But at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a Yellow Turban Uprising lifted the last veil of shame of the Han Dynasty.
From then on, dragons and snakes appeared everywhere, heroes competed with each other, and after a series of battles and killings, only three princes were left fighting for hegemony.
Which three? Cao Wei in the north, Liu Han in Shu in the west, and Sun Wu in the south of the Yangtze River.
There is a saying: Time is ruthless and heroes grow old, and the fleeting years are replaced by jokes.
In the twenty-fifth year of Jian'an, that is, AD 220, one day in the first month of the year, Cao Cao, Cao Mengde, the founder of the Cao Wei regime, led his army back to Luoyang.
Not long ago, he had personally conquered Xiangfan, teamed up with Sun Wu to defeat Liu Han's Northern Expedition army, and buried the head of his most admired general Guan Yu with the courtesy of a prince.
In this battle, Sun Wu captured Liu Han's Jingzhou, and the alliance between the two families was completely broken. If Liu Han wanted to expedition to the north again, he would have to attack Yongliang from Hanzhong, which would never happen again.
As for Sun Wu, haha, lack of talent has never been a concern. Having Jingzhou in their hands is much more reassuring than having it in Liu Bei's hands.
On the sick bed, the old Cao Cao looked back on his life. He recalled his ambitions when he was a boy. At that time, he wanted to be a governor, farming and herding, and educating the people. Engraving on the tombstone "The tomb of Cao Hou, the former general of the Han Dynasty who conquered the west" is enough to comfort him in his life.
But... how come we have reached the point where we can stand on our own at any time, step by step?
Many people advised him to become emperor. Cao Cao knew that those who followed him in the war had formed a huge power group. Only when he became emperor could the interests of this group be maximized.
But Cao Cao was still unwilling, and everyone tried hard to persuade him: "This is destiny, and destiny cannot be violated." Cao Cao could only say: "If this is destiny, then let me be King Wen of Zhou."
Whether you comfort yourself or deceive yourself, if you want to establish an emperor, you can establish my son. In this life, I, Cao Cao, lived as a Han official and died as a Han ghost. This is an explanation of my original intention.
A few days after returning to Luoyang, Cao Cao died of illness at the age of sixty-six.
The disputes in the world have not been eliminated with the departure of this "treacherous hero".
Shu conquered Wu, Shu conquered Wei, Wu conquered Wei, Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty to establish itself, conquered Shu, conquered Wu, Sima usurped Cao and established Jin, Jin destroyed Shu, Jin destroyed Wu, the world was unified, the Eight Kings Rebellion, the Five Husbands disrupted China, Yiguan crossed south , the establishment of sixteen kingdoms, the melee between the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the unification of the Sui Dynasty, the construction of the Grand Canal, the three expeditions against Goguryeo, the Wagang Uprising, the Tang Dynasty, the destruction of the Eastern and Western Turks, the Wu Zhou seizure of power, the Anshi Rebellion, the Tubo War, the Huangchao Rebellion, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms , the founding of the Khitan, the independence of Jiaozhi, the founding of the Song Dynasty, the founding of Xixia, the battle between Song and Liao, the battle between Song and Xia...
Scenes of chaotic times were like smoke, and the people were growing like weeds and being trampled ruthlessly. In the blink of an eye, the time came to 1116 AD.
This year is the sixth year of Zhenghe of the Song Dynasty, the sixth year of Tianqing of the Liao Dynasty, the second year of Jin Taizu Wanyan Aguda's conquest of the country, and the first year of Xia Yongning.
It has been 896 years since Cao Cao's death.
One day in the first month of the lunar month, Cao Cao was in a daze when he suddenly heard a woman's voice calling in his ear: "Da Lang, get up and take medicine."
"Didn't I die? Did I come back to life again?" Cao Cao was confused and couldn't help but feel happy. He opened his eyes, ah, what he saw was a bleak scene. There was a solitary lamp and a beautiful young woman sitting beside the bed. , holding a cup of hot soup in his hand, with a strange light shining in his eyes: "Da Lang, after taking this medicine, your heart will not hurt anymore."
Feeling distressed? Cao Cao felt confused and thought that I had a headache. How could I ever feel distressed? When he looked at the young woman again, she looked unfamiliar. She was not his concubine.
He was originally a very suspicious traitor. When Ji Ping, the imperial doctor, rebelled and almost poisoned him to death, he was extremely careful about the things he put into his mouth and was willing to take medicine easily.
He stretched his head and looked around. No one recognized the beds, tables, chairs, or furnishings in the room. How grand his palace was, but this was clearly the residence of a commoner.
He couldn't help but frown and said: "Who are you? What do you want to do by bringing me here? Where is Xu Chu?"
When the woman saw that his face was as dark as water, she was panicked for a while. When she heard that he called himself "Gu" and asked where "Xu Chu" was, she calmed down again and sneered: "Have you lost your mind and gone crazy? What is your name Xu Chu?" Why not call him Guan Gong?"
Cao Cao was very surprised when he heard this. He sat up and said, "Are you a comrade of Guan Yu? Do you want to avenge him?"
The woman became impatient and said: "Wu Da! I have a good relationship with you, but you are pretending to be crazy. Do you think I am in a good mood to serve you? Drink the medicine quickly!"
Seeing this, Cao Cao became more and more reluctant to drink, and sneered: "You bitch want to kill Guhu with poison? You take a few sips first, and it's not too late for Guhu to drink again."
The woman had mixed a lot of arsenic into the cup, intending to take his life in the middle of the night. When she saw that he was being shouted out, she couldn't help but panic.
Cao Cao groaned secretly, thinking that he didn't know where he had been robbed by them. Xu Chu and others were not around, and he was sick and weak for a long time. Could it be that a hero in his life died at the hands of a bitch?
Unwilling to accept this thought, he gritted his teeth and punched the young woman in the face with all his strength.
He originally thought that he was old and sick, but unexpectedly this punch turned out to be quite powerful. The young woman screamed and immediately fell off the bed and rolled on the ground.
"But it's weird! Where did I get the strength?" Cao Cao was first surprised and then happy. He jumped up quickly - something strange happened, and his body was tight and tight, as if he had returned to his youth.
He had no time to think about it for a moment, he just said that God would bless him, his eyes widened, and he shouted: "A bitch wants to harm me? I want to take your life first."
Jumping out of bed neatly, the woman was about to get up when Cao Cao flew up and kicked her in the middle. She rolled again and was still struggling. Cao Cao put his foot on his vest, grabbed her hair with his left hand and picked it up with his right hand. A fragment of a broken porcelain cup was reached and scratched towards the woman's fair and slender neck.
When the woman saw that Cao Cao was about to kill him, she was so frightened that she almost lost control. She trembled and said: "Da Lang, please forgive me! Even though the slave family has made countless mistakes, they finally got married to Da Lang. This time, Da Lang spares the slave." I don’t dare think about him again in this life.”
The porcelain piece in Cao Cao's hand had already cut into the woman's neck. Hearing these words, he suddenly stopped and thought, could this woman be crazy? When it comes to my main wife, I married Ding first and then Bian. How can I know this bitch? If she is really crazy, I just happened to deceive her, and it would be nice to find out who is behind it.
After thinking about it, he put more force on his feet and shouted: "Bitch woman, since I am your husband, why do you dare to harm me? Tell me who is the master, I will spare your life for the sake of my husband and wife."
Pan Jinlian was just a maidservant. Although her appearance and figure were extraordinary, her knowledge was shallow. Now that life and death only lasted a moment, how could she dare to hide the slightest hint of how she dropped the fork pole and hit Ximen Qing, and how she was asked to do it by Wang Po? They met again when they were wearing clothes, how did he seduced him into an affair, how did Wu Dalang catch him and was kicked in the center and seriously injured, how did Ximen Qing worry about Wu Song's return for revenge, how did Wang Po plan to kill Wu Dalang so that she and Ximen Qing would "live as husband and wife"? How to get arsenic and mix it with medicine, etc., explain them in detail.
The more Cao Cao listened, the more confused he became, thinking that if this woman was crazy, her words would be coherent and coherent.
If I didn't go crazy, how could I, the majestic King of Wei, become a Wu Da who sells pancakes? Moreover, even the woman was stolen, and she was almost beaten to death when she was caught in the act. Isn’t it true that she is a loser?
He was puzzled when suddenly a tutu who was announcing the dawn came downstairs. He was holding an iron wood fish and banging it loudly. He was reciting a Buddhist verse that persuades people to do good: "If you want to know the cause of the past life, This is the recipient in this life; if you want to know the result in the next life, this is the author of this life; look at the person who shaves his head, for people also shave their heads."
The voice was empty and spiritual, and the sound of wooden fish was really thought-provoking. Cao Cao couldn't help but be fascinated when he thought about his merits and demerits in his life. He thought to himself: "What this man said is very meaningful. I should invite him to the house to talk." "Just when he was about to call someone to invite him, he remembered that this was not the palace of Prince Wei. Looking at the woman stepping on his feet, a thought suddenly popped into his mind -
"The cause of the past life and the result of this life, could it be that I committed too many murders in my previous life, so I became a bullied Wu Dalang in this life? In my previous life, I was good at stealing other people's wives, so in this life, my wife had an affair with others? Most likely, if I hadn't suddenly woken up I am afraid that I, Wu Dalang, will be harmed by an adulterer and adulteress after I wake up from my past life."
