Chapter 64: The Bronze Biography

Since unifying Hebei, Cao Cao moved his capital to Yecheng. Xuchang was nominally the capital of the Han Dynasty, but it has become a nameless and unrealistic one.

After being promoted to Duke of Wei, Cao Cao's ambition to establish his own business was obvious. He had already had a political status, but he still wanted to win people's hearts, especially the reputation among the scholars. He had to hold it in his hands. Those who could fight were Confucian generals, and those who could not fight could have great lethality with a pen.

However, Cao Cao's reputation in the Shilin River excluded his own literary cultivation. He was very disdained by scholars all over the world. In addition to his background, he also killed Kong Rong, the great-grandson of Saint Kong because of Cao Cao.

After returning from the conquest of Wuhuan, Cao Cao had no worries. As for the matter, Cao Cao was a national hero. After he was promoted to Duke of Wei, he urgently hoped that the Cao family would also occupy a place in the scholars. Whether it was praise or lead the trend, it was beneficial to the Cao family.

Yecheng

Cao Cao hereby ordered the construction of three platforms, bronze birds, golden tigers, and ice wells.

On the day the Tongque Platform was completed, Cao Cao held a poetry meeting here, focusing on the world.

The bronze croaker platform is ten feet high and has hundreds of halls. Before it was completed, Cao Cao had expressed to his left and right that he would live his life here after pacifying the world.

The poem festival feast was very lively, and all civil and military officials were present. On the majestic bronze platform, Cao Cao sat high on the main seat after taking the stage and looked down on all living beings.

Military generals joined in the fun, civil officials improvised poems, and the protagonists of this feast were all from the Cao family.

Even Chen Lin, who surrendered to Cao Cao, could not catch the limelight.

"The flying room has risen to its own uniqueness, and the building is like a building that inherits the sky... Good! Pier, this essay is well written!"

Cao Cao laughed happily, and the civil and military officials in the audience also praised each other. After taking the stage to write a poem, Cao Pi looked humble, but just smiled faintly and did not get carried away.

If Cao Cao's favorite son can be ranked first, the first one is not Cao Chong, but Cao Ang who died in Wancheng, followed by Cao Chong, and Cao Zhi after Cao Chong.

As for Cao Pi, he actually did not please Cao Cao much.

But it is undeniable that although the Cao family is not a scholarly family, the trendy trend of Jian'an literature, the Cao family and the three sons occupy a good position, Cao Cao, Cao Pi, and Cao Zhi.

After Cao Pi, Cao Cao asked Cao Zhi to come on stage to write poems.

Cao Zhi, who was young and handsome, was not frightened at all. He walked onto the stage politely, splashed ink, and finished the article in one go.

Cao Cao presented this essay to his eyes, lowered his head and read it. Half saw it, he suddenly raised his head and looked at Cao Zhi with a strange expression.

Cao Zhi stared at Cao Cao with anticipation, with reverence and excitement in his eyes.

Cao Cao raised a faint smile on his lips and ordered people to read Cao Zhi's fu in public.

"From the morning to play, go up to the floor to entertain the mood.

Seeing the vastness of Taifu, I can see where the sage virtues are built.

The tall gate is so rugged that it is floating on both sides of the palaces and the clear ones..."

Cao Zhi's poems are gorgeous and beautiful, and it is a pleasure to hear them. Many civil officials in the audience showed their eyes closed and intoxicated.

Cheng Yu, Xun You, Man Chong, Mao Jie, Chen Qun and others were also present. They did not take the stage to write poems, but it did not affect their appreciation of poems. Cao Pi's fu won a lot of applause, and Cao Zhi's fu is enough to be a celebrity forever.

Originally, he closed his eyes and listened in the artistic conception of the poems and essays. Cheng Yu, Xun You, Man Chong and others who could give advice to Cao Cao suddenly opened their eyes wide and looked solemn.

The people who recited the poems continued, but these people had turned their attention to Cao Cao who was sitting in the main seat.

Cao Cao looked comfortable, his eyes closed, and his expression did not change at all.

The poems with gorgeous rhetoric and transcendent artistic conception were praised loudly by those present. After Cao Cao rewarded Cao Zhi, he also wrote a poem himself.

But Cheng Yu and his friends are no longer in poetry and essays, but seem to be full of thoughts.

The banquet ended, and the civil servants and military generals left one after another, and the topic was inseparable from today's feast.

Xun You walked to Cheng Yu, lowered his voice and said solemnly: "The lord should be able to see that Mr. Zhi's poem is in secret, so why did he still order people to read it in public?"

Cheng Yu shook his head, and was also confused.

"The Tongquetai Poetry Festival is attracting attention from all over the world. Today, the poems written on the stage will spread all over the world in less than a few days. I don't know what the situation will happen if Mr. Zhi's fu was passed on to Guo Jia. I hope the lord is prepared for the worst."

"Can the lord want to use this to test Guo Jia?"

Xun You was full of doubts.

Cheng Yu smiled bitterly and said, "Do you still need to test now? It is difficult for two heroes to stand together, and sooner or later they will be distinguished."

Xun You stopped talking and planned to go to ask Cao Cao in person in a few days.

Guo Jia, who was far away in Chengdu, Yizhou, still arranged political affairs in an orderly manner in the spring of the 13th year of Jian'an.

In the Yizhou Prefecture Deliberation Hall, when Guo Jia was sitting in the main seat discussing this year's government affairs plan with the officials, the guards outside the door came in and reported: "Report to the lord, Mr. Jin is looking for a meeting outside."

Everyone present was surprised. Guo Jia was clearly divided into private affairs. His descendants, the oldest Guo Ye, were staying in the military camp honestly. This was the first time that the young Guo Jin came to Yizhou Prefecture. It must be a business to come here. What business can Guo Jin, a teenager, have?

Guo Jia temporarily put aside the topic and asked someone to bring Guo Jin up.

Surprisingly, Mr. Jin, who has always been a gentleman, actually walked into the hall. His steps were unstable and he walked in in a panic holding the bamboo slips in his hands.

Guo Jin stepped into the hall, rushed directly to Guo Jia, and presented all the bamboo slips in his arms to Guo Jia. He gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "Father, Cao Cao built the Tongquetai in Yecheng. On the day of completion, the ministers held a poem meeting. In the hands of the child, Cao Cao's son Cao Zhi wrote, among which there were disrespectful words to his father."

Guo Jin likes literature and the Tongquetai Poetry Club. Few scholars don’t care. Aside from the opposition of the camp, Guo Jin admires many poems and essays at the Tongquetai Poetry Club. However, only Cao Zhi’s essay was shocked after reading it, and then he became angry.

So he hurriedly sent this essay to Guo Jia for review.

Many officials in the hall showed surprise. They heard about the Tongquetai Poetry Festival, but they were not as leisurely as Guo Jin, who was so idle and dedicated to asking for information, so they had not yet obtained the poems and essays that were famous on the Tongquetai.

Everyone looked at Guo Jia at the same time to see how he would react, and were also curious about what Cao Zhi wrote in the poem, which would make Guo Jin grit his teeth with hatred.

Guo Jia picked up a bamboo slip from Guo Jin's hand, and did not expand it to read it. Instead, he raised his hand and knocked Guo Jin's head with the bamboo slip.

"When will you be as frightened as your elder brother? Just the panic you walked in from outside the door, let alone my son when you were outside, it was embarrassing."

Guo Jia said this with a chuckling, neither light nor heavy.

Guo Jin was stunned, ashamed, but said again: "But, father, Cao Zhi..."

Guo Jia sneered, "He is disrespectful to me, so you are so panicked. If he holds a sword and kills me, wouldn't you lose your mind?"

Guo Jin instantly understood that Guo Jia was teaching him to have a calm mind.

This is Guo Jia’s current mentality. He cannot follow the pace of the enemy, nor can he be led by the enemy.

Seeing the son in front of him stand up and calm down, Guo Jia was so calm that he opened the bamboo slips and looked at them.

Perhaps many people know that Cao Zhi is a man because of three reasons, either because he is Cao Cao's son, because he became a poem because of seven steps, or because of the Goddess of Luo River.

Cao Zhi's literary level is definitely talented in the contemporary era. It is not easy for a few people to lead the Jian'an literary trend. It is even more commendable that there are three people in the Cao family at one time.

There are many poems and essays passed down by Cao Zhi, but because many of them are lyric poems, not many are widely known.

"From the morning to play, climb the platform to entertain the mood... I hug the two bridges in the southwest and enjoy the day and night. Hum, what an unparalleled Cao Zijian, he gave me a reason to kill him in the future, OK, OK."

Guo Jia was halfway through and suddenly burst into laughter.

The officials below were full of anger.

In ancient times, Qiao and Qiao were the same thing.

Erqiao, no matter whether it refers to Guo Jia’s two concubines, Qiao, or not, at least those who know the situation in the world and Guo Jia’s wives and concubines will have a lot of thoughts and illusions.

He is no longer a young and energetic boy. When facing this fu, Guo Jia is more thinking about the profound meaning behind this fu.

Can’t Cao Cao see the metaphor in Cao Zhi’s poem?

Then why does this essay still leak?

Declare war?

Or trying to irritate?

Guo Jia stood up, held the bamboo slip and knocked it in his hand, saying, "The beautiful mountains and rivers are beautiful, Cao Zijian is very good at thinking about his father, but he just doesn't know if Cao Gong has the life to live in the Tongquetai and enjoy the blessings."

Guo Jin had never thought about how Guo Jia would react after reading this essay, but now, he was stunned, as if his anger seemed a little nonsense, and Guo Jia and the officials around him did not show any extreme performance.

After exiting the hall, Guo Jin ran back to his house and locked himself in the study. He wanted to fight back against the Cao family in the same way.

In the evening, Guo Jia returned to his mansion after his business. When he passed by Guo Jin's courtyard, he unexpectedly saw two girls, Cao Xian and Cao Jie, guarding the door of the study, crying secretly, and the two girls' eyes were red.

Guo Jia called Wu Xian, who happened to be not far away, and asked, "What's going on?"

Wu Xian said with a worried look on his face: "They felt embarrassed to face Jin'er. Jin'er, and locked herself in the study room again, and no one saw each other. My sister went to call him several times, but he just couldn't come out."

The two sisters of the Cao family are innocent after all. Even if Guo Jia and Cao Cao live to the death on the battlefield, Guo Jia will not have any prejudice against them.

It is understandable that they felt guilty. After all, Cao Zhi's essay was not only a provocation to Guo Jia, but also a moral incompatibility.

Cao Cao had many wives and concubines, but many of them took over other people's wives.

It seems that now he is aiming at Guo Jia's wife again.

After hearing this, Guo Jia said to Wu Xian: "I have been advising them for so many years. In my eyes, they are my daughters. Don't pay attention to the rumors and rumors in the outside world. If you can live here well, try not to worry about yourself."

Wu Xian smiled gently and nodded in agreement.

*j
Chapter completed!