Cao Cao walked slowly to a row of shelves on the left-hand side, and grabbed an old wooden stick from it with both hands.

The stick was about seven feet long, and the paint on it was so old that it was hard to distinguish the color on it.

Few people know that this stick, called the five-color stick, was made by someone he sent when he was the northern lieutenant in Luoyang.

Cao Cao held a stick in his hand, and suddenly recalled the scene when he was young and frivolous and led a group of people to wander on the street in high spirits, and couldn't help laughing.

At that time, he was only twenty years old, relying on his youth and vigor, strictly enforcing the curfew, and even used this colorless rod to kill the most powerful eunuch in Luoyang City at that time, the uncle of the captain of the military academy Jian Shuo.

Later, he was exiled to the local government on trumped-up charges and became a minor official of the Dunqiu County Commander.

That was the first time Cao Cao saw that the law and discipline of the Han Dynasty and the fate of the Han Dynasty had long been rotten from the roots.

Even if he has the power of the five-color rod, what can he do?

Cao Cao shook his head slightly, and said in his heart:

"I can't save it...... The only thing that can change the way of the world is to break all these stereotypes and create a new set of laws. ”

Putting down the stick in his hand, he took two steps forward, and what caught his eye was a beautifully decorated Nanmu box.

He slowly opened the box, carefully took out a beautiful short knife from it, held it in his hand, and rubbed it carefully.

This knife is called the Seven Star Treasure Knife, the Seven Treasures are inlaid with ornaments, graceful and luxurious, no more than half a foot long, it is the knife of the town house in the former Situ Wang Yun's mansion, and it is also an assassin's knife.

On the same day, Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang for abuse, Cao Cao was full of courage and wanted to assassinate Dong Zhuo in the name of offering a knife, but finally ended in failure and escape; After that, he escaped to Chenliu and began to raise the flag to form his own army.

Later, it was the princes of all walks of life who formed an alliance to fight against the thieves; Immediately afterwards, the warlords of Xiliang fought among themselves, and Dong Zhuo died.

Then the sword changed hands one after another, and after several tosses, it finally returned to his hands.

Zhuo's tyranny has been very serious, killing the lord and the remnants of the ministers, the great thief of the country, the heaven and the earth are not good, and the people and gods are sick.

However, the heroes from all over the country raised troops under the banner of begging Dong, but only garrisoned the army without assistance, and in the end, he and Sun Jian were the only ones who dared to fight.

In Cao Cao's view, the seven-star treasure sword is like the princes and ministers of the Han Dynasty, and the court gives them honor and grace, but what they repay to the court is only stealing and playing tricks and profiting from it.

"These princes, taishou, and warlords are not able to write anything, and they are not able to do anything, and they are just defeated. What can be done with them alone! ”

Cao Cao placed the sword back in the box, closed the lid, and paced to the next place.

On this weapon rack stood a halberd one foot and two long, with a metal spear tip at one end of the halberd shaft, and a crescent-shaped blade on one side connected to the tip of the spear through two small branches.

This halberd can be stabbed and chopped, and it is the weapon that the flying general Lu Bu became famous for-Fang Tian Painting Halberd.

At that time, Lu Bu was unparalleled in the Central Plains, and was known as Lu Bu among the people, and Cao Cao really suffered a lot in his hands.

But he looked down on this person from the bottom of his heart.

Lu Bu was the first rat at both ends of his life, and he was confused, and he may not have been able to understand what he wanted until he died.

He had the opportunity to assist Dong Zhuo to usurp Han, and also had the opportunity to assist Wang Yunxing Han; He may want to seize Yanzhou to take the Central Plains, or he may just want to occupy Xuzhou to divide the territory; He didn't choose whether to subdue Zhang Miao and Zhang Yang to become a tyrant, or to settle down and become a famous general under the command of the Yuan brothers.

He is suddenly a loyal minister, suddenly a rebel, suddenly a famous general, suddenly a warlord, he has a body of martial arts, Xiliang Iron Cavalry, but in the end he is ruined and discredited, and he has achieved nothing!

Cao Cao took the wine lord from the hand of the attendant, took a sip lightly, and said with a smile: "Qin lost his deer, the world chased him, such a heroic thing, a horseman with no ambition, also came to join in the fun!" ”

As he walked on, he saw a golden sword lying across the next sword stand.

The sword was four feet long, with a wooden scabbard, covered with leather and gilded iron, and a handle made of gold.

This sword is the sword of Yuan Shao of Hebei, the sword of the alliance leader.

Yuan Shao is the son of Sikong Yuan Feng, born in a famous family, since his great-grandfather four generations have five people ranked in the third duke, he himself is also above the third duke, his family is also known as the "fourth and third dukes", to Yuan Shao became the "fifth and third dukes", which can be described as unprecedented.

In Cao Cao's view, Yuan Shao is the best among the children of the Han family, and he has his advantages, which are indeed remarkable.

He could rather die than give in, and in the face of the impact of Gongsun Zhan's cavalry, he personally went to the front line and refused to dodge, so he turned defeat into victory and dominated Hebei.

He can also break the corporal, as long as it is a person who obeys him, he treats him very well, so after his death, although the Yuan family is not as powerful as before, there are still many people who swear allegiance to the death.

However, after stealing the bride when he was a teenager, Cao Cao had already seen through the reality of this old friend.

Yuan Shao's fate was too smooth, his confidence was always based on advantages, once the advantages were not obvious, he would begin to panic, and transmit this emotion to everyone around him.

A calm general will calm down the panicked crowd and obey the command; And a panicked leader will cause the team that had decided to take a desperate gamble to fight to the death collapse on its own in an instant.

In Cao Cao's eyes, Yuan Shao represents a famous family of the Han Dynasty.

The gentleman's ze, the fifth and beheaded.

If a family has enjoyed prosperity for too long and there are too many people to praise it, it will lead to feeling too good about itself, all flaws will be covered up, and it will become only able to accept success, and can no longer accept even the slightest setback.

Can a group of people who can't keep their feet on the ground change the way of the world? The answer, of course, is no.

Cao Cao looked at the sword for a long time, and finally sighed: "The original brother is a human being, with big ambitions and small wisdom, strong and timid, jealous and less powerful, many soldiers but unclear divisions, and arrogant and inconsistent government orders...... You lost at the hands of my Cao Mengde, and you are not wronged. ”

"However, no matter what, Brother Benchu is my best friend in the first half of my life, and he is also the strongest opponent, this cup, I respect you!"

With that, he motioned to the attendant to fill the wine and drank a full glass.

After drinking, continue to go down, and the weapons on the rack are displayed the swords of Yuan Shu and Liu Biao.

Cao Cao only glanced at it in a hurry, barely stopped, and then turned to the next corner.

There are two weapon racks here, one for the sword and the other for the sword, and there is nothing at the moment.

This was prepared for the ancient ingot knife of the Sun family in Jiangdong and Liu Bei's double-strand sword, but it was a pity that he spent his life and finally failed to pocket these two weapons.

Cao Cao walked to the left of the knife holder first and drank a cup to himself.

"Wentai, although you left early, you gave birth to a lion who is difficult to compete with, a tiger who gave birth to a son, and sure enough, the tiger father has no dog. This cup, I salute you! ”

Raised his sleeves to wipe the wine stains on the corners of his mouth, and said with a smile: "However, you, the tiger, are not the pattern of the world." In this world, I'm afraid I won't have anything to do with your Sun family. ”

Smiling, he stepped over to the empty sword grid.

After staring at it for a while, the matter of "green plum cooking wine" in the past suddenly came to mind.

"Dragons can be big and small, and they can rise and hide; The big one is the clouds and the fog, and the small one is hidden and hidden; The rising is soaring between the universe, and the hidden is lurking in the waves...... Liu Xuande, Liu Xuande, I tried my words that day, and I didn't want to make a prophecy in one word, so I asked you to catch up with the latecomers......"

"Anyway, when you meet an opponent in chess in this life, Lone will watch carefully in the sky to see how far you can struggle, who boasts of benevolence......"

Cao Cao stood in front of Liu Bei's sword for a long time, and once again ordered his attendants to pour a full wine.

After a few glasses in a row, the flask was almost half empty, his face was red, and his steps staggered.

The attendant who resisted the sword on the side asked, "Dare to ask King Wei, do you want to place General Guan's big sword here?" “

Cao Cao was silent for a long time, and then said: "Since you are a loyal person, you will be placed in the inner room." “

After saying that, he stumbled, pushed open another heavy door, and entered the dark inner room.

The attendants hurriedly lit the oil lamps.

As the lights turned on, there was only one weapon rack in a huge inner room, and it was very lonely and empty.

A pair of halberds hung from the weapon rack, covered in cobwebs and rust.

Cao Cao stared intently at the pair of halberds, only to feel that the strength of his whole body was slowly dissipating, and he knew that his limit was coming.

"Almost, it's time to go and apologize to Dian Wei."

In the middle of the night of February 22 in the twenty-fifth year of Han Jian'an (220 AD), he fought in the south and the north all his life, and successively fought against the strategists of the Central Plains, Hebei and Guanlong, the founder of the Wei State, and Cao Cao, a generation of super-worldly masters, died suddenly at the age of 66 in the midst of reminiscing about the past.

Before his death, he left a decree that the crown prince Cao Pi would inherit the throne of Wei, and instructed his ministers to bury him in Gaoling in the western suburbs of Yecheng.

This year, the heroes and celebrities have withered one after another, and the legendary era is slowly coming to an end.