Dragon map of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1481 The Last Outbreak of the Son of Heaven VI
Zhao Xin and Zhao Ye are both Zhao Zhong's righteous sons, brothers, they were adopted by Zhao Zhong when they were young, and since they can remember, they have been thrown in the dark place of the imperial mausoleum.

Zhao Zhong is one of the ten permanent servants, and ranked second among the ten permanent servants. At the peak, the power and power are in the hands of the people, and he is no less than half a point. He will naturally cultivate his own confidantes.

He has adopted countless adoptive sons, and he passed on his martial arts and scheming to the next generation, treating him like his own sons, which has really allowed him to cultivate many confidant sons.

Both Zhao Zhong and Zhang Rang are close confidants of Emperor Ling.

Zhang Rang is in charge of the government, fighting with his relatives and powerful family members in the court, while Zhao Zhong secretly controls the Imperial Tomb Army and the spy network of the great man.

The Imperial Tomb Army is the last force of the royal family, with a history of hundreds of years. It is mainly composed of eunuchs guarding the imperial tomb from generation to generation. They use the imperial tomb as a cover to secretly train dead men and spies.

This force has always been controlled by Zhao Zhong.

Very mysterious.

Not many.

But it is also regarded as the last reliance of the Han Dynasty.

Even if He Jin forced the palace, Emperor Ling didn't use the imperial mausoleum army. Later, when the young emperor succeeded to the throne, Mushan's army besieged the city and forced the palace to enter, but the young emperor didn't use it, and it finally fell into Liu Xie's hands.

This is also one of the reasons why Liu Xie was held hostage in Chang'an, but he was able to survive. Without the covert protection of the imperial mausoleum army, Liu Xie would not be able to withstand those open and dark arrows at all, and would have died long ago.

At the beginning, the person Zhao Zhong expected to take over the Imperial Tomb Army was Xin Zhao, not only because of Xin Zhao’s ability, but also because Xin Zhao was the blood of his old Zhao family. kind of.

So he got Zhao Xin out of the imperial mausoleum army, stripped off his status as a dead soldier, and treated him as a small eunuch in the palace, and let him step by step follow his own arrangements to emerge in the court.

But since Xin Zhao got to know Mu Jing, he no longer followed the path he arranged. Xin Zhao had his own pursuit, had his own ambition, and he began to pursue his own path.

If the positions are different, they are destined to become enemies. The imperial tomb army is to protect the existence of Liu Han's royal family, and Zhao Xin, who wants to support Mu Jing to rule the world, is already an enemy of Liu Han's royal family.

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Under the night sky, Xin Zhao seemed to be very relaxed. In fact, his hand was pressed against the hilt of the sword for a moment. The Imperial Tomb Army is a terrible enemy. Zhao Ye should be the last commander of the Imperial Tomb Army. If Zhao Ye is killed... …

But in the end he gave up.

Not soft-hearted.

If not sure.

Tonight's meeting, whether it is him or Zhao Ye, I am afraid that they are fully prepared, because they will not trust each other.

"The Royal Tomb Army is almost dead, right?" Xin Zhao broke the silence first, and said in a gloomy voice.

"The Imperial Tomb Army is a kind of spirit, never ending death!"

Zhao Ye squinted at him, calming down his mood: "As long as the big man survives, the Royal Tomb Army will defend the safety of the court from generation to generation!"

"This tone is more and more like a foster father!" Xin Zhao smiled.

"You are not qualified to mention foster father!"

Zhao Ye's anger could not be suppressed, his pupils were as cold as poisonous snakes.

"Do you know where the adoptive father is buried?" Xin Zhao seemed to turn a blind eye to Zhao Ye's anger.

"Humph!"

Zhao Ye snorted coldly. He had people check many times, but they didn't find out clearly where Xin Zhao buried Zhao Zhong's body.

"He has been a dog of the Han family all his life, now that he is dead, he naturally has to follow in his master's footsteps!" Xin Zhao said pointedly.

"Royal Tombs!" Zhao Ye's eyes brightened all of a sudden, but it soon became dark. There are so many royal tombs, how could he know which one it was.

But he quickly came back to his senses, and quickly figured it out: "Wenling!"

Emperor Ling was buried in Wenling.

Zhao Zhong was the confidant of Emperor Ling, so if he was buried with him, he would be buried with him in Wenling.

"Go and see when you have time, you should be more familiar with it than I am!" Xin Zhao said with a smile, they all grew up in Wenling, the eunuch guarding the tomb is the instructor who taught them things.

Position can determine many things.

But it cannot be said that Xin Zhao has no feelings for Zhao Zhong. This father-son relationship cannot be parted, so Xin Zhao personally sent Zhao Zhong on the road. He would rather let Zhao Zhong die in his own hands, so that maybe this father-son relationship can be completed. Affection.

In Zhao Xinxin's heart, Zhao Zhong is always his adoptive father.

"If there is a chance, I will send you to the tomb of my adoptive father at any cost to make amends!" Zhao Ye said indifferently.

"You have this chance to talk!"

Xin Zhao said calmly: "But even if you really succeeded, I still said that in front of my adoptive father, I was right, and my choice was right!"

Zhao Ye took a deep breath, he suddenly understood why Zhao Zhong had to clean up the house, Xin Zhao's idea was too righteous, he made up his mind, nothing could be pulled back.

Although already dead.

But at this moment, Zhao Ye really decided that Xin Zhao will never return to the Imperial Tomb Army.

"We're done talking about the old days, it's time to talk about business!"

Xin Zhao looked at Zhao Ye and said, "Ask me to come to the mass grave, and you are not planning to besiege me, so you want to talk to me about something, tell me, let me listen, even though the Imperial Tomb Army and our Jingwu Division We have always been against each other, but in the current environment, it is not impossible to cooperate!"

"You want to kill Cao Cao, so does Your Majesty, I can help you!"

Zhao Ye strikes first.

"Help me?" Zhao Xin smiled charmingly, laughing at Zhao Ye's innocence and Zhao Ye's tenderness. If Zhao Zhong was here, he would never say such a thing.

"It's your Majesty who wants our Jingwu Division to help you!" Zhao Xin said lazily: "The emperor is the emperor, even if he is in a cage, he still fights up and will not compromise. He is indeed an outstanding person and a persistent person. If we use the words of our great king, he is really an unbeatable Xiaoqiang!"

"Why Xiaoqiang?"

"cockroach!"

"Presumptuous!" Zhao Ye was furious: "How can you compare filthy things with His Majesty? Ming thieves are hateful, and they should be punished by the nine clans!"

"It's as if we didn't do anything wrong, and you don't want to punish our kings and nine clans. Thinking and doing are two different things. You think it's your business. If you want to make it happen, you have to have the ability!" Xin Zhao Contemptuously said: "If I put it in the past, I would be afraid of you three points. After all, the 400-year history of the Han Dynasty, becoming the enemy of the Han Dynasty is equal to the opportunity to be crusaded by the whole world, but now, you don't think that our Ming Dynasty can still be defeated. Be threatened, punish our great king and the nine clans, whoever has this ability is just bragging!"

Hearing this, Zhao Ye's face turned livid. He gritted his teeth and wanted to say something, but he was turned away by him. He was filled with anger, but he was speechless.

Because Xin Zhao was right.

The imperial court personally issued an edict, and the princes of the world crusade against Ming, but they were all defeated by Ming. Jiangdong, Hebei, and Central Plains all suffered big losses, and Youzhou in the north was also defeated.

All the princes in the world can't beat the Ming Dynasty together.

The imperial court really didn't have the courage to suppress the Ming Dynasty. Even if the emperor issued an imperial edict, it would be humiliating himself. Up to now, the Ming Dynasty has no fear of the Han court.

"Our king also said something, if you want a bitch, don't go to the archway!"

Zhao Xin is an eunuch who is in charge of Jingwu Yousi, mainly to be Mujing's eyes and ears, and naturally he has been by Mujing's side for many years. If there are some novel words for him, they can be compiled into a book.

He smiled lightly, and continued to say to Zhao Ye: "It's not the first time that the emperor has betrayed the water. He killed Dong Zhuo in the first place, and he killed Cao Mengde. In fact, it is also a good thing for our Ming country. We are also happy to help!"

Zhao Ye was a little embarrassed, feeling that he was being crushed by Xin Zhao everywhere, he suddenly understood why Zhao Zhong chose Xin Zhao in the first place, Xin Zhao was really much better than them, regardless of martial arts or scheming.

But Zhao Ye also has his advantages.

He can endure what ordinary people cannot bear. So far in the Han Dynasty, there is no shame that cannot be accepted. The most important thing is to be able to accomplish things.

He took a deep breath, and said to Xin Zhao sarcastically, "Don't say it nicely, it's just that your Majesty wants to kill Cao Mengde, you Ming Dynasty doesn't want to kill Cao Mengde, we are just cooperating, not your charity !"

"That's easy, you guys come up with the plan, and we will cooperate with you!" Xin Zhao said.

"Xin Zhao, you don't think we are naive enough to believe that King Ming will help His Majesty!" Zhao Ye sneered, "I gave you the plan on the front foot, and you sold us on the back foot. As for Cao Mengde's death, His Majesty is still the one." Death, to you, actually doesn’t make any difference, your purpose is to want chaos in the Central Plains!”

"Progress!"

Zhao Xin looked at Zhao Ye with admiration: "It seems that the adoptive father underestimated you, he should have treated you as the eldest son who inherited the family business, those idiots like Zhao Yu and Zhao Yong, not to mention martial arts, just this wisdom, can make you go away. You've lost ten blocks!"

"Don't flatter me, when it's time to kill you, I still won't be soft!"

Zhao Ye said coldly.

"Then what should we do now!" Xin Zhao spread his hands, "You want me to help you, but you don't give me a plan, how can we cooperate, fight around?"

"We have our own plan, I just need Jing Wusi to help me do a few things now!"

Zhao Ye narrowed his eyes slightly, thought for a while, and then spoke.

"Any request requires a price!" Xin Zhao kindly reminded: "Since you are asking for our help, do you have any plans to pay for it!"

"As long as we can succeed, we can bear any price. You don't know the current situation of His Majesty. If we don't take a gamble, should we obediently surrender when King Ming enters Xudu?"

Zhao Ye calmed down, he didn't go around in circles with Xin Zhao at this time, and his words were much more straightforward.

"Actually, it's not impossible, you can think about it!"

Zhao Xin smiled: "Sooner or later, I will come to this Xu capital city, and our king is very nostalgic, even though when the Kwantung princes attacked the former lord, the emperor stabbed a knife in the back and let the former lord die in Luoyang, but the king For the peace of the world and the well-being of the people, the so-called personal enmity can be ignored!"

What he said was magnanimous, but no one dared to believe it. Many people in the world could surrender to the Ming Kingdom, but the Son of Heaven absolutely couldn't.

This is revenge for killing his father.

But the people around the emperor can surrender.

Zhao Ye took a deep look at Zhao Xin, he knew what Zhao Xin reminded him, but he is already an imperial mausoleum army, and must live and die with the emperor, he said calmly: "That will have to wait until you have the ability to fight in." talk later!"

"There will be such a day, and it's not far away!"

Xin Zhao looked at the stars in the sky, and a confident smile slightly raised the corner of his mouth: "My country, Ming Dynasty, is already on the road to unify the world!"

These words are very publicized, but they are also very true.

After this battle, the Ming Dynasty was no longer trying to preserve its survival, but began to make efforts on the road of conquest, changing from a conservative defense to a yearning for expansion and conquest.

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Xudu can be regarded as a new city. It was originally a small county town. After Cao Cao moved his capital, it became the capital city. Cao Cao invested a lot of money to build this city.

No matter how much the outer city wall has been reinforced and raised, the area of ​​the original city has also expanded by two or three times.

A small palace was built.

Rebuilt streets.

But relatively speaking, Wei Wang's Mansion did not invest too much. It opened up some courtyards on the former Prime Minister's Mansion, forming the current Wei Wang's Mansion, and then added two more school grounds to surround it.

Wei Wangfu is much more lively than the imperial palace.

Although it was already night, the lights were bright, rows of courtyards were government offices, and figures were still dealing with official duties.

After Cao Cao's personal conquest, Cao Ang, the eldest son who supervised the government, is also busy at this moment.

Sitting next to him are Xun Yu, Zhong Yao and other ministers.

"Xun Lingjun, is Yuzhou in danger?" Cao Ang looked haggard.

Ever since the news of Cao Cao's defeat in Nanyang came, he hadn't had a peaceful night's sleep. Sometimes he would have nightmares when he fell asleep, and he would wake up with fright.

His father is the hero he admires the most, and it is his belief. He has always believed that his father is the most powerful, even if his father was defeated on the battlefield, but he never doubted it, because no matter his father No matter how badly you lose, you will stand up.

But this time, he was a little scared.

"Your Majesty, there should be no problem in Yuzhou. The counties and counties have begun to mobilize young men to strengthen the defense of the city walls. Although the Ming army won us on the battlefield, it was not absolute strength, but just a cunning, and their losses were huge. Not less, dare not rush in easily!"

Xun Yu's life is not going well recently, he is swinging between the Han family and the Cao family, but he never thought that Cao Cao would lose so badly one day.

Cao Cao mobilized more than [-] main forces, and the number of people who can come back in the end may not even be average.

This is no longer a serious injury.

It almost broke Wei Jun's backbone.

Not to mention attacking others, he may not even have confidence in whether he can keep the current situation.

Now the imperial court is in charge of the four states, Yuzhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou, Qingzhou, the most populous, the strongest military force, the most stable granary, which is why Cao Cao has the courage to conquer the Ming Kingdom.

But this battle was fought, and the battle lost more than [-] elites. The Wei army was beaten to pieces, not only losing strength, but also losing deterrent power.

If you can't control the interior, the interior will be chaotic. After all, not all the ministers of the Cao family are here in the imperial court, and there are not a few ministers who protect the emperor.

At the beginning, Cao Cao made a lot of concessions in order to stabilize the court. If he had been strong, he would have been able to overwhelm him to death, but now there are signs of defeat, and some people may not be able to sit still.

Perhaps this was what Xun Yu was most worried about.

It is also the most painful thing.

He has always hoped that the emperor trusts Cao Cao, and Cao Cao serves the court. If he can cooperate sincerely, he will have the opportunity to rise for the Han Dynasty.

Unfortunately, many things may just be his wishful thinking.

"But Runan will be lost!"

Xun Yu said softly: "Your Majesty, it is best to order the county officials in Runan to return as soon as possible, and it is best to escort back the population and food from all parts of Runan!"

"Disaster!"

Cao Ang shook his head: "Runan is so big, it is impossible to do it, it is possible to withdraw our officials, but it is impossible to move back the people and those granaries and arsenals, and now, we When it is suspected that our army is withdrawing, it is more likely to flee in a hurry, I am afraid that Runan will give up in vain!"

"We have put a lot of thought into Runan over the years, hoping to restore productivity through Runan's huge population base and turn Runan into our granary!"

Xun Yu smiled wryly: "Now it seems that they have become the wedding dresses of the Ming Dynasty!"

Runan, which they took from Yuan Shu at the beginning, is the second county in the world, with a superior population and economy, and a county may be more productive and creative than a border state.

So they put a lot of thought into appeasing the local gentry and wealthy families, sending new officials to take office, and allocating funds to build water conservancy projects to ensure the harvest of cultivated land.

But unexpectedly, in a blink of an eye, Runan was lost, and the Ming army picked up a Runan that regained productivity in vain.

"That is also impossible!"

Zhong Yao, who was next to him, said softly: "It's useless to worry about Runan now. Let's think about the loss of Runan. How should we deal with a Ming army stationed in Runan? Yuzhou and Xuzhou will both dangerous!"

"In Xuzhou, we can send more troops to Xiaoguan!"

Cao Ang is Cao Cao's most proud son and heir carefully cultivated by Cao Cao. He may not be very good at fighting, but he is a bit like his father in handling government affairs.

He pondered for a while, and said: "Although Xuzhou's troops are low, they can still mobilize more than ten thousand troops to enter Xiaoguan. If Xiaoguan is not broken, they will not be able to enter Xuzhou!"

"Ok!"

Xun Yu nodded: "Xuzhou Inspector Chezhou is also a useful person. He is versatile in both civil and military affairs. He can lead troops to fight and handle local government affairs. Let him personally lead troops to defend Xiaoguan. Xuzhou is still stable!"

"What about Yuzhou?"

"Yuzhou?" Xun Yu thought for a while: "I'm afraid we don't need to worry about this. Your Majesty will arrange it. Although our army is defeated, we still have strength to spare. The defense line of Yuzhou is the border line between us and the Ming Dynasty. We must have heavy troops." Station!"

"Right!"

Cao Ang nodded.

Then he took out a memorial: "This is from Yanzhou. There may be some changes in the defense line of the Yellow River!"

"What do you mean?"

Xun Yu frowned.

"It's hard to say exactly!" Cao Ang said softly, "When I defeated the Nanyang battlefield in the Central Plains, I must be watched from all directions. Hebei has always been our enemy. Taking the opportunity to go south is not impossible!"

"Yuan Shao can't be so stupid, can he?"

Zhong Yao felt strange, could Yuan Benchu ​​be so stupid? Although the Central Plains court defeated Nanyang, Hebei also suffered a big loss in Luoyang. At this time, they are stabbing each other. They really plan to fight each other. Hurt both sides, and then take advantage of Ming Guo?

(End of this chapter)