Three Kingdoms: I help Liu Bei grow thousands of miles

Chapter 663 The Creation of the Sima Family
Zhang Zhao prepared a letter of surrender and submitted it to Sun Quan for review, and the whole article was an ode to Cao Wei.

In Zhang Zhaoshu's book, retreat is advance, indicating that the Sun family will follow the lead of the Wei State, and ask Cao Pi to ascend to the throne early.

In the book, Sun Quan regards himself as a humble minister, and he has a good grasp of the etiquette of the emperor and ministers in his choice of words and diction. Although Sun Quan felt humiliated after reading it, there was no actual thing mentioned in the letter of surrender, only verbal obedience.

Sun Quan read it twice and found nothing inappropriate, so he handed it over to Zhuge Jin for his third envoy to Cao Ying in Shu County.

Sun and Cao confronted each other for dozens of days, and the season came to mid-October.

At this time, the fields in Huainan are full of golden colors. When the autumn wind blows the rice fields, the air is filled with the smell of rice.

The places Zhuge Jin passed by were all the Tuntian districts in the east of the Yangtze River. Cao Wei's soldiers had been stationed in various places, and it seemed that they wanted to go to the fields to harvest rice.

After reading Sun Quan's surrender letter, Cao Pi was quite satisfied.

"Zhong Mou is indeed a hero who understands current affairs. Gu has already felt his heart. Ruo Gu is really the destiny, and Jiang Dong's benefits are indispensable."

"Since the King of Wei knows my Lord's sincerity, what about your arrogant soldiers?" Zhuge Jin was most concerned about when to withdraw his troops. After all, the [-] Cao troops approached the Yangtze River, and the Jiangdong officials could not sleep at all.

"Jiangdong sent it back to the ban, and gave our army rice, and now I have sent my husband to surrender. Zhongmou is so sincere, how can I not return the favor? Tomorrow, the troops will return to the court, and the rest of the soldiers will withdraw immediately after cutting the rice. North of Hefei." Cao Pi replied with a smile.

Zhuge Jin was dubious, and then bowed his hands and saluted: "Jin's mission has been completed, and the news of Zhige has to be sent back to Ruxu, so we bid farewell."

Cao Pi stretched out his hand to call Zhuge Jin, and said, "Ziyu wait a moment, the so-called non-reciprocity is indecent. Zhongmou sent me a general worth a billion dollars, and Guye sent me two people."

Zhuge Jin's face was full of question marks, he carefully analyzed Cao Pi's words, and wondered if Pan Zhang and the other generals were not dead?Lan Tian also sold it to Cao Cao with treachery?Or is it two heads again?
"I wonder if these two people are dead or alive?" Zhuge Jin asked curiously.

Cao Pi frowned, and asked wonderingly, "What does Ziyu mean by that? Could it be that he sent two corpses to your master alone? It's really inexplicable."

Seeing that Cao Pi was slightly angry, Zhuge Jin quickly waved his hands and explained: "Your Majesty, don't misunderstand, our Governor Lu Meng was sent to Jiangdong with only his head left."

"Bastard, then Lu Meng was sent to Wei as a leader, and Jiangdong still wants us to live? How can there be such a reason in the world?" Xia Houshang scolded angrily.

Zhuge Jin looked at Cao Ren at the head, swallowed his saliva and continued to explain: "General Xiahou calm down. When we negotiated with Lantian after the war, he once said that he would use the living governor to win Fancheng guarded by General Cao."

At that time, Lan Tian used psychological oppression tactics to make Cao Ren give up Fancheng on his own initiative. This matter has always made him ashamed. I didn't see Lu Meng in Fancheng."

"Has any of you seen the living Lu Meng?" Cao Pi looked around the people in the tent and asked.

Xia Houshang and others all shook their heads. Cao Pi used the Huainan and Xuzhou legions this time.

Except for Xia Houshang, the other generals have been stationed in Huainan and Xuzhou, and have never experienced the battles in Fancheng and Dengxian.

Among the generals in the tent, only Cao Ren was on the Nanyang battlefield at that time. Unfortunately, when he withdrew from Fancheng and joined Cao Cao, Lu Meng's head was already sent away, so all the generals in Huainan insisted that only Lu Meng's head was sent to Shouchun .

Sima Yi and Yang Xiu, Cao Cao's army advisers at the time, were dead. Jia Xu, Chen Qun and others who came to Huainan with Cao Pi were all in Yecheng before, and they were not witnesses present.

Jia Xu hastily added: "I remember that Jiang Zitong (Jiang Ji) was by the late king's side at that time, but a few days ago, he was driven back to Shouchun by the king."

Chen Qun and Jiang Ji planned to rescue the Sima brothers, and after asking Jia Xu for advice, they decided to send them to Jiangdong by Cao Pi, so Chen Qun instigated the Henan gentry to work together to "splash dirty water" on Sima Yi.

As the heat of the Sima family's extermination continued, Cao Pi had to bring this matter up for discussion when public opinion became more and more fermented.

As Sima Yi's good friend, Jiang Ji argued with the ministers alone. In the end, Cao Pi made a final decision on Jia Xu's suggestion, and Jiang Ji was sent back to Shouchun to supervise the grain by Cao Pi.

Cao Pi nodded and said indifferently: "There is no need for Wei Guo to lie about Lu Meng's life and death. If Sun Zhongmou is worried, Gu can stay in Shu County for a few more days and immediately upload Jiang Zitong to confront him. If you can't trust him, Gu is okay." It is said that Zhang Wenyuan, Xu Gongming and others came to see him, they were all generals accompanying the late king at that time."

When Zhuge Jin heard that he wanted to delay the sun and the moon, he quickly waved his hands and declined: "Your Majesty, you don't need to bother your teachers and mobilize the crowd. The affairs in your country are still complicated. Such trivial matters will be investigated in the future. Just inform Jiangdong. Anyway, the governor of Ziming will not be able to come back to life." .”

"Alright, I heard that Lan Tian is very cunning, but you haven't thought about it carefully. Could he be lying?" Cao Pi asked back.

"Eh, I've thought about it too." Zhuge Jin lowered her head, thinking that Lan Tian's words at the time were also very convincing. In short, there was no evidence, and both sides were suspicious.

Cao Pi couldn't help showing a shameful smile when he saw Jiangdong's monarchs and ministers being played around by Lantian.

After a while, Cao Pi turned his head and told Xia Houshang: "Boren, take Mr. Ziyu to pick up Brother Sima, and send him out of the camp by the way."

"Wei." Xia Houshang cupped his fists.

"Brother Sima?" Zhuge Jin's head was buzzing, wondering if it was Pan Zhang?

Cao Pi solemnly explained: "The Sima family was exterminated, and the two brothers Sima Shi and Sima Zhao were left. Isn't Sun Zhongmou still investigating? Gu sent these two suffering masters to Jiangdong for supervision. Let's see how long it takes for you to solve the case. "

Zhuge Jin looked distressed, thinking that you were not the one who planted this crime?But now that Jiang Dong was in trouble, he could only nod in embarrassment, and followed Xia Houshang out of the big tent.

Sima Shi is 12 years old this year, and Sima Zhao is nine years old this year. Both children are relatively normal in size, but they are not as exaggerated as Lan Yuan and Lan Ji.

Although born in a wealthy family, now they have lost the look of the young master and the young master. The two children are blind and at the mercy of others. During this period of time, they are really frightened.

When Zhuge Jin walked out of the tent, Xu Chu gave him a 'threat' with his eyes again, which made Zhuge Jin shudder.

The Sima family had slipped through the net, Xu Chu wanted to find a chance to get rid of it, but it was difficult for Cao Hong's army to do so. Later, Xia Houchong asked him to stop, and Xu Chu finally accepted the murderous intention, otherwise, on the way to Huainan, the two children would be killed. Can arrange for Tiger Guards to deal with it secretly.

After sending Zhuge Jin away, Cao Pi complained to Chen Qun and the others: "Zhongda's flesh and blood have already been sent to Jiangdong according to your request. If that Sun Quan had a guilty conscience and secretly killed the Sima brothers, the Sima family would never be seen again."

Chen Qun sighed, "If that's the case, it's also the luck of the Sima family."

"Don't worry, my lord. I know that you have a deep friendship with Sima Changshi. I don't want to believe that he will cooperate with the enemy and betray the country. But when the Sima brothers arrived in Jiangdong, they were able to verify the murderer of the Miemen case." Jia Xu stood up.

(End of this chapter)