Zhang Zhao drafted a letter of surrender and submitted it to Sun Quan for review. It was full of odes to Cao Wei.
Zhang Zhao's book uses retreat as advance, indicating that the Sun family will look forward to Wei's leadership and invite Cao Pi to ascend the throne as soon as possible.
In the book, Sun Quan describes himself as a subordinate who is humble, and his words and phrases capture the etiquette of a monarch and his ministers very well. Although Sun Quan felt humiliated after reading it, the letter did not mention anything practical, it was just verbal obedience.
Sun Quan read it twice and found nothing wrong, so he handed it over to Zhuge Jin for his third mission to Cao Ying in Shu County.
The two sides of Sun and Cao were at odds for dozens of days, and the season came to mid-October.
At this time, the wilderness of Huainan is full of golden colors. When the autumn wind blows in the rice fields, the air is filled with the smell of rice.
The places Zhuge Jin passed were all the farming areas in the east of the Yangtze River. Cao Wei's soldiers had been stationed in various places, and they seemed to want to go to the fields to cut rice.
After reading Sun Quan's letter of surrender, Cao Pi was quite satisfied.
"Zhongmou is indeed a talented person who understands current affairs. He has already felt in his heart that if Gu is really his destiny, Jiangdong's benefits will be indispensable."
"Since the King of Wei knows the sincerity of our Lord, then your proud soldiers and generals..." Zhuge Jin is most concerned about when to withdraw his troops. After all, one hundred thousand Cao troops are approaching the Yangtze River, and the Jiangdong ministers cannot sleep at all.
"Jiangdong returned to Yujin and gave our army rice. Now he has sent his husband to surrender. Zhongmou is so sincere, how can I not repay him? Tomorrow he will return to the court, and the rest of the soldiers will withdraw immediately after harvesting the rice. North of Hefei." Cao Pi replied with a smile.
Zhuge Jin was doubtful about the letter, and then he raised his hands and saluted: "Jin's mission has been completed. The news of Zhi Ge has to be sent back to Ruxu. I will take my leave..."
Cao Pi stretched out his hand to call Zhuge Jin and said, "Tzuyu, wait a moment. It's not polite to come back without reciprocating. Zhongmou gave me a general worth one billion, and I have two people to give it to me."
Zhuge Jin's face was full of questions. He carefully analyzed Cao Pi's words and wondered whether Pan Zhang and other generals were not dead? Was he sold to Cao Cao by Lan Tian using cunning tactics? Or maybe it's two heads again?
"I wonder if these two people are dead or alive?" Zhuge Jin asked curiously.
Cao Pi frowned and asked in confusion: "What do you mean by Ziyu's words? Is it possible that I sent two corpses to your master? It's really inexplicable..."
Seeing that Cao Pi was slightly angry, Zhuge Jin quickly waved his hand and explained: "Your Majesty, please don't misunderstand. Our former Commander-in-Chief Lü Meng only had his head left when he was sent to Jiangdong..."
"You bastard, Lu Meng was just a head after he was sent to Wei State, and Jiangdong still wants us to live? How can there be such truth in the world?" Xia Houshang scolded angrily.
Zhuge Jin looked at Cao Ren, who was at the top, swallowed his saliva and continued to explain: "General Xiahou, please calm down. When we negotiated with Lantian after the war, he once said that we could use the living governor to break away Fancheng, which was guarded by General Cao..."
At that time, Lan Tian used psychological oppression tactics to make Cao Ren give up Fancheng. This incident has always made him feel ashamed. Now that Zhuge Jin brought it up again, he closed his eyes and seemed to be angry, and replied coldly: "I will I didn’t see Lu Meng in Fancheng.”
"Has any of you seen Lu Meng alive?" Cao Pi asked as he looked around the tent.
Xia Houshang and others all shook their heads. Cao Pi used the Huainan and Xuzhou legions this time.
Except for Xiahou Shang, the other generals have been stationed in Huainan and Xuzhou and have never experienced the battles in Fancheng and Deng County.
Among the generals in the tent, only Cao Ren was on the battlefield in Nanyang at that time. Unfortunately, when he withdrew from Fancheng and joined Cao Cao, Lü Meng's head had already been sent away. Therefore, all the generals in Huainan insisted that only Lü Meng's head was sent to Shouchun. .
Sima Yi and Yang Xiu, Cao Cao's army advisers at the time, were dead. Jia Xu, Chen Qun and others who came to Huainan with Cao Pi were all in Yecheng before and were not witnesses.
Jia Xu quickly added: "I remember that Jiang Zitong was with the late king at that time, but a few days ago, he was driven back to Shouchun by the king..."
Chen Qun and Jiang Ji planned to rescue the Sima brothers, and after consulting Jia Xu, they decided to send them to Jiangdong through the hands of Cao Pi. So Chen Qun instigated the Henan nobles to work together to "spill dirty water" on Sima Yi.
As the Sima family's extermination continued to be a hot topic, and public opinion fermented more and more, Cao Pi had to discuss the matter.
As a good friend of Sima Yi, Jiang Ji argued with the ministers alone. In the end, Cao Pi made the final decision on Jia Xu's suggestion, and Jiang Ji was expelled back to Shouchun to supervise the grain supply.
Cao Pi nodded and said indifferently: "There is no need for the Wei State to lie about Lu Meng's life and death. If Sun Zhongmou is worried, I will stay in Shu County for a longer time, and Jiang Zitong will be sent to confront him immediately. If you can't trust him, I can still do it." It was reported that Zhang Wenyuan, Xu Gongming and others came to see him. They were all generals accompanying the late king at that time."
When Zhuge Jin heard that he wanted to postpone the sun and the moon, he quickly waved his hands and declined: "Your Majesty, there is no need to mobilize the troops. The affairs in your country are still complicated. Such small matters will be investigated in the future. Just inform Jiangdong. Anyway, the governor of Ziming cannot be resurrected. ..."
"That's fine. I heard that Lan Tian is very cunning, but haven't you thought carefully about whether he might be lying?" Cao Pi asked.
"Uh... I've thought about it..." Zhuge Jin lowered his head, thinking that what Lan Tian said at that time was very convincing. In short, there was no evidence and both sides were suspicious.
Cao Pi couldn't help but smile shamefully when he saw Jiangdong's monarchs and ministers being played around by Lan Tian.
After a while, Cao Pi turned to Xiahou Shang and ordered: "Bo Ren, take Mr. Ziyu to pick up Brother Sima, and then send him out of the camp."
"Wei." Xia Houshang clasped his fists.
"Brother Sima?" Zhuge Jin's head was buzzing, thinking, shouldn't it be Pan Zhang?
Cao Pi explained solemnly: "The Sima family was exterminated, leaving two brothers Sima Shi and Sima Zhao. Isn't Sun Zhongmou still investigating? I sent these two victims to Jiangdong for supervision. Let's see how long it takes for you to solve the case. "
Zhuge Jin looked depressed and thought to himself that this crime was not framed by you? But now that Jiang Dong was riding a tiger, he could only nod awkwardly, and then followed Xia Houshang out of the tent.
Sima Shi is twelve years old this year, and Sima Zhao is nine years old this year. Both children are relatively normal in size, but not as exaggerated as Lan Yuan and Lan Ji.
Although they were born into a wealthy family, they no longer have the spirit of a young master or a young master. The two children are blind-eyed and at the mercy of others. This period of time is really frightening.
When Zhuge Jin walked outside the tent, Xu Chu gave him a 'threatening' look, which made Zhuge Jin tremble.
There was a fish that slipped through the net in the Sima family. Xu Chu originally wanted to find an opportunity to get rid of it, but it was difficult to do it among Cao Hong's army. Later, Xia Houchong asked him to stop, and Xu Chu stopped killing him. Otherwise, when the two children were on their way to Huainan, they would be killed. Can arrange for Tiger Guards to handle it secretly.
After sending Zhuge Jin off, Cao Pi complained to Chen Qun and others: "Zhongda's flesh and bones have been sent to Jiangdong as you requested. If Sun Quan had a guilty conscience and secretly killed the Sima brothers, the Sima family would be wiped out... "
Chen Qun sighed, "If that's true, it's the fate of the Sima family..."
"Don't worry, my lord. I know that you have a close friendship with Sima Changshi, and I don't want to believe that he would collaborate with the enemy or betray the country. However, when the Sima brothers arrived in Jiangdong, they were able to verify the murderer of the family murder case." Jia Xu stood up.
