Mi Han

Chapter 209
Xudu, in the imperial city.

Zhenxi General Cao Zhen led thousands of tigers and leopards, and they were strolling around the imperial city.

In the first year of Jian'an in the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao urged the emperor Liu Xie to move the capital to Xu County on the grounds that "Luoyang was broken". Since then, Xu County has been renamed Xu Capital.

Xudu is divided into inner and outer cities, and the inner city is dedicated to the emperor Liu Xie and his concubines, so the inner city of Xudu is also called the imperial city.

Outside the inner city, Cao Cao built an outer city as the residence of civil and military officials.

With the continuous expansion of Cao Cao's power, Xudu is also constantly expanding.

Before Cao Cao established the capital of the kings of Wei in Yecheng, after the expansion of Xudu, the outer city was five times the inner city.

Many palaces were also built in the inner city, such as Jingfu Hall, Chengguang Hall, Yongshi Terrace, and Yuxiu Terrace.

Under Cao Cao's years of expansion, the appearance of Xudu has changed drastically, and it already has the style of an imperial capital.

But Cao Zhen looked at the Xudu Palace in front of him after Cao Cao's expansion, and he always unconsciously recalled the Luoyang Palace he had seen last year in his mind.

Compared with the palaces in Luoyang City, the Xudu Imperial Palace has been expanded many times, and it is far from being comparable to the palaces in Luoyang City.

Perhaps even the entire city is far inferior to Luoyang.

too small.

China has had two capitals since ancient times, and only Chang'an can be compared with Luoyang.

And only when the capital is located in these two cities can it be called the orthodox of the Huaxia Dynasty.

No wonder the king wanted to move his capital to Luoyang after he proclaimed himself emperor.

After Cao Pi succeeded to the throne of King Wei, he immediately appointed Cao Zhen as General Zhenxi.

Originally, Cao Pi planned to let Cao Zhen be the governor of the military forces of Yong and Liang, but considering that he was about to become emperor and the Chinese military needed someone to take charge, so he did not let Cao Zhen take up the post for the time being.

Under such circumstances, Cao Pi appointed Xia Houmao as General Anxi as an expedient measure.

Cao Pi knew that Xia Houmao did not have the talent for military strategy, but Xiahoumao had the talent for governing life.

In Cao Pi's conception, the future structure of the Northwest military will be Cao Zhen as the commander, leading the army to face Liu Bei's army in Yizhou.

And Xia Houmao was in charge of sitting in Chang'an, raising food, grass and arms, and ensuring sufficient military supplies on the front line.

Cao Zhen and Xia Houmao are both his confidantes, and this arrangement can complement each other, which is Cao Pi's most ideal northwest layout.

Under the guard of thousands of tiger and leopard riders, Cao Zhen looked around the imperial city unscrupulously.

In the past when Cao Cao was alive, Cao Cao was still a Han official in name, so when Cao Zhen went to Xudu to meet the emperor Liu Xie, Cao Zhen could only maintain his face. Respect".

But now, Cao Pi's move to change the day has entered the process, and Cao Zhen no longer needs to hide his true attitude towards the big man.

Looking at the crimson red flags of the big Han Dynasty planted around the imperial city, Cao Zhen showed a dismissive attitude in his eyes.

He is already tired of seeing red in this world, and it's time for a change.

Among the thousands of tiger and leopard riders, because they are all Wei officials, they all fly the "Wei" flag, and the "Wei" flag is yellow.

After Cao Pi gradually expressed his intention to proclaim himself emperor, especially after the "Nine Ranks of Officials and Personnel Law" began to be discussed publicly, many Confucian ministers spoke to Cao Pi in private.

They suggested that Cao Pi could follow the old example of Tang and Yu to practice abdication, and suggested that Cao Pi should choose Tude according to the theory of the end and beginning of the five virtues.

Cao Pi has been familiar with classics and books since he was a child, and he naturally knows the theory of the five virtues that represent the change of dynasties.

So after receiving the memorials from those famous ministers and Confucians, Cao Pi took it very seriously.

Although the dynasty has not been changed yet, since Cao Pi has the intention of proclaiming himself emperor, all corresponding preparations have also been put on the agenda.

For example, this yellow "Wei" flag.

Tude is still yellow.

Maybe all of this is not recorded in the history books, but when history reaches this point, all the development and preparations are actually going on logically and secretly.

In the imperial city, there are not only Cao Zhen and thousands of tiger and leopard riders, but also many soldiers guarding the imperial city, as well as busy maids and little yellow gatemen.

But when they saw the red in the imperial city and the yellow that was incompatible, they all lowered their heads in fright, not daring to look directly at it, let alone think about it.

In Xudu, those who would stop this rebellious scene, their blood has been sprinkled on the palace road under Cao Zhen's horseshoe many years ago.

The three massacres in the fifth year of Jian'an, the 14th year of Jian'an, and the 23rd year of Jian'an were carried out outside the Jingfu Hall, where Liu Xie lived.

During those three massacres, countless ministers loyal to the Han Dynasty died on the palace road of Jingfu Palace.

In the small yellow gate of the guards and maids outside the Jingfu Hall, there are many witnesses of the massacre that year.

Even in their minds, sometimes the roar of countless ministers who were about to die still echoed:

"Cao Cao, what you are doing is different from Dong thief!"

Countless loyal officials died in front of the emperor Liu Xie, and countless blood was sprinkled at the feet of the emperor Liu Xie.

This tragic scene has long since shattered all the resistance of the emperor Liu Xie, and it has provided Cao Zhen with confidence in his actions today.

Cao Zhen looked at the Jingfu Palace in front of him, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

I hope you can understand!

In the deep and quiet Jingfu Hall, some courtiers were kneeling in front of the emperor Liu Xie, explaining their interests to Liu Xie.

The titular master of the world today, Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty looked at the little minister he didn't know in the past, his expression was indifferent.

Liu Xie was born in Guanghe four years and is 40 years old this year.

Liu Xie welcomed Cao Cao to Xudu in the first year of Jian'an, and he has lived in Xudu for 25 years since then.

Although it is said that Liu Xie was in chaos when he was young and almost died, since he was welcomed to Xudu by Cao Cao, his living conditions have improved.

In the past 25 years, Liu Xie has not lacked in food and wine, and has a surplus of splendid clothing.

But even after years of pampered life, Liu Xie, who is only forty years old, has silver hair all over his head, like an old man.

This is because Liu Xie has lived in a highly stressed environment for a long time.

In the past years, Liu Xie didn't even know when he would be killed by Cao Cao.

Under such mental pressure, Liu Xie's mental strength has been exhausted.

Those little ministers kneeling in front of Liu Xie were still chattering and analyzing the current situation for Liu Xie.

But after analyzing for a period of time, they found that Liu Xie on the throne didn't respond at all, and their faces showed anger.

They stopped hiding and stood up straight away. One of the ministers walked up to Liu Xie and pointed to his nose and asked:

"What does Your Majesty mean? Do you not want to give in?"

Anger appeared on the face of this little minister, as if Liu Xie was not the emperor, but his nephew who made a mistake.

Sitting on the throne, Liu Xie looked at the courtier in front of him whom he didn't even know the name, and dared to point at him and question him, his face was still indifferent.

In the past, such a low-status, low-fame courtier would not even be qualified to meet him, but it is a pity that it is not the usual now.

Liu Xie knew that Cao Pi sent these unknown ministers to leave a way out for himself.

Once something unexpected happens to his act of threatening to surrender, then he can put all the responsibility on these little ministers, blame them for arbitrarily advocating, and completely remove himself from this matter.

The anger of this little minister did not make Liu Xie angry or afraid.

In the past years, he has seen how much Cao Cao's anger and cruelty, how can he be afraid of the threat of this little minister at this time?
Although not afraid, Liu Xie didn't think about resisting.

He had tried to resist before.

In the fifth year of Jian'an, he secretly ordered Dong Guiren's father, Dong Cheng, the chariot general, to try to kill Cao Cao.

Dong Cheng conspired with Zuo General Liu Bei, Changshui Xiaowei Zhongji, General Wu Zilan, Wang Zifu and others.

As a result, the matter was revealed, and Dong Cheng and others were all killed by Cao Cao, and the pregnant Dong Gui was also strangled, and countless people were implicated.

Later, Yilang Zhao Yan once stated the current situation countermeasures for him, and Cao Cao killed Zhao Yan when he heard about it.

Those incidents made him question Cao Cao:
"If you can help each other, you will be generous; if you don't, I am lucky to be kind!"

In the 19th year of Jian'an, Empress Fu's plot to ask her father Fu Wan to kill Cao Cao was revealed.

Cao Cao threatened him to depose Empress Fu, and wrote an edict to depose Empress Fu on his behalf.

Then Cao Cao sent Yushi Dafu Xiji to take the imperial edict, and together with Shangshu Ling Huaxin led troops to surround the palace to search for the queen.

Empress Fu hid in the wall of the palace, but was dragged out by Hua Xin forcefully.

Empress Fu walked out with disheveled hair and bare feet, crying to him for help, "Can't you recover?"

At that time, he saw through everything and said: "I don't know when my fate will be!"

Afterwards, Empress Fu was imprisoned alive and died. The two princes born to him and Empress Fu were also poisoned with poisoned wine, and more than a hundred members of the Fu clan were executed.

Perhaps since that day, he has been waiting to die.

As for the throne, can he decide?

Facing the aggressiveness of the little minister, Liu Xie recalled that there was a minister who knelt respectfully in the hall and comforted him:
"Your Majesty, as long as there are ministers, the big man will not perish."

But now, Duke Xun is gone.

Recalling that person's loyalty and humility in his mind, Liu Xie's face was moved for the first time. He looked at the empty and empty hall, and finally spoke his first words.

"The King of Wei can act on his own."

After Liu Xie said these words, the ministers in the hall were overjoyed.

They rushed towards the outside of the hall and reported the good news to Cao Zhen who was waiting outside the hall.

Following the departure of those ministers, Liu Xie wanted to stand up, but because of the turmoil in his mind, he slipped and fell heavily under the throne.

Liu Xie knew that when he said that sentence, Guozuo, which represented the 400-year-old Han Dynasty, would be cut off in his hands.

But what can he do!
The servants, ministers, and visitors beside him are all loyal to Cao Pi. Even if he disagrees, these people can still use his tone to write a gorgeous Zen edict and spread it to the world!

Cao Pi sent someone to ask his opinion, it was just a formality.

Even if he is dead, Cao Pi has a way to make the news of his death announced after he succeeds in Zen.

As his body hit the throne, Liu Xie couldn't help whimpering.

Liu Xie's heart is not as calm as his surface.

Liu Xie quickly covered his mouth with his hands to prevent the people outside the hall from hearing that there was something abnormal.

He was afraid that his crying would be noticed by the people watching him outside the temple.

Even in his bedroom, Liu Xie couldn't vent his emotions at will.

Because he is just a plaything of Cao Cao and his son, and playthings are not allowed to have their own ideas.

But as Liu Xie covered it with his hands, Liu Xie's humming still sounded uncontrollably in the hall.

Because the grief, indignation and crying in Liu Xie's heart is uncontrollable.

Although he had anticipated this day and made all the preparations, when this day really came, the heart-wrenching feeling invaded Liu Xie's heart in an instant.

When Liu Xie was sitting on the throne and weeping, a beautiful woman in palace attire walked in outside the hall. She was Liu Xie's queen Cao Jie.

Cao Jie is the daughter of Cao Cao. After Empress Fu was executed by Cao Cao, Cao Jie became the queen of Liu Xie under Cao Cao's arrangement.

It's just that although Cao Jie is Cao Cao's daughter, she has been loyal to Liu Xie since she became Liu Xie's queen, and fully fulfilled the responsibility of a wife.

After Cao Jie entered the hall, she saw Liu Xie sitting on the throne covering his face and weeping. She hurried forward and asked Liu Xie what happened with concern.

Under Cao Jie's inquiry, Liu Xie told Cao Jie what had just happened.

"Zhen, I'm going to become Liu's sinner!"

After Cao Jie knew what happened just now, anger appeared on her beautiful face.

No wonder Cao Zhen wanted to send her away just now, it turned out that it was because of this treasonous thing.

Cao Jie was so angry that he wanted to go out to find Cao Zhen's theory, but her body was tightly stopped by Liu Xie. Liu Xie's eyes were red, he looked at Cao Jie and shook his head and said, "I don't want anyone to die because of my trash."

"Enough dead already."

There seemed to be pleading in Liu Xie's eyes. Seeing this scene, Cao Jie sympathized with Dasheng, and she temporarily gave up the idea of ​​leaving.

Cao Jie held Liu Xie's hand tightly, she wanted to say some comforting words, but after thinking for a long time, she couldn't say anything for a while.

How could she be relieved that it was her own elder brother who cut off her husband's family.

Seeing Liu Xie's tears streaming down his face, Cao Jie finally could only say softly: "The King of Hanzhong is still here, Your Majesty need not worry too much."

After hearing Cao Jie mentioning Liu Bei, Liu Xie, who was weeping and dispirited, seemed to regain his energy all of a sudden. He asked Cao Jie to fetch a piece of clothing.

Seeing that Liu Xie asked for a piece of clothing, Cao Jie understood, and she fetched one of her underwear.

After Cao Jie fetched her inner clothes, Liu Xie hurriedly took the inner clothes, which contained what he used to regard as life in the past.

I saw that after Liu Xie took Cao Jie's internal clothes, he unfolded the internal clothes and placed them on the throne.

Then he looked at a table above, which was Liu Bei's "Hanzhong Wang Encourages Jin Biao".

In the autumn of the 24th year of Jian'an, Liu Bei's officials persuaded Liu Bei to become the king of Hanzhong, and presented himself to the emperor for his approval.

After Cao Cao learned of the news, he did not stop Liu Bei from submitting the form, because he felt that this form was just enough for Liu Xie to recognize Liu Bei's true face.

But unlike Cao Cao's imagination, Liu Xie didn't get angry after getting the letter.

He doesn't mind Liu Bei being king, but he is very happy after seeing Liu Bei's growing power.

Because this means that there is still hope for the Han Dynasty.

It was just that after reading the letter, Liu Xie was worried that it would arouse Cao Cao's jealousy, so he copied the "Hanzhong King's Persuasion Form" on Cao Jie's internal medicine, and then returned the letter that Liu Bei personally played to Cao Cao. Cao Cao's envoy.

The reason why it was copied on Cao Jie's internal medicine was because Cao Cao's people did not dare to search Cao Jie.

Liu Xie knelt on the throne, his fingers kept sliding on the letter in front of him.

Looking at every word in "Hanzhong Wang Persuading Jin Biao", a glimmer of hope ignited in Liu Xie's heart.

When Liu Xie's finger touched the twelve words "Dong Qi's six armies, unite the alliance, wipe out the evil", Liu Xie's eyes once again shed tears.

Liu Xie's tears fell on those words drop by drop, soaking those words in an instant.

Uncle, I am incompetent.

The world of the big man depends on you.

Be sure, be sure to protect the red color of the big man!

(End of this chapter)