There is no doubt that the development of the Cao family relied on the eunuch Fei Tinghou Cao Teng, who served the four generations of emperors.

Starting from Cao Teng, the Cao family began to ascend to heaven with him, and jumped from an ordinary farmer to a local powerhouse.

As for the later so-called Cao Cao is a descendant of Cao Shen, the prime minister of the Western Han Dynasty, it has been determined through modern technology that it is a political whitewash.

Cao Teng is really a character, in the late Han Dynasty when eunuchs and scholars competed for power, he wandered in the middle, walked out of a gray area, and became the middle of the eunuchs and scholars who had an extremely difficult survival.

As a eunuch, he "sympathized" with the scholars, protected the scholars many times, and did not harm the scholars, so he was particularly different, and was even praised by the scholars.

At the same time, in order to protect himself, Cao Teng resolutely took the emperor's line, took the route of sympathizing with scholars, did not work with fellow eunuchs, but did not directly conflict with them, grasped the scale extremely exquisitely, served the four emperors without falling, but became a marquis.

It is precisely because of Cao Teng's otherness that the Cao family has left a glimmer of life, and the luck of the Cao family has risen sharply since this time, which belongs to the people.

The so-called Tianshi is because within a few years of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, in order to maintain the imperial power, the second party disaster opened, which lasted for more than ten years, and the local scholars were tortured unspeakably, and the contradictions between the imperial power and the local scholars broke out in an all-round way.

The scholars were imprisoned and were not allowed to be officials, and the turbidity currents were fully ascended, and the Cao family began to make further fortunes in accordance with the time of heaven.

At the same time, the Cao family also inherited Cao Teng's political legacy, and continued to take the middle line between the eunuchs and the scholars.

Among them, including the world-famous scholars, Runan Yuan.

Next, it is geographically advantageous, the distance between Ruyang County and Peiguo County, the base camp of the Yuan family, is very close, and the distance between the Cao family and the Yuan family is close.

The heads of the two families, Yuan Feng and Cao Song, were officials in the same dynasty, and they looked at each other, and under the general environment of the party, Yuan Feng naturally thought of wooing Cao Song and giving the Yuan family some room for maneuver.

And the "friendship" between the fathers naturally continued to the main children of the next generation, and Cao Cao and Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu were "mixed" together.

Of course, this is the limit of the friendship of the "Yuan Feng of the Shi Clan", as for marriage or something, when it comes to this kind of core issue, the Cao family can't even think about it.

Being friends with you isn't enough to give you face? Who are you and who am I?

Of course Cao Song understands.

So, Cao Song set his sights on Guo Peng.

And that's exactly what happened.

"That thing" is Cao Cao's begging Xu Shao, a native of Runan, to comment on his Yuedan review in order to make a name for himself.

Being commented on by celebrities, getting fame, and then everyone touting and fame together, and then being promoted to filial piety and honesty, this is the usual trick of the scholars at that time, which is the so-called commercial blowing in modern times.

Xu You and Xu Shao are of the same clan, relying on Xu You's relationship, Cao Cao was able to meet Xu Shao for comments, but Xu You's face was obviously not enough to move Xu Shao.

For this Cao Cao's "eunuch queen", not every scholar knows how to be flexible, especially Xu Shao, who cherishes his name as his life.

He can move the world with this mouth, if people know that he has commented on a eunuch's son, will anyone come to him to comment on himself in the future?

Does he have such a beautiful future?

Xu Shao resolutely refused.

But Cao Cao was also thick-skinned, and kept asking for a visit, and the two started a tug-of-war.

This matter has caused a lot of waves in the Cao family and Xiahou's family in Qian County, Guo Peng is a frequent visitor to the Cao family, so he naturally knows about it.

It doesn't matter if he is rejected once or twice, there are too many times, Cao Cao was very faceless at that time, everyone went to ask, he was very unhappy to push it away.

Later, I don't know what the situation was, Guo Peng happened to be playing at Cao's house that day, and Cao Cao suddenly announced complacently that he would definitely get Xu Shao's comments and would take everyone to see it.

So Guo Peng followed Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan to Runan once, and regarded it as an outing.

It was the sixth time Cao Cao went to Runan to ask Xu Shao, prepared a lot of gifts, and the group went to Ruyang first, met Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, and then went to Pingyu.

At that time, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu were both teenagers, Yuan Shao was one year older than Cao Cao, Yuan Shu and Cao Cao were the same age, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu had already received comments from the Yuedan Review at that time, and they were ready to raise filial piety, and at that time there was a Cao Cao.

Guo Peng still remembers that at that time, Yuan Shao reached out and patted Cao Cao's shoulder, and said to Cao Cao very heroically, "Don't disturb Mengde, if that old dog doesn't give you a comment, see me pluck his beard."

Cao Cao thanked Yuan Shao very gratefully, and said, "Thanks to the original."

At that time, Guo Peng knew that this matter had been done, and there was nothing on the ground in Runan that the Yuan family could not do.

The fourth generation and third duke of the Yuan family, the family biography "Meng's Yi", made a fortune with it, and his protégés are all over the world, and I don't know how many protégés of the Yuan family are in the world.

The meaning of a protégé is different from that of a student, and in this era, a protégé means obedience in a certain sense.

In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the great Confucian Ouyang She embezzled tens of millions of money when he was an official in Runan, and after the incident, he was arrested and imprisoned by Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu to be beheaded.

The world shook.

Fortunately, Liu Xiu is the emperor immediately, so he can distinguish the importance of the matter, so he resolutely killed Ouyang She and upheld the dignity of the law.

But from this, it can be seen that the relationship between teachers and students in this era can be above the law, and it is the so-called heaven and earth monarch and teacher.

Because only by being taught by the teacher can he be promoted to be filial piety and honesty as an official, and because the teacher can be an official, therefore, the protégé of the official must obey the teacher.

This obedience is the "obedience" that Yuan Shao raised his arms and shouted to the world in response to the crusade against Dong Zhuo!

This obedience is the "obedience" of the local government against the power of the central government!

These are all the confidence of the Yuan family, and it is definitely not something that Xu Shao can fight against.

It's okay that Yuan didn't speak, but Xu Shao didn't obey when Yuan sent a message, it was just a shame, and he didn't want to mix in the Runan realm in the future.

That's why Cao Cao is so confident.

So after arriving in Pingyu County, Guo Peng watched Yuan Shao take Cao Cao into Xu Shao's mansion unimpeded, and it didn't take long for the two to come out complacently.

Cao Cao felt that everything was under control, arranged the accommodation of everyone accompanying him, and waited for the arrival of a new round of Yuedan reviews at the beginning of the month.

However, Xu Shao is also a somewhat famous "famous man in the sea", although he is helpless because of the prestige of the Yuan family, he still has a sense of arrogance in his heart.

It is estimated that Yuan Shao spoke politely when he threatened him, and Xu Shao was very faceless, so at the Yuedan Council, Xu Shao embarrassed Cao Cao.

He called Cao Cao to the stage, pretended to symbolically read Cao Cao's article, and then stared at Cao Cao for a long time in front of many scribes in the audience, and saw that Cao Cao was a little inexplicable.

Then he spoke.

"If this world is a normal season, there is no doubt that you Cao Mengde is a traitor!"