Chapter 198: Chapter 98: Cao Cao is in a Dilemma (2)
But what should he do?
To fight? To fight is to abolish the father and son, either under house arrest, or simply to kill them, and then find a person with a closer blood relationship from the clan to succeed him as the emperor.
Confrontation is just such a thing.
It's quite simple to say, just change the emperor. With his current power, changing the emperor is no different than changing a handsome flag.[
But the problem is that this will bring about a serious consequence, which Cao Cao has always been worried about. If there is an internal conflict, Yuan Shao goes south. What a dangerous situation this is.
Although it is said that Cao Cao sent Xun You to negotiate with Liu Feng, it was actually for money and he planned to directly conflict with Liu Xie's forces.
But at that time, Cao Cao was obviously not ready to face Liu Feng's wrath, and he never thought that Liu Xie was really bent on going his own way and working with his crazy son to oppose him.
Even risking his own life. Cao Cao never thought about this.
The question returns to the previous question. What kind of mood would make a man sacrifice his life for his crazy son, his unreasonable son, and his son who has absolutely no future?
What kind of mood is this.
Because I have never thought about Liu Xie's kind of risking his life, so Cao Cao was really frightened at this moment.
Liu Xie and his son were very straightforward, with a desperate attitude. The two of them were relaxed. It was either life or death. There was no other third way.
Put all the pressure on Cao Cao's shoulders.
No matter what choice Cao Cao makes, there are endless possibilities. If he fights against him, these two guys who dare to openly resist him and resist his puppet status will be placed under house arrest and destroyed.
This may mean that he was unable to unite his internal forces and was taken advantage of by Yuan Shao to defeat him. The imperial hegemony would come to nothing.
If he doesn't fight and lets these two guys go, that means Cao Cao will no longer be able to get involved in the money path Liu Feng discovered. In other words, one hundred thousand gold will be wasted.
This also means that although he can barely stabilize the internal situation, in the external war, he may be defeated by Yuan Shao due to a little strength problem.
It was also the end of Huangtu's hegemony.
No matter which one of these two paths it is, it may fail or it may succeed. As long as it succeeds and Cao Cao defeats Yuan Shao, he can do whatever he wants.
If Liu Xie is obedient, continue, if not, simply abolish it.
But the problem is that it hasn't worked yet.
If you take one of these paths and fail, you will probably regret it to death.
If possible, Cao Cao really wants to have both. I really want to. On the one hand, he can stabilize the internal situation, and on the other hand, he can get the one hundred thousand gold.[
If he could get both sides, Cao Cao would be 90% sure that he could defeat Yuan Shao, and thus rise from the second largest force in the world after Yuan Shao to the largest force in the world.
After consolidating the north in this way, we can start to conquer the surrounding princes.
Until he reaches the last step and aspires to be the world leader. In the end, either he will succeed to the throne and become the emperor, or his son will succeed to the throne.
But the problem is, now we can’t have our cake and eat it too.
The two guys in front of us have already made a gesture. Either give us money or kill us.
In this way, the choice is in Cao Cao's hands, but the pressure Cao Cao feels is ten times or a hundred times stronger than the pressure from Liu Xie, Liu Feng and his son.
Emperor Tu’s dominance and turning back to nothing.
The gap between the former and the latter is too big, too big.