During Cao Cao's staying in the middle of recuperation, I reluctantly took on the combat command task of the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou. Given the huge power gap, in addition to following the previous cavalry raid tactics, a strategy of focusing on defense and cutting off Qingzhou and the outside world's grain channels as supplemented by the situation of the severe drought in Qingzhou this year was implemented.

Of course, visiting Cao Cao every day is essential. Cao Cao can already stay and walk around, and the daily meals he eats gradually increase. It seems that he will not take long to take charge of military affairs.

This period of time made me dizzy, from the recruitment and training of soldiers, the city defense checkpoints, the supply of weapons and food, the smallest to the food, drinking, defecation, reward and punishment matters of soldiers, and the formation of military commanders, which made me very upset. It was Cheng Yu and Xun Yu who were strongly supported in the rear, and the assistance of Cao and Xiahou brothers in front of me, but it also made me feel that the bones in my body seemed to be falling apart. It seemed that this main leader was not easy to be. No wonder Zhuge Liang, who had to work with him, died in his fifties, was too tiring. Chen Gong was not very satisfied with me being the temporary command of military affairs. After all, Cao Cao was considered to be a great contribution to the fact that he was not as famous as him in his fame and qualifications. However, Cao's army is in a difficult situation at this critical moment, and he can give up his personal preference and give full play to his advice.

More than twenty days have passed in my busy schedule. After handling the military affairs that day, I dragged my tired body back to my residence. When I was still looking forward to a wonderful moment in lying on the bed, I unexpectedly found that Cao Cao, who had not left for almost a month, appeared in my room.

When I saw Cao Cao, who was very thin but seemed much happier than when I visited him in the morning, I was overjoyed and said, "Lord, okay!"

Cao Cao was flipping through the books I had spread on the table. When he heard my greetings, he didn't raise his head and said, "I have worked hard to serve the filial piety these days, so I'll sit down."

I leaned over and found that what Cao Cao was watching was hot. These are some things I wrote about the construction of the political system and the prevention of the autocracy of the generals in this cold weapon era based on the messy historical and political TV series I had watched before. Because I wrote about it when I thought about it, and then I changed it casually when I found it was inappropriate. So I changed some places many times, and the whole silk cloth was painted beyond recognition, and even I looked very useless.

I sat aside and watched Cao Cao carefully flirt and read these things that were not much cleaner than a rag. Sometimes I frowned and thought, and sometimes I kept smiling. The room was very quiet, and I couldn't help but slept and fell asleep. It became dark in the haze, and someone lit the light in the house. But I was so sleepy that I was almost dead that I couldn't turn off so much, so I turned over and continued to sleep.

I stretched my waist tightly with my eyes closed. It was the first time I had such a comfortable sleep in so many days. The feeling of hunger in my stomach made me sit up. I looked out the window and scared me. It was already dawn. At present, the war was intensified. How could I, the acting supervisor, sleep until I woke up naturally?

Seeing me sitting up suddenly, Cao Cao, who had not slept all night, laughed and said, "I am so anxious to do this today's military affairs. I have ordered them to handle them at their discretion."

"Jia is rude!" I stood up and moved and said, "Did the lord not sleep all night?"

Cao Cao said: "After seeing Fengxiao's masterpiece, who can still fall asleep?"

I shook my head and said, "Only the lord and I can treat this kind of ghost-drawing talismans as treasures." After suing the prison, I left and washed my face, and ordered my followers to get some food before returning to the house.

When Cao Cao saw me coming in, he asked, "Wang Xiao, people say that the army has not moved, and the food and grass will come first. But what you wrote on it is that there should be no food for three days in the army. What does this mean?"

I said, "Go back to the lord, you should not have three days of food in the army. It does not mean that all troops are like this. If you have to guard the important borders, you must prepare enough food and grass to prevent food loss after being trapped. The army I wrote refers to the army except for defending the capital and the important borders during the pacification of the world."

After thinking for a while, Cao Cao nodded and said, "Where does the country save money for one year?"

I explained: "In addition to necessary reserves, the money, grain and taxes collected by the state should be used up as much as possible, rather than building a grain warehouse and storing the money warehouse."

Cao Cao shook his head and said he couldn't understand it. I thought to myself: "I don't understand this. Fortunately, I didn't write down the concept of deficit, but it seems that the deficit is still not understood in the 20th century, let alone now. But I seem to be one of the kind of people I don't understand!"

Then he answered several questions that I hadn't figured out yet. Finally, Cao Cao asked: "Fengxiao, there is a paragraph on which you have changed too much, which makes people really unable to understand. What does the Eight Kings' Political Affairs, the Cabinet and the Parliament mean?"

"This..." I was dizzy. The Eight Kings' Political Consultative Policy was one day when I remembered that the Eight Kings proposed to Yongzheng to restore the ancestral system in order to seize power. This thing was definitely not a good thing. If it was really implemented, it would be like planting the seeds of division. If Cao Cao learned it, the world would be in chaos without waiting for the Five Barbarians to invade China. He had to patiently explain: "The Eight Kings' Political Consultative Policy was to divide the imperial power into the hands of several people, which was a strategy to destroy the enemy. If the enemy could adopt such a system, the enemy would be in chaos without fighting. The cabinet was to exercise military and political power instead of the Three Dukes and the General. As for the parliament... the parliament is..."

Seeing me hesitating for a while, Cao Cao said, "Let's talk!"

"The parliament is..." For a moment, I didn't know how to explain it, and said in a hurry: "The parliament is to prevent the court from being dictatorial to foreign relatives and eunuchs. It is composed of scholars, officials, wealthy families and knowledgeable people among poor people. It has the right to pardon ministers and people who were arrested and the people who were vain, and it can veto the court's life. These are just something that Jia thought about when he had nothing to do, and take it seriously." After saying that, I was so funny that I was so good that I could laugh at it. A good parliament was explained by me as a place to go against the emperor.

"Parliament! Parliament! If..." Cao Cao repeatedly chewed the meaning of the two words, something appeared in his eyes.

After half a year of hard fighting, the Cao army reversed the passive situation of the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou. At this time, the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou encountered famine and greatly weakened its combat effectiveness. Several successful attacks captured tens of thousands of enemy troops. These surrendered people were used as front-line to gradually compress the scope of the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou. At this time, Xun You, who was recommended by Xun Yu, persuaded Cao Cao to surrender the main force of the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou, so Cao Cao sent a letter of persuasion to surrender and issued many preferential conditions. Under the attack of the Cao army's soft and hard, all the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou surrendered. During this period, a large number of civil officials, including the military generals, Liu Ye, the courtesy name Ziyang; Man Chong, the courtesy name Boning; Lu Mingqian, the courtesy name Zike; Mao Jie, the courtesy name Xiaoxian; Dian Wei, etc. For a time, Cao Cao had counselors under his command and military generals, and Cao's army was in power to seize Shandong.

Cao Cao adapted the surrendered Yellow Turban Army and selected strong men to join the army. This is the world-famous "Qingzhou Army", known as 300,000, and a million families also conduct military farming according to the Dongwuyang model. After a year of hard work, the political and military strength of the Cao army was expanded.
Chapter completed!