Cao Zhi thought about it and felt that he couldn't take risks, not only for his own life, but now he had a wife, and the whole family was in Liyang. Cao Zhi's face was uncertain for a while, and finally he snorted again.
, a murderous intent flashed in his eyes.
Zhou Xin has been greatly panicked since the imperial edict was thrown away. He also knows that whether this thing works well or not in today's era depends on the person and the situation. The reason why Zhou Xin uses it as the final trump card is not to directly hold up the imperial edict in a grand manner.
When he walked into Liyang Prefecture, he just wanted to take it out at the critical moment, and the lowest standard could save his life. He knew that if he failed in this military expedition, Chen Wen would definitely capture him and interrogate him, even if he was captured today.
When the worst happens, Chen Wen will definitely interrogate him in the lobby of the state capital. Politicians like this. When he brings this thing out at this critical moment, Chen Wen will show up in front of all Yangzhou civil and military officials.
How dare you openly disobey the imperial edict and take his life?
But now that this thing has fallen into the hands of Cao Zhi, it's hard to say. I heard that this kid and his boss had an enmity with Dong Xiangguo when they were in the capital, and they once boldly tried to assassinate Dong Xiangguo. Now they have seen Dong Xiangguo's letter.
With that imperial edict, will he attack himself first?
Zhou Xin saw that Cao Zhi had been looking at the two things carefully without making any expression. After thinking about it, she silently comforted herself. Look at this kid, he also had a look of panic on his face after seeing these two things.
And he hasn’t expressed anything yet, so he is probably worried about it. After all, his family has been officials for three generations and has received all the emperor’s grace. He should not dare to openly disobey the imperial order. Now it is disrespectful to secretly undermine the imperial edict. It is not right for him.
Don't dare to do anything to me.
When Zhou Xin thought of this, she couldn't hide the pride on her face. When Cao Zhi turned around, she took the lead in attacking, broke free from the restraints of the two guards, raised her head, sneered and said sternly: "Children of the Cao family, look clearly.
Have you got the things in your hands? Why don’t you let me go quickly? Let’s go back to the lobby of the state capital to interrogate the case. Maybe I can plead for you in front of the Prime Minister, otherwise..."
Cao Zhi glared at Zhou Xin who was lying on the ground, jumped off the saddle, looked at Zhou Xin who was kneeling on the ground with a smile, suddenly interrupted Zhou Xin's words, and said in a neutral tone: "Thank you, Governor Zhou, for mentioning this."
Click, Xu Zhu!" When he finally called Xu Zhu, his voice suddenly rose.
Xu Zhu, who was pondering Zhou Xin's words just now, was startled by Cao Zhi's sudden raised voice. He hurriedly jumped over and replied: "Yes."
Cao Zhi said a few words coldly through his teeth with a cold expression, "Cut his tongue."
When Zhou Xin heard that Cao Zhi was going to cut out his tongue, he was so frightened that he could no longer describe his horror.
Xu Zhu was stunned at first, then saw that Cao Zhi was serious. He was not slow in his movements and did not care about the original situation. He suddenly rushed to Zhou Xin's side, reached for his waist, turned over his hand and pulled out a dagger.
He grabbed Zhou Xin's chin, knocked it, and slashed it with a knife.
Although Zhou Xin was panicked, he did not forget to struggle and cursed loudly: "Cao Sha Bah, how dare you openly create... ah..."
Before he finished speaking, Xu Zhu had raised his knife and dropped it. A stream of blood spurted out from Zhou Xin's mouth, and a piece of meat-like object fell to the snow in front of him, ending Zhou Xin's voice in this life. Then
Zhou Xin's whole body trembled in pain, and he curled up into a ball.
Cao Zhi snorted two white breaths from his nose, slowly approached Zhou Xin, waved away the two personal guards, squatted down, held two copies of Zhou Xin's life-saving things in his hands, and resumed his previous attitude of neither yin nor yang,
He whispered: "This is what the prefect uses to protect his life?"
Zhou Xin had big beads of sweat on her head, raised one eyelid in pain, and cast a resentful glance at Cao Zhi. She followed Cao Zhi's arm until she saw the two things in her hand, and the corner of her mouth twitched.
Cao Zhi smiled slightly and said sarcastically: "Prefect, don't be anxious. It doesn't matter if the prefect can't speak. You listen to what I say." Then he stood up, put his hands behind his back, walked slowly, surrounded Zhou Xin and continued to say sarcastically: "Humph;
!Don’t you think it’s a pity that Prefect Zhou has such a good thing but hides it under his clothes? quot;
Cao Zhi said and looked at Zhou Xin for a while. Zhou Xin was struck by his sharp eyes, which seemed to penetrate all his thoughts, and slowly lowered his head.
Cao Zhi raised his head, looked up to the sky and sighed: "The prefect is not sure whether this thing is useful or not? I want to try it out at the pass, hum! To tell you the truth, Cao has seen two copies of the late emperor's legacy in the capital.
Zhao, all have the jade seal of the late emperor. He Jin, Zhang Rang and others have all done things to correct imperial edicts. Do you think Dong Zhuo will not do it? This thing is worse than a piece of waste paper in front of Cao."
When Zhou Xin heard this, his whole body went weak. He didn't know how likely it was that Dong Zhuo was pretending to be the emperor and forging an imperial edict. Otherwise, he would not have concealed it. The edict should be issued by a eunuch or someone appointed by the emperor.
The ministers were escorted to Yangzhou by a group of forbidden troops. They gathered in all the counties in Yangzhou. County officials, big and small, welcomed the imperial edict and read it in public.
But what is the situation now? The imperial edict that Zhou Xin received was secretly sent by Dong Zhuo, and the correspondence between the two of them was also passed on secretly through scouts. Both parties knew that the matter between the two of them was not publicity.
Once the matter was exposed in advance, it would not be Zhou Xin who sent troops to Liyang, but Chen Wen who might have sent troops to attack Danyang.
Of course, there is also a secret decree, but even a secret decree requires strength to complete it. Now Zhou Xin has no strength to speak of, and he was intercepted by Cao Zhi first, leaving him no chance to prepare to use the imperial decree as his final trump card.
No.
This thing may have given him the illusion that it could intimidate Chen Wen, but its greater effect was just to provide Zhou Xin with the psychological comfort of being famous.
Cao Zhi ignored Zhou Xin's decadent look and continued to talk, "You killed many innocent people just for fame and wealth. That's fine. You shouldn't have anything to do with the traitor Dong Zhuo. You know he is now
What?", Cao Zhi did not need him to answer, and continued to speak sternly: "He is now a great traitor that is known to everyone. Everyone can kill him, but you delay because you want to cling to such a person.
Fighter, even if Ru Jing's success is defeated, hehe! Maybe you don't have to wait for this waste of paper and send troops a few days earlier. The person kneeling on the ground now may be Cao. Do you think everything will be safe if you climb up to Dong Zhuo?
Do you think he will really send troops to help you? He may be in danger of losing his own life now."
After talking about it, Cao Zhi became obviously excited. Cao Zhi, who was circling Zhou Xin while talking, suddenly stopped. Looking at Zhou Xin's confused look at Cao Zhi's words, he smiled and whispered: "Yuan Shao"
My eldest brother and I have gathered together the eighteen princes and have more than 100,000 troops to conquer Dong Zhuo in the near future. Do you think he will have time to look after you? You are only exempted from prison by getting involved with such a great traitor.
He was suffering from the pain of Ling Chi who was cut into pieces by a thousand cuts. Of course, Cao Zhi could not tell Zhou Xin that the Kwantung Allied Forces' final crusade against Dong Zhuo failed. The prophet Li Shi was Cao Zhi's greatest advantage, so he was so confident and fearless.
to make wild guesses.
When Zhou Xin heard that Dong Zhuo could not take care of him, she felt dumbfounded and felt a chill running down her back. Cao Zhi's words were credible. His elder brother Cao Cao was the fierce general of the Kwantung Army.
Just when Zhou Xin was confused, Cao Zhi slowly took out the fire stick, blew on the sparks, and lit the stack of imperial edicts and letters.
The spark slowly ignited the letters and brocade edicts, and burned out all Zhou Xin's hopes.
Zhou Xin howled, pointed at Cao Zhi and tried to grab him with a gun. His tongue was cut and he was bleeding. He was already 20% dead. At this time, his whole body went limp. He was too exhausted to get up and sat down.
He lay on the ground, shaking uncontrollably. Until the flames burned out, all his hopes were shattered, and he collapsed in the snow and mud. Zhou Xin lay on the ground and looked up at Cangtian, with a miserable look on his face, and kept screaming.
, his eyes were full of tears, as if he was accusing God of his injustice and Cao Zhi’s cruelty.