Chapter 111: A Small Banquet
"You may not know that the hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban thieves under the city of Changshe were broken in one fell swoop because of Ziyuan's clever calculations, and I, Cao Mengde, also happened to catch up with the rout of the Bocai army, so I took advantage of the weakness to capture the thief's first wave in one fell swoop. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info "The protagonists of the whole banquet are Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, but in order not to invite himself to sit with Wu Yiku, Cao Cao timely mentioned the battle of Changshe that the two of them had experienced together.
Before Wu Yi could say a few words of modesty to Cao Cao's praise, Yuan Shu on the side immediately disagreed: "Brother Meng De's words are too much, right?" I've also heard a little about the battle of Changshe, but it's just a fire attack under the carelessness of the thieves, which can also be called a clever plan? ā
Cao Cao shook his head at Yuan Shu's questioning: "No, no, no, I later specifically asked General Huangfu Song about the beginning and end of the Battle of Changshe, General Huangfu Song tried to sneak attack Bocai at night several times, but Bocai was well guarded so that General Huangfu Song's several night attacks were in vain. And the reason why the later fire attack strategy could work was because Ziyuan predicted when the wind would rise a few days before the war, and with the help of that sudden wind, the fire became impossible to extinguish in an instant, and finally General Huangfu Song also relied on that fire to defeat Bocai's army in one fell swoop. ā
"Do you expect the time? If that's the case, it's worth the calculation. Come, for the battle of the long society, I salute Ziyuan with a glass of wine! Yuan Shu didn't target Wu Yi before, but just felt that Cao Cao's evaluation of Wu Yi was a bit exaggerated. But after Cao Cao explained, Yuan Shu took the wine cup and toasted Wu Yi with a glass of wine, intending to make amends for his previous words.
"Please." Wu Yi drank the wine in the cup.
"Good amount of alcohol! Here, have another drink! "Yuan Shu has always been very good at drinking, so much so that no one dares to catch 'mutual respect' with him at every banquet. Seeing Wu Yi drinking so boldly, Yuan Shu was overjoyed when he saw the hunt, and after drinking the wine as well, he hurriedly filled the wine cup for Wu Yi and himself.
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the wine was limited by conditions and technology, although there were also good wines with good taste, but the degree was generally very low. Wu Yi has always drunk the fine wine of this era as an alcoholic drink, and when he saw that Yuan Shu actually found himself to fight for wine, Wu Yi also unceremoniously began to pay tribute.
Taking advantage of the time when Wu Yi and Yuan Shu were coming and going, Cao Cao on the side asked Xun Yu beside him in a low voice: "I heard Ziyuan say that he studied in Yingchuan Academy, Mr. Xun, you were born in the Yingchuan Xun family, I don't know if you were familiar with Wu Yi before?" ā
Xun Yu shook his head: "Although I am also from Yingchuan Academy, I was already a teacher when Wu Yi entered the school. I only know that this Wu Ziyuan is a personal disciple of the great Confucian Chen Yu, and I don't know much about the rest. ā
"That's how it was." Cao Cao originally thought that since Xun's uncle and nephew were also from Yingchuan, they might be very familiar with Wu Yi, but he didn't expect that although they were both from Yingchuan Academy, they were not familiar with each other because of the age gap.
Here, Yuan Shu and Wu Yi were fighting each other's drinking, and Yuan Shao beckoned Cao Cao and Xun's uncle and nephew to drink and talk happily on the side. After a banquet, Xun's uncle and nephew got acquainted with Cao Cao and Yuan Shao a lot, but Yuan Shu, who was poured down by Wu Yi, became brothers and sisters with Wu Yi.
After the banquet, Cao Cao invited Wu Yi to accompany him. Wu Yi, who was slightly drunk, asked Xu Shu to go back to the house first, leaving Xu Chu alone to follow him.
Cao Cao glanced at Xu Chu, who was silently following behind: "If I'm not mistaken, this person shouldn't be the retainer of Ziyuan that I saw in Changshe last year, right?" ā
Wu Yi smiled: "The person Brother Meng De saw in Changshe City last year was called Dian Wei, and this one was named Xu Chu. ā
"Although I haven't seen his martial arts with my own eyes, this person has a strong waist and a strong body, and he can be described as a strong man." Cao Cao looked envious, although he had never seen the martial arts of Xu Chu and Dian Wei with his own eyes, but just looking at the physique of these two people, he knew that they definitely had good strength, and then looking at their extraordinary momentum, Cao Cao, who had practiced martial arts, could roughly guess that the martial arts of Dian Wei and Xu Chu should not be similar.
Wu Yi could only smile at Cao Cao's sigh, after all, Xu Chu and Dian Wei were both guards and generals by Cao Cao's side in history, and Wu Yi could be regarded as digging Cao Cao's corner in advance to a certain extent.
Walking through the streets of Luoyang City, Cao Cao began to tell Wu Yi about his time in Jinan these days. It turned out that after Cao Cao went north, he led the army to break the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, and beheaded countless people in the battle. Subsequently, Cao Cao was moved by the imperial court to the prime minister of Jinan. There are more than 10 state-owned counties in Jinan, and most of the officials in these counties rely on their power and power to bend the law for bribes without scruples. The successive ministers before Cao Cao ignored it. However, when Cao Cao arrived, he vigorously rectified and dismissed eight out of ten of the officials, and Jinan shook the corrupt officials and corrupt officials who fled from Jinan. Jinan was politically and relictly a county Qingping.
Jinan has eliminated so many corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and the people below have indeed ushered in a good life. But in today's dark age when officials are allowed to pay money, and corrupt officials and corrupt officials are all over the government and the opposition, Cao Cao's alternative behavior has caused him a lot of trouble. After Zhang Rang received a large bribe sent at the same time as the concert, the imperial court immediately issued an order to transfer Jinan Prime Minister Cao Cao to the court to report on his work, but the dismissed corrupt officials were rearranged to serve in the county and township of Ji.
"Ziyuan, do you know that when I saw those corrupt officials coming in droves to send me to Beijing that day, how much I wanted to directly draw a knife and hack them all to death?" Cao Cao clenched his hands into fists with a hideous appearance of gritting his teeth, as if he remembered the unbearable scene again.
Wu Yi patted Cao Cao on the shoulder: "I can understand Brother Meng De's feelings, but the reason is because there are traitors in the court, if these traitors and villains do not die, it will be difficult for the world to be safe." ā
Cao Cao suddenly grabbed Wu Yi's hand with a straight face: "In this case, Ziyuan is willing to help me eradicate those traitors and villains in the court?" ā
Wu Yi smiled indifferently: "How easy is it to get rid of traitors and villains?" But what about after that? ā
Cao Cao looked confused: "Except for those traitors and villains in the court, it is natural to be the internal government and the people outside the government." ā
"Brother Meng De's thinking is too simple, what do you think those traitors can do whatever they want?" Wu Yi slowly withdrew his hand.
"Ziyuan, you, are you saying that all this is because of the saint, ahem, which one is it?" Cao Cao vaguely pointed to it.
"There are no outsiders here, so I won't talk darkly. In my opinion, the most critical problem in our Han Dynasty is that one of the traitors and villains and corrupt officials outside. If that one was not guarding against his relatives and Shilin officials, how could he hold up a group of eunuchs with incomplete limbs? If it weren't for that one who didn't change his way to collect his wealth, how could he do the ridiculous thing of selling officials and selling lords? If it weren't for the fact that they had to pay a large sum of money before becoming officials, how could those officials be so disrespectful and shameless to loot the people everywhere? ā
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