Cao Ze returned to the mansion, as soon as the sedan chair fell, his family came to report: "Lord Xiao Yan, Taiheng Yu Shilang, Lord Luo Shi, Lord Hu Fei and the second master are all waiting for you in the warm pavilion of the East Flower Hall!" Cao Ze coughed lightly and asked in a low voice, "What about Yan Zhiyuan?" Didn't Lord Yan Zhiyuan be invited? ”

The family hurriedly replied with a smile: "Lord Yan Zhiyuan said that he is not well, so he will come to disturb him another day, and he will also ask his grandfather to ask for leave on his behalf in the past two days." ”

"This old slippery head!" Ao Bai scolded in his heart, but he didn't say anything in his mouth, and walked straight to the East Flower Hall behind him. He walked along the corridor of the super hand, paced the square steps, walked all the way, pondered all the way, turned the family temple, and heard the shouting in the warm pavilion of the water pavilion behind him from a distance, so it was not lively, he couldn't help frowning, and walked over with a quick pace, and saw Xiao Yan, Tai Hengyu, Luo Shi, Hu Fei, his younger brother Cao Shuang, and more than a dozen family members sitting or standing scattered around. Two Kabuki sat at the banquet table with the pipa demon in their arms, one playing, the other singing:

You don't believe in this affection, and you always suspect that the slave's heart is not true. Holding a red sweat towel in his hand to pluck the wick, who said that the slave family was waiting for someone else? The sound still didn't fall, followed by a burst of clanging strings, and another interface sang: Naughty little Langjun, don't knock on the slave door again! Wrongdoer, if you weren't the meat of my heart, I would have raised my hand and pierced you with a silver needle!

While singing, he pricked the mat with his hand as a pinch. Everyone couldn't help but laugh and leaned back. Cao Shuangwei smiled and put his face up and said, "Okay! Good! My slave, come and prick me with a silver needle! The crowd laughed again. Tai Hengyu and Luo Shi were both born in Jinshi and were Confucian students, so they just covered their mouths and couldn't help laughing. Xiao Yan only watched from aside, thoughtfully.

Seeing this group of people gathered together to enjoy happiness, Cao Ze felt irritable in his heart, walked in angrily, and drove away the two kataka with a wave of his hand: "When is this?" Don't discuss big things, but I'm in the mood to play bitch! ”

Cao Shuang saw that his brother was unhappy, so he stepped forward to make fun: "Brother, I heard that you are the king today who disposed of Tao Qian's three rabbit grandsons for you, and we ...... We're so happy! ”

"Yes, Tao Qian, Wang Zhihuan, Xu Zhou has always been unable to get along with us, and he also participated in one of my books a few days ago, and this time it was his turn to be exiled." Tai Hengyu gloated and said, "I really deserve it, feng shui takes turns." ”

Cao Ze snorted and said: "Don't be too happy, maybe one day even if I take you, our family will all be called Xishikou, then it will be called the current world!" You don't want to think about it, if it weren't for the face-showing things you did outside, would I be so reckless? ”

Listening to this headless reprimand, Cao Shuang fell into a fog. Busy said: "Me? Didn't do anything! ”

Cao Ze originally hated him for not being angry, and he did things badly, but when he saw that his strong mouth became more and more angry, he said coldly: "What did you do?" Those officials who begged us to go out were embezzled and occupied when they arrived in the locality, and the displaced people all ran to the city? And yourself, who gather people to drink and have fun every day, and find a bunch of people who have attained the Tao to make a miasma at home, and they all impeach me and make a wide range of henchmen! As he spoke, he threw a fold from his hand, "Take it and see it!" One by one, one by one, it is clearly written! The king asked me today, and it was so difficult for me to reply! ”

When Cao Shuang heard that it was these two things, he muttered in his heart: "Hmph, that's it, as for it?" Where did the officials who were released give you filial piety every year, where did the money come from? Can you have it if you are not greedy? Aren't you very happy that the enlightened people come to your house, and they compete with each other every day! Make me a punching bag now! However, he thought so in his heart, but said in his mouth: "Who is so cheap, he has a lot of courage, sue us!" ”

Cao Ze didn't say a word, leaned on the chair and sat down, both physically and mentally, he was too tired today.

Luo Shi hurriedly stepped forward and persuaded: "The matter has finally passed, and the world brother has already knew, why should the general be too worried about this?" Cao Ze glanced at Ji Shi and said lukewarmly: "The matter has not passed, Tao Qian, Wang Zhihuan, and Xu Zhou are Xue Bilong's henchmen, and they dare to blatantly impeach me at his instigation, it seems that Xue Bilong is going to completely turn his face against me, plus Sima Ni, the old fox, this will be even more difficult in the future." ”

"Fortunately, the king still believes in the general." Among these people, Tai Hengyu embezzled the most, and the recital of the impeachment of the three of them in the early dynasty was also clearly written. However, Xiao Zhi didn't look at the impeachment and didn't deal with them, at this time, the taste of the rest of his life after the catastrophe made him a little fluttering, "In the end, the general has worked hard and made great achievements, and the king respects the general, and he can't do without the general, and he directly exiled the three people without reading the letter, and I barely escaped with the light of the general!" ”

"Humph!" Cao Ze was very impressed by these words, he stroked his beard quite proudly, and the subordinates saw that the general was in a good mood and was busy serving wine and food. "You all have to be more restrained in the future, those people in the province will make a big fuss and make the old man lose face."

"In my opinion, I'm afraid it's not that simple." Xiao Yan, who was drinking silently next to him, said at this time, "Before the matter of Luo He Cao Yong, the king and the general were a little estranged, at this time someone impeached the general, it stands to reason that the king should blame the general heavily, why did he dispose of the three of them without even looking at the impeachment twists?" It's a bit unreasonable! ”

This Xiao Yan was originally one of the members of the Qi State Clan, and he was not yet thirty years old this year, and he was still Xiao Yan's elder brother who had not produced four suits, but Xiao Yan's father died early, and the family was defeated. His mother raised him alone, and the family relied on worshipping their ancestors every year to go to Guanglu Temple to receive the hundreds of taels of silver to live, and no one else in the clan treated them as a mother. However, Cao Ze saw that he was having a shabby life, so he often helped him and found a position in the court for him, so he was very grateful to Cao Ze. Xiao Yan is Cao Ze's think tank, and he has always been known as "Little Zhuge ".

"I'm also a little puzzled, those three people impeached me, I thought about how to refute it, but the king took the first step to exonerate me." Cao Ze has always attached importance to Xiao Yan's words and thought about it carefully.

"That's it." Xiao Yan stood up with the wine jug, stepped forward and poured a glass of wine for Cao Ze himself, "The king is protecting Tao Qian, Wang Zhihuan, Xu Zhou, if you don't send the three of you down quickly, according to the general's temperament, I'm afraid I will kill them!" ”

"How so?" Tai Hengyu felt a little alarmist.

"The king is not yet in the court, everything needs to be discussed by the four auxiliary ministers together, the general has a lot of power, once something happens, the court will be turbulent, and the other four countries will be ready to move, and the situation will be difficult to control, which the king does not want to see." Xiao Yan stood beside Cao Ze and analyzed them one by one, "This impeachment is absolutely infeasible, so he took the lead and sent down three people, which not only stabilized the general, but also stabilized the overall situation." ”

Cao Ze thought carefully and felt reasonable. Then he asked, "What is the king's plan to do with me?" ”

"The general has a heavy army, and he once had a dispute with the king, and to the king he is like a tiger on his side." Xiao Yan slowly paced back to his seat, "The king is naturally unwilling to be turbulent, so after taking power, he will probably gradually weaken the power of the general, or ......." Xiao Yan didn't speak, only made a gesture of wiping his neck with his hand.

Those in the room gasped.

While he was talking, the family came with a yellow box. On that day, Xiao Zhi approved the recital of the imperial court, and all of them were packed inside. According to the custom left by the previous king, no one was allowed to bring the minister's recital into the private residence. It's just that Xiao Zhi was a young man who ascended the throne, and these four auxiliary ministers became "exceptions" Cao Ze took the box carelessly, opened it, took out one casually, frowned at it, and hesitated: "This ...... This ......"

Seeing that Cao Zebai was so concerned, everyone also came up to take a look, only Xiao Yan sat on the seat and drank by himself.

Cao Ze handed the excerpt to Tai Hengyu and said: "Xue Bilong, please guard the tomb of the first king, there is a Zhu Criticism on the king, you read it to everyone to see what it means." ”

As soon as they heard that Xue Bilong asked to go to the mausoleum, everyone was surprised and urged Taiheng Yu to read quickly. Tai Hengyu took out a pair of Western crystal glasses from his arms and put them on, cleared his throat and read aloud: "Wang Zhu Pi: 'Erxue Bilong received the favor of the country, and he was the first king who took care of his life, and he should do his best to assist the king and achieve a great cause, why do you make such nondescript words? Xiao Jie, the king of the government, asked him, what was the immorality of this king, which caused the minister to disdain to assist and resign from government affairs? What is wrong with the government, why doesn't the minister go to the mausoleum and want to go to the mausoleum? What persecution did the minister suffer to ignore the monarchy? ”

Tai Hengyu read a sentence and lifted his glasses to look at everyone. The more Cao Ze listened, the more suspicious he became, and the more his brows furrowed.

"You see, it's coming." After reading Zhu Pi, I saw Xiao Yan suddenly get up from his seat, staring at Cao Ze with his eyes, "The general is going to prepare early." ”