Chapter 277 The First Beauty, Join the Army [Subscribe]
In the study, the lights are brightly lit.
Yin also followed Cao Cao and walked in.
Cao Cao sat down, and the tiger sat next to him.
The two women were brought over quickly.
The older one is Zhen Yan.
She was wearing a lilac-colored long skirt, her figure was as mature and charming as a peach. The skirt fit her body shape well and her legs were round.
Cao Cao first met Zhen Yan at Yuan Shao's mansion.
The Zhen family had been in contact with the Yuan family for several generations, and the Zhen family had given their full support to the Yuan family.
Most people think that the Zhen family has a low status and limited power. In fact, the Zhen family has been operating in Zhongshan and Jizhou for many years, and has intermarried with many noble families, so it has a strong potential.
The fact that Yuan Shao was able to quickly take control of Jizhou was also related to the help of the Zhen family.
At this time, Zhen Yan was dressed up carefully and put on light makeup, but there was a hint of sadness on her face and her eyes were somewhat resentful.
Cao Cao glanced at the younger one.
Whose daughter has grown up? The green willows sway gently among the clear water. The couple dances together gracefully, their steps as light as a lotus and as beautiful as the moon.
The girl's beauty was stunning.
[Zhen Mi, daughter of Zhen Yi, the magistrate of Shangcai, from Wuji, Zhongshan]
[There was a woman, called the Goddess of Luo River. She was a beauty of heaven and earth, and her beauty was unrivaled in ancient and modern times. Later generations praised her as the most beautiful woman in the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period.]
[Her physique is special and needs to be unsealed...]
"Zhen Yan and her niece Zhen Mi have come to see the King of Wei."
After Zhen Yan greeted them, she took Zhen Mi and sat down on the side.
"You came to see me for something?"
"Yes."
Zhen Yan said: "My Zhen family has a new head, Zhen Yan, who is my elder brother.
The reason for changing the head of the family was that the previous head was close to Yuan Shikai and was afraid that the King of Wei would be unhappy and bring disaster to the family. "
Zhen Yan always told the truth in front of Cao Cao without any concealment.
Zhen Yan: "My brother is waiting in the carriage outside. He dare not come to the king's house without the king's summons.
He asked me to come and surrender on behalf of my Zhen family. After all, my Zhen family supported the Yuan family in the early years. The King of Wei was magnanimous and eliminated more than a hundred noble families in Jizhou, but spared my Zhen family. My brother said that my Zhen family is grateful. "
The corners of Cao Cao's mouth raised.
Zhen Yan lowered her head and continued, "The reason why our Zhen family surrendered to the city this time is because Yuan Shang... sent a secret letter to contact our Zhen family."
“The King of Wei should know that someone from my Zhen clan is serving as a city defense officer in the border town north of Zhongshan County.
Yuan Shang wants us to cooperate with him and open the city gates at a fixed time."
Cao Cao took a sip of tea and thought to himself, "Luckily you came to tell me in advance, otherwise I would have killed you, Zhen, too."
Zhen Mi beside Zhen Yan.
She was wearing a long moon-white skirt with a blue-green tint, and a wide belt of the same color embroidered with brocade patterns.
Her heart has not yet grown up, and it is only slightly large. Her skin is white, giving people the impression of being as white as ice and as beautiful as jade. Her eyes are lively, and she keeps stealing glances at Cao Cao and Yin.
There was a tiger lying in the room, which really surprised Zhen Mi.
What was even more strange was that when she and the tiger made eye contact, Yin immediately raised her fat paws and placed them on Cao Cao's desk.
After being patted on the head by Cao Cao, he quickly took his claws away.
Zhen Mi didn't quite understand what Yin meant.
But Cao Cao knew what Yin was doing.
When this guy saw that Zhen Mi was almost as pretty as Diao Chan, he told her to quickly raise her hand, or even her foot, and put it in front of Cao Cao.
When he was young, he saw Cao Cao and Diao Chan being intimate, and he thought that Cao Cao liked to touch girls as beautiful as Diao Chan, and feet were his first choice.
This tiger is poisonous.
Zhen Mi didn't understand what he meant.
But he realized that the meaning conveyed by Yin was related to Cao Cao, so he blinked his dark eyes and glanced at Cao Cao, thinking that this was the King of Wei who had power over the world as mentioned by the head of the family.
Some nobles went to the Zhen family to discuss matters with the head of the family, and Zhen Mi occasionally overheard a few words.
Those aristocratic family heads who used to be domineering seemed to be very afraid of the King of Wei.
"What did Yuan Shang say when he contacted Zhen?" Cao Cao asked.
"Yuan Shang has not told us his specific intentions, but we guess that he may want to lead the Xianbei troops into the pass. Although my Zhen family supports the Yuan family, we will not help foreign races to plunder the people and land of my Han land." Zhen Yan said.
Cao Cao hummed.
He believed this. Yuan Shang and Cao Cao were enemies because of the murder of their brother and father and the extermination of their entire family.
In order to take revenge, he wanted to use the power of the Xianbei.
But for others, even if they are still connected with Yuan, it does not mean they are willing to follow him to the end.
No one would be willing to allow foreigners to enter the country unless they are extremely crazy.
"I am here on behalf of the Zhen family to remind the King of Wei. In addition, there is one more thing..."
Zhen Yan glanced at her little niece beside her.
Zhen Mi had outstanding beauty since she was a child and was a natural disaster.
"My brother asked me to ask, is the eldest son of the King of Wei married?"
Zhen Yan's intention was to propose marriage to Cao Ang.
Cao Cao said, "Zixiu is already engaged to a woman from the Chen family of Yingchuan. They are not suitable for each other."
Zhen Yan's expression darkened, "Then we have nothing else to do."
"Yan dare not disturb the King of Wei any more. My brother is still outside the palace. Is the King of Wei willing to see him?"
Cao Cao: "It's late today, I will not see your brother anymore. I understand what happened, someone will contact him to continue the discussion."
Zhen Yan's face became increasingly gloomy. She bowed her head and prepared to leave with Zhen Mi.
"It's so late, please stay at my house."
Zhen Yan paused, shook her head slightly, and tightened Zhen Mi's hand.
“There are some things I have to avoid talking about. The Zhen family has always been a die-hard fan of the Yuan family.
There are many noble families under my command, and their goal is to replace the Yuan family.
The Yuan family is particularly sensitive to me, and I need to give them an explanation. Zhen's family is a party of the Yuan family, and logically, they should have ceased to exist long ago."
Cao Cao said slowly: "It would be best if Zhen surrendered to us on her own initiative. You can stay."
Outsiders may not be able to understand what Cao Cao said because he did not explain it clearly.
But Zhen Yan knew what he meant, and tears silently rolled down her cheeks.
She has always admired, or liked, Cao Cao.
That was the case in Luoyang back then.
But it seemed that from that time on, Cao Cao had considered that the Yuan and Zhen families were too close and did not want to be involved.
Zhen Yan tried hard to get closer to Cao Cao, but she couldn't.
When Cao Cao took over Jizhou and wiped out the aristocratic families, Zhen Yan came over and wanted to offer herself to him. She was shameless and spoke very directly.
However, Cao Cao still did not keep her, and immediately got married, marrying several beautiful women.
Zhen Yan had given up on the idea. But when she knew her brother was coming to see Cao Cao, she couldn't help but dress up carefully and bring Zhen Mi with her to ask for an audience.
Cao Cao didn't seem to be very enthusiastic about Zhen's joining him. Zhen Yan observed his expression and felt hopeless.
Unexpectedly, before leaving, Cao Cao asked her to stay.
...Zhen Yan paused, bit her lips tightly, but she didn't leave after all.
She took her little niece Zhen Mi and stayed temporarily in Cao's mansion.
Someone led them to stay there.
Cao Cao stayed in the study, thought for a moment, and wrote a letter.
He is actually very active by nature and is willing to get involved in things personally.
When you are in a high position with great power, you cannot be on the front line of many things.
It is a pleasure to write a letter to intervene.
This letter was written to Han Sui of Liangzhou.
Han Sui's father served in the court in his early years and met Cao Cao once.
Cao Cao asked Han Sui to surrender and hand over his weapons.
Now the situation is becoming increasingly clear. After Ma Teng and Han Sui fell out, with the support of Cao's army, they are able to defeat Han Sui.
If you don't surrender, you will die.
Cao Cao wrote the letter and had it sent out overnight.
He got up and went to the window.
In the dark night sky, a night bird flew across.
Cao Cao stretched out his hand and the bird actually flew down and landed on his forearm.
Cao Cao separated a wisp of breath from his spirit and soul, which turned into a purple halo and merged into the bird's brow.
The big bird took off into the sky and flew quickly to the north.
This was a technique that Cao Cao had figured out himself, which was to separate the spirit and soul and entrust them to a bird.
In a sense, the bird became his incarnation and was under his control.
Cao Cao wanted to use this big bird to do something.
He sat back in his study, fiddled with the Xiantai Seal for a while, and then looked at the progress of Emperor Wu’s Tomb through the Secret Armor Beast.
A thin line on the Sendai seal marks the Yellow River Tomb.
The more you study this thing, the more secrets it reveals.
Ling Jin and his team have followed the map and entered and exited Emperor Wu's tomb several times, and have discovered a palace in the center of the city.
The palace was almost identical to the Weiyang Palace, the imperial palace of the Western Han Dynasty, and was magnificent in scale.
The direction map shows that if you enter from the main gate, you will die. You need to use a sling, throw it in the air, hang it on the third eaves beast sculpture from the left of the front hall, and then rely on the rope to fly across the air to enter the front hall safely.
The tree of longevity is in the side room next to the main hall at the back.
Ling Jin and Li Wufang have entered the palace with the help of the Yin-Yang rope.
It looks like the search for the Qilin wood and the elixir of life will soon yield results.
Cao Cao withdrew the idea of observing Emperor Wu’s tomb and returned to the inner house.
I plan to go to Madam Huan to play with the ring tonight, and then go to Wen Ji's place to sleep.
A few days passed in a flash.
On a night in late May, in a city in Yuyang County on the northern border of Han territory.
Zhen Yu is 31 years old this year. He is from the Zhen family and is Zhen Yan’s fourth brother.
He was working in a border town and came to a mansion.
On the surface, this is a private residence, but secretly it is where Yuan's spies operate in the city.
As soon as Zhen Yufu came in, he was secretly surprised.
There was no light in the main hall, but there were quite a few people in the darkness.
Yuan Shang sat at the side, and in the main seat sat a man wearing a leather robe with his face hidden by a wide hood.
The man was very tall and very close, but I couldn't see his face clearly. I only felt that his eyes were sinister and sharp.
There were several followers standing in the hall.
There were three bodies on the ground.
Another person was forced to kneel in the corner, his face terrified. When he saw Zhen Yu coming in, he was like a savior:
"Brother Zhen, please save me, they want to kill me..."
Before he finished speaking, the man behind him who was pressing him to his knees stretched out his arm and slashed the man's throat with the knife in his hand.
The cut was so deep that it directly cut through the kneeling man's larynx and the large tendons on both sides of his neck.
The kneeling man was killed instantly because his tendons were cut and his head was strangely tilted on his shoulders, looking very horrifying.
"What...is this?"
Zhen Yu recognized several of the dead people on the ground. They were all from various aristocratic families in the surrounding counties and cities, and they had close ties with the Yuan family in the past.
Zhen Yu was also invited by Yuan Shang.
"Fourth Uncle!"
Yuan Shang raised his eyebrows and looked at Zhen Yu:
"The people I brought with me are proficient in Xianbei shamanistic rituals and can see through the minds of these people."
"They saw that my Yuan family was in decline and secretly surrendered to Cao Cao. They wanted to deceive me. They deserve to die."
Yuan Shang's handsome face was filled with viciousness: "Fourth Uncle, what is your attitude towards Zhen? Have you betrayed my Yuan family?"
Zhen Yu's heart skipped a beat. "My Zhen family and the Yuan family have been friends for many years, so naturally I am inclined towards the Yuan family."
Yuan Shang sneered: "Cao Mengde is cruel and treacherous. He has eliminated many noble families. Why did he leave the Zhen family behind?"
Zhen Yu said unhappily, "How would I know what he is thinking? If you trust me, I will help you, otherwise I will leave."
Yuan Shang stared at Zhen Yu: "Of course I trust Fourth Uncle."
"what do you want to do?"
“I told others that it would happen in seven days and asked them to cooperate, but I was actually lying to them.
The Eastern Xianbei army has arrived and will block the pass in three days. We have also organized some of the Wuhuan people who escaped last time. With them leading the way, we will rush into Han territory and severely damage Cao's army."
Yuan Shang: "There is a group of troops among them that need your cooperation."
Zhen Yu noticed that the hooded figure had been staring at him, and he couldn't help but feel a palpitation in his heart.
He was also somewhat glad that he had made preparations in advance, so he should be able to hide it from Yuan Shang and the Xianbei people he brought with him.
Half an hour later, Zhen Yu and Yuan Shang ended their meeting and left on their own.
As soon as he left, the hooded Xianbei said, "There is something wrong with this man. He cannot be trusted."
Yuan Shang said: "I know, they are trying to take advantage of his unreliability and pass on false information to confuse Cao's army.
By the time they reacted, it was too late.”
"When are we going to do it?"
"Just tonight."
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