Empress Fu was very courageous and said: "We are living like this sooner or later, and we are on pins and needles. It would be better to die sooner! I see that among the eunuchs in the palace, the loyal person who can be entrusted is Mu Shun. I should send him to help us." Send this letter." Then he was summoned behind the screen, and all the people serving on the left and right were screened away. Emperor Xian and Queen Fu cried loudly: "The traitor Cao is planning to be crowned King of Wei and will usurp the throne sooner or later. I am planning to send Queen Fu's father to secretly plot against the traitor Cao, but none of the attendants on the left and right are my confidants and there is no one I can entrust to my family." Yes, now you secretly send Empress Fu's letter, I think you are very loyal and will not let me down."
After hearing this, Mu Shun cried loudly: "I am very grateful to Your Majesty for your kindness. How dare you not repay it with death? I hope to leave immediately."
So Empress Fu handed the letter to Mu Shun, who hid it in her hair, sneaked out of the palace, went outside, and presented the letter. After Fu read the letter, she confirmed that it was her daughter's autograph, so she Mu Shun said: "Cao Cao has too many confidants. We have no way to plot anything. Unless Sun Quan from Jiangdong and Liu Bei from Xichuan attack together, Cao Cao will definitely go to resist. At this time, we go to ask the court to Only when all the loyal ministers in the hall come together to plot and attack from both inside and outside can we find a solution."
Mu Shun said: "In this case, I also ask the emperor's father-in-law to write a letter to reply to Emperor Xian and the empress. I hope to ask for a secret edict, and secretly send people to Soochow and Shu to agree to raise an army to challenge the thief King Qin."
So after Fu finished, he took out the paper and pen, wrote a letter and handed it to Mu Shun, still hiding it in his hair, and said goodbye and returned to the palace.
Someone quickly reported this incident to Cao Cao. Cao Cao waited outside the palace gate. After Mu Shun returned, he met Cao Cao. Cao Cao asked, "What did you do?"
He replied: "The queen is sick and asked me to find a doctor."
Cao Cao continued to ask: "So have you found it? Where is the doctor?"
He replied: "It's not here yet!"
So Cao Cao ordered a search on both sides. After searching both sides, he found that he didn't bring anything, so he let him go.
At this time, a gust of wind blew Mu Shun's hat off. Cao Cao called him back and carefully inspected the hat. He found that there was nothing in the hat, so he returned the hat to Mu Shun, who held the hat upside down with both hands. Put it on.
Cao Cao felt a little confused, so he asked his left and right people to search his hair, and finally found Fu Wan's letter. After reading it, Cao Cao mentioned that he was preparing to collude with Sun Quan and Liu Bei as foreign agents. He was very angry, so he had Mu Shun sentenced to death. , imprisoned him in a secret room and interrogated him. Mu Shun was loyal and unwilling to say anything, so Cao Cao sent 3,000 soldiers and horses overnight to surround Fu Wan's residence, captured everyone, and found Empress Fu. Afterwards, all the three Fu Shi clans were sent to prison.
On the morning of the next day, Xi Lu, the imperial guard, was sent into the palace to take back the queen's seal and ribbon.
That day, Emperor Xian was in the outer hall and saw Xi Lu entering the palace with three hundred soldiers and horses, and asked, "What is it?"
He replied: "I followed Duke Wei's order to take back the queen's seal."
Emperor Xian knew that the matter had been leaked and collapsed on the ground.
When Xi Lu arrived at the harem, Empress Fu had just gotten up, so Xi Lu sent someone to take away the queen's jade seal. Empress Fu knew that the matter had been exposed, so she hid it in the wall of the jiao room at the back of the palace. Soon after, Shangshu ordered Hua Xin to bring He entered with five hundred soldiers and horses and asked, "Where is Queen Fu going?"
Everyone said they didn't know, so they asked the soldiers to open the Zhuhu, but they couldn't find anyone, so they thought they were in the wall, so they asked the soldiers to break open the wall and search. Hua Xin personally grabbed the queen's hair and pulled her out.
Queen Fu sat on the ground and said, "I hope you can bypass me!"
Hua Xin scolded: "You should go to Wei Gong to judge this matter." So Empress Fu was escorted out by two soldiers.
At that time, Hua Xin was very talented and famous, and had a good relationship with Bing Yuan and Guan Ning. People called him a dragon, Hua Xin was the head, Bing Yuan was the belly, and Guan Ning was the tail.
One day, Guan Ning and Hua Xin were planting vegetables in the field. When they were hoeing, they found gold. Guan Ning couldn't hit it with the hoe, so he threw it down. Another day, they were reading together and heard a sound coming from outside. The nobleman passed by in a carriage. Guan Ning sat there unchanged, while Hua Xin threw away the book and went to watch. Guan Ning despised Hua Xin as a person, and the two broke off the relationship, and they were no longer good friends.
Later, Guan Ning took refuge in Liaodong, often wearing a white hat and sitting on the first floor without wearing shoes. He refused to enter the Wei State as an official for the rest of his life. Hua Xin first served Sun Quan and later surrendered to Cao Cao. Then there was the matter of capturing Queen Fu.
Hua Xin escorted Queen Fu to the outer hall. After Emperor Xian looked at her, he went down and hugged Queen Fu and cried bitterly. Hua Xin said: "Wei Gong has given an order, you can leave quickly."
Empress Fu said to Emperor Xian: "We must say goodbye forever!"
Emperor Xian said: "I don't know when my life will be taken away!"
So the soldiers took Empress Fu away. Emperor Xian burst into tears. When he saw Xi Lu standing aside, he said, "Xi Lu! Can such a thing happen in the world?" After saying this, he fell to the ground crying again.
Xi Lu asked his officials to help Emperor Xian into the palace, while Hua Xin captured Empress Fu and went to see Cao Cao.
Cao Cao scolded: "I treat you sincerely, but you turn around and plot to kill me. If I don't kill you, you will definitely kill me!" After cursing, he asked his left and right men to beat him to death with wooden sticks. Then he led soldiers and horses into the palace, and killed all the two sons of Queen Fu with poisoned wine. That night, Fu Wan, Mu Shun and more than 200 people related to him were all beheaded. In both the government and the public, everyone is in danger.
What happened to Queen Fu was very terrifying for Emperor Xian. He lived in panic all day long and couldn't even eat.
After Cao Cao entered, he said: "Your Majesty, don't be afraid. I have no other moods. My daughter and Your Majesty are already husband and wife, and they are very virtuous. They should be the main palace."
Emperor Xian did not dare not listen to this suggestion, so in the first month of the 20th year of Jian'an, he celebrated New Year's Day and canonized Cao Cao's daughter Cao Gui as the queen of the palace. No one else dared to raise objections.
Cao Cao became more and more powerful, and the ministers did not dare to speak other words, so Cao Cao gathered the ministers to discuss the elimination of Wu and Shu.
The counselors around him died one after another, and Cao Cao had no one to use, so he had no choice but to summon Jia Xu over and ask for a solution.
Jia Xu was thinking about how to deal with it on the road. Yu Yi had told Jia Xu a long time ago about Longzhong's attack, which meant that Jingzhou and Xichuan jointly sent troops to attack the Central Plains. So Jia Xu knew that Cao Cao had the intention to attack Jingzhou, so he thought Changing the direction to allow Xichuan and Jingzhou to develop for longer, he said: "We will also call Xiahou Dun and Cao Ren back to discuss this matter together."
