Back to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Chapter 227

Most of the people in this hall are Feng Yao's cronies, and only a few are officials who used to work in the state capital, but they are all left after being screened by Cao Bao, and they will not do anything unfavorable to Feng Yao.

At this moment, Xu Shu pulled Feng Yao, leaned over his ear, and said, "My lord, since this is the case, why don't we just do it! Tonight..., there is a fire in the prison!"

"Well, this plan is good!" Feng Yao nodded, with a murderous look in his eyes, he said to the four guards: "Contain Chen Ji's body, and don't let outsiders know what happened here!"

The officers panicked and rolled up Chen Ji's body in a mat and carried it away. Another officer quickly wiped away the blood on the ground.

At the end of the day, Feng Yao deliberately held a banquet in the mansion, and gave fine wine to the guards of the prison to make them drunk, and then secretly ordered his cronies to move Chen Ji's body into the prison, and then set fire to it.

In the big prison, the cells are covered with hay, and when it is ignited, it ignites the entire cell in an instant, and then from one cell to another, the entire prison is enveloped in flames in a short while.

Although the soldiers who heard the news tried their best to put out the fire, they only controlled the fire and did not spread to other places.

The fire burned for more than an hour. Not only was the prison completely burned down, but most of the guest rooms connected to it were also burned down.

Most of the guards in the prison were drunk, and when the fire started, none of them escaped. All the guards on duty and the prisoners in the prison were burned to death by the fire, including all the enemies Feng Yao wanted to get rid of.

After the fire was extinguished, Feng Yao issued an announcement to appease the families related to the Chen family, and paid a lot of money to carry out the bodies that had been burned into black charcoal and bury them one by one.

Although some people were suspicious, why did the prison not catch fire for several years, why did Feng Yao catch fire just after breaking through the city?

Feng Yao attributed it all to drunkenness, and immediately issued a prohibition order, prohibiting anyone from drinking alcohol for a month! !
The people of the Chen family were basically burned down by Feng Yao's fire, leaving only hundreds of millions of family property, nearly ten thousand servants, a large number of land and houses.

Feng Yao didn't take a penny of these things, and distributed all of them equally to each of the original servants of the Chen family, and eliminated all the humble status of these servants, and all the servants became common people, with their own freedom.

What these nearly ten thousand servants saw was Feng Yao's favor to them, and they were all grateful to Feng Yao.

The wall collapsed and everyone pushed, and the Chen family suddenly fell into ruins. The rest of the scholars avoided it for fear of being too late. He made friends with the prefect of Xiapi.

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The second day, the sixteenth day of the first lunar month

Feng Yao received the battle report from Wei Yan, and after learning that the entire territory of Pengcheng was basically under control, he immediately ordered Cheng Gu to stay in Pengcheng, take charge of logistics, and fully support Wei Yan's attack on Donghai County.

So far, half of Xuzhou's five prefectures: Xiapi, Pengcheng, Donghai, Langya, and Guangling have been conquered.

But Zang Ba of Langya Kingdom had always been at odds with Langya. After receiving Feng Yao's official document, he was overjoyed and immediately raised troops to attack Ju County.

Same day
After Liu Bei stayed overnight in Xiaxiang County, the next day, Feng Yao's official document was sent to Xiaxiang, who ordered him not to keep Liu Bei, so Liu Bei had no choice but to go south along Surabaya, and rushed all the way to Suiling without stopping, where he found Zheng and Liu Bei. Zhang Fei against Yuan Shu's general Zhang Xun.

At this time, Liu Bei and others were already in a panic, and their expressions were sad and frightened.

Zhang Fei immediately welcomed Liu Bei and others into the big tent, ordered people to fetch food and water, and served Liu Bei and others to eat.

"Brother, why aren't you in Xiapi City? Why are you here?" Zhang Fei said.

After Liu Bei led Zhang Feiping back to the left and right, tears flowed without saying a word. After a long time, he stopped the tears and said sadly: "Third brother! Xiapi has fallen! My family and I are all trapped in the city!"

"What? This is impossible!! Xiapi City is high and deep, how could it be breached so quickly?" Zhang Feidao, seeing Sun Qian on the side, immediately grabbed Sun Qian's shoulder and shouted: "Gongyou, hurry up!" Tell me, is this true?"

Sun Qian sighed silently, shook his head and remained silent.

Zhang Fei grabbed Chen Deng again, "Yuanlong! What's going on!"

Chen Deng was caught by Zhang Fei and screamed in pain. Zhang Fei quickly withdrew his hand. Chen Deng rubbed Zhang Fei's painful shoulder and said resentfully, "Just wait for your family members to be trapped in the city? My old Chen family Little Baibai, my father, my uncle and others were all captured by that thief Feng Yao!!"

Zhang Fei knew that he was impolite, so his face softened a little, he bowed to Chen Deng, and said guiltily: "Yuanlong, I was impatient at a certain time, and I was rude, please forgive me!"

Chen Deng snorted, turned around and left the big tent with a flick of his sleeves.

Liu Bei had calmed down at this time, and said: "Third brother, you immediately lead the soldiers here, and we will fight back together. We must take back Xiapi and rescue our wives and children!"

Zhang Fei nodded in response, and immediately ordered the army to set off and attack Xiapi.

Xiapi City

Liu Shun detected Liu Bei and Zhang Fei and led nearly [-] troops back, and urgently reported to Feng Yao.

Xu Shujin said: "My lord, there is no need to send troops. Most of Liu Bei and Zhang Fei's soldiers are recruited from Xiapi. If they send troops, they will worry that they will be treated as enemies and may fight to the death. It is better to just send scouts along the way to spread rumors, If you tell the truth about Xuzhou City, those officers and men will know that their families are doing better in Xiapi than before, and they will definitely abandon Liu Bei and come to vote! At that time, the lord only needs to send troops to capture Liu Bei and Zhang Fei and return!"

Feng Yao agreed and ordered Cao Bao to deal with the corresponding matters in Xiapi, waiting for Liu Bei and Zhang Fei to collapse.

During the waiting time, Feng Yao summoned all the generals to discuss the matter of Xuzhou Inspector, and they all recommended Lu Fan to be appointed.

Lu Fan declined and said: "My lord, Zhou Duyou, Chen Duyou, and Ji Duyou have all done more meritorious deeds than me. How dare I rank above them!"

In fact, Feng Yao had already agreed in his heart that Lu Fan should be in charge of Xuzhou. Zhou Cang, Chen Dao, and Ji Ling were currently fighting against the enemy in Runan, and it was impossible to transfer them here. Moreover, Feng Yao's goal was not just in the state of Xuzhou. After conquering Jingzhou and other places, talents are still needed!
"Brother Ziheng, if you don't take the position of governor, I'm afraid Yuan Shao will send someone to occupy it soon after he finds out. Please Ziheng guard this eastern land for me!" Feng Yao clasped his fists in beckoning.

All the generals also persuaded Lu Fan to take office, but Lu Fan could not refuse, so Xie En accepted the order.

Feng Yao was overjoyed, regardless of whether the court agreed or not, he immediately appointed Lu Fan as the prefect of Donghai and the governor of Xuzhou, and named Lu Fan as Zhonglang general.

Originally, he wanted to designate Lu Fan as the prefect of Guangling, but his father Yuan Shu had already sent Zhang Xun and Shu Shao to attack Guangling and left Guangling behind.

Liu Bei and Zhang Fei, who led the troops from Suiling to attack Xiapi, did exactly as Xu Shu expected. The whole army kept fleeing. Before the army reached Xiapi, only a few hundred of the [-] troops were willing to continue. Followed!
Chen Deng heard that there was a fire in the Xiapi Prison, and his father, uncle and family members were all burned to death. He cried loudly: "This must be Feng Yao's scheme!! I will take revenge for this!!"

(End of this chapter)