Chapter 75 Gains, Dethroned Emperor, Development [Seeking Follow-up Reading]

Early morning, bedroom.

Cao Cao could feel the fragrance lingering around his nose and a warm feeling around him without even opening his eyes.

Yu Qing got up early, leaned beside him, and looked at Cao Cao carefully. She also leaned forward and touched him lightly with her lips. Then she smiled and got up from the couch, putting on a thin shirt to cover her undulating and charming figure.

Cao Cao closed his eyes and the entry appeared:
[Yu Qing: a daughter of the Yu family in Yecheng, with a body as white as jade]

[This woman has a special physique and a hidden identity...]

[Yu Qing is ranked seventh among the world's beauties; among the top ten beauties, she ranks fifth. Jade Beauty]

This is the new push after the entry was changed, with additional rankings for beauties, good horses, famous generals, good ministers, and even tombs.

The ranking marked after the sorting is not absolute and is affected by many factors. It is for reference only.

These changes further illustrate that the role of the entries tends to be detection, insight, and prompting.

Cao Cao plans to see Diao Chan later.

The girl's appearance is extremely magnificent. I wonder where she will be ranked after the entry is changed.

When Cao Cao came to the study, the low mat was spotless. Diao Chan had tidied it early in the morning.

She was wearing a pink Han skirt and strolling by the small lake in the yard.

The tiger cub ran around her, occasionally peeked at the fish in the lake, and repeatedly tested the water surface with its paws, as if wanting to go down and play with the fish.

The first rays of morning light fell on the girl, reflecting her unparalleled beauty.

When Cao Cao looked at Diao Chan, a new push appeared in the entry:
[Throughout history, no one has been more beautiful than Diao Chan. She is gifted (special), with a beauty that appears only once in a thousand years. As she grows older, her charm will continue to improve.]

[She is the most beautiful woman in the world, but her appearance and physique are not among those in the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period]

[As your reputation continues to grow, you can obtain fixed targets: famous generals, good strategies, objects, tools, horses, beauties, tombs, hidden targets, choose one]

Cao Cao closed his eyes and the entry disappeared.

There are pointed choices in the entries, but they require reputation improvement to promote.

It was afternoon when Xiao Xiang led his men back to Luoyang.

All the boxes that were snatched back from Mangshan were moved to the corridor outside the study.

There were twenty-one boxes and more than a hundred other objects without boxes.

Getting rich by digging graves...Cao Cao examined many objects.

"Dong Zhuo's men were shot and killed by our sudden attack with bows and crossbows. A few of them fled, but we also lost more than ten people."

Xiao Xiang reported the process and pointed to the copper boxes that were brought in:
"These boxes are the most special. After a preliminary inspection, they are not dangerous, but we are not sure what is inside. There seems to be something strange in the tomb where the boxes were taken out. Many of Dong Zhuo's men died."

The entries had already flashed before Cao Cao's eyes.

[Eastern Zhou Dynasty Emperor's Tomb, ranked: 179. The artifacts are from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. There are sages' handwriting in the box, and the seal of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty royal family. It contains the remnants of Zhou's national destiny. It can be absorbed by the soul and spirit to enhance the spiritual practice.]

[The copper storage box is a finely crafted object, but it is so old that the buckle has been damaged. It is safe to open it.]

There is a handwriting from a saint... Cao Cao immediately ordered someone to pry open the box along the gap.

Twelve jade slips, a seal, and six bronze sacrificial vessels were taken out from it, all of which were extremely precious items.

The rest of the things are mostly valuables and there is no need to check them one by one.

The servants will take the things away and clean them up, and bring them back in the evening.

Cao Cao flipped through the bamboo slips written by sages.

The jade slip was nearly a foot long and only a finger wide, and its content was the world-famous "Tai Gong Jin Kui" written by Lu Shang.

It contains 81 chapters on "Strategies", 71 chapters on "Speech", and 85 chapters on "Military Affairs". Unfortunately, the bronze slips are not complete.

The precious thing is that this is a hand scroll!

Lu Shang copied it on the jade slip himself to pass it down to future generations.

Only the Zhou royal family has inherited this thing, which brings with it good fortune.

Cao Cao was greatly excited when he found artifacts of this quality in the tomb.

When he began to look at the Taigong Hand Scroll, the entries gave hints one after another: [Your contextual talent ability insight: +1, +1, Geng level 42...]

The benefits of this time are amazing.

Cao Cao read the jade slip until late at night, and then reluctantly put it down.

It is indeed a waste to leave these things in the tomb and let them rot over time.

"With my practice, it seems that I can ignore the grade definitions of the world and follow the grade given in the entry." Cao Cao thought as he returned to his bedroom.

The next morning, something big happened.

Dong Zhuo officially issued an edict to depose the young emperor Liu Bian and enthrone the nine-year-old Liu Xie as emperor.

He has been preparing for the past few days, and today is the day to officially depose and enthrone the emperor.

The edict was passed to Yuan Kui, the Grand Tutor who recorded the affairs of the Secretariat, through the Secretariat, and printed and announced to all parts of the country. In order to announce the edict, at the court meeting held in the morning, Dong Zhuo used Huo Guang as an example and compared himself to Tian Yannian (anyone who opposed would be executed immediately). Among the civil and military officials in the court, only Lu Zhi stood up to argue.

Dong Zhuo was speechless after being contradicted and his face turned purple.

But he insisted on deposing the emperor, and the court ritual official Ding Gong presided over the dethronement and enthronement ceremony in the Chongde Front Hall.

Yuan Wei, the Grand Tutor, helped Liu Bian down from the throne, removed the imperial seal and handed it over to Liu Xie, who then officially ascended the throne as Emperor Xian.

Liu Bian cried bitterly in the court and fainted from grief.

The imperial edicts for abolishing and enthroning were stamped by the Secretariat and were valid in terms of rules.

Emperor Liu Bian and Empress Dowager He did not dare to resist. They humiliatingly added their seals to the imperial edict, acknowledging the dethronement of the emperor.

Dong Zhuo then had someone read out a document, impeaching Empress Dowager He for the crime of murdering Empress Dowager Dong, and moved her to Yong'an Palace.

The remaining imperial guards, led by Lu Zhi, clashed with Dong Zhuo's troops, and blood splattered in the palace.

There were also imperial edicts to the Xiyuan Army, as well as the Bingzhou Army led by Zhang Liao and Yao Lu, and Huangfu Song's deputy general Du Ling.

Let them give up the defense of the city walls and palace gates.

However, all the ministers and nobles knew that if they really gave in, Dong Zhuo would be all-powerful in Luoyang and everyone's life and death would be in his hands.

All the ministers united in opposition.

Zhang Liao, Du Ling, Cao Cao and others refused to take orders as they had agreed before, saying that the Empress Dowager and the Emperor were detained, Dong Zhuo was monopolizing power, and they would not accept any imperial orders.

The situation in the city suddenly became tense.

From this day on, the last ray of hope for the Han Dynasty began to crumble due to Dong Zhuo's dethroning and enthroning of emperors.

In name, Cao Cao, Zhang Liao, and Huangfu Song's adjutant Du Ling all became illegal commanders.

However, all the court officials were surprisingly united in this matter.

Dong Zhuo's plan to seize the city defenses and the palace defenses was never actually carried out.

On the same day, Dong Zhuo appointed Lü Bu as the commander of the cavalry, in charge of the Yulin cavalry, to assist in defending the palace, a position with overlapping powers with the Xiyuan Army and the City Defense Army.

At the same time as the political situation changed, another piece of news was reported to Luoyang.

The nomadic Wuhuan tribe in the north raided the border, looted dozens of villages and towns, and captured more than a thousand people.

Dong Zhuo took advantage of the situation to come up with another treacherous plan. He issued an order under the order of the newly enthroned Emperor Liu Xie, sending Huangfu Song to the border to resist the Wuhuan.

Huangfu Song originally did not want to hide because he was afraid that Dong Zhuo would use the emperor's order to push the situation in Luoyang into the abyss.

But when the border was robbed and Dong Zhuo was plotting, Huangfu Song still stood up, showed up at Youfufeng, and received the emperor's order to guard the northern border.

When Dong Zhuo heard the news that Huangfu Song had received the order, he felt that his evil plan had succeeded and was overjoyed.

However, Huangfu Song also secretly sent the news to Cao Cao.

He will lead 5,000 troops to the border to defend against foreign invaders. The remaining 9,000 elite troops of Youfufeng will all come to Luoyang to assist in the defense.

For a time, Luoyang seemed to be facing a new reshuffle.

But the drastic changes had little impact on Cao Cao.

The Han Dynasty has survived to this day, but the accumulated problems over hundreds of years and the conflicts between different classes have reached a point where they cannot be eased.

This is the root cause of the chaos in the world, and no one can change it.

In a sense, Dong Zhuo was just a participant.

The more he acts, the faster the world will collapse and the faster he will die.

What Cao Cao could do was to make full preparations, protect himself first in the turbulence, and then continuously expand the coverage area.

The political situation was in chaos, but in Qiao County, Cao Ying's power was booming and growing rapidly.

Ten days passed in a flash and it was the end of September.

Among the successive changes, there is also a lot of good news.

The people sent to Runan successfully took over the horse farm.

That afternoon, a majestic war horse entered Luoyang from the east gate.

It is the strongest horse in the world.

There was also a seemingly low-key carriage that entered Luoyang from the east gate.

This was a covert move, and only Cao Cao knew in advance through the entry that the person coming was the leader of the Yu family.

Yu Qing's father.

Because he cared about his daughter, he decided to go to Luoyang in person after careful consideration. He wanted to meet Yu Qing and Cao Cao, the man who saved his daughter.

When Yu's father entered the city, there was an old man who came to the gate of Cao's mansion and looked up at the plaque.

He came here after receiving a letter.

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