After a busy night, Huang Qi, a soldier on the city wall, returned to stand guard on the city wall. Last night was too long and he was very tired, but the work was also too bloody. Many people could never return to their posts as guards on the city wall. .
Due to the shortage of manpower, he could only work hard and go to the city to guard the city.
However, this time, he was inexplicably frightened because he found that several officials from the garrison on the city wall had gathered together to discuss something.
In this situation last night, the king's flag was changed at the top of the city. Jiangdong's "Sun" and "Zhou" flags were thrown down the city, Shiwu was killed, and Shi Xie regained power.
And now, what are they discussing?
He was very close to the tower room, but he would rather not be here in case he heard something he shouldn't.
There was no need for him to wait any longer, as he heard a sharp shout coming from the tower room.
"So, are you going to betray the old prefect?"
"What is betrayal? He wanted to kill my husband first. My husband followed him through life and death. He just had a meal with his brother Shiwu and then he was going to be liquidated. Isn't this ridiculous?"
"Absurd, old governor..."
"The old prefect is old. He is seventy years old. All the brothers around him who can fight died last night. You know better than me what to choose!"
Immediately afterwards, there was a dull sound.
If it were Huang Qi in the past, he would have rushed in to check, but after experiencing the magical thing last night, he was patient and did not dare to go in.
Not long after, He Xin, one of the deputy generals guarding the city, came out and saw Huang Qi guarding the door. He was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "Huang Qi, come in."
Huang Qi tremblingly agreed. The door of the house was like a black hole, so dark that it wanted to swallow his body. He didn't want to go in, but he had to.
In the end, he had to grit his teeth and follow He Xin into the house.
Blood, there was blood all over the corner of the room. Li Zhang, who had helped Shi Xie so gloriously last night, had turned into a corpse. His eyes were wide open, as if he couldn't believe that he would die in the hands of his most trusted person.
There were also several city gate guards standing next to him, all of them were captains and others. They looked at the corpse uneasily and then at He Xin.
The wound on Huang Qi's forehead had not yet healed, and it was now cracked. Blood flowed down his forehead, covering his eyes again.
He suddenly didn't understand the world.
In just one night, everything changed.
He Xin patted Huang Qi on the shoulder, interrupting his dazed thoughts.
"From now on, we will be the ones stationed in Jiaozhi under the orders of the Emperor."
He Xin laughed.
The corps commanders had no choice but to smile.
Huang Qi finally couldn't help it. After all, he was not as indifferent as the others. He trembled and asked: "But why, why can't you follow the old prefect... In the past so many years, the old prefect has done very well. What?"
He Xin chuckled and said: "In the second year of Chuping, Sun Jian and Liu Biao fought, and Xiangyang City was in ruins. There was a child who was originally a child of a Xiangyang family and fled south with his parents. It was a bumpy road and they arrived in Jiaozhou. You guessed they were in Jiaozhi What happened?"
Huang Qi looked back at He Xin, wondering why He Xin suddenly mentioned this.
"All the belongings of this aristocratic family were robbed by the Jiaozhi Prefect. Everything useful to his family was used. Guess how it was used?"
He Xin was smiling, but Huang Qi couldn't understand his smile.
"Since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there have been countless battles in the Central Plains, and the world's elites have fled south to Jingzhou. But Jingzhou is not safe either. Many people have fled all the way to Jiaozhou. Jiaozhou is very safe. Very safe, but why are the people of Jiaozhou not living well?"
He Xin looked around and said angrily: "Because there are people lying on the four counties to suck blood. Every drop of rain falling from the sky, the scholar's family will share half of it. Do you think the people can live well?"
"In vain, that Shi Xie was also from a noble family and went to Luoyang to study Confucian classics, but what he did was one thing on the surface and another behind the scenes. The Jiuzhen Miao descendants were rectified by him, the people of the four counties were exploited by him, and the children of the noble families who fled south had long been I want to resist him, but I just don’t have the chance.”
"Now, the opportunity has come, because a man from the north has brought something important."
Huang Qi seemed to understand, but he didn't know what was so important, which ultimately prompted the generals who defended the city to betray.
He is not from a wealthy family. Speaking of which, the people of Jiaozhi are indeed not living well, but at least they have food to eat, right? Isn't it better than the people in the north who have no food to eat?
He didn't say anything else. Next, he watched the generals in front of him make a bloody alliance, then came outside the city and threw down the flag of the "shi" family.
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"Shall I be sentenced to death?"
Shi Xie seemed to have heard some big joke, and he started to laugh. At first it was just a chuckle, and then it turned into a laugh.
He laughed, looked around, and found that no one was laughing with him. A cold look flashed in his eyes, but he still smiled.
Although Zhuge Liang was already in front of him, he still waited patiently for him to finish laughing before continuing: "Please punish me, the prefect."
The word Fu Zhu seems to be a matter of course.
Shi Xie was finally angered by him. He took pictures of several cases and said angrily: "That's enough! Do you think I have no one in Jiaozhi? You, a child with a yellow mouth, come to my Jiaozhi and let me sit in the core of Jiaozhi." Execution? Zhuge Liang, I thought you were really powerful, but I didn’t expect that you are just a hot-blooded young man. Do you think you can kill me in this prefect’s mansion?”
He has experienced so many changes in his life. This time he even took the initiative to kill his three brothers. He survived the most difficult time and let him kill him? If he hadn't been in front of someone from Beifu, and Beifu still had tens of thousands of troops, and he didn't know whether to lose or win, he would have slapped the young man in front of him who didn't know the importance.
"Then the prefect thinks, why can't Liang ask you to kill him?"
Zhuge Liang remained calm and calm, but every word he spoke stung Shi Xie's nerves.
"Just because I am the prefect of Jiaozhi, the Zhonglang General of Suinan, the Zhonglang General personally appointed by the imperial court, the entire Jiaozhou military must obey my orders, is this enough?"
The scholar's beard and hair are all spread out.
He, the Zhonglang General, was conferred by Cao Cao under the guise of the Emperor, in order to contain Liu Biao in Jingzhou and make Liu Biao's rear unstable.
But in fact, until Liu Biao died, Shi Xie failed to capture Cangwu, let alone Jingzhou.
Therefore, this Zhonglang General did not actually have the ability to command the entire Jiaozhou military force. He was just in name only.
However, now that it is taken out, it is justifiable. Shi Xie wants to use his official position to suppress Zhuge Liang and obtain legal victory.
Zhuge Liang smiled and said: "Then please bring out the Emperor's Scepter!"
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