Other princes and ordinary generals may not understand that Cao Cao, who had been fighting for many years, agreed to reconcile with his fierce rival Liu Cong just thinking that he had lost 50,000 soldiers and lost two local wars. But Liu Cong knew that Cao Cao's death hole was not on the battlefield, but politically. This time, Liu Cong pinched Cao Cao's death hole and boldly proposed reconciliation.

Liu Cong is a time-traveler who has studied Cao Cao in history countless times. Historically, as Cao Cao's power increased and his political enemies increased, he had to free up his hands to solve these problems, such as offering his three daughters, killing the queen's family, and punishing Kong Rong, how to balance the relationship between the Han Dynasty and himself, which consumed a lot of Cao Cao's energy.

I have to say that Liu Cong's judgment of the situation is accurate. At present, Cao Cao is indeed facing the constraints of a big family inside.

Historically, when Cao Cao was more than 20 years old, he started in the conquest of the Yellow Turban Army, thinking that the country would make meritorious contributions to the thieves.

After defeating Yuan Shao, Cao Cao had at least two opportunities to unify the world - the Battle of Chibi and Hanzhong. Among them, the eve of the Battle of Chibi was the moment he came closest to reunification. At that time, the north was initially decided, and Jingzhou surrendered. Liu Bei, who he regarded as a confidant, fled all the way, leaving only the Jiangdong regime wavering. Judging from Cao Cao's letter to Sun Quan, he was quite arrogant in his possession of Jiangdong.

Although Liu Cong's birth and the historical trajectory have shifted, the political* struggle that consumed Cao Cao's experience has not disappeared. And it was precisely the chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty that gradually gave rise to the family of gate valves that had influenced China for thousands of years. And it is these rising gate valve families that contain Cao Cao, and even Liu Cong in the future will be constrained by them.

For so many years, although the Han court was in troubled times, Cao Cao did not dare to underestimate their power. They can't be regarded as mediocre civil officials who can be bullied at will.

Some people may think that the court of the Han dynasty in Xuchang is trembling under Cao Cao's sword, so why be afraid?

However, as long as people who know a little about the history of the Three Kingdoms and point out all kinds of courtiers of all kinds in the imperial court, who dares to despise the energy of the imperial court? A few examples.

For example, the former Sikong Yang Biao, he successively replaced Huang Wan as Situ and Zhu Duo as Taiwei. Maybe everyone is a little unfamiliar with Yang Biao. But his son, that is, the one who was "chicken ribs!" Chicken! "Yang Xiu, who was killed by Cao Cao. You may be a little impressed.

Yang Biao, from Hongnong Yang's. Hongnong Yang is the only one in the late Han Dynasty that can be ranked with the Yuan family in Runan.

Runan Yuan, the third prince of the fourth generation; Hongnong Yang. It is also the fourth world and the third duke! At the end of the Han Dynasty, the wealthy family of the fourth and third princes. There are only two families of Runan Yuan and Hongnong Yang.

What especially makes Cao Cao taboo is that it is not only the huge energy of Hongnong Yang, but also the marriage relationship between Hongnong Yang and Runan Yuan! Yang Biao's wife is Yuan Shu's own sister! That is to say, Sikong Yang Biao is Yuan Shu's brother-in-law! They support and hold each other back. It's not like a sword can cut them all. Now, although the Yuan family is no longer in the past. But soon there will be a new family.

Another example is Chen Ji, that is Chen Qun's father!

Even if he ignores the high prestige of the Yingchuan Chen family, Cao Cao just wants Chen Qun to do his best under him, and he has to be polite to Chen Ji, right? There is also the Sima clan in Hanoi. Since Sima Yi's father, Sima Fang, he has been an official in the imperial court, and in Sima's generation, there is a saying that Sima Bada.

There is also Zhong Xuan. He is not only in history, he is now guarding Chang'an for Cao Cao, and everyone should know his son Zhong Hui quite well. There is also Kong Rong, who was killed by Cao Cao, and Xun Yu, who wanted to kill but didn't get it......

In this era of word of mouth, fame is enough to arm an army in an instant, and it can also crush a prince. Cao Cao is an excellent politician, so he naturally understands the power. Xun Yu ran away, but he couldn't continue to pursue Xun Yu.

After the Battle of Fancheng, Cao Cao's loss of hundreds of thousands of soldiers (most of them his elite Qingzhou soldiers) was difficult to recover for a while, and Ma Chao and Han Sui even took the opportunity to occupy the west of Tongguan.

finally took a break from the southern expedition to Sun Quan, but was attacked by Liu Cong from behind. If Cao Cao chooses to continue the stalemate with Liu Cong in Nanyang, regardless of the outcome or defeat, the nature of his war may then change from an expanded battle of unification to a battle for strategic points, and a tug-of-war between the three families will inevitably begin to take shape. So Cao Cao chose to bend and retract his fingers and wait until they were clenched into a fist before attacking.

Because of the Duke of Wei, Cao Cao also lost his most important advisor, Xun Yu, which also affected his military decision-making to some extent. Xun Yu strongly persuaded Cao Cao to welcome the Han Emperor to Xudu, but the purpose was to hope that Cao Cao would use this to "serve the Lord, uphold justice, and support Hongyi", and it was his principle to support the Han Dynasty, and he also died for it. Xun Yu, who has followed Cao Cao for many years and has been loyal and has made many meritorious achievements, is still like this, and the political pressure that Cao Cao can feel can be seen.

The so-called "coercion of the Son of Heaven to order the princes" to bring political capital to Cao Cao is probably far less than the political pressure it brings. Although Mao Jue persuaded Cao Cao that "it is advisable to serve the Son of Heaven and not to obey", in fact, after Cao Cao welcomed the Son of Heaven in the first year of Jian'an, he faced the situation that "Yuan Shao was not convinced...

Cao Cao was born in the most discriminatory eunuch family of the scholars, and started with military merits, employing people on the basis of merit, not believing in the mandate of heaven, strictly enforcing the legal system, and inhibiting mergers, each of which ran counter to the concept of the scholars. He has never had a strong cohesive force against the national gentry group.

Although the Central Plains Shi group has many attachments in view of the local and orthodox concepts, the local groups such as Jingxiang, Yizhou, and Jiangdong do not buy much of it. On the other hand, Liu Cong and Sun Quan both received strong support from the Shi clan. Especially Liu Cong, a relative of the Han family!

Zhuge Liang himself came from the Langya Shi clan, and had many marriages with the Jingxiang Shi clan, Liu Cong, as Liu Biao's successor, the stability of his position in Jingxiang largely relied on the arrow foundation laid by Liu Biao, as well as the support of Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Ma Liang and other local scholars.

The so-called outside must first be settled inside, internal problems are worrying about the lungs, and Cao Cao also knows that Sun Liu is a great person, and he can not get rid of it for a while. Cao Cao is the oldest of the three! This is also a hard injury of Cao Cao, presumably Cao Cao will also sigh because of this.

Cao Cao was a smart man, and he certainly knew that military advisors could not solve all problems. And Liu Cong listed the problems faced by Cao Cao through Xu Shu. Cao Cao then chose to strike after careful consideration!

Three years can be used to stabilize Cao Cao's internal rule and see the current situation clearly. Of course, military action is indispensable, but I don't know which one is unlucky. But Liu Cong believes that it is definitely not himself.

The Son of Heaven is coming, Cao Cao has withdrawn! Three years, Liu Cong didn't want to waste it. In Liu Cong's view, today's Cao Cao army far surpasses him in terms of overall strength and reserves of military generals. It's too early to compete with Cao Cao! Liu Cong's purpose is to use the past three years to sit firmly in second place and constantly enhance his strength! If possible, to weaken Koto.

If you can seize Jiaozhou, or Yuzhang, Lujiang and other counties, you will have almost the entire Yangtze River, and you will have the natural risk and capital to fully confront Cao Cao. As a superior person, Liu Cong will certainly not be naïve enough to be an ally with Sun Quan all the time. His ambition is to unify China and support the Han Dynasty. Even a small prince like Zhang Lu, who only occupies a county, can't tolerate it, not to mention that Sun Quan is geographically handed over to the state and Yangzhou tightly wraps Jingzhou! Such an ally could stab him in the back at any time.

And the reason why Sun Quan was willing to ally with Liu Cong was because he had a common and powerful enemy, Cao Cao. Now Sun Quan has settled in Jiangdong and owns two states. And seeing that the allies are also growing stronger day by day, Sun Quan's mind must not be as good as before. So Liu Cong also decided to make a plan early.

So after returning to Xiangyang, in addition to rewarding the ministers. Liu Cong immediately convened the civil and military officials in Jingzhou to discuss the next course of action. At the same time, the defense of the area was rearranged. Xinye and Jiangxia County re-established Zhangling County, and Guan Yu was the Taishou of Zhangling. In this way, he and Xinye Wenpin, two generals, jointly guarded most of the borders of Jingbei bordering Cao Cao. It can also ensure the absolute safety of Xiangyang as the imperial capital.

Xiangyang County was newly established, with jurisdiction over Xiangyang County, Zhonglu County, Shandu County, Yicheng County, Ye County, Linfu County, Juan County, and Hanyang County, and Zhang Song was promoted to Xiangyang Taishou.

Liu Pan still returned to Changsha and served as the Changsha Taishou.

In order to strengthen his rule over Yizhou, Liu Cong set up Liangzhou in Guanghan, Dongguanghan, Ba County, Brazil, Yong'an County, Fuling, Zitong and the eight counties of Hanzhong in the hands of Zhang Lu. Liu Cong led the pastor of Liang Prefecture by himself, and when he was not appointed, he promoted Jiang Wan to handle all government affairs in the state as the county governor.

Wei Yan was the general of Zhenshu and the governor of Yizhou, and he led the army and important political affairs. Xu Shu served as the county governor of Yizhou Mu Liu Cong, responsible for Yizhou government affairs and Wei Yan's military division. Zhuge Liang returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion. Two infantry battalions were set up in Chengdu and Zitong, and Zhang Ren was the commander of the Zitong battalion, responsible for the defense of Liangzhou.

Yu Ban was transferred back to Xiangyang and was responsible for the garrison of Fancheng and Xiangyang County. Huang Zu continued to lead the Nanjun Taishou and the Jiangling Infantry Battalion. In short, Liu Cong's subordinates, especially those civil and military officials personally invited by Liu Cong after taking power, have been promoted and reused, while the so-called Jingzhou and Yizhou departments are intertwined and contain each other......

For such an arrangement, Emperor Liu Xie basically couldn't interject. However, he used this as a quid pro quo and forcibly summoned Jiang Li into the public, Liu Xie's practice shocked the people of Xiangyang very much, and also made Prime Minister Liu Cong very "angry"!