823, Cao Cao's death

Cao Cao's loud shout also made Zhu Weijun's archers and crossbowmen identify the target.

So when Zhu Wei spoke, Cao Cao had already been pierced through the heart by ten thousand arrows, and his whole body was shot like a hedgehog by feather arrows and crossbow arrows, and he naturally lost his vitality.

However, the people who followed Cao Cao to kill this time are really not afraid of death, even if many people fall off their horses, as long as they can move, they will still charge forward, but what they ask for is not to kill the enemy, but to seek death.

"Whoosh ......"

There was no fighting between the blades at all, and the nearly 5,000 remnants brought by Cao Cao only fell to the ground one by one in the rain-like feather arrows and crossbow arrows, and gradually no one could stand up again.

On the main street in front of Puyang East City, blood flowed all over the ground for a while, whether it was a war horse or a human body, it was full of arrows, and they almost all fell under the feather arrows and crossbow arrows shot on the city wall.

However, Zhu Wei, who was watching this scene on the city wall, did not have any change in his expression, even if Cao **, who was famous in the history of the Three Kingdoms, was here, Zhu Wei no longer seemed to feel anything to be surprised and enjoyed.

For Zhu Wei, what is Cao Cao now.

Zhu Wei, who has already occupied nearly ten of the thirteen states in the world, is almost in control of the world, and the rest is just a northern Yuan Shao.

However, under Zhu Wei's previous arrangements, Bingzhou had already fallen into Zhu Wei's hands, and Yuan Shao's remaining Yizhou, Qingzhou, and Youzhou were also infiltrated by Ma Teng's Fubo Battalion, Zhang Xiu, Zhang Liao's Tiger Wing Battalion, and Cai Mao's army.

It can be said that Yuan Shao is already a half-dead fish and turtle on the chopping board, just waiting for Zhu Wei to draw a knife and break his stomach.

Therefore, today's Cao ** in Puyang City, for Zhu Wei, it only means that Zhu Wei's battle against Cao Cao has been successfully completed, and it is not worth Zhu Wei to be too excited.

It's a pity that judging from the current situation, many important ministers and generals under Cao Cao seem to have died here, which makes Zhu Wei a little helpless.

However, Zhu Wei doesn't care, since they are willing to die with Cao Cao, even if they are captured by Zhu Wei, I am afraid that they will not easily come out of Zhu Wei's side, then they will die if they die.

So Zhu Wei just ordered people to identify who followed Cao Cao out to die, and then the army entered the city to sweep away the remnants of Cao's army, completely taking this Puyang City into the bag.

The battle in Puyang City will end in such an ending, which is both unexpected and expected.

However, Zhu Wei received nearly 70,000 soldiers from the Cao army, and it is also a problem to deal with them, among which the newly recruited Cao soldiers are easy to deal with, basically directly select the young and strong among them, and send the others back home.

As for the other original second-line troops and local garrison units of the Cao Army, they still have to be eliminated and screened, and then they can be reorganized.

So Zhu Wei simply sat in Puyang temporarily, as a government affairs center for a while.

Zhu Wei wanted to thoroughly regulate the newly occupied places such as Yanzhou and Yuzhou, but this time Zhu Wei's attack on Cao Cao actually did not take place a few battles, and many local counties and townships basically took the initiative to surrender.

Then Cao Cao moved the central court of the Han dynasty in Xudu to Puyang, although at this time these officials except for a few idle positions, most of the other important official positions were occupied by Cao Cao's people, but at least Cao Cao was also in control of the central court of the Han Dynasty.

And now after Zhu Wei occupied Puyang City, he took over the central court of the Han dynasty in an official sense.

In this way, Zhu Wei simply held a court meeting in Puyang City as the regent of the Ming King and issued a decree, and then gave official positions to his subordinates, so the officials of the central court of the Han family were basically controlled by Zhu Wei's people.

At the same time, Zhu Wei also abolished Yuan Shao's so-called title of general and all other official titles, only saying that all this was a false order issued by Cao Cao to hold the Son of Heaven hostage, and now Zhu Wei naturally will not admit all this.

In this way, Zhu Wei completely beat Yuan Shao as a first-class rebel party in the name of righteousness, showing the world that Yuan Shao and Cao Cao were colluding to cause trouble to the court, and should be the rebel ministers of the world.

Of course, with Zhu Wei eliminating Cao Cao in the first battle of Puyang, thus taking over the so-called central court of the Han family, the world is also full of public opinion.

In particular, the news of Zhu Wei's regency of King Ming spread, and everyone in the world knew that the Han family was going to die and a new dynasty would be established, and then almost everyone in the world was talking about how Zhu Wei was.

Among them, the most concerned is naturally the scholar family, which is the largest local power today, and they must also take a stand at this time.

In order to continue their family, they will often wait and see the situation at the first time, so as to throw an olive branch to the new lord of the world, so as to obtain the approval of the new lord of the world, and then maintain their family power and continue their control over the place.

But Zhu Wei had all kinds of means in Jiangnan before, and in the eyes of many people from the scholar family, they could naturally see some mysteries, and they couldn't help but worry that if Zhu Wei ascended to the throne of the Son of Heaven, the implementation of these policies and systems in Jiangnan in the world would have a great impact on them.

For example, Zhu Wei's method of using land as the subject matter of taxation made the scholar families who actually controlled a large amount of land a little uncomfortable, and they originally occupied a large amount of land, but they could not pay much tax, but now they have to pay a lot of taxes.

This is an unprecedented thing, not only is it a matter of paying a lot of money and food, but more importantly, it has a great impact on the root cause of their use of the status of the scholar clan to accommodate the hidden population.

In fact, these noble families know very well that population is the greatest wealth.

Originally, many ordinary people just couldn't stand the taxes, so they would attach themselves to the family of scholars as slaves and servants, so that the family of scholars could control a large number of hidden people and become their hidden strength.

They can turn the hidden population into military strength at any time, and raise thousands of private soldiers at any time, but if the common people will not be taxed because of their heads, then why should they be attached to the door of the noble family.

To be a free man, who would want to be a slave to others?

And the loss of control of the population of the scholar family will greatly weaken their foundation, and their influence on the local area will become weaker and weaker.

In addition, Zhu Wei came forward to set up a school with the official to admit people from poor families and common people to enroll, which can also change the situation of the scholar family controlling and monopolizing the knowledge channel, so that in the long run, the children of the poor family and the common people will naturally be able to have knowledge and go out of the court, so the original advantage of the children of the scholar family in the official position will also be weakened, and their official influence will become smaller and smaller.

Therefore, from the point of view of their hearts, many scholar families are actually reluctant to accept Zhu Wei as the new lord of the world, and the methods implemented by Zhu Wei are more able to dig out their foundation than some of Cao Cao's previous methods, and make them have a sense of crisis.

But now that Zhu Wei's general trend has been achieved, although they still maintain a certain local influence, Zhu Wei's rise is too fast, and it is no longer something they can control......