, and said with a sneer: "You are an idiot, if the king of Wei really wants to surrender, will he still be king? He eats too much to support himself."

Du Xi spread his hands and said: "If the general does not believe it, please go back with me to meet the king of Wei." This sentence is exactly what Xia Houdun was thinking; "I want to lead the troops back."

Du Xi smiled and said: "No problem, general, please do what you want." Xia Houdun laughed secretly in his heart, and when Lao Tzu led his army to Xiaoting, he first wiped out Sima Yi, a bastard.Hastily mobilized five thousand cavalry, followed Du Xi, and rushed to Xiaoting.All the way safe and sound, soldiers and horses directly into the city.Xia Houdun was also good at calculating. He didn't enter the palace, so he said to Du Xi: "There is a reason for this. You let the king of Wei come out to see me?" He stared and said, "If the king of Wei doesn't come out in half an hour, he must have been killed by Sima Yi. I'm going to march into the palace with my army." Du Xi was frightened. Everyone knew that Xia Houdun was a stunned young man, so he could do it. .He hurriedly said: "Don't worry, don't worry, the general is safe and don't be impatient, I will come as soon as I go." Xia Houdun shouted impatiently: "Stop talking nonsense, get out of here."

Sima Yi knew that Xia Houdun was leading troops into the city, so he rolled his eyes, thought of a bad idea, and said to Master Sima: "Go and arrest the queen of King Wei." Known as the 'Queen', Cao Pi loves her like jewels and treasures, and the death of Zhen Mi in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was planned by this woman [Historical Materials].Although Sima Shi was young, he also coveted him.Thinking that his father rewarded Guo Bin to him, he hurriedly said: "Thank you, father, thank you—" How could Sima Yi not know what he was thinking, and he said that you are only 15 years old, you are so lustful, and you will be able to pay it back when you grow up.My father cannot indulge you like this.Then Concubine Guo should keep her filial piety to her father.

Sima Yi said angrily, "Thank you for what? Why are you thanking my father for letting you arrest him and threatening Cao Pi to kill Xiahou Dun?"

Sima Shi was also very smart, and then asked: "Is it over?" Sima Yi rolled his eyes: "I will return it to Cao Pi when it's over." Sima Shikong was overjoyed, and hung his head.

After a while, he came back and reported: "Father, the king of Wei is about to cry to death, and I want you to go." Sima Yi turned and went out, and came to Cao Pi's palace.Cao Pi said to Cao Pi who was sitting on the ground crying and howling: "Does the king want the queen to live?" Cao Pi lay on the ground and pulled Sima Yi's trouser legs and said, "General, please spare her. Everything will be repaid on the widow." Sima Yi Squatting down, he said in a deep voice: "Xiahoudun's army conspired against him. As long as the king punishes him, the queen will not die?" Cao Pi finally understood Sima Yi's plot, and said in a daze, "How does the general plan to punish him?" Crime?" Sima Yi frowned and said, "The king of Wei is confused, the rebellion is to punish the nine clans, and I need a minister to remind me?" "Ah!" Cao Pi's eyes darkened, he shook his head and said, "Xia Houdun is my uncle. I have done great service for my father, how can I have the heart to harm the whole family." Sima Yi said impatiently: "How about punishing the three clans?" Cao Pi thought for a while and said: "Just kill him." Sima Yi said angrily: "No, cut the grass The root must be eradicated. Otherwise, there will be endless troubles. Your Majesty has to think clearly whether Queen Guo's life is more important, or Xiahoudun's family's life is more important."

In Cao Pi's heart, Guo Bin's life is still important.

(End of this chapter)