Chapter 1444: The School Captain of the Gold
Chapter 1442: The School Captain of the Golden Touch
In a time of great struggle, not taking the initiative to fight is equivalent to chronic suicide.
If Cao Cao wants to avoid being annexed by other princes and participate in the subsequent battle for dominance of the world, he must restore Yanzhou as soon as possible, and this requires a large number of talents to govern Yanzhou.
But the Yanzhou family is too weak and cannot provide so many talents at all, so Cao Cao only relies on the poor family.
Cao Cao was born in a noble family, so he was naturally afraid of offending the aristocratic family. However, after discussing with Cheng Yu, Xun You, Chen Gong, and Bi Gan for a long time, Cao Cao came to another conclusion, that is, this precedent was the beginning of Yang Guang. Even if Cao Cao imitated him, the aristocratic family would never hate him to the extent that Yang Guang was.
As everyone in Cao Wei expected, although Cao Cao carried out the imperial examination after Yang Guang, his influence was much greater than that of Yang Guang. However, because Yang Guang was attracting hatred in front, the aristocratic families did not transfer hatred to him, but instead attracted many children from the aristocratic families to join him.
Chen Qun, Mao Jie, Lu Qian, Dong Zhao, Jiang Ji, Man Chong, Jiang Gan, Yang Xun, He Kui, Li Tong, Yan Ming, Zheng Hun, Linghu Shao, Kong Xiu, Han Fu... and many civil and military heroes, either from aristocratic families or poor families, gathered under Cao Cao''s command due to the imperial examination.
Among the civil officials, the most outstanding talents are Chen Qun, Mao Jie, Lu Qian, Dong Zhao, Jiang Ji and Man Chong. Especially Chen Qun, who were the "Nine-rank Zhongzheng System" of the official selection system of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the main founder of the Cao Wei Law "Wei Law".
As for the military generals who came to vote, there was only Li Tong, a top-notch master, and the rest were either second-rate or first-rate. However, for Cao Cao, who was eager to seek talents, it was already very good to have these people.
Cao Cao gained a large number of talents by enrolling in the imperial examinations, and he also knew people and made good use of them. He dispatched talented talents to various places and started trade with the Qin army.
Yanzhou, which was under the blossoming of business and government, has also developed extremely rapidly, and its vitality has gradually recovered. Of course, it is definitely impossible to fully recover.
After unifying Yanzhou, Cao Cao started a full-scale construction model, and even gave up fighting for the Jianghuai River.
Although Cao Cao was extremely coveting the Jianghuai granary, his family was not rich enough and he did not have enough confidence to compete with Zhu Yuanzhang.
In addition, Yanzhou is a place of four battles, and there are no princes around it to mess with. If they expand their strength so quickly, it will only arouse the alertness of all princes and will eventually end up being strangled by joint efforts.
Therefore, since Cao Cao was destined to not get the Jianghuai River, it would be better to see the internal struggle between Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhao Kuangyin, and Yuan Shu.
Seeing that Cao Cao did not intervene in the Jianghuai war and was carrying out various construction projects in Yanzhou, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately realized that Cao Cao was strong outside and was trying harder, and he wanted to deal with Cao Cao first?
Since Zhu Yuanzhang had already sent troops to Jianghuai, using troops to Cao Cao would be like fighting on two fronts, so he naturally could not commit such a military taboo, so he could only turn the guns around after taking over Jianghuai.
At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to join forces with the Mingting in Jizhou to send troops, from the four directions of Jizhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou and Jianghuai, and divided the troops into four groups to attack Yanzhou at the same time. Cao Cao could not care about the head but the tail, and he would definitely be completely destroyed by the Ming army in a battle.
Cao Cao, who was focused on building Yanzhou, didn''t know that he had been targeted by Zhu Yuanzhang. If Zhu Yuanzhang''s plan could be implemented, even if he had an army of 200,000, he would be unable to withstand the three-way attacks of the Ming army without external interference.
Of course, Qin Hao was already preparing to incorporate Mingting, so Zhu Yuanzhang''s plan was destined to die, and Cao Cao saved his life because of Qin Hao.
Although Cao Cao gave up on Jianghuai for the time being, he would not give up the opportunity to make a profit from it. He thought of selling military supplies to Yuan Shu and obtaining several times the income from Yuan Shu, which would feed back to the construction of Yanzhou.
Anyway, Yuan Shu is probably poor now and only has money and food. With the little force of Jianghuai, he will definitely not be able to use it. It is better to use it out for supplies to fight against Zhu Yuanzhang. But there are only a handful of willingness to support Yuan Shu. After all, he offended Qin Hao to death when he attacked Nanyang. Qin Hao is now the orthodox Han Dynasty. Yuan Shu has been beaten to be a rebel, and helping Yuan Shu is equivalent to being unable to get along with the Qin army, so no princes dare to provide support at all.
Although Cao Cao and Qin Hao have a good relationship, they dare not help Yuan Shu openly. They can only trade secretly in exchange for valuable construction resources for Yanzhou.
Although Cao Cao and Yuan Shu were taking advantage of the situation to deal with each other, he was the only one who was willing to help Yuan Shu. Therefore, this sucker, Yuan Shu must be the one who wants to do so or not.
In order to develop Yanzhou''s internal affairs, Cao Cao also took great pains to take the risk of offending Qin Hao and obtained money and food from Yuan Shu of Jianghuai.
In addition, Cao Cao also did another crazy thing, which was to set up a magistrate to rob the tombs and exchange the money and food needed for development by using the dead''s burial objects.
In fact, as early as the outbreak of the Yanzhou War, Cao Cao had set up a lieutenant to touch the gold medal.
At that time, Cao Cao was under the siege of the four major princes of Yanzhou and the five forces of Li Zicheng. When he was completely forced to do something like using human flesh as military rations, Cao Cao could do it, and what else could he not do? Tomb robbing is already considered low-level.
It is said that the first tomb stolen by Cao Cao''s lieutenant was the tomb of Liu Wu, the King of Liangxiao, Mangdang Mountain in Yongcheng.
King Xiao of Liang Liu Wu was the son of Emperor Wen of Han and the younger brother of Emperor Jing. He had a 300-mile country and was rich enough to rival a country. His biggest regret in his life was that he did not win the ninth five.
Since he could not "realize his dream" in this world, Liu Wu planned to complete it after his death, so he built a huge tomb so that he could enjoy the emperor''s pleasure after his death. The majestic shape and rich burial of his tomb are simply amazing.
The reason why Cao Cao was able to shoot Li Zicheng and even unify Yanzhou was largely because he stole Liu Wu''s tomb and relied on the rich burial objects in Liu Wu''s tomb, which made him spend the most difficult time in his life.
Of course, once a tomb robbery is reported, it will definitely be criticized by the guards, and even Qin Duke Qin Hao will be "alarmed".
Seeing that Qin Hao''s envoy came to hold him accountable, Cao Cao knew that the matter was getting worse, so he could only temporarily disband the lieutenant and avoid the limelight first. Wait until the limelight goes over and depends on the situation.
Now that Cao Cao has unified Yanzhou, Qin Hao will definitely not offend him for tomb robbing. After all, there are many tomb robbers in troubled times, and not only Cao Cao has done this alone. Many princes have a team dedicated to tomb robbing.
Cao Cao was determined to rely on his support, so he started his career again. This time he targeted the tomb of Liu An, the King of Huainan.
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(This chapter ends)