When Shang Jia left the gift and left the Cao Mansion happily, Guo Zhi frowned.

"My lord, most of these businessmen are profit-seeking and unrighteous people."

"They are only profitable to be close to you, and you must not get too close to them, otherwise you will definitely suffer backlash."

Guo Zhi turned around and saw Cao Chao, who was looking through the other party's gifts and didn't listen to his words at all, and was immediately annoyed.

"Lord!"

"You've been spoiled by those merchants! How can a gentleman value money so much? Money is not a gentleman's favor! ”

Cao Chao ignored him, flipped through the splendid cloth left by the merchant, and asked without looking back:

"What is it like to be poor and have no deceit, to be rich and not arrogant?"

Guo Zhi subconsciously recited: "But also, if you are not poor, you are happy, and those who are rich and courteous..."

Cao Chao stood up and said with a smile: "You see, even the saints say: rich and can be sought, even if you are a whipper, I will do it!" ”

"Isn't it the work of a gentleman that I did not flatter the rich and powerful when I was poor, and now I teach these merchants to do good deeds, so that they may be rich without pride?"

Don't look at Cao Chao, he hasn't touched a book for more than a year, but this knowledge is not bad at all.

After the two Cao Chao merged into one, they influenced each other and achieved each other.

Wenbi Chen Si, martial Taizu.

It's come true.

Even Wang Su can't have an advantage in him, let alone an honest gentleman like Guo Zhi.

Guo Zhi wanted to say something, but he couldn't find an excuse to refute it for a while.

He sighed and said helplessly: "The lord's behavior like this will affect your reputation. ”

"If you have too much contact with businessmen, you will be ridiculed by loyalty, and you will have a reputation for being greedy and wealthy, which is not a good thing."

"With all due respect, although the lord has a good reputation in Shilin now because of his humility, you can befriend rangers, collude with businessmen, and harbor thieves, these things will discredit you, if the Sima family knows..."

"How happy they should be!"

Cao Chao interrupted Guo Shi again, and he laughed.

"Sima Zhao, I don't dare to say, but Sima Shi definitely wants an emperor like me, an emperor who is greedy and loves money, colludes with businessmen, is greedy for interests, and is reckless and ignorant, how can he not like it?"

"My lord, this is defiling himself?!"

Guo Zhi's eyes widened, and then he exclaimed bitterly: "Why is this so? ”

"You are about to ascend the throne as the emperor, the supreme of the world, why do you need the means to defile yourself? You have a reputation for being virtuous, and all the loyalists in the world will be willing to work for you! You are not a minister, you are a real king!! ”

"You go to Sima Shi to say this!"

"Good!"

Guo Zhi turned around and was about to leave, but Cao Chao hurriedly dragged him.

"What are you going to do?"

"I want to ask Master Sima why he has forced Xinjun to this point!"

"Then you might as well just cut off my head and give it to Sima Shi!"

Cao Chao is really helpless to Guo Zhi, he is a good person, a simple and honest gentleman, but unfortunately, he is really a tendon.

However, it is precisely because of this that Cao Chao dares to trust him and seek great things with him, as long as he is not allowed to make suggestions and be an executor, it is still okay.

The two sat down, and Cao Chao analyzed the next situation for him.

"You must know that Shilin's reputation is completely meaningless to me."

"If there is really the loyalty you said in today's temple, then Cao Fang will not be abolished."

"No matter how good my reputation in Shilin is, it won't affect Sima Shi's attitude, Sima Shi has always cared about this, those loyal people who can only talk emptyly, how many Sima Shi executed?"

"Therefore, we don't have to care so much about the reputation of Shilin, today's wealthy families are dominating the local area, annexing land, plundering merchants, farmers have lost their land, merchants have lost their livelihoods, and a large number of good people have been forced to become rangers, these are all forces that we can use."

Guo Zhi's eyes widened, "You want to use farmers, merchants, and rangers to fight against Sima Shi??? ”

"Actually, they have extremely powerful power, but they lack a thought, of course, I can't organize and lead them now, but they are still a powerful force that I can borrow."

"Think about it, what are the merchants, farmers, and rangers who are dissatisfied with the wealthy people combined?"

"I don't know."

Cao Chao pursed his lips and patiently explained: "When I enter the temple, I must be strictly guarded, whether it is the treasury or the internal funds, it is not under my control, I will have no money to use, no matter how much you hate money, but if you want to accomplish anything, you must have money." ”

"The businessmen can solve my financial problems for me."

"And with money, you can accept more rangers for your own use, and rangers can solve the problem of manpower."

"Of course, the most important thing is to continue to raise the reputation of the peasants, and it is better to send someone to organize them..."

"At the beginning, Sima Shi secretly gathered 3,000 dead soldiers and brought them back to life."

"I'm in a worse situation than he is, but I can also emulate him, and wait for the right time for people in civil society organizations who are willing to do great things with me, don't you think?"

Guo Zhi looked at Cao Chao blankly.

"My lord, I think... You think differently than Sima Shi. ”

"It's similar to Zhang Jiao."

"If you don't mention it, these ideas are very simple, and it is difficult to accomplish them, but I must try them."

Cao Chao's expression was serious, and he continued: "However, in this case, this matter is not the most important thing now. ”

He glanced at the door, and then asked Guo Zhi to approach.

He put his arm around Guo Zhi's shoulder and asked in a low voice, "Do you know why Sima Shi is willing to compromise with Guo?" ”

"Is it because of the identity of the Queen Mother?"

"Sima Shi is even the emperor abolished, can he still care about this?"

"Two aspects, the first is because the Sima family is unwilling to centrifuge the wealthy family close to them, and the second and most important thing is that although the Sima family has no enemies in the temple, there are still people in the local area who are dissatisfied with Sima Shi's governance!"

"And the people in this place, Sima Shi can't easily move."

Guo Zhi's eyes lit up, and he said loudly: "Town..."

Cao Chao covered his mouth, "That's right, it's that person." ”

"General Zhendong, Biqiu Jian."

The person Cao Chao said is the only rare species left today, the Great Wei Zhongchen!

Who said that Great Wei did not have loyal ministers?

In the three rebellions of Huainan, Biqiu Jian was the only general who really sent troops for the Wei family.

Biqiu Jian is a Wenxi person from Hedong and the son of the great writer of Cao Wei Biqiu Xing.

He was originally named the Marquis of Gaoyang, and during the period of Emperor Wen of Wei, he served as Cao Ei's literary scholar and formed a deep friendship with Cao Ei.

After Emperor Wei Ming ascended the throne, he was reused, and almost all important official positions were held once.

In the last years of the early Jing Dynasty, he cooperated with Taifu Sima Yi to defeat Gongsun Yuan, who had seized Liaodong, and entered the Marquis of Anyi.

During the first years, this great writer went on two expeditions to destroy the Goguryi Kingdom and conquer the Korean Peninsula, setting the best record for Cao Wei since the founding of the country.

is such a great general who is both civil and military, and now the governor of Yangzhou, has an army of 60,000, and the army in his hand is still very capable of fighting the elite soldiers of the Great Wei.

Listening to Cao Chao's explanation, Guo Zhi was ecstatic, isn't this what he said about loyalty? ?

He hurriedly said, "Yes! With General Zhennan here, what are you worried about? Even Sima Shi gave him three points! ”

Cao Chao was silent, because he knew that at this moment, the general of Zhennan had already begun to prepare for the army.

He was extremely angry because his friends Li Feng, Xiahou Xuan and others were killed, and he knew that Sima Shi had abolished the establishment and dismissed Cao Rong's son, so he was furious, so he decided to raise troops to fight against Sima, known as the Huainan Second Rebellion in history.

The soldiers under the command of Biqiu Jian, whose families were in the north, had no intention of fighting at all, and Biqiu Jian lacked food supplies, so he was anxious to destroy the enemy, and could not win repeated battles, resulting in the collapse of morale.

As a result, Biqiu Jian was defeated and killed, and Sima Shi, who crusaded against him, also died of illness on the way back to his division.

Zhongliang, who was the most famous in Wei and held the local military and political power, was gone.

The biggest credit may be the change of Sima Shi, but the problem is that Sima Shi has an eye disease, and his health has always been bad, and he has entrusted Sima Zhao with the aftermath very early, and he has just had surgery before the battle, so he can't say how long he can last.

Cao Chao pondered for a moment, squinting his eyes.

"Yes, so, I can only rely on this general."

"That's why I'm refusing now, and now the Sima clan is forcing me to be the emperor."

"In a few days, when Wang Su comes for the third time, they will regret their compromise with the Guo family!"

"Be prepared!"

"I'm going out!"