Chapter 301: Cao Cao
At this time, the old capital of Luoyang, after more than a year of repair and construction, has lost the dilapidated appearance of yesterday, and has also restored some of the atmosphere that the metropolis should have in this era. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The houses are neat, the streets are clean, and although there are soldiers patrolling between the exchanges, there are also quite the laughter of the people and the voices of merchants and sellers.
It's just that compared with the well-tiled houses of ordinary people's families between the streets and cities, those places that represent the residences of official eunuchs and dignitaries, they are still a little depressed, and there is no appearance of people.
Especially in those days, the royal courtyard, which was the place where the emperor rested, seemed to have not been completed at this time, and there were still many soldiers and civilians working in it.
Seeing this, although Zhao Hao knew that there must be Cao Cao's subordinates who did not have much money and food, and did not want to ask the people to do more labor, but this must also be something he did deliberately.
There is no doubt that although this errand of repairing Luoyang City is a little hard, it is also a good time for Cao Cao to bury his head in development.
However, once this errand is completed, according to the impression of the courtiers and workers on him Cao Mengde, this Luoyang City will have nothing to do with him anymore.
At that time, the blessings and misfortunes were unknown, and Cao Cao might not have the opportunity to develop and grow secretly without being noticed.
Zhao Hao also remembered that when he first came to the world of the Peerless Three Kingdoms, he once came to Luoyang City in the starry night.
At that time, the fire was in the sky, the smoke was filled, and there were ruins everywhere, as well as the sound of mourning and crying of the people.
And now Luoyang City can be regarded as a time has passed, restoring some of the past weather, and the people are very grateful to Cao Cao, the benevolent and virtuous monarch who saved them from fire and water, and won the hearts of the people.
On the way into the city, the people on both sides of the street, as well as the onlookers, looked at him Cao Cao's eyes already explained everything.
On the other hand, the people in Luoyang City, although they also have some admiration and curiosity in their eyes for Zhao Hao, the former general, they are far from the irrepressible excitement and worship of the people when they were in Chang'an.
Obviously, in addition to being an affirmation of Cao Cao's personal charm and achievements in governing local government, there are definitely some other reasons.
At least on the way here, as far as Zhao Hao saw, within a hundred miles of Luoyang City, many places were full of wheat waves, as if they were paved with gold, and there were wheat fields and crops everywhere.
So much so that his 50,000 troops had some difficulty in choosing a place to be stationed.
And after Zhao Hao's careful observation along the way, whether overt or covertly, the defenders in Luoyang City at this time have reached at least 50,000 people.
Thinking about this Cao Mengde, he took over the drudgery in Chang'an City a year ago, and when he was separated, there were all kinds of soldiers and armor under his command, and there were only seven or eight thousand people left.
Now a year has passed, this Cao Mengde is worthy of being a hero, in the case of lack of money and food, and still shouldering heavy burdens, he can still hold on, and get 50,000 soldiers and armor.
It's really hard for him~
If he had time, Zhao Hao really wanted to figure out how this person did it.
However, after all, his trip was only passing through this place, and the real purpose was that the remnants of the 200,000 Yellow Turbans in Yanzhou naturally couldn't stay here too much.
After only resting in Luoyang City for a day, Zhao Hao took his soldiers on the road again.
Of course, in order to thank Cao Cao for his hospitality, he was also not stingy here.
Although he didn't say anything when he left, he secretly ordered the Zhao family army to which he belonged through the connection between the master and servant.
At that time, there will be people who will drive 10,000 cattle and sheep and 8,000 good horses from the north to Cao Cao.
In addition to thanking Cao Cao for his hospitality, there are also some vague reminders, which means that your soldiers and horses are not enough, and they need to be strengthened~
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In fact, Zhao Hao attaches great importance to Cao Cao, in the entire history of the Three Kingdoms, there are absolutely few people who can compete with him in terms of leading troops to fight wars or governing the world.
First of all, Liu Bei is definitely not good, if it were not for the assistance of Zhuge Liang later, this Uncle Liu Huang might have withdrawn from the stage of history early on.
Relatively, Zhuge Liang obviously didn't do it, after Liu Bei's death in the later period, the power of the entire Shu Kingdom fell into his hands, but the final outcome was that even if this Mr. Wolong died with all his might, he was unable to take Wei after Cao Cao's death.
In contrast, Sima Yi is even worse, although his Sima family did succeed in stealing the country in the end, but if there was no foundation laid down by the Wei State before, there would definitely not be a successor of the Sima family.
And he Sima Yi is not as good as Zhuge Liang, let alone Cao Cao.
It's a pity that Cao Mengde died first in his later years because of a head disease, otherwise, maybe his actions would have been higher.
In Zhao Hao's cognition, if an empire wants to be strong and long-lasting, in addition to having a Ming monarch in the world, more importantly, it must have institutional constraints.
Just like the emperors of many dynasties in Chinese history, although the founding monarch was virtuous, his cultural and martial arts were all first-class in the world.
But no one can guarantee that their descendants will be as virtuous as the founding monarch, which is basically impossible.
Therefore, although the historical inheritance of the entire Chinese is long, the successive dynasties can not last long, and it is always separated by hundreds of years, and the next dynasty is overthrown.
For example, in the Tang Dynasty, in later generations, the word "prosperous Tang" is often used to describe the greatness of this dynasty, which inherited most of the policies of the Sui Dynasty, and the essence, and the cultural and martial arts are extremely prosperous.
But even so, the so-called "Prosperous Tang Dynasty", from the birth of the Dao of extinction, only lasted for two hundred and eighty-nine years.
The country is less than 300 years old, and it is not as good as the 400 years that the Han Dynasty has survived.
In fact, in recorded history, the Zhou Dynasty, which had many shortcomings such as slavery and feudal system, was the longest-lived imperial dynasty in China, which lasted for 800 years.
Because of the task of the system, Zhao Hao has the responsibility of building a strong empire on his shoulders, and sometimes in addition to leveling and cultivating, he will often fall into thinking because of this problem.
A country's system is related to the merits of thousands of generations, and it is also related to the evaluation of someone's tasks after a person, and he has to pay attention to it.
For example, the Zhou Dynasty may indeed be the longest-lived one, but unfortunately, the system of the Zhou Dynasty is too old and unusable.
It can be said to be a miracle that it has been able to continue the vitality of the week for a full 800 years.
However, Zhao Hao can indeed find out a trace of the secret of the continuation of the imperial dynasty.
That is, the power of the entire dynasty was seriously divided, and although the emperor and the princes belonged to the same country in name, they were privately separated, and the military and political power was sidelined, and they were only compensated by tribute every year.
At the critical moment, although Zhou Tianzi also had the right to convene the princes and defend the central government, it had little impact on the local government.
In a way, this is actually somewhat similar to the democracy of later generations, and to the so-called city-state democracy of ancient Greece.
As a modern person, Zhao Hao certainly thought about taking the democratic system in later generations, and even the system implemented in Huaxia to copy and apply it in the Three Kingdoms.
But in fact, if governing a country is really that simple, how can so many dynasties fall in history from ancient times to the present?
This is not to say that the "advanced system" taken from later generations will have a miraculous effect when applied to the old dynasties of the past.
A system that does not conform to the development of the times and the trend of history, no matter how advanced it is, cannot adapt to the actual environment at that time, is in vain, and this is also the case in the world of the three kingdoms.
After thinking about it, Zhao Hao finally felt that perhaps only the constitutional monarchy led by the country known as the empire on which the sun never sets in later generations was the most suitable for the Han Dynasty at this time.
Of course, because of the difference in the actual situation, even if a constitutional monarchy was to be implemented in the Han Dynasty, it would certainly not be as restrictive as the country of later generations.
Although many rights must be controlled, the emperor must also retain his due dignity, and the monarch must occupy one of the three powers of military, government, and law.
From this point of view, in fact, the system of ****** states that rose to prominence in the Middle East because of oil in later generations may be more suitable here.
And the reason why he looked at Cao Cao like that was because in Zhao Hao's mind, he was a very suitable candidate to serve as the first prime minister of the empire!
...... (To be continued.) )