Chapter 4, The Court Incident (2)

After the general Dou Wu got the evidence of Cao Jie's and Wang Fu's crimes, he did not send someone to take them down, but personally drafted a memo in Zhongshu Province, and decided to play it to the empress dowager and the emperor tomorrow in the morning court. At that time, Dou Wu might have an urgent matter at home, so he put this twist and turn in the Zhongshu Provincial Book Case and hurried back to the mansion, but he didn't want to make a fatal mistake by doing so.

Dou Wu and Taifu Chen Fan's idea of eradicating the power of the eunuchs is not a day or two, it has been several months, the eunuch leaders Cao Jie and Wang Fu have long been wary of the two of them, not only arranged for the master to track their daily travel, but more powerful is that the central head organs of the central government, Zhongshu Province, and the forbidden central government have installed their people, and the eunuchs around the emperor needless to say, they are all with them, Even the Empress Dowager Dou (Dou Wu's daughter) around the music department of the five senses history (in charge of the five female books in the Empress Dowager's palace) was bought by Cao Jie and Wang Fu, Dou Wu put the written music fold in the Zhongshu Province, first by the canon in the book (the official in charge of the music fold) secretly told the music club five senses history, and the music club five senses history told Changle five senses history (the eunuch at the gate of the Changle Palace) Zhu Yu, Zhu Yu entered the Zhongshu Province to steal out the music written by Dou Wu to take a look, and scolded, "If you want to kill Dou Wu, kill those guilty officials in the forbidden middle, What sin are we people who should suffer this extermination? ”

So Zhu Yu quickly told Cao Jie about this, Cao Jie found Wang Fu again, and Zhu Yu recruited more than a dozen eunuchs from his cronies to discuss together, and they decided to get rid of Dou Wu, Chen Fan and others first.

Cao Jie and others shouted to the outside world that Dou Wu wanted the Empress Dowager to abolish the emperor and plot a rebellion, they first ran to the emperor and falsely accused Dou Wu of abolishing the emperor and standing on his own, that Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty was only twelve or thirteen years old, where did he experience this kind of change, he was stupid at that time, Wang Fu asked Emperor Han Ling to draw out his sword and wave it to show his anger, and at the same time Wang Fu sent the forbidden army to kidnap the Empress Dowager Dou, forcing her to hand over the emperor's seal and scarf, and wrote an edict, ordering the five battalions of soldiers in the forbidden middle to go to Dou Mansion to arrest Dou Wu.

Wang Yue, who is the general of the tiger ben, couldn't help but be shocked after receiving the emperor's edict, he didn't believe that Dou Wu would rebel, what kind of person is Dou Wu, who is honest all his life, vicious and hateful, and a person who fights-for-tat with the eunuch forces, that is the head of the three monarchs, how could he rebel? But the edict in front of him did have the emperor's seal, and Wang Yue had no choice but to lead the forbidden army to listen to the order.

At the same time that Wang Fu and Cao Jie sent people to transfer troops around with the emperor's edict, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty worshiped Wang Fu as the Yellow Gate Order, and went to the North Prison Temple to arrest Yin Xun and Shan Bing.

That night, Dou Wu was sleeping at home Zhengxiang, suddenly heard the noise outside the door, hurriedly got up, and saw the servant come to report that a large number of forbidden troops were coming, and he was busy opening the courtyard door, and saw Zheng Feng holding the edict under the light with a murderous face, knowing that it was not good, so he asked why. Zheng Feng read out the edict, Dou Wu was shocked when he heard it, got up and drew his sword and immediately cut a few people to the backyard and fled, escaping from the mansion and going straight to the north camp led by his nephew Dou Shao.

At this time, the sky has dawned, the whole Luoyang City is spreading the news of Dou Wu's rebellion, Chen Fan knew that things had changed after hearing it, and hurriedly beckoned more than 80 officials and protΓ©gΓ©s to raise their swords and rush into Chengming Gate, and then to Shangshumen, just when Wang Fu led a team of forbidden troops out, Chen Fan shouted, "The general is loyal to the country, and the Yellow Gate is rebellious, why do you say that the general is not Daoer!" Wang Fu pointed his sword at Chen Fan and said, "Chen Fan is a thief, he was about to go to get you, but you came to the door, you came just in time!" You keep saying that our Yellow Gate rebelled, how did our Yellow Gate rebel, what proof do you have! On the other hand, you look at Dou Wu, the first emperor abandoned the world, the new emperor has just ascended the throne, what merit does he Dou Wu have, the family is all feudal marquis, between ten days, the family wealth is huge, if the minister is like this, is this loyal? Look at you Chen Fan again, as an auxiliary leader, but you complement each other, and defend the thief like this, don't you feel ashamed in your heart? ”

"Phew! Dog minion, a bunch of nonsense! Chen Fan scolded, "The duty of your Huangmen is to wait for the emperor in the forbidden, but you are restless and self-contained, meddling in political affairs, taking bribes, bending the law for bribes, setting up farms among the people, suppressing scholars, framing loyalty, and now you are holding the emperor hostage to falsely pass on the holy decree, you are an out-and-out rebel, even if you are cut with a thousand knives, I hate you!" Wang Fu was furious and ordered the forbidden army to go and arrest him, Chen Fan was angry, and no one dared to go up. Wang Fu immediately beheaded several people, and the forbidden army had no choice but to step forward, fighting twice, more than 80 people were killed, and Chen Fan was arrested.

After arresting Chen Fan, Wang Fu led people to arrest Liu Yu and others.

Cao Cao was very angry when he heard about these things that happened in the capital, he had no good impression of the eunuchs, and today I heard that the eunuchs framed Dou Wu and they rebelled, and wanted to arrest Dou Wu and them, Cao Cao couldn't hold his breath, and made an appointment with Cao Hong, brought a sword, and secretly went out of the house, and ran to make an appointment with Yuan Shao, dressed up, and the three of them heard that Cao Jie led the soldiers and horses to the north camp, so they rode to the north camp. At this time, Cao Jie led his troops and horses to the North Camp, and Dou Wu and his nephew Dou Shao led more than 5,000 soldiers from the five battalions of the North Camp to wait at the gate of the camp.

The two armies lined up, and Dou Wu stepped out and pointed at Cao Jie and scolded, "Emasculating villain!" You and others are corrupt and pervert the law, frame the loyal and good, suppress the scholars, make the court discipline chaotic, and bring disaster to the country and the people, I really regret that I didn't take you down earlier! Let you eunuchs succeed today! ”

Cao Jie looked back at Wang Yue and said, "General Wang, take down this thief for me!" Wang Yue responded and went straight to Dou Wu with a gun, and Dou Wu swung his sword to meet him. Wang Yue knew that Dou Wu was a loyal minister, so he didn't try his best to fight, and whispered to Dou Wu, "General Dou, you don't want to run quickly, the green mountains left behind are not afraid of no firewood, and you will find the emperor to reason in the future." "Dou Wu is also fighting today, where to listen to Wang Yue's words, he plans to kill Cao Jie today to finish, so the knife is powerful, Wang Yue fought a few times and had to pull the horse back, Zheng Feng waved his knife to meet him, saw Zheng Feng, Dou Wu's eyes were red, and Zheng Feng was slashed under the horse with only three efforts.

Dou Shao waved the army together, the two armies were fighting, between the battle, suddenly killed an army from one side, the first member of the general was Zhang Huan, the general of the Huns, Zhang Huan just led the army back to the capital this morning, and encountered the chaos in the capital, Wang Fu made people hold the festival to Zhang Huan's camp to say that Dou Wu rebelled, Zhang Huan did not know what was wrong, so he led the army to come, and Cao Jie joined forces to fight Dou Wu, Dou Wu soldiers and horses were lost, Dou Wu and Dou Shao were both captured.

Cao Jie was beaming, escorting Dou Wu and Dou Shao to rush back, and suddenly saw three war horses galloping from one side, and immediately the three of them were not tall, with a color of green clothes, covered with soap towels, holding a long sword, and went straight to the direction of Dou Wu and Dou Shao.

Cao Jie saw that someone came to rob the road, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to catch up, the three people flew to the knife and cut down a few soldiers, and more soldiers hula surrounded, Wang Yue was familiar, knew that it was Cao Cao and others, and was busy calling the soldiers back loudly, single-handedly rushing to kill the three, Cao Cao saw Wang Yue make a move, called Yuan Shao, Cao Hong turned the horse and left, Wang Yue kept chasing, turned a forest, Cao Cao took the horse with him, uncovered the mask, his eyes were cold, Cao Cao really couldn't believe that his master, the first swordsman in the capital actually helped to abuse.

"Good boy, you are so bold that you dare to rob people!"

Cao Cao said coldly, "Aren't you a strong martial artist known as the number one swordsman in the capital, why don't you save General Dou Wu and help him to abuse?" ”

Wang Yue was a little ashamed and said, "I am acting on orders, this is the emperor's will." ”

"Is this really the emperor's will?"

"But it is true that the emperor has an edict." "Hehe, what is the credibility of the will of a twelve- or thirteen-year-old emperor? We don't care if the edict is true or not, but what kind of person Dou Wu is, you should know better than us, why did the master help the eunuch to arrest Dou Wu? Wang Yue was silent for a long time before he said, "You are still young, and you will understand when you grow up." "I understand it very well, and I understand it even more when I grow up!" Cao Cao was a little excited, "All of you are afraid of castration, and now that the emperor is still small, the military and political power is in the hands of General Dou and the Queen Mother, and you are still afraid of castration!" Once General Dou and the Queen Mother fall, won't the world become an emasculated world? What are you doing this for? ”

Wang Yue was speechless, his face turned red, and Yuan Shao said on the side, "General Wang, save Dou Wu." Wang Yue didn't respond to Yuan Shao, and turned the horse's head, "You guys go quickly, it's harder for the three of you to save Dou Wu than to ascend to the sky!" With that, a dozen horsewhips were gone.

"What should we do?" Cao Hong asked. Cao Cao sighed, "We can't save General Dou......" Cao Cao led the horse to a high slope, and looked at Cao Jie's men and horses from a distance and walked towards the capital, Cao Cao's heart was very painful.

Wang Yue silently returned to the team, and Cao Jie glanced at him coldly, "General Wang, have you killed those three swordsmen?" "They ran too fast to catch up." "Humph......"

Cao Jie, Wang Fu and other eunuchs caught Dou Wu, Dou Shao, Chen Fan and hundreds of clan relatives and cronies were taken together to the noon gate to beheaded, Liu Yu and Tun Cavalry Captain Feng Shuquan were razed to the clan, on the day of the execution, the onlookers were crowded, people all wept, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao they also came to see Dou Wu off, could not bear to watch, gritted their teeth, hated that the eunuchs must be eradicated in the future.

killed Dou Wu and others, Cao Jie and other eunuchs began to clean up the people who were friends with Dou Wu, and the former Hu Ben Zhonglang Hejian Liu Shu, the old Shangshu Hui Ji Wei Lang and the Yilang Liu Ru were also falsely accused of being accomplices and were forced to commit suicide; Yilang Basu and Hu Ben Zhonglang Zhu Yu, Yilang Li Ying and others were arrested and killed, wiped out the nine tribes, moved the empress dowager Dou Miao to Nangong, and moved Dou Wu's family to Ri Nan County (now Dong Ha City, Quang Tri Province, Vietnam).

Cao Jie moved to Changle Weiwei Feng Yuyang Marquis, Wang Fu moved to the middle of the permanent servant and Huangmen Ling, Zhu Yu and other six eunuchs were named Liehou, the remaining eleven people were sealed as the Marquis, Zhang Huan moved to the Great Si Nong, Zhang Huan deeply hated himself for being confused and used by Cao Jie and stubbornly did not accept it, Wang Yue deeply felt that the palace court was insidious and resigned, and left the Beijing Division, just like that, a duel between the court ministers and the eunuch forces ended with the defeat of the important ministers, and the eunuch forces were as fierce as a tiger, and since then the officials of the court have all been in danger.

Cao Cao returned home after seeing Dou Wu and the others being killed that day and asked his father Cao Song, "Why don't so many important ministers in the court dare not speak up for Dou Wu's justice?" And you, as a great Honglu ranked Jiuqing, why didn't you dare to come out and say it, why! ”

Cao Song had a gloomy face, "Silly boy, haven't you seen Liu Yu and Feng Shu's family members, aren't they all killed, if I come out to cry out for Dou Wu, you, me and our entire clan will already be on the ground now, and there is still a chance to speak here?" "These deserving castrations! Emasculation! They should all be killed! All of them should be killed! "Don't say that, Aman, don't forget that your grandfather Cao Teng is also a middle official, and middle officials are also good and bad, you can't generalize, your grandfather has never harmed anyone in his life."

"I hate it! I hate all the eunuchs! One day I'll kill them all! Cao Cao said as he ran out.