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In the battle of Jingzhou, Cao 'Cao' finally failed to successfully take the entire territory of Jingzhou, which is inevitably embarrassing, but it is gratifying that the important officials and families in Jingzhou are under their control.

The Cai family, the Kuai family, including the Pang family and the Huang family, these families that have a decisive influence in Jingzhou, are now all in the hands of Cao Cao.

Liu Biao was captured by Cao 'Cao' and escorted to Xuchang. Although Liu Biao has become a prisoner, he is another relative of the emperor, and Cao 'Cao' will not treat him very harshly. After taking Liu Biao to Xuchang, Cao 'Cao' even gave the other party a rather grand courtesy, making him live in the most beautiful house in Xuchang, and sending the best servants to his house to take care of him, which can be said to be extremely favorable. Of course, it is undeniable that although Liu Biao will have no worries about food and clothing and enjoy luxury in the future, he will probably have no freedom from now on.

The only major event that happened in the ninth year of Jian'an was that Jingzhou was divided between Cao 'Cao' and Sun Jian, but the impact of this incident was far-reaching.

Not long after returning to Xuchang from Jingzhou, Cao 'Cao' began to plan another major event.

This time, it was not an attack on the territory of other princes, but it was an event that shocked the world.

On the 10th day of the first month of the tenth year of Jian'an, when the people in Xuchang City were still lingering in the atmosphere of the New Year, Lang Huaxin presented the Han Emperor during the court discussion and asked Cao to '' as the Duke of Wei.

As soon as this watch came out, the world was shocked!

For a long time, although Cao 'Cao' coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, at least there was no obvious sign of wanting to replace the Han. Although as a prime minister and a general, he is at the top of the civil and military ranks, but these two official positions are not beyond the scope of the ministers, unlike Dong Zhuo back then, it was not enough to seal the prime minister, and he proclaimed himself the prince, and unabashedly showed that he wanted to usurp the throne.

However, now that Cao 'Cao' actually wants to be named the Duke of Wei, a discerning person can see at a glance that his ambitions have been further expanded, and perhaps he is no longer satisfied with being a powerful minister, but wants to achieve a higher status and power.

And this Duke of Wei is a paving stone for him to step into the supreme position.

If you become the Duke of Wei today, you may become the King of Wei tomorrow, and you may even become the Emperor of Wei the day after tomorrow!

This is not alarmist, but it is a fact that is very likely to happen in the future.

Although the suggestion to ask Cao to '' as Duke Wei was put forward by Hua Xin, no one would be naïve to think that this was Hua Xin's own intention, and there would be no instructions from Cao '' behind it.

After his ambitions were swelling day by day, Cao Cao' finally couldn't bear it anymore, and when he captured Jingzhou and captured Liu Biao, Cao Cao' felt that the time was almost ripe for him to be crowned Duke of Wei. Although please be named a duke, it will indeed make yourself the target of the public, but now it is not as good as before, in the past, the heroes were divided, and disputes continued, like Yuan Shao added the title of Duke Ye without authorization, and immediately became the object of condemnation by all the princes in the world. However, the only remaining princes of the Han Dynasty now, apart from himself, are only a few people such as Sun Jian, Han Sui, Liu Zhang, and Zhang Lu, and among these few people, except for Sun Jian's strong strength, the rest are not to be feared. Sun Jian and himself are mortal enemies, no matter whether they claim to be public or not, there is no room for mediation between the two sides.

Therefore, after Cao 'Cao' detained Liu Biao in Xuchang and his ambitions swelled, he no longer had the slightest scruples, and signaled Hua Xin to be the son of heaven and please crown himself as the Duke of Wei.

After the Huaxin trademark, countless people were shocked and even angry, and the few remaining royalists couldn't bear it anymore and jumped out to criticize Cao ''.

After Kong Rong's death, the royalist ministers were finally intimidated by Cao's hegemony and died down. After all, no matter how much they hate Cao Cao's '', their 'life' is still very important, and if they can't save their 'life', how can they continue to protect the emperor? But now, when they have to come out, even if the final outcome is death, they are not allowed to continue to endure.

Even though they know they're doing this, there's a good chance that the end result will be a mantis arm that won't change anything. But no matter what, they must make the least efforts, and everyone knows that if they can't stop Cao from becoming a duke, the luck of the Han Dynasty will not be able to support it for many years.

Cao Cao chose to ignore these opposing voices, and he even disdained to arrest or kill those royalists. In Cao's opinion at this moment, these royalists can no longer become any climate, no matter how much they make trouble, they will not pose any threat to their proclamation, and killing them may cause some 'waves'. In that case, let them continue barking.

No matter how badly these royalists barked, the matter of calling himself Duke Wei would be decided within a few days, and there would be no variables.

However, just when Cao 'Cao' felt that the dust had settled, there was one person's opposition that had to be taken more seriously.

Xun Yu, Xun Wenruo, the first strategist under Cao's 'Cao' account, expressed a solemn and 'fierce' opposition to Cao's proposal to be crowned a prince in front of the emperor. ~