Just when the Cao family's father and son were inspecting Guandu and preparing for the decisive battle of life and death a few years later, Xuchang City, two hundred miles away, was covered with clouds, lightning and thunder, and a large-scale political storm was brewing.

"Drink! …… Wine and food, don't get drunk! ”

"Drink! …… The night view is picturesque and not to be disappointed! ”

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Late at night - the general's mansion was ridden, the lanterns were decorated with lights, the feast was held, the servants shuttled back and forth, and all kinds of delicacies were sent up like water, what flew in the sky, ran on the ground, and swam in the water...... With everything available, guests can enjoy a drink and enjoy the happy time in front of them!

Compared with the noisy front hall, the backyard is very calm, the lights are sparse, silent, and in the dark corners everywhere, there are guards in armor and armed with blades patrolling back and forth from time to time, and the defense is extremely tight!

In the secret room, the general of the chariot cavalry - Dong Cheng, the scholar of Shang Shu - Fu Wan, the captain of Changshui - the kind of Ji, the prince of Shizhong, Wu Zilan, Wu Shuo...... A total of more than ten court officials sat together and were discussing a major event related to the survival of the Han family!

Since ancient times, the private gathering of ministers is a taboo in the hearts of the rulers, once it is known, buckle the big hat of 'forming a party for personal gain, plotting to rebel', it is a big crime to behead the whole house and exterminate the nine clans!

However, there are policies and countermeasures, and the ministers are not allowed to meet in private, so let's meet openly, and the excuse is ready-made...... Birthday Banquet!

No matter how strict the laws and regulations of the imperial court are, they cannot restrict the ministers from celebrating their birthdays, let alone relatives and friends from coming to celebrate their birthdays.

Whenever the ministers need to meet privately and discuss some dark things, they will organize a birthday banquet, as long as they enter the mansion and close the door, they will be their own acres and three points of land, what they want to say, what they want to do, free and easy, this method is still the first initiative of Situ Wang Yun!

Someone asked, the minister is also a person, he has a birthday once a year, for example, you have a birthday in August, but there was an accident in May, and you need to meet in private, so you can't wait for three months, then the daylily will be cold!

Don't worry, in the thousands of years of political struggle, countless wise men have emerged, and the ministers have already figured out a solution, and there is only one birthday every year, but we can't stand the fact that there are many people in our family!

In this era, there is no marriage law, as long as you live, you can marry as many women as you want, look around, the civil and military officials in the court, who do not have dozens of concubines, is not uncommon in the number of hundreds, on the contrary, if you firmly pursue monogamy, you will become an alternative, colleagues will doubt your ability in a certain aspect, a large number of tiger whips, deer antlers, ginseng should be sent to the door!

After such a nourishment, you still don't take a concubine, the next step, colleagues will send a handsome **, don't love women, must be a good man, you have to like the same!

In the eyes of men, the face is bigger than the sky, in order to show that he is physically strong, tigers and tigers, and can continue to fight for the Han Dynasty, he also has to marry a few more women, it can be said that the number of concubines also represents the physical condition of the minister, as long as he has not lost his breath, he must continue to be the groom official!

The Minister of the Manchu Dynasty, if you want to say who has the least women, it has to belong to Xiao Yi, the governor of the western capital, even the wives who have not passed the door together, barely enough to make up a slap, fortunately, there are hundreds of 'women's army' in the house to support the façade, everyone doesn't suspect anything, just think that Xiao Lang has strange tastes, doesn't like women, and only loves young girls!

Straight to the point...... If there are more women, there will be more children, and a qualified nobleman, wife, concubine, and children together, the number is basically more than 100, in other words, every three days or so, a birthday banquet can be held in the mansion, and such a gathering density is enough to discuss any military affairs!

What if there is an urgent matter and you have to have a private party on the day, and it happens that there is no loved one on the birthday?

This is also easy to solve, choose a beautiful and more desirable one among the maids, immediately announce that she will be accepted as a concubine, do a happy event on the same day, and be a groom that night, this is not an excuse for a party, but just marry a few more women!

For example, the banquet in the Cheqi General's Mansion is that Dong Cheng celebrates that he has newly accepted the twenty-seventh concubine room, as for the name of the concubine and what she looks like, it doesn't matter, in short, the guests are here, and the purpose is achieved!

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"Colleagues, Cao Thief patrolled the banks of the Yellow River, the troops in Xuchang City are empty, let's set things right and help the Han Dynasty!" Dong Cheng held a sword in his hand and looked murderous, he was both the convener of the party and one of the masterminds of the coup!

"I am willing to work together with my lords to punish **** and serve the court!"

Some of the people here are die-hard loyalists of the Han family, some are representatives of the scholar clan, some are down-and-out bureaucrats, and some are unrelated to the local princes, but they all have one thing in common - they hate Cao Cao to the bone!

For a long time, under the rule of Cao Cao's iron and blood, everyone lived trembling, for fear of offending the prime minister, and their whole family would not see the sun tomorrow.

In addition, Cao Cao implemented the policy of 'meritocracy', regardless of background, only based on ability, and promoted a large number of children of the poor family as officials, which greatly damaged the interests of the scholars and the lords, but they were afraid of Cao Cao's authority and dared not speak out!

Don't break out in silence, just perish in silence, there was Cao Cao sitting in Xuchang before, everyone was afraid, they could only pick up their tails and be a man, such as today's opportunity, the tiger actually went out on patrol, and it was the turn of the monkeys to show their skills!

In this environment, the anti-Cao forces from all sides quickly gathered together and prepared to launch a palace coup d'état to get rid of Cao Cao and restore their lost paradise!

However, a coup d'état is not a playhouse, and in order to succeed, three conditions are indispensable: soldiers and horses, holy decrees, and foreign aid!

Soldiers and horses, in fact, it is best to solve it, don't look at the people sitting there are not civilian officials, or military generals, there is not a single soldier in their hands, but they can't stand their great potential, and they have manpower at home!

The officials from the scholar clan have a huge family behind them, with dozens or hundreds of clansmen, plus guards, doormen, slaves, and tenants attached to them...... Together, there are no less than 1,000 people, and it can be said that a group of scholars is a miniature country!

During the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, the people were more martial, and children of seven or eight years old could also play a few sword flowers, and adults were even more fine, as long as they were equipped with armor and blades, they would immediately be a qualified soldier, and then gather these people together and erect a banner, that would be an army!

There are more than a dozen ministers here, all of whom are from the noble clan without exception, and the power in their hands is added together, gathering thousands of people without much effort, and it may not be enough to use it for conquest, but it is more than enough to launch a palace coup!

The holy decree, as the so-called 'tearing the tiger's skin, making a big banner', if you want to launch a coup d'état, it will never work without the emperor's will, even if there is no real one, you have to get a copy of the fake one, when the princes of the Eighteen Roads crusaded against Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao was an overkill, saying that it was true, it was true, and the fake was also true - this is called political art!

Fu Wan, Dong Cheng and others are lucky, they don't need to get any fake edicts, because the mastermind behind this coup is the little emperor who wants to regain power, as for the holy decree, it has long been prepared!

As he spoke, Dong Cheng untied his belt, pulled out his sword, cut the silk thread on it, and soon, a bloody edict appeared in front of everyone:

Recently, Cao thieves have seized power, oppressed the monarch's father, connected the party, corrupted the dynasty, rewarded and punished, and it is not up to me to ............

Qing and other people are entangled in loyal and righteous people, annihilating the traitorous party, restoring the society, the ancestors are very fortunate, the edict is Fu Qing, and then be cautious, don't live up to my intentions! "--Jian'an four years-spring and March edict!

The edict is written impassionedly, but the handwriting is very beautiful, it is estimated that it is from the hand of a certain concubine, this is also the last line of defense of the little emperor, it is done, the power is recovered, the king is ...... the world, it is not done, shirk responsibility, Mingzhe protects himself, after a series of political struggles, Liu Xie has also matured!

"Your Majesty...... Ministers swear to serve to the death and live up to the grace of God! ”

"Woo...... The minister is born as a man of the Han Dynasty, and the dead man is the man of the Han Dynasty......"

"I and Cao Thief are inseparable, either he lives or I die...... Bah! Bah...... Not right......"

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After reading the edict, everyone cried loudly, and their speech was incoherent, political struggle is like this, whether it is true or not, it is absolutely right to cry first, whoever cries more sadly, who is a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, if you can let the emperor know that he is crying, it will be more worthwhile!

Finally, there is the problem of foreign aid, with the strength of everyone, there is still some certainty in controlling Xuchang, if you want to deal with Cao Cao's hundreds of thousands of troops, it is a fool's dream, you must find a prince from other towns to help, this person, one is strong, and the other is loyal to the Han family!

There are many princes in the world, such as Yuan Shao of Hebei, Sun Ce of Jiangdong, Liu Biao of Jingzhou, Zhang Lu of Hanzhong, Liu Zhang of Yizhou, and Gongsun Du of Liaodong...... They are all powerful people with heavy troops, who is better to choose for foreign aid?

"Yuan Shao of Hebei, the third prince of the fourth world, has many old officials, occupies the land of four states, and has hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses under his command, if he can form a foreign aid, great things can be done!" The prince was the first to speak, and strongly advocated uniting with Yuan Shao and using the power of the gate lord to deal with the warlord!

"Liu Biao of Jingzhou, the emperor of the imperial family, is also known as a virtuous person, sitting on the land of Jingxiang Nine Counties, with strong strength, and is also a good candidate!" Captain Changshui - not to be left behind, also proposed a candidate for princes, at a critical moment, the Han clan should be reliable!

"Actually, Yizhou Liu Zhang is not bad, he has a gentle personality and loves the people, but he is too far away......"

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There are many people here who have colluded with the princes from all walks of life, and at this time, for their own interests, they quarrel indiscriminately, each saying their own reasons, and not giving in to each other!

In the end, it was decided to cast a wide net, harvest more, and send messengers to all the princes, no matter who can raise troops and serve the king, it will be a great help!

The three conditions are complete, the next step is how to do it, and after another quarrel, under Dong Cheng's proposal, a set of plans was passed, gathering people and horses, dividing the troops into three ways, and acting separately!

The first way - Fu Wan led the troops into the palace, controlled the inner court and the province, and then took His Majesty to Wufeng Tower as a call for this coup!

The second way - Dong Cheng led the main force straight to the Prime Minister's Mansion, and after breaking the door, he captured the Cao clan and its henchmen, and killed them all, leaving no one behind!

The third road - Wang Zifu, Wu Zilan, Wu Shuo, and Chongji led people to occupy the four gates of Xuchang, isolating the inside and outside, and preventing the rescue of the Cao army!

The plan for the coup d'état is very simple, full of military style, although it is not rigorous, but it is also feasible, and the rest, it depends on the will of God!

"Without further ado, three days later, at midnight, look at the three red lights on my house, kill all the ****, Kuang Fu Sheji!" After the arrangement, Dong Cheng pulled out his sword, cut his fingers, and let the blood flow down!

"Kill all the ****, Kuang Fu Sheji!"

"Kill all the ****, Kuang Fu Sheji!"

Everyone pulled out their swords one after another, ruthlessly, and also cut their fingers, "Until now, the only way to fight is to fight!" ”

(I recommend a new book "The Great World of the Three Kingdoms", the writing is delicate, and it can be read!) ）