Chapter 15: Cao Cao
Two thousand daring warriors appeared in Luoyang City like the wind.
Then on an ordinary morning, the sun rose and the morning light shone down, and the warriors left the place again like the wind.
There were many carriages in the horse team, which was naturally not only Diao Chan, but also Cai Yong and his little daughter who was less than ten years old, as well as a lot of books, mainly those solitary and very valuable books, which had to be brought to Zhaocheng.
Naturally, they did not wear armor during the march, and their hair was raised back with the wind, revealing a lean face.
Many of the Tai Scholars have called their friends to see that this may be the only chance in their lives to see a Dare Warrior.
Diao Chan lifted the curtain of the carriage and looked at the city where he had lived for many years but did not take a good look, and he did not know if he would be able to return here in the future.
The scholars of Luoyang City only felt a flower in front of them, and saw a beautiful woman walking out of a painting leaving, which caused a burst of restlessness and exclamations.
Luo Shu led the warriors out of Luoyang, looking at the towering city in front of him and listening to the sound of the surging Luoshui, all the Luo's sons and warriors dismounted one after another, Diao Chan looked at this scene with some curiosity.
I saw everyone kneeling down on one knee towards Luoyang and Luoshui, their hands crossed and their heads bowed, Luo Shu raised his hands high above his head, and the rest of the people pressed them on their chests with solemn expressions.
Diao Chan immediately knew what these people were going to do, this was a gesture of chanting the saints that had been passed down since ancient times, and it was the oldest of the various chanting methods.
She hurriedly stepped out of the carriage, didn't care about the dust on the ground, and knelt directly on her knees, also with her head and hands on her chest, in a very standard posture.
Luo Shu saw this scene out of the corner of his eye, and smiled imperceptibly. "The spirit of King Su is in heaven!"
Luo Shu's voice was like thunder, and then thousands of people shouted in unison, shaking the people who gathered in Luoyang City.
Countless people heard this chanting voice, first looked at each other and then knelt on the ground like a tide, and the scattered voice sounded, "King Su is above."
After so many years, except for special sacrifices, even the eulogy was gradually omitted into four words, but in the end it was unified into a single chant: "The gods of King Su are in heaven!"
"Radiance shines on the god Luoyang!"
The daring warriors sang a complete hymn, which brought a little shock to the people of Luoyang, and then they got on their horses, and Diao Chan stood up from the ground and gently patted the dust on his knees.
Luo Shu walked up to Diao Chan and asked with a smile, "Does Miss Diao Chan know why she did this?"
"Huh?"
Diao Chan's cold little face was full of surprise when he heard this, isn't this Luo's fixed process?
Then she suddenly remembered that in those rumors, usually Luo would not sing a whole hymn, and it was enough to have the sentence "The gods of King Su have been glorious in the sky for thousands of years".
She thought of the sentence that the light shone on the god Luoyang, and her eyes lit up as if with moonlight, and said, "Is it to warn the people in the city not to destroy Luoyang?"
Luo Shu smiled on his face, but there was a chill in his voice, "If someone really wants to destroy Luoyang, it can't be stopped, this is to tell everyone that if Luoyang is destroyed, stretch your neck and wait for Luo's revenge."
Now there is a very real problem, Rocky is very strong, but many people don't know how strong Rocky is, and Rockwell can't tell others how strong Rocky is, so some people think Rockwell is strong, some people think Rockwell is just that, some people are in awe, and some people have no scruples.
Diao Chan heard the murderous intent in Luo Shu's words, and then saw Luo Shu return to his gentle posture and said, "Miss, please get in the car, we are ready to return to Zhaocheng."
Diao Chan nodded and stepped into the carriage. ......
"Rock's gone?"
This question rang out in many places in Luoyang City.
There are countless meanings in the questions, some people breathe a sigh of relief, some people sigh slightly, and some people begin to fear.
In the palace, Luo Kong listened to the faint chant, followed the singing in the palace, and waited until everything was over.
He got up and thought about what he could do.
Sitting in the palace and waiting for death was naturally not what he wanted, but now the palace is mainly controlled by Dong Zhuo, and seventy percent of the palace guards are Dong Zhuo's people, and even the emperor's guards are basically Dong Zhuo's people from the Liang Army, although they are wearing the clothes of the forbidden army.
The remaining thirty percent are the original forbidden army, and the Taiping army of Bu Cai and others is also among them, although their power cannot be compared with Dong Zhuo's Xiliang, but it is not possible to let them completely abandon the Empress Dowager He and the emperor.
"The Taiping Army and Yuan Shaojun are the key to solving the current problem, if Wen He is here now, he will definitely be able to come up with a small way to make a big difference."
Luo Kong pondered for a long time, hoping to find the opportunity that flashed in this anxious state.
Not everyone of the princes of King Qin at the beginning was able to make a comeback as quickly as Yuan Shao, and Cao Cao was even worse than Liu Bei, and fled all the way to his hometown in Yanzhou and Yuzhou with his brothers.
Yanzhou and Yuzhou are also populous states, compared to Jizhou, although they have experienced more wars than Jizhou, but because the time span is not very large, the most important thing is that there is no large-scale plague circulation, so Yuzhou and Yanzhou have great war potential.
Cao Cao this time, King Qin knocked out a lot of the Cao family and the Xiahou family, but the family's support for Cao Cao did not decrease.
After all, Cao Cao is not the one who fails, as long as he gains prestige in King Qin this time, he has everything in this world.
The war between Yuzhou and Yanzhou has never stopped.
The Lanling Xiao clan and the Huaiyin Han clan are all in Xuzhou, and the Xinzheng Zhang clan is no longer in these two states, these three are busy pacifying their own bandits, only Yinghou is in Yuzhou and Yanzhou to pacify the bandits, which is quite a bit difficult to support.
Until Luoyang gradually settled down, the situation between the world seemed to gradually become clear on the surface.
The bandits everywhere felt as if the imperial court had freed their hands, and became more and more frightened, and more and more were subdued by the imperial court, and the rebellion between these states and counties seemed to be put down.
Qian County.
Cao Cao returned to his hometown, and the elders of the clan attended this important meeting to discuss the family's business for decades to come.
The first question is whether the family should simply be a scholar or continue to be a prince!
It is relatively safe to be a scholar, at most, the power of the family has declined, and it is generally not completely annihilated, and if you are a prince, it will have a hint of turning the family into a country, and the benefits will increase dramatically, but the danger will also be greatly increased.
That said, what family doesn't want to turn their family into a country?
The emperor of the Han Dynasty lost the position of the Son of Heaven, and at once ignited the flame called ambition in the hearts of countless people.
How can there be no Son of Heaven in the world ruled by God?
The Han family did not explain that the Han family lost its life, and it is not known who this destiny falls on!
"Mengde, what do you think?"
In the end, the problem still fell on Cao Cao, the most outstanding son of the family, the children of this level are no longer controlled by the opinions of the clan elders, but the clan elders have to cooperate with these children to do things.
Cao Cao pondered for a moment, and then said categorically: "Of course, we want to be princes, our Cao clan has been wandering between the Haoqiang and the Shi clan.
If you want to be a scholar now, you will always have to follow other families and eat leftovers.
When the Han Dynasty was in the early Han Dynasty, how prominent the family was in the Han Kingdom, but in the late Han Dynasty, there was a great chaos, the Kingdom of the Han Dynasty was turned into a county, and the King of Qian was removed, and the family also fell.
If we don't even dare to fight for wealth in troubled times, then in the next hundred years, we will still be the third-rate family we are now.
Even if you have money and food, you will be looked down upon, and if you can become a prince, you will turn over once.
Even if it fails, as long as it passes the most dangerous stage, it will be a leap in the family's reputation."
Cao Cao's words made everyone nod their heads, this is the truth, competing for the world is naturally an extremely dangerous thing, but once it is successful, it will become the No. 1 family in Tianzi in an instant.
In the pre-Han Dynasty, there was a saying that "Luo and Liu share the world".
This sentence not only exalts Luo's but also promotes Liu's, ostensibly talking about Luo's power, but in fact, it is also secretly elevating Liu's status.
Yuan Shu called himself the Zhong family, but he felt that after not counting the Luo family, in addition to the Liu family, he belonged to the Yuan family the most prosperous, and the royal family's surname was noble.
And even if it is unsuccessful, as long as it is not a mortal enemy who wins the world, the prestige of the family is also rising, and it is not a problem to get a high position in the new dynasty.
At present, it is not in the habit of killing all competitors.
"Since you have decided to become a prince, you must choose a good place to raise your army."
Everyone has no opinion on Cao Cao's decision, and the Cao family is in this kind of position, and there are not many choices that can be made.
"The place to choose the army must be easy to defend and difficult to attack, otherwise even if it is as brave as King Xiang, it will be consumed in vain, and the place of four battles in Xuzhou cannot be chosen without a natural barrier."
Xuzhou is a battleground for soldiers, but just occupying Xuzhou is a mortal situation, there are enemies on all sides, and Xuzhou has no mountains and rivers to hinder except for a small mountain in the core area, and the first one was eliminated by Cao Cao. net
"Qingzhou is a good place to go, it was the land of Qi back then, close to the seashore, and business was prosperous.
The only drawback is that it is too chaotic now, and the Lu clan has too deep roots in Qingzhou, and the family has no connections there, so they can't get in."
The most critical thing in this paragraph is the last sentence, in this era, there are no protégés, no friends and relatives, it is difficult to move an inch, and the Cao family's power has obviously not expanded to Qingzhou.
"Jizhou has no chance, Yuan Shao is there, it is impossible for us to fight for him, and it is even more impossible for Youzhou and Bingzhou, it is the territory of the border county family, and it is impossible for us, the Central Plains scholars, to intervene."
When Cao Cao heard this, he sighed slightly and said, "Is it really still Yuzhou and Yanzhou?"
He recalled the scene when he fled to Yuzhou and Yanzhou, and said bluntly: "If you choose one of these two states, then you should choose Yanzhou.
But Yanzhou is also a place of four wars, and before it develops, I am afraid that it will have to rely on Yuan Shao's breath for a long time to survive.
Yuan Shao must be very disgusted with Yuan Shu, if I can really occupy one or two counties and develop, I'm afraid I will be the one who faces Yuan Shu's blade."
Hearing this, the clan elder smiled and said, "This is nothing, when the Bang Zhou Dynasty was in the early days, the Jin State and the Chu State competed for the hegemony of the Central Plains, and I don't know how many of the Central Plains countries depended on these two countries and the Luo State to survive.
I don't even know how many wars are supported by these three countries behind the scenes, such as the State of Wu, if there is no blood support from the State of Luo, how can it hold out in front of the State of Chu for so many years.
Although hundreds of years have passed, these things will not change, accept Yuan Shao's assistance, and attack Yuan Shu for Yuan Shao.
If the benefits given by Yuan Shu are enough, it is normal to attack Yuan Shao in turn.
Where else is there among the princes?
It is said that when the princes of Bangzhou formed an alliance in the morning and betrayed in the evening, I used to think that these people really had no trust at all, but now it seems that we have not reached that position."
Cao Cao frowned slightly when he heard this, and said, "I still can't say that, the situation in Bang Zhou is quite different from now, righteousness comes first between the world, and at that time it was a pure struggle for hegemony.
If possible, we should try to maintain our credibility and not betray the alliance casually.
Yanzhou is a populous state, and the population in each county is relatively large, and the strength of the family is different among the counties.
Cao Cao said this, and also began to search for contacts in his mind that could be used, to see if there was anyone who could help him.
Cao Cao, with the support of his family, was in full swing to cultivate his power again, and Liu Bei's army finally reached Qingzhou after separating from Gongsun Zhan.
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Youzhou came all the way, and Liu Bei found that Qingzhou was indeed quite chaotic, and Qingzhou was a place that made a lot of trouble every time it was in the world.
"Big brother, what do we do now?"
Liu Bei touched the things that Luokong had given him in his arms, as well as the letter he had begged for himself from Yinghou, and said in a deep voice: "I came to Qingzhou with only one goal, and that is to develop and strengthen our forces and use Qingzhou as a base, and if you want to do this, the easiest way is to get the support of the Lu clan.
first gradually defeated the Qingzhou bandits, collected his subordinates, and finally relieved the siege for Lu Hou and Qi Gong, with the support of these two families.
With these two families taking the lead, we will be able to get the support of a part of the Qingzhou scholars.
With the support of the Qingzhou clan, we will have a base and will no longer be a wandering army, and at that time, we will be able to talk about the future."
Liu Bei's plan was very clear, and everyone thought it was true when they heard it, especially Guan Zhang and Zhao, the battlefield was the destination of these ten thousand enemies, and the blade in his hand was already hungry and thirsty!