"For now, Minister, why not enter the city first? I have prepared a banquet inside to welcome you and wash away the dust of your journey."
He made up his mind to lock this Pretender Emperor in the residence shortly and never let him meet Cao Cao again!
"Stay away!"
Emperor Xian of Han looked as though he had seen a ghost at the sight of Cai Mao. He hastily hid behind Cao Cao and said anxiously, "Minister, I saw this man poison my imperial uncle and his son with my own eyes! He is a traitor and a rebel!"
"And those advisors behind him, they are all murderers who killed my imperial uncle! I have also been under their coercion in Xiangyang. Minister, kill them all at once!"
The deaths of Liu Biao and his son had been shrouded in mystery, ultimately attributed to sudden illness, but everyone knew things were not so simple.
Now the Son of Heaven had publicly declared that Cai Mao and the others had poisoned Liu Biao and his son, claimed that he had been coerced, and denounced them all as traitors and rebels. His words were enough to shatter stone and startle the heavens!
Thus, everyone present paled in shock at these words, their gazes turning toward Cai Mao in unison!
"I-I did not!"
Cai Mao panicked completely and struggled to defend himself. "Lord Liu died of a sudden illness! It had nothing to do with me. I certainly did not poison him!"
"Your Majesty must have misunderstood!"
At that moment, his back was drenched in cold sweat. He had never imagined Emperor Xian of Han would expose this matter now!
If the charge that he had poisoned Liu Biao and his son were proven, there would be nowhere for him in Jing