Soon, the imaginative Cao Xiu was led into the handsome tent and met the little emperor of Shu. Cao Xiu naturally wants to show the appearance of a "good man" who would rather die than give in, as a prisoner, he refuses to kneel down and salute when he sees the emperor of the enemy country.

The expected forcible suppression did not come, Liu Hou did not let him kneel and kowtow, let alone the left and right guards jumped out and smashed his knees with sticks to force him to kneel.

Of course, Liu Hou didn't say a word like some bloody episodes: "Oh, how can you treat the general like this, if you have wronged the general, quickly loosen the general." So, the lord stepped forward to personally untie the captured enemy general, helped him to sit down with his own hands, and made a polite corporal, moved the captive general to a mess, and then successfully recovered the captive general as his subordinate.

Cao Xiu was not tied to a rope, so naturally he didn't need to loosen the tie, and Liu Hou didn't give him a seat, so he let him stand in the middle of the hall and said coldly: "You are Cao Xiu?" ”

Cao Xiu raised his head and said, "Hmph! This general will not change his surname, but he will not change his name, it is Cao Mou. If you want to kill, you can chop it, please feel free. ”

Liu Hou looked at him for a while, and saw that he was tall and big, his movements were clean and neat, and his expression was resolute, but he looked good, and after reading it, he said: "Well, it seems that Cao Mou is also a person who is not afraid of death." If I say I'm going to woo you, you'll turn me down with righteous words.

Even if I make moving conditions and understand you with emotion and reason, you may not appreciate it. Even if I use the righteousness of the world and the orthodox identity of the Liu clan to persuade you, maybe you will argue that you, as a member of the Wei clan and the Taizu clan, have the blood of the Cao clan in your body, how can you do something to surrender to the enemy?

You will definitely say that it is better to let you die than to make you surrender, even if you die, you can't lose Cao's dignity, and you can't disgrace Cao Cao, right? ”

Cao Xiu: "......"

Liu Hou continued: "Since this is the case, then I will fulfill you. I admire heroes the most, and the world says that I am a person who knows heroes and values heroes, which is really true. Rest assured, I will definitely let you seek kindness and be benevolent, and I will definitely let you die vigorously and achieve your name of loyalty. ”

Cao Xiu was dumbfounded, what is this for? I haven't said anything yet, what's wrong with this little emperor of Shu, why do you like to talk to yourself?

Liu Hou continued: "Come on, push this General Cao out and behead the public, and then send his body back to Xuchang, and declare to the outside world that General Cao is loyal and unparalleled, even if he is captured, in the face of my coercion and temptation, he will not surrender to death, and finally die for the loyalty of the Emperor of Wei." ”

Cao Xiu: "Huh? ......”

Two soldiers came up and held Cao Xiu from the left and right respectively, and Liu Hou said again: "General Cao doesn't need to be grateful to me, I am a very helpful person, and I often do good deeds without leaving a name." I don't know if General Cao is satisfied with my arrangement, but if he is not satisfied, he can say it, and we can discuss it. If that's okay, then we'll do it this way. ”

Cao Xiu was shocked, this little emperor of Shu was really inexplicable, why did he cut off people's heads before he could say a few words, and he didn't give people a few words of argument, and he didn't listen to people begging for mercy, let alone wooing them to surrender. Just between talking to himself like this, it decides a person's life and death, is this little emperor stupid or crazy?

In fact, Liu Hou is not stupid or crazy, he just doesn't want to waste time. According to his estimates, the possibility of people like Cao Xiu surrendering is very small. He is Cao Cao's clan, and he has been good with Cao Pi since he was a child, and has been entrusted with important tasks by Cao Cao and Cao Pi two generations of monarchs, and belongs to one of the core figures of the Cao royal family.

Such a person's loyalty to Cao Cao, Cao Pi's father and son is beyond doubt, and his relationship with Cao Pi is equivalent to the relationship between Liu Hou and Zhang Bao and Guan Xing. Liu Hou couldn't imagine how such a character could surrender. Taking 10,000 steps back, even if he agrees to surrender, he may not dare to use such a person.

Such a person is undoubtedly a timed ~ time ~ explosion ~ bomb, if you put it around, I don't know when it may explode with a "boom", so he simply didn't waste his strength on him, and directly announced his death sentence.

Poor Cao Xiukou was stunned and dragged out of the tent by two soldiers, and when he entered the tent, he was sentenced to death before he could even say a second sentence, in addition to admitting his identity, and was about to carry out this execution.

"Wait, Your Majesty, please wait." Cao Xiu saw that he was about to be dragged out and clicked off, but finally came to his senses at the moment before being dragged out of the door of the big tent, and hurriedly spoke.

"Oh? I wonder what else General Cao has to say? Do you want to return to me? Liu Hou is still not salty and authentic.

"Your Majesty once said just now that you are a person who knows heroes and values heroes, and you also personally admit that Cao is a hero, so why don't you let Cao go back? Could it be that His Majesty's so-called respect for heroes and heroes is to kill him? ”

"Hehe, it's funny, are you still a three-year-old, or a stupid person? Haven't you heard the idiom 'let the tiger go back to the mountain'? I'll be honest with you, I learned this idiom when I was three years old. What's the difference between letting you go back and letting the tiger go back to the mountain? Shall I let you go back and wait until you bring troops to attack me? ”

Liu Hou listened to Cao Xiu's words and couldn't help laughing, is this guy really a fool ~ melon? If you want to induce yourself to let him go back, he is still far from his skills. When Lao Tzu lured the famous general, you didn't know how to draw circles in that place.

"Cao can swear by his personality that after His Majesty lets him go back, he will return to the countryside from now on, and will no longer ask about the world, let alone lead troops to fight again." Cao Xiu raised three fingers and swore.

"General Cao, it's not that I don't believe in your personality, there is a saying that 'people can't help themselves in the rivers and lakes', as you are a member of the Cao clan, your stay cannot be decided by you at all. Therefore, I will not let you go back. Although I know heroes and value heroes, if these heroes are not used by me, then they are all traitors. Since he is a traitor, he must be eliminated as soon as possible, so that the world will be peaceful. Do you understand? ”

Cao Xiu was still chewing on Liu Hou's sentence "People can't help themselves in the rivers and lakes", but he didn't pay much attention to Liu Hou's domineering declaration behind him. Liu Hou's latter words can be described as domineering, which is quite a bit of "If you don't use it, you will be killed by me".

If someone else says this, they will definitely be classified as the "evil" side, and they will definitely be a domineering careerist. But Liu Hou is the emperor, and he has the qualifications to say this, and this qualification can still find the support of the classics. "The whole world is not the king's land; On the shore of the land, it is not the king's minister. This sentence comes from "The Book of Songs, Xiaoya, Gu Fengzhishi, Beishan".

All the people in the world are doing things for the emperor, so if they refuse to be used by the emperor, what is not a traitor? 1

Note 1: The correct interpretation of this sentence is not like this, this solution belongs to the distorted classics, but later generations like to distort it in this way, and it is used here.