Jinan, a large county in Qingzhou, in the heyday of Jinan before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the population of Jinan once reached an astonishing 450,000, and it was already a first-class county in sparsely populated ancient times. But in the first year of Zhongping, because of climatic and political reasons, Jinan has suffered from repeated droughts, the fields have no harvest, the officials and scholars have levied violently, the rice is worth a huge amount of money, the poor people are hungry and poor in the easy cannibalism, when the Julu Yellow Turban Uprising broke out, the refugees in Jinan echoed, although Qingzhou is not the origin of the Yellow Turban Uprising, but has become the largest source of the Yellow Turban Army, after the Yellow Turban Uprising was brutally suppressed by the landlord, Qingzhou became a ruin, ten rooms and nine empty. In the first year of Chuping, there was another great drought in the north, and the Yellow Turban of Qingzhou rose again, and invaded Luoyang to the west, and was defeated by the army sent by Kang Peng, who had occupied Dong Zhuo's body, and was taken by Cao Cao to take the opportunity to absorb or annihilate each other, and the two turmoil that hurt the muscles and bones led to a sharp decline in the population of Qingzhou, and the population of Jinan was also reduced from 450,000 to less than 70,000 now, and the situation was bleak and indescribable.

In the autumn of the third year of the first peace, Cao Cao planned to seize Qingzhou, recruited displaced people to reclaim wasteland, and raised the people in Tuntian for the army, God never came to make trouble, the situation in Qingzhou gradually improved, and the vitality of Jinan was initially restored, plus the beautiful scenery of Jinan, which is known as the spring city, and the Baotu Spring of the seventy-two famous springs is famous all over the world, and it is not a place where soldiers must fight during the Cold War, Cao Cao's father Cao Song settled his home in Jinan, ready to enjoy his old age here, Cao Cao was busy with military and politics, and had no time to take care of his father, so he let his younger brother Cao De lead an army of 3,000 troops stationed in Jinan to protect his father, It's rare to come back once in a year and a half.

On the second day of the second month of February in the fifth year of the first peace, the first spring rain fell in Jinan City, sparsely falling, the rain and fog were hazy, Cao Cao's brother Cao De went out of the city early in the morning to organize the people to reclaim the fields, and rushed to sow the potato varieties bought from Yongzhou at a high price. Last year, Cao Cao tried to plant Dong Zhuojun's potatoes and corn in Qingzhou, and the result was an unprecedented bumper harvest, with an average yield of more than 900 catties per mu, and potatoes and corn can be mixed and sown, which is equivalent to an acre of land that can harvest more than 1,800 catties of grain a year, although because Dong Zhuojun did not sell much grain to the outside world, the corn and potatoes harvested in Qingzhou were far from enough for the military and civilians, but it also made Cao Cao overjoyed, after last autumn, Cao Cao began to buy grain seeds from Yongzhou at a high price, and Li Ru asked Kang Peng for instructions on whether to sell them. Kang Peng took into account that Qingzhou suffered from a famine and the people were struggling on the death line, and Kang Peng, who was a modern person, couldn't bear it, so he instructed Li Ru to open up sales to Cao Cao - Qingzhou was sparsely populated, and Cao Cao's army alone could not shake Dong Zhuojun's foundation, but Kang Peng also confessed that Li Ru and Cao Cao had secret negotiations, and Cao Cao must exchange strategic materials such as hemp, iron, salt and sulfur in a certain proportion. Although Cao Cao knew that Kang Peng's move was ill-intentioned, just like Kang Peng's efforts to help refugees in Luoyang and Yizhou, he knew that it was a trap, but he still jumped down, took out the already invaluable strategic materials and a large amount of money, and exchanged it from Li Ru for enough good seeds to be sown in the whole territory of Qingzhou.

Ploughing the land, piling up grass and burning ash fertilizer, cutting potatoes and sowing seeds, when Cao Dezheng led the army and the people sweated like rain, Cao Song took the whole family to send water and food to the people, from the day Cao Cao started the army, the Cao family and the Xiahou family went all out to provide support, Cao Song sold all the family property to his son to recruit troops and horses, the pay is proportional to the return, after Cao Cao became famous, he did not forget any one in the family, the adult men of the Cao family and the Xiahou family can get an official and a half position in Cao Cao's army, Cao Song was even taken by Cao Cao to Qingzhou to enjoy happiness, food, clothing, housing and transportation, all of which were lacking. And Cao Song also understands his son's situation and difficulties, he is over 60 years old, and he still takes women and children to stare at the drizzle to deliver food and water, in order to encourage the morale of the people and soldiers.

"Let's all take a break." The white-haired Cao Song greeted the busy soldiers and civilians in the field, and took a bowl of clear spring water with a bamboo cane and sent it to them in person, which moved the soldiers and civilians in Tuntian with tears in their eyes, and Cao De greeted him and said: "Father, you are so old, don't personally send us water and food, just let the children at home send it." ”

"It's fine." Cao Song said with a smile: "My legs and feet are still dexterous, and many monkeys have added three points of strength, even if I only save half a manpower, I can open up a few more acres of land." Go ahead and get busy with yours, I'll go back by myself after delivering the water. ”

Cao De nodded, and was about to say something more, when he suddenly heard a thunderous sound in the distance, Cao De looked at it urgently, and saw that the north was dusty, and it seemed that a team of cavalry was rushing towards this side, and the people of Tuntian also put down their farm work and looked at the north blankly. Cao Song asked, "De'er, who is here?" Is it Apu's army? ”

"I don't know." Cao De wondered: "Almost all of the eldest brother's cavalry are stationed in Dongjun, and I haven't heard of any troop movements." Not good! At this time, Cao De had already seen the flag faintly flashing in the distance - Yuan Shaojun's banner!

"Quick, go back to the city and release the pigeons!" Cao De yelled: "Inform my eldest brother, Yuan Shaojun sneaked up on Jinan!" The army organizes the people to return to the city! Father, go away! ”

Cao De's order was too late, Yuan Shang, who wanted to marry the 'peerless beauty' of the Dong family and had the support of Dong Zhuojun, on the night of the alliance was reached, without waiting to discuss with the trial and Feng Ji, he sent his henchmen Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang to lead three thousand light cavalry to march day and night, detour to Yangping to cross the Yellow River overnight, and suddenly appeared in Jinan, the rear of Cao Cao's army, and Cao Cao, because he learned that Dong Zhuo had returned to Chang'an, deployed the army in the strategic Baima (south), Dongjun and Dongping line to guard against the threat of Dong Zhuo's army and Yuan Shaojun. In the vicinity of Jinan, far from the rear of Yuan Shao's army, there was no longer a single force that could support Jinan. Moreover, Yuan Shao's army came prepared, the army was a color of light cavalry, extremely fast, and Cao De's troops were infantry, and they were scattered in the fields, where they could be organized into an army in a hurry.

"Kill!" Yuan Shaojun shouted and rushed to the people of Jinan, indiscriminately killed people when they saw them, the people of Jinan and Cao Caojun in Tuntian only had ordinary farm tools in their hands, there were heavily armed opponents of Yuan Shaojun, and the corpses were all over the field in an instant, Cao De saw that the situation was not good, and he took more than 100 people to meet him, Cao De shouted to Yuan Shaojun: "Who are you waiting for?" Why do you kill people indiscriminately? ”

"I am Lu Xiang, the general under the Duke of Rongguo, and I was ordered to come to arrest the thief!" Lu Xiang asked rhetorically, "Who are you?" ”

"I am Cao De, the younger brother of Cao Gong, the assassin of Qingzhou!" Cao De shouted: "What kind of thief are you waiting to catch?" This is the territory of the Cao army, you have crossed the border, your two armies have no grievances and no enemies, retreat quickly, lest the two families fight each other. ”

Who knew that before Cao De's words fell, Yuan Shaojun had already heard a cheer, "Great, you are Cao De, my gold." Amid the cheers, Yuan Shaojun's cavalry had already rushed up, drowning Cao De's more than 100 people. At the time of departure, Yuan Shang personally promised Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang's troops that as long as he got a head from the Cao family's family, he would be rewarded with a catty, and Cao De's head was rewarded with as much gold as it weighed, and as for Cao Song's head, it was rewarded with ten times the weight of gold!

In the sound of swords and guns, in less than a moment, a junior colonel Yuan Shaojun carried a human head and shouted: "I got Cao De's head!" I've got Cao De's head! "This little colonel is very cunning, Cao De was stabbed by several shots in the chaos, he leaned over to cut Cao De's head first, deliberately took Cao De's half of the shoulder and chopped, at least two more catties of flesh and bone - that is, two catties of gold! The other Yuan Shaojun all looked at him with envy, and several Yuan Shaojun planned to go up and rob him.

"My De'er!" Cao Song's heart-rending cry revealed his identity, age plus title, Yuan Shaojun, who can't know that he is the most valuable Cao Song in the head? Yuan Shaojun turned the horse's head together and shouted frantically to kill, "Cao Song is my ......"

On the second day of the second month of February in the fifth year of the first peace, the dragon raised its head, Jinan was shrouded in a bloody rain, Yuan Shaojun coerced the people of Jinan to identify Cao Cao's family, and more than 40 old and weak women and children of the Cao family were not spared, all of them were beheaded and their property was looted. After Yuan Shaojun returned with a full load, Jinan City restored the tragic scene after the Yellow Turban Uprising a few years ago, the blood flowing out of the corpses was stained red, and the hazy spring rain in the sky was hazy in the sky, as if God was shedding tears for Jinan......

Three days after the Jinan Massacre, in the city of Dongjun, a guest dressed as a villager outside Cao Cao's official hall, wearing a straw hat and clogs on his feet, said to the soldiers standing guard outside the official hall in a Luoyang accent: "May I ask this military master, is Lord Mu Cao of Qingzhou here?" ”

The soldier standing guard looked at the man suspiciously, nodded and replied, "Here, what is the matter with you?" ”

"Okay." The man said in a low voice: "I am tired of informing Cao Gong, that is, the servant Dong Cheng has something to ask to see, please Cao Gong must meet him." ”

"What do you say? Are you a servant of the court? "The Cao Cao soldiers were taken aback, Cao Cao's self-appointed Qingzhou Mu is just a positive grade, but in the imperial court, he is still a small cavalry captain, Zheng Sipin, Guo Jia and Xiahou Dun and others can only be regarded as Cao Cao's generals in the imperial court, and they have no grade at all, and the servant is one of the nine kings of the imperial court, and he has exceeded the grade, so where have the Cao Cao soldiers seen such a big official?

Dong Cheng nodded, and the Cao Cao soldiers looked at Dong Cheng for a long time, and saw that although Dong Cheng was dressed as a rural peasant, he was quite extraordinary, knowing that Dong Cheng was not a mortal, he hurriedly asked Dong Cheng to wait for a while, and rushed into the official hall by himself. In a moment, Cao Cao was dressed in the official uniform of the imperial court, and took Xiahou Dun, Cao Ren, Xu Zhen, Liu Hao, Man Chong, Mao Jue, Xi Zhicai and Lu Qian and all the civil and military officials of Cao Cao's army in Dongjun to open the door to greet him, and even Guo Jia, who was sick and dying, was carried out by Xu Zhen and went to the gate to greet Dong Cheng.

"Cao Cao, the captain of the cavalry, led his subordinates to meet Mrs. Dong." In front of the gate of the official hall, Cao Cao was the leader, Guo Jia and Xiahou Dun were on the left and right, and the rest of the civil and military forces followed closely behind, bowing respectfully to Dong Cheng, and the other Cao Cao soldiers did not dare to slack off, and they saluted Dong Cheng one after another. Seeing this scene, Dong Cheng, who had suffered a lot of white eyes under Dong Zhuojun, couldn't help but burst into tears, how many years have passed, and he finally regained a little feeling of being Jiuqing.

Dong Cheng quietly wiped away his tears, without saying a word, raised his legs and walked into the official hall, Cao Cao knew that Dong Cheng must have something big here, so he didn't dare to ask, but silently followed Dong Cheng into the hall. Dong Cheng entered the hall, Yu Zhengzhong was neutral, took out a close-fitting cloth bag from his arms, and solemnly opened it, the cloth bag was an edict written in blood, Dong Cheng sang loudly: "Long live the purpose, the captain of the cavalry kneels to take it." ”

Cao Cao and Guo Jia glanced at each other, and both saw the joy in each other's eyes, and at that moment Cao Cao led everyone to kneel down on both knees together, kneeling three times and bowing nine times to make a big salute, "Long live the emperor, long live, long live." ”

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor Zhao said." Dong Cheng sang: "I have heard that the people are great, and the father and son come first; The difference between respect and humility is important to monarchs and ministers. Recently, Dong thieves have seized power and oppressed their father; Forming up the party and destroying the government; deceive the heavens and defile the palace ban, and mutilate the living beings; The wolf is unkind, the evil is full of evil, and he coerces the monarch to forcibly enter the king, and I am worried all night, fearing that the world will be in danger. Cao Cao, the captain of the cavalry, raised troops several times to crusade against Dong thieves, sharing worries for me and eliminating harm for the country. Now I broke my fingers and spilled blood, wrote an edict to Cao Cao, gave the King of Wei Jiuxi, and waited for me to control the promotion and depreciation, and the leader of the dynasty, hoping that the King of Wei would make persistent efforts, connect with the volunteers, and then ask Dong Thief, don't live up to my intentions! Chin this! ”

After Dong Cheng finished reading, Cao Cao was stunned by the sudden surprise, Kang Peng worked hard to get a throne from Emperor Xian, but Cao Cao sat at home, and Emperor Xian smashed a throne on his head! This is not counting, Emperor Xian also handed over the right to reward his ministers to Cao Cao, which means that Cao Cao is also qualified to give the princes the title of king, and fight against Kang Peng, Cao Cao can use this political advantage to easily form a third anti-Dong alliance, and completely reverse the advantages and disadvantages of Dong Zhuojun! Cao Cao also understood in his heart why Emperor Xian gave himself this edict, Dong Zhuo took the lead in seizing the throne, if he no longer sealed a few kings to contain Dong Zhuo, then Dong Zhuo would occupy the complete initiative in politics, and when Dong Zhuo took advantage of this initiative to divide the princes and further consolidate his power, the Han Dynasty would always have the opportunity to turn over. However, the actual power of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, who was already a puppet, was not harmed, but it was Dong Zhuo's power that was divided, and the Han Dynasty had the opportunity to survive for some time.

After a long time, Cao Cao led his stunned subordinates to kowtow to Dong Cheng, "Weichen Xie Lord Longen, long live the emperor, long live, long live!" When Cao Cao got up again, the tearful Dong Cheng handed over the blood edict to Cao Cao, and choked up: "King Wei, please be sure to get rid of Dong thief for the world, get rid of Dong thief, get rid of Dong thief, get rid of Dong thief ......." Dong Cheng can only say this sentence anymore, he is loyal to the Han family, and his hatred for Kang Peng has reached his bones.

"I ......, Lone will do his best to get rid of Dong Thief." Cao Cao, who was a capable minister of the world, replied in a choked voice.

"Xi Zhicai, prepare a pen!" Cao Cao, the hero of the troubled times, shouted: "Lone will give an edict to Yuan Shao, Liu Bei and Sun Quan to form the third alliance against Dong!" ”

Cao Caojun's master bookkeeper Xi Zhicai hurriedly went to get the silk pen, spread it out on the table, grinding the ink and waiting, Guo Jia, who was seriously ill, struggled over, he was extremely energetic at the moment, snatched the brush from Xi Zhicai's hand, and said loudly: "Please send an edict from King Wei, Guo Jia writes!" Guo Jia was so excited that he burst into tears, and his hope of destroying Dong Zhuo was almost shattered, and then at this moment he was rejuvenated.

"The first letter, to Yuan Shao!" Cao Cao shouted: "Tell him that Lone can give him Jiuxi and crown him King Chen, but he must raise troops to attack Huguan and Baima!" Cooperate with our army to eliminate the Dong thief! ”

Guo Jia nodded solemnly, and was about to polish the writing, but a dusty herald rushed outside the hall, knelt down on one knee in front of Cao Cao, and said with his fists clenched: "Tell the lord, on the twenty-fifth day of the first month of the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuoxu and Yuan Shao Jiuxi, Yuan Shao and Dong Zhuo formed an alliance in Yecheng to jointly crusade against our army and Liu Bei and Sun Quan, and Yuan Shao has declared war on our army!" ”

There was a soft sound of "pop", the brush in Guo Jia's hand fell, and the hall was suddenly silent, leaving only the fine man who came from Yecheng to continue: "Our army's carrier pigeon was mistakenly shot by Yuan Shaojun's soldiers to eat, and the secret letter has been bought by Dong Zhuojun's envoy Xu Shu at a high price. ”

Cao Cao was like demented, and he waved his hand weakly for a while, letting the famous man go down. Cao Cao said weakly: "Yuan Shao's matter, let's talk about it later, replace the next one, and give it to Liu Bei." ”

Guo Jia coughed and changed to a white silk, and lifted the pen again with a heavy heart, Cao Cao was about to speak, and another herald stumbled into the hall, knelt down on his knees in front of Cao Cao, and shouted: "Lord, lord, go to the relief of Nan, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao's army raided Jinan, Jinan is in danger!" ”

This time, Guo Jia clenched the brush tightly - but fell to the ground with the brush attached! Cao Cao's eyes were already so anxious that his eyes were on fire, and he grabbed the herald's collar with both hands and shouted, "How is my father? How is my brother? What happened to my loved ones? The voice of the traitorous male Cao Cao was already accompanied by a crying sound......

The herald cried: "The second general they are outside the city Tuntian, suddenly surrounded by the enemy, too late to use the carrier pigeon to deliver the news, only send the villain to ask for help......" The herald has not finished speaking, Cao Cao and Guo Jia have both vomited blood and passed out, the pigeon flies far faster than the fast horse, if Cao De or any one of the Cao family can still live, then there must have been carrier pigeons for help, but now the carrier pigeon is in the future, the fast horse has arrived, which means that no one in the Cao family is alive in the world.

Cao Cao first aided Cao Cao, pinched people, rubbed his chest, Cao Cao woke up slowly, Cao Cao's first order when he woke up was to order the whole army to rescue Jinan, Cao Cao still had a trace of luck, or his family's carrier pigeon was also shot by mistake, but the third Jinan messenger covered in blood rushed in......

On the sixth day of the second month of the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, in order to please the grandfather of the 'future wife', Yuan Tan and his confidant Wang Zhao raided the white horse in the Yellow River loop, and successively annihilated several patrols of Cao Cao's army, and all the prisoners were buried alive......

On the seventh day of the second month of the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, Guo Jia was still in a coma, Cao Cao ignored the dissuasion of the strategists and Dong Cheng, led the whole army of Cao Cao's army with filial piety to cross the Yellow River, and launched a surprise attack on the Wenchou troops of Yuan Shao's army on the white horse. opened the prelude to the decisive battle of Yuan Cao......

The news of the Jiangnan blood case and the blood edict issued by the emperor was successively sent to the princes, Liu Beijun and Zhuge Xuan sighed for a long time when they heard the news, and then did two things, one was to make a statement to Liu Bei, suggesting that Liu Bei immediately contact Sun Quan and prepare to build a Sun-Liu alliance to help Sun Quan resist Dong Zhuojun's all-out attack on Jiangnan, so as not to die and cry. The second is to quietly call the eldest nephew Zhuge Jin and talk with Zhuge Jin in the secret room at home for half the night. Three months later, Zhuge Jin found an opportunity to secretly escape from Xuzhou, buy a boat and go up the river, and go to Jingzhou to surrender to Dong Zhuojun, although Kang Peng saw through Zhuge Xuan's selfishness to the extreme - a trick to leave a way back for his family, but in order to recruit talents, he could only reluctantly accept Zhuge Jin, but Kang Peng left a secret decree, and his descendants were not allowed to appoint Zhuge Jin's descendants as officials! This is a matter of no further aside.

After Sun Quan received the news of the Jiangnan bloody case and the blood edict issued by Emperor Xian, he also calmly did two things, one was to order Zhou Yu to recruit troops on a large scale, accumulate military supplies, and prepare for war frantically, preparing for the bloody revenge of Dong Zhuojun; The second is to send Zhang Zhao as an envoy to ask Liu Bei for help, hoping to form a Sun-Liu alliance.

As for our protagonist Kang Peng, after receiving the news of the Jiangnan blood case and the blood edict issued by Emperor Xian, he laughed happily, and slapped his fat forehead again and again to rejoice, if it wasn't for his foresight to instruct Xu Shu to instigate Yuan Shang to kill Cao Cao's whole family, then he would definitely be in a hurry and overwhelmed by Emperor Xian's blood edict. At the same time, Boss Dong also scolded Dong Cheng, "Old boy, you dare to go against Lone, wait for Lone!" I heard that you also have a daughter who is going to marry Emperor Han Xian, so Lone will send someone to Luoyang to pick her up. ”

Dong Boss's words were either from the heart, or casually said and played, but he paid a heavy price for this matter, his words were accidentally heard by Miss Wen Luwen, who was waiting for him to go to his father's grave to pay tribute to Qingming after the screen, so that night, there were a lot of pig-like screams in Miss Wen's room, and the sound of flesh and fists colliding, and finally a gong-like begging for mercy, and the innocence of Miss Dong Chengjia was temporarily preserved.