Chapter 167: Blackmailing Cao Cao
Tao Ying asked Cao Cao for money, which was tantamount to making matters worse for Yanzhou at this time. This Tao Ying usually doesn't ask for it, but at this time he asked Cao Cao to ask for it, Guo Jia scolded Tao Ying on the side, it was simply blackmail!
However, Tao Ying does not think so, he is well versed in the art of asking for money. Usually ask Cao Cao to ask for it, Cao Cao must not pay it back under various excuses, these days, those who owe money are uncles! So now take advantage of his illness and ask him for money!
10,000 taels of silver, that's not a small amount! Especially now is the time to use money, so Cheng Yu offered advice, saying that it was better to learn from Yuan Shao first, and named him Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou herd and chariot general. Give him the title of not wanting money, and then stabilize him.
After stabilizing him, he then discussed how to let Tao Ying not send troops. Guo Jia even made the worst plan, that is, if he really couldn't talk, he would immediately wave his troops to attack Tao Ying first, and he would be caught off guard by Tao Ying. After defeating Tao Ying, he waved his troops again to continue to attack Yuan Shao in the north. The envoy came to Pengcheng with the edict of the emperor, and then canonized Tao Ying in Pengcheng as the general of the chariot cavalry to lead the Qingzhou pastor, Youzhou herd, and Yangzhou herd.
After getting the edict, the imperial court made itself an official, and it was justified to occupy Qingzhou and Yangzhou by himself. Moreover, in this era, the people all believe in the Han Emperor, and with the edict, the people can really be willing to mix with themselves. You don't have to be a bandit yourself.
In return, Tao Ying prepared some gifts for Emperor Xian, and said that if he had the opportunity, he would definitely go to Xudu to meet the Son of Heaven in person. The envoy returned to Xudu with gifts, and this time Tao Ying promised to meet Cao Cao. Although it was an interview, in order to show his sincerity, Cao Cao had to come to Pengcheng to meet Tao Ying.
After the envoy returned to Xudu, he let himself go to Pengcheng, and everyone advised Cao Cao not to go. Because if Prime Minister Cao Cheng went to Pengcheng, if Tao Ying put Prime Minister Cao Cheng under house arrest in Xuzhou, then Yanzhou has no owner, wouldn't it become Yuan Shao's bag?
Besides, Cao Cao is the prime minister, and Tao Ying is just a chariot general, how can the prime minister go to see the chariot general? So what does Yanzhou have to lose? So the envoy advised that it was better to meet in Shanyang County, and sent an edict for Tao Ying to go to Shanyang County, and then Cao Cao also met in Shanyang, and by the way, he gathered troops and horses in the north and then prepared to resist Yuan Shao who was going south. So the envoy went to persuade Tao Ying, and the envoy came to Xuzhou, and the time had reached the end of November 199.
It's 200 years in a blink of an eye, and there will be a lot of very important things happening in this whole year, and there will be more things in the future, and Tao Ying has been thinking about a question, that is, seeing that the time he agreed has arrived, if he is in the battle of Guandu, can he let him not develop according to the facts in history? Yuan Shao went south to attack Cao Cao, Cao Cao went north to fight Yuan Shao, when Yuan Shao was defeated, it was also when Cao Cao was the most vulnerable, at this time he led his troops to attack Cao Cao, although he could not eliminate Cao Cao in one fell swoop, but at least Cao Cao's vitality was greatly injured, and it was impossible to develop better than himself in the future.
But if he defeats Cao Cao, then he will have to face Yuan Shao, a strong enemy in the north, is it really time for him to be able to face Yuan Shao alone? The answer is obviously not, because now Tao Ying has almost used the entire strength of Xuzhou to build more than a dozen warships, and these warships have made Xuzhou at least incapable of fighting a war for two years.
And now it is necessary to support the construction of Huainan County, Donglai County, and Pingyuan Prefecture, not to mention anything else, just a Huainan County that has been turned upside down by Yuan Shu for thousands of miles, and if you want to move the people back, you have to allocate two kinds to them, support them to build houses, and exempt them from taxes.
What's more, all counties are expanding and developing, and the construction of big rivers in a few days is also an increased burden on the people, and if there is a war, there is no way for the people to live. Tao Ying wants to build a powerful Xuzhou, and the strength of a place is not based on how strong his force is, but on how rich his people are. One only knows how to expand the territory, and does not ask about the life and death of the people, and the people do not support it, how can they rule for a long time?
So after considering a series of things, Tao Ying still felt that he had to leave Cao Cao and let Cao Cao resist Yuan Shao in the north. It will take at least another three years to complete the first round of reforms, and another three years for their reforms to be effective.
So Tao Ying decided to let Cao Cao stay, but leaving Cao Cao couldn't make it so easy for him. When I went to beg him, he was a Yuzhang Taishou, so he didn't put himself in his eyes, so he continued to kill him!
In December, Cao Cao's envoy came to Pengcheng again and asked Tao Ying for an interview. In December, Yuan Shao's army had assembled on the north bank of the Yellow River and was ready to cross the Yellow River to attack Cao Cao. Moreover, this time Yuan Tan also led troops to help, and Yuan Xi in the north also led troops to help, and the soldiers and horses gathered by the Yellow River for a time had reached nearly 300,000.
At this moment, Cao Cao's soldiers and horses are only tens of thousands, and this disparity is not ordinarily large. Therefore, Cao Cao wanted to accept Tao Ying even more, and the more critical the situation, the more Tao Ying ignored it, just like he did to himself. But at this time, Lu Su had a big brain, and he thought of a good opportunity to make money, that is, he would send people to Bianjing, inform the Bianjing General Commercial Bank, and then let the central bank set up in Bianjing seize the time to move around and then take the opportunity to absorb the huge deposit business of the Yanzhou clan.
At this time, because of the war, the huge deposit business not only has no interest, but also charges a large amount of storage fees, so it is a particularly lucrative thing. And at this moment, because Yuan Shao is going south, there are many clans that are not optimistic about Cao Cao, and they can't leave if they want to. Once Cao Cao was defeated, their family's property could be plundered by the defeated Cao Cao or the victorious Yuan Shao, and the only safe way was to store it in the Xuzhou Central Bank and hide it in exchange for a deposit note.
Then wait for the turmoil to go to the central bank of Xuzhou to withdraw it. At this time, Xuzhou has set up a commercial bank in Yanzhou for nearly ten years, and the people who came to deposit money have been full for a period of time. In order to escort the money to Xuzhou, Tao Ying had to take the lead in building an escort ship. The shipyard was producing warships and building large transport ships, and Tao Ying used these large transport ships to transport money to Pengcheng.
In order to protect the safety on the road, two giant transport ships, Tao Ying touched his Pengcheng good frigate as a bodyguard. At this time, the Pengcheng steam engine ship was on the road, and served as a protection ship and a towing ship. The roar of the huge steam engine made the Pengcheng ship particularly fast on the water. Then he pulled two large ships of gold and silver from Yanzhou to Pengcheng and kept going back and forth.
In order to protect safety, Tao Ying even set up a security force on land, and they were responsible for protecting the safety of the ship on land. At each pier, Tao Ying has also set up a security team, which is also responsible for managing security on the pier.
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