In the lobby of Luyang County Temple, a celebration banquet has come to an end.
Now Liu Qi, Cai Hao and the grain they escorted have entered Luyang County. If nothing goes wrong, they will definitely be able to enter Luyang City tomorrow! Sixty thousand dendrobium rice, 20,000 pieces of brocade, 1,500 cattle... For the impoverished Han Dynasty court, it was like rain after a long drought!
However, with the arrival of Jingzhou soldiers, Jingzhou grain, Jingzhou brocade and Jingzhou cattle, where this court will go seems to be another question!
Although Liu Xie has repeatedly stated that he wants to be the emperor of Luoyi, many people in the court can't help but want to go to Wancheng - Luoyang is now in ruins, and although Wancheng has also been damaged by war, it is better than Luoyang. Still too strong.
And when they arrived at Wancheng, the imperial court was under the protection of Liu Biao, the herdsman of Jingzhou... Liu Biao was a famous scholar and occupied the wealthy Jingzhou. How could he be better than Cao Cao?
So at today's celebration banquet, the three men who recorded the ministerial affairs with Cao Cao, as well as General Dong Cheng of the Wei, and General Fu Wan of the Han Dynasty, although they looked very proud holding wine glasses, the things in the glasses were not at all Not less.
Cao Mengde was a good drinker. After drinking a glass of baijiu (white rice wine), he was still chatting and laughing without feeling drunk.
Liu Xie is only sixteen years old this year. He is not an "adult" yet, let alone a heavy drink. He only took a small sip, a glass of wine and a stick of incense. He drank until he no longer had any taste, and then he put it down. The wine glass looked at Cao Cao and several other ministers with a smile, and said slowly: "If the court returns to Luoyang now, it can probably catch up with next year's spring sowing, right? If the harvest next autumn is acceptable, in the autumn of the second year of Jian'an, the court will be able to Has Luoyang stood still?"
This is going back to Luoyang!
Cao Cao and Dong Cheng exchanged glances. Yang Biao, Zhang Xi, and Chunyu Jia turned their attention to Fu Wan.
Obviously, these people are now temporarily divided into two groups.
Sangong and Fu Wan are in the same group, and they still tend to move to Wan.
For Sangong, once the imperial court moves to Wancheng, Cao Cao's generals will no longer be able to serve as generals, and the Sili captain will be meaningless - the imperial court is no longer in Sili!
Then Cao Cao will be squeezed out of the court, and the three princes can comfortably control the government.
For Fu Wan, the head of the state...the generals of the Eastern Han Dynasty were almost all headed by relatives, either the queen's father and brother, or the queen mother's natal family.
And Cao Cao is not a relative...but he has an unmarried daughter!
Once Cao Cao secured his position as general, it was natural for him to send his daughter to the palace to become a queen. What will Queen Fu do then? What should I do if the abbot is dead? It’s over!
On the other hand, Liu Biao was from the same clan as the emperor, so it was impossible for him to send his daughter to the palace.
Therefore, Liu Biao assists the government and Fu Wan's position as abbot is quite secure!
Fu Wan and Dong Cheng have never dealt with each other. Fu Wan and Sangong stood together. Of course, Dong Cheng colluded with Cao Cao... His daughter is a noble person anyway. Even if Cao Cao's daughter enters the palace and becomes the queen, the status of a noble person is Nor will it waver.
In addition, Dong Cheng is a relative of Empress Dowager Dong. He was close to the eunuchs during the Ling Emperor's period, and Cao Cao was the eunuch's queen! And Liu Biao was a famous scholar who was persecuted by the eunuchs...he was not in the same group as Dong Cheng no matter how he looked.
"Tianjia," the queen's father was the first to speak after Fu, "I feel that the area around Luoyang is still too desolate, and the imperial court should temporarily stay in Wancheng. It will not be too late to move back when Luoyang's vitality recovers."
"Tianjia," Dong Cheng immediately put forward a different opinion, "I believe that Luoyang is the capital of the world, and only when the imperial court resides in Luoyang can it command the world. If you move to Wancheng, you will be suspected of losing your family and will be despised by the princes from all directions. .”
After hearing the tit-for-tat advice from the two father-in-laws, Liu Xie was naturally disappointed.
We are all the emperor's father-in-law, why can't we unite?
One is a spearman for Sangong, and the other is a spearman for Cao Cao... Now Sangong and Cao Cao don't talk, it's just the two of you who are fighting dog! What a wonderful husband to me! If you continue to do this, I will consider Cao Cao's daughter!
"General Wei, General Fu Han, what you said makes sense." Although Liu Xie was dissatisfied with his two father-in-laws, he still had to maintain his face and made peace with the mud, then kicked the ball to Cao Cao. "Mengde, where do you plan to locate the shogunate?"
When Cao Cao heard the emperor's question, he was already relieved in his heart. It seems that the little emperor doesn't want to go to Wancheng... He must know that if the court goes to Wancheng, I won't be able to resist Yuan Shao. If I become a minister to the Yuan family, then the Han Dynasty will come to an end!
Thinking of this, Cao Cao replied: "Thanks to the Tian family, I plan to set up a shogunate in Luoyang!"
Liu Xie asked again: "But Luoyang is deserted and supply is difficult. What can we do?"
Cao Cao said again: "Thanks to the Heavenly Family, Luoyang is desolate and is conducive to farming. The desolate land has no owner and the refugees in all directions have no land. As long as the ownerless land is granted to the landless people, and then lent to cattle and seeds, in a few years You can earn one million dendrobium per year!
In addition, Luoyang has ravines and sewers that can connect to all directions, making it easy to transport grain. As long as Yanzhou, led by the minister, and Jingzhou, led by Liu Jingsheng, can work hard to transport it, Luoyang will not fall into famine. "
Liu Xie nodded with satisfaction and said: "What the general said is absolutely true. I am planning to establish a large-scale farming in Luoyang! At the foot of Mang Mountain and on both sides of the Luoshui River, there are fertile fields. The refugees in Hedong, Yingchuan and Sanfu are all mine. people. I will lead them to cultivate land around Luoyang and make themselves self-sufficient!"
The emperor's remarks are the final word!
But Cao Cao suddenly felt something was wrong... The emperor was going to take the refugees to farm in Luoyang, wouldn't those refugees become the emperor's subordinates? One hundred thousand steps and ten thousand soldiers! Now the territory of Sanhe is desolate everywhere, the world is full of refugees named Taipingdao, and the emperor can pretend to be a ghost again...
Alas, this emperor...is not easy to deal with! No, Gu Ye has to establish a large-scale farming operation between Xingyang and Xu County!
...
"General, this is Cai Degui's letter sent by the Jingzhou soldiers' envoy!"
When Cao Cao returned to his camp outside Luyang City with suspicion, Xia Houyuan came up to him with a bamboo slip and reported to him.
"What? Cai Degui?" Cao Cao was stunned for a moment, then laughed, "Cai Degui from Xiangyang, Nanjun?"
Xia Houyuan nodded: "The messenger said it was Cai Degui from Caizhou, Xiangyang."
"Haha, it's him!" Cao Cao seemed very excited. He took the bamboo slip handed by Xia Houyuan, and then walked and looked at it. When he walked into the Chinese army's tent, he was already smiling from ear to ear. "It's really God who helps me. It's better to be judged by man than by God!"
Xia Houyuan was a little confused, so he asked Cao Cao: "General, who is this Cai Degui? Why are you so happy?"
Cao Cao smiled and said: "Cai Degui is a friend I made when I was an official in Luoyang. He is the son of Cai Zigui, a famous scholar in Xiangyang. Now his second sister is married to Liu Jingzhou as his stepmother, and he himself is an official. I pay homage to General Zhennan’s military advisor, and I will accompany Liu Jingzhou’s son Liu Boyu to Luo this time. When I was in Pheasant County, I learned that I was escorted by the Luyang military governor, so I sent someone to deliver a letter to contact me.”
Guo Jia on the side heard that Cai Mao was a "strategist", and he immediately became interested and asked Cao Cao: "This man is the mastermind of Liu Jingzhou, is he a man of quick intelligence?"
Cao Cao smiled and shook his head: "De Gui's intelligence can only be considered average, but among the Jingxiang wealthy clan, Zhu Cai is the most prosperous! The reason why Liu Jingsheng was able to conquer Jingzhou on one horse was because of Cai, Kuai, Huang, Pang, Ma, and Xiang , Xi and other Jingxiang wealthy families. And Cai Degui’s sister even married Liu Jingsheng and became her stepmother... She is a rare beauty!"
Guo Jia thought for a while and said to Cao Cao: "General, I remember that Liu Jingzhou had a young son named Liu Cong. After the death of Liu Junlang, the herdsman of Yizhou in the first year of Xingping, the Yizhou rich family supported his young son Liu Jiyu to inherit the throne. The position of state shepherd. Does the Cai family want to do the same thing now?"
Cao Cao nodded: "Well, Cai Degui's letter did say that his sister took care of the young son for Liu Jingsheng, and they were very close. It seems that the Cai family did have this intention! Hey, now the state shepherd, county governor, and country prime minister can be passed down from father to son. ! No wonder the little emperor always says that he wants to be the emperor of Luoyi."
As soon as Cao Cao mentioned the "Emperor of Luoyi", Zhong Yao, Ding Chong, Dong Zhao, Guo Jia, and Xia Houyuan who followed him into the tent all stared at him intently, as if they wanted to get a definite answer.
Now no one knows how to successfully usurp the world.
After Qin unified the world, the only person with a foreign surname to usurp the throne was Wang Mang, who replaced the Han Dynasty. However, the new dynasty established by Wang Mang collapsed within ten years, and the old Liu family returned to the country. Therefore, in the eyes of Zhong Yao, Ding Chong, Dong Zhao, Guo Jia, Xia Houyuan and others, Wang Mang's usurpation of the throne was a failure and cannot be imitated. Before Wang Mang, the person who successfully changed the world's surname was Liu Bang, Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty.
But the heroes of Liu Bang's generation all started their careers by conquering the Qin Dynasty, so for the present, there is nothing to refer to. It is impossible for Cao Cao to announce a crusade against the "violent Han"!
Therefore, the template that Zhong Yao, Ding Chong, Dong Zhao, Guo Jia, Xia Houyuan and others can now refer to is the Eastern Zhou Dynasty after King Ping moved eastward... which is also the concept of "Emperor of Luoyi" proposed by Liu Xie himself.
Although the Western Zhou Dynasty in the Han Dynasty was not the same thing, the world now falling apart is a bit like the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
Cao Cao also knew that he had been busy for so long to please the emperor, and he had to give an explanation to his subordinates, so he thought carefully and said: "If the emperor wants to be the emperor of Luoyi, he might as well let him do it. As a general alone, He holds Yanzhou and Yuzhou in his hands, cannibalizes Sili, looks at Jingxiang, and uses the name of heaven to strengthen himself. What do you think?"
Guo Jia thought for a while and said: "If the general can really control Luoyang in the future, there is nothing wrong with supporting the emperor of Luoyi. Maybe Jingzhou's financial resources can be used by the general! But... Liu Jingzhou sent his eldest son to Luo, so his plan must be very big, right?"
Dong Zhao nodded and said to Cao Cao: "General, I am afraid that what I have planned today is not small!"
Zhong Yao also echoed: "I'm afraid that the emperor and Liu Jingsheng will join forces!"
Cao Cao waved the slip in his hand and said with a smile: "Don't be afraid, what Liu Jingsheng has planned is great, and what the Jingxiang wealthy family has planned is also great!"
Ding Chong also recognized Cai Mao, but his impression of him was not so good. He always felt that this boy was unreliable, so he asked Cao Cao: "Meng De, do you really plan to join forces with Cai Degui to support Liu Jingsheng's youngest son against Liu Boyu?"
Cao Cao shook his head and sneered: "Daying, I am not joining forces with Cai Degui, but with Cai, Kuai, Pang, Huang, Ma, Xiang, and Xi from Jingzhou!" As he spoke, his face became a little cold. "The minds of the big families in the world should be the same. Liu Jingsheng in the eyes of the big family in Jingzhou may be a little stronger than the Gu Gu in the eyes of the big family in Yanzhou, but after all, he is not as easy to control as Liu Jingsheng's youngest son!"
