Chapter 22 Chapter 21: Cao Cao Cooks Wine and Discusses the Hero Guan Gong Earning the City and Killing Chariots

But Dong Cheng and others asked Ma Teng, "Who does the public want to use?"Ma Teng said: "Seeing that Liu Xuande, the shepherd of Yuzhou, is here, why don't you ask for him?"Cheng said: "Although this man is the emperor's uncle, he is now attached to Cao Cao. Will he be able to do this?"Teng said: "I saw that in the paddock the day before yesterday, when Cao Cao was welcoming the congratulations from the audience, Yun Chang was behind Xuande, raising his knife to kill Cao, but Xuande stopped with his eyes.Xuande doesn't want to try to fuck, he hates having too many teeth and claws, fearing that his power will not be enough.If you ask for it in a public test, you will definitely agree.Wu Shuo said: "This matter should not be too fast, but should be discussed calmly."Everyone dispersed.In the dark night of the next day, Dong Chenghuai came to Xuande mansion.The door officials enter the newspaper, and Xuande welcomes them out. Please enter the small pavilion and sit down.Guan and Zhang Shi stood on the side.Xuande said: "Uncle Guo Kuiye has come here, there must be an accident."Cheng said: "Visiting each other on horseback during the day, I'm afraid of being suspicious, so we meet each other at night."Xuande ordered to treat each other with wine.Cheng said: "The day before yesterday, in the paddock, Yun Chang wanted to kill Cao Cao, but the general moved his eyes and shook his head and retreated. Why?"Xuande was startled and said, "how do you know it, sir?"Cheng said: No one sees it, but a certain one sees it alone.Xuande couldn't hide it, so he said: "My younger brother sees Cao's arrogance, so he doesn't feel angry."Covering his face and crying, he said: If the courtiers are as long as clouds, why worry about the peace!Xuande was afraid that Cao Cao sent him to test him, so he pretended to say: "Why is Prime Minister Cao worrying about peace when he governs the country?"Cheng changed his face and said: "Your Majesty is the uncle of the emperor of the Han Dynasty, so you have to confess to each other. How can you cheat?"Xuande said: "I am afraid that the uncle of the country will be deceitful, so I will test my ears."So Dong Cheng took his clothes and belt and ordered to watch it.Xuande was overwhelmed with grief and indignation.He also presented the declaration of justice, and there were six persons at the top: one, Dong Cheng, the chariot general; two, Wang Zifu, the servant of the Ministry of Industry; Sixth, Xiliang prefect Ma Teng.Xuande said: "Grandpa is ordered to hunt down thieves, and he dares not to do the work of dogs and horses."Thank you, please give me the title of the book.Xuande also wrote to Liu Bei, the general of the left, and signed the letter, and paid for it.Cheng said: "Shang Rong invites three more people to gather together for ten justices to plot against the country's thieves."Xuande said: "It is advisable to implement it slowly, and not to let it go lightly."It was discussed until the fifth watch, and we said goodbye.

Xuande also guarded against Cao Cao's murder, so he went to the back garden to grow vegetables and water them himself, thinking it was a way to hide.Guan and Zhang said: "Brother, you don't pay attention to the great affairs of the world, but learn the affairs of villains, why?"Xuande said: "This is not known to the second brother."The two did not speak again. One day, when Guan and Zhang were away, Xuande was pouring vegetables in the back garden. Xu Chu and Zhang Liao led dozens of people into the garden and said: "The prime minister has an order, so please let me do it."Xuande asked in surprise, "what's the matter?"Xu Chu said, "I don't know."Just teach me to invite you.Xuande had to follow the two into the mansion to see Cao.Cao laughed and said: What a great thing to do at home!Xuande's face is ashen-colored.Hold Xuande's hand until the back garden and say: "Xuande is not easy to learn in the nursery."Only then did Xuande feel relieved, and replied, "Nothing to amuse my ears."Cao said, "I saw plum blossoms on the branches, and I suddenly felt that when Zhangxiu was marched last year, there was a lack of water on the road, and all the soldiers were thirsty."I had a plan in my heart, and I pointed with a whip and said: There is a plum forest in front of me.When the sergeant heard it, his mouth was full of saliva, so he was not thirsty.If you see this plum now, you must appreciate it.It is also worth cooking wine, so I invite the envoy Jun Xiaoting for a while.Xuande's mind is fixed.When I arrived at the kiosk, there was a bottle of wine: a plate of plums and a bottle of boiled wine.The two sat opposite each other and drank happily.

When the wine was half drunk, suddenly the clouds were deserted, and the shower was approaching.From a distance, people point to the dragon hanging outside the sky, and Cao and Xuande lean on the fence to watch it.Cao said: "Do you want the king to know the changes of the dragon?"Xuande said, "I don't know the details."Cao said: "Dragon can be big or small, can rise and hide; big can make clouds and fog, small can hide and hide form; rising can soar among the universe, hidden can hide in waves."It is now deep in spring, and the dragons change with the times, and the people have their ambitions and travel across the world.As a thing, the dragon is comparable to the heroes of the world.Xuande has traveled all over the world for a long time, and he must know the heroes of the world.Please give it a try.Xuande said: Prepare to recognize heroes with the naked eye?Cao said, "Don't be too modest."Xuande said: "Be prepared to be kind and sheltered, and you will be an official in the court."The heroes of the world are really unknown.Cao said, "I don't know his face, but I have heard his name."Xuande said: "Yuan Shu in Huainan has enough food and soldiers, can he be a hero?"Cao laughed and said: "The dead bones in the tomb, I will capture them sooner or later!"Xuande said: "Yuan Shao of Hebei, four generations and three princes, has many old officials; now the tiger occupies the land of Jizhou, and there are so many capable subordinates, can he be a hero?"Cao cao said with a smile: "Yuan Shaoser is bold and cowardly, and he is always scheming; he cherishes his life when he does great things, and forgets his life when he sees small gains: he is not a hero."Xuande said: "There is a man named Bajun, can Liu Jingsheng of Weizhen Kyushu be a hero?"Cao said: Liu Biao is not a hero because of his name.Xuande said: "There is a man of vigorous blood, and the leader of Jiangdong, Sun Bofu, is a hero?"Cao said: "Sun Ce borrowed his father's name, he is not a hero."Xuande said: "Is Liu Jiyu from Yizhou a hero?"Cao said: "Although Liu Zhang belongs to the clan, he is the dog ear of the household. How can he be a hero?"Xuande said: "How about Zhang Xiu, Zhang Lu, Han Sui and others?"Cao clapped his hands and laughed loudly, saying, "Such mediocre people are nothing to worry about!"Xuande said: Apart from this, I don't know the truth.Cao said: A heroic husband: one who has great ambitions, has a good plan, has the opportunity to hide the universe, and is also the one who swallows the ambition of heaven and earth.Xuande said: "Who can be it?"Cao pointed at Xuande, and then pointed to himself, saying: "Today, the only heroes are the king and Cao Er."When Xuande heard this, he was taken aback, and the spoon in his hand fell to the ground unconsciously.Just when the rain was coming, there was a lot of thunder.Xuande calmly bowed his head to pick up the bamboo sticks and said: "The power of a shock is even here."Cao laughed and said: Is your husband also afraid of thunder?Xuande said: "The sage will change with thunder and wind, how can he be safe without fear?"He has lightly concealed the reason why he heard the words.Cao then did not doubt Xuande.Later generations have a poem praising it:

Mian walked away from the tiger's den temporarily, telling the truth about the hero and scaring people.Cleverly borrowing Wen Lei to cover up, adapting to the situation and believing in it like a god. Tian Yufang lived, and saw two people crashing into the back garden, carrying swords, rushing to the front of the pavilion, unable to stop them from left and right.Cao sees it as Guan and Zhang.It turned out that the two had just returned from shooting arrows outside the city. When they heard that Xuande had been invited by Xu Chu and Zhang Liao, they hurried to the Xiangfu to inquire.But I saw Xuande and Cao sitting opposite each other and drinking.The two stood by their swords.Cao asked where they came from.Yun Chang said: "I heard that the prime minister and my brother were drinking, so I came here to dance with my sword to help me laugh."Cao laughed and said, "This isn't the Hongmen Society. How about using Xiangzhuang and Xiangbo?"Xuande also laughed.Fate: Get wine and be shocked by Er Fan Kuai.Thanks to Guan and Zhang.After a while, Xuande resigned and returned.Yun Chang said: "Nearly killed me two!"Xuande talked about Guan and Zhang with the matter of falling.Guan and Zhang asked what it meant.Xuande said: "My school garden is just trying to make Cao know that I have no ambitions; unexpectedly, Cao actually refers to me as a hero, so I was shocked and fell down."And afraid of being suspicious, so I used the fear of thunder to cover up my ears.Guan and Zhang said: Brother really has a good opinion!

Cao invited Xuande again the next day.In the drinking room, people reported that they were full of favors to inquire about Yuan Shao and returned.Called in to ask.Chong said: Gongsun Zan has been defeated by Yuan Shao.Xuande asked urgently, "I would like to hear the details."Chong said: Zan and Shao are at a disadvantage in the battle. Build a city circle and build a tower on the circle. It is ten feet high and is called Yijing Tower.If there are those who are surrounded by Shao, please save them.Zan said, "If one person is saved, the fighters in the future will only hope for that person's rescue, and will not fight to the death."So he refused to save.Therefore, when Yuan Shao's soldiers came, many surrendered.Zan was lonely, so he sent people to Xudu with a book to ask for help, but he was captured by Shao Jun on the way.Zan also left a note to Zhang Yan, secretly pledging to use fire as a sign, and to cooperate with the inside and the outside.The person who wrote the letter was captured by Yuan Shao again, but he set fire outside the city to lure the enemy.Since Zan went to battle, there were ambushes everywhere, and most of the troops and horses were lost.After retreating to the city, Yuan Shao pierced through the ground and went straight to the downstairs where Zan lived, and set fire to it.Zan Wu walked, first killed his wife, then hanged himself, and the whole family was burned.Now that Shao has won the Zan army, the momentum is very strong.Shao's younger brother, Yuan Shu, was arrogant and extravagant in Huainan.The technique makes people return to Yuan Shao as the emperor.Shao wants to take the jade seal.The appointment will be delivered in person.Seeing that Huainan is abandoned today and wants to return to Hebei.If the two work together, it will be difficult to recover.Beg the prime minister to make an urgent plan.When Xuande heard that Gongsun Zan was dead, he was very sad when he recalled the kindness of recommending him in the past; he didn't know how Zhao Zilong's whereabouts had happened, so he was worried; because he thought to himself, "Why don't I just find a way out now, when will I wait?"Then he got up and said to Cao Cao: "If Shu votes for Shao, he must pass through Xuzhou."Prepare to ask an army to intercept halfway, and the technique can be captured.Cao cao said with a smile: "in the future, if you play the emperor, you will start your army."

The next day, Xuande played the king face to face.Cao ordered the governor of Xuande to have 50,000 horses, and sent Zhu Ling and Lu Zhao to go with him.Xuande resigned from the emperor, and the emperor wept to send him off.When Xuande arrived at the apartment, Xingye packed up the military weapons, pommel horses, and hung the general's seal, just urging.Dong Cheng drove out of the Ten Li Changting Pavilion to see him off.Xuande said: "Uncle Ning Nai, a certain person will be rewarded for this trip."Cheng said: You should pay attention to it, and don't disappoint the emperor.The two parted.Guan and Zhang immediately asked, "Brother, why are you in such a hurry when you're going out now?"Xuande said: I am a bird in a cage and a fish in a net.This activity is like a fish entering the sea, or a bird flying into the sky, without being fettered by cages or nets!Because of fate, Zhang urged Zhu Ling and Lu Zhaojun to move quickly.At that time, Guo Jia and Cheng Yu came back after comparing money and grain, knowing that Cao Cao had sent Xuande to Xuzhou, they panicked and said, "Why did the prime minister order Liu Bei to supervise the army?"Cao said, "I want to cut off Yuan Shu's ear."Cheng Yu said: In the past, when Liu Bei was a herdsman in Yuzhou, some people asked to kill him, but the prime minister refused to listen; today he is fighting with him again: this is to let the dragon into the sea, and the tiger to return to the mountain.If you want to cure it later, can you get it?Guo Jia said: "Even if the prime minister doesn't kill Bei, he shouldn't let him go."The ancients said: One day of defeating the enemy will be a disaster for all ages.I hope the prime minister will observe it.As he said, he ordered Xu Chu to go with five hundred soldiers to chase Xuande back.Xu Chu left as promised.

But when Xuande was walking, he saw dust heads rising suddenly behind him, saying that Guan and Zhang said, "this must be chased by Cao Bing."Then he went down to the camp and ordered Guan and Zhang to hold their weapons and stand on both sides.Xu Chuzhi, seeing Yan Bing in full armor, got off his horse and entered the camp to meet Xuande.Xuande said: "Why do you come here?"Chu said: "Under the order of the prime minister, the general is specially invited to go back. There is no discussion."Xuande said: "The general is outside, and the emperor's order is not acceptable."I met the king, and I was told by the prime minister.There is nothing else to say now, you can come back quickly and report to the prime minister for me.Xu Chuxun thought: The prime minister has always been on good terms with him, but this time he never taught me to fight, so he had to reply with his words and wait for the decision.So he resigned from Xuande and returned with his troops; he returned to see Cao Cao and prepared Xuande's words.Fuck hesitated.Cheng Yu and Guo Jia said: "If Bei refuses to return to the army, it can be seen that his heart has changed."Cao said, "I have Zhu Ling and Lu Zhao over there, but Xuande didn't dare to change his mind."What's more, if I send it away, how can I regret it?So he stopped chasing Xuande.Later generations have poems lamenting Xuande and saying:

Gather up the soldiers and horses and go in a hurry, thinking of Tianyan's clothes.Break through the iron cage to escape the tiger and leopard, and suddenly open the golden lock to escape the dragon. But he said that Ma Teng saw that Xuande had gone, and was anxious to report, so he also went back to Xiliangzhou.When Xuande's troops arrived in Xuzhou, Che Zhou, the governor, came out to meet him.After the public banquet, Sun Qian, Mi Zhu and others all came to see him.Xuande went home to visit the old and the young, and at the same time sent someone to inquire about Yuan Shu.The spies reported: Yuan Shu was too extravagant, Lei Bo and Chen Lan all went to Songshan.The power of art was very weak, so he wrote a book to make the emperor named Yuan Shao.Shao ordered people to summon the art, which was used to pack people and horses, and was forbidden by the palace. He came to Xuzhou first.

Xuande knew that Yuan Shu was coming, so he led Guan, Zhang, Zhu Ling, and Lu Zhao to march out with 50,000 troops, just to meet the vanguard Ji Ling.Zhang Fei didn't even talk, and went straight to Ji Ling.Dou Wu Shi He, Zhang Fei shouted loudly, stabbed Ji Ling off his horse, and the defeated army ran away.Yuan Shu led his own army to fight.Xuande divided his troops into three groups: Zhu Ling and Lu Zhao were on the left, Guan and Zhang were on the right. Xuande led his troops to the center and met Shu. Beg you!You should be surrendered with your hands tied, and you will not be criminals.Yuan Shu scolded and said: "Young mat weaver, don't you dare to lighten me!"The soldiers came.Xuande temporarily retreated, allowing the two armies on the left and right to fight out.The corpses of the Shu army were killed all over the field, and the blood flowed into canals; the soldiers fled, and it was invincible.He was also robbed of money, grain and fodder by Songshan Lei Bo and Chen Lan.Wanting to return to Shouchun, he was attacked by bandits again, so he had to live in Jiangting.There are only more than a thousand people, all of whom are old and weak.At that time, when the heat was high and the food was exhausted, there were only thirty dendrobium of wheat left, and the soldiers were assigned.There is no food in the family, and many people starve to death.Shu thought the rice was thick and couldn't swallow it, so he ordered the cook to fetch honey water to quench his thirst.Pao Ren said: "There is only blood, but there is honey water?"Shu sat on the bed, yelled, fell to the ground, vomited blood and died.It was also in June of the fourth year of Jian'an.There is a poem from later generations that says:

At the end of the Han Dynasty, swordsmen spread everywhere, and Yuan Shu was too rampant for no reason.If you don't think about being a prince for many lifetimes, you want to be an emperor alone.Violently exaggerating to pass on the national seal, arrogantly and extravagantly talking about Ying Tianxiang.Thirsting for honey and water for no reason, lying alone on an empty bed, vomiting blood and dying. Yuan Shu was dead, and his nephew, Yuan Yin, brought his coffin and his wife to the Lujiang River, where they were killed by Xu Yu.Qiu took the jade seal and went to Xudu to dedicate it to Cao Cao.Cao Cao was overjoyed and named Xu Qi the prefect of Gaoling.At this time, Yuxi is in control.

But Xuande knew that Yuan Shu was dead, so he wrote a petition to the imperial court and presented it to Cao Cao, ordering Zhu Ling and Lu Zhao to return to Xudu, leaving the army and horses to guard Xuzhou; Let's say that Zhu Ling and Lu Zhao met Cao Cao when they returned to Xu, and said that Xuande left the army and horses.In anger, he wanted to kill the two of them.Xun Yu said: "The power belongs to Liu Bei, and the two of them have nothing to do."Fuck is pardoned.Yu said again: "You can write books and car helmets on the inside picture."Cao Cao followed his plan and secretly sent people to see Che Zhou, and passed on Cao Cao's order.Zhou Suixi asked Chen Deng to discuss this matter.Deng said: "This matter is very easy: Liu Bei is out of the city to recruit people, and he will return in a few days; the general can order the soldiers to lie on the side of the urn, just to pick him up, and when the horse arrives, he will be killed with a knife; a certain soldier shot the rear army on the city. , great things are done.The helmet follows it.Chen Deng went back to see his father, Chen Gui, and prepared his remarks.Gui ordered Deng to report to Xuande first.Deng took his father's order and flew to report it. He was facing Guan and Zhang, and the report said so.It turned out that Guan and Zhang returned first, and Xuande followed.When Zhang Fei heard this, he went to fight.Yun Chang said: "He waited for me by the side of the Wengcheng, and if he went there, he would definitely lose something."I have a plan to kill Che Zhou: go to Xuzhou by night pretending to be Cao Jun, lead Che Zhou out to meet him, attack and kill him.Flying words.The subordinate army used to have the banner of Cao Cao, and the uniform and armor were the same.At three o'clock that night, he went to the edge of the city and called the door.When the city asked who it was, the crowd should be the people sent by Prime Minister Cao to Zhang Wenyuan.Reporting to Che Zhou, Zhou hurriedly asked Chen Deng to discuss, saying: "If you don't welcome him, you are sincerely suspicious; if you go out to welcome him, you may be defrauded."Zhou Nai went to the city and replied: "It's hard to distinguish between night and night, but we will meet each other in the clear."Chengxia promised: I'm afraid Liu Bei will know, open the door quickly!Che Zhou hesitated, and there were calls from outside the city to open the door.The chariots had to put on their horses and lead a thousand troops out of the city; they ran across the suspension bridge and shouted: "Where is Wenyuan?"In the light of the fire, Yun Chang raised his knife and rode his horse straight to meet the chariot harness, shouting, "Don't dare to deceive me, I want to kill my brother!"The car Zhou was shocked, and before the battle was over, he couldn't stop him, so he pulled his horse and returned.At the side of the suspension bridge, Chen Deng shot random arrows from the city, and Che Zhou walked around the city.Yun Chang came, took a knife in his hand, chopped off the horse, cut off the head and brought it back, looked at the city and shouted: "I have killed the anti-thief chariot; everyone is innocent, surrender to avoid death!"All the armies turned and surrendered, and the soldiers and civilians were all safe. Yun Chang went to meet Xuande with his head, saying that Che Zhou wanted to kill him, and now he has beheaded him.Xuande was shocked and said: "If Cao Cao comes, what can I do?"Yun Chang said: "My brother and Zhang Fei welcome him."Xuande regretted so much that he entered Xuzhou.The elders and elders of the common people bowed down to meet them.Xuande went to the mansion to look for Zhang Fei, who had already killed Che Zhou's family.Xuande said: How can you give up if you kill Cao Cao's confidant?Chen Deng said: "Someone has a plan to retreat to Cao Cao."It's exactly: leave the tiger's lair alone, and also make a clever plan to stop the smoke of the wolf.I don't know what Chen Deng said, but let's listen to the breakdown below. ① It's late at night. ② Taohui means to restrain the light and hide the traces. ③ Wengcheng The small city that protects the city gate outside the city gate is called Wengcheng. ④ Wolf smoke and wolf dung are dried in the sun, burned up, and the smoke does not disperse. It was used as a beacon for alarm in the ancient army; later, these two words were often used to represent military chaos.