Chapter 188: Cao Cao's Last Plan
Heart-to-heart?
Ma Jian was a little confused for a while.
What do you mean?
How do you feel that this mission, the burden given to me by the prince is not light.
Liu Chan didn't explain much, so Ma Tan didn't ask more.
Asking too many questions, doesn't it show that Ma Jian is stupid.
Liu Chan just said casually,
This time he went to mourn Cao Cao, and he didn't expect to make much performance.
If the situation is good, spread rumors, and if the situation is bad, hurry up and run,
Ma Jian was able to complete this task, which was already too much more breakthrough than he had in history.
Ma Jian prepared very solemnly for a long time.
After all, it was his first time in a big role, and he didn't want to mess it up.
So, he took this question and asked his partner Zhou Qun, who was going to go to Luoyang together.
Zhou Qun frowned and pondered for a moment, and said:
"Young Chang, I think you are too worried.
The prince should just say casually, how can there be so many arrangements. โ
"Impossible!" Ma Tan was very unhappy.
Ma Tan's fourth brother Ma Liang is now a highly trusted and important figure under Liu Chan.
Ma Tan is conceited so that he can not lose to the fourth brother, but now he still has to fight with Zhou Dashen, of course he can't accept it.
He stubbornly believed that the prince must be of great use to him.
"Young Chang," Zhou Qun couldn't cry or laugh, and said in his heart, Ma Jian really didn't know anything about himself.
"Luoyang is the tiger's den in Longtan,
Shizi also said that our first task is to complete the mourning and come back safely.
The secondary task is to find the man named Deng Ai.
As for the rest, the prince did not command anything.
Do you think that there will be people over there in Luoyang who listen to your words and suddenly become a pure minister of the Han Dynasty? โ
"yes."
Ma Tan was a little depressed:
"Forget it, let's go first!"
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As Liu Chan guessed, Cao Cao in the first month of the spring of the twenty-fifth year of Jian'an did only have his last breath.
Although he was ready to face death, when the pace of death was really approaching, the old man still could not bear the great pain, he held his head and wailed desperately, unable to bear the huge pain of this mountain and sea.
All the physicians are helpless,
I can only hope that this hero will end his magnificent life as soon as possible.
Half-asleep, Cao Cao began to dream constantly.
Yuan Shao, Lu Bu, Zhang Chao, and Ma Teng, who were covered in blood, staggered one by one, walked in front of him, and cheered to welcome his death.
And farther away, the unrecognizable woman was also waving to him happily, waving her hand, a large amount of blood gushed out, Cao Cao couldn't stop trembling, but there was nowhere to escape.
Fought all his life, killed countless people, and Cao Cao regretted only a handful of times,
But now that he is about to die, he suddenly thought of the sentence in Liu Chan's letter:
I hope that no one under Cao Zihuan is as loyal as the public.
Jiangnan legend Liu Chan is the incarnation of Haotian, knowing the destiny of heaven,
Cao Cao was originally dismissive.
But at the moment of life and death, he became more and more afraid.
Even, the bloody and vague illusions in front of him have all become Cao Pi, Cao Zhang, Cao Zhi and others.
I don't know if it's fear, or if I have some other thoughts in a trance,
In a short period of sobriety, Cao Cao ordered people to quickly summon Cao Zhang and Cao Zhi to come to Luoyang to meet him.
On the third day after the order was issued, on the first day of the first month, Cao Cao suddenly felt that all the sickness on his body had faded.
He was more awake than ever, and even had some strength, and he was able to sit up slowly, and slowly stood up with the support of the maid.
He seemed to have a premonition of something, and desperately called for the waiter to call for him.
"Yes, are you going to invite General Xiahou?"
"Wenhe! Wenhe! Wenhe! โ
Cao Cao called again and again like grasping a life-saving straw, and the waiter hurriedly left, passing the news to Xiahou Shang, the waiter of the Yellow Gate.
Xiahou did not dare to slack off, and personally rode a fast horse to Jia Xu's mansion.
Jia Xu, who was older than Cao Cao, knew what was going on as soon as he heard it.
He didn't even have time to put on his court clothes and shoes, so he jumped on his horse wearing only his regular clothes.
The two ignored the rule that horses were not allowed to be ridden in the palace, and galloped to the gate of Cao Cao's mansion (Cao Cao's palace was in Yecheng).
"King!"
Jia Xu no longer had his usual caution, he quickly walked into Cao Cao's bedroom,
I saw Cao Cao sitting on the Hu bed, his eyes wide open, and while gasping for breath, he desperately raised his head and said:
"Wenhe, it's not lonely, long story short, quick, I'll think of a way!"
Jia Xu is extremely smart, so he naturally knows what Cao Cao is talking about.
But his natural caution led him to ask hypocritically:
"I don't know what the king is talking about?"
"Say it! Say it! โ
Cao Cao, who was seriously ill, was like an angry hungry wolf, and it seemed that he would jump up from the sickbed at any time and bite Jia Xu fiercely.
Xiahou Shang behind Jia Xu couldn't help but change color, and subconsciously took a step back.
But Jia Xu's face remained unchanged.
"Rong Chen guessed - the king must be worried, Liu Bei Guan Yu heard that the king was killed, and he would mention going north, and our army couldn't resist it?"
In history, when Cao Cao died, Liu Bei had already lost Jingzhou, so naturally he had no capital to attack.
But now that Liu Beijun has reached unprecedented strength and prosperity, if he takes advantage of Cao Cao's illness and suddenly launches an attack from Xiangyang, I am afraid that Cao Wei will not be able to resist it-
Now Cao Wei is weakly fighting the bandits around Luoyang, and it is a bit difficult......
"A!" Cao Cao said bitterly.
Jia Xu sighed in his heart, and hurriedly replied:
"If you attack Shangyong, you will buy a year or two for Great Wei."
"Mean?"
"It's mediocre."
"A year or two?"
"The minister's ability is low, and he will strive for a year or two at most."
Cao Cao stared at Jia Xu's old face, and the tragic scene of his eldest son Cao Ang struggling to kill and giving up the only war horse to himself appeared in front of him.
He said slowly in a hoarse voice:
"I have never been negative in my heart.
If the child asks 'Where is my mother?' โ
Zi Xuan is Cao Cao's eldest son, Cao Ang, who died under Jia Xu's poisonous scheme.
Jia Xu was silent, and slowly overtook Cao Cao's bow.
"The minister will do his best, and I hope to live up to the king's trust."
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Hearing that Cao Cao was able to get up, Cao Wei's ministers breathed a sigh of relief,
Only Xiahoudun was dizzy when he heard this, and he pounced, sat on the ground and cried.
Feeling that something was not good, he advised the doctor Jia Kui and the Huangmen squire Xiahou Shang, one left and one right, to help Xiahou up and desperately run to Cao Cao's mansion.
Go and see Cao Cao for the last time.
Xiahoudun cried into tears, he rushed into Cao Cao's mansion with one foot deep and one foot shallow, but saw that the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty had already arrived, and knelt on the ground in front of the courtyard.
Xiahou, who had already broken his premonition, choked up and said:
"The king, how is the king?"
Jia Xu in the crowd shook his head lightly and said:
"King Wei is dead, and the general's day is mourning."
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Ma Tan Zhou Qun took more than 50 people all the way north,
When he arrived in Xiangyang, Guan Yu heard that Liu Chan sent two people to mourn Cao Cao.
After hesitating for a moment, he also asked someone to prepare a slight courtesy, and asked Ma Jian and Zhou Qun to go to Cao Cao's grave for themselves to pay a little respect.
The etiquette is so thoughtful, and the officials under Cao Cao naturally can't stop it.
The only thing they felt strange was that even they had not received the news of Cao Cao's death, and how did Ma Jian know that they were in Jiangnan.
"Hey, my family is the incarnation of Haotian, who can know the destiny of heaven,
It won't be long before you know, and I beg you to mourn! โ
Zhou Qun, who is not afraid of death, has been spreading the news of Liu Chan being the incarnation of Haotian along the way.
If Cao Cao did hang up in time as Liu Chan predicted, then Liu Chan really wanted to become famous.
But if Cao Cao doesn't die, or if he dies after a while longer, then Liu Chan will really be killed by Zhou Qun.
Ma Jian was under a lot of pressure, but Zhou Qun didn't have such a sense of thought at all.
"You can rest assured, the son of the world is the incarnation of Haotian, this kind of thing ......"
Zhou Qun's voice is very loud, and he can't wait for everyone in the world to know how awesome Liu Chan is.
He was used to screaming in Shuzhong, and he didn't change this problem for a while, but after all, this has already arrived near Luoyang, and this exit has already alarmed outsiders.
An armored warrior came on horseback and shouted:
"Who are you waiting for, dare to bark here!"
He just shouted routinely, and without waiting for Zhou Qun to answer, he immediately said:
"Left and right, hack this madman to death!"
Ma Jian was shocked, he hurriedly raised the talisman in his hand, and shouted:
"We are ordered by General Guan to mourn for Duke Cao,
Is it a way of hospitality for a public to be so rude? โ
I have to say that although Liu Chan has become famous, Guan Yu's reputation is still more useful in Cao Wei's territory.
Hearing the word Guan Yu, the armored warrior was stunned, and had no choice but to say helplessly:
"Okay, you wait for the name, I'll tell the son to know."
Ma Tan glared at Zhou Qun, reported his name and that of Zhou Qun, and asked humbly:
"I don't know the name of Gongzi Gao?"
The warrior snorted coldly:
"It's Zijian Gongzi!"
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"Well, who will become the next Great Han Chunchen?"
Knowing that Cao Pi was about to stage a good show of usurping the Han Dynasty, Liu Chan spent most of his time studying the "Three Kingdoms" in addition to guiding cultivation in the past few days.
Cao Wei is not monolithic, if you can try to dig out some forces that are dissatisfied with Cao Wei for your own use, as Gu Xiu said,
It can also be regarded as weakening some of Cao Wei's vital forces.
It can be seen that Liu Chan still hasn't found an object to excavate.
After all, Cao Wei has been deeply involved in the north for many years, and the interests of many people are closely related to them.
Unless they are captured like Man Favor, Yu Ban, and Pang De, it is impossible to take the initiative to take refuge in himself.
Hey, it seems that the Great Han Chunchen really wants me to cultivate it myself.
It's really hard for me to be a son in this life.
Well, but after Cao Cao's death, the fate of Cao Zhang and Cao Zhi was quite tortuous.
Cao Zhang may have been killed by Cao Pi,
Cao Zhi didn't die, but he was made worse than dead.
It's a pity that these two people are surnamed Cao, and they are inseparable, so they can't be classified as the pure ministers of the Han Dynasty, right?
It's impossible to think about.
Liu Chan touched his chin and pondered for a long time, and when he heard someone knocking on the door, he sighed and put the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" at his feet.
"Who?"
"Slave Lu Yusheng, begging to see the son."
Oh God......
Hearing Lu Yusheng's slave maid, Liu Chan's hairs stood up.
He said it several times, just let Lu Yusheng call himself a concubine or call himself by his name,
The slaves and servants are slaves and slaves every day, which makes Liu Chan always feel that he has made others miserable, and he doesn't dare to breathe in front of Lu Yusheng.
"What?" Through the door, Liu Chan scratched his head and said.
"Back to the world, Mr. Zhongxiang wants to teach the slaves and maids, and asks the prince for permission."
"Quasi-quasi-quasi!"
Liu Chan didn't know how to arrange Lu Yusheng, a lonely and poor little girl, and it just so happened that Yu Fu was willing to help him deal with it, so it was naturally better.
Hearing Liu Chan for a long time, Lu Yusheng outside the door breathed a sigh of relief.
"The slave maid has read the scriptures written by the son of the world, and there are a few things that I don't understand, and Mr. Zhong Xiang can't answer.
If the son of the world is free, he will ask the son of the world to solve his doubts. โ
Liu Chan: ......