Chapter 16 Hua Tuo's Journey to Ji Han
[Romance of the Three Kingdoms] world.
The first day of the first month of the twenty-fifth year of Jian'an, Chengdu.
Hua Tuo, the divine doctor who assassinated Cao Cao, the king of Wei, in the Luoyang Palace alone more than half a month ago, was outside the palace of the king of Hanzhong in Chengdu at this time, waiting for Liu Bei, who was newly promoted to the king of Hanzhong, to summon him.
As for why he is in Chengdu, this is a long story......
After successfully opening the scoop to Cao Cao with an axe, Hua Tuo took his family and Cao Cao's guards and their families, who were unwilling to wait for death, and dozens of people were killed directly from the heavily guarded Luoyang City as if they were mowing grass.
This is not the end, in the face of tens of thousands of Luoyang defenders who pursued like mad dogs, Hua Tuo led everyone to fight and retreat, trying to borrow from the sparsely populated mountains and forests, relying on fishing and hunting as supplies along the way, and finally starting from Luoyang City to kill half of the Central Plains.
Perhaps because of the killing of the Lord of the Central Plains and the breaking of the fateful death robbery, he got a lot of luck, and under a series of coincidences like heavenly help, he was really escaped into the Hanzhong region by Hua Tuo and his gang, and entered the actual control area of the Liu Bei regime, the orthodox descendant of the Han Dynasty!
At this time, Liu Bei had just won the battle of Hanzhong, although Jingzhou had been lost to Sun Quan's sneak attack, and Liu Bei's sworn brother Guan Yu was also martyred, but Liu Bei's regime, which had not yet experienced the battle of Yiling, was still in its prime.
Therefore, when Hua Tuo led the crowd into Hanzhong, the Cao army, which was following, had to give up the pursuit......
The Cao Wei regime in the Central Plains couldn't take care of Hua Tuo at this time, because Cao Cao died violently, and Cao Wei, who was already unkind, suddenly had a storm within him.
Some people support the son Cao Pi to succeed to the throne of Wei according to the tradition of the death of the father and the son, but there are also people who make a big fuss about the fourth son Cao Zhi, and there are even madmen such as the third son Cao Zhang who directly led the army back to Yecheng and openly asked his father Cao Cao's jade seal where it was.
For a time, the government and the opposition were in turmoil, where could they still take care of Hua Tuo, only Cao Pi swore to the sky that after succeeding to the throne, he must send troops to recruit Liu Bei, and let Liu Bei hand over the bones of his father Cao Cao and Hua Tuo!
Of course, Cao Pi only dares to fight now, not to mention that he has not succeeded to the throne and pacified the internal turmoil, even if he integrates all the forces of Cao Wei, he will not dare to raise his sword in the face of Liu Bei's regime, which is in its heyday.
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"Xuanhua Tuo is here!"
With a call from afar, Hua Tuo hurriedly straightened his clothes, and then stepped into the hall of the king of Hanzhong with great solemnity.
Different from when he entered Cao Cao's palace, Liu Bei attached great importance to Hua Tuo's coming to the palace, and directly announced him to the palace in front of hundreds of civil and military officials as a courtesy......
"Grass people Hua Tuo, knock on the king of Hanzhong!"
Standing in the middle of the main hall, Hua Tuo saluted the king of Hanzhong on the high hall.
"The righteous don't have to be polite!"
Before Hua Tuo looked up, he saw Liu Bei, the king of Hanzhong, who had always been known for his strong temperament, happily descended the jade steps, and helped him up in the strange expressions of the hundreds of officials on the left and right.
Hua Tuo was stunned at the time, a monarch disregarded etiquette so much, which was unimaginable in this era, but somehow, Hua Tuo was a long-lost hot heart.
Following such a monarch to do great things is what many people with lofty ideals dream of!
Hua Tuo only looked at Liu Bei in front of him carefully, and he could see at a glance that this gray-haired old man had been in an extremely low mood and even sad recently, so much so that it affected his health.
Thinking of Guan Yu, who had just flooded the Seventh Army and shocked Huaxia some time ago, he was attacked and killed by a villain and ended up with a corpse in a different place, it is not difficult to guess that the king of Hanzhong was so sad because of the death of his sworn brother.
Liu Bei said happily:
"I heard that the righteous man once scraped the bones for Yun Chang to cure the poison, and this time he stabbed Cao Thief, but he also wanted to avenge Yun Chang, Liu Bei thanked him!"
As he spoke, he was about to bow to Hua Tuo, so frightened that Hua Tuo and the hundred officials on the left and right hurriedly stepped forward to dissuade him, and then pressed the stubborn King of Hanzhong back to sit in the palace.
Seeing this, a middle-aged Confucian scholar standing not far from Liu Bei took the initiative to open the topic and said to Liu Bei:
"Lord, Mr. Hua's successful assassination of Cao Cao this time not only disrupted the situation in the Central Plains, but also brought back Cao Cao's corpse, I don't know ......"
Liu Bei immediately snorted coldly:
"What do you want the corpse of that thief to do? The order went down, cut off the head of the Cao thief dog, and pickled it with lime, such as the story of the usurper Han Wang Mang, and sacrificed to the emperors of the past dynasties with its head. ”
"As for its body, it was chopped up and fed to the dogs!"
Don't look at how the Romance of the Three Kingdoms describes the private relationship between Cao and Liu in their early years, but now, Liu Bei has long hated this chaotic minister and thief who caused chaos and killed the queen, and it happened that Cao Cao's body fell into his hands, so it is impossible to overstate how to deal with it.
The ministers did not have any objection to this order, and after it was unanimously adopted, the order to dispose of Cao Cao's body was issued......
"By the way, Doctor Hua, Gu really wants to know, how did you take dozens of people to break through the siege and interception after killing the Cao thief, and arrived in Hanzhong?"
Liu Bei suddenly asked Hua Tuo very curiously, and the other courtiers, including the middle-aged Confucian scholar with a very high status, couldn't help but look over.
This kind of action can be called against the sky, and Ren Liu Bei and others can't figure out how to do it even if they want to break their heads.
Of course, the rumors about Hua Tuo's spells that could be as powerful as a bull were of course known to them, but no one believed them.
Spells and witchcraft and the like, Liu Bei didn't see it when he and his brothers fought the Yellow Turban, but in the end they found that those were useless things, and the elite soldiers of a hundred battles could overturn them in a wave, and at most it was like that.
If there was really a spell that could be as powerful as a cow, the world would have been beaten down by the three Zhang Jiao brothers a long time ago, and there would be no matter of Cao, Liu and Sun's three families at all!
However......
Hua Tuo said solemnly:
"Because the ministers know how to spell!"
He didn't think about hiding it at all, after all, on the way to escape, he didn't hide the powerful power of the [Copper Skin and Iron Bone], and he couldn't hide it, so he simply admitted it openly.
"This ......"
Liu Bei was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect Hua Tuo to admit it, he turned his gaze, and after making eye contact with the middle-aged scribe for a moment, he said:
"There is no basis for words, why don't you give a live demonstration by Mr.?"
"Yes!"
Hua Tuo nodded immediately, first opened the [Copper Skin and Iron Bone], and then snapped two punches, directly opening two pits on the hard floor tiles!
This is not the end, after obtaining Liu Bei's permission, Hua Tuo directly took the golden gourd hammer of the warrior in the palace, and hammered it on the head several times, making a dull sound of metal collision, and even broke the golden gourd hammer......
"Shhh
Now everyone can't help but gasp, this invulnerability is real!
Not only was Liu Bei stunned, but many generals in the palace who believed that they were superior in martial arts also began to doubt their lives, and even middle-aged Confucian scholars felt that their three views had been subverted......
After everyone in the palace was silent for a long time, many people's eyes when they looked at Hua Tuo changed, both vigilant and afraid, for fear that this non-human who killed Cao Cao would stage a terrifying scene of assassinating the king and killing the driver!
This time, the middle-aged Confucian quietly spoke:
"I wonder if Mr. can cut his love and sell this immortal art to me? The condition can be opened casually! ”
This person is Zhuge Liang, as soon as he saw Hua Tuo's copper skin and iron bones, he sensed the huge military value in it, if he got this immortal art, the lord would be just around the corner!
In this regard, Hua Tuo has long prepared a rhetoric:
"How dare the grass people take credit? It doesn't hurt to dedicate this immortal art to the king, it's just ......"
"Just what?"
Liu Bei couldn't help but ask, he was willing to pay any price for this immortal art.
He wants to restore the Han Dynasty, and he wants to make Sun Quan, who killed his second brother, regret coming to this world!
Hua Tuo said:
"It's just that this spell is not owned by the grass people, but by the overseas scattered immortals, the grass people dare not leak it privately, if the king wants immortal arts, he can ask the scattered immortals for it."
"Where are the scattered immortals? How to get it! ”
Liu Bei's eyes lit up after hearing this, he didn't think that Hua Tuo was lying to himself, this kind of immortal art should have been owned by immortals.
"The grass people have already informed the immortals, as long as the king builds a reed shed outside the palace, he can invite the immortals to come down today!"
Hua Tuo smiled slightly, and his heart had already typed in the chat group:
"Mighty Axe Splitting Skull Hua Tuo: Would you like to visit our world? If you want to come, as soon as I send a message later, everyone can click [Agree to cross]! ”
Scold! When you come, I will beg you with the king of Hanzhong to help restore the Han family, which will not give me much face?
In order to completely revive the Han Dynasty, I really tried my best!
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