At this time, Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong, Duan Gui and other eight people gathered in the palace outside the palace Zhang Rang's mansion, the emperor favored the ten permanent servants, even more so to Zhang Rang, because the emperor's biological father Liu Chang died early, Zhang Rang was a close eunuch who grew up taking care of the emperor from a young age, so Liu Hong was ridiculous to respect Zhang Rang as his father, and also announced to the world, and gave a magnificent mansion to Zhang Rang outside the palace, and there were thousands of servants, so Zhang Rang and other ten permanent servants were usually in this mansion.

"Father-in-law Zhang, Master Jian Shuo has been gone for so long, why hasn't he come back?" Zhao Zhong, Duan Gui and the other seven people lay on the ground, flattering to Zhang Rang, who was sitting upright.

"What's the hurry?" Zhang Rang was only wearing a silk bedrobe at the moment, his hair was snow-white, the skin on his face was thin, and the whole person didn't look like a human, but like a ghost, he reached out and took a grape from the maid's hand, put it in his mouth and chewed it comfortably, and spit the grape seeds into the spittoon with a pop, without any anxious look.

Zhao Zhong and Duan Gui and the others looked at each other a few times, and then said to Zhang: "Gonggong Zhang, didn't you send Tang Zhou to the Huangfu Song camp, didn't you just want to test that Gao Yi?

Duan Gui also took the opportunity to say: "Yes, father-in-law, Feng Yu had already conspired with Ma Yuanyi to do everything, it was this Tang Zhou who betrayed the bad, and almost caused several of us to be affected, fortunately, the father-in-law was resourceful and put the blame on Feng Zhen, so he escaped a catastrophe, although Tang Zhou saw the wind and made the rudder take refuge in us, but the good situation has come to naught, and everything has to start anew, and Gao Yi and Lu Zhi, Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun is different, all his actions are sympathetic to the Yellow Turbans, and because of this, he was able to recruit tens of thousands of Yellow Turban troops, so we suggested that His Majesty reward him, and He Jin has no objections!"

"The wind and waves are calm, they are all appearances!" Zhang Rang sat up, smiling gloomily, his face was faintly cyan under the light of the candlelight, looking quite terrifying, his whole person was like an old ghost who had survived for thousands of years, making people evil, but with tenacious vitality, "What is Gao Yi? We are not very clear, what we hear is not necessarily what we see him, what we see may not be the real him, didn't we mistake Cao Cao as a chess piece back then?" But in the end, I found out that Cao Cao was certainly a usable dog, but this dog was not controlled by anyone!"

"Yes, I am still haunted by this matter until now, my uncle was just walking in Luoyang City at night, and he was killed by Cao Cao, a kid, and now this Cao Cao has become my subordinate again, one day I will find an excuse to get rid of him!"

Jian Shuo's voice came from outside, he was holding a letter in his hand, full of the smell of blood, obviously the assassination just now, Jian Shuo didn't go to take a shower and change clothes, which shows the urgency of the situation.

Zhao Zhong couldn't help but cover his nose and frown: "What's the matter, Lord Jian? The smell of blood all over my body is about to stun me!"

Jian Shuo smiled, he took off the armor that was still dripping blood, and threw it to Zhang Rang's servants, laughing at himself as he took it off: "What's this, I just crawled out of the pile of dead people, I, the captain of the military academy, am very aggrieved, there are countless assassins coming to commit murder every day, and I kill people softly!"

Duan Gui couldn't get used to Jian Shuo's arrogant appearance, wasn't he just a military captain? It was worth showing off like this all day long? He couldn't help but sneer: "This is also the blessing of Master Jian Shuo, we have offended enough people, thanks to Lord Jian Shuo so desperately killing assassins, we can speak here unharmed, Master Jian Shuo has made a lot of contributions!"

Jian Shuo stopped his movements, glanced at Duan Gui with fine eyes, and snorted coldly: "You have time to laugh at me, why don't you try it yourself?" Tomorrow I will go to the table and give you the position of military captain, how about it?"

"Don't say a few words!" Zhang Rang scolded, and several people quieted down.

"Did you get the letter from Nanyang?" Zhang asked Jian Shuo, his eyes were sharp, and he naturally saw the letter in Jian Shuo's hand.

Jian Shuo nodded and handed the letter to Zhang Rang: "The post officer who delivered the letter has been killed by me, but I suffered an assassination in the middle, although it took a lot of effort, but fortunately, the result lived up to my father-in-law's expectations!"

Zhang Rang didn't say anything, took the letter, opened it directly, and after reading it, he smiled happily: "Is this Gao Yi a roundworm in our stomach?

Zhao Zhong and Duan Gui glanced at each other and looked at Jian Shuo, the letter was brought by Jian Shuo, Jian Shuo may have secretly read the contents of it, but Jian Shuo said to the two of them with a blank face: "What do you two see me doing? Not to mention that I can't read this letter at all, even if I read it, what if I read it? You don't know that Jian Shuo doesn't know that I can't read a single big character!"

Several people discussed for a while, and Zhao Zhong said: "Could it be that Gao Yi wants some official title?"

Duan Gui also continued: "This person is really greedy, it is already an exception to be Nanyang Taishou for him, could it be that he really wants to be the assassin of Jingzhou?"

Zhang Rang interrupted them at this time: "If this Gao Yi wants to be the assassin of Jingzhou, it is not impossible, but we must be allowed to see his intentions, it is best not to be like Ding Yuan, after becoming the official of the assassin of Jingzhou, he will be alienated from us, and he deserves to be occupied by Zhang Yan in Jinyang City!"

Several people laughed: "Those who oppose us are only dead, or that Dong Zhuo will be a man and send us three million dollars, otherwise, now he is also a civilian!"

Zhang Rang's eyes were cold: "But what surprises me is that this Gao Yi is different from Ding Yuan Dong Zhuo, he didn't ask for an official or a knight this time, but asked for money, three million!"

Everyone's smiles froze: "What, asking for money? We heard it right, right? It has always been others who send money to us, and there has never been a reason for us to send money to others, is this Gao Yi too ignorant of the sky?"

Zhang Rang shook his head: "It's not to ask us for money, but to ask for money from the imperial court, he said in the letter that he would erect a righteous monument outside Wancheng to bury the 50,000 yellow turban thieves who were drowned.

Everyone was silent for a while, and then laughed: "In our opinion, it's not that we don't know the height of the sky, it's not that we don't know whether to live or die, it's crazy!"

Jian Shuo leaned back and smiled even more: "Erecting a monument for the Yellow Turban Thief, it's really a shame that this Gao Yi can think of it, if it is to erect a monument for the officials and soldiers, I can still understand, Gonggong Zhang, it turns out that this kid we have worked so hard to support is a big fool!"

"Yes, yes, Father-in-law Zhang, I think it's better to try to send someone to do this Gao Yi, we support that Zhang Yan's military advisor Ye Seventeen, who is more reliable than this Gao Yi!"

Everyone laughed and was extremely disdainful, but Zhang Rang coughed suddenly, attracting everyone's attention, Zhao Zhong had always understood Zhang Rang's intentions, seeing that Zhang Rang was silent in thought, he stepped forward and asked, "What worries Zhang's father-in-law?"

"I'm really worried!" Zhang Rangchang sighed and said, "Don't you really think this Gao Yi is so stupid?" He erected a monument for the Yellow Turban, one of which was to stabilize the loyalty of the Yellow Turban soldiers he recruited, and the second was to lure the Yellow Turban remnants near Nanyang to defect, you think about it, the first thing in the history of other county guards is to collect money like crazy, but this Gao Yi doesn't seem to be interested in money, on the contrary, he is more interested in talents, he now has four or five generals in his hands, two of them are also Duan Yun's henchmen Yan Liang and Wen Chou, Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo and Wang Fen all wanted to get these two tiger generals, and tried all kinds of methods to end up in vain, and I don't know what method this Gao Yi used, he actually took it all for his own use at once, as the saying goes, one person and one word, better than a saint, if Gao Yi gets the help of many talents, he will definitely be uncontrollable, this is not the result we want to see!"

Duan Gui nodded: "Yes, but I think my father-in-law is still too worried, this Gao Yi has many talents, but most of them are brave and unscrupulous generals, the real scribe, and there is only one person who is frustrated, although he is known to have the talent of heaven and earth, but in the end it is difficult to support it alone, this Gao Yi is very fond of doing things as he wants, and there is Nanyang's meticulous work to report, saying that Gao Yi wanted to accept Shi Tian Feng, who went to Nanyang to announce the decree this time, as a meritorious servant, but was mercilessly rejected by Tian Feng, which is really funny!"

Zhang Rang sneered: "Continue to monitor this Gao Yi, this letter, I will personally present it to Your Majesty tomorrow, and I have the right to say a few good words for this Gao Yi, and let Your Majesty allocate three million money from the treasury to make a righteous monument for this Gao Yi, so that we can make a fortune from it, and then send a letter to this Gao Yi in my own name, exaggerating the credit for asking for money, and let this Gao Yi understand who is helping him in the court, let him know who he should be loyal to!"

At this time, one of them said sharply outside: "Everyone is really interested, and they are talking happily here, have you forgotten that Gao Yi is the apprentice of Huangfu Song and Cai Bojiao, is it Yuan Benchu's nephew?"

"What person?" When everyone looked at the window, they saw a figure refracted on the window paper through the window lattice, followed by a cracking sound of the window hula, and when everyone had no time to come back to their senses, this figure had already leapt into the house, and a long sword with cold light in his hand, like reflecting the moon and autumn water, was terrifying, and careful people could see the small words on it - Yitian!

The person who came was Cao Cao, he was wrapped in black at the moment, his face was also covered with a black scarf, as soon as he entered the house, he knocked over the lamp and candle with a sword, everyone had already screamed, and they rushed out of the door, but Cao Cao blocked the door, came to cut one by one, not long after, several people were injured, each curled up in the four corners of the house, moaning constantly, just now the spirit was gone, Jian Shuo was even more embarrassed, he was cut by Cao Cao's sword in the sky more than a dozen cuts, at this time the blood flowed like an infusion, but did not dare to squeak, at this time Cao Cao was masked, Jian Shuo did not know Cao Cao's identity, otherwise he would be ashamed of what he just said to give Cao Cao a good look。

At this time, the house was pitch black, Cao Cao went to the door of the house, walked into the house step by step, and his voice was also extremely terrifying: "I came here just to assassinate Zhang Rang, I didn't expect God to help me, several of you are here, I will end you all here tonight, and remove a big harm for the world!"

Cao Cao looked at where Zhang Rang was on the bed, and walked over step by step with a sneer.

Zhang Rang was so frightened that he fell out of bed and crawled to the door with his hands and feet, but forgot to call for help.

"National thief, suffer death!" Cao Cao made a very magnetic voice, but this magnetic voice sounded so murderous to Zhang Rang.

"Needless to say, I also know that you were sent by He Jin, right?" Zhang Rang, who was in a panic, seemed to know that it was useless for him to struggle, and suddenly stopped and looked at Cao Cao and said dejectedly.

"The ten permanent servants are heinous in crime, and everyone in the world will be punished, why do you need someone to appoint them!" Cao Cao did not hesitate, and the sharp blade in his hand was about to fall.

In the face of death, Zhang Rang was very calm, he didn't seem to see the cold light reflected, but talked and laughed and said calmly: "Actually, how can I want to do this? Am I willing to come to this point? Are people born to like to do evil? I am also an ordinary person, and I also want to live an ordinary life, but in the political arena, I am either born or die, and there is no other choice? I have no way out, and now I am just living for the sake of living, but in this world, who does not live for the sake of living? I've been waiting for this day for a long time, so I don't hate you, on the contrary, I want to be grateful to you!"

Cao Cao paused, and his hand holding the sharp blade stopped in mid-air, as if he was thinking about Zhang Rang's words, but he didn't notice that Zhang Rang had quietly moved to the door at this time.

"There are assassins, catch the assassins!" Zhang Rang opened the door and rushed out, Cao Cao reacted too late, he rushed out of the door, only to see the torches in the courtyard raised, the guards lined up, the swords and guns were numerous, Zhang Rang had already hid in a dead corner and shouted: "Kill him!"

Cao Cao was not alarmed, he was at ease under the attack of a group of people, he easily dodged the impenetrable attack, and from time to time knocked the opponent's weapons away, strangely but did not kill or injure a person, but soon he retreated to a corner, the wall was more than three or four feet high, and the guards in the distance proudly put their bows and arrows on the string, as if they had seen this self-defeating assassin turn into a hedgehog in the next quarter of an hour.

"Shoot the arrows!" Zhang Rang gave an order, and dozens of rockets were fired at Cao Cao, unless Cao Cao knew how to penetrate the wall.

Of course, Cao Cao didn't know how to penetrate the wall, he just jumped lightly like a flying swallow, and after a few ups and downs, he jumped onto the wall as high as three or four zhang.

Although Cao Cao is also rough in martial arts, but he has not yet done what he wants to the point of being able to fly the eaves and walk the wall, it turned out that there was already someone outside the wall who was responding to him, and threw the rope over at the critical moment.

Relying on this rope, Cao Cao successfully escaped from Zhang Rang's mansion, and then disappeared into the night with a long roar.

"No need to chase!" Zhang Rang stopped the pursuit of the family.

"Master, this person is strong in martial arts, if he goes and returns...... the family members said.

"He Jinming's can't come to the dark, of course I, Zhang Rang, am not a vegetarian, how can I let him succeed? But now many people support him, we have to endure even if we suffer losses, remember, no one is allowed to say anything about tonight!"

"No!"

Zhang Rang returned to the room, at this moment the oil lamp had been re-lit, only to see Zhao Zhong, Duan Gui Jianshuo, Guo Sheng and other eight people all paralyzed on the ground covered in blood, seeing Zhang Rang back, they all lowered their heads in shame, in order to hide their incompetence, they just raised their opponents vigorously: "This assassin is really powerful, he can sneak into Zhang's mansion unknowingly, and get out easily, it's really amazing, oops!"

"Okay, it's ridiculous to scream at this little skin injury!" Zhang Rang walked into the room and regained his previous momentum, but it seemed that he had forgotten that his embarrassed appearance just now was not much better than others.

"Yes, yes, my father-in-law taught us a lesson!" Jian Shuo and the others said again and again, as he said he stood up in pain, gritted his teeth, and said, "He Jin is really getting more and more presumptuous, and he actually openly sent assassins to attack us!"

Zhang Rang sighed: "It's really stupid, this is obviously not an assassin of the He Jin faction, it is someone else, and our conspiracy has all been heard by this person, aren't you worried at all?"

"Shhh

With the help of this person, Cao Cao traveled a long way, and then remembered that he hadn't asked the name of the person who had saved him.

"Your Excellency's grace to save you, Cao Cao is unforgettable! I don't know what Your Excellency is called, Cao Cao should repay it in the future!"

"It's just a nameless person in the Central Plains, Chen Gong!" The other party took off the face scarf, it was really Chen Gong, the Luoyang post official who was ordered to be killed by Jian Shuo before, Chen Gong was to find out the conspiracy of the ten permanent servants, so he deliberately pretended to be invincible, in fact, those who assassinated Jian Shuo were all dead soldiers raised by Chen Gong, and these dead soldiers naturally would not watch their masters being killed.

"Is Your Excellency an enemy or a friend?" Cao Cao couldn't help but strengthen his vigilance when he saw several unknown figures coming behind Chen Gong, as if he was sure that this person named Chen Gong was an enemy, he would immediately order his subordinates to be killed.

Chen Gong smiled and said, "It's just a weak scholar who has no power to restrain the chicken, even if it is an enemy, what threat will it pose to Cao Gong?"

"This seems to be very true, but in fact, many people who have brought disaster to the country are weak people!" Cao Cao said coldly, and the ten permanent servants are the best example.

"After all, it's a minority, hehehe, I thought Cao Mengde was a bold person, but I was actually frightened by a weak scholar's words, blame me Chen Gongtai for looking away!" Chen Gong said with a look of disappointment.

Cao Cao still looked hostile: "That's not the case, Cao Cao's identity has been leaked, and today's matter is related to the country's social and people's livelihood, so Cao Cao will never allow the slightest possible slip-up!"

"The country's social and people's livelihood? Hehe, it's about the hundred-year-old foundation of your clan of the gate lords, and it's about the so-called reputation of you party members, how do I think that no matter who is in power, he hasn't really put the livelihood of the people in the eyes of the people and the poor scholars? Even in the Qingping period, isn't it also the trend of selling * officials and lords is rampant? This is the third time I have come to Beijing to seek an official, but I have been rejected by you ministers many times, and I can only bury my talent, and only be a small Luoyang post official, if I remember correctly, the Taiwei of Cao Gong's father also spent 300,000 yuan to buy it, right?" Chen Gong gushed out a long paragraph, ignoring Cao Cao, whose face was gradually bursting out.

"It can be seen that Mr. Chen seems to have a deep wariness of the imperial court, but if you just want to complain or something, I won't accompany you anymore!"

Seeing Cao Cao turn around, Chen Gong suddenly said, "What the hell are the ten permanent servants plotting, it is impossible for Cao Gong not to know, right?"

"No comment, if Your Excellency thinks that saving Cao Mou this time is a vain rescue, please kill me Cao Cao within ten steps!" Cao Cao walked forward without stopping.

One-step, two-step, three-step, four-step...... Until he walked ten steps, there was no movement behind him, and Cao Cao couldn't help but turn around curiously to look over,

I saw that ten steps away, the place where Chen Gong's combat power was originally standing, was already empty.