After Wang Ling returned to Dangyin, he first reported to Sima Yi.

When Sima Yi learned that he could be rewarded with three positions from the third grade, as well as a real position as a waiter from the Yellow Gate, he was immediately very happy and praised Wang Ling.

Now that the treatment of these generals has been discussed, the next step is naturally to determine the place and time of surrender.

Zhuge Liang also said about this.

Three days later, on November 25 of the first year of Jianxing, Zhuge Liang planned to open an altar on the side of the Yellow River to worship the Yellow River, and swore an oath to the Yellow River, and the two sides made an oath to officially surrender 120,000 Wei troops.

Soon the news spread out, the Wei army was elated, and that night Sima Yi even summoned the generals to hold a banquet, singing and dancing, so lively.

At the banquet, only Wang Ling was preoccupied, but he covered it up very well, and did not let Sima Yi see the flaws, twenty or thirty generals in the army were present, and they drank drunk one by one, happy that they could have a future in the future.

And Wang Ling sat with Guo Huai, Jia Kui and others, in a position close to him below Sima Yi, he had been celebrating with Sima Yi and others on the surface, but in fact he was observing the entire venue.

In the crowd, some of the soldiers were happy, some were slightly bitter, and some were silent, sitting quietly in their seats, as if they were completely unabsorbed in the banquet.

Two of them caught Wang Ling's attention.

Tian Yu, lead the move?

Wang Ling thought about it.

Tian Yu and Zhao have a relationship with Liu Bei, and many people know about it.

But they did not decisively launch a rebellion when Cao Wei was in decline, and defected to the southern Han.

The reason is simple.

This is an era of faithfulness and loyalty and filial piety.

He Tian Yu is Cao Wei's courtier, and if he abandons Cao Wei and defects to the southern Han, he will definitely be looked down upon.

So they can't do that.

But there must be suffering in my heart, in addition to the relationship with Liu Bei, the most important thing is that now that Cao Weijiang is declining, this broken ship can no longer stay, and it is inevitable to change jobs.

It's just that now although the Han Dynasty accepted the surrender of the Wei army, their situation will be more embarrassing, and the rest of the people can say that it is natural for them to surrender after defeat. But because of their relationship with Liu Bei, they didn't come early to defect, and they didn't come until Cao Wei perished, which made people look down on them even more.

Therefore, it is normal for the two to be depressed.

Seeing the two of them like this, Wang Ling had an idea in his heart, and glanced around, he was hesitating whether to attract some more people.

The main thing is that this matter is related to everyone's interests, but now he is acting alone, and he may not get too many benefits if he succeeds, and he may have to lose his head if he fails.

So after thinking about it again and again, after Wang Ling and the banquet were over, he had an idea in his heart, pretended to be drunk, and walked out of the mansion of Dangyin County, and prepared to go back to his camp alone.

At night, the county looks empty, and the closer it is to late winter, the colder the weather becomes, the sky is snowing heavily, and the streets are already snowflakes.

At this time, there were not many people patrolling, except for the occasional generals who could be seen returning from the banquet, only the pro-guards standing guard inside and outside the mansion of Sima Yi, the county magistrate, were still holding on to their posts, guarding the mansion of the general in the wind and snow.

Wang Ling did not ride a horse, although he pretended to be drunk, but in fact he also drank a lot of wine, after coming out of the mansion, he met some colleagues at the door, and the cold wind in front of him suddenly blew him a little chill.

After he came out, several guards came to lead the horse for him, and he refused to walk on foot on the streets of Dangyin City, the speed was very slow, Wang Ling knew that someone would come looking for him.

After a while, sure enough, there was the sound of horses' hooves behind him, Wang Ling turned his head to look, and stood aside and waited.

When several knights approached, someone turned over and dismounted, and said, "General Wang." ”

When Wang Ling saw that it was Guo Huai, he smiled and said, "General Guo." ”

"Go back to the camp and take a walk together?"

Guo Huai asked.

"Let's go."

Wang Ling gestured.

Then the two of them walked in the wind and snow with their robes.

Guo Huai chatted with him for a few words first, stepping on the snow under his feet and making a creaking sound.

When they got out of the city and went to the southeast in the direction of their own camp, there were not many people around, except for the personal guards, and the rest of the generals who were returning to the headquarters camp for the banquet could be seen in the distance.

The wind and snow muffled his voice, and Guo Huai couldn't help but suddenly ask, "General Wang, I have something I want to ask." ”

"General Guo, please speak."

Wang Ling knew what he was going to ask.

Sure enough, Guo Huai asked: "The Governor only said that the Han army agreed to our surrender, and Zhuge Liang was willing to sacrifice to the river by the river, pointing to the river and swearing that he would not harm us, but after the surrender, we didn't say how we would arrange it, does General Wang know?" ”

Wang Ling replied lightly: "Naturally, I know." ”

Guo Huai was overjoyed and said: "Please also ask the general to make it clear." ”

"The treatment of the governor of the capital is good, the squire of the Yellow Gate, the Marquis of Liedu Ting, the general of Guide, the army guard, the land of 10,000 acres, and the food of 800 households."

There was some envy in Wang Ling's words, although these were in the Cao Wei court in the past, for Sima Yi, who was already a general of the chariot and a marquis of Wuyang, he must not be regarded as a high-ranking official.

But now the identity is different, from a high-ranking official of Cao Wei to a general, it is already very good to have such treatment, and to be able to shade the descendants.

In contrast, their treatment is too much worse, not only are the rewards very small, but they also do not have the ability to shadow their descendants, and if the descendants do not study hard in the future and cannot enter the imperial examination, I am afraid that the entire family will decline.

"The Metropolitan Governor is a general of the chariot cavalry, so it is natural that he can get such treatment."

Guo Huai was very happy after hearing this, and asked: "If the Metropolitan Governor can get three positions from the third grade, then wouldn't we also be able to get a positive fourth grade?" ”

"Huh."

Wang Ling glanced at him and chuckled: "You think too much, do you know that even if it is a big Han, how many honors, loose officials and knights can there be in this family?" Even Zhuge Liang is only a third-grade official, although Shen Chen has a first-grade Shangzhu National Commander, but he has not disbanded his official position. It's good that our group of generals can have five or six grades, and they still want to be four grades? ”

Guo Huai suddenly felt cold all over his body, and said tremblingly: "Isn't that?" ”

"Yes, none of us can shadow our children."

Wang Ling looked at him, the guards around him were relatively far away, and the wind and snow were strong, so no one could hear what they were talking about.

Guo Huai was overshadowed, and said bitterly: "The field slaves and apprentices of this clan must be counted out, and the land must be handed over to the treasury, and we have no power to descend from the shadows, so isn't that clan?" ”

At the end of the Han Dynasty, when the interests of the family were paramount, this was tantamount to taking the lives of their children of the family.

Wang Ling smiled and said: "Do you know why we can't shadow the descendants, the Metropolitan Governor can not only let the three heirs directly enter the rank of the seventh rank at one time?" ”

"Why?"

Guo Huai asked.

"Because Zhuge Liang said, our 120,000 horses, the soldiers of the three armies, are all under the control of Sima Yi, he has the most power, he can agree to surrender, and the credit for Nali is naturally the greatest, all the credit is taken by him, how much credit can we have?"

Wang Ling said lightly.

Call the Governor by his name?

Guo Huai frowned.

Then he opened his eyes wide and looked at Wang Ling in disbelief.

Wang Ling was also looking at him.

Guo Huai asked tentatively: "Ruodu. Sima Yi is dead, then? ”

Wang Ling nodded slightly.

Guo Huai suddenly understood in his heart and said: "I am weak, what is the general's plan?" ”

Wang Ling looked left and right, and at this time, a horse suddenly came slowly behind him, and he said, "Shhh ”

The sound of horses' hooves stepping on the bluestone slab came from far and near, and after a while, Jia Kui's figure appeared in front of them, and seeing Guo Huai and Wang Ling standing together, Jia Kui smiled and said, "General Guo is also there." ”

"It turned out to be General Jia."

The two arched their hands.

Now in the Cao military camp, except for Sima Yi, the three of them have the highest status.

Among them, Wang Ling has now replaced Xiahou Shang as the general of Zhengnan, Guo Huai is the general of Zhennan, and Jia Kui is the general of Annan.

In history, except for Wang Ling, who was the general of Zhengdong, Guo Huai and Jia Kui were actually miscellaneous generals at this point in time, and they did not rise to the four towns or Siping and Si'an.

But now there is no way, Cao Wei has been defeated repeatedly, and all walks of life have suffered heavy casualties in four expeditions, four towns, four pings and four an, and they naturally have slowly been promoted to this position as the chief has died more.

At this moment, the three of them gathered and did not speak.

Jia Kui glanced at Guo Huai, hesitated slightly, and still asked what he wanted to ask.

Wang Ling and Guo Huai glanced at each other, and then said what they had said before.

After hearing these words, Jia Kui had a shocked expression on his face.

Then he became suspicious and hesitated.

"What does the general think?"

Guo Huai pressed the hilt of the sword.

They hadn't actually discussed killing Sima Yi before, but they just got the news that if Sima Yi died, they would be able to upgrade to a higher level.

But now that Jia Kui already knows the situation, if he tells Sima Yi, Sima Yi will definitely be vigilant.

Jia Kui looked around, the surrounding guards were far away, he gritted his teeth and said: "I think that the Metropolitan Governor is now very old, and it is also possible that he will suddenly die of illness and death on this cold day." ”

He is actually a few years older than Sima Yi, and he is now fifty-five, but he said that Sima Yi, who has just turned 50 this year, is old, and his attitude is self-evident.

Guo Huai put down the hilt of his sword, Wang Ling smiled, and then said, "It's getting late, why don't you go and sit in my camp?" ”

"Let's go!"

Jia Kui and Guo Huai agreed without hesitation.

Now that everyone is in the same boat, we really have to discuss a countermeasure.

When the three of them arrived at the camp, Jia Kui and Guo Huai were about to say something, but Wang Ling stopped them and sent his guards to go out to ask for someone.

About half an hour later, it was already midnight, and a few more people came with puzzled expressions on their faces.

Jia Kui and Guo Huai frowned.

If you do big things, you must keep them secret, will there be any problems if there are too many people?

But if you think about it carefully, Wang Ling is more cautious, and maybe he naturally has his reasons.

After a few people came in, with a hard look on their faces, Tian Yu looked at Wang Ling and asked, "General, I don't know what is the matter with calling the last general and others to come?" ”

Wang Ling first asked them to sit down, and then said to a few people: "Everyone, I asked you to come over, I have something important to discuss." ”

"Please also tell the general."

Hold the hand.

Wang Ling pondered for a moment, and then said the reward that Zhuge Liang had given them.

After learning that they were obedient, at most they were idle for five or six grades, and there was a high probability that there would be no lord titles and loose officials, and the following people suddenly blew up.

"Why did you send us like this? Even if the population and land of the clan are taken away, they will not even be given official positions? ”

"Originally, I was expecting to have a loose official position, a descendant of the shadow of the door, this"

"Wouldn't we be at all good?"

Several generals were talking.

In addition to calling Ueda Yu and Zhaozhao, Wang Ling also called several other generals who he thought could be wooed.

There were about six or seven people, plus Guo Huai and Jia Kui, there were about ten people.

At this moment, everyone in the camp learned the truth, and even the wine was a little sober, and their faces turned red one by one, and they were very emotional.

They are all people with clans, so if they continue to do this, they will kill their clan?

Seeing that everyone was indignant, Wang Ling felt that the time had come, so he sighed: "Alas, what can be done? Prime Minister Zhuge has said that the Metropolitan Governor is the commander of the three armies, and he chooses to submit to us in order to be obedient, and the credit is his alone, so he can be in a high position, how much credit can we have? It's nice to be able to mix up a casual job. ”

A general suddenly said angrily: "How can it be said that it is all the credit of Sima Dudu? If we don't agree, won't we still have to fight if we add up our various departments? He's just agreeing on our behalf, and the credit goes all to him? ”

"What's the solution?"

Wang Ling shrugged.

Tian Yu's heart suddenly moved.

He is a smart man, and when he followed Gongsun Chan in history, he once persuaded Gongsun Chan, but unfortunately Gongsun Chan didn't listen.

At this moment, he found Wang Ling's abnormal behavior, and specially summoned these generals to come over, isn't it?

Thinking of this, Tian Yu asked tentatively: "General Wang, if according to the general's intentions, if there is no Grand Governor, wouldn't the credit be shared equally among you?" ”

"It's nature."

Wang Ling saw that Tian Yu was very good, and pretended to say casually: "If there is no Grand Governor, each of us will at least get a rank or rank of a loose official or knighthood above the fourth grade." ”

In an instant, the entire tent fell silent.

Everyone looks at me, I look at you, and suddenly I feel that I understand what is in each other's eyes.

A strange red light flashed in someone's eyes, and he gestured with his right hand to make a chopping shape, and said in a low voice: "Could it be that the general wants it?" ”

Wang Ling hurriedly put aside the relationship and said: "What are you talking nonsense, don't talk nonsense, if today's incident reaches the ears of the Grand Duke, we still have our lives?" ”

A general looked around viciously and said: "You are all people with clans, think about it, why can Sima Yi be in a high position, have three places in the shade, and have so many lands and food, all of which are exchanged for us, you don't think about yourself, don't think about the clan and future generations?" ”

"Yes, even if you tell Sima Yi, what benefit can he give you? Did you take everyone to fight with the Han army, let the Han army annihilate us, and the clan was wiped out? If we are apart from Sima Yi, we can not only be rewarded, but also be able to shadow our descendants! ”

"Let's do it!"

"Count me in, if anyone wants to tell the truth, ask me if my knife is not good!"

"Don't be tempted, only fools will tell you."

Several generals said one after another.

Truly.

At this juncture, only a fool would inform.

Whistleblowers don't get anything.

On the contrary, if everyone is good except for Sima Yi, why harm others and yourself?

Seeing that everyone expressed their positions, and even took the lead and Tian Yu to respond, Wang Ling sighed and said: "Since everyone is like this, then it can only be like this, but Sima Yi lives alone in the county government, the county government has a personal guard, and the city has his soldiers and horses, do you think, how can we go in and successfully plot to get rid of him?" ”

As soon as this sentence came out, everyone looked at each other.

Yes.

If you want to kill, you want to kill, but how to kill?