Chapter 1442: Captain Touching Gold

In a world of great contention, not taking the initiative to fight is tantamount to chronic suicide.

If Cao Cao wants not to be annexed by other princes and participate in the next struggle for world domination, he must let Yanzhou recover as soon as possible, and this will require a large number of talents to govern Yanzhou.

However, the strength of the Yanzhou family is too weak, and it can't provide so many talents at all, so Cao Cao only has to rely on the cold door.

Cao Cao was born into a family, and naturally he was afraid of offending the family, but after discussing with Cheng Yu, Xun Yu and Bigan for a long time, Cao Cao came to another conclusion, that is, this precedent is Yang Guang's head, even if he Cao Cao imitates, the family will never hate him to the extent that Yang Guang hates.

As expected by Cao Wei, although Cao Cao implemented the imperial examination after Yang Guang, its influence was much greater than that of Yang Guang's, but because Yang Guang attracted hatred in front, the family did not transfer the hatred to him, but attracted many children of the family to defect.

Chen Qun, Mao Jue, Lu Qian, Dong Zhao, Jiang Ji, Xiang Chong, Jiang Gan, Yang Xun, He Kui, Li Tong, Yan Ming, Zheng Hun, Ling Hu Shao, Kong Xiu, Han Fu...... And so on, many civil and military heroes, or families, or poor families, all gathered under Cao Cao's command because of the imperial examination.

Among the scholars, the most outstanding talents are Chen Qun, Mao Jue, Lü Qian, Dong Zhao, Jiang Ji, and Xiang Chong, especially Chen Qun, who is the main founder of the "Nine Grades Zhongzheng System" of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties election system, and the Cao Wei Law "Wei Law".

As for the generals who came to vote, only Li Tong was a super-first-class master, and the rest were either second-rate or first-class, but for Cao Cao, who was eager for talent, it was already very good to have these people.

Cao Cao gained a large number of talents because of the opening of the department, and he also knew how to make good use of people, distributed talented talents to various places, and at the same time started a business with the Qin army.

Yanzhou, which has blossomed under both business and government, has also developed rapidly, and its vitality has gradually recovered, of course, it is certainly impossible to fully recover.

After the unification of Yanzhou, Cao Cao opened the all-out construction mode, and even gave up the competition for Jianghuai for this reason.

Although Cao Cao also coveted the Jianghuai granary very much, his family background was not thick enough, and he did not have enough confidence to compete with Zhu Yuanzhang.

In addition, Yanzhou is a place of four wars, and there are no princes all around to provoke, if you expand your strength so quickly, it will only arouse the vigilance of all the princes, and in the end you will only end up being strangled together.

Therefore, since he is destined not to get Jianghuai, Cao Cao might as well look at the point and sit back and watch the infighting among the princes of Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhao Kuangyin, and Yuan Shu.

Seeing that Cao Cao did not intervene in the Jianghuai War, and was carrying out various constructions in Yanzhou, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately saw that Cao Cao was strong and strong, and he wanted to deal with Cao Cao first?

Since Zhu Yuanzhang had already sent troops to Jianghuai, using troops against Cao Cao was tantamount to a two-front war, so it was naturally impossible for him to commit this kind of taboo, so he could only wait to turn his gun after taking Jianghuai.

At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang also wanted to join forces with the Ming Court of Jizhou to send troops from the four directions of Jizhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, and Jianghuai to attack Yanzhou at the same time, so that Cao Cao could take care of his head but couldn't take care of it, and he would definitely be completely wiped out by the Ming army in a battle.

Cao Cao, who was concentrating on the construction of Yanzhou, did not know that he had been targeted by Zhu Yuanzhang, and if Zhu Yuanzhang's plan could really be implemented, even if he had 200,000 troops in his hands, it would be difficult to resist the three-way attack of the Ming army without the interference of external forces.

Of course, Qin Hao was already preparing to incorporate the Ming Court, so Zhu Yuanzhang's plan was destined to die, and Cao Cao also saved his life because of Qin Hao.

Although Cao Cao temporarily gave up Jianghuai, he would not give up the opportunity to profit from it, and he thought of selling military materials to Yuan Shu, and obtaining several times the income from Yuan Shu, so as to feed back into the construction of Yanzhou.

Anyway, the current Yuan Shu is afraid that he is poor and only has money and food left, and the little strength of Jianghuai will definitely not be exhausted, so it is better to exchange it for materials to fight against Zhu Yuanzhang.

But there are only a handful of people who are willing to support Yuan Shu, after all, he attacked Nanyang and offended Qin Hao to death, and Qin Hao now represents the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty, Yuan Shu has been beaten as a rebel, and helping Yuan Shu is equivalent to getting along with the Qin army, so no princes dare Yuan Shu to provide support.

Although the relationship between Cao Cao and Qin Hao was good, they did not dare to help Yuan Shu openly, so they could only trade secretly in exchange for valuable construction resources for Yanzhou.

Although Cao Cao and Yuan Shu's transaction was also robbed while he was killed, he was the only one who was willing to help Yuan Shu, so Yuan Shu, the unjust leader, must be willing or not.

In order to develop Yanzhou's internal affairs, Cao Cao also took great pains, and did not hesitate to risk offending Qin Hao to obtain money and food from Jianghuai Yuan Shu.

In addition, Cao Cao also did another crazy thing, that is, to set up a school captain to touch gold, specially to rob tombs, and exchange the funeral goods of the dead for the money and food needed for development.

In fact, as early as the outbreak of the Yanzhou War, Cao Cao had set up a captain to touch Jin.

At that time, Cao Cao was under the siege of the four princes of Yanzhou and Li Zicheng's five forces, and when he was completely forced to do it, Cao Cao could even do such a thing as using human flesh as military food, and what else could he not do? Tomb robbing is already considered low-level.

It is said that the first tomb stolen by Cao Cao's Jinxiao Lieutenant was the tomb of Liu Wu, the king of Liangxiao in Mangdang Mountain, Yongcheng.

Liu Wu, the king of Liangxiao, is the son of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty and the younger brother of Emperor Jing, sitting on 300 miles of rivers and mountains, which can be described as a rich country, and the biggest regret of his life is that he did not make it to the Ninth Five-Year Plan.

Since he could not "realize his dream" in this world, Liu Wu planned to complete it after his death, so he built a huge mausoleum in order to pass the emperor's addiction after death, and the majestic shape of his mausoleum and the richness of the burial were simply breathtaking.

The reason why Cao Cao was able to shoot Li Zicheng and even unify Yanzhou was largely because he stole Liu Wu's tomb and relied on the rich burial goods in Liu Wu's tomb to spend the most difficult time in his life.

Of course, once the news of tomb robbery comes out, it will definitely be criticized by the defenders, and even Qin Hao, the Duke of Qin, will be 'alarmed'.

Seeing that Qin Hao was holding him accountable, Cao Cao also knew that the matter was getting bigger, so he could only temporarily dismiss Captain Jin, avoid the limelight first, and wait for the limelight to pass depending on the situation.

Now that Cao Cao has unified Yanzhou, Qin Hao will definitely not offend him for tomb robbing, after all, there are many tomb robbers in the troubled times, and he Cao Cao is not the only one who has done this, and many princes have a team dedicated to tomb robbing.

Cao Cao relied on it, so he started his old job again, and this time he aimed at the tomb of Liu An, the king of Huainan.