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"Father! The child respects Master Fengxiao very much, but this time the strategy he planned for his father was not smart!" Cao Ang looked at his father's excited expression and couldn't help but say: "Now, the states and counties either hand over small amounts of poor money and grain to deal with, or just treat it as if this is not the case. The so-called treasury is nothing but money and grain from Yanzhou. The royal family's expenses have never withdrawn a penny from the treasury, and they are all by Sikong

The government does not rely on the treasury according to the supply required by the royal family. In fact, the royal family has long been separated from the treasury. Despite this, the royal family of Liu was the nominal co-lord of the Han Dynasty. If the separation of royal expenses from the treasury was led by the Sikong Mansion as a decree, it should lead to invasion of enemies from all directions. It is difficult for the land of Yan and Xu to fight against the princes of the world. The destruction of Yuan Shu is a good example. Please think twice. "

"Okay! OK! OK!" Looking at his increasingly mature son, Cao Cao couldn't help but say three good things in a row!

"My son has made great progress, but I blindly obey others' opinions. If you have more experience, you can inherit the great cause of being a father. But things will turn back. It is right to stick to your own ideas, but remember not to be stubborn and not listen to other people's different opinions." Cao Cao said with some praise and some joy: "The world today is called the world of the Han Dynasty, which is actually very similar to the situation of the princes fighting for hegemony in the Spring and Autumn Period. Moreover, the Han royal family was much worse than the Western Zhou royal family in the Spring and Autumn Period. Although the Western Zhou royal family was in decline, they still had a place to stand and had a little army to maintain their dignity. Can the current royal family of Liu come up with a decent army? The royal family without the army is just a puppet at the mercy of others. Changing dynasties is like an arrow leaving a string, and all the princes know this well!"

After saying so much, Cao Cao felt a little tired. With Cao Ang's support, he sat on the chair before continuing to say, "Who is Yuan Shu? He is the legitimate son of the three Dukes of the Yuan family. He fought for power and profit in the court, and the conflict between the family Yuan Shu has been among them since he was a child. In your master's words, he has never eaten pork and has never seen pigs leave! So the two brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu must be a little different in other aspects, but they still have their own plans for the time of judging the world. Yuan Gonglu was called a pseudo-emperor because he realized that the change of dynasty was like

The tiger was unstoppable. Unfortunately, although he saw the big things, he did not see that although the foundation accumulated by the Han Dynasty for four hundred years had been shaken, it had not completely collapsed. Among all the princes, including fathers, among the ministers who dominated the country, many of us who relied on the subordinates who dominated the country, they still respected the Han Dynasty's royal family in their hearts. Yuan Shu was called the pseudo-emperor, and the one who wanted to attack Yuan Gonglu was not his father, nor Lu Bu, Liu Bei, nor Sun Ce. What really wanted to raise an army to attack him was the 400-year power of the Han Dynasty!”

Cao Ang seemed to have grasped something, and he said: "Does this strategy the master has offered to his father mean to refer to a deer as a horse?"

During the Second Qin Dynasty, the powerful minister Zhao Gao knew that he had great power and wanted to test whether the court officials were obedient, so he presented a deer during the court meeting and pointed it at it and said it was a horse. The Second smiled and said, "The Prime Minister made a mistake, and pointed it as a horse!" He also asked the ministers on both sides whether it was a deer or a horse. Some were silent; some were afraid of Zhao Gao and answered it was a horse; and some were to the truth. Afterwards, Zhao Gao conspired to kill those who answered it was a deer. From then on, everyone was in danger, and no one dared to say that Zhao Gao was wrong.

As soon as he said something, Cao Ang realized that his words were inappropriate. Comparing Zhao Gao and Cao Cao, isn’t it equivalent to saying that his father was a treacherous minister? He hurriedly said: “The child was reckless and said, please don’t blame him. The child meant that once this policy was announced to the world, those who care about the Han Dynasty would definitely stand up and oppose it, so that the father would know that those people were unfaithful to his father.”

Cao Cao waved his hand and smiled, "My son is honest. Although he has learned a lot from your master, he still has not grasped the key point. The one who is loyal to me and cares about the Han Dynasty as his father, why should he use the trick of pointing to deer and horses to distinguish it? Moreover, those who are truly concerned about the Han Dynasty will only applaud this strategy, and they will stand up and oppose it. The royal family does not spend from the treasury, and will inevitably draw out the land population to establish a royal farm. With the support of the imperial farm, the royal family can prepare for war and horses in the imperial farm to accumulate self-protection power. How can those who are concerned about the Han Dynasty stand up and oppose it?"

Cao Ang said: "Isn't this a way to add control to my father's great cause?"

Cao Cao said, "Zi Xiu thought he had forgotten it! Your master had borrowed a robbery two years ago to summon all the officials' troops to the army, and legislated laws to prohibit officials and wealthy families from supporting their families. Since civil and military officials and wealthy families could not raise private soldiers, how could the royal family, as a model in the world, be an exception!"

"But..." Cao Ang said after a moment of depression: "When this example begins, when my father achieves hegemony and replaces the Han Dynasty... will he... still act according to this law? If the royal expenses are still separated from the treasury, then the descendants of the descendants will... they will definitely blame their father!"

Cao Ang's words surprised Cao Cao, and he looked at his ambitious son seriously.

"For your father, you don't want to be Wang Mang, and you won't be a married Duke of Zhou!" Cao Cao said word by word: "For your father, you want to be King Wen of Zhou! And what you want to do is King Wu of Zhou!"

"Ah!" Cao Ang was shocked! Although he vaguely knew that his father had a lot of dissatisfaction with the Han Dynasty and also realized that his father had the wish to replace him, the first thing he heard from his father was shocked.

Cao Cao said silently: "When my father was young, he was determined to serve the royal family of Liu, but what did the Emperor of Han do? He favored the officials and killed the ministers in vain. Wang Situ's death was heartbroken. The robbery of the two years ago made the father completely break the favor from the royal family of Liu. But after all, he was a minister of their Liu family of the royal family of Liu for decades, so he could not make up for the decision to replace him, and he did not want to be accused of being a traitor! Your master knew my heart well, so he proposed to separate the royal expenses from the national treasury."

Seeing that Cao Ang was still confused, Cao Cao sighed and said, "Zi Xiu, do you know who our biggest enemy is now?"

Cao Ang said: "Yuan Shao led the four states and had a million troops, his father's biggest enemy."

"Not bad!" Cao Cao said: "After Yuan Shao destroyed Gongsun Zan, he had no worries. He had a secret report that his adviser Tian Feng last year, Ju Su and others advised him to take troops south to fight against Xudu when I was ill. Do you know this?"

Cao Ang replied: "The child has never heard of it."

Cao Cao laughed and said, "I was very nervous when I was a father at that time. I sent this matter to Xuzhou with a password to ask your master how to deal with it. Zi Xiu! Can you guess how Fengxiao answered?"

Cao Ang said: "Master Fengxiao did things unexpectedly, and Zixiu couldn't guess it."

"Guo Fengxiao just sent back a sentence, 'Yuan Shao's youngest son is sick!' There is no further information." When Cao Cao said this, he smiled even more. "Sure enough, it was not long before he wrote back the news that Yuan Shao had no psychological problems because his young son suffered from scabies. He didn't come last year and this year would not come, but it was difficult to accommodate two tigers in a mountain. Yuan Shao would eventually have to launch an army to invade. The strategy offered by your master is very critical to the victory or defeat of the battle between Father and Yuan Shao. The key point is to label it as an imperial village!"

Cao Ang asked tentatively: "Did my father mean that Dongjun is to be a royal village?"

"Not bad!" Cao Cao said: "Yanzhou is my granary. If Yuan Shao divided his troops into two groups and took Xudu through Guandu, and passed Baima to capture Dongjun, our army would not be able to take care of each other. However, after demarcating Dongjun into an imperial village, even if there was no soldiers and soldiers there, Yuan Shao would not invade. In this case, if Yuan Shao wanted to attack, he would only come from Guandu. It would be not difficult for our army to win with pleasure!"

"However, this is just an accompanying beauty! There are many meanings in this policy, and you will slowly understand it in the future. But whether you understand or not, when you become the lord of the world after a hundred years of being a father, you must leave the policy of separating royal expenses from the treasury as the foundation of the country for future generations. If you can do this, there should be no problem with the Cao Dynasty being passed down for hundreds of years."

Not long after, my suggestions spread throughout the world with a clear edict. After receiving the emperor's edict, the princes all submitted a letter to praise the emperor's wiseness, because the lieutenant in the edict was exempted from the taxes owed by each prefecture and county in the previous article of central tax and local tax separation. They also announced that in order to allow the people to recuperate, the taxes of each prefecture and county will be determined by local officials according to the situation in the country. The part that was paid to the court can be considered by themselves. It would be strange if the princes did not applaud. Although no one paid taxes to the court, there were always one or two people who did not know the depth of the princes. Now it was fine! He was so legitimate that he didn't have to pay money from his pocket, and the noise in his ears finally disappeared.

Of course, some people are opposed. Ma Teng, the general who conquered the West in Xiliang, was one of the opponents. He was not opposed to tax reduction and exemption. Ma Teng opposed the hierarchy among citizens. Why? Ma Teng was a descendant of Ma Yuan, the general of Fubo of Han. Not only did he have Qiang blood, but he even married a wife. His three sons Ma Chao, Ma Xiu, and Ma Tie grew up in the Qiang tribe since childhood. This is great. After working for decades, he suddenly became a second-class citizen. He couldn't stand it on anyone, so he submitted a letter to the court to express his dissatisfaction.

Ma Teng and Han Sui were sworn brothers. The two joined hands in Li and Guo led their troops out of the pass to pursue Emperor Xian of Han and occupied Chang'an. With the money, grain and population brought by Dong Zhuo from Luoyang, after several years of development, it was said that he was 50,000 infantry under his command, which made people dare not look at it.

After receiving Ma Teng's memorial, Cao Cao did not dare to neglect to send the Sili School Captain Zhong Yao to Chang'an to appease Ma Teng in the name of the emperor.

Zhong Yao, whose courtesy name is Yuanchang, was poor in Changshe, Yingchuan. According to legend, when he was a child, he met a fortune teller. The fortune teller said to his relatives: "This child is born with a noble appearance, but there will be floods recently, so you must be careful." The relative thought that he had encountered a liar and ignored him. But unexpectedly, he didn't walk a few miles away. When he passed a small bridge, he met a horse in a hurry. Zhong Yao fell into the river to avoid shocking horses and almost drowned. So his relatives thought that the prime minister's words were right, so he valued him very much, so he paid for him and allowed him to concentrate on studying. Zhong Yao was also very proud. After being promoted to the position of the filial and honest official, he was promoted to the Huangmen Minister. When he was an official in Luoyang, he met Cao Cao. The two had a deep friendship.

After Dong Zhuo's death, when Li and Guo jumped into Chang'an, Zhong Yao persuaded Li and Guo to be heroes of friendship and have many feuds. So he used Cao Cao to pacify the Qingzhou Yellow Turban to submit to the court and made a favor and granted the Jiande General Fei Tinghou to Cao Cao. Later, in the rebellion of Li and Guo, the emperor escaped from Chang'an. Zhong Yao made contributions to protect the emperor and was named the Minister of Shangshu Pushe and stayed in Luoyang. Later, Cao Cao expressed his opinion as the minister and supervised various troops in Guanzhong as the lieutenant of the Sili School. To put it casually, the news that the emperor tied up Wang Yun and sent to Li Guo was informed by him. When Li Guo was in charge of the government, Han Sui and Ma Teng led the troops to take Chang'an and he wrote a letter to encourage him. Although the battle ended with the failure of Han and Ma, it still had a great blow to Li Guo's military strength.

After receiving the task, Zhong Yao immediately set off to see Ma Teng. After arriving in Chang'an, he didn't know what he said to Ma Teng. After several mutters, he not only let Ma Teng lose his complaints, but also willingly handed over his eldest son Ma Chao and youngest son Ma Tie to Zhong Yao and brought him back to Xudu. It was called serving in the court, but in fact he was a hostage.

However, after Liu Bei escaped from Xuzhou, he found his family, and took Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to Liu Biao's office thousands of miles away.

Liu Biao, whose courtesy name was Jingsheng, was from Gaoping, Shanyang. In history, Liu Biao was not as incompetent as described in the Romance of the Romance. It can be said that it was the opposite. When Liu Biao was young, he had already spread his name to the world. He was the same as the seven wise men. He was the chief general He Jinpi and served as the chief clerk of the Northern Army. His descendants Wang Rui was the governor of Jingzhou, supplemented by Kuai brothers, Cai Mao and others. He was also appointed as the general of Zhennan, the governor of Jingzhou, and was granted the title of Marquis of Wu. During his time in Jingzhou, Liu Biao was kind and powerful, and was able to induce him to be able to tempt thousands of miles away, and the people were impressed. He also established scholars, loved the people and raised the scholars, and protected himself calmly. He had thousands of miles of bases, and had more than 100,000 armors, and was the dominant leader of Jingjiang. He first killed Sun Jian from Jiangdong, and then often resisted Cao Cao. He was one of Cao Cao's powerful enemies.

Liu Biao, who was also a relative of the Han Dynasty, was very happy to hear that Liu Bei came to vote. What was he happy? Of course, he was not happy to see brothers from the same clan. For four hundred years, the Han Dynasty had no millions, but there was one hundred thousand. If he was so happy to see a relative, Liu Biao would probably laugh every day. Liu Biao was happy that he had lost a barrier since Zhang Xiu voted for Cao Cao, and Liu Bei's arrival made him feel out of the matter. Although Liu Bei's few soldiers were not enough to fight Cao Cao, it could also play a buffering role, and Liu Bei could also use Liu Bei to restrain the two prominent families in Jingzhou - the Cai and Kuai. At that time, Liu Biao, who did not have a soldier, could take over Jingzhou as the governor of Jingzhou. The two big families of Cai and Kuai made great efforts, but they deserved great contributions, but now they have the meaning of being too big.

So when Liu Bei came to join the army, Liu Biao gave Xinye to Liu Bei without saying a word and asked him to station troops. He said that he was preparing to raise an army to attack Xudu when the time was right, but it was not something that Liu Bei could control. After Liu Bei arrived in Xinye, he was resting and waiting for the opportunity. But after waiting for almost two years, the Central Plains was contrary to the continuous wars in the past few years. It was rare to be calm. Whether it was the princes or bandits, everyone seemed to have discussed it, and no one was asking for trouble for anyone and they closed the door and became their own local emperor.

Such a situation was very unfavorable to Liu Bei. He knew that he had formed a grudge with Cao Cao, and a small Xinye could never stop Cao Cao's army. Once Cao Cao raised his troops, he could do nothing but escape. So he decided to mix the water. Only by muddying the water could he take advantage of the water to develop and strengthen himself. So he copied two copies of the edict of the robbery and sent one to Yuan Shao and Sun Ce, and persuaded them to raise troops to fight against the thieves.

After receiving Liu Bei's letter, Sun Ce read it and threw it away. He had just gotten married to the Cao family. His younger brother Sun Kuang married Cao Ren's daughter not long ago. He couldn't just marry someone's daughter, so he immediately raised an army to beat his brother's father-in-law! Moreover, Sun Ce also hoped that the court would grant him the Grand Sima. He had sent Zhang Hong to Xudu to seek official position. At this time, of course, he could not offend Cao Cao, the actual ruler in the court.

Yuan Shao also received a letter from Liu Bei. He was happy first and then worried. He was happy because he had a good excuse for being high-sounding, and worried because he was going to fight Cao Cao after all.

Yuan Shao and Cao Cao have known each other since childhood. When they were young, they often engaged in the Fengliu activities together. Later, they promoted Xiaolian to fight against the Yellow Turbans together, served for the General He Jin, and then launched an army to attack Dong Zhuo. Not only did they have a deep friendship, but Yuan Shao also knew that Cao Cao was very resourceful and used troops, so from the eyes of Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao was unwilling to provoke Cao Cao. Two years ago, he heard that Cao Cao was poisoned, but although he did not die immediately, it was rumored that Cao Cao could only live for two or three years at most. Last year, Tian Feng and Ju Su suggested that Xu Du divide the troops and make progress in both directions.

He used the excuse of his youngest son being sick to get over it. On the one hand, he did not want to have a bad reputation to take advantage of others' danger, and on the other hand, he also hoped that Cao Cao would die the best. But two years have passed, and not only did Cao Cao not die, but also heard that he was getting better and more prosperous as he lived. It is said that he would not be able to recover completely in a long time. This is what I meant to be able to escape from the first day of the lunar month and cannot escape from the fifteenth day of the lunar month, and he was unwilling to return or not. It seems that this battle with Cao Cao would still have to fight sooner or later. If I had known that Cao Cao would not die, it would have been better to listen to Tian Feng and Ju Su's suggestion that when Cao Cao could not manage the government, he would have made a concerted effort to enter Xudu.
Chapter completed!