"The support of the people has nothing to do with being righteous or not!" I explained patiently: "It is actually very simple to get support from the people. They can give them food, clothing, and a little money to buy some luxury goods and protect their property. Women and children from being plundered by others. Most people will feel that the monarch who governs them is a good monarch, and then find a loud and tempting slogan to call them, and the people will naturally support you."

I pounded his head hard and said, "I would like to emphasize again! Morality is always on the side of the winner! Don't believe in the nonsense of destiny that is the first of all righteousness! The so-called destiny is just a gorgeous and hypocritical cloak that the winner puts on himself! Destiny and morality are the most...most...the most snobbish villains! As long as you can achieve one victory after another, destiny and morality will always be with you. But if you fail and fail after another until you lose all your money, you will find that the so-called destiny and morality have long since left you secretly and turned to the arms of your enemies to act coquettish! Inaction and despairing destiny are the shackles that the loser must bear! Remember! As long as the people can have food, clothes, and sense of security, they will support you!"

Cao Ang said: "Can you get everyone's support this way?"

I shook my head and said, "Wrong...Wrong...Wrong! As a monarch, you must not have the idea of ​​gaining support from everyone, nor do you have the idea of ​​getting support forever after you get temporary support. Today's supporters may be tomorrow's opponents. People's hopes are endless. When a person is hungry, he will take eating rice as his highest goal, but when he has rice, he will have the idea of ​​eating meat. And there will always be some people who will abandon all the constraints of ethics, morals, and laws to seek more things for themselves. These people will only plan for themselves and do not make others' life or death. At this time, you must know how to win over the majority of people, isolate a small number of people, and at any time you need to know how to sacrifice the interests of a small number of people to satisfy the expectations of the majority of people."

Cao Ang said: "In my conversation with merchants these days, I learned that millions of people in many places are short of food and clothing, but they have no money to buy them. Compared with those with those with food, are the majority of people? So should we sacrifice the interests of people with food and distribute the food to those who have no money to buy food?"

I laughed and said, "Good question! But you don't understand the original intention of sacrifice. The person who had no money to buy food in Zixiu is probably not a citizen of Yanzhou, right?"

Cao Ang said: "Yes!"

I said seriously: "You must remember not to sacrifice the interests of your subordinates to satisfy the expectations of outsiders. This will not only hurt yourself but also strengthen potential enemies. The first support..." As I said this, I almost tightened our belts to support Vietnam in resisting the United States, but later I was told that the rice we saved money and supported was built as a sandbag to hit us. Fortunately, the brakes were timely. "At this time, not only can we not help, but we also have to take advantage of the situation. A good monarch must be tolerant of internal and strict externally! No... It is not enough to be strict! Be cruel! Let people who are not your people mention your name and flee when they see your flag."

Cao Ang nodded and said, "Zi Xiu has received the teachings, so he must remember the teachings of his teacher! But if those without food are people from Yanzhou, will they sacrifice the interests of those who have food in Yanzhou?"

I asked back, "Why do the Huns in the north often come? It is because the weather in the north is bad. Many tribes will have no clothes to defend against the severe cold and have no food to fill the stomach for winter. But why didn't their Shanyu distribute the cattle, sheep and horses of the unaffected tribes to those affected tribes? In that way, they can survive the winter. But the Great Shanyu of the Xiongnu did not do that, but gathered together to plunder us Han people and distributed the food, property and women obtained through robbery to the disaster tribes as compensation for their disaster. Why is this?"

In the question I was looking forward to, Cao Ang said honestly: "That's because they do not know how to educate and do not understand etiquette, so they can do such a barbaric thing!"

I was so angry that I couldn't kick him twice. I scolded: "Idiot! That's because if the Great Khan of the Huns did that, it would shake his roots! His position would be replaced! When it could not satisfy most people's expectations, we should take the method of transferring our own contradictions to other places. I can tell you clearly! If Yanzhou has no food on the day when there is no food, I wouldn't suggest your father to distribute the food of the people with food to the victims, but suggest that the lord rob it! Go and take it! Your son cannot be taught!"

Cao Ang smiled mischievously: "It turns out that the gentleman will be angry too! He will also scold people!"

Damn! I was fooled by this yellow-haired boy! But... hehe! I like it!

Cao Ang put away his smile and bowed, saying, "Sir, students have understood the meaning. Tolerance to the inside and cruelty to the outside will be the creed that students will never forget for life. Binding morality is the goal of the students!"

My God! Teaching Cao Ang will make me live at least ten years less. Many things that seem easy to understand in my opinion are like listening to heaven. In addition to keep shaking his head, nodding and asking questions in a variety of ways, refuting me from time to time, or simply pretending not to understand and being angry with me on purpose. However, under the guidance of my naked utilitarian words, Cao Ang has changed a lot. A kind and simple and beautiful young man is about to become a treacherous hero who is even better than Cao Cao. Of course, his experience is much worse. But I have to be careful, maybe I will be sacrificed by this kid in the future as a few people, and I don’t want to be Chao Cuo.

Because of the convenience of communication, Cao Ang would tell Cao Cao what I taught him every day. After hearing that Cao Cao opened his mouth wide, widened his eyes, sat there blankly for a whole day and smiled, making everyone look sideways. Then he used a password that only he and Cao Ang to send a message to Cao Ang, your master taught you something that has not been heard of in ancient and modern times, but it is a real emperor technique. You must study hard and record it in detail, as a must-read book for descendants of the Cao family in the future.

Apart from training Cao Ang, I don’t have much free time. Although I am well-educated at home, I can’t resist visiting people. Especially in recent years, officials from poor families who have made a lot of money based on my suggestions, in addition to giving supplementary items, they only make people complain.

The creativity and imitation ability of Chinese people are huge. If it were not for the support of laws and officials at all levels, many things with low technical content would probably be imitated in large quantities. However, the inability to imitate within Cao Cao's jurisdiction does not mean that other places will not be imitated. Many things, such as water wheels, windmills, and water mills, can make a lot of profits at the beginning, but with the imitation in other places, the sales volume and profits have been greatly reduced, which makes the local families with exclusive rights to these items very dissatisfied. They sent people to make up for the decreasing profits from me.

This incident made me feel too embarrassed. I told the people about the messy ideas such as cement, water drainage, ceramics, textile machines, coal ball stoves, soil heating, and even simple batteries. Anyway, they went back to study it themselves. As for whether it could be made, I couldn't take care of it! In addition, it was recommended that several major road construction companies jointly set up post offices and use relay stations along the road to carry out letter delivery business. In addition to earning money from others, they can also quickly collect business information from various places and edit and print them. On the second day, the merchants made overnight were submitted to the people who invested in this business, so that they can facilitate the allocation of goods and obtain greater profits.

Of course, I also started a new money-making business, which is a pawn shop that integrates pawn shops with a small number of money houses - a loan shark. This is definitely a money-making business. Unfortunately, the reputation is not very good, and it is probably called a vampire by the nobles. But a good reputation is not good for me now and it is harmful to me, so I am happy to be scolded. In fact, I am not too dark. The interest rate of usury is not very high, and the annual interest rate is only 10%. If I really have no money to pay it back, you can pay off your debts with a worker. Because the manpower has been prepared long ago, in just three months, the Guo pawn shops were spread all over the towns controlled by Cao Cao.

With the help of poor officials who have been lobbying for a long time, the public school of the military department quickly started to work. A large number of poor scholars who have no official positions entered the public school to teach. The content taught was not the teaching methods of Confucius and Mencius, but the teaching materials I had already compiled. In addition to the most basic military knowledge, these textbooks are to promote the benefits of war. My reason is that these military children do not need to teach them the way of governing the country, as long as they know how to charge, and tell them the benefits of war are that they have been full of desire for war since childhood, so that they can fight bravely after joining the army. The lies were told a thousand times, not only did the listeners think it was true, but even the people who spoke slowly thought it was true. While these children were educated as war machines, the scholars who explained these textbooks were also affected, and the atmosphere of war-loving atmosphere was gradually forming in a small range.

Establishing military public schools on the basis of setting up public schools for the children of officials and hosting the children of soldiers who have made contributions in the army for education is just the first step for me to gradually expand cultural education. It is impossible to do things in one step. After the emerging industrial wealthy families complete the original accumulation, I will lobby them to work with me to work on general education. Under the current conditions, universal education is impossible. However, expanding the base of educated people to a certain scale, and after appropriate guidance, it is difficult to ensure that there will be no inventors and scientists.

Not to mention that I trained the traitors and planned the future in my hometown, I just said that Yuan Shu from Huainan was emperor in Shouchun. The country was named Zhong, and the ministers were appointed, and the suburbs were buried in the north and south. However, Yuan Shu's behavior of proclaiming himself emperor did not receive support and response from various princes. Not only did Yuan Shao scold him as a fool, Sun Ce also stated that he had drawn a clear line with him. Even Lu Bu, who was preparing to marry him, failed under the destruction of Cao Cao's super spy, Xuzhou Chen family.

After learning that Yuan Shu had proclaimed himself emperor, Cao Cao praised me for his accurate vision and immediately issued a notice to order the princes from all over the country to raise an army to attack. At this time, everyone under his command understood Cao Cao's intention to distribute the army and get close to Huainan in the name of quitting the army. Especially the grain sown by more than 200,000 troops outside Wancheng had just been harvested, so that the food and grass of Cao's army attacking Huainan from Runan did not have to be transported from Yanzhou but could be supplied nearby, which also made everyone, including Cao Cao, admire my foresight.

Those who responded to the attack on Yuan Shu were Sun Ce in Jiangdong, Lu Bu in Xuzhou and Liu Bei, who was named Yuzhou, were actually Liu Bei in Xuzhou. Yuan Shao was far away, and one was that he was unwilling to send troops himself, and the other was that if Yuan Shao really sent troops to help, Cao Cao would not dare to send troops. Unexpectedly, Liu Biao, a relative of the royal family, just sent a document without any further information this time.

Yuan Shu, who was attacked from all sides, was finished in less than a month. The gold and silver in the warehouse accumulated over the years were divided by the princes of all directions, and everyone returned home with a full load. Yuan Shu, who had only brought hundreds of people across the river to escape, should have died of vomiting blood within two years.

On the way back, Cao Cao had Liu Biao attacked Nanyang while he was attacking Yuan Shu, and then wanted to invade Xu Du and welcome the emperor to Jingzhou. Cao Cao immediately ordered the army to penetrate from Runan to the flank of Liu Biao's army, and attacked the Jingzhou army with Cao Ren, who was stationed in Wancheng, and killed the unprepared Liu Biao and returned in a defeat.

After returning to Xudu after Desheng, Cao Cao urgently sent an order to summon me to Xudu, who was free at home.

After receiving the letter, I thought about it. Anyway, there was no idle there, and I was about to attack Xuzhou again. After the Battle of Xuzhou, the Guandu Battle, which decided Cao Cao's fate, was time to go back. Moreover, in recent years, due to the imitation of other places, Yanzhou's industry has shown signs of an economic crisis. The backlog of goods is a big problem that needs to be solved. If it is not solved well, it will definitely cause a huge blow to the emerging industry. Therefore, not only Cao Cao needs to increase his strength by fighting this battle, but officials at all levels also need to fight this battle to win a new market for his family.

When I think of this battle in Xuzhou, I couldn't help but sneer.

Whether in his previous life or in this life, I am very confused about Liu Bei's advice to Cao Cao to kill Lu Bu at the Baimen Tower. If what he said to Cao Cao was Liu Bei's true thoughts. With Liu Bei's strategic vision, I'm afraid that Cao Cao's ambition to replace the Han Dynasty, right? As a royal family member, Liu Bei, who is determined to safeguard the dignity of the royal family, knows that Lu Bu is capricious and also knows Cao Cao's ambition, why not persuade Cao Cao to leave Lu Bu and thus leave a time bomb next to Cao Cao?

Psychologically, a normal person's behavior has motivation and purpose! Although I still don't understand Liu Bei's motives, I know his purpose, which is to kill Lu Bu. Although I am not interested in this person called the slave of the three surnames, I am in the idea that the enemy opposes is what we want to support. You should not try to achieve your goal easily in this battle in Xuzhou!

Yuan Shao from Hebei was very angry when he heard that his younger brother Yuan Shu was defeated in such a short time. Although he had never had a good relationship with Yuan Shu, he was still a brother after all. He was angry and hated when he got the news that Yuan Shu was defeated and was not sure whether he was dead or alive. He was angry that Yuan Shu was not good at fighting, and could not hold on for two or three months. If he could hold on for ten days and half a month, his army could complete the preparations for the expedition and advance to meet the emperor while Xu Du was empty. He hated that Cao Cao would be quick to take action!

Yuan Shao, who was desperate for face and denied Ju Su's correct suggestions, could not bear the slightest face and did not intend to send troops to steal the emperor directly, but after losing this good opportunity, he was subject to great constraints in recent years. Although Yuan Shao was very proud of his reputation as a general, he saw that since Cao Cao welcomed the emperor, Cao Cao would beat the other one and scold the other one. Yuan Shao could no longer see the benefits of holding the emperor to order the princes, so he should have found a pillar to kill him. If he hadn't fought with Gongsun Zan in recent years, he would have sent troops to attack Cao Cao and robbed the emperor. Whenever he thought of Gongsun Zan, Yuan Shao was even more angry with Cao Cao. Whenever he occupied the top of the mountain, the eunuch who brought the imperial court to persuade both sides to quit the military order came, but when he was in a tight war, he would not have seen anyone in the court to persuade him to fight.

In fact, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao are a kind of relationship that is a numb rod to fight against wolves, and both sides are afraid of. What Cao Cao is afraid of is that Yuan Shao has many soldiers and a large territory; what Yuan Shao is afraid of is that Cao Cao will attack the princes of all sides in the name of the court. Therefore, the relationship between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao has been lukewarm in recent years, and no one trusts anyone in private.

Originally, Yuan Shao's stupid brother was an excellent opportunity to become emperor this time. Cao Cao, as the representative of the court, must send troops no matter what. Otherwise, everyone would close the door and become emperor in the future, and Cao Cao's strategy of using the emperor to command the princes would be completely destroyed. But what was so annoying was that the fool did not notify him in advance. If he had known earlier, Yuan Shao, who had already obtained an absolute advantage over Gongsun Zan, could draw a large army to force Xudu. Not only would he have the chance to grab the emperor, but even Yuan Shu's power in Huainan would not be easily destroyed by Cao Cao.

There are many capable people under Yuan Shao's tent, especially those who are good at observing words and expressions, and even more, they can't count them.

Xin Ping and others offered suggestions to Yuan Shao: "The lord has strong soldiers and strong horses, and the title of a general is above Cao Cao's official title. Why not send a letter to Cao Cao and ask him to send the emperor? If he refuses unreasonably, the lord will have an excuse to raise troops to attack him."
Chapter completed!