However, it was said that Ma Chao made full use of the residual heat of the Empress Dowager Dong and successfully held the post of Jizhou Assassin in his hands, and on the surface he had a bad relationship with the Empress Dowager Dong, so as not to arouse the suspicion of people with a heart, he left Luoyang City and slowly went to Jizhou after two days.

Now Huangfu Song, Ding Yuan, Wang Yun and other old ministers have returned to Luoyang to mourn, and Yecheng at this time is actually in the hands of Fu Zhu and Pan Feng. And because of Ma Chao's recommendation, Liyi was transferred to Beijing by Liu Hong's edict more than two months ago to serve as the general of the tiger ben, but he was quite close to Yuan Shu, who was also the general of the tiger ben.

Ma Chao was afraid that He Jin or Dong Zhuo would threaten him with Ma Teng after entering Beijing, leaving Dian Wei to lead a hundred personal soldiers to garrison Ma Teng's Hou General's Mansion. At the same time, he also asked Fa Zheng to select 1,000 elites from the Shenwei Battalion and mix them into Luoyang City in batches, these people were either businessmen, farmers, or mixed into the local wealthy mansions to become households, and most of them were placed in the Wei family's shops in Luoyang. The weapons were transported into Luoyang City with the goods of the Wei family caravan at one time, and Fa Zheng stayed behind to be in charge of this thousand-person team.

The 2,000 people have shrunk by half, and it is inevitable that people will be suspicious. In order to cover up people's eyes, Fa Zheng hired more than 1,000 ordinary people from nearby villages to fill up the numbers. During the day, elite soldiers disguised themselves as ordinary people to enter the city, and at night the people disguised themselves as elite soldiers lived in the barracks, and it took only three or four days to complete this act of concealing the world.

Three days later, the Empress Dowager Dong and Princess Liu Xiehe Wannian set off to the river to worship their ancestors, and the hussar general Dong Chong led the 800 Yulin Army to escort all the way, although the Empress Dowager Dong was already very low-key, but the group still attracted the attention of someone who cared, this person was Cao Ying.

Cao Ying didn't think much about it at first, because Liu Hong's throne was picked up, and his father was the grandson of Liu Kai, the filial piety king of Hejian, but he was just a pavilion marquis, so Empress Dowager Dong was from a humble background and was secretly called a concubine.

It stands to reason that after the three of them are Liu Kai, the filial piety king of Hejian, it is normal to return to their hometown to worship their ancestors, but nostalgia is bad on Dong Chong's body. According to Ma Chao's plan, the Empress Dowager Dong should let Dong Chong rush to Bingzhou to serve as the pastor of Bingzhou, but if she cares, it will be chaotic, and Mrs. Dong is worried about the safety of her nephew, and secretly recommends Dong Chong to escort her to Jizhou to worship her ancestors, so as to achieve the goal of the aunt and nephew to get out of the tiger's mouth together.

Dong Chong is a hussar general and state pastor who has just been appointed, how can such a heavy position serve as a guard? He Jin and He Wan were fascinated by the authorities, and they didn't expect this, but Cao Ying was a bystander, and he suddenly found the problem, and then thought of Ma Chao's assassination of Ren Jizhou, and immediately guessed most of it, and muttered: "What a Ma Mengqi, you almost abducted the second prince with a bitter trick, Gao Ming, so clever to hide from the sky and cross the sea, and the golden cicada is out of the shell!" "Let's go straight to the General's Mansion.

"Something is wrong! Something is wrong! ”

He Jin was having fun with the concubine, and suddenly saw Cao Ying hurriedly barging in, his face was full of unhappiness, and he asked angrily, "Why are you so panicked?" The dignified court councilor, the captain of the West Park Military Academy, how is there no etiquette, what kind of system! ”

Cao Ying wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said urgently: "The matter is urgent and obey the power, there is a big matter to report to the general!" ”

He Jin broke away from the two concubines, frowned, and said, "What is it that makes you so panicked!" ”

Cao Ying said: "Ma Chao's wolf ambition is to set up another son of heaven in Jizhou, and the general said that this matter is not a big deal?" ”

"What do you say?"

Cao Ying immediately told his guesses, especially Dong Chong's appointment as a guard general. And Hejian County is in the land of Jizhou, and thinking of Ma Chao's sphere of influence, He Jin immediately believed most of it, and immediately summoned all his henchmen to discuss countermeasures.

After careful discussion, everyone was not sure that this matter was true, because Ma Teng and his wife were still in Luoyang, how could Ma Chao dare to set up a new monarch in this situation? In the end, under the persuasion of Cao Ying and Chen Lin, He Jin adopted the suggestion of "it is better to believe what it has than not to believe it", and immediately entered the palace to find the Son of Heaven to issue an edict. On the grounds that the first emperor was guarding the spirit, he summoned Liu Xie, the king of Hejian Association, and Liu Li, the princess of Wannian, to return to Luoyang immediately, escorted by the hussar general, and ordered Empress Dowager Dong to stay in the river after worshipping her ancestors and not return to the palace on the grounds that it was not suitable for her to live in the palace for a long time.

After getting the edict of the Son of Heaven, He Jin immediately dispatched troops and sent generals Wu Kuang and Zhang Zhang to lead the only 2,000 cavalry in Luoyang City to chase after him.

Empress Dowager Dong, Liu Xie and Liu Li hurried in a carriage, escorted by 800 infantry troops, and the journey was very slow, and before they could get out of the Luoyang territory, they were followed by Wu Kuang and 2,000 cavalry. Wu Kuang first read out the edict of the Son of Heaven in public, and asked Zhang Zhang to forcibly rob Liu Xie, Liu Li's carriage and Dong Chong back to Luoyang, and then personally escorted Empress Dowager Dong to Jizhou with fifty guards.

However, he said that Ma Chao left a day in advance and walked slowly, and after leaving the Tiger Prison, he deliberately slowed down, deliberately waiting for the Empress Dowager Dong and Liu Xie, who came later, but Liu Xie did not wait, but waited for Wu Kuang. He and Wu Kuang are also old acquaintances, and he once wanted to win over Wu Yi through Wu Kuang, but unfortunately he didn't succeed, so he immediately greeted him and hugged his fists and said: "General Wu, don't come unharmed!" This time, I rushed to Luoyang to mourn the first emperor, but I couldn't visit him in a hurry, and I asked General Wu not to be surprised! ”

Wu Kuang's face was gloomy, and he accepted the gold from others, but he failed to persuade Wu Yi to vote. For this reason, the uncle and nephew almost tore their faces, and Wu Kuang took his wife and children to Luoyang in a fit of anger to show that he would no longer interact with Wu Yi. At this moment, I felt a debt in my heart, and I was inevitably a little embarrassed, and said: "The champion Hou is polite, how dare the last general bother the general to visit in person, but please forgive the general for the matter of Ziyuan!" That Liu Taichang seemed to have been prepared, and when the letter from the last general was sent to Chen Liu, Ziyuan had already agreed to Liu Taichang's invitation to enter Shu. For this reason, the last general personally rushed back to Chen Liu's hometown to persuade him, but he didn't know that his son should live or die, and the last general couldn't force it, so he had to take his wife and children to Luoyang! ”

Ma Chao didn't care, and chuckled: "Those who abandoned me can't stay yesterday, everything has a fate, why should General Wu worry!" In fact, what the general really appreciated was General Wu, and he only hated to meet too late. If there is a saying that General Wu is not satisfactory under He Jin, the high-ranking officials here will wait for him, and General Wu will be welcome to come to meet him at any time. ”

Wu Kuang saw that Ma Chao was not the slightest unhappy, and his heart suddenly felt much better, and he hugged his fists and said: "Why not the last general?" Ziyuan has no eyes, because his brother and Mrs. Liu often had an old relationship when he was alive, so he desperately moved his family into Shu! ”

Ma Chao nodded and said, "Last time, the general mentioned Wu Ban, the son of the general, it should be in Luoyang at this moment, right?" If this son can be trained while he is young, he will be a generation of famous generals in the future! If the general can trust the general, he can send the Wu brothers to Yecheng, and the general will treat him with the courtesy of his own brother and teach him what he has learned! ”

Wu Kuang was grateful, hugged his fists and said, "Thank you for your appreciation!" When the last general returns, he will discuss this matter with Humble Jing! ”

Ma Chao said: "It's easy to say! Say! I wonder why the general is here? Who was in the carriage? ”

Wu Kuang hesitated for a moment and said: "The last general rushed to Hejian County, Jizhou on the order of the general, and handed over the Empress Dowager to the local Taishou for resettlement!" ”

Ma Chao was stunned for a moment, secretly screamed in his heart, and said urgently: "What about the prince Xiehe Wannian Princess!" Didn't the Empress Dowager and her entourage rush to the river to worship their ancestors? ”

Wu Kuang smiled bitterly: "I don't know why the general suddenly changed his mind, sent the last general and Zhang Sima to take back the princess of Xiehe Wannian with the edict of the Son of Heaven, and demoted the empress dowager to Hejian County, and ordered the local Taishou not to let him return to Luoyang!" ”

Ma Chao's heart moved, and he couldn't understand how the serial plan he had painstakingly designed had failed. When I asked about the details, when I heard Dong Chong, I suddenly realized, and secretly scolded the Empress Dowager Dong's wife's opinion. But it's too late to say anything now, and it's almost impossible to get out of the Prince Association without spending a single soldier, but it's better to earn a Empress Dowager Dong than nothing. In history, Empress Dowager Dong was killed by He Jin's subordinates when she arrived in Hejian County, at least this history will definitely not happen.

After thinking for a while, he said: "I was supposed to assassinate Jizhou, and this time I happened to rush to Jizhou to take office, so it is better to hand over the task of escorting the Empress Dowager to this general!" ”

Wu Kuang's face was embarrassed, and he hesitated: "This is not appropriate!" ”

Ma Chao sneered: "He Jin has a secret order for you, let you kill the Empress Dowager when you go to Hejian County, yes or no?" ”

"How do you know?" Wu Kuang's face turned pale, and his hands trembled.

Ma Chao said angrily: "He Jin is a wolf, the first emperor's bones are not cold, he dares to kill the first emperor's biological mother, he is really not a son of man!" After that, he dismounted and came to the carriage, bowed down and saluted: "The minister is too late to save the car, and I ask the empress dowager to forgive me!" ”

Empress Dowager Dong lifted the linen cloth from the car window, her complexion was haggard, her face was white-haired, her eyes were blank, and her sideburns were scattered. In case the brothers and sisters of the He family attack the second prince, everything will be over! ”

Ma Chao said: "Don't worry about the Empress Dowager, then He Jin dares to kill the Empress Dowager, but he definitely does not dare to kill the Empress Dove, those elders in the court will never let him do anything, and now the Empress Dowager can only return to Yecheng with Ben Jiang to live temporarily, and wait for Ben Jiang to come up with a perfect strategy before making sense." ”

Empress Dowager Dong cried: "The plan of the horse was seamless, if it wasn't for the palace to bring Dong Zhong privately, how could it be said to be a disaster?" It's all the palace that hurt him."

Ma Chao frowned and said: "The matter has come to this point, it is useless to regret it, I expected that He Jin would not kill Dong Chong, at most he would be stripped of his official position and sent to prison, as long as he did not die, there would always be a chance to save him in the future!" After that, he ignored the Empress Dowager Dong, turned to Wu Kuang and said: "General Wu doesn't need to panic, this general is a person who can distinguish between right and wrong, and he will never embarrass General Wu!" ”

Wu Kuang's expression was slightly fixed, at this moment, if Ma Chao wanted to kill him, he would say a word, and if he killed, it would be for nothing, who asked him to do such a big rebellious thing for He Jin, and frowned: "Then the general plans to deal with the last general like this?" (To be continued.) )