Chapter 549: The Power of Public Opinion
After Liu Feng's court dispersed, this document was sent from Xiangyang to all the counties under Liu Feng's jurisdiction, and even infiltrated the territory of Wei through various channels.
After Liu Feng announced that he was about to declare war on Wei and issued a proclamation, Liu Feng did not take any action on the surface except to publicize this proclamation on the Central Plains.
A few days later, Liu Feng's text was transmitted to Cao Zhi's court intact, in the face of such a long article, from the end of the Han Dynasty began to count Cao Cao's crimes, Cao Zhi was almost so angry that he couldn't even say it, Cao Cao was in Wei, that is a totem-like existence, absolutely not allowed any slander and blasphemy, and now Liu Feng actually said what Cao Cao did in his early years, how can this not make the courtiers of Wei angry?
However, anger is anger, when they look closely, the things written in Liu Feng's essay are all real things, Cao Cao was indeed in his early years because he occupied the advantage of controlling Liu Xie in his own hands, and after completely controlling the authority, Cao Cao's behavior was indeed a bit perverse, and he did not put Liu Xie, who was still the nominal emperor of the Han Dynasty at that time, in his eyes, and the queen who killed Liu Xie was also in full view, and there was no intention of avoiding the world at all.
If it is according to the previous situation, of course, there is no problem with Cao Cao's approach, because Cao Cao has become a dominant force in the Central Plains, when Cao Cao destroyed Yuan Shao, who was stronger than himself, there was no longer any force in the Central Plains that could compete with him, whether it was Liu Bei or Sun Quan at that time, Liu Zhang or Zhang Lu, they could not pose any threat to Cao Cao at all.
In Cao Cao's heart at that time, the Central Plains land would sooner or later belong to their Cao clan, and the remaining small forces would sooner or later be wiped out under the iron hooves of the Cao clan's army, Cao Cao would never have thought that a few years after his death, a mere Liu Bei's stepson would set off such a storm on the land of the Central Plains, and the intensity of this storm had even made the Wei regime that he had worked hard to create for half his life have a real risk.
Under such circumstances, it was extremely difficult for Cao Zhi to write an essay to refute Liu Feng's words, he couldn't help but admit the things that his father had done, because these things had been deeply ingrained in the hearts of the people of the dynasty, and he couldn't help but recognize the emperor's position that Liu Feng inherited from Liu Xie, because Liu Xie was still supported by Liu Feng in Xiangyang City at this time.
For Cao Zhi, the best thing to do at this time is naturally to send troops to Jingzhou or Yizhou, like Cao Cao, to conquer by force, but obviously, he has just tried this twice, and both ended in failure, he does not have the courage to try the third crusade against Liu Feng, not because he can no longer gather his two or three hundred thousand troops, but because even if he can lead hundreds of thousands of troops to Jingzhou again, then the consequences of another failure are something he cannot bear, he knows that once he fails again, It is likely that Liu Feng's army will pursue all the way to the territory of Wei, and in that case, he will be completely on the weak side.
Eventually, at the suggestion of the young courtiers of the Wei State, Cao Zhi had to take a cold approach to the matter, expecting that after a period of time, both the common people and the officials of the Wei State would forget about the appearance of this innocuous inscription, and by that time, the morale of the Wei State would have almost recovered, and the troops lost before would be replenished, and it was unknown whether they would regroup at that time.
But apparently they underestimated Liu Feng's strategy and the role that this letter played among the people, and although the rulers of this era also knew the importance of the people's will, they often did not pay attention to another issue, that is, the people's public opinion orientation.
When this letter appeared among the people on a large scale, the first news conveyed was that at this time, the only emperor on the land of the Central Plains, the emperor who was ordered by the heavens, was only Liu Feng, and Cao Zhi only temporarily acquired a large area of land in the northern part of the Central Plains because of some shady means of his father, Liu Feng would not allow such a situation to exist for a long time, so the rumors circulating among the people were that Liu Feng's army would attack Wei soon, eliminate this last enemy, and then restore the rule of the previous Han.
And such a vision is obviously what the people think, since the second emperor Huan Ling decades of war and chaos have made the people's lives miserable, they are extremely eager for reunification, and at this time there are only the last two forces left on the land of the Central Plains, which has not been the case for decades, and the reunification is obviously getting closer and closer, and Liu Feng's hand, so that most of the people in the world are unconsciously looking forward to his final unification of the world, not Cao Zhi.
After two months of fermentation, although Liu Feng did not take any action, the changes in Wei were obvious, as Cao Zhi and his courtiers expected that did not appear, the situation that appeared was that Wei's taxes were becoming more and more difficult to collect, and conscription was also in unprecedented difficulty, and a crisis within Wei was gradually emerging, and when Cao Zhi really realized this, it was obvious that he had lost the best opportunity to remedy.
The hot summer has gradually passed, and the climate in the Central Plains has gradually improved, and for Liu Feng, this kind of weather is also what he has been waiting for, because this kind of climate is the most suitable for using soldiers......
"Zilong, how is the mobile force of the Great Han assembled now?"
On this day, standing in front of Liu Cover is the dusty Zhao Yun, obviously, Zhao Yun has just returned to Xiangyang after a long journey, this state shows that the ministers of Xiangyang during this time are obviously not recuperating, but do not know what they are secretly arranging, and no matter what they are secretly arranged, it is not unrelated to Liu Feng's words of hegemony a few months ago.
"Now we have secretly concentrated a large number of sergeants in Yangping Pass in Hanzhong, because there were many defenders before Yangping Pass, so this transfer did not leak any rumors, now in Yangping Pass, plus the previous defenders have a total of 150,000 elite soldiers, General Meng Qi is already on standby in Yangping Pass, once the lord gives the order, he can go out of Yangping Pass!"
Obviously, Liu Feng used these few months to transfer the heavy troops that had been hoarded in Jingzhou to Yangping Pass, and if this matter reached the ears of Cao Zhi and Sima Yi, they would definitely be surprised, but obviously, they would not know.