Chapter Two Hundred and Thirty-Three: The able minister of the world, the traitor of the troubled world
When Lu Bu brought the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry to Luoyang City, it was already early April, and now the Romance of the Three Kingdoms after Chu Xuan's magic reform has been released to its eighteenth chapter.
As soon as Chapter 18 was released, Cao Cao was beaten!
After his wife, Mrs. Ding, learned the content of this incident, she scolded Cao Cao without saying a word, and beat him while scolding him.
When it was said in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms that when Cao Cao carried out a massacre in Xuzhou, Mrs. Ding never looked so ugly, but this time she gave Cao Cao a good beating in front of everyone. His eye circles turned black and his cheeks also turned black.
A patch of green and a patch of purple.
In the end, they kicked Cao Cao out. Not to mention not letting him go to bed, they refused to let him go home. When she was angry, Mrs. Ding took the Heavenly Sword she pulled out from Cao Cao's waist and wanted to hack Cao Cao to death.
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Cao Cao was such a clever man. He just let you fight him off at first, but now he even pulled out the Yitian Sword and ran away immediately.
After Cao Cao ran out, Mrs. Ding angrily put down the Yitian Sword and warned everyone around her not to allow Cao Cao to come back.
Then she hugged Cao Ang's head and began to cry bitterly. To this, Cao Cao wanted to say: I didn't do it. Although I was lustful, I would never kill my son because of lust.
Originally, Cao Cao thought that the guy who wrote the Romance of the Three Kingdoms was a good guy, but this guy actually knew about my talent, Cao Cao. This is extraordinary.
At that time, whenever Cao Cao heard people say that the capable ministers who rule the world are the traitors in troubled times, Cao Cao would feel happy in his heart, and then he would correct them with a serious face: My ideal is to have the following words engraved on my tomb after my death: 古汉
The tomb of Cao Hou, the general who conquered the West.
Don’t get me wrong!
I, Cao Cao, was born in the Han Dynasty and raised in the Han Dynasty. He is a loyal minister and has always been loyal to the Han Dynasty. He is a hero in troubled times and so on. It is all false news!
At that time, although Cao Cao was refuting rumors every day, he was still a little happy in his heart. After you looked down on me, Cao Cao, and always said that I was an eunuch, now you know how capable I, Cao Mengde, am, right?
But after the eighteenth chapter was released, Cao Cao couldn't laugh anymore. He was kicked out by his wife and his face was scratched all over. Can this be tolerated?
But after much deliberation, Cao Cao couldn't come up with any good solution. He could only work outside for a few days. After Mrs. Ding's anger subsided, it would not be too late to go back.
Then Cao Cao came outside the city with panda eyes. Today was the first day for Lu Bu to challenge the heroes. There was an open gambling room next to it. After entering, you could place bets directly.
Many passers-by saw Cao Cao's face full of peach blossoms and immediately changed their minds about Cao Cao. Little did they know that this was exactly what Cao Cao wanted.
"He is Cao Mengde? A capable minister in the world, a traitor in troubled times? Is he being beaten?"
"Hey, didn't you know? In the eighteenth chapter just released, this guy's waistband was too loose. In order to play with women, he was directly plotted by Jia Xu and then hunted down by Zhang Xiu. In the process, the guarding generals
Dian Wei was killed, his eldest son Cao Ang was also killed, and there are no heirs. Do you think it's miserable or not?"
"That's really miserable."
"The key point is that both Dian Wei and Cao Ang died to save Cao Cao. The reason why Cao Cao was so miserable was because his belt was too loose, he was too lustful, and he was too good a wife."
"Oh, so he was beaten by Mrs. Ding?"
"That's for sure. Think about it, there are no children between Mrs. Ding and Cao Mengde, and Cao Ang's biological mother died early, so Mrs. Ding has always raised Cao Ang as her own son, and Cao Ang also regards Mrs. Ding as his biological mother.
.In the end, he was lustful and had Cao Ang killed. Can Mrs. Ding let him go?"
"Besides, this is the so-called hero. He is just a henpecked guy. What kind of real man is he?"
"Yes, looking at his appearance, he is simply ugly and stupid. This Romance of the Three Kingdoms is indeed pure speculation."
"Yes, if this kind of guy can become a tycoon in troubled times, wouldn't it be okay for me to have sex with him?"
"Yeah, doesn't it just have to be done with hands?"
Listening to everyone's discussion with open ears, Cao Cao's expression was always very tangled, probably three parts angry, three parts helpless, three parts entangled, and one part silent, a standard fan-shaped statistical chart.
Most people don't have such acting skills, but Cao Cao felt happy!
Look down on me!
The more people who underestimate Cao Cao, the safer he will be.
I'm just a lustful guy with no ambitions. How could I be the villain in the novel?
"Not necessarily. I heard from my friend that Xu Zhu, Dian Wei, Yu Jin, Yue Jin, Li Dian and others are indeed real people, and they are all very capable."
Hearing this, Dian Wei continued to eat hard. He was not interested at all in the super warrior. Xu Chu, who was opposite Dian Wei, raised his head from time to time to listen to the comments of the audience, and then continued to eat.
This is normal. Dian Wei was born as a real pauper. If the Romance of the Three Kingdoms had not exposed him, he would not have been found by the local magistrate and come all the way to Luoyang.
A few days ago, Dian Wei had a great battle with the generals in Luoyang City, and his foot combat was no less impressive than that of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.
Then an edict came from the palace, conferring Dian Wei as a general, subordinate to the East Palace, and under the command of the prince. When the edict came out, there was also a set of precious armor and magic weapons. The magic weapons were a pair of double iron halberds.
Dian Wei happily accepted the canonization and bowed to Liu Bian under the witness of everyone.
All generals and counselors who were discovered from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms will receive Liu Bian's personal canonization after being recruited to Luoyang and tested for their true strength.
This was also a helpless move by Emperor Ling. As long as Emperor Ling was healthy, he would not have paved the way for Liu Bian so simply and crudely.
If it is the canonization of Emperor Ling, then the benefactor of Dian Wei and others is Emperor Ling himself. After Liu Bian ascends the throne in the future, there will be no relationship between benefactors, only a normal relationship between monarch and minister.
But now Liu Bian came in person with the imperial edict, which established the relationship between monarch and minister. From then on, Dian Wei became Liu Bian's man, and he and Liu Bian both prospered and suffered losses.
No matter what happens in the future, Dian Wei cannot betray Liu Bian. The most he can do is resign, but he will never betray Liu Bian.
Once you betray, your reputation will be ruined and stink, and it will be difficult to get ahead in this life. The career of your sons and grandsons will be implicated. Even the elders in your hometown will immediately change Dian Wei's name.
After the genealogy is published, no one can be buried in the ancestral graves after death.
However, Dian Wei himself didn't care about this. He might know the meaning of bowing to Liu Bian face to face, or he might not know, but from the moment he accepted the title of Baojia, Divine Weapon, he never thought of going back on his word.
Just like at this moment, although Dian Wei was still eating meat and drinking wine, the two iron halberds were put aside, while Liu Bian was behind Dian Wei, protected.
As for Xu Chu, he just came here in the past two days and fought once with Guan Yu and Zhang Feibu.
Now Guan Yu and Zhang Fei have become the standard for testing strength.
Anyone who can fight Guan Yu and Zhang Fei for thirty rounds without deciding the outcome is considered a first-rate general. Anyone who can fight Guan Yu and Zhang Fei for fifty rounds without deciding the outcome is considered the best among the first-class generals. One who can fight Guan Yu and Zhang Fei for eight rounds without deciding the outcome is considered to be the best among the best.
There is no winner in ten rounds, even if you are a top-notch general.
I don’t know who the bad guy was who spread such a set of evaluation standards. Anyway, since the news was spread, a large number of generals came to challenge Guan and Zhang every day.
After Xu Chu arrived, Bu Zhan directly tied with Guan and Zhang, and then he enjoyed Dian Wei's treatment, and was directly named Lang General and subordinated to Liu Bian.
The difference is that Xu Chu is a serious local strongman, so he brought many fellow villagers to Luoyang City. Now these fellow villagers have transformed into regular troops under Liu Bian's command.
Xu Chu became a general and a military lord. He had a battalion of soldiers under his command, all of whom were his fellow soldiers, and they were known as the Tiger Guards.
When Cao Cao came to the competition place in the suburbs, he looked at Dian Wei and Xu Chu who were beside Liu Bian, and felt that he was a big man in hiding, and he felt happy when he saw them.
Although he didn't like Dian Wei and Xu Chu as much as Yun Changgong, he still liked them very much, but it was a pity that Cao Cao didn't even dare to come up and say hello.
Even Cao Cao didn't dare to make friends with the two of them. He was afraid that just as he was having dinner and drinking with the two of them, someone would impeach Cao Cao and intend to rebel...
If you don't want to rebel, why are you befriending them? Do you still want them to protect your safety so that you can become the shepherd of Yanzhou? So that you can coerce the emperor and order the princes?
Cao Cao looked away, and then saw two heroic young geniuses, one on the left and one on the right guarding Liu Bian.
The one on the left of the two people is called Sun Ce, who is the eldest son of Sun Jian, the current governor of Changsha. Since the release of the fifteenth chapter of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Sun Ce has attracted everyone's attention.
It happened that Sun Ce was a guest at Zhou Yu's house at this moment. At that time, Sun Ce was still watching the excitement at night, watching the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Who would have expected that as he watched, he saw something on his head.
"Here, Gong Jin, do you want me to run away now?"
"You can't run away. In the sixth chapter (Sun Jian hid the jade seal), some people paid attention to this place. At that time, my uncle was the governor of Changsha, and you stayed in the city as a hostage. It has been the practice throughout the ages."
"What should we do?"
"Don't worry, you'll know after dawn. Besides, I, Mr. Zhou, can't be bullied by just anyone."
Zhou Yu's father was the Ling of Luoyang, the chief executive of the capital of Han Dynasty. As you can see by analogy, this position is not something that ordinary people can do.
Zhou Yu's cousin, who was an official to the rank of Taiwei. His cousin was his father's younger brother. This was also a very close relationship.
Zhou Yu’s cousin also served as a Taiwei!
In other words, there were people in the Zhou family of Grandpa Zhou Yu’s generation who rose to the rank of Taiwei, and there were also people in the Zhou family of Zhou Yu’s father’s generation who became Taiwei.
This is the personal network of the seemingly inconspicuous Lujiang Zhou family. It seems that it cannot be compared with the Yuan family and the Yang family, but it is not comparable to the powerful people in other places, nor can it be bullied by any official.
Therefore, as soon as Chapter 15 was released, at dawn, Liu Bian came directly to the Zhou Mansion. He didn't even check whether Sun Ce and Zhou Yu's abilities were as strong as mentioned in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and directly appointed them as officials.
And unlike Dian Wei and Xu Chu, Dian Wei was granted the title of Lang General, Xu Chu was granted the title of Lang General plus Army Marquis, and Sun Ce was promoted to Army Sima.
Back then, Sun Jian had been under Zhu Jun's command for many years, and during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, he was just a military commander. But now, only a few years later, Sun Ce was at the same level as Sun Jian after many years of hard work.
As for Zhou Yu, he was directly named the Vice Minister and became Liu Bian's personal and confidential person. He can be simply regarded as Liu Bian's confidential secretary.
Looking at the very young and immature Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, Cao Cao felt that he was old.
It is said that just two days ago, the two successfully broke through, one became a great scholar, and the other became a first-class military general in the world.
At the age of 14 or 15, you can achieve success in spiritual training and become a great Confucian. At the age of 14 or 15, you can achieve success in physical training and reach the top level in the world. You can slowly think about training your own Taoist soldiers.
No wonder Liu Bian valued the two of them so much and gave them such a high position right from the start. Considering the status of the Zhou family, it's not surprising.
Look at the two of them, and then compare the children in his own family. The eldest Cao Ang is now older than the two of them. He is as good at both civil and military skills as himself, but now he is not good at literature and martial arts (compared to Sun Ce and Zhou Yu.)
As for the other children, there is no comparison with Sun Lang and Zhou Lang.
"Xuande, times have changed. We are all old. Look at Sun Lang and Zhou Lang. If we don't break through, they will catch up with us."
Hearing this, Liu Bei also looked at the two of them: "They are the rising sun, full of infinite vitality and hope, and we are the sun at noon. The next is the day when you and I will shine on the world and take charge of the great men. You and I should encourage each other."
Looking at such a domineering Liu Bei, Cao Cao was not only envious but also envious.
In Cao Cao's view, the political structure of the Han Dynasty in the next ten years has almost been set: three groups, the aristocratic family, the clan, and the eunuchs, will jointly rule the world.
These three groups will maintain balance and maintain the stability of the world under the regulation of General He Jin and Hou, until the emperor grows up.
If nothing unexpected happens, this pattern can last for at least ten years. And if the aristocratic republic succeeds, then this pattern can remain unchanged for at least a hundred years!
And Liu Bei is the representative of the clan.
Looking at the high-spirited Liu Bei, Cao Cao then looked at the other people gathered around Liu Bian. The humble gentleman with beautiful jade on his waist was Xun Yu and Xun Wenruo. , is Liu Ye, a descendant of the clan.
In addition, there are a series of civil servants and generals such as Yue Jin, Li Dian, Yu Jin, Zhang He, Tian Feng, Ju Shou, Shen Pei, Chen Deng, Cheng Yu, etc.
After these military generals have verified their personal strength, those who do not have soldiers and horses will be named generals, and those who have soldiers and horses will be given the title of prince, army commander and other official positions.
As for these literati, those with no family background but only strength were all given to a certain man, such as Cheng Yu, and those with family background were given to ministers, such as Xun You and Xun Yu.
Looking at this configuration, Cao Cao felt very complicated in his heart. He always felt as if he was destined to be with many of them.