Ji Han Grand Commander

Chapter 431 425. Suspicion

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Everyone was shocked by this not-so-perfect, even disgusting ending. Normally, storytellers of this era would tell inspiring stories, but today there was such an "anti-routine" story where the villain won a great victory and the righteous side completely lost.

"Alas! Guan Yi is such a loyal minister and a good general, but in the end he still couldn't defeat Tian He! It really makes me angry!"

By the time everyone reacted, some of them had already lost their temper and slammed their wine bowls heavily on the table, expressing their indignation for Guan Yiming, the talented and versatile spectator in the story.

"There is no way... Tian He is just too cunning. The Tian family was able to slowly usurp the throne over four or five generations, and Qi was no longer able to resist under their corruption.

Even if Guan Yi brought a temporary chance of survival, he was only out of the city to offer sacrifices to his ancestors with Duke Kang of Qi. Tian He could still mobilize the entire city's troops with a single order. Even gods could not save him."

Some people who are quite knowledgeable about politics could not help but sigh and shake their heads.

"Tian He is too despicable. He swore an oath on the Zi River, but he still ended up killing Duke Kang of Qi. He just pretended to starve him to death so as not to dirty his own hands."

Of course, most people are still very angry with Tian He, this is the charm of language. Most people's perspective will unfold from the narrator's perspective, and their position will be close to the narrator's position.

For example, the perspective of the famous novel "Water Margin" in the future is mainly from the perspective of Liangshan, so later generations will discuss whether the imperial edict is good or bad. What if it is unfolded from the perspective of the court? From the perspective of "God of War", it is naturally better for the court to win a great victory, and only by completely wiping out the bandits can "enjoy peace forever."

The storyteller is narrating from Jiang Qi's perspective at this time, so everyone will naturally bring in Jiang Qi's perspective and have no good feelings towards Tian He who usurped Qi's throne.

However, after the storyteller finished speaking, the speaker had no intention, but the listener had taken it to heart. Some of the quick-witted people in the court seemed to have thought of something, but they just didn't dare to say it out loud.

"The King of Yuancheng has arrived!"

Just at this moment, with the shouting of the guards outside, Yuancheng King Cao Li also came to Qianzuifang. Everyone had listened to the book for two or three hours without realizing it.

These people with ulterior motives quickly stood up and greeted Cao Li with a smile as he slowly walked towards the fourth floor, just to make themselves familiar in front of Prince Yuancheng, who was expected to inherit the throne.

Cao Li and the officials he invited naturally enjoyed the meal very much. After having eaten and drunk their fill, they slowly walked downstairs, ready to go home.

When I walked to the second floor, I heard the storyteller, Old Wang, continuing to tell the story with great interest. According to the shopkeeper's request, he could only tell the story of "Qi Guo Interpretation" today, so Old Wang had no choice but to tell it again. Fortunately, many guests had left in the morning, and the new guests had naturally never heard it before, so everyone listened with great interest, just like in the morning.

Ordinary officials would be thoughtful after hearing this, so how could the royal family's Cao Li be ignored? When he went downstairs, he happened to hear Duke Jing of Qi dreaming that "Jiang was destroyed in the field". He suddenly paused and looked at Lao Wang.

"Sir, what's wrong?"

The guard next to him saw that his master had stopped and hurriedly asked the reason.

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter."

Cao Li waved his hand, but didn't seem to want to go on. He stood at the stairs between the third and second floors without moving, listening to the old man's eloquent speech about how the Tian family had taken over the Qi Kingdom after four generations of hard work. Cao Li naturally didn't like Sima Yi. Because Sima Yi, apart from supporting Cao Pi earlier, didn't care about the current competition between Cao Rui, Cao Li and others for the heir, just like a fence-sitter.

Cao Li was smart. He knew that Sima Yi had helped Cao Pi to ascend to the throne by relying on his merits as a follower of the emperor. Therefore, no matter who succeeded to the throne, they had to be respectful to him.

But perhaps because of this mentality, Sima Yi did not care about the open and secret struggles between Cao Rui and Cao Li, and even pretended to be a grandson in the court. This made Cao Li very dissatisfied, and he felt that Sima Yi was deliberately disguising himself.

Now, after listening to this storyteller's story, and thinking about the rumor a few days ago that the Sima family in Luoyang had rebellious intentions, Cao Li couldn't help but worry whether the Sima family would become the second Tian family.

"Cough..." Cao Li stopped for a while before he heard a sound behind him. He turned around and realized that he and his group were blocking the stairs leading to the third floor. Those who could go to the third floor were all officials in the court. Naturally, they knew Cao Li and did not dare to say anything rude. They could only cough twice as a reminder.

"Let's go and go home."

Cao Li then woke up from his dream and asked the guards to escort him back home.

"Go and find out right away. Has anyone heard the story about the State of Qi that Qianzuifang told today?"

Cao Li returned to the mansion and immediately began to ask people about the story. Cao Li became interested in this story both for public and private reasons. After all, as the old saying goes, history is a circle, and there is nothing new under the sun, so when reading history, we can often see some shadows of the present.

Although Cao Li did not understand the truths summarized by people in the future, he always felt that the current situation seemed surprisingly similar to that story.

"Your Highness, several brothers have heard the whole story when they went to Qianzuifang earlier today. They can tell you about it."

"Okay, let them in."

Cao Li nodded, and several guards came in. They talked one after another, supplementing each other, and recounted the "Qi State Interpretation" that they had heard this morning in almost all details.

After hearing this, Cao Li sent the guards away to receive the reward. He thought about it carefully and the more he thought about it, the more suspicious he felt. Both Cao Li and Cao Pi were superstitious, or it could be said that many of their dreams were indeed strange and often came true. Now Sima, like Tian back then, had an ominous sign. Cao Li felt that he had to report this to his father and let him pay more attention.

However, Qianzuifang's influence is still not small. After today, this "Qi State Interpretation" has appeared in Qianzuifang's storytelling program from time to time and has been widely circulated.

In front of Cao Pi in the deep palace was a memorial written by his favorite son, the extremely intelligent Prince Yuancheng Cao Li.

Cao Li quoted this "Interpretation of Qi State" to persuade his father to be careful of Sima Yi. After all, one knows one's own affairs. Cao Pi's family was indeed not in good health. They seemed to be prosperous, but a large number of them died within two years.

Cao Li estimated that it was unknown whether he would have two brothers to help him when he succeeded to the throne. If there was no one in the Cao family, wouldn't Sima Yi take the opportunity to rise up like Tian Qi?

Cao Pi was also very distressed about this. He knew that Sima Yi was a good knife, and he also knew that Sima Yi was a double-edged sword.

(End of this chapter)