The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 409 The Chaos of Xu Capital
In the first month of the 17th year of Jian'an, Zhang Wu and his wife and children happily celebrated the New Year at home, and all the civil and military officials under his command and the people of the aristocratic families under his rule also reunited and celebrated.

The people in Jiangnan now sincerely support Zhang Wu's rule, because their living standards have improved a lot compared to before. clothes.

Wei Wang Cao Cao also celebrated the New Year with his wives and concubines in his palace. Now Cao Cao usually stays in Ye County, and Xu Du has long been handed over to a few confidantes to control.Now Cao Cao fully enjoys the treatment of the emperor, but he is not the emperor after all. The title of King Wei is still lower than that of the emperor. If he sees the emperor, he still has to salute, so Cao Cao does not want to see the emperor.

The soldiers and horses in the city of Xudu are all under the control of the prime minister's mansion, Shi Wangbi, who is responsible for watching the emperor and court ministers and maintaining the order and security of Xudu. There is also Cao Hong's [-] troops outside the city.

When Cao Cao became king, many people were dissatisfied, but some people couldn't help objecting directly, such as Cui Yan, who was killed by Cao Cao in the end.Some people held back at the time and wanted to wait for a chance to take action in the future, such as Geng Ji.

Geng Ji, whose style name is Jixing, was born in Luoyang and was once the Prime Minister's mansion.掾 means adjutant, assistant official, and the prime minister's mansion 掾 is an official in Cao Cao's Han prime minister's mansion, which shows that Geng Ji is very trusted by Cao Cao, otherwise it would be impossible for him to work by his side.

Later, Geng Ji was promoted to the position of Minister of Ministers. Minister of Ministers was not a formal official position, but because he was with the emperor, he could freely enter and leave the palace, and he could also participate in government affairs.The Shaofu is an institution that manages private property and life affairs for the royal family, and the Shizhong Shaofu is the financial director next to the emperor.

This shows that Cao Cao still trusts Geng Ji very much, letting him watch over the emperor for him, and also controls the emperor's small treasury, although there is not much money in this small treasury.

But as the so-called "knowing people, knowing the face, not knowing the heart", Cao Cao did not expect that Geng Ji, an old man in the prime minister's mansion whom he had always trusted, turned out to be a royalist in his heart, and he always insisted that he was a Hanchen.

Geng Ji saw that after Cao Cao became king, he used the emperor's car suit when he went in and out. He seemed to regard himself as the emperor, so he was very dissatisfied, so he found his friend Wei Huang to discuss something.

Wei Huang is the current prime minister, Si Zhi, and also a subordinate official of the prime minister's mansion. His rank is relatively high, with a value of more than two thousand stones. His main duty is to assist the prime minister in picking up crimes.

These two men also gathered Jin Yi, Jimiao, Jimu and others to form a small gang. They conspired to cooperate internally and externally, and after killing Wang Bi, they seized the military power of the Imperial Forest Army and rescued the emperor.

That Jin Yi is the descendant of the Minister of the Western Han Dynasty Jin Riyi, who has always regarded himself as a Han official, while Jimiao and Jimu are two brothers, and they are the sons of Ji Ping, the imperial physician who planned to assassinate Cao Cao in the incident of Yi Dai Zhao.

These people planned to set fire to the city and Wang Bi's military camp to create chaos on the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and then Geng Ji and Wei Huang led the family boys from the mansion to enter the military camp, and after killing Wang Bi, the emperor asked the emperor to come forward to calm Wen Wu Hundreds of officials and military horses from all walks of life.After the situation was under control, the emperor issued an edict, asking them to lead an army to Ye County to capture Cao Cao, and at the same time send envoys to get in touch with Uncle Liu Huang.

The most critical point in this plan is that Jin Yi and Wang Bi have a very good personal relationship. Wang Bi often goes to Jin Yi's house to play and appreciate the archery performance of Jin Yi's maidservant of the Hu family, because Jin Yi's ancestors were Hu people.

The so-called personal friendship is good, but it is no match for righteousness.

Jin Yi first found Wang Bi, and said: "The sea is at peace now, and the King of Wei is shaking the world. It is the Lantern Festival, so we must light up the lights to show the peace."

The king must have two shortcomings, he is easy to drink and easy to talk.As a friend, these two things are very good. We drink and sing together, and then you use your power to help me with small things. Everyone wants this kind of friend.But as a leader with heavy responsibilities, these two things are not good.

It is easy to make mistakes when drinking, and it is not easy to stick to principles if you are easy to talk.

Wang Bi didn't have any precautions against Jin Yi, so he ordered the people in Xudu City to decorate every household to celebrate the festival.

On the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the sky was clear, the stars and the moon were shining brightly, and lanterns were set off in six streets and three markets.

The whole of Xudu has become a city that never sleeps. The civil and military officials and the people are all celebrating the Lantern Festival happily. Who would have thought that there would be a big turmoil soon, and many people would die!
At this time, Wang Bi had a banquet with the generals of the Yulin Army in the barracks, drinking and chatting. Jin Yi was also present, and he wanted to find an opportunity to set fire to the barracks.

After the second watch, the banquet in the barracks was not over yet, when Wang Bizheng was drinking happily, he suddenly heard shouts in the barracks, and then someone came to report that there was a fire behind the barracks.

Wang Bi thought it was the soldiers who started the fire accidentally, but when he came out, he saw the flames rolling wildly, and heard the screams of killing, so he knew that there was a change in the camp, so he quickly rode his horse and escaped from the south gate of the barracks.

This trash didn't want to gather an army to quell the rebellion, so he ran away first!

At this time, Geng Ji and Wei Huang each brought three or four hundred children from their families, armed with weapons prepared in advance, and more than three hundred people secretly gathered by brothers Ji Miao and Jimu, and came straight to the camp of the Imperial Forest Army. .

Just as Wang Bigang was leaving the south gate, he happened to meet Geng Ji, who shot him in the shoulder with an arrow and almost fell off his horse, so he turned around and walked towards the west gate.

I have to say that Geng Ji and his group are much more reliable than Dong Cheng, the initiator of the Yidai Zhao incident, and Empress Fu's father. The plan was formulated in great detail, executed well, and kept secret. , and finally implemented successfully.

But it failed in the end, because the more than a thousand people they led were not a regular army, they were all servants and common people, they had not been trained, and their combat effectiveness was too poor. Geng Ji and Wei Huang were not strong generals either.

After Wang Bi fled, the Imperial Forest Army was in a chaotic situation with no command, but Geng Ji and others insisted on not breaking into the palace and joining the emperor Liu Xie.

Because they didn't inform the emperor in advance, the emperor didn't know what happened outside.And the palace is full of Cao Cao's confidants, they know that if people from outside rush in, they will all die, so they guard the gate of the palace and wait until the reinforcements arrive.

Wang Bi was shot with an arrow, and finally came to Cao Xiu's house in a panic, and told Cao Xiu about Geng Ji, Wei Huang, Jin Yi and others' rebellion.

Cao Xiu quickly put on his horse and led more than a thousand people to resist the enemy in the city.

Cao Xiu is Cao Cao's nephew and Cao Hong's own nephew. He followed Cao Cao when Cao Cao launched an army against Dong Zhuo. of the command.After the establishment of Cao Wei, Cao Xiu guarded the eastern front, supervised the Yangzhou military, defeated the Wu army many times, and finally became the supreme commander of Cao Wei's army.

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