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A white dove fell on the balcony on the second floor, Xiao Cao Xiang stared at the cute white dove curiously, and subconsciously reached out to grab it.

"Xiang'er can't."

Cao Xiang turned his head, opened his hand and ran over: "Dad, mother!" That's what I want! ”

Liu Wan was pregnant and inconvenient to bend over, and said lightly: "That's a messenger pigeon that is very helpful to your father, remember not to touch him, do you know?" Last time you said you wanted to raise a puppy, today my mother sent someone to find you a puppy, go over and take a look! ”

"Ahh Okay, okay, I like puppies the most. Cao Xiang immediately forgot about the white dove that had caught his attention, and jumped and danced happily.

Cao Shi took his wife's hand: "Wan'er, remember when I said that you can't touch a puppy when you're pregnant?" Let the maid take Xiang'er to play, and you can just watch from the side. ”

"I know, I know, my gentleman knows a lot, and even the little things of the woman's family know very well." Liu Wan rolled her eyes angrily and let the maid pull Xiao Cao Xiang downstairs to play.

The white pigeon waited motionlessly, wearing a Xichang messenger on his lap, and he didn't react when he was caught by Cao Shi, so he took off the messenger and went to eat insects by himself.

This white pigeon is a new pigeon flock cultivated from Chang'an, since last year received Zhao She's pigeon flock loss huge news, it seems that the Huns' falconry keeper perceives the pigeons that fly from time to time, there will always be eagles to hunt the flying pigeons, even if the hit rate is not high enough to cause vigilance, the new pigeons in the remnants of the old pigeon flock led to fly all over the desert north and south, learn the survival skills of the old pigeon flock to avoid the goshawk attack, and finally support the old pigeon flock gradually dying at the moment to be able to fully perform the task of sending the letter.

"Let me see what is being said. This time, the ciphertext code is "Han Feizi", and what I want to reply to him should be the ciphertext code of "Zhuangzi". Isn't it too troublesome for me to make this set of things, beware of the Huns seeing through it and writing it down by the method of drawing talismans by Fang Shi ghosts. Thankfully, there were no accidents...... Hey? ”

Cao Shi was surprised.

Just received the news from Mo Nan brought him too many surprises, Changping Hou Wei Qing suddenly disappeared from the desert with 60,000 Han troops, the Huns only detected the traces of his departure, and did not accurately capture the specific intention of leaving, the reckless Zuo Xian King took his main force south to attack the Han army left behind, causing the strong dissatisfaction of the Xiongnu Shan Yu.

Limited by space, Zhao Shi did not explain the response strategy of the Xiongnu Shan Yu, and he never expressed excessive concern from his words, and it was not difficult to persuade the Xiongnu Shan Yu with his understanding of Zhao She. The strategy of dealing with it is not too difficult to guess, and there is no time to attack with all its strength to contain Zuo Xian's royal troops, but he is not too confident in how long the containment will last, otherwise he will definitely try to send another secret letter for further strategic adjustments.

Cao Shi didn't quite understand the meaning of Wei Qing's sudden disappearance, and walked to the sand table and swept through the Monan area and didn't find that the location of the Xiongnu in the north was close to the edge of the desert, and with the logistics ability of the Han army, the lone army would only bring more pressure to his retreat and adjustment, obviously Wei Qing would not easily take the cavalry to raid the main force of the Huns who were defending with 300,000 turtles, not to mention that he also took 30,000 speared infantry to advance and his mobility was greatly limited.

The road to the north is cut off. It is absolutely impossible to retreat to the south, Wei Qing, as the chief general, must not leave the main force of the Han army to retreat alone, he does not dare to carry this political risk and will not carry it, and it is unprofitable to enter the right land of the Xiongnu to the west. The 100,000 troops entrenched in the vicinity of the royal court are by no means soft persimmons, even if they are replaced by the 30,000 forest cavalry in Cao Shi's hands, they do not dare to break into the hinterland of the Xiongnu right to attack the right king of Youxian.

Wei Qing's choice to cross the desert to attack the Youxian Wang Court in the northwest of the Yanhai Sea was thankless, and 60,000 newly trained recruits of the Northern Army dared to cross the great desert northwest of the Yellow River. I believe that there must be a dead end with no return, and Wei Qing will at least not become a stupid and mediocre commander. After all, he is also a senior officer trained by Cao Shi himself, and he has a little command experience in the southern and northern wars by his side.

At last. Cao Shi set his eyes on the east, and gently swept over Xianbei Mountain and Wuhuan Mountain without stopping, the arrangement of Xianbei and Wuhuan and even Fuyu was never discovered by the imperial court, and the answer was only Wei's North Korea, which was located on the edge of Liaodong County, Weiyouqu was a fish that escaped at the beginning, and if he was given the opportunity, he would definitely catch and eat this small fish.

"Wei Qing is going to eat this fish? It's not a way to break the game, but the tricks to deal with it are too irregular and dangerous. Cao Shi shook his head, Wei Qing's art of war was taught by Cao Shi himself, young people always like to choose the strategy of taking risks alone with small fights, either the winner takes all or loses the whole game.

Cao Shi understands the geography of the mountains and rivers of Wei's Korea, after all, the fish that slipped through the net has also been talked about by him for a long time, before the Huns were defeated, Cao Shi wanted to lead troops to crusade against Wei's Korea, but the court had no interest in that inconspicuous small country, plus Wei's Joseon King Weimeng bribed Tian Wei, who was then the Taiwei, to bribe Tian Wei, who was the captain at the time, causing several court discussions to crusade against Wei's Korea were held down.

The main reason is that the emperor was also persuaded by the reason that the overall situation was important, Tian Wei used the siege of Ma Yi to scare the snake when he fooled the Son of Heaven, and sealed Cao Shi's intention to crusade against Wei's North Korea and cut off the Xiongnu's right-hand man first, Wei Qing, as a first-hand witness of the whole incident, knows the ins and outs very well, and it is not surprising that he will choose to fight Wei's Korea at this point in time.

Politically to win the victory of conquering Wei's Korea, at least to ensure that the northern expedition to the Xiongnu will not end up in vain, and to achieve Cao Shi's strategic goal militarily, in order to eliminate Wei's Korea to crush the supporters of the Xiongnu and deter the swaying southern desert tribe, you can not only please the Son of Heaven but also do not have to worry about being suspected of doing things for Cao Shi, after all, the plan proposed by Cao Shi did not pass, and Wei Qing's successful realization is two different things.

Cao Shi will not be disappointed and troubled, the best window to attack Wei's Korea is only before the Han-Hun War starts, once the war starts, the Han army is unable to divide heavy forces to crusade against Wei's Korea, and the Huns will never sit idly by and watch their trumpet allies be bullied by the Han army at will.

This year's Northern Expedition is actually very difficult, especially when the Son of Heaven played a hand at the oath meeting, and used the secret dictation and Mingli's military order to harsh Wei Qing, the Han army must achieve decent results before returning to Chang'an with the face, otherwise even if the Son of Heaven does not mention the military order. A few generals who led the army did not have the face to ask for merit and rewards, and maybe in the future they would become the excuse of the beating of the Son of Heaven and the attacks of political enemies.

The process of sending troops from the Northern Expeditionary Army was not smooth either. The continuous rainy weather lost the precious opportunity to break into the north of the desert to fight the Huns, and the Han army was like a slow turtle stuck in the muddy pond of the southern grassland, unable to move for half a minute. In the face of all the difficulties in front of him, as well as the huge logistical pressure, Wei Qing showed the excellent control that a good general has.

Hunting and sweeping wild animals in the grassland to solve the temporary shortage of military food, and then judging from the situation, the Huns hid in the grassland and waited patiently for the opportunity, so the Bu suspicious array left the main force in the Monan grassland, creating the illusion that the camp continued to hunt and maintain the huge demand for military food, and he quietly left the activity area with 30,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry under the cover of the night.

Obviously, it didn't take long for the sophisticated Huns to figure it out, and what followed was just as the brief information described in the pigeon. King Zuo Xian abruptly left the temporary Shan Yuting and acted alone, causing strong dissatisfaction among the Xiongnu Shan Yu and giving the Han army a brief respite.

"The intention of the Xiongnu Shan Yu should be to contain King Zuoxian, free up his hands to take over the main force of King Zuoxian, lead the war against the Han army and take the opportunity to depose King Zuoxian. Cao Shi secretly sentenced King Zuo Xian to death, daring to offend the Xiongnu Shan Yu in person is tantamount to suicide, even if the Xiongnu Shan Yu temporarily needs Zuo Xian Wang to stabilize the army's morale and temporarily occupy his position, he will be tricked to Longcheng Shan Yuting secretly executed afterwards.

Cao Shi was distracted, and suddenly heard a shouting downstairs.

"The gentleman has a newspaper from the imperial court. It seems to say that there is a war breaking out in the south. Liu Wan's voice came from the courtyard in the distance.

Under normal circumstances, Guanzhong sends a report every five days, and the counties outside Guanzhong send a report every ten days, and Cao Shi's status is more special to enjoy the court report every five days, but the time is three days later than the news in Guanzhong.

The maidservant reported to the second floor with the mansion in her hand. The style of the imperial court newspaper sent is similar to that of the ordinary horse newspaper in Guanzhong, except that all the affairs in the imperial court are published in the page, and the headlines on the page are the latest developments in the Xiongnu War. There are only two or three hundred words without any new ideas, and the following is followed by the king of Qiongdu, who led the people to invade and obey the imperial court. News that the king of Qiongdu sent an envoy to ask the court for help.

The attitude of the king of Qiongdu was very interesting, and he decided to join the imperial court and ask for internal relocation to obtain the qualification of Hanmin. The treatment of the comparison should be exactly the same as that of the king of Dongou , the Son of Heaven happily agreed to the request, and then the court reacted often quickly, and immediately appointed the idle Wang Xin as the general, and the old liehou Liji, who was also idle, as the deputy general, plus a group of old guys in the meritorious liehou to serve in important positions in the army, leading the 120,000 troops of the southern army to attack south to Shuzhong, assisting the king of Qiongdu to defeat the king of Dian, and sweeping away the southwest Yi and cleaning up the southwest border in one fell swoop.

"This appointment is very strange, could it be that the old princes who stayed in the capital used any means to persuade the Son of Heaven? But the destruction of the Southwest Yi is not quite like being simply persuaded, where does the Southwest Yi say that it can be swept away, is it a trick? No, there is also the arrangement of South Vietnam, and the combination of the two is not without a chance, but it takes a long time and cannot be calmed down overnight. ”

Cao Shi was puzzled, he felt that the Son of Heaven seemed to be releasing some kind of signal, and after carefully calculating the layout of Chang'an, the capital division, he immediately understood that the princely forces in Chang'an had almost been emptied, and this was the original intention of the Son of Heaven.

"The Son of Heaven can't wait to promote new people?"

From the corner of the newspaper, I saw the personnel changes and really found the clues, the headline personnel changes were actually expected, the imperial historian Zhang Ou retired due to illness, and the Son of Heaven specially allowed him to retire in Beijing with the help of the three princes, and the new imperial historian turned out to be too often Han Anguo, this unexpected appointment said that the Son of Heaven wanted to reuse Han Anguo.

The appointment of the new Taichang was very surprised, Taixue Deputy Priest Wine Marquis Xiao Sheng suddenly changed to Taichang, Marquis Xiao Sheng had been an old minister of Jiuqing as early as the early days of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, when he made a stumbling block from it to affect the opportunity for meritorious princes to be rewarded, he was driven out of the court by the angry meritorious marquis, and the old feud of a lot of years was meaningful to serve as Taichang again.

Cao Shi didn't have to think about it to know that the Son of Heaven was full of malice, and he didn't expect Xiao Sheng to have much influence in dealing with the government, as long as he stayed in the court, it was a strong political signal, and it was conceivable that Cao Shi saw the tiredness and boredom of this appointment, and he gradually lost patience with the Son of Heaven, especially the Son of Heaven's growing tendency to purge all the forces he left in Chang'an.

It is conceivable that Cao Shi's actions to subdue will not be reused by the Son of Heaven, and the action of purging the forces of the Marquis of Pingyang will continue to be carried out. Until he became a loner and hid in the Pingyang Marquis Mansion trembling, he suddenly realized that Wei Qing in the prime of life in history hid in the Changping Marquis Mansion and died depressed.

How similar he is to that Wei Qing. He suddenly understood that Wei Qing would do nothing during the heyday of the Spring and Autumn Period, and he would watch his three sons lose their gold and lose their marquis, and they couldn't even say a word. Will even recommend a capable minister to be strongly rejected by the emperor, will even casually intercede for the ranger will be reprimanded, will be rewarded for winning the battle and will give half of the gold to please the wife of the Son of Heaven.

The Son of Heaven wants to beat him, suppress him, and completely control him, and will never allow anyone beyond his control to exist, even if this person is very trusting and pampered.

Cao Chang breathed a sigh of relief like a big stone in his heart, he received little reward for the benevolence and righteousness of the Son of Heaven, he just wanted to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the army was suspected by the Son of Heaven for several years, he decided to preside over the Han-Hun War in Mobei and was immediately sent to Longxi to guard the country, and he wanted to increase the number of Yulin cavalry was reprimanded as Han Xin.

He is not Tian Sheng's loyal and filial son. In addition to having a strong sense of identity with the Han family, all he cares about is supporting his meritorious liehous, his own fundamental Pingyang Hou Cao family, and his wife and children, and the rest is not important and does not have to care, and it is a good opportunity to come to Longxi, which is easier to operate than sending it to Huiji County or Liaodong County.

Calm down for a moment and keep looking.

The new Daxing Ling Mingjiao Wang Hui, he had already transitioned to the position of the prince and young master and served as a doctor for several years, and he was able to speak well and won the love of the Son of Heaven.

"Another lucky one. Remove Han Anguo's background recommended by me, these are the two ministers who are fortunate to be crowned by grace, the Son of Heaven's suppressive power on the court is getting stronger and stronger, and it is not enough to abolish me and continue to abolish the meritorious princes! Cao Shi did not continue to speak. Keep your head down and continue to read this newspaper that is destined to be extraordinary.

As he expected, General Fei Li Guang left Longxi and entered Chang'an to serve as Lang Zhongling, after all, it is not a trivial matter to cross a few steps from the border county Taishou to enter Jiuqing, especially Lang Zhongling, who is under the nose of the Son of Heaven.

A few days ago. Li Guanghuan left Longxi County happily, and before leaving, he specially invited Cao Shi's family to chat and express his gratitude. At the banquet, he said a lot of heart-warming words such as great kindness and unthanks, so he took a family of dozens of people to Chang'an to be Jiuqing. Cao Shi heard from his tone that those sincere thanks were perfunctory, Li Guang is also a veteran of Rongma for more than 30 years, how can he be grateful to a young man, and it is good to reduce his contempt for Cao Shi.

The new Longxi Taishou was not unexpectedly served by Ning Cheng, Ning Cheng received the news of Cao Shi early and was ready to take office, Li Guanggang hurried over not long after leaving, although it was inevitable that there was a little trouble in revealing his whereabouts, but it would not cause too much trouble, and the appointment of the imperial court from the decision to the issuance of hundreds of links could be known in advance by the liehous, especially the once powerful Pingyang Marquis, who was widely favored in Chang'an City, I don't know how many small and medium-sized officials still remember his feelings, and it is useless to use this to catch Ning Cheng's deeds.

The next adjustment is a bit confusing, the Son of Heaven recalled Jiangyang Marquis Suxi to Chang'an City and appointed him as the chief lord and lieutenant, one of the lords of the Shangqing is responsible for managing the meritorious group of military meritorious lords, including the nobles including the princes, all belong to the lord and the lord are managed on behalf of the lords, and the same similar function is also one of the nine kings, Zongzheng, who is in charge of all the clans including princes and princes.

Su Xi is a talented general, but he has never been very popular with the Son of Heaven, and the intention of being suddenly used by the emperor is very unexpected, and the reuse of the less eye-catching liehous shows that the strategy of the Son of Heaven for the meritorious liehou group has changed, and the trend of containment and differentiation is becoming more and more obvious, especially the founding liehou and Wu Chuping have a deep estrangement between the liehous, and Su Xi was promoted as a liehou who was conferred by Wu Chuping's chaos in line with the idea of the Son of Heaven.

The next appointment was basically irrelevant, Zhao Yu was appointed as the envoy of the rank of 2,000 stones, Zhang Tang as his deputy rank of 1,000 stones, the two were sent to the east of the Yellow River to rebuild the barrage, not surprisingly this appointment was the result of Cao Shi's interference, although the governance of the Yellow River did not get the attention of the Son of Heaven, but there was still a clear person in the court, Prime Minister Dou Ying.

In March this year, a rare rainstorm in Monan was unexpected, and the Yellow River in Monan went two thousand miles to the south, and the rain was greater, and the continuous heavy rain made the Yellow River come to a miniature version of the flood season, this rain knew that at the end of April, the clouds and rain stopped to reveal the long-lost sunshine, after the sudden heavy rain washed, the Yellow River embankment in several counties east of Luoyang was damaged to varying degrees, if not, even if it was repaired to the real flood season in summer, there would be big trouble.

Cao Shi was obviously aware of the trouble, the famous flood in history also came in this way, the frequent rainfall for several years caused by the abnormal flood season caused by the reduction of the levee's bearing capacity, just like sitting on a barrel of explosives suddenly erupted, considering the danger and urgency, Cao Shi wrote several long letters to the Prime Minister of Chang'an.

In particular, today, when the new farming technology has been greatly increased in grain production in the Kanto region, the incumbency of the flooding of the Kanto region will bring immeasurable losses, and the displacement of millions of people will be a huge dereliction of duty for him, and for the sake of the interests of tens of millions of people of the Han family, Dou Ying must also take precautions.

Dou Ying was persuaded, and in just half a month, the two people exchanged views more than a dozen times, and finally finalized the new position of governing the river and successfully persuaded the Son of Heaven to appoint Zhao Yu and Zhang Tang to make a compromise, and the retirement of the imperial historian Zhang Ou due to illness appeared in this context.

Zhang Ou's withdrawal was a plan finalized at the beginning of the year, because Zhang Ou's influence among the three dukes was declining day by day, and he stayed in the position of the imperial historian for several years.

Cao Shi and Zhang Ou often corresponded, knowing that the situation of the princes in the capital was not optimistic, and he had no way to forcibly ask Zhang Ou to stay in office, and the Son of Heaven did not need Zhang Ou to continue to be a good old man with the mud, and his departure became inevitable.

Zhao Yu and Zhang Tang combination is not a day or two, Cao Shi has a very deep understanding of the two, he can also rest assured to boldly elaborate his plan without worrying about the two refusing or Yang Fengyin, the preliminary project is to use Sanhe soil and raw material cement to strengthen the embankment along the river as a whole, as for the more scarce clinker cement can only see the situation to strengthen the hidden danger of the part of the embankment, he also mentioned the water to attack the sand, but considering that the Yellow River is too turbulent and dare not dare to do it for the time being, it is only recorded as an alternative to indicate the pros and cons.

In the afternoon, he lay on the bed on the second floor and took a nap, but he didn't expect it to be evening in the blink of an eye, and Ning Cheng waited for a long time in the Cheqi General's Mansion.

"General, this is the reorganization plan of the county soldiers, please take a look."

Ning Cheng sat very carefully, he was also a fifty-year-old man for many years, not as good as the strong man who was in the prime of life, dyed his temples white all the year round in Mobei, and his stubborn and rigid expression became more sleek, Ning Cheng, who had lost his authority, was not a heavenly eagle dog for a long time, and he didn't need him to bite Haoqiang to increase his prestige, he was just a border county guard who relied on the Marquis of Pingyang.

"I took a look at Taishou's plan in detail, the quality of the soldiers in Longxi is good, and training can produce good soldiers, but is it a bit too much to send 20,000 soldiers in Longxi."

"Please rest assured, the general has also done a basic understanding of the situation in the county in the west of Longxi, although there are only more than 250,000 people in the county, but every household has at least one soldier, 20,000 soldiers is by no means too much, excluding the mobilization of the whole people, at least 10,000 more soldiers."

Cao Shi heard the meaning of his words, the general of the chariot cavalry only had 30,000 soldiers in his hands, and with 20,000 county soldiers, he could barely set up a shelf, and the imperial court did not allocate the northern army to increase the number of troops and was not willing to give enough troops to recruit on his own, so the general of the chariot cavalry will always be a nominal person, so it is necessary to recruit enough county soldiers.

"Then follow this plan."

Ning Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, and the rest of his eyes glanced at the excited expression of the master father waving his fist at him: "The galloping road of three verticals and three horizontals is basically completed, and the three fortresses in the north are the first to be completed, and the cavalry of King Hutu has been frequently active on the border recently, and it seems that they are investigating the plan to build a fortress in Longxi County." ”

"If they want to see it, they can just watch it, and the more they watch, the more ruthless they will be."

Cao Shi said lightly. (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and updated faster!)

ps: Sorry, it's late today, I'll make up for it tomorrow.