1556 Don't Cause Trouble for Yourself

Cao Shuo got up early in the morning, said goodbye to Ding Yao, and came to the main gate of Cao's house.

Chen Zhi and the dragon pattern cavalry soldiers were already waiting there.

When he got on the horse, Cao Shuo said to Chen Zhi: "Send someone to tell the soldiers waiting in Donglai that for the time being, let the Sanhan people and the Gongsun family of Liaodong be free, and wait for me to spare time to fight them." ”

"Why didn't Childe fight again?" Chen Zhi asked in surprise.

"We're going to Xiliang." Cao Shuo said: "It will take two months to go back and forth, and when we come back, maybe the south will be chaotic again." How can you still have the leisure to deal with Sanhan and Liaodong? ”

"What about the North Sea Navy?" Chen Zhi asked.

Cao Shuo thought for a while and said: "Let Fu Zhu accompany Guo Zu to Beihai first, set up a navy on Sakhalin Island, and attack Sanhan, let them stand by first." ”

"I see." Chen arrived, and ordered a dragon rider to go to Huo Wu and convey Cao Shuo's order to Donglai.

"What is Childe doing in Xiliang this time?" Chen Zhi asked.

"Ma Teng and Han Sui fought." Cao Shuo said: "Father asked us to mediate. ”

"Who is Childe going to help?" Chen Zhi asked again.

"Help whom?" Cao Shuo said with a smile: "I won't help anyone, they beat them, if they can mediate, they will mediate, if they can't mediate, we will come back, but don't get yourself into the Xiliang war." ”

"It turns out that Childe has such a plan, no wonder he doesn't mobilize the army, and only takes us people over." Chen Zhi responded.

"Mobilize an army?" Cao Shuo said: "You must know that Ma Teng and Han Sui have been entrenched in Xiliang for many years, but they are used to each other, but we are different. Once the Cao family's army enters Xiliang, no matter what the purpose, they will be on guard, and even stop fighting each other and target us. ”

"Will Ma Teng and Han Sui do this?" Chen Zhi asked in disbelief.

"Someone else came into your house with open fire and said that it was not to rob, do you believe it or not?" Cao Shuo asked.

was stunned by his question, and Chen Zhi didn't know how to respond.

Patting his arm gently, Cao Shuo said with a smile: "I only take you to Xiliang, both sides will not be wary of me, and it is convenient to do things." ”

Chen Zhi didn't ask any more questions and accompanied Cao Shuo to leave Yecheng.

From Yecheng to Xiliang, the road is very long.

Fortunately, Cao Shuo and the others were riding fast horses, and they were not very slow.

After walking for more than a day, Cao Shuo saw a magnificent city from afar.

Pointing to the city, Cao Shuo asked, "Is it Luoyang ahead?" ”

Looking forward, Chen Zhi said, "Back to Gongzi, it is Luoyang in front." It's just that there is nothing left in Luoyang now, Dong Zhuo set fire back then, but it burned very cleanly. The people in Luoyang City were also moved to Chang'an by Dong Zhuo, and there were countless deaths along the way, and the former capital had long been ten rooms and nine empty. ”

"Dong Zhuo caused chaos in the world and turned the good Han family into what it is today." Cao Shuo said: "No wonder he was lit a sky lantern after he died. ”

"Who's to say it's not." Chen Zhi replied: "If there was no Dong Zhuo, the Han court would not be like it is now. ”

"Actually, it's also the Han family's anger." Cao Shuo said: "Even if there is no Dong Zhuo, there will be someone else. ”

Chen Zhi didn't say anything more, what Cao Shuo said was not wrong.

Starting from the second emperor Huan Ling, the Han family's qi number has come to an end.

For hundreds of years, the foundation of the Han family collapsed only because of two faint kings.

So much so that the young emperor Liu Wei was poisoned by Dong Zhuo, although the current emperor is living a stable life, he does not even have any imperial power.

"Do you want to go into Luoyang to have a look?" Deng Zhan asked Cao Shuo.

"No need." Cao Shuo said: "The burned city, even if you go, you can't see anything. It's better not to go, but it doesn't add to the sadness. ”

Passing outside Luoyang City, Cao Shuo saw a desolation after that.

The area between Chang'an and Luoyang seems to have been forgotten, and the past is desolate, and there is not a single village to be seen after walking for a long time.

"What was once a prosperous and noisy place is now a wasteland." Following behind Cao Shuo, Deng Zhan suddenly burst out.

"General Deng has been here before?" Cao Shuo asked.

"I used to be a ranger and walked a lot of places." Deng Zhan said: "The Huaishui Basin, which was once desolate, is now densely populated. Luoyang and Chang'an, which were once full of people, are quiet. ”

"Sooner or later, it will still flourish." "That's why I encourage people to have children. ”

"Since Gongzi encouraged childbearing, there are indeed a lot more children in Huainan and other places." Zhu Ao said: "If you walk around Shouchun, you can see children everywhere. ”

"In fifteen years' time, these children will be adults." Cao Shuo said: "Our future army, the people who work in the fields, and the laborers who go out to do things, but these are all these people. ”

"Childe is right." Deng Zhan replied: "It's just that there is indeed more investment now. In particular, Childe has also set up schools and hospitals, and these places do not charge money......"

"You haven't gotten to the point yet." Cao Shuo said: "The most important thing is that we have not collected taxes yet, and there are no taxes, and we are in deficit every year. That's why my army hasn't grown up until now. Just relying on the Touching Gold Camp and Lingyun Pavilion, I am afraid that it will really not be able to hold on in a few years. ”

"It has been several years since Gongzi arrived in Huainan." Chen Zhi said: "The day of tax collection is getting closer and closer. ”

"It can't be too high at first." Cao Shuo said: "The tax control is one out of twenty, which is already a lot. ”

"Taxes everywhere are five taxes or three taxes and one." Deng Zhan asked: "Twenty taxes and one child, is it too little?" ”

"The less taxes you pay, the less pressure there is on the people." Cao Shuo said: "The people are rich precisely because they have less pressure. In fact, I have 20 taxes and 1 yen, and I may really get more than other places. What I want is to enrich the people and strengthen the army, not to dry up and fish. Especially the farmers, who don't make much money from farming, how will they live if I collect all their grain? If the people are pushed too hard, they can choose to move their families elsewhere. All of what I've done is useless. ”

"Childe is benevolent and righteous, we didn't follow the wrong person." Chen Zhi said: "With the magnanimity of treating the people with a son, sooner or later in this world will be a son." ”

"Actually, I think so too." Cao Shuo smiled at him.

Chen Zhi and the others all felt that there was something in his words, but no one asked.

After following Cao Shuo for a long time, everyone knows that his loyalty to the Han family is far inferior to Cao Cao.

Once he gets the Cao family, it is really difficult to say whether the current emperor can still sit on the throne.

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