Chapter 955: Master and Apprentice Are Not the Same Heart
The news of the King of Pingxi's stay in Luoyang is no longer news in the Han Dynasty, and the people who support him beat gongs and drums to go to the restaurant, which is quite excited and inspiring; those who oppose him have sad faces like mourning, and they have gathered together to loudly insult words such as "traitor" to show their unswerving loyalty to the Han family surnamed Liu.
Whether he was happy or depressed, Zhao Xing lived in Luoyang with peace of mind. Similarly, whether it was willing or entangled, the assassination team jointly sent by Liu Bei and Cao Cao, under the leadership of the great swordsman Wang Yue, disguised themselves as traders walking north and south, and entered Luoyang City again.
Wang Yue is very familiar with Luoyang City, when he wanted to seek an officialdom background, he spent decades in Luoyang, and finally became the teacher of Liu Bianwu, who was still the prince at that time, and since then he has taken root in Luoyang City, and has been living more and more proudly. After Liu Wei ascended the throne and became the son of today, Wang Yue's identity became more and more noble, and even the disciples and grandchildren who came out of his teaching also put on the coat of royal swordsmen, and since then they have all "ascended to heaven".
Learn the art of literature and martial arts, and the goods are with the emperor's family. When Wang Yue was young, he once single-handedly entered Helan Mountain to obtain the head of the Qiang people and returned safely, and at the age of thirty, he traveled all over the world and fought almost all the states invincible, but when he competed with the martial arts master Tong Yuan in the mountains, he was defeated and injured, and it was difficult to distinguish the winner from defeat. And Tong Yuan was treated by Zhao Xing's father after that injury, which led to the good story of giving Zhao Xing a gun and bow and martial arts cheats later, and finally achieved Zhao Xing's immortal hegemony.
Zhao Xing was besieged by the dead soldiers of the Yuan family in Luoyang City, and finally almost died under the sword of a swordsman, but fortunately he was rescued by Wang Yue, who was secretly sent by the crown prince Liu Wei to observe Zhao Xing. Later, Zhao Xing established some kind of ulterior contact with the crown prince through Wang Yue, and until Liu Wei successfully ascended the throne, the two sides maintained a fairly tacit relationship.
Liu Wei, who was still the crown prince at the time, had a very unstable status. His father, Emperor Liu Hong, that is, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, didn't know if he had lost his brain by playing with the palace maids, and he was instigated by some ministers to abolish Liu Wei and establish Liu Xie as the crown prince. Liu Wei was worried about his own situation, and suddenly found that Liu Hong praised Zhao Xingnai as the current Huo Biyao above the court, so he had the heart to make friends and win over, so he sent Wang Yue to observe secretly, and then threaded the needle from it.
At that time, Wang Yue saved Zhao Xing's life, which had already made Zhao Xing feel good and grateful to this great swordsman, and later learned that Wang Yue was the prince's person, Zhao Xing, who was worried about no one in the court to support him, naturally took advantage of the situation and secretly helped the prince. Although Zhao Xing returned to Shangdang soon after, the five drunken immortal buildings he left in Luoyang City were out-and-out "cornucopias", in order to support Liu Wei to stabilize his position, Zhao Xing secretly conveyed Luoyang's income to Liu Xiesancheng, so that the prince had strong capital to buy and win over the ministers of all parties, and the drunken immortal buildings were able to operate in Luoyang for a long time.
This kind of "friendship" based on the transfer of interests finally ended when Liu Wei ascended the throne of the emperor of the Han Dynasty and Lu Zhi launched a great battle to besiege and annex the state. The new emperor, who is familiar with the identity of the owner behind the Zuixianlou, naturally will not allow Zhao Xing's "tentacles" and "gold-absorbing caves" to exist in Luoyang City, so he casually found a reason to close the five stores of Zuixianlou, and it was not until Zhao Xing returned to Luoyang this time that he was able to reopen.
Wang Yue, who has been serving as a messenger between the emperor and Zhao Xing, is naturally well aware of the grievances and grievances between the emperor and the king of Pingxi, so on the road from Xuchang to Luoyang this time, Wang Yue's heart is actually in infinite entanglement and distress.
Wang Yue is not a scholar, let alone a scholar, if you have to describe him accurately, it is a strong martial arts horseman. For King Pingxi, Wang Yue knew more than many people, and he didn't think that he could easily stab Zhao Xing to death with Shi A and a group of dead soldiers this time. Regardless of the fact that Zhao Xing himself is a fierce man with strong martial arts and is especially good at hand-to-hand combat, just the group of guards who surround Zhao Xing openly and secretly, in terms of skills, none of them are inferior to the group of people he brought.
Wang Yue repeatedly calculated and compared the cost and gain of this assassination in his heart, and finally he came to the conclusion that if the assassination was successful, he and his disciples had to disappear and hide in the high-walled courtyard of the palace in order to avoid the life-threatening pursuit of the brothers from Tong Yuan and Zhao Xing. If the assassination fails, then not only will he and Shi A die in Luoyang, but in the future, Zhao Xingjun will come to the world, and he will definitely uproot the martial arts hall he worked so hard to establish, and everything will come to naught.
As a martial arts master with a peerless education, what is his greatest expectation? Naturally, he is like Tong Yuan, who has many children and inherits and carries forward his hard work.
After this calculation, after Wang Yue and his party entered Luoyang City, they did not immediately start to move, but waited and watched.
One night, the eldest disciple Shi A whispered to his master Wang Yue and said, "Master, we have been in Luoyang for a few days, and we are already familiar with the streets and alleys of the houses here, why haven't we done it for a long time?"
Wang Yue saw Shi A urging him, and he was a little unhappy in his heart, so he prevaricated and said: "Zhao Guochang is the number one scheming person in the world, and many forces have sent people to secretly attack him over the years, but all of them ended in vain, and many heroes lost their lives in vain. Although you and I are strong in martial arts, how can we deal with the thousands of troops guarding Zhao Guochang's side?"
Seeing that the master was prevaricating left and right, Shi A, who was secretly entrusted by Liu Bei, had a plan in his heart, so he quietly left Wang Yue's room, and directly bypassed Wang Yue to issue a plan of action and orders to the dead soldiers who belonged to Cao Cao and Liu Bei.
It turned out that although this Shi A was Wang Yue's disciple, he was assigned by Liu Wei to Liu Bei's side as a close guard, and he has been following Liu Bei all these years. Liu Wei has always trusted and cared about his uncle Liu Bei, and it is not surprising that he sent a skilled swordsman to protect Liu Bei's safety. Wang Yue, who is the most powerful in martial arts, protects the emperor, and Shi A, Wang Yue's most proud apprentice, protects Liu Bei, and this arrangement is even more reasonable.
However, what Liu Bei is best at is buying people's hearts, since Shi A followed Liu Bei, he was gradually completely co-opted by Liu Bei, and now he only has Liu Bei in his heart and no master.
In Shi A's plan, even Wang Yue was calculated. He had already seen Wang Yue's hesitation, so he wanted to find an opportunity to provoke the relationship between Zhao Xing and Wang Yue, so that Zhao Xing and Wang Yue would completely turn their faces, and force Wang Yue to fight hard with Zhao Xing. And once Wang Yue made a move, then Shi A's plan was guaranteed to succeed......