Cao Mengde seemed open-minded, but in fact he was really depressed.
Think about it, a month ago, your family was very prosperous, and you were still a powerful person in Luo Zhong. You were still outside as the county magistrate of Qianshi, with a bright future! But suddenly, your brother-in-law’s whole family died, and then your whole family, including you
Everyone including you lost their official positions. You came to Luoyang in panic, only to find that you couldn't even collect the body of your cousin...
At this time, being able to be outwardly open-minded is already remarkable.
However, it may be that the quality of the drinks at Gongsun Xun's house was really good. After chatting for a while, Cao Mengde, who was depressed, even his superficial open-mindedness disappeared. He kept holding Gongsun Xun's hand and said how much he envied him.
At this time, he did whatever he wanted, and then he couldn't help but talk about his return to his hometown in Qiao County this time, and his future was uncertain... This made Gongsun Xun sigh and feel helpless.
The two of them drank from afternoon to night. Cao Mengde was originally planning to go outside the city in the evening to find Yuan Shao to bid farewell to him, but at that time he was already so drunk that he could not walk steadily. Gongsun Xun could not let go.
He went out, only to force him back and stay again, not to mention eating and drinking, and even arranged for him to rest here for one night.
Unexpectedly, before going to bed, the other party suddenly became drunk again and dragged Gongsun Xun to tell him how to sleep.
Just go to sleep. A drunkard is not afraid of what he will do. Moreover, he is still at Gongsun Xun's house. He doesn't dare to play the trick of killing people in his dreams... He just said that he wanted to sleep with him, but at the same time he said
What does it mean to hold on to that fat cat?
Two people and one cat?!
However, fortunately, Cao Cao drank too much and soon fell asleep with his cat in his arms. Gongsun Xun then reluctantly leaned against the edge of the bed and closed his eyes... It was impossible to take advantage of the opportunity to escape, no matter what.
Yes, if you really get into your wife's bed, you might be told that your wife is like your brothers and sisters, and that your brothers are like your clothes!
Then don't even think about hanging out with the scholar-bureaucrats!
After a speechless night, Gongsun Xun saw that Cao Mengde was still sleeping as soundly as a mountain and as loud as thunder the next morning. He had no choice but to arrange for two maids to come in and wait on him. He also told Lu Fan to deal with this situation carefully and securely.
After that, he hurriedly washed up and went to Sili Xiaowei's mansion.
"Wen Qi is late!" As soon as he stepped into the imperial prison under Sili Xiaowei Mansion, Yang Qiu appeared in front of him with a ferocious face.
I saw that this Han Sili Colonel was not only stained with blood on his body, but also had red eyes. He seemed to have been awake all night, and he even personally participated in the torture.
But what does it mean to be late?
"What do you mean, Mr. Yang?" Gongsun Xun asked with difficulty suppressing his thoughts. "I came early in the morning, so why talk about it being too late?"
"Then Wang Fu and his son were beaten to death by me!" Yang Qiu said with a ferocious smile. "They stuffed their mouths with dirt, hit them with sticks, and wailed for half the night before they died!"
Gongsun Xun was speechless for a moment, but he couldn't help but feel a hint of violent pleasure.
"I know you have a personal grudge against Duan Xi, so I didn't touch him." Yang Qiu continued to sneer, and even patted Gongsun Xun's arm, leaving a lot of blood on his sleeve. "I'll go wash and change clothes."
, and then squinted for a while, Wen Qi did whatever she wanted! I have other explanations after the matter is over!"
Gongsun Xun smiled and nodded. If he had wanted to persuade the other party to take action as soon as possible, he would naturally have thrown him into the Bohai Sea. After the two passed each other, he went straight to the prison to look for Duan Xi.
By the way, the prison room where Duan Xi was imprisoned was not a filthy place. In fact, the prison room where Duan Ji Ming lived was located on the top floor. It not only had light and ventilation, but also had a clean and tidy floor... It was obvious that Duan Ji Ming lived in a prison room on the top floor.
The lieutenant did receive preferential treatment.
But even with this kind of preferential treatment, Duan Xi, who was sitting quietly in the room overnight, couldn't help but feel depressed.
"You didn't lie to me." Duan Xi couldn't help but feel sad after seeing the visitor. "Sure enough, everyone from the emperor to the scholars want me to die quickly?"
"Then Wang Fu and his son made a lot of noise last night?" Gongsun Xun reacted immediately. "Can Mr. Duan hear clearly from here?"
"Of course!" Duan Xi closed his eyes and spoke with a slightly trembling tone. "Yang Fangzheng had no scruples at all and just wanted to directly kill Wang Changshi and his son... They all died so quickly, how could I still survive?
?It’s just that I really don’t understand. It’s natural for the scholars to kill me, so why does the emperor have to put me and Wang Changshi to death?”
"Actually..." Gongsun Xun couldn't help but tell the truth when he saw the other party's attitude. "In the national system, among the eunuchs, there are only twelve positions for the Zhongchangshi with two thousand stones, and there are only twenty positions for the Zhonghuangmen with one thousand stones. If we don't kill him,
How can a new person come to power despite all the old people? When Duan Gong was a pawn, didn't he also kill two of the regular servants of Wang Fu and Cao Jie? With such an attitude of the emperor, I am afraid that he and the young regular servants around him will be unable to escape from the Huangmen.
relationship."
Duan Xi couldn't help but remain silent... Until now, he still didn't understand anything, he just didn't want to give in. After the other party explained it, he also became aware of it.
"Duan Gong!" After a long pause, Gongsun Xun asked with all his strength. "Now that the matter has come to this, what else do you have to say?"
"Is it possible to save your family by committing suicide at this time?" Duan Xi raised his head and asked seriously.
"It's hard to say." Gongsun Xun replied seriously. "After all, he is in prison. Even if he is reported to have committed suicide, it may not be as easy to handle at the beginning. However, I am willing to do my best for Mr. Duan, but I have no choice but to send him to prison."
In the border area, I will also use my strength from the Chancellery to try my best to send your family to their hometown in Liangzhou..."
"In that case, thank you very much for being here." Duan Xi rarely sat on the ground and bowed.
"How do you want to end that period?" Seeing that the other party had come to his senses, Gongsun Xun was no longer polite. "Poison wine, white silk, swords and axes... there is no shortage of them in prison."
"I don't have anything else to ask for." Duan Xi stood up and sat still. "I just don't want to die tragically at the hands of the jailer like Wang Fu, and I don't want to be as unhappy as Bai Ling by drinking poisonous wine... I also want Dr. Gongsun to do it himself."
Gongsun Xun nodded and directly pulled out his broken sword. The light of the sword was like water, which made the prison room slightly brighter.
"Dong Zhuo's broken sword." Duan Xi couldn't help laughing when he saw it. "I don't know where I picked it up. Only Cai Bojie, a famous person in Luozhong, looked up to him. He casually said something about 'Xiang Yu's broken blade' and he believed it.
…When did King Xiang go to Xiliang?”
"Maybe it's a lie!" Gongsun Xun said nonchalantly as he walked behind the other party. "But this knife passed through Cai Bojie's mouth and was in the hands of Dong Gong and me. Even if it is a lie, it will become real in the future.
Already."
"You, Dong Zhongying, and I are all the same. They are all ambitious people." Duan Xi saw the broken knife placed on his neck and kept talking. "But in the end, they are all just warriors. They can't move forward."
That's a hurdle! After twenty years, if they find the opportunity, they will still want to weed out people like you! Listen to my advice, you are still young, it is better to do it as soon as possible... No! What you said yesterday, "there will be no twenty years", is it true?
Did you say that the dynasty will not last for twenty years?! Is that what you mean?! By then the scholars will be reduced to mere mortals, and the warriors will be reduced to heroes?!"
Gongsun Xun's hand movement was stagnant, but it was only a lag. Immediately afterwards, the broken blade gently slid along the side of the opponent's neck, and blood flowed like a shot in an instant... Blood loss at this speed is actually not
It's not enough to make the opponent die immediately, but it can also make the opponent faint quickly and relieve the pain.
A famous general of a generation, who had been famous for half his life, was destined to go down in history, but because of his fame and wealth, he turned to the eunuchs and suppressed innocent people. He was destined to be both bad and bad... But no matter what, after such a blow, he who lost consciousness was destined to die!
Gongsun Xun easily killed the killer, plus Xia Yu, Tian Yan, and Wang Fu who were tortured and killed by Yang Qiu last night... So according to what Gao Heng said with anger when he died that day, the so-called personal enemies were actually
Most of them have been dealt with, or only Cao Jie is left.
However, looking at Duan Xi, who was still bleeding on the ground, and Gongsun Xun, who was holding a sharp blade and half of his body was covered in blood, he didn't feel any relief at all... Not to mention the relief he felt after killing Xia Yu that day, even just now
When I heard that Wang Fu had been tortured and killed, there was no hidden joy in my heart!
This is because at this moment, Gongsun Xun only feels that there is no difference between Duan Xi in front of him and Gao Heng back then... and they are even vaguely the same person!
Innocent people encounter unkind people. You will not die because of me, but you will be killed by me!
After standing there for a long time, he saw more and more blood on the ground in front of him. Gongsun Xun knew that the other party had no luck anymore, so he threw away the knife, sheathed it, and walked out of the cell quickly.
"Wen Qi." Yang Qiu looked at the blood stains on the other party's body and did not ask more about it. Instead, he immediately said sternly. "That day you and I agreed to kill Wang Fu to frighten Luozhong... But I thought that just killing someone would not be enough.
Let them restrain their hands!"
"Please speak frankly, Mr. Yang!" Gongsun Xun responded with cupped hands.
"Wang Fu's nephew Pei Xiang Wang Ji is also on the way to be arrested..." Yang Qiu sneered. "After killing someone, this man likes to dismember the body the most. He also writes the names and charges of the people he killed and hangs them on the car.
Exhibition! I want to retaliate to him in the same way as a human being. I cut Wang Fu's body into pieces, then put him in a car, write his name and charges, and parade around Luozhong!"
Gongsun Xun immediately handed over his hand again: "Xun is not talented, I would like to use Wang Fu's corpse to walk in Luozhong to scare Xiaoxiao!"
"Okay!" Yang Qiu immediately slapped the table and said. "I know that Wen Qi is very courageous. There are thousands of so-called heroes in Luozhong, but they are all cowardly dead dogs. The only one who dares to rank with me is you, the White Horse Zhonglang! Wait until the inspection is completed.
, you hang his body on the city gate for everyone in the world to see! And I will go and search Wang Fu’s residence and residence now!”
Gongsun Xun immediately took the order and came out.
And leaning a little closer, just in front of Sili Xiaowei's Mansion, he saw a group of jailers taking some shabby pieces of flesh and blood and Wang Fu's head, and hanging them on a bus, and then someone took a piece of wood.
The sign came and the criminal Wang Fu was tied to the car.
Gongsun Xun no longer hesitated, and led Han Dang and others on a white horse in front, and asked a jailer to drive behind him, followed by a group of soldiers, and went directly to the streets of Luoyang!
By the way, if there was some delay in the transmission of information in yesterday's arrest, if the arrest alone was not enough to make Luoyang people believe that Wang Fu, who used to be so powerful in the past, was suddenly knocked down from the mortal world, if those scholars and officials yesterday were still
A little dazed and at a loss... So today, when Gongsun Xun, covered in blood, rode a white horse and took Wang Fu's body that was divided into several pieces into the street, the people of Luoyang no longer had any doubts!
Wang Fu, a powerful eunuch of a generation, was so famous the day before yesterday that he asked his disciples and officials to go to various places to openly solicit property. As a result, he was arrested yesterday and died suddenly without a burial place today!
When Gongsun Xun just walked through one street, there were already hundreds of onlookers and people on horseback delivering messages; when he walked through four or five streets, there were already thousands of Luoyang people following the car and shouting to follow;
After carrying Wang Fu's broken body onto Tongtuo Street, Gongsun Xun had to stop and have the vehicle cleaned - the vehicle was stoned by Luoyang people along the way, and it was already overwhelmed!
"I didn't expect Wang Fu to be so evil, and the people hated him to the core." Han Dang couldn't help but turn pale as he looked at the surging crowd behind him.
"How do the people know what evil deeds Wang Fu did?" Gongsun Xun couldn't help but sneered. "Except for a few victims, most of the others were just watching the fun! Today Wang Fu's broken body is hanging here, and they followed along the way, cheering and throwing stones.
, if one day Yang Fangzheng and I end up like this, they will too!"
Han Dang couldn't help but change his expression: "If that's the case, why do you still want to agree to this? Why do you still want to ride on horseback to clear the way?"
"Because Wang Fu's body is not for them to see at all!" Gongsun Xun replied, and then after seeing that the car was cleaned up, he reined in his horse and drove forward along Tongtuo Street.
Han Dang immediately stopped asking.
Tongtuo Street has Nangong on one side, Sangong's Mansion and many Luozhong government offices on the other. When the car carried Wang Fu's broken body and led thousands of Luoyang people to come here, the three gongs and nine ministers, wealthy nobles, and scholars
Almost all the officials and officials came out to see it!
Some are happy, some are sad, some are shocked, some are afraid, some sigh, some are angry, some shout, some are silent... But no matter what, when these people watch Wang Fu's broken corpse, they always look at the walking path with complicated expressions.
In front, and then Gongsun Xun, who was still covered in blood!
Gongsun Xun, on the other hand, kept his eyes straight, straddled his sword and rode on horseback, striding forward amidst the complicated gazes of these people. He had no unnecessary words, and no intention of deliberately stopping the demonstration... However, an indescribable feeling filled him at this time.
His heart was shaken, and the hand holding the reins was trembling even more!
In other words, at this time, Gongsun Xun still didn't know that despite all the hard work, the political speculation he had been pursuing in this political trend had finally succeeded!
After today, everyone in the world knows that Gongsun Xun from western Liaoning was one of the main forces in the execution of eunuchs, and it was he who personally took Wang Fu's corpse to parade in Luozhong!
After today, he will be famous all over the world among scholars. Those party members who were suppressed by Wang Fu and Cao Jie, and the Imperial College students will regard him as a comrade. Everyone will no longer regard him as just a border commander.
A warrior!
After today, if I meet Tian Feng again, maybe he will pay my respects sincerely!
After today, if he can be promoted to two thousand stones and then go to recruit celebrities, those party members and scholars may not stop putting on airs, but they will not look down on him from the bottom of their hearts!
After today, even if the eunuchs counterattack tomorrow and flee the world, Gongsun Xun will at least be treated half as well as Zhang Jian!
Of course, this kind of self-transcendence in identity is only temporary, has limits, and is risky and time-limited!
Why were Lu Zhi and Liu Kuan unwilling to let Gongsun Xun participate in the execution of officials at first? Aren’t they just a few elders who were really kind to Gongsun Xun?!
Why did it happen that it was Yang Biao, Qiao Xuan, and Wang Yun who were uninvolved scholars and ministers who urged him to take action, yet they recognized and praised Gongsun Xun so much?
Why did Wang Meng taunt him when he knew he was unjust? Why did Duan Xi dismiss Gongsun Xun's behavior? Are both of them idiots?
Quite the opposite! Even Gongsun Xun himself knew clearly that Lu Zhi and Liu Kuan were really good to him, Yang Biao, Qiao Xuan, and Wang Yun just wanted to use him, and Wang Meng and Duan Xi were rare understanding people!
Moreover, Gongsun Xun also knew that although this kind of overly intense and even cruel method could make him famous in one blow, it would also definitely make him the target of public criticism!
Liu Kuan, Lu Zhi, as well as his father-in-law Zhao Bao and wife-in-law Zhao Zhong, these people may be able to protect his life for a while, but when the eunuchs change again twenty years later, he will definitely become the same as Duan Xi.
A new batch of victims of political struggle!
But then again, just like what Gongsun Xun said to the dying Duan Xi... how can there be twenty years later?
This time, Gongsun Xun’s mother also fully supported Gongsun Xun’s eunuchship, and even encouraged him to take action in letters many times! Because in this world, only the mother and son know better than anyone else that it will definitely not last twenty years! Zhao
After being loyal to this wave of eunuchs, it will be time for heroes to wield arms and whip the world! By then, there will be no more eunuchs, scholars, or relatives to restart the cycle of reincarnation again, and all the big men will be gone!
This speculation, or this gamble, seems to have endless risks and far-reaching consequences, but in fact it is the most cost-effective business Gongsun Xun has made since he became an official!
"Hang the thief's corpse on the Xia Cheng Gate, and nail this wooden sign and me next to the corpse!" Gongsun Xun, who was still covered in blood on the side of the city gate, tried hard to suppress his trembling hands and shouted sternly.
."No body is allowed to be collected without the order of the captain of Sili! Let everyone in the world know that Wang Fu, who killed Dou Wu, imprisoned the Queen Mother, and then overthrew the party, has been killed by Yang Gong and my Gong Sun Xun like a wild dog.
Usually killed!"
"Cao Jun..." Lu Fan was riding on a horse on the official road outside the city gate, watching all this from a distance, but suddenly turned around and asked Cao Cao beside him. "My lord is about to be finished, Cao Jun."
Do you want to wait for him to leave?"
"No need!" Cao Cao seemed to have just come back to his senses. He couldn't help but smile and patted a wooden basket hanging on his mount. "How can you steal someone's exotic beast and still greet the owner in person?
Zi Heng said hello to your lord for me, saying that a visit to Luozhong is really rare, but the world is far away, so if there is a chance, let's meet again!"
Lu Fan smiled slightly and immediately handed over his hands: "In that case, let me lend you an old poem by my lord as a gift to Mr. Cao... Don't worry if you have no friends in the future. Who in the world doesn't know you?"
"It's the right time!" Cao Mengde sighed, then nodded slightly, and then led two servants to his hometown in the east, facing the dense flow of people.
———————I am a dividing line divided into several pieces——————
"After Taizu executed Wang Fu, he buried his body at the gate of Xia City, and marked it as 'The traitor Wang Fu'. All his property was confiscated, and his wife and children all moved to Bijing. The left and right people sarcastically said: 'Your behavior is cruel, sooner or later.
There will be a backlash!" Taizu said sternly: "There will be a solar eclipse and an earthquake, and the hen will turn into a male. If we don't carry out cruel and drastic measures, how can the great Han Dynasty survive sooner or later? How can we regret that we are private and neglect the world?'" - "Old Yan"
"Book". Volume 1. The Chronicles of Emperor Taizu Wu
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