The Cao family's success was undoubtedly due to Cao Teng, the eunuch who served four generations of emperors.

It was not until Cao Teng that the Cao family began to rise up with him, and they became a local tyrant from an ordinary farmer.

As for the later so-called Cao Cao was a descendant of Cao Shen, the prime minister of the Western Han Dynasty, it has been determined through modern technology that it was political whitewashing.

Cao Teng is really a character. In the late Hanzhong period when eunuchs and scholars competed for power in a tit-for-tat way, he wandered around the middle, walked out of a gray area, and became the centrist who had extremely difficult survival among eunuchs and scholars.

As a eunuch, he "sympathized with" scholars and protected scholars many times, not harmed scholars, so he seemed particularly alternative and even received praise from scholars.

At the same time, in order to protect himself, Cao Teng resolutely followed the emperor's route and the sympathy for scholars. He did not work with his colleagues with eunuchs, but did not directly conflict with them. He grasped the standards very well, served the four emperors without falling, but instead was granted a title of marquis. Such power techniques are truly a talent.

It is precisely because of Cao Teng's alternative nature that he left a glimmer of hope for whitewashing the Cao family, and the luck of the Cao family began to rise sharply from this time, which belongs to the harmony of the people.

The so-called time is because Emperor Ling of Han ascended the throne for a few years. In order to safeguard the imperial power, the second party-finished disaster began, which lasted for more than ten years, causing the local gentry torture and the conflict between the imperial power and the local gentry to break out in full swing.

The gentry was imprisoned and could not be officials, and the turbid currents were fully promoted, and the Cao family began to make further fortunes in accordance with the times of heaven.

At the same time, the Cao family also inherited Cao Teng's political legacy and continued to follow the intermediate route between eunuchs and gentry. In such a general environment, the Cao family attracted some more flexible gentry figures.

Among them, there are the famous aristocratic clans in Runan Yuan.

Next, the geographical location is the advantage. The Yuan family base camp is very close to Ruyang County, Runan and Qiao County, Pei State, and the Cao family and Yuan family are close to each other.

Yuan Feng, the heads of the two families, served as officials in the same dynasty, and they met each other. Under the general environment of party corruption, Yuan Feng would naturally think of trying to win over Cao Song and gain some room for reversal for Yuan.

The "friendship" between the fathers naturally continued to the next generation of main children, and Cao Cao and Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu were "hanging together" like this.

Of course, this is the limit of friendship between "Yuan Feng, a gentry. As for marriage, Cao's family can't even think about it when it comes to such core issues.

Being friends with you is not enough to give you face? Who are you and who are I?

Of course Cao Song understood.

So, Cao Song turned his attention to Guo Peng.

And that happened at that time.

"That thing" is the matter of Cao Cao asking Xu Shao, a native of Runan, to comment on Yuedan to make a name for him.

Being commented on by famous scholars, gained fame, and then everyone praised it together, and then was filial and honest. This was a common trick used by scholars at that time, which is the so-called commercial mutual bragging in modern times.

Xu You and Xu Shao are of the same clan. With Xu You's relationship, Cao Cao was able to visit Xu Shao for comments, but Xu You's face was obviously not enough to move Xu Shao.

Not every scholar knows how to adapt to this "behind the eunuch" of Cao Cao, especially Xu Shao, who cherishes his reputation as his life.

He is famous all over the world with this mouth. If someone knows that he has commented on a eunuch's son, will anyone come to him to comment on him in the future?

Does he have such a glorious future?

Xu Shao refused firmly.

But Cao Cao was also very shameless and kept asking for a visit, and the two started a tug-of-war.

This incident caused quite a stir in the Xiahou family of Cao's family in Qiao County. Guo Peng was a regular visitor to the Cao family, so he naturally found out.

It doesn't matter if he was rejected once or twice. After many times, Cao Cao was very embarrassed at that time. When everyone asked, he was very upset and pushed him away.

Later, I didn't know what was going on. That day, Guo Peng happened to be playing in the Cao family. Cao Cao suddenly announced proudly that he would definitely get Xu Shao's comments and wanted to take everyone to see.

So Guo Peng followed Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan to Runan once, and regarded it as a trip.

That was Cao Cao's sixth time in Runan and asked Xu Shao for help. He prepared a lot of gifts. The group went to Ruyang first, met Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, and then went to Pingyu.

At that time, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu were both young men in their teenage years. Yuan Shao was one year older than Cao Cao, Yuan Shu and Cao Cao were the same age. Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu had already received comments from Yuedan Review at that time and were preparing to be a filial and honest person. At that time, Cao Cao was missing.

Guo Peng still remembers that at that time, Yuan Shao reached out and patted Cao Cao on the shoulder, and said to Cao Cao very heroically, "Don't disturb Meng De, if that old dog doesn't comment on you, look at me pulling out his beard."

Cao Cao thanked Yuan Shao very gratefully and said, "Thanks to be the first."

At that time, Guo Peng knew that this matter had been settled. There was nothing that Yuan could not do on the ground in Runan.

The Yuan family's four generations and three dukes, and their family traditions were born in the "Meng Family Yi", and they made their fortunes. They were born all over the world. I don't know how many Yuan family's disciples and former officials were in the world.

The meaning of disciples and former officials is different from that of students. In this era, disciples and former officials mean obedience in a certain sense.

In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the great scholar Ouyang She embezzled tens of millions of dollars when she was an official in Runan. After the incident, he was arrested and imprisoned by Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu to prepare for execution. As a result, more than a thousand students taught by him wrote a letter to ask the emperor to avoid the death of the teacher. There was also a seventeen-year-old student who wrote a letter to express his willingness to die on behalf of the teacher.

The world is shaking.

If you change to a cowardly emperor, this matter might be left unresolved. Fortunately, Liu Xiu is the emperor at the moment and can distinguish the importance of the matter. So he resolutely killed Ouyang Xu and safeguarded the dignity of the law.

But from this we can see that the relationship between teachers and students in this era can surpass the law, which is the so-called heaven, earth, king, parents and teachers.

Because the teacher can only be filial and honest as an official, and because the teacher can only be an official, the disciples and former officials who become officials must obey the teacher.

This obedience is the "obedience" that Yuan Shao raised his arms and called on the world to respond when he attacked Dong Zhuo!

This obedience is the "obedience" of the local government against the central power!

These are the confidence of Yuan’s family, and they are definitely not something Xu Shao can fight against.

It would be fine if Yuan didn't say anything, but when Yuan said Xu Shao was not obedient, it was purely shameless, so he would not want to get on the Runan realm in the future.

That's why Cao Cao was so confident.

So after arriving in Pingyu County, Guo Peng watched Yuan Shao bring Cao Cao into Xu Shao's mansion without any obstacles. Not long after, the two of them came out proudly.

Cao Cao felt like everything was in control, and arranged accommodation for everyone to accompany him, waiting for the arrival of a new round of Yuedan Review at the beginning of the month.

However, Xu Shao is also a "famous scholar in the country" who is somewhat famous. Although he is helpless due to the prestige of Yuan, he still has a sense of arrogance in his heart.

It is estimated that Yuan Shao was rude when he threatened him, which made Xu Shao very embarrassed, so at the Yuedan Council, Xu Shao embarrassed Cao Cao.

He called Cao Cao to the stage, pretended to be like a symbolic look, and then stared at Cao Cao in front of many scholars in the audience for a long time, which made Cao Cao feel a little puzzled.

Then he spoke.
Chapter completed!