Ni Heng said: "I am not rude. I am rude to deceive the king and the emperor. What I reveal is the body of my parents, which just shows my innocence." Cao Cao said: "You are innocent, so who is dirty?"
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Ni Heng said: "You cannot recognize that the wise and foolish eyes are turbid; if you do not read poetry and books, you have turbid mouth; if you do not make good words, you have turbid ears; if you do not understand the past and the present, you have turbid body; if you do not tolerate princes, you have turbid belly; if you always think of usurpation
Rebellion is a turbid heart! I am a famous scholar today, and you are regarded as a minor official who plays drums. It is like a servant despising Confucius! If you want to achieve the cause of kings and domineering, how can you despise others so much?"
As a good friend, Kong Rong also sat inside, afraid that Cao Cao would be angry and killed Ni Heng, so he spoke: "Ni Heng's sins are the same as those of prisoners serving sentences, but he has no ability to wake up the wise king from his dream."
Cao Cao pointed at Ni Heng and said, "I will send you to Jingzhou as an envoy Liu Biao. If you can let Liu Biao surrender on his own initiative, I will regard you as a minister."
Ni Heng was unwilling to go, so Cao Cao asked three horses to prepare, and asked two people to support him, and then asked his generals to prepare drinks outside the east gate to say goodbye.
Xun Yu said: "If Ni Heng comes, don't get up."
After Ni Heng arrived, he got off the horse and saw everyone sitting there crying, and Ni Heng also burst into tears.
Xun Yu asked, "Why are you crying?"
Ni Heng said: "Walking among the dead, why don't you cry?"
Everyone said in unison: "We are dead bodies, then you are a crazy ghost without a head!"
Ni Heng said: "I am a minister of the Han Dynasty. If I don't be Cao Cao's clique, how could I have no head?"
Everyone was very angry after hearing this and prepared to kill him. Xun Yu quickly stopped him and said, "Don't waste the knife for such a rat."
Ni Heng said: "I am a rat, but I am human. You are not even human, just some insects!" The others could only endure their anger and disperse one after another. After all, no one was Ni Heng's dispute.
opponent.
After Ni Heng arrived in Jingzhou, he met Liu Biao. Although he also praised him, his words were mostly ironic. Liu Biao was very unhappy and asked him to go to Jiangxia to meet Huang Zu.
Some people asked Liu Biao, "Why didn't you kill him when Ni Heng teases you like this?"
Liu Biao smiled and said, "Ni Heng insulted Cao Cao several times, but Cao Cao did not kill him. He was afraid that others would be disappointed, so he asked him to come and use my hand to kill him, so that I could bear the reputation of persecuting virtuous people.
.I sent him to meet Huang Zu and let Cao Cao know that I am also an experienced person." Everyone thought this was very good.
After Ni Heng left, Yuan Shao's envoy also arrived. Liu Biao asked the advisers and said, "Yuan Shao sent someone to recruit people this time, and Cao Cao sent Ni Heng to recruit people. Who should I listen to?"
Han Song, the general of the Central Army, said, "Now Cao Cao and Yuan Shao are competing for hegemony. If the general wants to make a difference, he can take this opportunity to defeat the enemy. If he has no idea, he will choose a good one. Now Cao Cao can use troops and is much more virtuous.
He will definitely take Yuan Shao first and then attack Jiangdong. I am afraid that the general will not be able to resist. If he depends on Cao Cao, then Cao Cao will definitely treat the general well."
Liu Biao said: "Let's do it, go to Xudu first, observe the situation, and then let's discuss it."
Han Song said: "Now I am under my lord, and I will definitely go through fire and water. I will obey the orders. If I can follow the emperor and follow the Prime Minister Cao, I will send me there. If the lord has been hesitating, after I arrive in Xudu, the emperor will give me the emperor.
If I have a position of official position, then I will be the subject of the emperor and I will no longer serve the lord."
Liu Biao said: "You might as well go and have other ideas to consider."
After Han Song said goodbye, he went to Xudu to meet Cao Cao. Cao Cao appointed Song as the chief minister and led the prefect of Lingling.
Xun Yu said: "Han Song came here this time mainly to see the truth and the truth. He gave such an official position without any credit. Ni Heng had no news. Why didn't the Prime Minister call him back?"
Speaking of Ni Heng, Cao Cao felt angry and said, "Ni Heng insulted me repeatedly and had reached my bottom line, so I want to use Liu Biao's hands to kill him, why do you ask again?" So he sent Han Song back to Jingzhou
Convince Liu Biao.
Han Song went back to meet Liu Biao, said a lot of good things from Cao Cao and the court, and persuaded Liu Biao to surrender and serve the emperor. Liu Biao was furious and said, "You are two-minded!" He was ready to kill him.
Han Song explained: "This is the general who has lost me, and I have not lost the general."
Kuai Liang said: "Before he left Jingzhou, he had already said this. It would be bad to kill him now." So Liu Biao pardoned him.
Someone reported that Huang Zu had killed Ni Heng, and Liu Biao asked about the reason.
Reply: "Huang Zu and Ni Heng were drunk together, and they were both drunk. Huang Zu asked Ni Heng, who are you in Xu? Ni Heng replied, "The eldest son Kong Wenju and the youngest son Yang Dezu, there is nothing but the first time.
The character is gone. Huang Zu asked, "How am I?" Ni Heng said, you are the god worshipped in the temple. Although you have been sacrificed, you have never appeared before. Huang Zu was furious and felt that Ni Heng was using puppets to describe himself.
.So Huang Zu asked his left and right to behead him, and Ni Heng kept scolding him until he died."
Ni Heng died in the end. Liu Biao sighed and was buried at the Parrot Island.
The news quickly reached Xudu. Cao Cao was very happy after hearing this and said, "A person like him finally took his own destruction!"
However, Liu Biao had no intention of being recruited, so Cao Cao was about to launch an army to question him.
Xun Yu advised: "Yuan Shao is still eyeing him, and Liu Bei has not yet perished. Now he is preparing to go to Jiangnan mercenaries, which is like giving up his confidants. You can destroy Yuan Shao first and then Liu Bei, so sooner or later Jingzhou will be in his pocket."
Cao Cao accepted it.
After Liu Bei left, the plan to destroy Cao was still under discussion. Dong Cheng often discussed with Wang Zifu and others, but had no choice.
In the fifth year of Jian'an, the New Year's Day congratulations were celebrated. Seeing Cao Cao even more arrogant and domineering, he was so sad and angry that he actually got sick.
After Emperor Xian learned that his uncle was ill, he sent an imperial physician to treat him. The imperial physician was from Luoyang, with his surname Ji, his name was Tai, and his name was Ping. Everyone called him Ji Ping, and he was a famous doctor at that time.
While treating Dong Cheng's illness, he found that he was sighing every day and did not dare to ask why.
On the Lantern Festival, Ji Ping was about to leave, and Dong Cheng left him and drank together. At night, Dong Cheng felt a little sleepy and prepared to sleep in his clothes. Suddenly, the prince's uniform and four people came over, and Dong Cheng stood up to greet him.
The prince said, "The big thing can be settled!"
Dong Cheng said: "What big thing are you talking about?"
Prince Fu said: "Just recently, Liu Biao and Yuan Shao raised 500,000 troops, divided into ten routes and rushed to Xudu, Ma Teng tied up with Han Sui, and raised 120,000 troops from the West Liang army, and came from the north, Cao Cao led
After all the troops of Xu Du and the enemy were separated, the city was empty."