Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2947 Liu Xiu: It must be Ying Hao who framed me

Chapter 2943 Liu Xiu: It must be Ying Hao who framed me

The four mischievous monkeys who have been born, Yuan Hong, Sun Lingming, Liu Er and Wuzhiqi, although different in appearance, all follow the same template, that is, ugly appearance and extremely luxuriant hair.

With an appearance that is totally inconsistent with women's aesthetics, it is naturally impossible for them to actively attract love luck, not to mention that these four men are all martial arts fanatics who have no interest in women at all, so it is basically impossible for them to take the initiative to solve their lifelong affairs.

If Sun Lingming didn't have an official partner and childhood sweetheart Zixia, he would probably have lived a lonely life.

Yuan Hong and Liu Er, both of them are disciples of Buddhism, their main principle is to stay away from women. Asking them to marry is equivalent to breaking the taboo of chastity, and unless they are willing, no one can say anything about it.

As for Wuzhiqi, he is the one with the best romantic luck among the four monkeys. He now has many wives and concubines and children. It is hard to imagine that he was a Buddhist disciple before. The instigator was naturally Liu Xiu.

After Wuzhiqi joined Liu Xiu, he quickly stood out and was highly valued by Liu Xiu. However, Wuzhiqi was not greedy for money, lustful, or power-hungry. It seemed that he was not interested in anything except martial arts, which gave Liu Xiu a headache.

Not being greedy for money, lustful, or power-hungry are all excellent qualities, but if a person is truly free of desires and he happens to be a general, which monarch can rest assured?

A king is never afraid of his subjects asking for things, but he is afraid of his subjects asking for nothing.

Power, wealth, sex, fame, you always have to pursue one of them, otherwise why would you become an official?

If he doesn't want anything, then there are only two possibilities. One is that he is a rebel who wants more, and the other is that he is a hermit who really doesn't care about anything.

Of the two, the former naturally makes the emperor hate him, while the latter makes the emperor both relieved and troubled, because such a person cannot be controlled at all.

Liu Xiu obviously wanted to train Wuzhiqi. After all, Wuzhiqi was really strong. However, his attitude of not wanting anything really made him uneasy. God knew if Wuzhiqi would leave Chu for some reason one day.

Didn’t Sun Lingming run away because of his children’s love affairs?

You know, Sun Lingming is the second strongest fighter in the Qin Dynasty. He is the strongest besides Li Cunxiao. But Ying Hao actually let him go. Even if the Qin Dynasty has a solid foundation, it cannot do this.

Liu Xiu could not understand Ying Hao's behavior. He also could not accept that the general he had painstakingly trained left for such inexplicable reasons, but he was reluctant to give up Wuzhiqi, such a powerful general.

There is only one way left, which is to add worldly ties to Wuzhiqi and make him change from not caring about external things to caring about them. The best way is naturally to find him a woman and have children.

With a woman, there is a bond; with a child, there is a place to rely on.

It has to be said that Liu Xiu's control over people's hearts is really powerful. No matter how tough a man is, he cannot withstand these two gentle blows and eventually becomes one of the common people and goes with the flow.

Although this tactic is a very sophisticated one, it is extremely difficult to actually put into practice.

Wuzhiqi was not interested in women. No matter how beautiful a woman Liu Xiu found, Wuzhiqi could resist the temptation and would never take the initiative to take a step beyond that.

You can't let a woman use force, right? But the premise of using force is that she must be stronger than Wuzhiqi. With this ability, who would be willing to do a honey trap?

Things had actually reached a dead end at this point, but Liu Xiu came up with a new trick. Since being proactive wasn't an option, then he would just be passive. The process wasn't important, only the result was.

Under Liu Xiu's careful planning, Wuzhiqi first played the role of a hero saving a beautiful woman, and then he was taken an aphrodisiac by mistake and broke his vow of chastity. The woman wanted to marry him but was rejected by Wuzhiqi and asked for death. However, because of the pregnancy, Wuzhiqi had to return to secular life and marry a new wife. This is a cliché story.

When Ying Hao learned about this, he was overjoyed. Obviously, he did not expect Liu Xiu to do such a thing. Although he did not know whether she was pregnant with Wuzhiqi's child or not, in order to make things difficult for Liu Xiu, he still sent people to spread rumors, saying that the drama carefully arranged by Liu Xiu, and that the child was not Wuzhiqi's child at all, etc.

Liu Xiu was also shocked when he learned about it. He had planned this to trap Wuzhiqi, not to force him to leave, so he hurried to find Wuzhiqi to explain. However, Wuzhiqi was immersed in the joy of being a father for the first time, and did not care about Ying Hao's kind reminder at all. Not only did he express his belief in his wife's character, he also claimed that this was a divisive plot of the Qin Dynasty.

Although Liu Xiu felt temporarily relieved about this, he still felt it was not safe enough.

Although his men repeatedly assured Liu Xiu that the baby was definitely Wuzhiqi's, he still suspected that it was rigged in advance. After all, the probability of getting pregnant in one go was too low, so to be on the safe side, it was better to let Wuzhiqi have more children.

With Liu Xiu acting as a matchmaker behind the scenes, it was naturally difficult for Wuzhiqi to have peace in his harem. What's more, after breaking his vow of chastity, he had become a hopeless person.

Under Liu Xiu's careful planning, Wuzhiqi later married his caring younger sister-in-law, considerate older sister-in-law, intelligent older cousin, as well as a heroic female knight, a well-educated and well-mannered lady, and many other wives and concubines, and had many children. He is also the only one of the four monkeys who has offspring.

It has to be said that Liu Xiu put more thought into Wuzhiqi's lifelong affairs than he did into his own. Although Ying Hao's plan to sow discord between them did not succeed, it did disgust Liu Xiu and made him experience how he felt when he disgusted Ying Hao in the past.

Let’s turn our attention back to Liu Yu.

Although Cao Ying was a concubine's daughter, she was trained by Cao Cao because of her high talent in martial arts. Therefore, her knowledge and wisdom were definitely among the best women of the time. But even so, she was fooled by Liu Yu's combination of attack and defense and was at a loss.

Liu Yu's general meaning was, sister, your Cao Wei country is about to be destroyed, and you will not get any good results if you go back now. In the end you will be sent back by your scumbag father, so you might as well stay in Chengdu first.

You are unmarried and my brother is unmarried, so you two are a perfect match, a match made in heaven.

Liu Yu had said so much, could Cao Ying still refuse? Even if Liu Yu didn't explain anything, she had no right to refuse. He was already giving her face by saying so much.

Looking at Cao Ying's departing back, Liu Yu's smile became harder and harder to suppress, while Liu Er beside him asked in confusion: "Brother, why are you explaining so much to this woman? Can't you just issue an order directly? Does she dare to refuse?"

Liu Yu chuckled and said, "My silly brother, regardless of whether the forced melon is sweet or not, although ants are insignificant, they can occasionally be of great use, not to mention that this girl is related to my next big plan."

"Just her?"

Liu Er had a look of disdain on his face and didn't understand what role Cao Ying could play in Shu Han.

"You don't understand this, don't you? Even though Cao Ying will become a princess of a fallen nation and may seem to have no value, if she is properly planned, she can become a cash cow for our Han Dynasty, at least half of the income from this colonization."

"hiss……"

Liu Er took a deep breath when he heard this. He knew how much Shu Han had invested in overseas colonization. He could not believe that Cao Ying, a mere woman, could play such a big role.

"But where will the money come from? Cao Wei is about to be destroyed by Qin. It's not even clear whether or not to prepare a dowry for Cao Ying."

Liu Er looked puzzled, but Liu Yu smiled and said, "Of course it came from her future husband. It is precisely because Cao Wei is about to fall that Cao Ying has such a high value. If Cao Wei was stronger, Cao Ying would not be worth this price."

After saying that, Liu Yu looked towards the east, thinking to himself, "Brother Xiu, I'm sorry this time. I tricked you a little, but you will get a lot of benefits. I believe you will definitely thank me."

Jianye, inside the Chu army camp.

Liu Xiu, who was always on Liu Yu's mind, was now speaking foul language, and the person he was scolding was Liu Yu.

Liu Xiu was originally in a very good mood. Although the Wu capital Jianye had not yet been captured, the war situation in other regions was progressing smoothly. The first negotiation with Japan also went well. The Chu State was heading towards a stage of rapid growth. Naturally, it was hard for him to be in a bad mood.

But what Liu Xiu never expected was that people were making trouble in the camp. Just when he was in the best mood, someone came up to disgust him. The key point was that the person who disgusted him was not Ying Hao, but his good brother Liu Yu, who was his close friend. This was the most disgusting person.

On this day, when Liu Xiu was preparing to lead his cavalry to show off his military power under the city of Jianye, he suddenly received a message from his own intelligence department. The most outrageous thing was that the content of the message was actually about him, but it spread throughout the entire Chu State in just a few days.

The content is even more outrageous. It basically says that Cao Cao's daughter Cao Ying is not only beautiful, but also well-educated and well-mannered. Both Emperor Han Liu Yu and King Chu Liu Xiu fell in love with her at first sight. Especially King Chu Liu Xiu was so crazy that he swore to marry her. However, for the stability of Shu and Chu, Liu Yu finally decided to give up his love and not compete with Liu Xiu for Cao Ying...

In a word, it was extremely outrageous. If it wasn't outrageous, it wouldn't have spread so quickly. After all, common people just watch this kind of gossip for fun, especially when it was about their own king. So the more popular Liu Xiu was in the State of Chu, the faster his rumors spread.

When Liu Xiucai heard the news, he didn't react much. After all, it was too fake and anyone with a bit of brains wouldn't believe it.

Everyone in the world knows that Liu Xiu is a gentleman, and that Liu Yu, who even did not let go of his widowed sister-in-law, is a sex-hungry ghost. But now, news suddenly emerges that Liu Yu is not competing with me, Liu Xiu, for women because of the overall situation. This is simply going against the will of heaven.

  Also, who exactly is this Cao Ying? Liu Xiu was sure that this was the first time he had heard this name. How could he fall in love with him at first sight without even meeting him?

The most important point is that Liu Xiu was leading his troops in war, and it was the most critical time to destroy Wu. How could he have the time and energy to indulge in romance?

Liu Xiu thought the rumor was too outrageous, so he didn't pay much attention to it. However, he didn't expect that in just a few days, the rumor spread throughout the entire Chu State and gave rise to several versions.

Although not all the people believed it, they were also half-believing and half-doubting. After all, it was just a piece of melon, so what kind of logical thinking was required?

The people of the entire Chu State were eating Liu Xiu's melon. Even Sun Ce in Jianye City used this to mock him after receiving the news. This was what made Liu Xiu most frustrated and defeated.

"Ying Hao, it must have been Ying Hao who did it. Apart from him, no one else would go to such great lengths to ruin my reputation." Liu Xiu said, suppressing the anger in his heart.

Pang Tong and the brothers Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue looked at each other and stood up to report: "My lord, the mastermind behind this is really not the Qin. The people who spread the rumors were very arrogant after being caught. They directly stated that they were all from Shu Han and asked us to serve them with good food and drink and then send them back."

"Putting the blame on others, it must be Ying Hao who is framing them." Liu Xiu said without thinking.

"Well, this time it's really not a frame-up. After investigation, they are indeed spies of the Shu Han Dashuihe."

Liu Xiu was also stunned when he heard Pang Tong's words. He frowned and said, "Is the news true? Don't be fooled. The spies of the Qin Dynasty are the most cunning."

"Well, the chain of evidence is too perfect, it's unlikely to be fake."

"Then what does Liu Yu want to do? He spent so much effort to make up such an outrageous story, is it just to ruin my reputation?" Liu Yu asked puzzledly.

  In this regard, no matter how smart Pang Tong was, he was at a loss for what to do with Liu Yu's tricks. After all, it was not done this way, or was it that Shu Han was specifically trying to pit its allies? Was it the same for both Liu Ji and Liu Yu?

"In short, this is not a one-man show. No matter what Liu Yu wants to do, he will definitely make further moves. We just need to remain unchanged in the face of all changes."

As soon as Pang Tong finished speaking, a spy came to report: "My lord, Emperor Liu Yu of the Han Dynasty sent a superstitious letter."

Liu Xiu and Pang Tong looked at each other and knew that Liu Yu was going to get straight to the point. They also wanted to know what Liu Yu was trying to achieve by staging this drama.