Section 8 Key Cases

While Cao Chong was teaching Sun Shangxiang a lesson halfway, Cao Pi was looking at Chen Qun with dissatisfaction with a calm face: "Long article, don't you think about it anymore?"

"Young Master, it's not a question that Qun didn't consider, but Xun Lingjun has not answered so far. This matter... I'm afraid it's a bit difficult." Chen Qun spoke slowly, always giving people a feeling of thinking about it before talking. His tone was very smooth and pure, so pure that it makes people unable to hear any sense of being so colorful.

Cao Pi couldn't help but twitch his eyebrows twice, and his anger rushed to his forehead. His hand was about to get angry. He was about to get angry, but Queen Guo, who was hiding behind the curtain, looked at him and shook her head quietly. She felt a trembling heart, and forced her to hold the anger in her chest. It took a long time to let out a long sigh, relaxed her face and said in a harmonious voice: "Okay, I'm tired too. You can think about it again when you go back. Anyway, you have to wait for Xun Lingjun's reply. Let's discuss it later."

Chen Qun wanted to speak but stopped, so he bowed and said, "Qun left."

Cao Pi looked at Chen Qun's back as he slowly moved away, and could no longer help but the anger in his heart. He raised his hand and slapped the cases in front of him: "Is this Chen Changwen so important? He has no idea about the importance of this marriage, but he has pushed him three times and refused in every way. Is it unbearable?"

Queen Guo walked slowly to Cao Pi and sat down, leaned over and picked up the brush rolling on the ground and put it on, and advised softly: "Chen Changwen relied on his famous family and looked too fame too much. My husband didn't know it today, so why bother to be so angry?"

"How can I not be angry? Since the Xun family is not favored, he naturally doesn't take my Cao family seriously. Then does he still have me in his eyes?" Cao Pi became more and more angry. In order to establish a relationship with the Xun family, he thought of many ideas. His girl married Xun Yun, but unfortunately Xun Yun was in a bad way. He heard that he was very close to Cang Shu, and after thinking about it, only Chen Qun, who is the same Yingchuan clan, was suitable for this intermediate bridge. Unexpectedly, Chen Qun was reluctant. He didn't even go to Xu County to propose marriage, but just sent a servant to him.

With such a carelessness, will the Xun family be satisfied? Seeing Cang Shu coming back to Yecheng. If he didn't settle this matter as soon as possible, something might happen. What made him even more angry was that Chen Qun, because Xun Wenqian's mother was the daughter of a eunuch, did not want a relative of the eunuch family to ruin his reputation, and would rather not marry this daughter, which Xun Yu valued the most. Xun Wenqian was so disdainful of being a eunuch's granddaughter, so he was still a descendant of the eunuch. Wouldn't he take it seriously even more? Those politenesses are fake?

"Why do you have to think too much about it? The young master is knowledgeable and has a good relationship with scholars. Now he has a good reputation among scholars. He is all the business income of the young master for decades. The Chen family is very prestigious among scholars. You should not break the plan because of anger for a moment." Queen Guo smiled gently. Looking at Cao Pi's words, "In fact, these scholars are just a fair reputation. When they really have interests, they still know the importance of the Xun family. How can Chen Changwen be stubborn to the end? The young master will let him think about it for a while and then let someone talk. Maybe he can figure it out."

"Hmph!" Cao Pi snorted, his breath gradually calmed down. Originally, Chen Qun wanted to be honest again, so he still had to work hard for himself. This reputation was just a cover. In the final analysis, the strength in his hands was the most important. Holding a strong soldier like his father and holding the emperor to command the princes is called majesty. What's the use of being famous? He either bowed his head to be an official, or hid in the mountains and died of poverty. These gentry were just pretending to be noble. Chen Qun really thought he was a paradise and was not as good as the world. He knew very clearly what he did. From the bottom of his heart, Cao Pi looked down on these self-proclaimed scholars.

What a pity, if it weren't for Cang Shu, why would I have to accommodate them so much?

When Cao Pi thought of Cang Shu, he felt uncomfortable as if he was stabbed in his needle. Originally, Wulin's defeat was a bad thing, but Cang Shu made great contributions and turned the tide. He followed his father and asked him, a minor child, to lead troops to fight in Xiangyang, first to break the siege of Hefei, and then seize Jiangxia. In the past six months, he actually became the General Pingnan. It was really shocking. In contrast, his contribution to his eldest son's position in Yecheng was inferior to the point of being able to eat enough soldiers and was embarrassed to mention it.

If this continues, can you still sit firmly as your heir?

Cao Pi, who was walking on thin ice, took a fancy to the Xun family and thought about this good idea. He wanted to borrow some to win over the two great tribes of Yingchuan to his side. However, Chen Qun was not grateful. On the surface, he did not say it, but he secretly refused to disobey the sun. He delayed his marriage for three months. Cang Shu was about to return to Yecheng. He had not received any reply from the Xun family. How could Cao Pi not be in a hurry?

"Let Sima Zhongda go and persuade him." Queen Guo reminded softly when she saw Cao Pi frowning.

"Zhongda?" Cao Pi pondered for a moment and nodded: "Only he can speak a long article."

Sima Yi soon arrived at Chen Qun's mansion. Before he could speak, Chen Qun raised his hand and said, "Zhongda, you and I are the best friends. Don't say those unpleasant words. If it were you, would you agree to this?"

"Yes!" Sima Yi replied without thinking.

Chen Qun was stunned for a moment and looked at Sima Yi in disbelief. Sima Yi smiled and said, "Changwen, is the great man still the great man who is more important to be honest? After the Party and the Counterattack, the great man was already setting in the west. Now it is a chaotic world. There are rules of survival in chaotic times. You can no longer be stubborn. Where is the authority of the great man? You must be very clear. No need to say more, otherwise I will not come, and you will not stay in the Prime Minister's Mansion. You and I know the general trend of the world. If Changwen really wants to keep his reputation, why not abandon his official position and retire, so as not to be so idle."

Chen Qun did not respond for a long time and sighed: "The world is so great, is there no place for you, my scholars to stand on?"

"It's not that there is no place to stand, but you and I have to fight for it." Sima Yi smiled and said, "Now Mr. Cang Shu has made great contributions in Jingzhou, and it is inevitable that he will compete with Mr. Zihuan for the position of heir. Several other people are not worth mentioning. Do you want to transfer to Cang Shu's subordinates?"

"What are you kidding?" Chen Qun smiled: "Cang Shu was doing well in Jingzhou, but he was cooking oil with fire. He looked good for a while and was not good for a family like you and me. Look at who he was under his command? Either he was a military man like Huang Zhong. Or he was a miscellaneous scholar like Liu Ba, Pang Tong who did not read scriptures. He stuffed people like Liu Zhongyu and Xie Yigong into professors in Yixue, Liu Ba held a recruitment party in Jingzhou, and even that military man became an examiner. What kind of people did this master and minister recruit? What benefits did my aristocratic family get? He actually fell on par with those craftsmen, and what kind of style is it? How can I follow him in this place? How can my Chen family be with him?"

"That's it. Since you can't join Cangshu, you can only be with Mr. Zihuan." Sima Yi smiled and said, "What's more, this marriage is not as serious as you think. Xun Lingjun was not affected by his eunuch's son-in-law, and he is still famous all over the world, not to mention that you are still separated by a layer. The young master urgently needs the help of the Xun family. At this time, the long article has obtained a beauty and made great achievements. Why not do it?"

"Zhongda..." Chen Qun hesitated and glanced at Sima Yi carefully. Then he said, "Do you think Mr. Zihuan has a chance of winning?"

Sima Yi smiled and said, "Since Changwen thinks Cang Shu is a fire cooking oil and has all the miscellaneous scholars, what's there to worry about? Are you and I going hand in hand and are not the opponents of some miscellaneous scholars?"

"Just..." Chen Qun frowned and shook his head.

Sima Yi was silent for a while and suddenly said something inexplicable: "Changwen, Prime Minister is extremely alert. I am really walking on thin ice when doing things under him. I dare not relax for a moment." Chen Qun was stunned and laughed loudly. Sima Yi glanced at him and laughed loudly.

Cao Pi received Sima Yi's reward and said that Chen Qun had changed his mind and was overjoyed. At this time, Cao Chong's convoy approached Yecheng. The Prime Minister ordered Cao Pi to greet him on his behalf. Although Cao Pi felt a little sour, he thought that this was doing his job on behalf of his father, which was also a kind of glory. He didn't say much, and took some officials from the Prime Minister's Mansion out of Yecheng and waited at Changting ten miles away. At this time last year, he was also waiting for Cang Shu here. That time, he came back from Guanzhong, not only convinced Ma Teng and Han Sui to send their hostages into Ye. He also brought back two thousand Xiliang Iron Cavalry, these two thousand Xiliang Iron Cavalry are now the treasure of the mountain-controlling mountain in his hands. Changbanpo chased Liu Bei, Hefei City beat Sun Quan, Xiling City defeated ten thousand enemies Guan Yu, and finally saved Cao Ren outside Yiling City, with great military achievements. This made Cao Pi very uncomfortable. Why didn't he put in the effort to win over Pang De and Yan Xing?

He was thinking about it, and the Cao Chongdi convoy slowly arrived in front of him. Deng Zhan, the leader, raised his hand and shouted loudly. More than two hundred tiger guards behind him all tied the horse under his crotch and sat on the horse's back without moving.

"Drop off the horse!" Deng Zhan shouted again, turned over and dismounted, followed by two hundred tiger soldiers neatly and neatly, standing straight beside the war horse. Not only were the people in a uniform manner, but even the war horses were not moving at all, neither neighing nor whistling, and extremely quiet.

Two tiger soldiers trotted to Cao Chong's big cart, took off the small wooden stool from the car and placed it on the ground. Cao Chong leaned out of the car. The two tiger soldiers were about to reach out to help him, but Cao Pi walked over with a smile and pulled Cao Chong's hand: "Cang Shu, I have grown a lot taller again after not seeing each other for a year. Come on, let me take a good look."

Cao Chong was grabbed by Cao Pi, and he felt uncomfortable, but he couldn't break free. He had to jump out of the car by himself, take advantage of the opportunity to salute and bow and bow: "Cang Shu has met his brother."

Cao Pi smiled and said, "Brothers, why should I be so polite? Come on, I will introduce you to you."

Cao Chong followed Cao Pi to the Changting and met the officials who came to greet each other. They spoke polite words to each other. Cao Pi talked and laughed, and said in a good mood. When he introduced a middle-aged official with a thin face, he specifically said: "Cang Shu, this person is the traitor of Shi Wei Huang and Wei Mengming, smart and capable. He solved the case this time."

Cao Chong greeted Cao Pi with a polite attitude, and looked at Cao Pi with a strange look: "Basic case?"

Cao Pi smiled and said, "Well, this matter is just something that happened two days ago. The case has not been closed yet, so the official document has not been sent out yet. Let Lord Wei explain it to you in detail when he returns to the mansion."

Cao Chong was confused by his words. When did the Yecheng case worth Cao Pi paying so much attention to? Cao Zhi didn't even have time to send him a message. This was really incredible. He had received letters from Cao Zhi every day in Xu County for two days, but he received letters from Cao Zhi every day. How could he not mention such a big thing?

"Cang Shu, I heard that you brought two famous prisoners from Jiangdong. Sun Shangxiang and two hundred pretty female guards, how about it? Let's open our eyes?" Cao Pi's laughing voice interrupted Cao Chong's thoughts.

"Haha, I'll introduce you to my brother." Cao Chong said, looking at Zhou Yu, who looked unhappy in the distance, looked up at the sky with his head raised, and said to himself: "It's no wonder that you want face. You want face. The more you want face, the more you want to lose face. You're all asking for it."

Zhou Yu's reputation is so great. There are so many people who want to see the Jiangdong Grand Governor that Sun Shangxiang, who has two hundred female guards, has been ignored to some extent. After being watched for a while, Zhou Yu was depressed and followed into the city, feeling angry. But this is no wonder Cao Chong. It was because he said he wanted Cao Chong to do both things and he considered whether to surrender. Now that Cao Chong had just done half of the two things, he was naturally still a prisoner, a prisoner. Being looked at by someone was also responsible. Cao Chong did not put him in the sill car to show him, and he had already given him great face.

Cao Chong was pulled into his car by Cao Pi, but he felt uncomfortable all over. Firstly, Cao Pi's enthusiasm made him unable to bear it. With experience in his previous life, it would be more credible to make Cao Chong think that Cao Pi was really brotherly, so it would be more credible to let him travel through time again. Secondly, Cao Pi's car was really shabby. Not only did there be a small charcoal stove for hot wine, but the place was also small, and the two of them were very crowded as soon as they sat, unlike his big carriage, which was still spacious and spacious.

"Cang Shu, I can't compare with you in this car, don't laugh at me." Cao Pi saw the surprise in Cao Chong's eyes and explained with a smile: "I can't compare to you with General Pingnan's salary, and a rich young lady. I can afford to support many people. I only have the monthly money my father paid every month, and I'm very tight. How about it? This time you have made great contributions. Can you say a few good words in front of my father and also ask me for an errand?"

"My brother is in charge of Yecheng and is my father's right-hand man. Now many major matters are handled by my brother. How can I say there is nothing to do?" Cao Chong looked ahead and smiled faintly, "Just like when I asked me to go to Xu County to offer prisoners this time, my father doesn't know, right?"

Cao Pi's face froze. He smiled again in a blink of an eye and said, "Cang Shu, you don't know anything. My father was treating his injuries all the days, so I didn't inform him immediately. I thought you had been to Xu County for some days. It wouldn't be too late to tell your father again after a few days. I didn't expect that you were used to fighting and your schedule was as fast as a marching force, so there was a mistake. It was said that they were inexperienced as a brother, and they couldn't do a simple little thing well, so I felt ashamed."

Cao Chong secretly curled his lips in his heart, "You are lying to the gods. I have only been 20 or 30 miles a day on the road. I have been walking from Xiangyang to Xu County for more than half a month. You actually said I was fast, obviously because I was intentional and wanted to pretend to be innocent. Do you think I am a fool? But now I'm useless to say that these things are useless, so I'd better ask Lao Cao after returning to the city. He smiled and pretended to be enlightened and said, "So that's the case, it's wrong for the brother. People in Xu County think that the Prime Minister's Mansion does not take the emperor seriously and has acted unjustly. Unexpectedly, I was in a hurry to go home. I walked too fast and implicated my brother. It's really a sin."

Cao Pi laughed dryly, and called out, and stopped talking about this matter. Cao Chong suddenly remembered the important case he mentioned, so he asked curiously: "Brother just said that there was a major case in Yecheng. What's going on?"

Cao Pi shook his head and said, "Cang Shu, you don't know anything. Do you still remember that you went to Guanzhong last year and conquered Ma Teng into Beijing. His two sons came with him?"

"Ma Zhongmei (Ma Xiu), Ma Shujian (Ma Tie)?" When Cao Chong heard this, he felt his hair stand on his back, and a chill stretched out from his back and headed straight for his forehead. Are the two Ma brothers involved in the rebellion case?

"Well, it's their brothers." Cao Pi sighed: "Since you brought them to Yecheng last year, the Prime Minister's Mansion has always treated them very favorably and basically does not restrict their freedom. Unexpectedly, they are stubborn and have been thinking about turning Guanzhong into the territory of his Ma family. They actually secretly communicated with Ma Mengqi to inform the situation of Yecheng. Last year, my father was defeated in Wulin. They thought they had a good opportunity and actually asked Ma Mengqi to sneak attack Tongguan, and Ma Teng robbed the emperor of the west in Xu County. Fortunately, you turned the tide in Jingzhou, and my father returned to Yecheng in time.

They then gave up their plan. However, the net of heaven was vast and sparse. One of them drank too much in a small wine shop in the city, and they started to quarrel with others. They were killed because of their poor martial arts. They alarmed Yang Kongqu, the people in Yecheng, who were killed. Later, when they checked the body, they found a secret letter on him. Yang Kongqu knew that the matter was serious and immediately reported to the Prime Minister's Mansion. His father was furious and ordered it to be handed over to the assassination Lord Wei for strict investigation. Lord Wei secretly investigated for several months, and finally peeled off his silk and followed the clues to find the clues about the communication between the Ma brothers and Ma Mengqi."
Chapter completed!