Ji Han Grand Commander

Chapter 256 250. Report to Sichuan
"Xiu Yuan, this... this is not a joke..."

Ma Liang was a little stuck when he heard Feng Xi's arrogant answer. He opened and closed his mouth for a long time but could only utter these few words.

"It's okay, Ji Chang, since I dare to say so, I must be sure of it."

Of course Feng Xi has his own confidence.

Although the butterfly effect is often mentioned, its impact is limited and highly random. For example, Ma Chao is still alive and well today, and did not die in depression like in the original timeline.

But Cao Cao and his son were obviously not within this influence range. Cao Cao's migraine was not caused in one day. Even if Feng Xi did something, it would not be able to change the accumulated symptoms. Moreover, Feng Xi had not had any dealings with Cao Cao after he had the memory of the future.

The same goes for Cao Pi. He died at the age of 40, and it was caused by some genetic disease. If Hua Tuo had been there to save him, he would have been cured earlier. Would he have died suddenly in the end?

Feng Xi seriously suspected that the Cao family had some recessive genetic disease, which happened to be expressed dominantly in Cao Pi's branch. Cao Pi died at the age of forty, and Cao Rui died at the age of thirty-six or thirty-seven.

Feng Xi has no say over the time of death of these two. They will die when the time comes. The most Feng Xi can do is to speed up their death, but he cannot delay it.

That was why Feng Xi dared to clamor like that, and in the name of righteousness, he "cursed" Cao Pi, the thief who usurped the Han Dynasty, to die within five years.

This was an unsolvable conspiracy. Cao Pi must have known that he had health problems, but he couldn't stand up and admit it, right? If he admitted it, it would be like telling everyone that he would die in a few years, so you better hurry up. Then people's hearts would be unsettled and countless people would plot against the throne.

If you suppress it, Feng Xi will know that you, Cao Pi, died in 226 AD. If your "prophecy" comes true at that time, it will be a huge blow to the legitimacy and public opinion of Cao Wei.

The ancients were quite particular about these theories of ghosts and gods. A locust plague could be a messenger from heaven, and an earthquake would require the emperor to issue an edict of remorse. Now Feng Xi directly predicted the time of death of the traitor who usurped the Han Dynasty in the name of ghosts and gods. If this succeeded, what level of "miracle" would it be?
At least the people were absolutely obedient to Ji Han, and Sun Quan had to worry about whether he would be cursed by Feng Xi.

For Feng Xi, this is a plan with only advantages and no disadvantages. This is the advantage brought by the absolute information gap.

"Xiu Yuan, it would be best to report this important matter to His Majesty and the Prime Minister. If we act rashly, it might be considered as usurping power."

Seeing Feng Xi so confident, Ma Liang finally sighed and raised another hidden danger.

Cursing the ruler of a country, although he was a traitor who usurped the Han Dynasty, was beyond the authority of Huang Quan and Feng Xi anyway. Since they had already done it, they should at least inform Chengdu, right? If they didn't say anything, wouldn't Chengdu have some bad thoughts about them?

"That's right. I will write a letter to explain the reasoning. The Prime Minister is also knowledgeable about astrology, so he can naturally verify my statement."

Feng Xi nodded. Ma Liang had thought it through quite thoroughly. He had informed Chengdu, so it would be difficult for others to make a fuss about this matter.

People in central Sichuan naturally knew about Feng Xi's newspaper business. After all, it was impossible for a businessman to only hang around in Jingzhou, Jiangdong and Nanyang. There were also some who traveled to central Sichuan.

Sichuan would definitely not ban or block these newspapers, because under Feng Xi's deliberate propaganda, the "Da Han Daily" was almost full of positive energy content praising the merits of the people, while "Secret Stories" wrote about the dark history of the other two companies, and the people in Sichuan were quite excited to read it. After a few days, Zhuge Liang was still busy with paperwork. After Feng Xi confirmed the feasibility of bamboo pulp papermaking, he also shared the corresponding technology back to Sichuan, along with the application of printing. Of course, the difficulty of promoting printing in Sichuan was much more difficult than in Jingzhou.

After years of war in Jingzhou, most of the aristocratic families had died or fled, and the remaining Huang and Ma families were actually the ones who had the final say.

There was almost no obstacle for Feng Xi to promote printing and share knowledge with the common people. Ma Liang himself was a good-natured person, and Huang Chengyan was even more elusive and did not participate in these matters at all.

But the situation in central Sichuan is different. The forces of the Yizhou faction, such as Qiao Zhou, Qin Mi, and Liu Ba, are very powerful. It may not be easy to ask them to give up their monopoly on knowledge.

Zhuge Liang was also quite troubled by this.

"Prime Minister, an urgent letter has arrived from Jingzhou."

Suddenly, a servant came from outside the door and reported quietly, causing Zhuge Liang to raise his head from the documents.

"Emergency report from Jingzhou? Bring it in."

Zhuge Liang pondered for a moment. The routine contact of this month had just arrived not long ago, and now Feng Xi sent someone to deliver a letter again. It was probably something big.

The servant pushed open the door and handed Zhuge Liang a letter that was well packaged and sealed with wax. Zhuge Liang opened the envelope, took a closer look, and couldn't help but break into a cold sweat at Feng Xi's audacity.

That is to say, Liu Chan is still young, and the court is run by old guys like us. If it were a monarch like Cao Cao, would you, Feng Xi, dare to predict the life and death of another monarch? What would your monarch think?

You can say that he will die in five years. If that comes true, what do you say about me dying in three years?
Fortunately, Feng Xi specifically mentioned in the letter that he dared to make such a conclusion because the disciple of Zhang Zhongjing he recruited said that Cao Pi seemed to have a chronic illness and would not live past forty, and he was just making an inference based on this.

Zhuge Liang quite agreed with this. When he occasionally observed the sky at night, he found that although the Northern Emperor Star was surrounded by countless large and small general stars, it itself often twinkled, as if it was a sign of instability. Now it seems that it has come true here.

"But what Xiu Yuan said makes sense... If Cao Pi really died suddenly in three to five years as he said, I'm afraid the people of the world will be in awe of our Han Dynasty."

Zhuge Liang could see the benefits of this, so he put the letter away and prepared to pass it on to Liu Chan. He also had to personally tell Liu Chan about the benefits and disadvantages. Although Liu Chan probably didn't care much about this kind of thing, Zhuge Liang still had to say it just in case.

"Sudden death in five years? Hahaha, Feng Xi is really a dreamer. Who does he think he is? The Nanhua Immortal? Or the Yu Ji who has been dead for more than ten years?"

Feng Xi’s arrogant and domineering “death notice” soon spread all over the country as if it had wings. Because it was too outrageous, everyone was spreading it.

Even Sun Quan, who had already issued an order to ban the spread of newspapers, heard about this incident and even ridiculed Feng Xi. He did not care much about this kind of ghost and god talk.

(End of this chapter)