—166 A.D.——

In the ninth year of Yanxi (166), Emperor Huan collapsed and had no children.

Because during the reign of Emperor Huan, he believed in the eunuchs, and added Hou Lan, Cao Jie, and Wang Fu three eunuchs as public candidates, because the original "five candidates" in the left left died of illness, and the rest of the eunuchs were called or "seven candidates", after the collapse of Emperor Huan, the seven marquis wanted to establish Liu Kui, the king of the Bohai Sea who was close to them, as the emperor.

From time to time, there are Taiwei Dou Wu, Chen Fan and scholars Xun Yu, Liu Biao and others because of their outstanding virtue and called the "Ten Gentlemen", Dou Wu's sister Dou Miao is the queen of Emperor Huan, and does not want Liu Kui, who has always been discordant with him, to ascend the throne, so he contacted the ten gentlemen, including Dou Wu, and many relatives to compete with the eunuchs, to establish Liu Hong, the marquis of the Pavilion, as the emperor according to the law.

The two sides were at loggerheads, and finally a big fight, and the "Wushuang" warriors collected by the door secretly carried out a big brawl in Luoyang, which was later called "Seven Waiting Battles and Ten Monarchs" or "The Disaster of the Party".

Because of the sword saint king's more bullet pressure, both sides did not put the struggle on the surface, and finally the "ten gentlemen" won the victory, Dou Wuying was only ten years old Liu Hong as the emperor, called the Han Ling Emperor, and then self-proclaimed general.

The remnants of the eunuch forces wagked their tails and begged for mercy from Dou Miao, who was promoted to the queen mother, and was spared, and Dou Wu, in order to stabilize his position, divided the other gentlemen in the name of making meritorious decisions, and for a time the Luoyang Dynasty was once again controlled by the forces of foreign relatives.

In the same year, the catastrophe outside the Saiwai, the Hu people Xianbei into the fortress, the Xiongnu and the rebels responded to the Kou, and the three states of You, Liang, and the three states were in an emergency at the same time.

After the imperial court, the general Zhang Huan was the general of the Huns, and in order to level the rebellion of the three states, Zhang Huan went to the most troubled state and sent his subordinates to Liangzhou and Youzhou to recruit troops locally.

Liangzhou has a heroic man named Dong Zhuo, commanding a state ranger, then Wuwei Yu Linlang, led the troops to accept Zhang Huan's recruitment, and exterminated the rebel Qiang in less than ten months, Zhang Huan was overjoyed, and the table was Sima of other departments, and the official worshiped Langzhong.

There are rumors that the Qiang people in Liangzhou have long been subdued by Dong Zhuo, and the rebellion against the Qiang was deceived by his subordinate advisers from other places, taking advantage of Xianbei's entry into the fortress to strengthen its momentum, and then exterminating the capital in order to enter the body, but Zhang Huan did not win the trust.

Although there were outstanding generals such as Ding Yuan of Nanxian County and Gongsun Zan of Zhuo County, it still took nearly half a year to repel the plundering Hu people, and then the division returned to the court.

After this battle, Zhang Huan's troops were very damaged, and he thought that he had led the troops well and was complacent, so when he heard his subordinates tell him that many soldiers had drunk the "talisman water" that could quickly recover from their injuries, he angrily reprimanded him and expelled him.

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After Emperor Ling ascended the throne, he worshiped Cao Song as the great Si Nong, in charge of the country's finances, and ranked Jiuqing, after all, at this time, his relatives were in power, and the responsibility of the supervision and reporting around Luoyang was undoubtedly withdrawn, so Cao Song was forced to change from a person who was afraid of the "supervision" to the "God of Wealth" that everyone loved.

Cao Song was promoted, Cai Yong did not stop, and in six years, he was promoted to Langzhong and Yilang in turn, and when he was doing studies, he got to know many great Confucians in Luoyang, such as Lu Zhi and Zheng Xuan, and seemed to be ready to do a major cultural event with them.

But none of these things have anything to do with Cao Cao, who is only eleven years old now.

For Cao Cao, the intuitive feeling is that the teacher's words are becoming more and more difficult to understand, and his family is even richer, so he can compare Yuan Shao, and by the way, he can also give Cai Wan some more expensive Konghou.

Of course, this is not that Cao Cao has any thoughts about Miss Cai's family, but I hope that when she is about to smash people with Konghou, she can think that this is sent by herself, and she will not smash him but Yuan Shao.

Cai Wan is now 12 years old, with a long body, a beautiful appearance, eloquent, understands poetry and songs, and is good at music and rhythm.

In this regard, Cao Cao can only say that those people are probably blind, although she looks delicate and weak, but she has nothing to do with such a big Konghou walking around, obviously born with strange powers.

This is also related to the fact that she only used a gong to smash Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, but she used bullets to others - wake up! The thing that fascinates you isn't a musical instrument, it's a murder weapon!

After Yuan Shao grew up, the fat on his body was gone, and his appearance could vaguely see the Yuan family's consistent heroism, but his head was still as bad as ever, Cao Cao could deceive him in two sentences, but now he had to be promoted to three sentences.

Yuan Shao's younger brother Yuan Shu not only inherited the Yuan family's consistent mantra "My Yuan family is the fourth and third duke", but also likes golden things, but for some reason he is quite afraid of Cai Wan, and he only went to Cai's mansion twice and refused to go again.

As for Cao Cao himself. As he grew older, in addition to growing taller, his eyebrows also began to sharpen, and when he went out with Cao Song, the words of others when he complimented him had become: "Cao Xiaogongzi is heroic and extraordinary, and he will be a general in the future." ”

"I don't care about a general, even a general," Cao Cao had no one else to say, so he had to say to the "stand-in": "I really want to be the prime minister." ”

is also located above the three princes and nine secretaries, the "general" is currently the highest official military position, while the "prime minister" is a civilian position with a similar status that has been abandoned for many years.

"Why not be the emperor?" Because it was impossible for others to hear it, the speech of the "stand-in" was even bolder: "You see that there are three emperors in a row, except for the fact that all of them are surnamed Liu, they have nothing to do with the previous emperor at all." ”

"No...... 'all surnamed Liu' is actually the most important point," Cao Cao looked at the "stand-in" and whispered: "After all, four hundred years of the country." ”

For this "stand-in" who grew up with him and was exactly the same, as he grew older and had more knowledge, Cao Cao's perception of him gradually became complicated, especially when he occasionally understated some things that Cao Cao buried deep in his heart and didn't even dare to think about it.

"Okay—you two can come here—" Cai Wan's voice came from a distance, causing Cao Cao, who was resting against a tree, to pass over.

Today is Cai Yong's rest, he originally wanted to give lectures to Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, but he was somehow persuaded by Cai Wan that "it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books", so he prepared a frame and took three teenagers and girls to the "Black Dragon Pond" in the suburbs.

After Cai Yong told the three of them about the landscape by the pool, he returned to the car to take a nap and told them to play on their own, Cai Wan set up the canvas and said that he wanted to paint the scenery of the pool, and then drove Cao Cao and Yuan Shao away on the grounds that they would interfere with the inspiration.

Calling at this time, it must have been drawn? Cao Cao Fang moved, and saw Yuan Shao running over from the other side holding a bunch of wild fruits: "Cao Cao! What do you see I found? ”

I saw a monkey returning from foraging......

Cao Cao sighed secretly, summoned the servants who were on call around him to collect the fruit, and straightened his clothes before leading Yuan Shao to see Cai Wan by the waterhole.

"How?" On the edge of the pool, Cai Zhenji, who was dressed in emerald green, had already dropped her paintbrush and looked at Cao Cao and Yuan Shao with her gonghou in her hand.

Is this what it means to smash people if you dare to say it badly? Cao Cao looked at the canvas as he thought about the beautiful words, and then froze.

At this time, there are not many types of pigments, it is difficult to completely realistic colors, and most of the paintings use pure ink, although Cai Wan's "waterhole picture" is not a good brushwork, but there are also remarkable points, but the question is, what is the thing on the canvas hovering above the waterhole?

"Black Dragon Pond, how can it be called Black Dragon Pond without a black dragon?" Cai Wan seemed to have expected to explain: "The dragon statue I drew is not like? ”

"It's like any of us have ever seen a real dragon—"

"[Whew!] 】”

Halfway through Cao Cao's words, he heard a huge and terrifying roar, the ground shook, the water surface of the Black Dragon Pond suddenly boiled and rolled, and a huge snake broke out of the water, the whole body was pitch black, with scales and horns, a huge mouth of blood, and a bright eye, exactly the same as the "black dragon" painted by Cai Wan.

After the black dragon came out of the water, his eyes swept slightly, and he swooped down in the air, opening his huge mouth and heading straight at Cao Cao, Cai Wan, and Yuan Shao.

"Ahh The "stand-in" drew his sword and called out, waking up Cao Cao, who was almost suppressed, Cao Cao had no time to hesitate at all, and also pulled out the short sword used by the usual ranger, and stabbed the sharp fangs in the mouth of the black dragon together with the "stand-in".

Zheng! Collapse!

The short sword in the hands of Cao Cao and the "stand-in" was knocked away and fell backwards together, but the two dragon teeth were also broken, the black dragon retreated in pain, and the black dragon's blood splashed everywhere, but there was no smell of blood when it smelled, it was more like ...... Spilled ink?

"Ahhh If you want to eat Cao Cao, pass me first! Yuan Shao woke up like a dream, wielding his sheathed short sword indiscriminately, blocking in front of Cao Cao.

Boom! Boom! Syllable! Syllable! Cai Wan picked up her gonghou and suddenly snapped two strings, and two barely visible sound waves flew out and hit the black dragon, causing it to pause for a moment as if it was about to pounce again.

Isn't there a normal way to use it? Why do you always need to smash it? Due to the violent shaking and unable to get up for a while, Cao Cao fell to the ground and looked at Cai Wan, thinking busily.

"Haha, I usually can't see it, but I'm still stronger, Ah Gou!" On the other side, the "stand-in" just rolled a few times before getting up again, picking up the short sword and rushing towards the black dragon: "You just lie down honestly!" ”

Bang - bang! Syllable!

"Huh? I have the power of 'unparalleled'? Yuan Shao waved the short sword in his hand indiscriminately, and the black dragon that struck was always repelled by the strange appearance of sword marks, so he was quite surprised: "Cao Cao! Sadahime! I'm sure I'll protect you! ”

What to do...... Now I can't do it if I want him to run fast, next to Cao Cao is the "stand-in" who has been knocked away many times and finally can't get up, and Cai Wan, who has broken all the strings and keeps shaking his arms.

"[Evil beast! Hugh hurts! 】”

Zheng!

A clear female voice sounded, and then a golden sword body, a long sword decorated with blue decoration, fell from the sky, poked the forehead of the black dragon that was about to pounce and slammed it to the ground, the black dragon didn't even have time to struggle, and directly turned into a puff of ink scattered around.

Then, a woman in her twenties, dressed in a tight-fitting black suit and a snow-white hooded cloak, with pink petals floating around her body, and bright eyebrows, holding a long staff, descended from the sky and pulled out the golden sword.

"[Zuo Ci! I know you're here! You've gone too far this time! 】”

The woman's eyes and expression were cold, and when she looked around, Cao Cao had only seen a similar look on the face of the Empress Dowager, but compared to this woman, those women in the deep palace were like the difference between the fluorescent light of rotten grass and the bright moon in the sky.

Before the woman could say the third sentence, the canvas that Cai Wan had originally used to paint suddenly spontaneously combusted, and a black talisman suddenly burst out of the flames.

"[Hmph! The woman didn't say anything more, and followed the talisman and flew away.

For a while, as the ink transformed into the black dragon gradually dried up, the scene here became like an ordinary scene of children playing with ink and accidentally spilling it all over the ground.

"Uh, it hurts, it hurts, is that whose 'unmatched' ability it is? Why target us? The "stand-in" limped from the side, stretched out his hand to pull Cao Cao, and suddenly tilted his head: "I said, why is your face so red?" ”