Chapter 154: The traitorous male Cao Mengde
Cao Cao was lucky, if he came a little later, I am afraid he would only have to drink some soup and water. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Bocai fled to Yangzhai with the remnants of the Yellow Turban, although Huangfu Song wanted to chase after him, but he couldn't catch it, so he could only collect his troops and return to the camp to temporarily recharge his strength and let the soldiers recover their strength.
On Su Chen's side, except for the wolf cavalry, the rest of the departments also collected troops and returned to the camp, and he had some vague guesses about Tai Shici's whereabouts.
After entering the county office, after a while, I saw a man with five short figures, black thin eyes and long beard coming in, Huangfu Song saw the person coming, and immediately greeted: "Meng De, we are talking about you, you have arrived, really said Cao Cao Cao arrived." ”
Could this be how this sentence came about?
Su Chen saw that this man who was not amazing, it was difficult to associate him with the future Emperor Wu of Wei, in this era, the sons of the family paid more attention to their appearance, it can be said that it was an era when men looked at their faces, just like Yuan Shao, who looked heroic and tall, and gave people a very comfortable feeling.
There is also Sun Jian before, who is also a mighty and upright man with extraordinary appearance, who can be said to be a talent, and himself, although he dare not say how handsome he is, he will not be submerged in the crowd, so appearance is very important in this era.
It's just that Cao Cao's appearance is a little out of the mainstream, in the words of later generations, it looks a little obscene, yes, it's obscene, Su Chen finally thought of a word to describe him.
However, his obscenity is also very special, not only different from Bian Xi's kind of fly camp dog, but also different from the monopoly of ordinary people, but with a bit of evil in the obscenity, so at a glance, this obscenity does not seem obscene, it seems to be a bit cynical.
This is Cao Cao's first impression on him, frankly speaking, if he were a strategist, he would definitely choose Yuan Shao, not Cao Cao, Cao Cao may have a lot of connotation, a lot of personality charm, but his connotation, his personality charm, it takes a long time to discover, of course he will not think that the other party is a person without charm.
Recalling that in history, whether it was Xun Yu or Guo Jia, they both chose Yuan Shao at first, and looked down on Cao Cao, until they found some shortcomings of Yuan Shao, and then switched to Cao Cao.
Yuan Shao is the kind of person who is very satisfied at first sight, but after getting along for a long time, he slowly discovered his flaws, and Cao Cao is very dissatisfied at first sight, and he will be attracted by his personality charm after getting along for a long time, and the two are not all the way at all, it is no wonder that Cao Cao won in the end, and Yuan Shao was the first to make a career.
As soon as Cao Cao came in, he saw two people sitting side by side, and immediately understood the identity of the other person, and immediately saluted: "Cao Cao, the commander of the cavalry, has seen General Huangfu and General Su." ”
"Mengde doesn't need to be polite!" Huangfu Song gave him a hand, pointed at Cao Cao and said to Su Chen: "Xingyu, this is the Cao Mengde that the old man mentioned to you, you are of the same age, you should be able to talk." ”
Cao Cao is not a few years older than him, Cao Cao is the same age as Zhang Zhao, only five years older than him, and he is not yet the year of his establishment, in the Three Kingdoms, where martial arts are prosperous, it can be said that he is still very young.
"Brother Meng De is polite, in the past, Ben Hou was a guest in the original mansion, and often heard him mention the name of Brother Meng De, and he admired him for a long time, but Meng De was not in Luoyang at that time, and he was on the same side, and he met today, and finally made up for this regret."
This is the truth, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao have the same smell, and they did a lot of ridiculous things when they were young, it can be said that they are difficult brothers, when Yuan Shao and Su Chen intersected, they really sighed that Cao Cao was here, otherwise the three of them would drink and talk happily, and it would be an interesting matter.
It's just that I'm afraid Yuan Shao didn't expect that Su Chen would make his fortune so fast, and now he is far ahead of him, if the two meet again, the scene may not have the same flavor as it was at the beginning.
"General Su and Ben Chu acquaintance? I don't know this Cao, and I haven't heard it mentioned at the beginning when I was in Luoyang, but I have admired General Su's name for a long time. ”
"Meng De is not authentic, I call you Meng De, but you call a certain general, where is this, if you can afford Ben Hou, then we can be brothers."
"You're welcome to that, I've seen Brother Xingyu."
"Hahahaha!"
Huangfu Song set up a banquet for the generals to pick up the wind and wash the dust, of course, the protagonist is Su Chen, if it weren't for him, Huangfu Song is only afraid that he is still cowering in this city.
"Virtuous nephew, your reinforcements came really in time, if you come two days late, the old man's brother may run out of food, no matter what, this first glass of wine, the old man should respect the virtuous nephew."
"It's all within the nephew's business, and uncle doesn't have to care."
Huang Fu Song toasted Cao Cao again with the second glass of wine, thanking Cao Cao for coming to help, after Cao Cao drank, there were not so many rules below, Bo Cai was already a frightened bird, defeat was a matter of time, Huang Fu Song took this opportunity to talk about prisoners of war.
"Ladies and gentlemen, Ben will have been fighting with Bocai in Yingchuan for several months, and the imperial court has already had a lot of criticism, and now that Bocai has been defeated, what do you think of the many Yellow Turban captives?"
According to Huangfu Song's thoughts, it was natural that they were all beheaded, but because Su Chen had the same official position as him, he was not easy to make decisions without authorization, so he pretended to ask everyone for advice, but in fact, it was just to wait for Su Chen to express his position.
Hearing this, Su Chen didn't speak, only listened to Zhu Jun, the deputy general under the command of Huangfu Song, say: "Yizhen, although our army beheaded tens of thousands in this battle, it still captured tens of thousands of yellow turbans. ”
Contrary to Su Chen's expectations, Zhu Jun's words were agreed by many people, and even Sun Jian and Cao Cao did not explicitly object, it seems that in their opinion, these chaotic people should all be killed, and it is also a disaster to keep them, and they will consume food.
The tens of thousands of captives Zhu Jun said were only captured by Huangfu Song's army, and as for the prisoners collected and surrendered by Su Chen's army, they were all handled by Hua Xin in accordance with the old rules.
There were too many casualties in this battle, which was against the peace of heaven, and if they were tossed like this again, then the sin would be too great, and he retorted without thinking about it: "General Huangfu can't!" ”
Hearing that he actually changed his name, Huangfu looked at him in surprise, Su Chen looked at him without showing weakness, and then continued: "General Huangfu, generals, the Yellow Turban Rebellion is just a group of ordinary people who have just put down their hoes, these people are either homeless people who can't survive, or they have been destroyed by the Yellow Turbans and come here, they don't have too many sins in their hands, if they all ignore it, they will be beheaded, not to mention that it will be very unfavorable for us to fight against the Yellow Turbans in the future, and this move is really detrimental to Yin Virtue, Especially my generation of martial arts masters, it is easy to produce demons if you kill too much. ”
"The heart demon usually can't see anything, but once he encounters a bottleneck in martial arts, if he wants to break through at that time, it will only be difficult to break through, so Ben Hou believes that these Yellow Turban captives cannot be generalized, and should be carefully screened, for those who are extremely evil, they should be beheaded, and for those who are not contaminated with sin on their hands, they may be able to be dealt with as appropriate."
Hearing his words, everyone present fell into thought, Su Chen saw this and continued: "Everyone, have you ever thought about it, we will kill tens of thousands of prisoners casually, it is easy at the moment, but Zhang Jiao has millions of soldiers, wreaking havoc in Jizhou, once the news of killing prisoners has passed, it will only arouse the common hatred of the rest of the Yellow Turbans, when the two armies fight, the surrender of the Yellow Turbans is also death, and there may be a chance to survive in a desperate battle, then if we want to exterminate the Yellow Turbans, I am afraid that it will be even more difficult, so Ben Hou believes that these Yellow Turban captives must not be executed all, It should be judged by the person. ”
Su Chen's words were reasonable, and Sun Jian first echoed: "The last general agreed with General Su's words, our number of officers and soldiers is already less than that of the Yellow Turban, if we kill all the prisoners, who will surrender in the future, at that time, it will be much more difficult to fight, so this precedent cannot be opened." ”
"The last general also seconded it!" Cao Cao echoed the second and said: "As General Su said, although there are extremely evil people among these Yellow Turban soldiers, most of them do not have many sins on their hands, we only need to kill those soldiers with blood on their hands, and punish the rest of the small punishments, so as to punish the rebellion, but also give them a glimmer of life, which should be the best of both worlds." ”
After Huangfu Song heard the words of the two, he looked at the rest of the people, and seemed to agree with Su Chen's approach, in fact, he also wavered from his initial idea after listening to the other party's analysis, so he said: "Since all the generals think so, then follow General Su's method, but how should the remaining prisoners be placed?" ”
At this time, Su Chen replied unyieldingly: "Uncle, don't worry, now the border counties are vast and sparsely populated, and they are often invaded by foreign races, in the final analysis, it is a lack of population, it is better to send these people to the border to enrich the population of the border counties, so it can be regarded as a contribution to the protection of the Han frontier." ”
"Then listen to the virtuous nephew, and all the selected captives will be handed over to the virtuous nephew to deal with." Huangfu Song threw away this hot potato, and said instead: "But virtuous nephew, this move will definitely be criticized by the ministers and ministers in the court, and you will have to stand up and help the old man say a few words, otherwise, the old man will not help you bear the pressure in vain, hahahaha." ”
"That's natural, uncle, rest assured!" There are hundreds of thousands of more young and strong tunbian, and now, the number of military tuns in Naturalization City is almost one million, maybe no one has discovered the energy contained in it now, and even thinks that it is a burden, but they don't know how much wealth these soldiers can contribute to Naturalization City every year.
After the discussion was done, everyone continued to drink, and at this moment, a soldier suddenly came to report: "Report!!! ”
"General Qiyu, there is a general outside the camp who calls himself Tai Shici who asks to see you."
"It's Ziyi who is back, let him in!" The others were still wondering who this Tai Shi Ci was, Su Chen took the first step and said, he really wanted to see what kind of surprise Tai Shi Ci would bring back to him.