Volume 1: Xu Du Fengyun Chapter 64: Uncle and Nephew Talk
According to Cao Ren's order, the soldiers buried the bodies of Liu Xunzi and his own soldiers, and they were cleaning up the battlefield on the Shura field filled with gunsmoke and a sea of corpses and blood.
Cao Ren stood with his sword standing and looked at the mountains of grain and grass piled up in the treasury, "These should have been taken by Yuan Yao from the people of Huainan, right?" ”
Lu Qian arched his hand on the side and said, "I have asked him, and it is true." Looking at the mountains of grain and grass in the treasury, he couldn't help but smack his tongue, Yuan Yao's son didn't care about production for the time being, and he was very crazy, poor and extravagant, and oppressed the people, no wonder Huainan City fought to such an extent.
But none of the people called for the organization of a militia to stick to Huainan, indifferently watching the fall of the Yuan army and being indifferent, which is a good interpretation of how unpopular Yuan Benchu was under his rule, just because the people's rations were collected, the people's hearts were scattered, and with the ability of the Yuan family's father and son, they could no longer gather.
"Leave 30% as military rations, and distribute the rest." Hearing Cao Ren's order, Lu Qian pondered for a moment and asked: "In the first battle of Huainan, our army collected more than 10,000 remnants of the Yuan army and scattered them in various troops, is there too little grain and grass for thirty percent?"
"Sikong has sent the general Li Tong to take over Xiagu County." As soon as Cao Ren said this, Lu Qian understood that he would take over the valley, and then it would become an important hub for his own grain supply. The grain road will be greatly shortened, as the saying goes, the army does not move the grain and grass first, and the war is fought with logistics and money, so it is appropriate to leave only 30% of the military funds.
"Send a few high-pitched soldiers to shout vigorously on the street, saying that the Han army has arrived, the thieves have been destroyed, and there is an order to send grain to the people." "Then they carried the grain and grass to be distributed to the central square."
"Uncle." Hearing the shout, Cao Ren and Lu Qian turned around together, and saw Cao Ang standing behind him, "Uncle, can you take a step to speak?" Hearing Cao Ang say this, how could Lu Qian not understand what he meant, and bowed his hand to Cao Renyi and said, "Don't worry, general, the last general will do it." Then he retreated to Cao Ang.
"Ziyu, what's the matter with you?"
"Without him, my nephew thinks that just distributing food will have little effect." Hearing Cao Ang say this, Cao Ren pursed his lips and said, "Then what do you mean?"
"It is necessary to scavenge the land wealth of Huainan Haoqiang and distribute it to the people together." Cao Ang's words really shocked Cao Ren, "How can you take other people's wealth?" "I don't know why this nephew thinks the way he does.
Cao Ang's way of nature Cao Ren would say this, he would think so, he smiled and said: "Uncle, as the saying goes, under the whole world, it is not the king's land; the shore of the land; It was not a royal minister. Where does it come from the wealth of others? Everyone can say these kinds of words, but if they are said at the right time, the effect is different, such as saying it now.
Each county is taken, which means that the sphere of influence of the place will be taken down and the new owner of the region will be reshuffled, and if the old powerful family forces want to keep their interests from being overturned, then they must pay considerable benefits and give them to the new rulers, and at the same time recognize that the new forces will share the interests of the region with themselves.
Cao Ang's meaning is to let the so-called Haoqiang family in Huainan County spit out all the benefits of their own territory, let them be wiped out directly, and at the same time collect all the benefits, such as wealth, land, hidden population, ......, as the saying goes, cutting off people's wealth is like killing parents. In Cao Ren's view, Cao Ang's actions are equivalent to killing chickens and eggs, or even taking death.
This is to give people to the rhythm of extermination, Cao Ren is naturally reluctant to do this, and even since the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Han Guangwu has supported in disguise, acquiescing to the way of survival of Haoqiang, Yuntai Twenty-eight Generals, is a clear example, you don't see, how powerful these twenty-eight families are in Jingzhou, Jiangdong, and even some areas adjacent to Yizhou.
Cao Ang started this today, so will he use this trick to deal with other heroes in the future, or even against the scholars that Cao Cao relies on very much now? And Cao Ren also knew that Cao Ang and the scholars did not deal with each other, but he liked to befriend Guo Jia, a cold family, Yu Ban, Le Jin and other foreign generals with foreign surnames, which was similar to Cao Cao's so-called meritocracy, but in Cao Ren's view, Cao Ang's decision to dig his own grave was made. Therefore, Cao Ren flatly refused.
Cao Ang was not annoyed, but just asked: "Uncle is afraid that I will be helpless to take Huainan's Haoqiang?" Cao Ren shook his head and said: "Fei Ye, with your ability, you are still comfortable dealing with Huainan's Haoqiang, I believe this, but I'm afraid that you think that you can deal with the big Haoqiang or even the Shi clan, Zixuan, you don't have to refute, I can still guess your thoughts, everything is not as simple as you say." ”
Cao Ang smiled bitterly, knowing that Cao Ren was for his own good, and he also knew that Cao Ren was thinking too much, and was about to refute it, but Cao Ren preemptively said: "There are things that a generation has done, and the uncle you want to do supports you, but not now." Cao Ang bowed and said helplessly: "Uncle can let his nephew finish speaking." Cao Ren looked at him with burning eyes for a long time before he said, "You say, I'll listen." ”
"Our uncle and nephew don't talk to each other, I admit that I have this plan as my uncle guessed, but as you said, I also know that now is not the time." Cao Ang talked about his views to Cao Ren, this is a trickle of water, Cao Ang naturally knows that he has to take his time, boil the frogs in warm water, in the case of "silent", under the condition that the Shijia Haoqiang is not aware of it, why should he "eliminate" them? In Cao Ang's view, they are "monopoly chaebols", "vampires", and "parasites in the people", if they are not eliminated, how can the common people be fed? Enough to know honor and disgrace.
Cao Ang wants to innovate, to support the Hanmen, to do everything in the four sentences of Hengqu The premise is to let the people be fed, and they will obey when they are full, and they can do what they want to do.
Cao Ang talked about his views eloquently, Cao Ren thought deeply about what Cao Ang said, and began to think about the feasibility of what Cao Ang said, whether it would cause hidden dangers to the area ruled by Cao Cao, "Uncle is afraid that they will jump off the wall in a hurry and do something?" Cao Ang was like a roundworm in Cao Ren's stomach, and guessed what Cao Ren thought.
"The people in charge of the troops are all relatives of my family, even if the military generals with foreign surnames are comparable to the lord of the wolf Juxu, they have to be subordinate to their uncle and others, this is the rule set by my father, isn't it what they are guarding against when they jump over the wall in a hurry to do something?" Cao Ren closed his eyes and recuperated, digesting what Cao Ang said, Cao Ang was not in a hurry, and waited quietly, how could he be the kind of person who was anxious, and his impatience could not become any climate.
Cao Ang has always been very clear that his opponent has never been Yuan Shao, Liu Bei and other heroic figures, his opponent is the Shi clan, the Shi clan of the world, since he said the four sentences of Hengqu, or since he came to this world, his opponent is very clear.
He didn't believe that a literary traveler who had almost penetrated the ancient and modern systems could not challenge the current system, so what was the point of fighting with the princes? It's fun to compete with the world!
"Zixuan, do you know that once you do this, the scholars will regard you as an enemy." Cao Ren looked at him deeply and said, no matter what you want to do in this year, without the support of the Shi family, you can't do anything, Cao Ang's move is to make it clear that he is infringing on the interests of the Shi family, the Shi family can't move Cao Cao, but can't move you Cao Ang? If they think that you have gone too far, will they give up supporting you and support others, such as Cao Pi? If you can't keep the identity of the heir, how can you challenge the world's corporal clan?
"Uncle, don't worry, I'm not Emperor Yang of Sui, I have to go ten years to complete it in a hundred years." Cao Ang waved his hand and said, Cao Ren was about to nod, but he was stunned for a moment, and then asked suspiciously: "Who is Emperor Yang of Sui?" "Eh" Cao Ang's face was full of black lines, and under Cao Ren's puzzled gaze, he sneered: "It is the monarch of a small country in the Spring and Autumn Period." Cao Ren frowned, and said with some confusion: "Which country is Spring and Autumn?" ”。
Seeing that Cao Ren wanted to get to the bottom of it, Cao Ang wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead, and said with a haha: "Uncle, you just have to rest assured, I grew up with you since I was a child, don't you know the priorities?" Rest assured. ”
Cao Ren patted Cao Ang's shoulder and said earnestly: "It is precisely because I have watched you grow up since I was a child, if you don't care about how you are worthy of the title of uncle in every move, you don't have to feel that your uncle is nagging." ”
"What are you talking about?" Cao Ang looked at Cao Ren with disgust and said.
"This matter, I will write it in the letter to Xu Du, everything needs to be decided in the air, and then discussed, do you have any objections?" Cao Ren said so, seeing that his uncle said this, how could Cao Ang disagree, so he naturally responded again and again, saying, "Everything is up to my uncle." ”
"But speaking of which, if Sikong agrees with you, who do you want to make this happen?"
Cao Ang bowed, "Zi Yu has the courage to ask my uncle to come over." "Mysterious and mysterious." Although Cao Ren was muttering, he still put his ear close, and saw Cao Ang mysteriously saying a name in his ear, Cao Ren's expression became extremely exciting, he glanced at Cao Ang, nodded and said, "If you can really let this person preside, you can't really succeed." ”
"Just ask my uncle to add this person's name and hand it to Sikong, and be sure to ask him to discuss it with Guo Jia and Cheng Yu." Cao Ren nodded, Cao Ang's proposal was understandable, Guo Jia, as Cao Cao's sacrificial wine, was originally from a poor family, and Cheng Yu's words were also available from the Xiaoshi clan. In this way, Cao Ang really did not speak out on a whim, but after careful consideration, he dared to speak his mind.
"Uncle, if they really support Zihuan and them to compete with me in the future, who will Uncle help?" Cao Ang said with a wicked taste.
Cao Ren smiled lightly, poked Cao Ang's head, and said, "You are the eldest brother, and you want to let your younger brother go." Cao Ang nodded. He took a few steps back and bowed, "Thank you, uncle." Cao Ren pointed at him, "Stinky boy." With a laugh and a scolding, he moved with his sword, "I'll go and see what happened to Lu Qian's arrangement, you can do it yourself." With that, he hurried away.
Cao Ang took a deep breath and muttered to himself, "Let him? That is to say, you can't go too far? A meaningful smile tugged at his lips.