Chapter 211 True Dragon [Subscribe]

A side hall on the side of the imperial palace was where the ministers conducted their daily affairs.

Dong Cheng entered the palace early and came to this side hall.

He wanted to get some crucial helpers to assist him and plan together.

Outside the hall, Assistant Minister Wang Zifu strode in.

Wang Zifu was of ordinary build and had a thin face. He was a famous scholar of his time. He entered the government as an official with filial and incorruptible character and rose through the ranks step by step until he became a minister.

When he came in, Dong Cheng stood up to greet him.

Wang Zifu noticed that Dong Cheng's sleeves fluttered as he walked, and a piece of silk cloth with seemingly words on it was faintly visible from inside his sleeves.

"Why are there words under General Dong's clothes?"

Dong Cheng had just been granted the title of General of Chariots and Cavalry, so Prince Fu began to address him as General.

Dong Cheng deliberately showed him the handwriting and lifted up his sleeves.

A piece of plain silk was pressed under the sleeve.

Wang Zifu was surprised when he saw the word "朕" on it.

Then Dong Cheng unfolded the plain silk.

There were more and more words on it, and it turned out to be an imperial edict.

After reading the contents, Wang Zifu was shocked and said:

"General, you have requested an imperial decree to kill Cao Sikong? You must know that he has hundreds of thousands of troops in Yanzhou, Yuzhou and other places under his command. How can this be accomplished?"

Dong Cheng's face was heavy and he said sadly:

"He is blessed by the emperor, but he uses his army to gain power. If we are afraid of his power, the Han Dynasty will be over, and the imperial power will be over!"

"Can he carry hundreds of thousands of soldiers with him all day long?"

"Before that, He Jin was a general, commanding the troops of the whole country, but what happened to him? He was tricked into the palace by a few eunuchs and beaten to death.

Where did the troops he commanded go? They were dispersed within three or five days and were divided up by others.

And Cao Cao was one of the people who divided up his troops at that time!"

Wang Zifu was silent for a moment, then said, "My Wang family has been receiving salaries from the Han Dynasty for generations, and we are not without loyalty. If the general takes action, I may be able to lend you a helping hand."

Dong Cheng knew that Wang Zifu could be persuaded and he had tested him many times before, otherwise he would not have rashly revealed the imperial edict.

As expected, Wang Zifu was pulled to his side. Dong Cheng was overjoyed:
"Brother, you have this heart. It is a great blessing for the country!"

Wang Zifu said: "But Yanzhou has a powerful army, so we must not act rashly. We must make careful arrangements and wait for the right opportunity."

"That's natural."

Dong Cheng said: "Haven't you heard that Lü Buwei gained supreme power by controlling Ying Zichu? If we can get rid of this Cao thief, we can also emulate Lü Buwei."

Wang Zifu: "We don't have many soldiers and horses. It will be no good to face them head on. We must be extremely cautious. Is there anyone in the court that we can trust?"

"Of course."

Dong Cheng: "Changshui Commander Zhong Ji and Counselor Wu Shuo are both my trusted confidants.

More importantly, someone from Jizhou came to me and they also want to get rid of Cao. We can use the power of Jizhou!"

The two men discussed for a while, reached a preliminary intention of alliance, left the side hall, and headed towards the main hall of the Nan Palace.

"Cao Cao is so powerful that he is coming to the palace, and your majesty has summoned all the ministers to welcome him."

“We’ll play it by ear.”

"It's okay to test it out first, but don't act rashly. If you really want to act, you must kill him as soon as you strike, otherwise you will be hurt."

……

In the ancestral temple of the imperial palace, because of Cao Cao's arrival, the statue cracked and something floated up from the foundation.

Above the ancestral temple, the energy rises and coils like a real dragon.

"Is there still a last bit of luck of the royal family in this palace?" Cao Cao looked into the depths of the imperial palace.

Inside the palace, the eunuch who was guarding the ancestral temple discovered a statue of the previous emperor with a cracked tablet. He was so frightened that he went to inform the emperor.

Liu Xie gathered his ministers and was waiting for Cao Cao.

He was a little nervous.

Since Cao Cao sent troops to expel the Liangzhou army and actually controlled Chang'an, the two have not met.

Liu Xie arrived at the front hall early, and someone informed him that there was something unusual in the ancestral temple.

Liu Xie immediately went to the ancestral temple to check.

Dong Cheng and several other officials met the emperor outside the palace and followed him to the ancestral temple.

Behind the cracked statue emerged a jade pendant with dragon and phoenix patterns.

It is dark green in color, the size of a palm, glows with precious light, and has exquisite workmanship.

The jade pendant is divided into two circles, the inner and outer circles. The inner circle is carved with a swimming dragon, which looks majestic and has protruding front and rear claws. The outer circle is a phoenix with spread wings, and the base of its hind claws is round and drum-shaped, which looks exaggerated and powerful.

"Is this the Dragon Wall of National Destiny carved by Emperor Shizu (Liu Xiu) when he summoned the divine stone from outer space to defeat the enemy and obtained the chalcedony from the divine stone?"

Liu Xie was a little excited, looking over and over again:
"Yes, it is the dragon wall that carries the fortune of the ancestor."

"This jade disk has been missing for many years. It is said to contain the power of the stars and can enhance the fortune of the country. It is a treasure of my clan and only the emperor can possess it!"

"Our ancestors have been searching everywhere for it, and they found it underneath this old ancestral temple."

Ministers such as Dong Cheng, Fu Wan and Wang Zifu followed along and saw the emperor take out a ray of precious light from the ancestral temple and hold it in his hand.

Dong Cheng suddenly knelt down and said, "Congratulations, Your Majesty. Congratulations, Your Majesty. The emperors of previous dynasties showed their wisdom and allowed Your Majesty to obtain this magical item."

"This is a sign from heaven, implying that Your Majesty is a wise and holy ruler!"

Liu Xie was also filled with joy: "I moved back to the old capital of Luoyang and wanted to perform the ritual of offering sacrifices to the heavens and announcing my ancestor's death. The divine jade of the ancestor was born, which is indeed a good omen."

"Let's go back to the front hall first."

Liu Xie held the jade disc tightly in his hand and strode forward back to the Nangong Palace in Luoyang.

Concubine Dong and Fu Shou were waiting on both sides of the throne in the hall.

"His Majesty."

Liu Xie, with a delighted look on his face, sat down at the main seat and asked loudly:

"Has Cao Sikong not arrived yet?" "Just now, an attendant announced that Cao Sikong has entered the palace. But after entering the palace, he disappeared without a trace."

There were dozens of civil and military officials standing on both sides of the hall.

No one knew that after Cao Cao entered the palace, he followed a sense of qi and went to another place first.

Dian Wei and Xu Chu followed him, moving forward slowly.

"This Luoyang Palace has been abandoned for several years and has become so dilapidated."

Cao Cao revisited the old place and looked around.

The palace walls in some places are discolored, the wooden beams are mottled, and they lack repair and are indeed very dilapidated.

The imperial palace's guards were originally Yang Feng's troops.

Yang Feng was forced to surrender to Cao, and Zhang Liao was afraid of chaos, so when he led his troops to welcome the emperor to move the capital, he took over the palace.

They are all troops under the command of Yanzhou.

Cao Cao's entry into the palace was like his return home, with imperial guards performing ceremony along the way.

He went deeper and deeper and finally arrived at the gate of the ancestral temple inside the palace.

Before Dong Zhuo moved the capital to Chang'an, all the items from the ancestral temple that could be taken away were brought to Chang'an.

When Liu Xie moved the capital back, he brought the things back and restored the incense in the ancestral temple.

The first place in the hall is the tablet and portrait of Liu Xiu, the first emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The cracked statue of Cao Cao entering the palace to absorb the fortune is located on the right side of Liu Xiu. He is the third emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, named Liu Zhuang.

He initiated the Mingzhang era and was considered a wise ruler.

Cao Cao came in, paid his respects to the former emperors of the Han Dynasty, and then came to the cracked statue tablet.

The jade disk that was raised under the tablet was taken away by Liu Xie.

But Cao Cao looked at it for a moment and reached out to grab it.

The dragon of luck behind him stretched out its head and made a gesture of inhaling towards the ground where the jade pendant rose.

The ground shook slightly, and changes occurred again.

The earth waves rolled up and a dark object slowly rose up.

This thing looks like a black iron ball, or a stone fetus, with a diameter of nearly a foot.

It is engraved with mysterious and unfathomable spell patterns.

When it rose up, it was clearly a real object, but it was swallowed by Cao Cao's dragon of luck, and it transformed in mid-air, quickly blooming with a faint purple halo.

The spell patterns on its surface began to flow and shrink, and the purple light gradually became thicker.

The stone ball became smaller and smaller, like a dragon ball, and was swallowed by the dragon of destiny.

It seemed as if it was infused with spirituality, the light in the dragon's eyes suddenly became brighter, and the pressure doubled.

Cao Cao blinked and saw the bead that had turned into dark purple appeared and disappeared in the dragon's mouth, as if he had realized something.

Emperor Taizu Liu Xiu, in the crucial battle when he defeated Wang Mang, was helped by a meteorite that fell from the sky. He was loved by people all over the world and was praised as someone destined by heaven, thus becoming the emperor.

This black stone ball is most likely the "divine stone" that fell from the sky.

The core part of the stone was personally sacrificed and refined by Liu Xiu, who regarded it as the object of national destiny.

This stone fetus was nurtured by Liu Xiu, the emperor, with his own imperial luck.

The jade pendant that Liu Xie took away was only a small part of the "Dragon Ball" carved out.

Cao Cao thought to himself, this is really a pleasant surprise.

The ancestral temple of the Han Dynasty actually concealed things that suppressed the country's destiny.

The Dragon Ball had gone through all the changes without being discovered until he had the Dragon of Fortune, at which time it was taken out.

At this time, the dragon of luck exhaled again, and saw wisps of breath gathering from all directions, mountains, rivers, and the earth, and being absorbed by it!
"Let's go."

The sun sets.

Cao Cao came to the front hall of Nangong.

As the eunuch announced, the Emperor, Fu Wan, Dong Cheng, Fu Shou, and Concubine Dong all looked towards the main entrance.

Cao Cao came in from outside and looked at the emperor and his ministers.

[Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty, courtesy name Bohe. He was the second son of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, Liu Hong, and the half-brother of Emperor Shao, Liu Bian. His mother was Empress Linghuai, Wang Rong.]

[Fu Shou, a native of Dongwu County, Langya Prefecture, was the seventh-generation grandson of Fu Zhan, the Grand Tutor of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Her father was Fu Wan, the Captain of the Tunqi Cavalry, and her mother was Princess Yang'an Liu Hua. In history, she was the queen for twenty years, but was eventually deposed by you.]

The entry hint flashed before Cao Cao's eyes.

He had a calm expression and walked to the front of the officials.

The hall was silent for a moment.

Standing among the ministers in the left and right rows were the emperor's two fathers-in-law, Fu Wan and Dong Cheng.

Dong Cheng winked at Wu Shuo, the councilor standing beside him.

Wu Shuo immediately stepped forward and said, "Sikong Cao, this is your first time meeting Your Majesty, why don't you kneel?"

Zhong Ji, Wang Zifu and several other officials also echoed, "Prime Minister Cao should kneel before the emperor."

"I knelt before the emperor in my early years, but now... there is no need to kneel again."

As Cao Cao finished speaking, a figure suddenly rushed in from outside the hall, his hands as powerful as a hammer.

Click!
Several officials who stood up all had their heads exploded and died instantly.

Everyone was shocked.

Dong Cheng never expected that the result would be blood splattered within five steps and Cao Cao killing people in court!

The murderer was Dian Wei.

Xu Chu failed to snatch Dian Wei, and followed in angrily, shouting:

"You are so treacherous and you want to plot against my governor. Don't you think we don't know? When you see my governor, why don't you kneel down? Kneel down!"

Cao Cao almost put his hand to his forehead.

He actually didn't expect them to be so violent when they arrived. These two idiots rushed up and committed violence as if they were trying to steal his credit. They will be severely punished when they return.

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