When Cao Ang found Cao Cao.
He was directing several servants in the study to pack some bamboo slips and gold and jade items into boxes. He seemed to want to sort them first to avoid chaos when he moved away.
He looked up and saw his son pushing open the door and coming in.
Cao Cao first waved his hands to signal several of his servants to exit, then glared and said rather dissatisfiedly.
"Where have you been fooling around? I heard from your mother that you haven't returned home for two days and two nights. If you don't come back today, I will send people all over the streets to look for you!"
Mrs. Ding is in charge of all the maids in the house, including several maids in Cao Ang's backyard, so she is the first to know whether Cao Ang returns home.
Facing his father's reprimand.
Cao Ang quickly put on a smile and said apologetically: "I was invited by a friend to have a drink the day before yesterday. I was so drunk that I just stayed at his house. I couldn't refuse the hospitality, so it's been postponed until today."
Cao Cao glanced at Cao Ang angrily.
"I don't know why you suddenly made so many friends. I always remember that when you first came to Luoyang City with me, you liked to stay at home and didn't go out, and you didn't make any friends."
After a few words of education.
Cao Cao didn't bother with this topic anymore.
After all, my son is already so old, so some of his social interactions and life are reasonable, and he can't be kept by his side all the time.
If Madam hadn't been talking about it in his ears for the past two days, Cao Cao might not even bother to mention it.
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After the father and son chatted for a few more words.
Cao Cao suddenly asked: "I have decided to officially leave Luoyang City in three days. Take a look at what else needs to be collected and prepared, and make arrangements in the past few days."
"Has the house been tidied up?"
Cao Cao nodded.
Then he pointed to several boxes that had been covered.
"I say it's tidying up, but actually there aren't many things. It's just messy. The previous yards have been tidied up in the past two days."
"The only thing left is your own yard. It's not convenient for your mother and I to help you clean it up, so we'll wait for you to come back and take care of it yourself."
Cao Ang didn't pay much attention to this.
What he could find in his yard were just small items, the most numerous of which were probably Diao Chan's clothes and various jewelry and sundries.
It can be collected in a few clicks.
The key is whether other things are arranged properly.
Cao Ang walked to the window in a few steps, looked out, and then turned around and asked.
"What about the servants in the house? Have you told them about leaving Luoyang City? And what are the plans for our big house?"
"We've all asked, and those who didn't want to leave were given some money to send them away. The rest will follow us on the journey."
This is to be expected.
Among the servants of the Cao Mansion, not many have the right to personal freedom, and most of them sold themselves to the Cao family.
Some of the remaining people still work for the Cao family, and their entire family depends on the Cao family for food and clothing. Where else can they go if they don't leave with their master's family?
There are just some casual workers, maybe their parents live in some villages around Luoyang, and of course they want to get money to stay.
After answering his son's first question.
Cao Cao also followed and walked to the window.
He patted the window edge with his hand, and then said helplessly: "I want to sell this house, but no one can take over the problem!"
"Our house is large and in a good location. We spent a lot of money when we bought it. Now if we want to sell it, the price will naturally not be cheap."
"However, the city of Luoyang cannot be said to be stable now. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Dong Zhuo is not a peaceful person. The price of food in Luoyang has been rising in a few days."
"If you don't have money, you can't afford such a big house. Those who have money won't think about buying a house at this time. They would rather spend money to stock up on food."
"So my father just thought that since no one cares about it, let's just leave it vacant here. When the Dong thieves are defeated in the future and we return to Luoyang, we can live here as it is."
It's a beautiful thought.
But it's not possible.
Cao Angke clearly knew that the final outcome of Luoyang City was that Dong Zhuo had smashed it to pieces and completely turned it into ruins.
After deciding to evacuate to Chang'an, Dong Zhuo went crazy for the last time and allowed his soldiers to loot, burn and kill in the city.
Destroying homes and houses and looting wantonly.
After the robbery, they even set off a fire, burning the once prosperous and colorful capital of the Han Dynasty to a blackened mess.
The Cao family's house cannot be sold now, and it will be burned to ashes in the future.
But what Cao Cao said is also true.
If no one buys it, no one buys it.
Even if the price is lowered, people will not take it over, and they are not being taken advantage of. In such chaotic times, it is necessary to keep cash in hand so that they can run away at any time.
As for the majority of middle-income people who cannot see the situation clearly, they may spend generously, but the problem is that they don’t have that much money and cannot afford it.
This is very uncomfortable.
After pondering for a long time, Cao Ang finally failed to find a proper solution and had to give up.
Just burn it.
Anyway, a box of gold stolen from Dong Zhuo was enough to buy several houses like this.
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After putting the house matter on hold for the time being.
Cao Ang walked around the room and suddenly saw the military seal letter placed on the table. He took it and played with it twice.
Then something seemed to come to mind.
He leaned into Cao Cao's ear and asked: "Father, will your seal as the Right Lieutenant General be useless in the future?"
He took his military talisman seal letter from Cao Ang.
He held it in his hand and rubbed it twice with his fingertips.
Then Cao Cao nodded with emotion.
"Yes, ministers who leave their posts without permission from the court, and who leave far away from Luoyang City, generally give up their official positions by default."
"In most cases, Beijing officials who choose to leave Beijing will return their seals to the government office. My father was still considering whether to return the military talisman of General You Zhonglang."
for this official position.
Cao Cao felt extremely reluctant to part with him.
It only took half a month from the time I took office to the time I was ready to leave. I had to stand up and leave before my butt was even hot.
It feels so painful in my heart!
It took a lot of effort to stand up from the empty shelf of Dianjun Lieutenant. Finally, he no longer had to sit on the cold mattress.
I looked at the good days ahead and the wonderful life ahead, but it turned out that the hot stove was burning and it couldn't be burned for two days.
How can we not be heartbroken?
You must know that this is General You Zhonglang, a well-known senior military attache in the imperial court. What's more, he still has two to three thousand soldiers and horses under his command, which is more valuable than Yuan Shu's tiger general Zhonglang.
If you say no now, it’s gone!
I can't breathe!
But it's not possible without giving up. Compared with the grand cause of resisting Dong Zhuo, such an official position is not that important.
As long as he recruits troops after leaving Luoyang City, prepares the army for war, and forms a coalition to successfully defeat Dong Zhuo and revive the Han Dynasty, then such a small sacrifice will be worth it.
In fact, it was not only Cao Cao who felt heartbroken.
Cao Ang was also quite sorry.
What he regretted more was that none of the thousands of soldiers and horses under his father could be brought out of Luoyang City, and dozens of soldiers were taken away after being exhausted.
In fact, it was not that Cao Ang had never thought about taking away some of the soldiers belonging to his father through various means, but due to various objective conditions, he finally gave up this idea.
After all, unlike local autonomy, senior military attachés in the DPRK and Central Government must obtain the imperial court's order if they want to mobilize troops, otherwise they will be suspected of causing rebellion.
What's more, Dong Zhuo couldn't just quietly watch him play this trick. As Captain Huben, he originally had two thousand troops. If he added his father's nearly three thousand men, it would be a full five thousand army. .
Even if Dong Zhuo is a fool, he will sense that something is wrong and will definitely intervene.
Pity!
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