The officers and soldiers intercepted Cao Chong, and when Cao Chong saw that his identity was revealed, he was worried - how many people did I have with me, even if they were all one as ten, they could defeat this patrol force of sentry horses, but once the noise was made and the army was surrounded, it would be difficult to fly even if they had wings - simply, cross the saber and wipe it on the neck......

"Can Gu An return to Luo and be humiliated by his son?!"

As soon as his cronies saw that the lord was dead, they also drew their swords and committed suicide, and finally the officials and soldiers carried back seven corpses and reported them to Cao Hong and others. Cao Hong felt sad again, and couldn't help but secretly feel a trace of joy - this battle can be regarded as finished - and immediately ordered: "Liyang is dead, tomorrow will be announced in the city, and it is okay to order him to surrender himself." He turned his head and praised Zhuge Liang: "Kong Mingyun or Xiaoyu will be captured, as expected." ”

Zhuge Liang sighed lightly: "It's a pity that it can't be born." ”

Outside the tent, Cao Xiu and Xiahou Shang surrounded Zhuge Liang and asked him: "Why did Kong Ming expect that he would escape at night?" Zhuge Liang smiled faintly: "It's also a fluke." Now the general trend has been decided, the sun will be broken, he will die, or fall, or escape, how can he be? ”

Cao Xiu asked again, saying how could you expect that he would run away without his family? The special patrol soldiers and horses, but when they saw that they were all young and strong men, they immediately intercepted them - if they were like us a few days ago, and did not stop the fleeing people, I am afraid that Cao Chong would run out.

Zhuge Liang replied: "Those who have conspired against each other since ancient times have disregarded their relatives. King Liyang disobeyed his father's order and betrayed his nephew, how can he love others, why pity his relatives? "Cao Chong didn't have a son, he only had a wife and concubine, if he really thought about his family, he wouldn't dare to make trouble. Now sitting on the throne is his own nephew, and he doesn't even love his nephew. Will you still love women?

In fact, there are some things he has heard from Master Shixun. It's just that I didn't dare to announce it to the public - Cao Zhang died violently at the beginning. Ninety out of nine is poisoned by Cao Chong's faction, how can this cold-blooded political animal care about his wife and concubine?

Xiahou Shang still didn't understand a little: "If he hides among the people and escapes, what can he do?" Zhuge Liang shook his head lightly: "After the king of Liyang returned to the domain, he often comforted the people and rewarded cultivation and weaving, and the country thought that he was a virtuous monarch." Then there will be many people who know its face, and they dare to come out of it. Don't worry about the country's foolishness? Even if you don't dare to do it during the day, but you will escape at night, it can also be clear. ”

With such an analysis, Cao Xiu and Xiahou Shang were really convinced. It stands to reason that all Cao Xiahou are good friends with Shixun, and Zhuge Liang is a disciple of Shixun, so he should be cited as a fellow believer; Problem: Zhuge Liang has been an official in the military department for many years, no matter how much he eats enough soldiers, after all, he is a martial artist who fights on the front line with arrows and stones, and a logistics civilian officer who sits in the office in the rear, and he is born with the wrong eye. No matter how cautious they are, it is easy to be disgraceful, so Cao Xiu and others are only superficially polite to this Mr. Zhuge . Teach it today. I felt that Kong Ming was wise and deeply understood, and from then on, I was really happy and convinced, happy and intersecting.

Early the next morning, the officers and soldiers used halberds to carry Cao Chong's clothes and persuaded him to surrender under the city. When the soldiers in the city heard that Cao Chong was dead, they were all devastated, and the people's hearts were confused, and the Yi nationality could not be restrained no matter what. In the end, I had to sigh, went to the city alone, looked down, and shouted: "I signed up today, not Yin Lei, but Hanchen Yi." I wanted to mess up the Kanto region and save the Han family, but God didn't bless the Han and eventually overturned, so what good would it be for me to live?! "As soon as he leaned forward, he plunged his head into the city and committed suicide.

The defenders opened the gates and surrendered. Cao Hong ordered the various departments to rest for a while, and first sent his own troops into the city to control the palace and the four gates, and then swaggered in. Taking this opportunity, Cao Zilian searched the Liyang Palace, picked up the good things and loaded them into the car first, and secretly transported them back to his hometown of Qian County, leaving those coarse things, and Cao Chong's wives and concubines, servants, etc., before they were included in the public account and escorted back to Luoyang.

Of course, this kind of thing can't be completely hidden from others, and with the good news entering Beijing, there will soon be an impeachment of Cao Hong in the imperial history. Cao Chao asked the important ministers for their opinions, and Shi Xun said: "The auxiliary country is a great merit, and the court should be rewarded, how can it be sinned because of the negligence?" Cao Chao couldn't help frowning slightly when he heard this, and said in his heart, "Are you still complaining about what you were degraded in the first place......

Wang Lang, Hua Xin and others also persuaded each other, saying that there was no need to punish the clan generals for such a little wealth, and Cao Hong couldn't be considered illegal by doing this, it was basically walking on the edge of the law and making a little gray income...... In later generations, some people often opened their brains and said that Cao Zilian was corrupt, but in fact, there was no clear record in the history books, and he was at most just a miserliness in accumulating wealth, and he couldn't break the ban with one bite of it. For example, before the establishment of checkpoints to recollect taxes, at that time all the soldiers and horses did this, and he Cao Zilian did the most excessive, and later Cao Cao used the words of honor to order the Guanjin outpost, although Cao Hong was unhappy, he still obediently obeyed.

Let's just say that this time he plundered the treasures of the Liyang Palace, he can argue that according to the practice of using soldiers, after capturing a city, he should let the soldiers loot it, as a reward, this is all grabbed by my family, just because I have always been gracious, and I am dedicated to it. The old law doesn't say it's illegal, and the new law hasn't been codified...... What can the court do with him?

Cao Chao had no choice but to endure it, but instead issued an edict to reward Cao Hong and give him 3,000 gold as a reward. As soon as Cao Hong returned to Luoyang, he rushed to the Yu Department to receive the 3,000 gold, but the officials who handled it all shook their heads, saying that the ministry did not pay for this aspect. Finally found Yuan Lian, the secretary of Yubu, and Yuan Yaoqing relayed Cao Chao's words: "The former auxiliary country obtained in Liyang, how much more than 3,000 gold? Do you still not know what to eat? Cao Hong retreated in shame.

Besides, Zhou Budo, a disciple of Xun, was a subordinate official of the King of Liyang, and he had persuaded Cao Chong to obey the central government many times, but Cao Chong was tired of listening to it, and finally imprisoned him during the incident. When Liyang was besieged, the food in the city was embarrassed, and no one took care of the prisoners in the prison, Zhou Yuanzhi was starved to death. After Zhuge Liang entered the city, he obtained his bones and sent people to his hometown Lingling for burial. When the news came, it was Xun who was sad - for so many years, if you want to say that you can really understand that you are from the next generation, it is only Zhou Yuanzhi, and you don't want to die so miserably. So he ordered someone to collect Zhou Budo's manuscripts and planned to publish them together.

But when the manuscript was complete, Shi Xun first came over and read it himself, and he couldn't help but sweat coldly behind his back - I relied on this little guy's thinking to be too advanced, and his thoughts were too cynical, if this was spread. His grave was to be flooded with spit...... It's not about loving him. On the contrary, it harmed him. Never mind. It's not going to be published, so let's hide it in the inner room for the time being, and wait for the day after tomorrow.

Half a month after Liyang's recovery, there was good news from the southwest to Luoyang.

It turned out that Gan Ning and Wang Ping retreated to Jiangzhou that day, surrounded by Niu Jin and other groups, and tried to break through several times, but after all, under the defeat, their morale had fallen. Unable to work. Ma Tan entered the city twice to persuade Gan Ning to surrender, saying that your country is all destroyed, who are you guarding this lonely city for now? And according to the orders of Shixun and Cao Ren, he promised high-ranking officials and lords.

The key is that when he read history in his previous life, he admired Gan Ning a lot, and he couldn't bear to see him die, so he interceded with Cao Ren: "Gan Xingba is loyal and brave, and no one in Shu can compare, if it can be born." Good is great. "Moreover, Niu Jin repeatedly attacked the city, and there were many casualties. But he was always retreated by Gan Ning and Wang Ping, and he gradually did not dare to attack, but was besieged and waited for him to destroy himself.

However, Ma Tan entered the city to persuade him to surrender, but Gan Ning just didn't listen, and made a request: "The lord is here, and the minister is only dead." Although the prince (Liu Feng) is dead, the heir (Liu Chan) is still alive, and if the heir comes to the book, he would rather descend. ”

- To say that this title is confusing enough, Liu Feng is the crown prince, and Liu Chan is the emperor. The main Gan Ning has not been involved in the internal disputes of the Shu Han court, and he has no clear inclination, so he can only be called according to the highest status that the two goods have ever reached.

Gan Ning guarded Jiangzhou, this guard was more than four months, seeing that the grain in the city was about to run out, the soldiers had many rebellious intentions, and knew that no matter how stubborn they were, there was only one way to die. Wang Ping also persuaded him politely, saying that the general trend is like this, and it is irretrievable by manpower. Now I heard that Heijun has been protected by Zhao Zilong and fled to Yongchang, thousands of miles apart, even if he can regroup and make a comeback, he doesn't know if he gets the Year of the Monkey Ma Yue, then let's defend Jiangzhou again, it will be useless to the country, just damage people's lives in vain, so why bother?

At this time, Ma Youchang came again. Gan Ning still had a hard time making a decision, and said hatefully: "I have received the grace of my ancestors, and I am ashamed to eat Wei Su!" "Ma Jian said that in this case, I will show you a clear path for the general-

"The general does not want to accept the luke, but he can return to Luo from the white clothes, and take the life of the whole city. Jinwu Wei built a boat division in the East China Sea, followed the three Han and the Wei kingdom in the east, and went south to Linyi and Funan, and in the vast ocean, there were endless islands, which the Chinese had never set foot in. When General Wen was young, he crisscrossed the river, and for those who could walk boats, he could give one or two boats, and let the general go, so that he could give birth and not eat Wei Su. ”

If you want to say that this is still Xun's idea, when I wrote to Ma Yan, I mentioned it briefly. Yes Xun felt that Gan Xingba was once a river pirate, but it was a pity, it was better to indulge in being a pirate, maybe he could open up Southeast Asia hundreds of years in advance......

Gan Ning was helpless, and finally had to lead Wang Ping to open the city and surrender. Wang Ping was all under the military position of Cao Wei, but Gan Xingba took the initiative to unload his armor and boarded the prisoner car, saying that you should take me to Luoyang to sacrifice prisoners.

At the same time, Cao Ren also pacified the entire territory of Yizhou, and immediately waved his army south to Yizhou, and attacked Huang Zhong and others from the north and south, and finally destroyed Zhu Bao, Yonghong and other Hao chieftain forces. Yonghong was killed by the Yi people on the way to escape, but Zhu Bao surrendered and was sent to the Central Plains to live idlely.

Then the army was mighty and wanted to advance into Yongchang. But at this time, it was already summer, and the climate in the southern and central regions was hot, and there was miasma everywhere, not to mention the Chinese soldiers, and even the Shu soldiers fell ill one after another. Cao Ren had no choice but to return to Chengdu temporarily, play the Son of Heaven, and plan to wait for the weather to cool down after the autumn before continuing to march into the army.

Besides, Zhuge was ordered by Shixun to give Lu Hong a gift of candied travel - a silk robe, but this time he disappeared, and it took more than a month to return. Coincidentally, it was Fu who bumped into him in front of the mansion again, so he asked, "Why is it late for the public holiday?" Zhuge Dan replied honestly: "I didn't see Lu Cifan on the way, and I arrived at Luling, and I was like my life." ”

Now it's a return to interest-that guy really dares to go to Luling County to take office-"Do you have to see Lu Cifan?" "Zhuge Dan said of course I saw it, and the things were also delivered, otherwise where would I dare to come back.

"What does Ci Fan say?"

"Lu Cifan received the gift of the lord, but Yun: 'The children are rude, but the public is kind.'" ”

"Children are rude", on the surface, they are saying that they are at fault, so that you can send people to send gifts so far, but how can you not hear the meaning beyond the words? Lu Hong is a few years older than Shixun, even if he slaps Shangguan's sycophants again, he can use humble words such as "mediocre" and "cow and horse walking", and he will not call himself a "child" - in fact, this is scolding me!

couldn't help but follow Zhuge Dan to return to Shixun, and after Zhuge Dan retreated, he asked Shixun: "My lord is not afraid of Lu Cifan Yang My selfishness?" Shi Xun smiled and shook his head: "His name is evil, can An move me?" I have been soothed. (To be continued.) )