Sima Yi's Three Kingdoms Collection Collection

Chapter 392 Defeating Cao Shuang, Sima Yi monopolizes power (9)
Chen Tai and Xu Yun saw that Cao Fang lost her temper, nodded hurriedly, and hurried out of the tent.

Zhong Hui looked at the backs of the two of them leaving, and slowly stood up, but Cao Fang said to him: "Zhong Aiqing—you can wait with me in this tent."

"Yes." Zhong Hui answered and had to sit down again.In fact, at this moment, his heart was already in a mess.He never expected that the Sima family and his son would launch an incident in Luoyang city without informing him in advance!As a confidant of Brother Sima, he was thrown aside at this critical moment when the political situation changed rapidly and became a role equivalent to a bystander!no!no!I must not lose this opportunity in vain in this drastic change in the court situation!I must take the initiative to attack and seize every opportunity to make meritorious deeds, so as to show my loyalty to Sima Yi and his son, who will undoubtedly win this incident!

He made up his mind, thought for a moment, saw no one was around, then stepped forward lightly, knelt down and bowed his head to Cao Fang, and said, "Qizou Your Majesty, regarding today's sudden incident, I have something to say at this moment, I don't know Your Majesty." Are you willing to listen?"

"Speak! You can speak!" Cao Fang always liked Zhong Hui's cleverness, so she agreed without thinking.

Zhong Hui peeked at Cao Fang's reaction from the corner of his eyes, and said softly: "Your Majesty, my minister, today's matter, if General Cao knows that he is wrong, is willing to surrender, and bows his head to obey Sima Taifu's order, he will immediately obey you." It is of course a great fortune to drive back to the palace and abdicate and blame yourself; however, in case General Cao is unwilling to give in, shut his ears to the order of Sima Taifu and refuses to be driven back to the palace, how should he respond? "

"He... he dares?" Cao Fang had no good feelings for Cao Shuang, and she said angrily, "Sima Taifu is able to come out to uphold justice this time, I welcome him very much! Apart from submitting himself, Cao Shuang also has Is there another way to go? Besides, I have decided on my return, so Cao Shuang dares to disobey it?"

"I take the liberty to remind Your Majesty that under the current situation, it is not a problem for General Cao whether he dares to violate the order or not. The key is that General Cao has the ability to violate the order in this wilderness. Don’t obey! He has brought too many accomplices with him this time..."

"Ah? He really dared to do this?" Cao Fang was shocked, "Then he is really ungrateful! Zhong Aiqing, what do you think should be done?"

Zhong Hui lowered his eyebrows and said in a low voice: "What I risked just now was just to reveal to your Majesty the worst possible outcome tonight. As for where to go, I leave it up to you to decide on your own." !"

Cao Fang pondered for a moment, then whispered: "Don't tell me you want me to disguise myself and flee back to Luoyang in the middle of the night?"

"That's not necessary." Zhong Hui's eyes jumped, and he said deeply, "Your Majesty, as the king of a country, is admired by all people, how can you be subdued by Bailongyu? Moreover, you are currently under the strict guard of Brother Cao Shuang and his party. Your Majesty, you want to leave in disguise, how easy is it? Now I have a trick to make His Majesty go without going!"

"Why do you do what you can't do, and go when you don't go? Tell me quickly!"

"According to my humble opinion, you should immediately write a handwritten imperial edict to my official. The content does not need to be too long, just 'the imperial edict said, the queen mother and the grand master quickly called the soldiers and horses from all over the world to Cao Shuang's rebels to rescue my royal family. In order to solve the crisis of the country'. If Cao Shuang suddenly turned against his will and tried to take your Majesty as a hostage and go to other places to do Dong Zhuo's usurpation without authorization, I will flee when I see the opportunity and return to Luoyang with your edict. Bring Sima Taifu's army and hurry to rescue him!"

"Well...you are right! Cao Shuang has always had the heart of a king, and I really have to guard against him at this moment!" Cao Fang has always trusted Zhong Hui, and without thinking much, she tore off the paper with a "chi" I had a piece of purple gauze in my sleeve, I picked up a pen and wrote the letter on it, and quickly handed it to Zhong Hui, "Zhong Aiqing, you take this purple gauze hand out immediately, and let me borrow the letter Your orders to guard the outer battalion are left outside. As long as Cao Shuang makes any changes, you should find the opportunity to escape quickly, and return to Luoyang to send troops to the Empress Dowager and the Grand Tutor to rescue him..."

Zhong Hui took the purple gauze edict and quickly hid it in the skirt of his clothes, but said in a low voice: "Please give me your Majesty's curse!"

When Cao Fang heard his words, she couldn't help being stunned, but when she saw Zhong Hui winking at her again, she finally understood, so she flicked her sleeves and scolded him loudly: "You Zhong Hui! Dozing off while serving me! It’s a disgrace—you get out of here right away! I’m going to demote you to three ranks now, and go to the outer camp to be a horse supervisor!”

Zhong Hui tremblingly promised, while covering the lapel of the purple gauze hand letter hidden in it as if protecting his own darling, and crawled out of the imperial driver's tent pretending to be despondent.

Putting aside the consolation from the crowd, he ran all the way to sit beside the stables in the outer camp, and Zhong Hui felt relieved.Cao Fang is a young man with a moody temperament, and it is not easy for anyone to guess that he is "fake the show for real", so no one will doubt that Zhong Hui's relegation to "stable boy" actually has hidden intentions.Well, I am now relatively safe!Zhong Hui pressed Cao Fang's purple gauze hand edict hidden inside with his hands through the corset, and his heart beat wildly.I, Zhong Shiji, am really a genius!Unexpectedly, in such a situation, he could find such an opportunity to commit crimes for himself!If I present this purple gauze edict to Sima Yi and his son after returning to the capital of Luoyang, I don't know how happy they will be!Although they have the empress dowager in their hands, after all, they will appear to lack confidence in the future when they openly crusade against Cao Shuang, who "holds the emperor to make the princes".But if they get the purple gauze edict written by Cao Fang himself, they will get the greatest help in raising troops to attack, and they can be famous and come to "the side of the Qing emperor, punish the rebellious ministers" in an upright manner!At that time, brothers Cao Shuang will be as vulnerable as they are under their hands!And I will surely use this opportunity to rise to the top and gain the greatest trust and praise from the Sima family!
Thinking of this, Zhong Hui couldn't help but buried his face deeply between his knees and laughed silently.His shoulders shook violently, so that others looked as if he was sobbing because he was berated by Cao Fang.

On the fifth watch, the swords, guns, swords and halberds were all covered with frost, and there were invisible and fierce murderous intentions and shocks floating in the humid air-the swords were tense, and the echoes echoed everywhere.

There were cocks crowing in the distance——Cao Shuang's last cry finally sounded in the big tent: "Sima Yi is nothing more than trying to force my brothers to hand over all the power! All right! I'll promise him! We brothers six Everyone resigns as a Marquis and returns to the government, and they can still be a leisurely rich man!"

As he said that, he took out the General Fang's seal and threw it into Yin Damu's arms, and said with a wry smile: "It's fine if you lose it! Maybe this is a blessing for all of us! You don't want to quarrel anymore! "

Huan Fan, who was arguing with Cao Xun, Cao Yan, He Yan, and Deng Yang, was dry mouthed and red-faced when he heard Cao Shuang's words, as if he had been hit hard by someone in the head. Speaking——finally, after he let out a long hiss, his face was ashen, and he said sadly: "General—how can you be so weak? Have you read all your history books in vain? There are people who automatically disarm and give others a handle." How many people will end well? Sigh! The old man risked his family to escape the siege and ran here alone to save the great Wei Sheji, and to save all of you lives! I didn't expect that all of you would have the courage to fight for the last time Not at all! Emperor Taizu Wu! Look at these relatives and relatives of the Great Wei Dynasty, they just obediently hand over the foundation of the country that you have worked so hard to build..."

(End of this chapter)