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The official ranks of the generals of Jizhou are above the generals of Yanzhou, which is not the thing that bothers Cao Cao the most. What a big deal, it's not a problem, just set them up, let them have no name, and all of them will be worshipped.

What made Cao Cao the most big one was that Yuan Shao had more than 200 "marquises" with more than 200 pavilion marquis during his lifetime, and more than 300 famous marquis with titles and no food.

It's a big problem, a bottomless pit.

So many "Hou Ye" gave him all the money and food of Cao Cao, the number of them and the breadth of the fiefdom are breathtaking. If Yuan Shao's edict is really recognized and the promise is fulfilled, only the fiefdom of Shiyi can be divided into two counties, and it is also a rich county with a large population, otherwise it is necessary to take out three counties to reward them.

Even if you don't give them a fiefdom of food, then you have to give it.

It's been more than two years in arrears before, shouldn't it be cashed out now?

In this way, it is three and a half years of Yulu, how large this amount is, even if the gold, silver, softness, money and grain accumulated in the Jizhou Treasury for many years are scavenged, it is not enough for them to have three years of Yulu. That's a lot of money!

The treasury is so empty that the rats are starving to death, so what about Cao Cao's more than 600,000 troops and tens of thousands of officials, where do their food and grass supplies and salaries come from?

Once the salaries of the army and officials are cut off, the consequences will be unimaginable, and Cao Cao, the lord, will come to an end, and he will inevitably be torn to pieces by the soldiers and turned into powder.

Having lost control of the army and the state and county, what is the use of Cao Cao raising these fat-headed and big-eared "Hou Ye", it is not as affordable as raising a group of pigs.

However. If Cao Cao dies and does not admit it, he will resolutely not fulfill his promise. The promises made on the day Quan Dang entered the Yecheng Prefecture Pastoral Mansion were all farts, and I don't remember them anymore. But what kind of face does he have to lead Jizhou. How can you convince the seven million people of Jizhou and Qingzhou, and how can you command an army of 600,000?

And the root of this qiē lies in the fact that Jizhou was not fought down by his troops, but a territory that was picked up by soldiers without blood. I thought I had taken advantage of a big advantage, but now I know that there are no good goods when I am cheap, and I will suffer a big loss sooner or later if I am greedy. It is true that he picked up the huge Jizhou in vain, but it also caused endless troubles, and it was really a mess, cut and tied. It's all a bunch of muddled accounts.

For a whole year and seven months, this confused account tossed Cao Cao to death and was miserable. Every day, like a person who has nothing to do, he fights with these "former ministers of the dynasty" who hold the edict, and repeatedly reiterates that he will never break his promise and will fulfill his promise; The bitter comfort explained: "At present, the treasury is empty, money and food are in short supply, Yanzhou and Qingzhou have been in drought for many years, and locust plagues are frequent. I really can't come up with the money; As long as the year is good, the taxes of the states and counties will be paid, and they will definitely pay a lot of their money over the years! ”

Cao Cao said these words at least ten times a day, and at least thousands of times in a year and a half. It makes him talk in his sleep at night with this kind of rhetoric. The suffering can be imagined.

No, a lot of things about the three princes and nine kings, the general and the marquis have not been resolved, and Yuan Shao's two precious sons Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang are making waves again. Jumping up and down, trying to make a comeback.

Let's be honest. Just now, Cao Cao was furious, and really wanted to order these parasitic moths under his rule to be cut in two and killed. Completely relieve the troubles that have tormented me for almost two years. How could this kind of thought disappear in a flash, it is purely an idea of self-amusement, and it is a pleasure for a while, but in fact, it must not be done. If you really want to do this, it is tantamount to digging your own grave, and the good situation will come to naught in an instant, and most of your life's hard work will be wasted, and it is very likely that you will end up with a death of nine springs and thousands of broken corpses.

The superior can not have a handsome appearance, can not have the martial courage to gallop on the battlefield, even if he has no strength to restrain the chicken, it doesn't matter, that is, he can't have no prestige, no faith, can't go back on his word, and lose his trust in others, especially not in the soldiers under his command and the people of Limin.

It is precisely with this kind of concern and fetters that Cao Cao has worked hard for a year and a half, but he has not tossed results, and all he has done is to wipe Yuan Shao's buttocks, he is tired and half dead, and in the end there is still no improvement, which is far from the expected goal.

The only initial achievement was the rectification of the administration of officials. For the sake of prudence, Cao Cao adopted the strategy of suppressing a group, pacifying a group, and suppressing a group again, steadily advancing, step by step, and handling things extremely cautiously, which was quite a bit of a dripping water through stones. After more than a year, the initial results were achieved, and all the county chiefs in the three prefectures under their rule were replaced by their cronies or righteous and virtuous people who were exceptionally promoted, and they subdued about sixty percent of the famous families in Jizhou and further consolidated their dominant position. This is the only commendable achievement, and it is also the result of a year and a half of hard work by Cao Cao and many of his civil servants and strategists.

Compared with government affairs, Cao Cao, who had made great determination to rectify the army, was deeply frustrated, and tried his best to toss for more than a year, but in the end he still had little effect. Although the combat power of the Jizhou army is slightly inferior to the Yanzhou army, it is better than a large number of soldiers and horses, except for the traitor Ju Yi who led 50,000 elite soldiers to betray and defect to the enemy, the Jizhou army gathered all the soldiers and horses in Jizhou and Qingzhou, totaling more than 346,000 soldiers, including 50,000 cavalry, 100,000 charioteers, and 50,000 sailors, and the rest are all infantry troops. This is still the number of soldiers and horses after the decisive battle with the Xiliang army in Jizhou the year before last, and the Jizhou army before the war was as many as more than 400,000, and its strength was far above Cao Cao.

In contrast, Cao Cao's headquarters had more than 300,000 troops, which was 100,000 less than the Jizhou army. Although the Battle of Jizhou was an unprecedented victory, Cao's army still paid no less than 100,000 casualties and suffered heavy losses. If you add the soldiers and horses lost by the Jizhou army, Cao Cao did not take much advantage in the battle of Jizhou, and lost 230,000 troops (including the Jizhou army) in the entire Hebei battlefield, which was almost the same as the casualties of the soldiers and horses under Li Li.

The reason why there were so many casualties in a well-designed tactic of luring the enemy deep was that Cao Cao took the lives of 70,000 elite soldiers at the beginning of the war in order to lure Li Li into the bait. Subsequently, on the battlefields of Julu and Changshan, although Cao's army succeeded in sneak attacks one after another and recovered the lost territory, it paid a heavy price for this, and nearly 100,000 troops died in the impact of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry. It is no exaggeration to say that except for the defeat of Yecheng, the Xiliang army did not suffer losses in other battlefields, although it lost the city and the camp, but it dealt a heavy blow to the Cao army and the Jizhou army, and kept its own vitality.

The reason why this battle was regarded as an unprecedented victory by Cao Cao was that he exchanged the relatively weak army of more than 200,000 troops for the most elite more than 200,000 infantry cavalry under Li Li, of which 100,000 Xiliang iron cavalry were annihilated. Therefore, although the casualties of the two armies were about the same, in fact he Cao Cao still won the battle, and it was a great victory that he had never dared to think of before; In one fell swoop, more than 60,000 war horses were captured, and countless weapons, armor and ordnance were captured. With these captures, it was enough for him to form an elite iron cavalry of 50,000 people, plus he already had 100,000 war cavalry (there were still 80,000 left after streamlining), and in time he had the strength to confront the Xiliang Iron Cavalry head-on, and vigorously launched a cavalry decisive battle with the Xiliang army.

In this regard, Cao Cao was full of expectations and high morale, firmly believing that the tiger and leopard cavalry under his command would not lose to Li Li's Xiliang iron cavalry.

?????? Today, while receiving a secret report that the two Yuan Tan brothers were plotting against each other, Cao Cao also received two secret reports, one from Xiliang and the other from Jingzhou.

Before receiving these two secret military reports, Cao Cao was quite satisfied with the results he had achieved in a year and a half. Although he did not achieve the expected goal, he was not discouraged, knowing that the myriad things need to be sorted out slowly, step by step, and not rushed. But after he read the contents of the two secret reports, the cold sweat on his forehead instantly flowed, and he felt that his achievements in the past year or so were almost negligible compared with Li Li and Liu Biao, and they could not be compared at all.

According to the secret report, in the past year, Li Li secretly sent troops to attack Yizhou under the pretext of recuperation, and it took less than half a year to capture Liangchuan. After recovering the entire territory of Yizhou, Li Li returned to Chang'an last winter, but left Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu in Yizhou to continue the campaign, sending troops to conquer the Southern Barbarians. This is a secret report that has been painstakingly sent back from Xiliang.

The second secret report recorded the great changes in Jiangdong and the secret alliance between Jiangdong and Liu Biao in Jingzhou, and the content was almost identical to the secret report received by Li Li except for slight differences in wording.

After reading these two secret reports, Cao Cao immediately received a secret report about the Yuan family brothers from the inner servant. Suddenly, Cao Cao felt extremely grim, and his feelings were extremely low, and he was upset by the Yuan brothers' jumping up and down, so he was full of indignation and thunder.

Sitting in the hall and thinking for a long time, Cao Cao completely calmed down. This time he is really calm, and in the face of the increasingly severe situation in the world, he can't help but be calm, and he won't be angry anymore.

In silence, he handed over the two secret reports to Xun Yu and the six people to circulate, perhaps under the influence of his anger, although Cao Ren and Cheng Yu and others were very surprised to see the content of the secret report, they all held their breath and did not make a sound, lest they rashly interrupt Cao Cao's thinking, which would inevitably attract his thunderous anger.

"The Li thief easily captured Yizhou, and obtained more than 100,000 soldiers and horses and millions of grain, grass and ordnance in Yizhou, and we didn't know anything about it, and we didn't get the information until the end of the war and when the dust settled. In the midst of a deep groan, Cao Cao's tone paused, and then the words changed: "However, it is expected that Li Thief will attack Yizhou, and Gu is not surprised." As early as a few years ago, when Li Thief led his troops to attack Hanzhong, his intention to Yizhou had been exposed, showing that he was determined to win Yizhou. Compared with Li Thief, Jingzhou Liu Biao really surprised me this time, what he did was completely unexpected by Lonely, it can be called a stroke of genius, and if it doesn't sound, it has been a blockbuster! I don't know what Wen Ruo thinks about this? ”

"The world is divided into three points, and it has become a full trend. The Lord of Wechen Jian made up his mind as soon as possible, and now is a golden opportunity??????"

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