Chapter 37 Conspiracy behind

The day after the Queen Mother promised to drive the eunuchs out of the palace, Yuan Shao was promoted to Sili Xiaowei and Jia Jie, Wang Yun was also appointed Henan Yin, and two iron nets were placed on the eunuchs. The general wrote a memorial to impeach the eunuchs for bribery and asked them to be moved out of the palace. The queen mother also nodded in agreement in front of the civil and military officials at the court meeting.This is just a high-sounding cutscene, and the compromise between the siblings has already been reached. Although the court is polite and refined, Luoyang's defense is not easy.Originally, Ding Yuan's 3,000 Bingzhou Army came, but now Dong Zhuo's 3,000 Liangzhou Army has also arrived on the south side of the river.Most of their troops are Qianghu, Xiongnu, and Tuge, unlike the Han people who obey discipline.So as long as there are these two armies, the defense of the capital cannot be relaxed for a moment.

If it wasn't for Cao Cao's repeated reminders, He Jin hadn't thought about the deployment of Captain Xiyuan.He recruited the five school lieutenants to the shogunate, and with the help of Cao Cao, he made some assignments. Chunyuqiong and Feng Fang's troops were stationed east of Luoyang, Zhao Rong and Xia Mou's troops were stationed west of Luoyang, and Cao Cao was with Wu. The soldiers and horses directly under the shogunate led by Dang and Xu Liang were stationed in the south of the city, and there was no need to fortify Mangshan in the north of Luoyang city.It stands to reason that such an arrangement should not cause problems.

After leaving the shogunate, the five school lieutenants returned to their battalions to dispatch troops.Cao Cao went back to his battalion of the Dianjun Academy and inspected the whole army carefully.Generally speaking, it is reasonable, at least in the days when he was not very focused on the military camp, the commander of the camp was very strict with his subordinates.Cao Cao personally led the team to move the soldiers and horses to the south of the city, and formed a strict barrier with Wu Dang's soldiers according to the planned deployment.After setting up the camp, he summoned the battalion Sima and the other Sima, and gave them instructions for a long time. He didn't leave the barracks until it was getting dark, and went back to his residence to rest.

When he got home and couldn't care about anything else, Cao Cao first ordered someone to pour a pot of hot water to scald his feet.These days are too tiring. To be precise, he hasn't been relaxed since the day he became the lieutenant of Dianjun.First he fought with Jian Shuo, then he was busy with the emperor's funeral, and he was anxious with He Jin because of the eunuch's affairs. Now everything is finally settled, and he can finally sleep soundly.With the relaxation in his heart, his body also relaxed. Cao Cao soaked his feet in hot water and fell asleep sitting on the bed.

"A man, someone wants to see you." Mrs. Bian shook him awake herself. Cao Cao closed his eyes and didn't even bother to raise his head: "Don't bother me, see you!" "Wake up, it seems that something is urgent." Cao Cao yawned, rubbed his sleepy eyes, frowned, and said, "Who is so annoying? Dropping in at night and keeping people from sleeping?" Mrs. Bian advised him not to be annoyed, and handed him a huge green bamboo thorn.Cao Cao rubbed his face vigorously, then gathered his eyes to look at the thorn under the lamp—Nanyang Yuan Ciyang.

"Gudong!" Cao Cao's hands trembled, and the famous green bamboo thorn fell into the footbath, and he hurriedly fished it out: "Amazing! This is the famous thorn of Yuan Kai, the imperial prince, how dare I keep it? Quickly get the cloth Come." Mrs. Bian also panicked, the couple worked hard for a long time and finally wiped off the thorn, and looked carefully, it seemed that the ink was a little lighter. "Is it all right?" "It's okay, it's okay! It's dark, and he won't be able to see it even if I hand it back." Cao Cao was completely awake from his doze, "Is Mr. Yuan here in person?"

"He is the Taifu, who do you think you are? It's just a servant sent here." "What's the meaning of sending a servant to hand him his famous thorn at night?" Cao Cao was full of doubts, but for the sake of the grand master, he carefully arranged his clothes and greeted him out in person.There was only one person who came, and he was an ordinary family member. Seeing Cao Cao, he saluted respectfully: "I pay my respects to Mr. Cao. By order of my master, I invite Mr. Cao to come over to discuss matters." "Yuan Gongkui invites you tonight, what's the matter?"

"The little one was just ordered to come here to invite me, and I don't know what is important." As expected of the subordinates trained by Yuan Kai, his speech was quite reserved, saying "I don't know", but calling names was "important".After that, the man bowed deeply, "It's getting late, Master Cao, please follow me quickly." The Tai Tuo called for him ambiguously, but Cao Cao didn't dare not to go, so he hurriedly ordered Lou Yi to prepare a car.The servant of Yuan's Mansion saw it and stopped him immediately: "Your Excellency, don't go by car, this matter is very confidential and urgent. My master has repeatedly instructed that no one invited should take a car, so as not to attract people's eyes and ears." He said vigorously Saying the word "Jie" is obviously to tell Cao Cao that he is not the only one invited.

Cao Cao nodded again and again, put on a coat casually, led the Dawan horse and followed him.Holding a small lantern in his hand, the man walked in front without making a sound, and Cao Cao followed closely behind on horseback. The atmosphere was very strange.It's strange to say that even at night, the capital's land should be strictly inspected, but Cao Cao didn't even see half of the night patrolling soldiers from the house to Yuan's mansion tonight. Yuan Kui managed to withdraw the night watchmen in the east of the city. The servant took the reins respectfully and let Cao Cao enter the gate of the mansion.Another person on the second door bowed his head to greet him, but instead of entering the main hall, he led him into the side yard, pointing to a brightly lit room to let him in.The servant himself did not follow, and left the yard silently.

Cao Cao felt a little nervous, but after thinking about it again, he had no grievances with Yuan Kai, and he would not harm a school lieutenant even if he was a grand tutor.So he took two quick steps, deliberately coughed in front of the window, and pushed open the door. As soon as the door was opened, the bright light was blinding.Cao Cao's sleeves shaded the light, only to see that the inside was full of guests, including many ministers in the court.Situ Dinggong, Sikong Liu Hong, Wei Wei Zhao Mo, Da Si Nong Zhou Zhong, Cui Lie, Zhu Jun, Wang Yun, Huan Dian and other prestigious ministers sat silently.He Yong, Zheng Tai, Cui Jun, Kong Rong and others were of the same generation as him; besides him, the four Xiyuan school captains had already taken their seats.Grand Tutor Yuan Kui was gray-haired, wearing plain clothes and sitting in the center. The closest to him on the left and right were Fengche Duwei Dong Min and Zhijinwu Dingyuan.Yuan Shao was behind him, but he had no seat.

"The next official pays homage to the Taifu!" "Meng De, please sit down." Yuan Kai didn't say much. "I pay my respects to all your lords!" Cao made a bow and took the seat reserved for him.Everyone was like a clay idol without saying a word, and the atmosphere was very dignified, as if they were in a solemn court. Although Yuan Shao's third uncle, Yuan Kai, worshiped the Taifu and participated in the affairs of the minister, since the new emperor came to the throne, he was ill at home and did not participate in any government affairs. All affairs were handled by He Jin alone.But when I saw him today, he was in good spirits, with sharp eyes, how could he look like a sick person?Cao Cao suddenly remembered his father's prophecy. At the end of the matter, it turned out that the old fox Yuan Kai was about to show up. "Since everyone has arrived, let me just speak straight." Yuan Kai's voice was not high, but his voice was very thick, "Eunuchs and foreign relatives are the two major evils of our dynasty! Today the eunuchs are weak, and they will be in the court soon. I I would like to ask all the adults to cooperate with the old man, and then cut off the He brothers." Cao Cao's heart trembled, although he had already thought of this level hazily, but hearing Yuan Kai say it with his own ears, he still felt a little thrilling.He looked at the people around him, although there were a few who changed their colors, they kept silent like him, and no one refuted it! Yuan Kai nodded: "Since everyone understands, let's listen to the old man's plan! First of all, my little nephew has the right to fake festivals at first, and he will attack arbitrarily. He and the prince will collect eunuchs' stolen crimes and deal with them all. He paused for a while, seeing no objection from everyone, and said again, "After the eunuch family was wiped out, my nephew Gonglu entered the palace with people from the three bureaus, and cut off any contact with He Jin and He Miao." Everyone was still silent, and Yuan Kai smiled gratifiedly: "Okay! Next step, because the eunuchs get a lot of money and bribes to He Miao, let's participate in his bribery, forming a party for personal gain, and having evil intentions. The old man recorded the matter of the minister , all will be played, and they will be captured and sent to prison to be put to death hastily.” Everyone is still silent. "Then," Yuan Kai looked at Cao Cao, "ask Meng De and other five school lieutenants to lead the troops to control He Jin's army and take down his henchmen Wu Dang, Xu Liang, Wu Kuang, Zhang Zhang and others. Let's chase He Jin out Chaotang, kill him." This time, Cao Cao couldn't bear it, and interjected: "He Suigao is an incompetent person, he can be expelled from the court, why take his life?" Wang Yun, who was sitting across from him, sneered and said, "Hmph! The centipede is dead but not stiff. If you don't kill him, it will be troublesome for the emperor to remember that he still has such an uncle. The ashes can be revived." "That's right." Yuan Kai nodded again and again, "He Jin wants to kill, if you don't kill, you can't warn future generations, if you don't kill, you can't build the emperor's prestige!" Cao Cao understood: Politics is such a shitty thing.Even if you are cowardly, incompetent, and kind, as long as you stand where you shouldn't be, someone will kill you.Politics does not allow the emergence of cowardice and incompetence, let alone show mercy just because you are kind to others. Seeing that he was no longer interfering, Yuan Kai said to Ding Yuan and Dong Min beside him, "Finally, please ask the teachers of the two Qin Kings to come forward to force He Hou to return to power, and we will pay attention to it later." Tonight's secret meeting was already terrifying, but when he said the words "don't worry about it", everyone couldn't help being horrified.How to explain the meaning of these four words, because she was protecting the eunuch, so she was kicked out of the palace?Or should I be put under house arrest?or…… Seeing everyone's astonishment, Yuan Kui said: "Since the resurgence of Lord Guangwu in our dynasty, eunuchs and relatives have been good at intervening in state affairs, and the emperor cannot be arbitrary. The power is transferred to the family of relatives, favored by close relatives, and kissing his party members. , using his personal interests to enrich the capital inside and the prefectures and counties outside to overturn fools and sages and harass the common people! If these two things are not eliminated, our great Han society will be in danger! Today’s opportunity is once in a thousand years, we will eradicate them together, and we will revise the law in the future , thinking that the imperial court made it. All eunuchs are not allowed to serve in the palace, and all foreign relatives are not allowed to participate in the government. The revival of the Han Dynasty began with this dynasty, and with the adults. From now on, we will jointly protect the emperor to decide state affairs, and evildoers are not allowed to defile the court." Dong Zhuo's younger brother Fengche Duwei Dong Min cupped his hands and said: "My elder brother is an old official of the old lady Fu, and I have always admired your nobleness. I think you, an old man, will assist the emperor, and I will be a generation of Mingjun today. My brother I would like to do the work of a dog and a horse." For some reason, Cao Cao always found Dong Min very annoying, and his every move seemed contrived. Yuan Kai waved his hand: "I'm already at this age, and I've done things like estrangement, and I will definitely not be tolerated by the emperor in the future. When this is done, all the adults will stand together in court, and state affairs must not be done by one person again." heart of." Yuan Shao took his uncle's words: "Heaven can't be strong, and if you can't be strong, the three lights can't be seen. The king can't be strong, if you can't be strong, you can slaughter and muzzle. My lords, if the emperor is not strong, let's call him strong. From now on, Let's..." Wow!A boy opened the door and came in. "What's the matter? You're in such a panic!" Yuan Kai stroked his beard in great displeasure. "Reporting to the master, the general was killed by the eunuch!" "He Jin is dead!?" The people present were in chaos. "Dead!" The person who reported the incident said again, "Master Gong Dao led troops to attack the palace and wanted to kill the eunuch..." Yuan Kai didn't change his face when he was angry, but sneered: "It doesn't matter, the eunuch's relatives will be killed, it's just that the order is reversed." "It doesn't matter?" Cao Cao got up and gave him a blank look, "Old man! There will be disasters in the palace, and if the emperor is in danger, the world will be in chaos! Who else do you support to govern the country? Your idea of ​​protecting the country is really killing the chicken to get the egg !" After saying that, he walked away in a flick of his sleeves, leaving the Yuan Mansion and rode his horse straight to the palace...