When Shen Feng was focusing on gunpowder and soul research, the NPC era of the Three Kingdoms was gradually coming to an end. *top*point*small* said.

Cao Cao learned that Sun Quan was defeated at the hands of Zhang Liao, so he no longer had to support, but returned to Yecheng and became the king of Wei.

Let's take a look at Cao Cao's identity advancement process.

When the world was in turmoil, Cao Cao was appointed by Yuan Shao as the Taipuncy of Chengdong County and began to make a fortune, and then took over as the pastor of Yanzhou, took over the emperor, and became a general for two days, and was forced to give it to Yuan Shao, and has been a commonplace ever since.

In 208, when he returned from the Northern Expedition, he thought that when the world was decided, he abolished the Three Princes and became the prime minister. Then he marched south and was defeated by Zhou Yu, and in another year, Cao Ren was broken by Zhou Yu, lost Nanjun, Jingzhou fell into the hands of Liu Bei, and the good situation collapsed.

Seeing that it was difficult to unify the world, and that he was getting old, Cao Cao began to arrange the future. At the end of 210, at the suggestion of the ministers, the emperor sealed Cao Cao's four counties, a full 30,000 households, but Cao Cao did not ask for it, but wrote the famous "Let the County Clarify the Decree", and only received one county.

But Cao Cao didn't want it, and the emperor didn't dare not give it. The three counties that Cao Cao ceded, the emperor gave his three children respectively, one county each, Cao Zhi as the Marquis of Pingyuan, Cao Zhi as the Marquis of Fanyang, and Cao Bao as the Marquis of Raoyang, each with 5,000 households. In this way, although Cao Cao only has one county, their family is still four counties, which is not missing at all.

Although "Let the County Clarify the Decree" is very touching, the county marquis of a county, plus the children's county is only four counties, which is far from the result that Cao Cao wants.

Another two years passed, 212 years. Dong Zhao and others thought that Cao Cao should enter the Duke of Jueguo and give Jiuxi, but Xun Yu objected, so he only made a praise and worship without a name, and he did not tend to enter the court, and the sword went to the palace, such as Xiao He's story.

Immediately afterwards, on the way of Cao Cao's southern expedition to Sun Quan, Xun Yu died, 213 years. After Cao Cao returned, he became the Duke of Wei. With nine tin.

How did this "male" come out? It is said that the vassal states of the Zhou Dynasty are divided into five categories, such as duke, marquis, uncle, son, and male, but now in the Han Dynasty, in addition to the prince can be crowned king, other meritorious heroes and royal relatives can only be crowned marquis, although there are county marquis, township marquis, and pavilion marquis. But in the end, it's all Hou. The state is also known as the Hou State. Further down is the landless Guannei Hou, who doesn't even have a territory, and it's not as good as the liehous.

Since the Eastern Han Dynasty practice. Only the prince can be crowned king, Cao Cao is highly accomplished, and the marquis is a bit too ordinary, how to highlight his status? And so the "principality" was carried out.

In fact, there were also two dukes in the Eastern Han Dynasty, namely the Duke of Wei and the Duke of Song. Where did these two "males" come from? It was Liu Xiufeng's.

Before the unification of the Han Dynasty, there were four great unified dynasties in China, namely Xia, Shang, Zhou, and Qin. The Xia Dynasty was too far away, and the Qin Dynasty was tyrannical again, and it was only unified for a few years and was overthrown by Liu Bang, so it doesn't count, Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu found Kong An, a descendant of Yin Shang, and was named the Duke of Song, and Ji Chang, the descendant of the Zhou Dynasty, was named the Duke of Wei, thinking that Han Bin was above the three dukes.

In order to highlight Cao Cao's great achievements, everyone took out this "principality" that was above the "Hou State" and had only been sealed twice so far, and awarded it to Cao Cao.

Although the territories of Duke Wei and Duke Song are very small, Cao Cao, the "Duke of the Kingdom", cannot be compared with them at all. The imperial court painted ten counties such as Hedong, Hanoi, Weijun, Zhao, Zhongshan, Changshan, Julu, Anping, Ganling, and Pingyuan as fiefs for Cao Cao, which was simply a big country within a country in the north.

Seeing such a heavy reward, Cao Cao of course pretended to refuse, everyone refused, Cao Cao said that as long as Wei County and one county were enough, everyone refused again, so Cao Cao laughed at the land of ten counties and established his own small vassal state - oh, this is definitely not a small vassal state, but a big vassal state, all ten counties, can it be small?

Although there is an emperor above, he is just a principality, but the treatment is almost the same as that of the kingdom. Cao Cao built a shrine, established a temple, accepted three daughters as nobles, and placed Shangshu, Shizhong, and Liuqing; With Xun Yu as the Shangshu Order, Liang Mao as the servant, Mao Jue, Cui Yan, Chang Lin, Xu Yi, He Kui as the Shangshu, Wang Cang, Du Xi, Wei Qi, and Heqia as the servants, Zhong Xuan as Dali, Wang Xiu as the Dasi Nong, Yuan Jian as the Lang Zhong Ling, the Imperial History of the Great Doctor, and Chen Qun as the Imperial History of the Cheng, a country within a country different from the imperial court was gradually established.

Subsequently, in 214, the year of Liu Bei's Pingshu, Cao Cao went one step further, took the throne on the princes and kings, and was awarded the Golden Seal, the Red Silk, and the Yuanyou Crown. That is, although his country is a "principality", it is already even better than the prince's kingdom.

And now, in 216, Cao Cao finally no longer wants to be this "duke", or directly become the king.

When the Western Han Dynasty was established, there were still many kings with different surnames, such as Han Xin, King of Chu, Peng Yue, King of Liang, Yingbu of Huainan, etc., we are all familiar with them, but these people did not have good results, and they were killed by Liu Bang one by one, and only Wu Rui, the king of Changsha, passed on for four generations, which was regarded as a good death.

When the Eastern Han Dynasty was founded, due to Liu Xiu's strength and the incompetence of the princes, none of the kings with different surnames were sealed, so it was not until the end of the dynasty that the first and last king with a different surname appeared, that is, Cao Cao.

Although Liu Bei later called himself the king of Hanzhong, he was a relative of the Han family, not a king with a different surname, and when Sun Quan took refuge in Cao Cao, he was only named a hussar general, and he was given the title of Jingzhou Mu and Nanchang Marquis. It wasn't until Cao Pi was proclaimed emperor that he was promoted to King of Wu, and the Eastern Han Dynasty had already fallen by then.

Cao Cao was very happy after he became the king, with Dali Zhong Xuan as the prime minister, and the country also became a kingdom organization, this set of small court was completely loyal to him, so that after his death, this team could also assist his children, regardless of whether they were loyal to the emperor or his heir.

Next, Cao Cao prepared to march south again. Zhang Liao defeated Sun Quan's 100,000 men with 7,000 soldiers, which made Cao Cao want to move, and he wanted to leave a complete world for his children before he died.

Cao Cao's army went to Hefei, inspected the place where Zhang Liao and Sun Quan fought, and sighed for a long time. The reason why he left a bag and wrote down a clever plan that was not a clever plan in it was just to calm the hearts of the people, not that he thought that Zhang Liao could break the enemy. Unexpectedly, Zhang Liao actually used chicken feathers as an arrow, and really defeated Sun Quan.

In the first month of 217, Cao Cao took advantage of the lowest water level of the river to continue the southern expedition against Sun Quan, wanting to take advantage of Sun Quan's defeat and ask Sun Quan for his life. However, Sun Quan's last fiasco has already learned his lesson. This time, he couldn't hold on to Cao Cao, and no one could help anyone.

Cao Cao couldn't push Sun Quan, had to move back to the court, this time after returning to the dynasty, he set up the flag of the Son of Heaven, in and out of the call of the police, the crown has two out of ten, take the golden root car, drive six horses, set up five times deputy car, it can be said that it is completely an emperor's head. Meanwhile. He also appointed Cao Pi as the crown prince. Succeeded his Wei state.

To the west, Fa Zheng persuaded Liu Bei to take Xiahou Yuan in the north and settle in Hanzhong. Liu Bei did as he said and sent Zhang Fei, Ma Chao, Wu Lan and others to march first. Cao Cao heard this. Cao Hong was immediately sent to support.

This year, Lu Su died. Sun Quan asked Yan Jian to replace Lu Su. Everyone went to Yan Gan's house to congratulate him, but Yan Jian kept refusing to call himself a scholar. I don't understand military affairs, my words are sincere, and I ended up in tears. Sun Quan saw that this kid couldn't do it, so he had to let Lu Meng take Lu Su's place.

In 218, Cao Hong beheaded Wu Lan, Zhang Fei and Ma Chao were defeated, and then Xiahou Yuan, Zhang He, Xu Huang and others rejected Liu Bei and others, and Xu Huang defeated Liu Bei's general Chen Shi. Liu Bei was shocked and felt that he was going to finish the game, so he hurriedly sent a letter to Zhuge Liang and asked him to transfer all the soldiers in Yizhou.

Zhuge Liang frowned when he saw Liu Bei's letter, and asked Yang Hong: "The lord asked us to transfer all the soldiers over, what do you think?" ”

Yang Hong said: "Hanzhong is the throat of Yizhou, the key to survival, if there is no Hanzhong, there is no Shudi." This family's disaster, how to send troops! ”

At this time, Shu County was following Liu Bei to fight Hanzhong, Zhuge Liang immediately asked Yang Hong to lead Shu County Taishou to recruit troops, Yang Hong arrived in Shu County, not only recruited a lot of soldiers, but also did other things in an orderly manner. Zhuge Liang saw that Yang Hong was so capable, and immediately waved his hand, from today on, you are not a substitute Taishou, but a real Taishou!

At the beginning, Yang Hong was just a gong cao under Li Yan, but now Li Yan is still Qianwei Taishou, but Yang Hong has become the Taishou of Shu County, which is better than Li Yan. And Yang Hong has a person named He Yi under him, Yang Hong recommended it to Zhuge Liang, Yang Hong is still in Shu County is too punctual, and He Yi has become Guanghan Taishou.

Zhuge Liang does not consider the level of origin, the depth of qualifications, and the use of talents, as long as you are a talent, you will be promoted rapidly, so that all the people of Yizhou are convinced.

Liu Bei received the soldiers recruited by Zhuge Liang and continued to confront Xiahou Yuan, while Cao Cao saw that the battle was hot here, and he was also ready to personally go west to conquer Liu Bei. But at this time, the northern Hu people were in turmoil again, so he had to delay for a while.

It was Cao Zhang who put down the rebellion of the Hu people in the north. Cao Zhang's body fought by himself, several arrows in his armor, and his spirit was strong, taking advantage of the victory to chase the north, to the north of Sanggan, breaking the Hu people, beheading, and thousands of lives. At that time, the Xianbei lord Kebi could wait and see the strength and weakness of tens of thousands of elite horsemen, and saw that Cao Zhangyong was unstoppable and everything was broken, so he surrendered immediately and the north was peaceful.

Cao Cao was very happy to see Cao Zhang's pacification of the north. He has been stationed in Chang'an, and he didn't dare to go south to Hanzhong, because he was afraid that something would happen in the north. Now that the north is flat, his army can finally move south.

However, this time the southward movement was a step slower, and as soon as he came out of the army, Liu Bei beheaded Xiahou Yuan and captured Hanzhong. Seeing Cao Cao's army, Liu Bei said proudly: "Although Cao Gong is here, there is nothing to do, I will have Hanchuan." ”

So Liu Bei refused to take risks, couldn't defend himself, never confronted Cao Cao, and Sun Quan in Jiangnan was simply an apprentice taught by a master. Cao Cao and Liu Bei held each other for several months, but did not get a bargain, and finally had no choice but to lead the army back to Chang'an, and Liu Bei occupied Hanzhong County and unified Yizhou.

At this time, Liu Bei, proud of the spring breeze, claimed to be the king of Hanzhong, set up an mandala in Weiyang, Chen Bing was in the crowd, the ministers accompanied the throne, and after reading the chapter, he worshiped the seal ribbon and wore a crown. Liu Chan was appointed as the crown prince, Wei Yan was promoted to the general of Zhenyuan, and he led the Hanzhong Taishou to Zhenhanchuan.

After promoting Wei Yan, Liu Bei returned to Chengdu, with Xu Jing as the Taifu, Fa Zheng as Shang Shuling, Guan Yu as the former general, Zhang Fei as the right general, Ma Chao as the left general, Huang Zhong as the rear general, and the rest of the generals also had their own rewards.

Liu Bei sent Fei Shi to Jingzhou to give Guan Yu's former general a ribbon, Guan Yu heard that Huang Zhong's status was similar to his own, and he immediately said angrily: "The eldest husband will not be in the same column as the veteran!" "Resolutely refused to ask for Liu Bei's reward.

Fei Shi had to comfort: "If you want to establish the cause of the emperor, you must not count on just one person. When Han Gaozu fought the world, Xiao He and Cao Shen were his little relatives, while Chen Ping and Han Xin were homeless people who came empty-handed. But what was the status of people at that time? Han Xin was at the front, but Xiao He and Cao Shen had no complaints.

Now that the king of Hanzhong has made great contributions to Huang Zhongxin, he deliberately respects him, do you think he can really compare with you? What is the relationship between you and the king of Hanzhong, just like a person, sharing honor and disgrace, please don't care about the official title and the number of lords at this time. I don't care if you don't get sealed, but when I go back and tell the king of Hanzhong about it, you don't look good on your own side. ”

Guan Yu pondered for a long time, and finally reluctantly accepted the fact that he was juxtaposed with Huang Zhong. (To be continued......)