"The imperial court marched to Chang'an, and Lü Bu fled to Hanoi."

Cao Cao looked at the battle report in his hand and was a little incredulous.

Ever since Cao Cao escaped from Luoyang, he felt that the imperial court seemed to be changing too quickly.

A year ago, he was still being bullied by Dong Zhuo, and now he has been able to conquer Chang'an and surrender to Lu Bu.

Lu Bu was sitting on an army of 100,000, but he was defeated so completely in a few days.

This made Cao Cao feel that there seemed to be a glimmer of hope for the Han court.

But now let him return to the court to be a school captain, but Cao Cao can't do it.

At first, he wanted to assassinate Dong Zhuo, but later realized that he seemed to have been fooled by Yuan Kui.

It was not until this time that Cao Cao, a middle-aged man with high blood, reacted, and those so-called courtiers were not concerned about the Han family at all.

All they are worried about is their own wealth, if everyone is really like him and cares about the Han family, how can the Han world become like this?

Later, Yuan Shao summoned the princes of the Eighteen Roads, which gave Cao Cao hope.

Yuan Shao IV and the Third Duke had such a prominent family background, and they really gathered the princes of the Eighteen Roads.

This made Cao Cao very happy, and thought that most people in the world really had the Han family in mind.

After learning that Dong Zhuo was ambushed, they should have entered Luoyang to see the Son of Heaven, but the other princes ran away.

At first, Cao Cao couldn't figure it out, until Yuan Shao returned to Jizhou, and then occupied Jizhou.

The same is basically true of the other princes, who are almost next to each other in their territories.

If one goes back, and the other chooses to go to Luoyang to see the Son of Heaven, I am afraid that after seeing the Son of Heaven and returning to his own territory, his own territory will have already been occupied by others.

These so-called princes are all good-looking, and the so-called for the Han family is just talking.

If there is any benefit, then it is naturally like a swarm, if there is no benefit, and there is still the risk of losing the land boundary, then who would want to do this?

Just like Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan, when the two people were in an alliance, one of the alliance leaders shouted affection, and the other general shouted energetically.

After returning to Youzhou, Jizhou, I can't wait to chop the other party into dumpling filling.

After Yuan Shu returned to Huainan, he directly asked Sun Jian to attack Jingzhou, and he is still fighting until now.

Even as the clan of the Han Dynasty, Liu Dai of Yanzhou Assassin History, openly befriended Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan.

Married Yuan Shao and Gongsun Chan in exchange for Gongsun Chan's military aid to him and Yuan Shao's support.

And these were to guard against the rest of the princes who were greedy for Yanzhou at that time.

Because although Liu Dai is the assassin of Yanzhou, he only controls three counties.

This is the case as the Han clan, not to mention the other princes.

Beat the beating, die the death, as for the imperial court? Who cares?

My territory is big enough, what if you are the son of heaven?

Cao Cao didn't understand until this time that these people were not for the Han family at all, they were for themselves.

After Cao Cao realized this, he began to plan for himself, Cao Cao set out from Zhang Miao, united with the relatives of Hu Muban, who was killed by Wang Kuang, the Taishou of Hanoi, and attacked Wang Kuang to death.

Cao Cao also became the de facto controller of Hanoi County by the way.

At this point, Cao Cao officially stepped into the process of the princes' struggle for hegemony.

And once you step on this path, there is no turning back.

But when Cao Cao really tasted power, he couldn't care about anything.

Power is the most corrupting poison in the world.

Even Cao Cao once gave up his life to assassinate Dong Zhuo for the sake of the Han family, but now he also abandoned the Han Dynasty and only wanted to attack other princes and expand his own territory.

"If you break through Chang'an today, do you have any opinions?"

Cao Cao handed the battle report in his hand to the person standing below.

Xiahoudun glanced at the results and handed them to the others beside him.

After everyone watched it, they didn't speak, they didn't know whether Cao Cao was biased towards that section, and at this moment a person stood up.

"General, this is the opportunity for the general to become a great cause!"

Cao Cao looked at this person in surprise, this person was Cheng Yu who had just joined Cao Cao's command.

"What's the explanation?"

"Although the Son of Heaven conquered Lu Bu, he seems to have courage, but the Son of Heaven is more defensive against the family, and last year, he actually made Jia Xu to Tusi Prefecture dozens of wealthy families, and now the family is not attached to the wealthy families, and they all complain about the Son of Heaven, which is not a long-term way."

Cao Cao looked at Cheng Yu in surprise after hearing this, he had been busy occupying Dongjun for the past six months, but he didn't expect this to happen.

At this time, the Han Dynasty put it bluntly, it was still the time when the family ruled everything.

Even if the emperor does not support it, it is no different from a wasted person.

If you want to rule a place, the first thing is to have a good relationship with the local wealthy families, even Lu Bu understands this truth, but he didn't expect the Son of Heaven to understand.

You have killed all the family, who will rule the world for you?

Cao Cao couldn't help but laugh when he thought of this.

It's good to be stupid, it's good to be stupid.

…………

After the capture of Chang'an, the vicinity of Chang'an was in ruins, and people's livelihood and local government affairs were to be dealt with.

Lin Mu did not let the officials on the court side, after all, it is difficult to say whether the officials on the court side are of the same mind as himself.

"Your Majesty, this person is Du Ji."

Jia Xu brought one person up and saluted Lin Mu.

"Oh? Are you Du Ji? ”

Although Du Ji is a child of a family, he is a little different from ordinary children of a family.

Du Ji lost his mother when he was a child, and later his father married another, and his stepmother has never been very good to him.

But even so, after his father's death, he remained filial to his stepmother.

There is a saying that if the two Han are filial, they are expected to be officials.

Du Ji is so good even if he is not his own mother, so if his mother is not allowed to take off?

Such a dutiful son will naturally be greatly appreciated, which makes him a Jingzhao Gongcao.

And later he was promoted by Jingzhao Yin to be filial piety and became an official official of the imperial court.

If history had not changed, Du Ji's position would have been only under Xun Yu later, guarding Hedong for Cao Wei, and after his death, he was posthumously named one of the servants of Jiuqing.

But at this time, Lu Bu came, which made him never have a chance to take office.

Although Du Ji's family background is also prominent, it is so easy to become an official at this time.

Finally, the imperial court called and forced Lu Bu to retreat, and Du Ji realized that his opportunity had come.

"Weichen Du Ji, meet Your Majesty."

Du Ji lifted his robe and knelt in front of Lin Mu.

"I heard that you are extremely filial to your stepmother, but I don't know how you treat me?"

As soon as Du Ji heard it, he understood what Lin Mu meant, this was to appoint him, could the official position appointed by the Son of Heaven be small?

"The minister is sincere to His Majesty! His Majesty's ministers dare not resign even if they die! ”

Lin Mu nodded, got up and left.

Just when Du Ji was confused, Jia Xu, who had never spoken, spoke.

"Have you ever killed a family?"