Chapter 32 Bad news

Chen Gong's mouth was worn out and he knew his interests, so he finally persuaded Bian to let him bring Yuan Zhong and Huan Shao to the Zhou Temple to meet Cao Cao. On the one hand, he would reconcile the past grievances, I hope Cao Cao can appoint these people. Chen Gong knew very well that Bian Rang and Yuan Zhong were people who relied on their talents and were proud of things, so they gave him thousands of instructions along the way, but when they came back to Zhou Temple and saw Cao Cao, his heart raised his throat again—this guy lost his temper again. Cao Cao encountered a lot of troubles today.After Yuan Shu was defeated by him, he abandoned the old land in the north of Yuzhou and led his troops to Jiujiang.In just a few months, he had already begun to invade the territory of Yangzhou north of the river. The Zhou brothers were wiped out and only retreated. Cao Cao's friend Chen Wen, the governor of Yangzhou, was also killed by him.Yuan Shu appointed Wu Jing as the prefect of Danyang and Chen Ji as the prefect of Jiujiang. He also sent Sun Jian's son Sun Ce to invade Lujiang County. His power revived and became rampant.What Cao Cao couldn't tolerate the most was that while Yuan Shu claimed to be the Governor of Yangzhou, he also named himself Uncle Xuzhou. This is to compete with him for meat!

It's okay if things are not good in the south, but there are also problems in the north.Gongsun Zan defeated Liu Yu, first put him under house arrest, and later killed him under the order of the court.Once Liu Yu died, Youzhou fell into the hands of Gongsun Zan, and the stalemate war in Hebei changed again. And at this critical moment, Yu Du took advantage of Yuan Shao's absence and led more than 100,000 black mountain bandits to attack Wei County. By chance, they entered Ye City and killed Li Chengcheng, the prefect of Wei County.When Cao Cao planned to capture Xuzhou, Yuan Shao was overwhelmed and only promised to send his subordinate Zhu Ling to lead three battalions to help.

These things are enough to worry about, and Xuzhou, which he wants to fight, also has problems.A bandit named Que Xuan came out of Xiapi, led thousands of people to rebel, and dared to call himself the Son of Heaven.Tao Qian defeated him in one battle, but Que Xuan led the defeated army to Yanzhou, openly looting Taishan and Rencheng counties.How can you not be angry if you let the bandits who were chased away come to your house before you beat them? Even though there were a lot of troubles, Cao Cao had to pretend to be a corporal, and ordered all the officials of the state temple to meet guests in the hall, and welcome the three friends who came to pay a visit to him.Today, only Xun Yu, who was stationed in Juan County, was away, and even Xi Zhicai, who was ill, came.

Chen Gong carefully let the three of them come to the hall.Cao Cao saluted first, and the three of them returned the salute politely, and exchanged greetings with everyone in the hall.Seeing the conversation and laughter, Yuan Zhong being neither humble nor overbearing, and Huan Shao's eyes dodging, Cao Cao was furious, but he had no choice, now he wanted to use these few people to build a reputation. Huan Shao knew that he had a lot of grievances with Cao Cao, so he didn't want to come.But Yuzhou was in chaos, and he and Yuan Zhong couldn't survive for a long time, so they had to take their family and flee to the village in Bianrang.Under the low eaves, he had to bow his head. He wanted to continue to take refuge in Yanzhou in the future, but he dared not disobey Cao Cao again.He bit the bullet and came here. He has been trembling since he entered the door. Seeing Cao Cao's vain courtesy now, he felt more uneasy. He took the initiative to mention the past: "Cao Shijun, I have offended you in the past, so please forgive me. As for The incident of killing Qin Bonan by mistake...is really..." He also heard that Qin Shao's son is now recognized by Cao Cao as his adopted son, so he didn't know how to word such embarrassing words.

The enemy was extremely jealous when they met, Cao Cao wanted to kick him out, but he just said strangely: "Don't mention the past, I just hope that Mr. Huan will save a little kindness, and since he killed his father, don't embarrass Qin Bonan in the future." That's it for children." These words were clearly humiliating, Huan Shao blushed with embarrassment, and murmured, "Don't dare." Cao Cao looked at Yuan Zhong again, remembering what he had said to humiliate himself because of the conquest, and retorted: "Yuanjun said back then that I can't be Xu You, I can only learn from Liu Xiahui. Now that the world has changed, sir is going to do it." Liu Xiahui's, but now I can only be Xu You." In the past, Yuan Zhong was the Minister of Pei, and Cao Cao was enlisted by the court to be the captain of the Dian Army.At the beginning, he lived in seclusion at home and refused to accept orders. Later, he couldn't bear his loneliness and went to the county to mention the matter. Yuan Zhong ridiculed him, saying that he could not be a hermit, but could only be with the light.Today, Yuan Zhong couldn't gain a foothold in the universe and ran to Yanzhou to live under the fence. Cao Cao reversed that sentence and taunted Yuan Zhong instead.

Yuan Zhong was not as weak as Huan Shao, he cupped his hands and said: "A person who is tall and clean cannot be guaranteed to be noble; if he can be thin and dirty, he cannot be guaranteed to be humble." At this point, he still speaks so meanly, saying that he is noble and pure. That's all, I have to say that others are turbid.It doesn't matter even if you say that others are turbid, as long as you have to put the word "fuck" in front of the turbidity.But this sentence is the original sentence in "Lunheng", no one can find fault with it, it is really powerful for educated people to scold the street!

Cao Cao had learned his ability in this way, and he didn't bother to argue with him. He looked at him and gave way, bowed and said, "I'm a shameless eunuch. Please come here, sir. You have tarnished your identity. It's a crime." Bian Rang pushed his hand: "It's not your fault that I've dirty my ears." The meaning is very clear, I am willing to come, you are not qualified enough to dirty me. Yuan Zhong and Bian Rang are really stinky and hard!But what else?Killing them would be too disrespectful. As the saying goes, it is better to settle enemies than to end them. Forget it... Cao Cao sighed at this point, turned around and sat down, and said loudly: "The past is over, please come here, three. I want to ask you to help me, Mr. Cao, to revive the cause of the Han Dynasty. Now that the world is raging and divided by wolves, I, Mr. Cao, do not want the emperor to be in the dust and the people to suffer. I hope that the three of you will put aside the past, and we will work together to achieve great things and destroy the world. Wolf smoke, welcome to Xijing..."

"Brother-in-law!" Bian Bing rushed in suddenly. Cao Cao was very upset. He was like a brother-in-law or brother-in-law in front of everyone, but seeing his facial features were not straight and his face was anxious, he knew that something serious had happened, so he hurriedly asked, "What's wrong? What happened?" Bian Bing knelt down on the ground, faltering and saying: "You...you must not, don't worry..." "Don't worry about anything?" Cao Cao raised his head, and suddenly saw the little boy Lu Zhao standing outside the door crying, his face haggard and disheveled.Feeling ominous, he boldly asked Lu Zhao, "What's wrong? My father...has...had an accident?"

Lv Zhao fell to his knees with a cry, and walked up to him on his knees while crying: "The master is dead, the second master is also dead, and all concubines and servants have been killed... woo woo..." Everyone in the hall was stunned. Cao Cao's father, Cao Song, and his family were wiped out! Cao Cao felt the blood rushing to the top of his head in an instant, and grabbed Lu Zhao by the collar: "Please tell me clearly, what's going on!" Lv Zhao cried and said, "Master and Second Master left Langya with their whole family to go to Mount Tai, and passed by Tao Qian. Tao Qian said that Que Xuan and bandits were haunting us recently, and the road was not safe, so he sent his subordinate Zhang Kai to lead the troops to escort us... ...Unexpectedly, when Zhang Kai saw the wealth, he suddenly ordered his soldiers to loot the property when he was about to reach the state border. Master Anmin fled to Mount Tai to meet General Ying, it was already too late for Ying Shao to bring his men back...all of them died..."

"How did Ying Zhongyuan do it! Why didn't you cross the boundary to pick it up?" Cao Cao stomped his feet and shouted, "What about others?" Bian Bing said in fear from behind: "Ying Shao sent people to bury the corpses of the whole family. He said there was a responsibility. For your great entrustment, I am ashamed to stay in Yanzhou, leave your seal and letters, and go to Hebei to vote for Yuan Shao." "Go well, go well... If I don't go, I have to kill him!" Cao Cao was trembling all over his body, "Daddy, brother, I will avenge you...I will definitely avenge you!"

None of the people present dared to speak, and all lowered their heads.Seeing Cao Cao trembling around the hall twice, he said to himself: "The tiger is in the box, and the tortoise jade is destroyed in the box. Whose fault is it? Whose fault!" , shouted: "Tao Qian! This despicable villain, I swear to take revenge!" Bian Bing hurriedly explained: "Tao Qian did not instigate this matter, but his subordinate Zhang Kai did it. After killing the man and grabbing the things, he has already gone to find Que Xuan to join his gang." "Bah!" Cao Cao was furious, and slapped Bian Bing with his hand, "Why did he instigate it? Is it not wrong for him to kill my father with an unknown person! I think Tao Qian and Que Xuan conspired to kill my family." Yes." This is the crime of wanting to add no excuses, "I must destroy Tao Qian's family... No, no... I will kill all the people in Xuzhou! No dog or dog will be left behind!" He said Jumping and cursing, the hysteria became more and more vicious. "Calm the anger of Jun Jie." All the people knelt down. Cao Cao ignored it: "Abing, go and pass the order... Dianbing! Give me Dianbing now, let's flatten Xuzhou! Kill all the people in Xuzhou!" Everyone thought they were angry just now, but when they saw that he did what he said, they panicked at that time.But people who knew Cao Cao's temper would never dare to intervene, and only hoped that he would figure it out after a while.But today, a few people who didn't know the severity came, and they said loudly: "You must not send troops because of this. The fault lies with Zhang Kai, not Tao Qian, let alone the people of Xuzhou." "The revenge of killing one's father is not shared, how can one not avenge one's brother?" Cao Cao pointed at his nose and shouted, "If he kills your whole family, can you not avenge it?" Bian Rang was originally out of breath, but when he heard that he used his own family as an example, he groaned angrily, "How can killing innocent people be considered filial piety, how can you say loyalty when you take away people?" "What did you say? Say it again... Believe it or not, I'll kill you!" Cao Cao pulled his saber and was about to kill, but Bian Bing and Lu Zhao hurriedly stopped him.Bian let go all out, and stood up abruptly: "My surname Bian is not afraid of death! Cao Mengde, you are a hypocritical, filial, unkind and unrighteous villain! You are an eunuch and ugly! Your father is not a good person!" He deserved to die a long time ago! With those ill-gotten gains, he is looking for death by himself! " "Kill! Kill! Kill!" Cao Cao was furious, "Push him out and kill him!" Everyone was confused when they saw it. Some persuaded Bian to kneel down, and some pulled Cao Cao.Lou Yi was at the door with his own soldiers, they didn't care so much, they rushed into the hall and dragged them out. "Shut up, everyone! I'll kill whoever pleads for him today!" Cao Cao was completely annoyed, "This kind of arrogant, stinky and hard thing is too much to live on." Yuan Zhong watched as his good friend was dragged out and killed. His head and stomach were torn apart, he cupped his hands with a sneer and said, "Mr. Cao, since I came with Bian Wenli, I will die with him! I won't be an eyesore to you old man!" "Okay!" Cao Cao sarcastically said, "Don't think that I dare not kill you because you are a relative of Yuan Shao. Yuan Benchu ​​told me that everyone on your branch should starve to death! I will kill you with one knife today. It’s you, it’s cheap for you!” This sentence touched Yuan Zhong's self-esteem.He and Yuan Shaoyizhi were both descendants of Yuan An, and because they couldn't get used to the wealth and pride of Yuan Feng and Yuan Kui brothers, he was willing to suffer from poverty and not to associate with them.Literati don't care about life and death, but they value fame and integrity.Now that he was dying in front of his eyes, Cao Cao still wanted to use this kind of words to attack him. Not only would he be defeated, but his reputation would also be ruined, and he burst into tears from the grief. "Crying?" Cao Cao's words became more and more vicious, "It's too late to cry now! Now you can't even think about being Xu You, you go to be Shang Rong and compare yourself!" Yuan Zhong wiped away his tears, glanced at him contemptuously, turned around and went down the hall to lead him to death. Contempt is more irritating than cursing. Cao Cao felt that his anger was about to hit the top of his head. When he looked down, he saw Huan Shao, trembling like a leaf in the wind, and sneered, "Are you scared?" Huan Shao stammered: "I beg, beg... please forgive me." "If you beg me, can you not die?" Cao Cao glared, "If the two of them are willing to say a soft word, I can still forgive you. You are not qualified... Come on! Drag him out and kill him!" "Forgive me...I was wrong...forgive me..." Huan Shao yelled like a butcher, struggling to survive, but was dragged out. All the people present sighed: "I can't be soft, I can't be hard, I killed three sages in one day."Wan Qian stepped forward suddenly, took off his crown and put it on the ground: "I dare not assist the envoy anymore, I hope you can do it yourself." After saying that, he walked away, this official is no longer appropriate. Cao Cao looked at his back and felt distressed to death. A capable general was lost just like that.But what's the use of regretting, he raised his head and shouted: "Who wants to leave? Anyone who wants to leave, let me go!" Li Feng and Xue Lan had been looking forward to this day for a long time, they didn't even bother to say hello, they turned around and left the hall and go. After a short while, the three bloody heads were already placed at the entrance of the hall. Cao Cao paced back and forth around the heads in anger, feeling that the expressions of the three people were still mocking and insulting him, so he shouted again: "Okay... …My father is gone, my younger brother is gone, their wives, concubines, and servants are all gone. You can’t expect peace even if you die... Lou Yi! Lead the soldiers and kill their whole family, young and old!” "This..." Lou Yi felt it was too much. "If you don't kill, I will kill you!" "No." Lou Yi left helplessly.Seeing that Mao Jie and Bi Chen wanted to remonstrate again, Cao Cao shouted: "I have made up my mind, you don't want to say it again... A Bing! You still don't want to pass the order? Hurry up and dispatch all the troops, I will Xuzhou must be bloodbathed!" "Wait a minute!" Xiahou Dun rushed over suddenly, stopped Bian Bing and said, "This soldier cannot be dispatched." "What can't be posted?" Cao Cao glanced at him. "I don't care if it's right or wrong, but Qingzhou soldiers haven't practiced yet..." "Don't shirk, if you don't want to go, you can stay!" Cao Cao didn't even give Xiahou Dun any face today.Xi Zhicai watched anxiously from the sidelines, coughed and said: "Calm your anger, "Lu Lan" has a saying that 'Ordinary soldiers are used for profit and righteousness', this time you..." "Shut up! Lu Buwei saved Yingzheng's family from returning to Qin, but he didn't kill their family. I will definitely use this soldier! I will order the soldier myself!" Cao Cao kicked away the head and hurried down the hall, walked to the door and turned to Xiahou Dun and said: "Yuan Rang, it doesn't matter if you don't go, but if you recognize that uncle and brother, bring back the bodies of my father and Ziji and bury them." Xiahoudun's heart skipped a beat. Although he didn't have the same surname, Cao Song was his uncle, and Cao De was his younger brother!He nodded and said: "I will fight Dian, if you insist on hitting Xuzhou...then go!" Hearing this, Cao Cao settled his concerns, turned his head and walked away angrily. "Wow..." Xi Zhicai spat blood on the ground, "cough cough cough..." "Oh, brother Zhicai!" Xia Houdun, Xu Tuo, Bi Chen, and Mao Jie rushed to rescue him, and the hall was in chaos. Only Chen Gong didn't move, he was stunned by what happened in front of him, fear and grief intertwined, he stared blankly at the head kicked away: I brought my friends here, but I ruined their lives here ...Cao Mengde wants to wash Xuzhou with blood, and kill more people...I accidentally saved a hungry wolf...Sooner or later, this wolf will kill me... At this moment, Cheng Li, who was kneeling beside him, uttered an even more ear-piercing sentence: "Kill it, kill it. There is no one who doesn't kill people when they do big things. Such a person who doesn't know how to praise, death is not a pity!" "Yes, that's right, the arrogant and tyrannical people deserve to die." The cruel official Xue Ti agreed, "Now that there is a shortage of food and wages, it would be good to divide their property, and the rich can help the people." Chen Gong's compassionate gaze has turned into resentment: Wolf!They are all wolves... This pack of wolves must not be allowed to stay in Yanzhou any longer...