Chapter 601 Hongmen Night Banquet
Where there are people, there must be a river and lake. Where there are rivers and lakes, there must be a fight. Where there are struggles, there must be betrayal, which is caused by human nature.
When Li Mi decided to kill Zhai Rang, he sent several confidants to monitor Zhai Rang's court when he decided to completely integrate into the peasant army in Henan. In order to grasp all Zhai Rang's actions, he also used a person around Zhai Rang who had already secretly loyal to him.
The gathering at Zhai Rang's house ended in the middle of the night. The old brother of Wagang Village who had already fallen to Li Mi immediately wrote a letter to Li Mi after he got home. The letter wrote down everyone's words at the banquet in Zhai Rang's mansion tonight.
When the letter was secretly delivered to Li Mi, Li Mi was still wearing clothes and not sleeping. He heard that Zhai Rang's banquet convened many old brothers in Wagang, and he had already been in a state of peace. During the day, he had already made things clear when he treated Zhai Rang so clearly. He was not afraid of ten thousand, but only if Zhai Rang and others came up with some plans that would be unfavorable to him at the banquet, he had to be careful.
Sitting under the palace lantern, Li Mi quickly finished reading the long letter. While reading, she also took a cinnabar pen and circled many of them. Especially the passage Zhai Hong said, he had to start first and get rid of his own words, which made him circle it many times. The red cinnabar handwriting was shocking and bright like blood.
Li Mi's face turned pale and she sat there silently, not moving for a long time.
A long time later, Li Mi asked someone to summon several of his confidants, Fang Xuanzao, Chai Xiaohe, Zu Junyan, Wang Bodang, Xie Yingdeng and others.
Everyone rushed to the palace late at night, but didn't understand what was going on. They all were worried. Li Mi didn't say a word and threw the secret letter that he had been entangled and then circled in front of everyone.
Fang Xuanzao was also shocked after reading it. Although the letter clearly stated that Zhai Rang should not have any bad intentions, and Zhai Hong and a few others should have bad intentions. But Li Mi called them in the middle of the night. If it was really just for Zhai Hong, then this would definitely be impossible. After thinking about it, Fang Xuanzao felt that there was only one possibility, that is, Li Mi had already moved to get rid of Zhai Rang and others in Wagang. He was always qualified to lean on a stick and did not obey Li Mi's orders very much.
Thinking of this, Fang Xuanzao immediately said, "Zhai Rang is greedy, stubborn, unkind and unrighteous. If you have the heart of a king, you should try it early!"
This was just a matter of Li Mi's thoughts, but Li Mi was still a little worried, "We are not sure about our safety now. If we kill each other, how do others think about it?" Li Mi was really worried about not Zhai Rang and others, but after killing Zhai Rang, he was afraid of causing division of the Wagang Army. After all, the real foundation of the Wei State today is still the Wagang Army.
Chai Xiaohe also advised: "If a poisonous snake bites his hand, then the hero should cut off his arm, which is to save his life. If they get it first, it will be too late to regret it! Zhai Hong said one thing well. Start first and then suffer. Mr. Wei must not hesitate, so he missed a good opportunity."
"The crack has already occurred. At this time, no matter how many Duke Wei's candidates are, he still exists. It will only make people more clear. Those people are already disconnected from Duke Wei. If they continue to drag on it, they will be a big disaster and make a decision as soon as possible." Zu Junyan also agreed to get rid of Zhai Rang. The matter was already half done, so naturally there was no possibility of stopping again. Li Mi came to them, but it was just a scene.
Li Mi was silent for a long time, and finally clenched her fist and waved her hand hard.
Early the next morning, Li Mi sent an order, saying that Ji County had discovered that the Liaodong Army had arrived again. The situation changed, so he finally decided to conquer Ji County in person and let the Datong Zai stay in Jinyong City.
As soon as the news came out, Zhai Rang, who was already lying on the bed and preparing to pretend to be sick, was stunned for a moment. However, he was still very happy without him leading troops to attack Jijun. He didn't have to pretend to be sick anymore, and he got up happily and went to drink.
In the afternoon, Li Mi sent people to invite all the civil and military generals in Jinyong City to the palace for a banquet.
After Zhai Rang and others entered the palace, they were introduced to another side hall. All those who were attracted were old brothers from the Wagang Army. Needless to say, Zhai Rang was the guest of the host, and his brothers Zhai Hong, Shan Xiongxin, Xu Shiji, Huang Junhan and others were deputy hosts and guests. In addition, dozens of civil and military generals from the Wagang Army came out, and all the guests gathered together.
Li Mi is the host of the banquet, Wang Bodang is the sub-host, and most of the other Li Mi's confidants are helping to greet the guests.
After everyone sat down, Li Mi said: "Today, I don't need many people to drink with you, just leave a few people who can command me." After that, he ordered everyone around him to withdraw.
Zhai Rang didn't understand what it meant. At this time, Li Mi's confidant, Fang Xuanzao, who was also the old brother of Wagang, spoke: "Today we are together to drink and have fun. It's so cold. Please ask Otsukazu and the entourages of the generals to have some wine and some meals."
After hearing this, Zhai Rang agreed readily without thinking, "Okay!"
Immediately, Zhai Rang, Shan Xiongxin and others also followed the guards who came back together, and all their entourage retreated.
There were only dozens of people left in the house, half of which were Li Mi. Everyone was seated separately, Zhai Rang and others were on the right, while Li Mi's people were all sitting on the left and right. Everyone was drinking wine and chatting about jokes about the past, laughing loudly, and the atmosphere was rare and warm.
Li Mi clapped his hands and attracted everyone's eyes. He smiled and grew up, "It's really a bit lacking to drink like this without a beauty. Why not, why should I let the dancer in the palace come and dance for all the brothers?"
Zhai Rang has always been fond of wine and sex. When he heard that Mr. Wei’s beauty came to accompany him, he immediately said happily: “Okay, okay, I heard that Mr. Wei has raised many beautiful girls in the palace and has never been able to meet him. Today is a great opportunity, but you must not miss it.”
Li Mi's mouth twitched a few times, and her face still had a smile, "Okay, I'll ask them to come and play some songs with Otsuka Sai Dan." As he said that, he slapped a few times, and suddenly a group of singers came in one after another. However, these charming singers were all dressed in warriors, wearing bright red armor, with large red silk cloaks behind them. Everyone was wearing high buns, and blood-like marks were painted on their smooth faces. They wore swords on their waists, and a long bow and a pot of white feathered arrows on their backs.
A group of fifty singers full of masculinity stepped into the hall, and their familiar outfits and charming faces instantly surprised Zhai Rang and others in the hall. This huge contrast and blending between masculinity and charm surprised everyone who saw them for the first time.
Several musicians at the entrance of the hall knelt there and began to beat the drums. The drum sounds filled with rhythm and rhythm sounded. The fifty singers all pulled out the horizontal swords at their waists and danced. The sharp horizontal swords were originally full of coldness, but they were waving in these white and delicate hands. They seemed to be like soft around their fingers, and even more like willow leaves in the spring breeze, dancing with the wind, graceful as if they were astonished as stunning wild goose.
Zhai Rang, the old brothers from Wagang Army who were born in bandits, had seen such a fresh and charming dance posture, and they couldn't help but look at them and became demented.
The slow drum sound gradually became excited, and the dancers' sword dance also changed. From gentle and elegant, gradually becoming strong and stern, as if they were instantly on a cruel battlefield. Every time the dancers waved, they became extremely fast, and the sharp sword lights passed by, as if they were flying by a supporting electric snake.
"Dong!Dong!Dong!"
The rhythm of the drum beats changed again, this time, it became slow and heavy, as if a war had just ended.
The dancers slowly returned the sword to the sheath and slowly waved their long cloaks. They walked slowly from the hall like butterflies walking through flowers to the side of the host and guest. The blood-like long cloak flew up and down like sunset, gradually fascinating everyone's eyes.
"Woo! Woo! Woo!"
Suddenly, the musicians at the entrance of the hall blew the golden horns high.
Among countless flying blood-red cloaks, the beautiful dancer in the team dressed in a team behind Zhai Rang suddenly pulled the golden dagger around her waist and stabbed Zhai Rang's neck with a knife. Zhai Rang let out a shocking roar. He staggered down the cases in front of him and ran forward a few steps. He covered the wound on his neck with one hand desperately, which was constantly splattering blood.
He slowly turned his head and looked at the dancer who was dancing gracefully like a fairy behind him in disbelief, but he saw in his eyes that the dancer had a ruthless smile on his face, and his jade hands were relaxed, and a white feather arrow suddenly arrived. There was a pain in his chest. He slowly lowered his head and looked at the feather arrow that was about an inch inch in front of his chest. He spitted blood in his mouth, but in the end he said nothing, then fell into a pool of blood, his eyes full of doubt, confusion and resentment.
Everything happened too suddenly and too quickly.
When Zhai Rang was attacked and was stabbed, Zhai Hong was also hit, but he was hit by a knife in the chest and killed him with one knife, without even having time to react.
In the hall, red sleeves are waving, daggers are dancing, and feather arrows are flying together.
The beautiful girl who was the moment before became a life-seeking killer of the next moment.
The screams of death, the angrily shouts, the sound of the collision of the desk, the hall was incredibly chaotic.
Several old brothers of the Wagang Army had already fallen into a pool of blood. Xu Shiji reacted quickly and kicked the dancer around him away. As soon as he ran to the door, he was shot on the leg by an arrow and fell into the hall. He was pressed to the ground by several female killers.
Shan Xiongxin and several other old brothers entered the sword empty-handed and seized a horizontal sword, left and right gear, but these women were very powerful, with several teams of people, with horizontal swords and bows and arrows coming at the same time. In a short while, several heroes who were striking the Central Plains fell into the hands of those seemingly delicate dancers.
After a while, more than ten old Wagang brothers, Zhai Rang, Zhai Hong, Wang Ruxin and other five people in the hall died, and most of the others were injured and restrained. Seeing that the situation was settled, Li Mi said to the panic: "I will launch an uprising with you to eliminate violence and safeguard the good; but the Ottoku Priest Zhai Rang is arbitrary, greedy and tyrannical, humiliate his colleagues, and is rude to his superiors. It has nothing to do with you to kill his family today!"
After saying that, Li Mi walked to Xu Shiji and personally applied medicine to the wound on his leg. Xu Shiji looked at the Zhai Rang and Zhai Hong brothers lying on the ground with a pale face, and then looked at Li Mi who was close to him. His lips twitched for a long time, but in the end he didn't say a word! What could he say? Any mistake at this time may immediately cause a murder.
Half an hour later, after Li Mi solved and appeased the entourage guards brought by Zhai Rang and others, he brought tens of thousands of elite troops from the inner army to the old camp of Zhai Rang and others. He left the army outside the camp and rode alone to Zhai Rang and comforted his subordinates one by one!
Outside were the elite Li Mi army with tens of thousands of bows and spears, and saw the heads of Zhai Rang and Zhai Hong brothers and five others. Li Mi said that this matter was only investigated by Zhai Rang's family, and even the families of Wang Ruxin and other three who were killed were not investigated. In addition, each of the old brothers in Wagang could immediately receive a reward of good wine and meat. Most of the veterans of Wagang in the camp were from bandits.
Many of them were from other counterfeit rebels before, and in the troubled times, many of them saw such hot things. When they saw Li Mi not pursuing them, and no one took the lead, no one stood up and said anything.
Immediately afterwards, Li Mi ordered Xu Shiji, Shan Xiongxin, Wang Bodang, Xie Yingdeng, Chai Xiao and the five men to command Zhai Rang's troops respectively.
A fire between the inside comes quickly and ends faster.
There was no large-scale civil strife, only the heads of Zhai Rang and five others, as well as some minor injuries from Xu Shiji and Shan Xiongxin and others. This internal dispute was over. Once Zhai Rang died, it seemed like a trivial matter.
Li Mi got rid of Zhai Rang and was in a good mood, but also rejected Fang Xuanzao's proposal to kill Shan Xiongxin and others. In Li Mi's view, in the past, there was only one Zhai Rang in Wagang who was the founder of Wagang, so he was able to stand in that position and disgust himself. However, once Zhai Rang died, the old brothers in Wagang would no longer have the flag to gather. Neither Shan Xiongxin nor Xu Shiji, Huang Junhan and others did not have that reputation.
Moreover, these people are quite capable, so naturally such talents cannot be killed blindly and used better for themselves. However, Li Mi did not discover it on the calm surface. Unconsciously, from this day on Wagang, Wagang has disappeared. The Wei Kingdom, which is supported by Wagang, has also changed.
Xu Shiji and Shan Xiongxin and other former generals of Wagang were no longer as feasted and gathered together as before. They became silent and seemed to be more respectful to Li Mi. They no longer showed their qualifications to themselves as often as before.
A few days later, Li Mi felt that everything in the general had been integrated, so he announced at the court meeting that he would personally lead 100,000 Wei troops to cross the Yellow River from now on, recover Ji County, Wang Bodang, Xie Yingdeng, Yuanbaozang, Bing Yuanzhen, Shan Xiongxin, Xu Shiji, Huang Junhan and other generals led their troops to go to war with the army.
(Six updates were completed, 19,000 words, coded all night, collapsed...) (To be continued)
Chapter completed!