Chapter 597: With a death wish, Mr. Yang is so heroic
In order to help Mi Yang complete his great cause as soon as possible, Meng Da traveled almost day and night on his way to Luoyang.
After traveling day and night, Mengda returned to Luoyang City within a few days.
And with the help of the token given by Yang Xiao before, Meng Da finally returned to the Yang Mansion safely.
After learning the news of Meng Da's return, Yang Xiao immediately took Meng Da to Yang Biao's courtyard.
When Meng Da saw Yang Biao, he saw that Yang Biao was still lying on the recliner in the same manner as that day, as if Yang Biao had never left the recliner in the past few days.
But the difference is that in response to Meng Da's request for an audience, Yang Biao's face showed a gentleness and expectation that was not seen that day.
"What do you think, General?"
Without too much foreshadowing, Yang Biao directly asked what he was most concerned about.
Facing Yang Biao's inquiry, Meng Da did not dare to neglect at all.
Meng Da quickly took out Mi Yang's autographed letter from his arms and presented it in front of Yang Biao.
When the old Yang Biao saw the letter in Meng Da's hand, he stopped Yang Xiao from taking the letter for him.
Yang Biao stretched out his bony hands and personally took the letter from Mi Yang from Meng Da's hands.
Due to Mi Yang's specific tactical arrangements, the content of the letter was not short, but Yang Biao still read the contents of the letter word for word with his presbyopic eyes.
In fact, Yang Biao was not too concerned about the tactics Mi Yang mentioned in the letter. What really concerned Yang Biao was the marriage mentioned by Mi Yang in the letter.
"Moving the capital to Chang'an" can be regarded as a private transaction between Yang Biao and Mi Yang. It is impossible for such a transaction to be clearly written in letters.
But this matter can make Yang Biao feel Mi Yang's commitment in other ways.
Once the Mi and Yang families get married, it means that the Mi and Yang families will have the same personal interests. This guarantee is more reliable than any words.
Yang Biao, who has experienced the world, will not trust people's hearts easily, but he does believe in a person's determination to safeguard his own interests.
What's more, Mi Yang also mentioned his inheritance in the letter, which is equivalent to Mi Yang using the reputation of the Fufeng Fa family and the Fufeng Meng family as a guarantee.
With both the alliance of interests and the guarantee of a famous family, what else does Yang Biao have to worry about?
After reading the contents of the letter, Yang Biao couldn't help but look up to the sky and laugh three times.
"Great! Great! Great!"
After laughing, Yang Biao looked at Meng Dayan and said: "Since the general has made the promise, we, the Kansai family, will die in the service of the general in the future."
After saying this, Yang Biao handed the letter into Yang Xiao's hands.
"You go back and tidy up, and leave Luoyang with Zidu today.
The request in the general’s letter needs you to fulfill it on my behalf.”
After hearing Yang Biao's words, Meng Da's eyes flashed with joy.
The eldest grandson of the Hongnong Yang family was sent to contact the Kansai family. Yang Biao was also full of sincerity.
But while he was happy, Meng Da inevitably had some doubts in his heart. He couldn't help but ask:
"Won't Mr. Yang return to Kansai with me?"
In Meng Da's opinion, it would be the best thing if Yang Biao could return with him.
In addition, Meng Da was also worried that if the Kansai Incident broke out, something would happen to Yang Biao who stayed in Luoyang.
Regarding Meng Da's doubts, Yang Biao answered with a smile:
"I can't leave."
Yang Biao's explanation made Meng Da immediately give up the idea of persuading him again.
With the energy of the Hongnong Yang family, it is not a difficult task to secretly send himself and Yang Xiao out of Luoyang City.
But as Yang Biao said, he is so famous in the world that it would be difficult for him to leave Luoyang.
As long as Yang Biao is in Luoyang, the Guanxi family will not rebel. This is what the ruler of Cao Wei had in mind.
Compared to Meng Da's silence, Yang Xiao's eyes were filled with tears after hearing Yang Biao's words.
He is not stupid, he knows what kind of ending Yang Biao will get in the end if he stays.
Yang Xiao's crying filled Yang Biao's heart with reluctance, but as the contemporary head of the Hongnong Yang family, and as the leader of the contemporary Guanxi family, he still had something extremely important to do.
"You will be the head of the Hongnong Yang family. Tears should not appear on your face. You must shoulder the responsibility of revitalizing the Hongnong Yang family.
Go, go!"
Yang Biao kept waving his hands to let Yang Xiao leave.
Yang Xiao knew Yang Biao's expectations for him. In order to live up to Yang Biao's expectations, Yang Xiao knelt down and kowtowed deeply to Yang Biao three times, then got up and walked out with Meng Da.
Yang Biao, who was lying on the recliner, watched Yang Xiao's figure gradually disappear in the courtyard. The last trace of concern in his heart was cut off at this moment.
Now that the family's future is dependent on it, there is nothing he can't do or dare not do right now!
Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon.
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The Mid-Autumn Festival has been one of the most important festivals of the Chinese nation since the Han Dynasty.
In the past, every Mid-Autumn Festival, Cao Pi would hold a large banquet in the Chaoyang Palace to reward his ministers.
It's just that Cao Pi is ill this year, so this year's banquet can only be hosted by Cao Rui.
Although the war on the front line was tense, Cao Rui knew that at times like this, the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet could not be canceled.
Holding a Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, like the New Year's Day banquet, is a symbol of the political stability of a dynasty.
The more unstable people's hearts are, the more he will use all means to stabilize people's hearts.
While paying attention to the enemy tactically, he despises the enemy strategically. It is obvious that Cao Rui also understands this principle.
Cao Rui's approach was right. When the ministers in Luoyang learned that the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet would be held as scheduled, the uneasiness in the hearts of many ministers was indeed relieved a lot.
For such an important banquet, Yang Biao will definitely be invited.
Although Yang Biao has been resisting Cao Pi's will since the establishment of Cao Wei and became the third Duke of Cao Wei, Yang Biao's political influence in the family was too great.
In order to win over the Kansai family, Cao Pi would specially send envoys to invite Yang Biao every time a banquet was held on major festivals.
But in the past, Yang Biao declined every time because he was old and infirm.
But when the envoy sent by Cao Rui entered Yang's mansion this year, Yang Biao uncharacteristically agreed.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! When the messenger returned to the palace to tell Cao Rui the news, Cao Rui still couldn't believe it for a while.
However, it is a good thing for Cao Rui that Yang Biao can attend the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet this year - after the news of Yang Biao's participation in the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet reaches Kansai, it will greatly appease the hearts of the Kansai family.
As time goes by, the Mid-Autumn Festival finally arrives.
It has been some time since Yang Xiao and Meng Da left Luoyang today.
Early this morning, Yang Biao got up and washed himself under the service of his servants. Standing in front of the bronze mirror, Yang Biao looked at his old appearance in the bronze mirror.
If I remember correctly, he is eighty-four years old this year.
How many people in the past and present have been able to enjoy the age of eighty-four?
After washing up, the servants gave Yang Biao the gorgeous clothes that Cao Pi had rewarded in previous years. But after seeing the yellow robes, Yang Biao's eyes couldn't help showing disgust.
"Get my lieutenant's official robe!"
Yang Biao's instructions startled everyone.
As we all know, Yang Biao never held the position of the Three Dukes of Cao Wei. In his life, Yang Biao only served as the Three Dukes of the Han Dynasty.
So which dynasty did the Taiwei official robe mentioned by Yang Biao belong to? Do we still need to guess?
But now Yang Biao is going to attend Cao Wei's Mid-Autumn Festival banquet!
The servant's hesitation made Yang Biao dissatisfied. He scolded him several times before finally letting the servant get the red and purple official uniform of the Taiwei.
When this official uniform was put on Yang Biao, Yang Biao looked at himself in the bronze mirror, and a smile appeared on his lips.
It’s still my big man’s robe, so grand!
Yang Biao couldn't help but bow deeply to himself in the bronze mirror.
After many years, you are finally back.
After putting everything on, Yang Biao slowly walked out of the house, leaning on his wooden staff, and stepped onto the carriage heading to Luoyang Palace.
Yang Biao's mansion is not far from Luoyang Palace City.
Soon after, Yang Biao's chariot stopped under the palace city.
When the chariot stopped, Yang Biao hunched his body and stepped down step by step from the curtained chariot.
The flag on the chariot showed Yang Biao's identity to the Wei officials passing around.
But when Yang Biao stepped out of the carriage and the officials walking around saw Yang Biao's attire, their faces showed shock.
Among the officials of Cao Wei, who were not Han ministers a few years ago, how could they not recognize what Yang Biao was wearing?
It was precisely because they recognized it that they felt incredible.
Is Mr. Yang crazy today?
The strange looks from several officials around him did not affect Yang Biao's progress.
Yang Biao stepped out of the carriage and suddenly straightened his body that had been stooped for many years. After Yang Biao glanced at the khaki Cao Wei flag fluttering in the wind on the palace wall, his eyes were full of sarcasm.
With a sarcastic look in his eyes, Yang Biao strode into the palace wall with his head held high and under the shocked eyes of others.
The further he went toward Chaoyang Palace, the more officials Yang Biao saw. They and Yang Biao usually went to attend the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet.
After stepping into the palace wall, Yang Biao's sight was completely covered by an earthy color.
The rustling khaki flags, the khaki official uniforms in a hurry, and the majestic khaki armor.
In a sea of khaki, the red color on Yang Biao's body is particularly eye-catching and out of place.
At this moment, Yang Biao became an outlier in the entire palace.
It is not that some officials saw Yang Biao's indecency, but Yang Biao came at the right time. Those officials who were qualified to stop Yang Biao from moving forward had already taken their seats in the Chaoyang Palace.
Most of the officials who are still walking outside are low-level officials who cannot enter the Chaoyang Palace. Do they dare to step forward to stop Yang Biao?
Or are they worthy?
As for the Imperial Guards, how many of them can recognize Yang Biao's clothes?
Without anyone stopping him, Yang Biao arrived outside the Chaoyang Palace unhindered.
Along the way, many officials were extremely shocked after seeing Yang Biao's clothes, but they also had a subconscious move, which was to cover their sleeves and eyes, and did not dare to look directly at Yang Biao.
The red color on Yang Biao's body was too dazzling.
They felt ashamed when they saw it.
After arriving outside Chaoyang Hall, Yang Biao looked up at the steps, and he climbed up the steps resolutely.
With each step he stepped on, Yang Biao recalled a scene from his youth in his mind.
Luoyang Palace City may be difficult for others to enter in their lifetime, but for Yang Biao, it is a place he can come and go at will since he was a boy.
Yang Biao was too familiar with the Chaoyang Palace in front of him.
He was born in the Yang family of Hongnong. From the moment he was born, there was a golden road at his feet leading directly to the center of power in the world.
He promoted filial piety and integrity, recommended talented people, was recruited as Yilang, transferred to Jingzhaoyin, paid homage to the prefect of Yingchuan, and then moved to the Weiwei, until he finally became the Taiwei.
Yang Biao's political resume is flawless and smooth, but behind this political resume lies the great kindness of the Han Dynasty to the Hongnong Yang family.
Is it just that Yang Biao repaid the man's kindness to him?
One by one past events flashed through Yang Biao's mind.
Killing Wang Fu, directly reprimanding the disobedient Dong Zhuo, sternly reprimanding Li Guo, and protecting the lord all the way back to the east. These are Yang Biao's past manifestations of loyalty and passion to the great Han Dynasty.
But I don't know since when, the loyalty and passion passed down from generation to generation in his heart gradually cooled down.
To this day, Yang Biao asks himself, he feels guilty towards the big man!
But fortunately, Mi Yang appeared in the world, giving him a chance to make up for the guilt in his heart.
When Yang Biao's thoughts returned from the past, he was already standing at the door of Chaoyang Palace.
Standing at the entrance of the Chaoyang Palace, he could clearly see the shocked and incomprehensible looks on the faces of the ministers of Cao and Wei in the palace, as well as the actions of Cao Rui, who was sitting at the top, subconsciously leaving his seat and getting up because of his surprise.
Their reaction seemed to reawaken the loyalty and passion in Yang Biao's heart.
An excitement surged in Yang Biao's chest, and this emotion made him step into the Chaoyang Palace without hesitation.
Taking this step means that he has no way out.
But why did he come today?
It’s for the tragic death of his beloved son Yang Xiu, for the declining Hongnong Yang family, and for the official uniform he wears!
Since there are three must-dos, why bother worrying about the retreat?
Cao Rui stood up and looked at Yang Biao standing at the entrance of the palace. He couldn't believe that what he saw in front of him was real.
At the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet he held today, Yang Biao dared to appear in front of him openly wearing the official uniform of the former Han Dynasty?
Is Yang Biao going to slap him in the face, slap Da Wei in the face?
A fierce anger appeared in Cao Rui's heart. For a moment, Cao Rui wanted to order Yang Biao to be dragged out and beheaded.
But when he thought of Yang Biao's identity, Cao Rui forced himself to suppress the anger in his heart.
After barely stabilizing his emotions, Cao Rui sat down again, and then his cold voice sounded in the hall:
"Mr. Yang is old and has lost his mind?"
In order to stabilize the overall situation, Cao Rui could only come up with this reason to cover up Yang Biao.
And this was also the last chance he gave Yang Biao, and the last chance he gave to the Hongnong Yang family.
It's a pity that Yang Biao seemed to have really lost his mind and he did not thank Cao Rui for covering up for him.
After hearing what Cao Rui said, Yang Biao not only did not retreat, but instead strode towards the throne above.
"I have come to ask you a favor today."
"I ask the Cao family to obey the destiny and return power to the Han Dynasty!"
Yang Biao's words were sonorous and powerful, and they fell into the ears of everyone in the hall clearly.
After hearing Yang Biao's words, all the Wei Chens in the palace were shocked, and they all looked at Yang Biao like they were crazy.
All the ministers were like this, let alone Cao Rui who faced Yang Biao directly?
Cao Rui laughed angrily at Yang Biao's words.
He suddenly slapped the table in front of him and angrily yelled at Yang Biao:
"My Cao family inherited the Han Dynasty after Emperor Han abdicated the throne.
It is destiny for Wei to inherit the unification of Han!"
Faced with Cao Rui's angry rebuke, Yang Biao was not afraid at all.
He has directly scolded Dong Zhuo, Li Guo, and Cao Cao. Will he be afraid of Cao Rui?
After listening to Cao Rui's words, Yang Biao seemed to have heard a big joke.
"Inherit the Han Dynasty?
You will be worthy of me after you are castrated!"
As the words fell, Yang Biao raised the wooden stick in his hand and pointed it directly at Cao Rui, who was sitting at the top.
Yang Biao's words and actions were full of sarcasm and disdain.
At this moment, Yang Biao's posture was fierce, showing the demeanor of a great Han Dynasty officer!