The "incident" in Xiahou Ba's mouth refers to his escape plan, which is very important and extremely confidential to him, so he can only entrust his most trusted family to do it. And the housekeeper in front of him is his most trusted family.

"Second young master, please rest assured, when the emperor moved the capital before, the old lady and some of her family members had already moved to Chang'an with most of their belongings and with the imperial court. These days, the old slave buried most of the remaining belongings in the garden of the outer house.

There is no need to worry about the financial aspects anymore, and they will not become a burden to us. The second young master only needs to travel lightly with the young lady and go out of the city. Although the Shu army is besieging the city, there are still many people who secretly flee out of the city to avoid the scourge of war.

The old slave has already inquired that the Shu army is extremely generous to the people, and basically will not stop the people from going and staying. When they encounter poor people who are hungry and clothed, they will also distribute food for disaster relief, and even give them fields to settle for farming.

At that time, the second young master and the young lady disguised themselves as ordinary people and fled out of the city with the fleeing team, there was absolutely no problem. As long as you go out of the city, it will be easy to do, the young master will bring more money, hire a carriage outside the city, and soon reach Chang'an.

It's just that there is a shortage of soldiers in these years, and it is estimated that the road is not safe, so the second young master still has to bring more personal soldiers with him just in case. The old slave has also helped them get ready, and when the time comes, they will be asked to put on makeup as all kinds of fleeing people, follow the second young master, and protect the second young master and the young lady. ”

This old housekeeper is an old man who has been serving in Xiahou Mansion since the time of Xiahou Yuan, and later split up, Xiahou Yuan asked him to follow his second son Xiahou Ba, so he became the housekeeper of Xiahou Ba's Mansion. But he still followed the previous name when he was in the old Xiahou Mansion, calling Xiahou Ba the second young master.

And that young lady is not Xiahou Ba's main room, the main room has already followed Xiahou Old Lady to Chang'an, and the one who stayed here and waited for Xiahou Ba was just a concubine.

The old housekeeper reported to Xiahouba in detail the detailed escape route and various specific arrangements, and after Xiahouba confirmed that this was indeed a good plan, he let him retreat. Not long after the old housekeeper retired, another servant came to report that General Xiahou Shang had sent a gift to his own general to "open it in person".

Xiahou Ba, who was already exhausted and dizzy, heard that it was sent by Xiahou Shang, so he had to beckon and ask someone to present the gift. Soon, the servant placed a square object beautifully wrapped in brocade cloth on the table in both hands, and consciously helped unwrap the brocade cloth.

What appeared in front of Xiahou Ba was a beautifully made wooden box, the servant did not dare to open it, looked at Xiahou Ba, and Xiahou said domineeringly: "Open it." ”

So, the servant continued to move, opened the brass buckle on the wooden box, and lifted the lid of the wooden box. What caught my eye was a letter placed on it, and there was something else behind the letter, but it was blocked by the letter and couldn't see clearly.

The servant picked up the letter and respectfully presented it to Xiahou Ba, Xiahou Ba didn't look at anything else in the box, and after taking the envelope, he took out a piece of letter paper from the envelope that had no food, shook it open, and changed his face.

The letter was not written by Xiahou Shang at all, and this "gift was naturally not given by him, the content of the letter was to ask him to make a choice within twelve hours, and the content of the choice was in the box."

Xiahou Ba trembled and slowly touched the box, the box was divided into two squares, one side was a gold seal, and the other was a black iron bump. The so-called gold seal is actually made of copper, and in ancient times, officials had to have such a "gold seal" made of copper as a symbol of power.

Xiahou Ba lifted the golden seal, turned it over and looked at the seal, only to see that the inscription engraved there was "General of the Great Han Dynasty". This is a miscellaneous general of five grades, the official position is not large, but the significance of the representation is significant.

This means that once he accepts this official position, he will switch to the Shu Han formation. The key thing is that once he accepts the canonization of the Han Emperor, his life will be saved, and he will no longer have to live that life of panic and urgency like a lost dog.

Xuchang is now surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Shu troops, although he has made arrangements and is very sure to escape, but the plan is always the plan, and the plan sometimes can't catch up with the changes.

Even if he can escape back to Chang'an and escape back to the court that is still breathing, what will happen after that? After that, I didn't continue to live my life in fear. He has a personal feeling about the strength of the Shu army, there is almost no suspense about the Shu State sweeping the world, how long can the Wei court that fled to Chang'an hold on?

He is a family of generals, and the next time the Shu army comes to attack, the emperor will inevitably order himself to lead his troops to meet the enemy again. I am no longer willing to face these terrible enemies of the Shu army. If it was still fighting by force like before, he Xiahou Ba would not have anything to fear.

He followed his father since he was a child, practiced a martial arts, and when he was young, he also fantasized about crisscrossing the battlefield, competing with those legendary famous generals, and also did a heroic dream of jumping into an army of hundreds of thousands of people alone, taking ~ the head of the head such as exploring the bag.

However, the enemy you are facing now does not compete with you in martial arts at all, does not talk about morality at all, and does not even get close to you at all, does not face to face with you at all, but just fires those terrible hidden weapons that call fire ~ guns from a distance. But these hidden weapons are so powerful that they can't even be resisted, and they can't even be blocked by shields.

Not only him, but the entire Wei army was filled with a sense of powerlessness and irresistibility in the face of such a terrible weapon. Thinking of this, he looked at the black thing next to the golden seal, and he only dared to look at it, but he didn't dare to touch it.

Because that black iron bump was the thunderbolt that made the Wei army tremble. Of course, this is actually just a shell, and there is no gun~ powder in it, because the purpose of this operation is only to intimidate Xiahouba, not to kill him.

That's right, this gift was actually not sent by Xiahou Shang, but by the "CIA" personnel lurking in Xuchang, according to the requirements of Pang Tong's plan. They used money to open the way, bought the gatehouse of Xiahou Ba's mansion, falsely claimed to be a subordinate of Xiahou Shang's mansion, and sent this gift on the order of their general.

Because it is a matter of confidentiality, it is necessary to ask General Xiahouba to "personally open" this gift, this porter received a heavy amount of silver, and sent this "gift" to Xiahouba "personally" with great professional ethics. After all, people in this age do not have the concept of terrorist attacks, bomb parcels and the like, and they are unwary of these things.

Pang Tong's ploy is indeed a bit of a scoundrel, and its approach is somewhat similar to that of later terrorists, sending a bomb parcel or white powder mail to intimidate the target. Somewhat different from the terrorists' approach, he not only intimidated, but also indud.

Thunderbolt is intimidation, it represents death, and if you don't surrender, there is only one way to die. At the same time, he gave him an official seal to choose, this is the lure of Chiguoguo, if he chooses to surrender, not only can his life be saved, but his future glory and wealth will not be a problem.

This kind of coercion and temptation is quite a bit of the meaning of the prosperity of those who follow me and the death of those who disobey me, and it is also similar to the statue of a Western god, holding a scripture in one hand and a sword in the other. Either you will take refuge in me, or you will taste my sword.