Chapter 541: Cao Cao's Divine Decree
A hundred miles a day, in the current era, is definitely an unimaginable speed, that is, now Lu Peng has enough horses to pull the cart, plus with his unique four-wheeled carriage to achieve it Of course, the merchant buys military supplies along the way, and it is also the premise that he does not have to transport his own baggage to drag down the march.
But in any case, such a continuous high-intensity march still cannot last.
And at this time, Yuan Shao ceded Yizhou to Cao Cao, in exchange for Cao Cao's request to make him a Sikong to survive, and the news reached Lu Peng's hands.
At the same time, there was also an angel of the imperial court, officially decreed, Feng Xu Huang as the history of the Yizhou Thorn, Feng Lu Peng Youzhou Mu Yao led the history of the state assassination, in orthodoxy, Cao Cao still occupied the name of righteousness At the same time, Cao Cao also officially recognized that Lu Peng occupied the legitimacy of the state, I hope that Lu Peng will not get Longwangshu, and you should be content if you don't make any effort to get the state, don't rob me of the Yizhou that I want to get after my hard work.
At that time, Lu Peng took the holy decree from the emperor's envoy who was in the dust, and hated Yuan Shao's teeth: "You said that you are too angry, you are fighting with Cao Cao is a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, why don't you continue to occupy Yizhou and continue to follow Cao Ke like in history, why did you suddenly not play cards according to history and give him Yizhou to Cao Cao in name, and how good I am to you, such as me to you-" After thinking about it again, he muttered: "If you surrender to me, I will make you rich for a thousand years." β
For the lord's promise after the fact, all the people around him expressed their anger at Yuan Shao's ignorance of current affairs: "That's it, how good our lord was to you before, such as - how good he will be to you in the future, for exampleββ, anyway, you are a guy who doesn't know what to do." β
At this time, after trying hard to denounce Yuan Shao's ignorance of current affairs and ingratitude, Yang Feng still whispered: "The emperor's holy decree has been issued, and Yizhou has become the jurisdiction of Prime Minister Cao, so what should we do?" β
Lu Peng could only look at Yang Feng helplessly and painfully, and Lu Peng didn't even have the idea of refuting his question.
The reason is not that he does not have the ability to refute, but that he really feels powerless about the thoughts of people in this era.
He has been working hard to reverse the shackles of his subordinates on the imperial power, which is why he wants to drum up a cabinet system.
However, in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties to the present, thousands of years up and down, an inherent concept has been formed, that is, the worship of imperial power, in fact, although this concept has been constantly changed by itself, but the effect is not very great. For example, this time he was released by the cabinet and continued to fight the world, not that he had a son, although the son was still nursing and not yet full moon, but this had already made his subordinates feel the inheritance of imperial power, and they needed to have an object to worship, and they gave it to them, which was enough.
But no matter what you do, under the majesty of the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years, although Emperor Han Xian has become a veritable puppet, in the thinking formed by the people for thousands of years, that is the real orthodoxy, that is the symbol of justice in the world, or not that the princes of the world are worried about the puppet emperor. Not all of them want to pull the tiger skin as a banner, but at this time, this tiger skin is indeed useful, in the minds of those elite literati in the world, this is orthodoxy, this is the spiritual pillar that should be loyal to.
In ancient times, if you want to play democracy, that is to find a dead end, in fact, Lu Peng can get this cabinet system, which has crossed the times and is not recognized by many people, the reason is that it spans too much, but fortunately, the span is too large, and it does not go beyond the category of people who ruled the world together at that time, otherwise, you only have a dead end.
But at this time, we must let go of what we have and start to face the current situation.
Cao Cao sacrificed his banner of coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and he had already occupied Yizhou in righteousness, which made Lu Peng feel very passive.
Even if a few of his subordinates asked themselves, it can be seen that their subordinates agree with each other in this way, ancient people are ancient people, and there is no way to educate the loyal monarch and patriotism from the mother's womb.
"Quickly ask where Zhao Yun has been? Where is the military advisor Tian Feng? Immediately let the Jinyi guards in front tell me about the enemy's situation, mainly Cao Cao's recent situation. Then he thought for a while: "Send a message to Xu Jie immediately and ask him to come to me to help immediately." β
Then Lu Peng stopped talking, lowered his head and held his water bowl, silent.
In this evil feudal society, the imperial power has suppressed everything, and the nonsense of righteousness has completely restrained everyone's thinking, but even if he is a person who travels through the country, in this environment, he can only follow the rules of this society, if he is too unconventional, he will be criticized by the people of the world, and he has only two destinations, one is to be a hermit like Qiao Xuan, and the other is to be pointed out by all the people in the world, and finally burned as wood.
As a hermit, Lu Peng is absolutely unwilling, and as a chopping wood, it is even more impossible.
What's left? Only slowly adapt to this era and change this era.
Now Lu Peng's most painful thing is here, in the end, according to his own ideological nature, he directly tears apart the hypocritical benevolence and morality of feudal society, so that Chiguoguo's interests are open, or he still has to adapt to this era with this era, and work with everyone to be a hypocrite.
This is a very difficult choice, everyone's hearts are actually based on interests, including all his subordinates, but all of them want to cover up this nature of pursuing interests under the high-sounding carelessness, which is the most troublesome thing for Lu Peng.
The whole army set up camp here, and after the rapid march, after a day's rest, he abandoned all the soldiers behind his back and walked in the camp in plain clothes.
Because of the implementation of the method of cash-for-work by themselves, using the excuse of having and not having, hiring those refugees who follow the army, and exchanging labor for their rations, so now the construction of the entire camp no longer needs soldiers, and the construction of tents and trenches is all done by the hired people, and the soldiers are responsible for the tense military guard, so that the soldiers save a lot of physical strength and truly achieve the purpose of resting for a day.
Walking through the rapidly built barracks, seeing the people cheering and earning food to support their families, and seeing the happy mood of the soldiers after they could help these people, Lu Peng's whole body and mind were relieved, but his heart was anxious.
Now he has the most critical choice, that is, whether to respect or not to respect the Han Xian Emperor issued from Cao Cao's mouth is the will.
Respect, in the eyes of the literati, he is still a loyal servant of the Han Dynasty.
But then you will be tied hand and foot.
If you do not obey, you will be tantamount to a complete break with the thinking of yourself and the entire Han bureaucracy, and the entire Han literati, and you will pay a very heavy price.
Go?