Regarding the issue of palace maids in the palace, Liu Yi has actually already explained it. has made it clear to the queen and other daughters that the palace in the future will no longer be the production place of resentful women.

The use of subordinates and palace maids in the palace are all recruited from the people in the form of salaries. This is an employment relationship, no longer a relationship of buying oneself to the emperor's family.

Generally speaking, girls who have reached the age of fifteen or sixteen can be recruited into the palace as palace maids, and palace maids who have served in the palace for five years can choose to continue to stay in the palace or leave the palace according to their own wishes, and if they have served in the palace for ten years, if they have not already had a fixed position, they must leave the palace. Because they enter the palace at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and in five or ten years, they will be about twenty or twenty-five years old, and women are at this age, which is the most golden age of their lives, and they have to leave the palace and start their own families.

Of course, if Liu Yi takes a fancy to them, and they themselves are willing, it is possible to become Liu Yi's woman and one of Liu Yi's concubines. This point is not much different from before, after all, so many beauties have been recruited from the people into the palace, and Liu Yi does not dare to guarantee that he will not touch them at all. This can be regarded as a little benefit that Liu Yi has sought for himself.

In fact, it must be so, because the people will still regard the palace as a holy place for them to glorify their ancestors and soar, as long as their daughter is elected to the palace, then it will be glorious. In case, their daughter becomes the emperor's woman, it will be like a matter of green smoke from the ancestral tomb for them. They will also be glorified by it.

It can be said that the palace is actually the best shortcut for Cinderella to become Snow White. If suddenly there is no more. I believe that many people will feel a little disappointed, especially those who have grown up with a daughter.

Adore the rising sun. This notion is still alive and well now.

In the later generations, if she can marry into a wealthy family, then for the woman, it can be regarded as flying on the branch and becoming a phoenix, and I don't know how many people will be envious.

Therefore, Liu Yi retains this custom, which can be regarded as Liu Yi's selfishness.

After discussing the matter with the queen and other women, Liu Yi spent the night in the palace. Mrs. Yu had just moved into her Liu Mansion, and she was afraid that she would also need time to get used to it, so Liu Yi didn't plan to do anything to her, let her get used to it in the Liu Mansion for some time.

In addition, the queen also talked to Liu Yi about the dedication of the emperor in Xudu, and she thought that if it was possible, she would try her best to rescue the emperor. After all. Emperor Xian is also the widow of the first emperor, and if she doesn't save him from Cao Cao's hands, she will be a little uneasy in her heart.

However, Liu Yi was more assured about the safety of Emperor Xian. Even in history, Cao Cao didn't take Emperor Xian seriously, so. Liu Yi believed that even if Cao Cao was defeated. It should not raise a butcher's knife against Emperor Xian. Cao Cao is also a person who cherishes his reputation and will not do evil things to kill the king.

But something. Liu Yi couldn't tell Queen He Wan and them, so he had to promise them that he would do his best to rescue Emperor Xian.

This night is naturally a night of lingering with the amorous queen.

Liu Yi didn't know that when he was in Luoyang to give orders to his ministers to make plans on how to attack Cao Cao, he was waiting for the generals on the various battlefields to return to Luoyang to discuss important matters.

Cao Cao of Xu Capital, after this period of hard work, he has somewhat recovered a certain vitality. This can be regarded as Cao Cao's more tolerant, after suffering the blows of the New Han Dynasty one after another, he couldn't move, and he refused to move troops in a hurry. Whether the New Han Army captured Jizhou, unified the entire north, or conquered Jingzhou, Hanzhong, and Yizhou, he knew his own affairs, and with his current situation, he was simply unable to use troops to the New Han Dynasty, so no matter how some people persuaded him, Cao Cao was unmoved.

After secretly confronting the New Han Dynasty and Liu Yiming, Cao Cao has already understood one thing very well, that is, the general trend of the New Han Dynasty has been achieved, and in the face of the absolute strength of the New Han Army, any small actions he makes are in vain, so the only thing is to focus on developing himself and improving his strength as much as possible.

At this time, Cao Cao no longer insisted that his strength could catch up with the New Han Dynasty in a short period of time, or even catch up, because Cao Cao knew that it was no longer possible.

So, why did Cao Cao confront the New Han Dynasty? He discussed and discussed with Xun You, Cheng Yu, Man Pang, Hua Xin, etc., and a group of advisers day and night, summing up all the gains and losses since they occupied the Central Plains.

In fact, the strategists, now under Cao Cao's account, are also full of talents, and they are not much inferior to the strategists of the New Han Dynasty. Even if it is a little inferior, but it is also one person who is short and two people are long, and so many of their talented and talented ministers have discussed it together for so long, and it really made them sum up some truths.

And people who are good at summarizing will always be successful. In some sense, the current Cao Cao has actually achieved a certain amount of success.

How so? Cao Cao learned from the pain and compared his own court with the court of the New Han Dynasty to figure out the advantages and disadvantages of each other.

In the end, they concluded that many things were not good for them.

First of all, in terms of strength, no matter how they compare, they are all at a disadvantage, and when the war is together, they will definitely be embattled at that time.

Secondly, after they summarized, the most critical point is that those who win the hearts of the people win the world. After careful investigation, they found that after the New Han Dynasty implemented those policies, the court was clear, especially the restructuring of the court institutions, and the refinement and subdivision of some official functions, so that the decrees of the court could truly reach the people and pass through the government. And the common people, because of this, supported the New Han Dynasty with all their hearts.

In addition, the New Han Dynasty diluted the boundaries of classes, no longer emphasizing agriculture over commerce, but emphasizing both industry, agriculture and commerce, encouraging production and encouraging business. Encourage industrial manufacturing. Because so, so. The people are active in farming, and the merchants are business-minded. Industrial manufacturing is thriving. As a result, the New Han Dynasty had more and more food, so that it could feed the New Han Army, which is now more than two million, and only then did it have the money to wage wars continuously, or to split several battlefields at the same time. In terms of industry, it directly acts on every soldier of the New Han Army, making their armor and weapons better than those of ordinary princes, even if it is a random piece of clothing and a pair of shoes, it is much better than that of ordinary princes. Hard-working, tenacious, and more secure.

The advantages of the New Han Dynasty were recognized.

Cao Cao resolutely decided that he would also govern the Central Plains according to some of the practices of the New Han Dynasty.

First of all, he introduced some targeted policies to benefit the people, which directly allowed the broad masses of people in the Central Plains to obtain actual benefits. Through merchants, grain was purchased at high prices from all over the Han Dynasty. He also spent a lot of manpower and material resources to graduate students to produce more sophisticated weapons and equipment, in this regard, Cao Cao did not seek to be better than the weapons and equipment of the New Han Army, but he begged not to lag too far behind.

So. The people in the Central Plains had a great impression of Cao Cao, and they had gained practical benefits and could see that there was hope for life. Even after living a relatively prosperous life, the people in the Central Plains were quite supportive of Cao Cao.

Actual. In history, the people under Cao Cao's rule. is indeed quite supportive of Cao Cao. If Cao Cao is completely unpopular with the people, as brutal as Dong Zhuo. How can he develop? How can it lay a foundation for his descendants and the Sima family to unify the world?

is also because Cao Cao has already made a decision for his own development, and after the implementation, it will soon bear fruit. Moreover, when governing the people, he deliberately avoided some topics, for example, he did not openly proclaim that he must be hostile to the New Han Dynasty, and the propaganda of the people, but greatly appreciated the New Han Dynasty, so that the people below thought that Cao Cao seemed to have no intention of fighting against the New Han Dynasty anymore, thinking that in the future, their lives would be the same as those of the New Han Dynasty, and they would be able to live a good life, so that the people were more supportive of Cao Cao.

Sima Hui was in Xudu, constantly lobbying Cao Cao, and planned one after another for Cao Cao to help Cao Cao finally win the world. However, Cao Cao remained unmoved. This really made Sima Hui's eyes red.

In fact, if Sima Zheng had been able to go to Cao Cao earlier, he might have been able to convince Cao Cao. However, after Cao Cao's successive defeats in the battle with the New Han Dynasty, he no longer believed that those conspiracies and tricks could kill Liu Yi and destroy the New Han Dynasty.

But now, Hanzhong and Yizhou have been returned to the New Han Dynasty, and the entire Han Dynasty seems to be about to become the territory of the New Han Dynasty. In addition, Cao Cao's development can be regarded as a new level, his military horses have also been reorganized, and even the naval army in Yangzhou has begun to show its scale.

Cao Cao also knew in his heart that the day of this decisive battle with the New Han Dynasty should also come.

At this time, Cao Cao also felt that he had no choice but to fight with the New Han Dynasty.

The atmosphere in Xu Du also seemed to be tense all of a sudden, as long as there was a little insight in the bottom of his heart, and people who cared about the current affairs had a faint worry, they were worried about the war between the New Han Dynasty and Cao Cao, because if this battle really started, it would inevitably be fought to the end of the day. When the time comes, it will directly affect each and every one of them.

However, now that the war has not started, no one dares to say anything.

Cao Cao's prime minister's mansion is full of strategists.

"Ladies and gentlemen, first of all, Cao has to thank you and others, it is precisely because of your efforts and your collective efforts that the development of our court has shown a gratifying good trend. If it weren't for you, I, Cao Cao, would really not be as prosperous as I am now. At present, according to the statistics of the military department, the military horses of our imperial court have reached an unprecedented period of strength, and there are more than one million imperial military horses. In addition, most of the military horses have been replaced with more sophisticated weapons. The cavalry army and the navy army have also made gratifying achievements. This also gives us enough confidence not to be too afraid of the possible invasion of the New Han Dynasty. Now, I invite you to come here to discuss, assuming that the New Han Dynasty is about to use troops against us, how will our court respond? ”

Cao Cao first said hello to the generals of the strategists, and then went straight to business.

Cheng Yu and Xun Yu have been to Luoyang, and after they came back, they felt a lot about them. If Cao Cao had been desperate at that time and had to fight the New Han Dynasty with all his might, they might have really left Cao Cao early.

However, Cao Cao also has a personal charm after all, he is a person who can tolerate people, he completely listened to some opinions of Cheng Yu and Xun You, so that they had to try their best to make plans and do their due diligence for Cao Cao's development.

Now, Cao Cao is discussing the confrontation with the New Han Dynasty again, but Cheng Yu and Xun Yu are both silent.

In fact, they all knew that sooner or later there would be this day, and when they were helping Cao Cao to achieve better and faster development, they had long thought that there would be this day. However, helping Cao Cao is tantamount to seeking benefits for the people of the entire Central Plains, and they have to do it. They also knew that the better they did for Cao Cao, the more tragic this battle would be in the future.

Subconsciously, they don't want to fight this battle.

However, then again, each is its own master, Cheng Yu and Xun Yu will also involuntarily think about Cao Cao, if they really want to seek the whole world for Cao Cao, what should they do? However, they really tried their best, but they couldn't think of any good strategy that could allow Cao Cao to defeat the New Han army and finally seize the whole world.

Therefore, it is no wonder that they are silent, because they really don't have a foolproof solution.

"Lord, Man thinks that our imperial army has been fighting against the New Han Army across the Yellow River for too long, and this defense line is too long, which is not conducive to the operation of our army, why not transfer back to the army, advance to the front of the Tiger Prison Pass, and suppress Luoyang, so that the New Han Army has to transfer back the military horses to fight to the death with our army in the Tiger Prison Pass? In this way, a war can determine the world. Seeing that no one responded to Cao Cao's words, Man Pang went out and spoke.

"Well, this is indeed a plan, but Liu Yi is scheming, and he may not really fight our army head-on. If you want to use Mr. Manpang's plan, I am afraid that Cao will have to make another gentleman's appointment with Liu Yi first, and decide the victory or defeat with a battle. However, do you think that Liu Yi will make an agreement with Cao Cao? Cao Cao nodded, although it seemed to be approving, but the essence was opposed.

In a head-on battle with the New Han Army, Cao Cao was not sure, and he would not adopt this strategy. What's more, if you are full of battles, you are just a million military horses, but what about the New Han Army? If all the military horses were really transferred, and their troops would be at least half more than their own, how would this battle be fought? (To be continued.) )