Today. Cao Cao has been sitting on the throne of the great general for seven months. These seven months have been really good for Cao Cao!

Although He Jin left him a mess, although the Han world now really listened to his mobilization of soldiers and horses is only 300,000 or 400,000, although many of his decisions need to consider the feelings of Liu Bei and Lu Zhi and others, Cao Cao still feels the pleasure and confidence brought to him by greater power.

In the midst of his busy leisure, Cao Mengde actually flourished in poetry, and made the poem "Short Song Xing" that was recited in later generations: "When you sing about wine, what is life......? Qingqing Zijin, leisurely my heart. But for the sake of the king, Shen Yin has been ...... so far The mountains are not tired of being high, the sea is not tired of being deep, Zhou Gong spits and feeds, and the world returns to the heart. ”

In this poem, Lao Cao obviously felt that he was easy to grow old and his ambition was difficult to pay, so he sighed "the geometry of life" and "the bitterness of the past days". But looking at the emotions between the lines, what he can't forget is the unification of China. He also quoted the poems of "Zijin" and "Luming" to express his admiration for the virtuous. Finally, Zhou Gong compared himself with himself and expressed his desire to recruit talents and make the world return to his heart.

Lao Cao's identity at this time was a general, not a prime minister of the Han Dynasty, so he compared himself to the Duke of Zhou, who replaced the prime minister of Zhou Wang in the affairs of the world, and seemed to be suspected of trespassing, but he always compared himself with Liu Bei, and did not feel that Liu Bei should be higher than himself.

In front of the invincible existence in the north, Cao Cao and Liu Bei both knew very well whether the two of them could play Zhao Xing together, and if they were still making small calculations after cooperation, they were afraid that they would not be far from destruction. Therefore, even if Cao Cao made "Short Song Xing", a poem that compares himself to Zhou Gong's words and aspirations, the first person to applaud is none other than Liu Bei himself.

It should be said that since Cao and Liu joined forces, the Central Plains region has undergone positive changes towards the situation they want, although it is only a short half a year, but the integration of Sili, Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Yangzhou and other places of the imperial court forces is obviously much stronger than the previous situation of fighting separately, and the effect of one plus one is greater than two.

In Cao Cao and Liu Bei's calculations, the integration of Si, Yan, Henan, and Yang is only the first step of Zhongxing Han, and the annexation of Jingzhou is an extremely important second step. After the vast territory north of the Yellow River was completely stolen by Zhao Xing, the central court wanted to continue the confrontation with Zhao Xing, so it could only look south, to the south further south, such as Jingzhou and Jiaozhou.

Although sometimes Cao Cao had strange thoughts about whether Zhao Xing was playing a game of cat and mouse with him, he was still full of confidence to follow his own ideas and make changes to the Han as much as he could. The so-called tricks are ever-changing, and each ingenious is in it. Regarding Zhao Xing's set in the north, Cao Cao has some places that recognize and agree, and there are also places that disagree.

Cao Cao felt that people are born with high and low, and the main task of being in power was to manage the people of all walks of life well, so that they could live and reproduce in their own class in a regular manner. Those who are of low status cannot be persecuted by the high and powerful have no hope of survival, and those of low status cannot try in vain to seize the vested interests and interests of the noble and noble without hard work, and disrupt the order of superiority and inferiority. Cao Cao's concept, with a strong sense of realism, was almost the usual and adhered to by the ministers who governed the country in various dynasties.

However, Zhao Xing's ideas and ideas are completely different from Cao Cao's, even subversive.

From the very beginning, Zhao Xing has risen strongly in Bingzhou with a strong lowly background. Because he was a tenant farmer, he welcomed all the children of the tenant farmers and even the exiles and slaves to join his ranks; because he did not study and enter the ranks in a serious way, he could call him brothers and sisters with Zhou Cang and Dian Wei, who could not read a big character, and did not mind the scorn of the world's corporal doctors at him; because he was eager to seek merit and pointed directly to the hearts of the people, he could recruit all the traditional scholars such as Zhang Jian, Cai Yong, Kong Rong, Guan Ning, Bing Yuan, and You Heng into his banner; because he was so brave and ruthless. He has always liked to reason with his fists, so he has gathered a large group of fierce people from reckless backgrounds, and all of them like to reason with their fists.

All in all, Zhao Xing, who suddenly rose like a comet, has done many deviant things that no one can refute since he began to step onto the historical stage of the Han Dynasty, and set many rules that completely subvert the inherent rules of this era, and he is also magically getting stronger and stronger, so that now it is necessary to make everyone look up.

The most intolerable thing about Zhao Xing's actions is that he taught all the grassroots people a truth, that is, everyone should be born equal, even if there is a difference in background, but no one can deprive you of the right to struggle upward! He also taught the people of the whole world that the emperor is not the son of God, he is also an ordinary man like everyone else, he still has to eat and sleep, and he will definitely fall into the mud, if the emperor is not a thing, everyone will rise up to criticize him and overthrow him!

The emergence of Zhao Xing subverted tradition, broke the order, spoiled the people, and confused people's hearts and thoughts...... In short, if Zhao Xing continues like this, sooner or later the old family will be trampled under the feet of countless grassroots who are eager to rise, and there will never be a possibility of turning over.

Because the "hateful" Zhao Xing is now promoting universal education, all the "grassroots" and "small grassroots" have the opportunity to learn culture and knowledge, so that they will no longer be like stupid sheep to be "fooled" and "fooled", so that they will begin to doubt the existing unfair system and try to overthrow and break it.

Once the "bitter persecution" and the "grassroots" have opened up their wisdom and begun to pursue the so-called fair and just right to live, how should the old forces claim to themselves?

However, in Cao Cao's view, the biggest problem with Zhao Xing's thinking is that people are really born equal? If everyone is clamoring for equality and freedom, and wants to make their lives better, but is unwilling to do those dangerous and tiring things, in the end, everyone will become the master of free thought, who will serve so many masters?

This is an extremely deep and cruel question, although Cao Cao has not yet figured out the answer, but he feels that Zhao Xing also can't give the right answer. Because in Cao Cao's view, the selfishness of human nature determines that when many people are together, they must distinguish between the high and low, the rules of the weak must be set, and the humble must be allowed to serve the noble, otherwise the etiquette will collapse and the world will be in chaos.

If the humble are not convinced, then go and learn from Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, and in the end, it will only cheapen Liu Bang and his followers. When the rebels kill a group of great families, they will then make themselves or their descendants become superior people for many years to come. Then, after many years, the next round of "winning and losing" stories continued.

In the final analysis, Cao Cao felt that Zhao Xing and him were still the same kind of people at their roots. Cao Cao believes that the battle between him and Zhao Xing, in the end, is not righteousness or popular will, just a simple word "interests"!

In order to achieve his goal of finally taking the throne of the God King, Zhao Xing made these tricks that would damage the interests of the old forces such as the Cao clan and the Xiahou clan represented by Cao Cao, so it was natural for Cao Cao and Liu Bei and others to stand up and stop them.

When it comes to issues involving self-interest, especially survival resources, it seems that from ancient times to the present, there are few people who are really willing to retreat.