Chapter 543: The Ambition of Cao Mengde!

In that autumn, during the intercalary eighth month, Xi Zhicai passed away, and Cao Cao personally arranged the funeral. Soon after, Cao Cao proclaimed throughout the land his admission of everything he had done in Xuzhou. There was widespread condemnation, with countless denouncing him in speech and writing, yet the Feudal Lords found it difficult to seize this opportunity to attack Cao Cao.

Sima Yi, following Hu Zhao through the frost and snow, traversed the Xianbei Beyond the Great Wall. When they were preparing to return to the Central Plains to choose a worthy lord to serve, that proclamation reached the hands of Sima Yi and Hu Zhao.

"This Cao Mengde is quite the hero," Sima Yi commented with a cold laugh. "Won't you accompany me to see him, Teacher?"