Dong Zhuo immediately regretted killing Mrs. Ma. Therefore, his mood is irritable, you can imagine.

At this time, Cao Cao actually sent a letter of resignation. Dong Zhuo, who felt despised by a female streamer, immediately sensitively thought that Cao Cao, a castrated relic, would suddenly resign because he looked down on himself in his heart.

Dong Zhuo, who was furious, had no reason to say. With such a toss, there was the next order for the government to arrest Cao Cao.

So, without Cao Cao's knowledge, he got into big trouble. So much so that when Cao Cao took a few relatives and swaggered all the way to Zhongmu County, he was caught off guard and was surrounded and captured by the county officials!

For a child of a family like Cao Cao, this matter is simply a great shame. You must know that with Cao Cao's martial arts cultivation, he will dare to kill dozens of people in the future. If he hadn't realized that the people led by the officials were coming for him, even if the number of people who came was doubled, he wouldn't be able to help Cao Cao!

-- I'd rather be responsible for the people of the world, and stop teaching the people of the world to bear me!

Just when Cao Cao was tied up by several officials and escorted into the county temple, in his heart, such a thought flashed. After all, the taste of life and death in human hands is really not so good. From this moment on, Cao Cao had an intuitive understanding of the power of power in his heart.

- Dong Zhuo, you are really too much! I am inseparable from you!

This is Cao Cao's huge resentment after figuring out the reason why he was being hunted down by the government.

Fortunately, Cao Cao's arrest this time was just a false alarm.

The county magistrate of Zhongmu County is the protégé of the Yuan family. Of course, he knew about the close relationship between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao. And. Even if you don't look at the relationship between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, the Cao family of Qianxian County, who has been out of Taiwei, is also a well-known official family in the Han Dynasty. Even if the Cao family wears the hat of a descendant of a powerful eunuch and has a bad reputation among the scholars, it is not something that can be fought against by a mere county order.

For the sake of Dong Zhuo's Kansai Takeo, let his family get into trouble with a rivalry as strong as the Cao family. Not by smart people. Besides, Dong Zhuo's pursuit documents unclear the reason why Cao Cao was wanted. Most of the problems here are related to the struggle for power in the imperial court. The Yuan clan did not come out, and there was no need for the Zhongmu County Order to exert so much effort for Dong Manzi.

So the Zhongmu County Order, who was proficient in officialdom, reported to the imperial court on the one hand, saying that the arrested wanted criminal "Cao Cao" was not actually himself; On the other hand, he also found a corpse similar to Cao Cao's short stature, adding that the fake "Cao Cao" died suddenly after being imprisoned.

So it's a two-pronged approach. Cao Cao was able to smoothly get rid of the consequences of being captured this carelessly, and under the quiet escort of the county commander's henchmen, he left the county prison in the black hole. After that, Cao Cao didn't dare to be careless, disguised himself as a hideout, and fled all the way back to his hometown.

There is also a small episode about this matter.

Due to Cao Cao's haste of leaving, his family servants set off to return to the county. Compared to Cao Cao's own travel time, it was seven or eight days later.

As a result, Yuan Shu, the sister-in-law of the Yuan family. Because of Dong Zhuo's behavior of killing the Ma woman, he was extremely disgusted with Dong Zhuo, and decided to leave Luoyang and go back to Yuan's hometown like Yuan Shao and Cao Cao. I don't know what his mind thinks, before leaving Beijing. actually visited Cao Cao's house, who had always had a general relationship with him.

Of course, if you visit, you should also visit, and this Yuan Highway specially inquired about him and informed the Cao family that Zhongmu County had captured and killed a fugitive named "Cao Cao".

And so it goes. This fake news made Cao's Mansion chaotic for a while. Especially those subordinates and doormen who took refuge in Cao Cao, they felt that even the lord was dead, and their future was gone, so they all wanted to leave Luoyang and go back to their hometown.

At this time, thanks to the Bian family, who was Cao Cao's concubine, he stepped forward to take care of internal and external affairs. Faced with the news from Yuan Shu, she personally walked out of the inner room and persuaded Cao Cao's subordinates who were about to disperse:

"Cao Junji's murder is unknown, he is home today, if he is here tomorrow, how can he see each other again? is causing disaster, why bother to die together! ”

-- Cao Jun's life and death cannot be determined by just a few rumors. If the rumors are a lie made up by others, and you resign and return to your hometown today, and Cao Jun returns safely tomorrow, what face will you have to see your master?

Of course, since Cao Cao was subsequently proven to have successfully returned to his hometown, Bian's actions were extremely admirable. By the time Cao Cao's family set off from Ruoyang and arrived in Qian County, it was already the first month of the second year. At that time, Cao Cao had been raising troops for almost a month.

Cao Cao's raising of troops was not only a retaliatory reaction to Dong Zhuo's arrest of him for no reason, but also his confident choice after deducing the changes in the current situation.

After being accidentally captured by Zhongmu County officials, Cao Cao effectively concealed his whereabouts along the way. In the last years of the Han Dynasty, the imperial court's ability to control the local area, Dong Zhuo, who lacked prestige, could not make many state and county officials obey. Cao Cao's small disguise, under the perfunctory behavior of the grassroots executor, immediately made the wanted warrant issued by Dong Zhuo do nothing.

From the observations along the way, it was found that Cao Cao, who had a serious lack of Dong Zhuo's prestige, was naturally overjoyed when he saw this. Not only did he not take the opportunity to flee back to his hometown, but instead made a special detour and went to visit several Taishou of the Yuan faction who served in Yanzhou.

Of course, the plan in Yuan Kui's heart will not be publicized all over the world. In the eyes of the "masses" who don't know the truth, Dong Zhuo was single-handedly brought up by the Taifu Yuan Kui, but he relied on his own military threat to unceremoniously take away the power of the court that originally belonged to the Yuan family.

During Cao Cao's visit, these local officials were also dissatisfied with Dong Zhuo's behavior of suppressing the Yuan family and forcibly controlling the authority of the state. In addition, there were several former officials of He Jin, seeing that most of the soldiers in the line of the former general were purged by Dong Zhuo, and in fear, they agreed with Cao Cao, a wanted criminal, to raise troops to fight against Dong Zhuo.

Although Dong Zhuo is in charge of the imperial court, his foundation is shallow after all. Several local officials in Yanzhou counties agreed that Dong Zhuo's control of the central government was completely dependent on the coercion of the Xiliang soldiers. In the local states and counties, Dong Zhuo can be said to be beyond the reach of the whip, and he cannot exert his obscenity.

Once many states and counties in the eastern part of the country raise troops at the same time, the current command of 30,000 troops, the famous Han general Huangfu Song, who guards the Chang'an area, will inevitably respond. In this way, the strategic flanking attack on Dong Zhuo's Liangzhou Army in the east and west directions was completed. Even if Dong Zhuo is strong and strong, can he still deal with heavy troops in two directions at the same time?

Of course, when Cao Cao was in tandem, some people also mentioned that the core figures of the Yuan family, whether it was Taifu Yuan Kui, or the later general Yuan Shu, or Bohai Taishou Yuan Shao, did not reveal the intention of crusading against Dong Zhuo by force. In this regard, Qiao Mao and Qiao Yuanwei, who are now the Taishou of Dongjun, suddenly sneered and took out a letter from their bodies.

The meaning of this letter is very simple, that is, Dong Zhuo relied on the army, commanded indiscriminately in the affairs of the imperial court, and advocated without authorization, and was a traitor of the Han Dynasty, hoping that the relevant Dongyi people could be inspired by the righteousness and raise troops to expel Dong Zhuo in order to restore the normal operation of the imperial court.

Judging by the content of the letter, there is nothing surprising. Compared with the words in the letter, many scholars also said more rebellious things when they corresponded in private.

However, the signature at the end of the letter surprised the county officials in Yanzhou.

Because, the last signature of this letter was actually Taifu Yuan Kui, and Yang Biao, one of the three princes who had just taken over the position of Situ!

In other words, the Runan Yuan clan and the Hongnong Yang clan, two important factions in the imperial court, have decided to join forces to deal with Dong Zhuo, a barbarian!

Because of this extremely sudden letter, several state and county officials in Yanzhou finally determined their determination to raise troops to fight against Dong Zhuo. Seeing such a scene, Qiao Mao, who took out the letter, and Cao Cao looked at each other knowingly, secretly proud. Because, this letter is not actually true, but forged by Cao Cao.

Although Cao Cao was famous in the eyes of the scholars of Luoyang for being proficient in the law and insisting on the law, he was after all the seed of a generation of traitors. When he found out that Dong Zhuo, who manipulated the power of the imperial court, could not be beaten by relying on the laws of the imperial court, and was threatened by Dong Zhuo's wanted and almost lost his life, he decisively changed the principle of acting in his heart.

Before connecting several feudal officials in Yanzhou, Cao Cao understood that these officials might be very dissatisfied with Dong Zhuo's superiority over the Yuan clan, but they definitely did not have the courage to raise troops and directly confront Dong Zhuo by force.

The person who can make the state and county officials decisively raise troops is by no means Cao Cao, a descendant of officialdom, but can only be the most powerful force in today's court, the Runan Yuan clan!

Therefore, Cao Cao chose to make a friend of the nephew of the late Taiwei Qiao Xuan, the Taishou Qiao Mao of Dongjun, as the object of cooperation, and forged the letters of the three dukes to induce other Yanzhou officials to rise together. Otherwise, Cao Cao, a wanted criminal in the imperial court, would have to hide quietly even if he returned home, and he was not allowed to go out at will. In these days of hiding like a mouse, Cao Cao did not have the idea of being at peace with what he encountered.

The Suiyangqiao clan is not a deep-rooted Han family. Qiao Xuan was able to achieve the height of a lieutenant in the officialdom, and it was also with the help of the current political changes of the Han Dynasty and the reshuffle of the imperial court caused by the "disaster of the party" that year, so that he was able to take the opportunity to rise. When it comes to the power in the court, Qiao Xuan has been dead for nearly ten years, and the little connections left behind back then are almost dissipated now.

After the death of his uncle Qiao Xuan, Qiao Mao had no support in the court, and for his own career, he had to take the initiative to approach the Cao camp to which Cao Cao belonged, which was considered an ally of the Cao family. Because he often boasts that he was born in the Han Dynasty, he is naturally extremely disdainful of Dong Zhuo, a Liangzhou martial artist, for the sudden rise of the imperial court. (To be continued......)