Just when Liu Bei and Sun Quan were confronting each other on both sides of the river, Xu Du, as the political center of the world, was now secretly brewing a conspiracy. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The initiator of this conspiracy is Dong Cheng, the current uncle and general of the chariot cavalry, and the conspiracy is aimed at Cao Cao, the de facto supreme ruler of Xudu.

Dong Cheng obeyed the secret edict of the Son of Heaven, contacted the loyal people in the court, conspired to kill Cao Cao, handed over the power to the current Son, and re-established the authority of the Son of Heaven.

And if you want to talk about the source of this conspiracy, you have to trace it back to Liu He here.

At the beginning, Cao Cao led the army to conquer Wancheng, but in the end, he lost his troops and returned defeated, not only the general Dian Wei under his command, but also the eldest son Cao Ang and his nephew Cao Anmin were killed in battle, and their prestige was greatly damaged for a while, which made Dong Cheng and others think that now is the best time to eradicate the national thieves and return to the emperor.

So Dong Cheng secretly found Emperor Xian, to Emperor Xian to say this, Emperor Xian although young, but very smart, but also deeply dissatisfied with his powerless status, now finally found an opportunity to seize power from Cao Cao's hands, naturally will not let go, wrote the edict of the belt, secretly handed over to Dong Cheng, asked Dong Cheng to find a way to assassinate Cao Cao, in order to regain power, if Dong Cheng can do it, the Son of Heaven will worship Dong Cheng as the Great Sima, record Shang Shushi (Prime Minister), and also promised to set up Dong Cheng's daughter Dong Guifei as the queen.

Dong Cheng received the promise of offering the emperor, and his heart was very excited, and he immediately contacted a large number of officials loyal to the Han family, including Changshui Captain Chongji, Yilang Wu Shuo, General Wang Zifu, Wei Wei Ma Teng, Taiyi Ji Ping, as well as Taiwei, Zongzheng Liu Yu and others.

Since the battle of recruiting Ma Chao, the news that Ma Teng is still alive has spread all over the world, at this time, Cao Cao, in order to win over Ma Chao, but also to let Ma Chao have scruples in the future, in the name of the imperial court, worship Ma Teng as a guard, hoping that Ma Teng can enter the court to serve the Son of Heaven.

Liu He was originally opposed to this, but Ma Teng was willing in his heart, Liu He had no choice but to let Ma Teng into Xu Du, and later Ma Teng heard that Dong Cheng wanted to plot to get rid of Cao Cao, and decisively found Dong Cheng and asked to join, Dong Cheng also knew that Ma Teng was a loyal person, and he was immediately overjoyed and asked Ma Teng to write his name on the covenant.

After Ma Teng wrote down his name, he told Liu Yu about it, he and Liu Yu are now sons and daughters, and the relationship is naturally close, after a long period of contact, it was found that Liu Yu was close to the Han family and was a rare loyal minister, so he told Liu Yu that the Son of Heaven wanted to get rid of the traitor, but he didn't expect Liu Yu to ask to participate, and gave advice for it.

Because of the relationship between Liu He and Liu Yu, in fact, many officials loyal to the Han family were guarding against Liu Yu, for fear that Liu Yu would help Liu He steal the throne, so when Liu Yu came to Dong Cheng's mansion, Dong Cheng was flustered and didn't know whether to accept Liu Yu's joining.

But seeing Liu Yu smiled and said: "Dong Guozhang doesn't have to be confused, Yu is a minister of the Han Dynasty, so he naturally has to be loyal to the royal family, and there is no other thought, since the Son of Heaven needs to get rid of the national thief, we will naturally not stand idly by, and we will go all out to get rid of the national thief." ”

Then Liu Yu solemnly wrote his name on the covenant.

"Why are you doing this, old lady? Ling Lang is today's great general, with hundreds of thousands of troops under his command, as long as you say a word, Ling Lang can wave his army into Xudu, killing Cao Thief is just like killing a dog, but why are you willing to risk your life and secretly eliminate thieves with us? Seeing that Liu Yu was so enthusiastic, he didn't understand it, and sighed softly and said.

Liu Yu also smiled bitterly in his heart when he heard this, and hesitated for a moment and said: "You don't know, Lieutenant, although Cao Thief is a traitor, but nominally he is still my Han Sikong, and now he is worshiped as the prime minister by the Son of Heaven, even if my son is in charge of more soldiers and horses, he can't easily lead the army into Xudu, otherwise, even if he gets rid of Cao Thief, this charge of adding troops to the imperial capital and intimidating the Son of Heaven is probably inevitable." As the saying goes, the higher the heights, the more power my son has, the more he must pay attention to the influence, even if it is a Han clan, he must not trespass, let alone become a second Cao thief. ”

As soon as he heard this, he couldn't help but nod his head and say yes, Liu Yu was right, the last time Liu He ordered Zhang Xiu's troops to come to Xudu, he did not attack, just to force Cao Cao to withdraw from Xuzhou, which had already aroused the suspicion of the officials in the government and the opposition, Cao Cao made a big fuss about it, so that Liu He's reputation was damaged, if it wasn't for Liu Yu's best efforts to make up for it, it is estimated that Liu He would have been regarded as a lawless person like Cao Cao, if he led his troops to besiege Xudu now, it is estimated that he would immediately be regarded as a person like Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao.

"It's just that in this way, we will make the old lady take a big risk, in case the old lady has something to lose, how can we be safe?" Chongji admired Liu Yu's loyalty very much, and then worried about Liu Yu's safety.

However, Liu Yu said angrily: "Which of you is not risking your life to do this? Is there anyone who hesitates in the slightest? My life, old man, is my life, isn't your life your life? We are waiting for the court to be loyal, and even if we die, we will fight him to leave a name for the ages. In fact, it is not terrible for us to die, what I am most worried about is that we are dead, but we have not completed the things entrusted by the Son of Heaven, so, everyone, this matter must be kept secret, and there must be no mistakes, because in addition to us, it also involves the safety of the Son of Heaven and Dong Guifei. ”

"What the old lady said is that we will be careful." After everyone listened, they were all solemn, and then they all said in unison.

However, the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes, on the second night, their plot was leaked, it turned out that Dong Cheng had a house slave, named Qin Qingtong, and Dong Cheng's concubine Yun Ying had an adulterous affair, this night Dong Cheng because of the worry about the edict, it was difficult to sleep, so he went to the courtyard for a walk, but happened to meet Qin Qingtong and Yun Ying whispering in front of the flower, Dong Cheng was furious when he heard the news, and ordered someone to beat Qin Qingtong with forty rods, and locked it in the firewood room, Qin Qingtong held a grudge and escaped from Dong's mansion by jumping over the wall, and gave Cao Cao the first clothes and edict.

Cao Cao was shocked when he heard this, he heard that there were not only Ma Teng and Liu Yu, but also one of his most trusted imperial doctors, Ji Ping, he didn't want to believe it, so he thought that he had a head wind, and ordered someone to ask Ji Ping to treat him, but he didn't expect Ji Ping to secretly prepare poison and want to take the opportunity to poison Cao Cao.

Cao Cao got Qin Qingtong's secret report, and he had already been on guard against Ji Ping, and ordered Ji Ping to taste the medicine for him first, and Ji Ping's love governor had been leaked, but he still behaved very calmly, stepped forward and grabbed Cao Cao's ear, poured it with medicine, and prepared to die a game, but Cao Cao avoided it, and then flew up and kicked him to the ground.

After that, Cao Cao ordered Ji Ping to be imprisoned, tortured, and immediately ordered people to search Dong Cheng's mansion, and found the edict of the Son of Heaven and the letter of alliance of Dong Cheng and others to murder him from the palace, and then Cao Cao ordered to arrest people according to the list, and sentenced Dong Cheng, Chongji, Wu Zilan (Wu Shuo), Ma Teng and Liu Yuming to death, and then broke into the palace, coerced Emperor Xian to hand over Dong Guifei, and then killed him personally.

At that time, Dong Guifei was pregnant, and it was not too late for Emperor Xian to pray that he would be executed after giving birth, but Cao Cao decisively refused and killed Dong Guifei in front of Emperor Xian.

When Liu Yu was captured, Liao Li, the "scholar" who was accompanying Liu Yu, saw that the situation was not good, and immediately fled from Xudu and went to Xiangyang to report to Liu He, which triggered a desperate battle in the Central Plains.