[No System] [Hardcore Political Intrigue] [Snatch the Emperor and the Famous Generals] [Empire and Beauty] [Satisfying but Not Stupid]
In the second year of Xingping, the emperor fled east. The officials survived on wild grain, while twenty thousand Xiliang cavalry pursued them relentlessly!
A thousand li away in Yan Province, Cao Cao was honing his blades, preparing to stage the legendary act of "serving the emperor to command those who defy him."
Zhao Mu transmigrated into the son of the Hongnong Zhao clan. After taking one look at the three hundred dan of grain stored in his family's fortified manor, he decided to make a bold move.
Cao Cao wants to welcome the emperor? Sorry, but I'll be the one to seize him first!
Three hundred dan of millet opened the way into the imperial camp. A reed tube saved a mighty general. Eight hundred battered soldiers held Cao Yang Gorge to the death.
When Cao Cao raced to Luoyang with his army, all he found was a city overgrown with weeds. Inside Hangu Pass, the fifteen-year-old emperor was taking Zhao Mu's hand and granting him titles and generals!
He snatched Xu Huang from Cao Cao, detained Jia Xu, and dug up Fa Zheng twenty years ahead of time.
He set up a bridal tent atop Chang'an's walls and married Dong Bai, winning over thirty thousand former Xiliang troops with a single word. He held his ground for ten bouts in the training grounds and won Ma Yunlu's hand, securing the iron cavalry at Tong Pass!
Cao Cao lamented bitterly: "I've spent my whole life planning for every contingency, yet that brat Zhao Mu still managed to strip me bare!"
Years later, with an army of 250,000 led by Cao Cao and Yuan Shao bearing down on him, Zhao Mu, now Grand General and Director of the Imperial Secretariat, submitted his resignation. The assembled court officials knelt and wept at the palace gates all night: "Grand General, you mustn't resign! Without you, the Han dynasty will truly fall apart!"
