Cao Song's expressiveness was no longer what it used to be, but his rather meaningful words still allowed the sensitive Cao Zhi to understand what he meant: Your father and I will be loyal to the Han Dynasty and the royal family all our lives. This is needless to say.
Doubtful. But that is just my own behavior and has nothing to do with your generation!
After understanding what Cao Song meant, Cao Zhi looked at Cao Song frankly and said, "I want to take the fate of our Cao family into our own hands!"
"The fate of one's own family is in one's own hands!" People with this kind of thinking are tantamount to signs of rebellion in Cao Song's eyes. When Mr. Cao heard Cao Zhi's frank words, he was shocked and looked at Cao Zhi sharply.
Wisdom for a while, but ultimately nothing
He smiled helplessly, and finally warned his son, "Even if you have the power over the world, even if you rule the earth, even if you have three thousand beauties, a person's life will be just a passing cloud. Let everything take its course, and don't force it too much!"
Cao Zhi later recalled Cao Song's words very much, and it pointed out many directions for his life. But at this time, Cao Zhi only saw that although the Cao family seemed to be the most powerful in the world, in fact, he, Cao Zhi,
All the power of Cao Zhi depends on an imperial edict from His Majesty Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty! As long as this edict is issued, it will disintegrate in an instant! He cannot get used to this. Cao Zhi firmly believes that it is not just him, if Cao Cao is alive
You may not get used to it!
Of course, all this requires Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty to dare to issue this imperial edict. After all, in this era, force has the final say in determining the balance of everything, not politics!
When Cao Zhi mourned his father during the Mid-Autumn Festival, Yuan Shu also led an army to attack Xuzhou, trying to break through Cao's army's defense line in Xuzhou and escape to Qingzhou.
Liu Bei was ordered to rush to meet him in time, and the two armies were in a stalemate at Xuyi and Huaiyin. At this time, Yuan Shu and his subordinates were extremely vicious in order to survive. Although Yuan Shu could only gather a few thousand people around him now, in the first round of the battle
, Liu Bei hurriedly accepted the challenge. Even if Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and other powerful generals were unable to
The enemy army that was killed by Yuan Shu collapsed and retreated steadily. Fortunately, Xiahou Dun's reinforcements arrived in time during the process, and took Guangling eastward to gain a firm foothold. They refused to give up in Xuzhou and resolutely prevented Yuan Shu from taking any further steps and approaching Qingzhou. This powerful force
This action also bought enough time for Liu Bei, who was defeated by Yuan Shu, to gather the remaining troops.
Liu Bei gathered his remaining troops and moved to the west of Haixi. He and Xiahou Dun were at each other's horns, attacking Yuan Shu from a flank, and defeated Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu, who was extremely trapped, could not cross the border in the end, so he had to return to Jiangting to make further calculations.
At this time, Cao Zhi did not immediately launch a siege on Yuan Shu who had returned to Jiangting because his father had recently died. However, at this time, he sent back a victory report on the Yuzhou battlefield. Guo Gong finally failed to hold on, and his subordinates defected every day.
, finally unable to hold on, the city was broken and the army was defeated, and he was also killed in the battle.
From then on, Cao Zhi opened up Yuzhou, which connected Yangzhou, Yanzhou, and Xudu. In fact, before Yuan Shao took control of the four states, he also achieved the grand achievement of unifying three states, plus a Sili district.
Of course, there are still many forces here that are superficially attached and have their own thoughts behind the scenes. These all need to be cleared up slowly by Cao Zhi in the future. But for the Han Xiandi government supported by Cao Zhi, it was able to achieve such a proud achievement in the second year of Jian'an.
It is not easy for people to achieve great results.
But before December of this year, Cao Zhi's great achievements were dimmed because Yuan Shao conquered Yijing and completed the unification of the four northern states.
This is what Cao Zhi hopes. He doesn't want to become the world's attention so quickly. But while he was mourning for his old man, there were still some things that made him unhappy, and he had to secretly return to Xudu again and launch some bloody methods.
The cause of the incident was in Xudu. The palace built by Cao Zhi for Emperor Xian was beginning to take shape. Emperor Xian also hurriedly moved out of a mansion prepared by Cao Zhi for Emperor Xian after Zhaoyang Palace began to take shape.
Lived in the palace that showed his status as emperor.
It would take more than three to five years to complete the construction of a real palace. It would take more than a dozen or even decades to build a magnificent palace that is unprecedented in history.
At this time, the Xudu Palace was beginning to take shape. After Emperor Xian moved in, the entire national administrative agencies also moved into the palace to work.
However, at this time, because Cao Zhi led his army to fight for a long time, although Xu Du still controlled the government and defended the capital with the civil and military officials of Cao Zhi's direct team, many people still saw hope of overthrowing Cao Zhi.
These imperial officials who were rescued by Cao Zhi when they were in trouble were usually respectful to Cao Zhi. However, within a few days of Ansheng's life, his scars healed and he forgot about the pain. He began to dislike and be jealous of Cao Zhi's superior status.
Now that he was in power, he secretly criticized Cao Zhi and his subordinates from time to time for being domineering, and said that Cao Zhi had a rebellious intention, and that the country had once again fallen into the hands of an ambitious and powerful minister, etc.
This kind of secret criticism, due to Cao Zhi's long-term absence, is rapidly growing under the leadership of thoughtful people and is being exploited.
Ever since Dong Cheng was half-tied and half-pushed into Xudu by Cao Zhi, he began to live in seclusion and keep a very low profile. He was even more taciturn on weekdays, and often treated others with humility and respect, but rarely showed his emotions. At this time, he gave
The people Cao Zhi monitors have an illusion of silence from now on, just to be able to explode better.
Even though he lives in seclusion, he has constant contact with the outside world. Even Dong Guiren, who is in the inner palace, can often receive instructions from Dong Cheng, allowing him to gradually go from asking about Emperor Xian Liu Xie's mouth to now often blowing the wind from his pillow.
There is an unbridled undercurrent surging.
The people left behind by Cao Zhi in Xudu spent all their energy cooperating with Cao Zhi in his campaign to conquer Yuan Shu, and their attention was somewhat relaxed on the useless forces around them, so they had the opportunity to take advantage of them.
When the Cao family in Xudu received the news of Cao Song's death, all the important people in a panic immediately rushed out to Wanling for the funeral.
As the father of Cao Zhi, Cao Song's death can no longer be simply understood as the passing of an ordinary old man. Many Xudu officials either went to express their condolences in person or asked others to send their greetings.
As the spokesperson of Cao Zhi in politics, Xun Yu must have gone to Wanling to express his condolences. He had to sit in Xudu. It was during this period that Xun Yu unexpectedly noticed clues, and he smelled some cliques.
taste.
First of all, in the court hall, Zhao Yan, the councilor, made a speech to Emperor Xian at the court meeting, saying that if the country wants to revive, it must bear in mind the lessons of Dong Zhuo's good governance and not give too much power to someone. Major events in the court should be preceded by "Taiwan Province"
"Discussion, the "Three Dukes" negotiated, and the emperor made the final decision, and it should not be left to one person to act arbitrarily. He also said that the emperor
Wei Yang Biao is a loyal and upright minister, who doesn't respect him? He didn't want to be imprisoned for no reason, and almost lost his life. He is still dismissed from office and at home. Although everyone feels unfair, they have to keep silent because they are afraid of someone's power! Today's minister Yan
It was so hard that I could not vomit because my bones were stuck in my throat. I expressed my true feelings to the Holy One and begged the Holy One to "recover" Mr. Yang quickly...
At this time, Emperor Xian Liu Xie was also shocked. He did not expect that Zhao Yan would be so bold today and dare to make such blatant insinuations about Cao Zhi's hegemony and good governance in the court. He wanted to scold Zhao Yan on the spot, but when he remembered yesterday
In the late Dong Dynasty, the nobles said that there were many loyal people in the court who could not stand what Cao Zhi had done. I guess Zhao Yan was one of those loyal people!
Ever since Emperor Xian had encountered several changes in his life, he had particularly cherished those who claimed to be loyal ministers, so he did not rebuke Zhao Yan that day, but deliberately turned his face away, not listening, and secretly posed toward Zhao Yan.
Wave your hand to signal him to stop talking!
The rise of these things among these people caused Xun Yu to pay attention to this aspect. People in this area quickly grasped some situations. Xun Yu was afraid that Cao Zhi would be in mourning and would not be able to return to the capital for a long time.
Most of the Cao clan members who controlled the army or local power took leave at this time and went to Wanling to attend the funeral. Xun Yu was afraid that these people might cause some trouble, so he promptly informed Cao Cao who was far away in Wanling of the situation.
wisdom.
Although Cao Zhi was very sad when the old man from another world passed away, after all, Cao Song died at the end of his life, so while doing the funeral, Cao Zhi also paid attention to the changes in the war in Yuzhou, Xuzhou, and Youzhou, as well as some worthy of attention.
reaction, and is preparing to completely wipe out Yuan Shu and his remaining forces.
At this moment, Cao Zhi received a secret letter from Dong Zhao, saying that there were rumors that when Cao Zhi led troops to the Liang Kingdom, he secretly ordered the sergeants to dig up the tomb of King Xiao of Liang!
King Xiao of Liang was the younger brother of Emperor Jing. He was granted the title of Liang Kingdom and was buried in Liang after his death. Some time ago, Cao Zhi led troops to reinforce Liu Bei and indeed garrisoned in Liang. The military camp was also located near the tomb of King Xiao of Liang. But to
It is said that soldiers and horses chewed up a few trees beside the tomb, but the story of robbing the tomb to obtain treasures is pure rumor and slander.
Dong Zhao said that he was going to the Sili area first, and he told this matter clearly and clearly inside and outside the capital. Why did Cao Sima excavate the tomb of King Xiao of Liang and open the coffin to dissect the corpse in order to take out the treasures in the tomb to pay for the army? At that time, countless loyal ministers secretly thought
Weeping, while Cao Zhi stood beside the mausoleum, talking and laughing freely, etc.
After Cao Zhi handed over the secret report and saw it, Guo Jia became angry and said with a blushing face: "This is really made out of nothing. I have been in the lord's army all the time, and I have never heard of such evil deeds by the soldiers under the lord's account. These
How can anyone imagine this? Besides, when have we ever been short of military pay?"
At this time, Cao Zhi and others also learned from the private remarks of the officials who expressed their condolences. Among these officials, it was now widely spread that Cao Zhi was a lone star of evil spirits and other fortune-tellers. Because some thoughtful people had already planned for Cao Zhi, and Cao Zhi walked all the way.
To this day, the lives of family members are used as the foundation.
Cao Zhi welcomed Emperor Xian to Xudu and gained half of Yuzhou. In the first stage of Emperor Cao Zhixia's rise to the throne of the princes, Cao Cao died. This time Cao Zhi succeeded in conquering Yuan Shu and opened up Yan, Yu, Yang, and Sili.
Prefecture, District 1, could be said to have ushered in the second peak of Cao Zhi's great achievements in a short period of time, but by chance, Cao Zhi's father, Cao Song, passed away.