But things went against expectations, and Sun Ce put aside his friendship with Cao Zhi and took action on Chaohu. Cao Zhi didn't know whether Sun Ce started here and later dominated Jiangdong, and he didn't want to know. He was invited to Yecheng by Yuan Shu
After that, in just a few days, we received reports of the Chaohu battle one after another like snowflakes. On the tenth day, we actually received the battle report that Li Hu had died in battle and Shuicheng had been captured.
In the front hall of his residence, Cao Zhi was so angry that he tore up the "Double Carp" letter until it was shattered. When the pieces of paper like snowflakes filled the front hall, Li Ru, Li Dian, Du Damu, and Li Hei
They were all shocked.
They all knelt down and asked Cao Zhi to calm down. After asking about the situation, they all felt sad.
Li Hei fell to the ground and cried bitterly, each one wanting to avenge Li Hu. Li Hei and Li Hu were from the same clan, and Li Hu was the leader of their stern barbarians back then. It goes without saying that they had deep feelings. Now Li Hu is fighting
Of course, Li Hei was the most saddened by his death.
After all, Cao Zhi regretted deeply. He should not have relaxed his vigilance towards Sun Ce. He clearly knew that Sun Ce would rise one day, so he should have taken advantage of him as early as possible, or kept him under his control.
Guilt. But he ignored it. Cao Zhi believed that he was responsible. If he failed to shoulder this responsibility, the price he paid was high.
When Cao Zhi lamented: "It's all my fault," Li Ru and others also said that Cao Zhi exuded the special qualities of a good leader. If something happened, he would first blame himself.
Cao Zhi didn't mean to be hypocritical. He was really sad to lose Li Hu, and he was very sad that Sun Ce chose to betray him. Cao Zhi single-handedly supported Li Hu, not only letting him ascend to the position of Chaohu Governor, but also serving as a governor of Chaohu.
The first experimental base for ethnic integration was opened.
Li Hu has also managed Chaohu well in these years, but he did not expect that Sun Ce was so despicable that he took the fruits of his friend's hard work for many years and took it for himself overnight, and even killed his friend's subordinates.
Cao Zhi was most angry about this, but he had no time to turn around now, so he could only ask Li Ru to start writing immediately, deploy troops and generals, and arrange personnel to deal with Sun Ce.
The reason why Cao Zhi had no time to leave was that Yuan Shao was "too enthusiastic" and almost intended to make Cao Zhi stay there permanently.
When Cao Zhi arrived ten miles away from Yecheng, he received extraordinary treatment. Yuan Shao learned that Cao Zhi had arrived so quickly, and at a place ten miles away from Yecheng, Jizhou Biejia Jushu and Jizhou Zhizhongshengpei came to pick him up.
It made him want to take leave and go back to see it, but he was embarrassed.
Of course, the situation at that time was far from the severity it is today.
Cao Zhi was also admitted to the prefecture of Yecheng under extremely favorable circumstances. Cao Zhi has traveled extensively in recent years and has seen many large cities and extraordinary state capitals and counties. But none of them are like the Yecheng he sees now.
It is powerful and the city is huge. Yuan Shao no longer regards it as a state or a city to build and manage, but is running it into a small country.
It is said that during the Warring States Period, a city like Yecheng could definitely stand on its own as a country.
But this is not what surprises Cao Zhi most. What surprises Cao Zhi most is that each of Yuan Shao's subordinates is more eloquent than the last. Take the Jizhou Zhizhong Shen Pei who came to pick him up as an example. He always thought that Ju Shou was Yuan Shao.
The most eloquent person under my command, I didn't expect that Shen Ping, who is shorter than Jushou and has small eyes, but seems to be very focused, can speak even more.
As soon as he saw Cao Zhi, he flaunted Cao Zhi's "great achievements" in the past few years like a treasure. For example, in the first year of Chuping, how Cao Zhi and his elder brother Cao Cao stabbed Dong Zhuo in Luoyang, and in the third year of Chuping, they helped the prefect of Lujiang to pacify the country.
The Jiangxia barbarians were commended by the emperor and made the governor of Danyang. They also proposed for the first time in Wancheng, Lujiang, national equality and new policies to control barbarians...
Cao Zhi was startled when he heard this. He couldn't remember many things clearly, but this Shen Pei knew so many family treasures. He felt that this man knew Cao Zhi very well, and knew him better than Cao Zhi's father. It seemed that Shen Pei was meeting Cao Zhi.
Before Cao Zhi, he had put enough effort into it, or this matchmaker had been paying attention to Cao Zhi's growth.
Anyway, as soon as the judge saw Cao Zhi, he talked about it. For ten miles, he told Cao Zhi that Cao Zhi should only exist in the sky and should not be born on the earth. In this way, he didn't feel bored. He talked and laughed all the way.
Endless Yecheng.
Seeing the majestic power of Ye City, no matter how he looked at it, he couldn't associate it with the city. The walls of Ye City were more than thirty feet high. Standing at the far end of the high place, he couldn't get a full view of the entire city. He
It seems that there is infinite extension in this plain land.
When Cao Zhi and his party climbed over a hill facing Yecheng, Cao Zhi inadvertently looked up into the distance, his heart skipped a beat, and he was shocked again.
As far as the eye can see, there are huge blue mansions with a height of more than ten feet in the distance, densely distributed, with more than a hundred of them. And the interiors of these huge mansions are all surrounded by pavilions and pavilions.
I don’t know how many buildings there are next to each other. The tall ones are more than ten feet high and the short ones are five or six feet high. Each building looks like an ordinary building magnified several times. When I look at this so-called Yecheng city,
There is no end in sight, the entire city is actually a huge ring-shaped existence.
Cao Zhi was stunned to see this. His own Danyang and Cao Cao's Juancheng were not small cities, but they were dwarfed by Yecheng. In Cao Zhi's image, he seemed to be the only one in the first year.
When I went to Luoyang, the capital of the East, I saw so many pavilions, pavilions, mansions, and mansions. But where did I see so many mansions? The mansions should be huge, because when Cao Zhi went there, it was still the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty, where princes, nobles, and meritorious deeds
Where are all the aristocratic families gathered? There are so many mansions. Huge mansions are normal, and Yecheng is just the administrative seat of Jizhou. Where did he come from as a prince and aristocrat?
Jushou and Shenpei, who were leading the way, were not surprised by Cao Zhi's shock and had no intention of urging him. It was not until Cao Zhi looked at it and lowered his head again that he led Cao Zhi down the mountain again.
Along the way, Cao Zhi also figured out why Cao Cao had been living in Yecheng for several years after he unified the north. Probably after many years of management by the two great lords Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, Yecheng later became almost comparable to the capital and the imperial city.
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However, as Cao Zhi got closer to the city wall of Ye City, he also noticed that on such a tall city wall, there were some tall soldiers wearing uniform armor, patrolling back and forth on the wall, and there was also a statue erected on all the towers.
It is a huge crossbow with an astonishing size, all of which are equipped with metal crossbow arrows. Each of these crossbow arrows is one or two feet long, extremely sharp, and the arrows flash with a gleaming white light. If such an amazing sharp weapon is really hit,
Not to mention people, I'm afraid even watchtowers, wooden donkeys and other siege tools will be paralyzed and destroyed immediately if they take a hit.
Cao Zhi watched all this with faint eyes, and while he was thinking about it, the motorcade had already arrived at the city gate. At the south gate where Cao Zhi entered the city, a city gate shaped like a palace gate appeared in front of him, and he walked into the city gate.
It was a huge corridor four to five feet wide. Both sides of the corridor were covered with blue-gray stone walls. After the corridor, we were on a street in Yecheng. Looking at the tall and neat shops on both sides, there was a hint of strangeness on our face.
Se Lai. This is just an ordinary street in the city, but in the shops on both sides, there are all kinds of goods, ranging from needlework, sesame cakes, to silk and satin. The prosperity of business is the most prosperous Cao Zhi has ever seen.
A good city.
The scale and prosperity of Ye City are not unrelated to its geographical location. Jizhou is the first of the nine states on the land of China. The place where the entire Jizhou is distributed is the original birthplace of the Chinese nation, which is Hanoi, which refers to the Yellow River between mountains and Shaanxi.
To the east, north of the Yellow River between Shanxi and Henan, it includes the present southwestern part of Shanxi (Yaodu Pingyang, Shundu Puban, Yudu Anyi), northeastern Henan (Yinxu Anyang), the southwest corner of Hebei, and the westernmost part of Shandong
Part of the city. Although Yecheng, located in the northeast of Hanoi, was not a state government before, it was truly the largest city in Jizhou. It has maintained prosperity because it avoided many harassments by soldiers and bandits. The Yellow River runs through the north and south of Yecheng.
The tributaries pass through the center of the city, and several other land and water roads from east to west, north and south also pass through this place. Therefore, the transportation is extremely developed. It can be called the Northland water transport hub and business thoroughfare. Every year, merchants and travelers pass by here.
There are countless more, which greatly promoted the economic and trade activities here. Therefore, it is not surprising that Yecheng quickly became the largest city in the war-torn Jizhou.
But in terms of wealth, it can only rank second after Nanyang. Because Nanyang, located in the south of Jingzhou, has better geographical conditions than here. The land is fertile, and there are countless waterways, lakes and lakes within its jurisdiction.
The canal, coupled with the always good weather and good weather, makes it very suitable for growing rice, making it the leading grain-producing area in the country.
In other words, before Yuan Shu lost Nanyang this year, the two best cities in the entire Han Empire were named Yuan. With such economic strength as the backing, it would be strange for Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao not to dominate among the heroes of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Cao Zhi, who was so busy admiring the grandeur of Ye City, forgot that there were Jizhou officials waiting for them at the city gate. He was so dumbfounded that he did not hear Xun Yu's younger brother Xun Chen and their eight-character Hu Xin from the same county commenting on him.
Greetings, these two are now Yuan Shao's advisers.
"Uh, uh, hello, two adults, Cao is distracted, distracted!"
While Cao Zhi returned the greetings from the two of them, he turned his attention back and looked at the two people in front of him.
Xun Chen was born very fair and had a good impression of Cao Zhi. After greeting him, he kept asking about his eldest brother Xun Yu's situation with Cao Cao. When he heard that his elder brother Xun Yu was now in a high position in Yanzhou, he was very happy and at the same time felt sorry for his own mediocrity.
His career was somewhat lonely.
At the same time, Xun Chen also lamented the vision of his brother Xun Yu. At that time, his brother Xun Yu gave up his high position with Yuan Shao and went to join Cao Cao, who was just one of Yuan Shao's subordinates at the time.