Originally, Tian An thought that Zhang Ao and others took him down in order not to give himself a chance to make trouble and sabotage their mutiny plan to seize the military power of Zhao State, as long as he obediently cooperated, with his own fame and prestige, Zhang Ao and his group would not only not hurt themselves, but also treat themselves with courtesy, and they would definitely release themselves unconditionally after the matter was completed, because killing themselves had no effect on Zhang Ao and his group, and they would definitely attract infamy and hatred from the soldiers of Qi State.

It was only when Tian An was escorted out of the county seat of Shaanxi County and escorted to the ranks of the young marshal army that Tian An realized that he was too naïve, Zhang Ao took down himself by the way, not only to avoid the purpose of making trouble, but also to curry favor with Xiang Kang, to please the young marshal army who is likely to dominate the world, and to use his own blood to write the alliance treaty between the Zhao army and the young marshal army!

Why did Zhang Ao give himself as a gift to Xiang Kang, the reason Tian An himself was also very clear, when he was in Hangu Pass, Tian An forgot his righteousness, regardless of Xiang Kang's initiative to release his kindness, insisted on refusing to take the initiative to hand over Hangu Pass, and pretended to negotiate to delay time, to buy time for the Zhao army to reinforce Hangu Pass, although Hangu Pass was finally recaptured by the young marshal's army, the young marshal's army still paid a lot of casualties, just by virtue of this, Xiang Kang almost couldn't spare Tian An!

Fortunately, Tian An is barely a person who can afford to let go, and he is the grandson of Tian Jian, the last king of Qi, who attaches great importance to dignity and bearing, even if he knows that he will die, even if he is in prison, and he saw Zhang Ao and others throw themselves and go straight back to the city, Tian An still maintains a graceful bearing, neither yelling angrily, nor begging for mercy in a low voice, and he has already made up his mind in his heart, determined that even if he dies, he will never lose any face to the Qi royal family.

To Tian An's surprise, Xiang Kang did not hand him over in front of him that day to shout and shout to kill, but instead sent him to be locked up with more than a dozen wounded and captured Qi captives, and then after dinner, a team of young marshal sergeants came to take him away from the Qi captives, Tian An also said that the time for death had come, and he was not panicked, but calmly left with the young marshal army, but when he was escorted to a tent, he was met by Uncle Sun Tong, an important civilian official of the young marshal army.

As usual, Mr. Uncle Sun as usual as soon as they met Tian An touted Tian An in every way, complimenting him as if Mr. Uncle Sun was ready to abandon the secret and defect to the young marshal army to join the Qi team, Tian An asked the reason inexplicably, Mr. Uncle Sun explained, saying that he sent someone to invite Tian An to come over to meet, the reason is that Mr. Uncle Sun heard that the Jixia School Palace built by Qi State at the expense of the year also has a deep study of Confucianism, and even Yasheng Mencius has lectured in the Jixia School Palace for a long time, and Mr. Shusun, an outstanding disciple of Confucianism, is tireless in learning, I want to learn about the research on Confucianism in the Jixia School Palace through Tian An, the grandson of the King of Qi.

It's a pity that Mr. Shusun is just a waste of strength to do this, when he was young, Tian An has entered the Jixia School Palace more than once, but he doesn't know much about the Confucianism studied in the Jixia School Palace, and there is no way to guide the diligent and inquisitive Uncle Sun, and he can only tell the truth, and frankly admit that he does not learn and has no skills, and there is no way to discuss Confucianism with Mr. Uncle Sun. Fortunately, Mr. Uncle Sun's cultivation was very good, even if he was obviously a little disappointed, he still treated Tian An politely, and insisted on pulling Tian An to gossip for a long time, and it was not until late at night that he sent someone to send Tian An back to his residence, so that Tian An and the prisoners of Qi could rest together for the night.

This is just a small episode that is not worth mentioning, how can you not run away, the next afternoon, Xiang Kang still remembered Tian An, who had once placed himself, and ordered someone to slip Tian Anti in front of him, and said with an unkind look as soon as they met: "General Tian, I didn't expect us to meet again so soon." ”

"What General Right said is extremely true, and the foreign minister really didn't expect to meet again so soon." Tian An replied very calmly.

"And what else does the general have to say now?" Xiang Kang's smile was obviously hideous, and he said with a cruel smile: "Even now, does the general still want to scold me for ignoring morality, suddenly attacking the anti-Qin friendly army, and innocently implicating General Tian, who you don't know the inside story?" ”

"Now, of course, there is nothing to say." Tian An said very directly: "Since it has fallen into your hands again, if you want to kill it, kill it, I accept my fate." ”

"Piff!" Xiang Kang couldn't bear it anymore, slammed his fist on the table in front of him, and roared: "Words are not believed!" Ungrateful! This general didn't know the inside story of you before, not only did he pay tribute to you, but also sent someone to send you back to Hangu Pass, you don't want to repay the favor, you still want to be with me, and give Chen Yu Pifu time to reinforce Hangu Pass! Now that the sky has eyes, and you are in my hands, what heroes and heroes dare to pretend to be in front of me? Why don't you get down on my knees quickly?! ”

"Get on your knees!"

The young marshal army next to him shouted angrily, and the young marshal sergeant who escorted Tian An also immediately kicked Tian An's knee, but Tian An bent down slightly and insisted on standing up, and said loudly: "Xiang Kang Xiaoer, kill if you want to kill!" Shi can be killed and not humiliated, I want me, the king of Qi, to kneel down to you, you are dreaming! ”

"What a guts!" Xiang Kang was even more furious, and roared: "Come on, push this Queen of Qi out, and execute the car!" ”

Xiang Kang's personal soldiers sang a promise, and they were about to go out when they set up Tian An, but Chen Ping next to him immediately jumped out and said, "The right general is slow, this Tian An can't be killed." ”

"Why can't you kill it?" Xiang Kang asked.

"General Right, as we all know, when our Chu army went north to rescue Julu, Qi Wangtian City refused to lend us the Chu army, and asked this Tian An to send troops to intercept and force our Chu army to divert to the north." Chen Ping explained: "But this General Tian attaches great importance to the overall situation of anti-Qin, not only categorically refuses Tian Shi's order, but also takes his army to join the anti-Qin coalition army and lead your brother to the north, which successfully rescues the Julu crisis, and is famous all over the world. ”

"I have already let him go once in Ning Qin, and I have already repaid him." Xiang Kang replied angrily: "But he was ungrateful, broke his word, and killed many of our soldiers, I will kill him now, what can the people of the world say?" ”

"General Right, the last time you released General Tian An in Ningqin, it was because he didn't know the inside story and was innocently implicated by Liu Ji, a henchman of Xiang Bo's rebel minister, so you can't kill innocents indiscriminately." Chen Ping continued to persuade again, and said: "Although he should be punished for his crimes now, after all, he has a great merit to the princes outside the Guan, if he is not directly executed by merit, the people of the world will still have something to say." I also ask General Right to read on General Tian An's great merits and spare him from dying. ”

Mr. Shusun also stood up to intercede for Tian An, saying that Tian An was the grandson of Tian Jian, the king of the Qi Communist Party, with noble blood, and if he was killed indiscriminately, he would definitely attract the resentment of the soldiers and people of Qi State, and begged Xiang Kang to let Tian An live.

Moved by the persuasion of the accomplice lackey, after thinking for a while, Xiang Kang changed his words and said: "Okay, for the sake of Mr. Chen Ping and Mr. Shusun's face, and for the sake of this puppeteer's contribution to the great cause of opposing Qin, I will let this puppet go again, lest the people of the world say that we are unrighteous and punish this puppet for not teaching." ”

After speaking, Xiang Kang suddenly raised his voice again, and shouted: "But the death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime cannot be escaped!" Come, take this puppet to the beard, put it in the prisoner car, and send it back to the Qi army in the coming day, so that the generals and soldiers of the Qi State can see what kind of fate will happen to those who dare to attach Xiang Bo to the rebel ministers and be enemies with us! ”

Removing the beard is to shave the hair and beard, and even the most difficult to grow sideburns must be shaved, such a punishment is nothing in modern times, but in the Qin and Han dynasties, it is an extremely bad shame, even ordinary people will be humiliated and embarrassed when they receive such a punishment, and they will be shameless, let alone Tian An, who was born in the nobility of Qi State? So before Xiang Kang finished speaking, Tian An was already struggling to scold, and shouted with red eyes: "Xiang Kang'er, you can't be humiliated if you can't kill you!" If you have the ability, kill me now and torture me, you might as well just crack my car and execute me!" ”

"General Ben just wants you to live rather than die, otherwise I will be sorry for our soldiers who died in Hangu Pass!" Xiang Kang sneered and roared again: "What are you still doing? Push down and execute! ”

According to Xiang Kang's order, Tian An was quickly pushed and pulled down, pressed by several soldiers, and forcibly shaved off all his hair and beard, during which Tian An resisted vigorously, the not very sharp razor also cut out a lot of blood on his head and chin, so when Tian An was pushed back to Xiang Kang for punishment, Tian An's appearance was of course how embarrassed and embarrassed, Xiang Kang laughed when he saw it, Tian An was almost mad, and roared: "Xiang Kang Xiaoer!" I swear to kill you! I swear to kill you! ”

"If you have the ability, come here, I'm afraid you don't have the guts." Xiang Kang replied with a sneer, and shouted: "Put on his prison clothes, get into the prison car, watch carefully, and never allow him to commit suicide!" ”

The young marshal sergeant escorted Tian An away according to the order, Tian An struggled and kept scolding, but Xiang Kang didn't bother to pay attention to it at all, and it turned out to be a coincidence, when Tian An was forcibly dragged out, he met a middle-aged man who was escorted by the young marshal sergeant, the man looked at Tian An curiously, and said in great surprise: "General Tian, how did you become like this?" ”

I didn't expect to meet an acquaintance, and when I looked up in surprise, Tian An immediately recognized that the middle-aged man was Zheng Chang, the messenger sent by Xiang Yu to contact Xiang Kang before, and immediately yelled: "Doctor Zheng, have you seen it?" See? This is Xiang Kang'er's method, he actually executed me, the king of Qi, after the punishment! If you can go back, you must tell the former general, please ask the former general to avenge me! Avenge me! ”

Zheng Chang sighed helplessly, nodded and replied to Tian An, and kept beating the drum in his heart, for fear that Xiang Kang would treat himself like Tian An, and let himself suffer such a great shame, and he would no longer have the face to live between heaven and earth.

It's okay for Zheng Chang, who was imprisoned from Hangu just now, Xiang Kang hasn't hated him to the extreme, after he was escorted to Xiang Kang, although Xiang Kang was also very sneering at him, but he didn't impose any humiliating punishment on him, just asked him to bring Tian An and a letter back to Xiang Bo, asking Xiang Bo to rein in the precipice, disband the princes' coalition as soon as possible, lead the Chu army to withdraw to Pengcheng to ask Xiong Xin for guilt, let Xiong Xin come forward to solve the problem of dividing the land in the world, and unconditionally return Xiang Kang's wife and children, There is also Li Shiqi, who was seized by Xiang Bo.

Of course, Zheng Chang would not refuse such a request, and immediately agreed, saying that he would definitely bring the words for Xiang Kang, but at this time it was not early, and there was no way to set off immediately, Zheng Chang could only temporarily live in the guest account arranged for him by the young marshal, and prepare to stay in Shaanxi County for one night, and then set off the next morning to return to Sanchuan County.

The time was indeed not early, it was getting dark soon, and after eating a simple dinner, Zheng Chang, who had been frightened a lot these days, quickly lay down on the straw mat to sleep, but because he could get out the next day, under the excitement and excitement, Zheng Chang said that he couldn't sleep immediately, and he didn't feel sleepy for a long time.

At this time, the curtain of the guest tent was suddenly lifted, and the light shone into the dark tent, and several young marshal sergeants walked in, one of whom was wearing Xiang Kang's personal uniform, and said: "Why don't you even light a lamp?" What if this puppet runs away quietly? ”

"Brother Yang, didn't you say that you would let him go tomorrow morning? Are you still afraid of what he is running for? The young marshal sergeant who had been guarding outside the tent asked curiously.

"Be careful, our right general wants him to do a very important thing." Brother Yang instructed: "Light the lamp and keep an eye on it at any time at night." ”

The guards had no choice but to bring an oil lamp for Zheng Chang to light it, and Brother Yang looked at Zheng Chang's situation casually, and said with a sneer: "I slept very soundly, watch it tight, this puppet is very important, and tomorrow I must let him go back with that Qi country surnamed Tian." ”

"What do you mean?" Zheng Chang, who pretended to be asleep, wondered in his heart, and said secretly: "Why do you have to let me go back with General Tian An?" ”

With this thought in his heart, there was light in the tent again, Zheng Chang was of course even more difficult to sleep, and it turned out to be a coincidence, that Brother Yang did not leave immediately after leaving the tent, but complained and sat outside the tent to rest, and the young marshal sergeant who guarded Zheng Chang before was also very curious, and asked: "Brother Yang, why did you say just now, you must let the man surnamed Zheng and the man surnamed Tian of Qi State go back?" ”

"Of course, I want him to go back and tell Xiang Bo's gang of rebels that the Qi country's surname Tian has suffered from us and must seek revenge on us."

Brother Yang's sinister answer made Zheng Chang prick up his ears, and he couldn't help but sit up and listen carefully, but he didn't notice at all that outside a small hole in the tent wall, there was an eye secretly watching his situation.

"Brother Yang, what do you mean by that?" The guards became more and more curious, and asked, "Why are we doing this?" Also, the man surnamed Tian doesn't talk much, he killed so many of our brothers in Hangu Pass, why did our right general just shave his hair and beard, and then let him go again? ”

"Don't ask too much, I won't say if I ask, if I let General Right and Brother Xu Jixu know, my head won't be saved." Brother Yang replied casually.

"It's okay, Brother Yang, what is our relationship, are you still afraid that we will leak your news? Tell me, what the hell is going on? ”

When Zheng Chang quietly touched the door of the tent and eavesdropped, he couldn't resist the begging of his companions, but the eldest brother Yang still told the truth, and said: "Don't let others know, the surnamed Tian is just acting for others today, in fact, when our right general secretly summoned him last night, he had already promised to surrender to us, and he wanted to go back and bring the Qi army to us as an internal response to help us deal with the main army of Xiang Bo's anti-party." ”

"So for the sake of Xiang Bo's gang of rebels believing in the surname Tian, our right general deliberately tortured him, and we must let this puppet surnamed Zheng bring General Tian back, only in this way will Xiang Bo's rebel party believe that General Tian is really helping them deal with us, and will use him even more."

Zheng Chang's mouth opened wide, and the guards were extremely surprised, and said, "The one surnamed Tian has already surrendered to us last night?" Then he pretended to be too similar, right? When I saw him today, I thought he was really being tortured. ”

"If you don't pretend to be an elephant, how can he deceive Xiang Bo's gang of rebels?" Brother Yang sneered and said, "Don't talk about you, if I hadn't seen him surrender to our right general with my own eyes last night, I would have thought it was true." ”

Zheng Chang quietly clenched his fists, but the guards outside the tent were also very careful, and asked again: "But Brother Yang, the man surnamed Tian didn't believe his words in Hangu Pass last time, and he has already deceived us once, so our right general is not afraid that he will lie to us again, and he won't talk a word?" ”

"This time I lent him ten guts, and he didn't dare." Brother Yang sneered and said: "Last night in front of our right general, he had already written a document with his own hands, swearing allegiance to the heavens to our right general, if he didn't keep his word, he would be destroyed by heaven and earth, and there would be no place to bury him, and the ancestors and ancestors of their Qi country would not be able to tolerate him." In addition, our right general also promised that after the matter was completed, he would first be named the king of Linjiang, let him build a country in Nanjun and Nanyang, and then change him to the king of Qi in the future, let him return to his homeland and build a country, such a good condition for him, do you think he will lie to us again? ”

"Great, we don't have to worry about it now, even if Xiang Bo's gang of rebels brings the princes' coalition to fight Hangu Pass, we will win."

When the guards cheered in a low voice, Zheng Chang had already quickly returned to the seat and lay down again, and quietly clenched the corner of the seat, and secretly said in his heart: "Okay, you Tian An Pifu, I was almost deceived by you!" Shameless puppet, you wait for me! ”

Under the strict guard of the young marshal's sergeants, the night passed quickly, and the next morning, Xiang Kang really fulfilled his promise, and handed over the previously detained Zheng Chang's entourage, as well as Tian An, who had been loaded into the prisoner car, and more than a dozen wounded and captured Qi soldiers to Zheng Chang, and asked Zheng Chang to take them back to Sanchuan County to meet with the princes' coalition army, Zheng Chang of course would not be stupid enough to expose Xiang Kang's sinister intentions in person, but just thanked him respectfully, and then left Shaanxi County under the escort of a team of young marshals.

By the way, when they were about to separate, Xiang Kang, who had descended to see off Zheng Chang and the others in person, deliberately said to Tian An: "General Tian, the next time we meet, I hope to be able to meet you with your dignified swords and soldiers on the battlefield, and you must not look like a prisoner again." ”

"Don't worry!" Glaring at Xiang Kang angrily, Tian An's eyes almost erupted with fire, and he said word by word: "Next time we meet, General Ben will definitely take your head with his own hands!" ”

Not to mention, Xiang Kang's radical general really played a role, after Zheng Chang and his entourage crossed the Kip Stone Pavilion, the young marshal soldiers who escorted them eastward handed them over to the Zhao soldiers who stayed in Mianchi, and after Tian An, who was greatly humiliated, got rid of his freedom, he neither grabbed the sword and killed himself, nor committed suicide by hitting the stone, but just grabbed Zheng Chang and yelled: "Doctor Zheng, take me to see the former general immediately!" Take me to him right away! I want revenge, I must take revenge! If you don't take revenge, I'll swear not to be a person! ”

"General Tian is calm, don't be impulsive, wait until you see the former general."

Zheng Chang agreed, but he snorted coldly in his heart, and said secretly: "Pretending to be true, this official has already quietly inquired about your Qi soldiers on the road, and that night, you were indeed taken to see Xiang Kang Xiao'er!" ”