Dong Cheng felt that he seemed to have forgotten something.
Just when he was trying not to think about the fine wine and delicious food at last night's banquet, and trying to remember something, Wang Ding had already sent someone to invite him.
Only then did Dong Cheng realize that he was still in the Wang family.
He wanted to go back quickly, but Wang Ding invited him and he had to go. He did not dare to refuse Wang Ding.
Wang Ding looked at the haggard Dong Cheng and said, "Uncle Guo, you slept well last night. I wanted to send Uncle Guo back, but it was too late and Uncle Guo had fallen asleep again, so Ji An had to
Place your uncle in the palace."
Dong Cheng looked very ugly, and Wang Ding thought he was too drunk last night and had not recovered yet.
Dong Cheng cupped his fists and said, "Thank you so much for your hospitality, General. The banquet last night was the best banquet Cheng has ever had."
Dong Cheng is no longer worried that Wang will kill him.
If you really want to kill him, you can kill him directly after he got drunk yesterday. You can even have someone take him out and throw him into the river, then say that he fell into the moat and drowned after he got drunk.
But Wang Ding didn't. Instead, he waited until he sobered up before finding someone to call him.
But Dong Cheng is worried about whether his confidant Dong Hui has brought his suicide note to the palace to see the imperial concubine.
Wang Ding said: "As long as you like it. If you want to eat it in the future, you can come anytime. Even if I communicate with His Majesty in the future, I should be more cautious. Your Majesty is still young now and many of his ideas are immature."
A layer of cold sweat suddenly appeared on Dong Cheng's forehead.
How to choose?
Pretending not to understand?
This time it’s not a Hongmen Banquet, but good wine and good food to entertain him, but what about next time?
Dong Cheng knew that Wang Ding was asking him to take sides.
As the uncle of the Han Dynasty, he should have stood completely on the side of the Han Dynasty, followed Liu Xie's footsteps, and become the sharp knife in Liu Xie's hands.
But now...
Dong Cheng no longer hesitates.
"Don't worry, General. I will never talk nonsense when I meet Your Majesty in the future."
After a slight hesitation, Dong Cheng then informed Wang Ding of what he had written in a suicide note yesterday and told his confidants.
He no longer had any luck, it was already at this point, Dong Hui must have entered the palace.
Wang Ding was speechless.
I didn’t expect that just leaving Dong Cheng alone for one night would lead to such a big mistake.
"Let's go." Wang Ding said.
Dong Cheng was confused: "Where to go?"
Wang Ding said angrily: "Of course I'm going to the palace. If you don't come forward, Your Majesty will think that I am going to rebel."
Wang Ding took Lu Hao and others and went directly to the palace.
Outside the palace gate, Wang Ding also asked someone to report to Liu Xie first.
Now he doesn't want to irritate Liu Xie anymore.
Even if the soldiers guarding the palace gate did not dare to stop him, Wang Ding still waited in front of the palace gate honestly and according to the rules.
"Your Majesty, the chariot general Wang Ding and the uncle Dong Cheng are outside the palace gate asking for an audience." The young eunuch hurried to Fu Shou's palace.
"What?" Liu Xie exclaimed, feeling that his life was at stake and he was about to be hacked to death by Wang Ding.
On the contrary, it was Fu Shou who heard what the young eunuch said clearly. She frowned and said, "Are you saying that Uncle Dong Guo is also outside the palace gate?"
The young eunuch nodded quickly and said: "Uncle Dong Guo and General Chariot and Cavalry are waiting outside the palace gate to see His Majesty."
This time Liu Xie and Concubine Dong also heard clearly.
"Uncle Guo is here too?" Liu Xie stared, wondering if the young eunuch was deceiving him.
Clearly early in the morning, Dong Cheng's confidants entered the palace and delivered Dong Cheng's suicide note.
Now they say that Dong Cheng is asking for an audience outside the palace gate?
Is Dong Cheng outside the palace gate a human or a ghost?
Is Dong Hui, who entered the palace this morning, deceiving the king, or is the little eunuch in front of him lying?
When Fu Shou saw that Liu Xie and Concubine Dong were uneasy, she said, "Xuan and I have come to the palace to see you."
Regardless of whether it is true or false, whether Dong Cheng is alive or dead, and Wang Ding is already outside the palace gate, there is no way to hide. Even if they are really going to die, as the emperor and the noble concubines, they must die with dignity.
The young eunuch went out again. The expressions of Liu Xie and Concubine Dong in the palace were still not good-looking, but there was finally a glimmer of hope in Concubine Dong's eyes.
Perhaps, her father Dong Cheng is really not dead.
Liu Xie was wondering if Wang Ding was deliberately trying to paralyze them, so he asked the eunuch to inform them, thinking that they didn't know that Dong Cheng was dead.
In the midst of suffering, Wang Ding and Dong Cheng followed the young eunuch to the Rende Palace where Fu Shou was.
As for Fu Shou's bedroom, the two of them didn't want to enter.
Concubine Dong Gui hurriedly ran from the palace to the front yard.
When she saw Dong Cheng, tears flowed down again.
"Father."
When she came to Dong Cheng, she wanted to hug him, but she restrained herself and just held Dong Cheng's hand.
Dong Cheng was a little embarrassed.
It was true that he went to the banquet yesterday with the intention of dying. Who would have thought that Wang Ding had no intention of killing him?
Concubine Dong Guifei found it difficult to control her emotions when facing her lost and found old father.
Dong Cheng could only comfort him softly: "Misunderstanding, what happened today is all a misunderstanding. Last night at the banquet in the Chariot General's Mansion, I drank two more drinks. Unexpectedly, I was so drunk that I got drunk, so I had to
The chariot general stayed one night in his mansion."
Liu Xie and Fu Shou also walked out.
After confirming that Dong Cheng was not dead, Liu Xie finally regained his composure.
Wang Ding saluted and said: "I am a humble minister, Wang Ding, to pay my respects to Your Majesty. I got a jug of good wine yesterday by chance. It was sent by a merchant from the Western Regions. It is called wine. I came here to offer it to Your Majesty."
Wang Ding just pretended that he didn't know the whole story, and he couldn't enter the palace for no reason, so he had to do it in the name of offering wine.
Liu Xie said calmly: "Ai Qing is interested."
The calmer Liu Xie is, the more people can feel the alienation engraved in their bones.
Wang Ding was also helpless.
Every time he worked hard, he felt that his relationship with Liu Xie had eased, but it didn't take long for other things to happen, making all his previous operations in vain.
After a while, he had a very good relationship with Liu Xie, and seemed to have Liu Xie's trust. Even in the eyes of other ministers, Wang Ding was a courtier.
But after a while, Liu Xie became very wary, fearful, and even afraid of Wang Ding.
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After all, Wang Ding now holds military power and has the means to threaten Liu Xie. No matter how close he is to Liu Xie, as long as there is the slightest sign of trouble, Liu Xie will be suspicious.
Not every emperor is an Adou, willing to trust the prime minister unconditionally.
"If your Majesty has no other instructions, I will resign immediately." Wang Ding said.
If he stays here now, it will only make Liu Xie more fearful.
Liu Xiedao: "Ai Qing, please go and do your business. I will talk to my uncle again."
Wang Ding quickly left the palace and took Lu Hao to the military camp instead of going back.
In the palace, Liu Xie began to question Dong Cheng.
But Dong Cheng was frightened by Wang Ding. He didn't dare to say anything in front of Liu Xie now. He just said some insignificant things. As for the suicide note in Liu Xie's hand, Dong Cheng also said that the servants in the palace made a mistake.
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He wrote this suicide note a long time ago just in case.
Wang Ding returned to the military camp and devoted himself to training.
He spends most of his time training with the five hundred personal guards.
Other matters will be handled by Jia Xu, Sima Lang and others.
What Wang Ding is slightly concerned about is the current battle situation between Lu Bu and Cao Cao.
However, as Yuan Shao sent Zhu Ling to support Cao Cao, the war between Cao and Lu in Yanzhou was temporarily in a state of confrontation.
But today, among the information Sima Lang gave to Wang Ding, in addition to the information about Lu Bu and Cao Cao, he also sent a piece of news.
It’s about the Xiongnu army that has been staying in the Han Dynasty.
Wang Ding had never known where the Xiongnu army was hiding.
They had been to Chang'an once before, specifically to ambush Wang Ding who had returned from Hetao.
After that, he disappeared without a trace. Occasionally, news came back, but it was only a Huns team, only a few dozen people.
Wang Ding has been sending people to search for this Xiongnu army.
Wang Ding was not at ease with such a Xiongnu army in the hinterland of the Han Dynasty.
Every time I go on an expedition, I have to worry about whether there will be a Huns army that will raid Chang'an City and destroy my hometown, or whether there will be a Huns army that ambush me halfway.
The Huns army, which had disappeared for a long time, appeared in Bingzhou this time.
He actually wanted to plunder Bingzhou while Lu Bu was fighting for Yanzhou with Cao Cao.
Lu Bu was in Bingzhou before and often went out outside the fortress, but he basically fought against barbarians and rarely encountered Huns.
Wang Ding also didn't know whether the Huns army Lu Bu encountered outside the Great Wall were the Southern Huns.
Sima Lang said: "My lord, the Xiongnu army suddenly appeared in Bingzhou. They are trying to force Lu Bu to withdraw to Bingzhou."
Lu Bu's trajectory has changed. Now that Bingzhou is Lu Bu's base camp, Lu Bu will definitely not let the Xiongnu army plunder Bingzhou unscrupulously.
However, if Lu Bu withdraws and merges with the state now, it will be equivalent to giving up his current advantage in Yanzhou.
The five counties of Yanzhou that were just acquired will soon be recaptured by Cao Cao.
Will Lu Bu be willing to give up Yanzhou?
Wang Ding doesn’t know yet.
He couldn't predict this.
Cao Cao would give up Xuzhou, which he was about to capture, because he was worried about Yanzhou.
But Lu Bu and Cao Cao are two completely different people.
But now Lu Bu has Chen Gong by his side to advise and make decisions that should be his most advantageous choice now.
Sima Lang said: "Lord, do you want to send cavalry to attack?"
He knew very well Wang Ding's determination to destroy the Xiongnu army, otherwise he would not have been looking for clues about the Xiongnu.
Wang Ding really wanted to send troops directly to destroy the Huns army.
But that was Bingzhou, and Wang Ding was also worried about what Lu Bu would think if he became famous directly.
Wang Dingdao: "Does Lu Bu know the situation in Bingzhou now?"
Sima Lang said: "He left Song Xian in Bingzhou, because someone should have informed Lu Bu."
Almost all the Bingzhou cavalry were taken away by Lu Bu. Now there are not many soldiers left in Bingzhou, most of them are infantry, and Song Xian's skills are mediocre. Facing the plundering Huns army, Song Xian can't resist at all, so he can only let Bingzhou
The people were hiding in the city.
But outside the city, there were many villages with many people, but they were not able to hide inside the city immediately.
Wang Ding called Jia Xu and others.
"Do you think we should send troops to unite the states and annihilate the Xiongnu?"
Ma Chao was the first to respond: "Of course we have to send troops. Please, my lord, let me lead the troops into battle."
Ma Chao has to come to Wang Ding every day and carry a military book on his back. Ma Chao now has some respect for Wang Ding.
But he is still very careless and doesn't hide anything on weekdays. He just says whatever he thinks in his heart.
Ma Chao is warlike by nature, and he is very similar to Lu Bu in this regard.
"Shut up first," Wang Ding said.
He would not listen to Ma Chao's opinion. He felt that Ma Chao's military strategy was memorized in vain.
Even if he memorizes a whole military book, he still won't use his brain to think carefully.
Anyway, he can speak with his fists, so he doesn’t want to reason.
Wang Ding mainly depends on Jia Xu’s opinion.
In addition, you can also refer to the opinions of Sima Lang and Sima Yi.
But Wang Ding didn't know whether Sima Yi was willing to talk or not.
According to Jia Xu's own thoughts, he felt that he did not need to worry about the Huns army for the time being.
The other party is currently looting Bingzhou, which is not Wang Ding's territory.
It can also weaken Lu Bu's strength.
However, Sima Lang understood Wang Ding's thoughts, and Jia Xu naturally understood better.
This has nothing to do with self-interest. No matter whether the Huns are plundering Bingzhou or Jizhou and Jingzhou, as long as they can send troops, Wang will definitely send troops.
Jia Xu said: "If my lord wants to send troops, it is better to communicate with Lu Bu first to avoid Lu Bu's suspicion."
However, even if Wang Ding sends troops to help Lu Bu and destroy this Xiongnu army, he may not win Lu Bu's gratitude.
It’s really thankless.
Perhaps for Wang Ding, the only benefit is training troops.
It can give the soldiers under your command more experience in a war.
Jia Xu sees clearly and thinks clearly.
He did not want to stop Wang Ding and sent troops to merge with the state to annihilate the Xiongnu.
Wang Dingdao: "Zhongda, what do you think?"
When he saw that Sima Yi had no intention of speaking, Wang Ding directly asked by name.
Sima Yi said: "I think it's better not to send troops for the time being."
It is indeed in Wang Ding's best interest not to send troops.
Wang Dingdao: "If we send troops, how can we destroy the Xiongnu at the minimum cost?"
Sima Yi said: "I thought the cavalry troops were divided into two groups, passing through Yanmen County and Shangdang County, advancing along the Taihang Mountains, and outflanking the Huns on both sides."
Prevent the Huns from escaping beyond the Great Wall, and prevent the Huns from hiding in the Taihang Mountains.
Sima Yi's plan can only be said to be quite satisfactory, but it is more stable and there will be no trouble. As long as the cavalry is executed in place, the Huns will be trapped in Bingzhou with no way to escape.
Wang Dingdao: "Zhang Liao, Pang De, and you two led five thousand cavalry out of Yanmen County."
"Xu Huang, Ma Chao, and you two led five thousand cavalry and entered Shangdang County."
"Here!"
Several people took orders.
"Duan Xuan led a thousand men to Yanzhou and told Lu Bu that if he needs it, he will stay in Yanzhou to help him. If he doesn't need it, you will come back immediately."
Duan Xuan also accepted the order and said: "Here."
Wang Ding didn't want to wait for Lu Bu's response and sent troops to merge with the state.
If he really wants to send people to Yanzhou first, and then return to Chang'an from Yanzhou, he is sending a large army to merge with the state, and the Huns may have disappeared again.
Wang Ding secretly guessed that the Huns army that has been staying in the Han Dynasty must be supported by the Han people, otherwise there would be no movement.
After all, there are more than 10,000 Xiongnu troops, and they have to eat and drink.
Regardless of whether Lu Bu agreed or not, Wang was determined to send troops to merge with the state, seize this opportunity, and destroy this Xiongnu army in one fell swoop.