Chapter 742 Old friends withering one after another, like leaves falling in the wind
——"Your Majesty has decreed that Zhou Yu should return to Hanzhong to resume his duties, and Lu Xun would lead his army to Yiling."
An edict from the Emperor of Wei was read out in front of Zhou Yu and Lu Xun.
Lu Xun opened his mouth, a little confused, but Zhou Yu frowned and waited for Xiao Huangmen, who had delivered the order, to leave.
Lu Xuncai said: "Captain Zhou, it stands to reason... Guan Yu is dead. Liu Bei is so angry that he will definitely use the power of Shu to send troops from Yiling to avenge Guan Yu. Why did your majesty transfer you and leave me at this time?
Woolen cloth?"
this…
Zhou Yu's brows gradually relaxed, and he stroked his beard lightly, "Your Majesty has always been prepared to leave no stone unturned, maybe... in his opinion, you, Lu Boyan, are more suitable to defeat Liu Bei than I, Zhou Gongjin, or maybe... His Majesty is prepared to anger Liu Bei.
, I kept you here just to make Liu Bei underestimate the enemy and advance rashly!"
hiss…
Lu Xun took a breath, and he suddenly felt that the burden on his shoulders was much heavier.
Zhou Yu patted his shoulder and said, "In short, the next battle is extremely important to you, to the Wei Dynasty, and to the unification of the world. You must be careful!"
"I respectfully obey the orders of the Grand Governor..." Lu Xun handed over his hand.
Zhou Yu turned his head and looked around at the generals below the city...
For Guan Yu, Cao Cao came, Lu Bu came, Ma Chao came, Xu Huang came, Gan Ning came, Zhang Liao came...
So many people died for him, "Alas"... Zhou Yu sighed with emotion, thinking that he, Guan Yu, was not worthy.
There was inexplicably a lot of envy in his eyes.
Everyone is destined to die, but... Qi Xiong fought against Guan Gong. This honor, this reputation bestowed upon him by His Majesty, can be regarded as an earth-shattering death!
And in this world, Guan Yu is the only one who can die so earth-shatteringly!
After all, His Majesty and the King of Wei still appreciate Guan Yu more.
Good sentence, I will die for my loyalty!
——Recommend loyalty!
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Guan Yu's coffin has been transported back to Hanzhong and placed in the middle of the Hanzhong palace.
Above the court hall, all the officials were solemn.
No one can believe that Guan Yu and Guan Yunchang, who flooded Jiangling and shocked the world...just disappeared, fell like this!
"Tell me about it."
Lu Yu stood up from the dragon chair calmly and asked the ministers, "How should Guan Yu's funeral be held?"
Xun was the first to take a step forward and said with cupped hands: "I have specifically asked the Supreme Emperor about this matter. Although the Supreme Emperor said that everything is up to His Majesty's arrangement, his words showed his respect for Guan Yu. Between the ministers, Your Majesty can appropriately posthumous titles to Guan Yu."
, put his body into a jade stone coffin, and buried him generously outside the south gate of Luoyang... When he was buried, all the civil and military officials came together for the funeral!"
As soon as this statement came out...
It was obvious that the whole audience was in an uproar and everyone started talking about it.
But no one openly refuted it...
Although this arrangement came from Xun Yu's mouth, it was Cao Cao's intention...
Since it is Cao Cao's intention, who dares to refute it?
Lu Yu was keenly aware of the expression of the Duke of Manchao.
call…
Exhaling softly, Lu Yu raised his dragon sleeves, "Since my father asked me to make arrangements, then I will make arrangements according to the etiquette of the Wei Dynasty..."
"According to Guan Yu's last words, he was buried in Jieliang, Hedong, and a monument was erected on his tomb - the tomb of Changsheng in Jieliangguan, Hedong!"
Just...that's it?
Lu Yu's words were beyond Xun Yu's expectations.
No grand burial? No civil and military officials attending the funeral together, just... burial and sent back to Guan Yu's hometown in Hedong?
this…
Xun may still want to open his mouth, but suddenly thought of something... and immediately closed his mouth.
Zhou Yu reminded: "Your Majesty, Guan Yu's son Guan Ping, Guan Yu's daughter Guan Yinping, Guan Yu's deputy generals Zhou Cang, Liao Hua, Zhao Lei and others also died in the battle!"
"In memory of his loyalty," Lu Yu continued to order, "Bury them together next to Guan Yu to commend loyalty and righteousness. We can also build a loyalty temple in Xieliang County, Hedong, so that these people can receive incense and worship for generations to come."
"Yes..." Zhou Yu held his hand...
Guan Yu's matter seemed to have been revealed so easily...
Lu Yu changed the subject, "Next, Liu Bei will inevitably launch a general attack when he is furious. As the saying goes, if the enemy does not move, I will not move. If the enemy moves, there must be a flaw. Everyone, cheer up... The time has come to determine the unification of the world.
Got it!"
As soon as this statement came out...
All the ministers shouted: "Great Wei Shenwu! Your Majesty has a profound plan!"
that's all…
The court meeting ended with heavy thunder and small raindrops. After the court was over, Xi Zhi came to Xun Yu's side, blinking his eyes and asked: "Why didn't Wen Ruo continue to ask about Guan Yu's grand burial?"
He seemed to ask this on purpose...
Xun or rolled his eyes at him, "Xun came to understand later that it was interesting enough for His Majesty to bury Guan Yu in Jieliang County, Hedong, and it was enough to give the Supreme Emperor face. After all, his loyalty did not correspond to His Majesty and the Wei Dynasty. His
The crime of flooding Jiangling... is even more unforgivable, and it is even more fair for Your Majesty to do this!"
"Haha..." Xi Zhicai laughed, "I almost thought that after Wen Ruo became prime minister, his brain was clogged... I never thought that it would clear up quickly!"
After the joke... Xi Zhicai burst into laughter again.
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Xichuan, Zitong.
The candle flame in the oil lamp flickered brightly and dimly under the blowing of the night wind.
Liu Bei was reviewing memorials in the government office. In a hazy moment, he seemed to feel that there was someone standing in front of him... He suddenly looked up and saw that it was not his second brother Guan Yu who appeared in front of him. Who else could it be?
"Yun Chang?"
Liu Bei was greatly surprised, "Why are you here? Isn't my second brother in Jiangling? Didn't my last letter say that Xiangfan will be captured within one month?"
Liu Bei stood up and approached Guan Yu... "My second brother is not in Jingzhou, why are you here?"
"Brother..." Guan Yu's voice was dreamy, "I'm here to say goodbye to my brother! I'm leaving..."
"Where are you going?" Liu Bei frowned...
"Under the Nine Springs..." Guan Yu replied with a smile, "Young brother has already helped me get this feather cover on the car, and the rest is up to me! Brother, take care..."
Liu Bei felt that the Guan Yu in front of him was vain. He was trying his best to stretch out his hands and bid farewell to Liu Bei.
"Yun Chang? Where are you going?"
"Yun Chang, where are you going..."
Liu Bei wanted to catch Guan Yu, but... where was his second brother in front of him?
He rubbed his eyes desperately...but the more he rubbed, the less he could see his second brother...
"Yun Chang, where are you going? Stop... please stop!"
Finally, Liu Bei realized something...
"Yun Chang...Yun Chang!"
He screamed... but in this huge room, how could anyone respond?
Only...the candlelight was still swaying...erratically in the night wind.
tread…
tread!
At this moment, a low and thick voice came from outside the door.
"Who is outside the door? Is it Yun Chang?" Liu Bei asked in surprise.
But what appeared in front of Liu Bei was a man in Confucian robes holding a feather fan...
"Kong Ming?"
Liu Bei exclaimed.
Zhuge Liang approached slowly, with tears in his eyes, and a huge sense of powerlessness in his words, "Your Majesty, Jiangling messengers came to report that Jiangling was lost. They were afraid of seeing Your Majesty, so they saw me in advance!"
this…
Liu Bei's eyes widened. He opened and closed his mouth several times. He did not dare to ask the words that were in his heart.
Zhuge Liang's words came out again, "Lord, no matter what you hear, don't get too excited!"
"Where's the messenger? Let him in, let him in!" Liu Bei's whole head was shaking...
At this time, a messenger covered in blood broke into the room and knelt on the ground, "Report to your majesty, the king is fighting fiercely with Cao's army in Fancheng. Unexpectedly, Zhou Yu deployed a strange army in Jingnan, crossed the river in white clothes, and suddenly attacked Jiangling.
The prince was attacked from both sides, and the Wei army broke through the camp. He was injured and retreated to Maicheng...he...he..."
"What happened to him?" Liu Bei picked up the messenger.
"The prince... was killed in battle. Before he died, the prince shouted to himself - I recommend loyalty with my life!"
The messenger's voice, every word, and every sentence reached Liu Bei's ears. Liu Bei seemed numb. He stayed for a moment, then shook his head, shaking his head violently.
"impossible!"
Liu Bei's tone was extremely calm, "How could Yun Chang be killed in battle?"
"Impossible!" Liu Bei pointed at Zhuge Liang and the messenger, "My second brother, he...he..."
"Lord..." Zhuge Liang opened his mouth and said: "The prince has indeed been buried... Lu Bu, Ma Chao, Gan Ning, Xu Huang, Zhang Liao, Lu Meng, Tai Shici... seven people surrounded... The prince Youzi stood firm and fought to the last moment.
!Guan Ping, Liao Hua, Zhou Cang, and Zhao Lei died in battle..."
boom…
Rumble!
It was like a thunderbolt crashing on Liu Bei's body.
His mouth was huge, and his expression was extremely painful, but he sighed to himself: "You go out, you go out...impossible! My second brother is invincible! He is the only one who can kill the enemy, how can he be defeated by the enemy?"
Kill! Stand down...all of you stand down! You lied to me, you lied to me!"
"I just...saw him! It's impossible..."
Liu Bei turned around and walked into the house, but his legs staggered and he fell to the ground with a "Winter" sound...
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty!" Zhuge Liang hurriedly went to help... "Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."
For a time, the entire Zitong government office was in chaos!
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In Jieliang County, Hedong, the construction of the ancestral temple has not yet begun. On the bare mountain, there is only a slope of loess. On the tombstone above the loess is engraved - Tomb of Changsheng in Jieliangguan, Hedong!
This was Guan Yu's last request... Lu Yu complied with everything.
But today, in front of Guan Yu's tombstone, a special guest came - Cao Cao!
After several years of cultivation, he looked very energetic. He got off his horse and walked slowly to Guan Yu's tombstone.
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"Yun Chang, I, Cao Cao, really haven't visited many graves in my life... The last time it was Qiao Xuan, I had made an oath with him, saying that if I passed by his tombstone, if I didn't bring a bucket of wine and a chicken as a memorial,
After the carriage and horse have passed three steps, your stomach will hurt... In the past, I didn't believe it and deliberately refused to go to pay homage. Guess what, after three steps, your stomach really hurts!"
"The last time I paid homage was to Yuan Shao. I cried that time. My cry... made all the scholars in the northern border cry to me... Hahaha, Yuan Shao is my big brother when he is alive. I will take care of him.
He has spared me for many years, and even after he died, he still helped me take away his four northern states!"
Speaking of which…
Cao Cao sat on the ground... He reached out to take the wine handed over by Huben Jun, and slowly opened it, "This is my Qiao Pei's Jiu Niang Spring Wine. According to legend, the water used for winemaking was fished from an ancient well. Now it is tribute wine. You are alive."
It's a pity that I didn't have a taste of it, but it doesn't matter, from now on, I will often come to drink with you!"
Cao Cao and Guan Yu were like a pair of close friends who had been separated for a long time but still cherished each other...
Cao Cao threw the wine into the soil, and his expression became lonely. He sighed: "As people get older, they like to miss the past. In the past two days, I have been thinking about the past, and I think of you warming the wine and killing Hua Xiong.
I think of you who captured Yan Liang and punished Wen Chou, sealed the gold with seals, passed five passes and killed six generals. What a sharp knife. I also think of... It was you who personally sent my son, Cao Cao, to your elder brother Liu Bei. Now he is eight or nine.
Now that I’m old...it’s time to know the truth!”
"That's all, let's not talk about this... lest you be so depressed that you can't rest in peace... Let's just talk about why you died? Why did you die?"
Cao Cao's expression became more and more meticulous, "Because you lack a good master, if you follow me, then I, Wei Wen, will have my Yuer to strategize, and Wu will have you, Guan Yunchang, to gallop on the battlefield. Who is your opponent in the world?"
How can he still have his body and head in a different place? Liu Bei... pretends to be benevolent and righteous, why the Han and the traitors are not at odds with each other, and the king's industry is not in peace. He just wants to ride in that feather-covered chariot! I, Cao Cao... am the hero of the world. After me, I
My son, Cao Yu, is the hero of the world! You...you lack nothing but a good master!"
"But, then again, if you had really followed me and not gone to find your old master, I would have despised you again, and my Yu'er's plan would have come to nothing. After all, Yu'er is the one who calculated
You must be loyal. I, Cao Cao, also like loyal people! But it is best to be loyal to me! That’s all, that’s all... If you are willing to be Hedong Jie Liang Guan Changsheng, then be Guan Changsheng. The name Guan Yunchang... after all, it does not belong to me, and living does not belong to me.
I don’t belong to me even after I die...Yun Chang, eat well, drink well, and see you in the next life!"
"Yun Chang... just rest. If you have a spirit in the sky, just take a look... and see how my son unified the mountains and rivers and established a prosperous age. Isn't this what I have been fighting for my whole life?
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Speaking of which…
Cao Cao stood up slowly, turned around and looked at the sky.
"Old friends are about to wither one after another, just like leaves falling in the wind... Who will be the next old friend to wither?"
At that moment, the figures of Liu Xuande and Zhang Yide appeared in front of Cao Cao's eyes.
——"Leaves falling in the wind..."
——"Old friends withered!"
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The morning light was dim, and Yang Xiu in Hanzhong had just woken up. He got up with difficulty... walked slowly to the window, frowned and looked at the fish-belly-white east, where the rising sun had not yet shown its shadow.
He originally wanted to take a nap, but he never thought... his eyes must be.
"His Majesty?"
Yang Xiu didn't expect that Lu Yu would appear in front of his door this early in the morning.
"Didn't sleep well?"
Lu Yu looked at Yang Xiu's listless look and asked first.
"Ahem..." Yang Xiu coughed lightly, "It's not that I didn't sleep well, it's that I slept too well... If I continue to rest like this, I'm afraid I will become a cripple."
This statement seems to have something else to say.
How could Lu Yu not know that there was something in Yang Xiu's words... He was envious of other generals who either led troops on Jinniu Road, Micang Road, or Lychee Road... or were responsible for coordinating grain, grass, ordnance...
Even his contemporary Sima Yi was entrusted with important tasks.
His Yang Xiuxian’s balls hurt...
"Haha..." Lu Yu smiled slightly and immediately stuffed an edict directly into Yang Xiu's arms.
"Your Majesty...this..." Yang Xiu was startled.
Lu Yu turned around and walked toward the door, saying softly: "Bring Zhang Yide's head back for me!"