176 Yuan Shao was defeated again
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Cao Zhang marched overnight with more than 4,000 sergeants under his command, and finally arrived in Gongxian three days later, and at this time, the dry food on the sergeants was also eaten, and the hooves of Cao Zhang, Xiahou Heng and Chen Zhi's horses were also seriously worn, which can be called sleepy and lacking. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
At this time, the county was guarding the city by local strong men, and the officials in the county had all seen Cao Zhang, Xiahou, Heng, and Chen, so they successfully entered the county with a little shouting.
The villagers and elders in Gongxian County are all relatives of Zhang Yan's sons, and they also know that Zhang Yan is now taking refuge in the imperial court and is under the jurisdiction of this young court executive, so they are also very polite to Cao Zhang, and directly brought Cao Zhang to the county capital of Gongxian County.
Cao Zhang first asked the county officials to reward his sergeants, then asked them to send messengers to inquire about Zhang Yan and Wang Ling's situation at Huguan, and then sent people to Jizhou to inquire about the results of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao's battle.
After arranging these things, Cao Zhang personally went to comfort more than 4,000 sergeants before returning to the mansion to rest, because he planned to stop the trip after receiving the news from Zhang Yan and Cao Cao, and there should be a period of rest during this period.
After Cao Zhang and the sergeants rested in Gongxian for five days, Zhang Yan's news came, and now Zhang Yan has occupied Gaodu, Gaoping, and the three counties of Changzi, and also sent troops to lay an ambush in the mountains and forests leading to Huguan, and also left 10,000 people and Wang Lingtun soldiers under Huguan, and Taihang Hu in Rong County, Hedong is now also going to Huguan to join Zhang Yan and Wang Ling, so there are nearly 40,000 troops under Huguan, and there is no news about Gao Gan.
Cao Zhang asked the messenger to go back and tell Zhang Yan that Taihanghu and Wang Ling, if Gao Gan desperately wanted to kill back to Huguan, let him go back, no need to fight with him, after all, there are still Gao Gan sergeants in Huguan and the anti-Cao forces withdrawn from Hedong County, plus the number of troops withdrawn by Gao Gan is superior, and the quality of equipment and soldiers is also higher than Zhang Yan and others.
Taking a step back, even if Zhang Yan and Gao Gan are out of Huguan, it is nothing more than letting Gao Ganliu return to the two counties of Hedong and Hanoi, and now Cao Jun's control over the two places is already limited, and the situation is even more complicated and even difficult to grasp Gao Gan's whereabouts, because Gao Gan is now bringing remnants, and he can use horse thieves and robbers to fight and raise his war, and it will be even more difficult to deal with at that time.
Three days after the messenger sent to Zhang Yan left, the scouts who went to Jizhou also returned to Gongxian, and sure enough, as Cao Chang expected, Yuan Shao was confused by Cao Zhang's pretended Gao Gan army, and sent troops to echo Gao Gan, but was defeated by Cao Cao thirty miles outside Cangting, this station Yuan Shao lost tens of thousands of soldiers and nearly 100,000 people, several counties in Jizhou were captured by Cao's army, Yuan Shao escaped back to Yecheng with the remnants, and has not been able to hold out since then.
After Cao Zhang received the news from the two parties, he first called Chen Zhi and Xiahou Heng, and said to the two: "Now that Yuan Shao has been defeated again, and now he is cowering in Yecheng, but there is still Yuan Xi in Youzhou, and Yuan Tan in Qingzhou, and the senior cadres in the state will return to the party sooner or later, so we can't relax, Boquan, Shuzhi, you bring the sergeants of the guard battalion to Huguan, I guess when you arrive, Gao Gan has already returned to Huguan, in order to prevent him from sending troops to counterattack, you must bring the main force to put pressure on Gao Gan, before my father issued a new military order, He must not be allowed to take a step out of the pot! I asked Zhang Yan and Wang Ling to let him enter the customs because I was afraid that there would be no main force and too many soldiers would be lost, so the two of you must be careful and vigilant, if Gao Gan breaks through the pass, no matter how many people he loses, he must be blocked back! As for the city defense army, they stayed with me in Gongxian and waited for my father's orders. ”
Xiahou Heng and Chen Zhi agreed: "No! ”
Cao Zhang said: "The two of you will set off tomorrow,
After Xiahou Heng and Chen Zhi were ordered to leave, Cao Zhang called a messenger and asked him to ask Cao Cao what he should do now, because although the Cao army is now prosperous, it is still not possible to take advantage of the victory to pursue, after all, the prisoners absorbed in the battle of Guandu are not long, and it is not easy to control them, and Cao Chang can still control them when they are together, if the division guards the captured Yuan Shao's territory, it is difficult to report that they will not be rebelled, so Cao Chang is also difficult to determine Cao Cao's next move.
The next day, Xiahou Heng and Chen Zhi left with the Jinwu Guards and went to Huguan, and the messenger who asked Cao Cao also left on this day.
Now Emperor Xian rebuilt Taixue, Xiahou Yuan cleaned up the private soldiers of the Shi clan in various places, destroyed the private treasury, Ren Jun began to cooperate with Xiahou Yuan to open military camps in various places, this series of practices will inevitably have a huge effect after a period of time, but Cao Zhang knows that there is still one link missing, that is, how to ensure that the people of Pingtou are not annexed by the clan and become tenant farmers.
Banning private soldiers, destroying arsenals, building military tuns, and cultivating Taixue can suppress the clan in the short term, but if the people of Pingtou are still constantly annexed by the clan, the above series of practices can only weaken the clan's officialdom and military strength at most, but cannot suppress the economic strength of the clan.
Only by allowing the yeoman farmers not to be annexed by the clan, to be self-sufficient, to form a yeoman peasant class, can the clan be fundamentally weakened, Cao Zhang thought about popularizing books and education, but eighty percent of the people in the world are not enough to eat, how to talk about universal education and books? Even if they teach books and teach these people knowledge for free, I am afraid that they will not be able to learn it, and how can they receive education if they do not have enough to eat?
The textile yeoman farmers were annexed not to issue a document prohibiting the merger of the clan, similar decrees Cao Cao also issued, but it had no effect, because many yeoman farmers borrowed usury from the clan because they encountered natural disasters and man-made disasters and could not open the pot in the green and yellow season, and then were annexed because they could not afford to change.
In order to prevent the yeoman farmers from being annexed, it is necessary to eradicate the situation of lending, it is impossible to prohibit borrowing, but it is impossible to let the yeoman farmers not borrow from the family, and instead borrow from the imperial court, Cao Zhang studied ancient Chinese history, and all dynasties have dabbled in it, so there are many concepts that can be used for reference, and now the method he thinks of is the biggest test point in his previous university, the green seedling method in Wang Anshi's reform.
Waiting for Cao Cao's reply for several days, Cao Zhang has been working hard to write a book, that is, he is drafting this Qingmiao Law, but in the middle of this, he still has to consider the reality of this era, so he needs to make some changes, which made Cao Zhang spend several days to complete, and when he completed the Qingmiao Law in the late Han Dynasty, Cao Cao's general order arrived. (To be continued.) (To be continued.) )