I'm really sorry that I haven't updated for a few days because of my job. I've been thinking about the design plan for the past few days, and I finally adjusted the frequency back to the Three Kingdoms era. However, the more I write, the more I find that the fourth volume involves some plot slots~~~ Last time it was an interracial race, this time it was Ma Ta Taixue~~~ and the Xinhai coup d'état~~~ It's a pure coincidence~~~Hehe~~~

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Yuan Shang stood on the high platform, looking at the stone bullets flying in from outside the city in the distance, destroying the gatehouse, horse face, and arrow tower one by one. Once upon a time, Yuan Shang also imagined such a scene, but in his imagination, the besieger was Yuan Shang, and the defender was Cao Cao. At that time, he was conceited that he had the talent of warp and weft, and the world of the Han family was just a thing to explore. However, the reality played a cruel joke with Yuan Shang. He is neither as civil and military as he imagined, nor as wise and martial as the retainers around him. When Yuan Shang realized that he was like a child in terms of Wen Taowu compared to Cao Cao, Cai Ji and other princes, it was already too late. The once invincible Yuan family collapsed under the joint attack of Cao and Cai. Yuan Xi's death completely crushed the last glimmer of hope in Yuan Shang's heart. The so-called bold words of sticking to Handan and waiting for the rescue of high-ranking cadres are, to put it bluntly, just a lie of self-deception.

"Cao's army has broken through the east gate, please break through quickly." Li Fu led a team of guards to climb the high platform in a hurry to report to Yuan Shangyu.

Yuan Shang, who was interrupted from his thoughts, turned around and took a look, only to see that Li Fu and the guards were all dressed in civilian clothes, and Li Fu was holding a set of dirty civilian clothes in his hands. Yuan Shang couldn't help frowning when he saw this. Pointing to the suit of clothes, he asked, "What does Li Qing mean by this?" ”

Li Fu quietly presented the clothes in his hand and said, "The ministers ask Your Majesty to change into their clothes and break out of the city with the ministers." ”

Yuan Shang wanted to reach out and take his shirt. But the sour smell from his shirt made his hand stop in mid-air. Seeing this, Li Fu couldn't help but hesitate more, and directly stuffed his shirt into his arms. Turning his head to the guard behind him, he ordered, "Don't hurry up and change your Majesty's clothes!" ”

But who knew that instead of cooperating, Yuan Shang laughed miserably, and threw his clothes on the ground, "Qing is this going to pretend to be a beggar?" ”

"Majesty!" Li Fu glanced at the clothes on the ground, and stomped his feet in a hurry, "Handan is broken." There are Cao troops everywhere, and only by pretending to be ordinary people can you get out of the city! ”

"Out of town? What can I do after I get out of the city? Yuan Shang asked Li Fu with a wry smile.

At this time, Li Fu didn't know that the senior cadres of Bingzhou had surrendered to Cao Cao, so he blurted out without thinking, "I rushed to Bingzhou to regroup with the senior cadres to recover Heshuo." ”

"Regroup......" Yuan Shang recalled Li Fu's words, bent down and picked up the clothes on the ground. But just when Li Fu thought that Yuan Shang would change his clothes this time. The latter threw the shirt in his hand directly out of the high platform.

Seeing the shabby clothes drifting away in the wind, and dumbfounded, Li Fu couldn't help but quickly step forward and grabbed Yuan Shang's sleeve and asked, "Your Majesty, why is this?!" ”

"I won't leave Handan." Yuan Shang turned around and looked at Li Fu with a calm gaze and said. Indeed, for Yuan Shang at this moment, even if he didn't know that Gao Gan had defected to Cao Cao, he had already died of the heart to regroup. So when he saw that Li Fu still wanted to admonish, Yuan Shang immediately interrupted in an unquestionable tone. "I have made up my mind, so I don't need to say much."

Looking at the lifeless young man in front of him, Li Fu opened his mouth and didn't say a word after all. saw him silently bow deeply to Yuan Shang, and then got up and walked off the high platform without looking back. Yuan Shang looked at Li Fu's back as he gradually moved away, and his heart was relieved. This feeling made Yuan Shang feel both familiar and unfamiliar, because he couldn't remember the last time he had this feeling. In his memory, Yuan Shang always seemed to be burdened with many expectations of his mother most of the time. deliberately competed with the two brothers for the position of the head of the Yuan family. Now, for better or worse, Yuan Shang has indeed become the head of the Yuan family. But so what? Thinking of this, Yuan Shang waved his hand and motioned for the surrounding soldiers to leave together.

On the twenty-first day of May in the sixth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao Ke Handan, Yuan Shang died of self-immolation on the high platform in the north of the city. Three days later, a messenger arrived at the palace of Xudu with an expedited speed of 500 miles. Liu Xie, who was practicing calligraphy in the imperial study, heard that Cao Cao had taken Handan at first glance, and the hand holding the pen couldn't help but shake slightly. A drop of ink fell on the white Donglai paper, which made Liu Xie feel distressed for a while. But he saw that he was about to put down his pen and ordered, "Spread the decree." Doctor Xuan Wu Shuo entered the palace. ”

With Liu Xie's order, Wu Shuo came to the imperial study under the guidance of the inner servant. As soon as he saw Liu Xie standing in front of the window with the battle report in his hand, Wu Shuo immediately stepped forward quickly and bowed, "Wu Shuo has seen Your Majesty." ”

"Wu Qing doesn't have to be polite." Liu Xie turned around and raised his hand to signal Wu Shuo to get up, and then handed him the battle report in his hand and said, "Cao Cao has conquered Handan." ”

Although Yuan Shao's father and son are traitorous and self-reliant traitors, Liu Xie's tone at this time has a slight taste of rabbit death and fox sadness. It is no wonder that the recovery of Handan not only means that Cao Cao and Cai Ji have won a complete victory in Heshuo, but also urges Liu Xie to reward these two heroes for their meritorious deeds.

Sure enough, after reading the battle report, Wu Shuo respectfully said to Liu Xiejin, "Your Majesty, you can also be rewarded for meritorious deeds." ”

Although Liu Xie was unwilling, he also knew that meritorious deeds were rewarded. So he nodded immediately, walked back to the case, took out the holy decree that had been prepared and covered it with the jade seal.

Wu Shuo watched the vermilion imprint fall on the brocade silk, and his heart was also mixed. Although the defeat of Yuan Shao's father and son has been wiped out, the emerging Cao and Cai are even more difficult than the previous ones. But some people around the Son of Heaven apparently didn't realize what kind of opponent they were facing. Many of them are even playing the tricks of ten years ago, but they don't know that the sky has already changed, and the troubled times are not child's play. Thinking of this, Wu Shuo couldn't help but fold his long sleeves, and solemnly said to Liu Xiejin, "Your Majesty, the minister has something to do." ”

Liu Xie raised his head and bowed to Wu Shuo and said, "Wu Qing, please speak." ”

"Taizhong Doctor Kong Rong and Yushi Zhao Yan slandered the court and confused the public. The minister thought that the two of them must not go unpunished. Wu Shuo bowed his hand and said.

Liu Xie didn't expect Wu Shuo to ask for Kong Rong and Zhao Yan. Stunned, he couldn't help frowning and asked. "Slandering the court? Why did Wu Qing say this? ”

"Your Majesty doesn't know. Kong Rong drank alcohol in the mansion and wrote "Difficult Cao Gongbiao Liquor Prohibition Book", which openly ridiculed the prohibition of alcohol. Zhao Yan repeatedly sprayed Cao Cao in public and practiced Shen Han's spells. Wu Shuo counted the charges of Kong Rong and Zhao Yan. The so-called "Shen Han" is the joint name of Shen Bu and Han Fei, the representative figures of the Warring States Legalists, so later generations used "Shen Han's technique" to refer to the Legalists. Cao Cao was influenced by the poor people under his account, and he paid great attention to the law in governing the army and governance. This led to a contradiction between Confucianism, which advertised "benevolent government", and made Cao Cao the target of Shilin's attack. And with Wu Shuo's understanding of Cao Cao. The other side will not ignore these attacks.

However, Liu Xie smiled disapprovingly after hearing what Wu Shuo said, "Kong Qing's "Difficult Cao Gongbiao Forbidden Book of Making Wine" has also been read, but it is just a joke for a while, and it should not be true. Cao Cao Ruo didn't have any of this mind. Wouldn't it make the world laugh at it? And Zhao Qing's criticism of Cao Cao's strict implementation of Shen Han's law is not slanderous, after all, Cao Cao did appoint cool officials. In this way, how did Wu Qing ask me to punish Kong Qing and Zhao Qing? ”

Wu Shuo heard an obvious sense of protection from Liu Xie's tone. This made him even more anxious. It must be known that some of the things that are happening in Xudu City at the moment are not as simple as they seem on the surface. Kong Rong did not write "The Forbidden Book of Wine Making in Cao Gongbiao" not to take an extra sip of wine. Zhao Yan's criticism of Cao Cao's strict implementation of the law of Shen Han is not a simple dispute between law and Confucianism. Wu Shuo, who had experienced the "disaster of the party", knew very well that Kong Rong and Zhao Yan were using the Qing Dynasty to improve their influence in Shilin and then form a party. And this is precisely what Cao Cao and other powerful ministers cannot tolerate the most.

"The disaster of the party" refers to the incident in which the scholars and nobles were dissatisfied with the phenomenon of eunuchs and had party disputes with eunuchs during the reign of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Ling. Because the eunuch imprisoned the scholar for life on the charge of "party member", it was named "party man". The scourge of the party was suitable for the ninth year of Yanxi (166). Eunuchs Zhao Jin, Hou Lan and other henchmen committed crimes with Zhang Fan, Xu Xuan and others, and deliberately committed crimes before the amnesty, hoping to escape punishment, while officials Cheng Jin, Zhai Chao, Liu Zhen, Huang Fu and others were not afraid of the powerful and still dealt with these people according to the law after the amnesty. The eunuchs spoke to Emperor Huan. Emperor Huan listened to one side of the word and severely punished these officials.

Emperor Huan's injustice caused a dispute over the party to erupt again a few months later, known as the "Xinhai Coup". Due to the appearance of the Tai Bai Star in that year, the star of the general entered the celestial phenomenon of Taiweiyuan, which was considered by the people at that time to be a bad omen, symbolizing that the traitor was beside the emperor and the general had a disaster. The party members led by Dou Wu, the captain of the city gate, and others were ready to take action to get rid of the eunuch Cao Jie and Wang Fu's party. On the Xinhai day of September (the seventh day of the ninth month), Dou Wu took his turn to go home from the palace on his day off. The eunuch stole his recitals. learned of the scholars' plan, so they fought a bloody alliance overnight and staged a coup d'état. Together with the emperor's nurse Zhao Rao, the eunuchs deceived the young Emperor Ling, killed the eunuchs Shan Bing, who was close to the scholars, and robbed the seals, seals, charms, and festivals. coerced Shangshu to falsely pass on the edict, kidnapped the Empress Dowager Dou, and hunted down Dou Wu, Chen Fan, etc. When Chen Fan, who was over eighty years old, heard the news, he led dozens of Taiwei officials and students to draw swords and rush into Chengmingmen, and went to Shangshumen because he was outnumbered and was captured and killed on the same day. Dou Wu galloped into the infantry battalion to fight. Zhang Huan, a famous general and general of the Huns, led the army to the expedition before, and had just returned to Beijing at this moment, and he had not yet understood the situation, and the eunuchs and others had deceived him by falsely passing on the edict. Zhang Huan mistakenly thought that the Dou clan was in rebellion, so he and Shaofu Zhou Jing led five battalions of soldiers and more than 1,000 tiger army and Yulin army led by Wang Fu to attack Dou Wu. Dou Wu was besieged and had no choice but to commit suicide; His clan relatives, guests, in-laws, and attendants, Liu Yu, Tun Cavalry Captain Feng Shu and others were all exterminated; Hu Ben Zhonglang's generals Liu Shu and Shangshu Wei Lang were also framed and forced to commit suicide; Empress Dowager Dou was placed under house arrest in Nangong, and Li Ying and others were dismissed again and imprisoned for life.

It is worth mentioning that the influence of the party-to-government struggle continued until the reign of Emperor Ling. In the first year of Xiping (172), the Taixue Shu Zhu Que said: "The world is in turmoil, Cao Jie and Wang Fu kill the Queen Mother, and the ministers are all corpses, and there is no loyalty." The eunuchs were horrified, and the edict ordered Liu Meng, the lieutenant of the school, to arrest the students. However, Liu Meng, who was born in the Shi clan, obviously did not dare to offend Shilin. In desperation, the eunuchs had to change their orders to be suppressed by Duan Cheng Cheng in the imperial history at that time. Duan Cheng is Duan Emei's father, and he didn't take Shilin seriously at all. So after the famous general Zhang Huan, Duan Cheng once again staged the "feat" of stepping on Taixue and arrested more than 1,000 Taixue students.

Although all the battles between the scholars and the eunuchs in the late Han Dynasty ended in failure. It was not until the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion that Dong Zhuo entered Beijing and eradicated the eunuchs and his party. However, the scholars also found a shortcut to influence the court from the previous struggles, that is, to form a party with a clean discussion. If Liu Xie, as the Son of Heaven, can't see the essence behind the appearance, Xu Du can't guarantee that he will not repeat the disaster of the party when he was the original Huan and Emperor Ling. And this time the disparity in strength between the two sides is even greater. Regardless of the soldiers and horses in Cao Cao's hands. As far as Taixue, which the party has always relied on, for example, most of the young heroes in the middle of the world are busy serving under the accounts of the princes of all parties, where is there any effort to accompany a soldier who has no power to make a party dispute. Kong Rong and Zhao Yan's appeal really can't be compared with Chen Fan, the Taifu back then. What's even worse is that with Cao Cao's temper, once a dispute between the party and the party breaks out, he is afraid that he will not be imprisoned for life like the eunuchs, and the entire Xu capital will be washed by his blood.

Thinking about this, Wu Shuo, who was worried, said to Liu Xiejin again, "Your Majesty, use the code in troubled times. Although Cao Cao's administration reaffirmed the art of Han, it was also for the sake of the Han Dynasty after all. Kong Rong and Zhao Yan really shouldn't criticize the government. ”

"That's it, that's it. I turned around and reprimanded Kong Qing and Zhao Qing for a few words. Liu Xie waved his hand a little impatiently.

"Majesty!" Wu Shuo said in an aggravated tone, "This matter is not trivial, it is not a matter of a few reprimands. ”

What does Wu Qing mean by this? Do you want to make an order to investigate it? Liu Xie said unhappily. At this time, he really couldn't understand why Wu Shuo was biting Kong Rong and Zhao Yan to the death. No matter how you say that these three people are all important ministers of Liu Xie, how can they start infighting at the juncture when Cao Cao is about to take over as prime minister.

But Wu Shuo nodded without taking a step and said, "Your Majesty, it is necessary to issue an order to investigate, so that Cao Cao will not be left behind." ”

Hearing Wu Shuo talk about this, Liu Xiezhong understood some ways, but saw him ask tentatively, "Wu Qing means that I protect Kong Qing and Zhao Qing?" ”

"Exactly. Cao Cao is a man who is wide on the outside and taboo on the inside, and his class teacher is afraid that he will not let go of Kong Rong and Zhao Yan after returning to the court. If His Majesty can take the first step to cure the crimes of the two of them, it will be inconvenient for Cao Cao to embarrass Kong and Zhao again. Wu Shuo said with relief. I thought that the Son of Heaven had finally opened his mind.

Seeing that Wu Shuo confirmed his thoughts, Liu Xie only felt panicked, and even blurted out, "Having said that, Kong Qing and Zhao Qing are courtiers of the Han Dynasty after all." I, I don't believe it, Cao Cao really dares to punish the sins of the courtiers because of a few words! ”

Wu Shuo saw that Liu Xie was still stiff-mouthed, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and asked, "Your Majesty wants to gamble with Kong Rong and Zhao Yan's lives?" (To be continued)