However, although Cao Cao decided to fight Liu Yi, the earlier plan still had some follow-up plans, and Cao Cao felt that it should be continued. Now in any case, in the Central Plains region under his governance, the people's support for him is still relatively high, and if he wants to compete with the New Han Dynasty, then he must first obtain the full support of the people of his Central Plains.

How can we win the support of the people? The only way to rely on what Sima Hui said earlier is to take advantage of the people's long-term chaotic mentality, stir up the hearts of the people, gain public opinion, and establish their own court as a righteous party. At least, in the Central Plains under their jurisdiction, the people think so, that the New Han Dynasty disregards morality and has to send troops to attack itself, and in order to protect the people in the territory, it has to fight a decisive battle with the New Han Dynasty.

Therefore, Cao Cao believes that no matter what the New Han Dynasty is like or what the people of the world are, he must occupy a nominal truth.

Cao Cao believed that he would first send someone to settle the matter peacefully with the New Han Dynasty, and no matter whether the New Han Dynasty was willing to settle it peacefully, no one in the world would know the details, and as long as he shaped it, he would have to gain the support of public opinion.

In this way, Cao Cao immediately ordered the people below to start making a big publicity, so that people began to officially use the people's hearts and voices to influence the new Han Dynasty.

For a time, in the Central Plains, there were rumors everywhere.

First of all, what Cao Cao ordered people to preach was the various evil deeds of Liu Yi in the New Han Dynasty. For example, preach how Liu Yi was domineering and absurd, how he coerced the first emperor and queen, how to control the young emperor, and so on. Of course, Cao Cao also knew that if he promoted Liu Yi's romantic side, he would not let the world think that there was anything wrong with Liu Yi. Still, he ordered it to be preached. But everything he knew about Liu Yi and certain women, he made up some stories, whether true or false, for people to spread around.

For example, focusing on what Mr. Shui Jing said, how Liu Yi deceived other people's daughters and how to be the daughter of a slut. He made up how Liu Yi took advantage of Mr. Shuijing's absence. He forced other people's daughters to bow and took other people's daughters captive. Also, even many years ago, Cao Cao had always been secretly in love with Zhang Ji's wife Zou, who was obsessed with him, Cao Cao did not let it go, and it was publicized that Liu Yi cheated money and sex back then, and how he took advantage of Zhang Ji's absence back then. Liu Yi took advantage of the situation and robbed someone's wife, etc., Cao Cao also asked Zhang Xiu to say a few words, causing it to seem that Zhang Xiu, Zhang Ji's nephew, knew everything, and swore that he must kill Liu Yi and rescue his aunt who fell into the clutches of Liu Yi.

Anyway, people all over the world usually talk about Liu Yi's romantic deeds. Through Cao Cao's publicity, it all became Liu Yi's evil behavior of bullying men and women.

The reason why these things are preached. That is, Cao Cao wants to comprehensively discredit Liu Yi's glorious image, no matter what the facts are, it can't change the fact that these women that Cao Cao preached are indeed Liu Yi's women now, in fact, it is the so-called love between men and women, or it is really deceived and robbed by Liu Yi. Now, those women are by Liu Yi's side, and what their current situation is, the world does not know the actual situation. So, to put it this way. There will always be people who doubt, and some people will think, oh, it turns out that this Mrs. Liu Yi is such a person.

In particular, Liu Yi is indeed the first court, and in the face of some established facts, Liu Yi is really at a loss for words, so the truth and falsehood are indeed all against Liu Yi's image.

However, tarnishing Lewi's image is not the ultimate goal.

The ultimate goal is to show that Liu Yi wants to do the evil thing of usurpation and rebelliousness, and wants to abolish the young emperor and establish himself as the emperor.

In this way, some public opinion was created, so that everyone in the world was suspicious of Liu Yi and wary of his usurpation.

Then, Cao Cao then threw out that he sent Hua Xin to Luoyang, intending to settle the affairs of the two courts peacefully with the New Han Dynasty. Cao Cao announced the world, indicating that the Han world is the world of the Han family, and he, as the prime minister of the Xudu court, is bent on promoting the peaceful reunification of the two courts. However, Liu Yi prevented Cao Cao from doing this, and was even unwilling to let the young emperor talk to Emperor Xian. What does this mean? It shows that Liu Yi has the heart of self-reliance, and he is unwilling to let the two emperors negotiate peace, because the two emperors negotiate peace, and after reaching an agreement, when the time comes, the world will be unified, and Liu Yi will no longer be able to claim the emperor to stand on his own.

Cao Cao never talked about the conditions under which he intended to peacefully unify the two courts, and put all the blame on Liu Yi. At least, Cao Cao wanted to make his Central Plains people believe that he did not have any selfish intentions, but was just dedicated to the Han Dynasty, but unfortunately, it was Liu Yi who insisted on going his own way and had to send troops to attack his own court, so in order to prevent Liu Yi from usurping the Han Dynasty, he was determined to deal with the New Han Dynasty to the end, protect the emperor, and prevent Liu Yi from becoming the emperor smoothly.

Now, Cao Cao has torn his face with Liu Yi, and he can say anything ugly.

Cao Cao's announcement, as well as the deliberate publicity of the people he sent out, immediately caused an uproar among the people of the world. As a result, the people of the world have formed two different wind directions.

In Xudu, the people in the city were deeply favored by Cao Cao, so most of them believed Cao Cao's words a little, and many people were really a little indignant, thinking that Liu Yi really shouldn't be like this. It's all the Han court, if you don't have the young emperor as the emperor or the emperor as the emperor, you Liu Yi actually want to usurp the throne? This is absolutely unacceptable.

The street liquor shops, merchants and peddlers in Xudu have all discussed this matter. Of course, there are many more people who are beginning to worry about the coming war.

"Hey, old Zhangtou, now the whole city is saying that Liu Yi of the New Han Dynasty intends to establish himself as the emperor, and does not agree to our Prime Minister's request for peace negotiations, and in a month, the army of the New Han Army will attack us. What do you think about such a thing? ”

In a restaurant, the guests gathered in twos and threes, drinking wine and discussing these things.

"Thoughts? What can we, the common people, think? However, according to our old Zhangtou, this time, it seems that Liu Yi is wrong. You see, whether it is the New Han Dynasty, or our court. As long as we can let our people live, we will have it, but we have to fight, and we really don't know what to do when this fight starts. We have received the favor of Prime Minister Cao, and now we are in charge, so. If the New Han Army is really coming, we will naturally support our imperial court. ”

"That's right! Actually, then Leo Yi is a prodigal, we don't believe that there will be so many women who will like him. I think he must have used some means to force those women and force them to follow him. Hmph, why don't you have a big beauty like Liu Yi who takes a fancy to me? But you have to take a fancy to Liu Yi? Everyone said that this is not the truth. Next to him, it was obvious that he was envious of the man who was jealous of Liu Yi. Indignantly scolded.

"Go, go, go......" A man raised his hand and said to this man: "Don't talk about these vain, if you have money and power, no matter how many women will have it." According to what we said, Lao Zhangtou is right. Our family is here, in the early years, our family of more than ten people, almost to flee the famine, if it weren't for Prime Minister Cao. Can we still sit here and drink and fart? Therefore, we must support Prime Minister Cao Cheng. Anyway, our city has high walls and thick walls, and there are dangerous pass towns everywhere, and it is not an easy task for the New Han army to fight over. My son, we're all sent to join the army. We must support our court. ”

At this time, the people are indeed like this, they do not have too high requirements for their own lives, they just hope that they can be stable and stable, and they can have a bite to eat, then they will be satisfied. Cao Cao allowed them to live a stable life. They can still have a little money to drink a little wine, so they feel that they have received a great favor from Cao Cao, and they are grateful to Cao Cao in their hearts.

Another point is that Cao Cao is also a person from their state and county, and under the condition that they don't know some real situations, and accept some social public opinion that Cao Cao has made people promote, the people of Xudu are inclined to support Cao Cao seven or eight times out of ten.

Although Liu Yi has a good mouth in the entire Han world, after all, for the people of the Central Plains, Liu Yi did not directly impose some benefits on them, and did not bring them more direct benefits. Now, the people in the Central Plains have directly received the benefits of Cao Cao's favors. Under normal circumstances, the people naturally support those who bring direct benefits to their favors.

However, not all the people will support Cao Cao.

Some people, they think, the gods fight, it doesn't have much to do with them. None of them will support it, they will just stand by and watch.

There are also some people, they are more or less understandable, they know that whether it is the court of Xudu or the court of the New Han Dynasty, it will not directly destroy their lives, especially the New Han Army, they have never heard of how the New Han Army will take the people of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, if there is a real fight, no matter who wins in the end, it will not have much impact on them.

There are also some people, they are the ones who really understand, and they understand that Cao Cao is so bad for people to promote Liu Yi, the truth is self-evident, if Liu Yi is really so unbearable, then why can he make the New Han Dynasty so strong now? They felt that Cao Cao was like this because Cao Cao lacked confidence and did not have the confidence to defeat the army of the New Han Dynasty. Privately, they began to do a good job, and once the situation was not right, they threw themselves into the New Han Dynasty......

There were also some rumors that spread to the areas under the rule of the New Han Dynasty, but the impact was minimal.

For the people in the areas ruled by the New Han Dynasty, the court of Xudu was their hostile court, and everything they said was regarded as an insult in the hearts of the people. Now, they are living a down-to-earth life, and they are deeply benefited by the rule of the New Han Dynasty, how can they care about the words of the Xudu court?

Most of the people, they just treat it as a joke.

In the New Han Dynasty, occasionally, there were also rumors about the court of Xudu.

"Hah, do you believe it? Cao Cao actually said that he wanted to negotiate peace with us and to settle the affairs of our two courts peacefully. He also said that we were too many bad words. ”

"Humph! And you believed? Let me tell you, whoever wants to say that Mrs. Zou of our four beautiful ladies in Luoyang will be in a hurry! A middle-aged man reprimanded angrily: "Everyone knows that my Lao Zhao almost starved to death in Luoyang back then, and it was after Mrs. Zou got along with our Taifu that she opened a warehouse to release grain, so that my Lao Zhao family survived the difficulties." Think about it, if Mrs. Zou doesn't get along with our Taifu, can she put food? That Zhang Ji is a vampire who can let his wife release food to help me and other refugees? Stop dreaming. In the future, don't spread such things. ”

"Uh, Brother Zhao, don't I believe it? I just think Cao Cao is too funny, it is estimated that he knows that our New Han Army is going to attack him, he is anxious and panicked, so he wants to slander our Taifu. Come, come, drink, drink. ”

"Tell you, let's talk about our attack on Cao Cao this time, let's not drink high, hurry home in a while, let our family girls make more waterproof rain gear or something, the military department wants to buy these materials from our people, this month later, it will be the rainy season, our soldiers can't let the rain get wet."

"Yes, my family is responsible for building some wheelbarrows or something, but it hasn't been done yet, and when the time comes, I will also participate in transporting grain and grass to Youzhou Bohai."

"You go to Bohai? I'm going to Jingzhou, ha, let's go north and south, hey, buddy, cheers for the victory of our new Han Dynasty! ”

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Relatively speaking, the common people of the New Han Dynasty and the common people in the street wine shops are much more normal. They couldn't say a word, and they would shift the conversation to how to actually support the New Han Army.

It can also be seen from this that the people of the Xudu court, they support Cao Cao, but it is just emotional support, an emotional tendency. However, the people of the New Han Dynasty, who supported Liu Yi and supported the New Han Army, were in terms of words and actions. In this way, even if Cao Cao made some unfavorable remarks against Liu Yi, he had a high opinion and did not have much impact on the preparations of the New Han Dynasty.

Unconsciously, the military horses on both sides were moved frequently, and as time passed, the day of the war was getting closer and closer.

Cao Cao made a move, but Liu Yi didn't accept it at all, which also made Cao Cao very depressed. The people below him are ready to use public opinion to prevent Liu Yi from sending troops. However, it was useless.

For example, Hua Xin and other ministers made countless signatures and blood letters, saying that it was the voice of the people of the Central Plains, hoping that the New Han Dynasty and the Xudu Imperial Court would have peaceful dialogue, not the call for war. But the funny thing is that they can't even send it to the Luoyang Imperial Court. (To be continued.) )