Chapter Ninety-One: The Covenant of the Tiger Ben
Seeing that Tao Ying was leaving, Cao Cao knew that Tao Ying was a rectum. It's like a sale, at this price, bargaining doesn't sell! Now if Cao Cao wants to pacify the rebellion of Lu Bu in Yanzhou with peace of mind, he must have a stable rear, so Cao Cao can only shout Tao Ying, and there are some things that he seems to be unable to procrastinate.
"Tao Gongzi, you can discuss!"
The drama next to him wanted to speak, but Cao Cao stopped him. Tao Ying then returned to the small table and sat down. The two people faced each other, Tao Ying pointed to a city on the map and said: "I exchange Cao Chun for Junyi County, and at the same time, my navy can walk in Bianshui and Jishui!" After Tao Ying finished speaking, Cao Cao carefully observed on the map.
Junyi is an inconspicuous place, belonging to Chenliu County, but it is a county that is handed over to Yuzhou. Cao Cao thought for a long time and then asked: "It's okay if you want this county, but you want to walk in Bianshui and Surabaya, this can't work!" After Cao Cao finished speaking, Tao Ying turned around and left, Xi Zhicai wanted to persuade again, Cao Cao sighed and said: "You can walk, but you can't attack the Yanzhou territory!" ”
At this time, he has to agree to any conditions that Tao Ying proposes, who will let all his handles be held by Tao Ying!
The two began to discuss some details again, and Cao Cao demanded to ensure the safety of his two sons, and if his sons were missing, all the agreements signed would be invalidated immediately. Tao Ying nodded, and Tao Ying asked Cao Cao to ensure that after defeating Lu Bu, Shanyang County and Junyi County would be assigned to him, and at the same time demanded that the entire Onozawa be divided into his sphere of influence.
When it comes to the belonging of Onozawa, this originally belonged to a large lake where Sanyang County and Jiyin County and Dongping Kingdom and Dong County meet, so this belonging should be four counties together, but Tao Ying wanted to divide him into his own sphere of influence, and the two of them bargained in the pavilion, and it was not until the evening that the two reached a consensus.
That is, after Tao Ying assisted Cao Cao in defeating Lü Bu and driving Lü Bu out of Yanzhou, he assigned all of Dayozawa to Tao Ying. At the same time, the three counties around Onozawa were all designated as a port for Tao Ying within a radius of 30 miles. After winning these three places, Tao Ying was busy asking for the replacement of Fangdongcheng in Shanyang County with Fengqiu County.
The two of them negotiated until the evening, and the next Xi Zhi was in charge of the main writer, and wrote the notes on the paper that Tao Ying took out. The two men signed the pledge, and the agreement became effective.
After the entire agreement was signed, Tao Ying picked it up and began to read it, and the agreement was divided into ten articles, which were named the Covenant of the Tiger Ben.
Article 1 of the Treaty of Huben stipulated that Cao Cao would unconditionally withdraw his troops, return all the Xuzhou property he had plundered to Tao Ying, and never attack Xuzhou in the future. Xuzhou soldiers and horses were also not allowed to attack Yanzhou, and the two states were repaired.
However, because Tao Ying was not the history of Xuzhou, he could not sign it on behalf of Xuzhou, so Xuzhou in the treaty was changed to the place where Tao Ying belonged, including the place assigned to Tao Ying that belonged to Yanzhou.
In the second article of the covenant of Huben, Cao Cao ceded Shanyang County and Onozawa, Junyi, and Fengqiu to Tao Ying, and at the same time, within 30 kilometers of Dayozawa, Yanzhou military horses were not allowed to approach the Yanzhou army and horses in the area of influence of Dayozawa, and the defense east of Shanyang County was assigned to Jiyin County.
In the third article of the covenant of the tiger ben, Tao Ying was required to give Cao Cao 10,000 deniers of grain and grass as a subsidy, and at the same time sold 50,000 bows and crossbows and weapons to Cao Cao.
Article 4 of the Covenant of the Tiger Ben: Cao Cao sent his sons Cao Pi and Cao Zhi to Pengcheng, and Tao should protect the safety of the two of them and educate them. If one of the two sons dies, the covenant of the tiger is broken.
Article 5 of the Covenant of the Tiger Ben: If Cao Cao is defeated, Tao Ying needs to lead troops to assist Cao Cao in attacking Lü Bu.
Article 6: Xuzhou people can open money banks and operate various businesses in Yanzhou, and they need to pay taxes to Yanzhou.
Article 7: If a person in Xuzhou commits a crime, he or she shall be extradited to Junyi for trial.
Article 8: Cao Cao violated Xuzhou twice and needed to compensate Xuzhou with 100,000 taels of silver and 10,000 taels of gold. Pay it off within three years, if you don't pay it off, you need to cede Ren Chengguo to pay off the debt.
Article 9: If Cao Cao faced the danger of Yuan Shao after the war, Tao should lead troops to help.
Article 10: If Cao Cao broke the contract privately, Tao should kill Cao Zhi and Cao Pi.
After the agreement was written, Tao Ying asked Xi Zhicai to write two more copies, one for Cao Cao and Tao Ying each, and then stamped the big seal of Yanzhou. Here Tao Ying stamped Peng Chengguo's big seal, and then the two of them stamped the private seals of two people, for the sake of insurance, Tao Ying asked Cao Cao to press his fingerprints.
The lights were lit up at night, and Tao Ying asked people to put the banquet on the table, and Tao Ying invited Cao Cao to a banquet in the stone pavilion again. After Xu Sheng accepted the agreement, he had people collect it in a beautifully carved wooden box and carry it himself. Cao Cao also asked Xi Zhicai to accept the treaty, and in order to return to Yanzhou quickly, Cao Cao urged Tao Ying to fulfill the treaty quickly.
So Tao Ying asked Yu Ban to count his grain and grass and pay 10,000 deniers to Cao Cao at any time, and Cao Cao also asked people to transport nearly ten carts of plundered gold, silver, jewelry and ornaments to the outside of the city, and the two sides handed over.
But without seeing Cao Pi and Cao Zhi, Tao Ying was not sure after all. Afraid that Cao Cao would learn to repay the debt last time, Tao Ying asked Cao Cao to send his second son first, otherwise the supply of grain and grass would be stopped. At the same time, he let the army stand in full force and did not dare to relax at all, Cao Cao saw that there was no gap, so he had to send a letter to Cao Zhi and Cao Pi to come sooner. Fortunately, the two of them have already come to the halfway point, which is Cao Cao's strategy of delaying the army.
After being stationed in Huben for another five days, it was mid-July in the blink of an eye, and the battle of Puyang was getting closer and closer. Cao Cao kept receiving battle reports, the front Cao soldiers were defending the city and more than a month, Lu Bu had occupied the counties, the army had moved closer to Xuzhou, the three cities were almost unable to hold, Xun Yu was afraid that Lu Bu would cut off Cao Cao's return in Mount Tai, so he begged Cao Cao to return quickly.
After receiving the letter, Cao Cao went out of the city to find Tao Ying. Cao Cao will go to Tao Ying once a day, and let Tao Ying let him return to Yanzhou first, and after he goes back, he will definitely send Cao Pi and Cao Zhi over.
But when he couldn't see Cao Pi and Cao Zhi, Tao Ying refused to let him go back to Yanzhou. Tao Ying's army of 50,000 gathered between Lanling and surrounded Cao Cao.
Cao Cao was in a hurry to go back, Tao Ying's life was not easy, why didn't he want Cao Cao to get out of the way? Every day, Tao Ying is urging Xiapi and Peng Chengguo and other places to send military rations, because he manages the food and drink of 50,000 people every day, Tao Ying is almost unable to hold on.
Cao Cao can't hold it faster here, the grain and grass in Lanling have been burned, Hu Ben he has an army of 20,000 and has been besieged for more than a month, Cao Cao's soldiers have now eaten everything they can eat, and there are no even rats in the city!
Originally, he wanted to rob the north, but Tao Ying watched it closely, where did he dare to move!
On the third day after Xun Yu's letter for help was sent, Cao Cao went to the signing pavilion outside Huben City to meet Tao Ying, hoping that Tao Ying would let others go back to Yanzhou.
Outside the city of Huben, Tao Ying was interested in letting the idle soldiers build a stone pavilion outside the city, and the location of the stone pavilion was the place where he made an alliance with Cao Cao. Even in order to allow the soldiers not to eat their own food in vain and take their own salaries for nothing, Tao Ying actually started to build houses next to the stone pavilion in line with the principle of building wherever he went.
Ten thousand men came to build houses, timber was cut from the woods north of the tiger, stones were brought from afar, many of the soldiers were skilled builders, and within three days a small village was built next to the stone pavilion that could accommodate nearly 500 people. However, at this time, the small village was still full of construction, and as soon as you entered the village, there were busy craftsmen everywhere.
In order to plan this town well, Tao Ying also specially drew drawings.