Chapter 19 Chapter 19 Doctor Chen

During the banquet, Cao Cao speculated on Chen Deng's character, and Chen Deng tested Cao Cao's mind. Chen Deng whispered to Cao Cao: "Lü Bu is a jackal by nature. Although he is brave and excellent, he is not really someone to support. If I say this, the prime minister may doubt my intention to come here as Lv Bu's envoy. But because my father Chen Gui I also live under the city of Xuzhou, I have no choice but to serve as a guest minister to Lu Bu, and I am already tired of it." "Yeah, I feel the same way." Sure enough, there were two thoughts hidden in Cao Cao's stomach.Because Chen Deng had already spoken, he also confessed his sincerity. "As you said, I also know that Lu Bu is not trustworthy. However, as long as you understand this in your heart and associate with him, I think, no matter whether he is a jackal or something, you will never regret it."

"Yes. As long as you are mentally prepared for this, I will be relieved." "Since I'm lucky enough to be your confidant, please do your best for me in secret from now on! I know your father, Dr. Chen's reputation. Please greet me when I go back." "Understood. If the prime minister wants to take any extraordinary measures in the future, my father and son will definitely be in Xuzhou to help each other." "Please! Tonight's banquet is unexpectedly very meaningful. You must not forget what you said just now..." Cao Cao and Chen Deng raised their wine cups, their eyes met, conveying the meaning of the oath in their hearts.

Cao Cao later went to the imperial court, appointed Chen Deng as the prefect of Guangling, and gave his father Chen Guilu two thousand stones as a pension. then. The news that the envoy Han Yin was beheaded in the busy market of Xudu had already spread to Yuan Shu in Huainan. "It's unreasonable!" Yuan Shu was furious at Lu Bu's actions. "Not only did Lu Bu throw away etiquette, arrest my intermarriage envoy, and hand it over to Cao Cao's criminals, but he also broke the intermarriage contract, causing Yuan Shu to suffer an indelible shame!" He immediately mobilized more than 200,000 troops and marched towards Xuzhou in seven routes.

Lu Bu's vanguard was defeated like fallen leaves.A group of people invaded Xiaopei like a raging wave.In other vanguard battles, Xuzhou's soldiers and horses were all defeated.The remnant soldiers and defeated generals immediately crowded the city. Lü Bu became alarmed by the deterioration of the situation, and urgently called the important ministers to come, saying: "No matter who it is, you must speak freely today, don't be afraid. As long as it can save Xuzhou City from danger, I am willing to adopt any plan." At the banquet, Chen Gong said: "Now that things have happened, you have noticed it. The reason why such a big event happened is entirely due to the tricks of Chen Gui and his son. The evidence is that you trusted Chen Gui and his son and ordered them to go to Xudu. What happened? They blindly Antai, who flattered the imperial court and Cao Cao, and cleverly planned his own title and future, today is facing a catastrophe, but they don't even show their faces."

"Of course! Of course!" Someone clapped their hands in support of Chen Gong's statement. Chen Gong continued to speak fiercely: "So, if we decapitate Chen Gui and his son as natural retribution and dedicate their heads to Yuan Shu, then Yuan Shu will also calm down and retreat. Evil will be rewarded with evil. Those who give to their father and son, and those who rescued Xuzhou The method is the only policy." Lu Bu made up his mind on the spot, and immediately sent someone to call Chen Gui and his son to the city to interrogate him, intending to behead him. Therefore, Dr. Chen laughed straight, and said: "You can't die from illness, you can't bloom flowers, you're old like a dead tree, your brain is old, and it's not worth a plum. If you want a dog's head, I can give it to you... Sigh, what a cowardly person you are! Ah ha ha ha... Aren't you ashamed to face the emperor?" He laughed loudly.

"What are you laughing at?" Lu Bu looked angry, glaring at Chen Gui and his son and said, "You say I'm cowardly, so just say it. Since you speak wild words, do you have the confidence to defeat the enemy?" "How could it not?" Dr. Chen said seriously. Lu Bu forced him to ask, "If you have one, tell us and listen to it. If you really have a good plan, I will spare you the death penalty." "Although there is a plan, it is up to you to adopt it or not. Any good plan, if not used, is just a theory on paper." "Say it first!" "It is said that the Huainan army claims to be more than 200,000, but they are all mobs. Why? Out of ambition to become emperor, Yuan Shu expanded his army rapidly. Please see, the general of the Sixth Route Army, Han Xian, used to be a member of the Shaanxi Shanzhai. The leader of the bandits? Let’s look at Yang Fengzhi who led the Seventh Route Army. He was originally the family member of the traitor Li Jue. After leaving Li Jue, he was chased by Cao Cao and had no place to live. He followed Yuan Shu.”

"Uh, makes sense." "You should know the origins of these people. Why are you afraid of Yuan Shu's power? First, use benefits to treat them softly, and conclude a covenant of internal response to let them confuse the enemy. And our side sent envoys to make friends with Liu Xuande. Xuande is gentle and noble. Even if you are a scholar, I will not see you in a difficult situation and ignore it now." Dr. Chen eloquently argued, Lu Bu listened fascinatedly, and said unconvinced: "No, I am not afraid of him at all, I am just carefully seeking the opinions of all the ministers." The crimes of Chen and his son were ignored.

Instead, Chen Gui and Chen Deng were ordered to carry out strategies, adopt methods, and launch internal responses from the enemy army, and were allowed to go home. "Son! It was so dangerous just now." "My lord father said it's a fight! I'm really afraid of what will happen today." "I'm resigned to fate, too." "But, do you have a good idea?" "No, nothing." "How to deal with it?" "Tomorrow will blow tomorrow's wind." As soon as Dr. Chen entered the private bedroom, he turned back into an aging patient.

On the other hand, Yuan Shu's side. When he sent an army of revenge to Lu Bu who broke the marriage contract, he inspected the three armies, and at the same time, he couldn't wait to reveal his ambitions for many years to the world, and personally announced that he would be the emperor. It is a crime for a villain to own a jade seal.The imperial jade seal entrusted by Sun Ce has finally created such an arrogant person. "In the past, Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty rose from the head of a pavilion on Sishang and created a four-hundred-year-old empire. However, at the end of the Han Dynasty, the number of days was exhausted, and the world was not governed. My family has four generations and three princes. I have the strength, and I am urged by the principle of God’s destiny, I have decided that today will be the Ninth Five-Year position. You and other ministers should assist me and be loyal to political affairs.”

He completely turned into an emperor's mentality, and told the ministers to establish the Zhong family name, set up the government system of Taiwan Province, ride on the dragon and phoenix chariot, sacrifice to the northern and southern suburbs, and make Feng's daughter the queen.There are hundreds of beauties in the harem, all of whom are beautifully dressed.He established his son as his heir and assumed the title of East Palace. An arrogant tyrant will not have a subject who will risk his life to speak the truth.But there was one person, the master Yan Xiang, who waited for the opportunity and said: "Since ancient times, there has been no one who has defied the way of heaven. In the past, Zong Zhou, from Houji to King Wen, made meritorious deeds and accumulated virtues, but only a part of the world served King Zhou of Yin. The lord continued to prosper for generations. It was not as prosperous as the Zhou Dynasty. And no matter how weak the Han Dynasty was at the end, it did not do evil like King Zhou."

Yuan Shu listened, his face was very bad, and he shouted sharply without waiting for everyone to speak: "So what?!" "So..." Yan Xiang trembled, unable to catch up with the next words. "Shut up! Pretending to be a scholar, you little clever guy! It's no coincidence that the Jade Seal of the Kingdom was given to me! This is the so-called way of heaven. If I don't ascend the throne, I will go against the way of heaven. Let's bask in the sun with bookworms and stretch your waist It's okay. Back off!" In order to prevent his subjects from talking about such things again, Yuan Shu ordered someone to issue an order, saying: "From now on, no matter who talks about my emperor's business, he will be cut in half on the spot!" Then, following the large army that had already been dispatched, the two legions of the Overseer and the Guards were mobilized to personally take command and go to attack Xuzhou. On the occasion of the expedition, Yuan Shu ordered Jin Shang, the governor of Yanzhou, to say: "He is in charge of the military supplies!" He heard that Jin Shang was dissatisfied with this order for some reason, and Yuan Shu was furious, so he immediately sent his guards to tie Jin Shang up. . At the back of the two armies of the warlord and the guards, the 200,000 soldiers and horses on the front line also tensed up, saying: "The big battle is coming, take it seriously!" The seven generals were divided into seven groups, and attacked Xuzhou from the seven routes, burning houses in various counties and counties along the way, destroying fields and looting property. Zhang Xun, General of the First Route, attacked Xuzhou Road; The second road, Jiangjun Bridge, attacked Xiaopei Road; Chen Ji, General of the Third Route, attacked Yidu Road; General Lei Bo of the Fourth Route attacked Langya; Chen Jian, General of the Fifth Route, attacked Jieshi; General Han Xian of the Sixth Route attacked Xiapi; General Yang Feng of the Seventh Route attacked Junshan. In fact, even Lu Bu trembled when he saw such a lineup, which was not unreasonable. Lu Bu wholeheartedly waited for Dr. Chen's "internal response strategy" to work soon, but the Chen family and his son never showed up in the city again. "What's going on?!" Lu Bu sent his courtiers to check on the Chen family's mansion, and when he came back, he said that Dr. Chen was basking in the sun in a leisurely ward, carefree for the elderly. Lu Bu was originally impatient, but now he is relying on Dr. Chen to trick him. How can we settle down? !Grab it quickly!Lu Bu yelled.I was confused by his eloquent tongue last time, so I forgave him.For this meeting, his head must be chopped off! After the catchers flew away, Lu Bu was still talking angrily, waiting for them. Just in time for dusk. The door of Dr. Chen's house was closed, and the father led his son Chen Deng and the whole family were sitting around the dinner table. "Hey, what's going on?" The sound of breaking and entering, the sound of shaking the house, the sound of servants screaming, followed by the sound of thumping footsteps, many captives and warriors rushed in wearing shoes. Without any explanation, Dr. Chen and his son were taken away on the spot. The father and son were brought before Lu Bu who was waiting for them.Lu Bu glared at them and said, "You bastard! He tricked me cleverly! I'm going to ask you for your crime today!" After speaking, he immediately ordered the warrior, and said violently: "Cut off Doctor Chen's white-haired head." Doctor Chen remained the same, smiling calmly.But he still moved his body a little, raised his hands, and incited: "You are too impatient! You are too impatient!" Lu Bu was even more like a raging fire, roaring so loudly that even the beams of the palace trembled: "You, are you still teasing me?! Don't you know that your head is about to fall to the ground?!" "Wait a minute. Is my head going to hit the ground, or yours?" "Let you see it now!" Lu Bu held the sword in his hand, Doctor Chen looked up to the sky and said, "Ah, your luck is about to end. A generation of famous generals who have no vision is really hopeless! You are about to chop off your own head with your own sword! La." "What are you talking about? Nonsense!" Lu Bu said, feeling somewhat uncomfortable. When Lu Bu's face changed, Dr. Chen chopped it down with his sharp tongue, and said, "I did say that a few days ago. Any good strategy, if you don't adopt it, is just talking on paper. If this old man's head falls to the ground, there will still be Who will make a good strategy to save Xuzhou from danger? Therefore, if you draw your sword, it will be like ruining your own life." "I'm tired of hearing your sophistry! You are eloquent, escaped for a while, returned home, and slept peacefully. Isn't it?! It's not me who doesn't use tricks, but you, an old fox!" "That's why I said that you are too impatient. I, Dr. Chen, have already quietly started to plan. In other words, it has been arranged. In a few days, I will have a secret meeting with the enemy's Sixth Route Army General Han Xian somewhere." "Oh, is it true?" "Why speak lies?" "In this case, why do you close the door of your private house and live in peace amidst the chaos of war?" "A real counselor, don't act rashly. Do you know this sentence?" "You lied to me with clever words, you are planning to escape to another place." "A general should not make wild guesses like a villain. My wife and family members are all in the hands of the general. I am an old man, how could I run away for my own longevity?" "Then you plan to meet Han Siam immediately. Is it true that you are implementing the best plan for me as you said to me at the beginning? How?" "That's what I thought. But what matters is what you think." "Hmm... what do I think? I hope so too, but I don't want to idle away the time. Do it fast!" "But you still doubt me, Dr. Chen, in your heart. Alright. If that's the case, let's do this. I'll keep my dog ​​Chen Deng as a hostage in the city, and I'll go alone." "But you can't go to the enemy's territory without subordinates." "I have a little request for the subordinates who are going with me." "Do you want dozens of people? Who do you want to take among the generals?" "No generals are needed. Only one follower will do." "What is one?" "Give me a ewe from the pasture in the city. I heard that Han Xian's Dazhai is in Xiapi Mountain. Along the way, I will eat the fruit on the tree and drink goat's milk to strengthen the sick body. When I visit Dazhai in the mountain, I will definitely Convince Han Xian to show you. Therefore, please don’t be negligent on your side, and send envoys to Liu Xuande to arrange everything.” Doctor Chen led a sheep that day, went out of the city from the south gate, and drifted away.