"Tao Qian killed Cao Song?"

"Tao Qian wanted to get involved in Jiangdong, but he was blocked by Cao Cao several times, and now he is taking revenge with resentment, it is not surprising, why is the lord surprised?" Chengdu, Hussar Mansion, Xi Zhicai flipped through the information sent recently, heard Ye Zhao's surprised voice, and turned his head to look at Ye Zhaodao.

"It's just a conflict of interest, and it's a bit too much for your family, right?" Ye Zhao shook his head: "It's not that you don't die, it's unwise to do this, and you provoke Cao Cao in vain, or is it that he Tao Qian is confident that he can defeat Cao Cao?" ”

"It's not impossible!" Xi Zhicai spread out a map of Xuzhou and said: "Tao Qian and Cao Cao had friction before, several battles, each with a victory, should be a sure victory, is to provoke Cao Cao, lure Cao Cao to attack Xuzhou, with a defensive advantage, consume Cao Cao's sharp energy, and when Cao's army is tired, he will defend as an attack, Tao Gongzu is scheming, how can he complain about Cao Cao for no reason?" I can't say, then Yuan Shu is probably ready to join forces with Tao Qian to annex Cao Cao, and the battle between the two Yuan in the Central Plains has been completed, but this time it was Yuan Shu who took the lead. ”

Ye Zhao raised his eyebrows, but suddenly realized that he had been too entangled in historical events, but he had not thought deeply about the stakes.

Judging from the results, Tao Qian's move is undoubtedly unwise, but if the results are aside, Tao Qian's sudden action must have a deep meaning, judging from the level that Cao Cao showed before, the strength of the Xuzhou army and Cao Cao's Yanzhou army is not much different, Tao Qian intends to cross the river to take the Danyang area to give himself a deep space, and Cao Cao, in order to avoid a big enemy in his east, is to spoil Tao Qian's move to the south several times, Tao Qian intends to get rid of this stumbling block.

And from the perspective of the pattern of the Central Plains, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao are now considered a family, even after Cao Cao received Yanzhou Mu, he did not break away from Yuan Shao, and was sandwiched between the two Yuan to survive, and then it was the alliance between Yuan Shu, Tao Qian and Qingzhou Mutian Kai or Gongsun Zan behind it.

This alliance is not close, but when needed, it can still cooperate, Tao Qian wants to go south to occupy the land of Jiangdong, Yuan Shu intends to take Yanzhou and Yuzhou in his hands, and Cao Cao, who is sandwiched in the middle, naturally becomes a stumbling block, and it is not difficult to understand if he wants to join forces to get rid of it.

It's just that the two underestimated Cao Cao's strength, or overestimated themselves, so it seems that Tao Qian, who is a good old man in Romance, is actually not a positive character.

It's just that without Liu Bei's coincidence, Sun Zhan, the son of the north, and Liu Yu are competing with each other, and Yuan Shu doesn't know for what purpose, he didn't make a move, can Tao Qian survive this catastrophe......

Ye Zhao banged on the table, looked at Xi Zhicai and said, "If Cao Cao annexes Xuzhou, these princes of the Quartet, except for Yuan Shao, I am afraid that no one will be his opponent!" ”

Liu Bei is now too well-guarded, quite valued by Liu Yu, Lu Bu is now in Nanyang, busy consolidating his power, as for the generals in Guanzhong, I am afraid that they have no intention of interfering in the disputes in the Central Plains, which invisibly reduces the difficulty of Cao Cao's annexation of Xuzhou, Xuzhou, next, it is Yuan Shu and Lu Bu!

Yuan Shu is powerful, and Lu Bu is brave, but Ye Zhao really doesn't think these two people can withstand Cao Cao!

"What the lord said is not bad, Cao Cao fought in the tiger prison, his reputation spread far and wide, and he got many talents to serve, and the princes were quite friendly with him, and he had accumulated a lot of experience in the past three years, and his subordinates were all elite generals, Tao Qian was afraid that he was not his opponent, so Cao Cao was afraid that he would unify the Central Plains before the lord integrated Yizhou." Xi Zhicai looked up at Ye Zhaodao.

In Ye Zhaohe's plan for Xi Zhicai, the integration of Shuzhong is not just as simple as occupying territory, from education, agriculture, industry, commerce and even the all-round reform of the official system, this process will take at least ten years to be preliminarily completed, and then it will be the time for Ye Zhao to leave Sichuan.

In this process, Ye Zhao naturally did not want a unified situation in the Central Plains.

"In the imperial court, Tao Qian is old and faint, and he is good at killing celebrities, which is not enough to shepherd one side, and he is named Chen Qi as the assassin of Xuzhou, and Chen Deng is a different driver." Ye Zhao put down the book and looked at Xi Zhicaidao.

Chen's father and son are Xuzhou celebrities, if the imperial court approved Ye Zhao's book, dismissed Tao Qian, and let Chen's father and son take over Xuzhou, then Cao Cao would have lost the righteousness of attacking Xuzhou.

Although this righteousness is just a banner, without this fig leaf, first of all, morally, Cao Cao will not be able to stand on his feet, and at the same time, it can also lead to other changes, such as the intervention of Yuan Shu and Lu Bu, which isolates Cao Cao entirely, forming an embattled situation, and forcing him back.

Of course, the premise is that Cao Cao is unwilling to withdraw his troops, and the imperial court is willing to accept Ye Zhao's recital, and there is another point, Chen Qi is willing to take over Xuzhou at this time and Tao Qian is willing to abdicate.

If any point cannot be reached, it cannot be promoted, the Central Plains is beyond the reach of Ye Zhao, there are too many uncertain factors, and he can only try his best to contain Cao Cao, after all, the road he wants to take is not as simple as fighting for hegemony in the world, and he must not disrupt his steps because of the situation in the Central Plains.

"The lord has a wonderful plan." Xi Zhicai smiled and nodded.

"The New Year is approaching, what happened to those disciples who sent out to practice?" Ye Zhao didn't continue to bother with this issue, he did everything he could, as for the rest, look at those artificializations.

"This is this year's tax, the lord will know it by looking at it." Xi Zhicai smiled and handed the various bookstores collected by his subordinates to Ye Zhao.

"Say it." Ye Zhao put down the booklet and asked with a smile.

"Because of the effectiveness of manure, and the reason why the plan of low taxes of the lord has been implemented, the people are full of energy, many people this year reclamation, these newly reclaimed fields are recorded, but according to the previous regulations of the lord, the government has not been recovered, but still owned by the people, and the people themselves reclaim the land, can enjoy the advantage of paying taxes a year, this year, the three counties in Shuzhong have reclaimed millions of acres of wasteland, plus the means of manure application and enthusiasm to improve, only this year, the grain tax received by various places is three times that of last year, The county treasury is full, and even the price of grain has plummeted in many places, and there is too much surplus grain in the hands of the people! Xi Zhicai smiled.

"That's a good thing." Ye Zhao nodded with satisfaction, this amount is almost the limit, and if it is reclaimed, it will destroy the ecology.

"According to the meaning of the lord's encouragement of animal husbandry, many people have exchanged grain for cattle, horses, and chickens, and now the lord should be worried about the excessive grain in the treasury." Xi Zhicai shook his head, even when the Han was at its most brilliant, there had never been a situation where there was so much food that he couldn't eat it.

"Since ancient times, Cang Liao knows etiquette, and when he is full, he should also think about reading, right?" Ye Zhao said with a smile.

"Not bad!" Xi Zhicai nodded and said: "The schools in all counties are overcrowded, according to the reports of the counties, since the autumn harvest, the supply of books in the libraries around the country has been in short supply, and the new books printed by the bookstore will soon be sold out. ”

The matter of the imperial examination, Ye Zhao had carefully studied with Xi Zhicai, in terms of the knowledge coverage of the Han Dynasty at that time, there was no soil for survival in the imperial examination, and the people who studied were all from the family, and there were not many children from the poor family.

If the imperial examination wants to succeed, there need to be enough scholars, and when it can't even solve the problem of food and clothing, how can ordinary people have the heart to study?

This is also the reason why the first thing Ye Zhao did after entering Shu was not to build bridges and pave roads, not to build a large number of civil works, nor to prosper merchants, but to spare no effort to develop agriculture and put almost half of his energy on the promotion of manure.

After the people's stomachs are filled first, and the most basic guarantees of food and clothing are satisfied, the people will think about higher pursuits.

"Ten years of waiting!" Ye Zhao said with a smile: "This first step has been achieved, and the next step is to release more labor, and those seeders, lawn mowers, and heavy plows that the Shengong Battalion has recently made can also be put in." ”

Encourage more people to study, in order to provide Ye Zhao with enough management talents, but it is impossible for everyone to run to manage, the rise and fall of a force or a country, not depends on how much management, but the rise and fall of all walks of life, these industries are the ones who create wealth for the country, and the managers are distributing wealth, and too many managers are not conducive to the prosperity of the country.

It is also for this reason that from the very beginning, in addition to learning, all academies have been equipped with mathematics and martial arts, although they are unpopular, but they must be had, and the next step is to make great efforts in this area and cultivate a large number of craftsmen, after all, not everyone is suitable for being officials.

"In addition, I intend to set up a department called the Ministry of Law based on Man Zhong and Xia Houlan, which is independent of officialdom and is only responsible for me and for maintaining the majesty of the law......"

In fact, Ye Zhao's ultimate goal, this department is responsible for supervising officials, but in troubled times, if he really does this, I am afraid it will cause panic among the hundreds of officials under his command, so Ye Zhao just let this department be responsible for implementing the law and supervising hundreds of officials, and if it is done after the world is stable in the future, the function is similar to that of the Jinyi Guard in later generations, but it is different.

"This matter ......" Xi Zhicai frowned: "I'm afraid that special legislation is needed, otherwise if this ministry has no standards and acts wantonly, there will be something that disrupts the law." ”

It's not that I suspect that Man Favor is in the new system, but now Ye Zhao is building a new system, and it will be passed on in the future, this first generation is okay, Ye Zhao can be the master, and Man Favor is also a person who is strict with himself, but it does not mean that after a hundred years of Ye Zhao and Man Favor, the successor still has Ye Zhao's mind and ability to break off and the self-discipline ability of Man Favor.

"I've made it drafted, and then you and I will help you." Ye Zhao nodded, he naturally knew that if this department could not be controlled well, it might even destroy a country, but Ye Zhao had experience in later generations, although it was not perfect, but at this time, it was completely enough to make a little change.