Wandering the Heavens

"Of course."

As a scholar, Cao Zhi had no objection to what Ma Liang said. He knew how things got chaotic over the years. If Gao Shun and others promised him what kind of treatment they would receive after surrendering, Cao Zhi felt that he could go back and wait for death.

Because they didn't want to accept surrender at all, they just dealt with it casually and then organized a large army to attack.

Here we have to mention Cao Cao's most successful thing, which is to raise his sons in poverty and succeed. None of his sons are useless, at least not a disaster. (Zhu Yuanzhang: Who are you dissing!)

The next issue was the time and details of crossing the river to receive the troops. After final discussion, Gao Shun would lead his troops across the river in three days to go to Yecheng to receive the 100,000 troops, and Cao Pi would take these people to Chang'an to meet the emperor.

In Yecheng, Cao Pi had not dared to rest since he sent Cao Zhi and Liu Ye out that night. After he decided to surrender, as soon as he closed his eyes, he saw his father Cao Cao scolding him for not being able to live up to his expectations and protect the family business.

Everyone else had left, and he sat alone in the meeting room, occasionally looking at the Heavenly Sword beside him. Then he picked up the pen and began to write, and he wrote for a long time.

"Report, lord, the fourth young master has sent back a letter." The personal soldier ran in holding a metal tube and knelt on the ground and shouted.

Cao Pi hurriedly put down his pen and wanted to get up and leave, but he had been sitting for too long and his legs had lost feeling, so he sat back down. He could only ask a maid to go over and bring him the metal tube.

"Quick, show it to me."

After the maid saluted, she quickly stepped forward and handed the metal cylinder to Cao Pi, who looked at the seal before opening it. There were two pieces of silk inside, one was the document of the court's agreement to surrender, with the seals of Gao Shun, Lu Xun, Zhuge Liang, Ma Liang and others on it; the other was a strategy for the specific details of the surrender.

After reading it, Cao Pi summoned all his advisers and generals to a meeting, asking them to follow the surrender strategy. Xiahou Dun and Cao Hong were to prepare the military roster and logistics information, the household registration and tax roster of Hebei states, etc.; Xun You was sent to send a letter to Cao Zhang in Youzhou, asking him to surrender to Zhou Yu.

Except for a small number of troops guarding the confidential areas of the army and the county governor's office in Yecheng, all other troops will withdraw to the outside of the city at the last minute of the afternoon tomorrow and put their weapons aside.

The military camp outside Yecheng also laid down their weapons at the last minute of the afternoon tomorrow and waited outside the camp for the arrival of the imperial army.

"My uncles, Cao Pi would like to thank you for your assistance. Without you, I am afraid I would not know where I would have died. In the future, I hope you will take care of my useless brothers."

After everything was arranged, Cao Pi suddenly said something without any context. Everyone looked up and saw that the young man's eyes were full of tears.

"Lord!"

"It's okay. Everyone should arrange the surrender as soon as possible." Cao Pi waved his hand.

"Yes!"

After paying their respects, everyone filed out. Cao Pi watched everyone leave and bowed respectfully to these old men who had followed his father in battles across the country.

"This meeting hall is becoming increasingly deserted."

Cao Pi slowly sat back in his seat, looked at the bamboo slips written on the table, and put them away one by one. Then he looked at the Yitian Sword placed on the sword rack, reached out to take it down, and slowly pulled out the sword.

"Father, I was ultimately unable to preserve the foundation you created, but I still managed to protect my brothers." Cao Pi muttered to himself as he looked at the sword flashing with cold light.

He raised his head to glance at the hall, then suddenly stabbed the sword into his right chest with his backhand, then fell on the table with his eyes closed as if he was asleep.

"host……"

After Cao Cao's death, Xiahou Dun became the head of the family and devoted himself to his nephew Cao Pi. After he and the others left, he felt something was wrong and said he would come back to Cao Pi on the pretext that he had a problem that had not been solved.

Xiahou Dun, who had returned, did not expect to see this scene as soon as he entered the room. He walked closer and looked at Cao Pi's peaceful face.

"My dear child, walk slowly. Wait for your uncle. Your uncle is old and weak. If he can't catch up with you, you will be in trouble."

Xiahou Dun said as he sat down at the table, drew his sword, and put it across his neck, pulling hard...

Gao Shun and Lu Xun led the imperial army to Yecheng at 3:00 p.m. the next day, received the army, incorporated it, and took over the city defense.

When Cao Zhi saw that the person leading the surrender was Cao Chong, and there was only Cao Hong beside him who was wearing mourning clothes, he thought something was wrong.

When he learned that Cao Pi and Xiahou Dun had committed suicide, he cried loudly in front of the city gate until he fainted. He did not expect that the separation that night would be a farewell forever. After his elder brother Cao Ang died in battle, he and Cao Pi had been fighting overtly and covertly for the position of heir, and the relationship between the two sides was indeed not very good.

But after all, they were born of the same mother, how bad could they be? At this time, Cao Zhi finally realized that his brother had already decided to die when he decided to surrender to the court. He wanted to use his death to make the emperor feel sympathy and in exchange for the lives of his brothers.

The Hebei states, which were originally expected to see a bloody battle, quickly returned to peace after Cao Pi and Xiahou Dun were buried, and the army was reorganized here. Zhang Liao led 50,000 cavalry across the Great Wall and began to sweep the grasslands, planning to bypass Yuguan and pacify Liaodong from the territories of the Xianbei and Wuhuan tribes.

When passing through Youzhou, Cao Zhang, who had surrendered to Zhou Yu, entered the camp alone and asked to participate in this operation. After thinking it over, Zhang Liao agreed to Cao Zhang's request.

The 50,000-strong army was invincible on the grassland. In the battle of Liucheng, Wuhuan was destroyed, the leader of Wuhuan, Tadun Chanyu, was killed, and the kings under his command were either killed or captured. Zhang Liao completed the greatest achievement in his destiny. After temporarily pacifying the eastern part of the grassland, the army marched along the trade route between Liaodong and Wuhuan to attack Xiangping. Wen Chou was beheaded by Cao Zhang in the battle, Yuan Xi surrendered, and Liaodong was pacified.

When Zhang Liao was fighting in Liaodong, Emperor Liu Xie was on his way to Chang'an. Looking back on his experiences over the years, Liu Xie felt like he was dreaming. When Ma Teng was causing chaos in Chang'an, Jia Xu and several eunuchs took him out of Chang'an.

He still remembered the day when his whereabouts were exposed and he was cornered, a figure descended from the sky, holding a spear and repelled the Xiliang cavalry team that wanted to rob them.

The man who rescued him was so young that Jia Xu said he was a god.

Liu Xie asked him why he was indifferent to the sufferings of the world since he was a god. He watched countless people being dragged to death by war. Aren't gods compassionate?

The man said that people have to walk their own paths and should not entrust their destiny to others, let alone gods.

"I am the emperor of the Han Dynasty, and I don't want to entrust the fate of the Han Dynasty and the people to the gods. But now the world is in ruins, and the princes are rising up. My mother died a violent death when I was born, and I became a puppet in the struggle between powerful officials. What else can I hope for if not the gods?" Liu Xie almost shouted this sentence.

"If you really want to save the world, then go to Yizhou. Go to Yizhou on foot and don't tell anyone where you are."

After the man finished speaking, he disappeared from his sight. At this moment, Liu Xie really believed that he was a god.

Liu Xie, who was still a child, took three years to walk safely from Guanzhong to Chengdu, Yizhou, accompanied by Jia Xu and several eunuchs.

Liu Xie suffered a lot along the way. He slept in the open air, went hungry, experienced all kinds of things in the world, and witnessed the joys and sorrows of the people.

Every night, the immortal would appear in Liu Xie's dream, tell him why the world had collapsed into this state, teach him self-defense martial arts, and impart knowledge that he had never been exposed to before.

After arriving in Yizhou, Liu Xie used a series of methods learned in his dream to seize power in Yizhou, weaken and divide the nobles, and finally control Yizhou. Then he closed the gates, recruited talents, developed production, trained the army, and waited for the day when the nobles and princes fought to the point of both sides being defeated, and then he swept the world with thunder and revive the Han Dynasty.

Over a period of more than ten years, Liu Xie, with the assistance of civil officials and military generals such as Jia Xu, Fa Zheng, Ma Liang, Wu Yi, Zhang Liao, and Gao Shun, managed Yizhou very well, and the people here gradually got rid of hunger and famine. He also had a well-equipped army.

When Liu Xie was in Yizhou, he dreamed of returning to Chang'an, and now Chang'an City was right in front of him. However, the first thing he had to do was not to enter the city, but to worship in front of Emperor Gaozu's mausoleum, and then enter the city after completing this procedure.

After completing all the rituals in Changling, Liu Xie finally came back to reality and he really returned to Chang'an!

The emperor's guard of honor entered Chang'an City, surrounded by the army, and finally came to the high platform in front of the palace gate to read the edict of returning to the capital. As Liu Xie watched the teams of soldiers passing by him, he felt a little regretful, that is, the gods never appeared again, whether in dreams or in reality.

In the 23rd year of Chuping, the emperor returned to the capital and changed the reign title to Jian'an.

Yu Xian did not expect that the era name Jian'an would still appear. This was not only the emperor's own idea, but also included the people's expectation for stability in the world since the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

There seems to be nothing to regret in this world.

Yu Xian looked at the once dark grey and dead sky turning into the clear blue one now, then looked at the earth full of life, then turned around and flew into the dark blue crack...