On that day, Cao Cao sent troops eastward to rescue Jibei and Dongping. The thieves were huge, and Cao Cao wanted to divide his troops to surround and intercept them.

Cao Ang asked Ying to lead the troops to sneak attack the back of the Yellow Turban Thieves. Cao Cao ordered the Xiahou brothers to assist him.

Cao Ang really had talent, and when Cao Cao's main force was fighting with the Yellow Turban Thieves, he entered from the rear of the Yellow Turban Thieves, broke the Yellow Turban Thieves, and the siege of Dongping Kingdom was resolved.

Cao Cao was overjoyed and set up a banquet to celebrate. Cao Ang didn't like to drink, but after a drink, he stood aside.

Cao Cao didn't mind this kind of subsection, let him go.

Full of wine and food, Cao Cao returned to the camp with the support of Dian Wei.

"Where's Childe?"

Dian Wei said: "Go back to the camp tent to study." ”

Cao Cao was stunned for a while, and sighed: "I, Cao Mengde, have a grudge against Guo Yi, but how can my son take it as an example. ”

Dian Wei said: "The son loves to read, which is the blessing of the lord." ”

"Hmm......" Cao Cao was depressed when he thought of this matter, and shook his hand, "Go and ask An Min to find me a prostitute." ”

"No."

Cao Anmin was very neat, but after a stick of incense, he found a prostitute.

Just when Cao Cao was having fun with the prostitute, he suddenly remembered the alarm. The Yellow Turban Thief is actually attacking at night!

Outside the tent, there was a shout from Xiahoudun, "Get up!" Get ready to meet the enemy! ”

Dian Wei rushed in and said anxiously: "Lord, retreat!" The Yellow Turban Thief has come in! ”

Cao Cao hurriedly put his pants up and was about to go out, but the yellow turban thief had already killed in front of the camp. Dian Wei struggled to kill the two, and shouted: "The lord retreats quickly!" ”

"Ang'er!" Cao Cao hurriedly ran out of the tent, turned over on his horse, and called out to Cao Ang.

"It's Cao Cao! Cao Cao is here! Kill! ”

The Yellow Turban Thief immediately found him, and hundreds of people rushed over at once.

Cao Cao was so frightened that he turned around and ran, not caring about anything.

"Father!" Cao Ang rode a horse and brought a team to the rescue. "Father go first! I'm broken! ”

"Good!" Cao Cao didn't think that his son would be in danger like this, so he would run for his life first.

There are a large number of yellow turban thieves, and they have already killed red eyes. Cao Ang's team couldn't resist Ben.

Cao Ang's martial arts were average, and after being surrounded by yellow turban thieves, he only killed two or three people before being stabbed down by a spear. The Yellow Turban Thief couldn't catch Cao Cao, so he sprinkled all his anger on Cao Ang and slashed him into pieces.

Cao Cao ran all the way west, until he ran back to the territory of Dongjun, and then he began to organize his troops and start a counterattack.

After all, the Yellow Turban thieves are just a rabble, and when Cao Cao straightens out his team and fights back again, they still only have to scatter and flee!

Cao Cao's army besieged some of the Yellow Turban thieves by the Wenshui River. Faced with the Yellow Turban Thieves' pleas and surrender, Cao Cao coldly gave the order to slaughter. Tens of thousands of yellow turban thieves were all killed in Wenshui, and the blood flowed like a river.

Cao Ang, Dian Wei, Cao Anmin, and Cao Hong died in the chaos, and their deaths were extremely miserable, they couldn't even put together a complete corpse, and their intestines and stomachs had already been trampled into pulp.

Before Cao Cao could rest, Cao Ang and the others were buried. There was another urgent report, Yanzhou assassin Liu Dai was killed by the Yellow Turban Thief in Taishan County! Jibei Prime Minister Bao Xin and others said that Cao Cao was recommended as the pastor of Yanzhou and pacified the Yellow Turban.

Cao Cao didn't care about burying his son and beloved generals. Hurriedly took the seal ribbon first and sent troops to Jibei to rescue.

After more than two months of fierce fighting, the Yellow Turban Army was finally wiped out. This battle not only made Cao Cao become a state pastor and led Yanzhou, but also gained a lot of generals in Taishan County, and his strength increased greatly!

After returning to Changyi County, the capital of Yanzhou, there was time to bury and pay tribute to Cao Ang and others. Cao Cao was silent in front of Cao Ang's tomb, but he wailed and cried in front of Dian Wei's tomb.

The crowd was made to tears of gratitude for his play, and they expressed their willingness to achieve great things for the lord.

Subsequently, Cao Cao sent people to pick up his family in Qian County to Yanzhou. But I only received a letter from my concubine, and my wife, Mrs. Ding, left a letter, and went back to my parents' house by myself! In the letter, Cao Cao was scolded for killing her son, and she would never forgive this in her life.

Cao Cao is already a pastor of Yanzhou, and if he wants to return to Yuzhou, he can only rely on fighting back. But Yuzhou was Yuan Shu's territory, and since Cao Cao worshiped the Taishou of Dongjun, Yuan Shu had begun to restrict him militarily. Cao Cao could only put aside the idea of returning to his hometown for the time being.

Originally, the twenty or thirty large and small princes who arose at the time of the war against Dong had formed several major forces by this time.

There is Youzhou Mu Liu Yu in the north, but Gongsun Zhan, as a general, has heavy troops and competes with Liu Yu for control of Youzhou. Liaodong, further north, is the territory of Gongsun Du.

Central Plains, Jizhou Mu Yuan Shao, Yanzhou Mu Cao Cao, Qingzhou Mu Tian Kai, Xuzhou Mu Tao Qian, Yuzhou Mu Yuan Shu. They basically rule a state, and there are no other small forces in the region to divide the counties.

In the southern region, Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao, Yizhou Mu Liu Yan. Since Guo Yi in Yangzhou, there is no state pastor, and the four surnames of Wu Zhi are divided and ruled.

In addition, there is Liangzhou Mu Yang Bo. But at this time, Yang Bo was not self-reliant, and it can be said that he was the last state pastor in the world who still obeyed the orders of the imperial court and paid tribute to the imperial court!

The division has Dong Zhuo, and the state has Guo Yi. Of these two people, one is a thief who controls the emperor. One is in the name of Taifu, but he does deviant things.

At this moment, everyone believes that this world will fall into the hands of these people.

After Cao Cao gained a foothold in Yanzhou, he began to rapidly develop his strength, intending to break away from Yuan Shao's control. Yanzhou is also a rich Central Plains region, as long as it is managed properly, he is fully capable of dominating one side.

And at this time, a handsome son came to Yanzhou and asked to see Cao Cao.

"Yingchuan Xunyu, I have come to visit Cao Gong, please inform."

"Wen Ruo!" Cao Cao ran out shouting all the way, not even wearing shoes.

The two have been negotiating for a long time, discussing major events in the world. Xun Yu gave three suggestions, "First, you must obey the Son of Heaven and not obey the order. Second, first Yuzhou, then Xuzhou, then Qingzhou, and finally north to Jizhou. Third, run Luoyang to stifle Guo Yi from going south. ”

Cao Cao questioned: "I heard that Guo Yihe has become a cripple, and he can't speak. There will be civil strife, so why not take this opportunity to go north? ”

Xun Yu said: "Now that Mrs. Guo is in Bingzhou and across prefectures and counties, the three people who sit on pins and needles are Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao, and Gongsun Zhan. Therefore, we should wait and see what happens, and see them and clam fighting each other, and we fishermen will benefit. ”

Cao Cao said again: "There are no resourceful people in our army, I don't know if Mr. can recommend anyone?" ”

Xun Yu said: "There are talents in the same county, who can help Cao Gong." ”

"Thank you, sir." Cao Cao worshipped Xun Yu as the Sima of other departments and stayed in the army. Call it "My Son's Room".

Let's talk about Guo Yi's side. He has been paralyzed for eight months. On September 1, Lu Zhenjing and Zhang Yulan's mother and daughter found Guo Yi and said that they had dreamed of Nuwa Niangniang.

Nuwa reprimanded Guo Yi for possessing Taihang Mountain, but not going to worship, which violated human ethics. And he explained in detail the process and specifications of the worship. If he doesn't go, he won't live to be an adult.

For this kind of ghost and god theory, Cai Yan naturally doesn't believe it. But the matter of sacrificing Nuwa has been decided a long time ago. In order to set up a god of destiny for Guo Yi.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the Five Elements Doctrine was popular, and the change of dynasties needed to be based on the reincarnation of the Five Elements. The consistent method adopted by the princes of the past dynasties is to trace their ancestors to who is among the five emperors, and then prove that they belong to a certain virtue.

The Han Dynasty was Huode, so it should be replaced by Tude.

This thing, once it is proposed, cannot be changed casually. Changing it is equivalent to changing a new ancestor. In the Chinese cultural circle, this belongs to the category of forgetting ancestors in the number of classics.

Guo Yi wants to worship Nuwa, of course there is no problem.

But the problem is that the main branch of the Guo clan is the surname Guo that originated in the two counties of Yangqu and Yuanping north of Jinyang, that is, the Xinding Basin, and got the surname from the state of Yu. It belongs to the earliest Kwok family.

The other branch comes from the surname Ren, and the main descendants are distributed in the Zhongshan Kingdom. Among them, the Guo family of Empress Guo of Guangwu Emperor is a native of Zhending County. In terms of blood, Guo Yi belongs to this branch. This is something that is explicitly mentioned in the family tree, and it can be traced! And this branch originated from the Dongyi tribe, and it can't be traced back to the Yellow Emperor, so it can't be vassalized Tude.

What virtue does Nuwa belong to? Huode. This is the virtue of the Han Dynasty.

Cai Yan convened everyone to discuss, and now there is no Nuwa Temple in various places, and the official is generally to worship the Yellow Emperor. To carry out a sacrificial event, a lot of preparation is required. Moreover, there is no way to solve the problem of Guo Yi's "virtue".

Wang Ming is the proposer of the plan, so he naturally has his own arguments. "Let's adopt Wang Mang's previous 'Five Elements Xiang Ke Theory', in this way, Han is Tude, and the eldest brother is ordered by Nuwa to be Mude, Muketu!"

Cai Yan read the most books among these people, and immediately raised objections, "Nuwa is a native virtue, and it has existed since ancient times. ”

"Anyway, this thing was made up by Zou Yan." Wang Ming had a rogue and hooligan expression on his face, and said disdainfully: "Then we still engage in the theory of 'five elements are born together', and Han is the fire virtue." Guo's is the virtue of the earth, and the fire gives birth to the earth. Otherwise, Han is Mude, Guo is Jinde, and Jin Kemu is Jinkemu. ”

Cai Yan understood it, this thing didn't take these gods and ghosts seriously at all, and he didn't expect this thing to convince the people of the world. He just wanted to engage in such a ceremony to add another layer of mythology to Guo Yi.

"What do you think?"

Fan Xin smiled and said, "I think so!" It's a big deal to let Ryusi send out a few more newspapers to publicize it. ”

The dragon raised his hand and said, "I have a writer there, and I promise to blow it all over the place." ”

"Hahaha!"

The crowd burst into laughter. They all followed Guo Yi to fight the world, and the dragoon camp even read and wrote with Guo Yi. What kind of teacher there is, what kind of students will be taught. In Guo Yi's eyes, benevolence, righteousness and morality are bullshit, and cows, ghosts, snakes and gods are all toys. As long as you can justify yourself, it doesn't matter if it's reasonable!

Can the Five Elements Doctrine justify itself? Absolutely! It's, whatever you want!

Jiao Zhongqing burst out, "Doesn't the lord like black?" We are also people who rule the country according to law. Black is the virtue of water, the main punishment. Just a match for us. Moreover, water overcomes fire! ”

The crowd laughed and exclaimed, "Wonderful! ”

Fan Xindao: "According to Xiangke, the Han Dynasty is Tude. ”

Wang Ming asked rhetorically, "Who said that?" ”

Cai Yan said: "Don't worry about so much, in general, just go and sacrifice to Nuwa and give her a water virtue." And then from us on, it's a mutual restraint. Long Si is ready to write articles and promote more. ”

"When and where?"

"Since Nuwa dreamed that her husband would not live to be twenty, she would sacrifice on the day of her husband's twentieth birthday. What are your good suggestions for locations? ”

Fan Xindao: "Let's choose the mountains in the north of Meng County." It was renamed Nuwa Mountain, which was specially used to worship Nuwa. ”

"Okay."

Spread out the map, this mountain is surrounded by plains on all sides, just between the Xinding Basin and the Fenhe Plain, just right.

Guo Yi was born on September 9, and in such a short period of time, he didn't have time to prepare too much. Only one altar was set up, and a cow and a sheep were killed to complete the sacrifice.

Cai Yan personally pushed Guo Yi up the mountain, and Fan Xin recited the congratulatory speech impassionedly.