Chapter 12: Seeking the Skin of the Tiger
Cao Cao said that Wang Yue killed 3,000 thieves alone outside the city of Anyi, and asked if he could still stand alone against Zhang Ji's 20,000 army now, Wang Yue heard this, and immediately chuckled in his heart, thinking that he knew the secret of his serious injury, but just looking at Cao Cao's expression, but it was not like this, which made Wang Yue unable to understand the intention of Cao Cao's words for a while, so he could only shake his head and say: "When people are exhausted, I can kill 3,000 people is the limit, of course, I can't stop the army of 20,000 people." ”
After hearing this, Cao Cao laughed, slapped the handrail with his hand, stood up, and said loudly: "I can!" Cao Cao paced back and forth with his hands behind his back and said with an arrogant face: "I can not only but also only need to sit firmly in the big tent of the Chinese army, I can command 5,000 people to break the rebellion of several times more than our army, now I have tens of thousands of elite soldiers in Xuchang City, grain, grass and horses are readily available, and my brother Xiahou Yuan is leading 20,000 troops to garrison in Yanzhou, and Xuchang City just formed a horn trend, if the emperor can move the capital to Xuchang, I will ensure the safety of the imperial court, and will no longer be harassed by thieves and traitors, so the emperor can rest assured?" ”
Wang Yue knew in his heart that Cao Cao had already controlled the entire Luoyang City at this time, even if he wanted to learn from Dong Zhuo, no one in the cholera imperial court would be able to contend with him, in order to understand Cao Cao's true thoughts, he could only say tentatively: "If the general can help the imperial court and protect the Han family, I am willing to obey the general's dispatch!" It's just that if anyone is disloyal to the Han Dynasty, I will fight for my life to get rid of him. Cao Cao was not afraid of Wang Yue's threat, and laughed loudly: "Sir, you can rest assured that as long as I have me, I will not change my surname, and I will also help the imperial court sweep away the rebel parties who want to be the king and hegemonic again. ”
Cao Cao was very happy to see Wang Yue nodding and acquiescing in the matter of moving the capital, and after walking back to his seat, he pointed to his two sons and said: "I have admired the emperor for a long time and want to ask the dogs to worship you as a teacher. After speaking, he asked his two sons to kowtow to their masters, Cao Cao's move was like handing over his sons to Wang Yue as a proton, which made Wang Yue more convinced of Cao Cao's determination to serve the imperial court.
Wang Yue told him to get up and said with satisfaction: "The qualifications of the two sons are extraordinary, I am very satisfied, and I will teach each other." Cao Cao saw that the purpose of this trip had been achieved, so he got up to bid farewell to Wang Yue, and his two sons also left on the pretext of going back to the barracks to pack their bags.
During the conversation, Cao Cao's attitude towards Wang Yue has been arrogant and unreasonable, Wang Ping has long been unaccustomed to it, if it wasn't for Wang Yue secretly stopping him, he would have stepped forward to argue, at this time Cao Cao and several people have left, Wang Ping finally couldn't help but scold: "This Cao Cao is also shameless, obviously he just wants to learn from Dong Zhuo to empty the imperial power, but he is not so high-sounding, if the emperor really goes to Xuchang City, he will definitely be controlled by him." "Wang Yue is also helpless, his internal injuries are serious and he can't fight with others, if there is no Cao Cao to help, at this time, Luoyang City may have been occupied by Zhang Ji's rebels, and the emperor himself is more likely to die, and now Cao Cao has gained power, what can be done.
At this time, Wang Yue opened his mouth and said: "I see that although Cao Cao is arrogant, he has the ability to support the court, he has shown his loyalty to the Han family by handing his son into my hands, and the matter of moving the capital is not something we can control, and in fact Xuchang is indeed much safer than Luoyang, I only hope that Cao Cao can really be as loyal and patriotic as he said." Wang Ping wanted to say some bad things about Cao Cao again, but after thinking about it, the emperor moved the capital to Xuchang, but his master wanted to stay in Luoyang City to teach his disciples, this matter just made them stay away from the court, no longer worried about the emperor's safety, and finally could live a relaxed life, thinking of this, Wang Ping felt that Cao Cao helped himself in disguise.
At this time, Zhao Yun, who was on the side, expressed his concerns: "Cao Cao is shrewd and cunning, he asked his son to apprentice, I'm afraid it is not to appease and win the trust of Uncle Shi, but to better monitor us, so we must be careful not to reveal the secret of Uncle Shi's internal injuries." As soon as these words came out, Wang Ping's heart was also extremely frightened, thinking about it, now in the entire Luoyang City, only the master Wang Yue can bring some deterrence to Cao Cao, if people know that the master's internal injuries are serious and he can't make a move, then Cao Cao will definitely attack their master and apprentice to get rid of future troubles, it seems that he still has to quickly find the elixir to heal the master's internal injuries.
The next day, Cao Pi and Cao Zhang, the brothers came to Wang Yue's courtyard early in the morning, and the two of them prepared a lot of gold and silver gifts for apprenticeship, Wang Ping took it and praised them in his mouth: "We are trying to repair the courtyard, but we have no money in our hands, but we don't want the two junior brothers to send a big gift, just to solve the urgent need, but these silver money is still not enough, and the master suffered some small injuries last time, and also needs precious medicinal materials to heal, and please ask the two junior brothers to quickly think of a solution!" Wang Ping is planning to go to Xuzhou with his senior brother Zhao Yun to find Immortal Island, not to mention the cost of this journey, that is, if he finds the elixir, he also needs a certain amount of silver money and treasures to exchange it, so how can he miss such a good blackmail opportunity.
Cao Zhangjian was knocked on a bamboo pole early in the morning, and he was about to get angry, but was stopped by Cao Pi and said: "What Senior Brother said is very true, these gifts of filial piety to the master and senior brother are really shabby, so I will ask someone to go back to the camp and get some more." After saying that, they arranged for the servants to fetch it, and Wang Ping and Zhao Yun secretly reminded themselves to be careful of this person when they saw that Cao Pi was so young but extremely powerful. After that, Wang Ping led the two to see Wang Yue, and after kneeling down and offering tea in the house, the ceremony was completed.
At this time, the Chinese military ministers in the imperial palace were discussing the matter of moving the capital to Xuchang, and after a few days of fermentation, the ministers had already been drawn to the united front by Cao Cao, and one by one the emperor wrote that Cao Cao was loyal to the Han family and was a minister of the humerus and hoped that the emperor could listen to his opinions more, Liu Xie, although young but extremely intelligent, he knew that now was not the time for him to show his ambitions, and if he wanted to keep Jiangshan Sheji, he could only continue to endure. Sure enough, it didn't take a few days for the news from the palace that the emperor was going to move the capital to Xuchang, which was Cao Cao's base camp, and a generation of heroes could finally coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes.
Since the apprenticeship, Cao Pi and Cao Zhang have lived in the same courtyard as Wang Ping, Wang Ping will go to their room almost every day to sweep some valuables, Cao Pi can only pretend not to care in order to show his noble identity, and when he has nothing to do, Cao Pi brothers will pull Wang Ping and Zhao Yun to the city to drink, Cao Pi is very ambitious, and he began to form his own forces at a young age.
He saw that Zhao Yun had an extraordinary temperament, and his strength was extremely high, and he had already had the heart of recruiting in his heart, and he heard that Wang Ping could kill Guo Yan in the midst of thousands of troops, and he was also very impressed by his wit and bravery, but Wang Ping and Zhao Yun had long been resistant to Cao Pi, so they only cared about gags and talked about him, Cao Pi's younger brother Cao Zhang didn't like to talk very much, but he was born with divine power, and he reached the early stage of congenital life at a young age, and he had to pester Zhao Yun all day long. A few days later, Cao Cao led the army to escort the emperor Liu Xie and the civil and military officials to move to Xuchang City, but Luoyang City was a metropolis after all, how could Cao Cao give up here, so he transferred Cao Hong and Li Dian to lead 5,000 troops to defend the city, and Wang Yue did not follow the emperor to Xuchang according to the previous agreement with Cao Cao, so he could only stay at home to teach his apprentices, and life became easier.
After a few days, Wang Ping and Zhao Yun privately found Wang Yue to discuss going to Xuzhou, Wang Yue knew that the two were filial, and he was very relieved in his heart, so he called the two to him and said: "Yun'er is cautious, I am not too worried, and after the last war, it has entered the realm of the late congenital stage, as long as you don't meet those old monsters, you can almost sweep the rivers and lakes." ”
Zhao Yun's bones are excellent, and he benefited a lot from watching the battle that night, but he is low-key, even if he hears Wang Yue's praise, he is also very modest and calm, Wang Yue praised Zhao Yun, and pretended to reprimand Wang Ping harshly: "Ping'er's martial arts are still in the acquired realm, and you need to work harder, this trip to Xuzhou, you should enter the world and practice, but everything just needs to follow fate, don't be too forceful." ”
Wang Ping has never left his side since he was a child, and he is still a little worried about being a master this time, Wang Ping doesn't want the master to worry about himself, so he said cheekily: "Master don't need to worry, you say that the senior brother is the strongest among the young, plus I have the most brilliant brain in the world, who can bully us!" Wang Ping had a hippie smile on his face, and Wang Yue wanted to scold him, but after thinking about it, although his apprentice couldn't do it by force, the ghost idea was indeed faster than ordinary people, and this person with many eyes would definitely not be able to suffer a loss outside, thinking that he was about to leave him, so he was not ready to criticize him. In the end, Wang Ping reminded that the matter of going to Xuzhou must not be known to the Cao Pi brothers, and they had to think of a foolproof way to hide it from them.
Wang Yue thought that his senior brother Tong Yuan had a son named Tong Fei who was now serving in Gongsun Zhan, so why not ask Wang Ping and them to pick up Tong Fei's family to settle in Luoyang as an excuse for this long trip. When Zhao Yun heard the news, he was very excited, he only knew that the master had a son named Tong Hu, who unfortunately died when he was studying art with him, but he didn't want to have a brother named Tong Fei, Wang Yue had to explain to him: "Tong Fei was originally a concubine, and now he is thirty or five, due to poor physical qualifications, he failed to learn his father's exercises, so that his temperament changed abruptly, and he ran away from home at a young age. Now that there is another war there, if you have the chance, you can take their family here, and I will take good care of them. Zhao Yun knew that the master still had descendants in the world and was eager to meet immediately, so he discussed with Wang Ping that after he found the elixir, he would go to the north to find Tong Fei's family.
The next day, Wang Yue called several people to his side on the grounds of sending Wang Ping and Zhao Yun to find Tong Fei, and he said: "Since you worship me as a teacher, I should let you know something about the teacher, my master Dharma name Yu Zhenzi died when Emperor Ling was five years old, he adopted two righteous sons when he was young, that is, my two senior brothers Tong Yuan and Li Yan, I and my senior brother Tong Yuan are brothers and sisters, but unfortunately there is no news of him ten years ago. This time, you two must go all out to find his descendant Tong Fei, and you must bring their family to Luoyang. After listening to him, Wang Ping and Zhao Yun hurriedly stepped forward and promised that they would definitely find Tong Fei by all means.