King of Liao at the end of Han Dynasty

Chapter 244

Seeing Cao Cao's expression, Dong Cheng said angrily, "Lord Cao, the emperor is running all the way, so the excessive etiquette can be avoided, let's go to the palace quickly!"

Cao Cao nodded and shouted loudly, "Go to the city!"

Outside the city gate, Xun Yu waited for all the officials to kneel down. After the emperor's chariot passed by, Xun Yu walked up to Cao Cao who was behind, and said in a low voice, "Time is running out, the emperor's palace has not been repaired yet! We can only go first." In the east of the city, it's enough! The emperor won't blame him, will he?"

Cao Cao laughed and said, "Hehe, even if you give the emperor a thatched house that can shelter the wind and rain, the emperor will be very excited. If Wen Ruo doesn't have to worry, how will the war on the other side of Hebei be?"

"Yuan Benchu ​​is dead!" Xun Yu said softly.

"At the beginning..." Cao Cao's eyes did not fall immediately, recalling that when he was a child, he, Yuan Shao, Bao Xin and others were well-known playboys in Luoyang City. , I didn’t do any harm, but now Bao Xin died in battle when he attacked Yanzhou Yellow Turban, leaving Yanzhou to himself, and now Yuan Benchu ​​is also dead, leaving him alone in the world...

Xun Yu looked at Cao Cao's appearance, and quickly comforted him, "My lord, don't be sad. Before Yuan Shao died, he asked my younger brother Xun Chen to bring Yuan Shao's only remaining son to join the lord. He also brought more than ten thousand Yuan Shao's elite!"

"Oh?" Cao Cao's eyes lit up, and he asked, "Then Li Lin and Liu Yu didn't catch up?"

"Tian Feng falsely claimed that Yuan Shang was still in Liyang City and stopped the chasing army, so Yuan Shang was able to escape. Now Li Lin and Liu Yu's army has occupied all of Jizhou, and Liu Yu sent Xian Yupu to join the Black Mountain army Zhang Yan Attacking Bingzhou, it is estimated that the high-ranking officials will not last for a few days!" Xun Yu said.

"Well! I didn't expect that an old man who was about to die and a kid in his 20s would actually defeat Yuan Benchu! It's a pity that so many righteous men from Jizhou followed, and it's a pity that Yuan Benchu ​​didn't know how to use it. If someone wanted his strength, how could he?" It will make Liu Yu and Li Lin fight like this!" Although Cao Cao was very sad about Yuan Shao's death, but sometimes he was very jealous. Why did Yuan Shao have so many talents? The same, what I hate even more is that now that Jizhou is already in the hands of Liu Yu and Li Lin, many talents have fallen into their hands.

"Hey... It's a pity that so many righteous men in Jizhou have probably become the subordinates of Li Lin and Liu Yu!" Cao Cao said sadly.

Xun Yu smiled and said, "Hehe, my lord, don't forget, the emperor is in our hands now, and in the future, all the talents in the world will turn to match each other. How can my lord worry about not having any talents?"

Cao Cao also laughed out loud, and said, "Haha, that's right! With the Son of Heaven in his hand, do you still worry that the world will not belong to you? Hehe, Wen Ruo, let's go..." Cao Cao took Xun Yu to face him see the emperor.

Cao Cao sent all the best things in his mansion to the emperor's temporary residence, not to mention that he gave them to Cao's family, and now he returned them to the emperor. The emperor Liu Xie was moved again, and looking at the remaining officials around the tattered emperor, Xun Yu also took the official uniforms that he had prepared immediately, and asked all the officials to bathe and change clothes. Changing clothes while crying...

The temporary palace where the emperor lives is in Xuchang's winter sleep, surrounded by mansions prepared by hundreds of officials. Although the repairs have not been completed, Xun Yu is famous for his thoughtfulness in doing things. The emperor looked at such a scale and felt very happy Satisfaction, after all, for a teenage child, after such a long period of coercion, it is already a considerable wish to live a comfortable life.

But there were always some disharmonious voices. After Cao Cao led the crowd away, Dong Cheng, who had been the emperor for a hundred years, came over and said very angrily, "Huh! This Cao Cao is really hateful. He is so disrespectful to His Majesty. He is in the east of the city." Build a palace!"

Xuchang was originally a county seat, and the county magistrate's mansion was naturally in the city. After Cao Cao came, Cao Cao was the governor of Yanzhou, so it became the governor's mansion, surrounded by the mansions of military generals and counselors under Cao Cao's command, and the scale is not small. , but when the emperor came, Xun Yu couldn't give up Cao Cao's governor's mansion, so he built another palace, which made everyone talk. When the emperor just entered the palace, Dong Cheng wrote a letter about the relationship between Cao Cao and Xun Yu. No, saying that the emperor is the co-lord of the world, Cao Mengde occupied the governor's mansion in the center of the city, and put the emperor in the east of the city, he must have a different heart...

Later, Yang Feng, the captain of the cavalry, also echoed his words. In fact, as early as in Luoyang, Yang Biao really hoped that the emperor would move to Yuan Shu in Runan, but now that the Yellow Turbans in Runan have risen again, Liu Pi and others have caused a lot of trouble. Yuan Shu immediately mobilized an army to attack , couldn't get away to greet him for a while, so they agreed to the emperor to live in Xuchang temporarily. In fact, they didn't know that Yuan Shu had looked down on the emperor and the big man for a long time, and would not come if there was anything to do...

"Uncle Guo, don't be too picky. It's a kind of luck to still be alive!" Emperor Liu Xie was not very old, so of course he didn't care so much. When he was in Luoyang, Dong Cheng had a daughter. Following the emperor, he was made a nobleman by the emperor, and Dong Cheng also rose to become an uncle of the country. It can be said that Dong Cheng's vision is still good, and it is very long-term. At that time, the emperor was down, who would be willing to betroth his daughter......

Ever since Dong Cheng had his identity, he was very proud. He was very dissatisfied when he saw that Cao Cao treated him like an ordinary official with no abnormal respect at all. That's why this scene happened... ...

"Hmph! Then Yuan Shao, Liu Yu and others only know how to fight and fight for territory. Don't they know how important the position of the three princes is compared to the status of a state? It's really annoying, and finally let this idiot get the power! Damn it!" Dong Cheng complained, Cao Cao was a descendant of the eunuch, so many officials looked down on Cao Cao very much, and had a bad heart.

"Uncle Guo, Cao Cao's ability to come to Luoyang to defeat the two thieves Li Jue and Guo Si has already shown his loyalty. Uncle Guo, don't talk nonsense!" Although Liu Xie is out of danger now, he dare not offend others. Having been suppressed for so long, Liu Xie may have gotten used to resignation.

But the old Taiwei Yang Biao, Huang Pusong and other veterans did not say a word, they will not be like Dong Cheng, they only have a big man in their hearts, only the emperor, as long as the emperor is good, they are also good, but There was also a sneer in his heart all the time, and he looked at all this with the mentality of watching a joke.

Cao Cao heard a lot of cynicism along the way, and he was unwilling to be with the emperor for a long time. He immediately asked Xun Yu about Yuan Shang's whereabouts. , and sent people to meet...

"Uncle!" Yuan Shang knelt down in front of Cao Cao excitedly.

Cao Cao hurriedly helped Yuan Shang up, and said excitedly, "Nephew, it's really hard for you! Brother Benchu! Why did you go a certain step first!" Cao Cao hid his tears while talking.

"Uncle, please avenge your father!" Yuan Shang said.

"Nephew, don't worry, I will definitely not let Li Lin, Liu Yu and others go. I will lead the army to attack Jizhou sooner or later, so as to comfort the soul of my brother Benchu!" Cao Cao said to Yuan Shang with righteous words.

"Thank you uncle!" Yuan Shang bowed to Cao Cao.

"Well! Good! My nephew has worked hard all the way, go down and rest!" Cao Cao sent Yuan Shang down, and then immediately called Xun Yu.

"Wen Ruo, how many people did Yuan Shang bring?" Cao Cao asked.

"My lord, there are more than [-] people in total, all of whom are the elite of Yuan Shao's subordinates. There are not only halberd fighters, but also a group of soldiers with scimitars!" Xun Yu said.

"Oh? Scimitar? Is it a very powerful weapon of Li Lin's army?" Cao Cao was surprised.

"Exactly! And there are craftsmen!" Xun Yu said.

Cao Cao's eyes lit up immediately, "Okay! So-and-so now has a scimitar and the Son of Heaven in his hand, so why worry about Li Lin and Liu Yu being immortal?"

"My lord, if Yuan Shang is unwilling..." Xun Yu asked.

"Hmph! A child, give him a false name first, and talk about his affairs later!" Cao Cao knew that Liu Yu and Li Lin had taken down Yuan Shao and unified Hebei. It is better to be ahead of the two. Now that the strength of the two is getting stronger and stronger, there will definitely be a gap in time. Then how can Li Yuanjie, the hero of time, be inferior to Liu Yu? As long as the two fall apart, then it will be his last good timing

Cao Cao squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, muttering, "The world... the world..."

Xun Yu was also thinking in his heart, with Yuan Shang's more than ten thousand troops, it seems that the number is not very large, but gathering Yuan Shao's remaining elite is very useful for Cao Cao today, Cao Cao underestimated it for a while and asked "Wen Ruo, what should we do now?"

"My lord! Now the Son of Heaven has moved into Xuchang, and the war in Hebei has come to an end. We should fix it up before Liu Yu and Li Lin. They have just gone through the battle with Yuan Shao and need to recuperate, so they will definitely not turn against us. In the next step, we should win a place!" Xun Yu thought for a while and said slowly.

"Where?" Cao Cao frowned, as if he already knew the answer.

"Xuzhou! We can't fight against Hebei now, and Ma Teng and Han Sui in the west are also not advisable. Only by taking the rich Xuzhou first and increasing our strength can we have greater development, and Liu Yu and Li are separated by the Yellow River. And yes, at that time, a battle with Hebei will determine whose hands the world is in!" Xun Yu said quietly.

"Hahaha! Good! Wen Ruo really thought of something with a certain one, and a certain one won Wen Ruo's victory with a hundred thousand soldiers! It's settled like this, and we will send troops to attack Xuzhou in a few days!" Cao Cao laughed...

(End of this chapter)