Chapter 44: The Baume & Mercier Conference
A greeting post was sent to the inn where Zhuge Liang and others stayed, and Deng Ai took the poster and showed it to Zhuge Liang and Ah Liu.
The three of them looked at each other and felt that their opportunity had finally arrived.
I said that the Baume & Mercier Conference would be held immediately, but because of the increasing number of Baume & Mercier who came, it was delayed again and again, and later, it was said that the famous Taizhong doctor Kong Rong was also coming, so he simply waited until now.
As soon as Kong Rong arrived, Cao Zhi decided not to wait any longer, and held a celebrity conference that night, so he sent it to all parts of Xiangyang City like snowflakes.
This Xiangyang has become a city of celebrities and scholars, and when you walk on the street, you can hear the voice of "looking up for a long time, and being fortunate to be happy".
A few days ago, a military order had already been delivered, and the officials who arrived at the same date as Sima Yi after the start of Cao's army were all on standby, so he was not in a hurry, and he read and wrote in the house every day, not asking about world affairs.
As for why he didn't live in an inn, of course, it was thanks to Cao Chong's blessing.
Cao Chong's health deteriorated, and he didn't bother to go out, and the two were almost inseparable in the house.
Sima Yi secretly observed, and always felt that someone was peeping next to him, but because Cao Zhi and Cao Chong's guards were superb in martial arts, he didn't dare to start. What's more, he already knew that General Beifu was in Xiangyang City, so he didn't dare to move.
In this case, Sima Yi has never appeared in public once.
It was as if he lived in a place where he could only enter and exit, and no one had ever seen him.
When the news of the Baume & Mercier Conference came, Sima Yi sighed, it seemed that he couldn't hide.
His method was very simple, no matter what, he had to sit with Cao Chong, since he was Cao Wu's assassin, there was no reason to kill Cao Chong.
In the evening, the Baume & Mercier Conference was held as scheduled, and Cao Zhi sat on the high platform in the city, looking at the hundreds of scholars in the audience, and his heart was infinitely happy.
Father, have you seen that you are in charge of the world's armed forces, and the world's lineage is all in my hands!
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It was also this evening, outside Shiyang City, the west wind was bleak.
Shiyang Castle is located at the confluence of the Han River and the Zhuan River.
Huang Zu guarded Jiangxia for more than ten years, although he also strengthened Shiyang City, but because his defensive pressure was on Sun Quan in the east, Shiyang City on the west side of the Han River was mainly used for water transportation.
Among the four sides of the current city wall, there are two sides of land, one side is Han water, and the other side is Zhuanshui, which is usually convenient for goods to enter and exit, but when it comes to defending the city, it becomes a flaw.
The new Jiangxia Taishou Wenpin licked his lips and looked at the city wall that was only more than a zhang high on the opposite side of the water.
A red-faced general sat on the city wall, his eyes closed.
It has been ten days, and he was ordered by Prime Minister Cao Cao to lead a group of Jingzhou soldiers to besiege Dangyang.
In ten days and ten battles, he failed to reach the head of the city half a step, and half of the 10,000 Jingzhou soldiers he brought were already dead.
At first, he still had some small boats, but now the boats are gone, and he asked the soldiers to build rafts and pull them to the river.
An adjutant general came up and hugged his fists and said, "My lord, the raft is ready!" ”
Wen Ping got up and said, "Okay, sons, follow me to attack Dangyang City again!" ”
The adjutant general's lips moved, and finally said: "My lord, we have been attacking for ten days, and we don't see half of the reinforcements, is the Cao army ......?"
Wen Ping turned his head and glared at him, and he snorted: "Did you treat our troops as outcasts!" ”
He spoke loudly, but Wen Ping's voice was louder than him, and the sword of "brushing" was slashed out, and the lieutenant general was already missing half of his arm.
The deputy general looked at Wen Ping in a panic, and Wen Ping said loudly: "Everyone, Prime Minister Cao Cheng is willing to let us attack the city, is to give us a chance, if we can't even capture a small city in Dangyang, how can we sit firmly in Jiangxia?" ”
He patted the lieutenant on the shoulder and sighed.
As a general, when he has the consciousness of surrendering generals, he is loyal to Liu Biao, but loyalty and righteousness in the world cannot be both, since he has surrendered, he should seek a future for his brothers.
This is the head of Yangcheng, which is their future.
He strode to the front of the general flag, raised the big banner of "Jiangxia is too shouwen", waved it to the sky, and said: "Fight to the death today, and the siege is broken!" ”
All the armies said in unison: "Wow! ”
The black-pressed crowd boarded the raft and rushed towards the low city walls.
The water is narrower than the Han water, and although it is fast to reach the city wall, it is also fast to enter the range of the bow and arrow.
Soon, when the arrow was shot at the head of Yangcheng, Wen Ping waved the big sword, and the Chinese army raised the grass shield on the top and moved forward with the arrow.
Guan Yu at the head of the city was sitting with a golden sword, and when the bamboo raft was only a few feet away from the city wall, Guan Yu suddenly opened his eyes.
If Guan Gong doesn't open his eyes, he will kill people when he opens his eyes!
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Cao Zhi laughed loudly, and exchanged with the scribes present, and when the hole melted, Cao Zhi ushered him into the upper seat, right in front of him.
Kong Rong was noncommittal and sat down on Cao Zhi's left.
The young Cao Chongzi relied on his father's nobility and sat in Cao Zhi
Cao Zhi said happily: "This is really a group of virtuous people, a young man!" ”
A celebrity in the audience listened to it and responded: "Zijian's article is natural, but it is a Wenqu star who has descended to earth, I am waiting for you to come today, and I am waiting to read your article!" ”
Cao Zhi laughed "hey" and said: "All the princes are here, why don't you come up with a topic, everyone writes poems separately, and then evaluates three, six, nine and so on, how about it?" ”
Celebrities said yes.
Kong Rong looked at it, and there were indeed many familiar faces.
Guangling Chen Lin Kong Zhang, Shanyang Wang Cang Zhongxuan, Beihai Xu Gan Wei Chang, Chen Liuruan Yu Yuanyu, Runan Ying Xuan Delian, Dongping Liu Zhen on business, all listed.
But Cao Wu, the general of the Northern Mansion, was not among them.
In vain, he came all the way, but he pounced.
He sighed and listened to Cao Zhi's plan.
Cao Zhi already had a draft, and when he thought of the beautiful fu that he had conceived for a long time, he would definitely be able to surprise everyone when he said it at this time.
However, there is a person below: "Since this conference is for the labor army, it is naturally about war!" ”
Cao Zhi looked at it and recognized that this person was Wang Cang, who had just returned from Jingzhou and was appointed by Cao Chong as Prime Minister.
Although Wang Cang's official position in Jingzhou is not high, he is known as a literary name, and he has intersected with celebrities everywhere.
Cao Zhi thought that his draft of "building a high gate and floating double is too clear" was far from the word war, and was about to reject it, when Cao Chong pulled his sleeve and said in a low voice: "Brother, what he said is that you can't make a fuss today, it's better to use war as the topic!" ”
Cao Zhi held back and agreed with him.
Wang Cang's good poems and essays are a "poem from the army", in which he wrote: There are bitter joys and sorrows in the army. But ask from whom. Three thousand miles of land. The round trip is as fast as it flies. Singing and dancing into Yecheng. What you wish to do is not violated.
After reciting a poem, all the celebrities applauded for a while. I think that the rhythm of the idea is a masterpiece of the moment.
Immediately afterwards, all the celebrities said a few of their own works, some of which were quite good, and some of which were indiscriminate.
Kong Rong stroked his beard and was extremely involved in the evaluation, while Cao Zhi thought of the wonderful sentence "Donating his life to go to the country, seeing death as if he were going home", and was about to fill it into a poem.
Suddenly, one of the crowd laughed, and then laughed out loud.
Everyone saw that it was a small scribe laughing.
When the man saw that everyone was looking at her, he immediately stood up and laughed.
Hearing the laughter, combined with this person's figure, everyone found out that this was actually a woman!
And looking at her position, it is clear that the seat is not low.
Ying Ling frowned and said, "Why are you laughing?" ”
The woman said: "I laugh at all of you present, none of them know poetry!" I even used some children's playful things to make up for it! ”
"What?"
Everyone was furious, and Wang Cang, who had just said the poem, stood up even more angrily.
Only Kong Rong looked at this person, and when he thought of something, his eyes suddenly lit up and said, "I don't know if you are ......"
"Beifu Cao Ah Liu. Today I will bring the poems that my general gave in his spare time, and please take them! ”
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There is no boat, make a bamboo tree, so that the trilogy can be multiplied.
"Heroes" Wang Cang