Chapter 854: A Wanderer
Sima Zhao was also very excited when he heard the news that Wang Yuanji was safe, but when he heard that Cao Liang actually asked for Luoyang City as a quid pro quo, Sima Zhao was immediately silent.
Even if Wang Yuanji's status in Sima Zhao's heart is high, it is impossible to be high enough to exchange Luoyang City and Cao Liang, and it is impossible for Sima Zhao to agree to such a condition no matter what, after all, such a big thing, and one person can't be the master at all.
Even if he discussed with Sima Yi, Sima Yi would never give up Luoyang for a daughter-in-law.
The reason why Xun Kai mentioned this matter first was naturally to pave the way for his credit later, but he took Cao Liang's joke as the right thing, and then he told Sima Zhao that under his unremitting bargaining, Cao Liang finally lowered his conditions and asked for Cao Yan's remains and 80 million yuan and 500,000 stone grains, and then he was willing to release Wang Yuanji.
Of course, Xun Kai didn't mention his loss, nor did he mention that Cao Liang's initial ransom was relatively small, and with his "unremitting" efforts, it was raised to the current price, he told Sima Zhao that Cao Liang's appetite was very big, if it wasn't for his repeated insistence, Cao Liang asked for a sky-high price, and now this price is also what he took a lot of effort to get down.
Sima Zhao didn't doubt the moisture here, after all, Cao Liang kidnapped Wang Yuanji at the beginning, and he knew that he would open his mouth, but fortunately, Cao Liang just asked for money and food as a ransom, even if the amount was huge, with the current power of the Sima family, it was completely able to take it, if Cao Liang insisted on ceding the land and compensating the city, Sima Zhao really couldn't be the master.
80 million money and 500,000 stone grains, with a total value of more than 100 million, thought about it also made Sima Zhao feel a pain in his flesh, but after all, this is still within the bottom line preset by Sima Zhao, he is acceptable, even if he can't raise it for a while, and his father-in-law Wang Su can support it, before leaving, Wang Su had already said that even if he exhausted his family resources, he would save his daughter.
What makes Sima Zhao really sad is that in this era, there are soldiers with money and food, if he gives this money and food to Cao Liang, Cao Liang will be able to recruit a lot of troops again, how is this kind of behavior different from the enemy?
But Sima Zhao can't let Wang Yuanji fall into the enemy camp, after all, she is his wife, the mother of his own children, money and food are dead things after all, without Sima's family, they can still collect it from the people, if Wang Yuanji dies, his children will no longer have a mother.
So after learning from the pain, Sima Zhao still decided to agree to Cao Liang's conditions, sent someone back to Luoyang quickly, and discussed with Wang Su about preparing money and grain.
As for Cao Yan's remains, Sima Zhao was a little worried, after all, he didn't know where Cao Yan was buried after his death, not to mention that Xun Kai also mentioned just now that Cao Liang stated that if Sima found a random corpse to fool him, he could only get Wang Yuanji's corpse back.
Of course, Sima Zhao couldn't fool Cao Liang with a fake corpse, and doing so would disgust Cao Liang at most, but if Cao Liang saw through it, it would be unfavorable to Wang Yuanji, then it would be too late for him to regret it.
However, if he wanted to find the real bones of Cao Yan, Sima Zhao had nothing to do.
Xun Kai immediately said that he knew where Cao Yan's grave was, and he just left this matter to him.
Sima Zhao was overjoyed, praised Xun Kai for his ability, and immediately arranged for him to go to Beibi Mountain to find Cao Yan's grave, and prepared a fine golden silk nan wooden coffin to collect Cao Yan's bones.
Xun Kai came back this time with two people from Cao Liang's side, so that they could see with their own eyes the process of finding Cao Yan's remains, so as to prove that what Xun Kai said was true.
For the safety of Wang Yuanji, neither Sima Zhao nor Xun Kai dared to do anything on Cao Yan's corpse, after all, a dead person has no meaning to them.
Xun Kai immediately rushed to Beibi Mountain, although two years later, the mass grave has long been a green tomb, but fortunately, Xun Kai has a very good memory, and when he dealt with Cao Yan's aftermath, Xun Kai did find the cheapest willow coffin for Cao Yan, and buried Cao Yan's weapons and armor in the coffin together, with these characteristics, it is not too difficult to find Cao Yan's grave again.
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After Cao Liang sent Xun Kai away, he immediately summoned Fang Bu and ordered him to rush back to Jinyang as soon as possible, and brought Wang Yuanji's mother and son to Mengjin North Ferry.
Fang Bu rushed back to Jinyang at night and presented Cao Liang's letter to Liu Ying.
Liu Ying was very happy to see that Cao Liang had "changed sex", and immediately arranged carriages and horses, and under the escort of Fang Bu, sent Wang Yuanji's mother and son to Hanoi.
Cao Liang suddenly summoned Wang Yuanji to Hanoi, Wang Yuanji was extremely worried in her heart, in fact, the Cao Mansion agreed that her child was Cao Liang's, but Wang Yuanji knew that only she and Cao Liang really knew that this child had nothing to do with Cao Liang.
In fact, Cao Liang had already tried his best to deny this, but no one, including Liu Ying, believed him, and Wang Yuanji deliberately vaguely did it, so that under the protection of the old lady, Cao Liang couldn't help her.
This time, Cao Liang suddenly took their mother and son to Hanoi, which made Wang Yuanji extremely panicked, because she didn't know what kind of means Cao Liang would have to deal with her, in Cao's mansion, with Liu Ying protecting her, Cao Liang didn't dare to do anything with her, but once she arrived in Hanoi, Wang Yuanji was called every day, and the earth was not working, if Cao Liang really had something bad for her and the child, Wang Yuanji had no way at all.
Wang Yuanji wanted to tell Liu Ying that she didn't want to go, but Liu Ying persuaded her with a smile: "Liang'er refused to accept you before, and this time he is willing to take you and the child to the army, presumably he has also figured it out, you go to the army this time, and you can also enhance your relationship, and I will ask you for a name when I go back." ”
Wang Yuanji secretly complained bitterly, but she dug this pit herself, but she was also bitter and couldn't speak, so she had to follow Liu Ying's arrangement, get into a carriage, and go to Hanoi.
Hanoi County is the place where she was captured, and now she is revisiting the old place, so that she is full of emotion, in this troubled world, she is a weak woman, just a leaf of wandering, with the ups and downs of the waves, her own fate can not be decided by herself, she sighed lightly, is a blessing or a curse, is a disaster can not be avoided, since everything is destined, she can only accept fate.