Chapter 303: The Rise of Cao Cao
According to Guo Jiajin's method, the pottery merchant methodically pulled the Sima family and the Taiyuan Wang family into the system of the southeast inspection.
Sima Lang was under the hands of the potter, and the potter gave him the authority to inspect, and he was naturally overjoyed.
Wang Yunyun was outside, but with Pei Jing following him, the potter could always grasp the old man's eastward direction.
Although Wang Yun jumped out of the Three Realms, the potter asked him to inspect talents as the Wang of Taiyuan, and Wang Yun obeyed everything.
Although he himself is not in Jinling City, but how energetic the Taiyuan Wang clan is, he only needs to send someone to the master's house to say hello, and some people who need to be inspected will naturally come to Jinling City when they hear the news.
In addition, there is Xu Jing, who was also included in the inspection system of Jiangnan by potters.
Xu Jing's identity is even more terrible than that of the Taiyuan Wang family, Shang Shulang of Shangshutai, his brother is Xu Zijiang, who dares to say a word about the person he recommends? Who is qualified to say a no-word?
After Chen Deng learned the news, he really did not continue to oppose the potter's placement of the Zhaoxian Pavilion.
Naturally, the scholars in the southeast would not be scolding anymore, because the potter's actions had already let them know that this young man's scales were untouchable.
Pointing fingers, the group of the southeast scholar clan has changed the sky, and the Xuzhou scholar clan, Yangzhou scholar clan, and foreign scholar clan are in a three-legged state.
At a time when the scholar groups in the southeast region were in full swing with each other, a large part of the cake in the hands of the scholars was also absorbed into their own hands by the potters in the situation of recruiting talents and seeking talents.
Among the vacant positions, less than forty percent of the talents were inspected by Yangzhou, Xuzhou, and foreign scholars, and the rest were all arranged by the potters through the situation of recruitment.
Differentiation and weakening the political authority of the scholars is a small business that the potters will carry out all the time throughout their lives.
The establishment of the recruitment hall and the recruitment list were played, which immediately caused a huge response in the southeast.
There are praises and disadvantages.
However, the Zhaoxian Pavilion has indeed recruited a group of talented and hard-working poor people for the potters.
Under the command of the pottery merchant, these people became the direct wings directly promoted by him, assisted him in dividing the power of the Jiangnan Shi clan, and the strong and loyal people were directly appointed to the vacant important positions in the counties under Wu County, Guangling County, and Xiapi State, which were used as a platform for exercising their abilities.
Especially young people, potters focus on training.
Among the people who were recruited, there were some names whose names surprised the potter.
Because of these names, the potter is recognized.
Dong attacked, and the rest of the Yao people were checked.
Ling Cao, a native of Yuhang, Wu County.
Xu Sheng, a native of Langxiju County, moved to Wu County in recent years to escape the war.
Pan Zhang, because of good wine, poor family, and debauchery by nature, took refuge in Yangxian County.
Among the first batch of people recruited by the Zhaoxian Pavilion, these few were placed in the key circle of potters and put around for training.
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At the same time that the four southeastern counties were developing in an orderly manner, the war in the northwest finally came to an end, and the war report brought by the school office surprised the potters.
The wheels of history began to undergo serious deviations.
According to reports, after the continuous fierce battle of Lu Bu, Li Dao, Guo Yan, Ma Teng and Han Sui, the Son of Heaven, with the assistance of unknown figures, secretly recruited Yuan Shao and Cao Cao's two strange soldiers.
Yuan Shao's actions were still reserved, he did not go out in person, but only sent his four generals, Yan Liang, Gao Lan, Han Meng, and Jiang Ji, to lead 30,000 elite men and horses to aid Chang'an.
Compared with Yuan Shao, who did not dare to let go of his hands and feet because of the restrictions of the scholars, Cao Cao was the crowd of Yanzhou and directly attacked Xizhou without reservation.
Yuan Cao joined forces, with Cao Cao as the main and Yuan Jun's Yan Liang as the auxiliary.
After arriving in Chang'an, they recuperated and defeated LΓΌ Bu's army, which was already in a weak state, in the first battle.
Poor Lu Bu has been really unlucky lately.
The attrition of Lu Bu's army was too serious, so he had no choice but to go in a panic and go straight to the north.
And Ma Teng, Han Sui, Li Dao, Guo Yan, Zhang Ji, Fan Chou, these Xiliang warlords, because of the repeated battles, are already at the end of the crossbow.
Compared with Lu Bu, their current combat strength and morale are not much stronger than Lu Bu.
Cao Caojun is simply here to pick up the leak.
And I don't know what's going on, Cao Cao seems to know very well about the tactics of the Xiliang warlords.
According to the situation of the spies in the school office, Guo Jia concluded that the reason why Cao Cao won consecutive battles must be that someone was constantly providing him with information about the Xiliang Army, so that he could grasp the timing so accurately.
Under the repeated attacks of the premeditated Cao army and the Yuan army, the soldiers and horses of the generals of Guanzhong were beaten and scattered, and those who fled fled.
There were even many Western Liang soldiers who would surrender directly to Cao Cao.
Yuan Jun and Cao Cao captured countless horses and ordnance of the Xiliang Army.
But at this time, Cao Cao was unexpectedly very generous.
He gave most of the war horses and ordnance to Yan Liang, and he was not stingy with any distress, and he only left a small part of it.
There is only one reason - he hopes that Yan Liang will get out of here.
Yan Liang and others did not dare to stay in Chang'an for a long time because they were instructed by Yuan Shao beforehand, so they quickly withdrew their troops and returned to Bingzhou.
But Cao Cao didn't leave immediately.
He and a certain behind-the-scenes mastermind in Chang'an continued their collusion and conspiracy in secret.
Li Dao and Guo Yan and other old Western Liang generals dispersed, and only their old Xiliang soldiers fled with them, but the Luoyang Southern and Northern Army, which was once led by He Jin, who was incorporated by Dong Zhuo, has not followed them now.
This army was originally the last reliance of the Son of Heaven, and by taking this opportunity, the thirteen-year-old Liu Xie could have found a way to regain the Luoyang Northern and Southern Army, a strong army in the world, under his command, revitalize the dynasty, and reinvigorate the Han dynasty.
It's a pity that Liu Xie is too young to have no deterrent power, and his ministers are not capable, so he let Cao Cao pick up a big bargain.
Cao Cao was one of the eight captains of Xiyuan in the past, and he could be regarded as He Jin's right-hand man, and he naturally knew the roots and was very familiar with the soldiers and horses under He Jin's command back then.
Subduing the northern and southern armies of Luoyang was almost a problem for Cao Cao.
And the Son of Heaven was also promoted and persuaded by Cao Cao and a hidden figure, and was moved back to Yanzhou by Cao Cao, and was tentatively moved to Puyang.
Cao Cao's soldiers and horses greeted the Son of Heaven and had just returned to the territory of Xingyang, when Ma Teng and Han Sui couldn't swallow this breath, and once again followed Cao Cao to arrive, and launched a fierce battle with Cao's army.
It's no wonder that the two brothers were angry and rushed from the edge of Xiliang Jincheng, but they didn't get any benefits, and in the end they were picked up by Cao Cao.
The surname Cao is really unrighteous.
Although Ma Teng and Han Sui were eager for revenge, it was a pity that the combat strength and morale of their soldiers and horses had almost been exhausted under the long-term fierce battle with Li Dao, Lu Bu and others.
Although Ma Teng's beloved son Ma Chao is brave and invincible, he is only a brave man after all, and he is also difficult to defeat in the face of Cao Cao, who is good at strategy, and Cao Ren, Cao Chun, Xiahou Yuan, Le Jin, Yu Ban and others under his command who are proficient in the battle array.
Even if it was a heads-up, the carriage met Cao Jun's Dian Wei, and it was only five or five open.
Coupled with the elite of Cao Jun, there are many people, there are many strategists, and Xun You and Cheng Yu have designed repeatedly, Ma Teng and Han Sui's old bottom almost lost a clean battle.
After this battle, Cao Cao almost knocked off Ma Teng and Han Sui's pants.
The two were finally designed by Cao Cao's masterminds, and almost all the troops were wiped out, but they led more than 100 horsemen to retreat in the direction of Jincheng.
It's a slump, and that's it.
While Ma Teng and Han Sui were fleeing, there were many soldiers under their command who did not rely on them, and they could not accompany them back to Guanzhong in time, and in desperation, they could only surrender to Cao Cao.
Among the Malaysian-Korean coalition forces that surrendered to Cao Cao, there were also two young talents that Cao Cao appreciated.
One is called Pang De, and the other is called Yan Xing.
In the first battle of Chang'an, the warlords of Xiliang who had shocked the world were either beaten down, or their soldiers and horses surrendered and dispersed.
And Cao Cao, after this battle, was shocked by his prestige and unprecedented strength.
Looking at the battle report sent by the school officials, the potter's eyes were a little straight.
How do you feel that the process of history has not only accelerated, but also Cao Cao's strength seems to be much larger than that of the original period?
The situation is a bit different from history.
Is this Cao Cao's fault, or is it my fault?
History has changed, and it is no longer beyond one's control.
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Yanzhou, Puyang City.
Cao Cao ordered Zhong Xuan to replace himself in Luoyang and connect the land of Sili with Yanzhou, in order to expand the population tax revenue and gradually erode Guanzhong.
Cao Cao himself led his troops back to Puyang, the seat of governance in Yanzhou.
After settling the Son of Heaven Liu Xie, Cao Cao feasted a group of civil and military officials to celebrate this unprecedented victory.
And in this banquet, he also specially invited an important person who came with him from Chang'an.
Without this person's secret collusion with Cao Cao, the situation would never have changed so well.
Jia Xu.
A poisoner is a poisoner, and after several trade-offs, the Xiliang army from Dong Zhuo down to him was destroyed by him.
At the banquet, Cao Cao repeatedly raised a lamp to toast Jia Xu.
"If it weren't for Mr. Wenhe's help this time, would Cao Mouyan be able to get this great achievement? Now that the rescue has been successful, Cao is deeply relieved, these people are Cao's right-hand men, Mr. Wenhe needs to be more close to them in the future! β
Jia Xu smiled indifferently, he replaced wine with water, and raised his lamp to everyone from afar, but he rarely spoke during the banquet.
Cao Cao praised Jia Xu on the left and Jia Xu on the right, but no matter how he praised it, Jia Xu was salty, and he spoke less than he ate, which made Cao Cao feel very helpless.
This old guy is really uninteresting! It's boring!
However, after the battle of Chang'an, Jia Xu secretly contacted Cao Cao, and in defeating Lu Bu, Li Dao, Ma Teng and others, Cao Cao was amazed by the means he used, and he admired him in his heart.
Getting such a person is far more worthwhile than accepting the northern and southern armies of Luoyang or the surrendered many Xiliang troops.
Therefore, even if Jia Xu is no longer interested, Cao Cao has to put a hot face on his cold ass.