Chapter 49 Chapter 49 Is it fire?is a person?

Cao Cao forced to meet with Dong Cheng.When Dong Cheng met him in the living room, Cao Cao immediately asked, "Hasn't Uncle Guo received my invitation?" "No, I received the invitation from the prime minister. In the receipt, I stated the reasons for not participating in written form, and declined the prime minister's kindness." "At the banquet last night, all the officials gathered for the banquet, but the uncle was not there. What is your reason for not attending?" "The main reason is that the old problems from last year have recurred, so I'm not in a good mood."

"Hahaha! It seems that your old problem can only be cured by letting Ji Ping poison me, right?" "This... How could the Prime Minister make such a joke?" Dong Cheng was terrified all of a sudden, his voice was suddenly hoarse, his upper and lower teeth were shaking and fighting. Cao Cao looked at Dong Cheng's embarrassment coldly, and asked again: "Have you met the imperial physician Ji Ping recently?" "No, no, it's been a long time since we saw each other." So Cao Cao ordered to the warriors around him: "Bring that guy here!"

As soon as the words fell, more than 30 jailers and soldiers fiercely escorted Ji Ping to the steps of the living room.The stumbling Jiping sat down on the steps like a ghost.His eyes were on fire, and he shouted in shortness of breath, "When will you be punished by the heavens, you bullying traitor. If you torture me again, you won't get anything." Cao Cao turned a deaf ear and asked directly: "Wang Zifu, Wu Zilan, Wu Shuo, and Zhong Ji have been arrested and imprisoned. There is one more person who has not been brought to justice. It seems that the culprit of this conspiracy is still in the capital. Uncle Guo, do you have him?" clues?"

"..." Dong Cheng seemed to have gone out of his body, he just shook his head in panic. "Jiping, don't you know?" "have no idea." "Who is the mastermind who advised you and told you to poison me?" "Even a three-year-old child understands that only he knows what he is doing. You, a rebellious minister who sabotaged the court, acted on behalf of the heavens and swore to get rid of you, regardless of your life. I, Ji Ping, am I. Do I need to borrow other people's tricks?" ?” "You rascal with a long tongue! Why is a finger missing?"

"Bite off a finger, I swear to heaven and earth that I will punish you, rebellious Cao Cao." "Okay, then do as you say." Cao Cao was furious like a lion, and he ordered the jailer to cut off Jiping's remaining nine fingers. After being cut off by the jailer with nine fingers, Ji Ping still showed no fear.He continued to shout: "If I have a mouth, I will devour you Cao thief, and if I have a tongue, I will kill you Cao thief." "Cut off his tongue!" Cao Cao shouted angrily. When the jailers laid Jiping on his back for execution, Jiping uttered a desperate cry for the first time: "Wait a minute, wait a moment, don't cut off my tongue, please. Please untie me, I In front of the prime minister, point out the leader with your fingers."

"Just as he wants, untie the rope on his body. It seems that he has gone crazy, and we can no longer get anything from him." Following Cao Cao's order, the jailers untied Ji Ping's body. Ji Ping sat on the ground again, weeping in the direction of the palace gate, bowed again with both hands, and said solemnly: "Unfortunately, I will end here, which is not my wish. Even if I become a ghost, I will guard the palace gate, and sincerely wait for the time when the Sacred Heart will be happy." Cao Cao stood up furiously and shouted: "Behead him!" The soldiers were about to throw their swords at Ji Ping, but it was too late, and Ji Ping had already slammed his head to death at a corner of the steps.

A sad atmosphere enveloped the surroundings. In order to suppress the spread of this atmosphere, Cao Cao shouted: "Bring Qingtong!" Cao Cao's voice became more and more severe, and his face showed a murderous look, like the king of Hades, without a trace of emotion. Qingtong was brought before Dong Cheng in response. Now that it was time to interrogate Dong Cheng, Cao Cao could no longer tell whether he was a man or a fire.He roared loudly and spoke so fiercely that even his subordinates dared not look him in the face. Dong Cheng just started to resist Cao Cao's strict question with the excuse of "I don't know, I don't know, I don't remember at all, why do you doubt me like that?" Facts, provide a lot of conclusive evidence.Dong Cheng suddenly stopped speaking those useless excuses, and he fell to the ground all at once.

"Aren't you scared!" Cao Cao became more fierce because his victory was in sight, he asked loudly. Dong Cheng turned over suddenly, grabbed Qingtong by the back of the neck, and pushed him to the ground, trying to kill the villain.Dong Cheng gritted his teeth and scolded: "You bastard!" Cao Cao gave an order: "Quickly tie up Uncle Guo." Under strict orders, Cao Cao's subordinates all rushed to Dong Cheng, quickly tied Dong Cheng up, and tied him to the railing. Then, following Cao Cao's instructions, more than a thousand soldiers conducted a thorough search of all the rooms in the mansion, including the study, the master's living room, the family's back room, the ancestral hall, the treasure house, and the residences of the servants, starting from the living room. In the end, they found the jade belt hiding the blood edict and the letter of justice with the name of the party and the blood seal.Cao Cao ordered people to take these physical evidence back to the prime minister's mansion for the time being.At the same time, Dong Cheng's family was arrested as a matter of course and imprisoned in the prison in the prime minister's mansion.The sound of its wailing and weeping is unbearable to hear.

At that time, Xun Yu happened to pass by the gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion and heard those shouts by accident, so he came to Cao Cao and immediately asked, "It seems that the Prime Minister is finally angry. Then how do you plan to deal with these people in the future?" "Is it Xun Yu? No matter how patient I am, I will never deal with these things calmly." As Cao Cao said, he put physical evidence such as the emperor's blood edict, Yimeng's signature, and other physical evidence in front of Xun Yu.Then, he opened his still bloodshot eyes and said angrily: "Look at this! Isn't it all thanks to me, Cao Cao, that the emperor is today? After the Chang'an Rebellion, it was I, Cao Cao, who built the new capital." , to restore Wang Wei. I don’t know how much painstaking effort and hardships I have gone through, but now I want to get rid of Cao Cao. Why? It has always been my personality to fight a tooth for a tooth. I am also determined to do so. Therefore, I am going to abolish the current emperor and install other virtuous people."

"Please wait a moment." Xun Yu hastily tried to dissuade him from his angry words, and at the same time said: "In any case, the resurgence of Xudu is of course a great contribution to you. But the biggest reason to attribute it to you may be because you support the emperor. If your Without Chaowei on the banner, you would not be where you are today." "Well, what you said is the truth." "If you don't handle this matter properly now and become a court saboteur yourself, then your army will no longer have a righteous name in the future, and the people in the world will change their views on you."

"Okay, I understand, don't say any more." It seems to be a very painful thing for Cao Cao to eliminate the anger in his chest. Cao Cao has a clear concept that is superior to human beings, and also has a passionate emotion that is superior to human beings.In the past few days, his troubles are unimaginable to others, and it is difficult for his bloodshot eyes to calm down easily.As a result, more than 700 members of Dong Cheng's family, Wang Zifu, Wu Zilan and other members of the party and their families paraded through the streets in the downtown area of ​​the capital, and killed them all within a day. Concubine Dong Gui had a reputation as a beauty when she was a boudoir.After being conscripted into the palace, she was favored by the emperor and soon became pregnant. She is Dong Cheng's daughter. Perhaps it was a premonition that Concubine Dong Gui always felt restless and bored that day. At this time, the garden in the palace is in spring, and the vases of flowers in the curtains are just about to bloom. "Your concubine, your complexion is not good, what's wrong with you?" The emperor accompanied Queen Fu to visit her harem. "No, I don't." Concubine Dong Gui's bun was high, her face slightly furrowed, "I don't know why, I dreamed of my father for two consecutive nights, so I didn't sleep well at night." Hearing Concubine Dong Gui's words, both the emperor and the empress couldn't help frowning.They had already heard about Dong Cheng. At this moment, a loud voice suddenly sounded in the palace.When the emperor and the empress were wondering, they saw the green gate of the harem was opened, and Cao Cao and many warriors suddenly appeared in the harem, and they rushed in through the jade corridor. Cao Cao stood up and said loudly to the emperor: "Ah, Your Majesty, Dong Cheng has been plotting rebellion for a long time, don't you know?" The emperor replied calmly and wittily: "Dong Zhuo is dead." "It's not about Dong Zhuo, it's about Dong Cheng, the cavalry general." "Huh?... What's wrong with Dong Cheng? I don't know anything about him." "Did you forget that you bit your own finger, wrote the blood edict on the jade belt and gave it to him?" The emperor was stunned for a moment, his soul seemed to have flown out of the sky, his face turned pale, his lips trembled and he couldn't make a sound. Cao Cao sternly said: "One person rebelled and killed nine clans. This is the great law of the country. Now the warriors drag Dong Cheng's daughter Dong Guifei outside the door and behead her!" For Cao Cao's strict order, the emperor and the latter two were completely stunned.The two of them kept crying and begged for mercy from their servants.But Cao Cao stubbornly refused.His face, his whole body was like a flame of anger. Concubine Dong Gui also bowed at Cao Cao's feet, weeping bitterly and mourning: "My own life is not worth it. I beg you to be merciful before giving birth to the dragon son in my belly, and save my life for a few days." Although Cao Cao's feelings were extremely chaotic, he did not show his tender side at all this time, and continued to curse: "No! No! I can't accept your request. If you let the seeds of the traitor stay in the world, you will die. How long will it take before he will find me to avenge the killing of my grandfather and mother. Now that your fate cannot be changed, you should give up and I promise to keep your whole body." Cao Cao ordered someone to fetch a pair of Bai Lian and threw it in front of Concubine Dong Gui.This is tantamount to telling her cruelly that if she doesn't want to be beheaded, she can end her life by suicide. Concubine Dong Gui wept bitterly and picked up the white drill. The emperor lamented almost frantically, and cried helplessly: "My concubine, my concubine, don't hate me, you must wait for me under the nine springs." "Haha! How can Your Majesty say such petty words like a girl?" Cao Cao laughed coldly, ignored the wailing and crying of the emperor and concubines, and strode away without seeing him. Clouds of mourning shrouded the harem, and spring thunder shook the halls of the palace.On that day, dozens of officials who were usually close to Dong Cheng were also beheaded by Cao Cao's warriors on the charge of treason. Cao Cao walked out of the palace gate with bloodstains from the harem.Then, he immediately ordered 3,000 soldiers under his command to guard the palace gates in the name of the Imperial Forest Army, and appointed Cao Hong as the general of the Imperial Forest Army.