Cao Cao was carried back overnight, along with the brothers Cheng Yu and Xiahou. There was no other way. In the situation in Kandahar, it was better for Cao Cao and Cheng Yu to avoid trouble first.
When daybreak comes, the centurions of the legions outside the city know what happened. Cheng Yu and Cao Cao really may have an accident. After all, the soldiers under Cao Cao are not completely loyal to Cao Cao, but just act according to the rules. But now my father-in-law Your family was exterminated by Cao Cao for no clear reason. Given the general environment of the Han Dynasty, if you seize the opportunity to hack Cao Cao to death, it can only be considered unlucky.
To be honest, if Cao Cao was really hacked to death by his centurion, then Chen Xi wouldn't even think of sending someone to investigate. You Cao family can just investigate it yourself, and I won't care about it.
Just like Liu Xian said before, if you don't follow the rules, don't rely on others to take revenge. Sun Ce didn't wipe out his whole family back then. Although it caused subsequent disasters, after all, this is the most basic universal morality in society. Ah, why are you challenging the basic morality of society?
Therefore, in order to prevent Cao Cao from being blown up, it was better to send him back to Chang'an as soon as possible. Cheng Yu followed him back to Chang'an, preparing to take the blame.
However, Chen Qun and Chen Xi have some connection, and they know that Chen Xi is too lazy to deal with this kind of thing. Cao Cao and Cheng Yu were hacked to death. Chen Xi will not pursue the situation now, but Chen Xi will not specifically target them if they are alive.
After all, as far as Chen Xi is concerned, no laws apply to aristocratic families and princes. You just use your political power to fight each other. I don't care whether you live or die.
As for touching the red line and being bitten by it, that is totally deserved. If you are killed by the red line, that is your business and none of my business!
Of course, if any of you makes a mistake, please pay off the centurion first. Then don’t blame me for being rude. Noble families and princes are not suitable for any law, but centurions are suitable for legal control. If you mess around, don’t blame me for letting Li You bite. Well, in short, I, Chen Xi, have this style. I suggest that you do good to me.
After sending Cao Cao and Cheng Yu away, Xun Yu and Chen Qun found Cao Ang. While gathering the remaining aristocratic families, they checked the information, hoping to clean up the mess as much as possible.
Since Chen Qun had solemnly made the invitation with his own seal, the heads of the major families still came. After Cao Cao left, Xun Yu also determined the exact number of foreign marriages. The situation was quite bad, but he still managed to survive. It can hold on, after all, Cao Cao was sure of many things when he left that he was not sure of before.
After Chen Qun gathered all the remaining heads of the aristocratic families, he threw all kinds of accurate materials in front of the existing aristocratic families in an extremely solemn atmosphere.
These materials are not enough to justify the extermination of those aristocratic families, but they are enough to prove how rich these aristocratic families are.
But no matter how abundant the black information is, it is not enough to justify the extermination of the family, let alone the Jingzhao Du Clan. These things are not even considered a step.
Chen Qun sighed, he knew this was the case, and then handed over the real steps - Cao Cao had gone to Chang'an with the originally agreed upon contract document, which was endorsed by Chen Xi, and would be cashed in at the same time in the future, and every word mentioned above, with The credit guarantee of the Yingchuan Chen family is true. In this case, the remaining aristocratic families are still willing to sit down and talk.
After all, Chen Qun has already stated that he is willing to provide guarantee, and if Chen Xi is willing to endorse and sign, they will not worry about Cao Cao not honoring it. Even in this case, they can accept that they are fully prepared before proceeding. Fight this time-delaying behavior.
Just procrastinate, the longer you procrastinate, the higher the interest will be, and I’m not afraid of not cashing in!
After all, the major families were still confident in defeating Ardashir and capturing Guishuang. However, there were only two reasons for their unwillingness before. One was the return of land deeds by the Cao family and the Xiahou family, and the other was the major families under Cao Cao's command. There is some doubt about Cao Cao's credibility.
After all, the capital invested by the major families plus interest, if annualized or other factors are included, can barely conquer the Kabul Valley. Even if it takes a long time, it will not be enough to conquer Kabul, and they have to continue to fight. Then the princes like Cao Cao still have to fight. Calling a prince is not like beating a worker.
The major aristocratic families really cannot trust Cao Cao's credibility. If you want to say less, they believe that Cao Cao will repay. However, this situation is not good. Cao Cao will be working for people like them for more than ten years. World
The head of the branch who lives on Cao Cao's side can't believe it!
Cao Cao's credibility itself has problems. After so many years, is there really no problem?
But now that this is the case, the major families are willing to believe it, because the Han Empire really has the ability to treat Cao Cao as a worker, and Chen Xi endorses it. If Cao Cao doesn't pay back the money, Chen Xi can put Cao Cao's head on his head and take over all the places occupied by the Cao family. Cut into pieces and divide.
What's more important is that most of the aristocratic families who work under Cao Cao know that their own abilities are limited and cannot support the establishment of an independent country, or they are branches of a large family and do not have too much power, so they can only develop collaboratively, etc.
But now if they can ride on Cao Cao to develop, then they may not be able to catch up with the people in Central Asia.
Thinking of this, this group of people followed Chen Qun's request and Chen Qun endorsed the second contract in the name of the Chen family, saying that as long as Chen Qun is willing to endorse, they can accept what happened before.
As for the inappropriate reasons for Cao Cao's killing of the two dozen or so people before, this group of people just pretended that they didn't know that they could develop on the back of Cao Cao. Then those guys who died before can agree that it was a price, and it was not them anyway. The price paid.
Chen Qun himself was mentally prepared to sign a contract with this group of people, so he had no resistance. After Chen Qun signed the contract they drafted, the atmosphere of the remaining families finally became less tense, and they could sit down and have a good time. Talked.
"Fortunately, I only married 143 daughters." Liu Xian said tiredly, "I barely escaped. If there were more, I would be dead."
"Based on the performance of those people, shouldn't they just go for the bottom line in this kind of thing where they can't see any benefits?" Mao Jie was also very tired. He went out of the city to calm people's hearts. After all, Kandahar The fire was no joke. Fortunately, he was in the military camp every day. Even if he didn't know the soldiers, the soldiers knew him, which barely stabilized people's hearts.
"You were held down and beaten several times by that man. Can you not be obedient?" After careful consideration, not to mention marrying a daughter is not considered a loss."
The situation was not as good as Chen Qun thought, nor as bad as Liu Xian thought. Liu Xian judged others by himself, and estimated that there should be three hundred, while Chen Qun considered that group of people were trash, and the order they gave It's all a combination of good and bad, and it's most likely just the bottom line data.
In the end, the facts gave Chen Qun a slap in the face. Although the group of people had violated Cao Cao's various orders, they actually fulfilled Chen Xi's orders at a normal level. This was very embarrassing. Heartbroken.
"On average, there are six people in a family, which is already twice the bottom line. This is because some centurions have been killed in battle over the years, otherwise there would be more." Chen Qun said helplessly. He just married There are four of them. Even if they are only one lineage, in terms of size, there is no substantial difference between Chen Qun and the lineage of a single family under Cao Cao.
"They really gave me a dowry." Xun Yu was equally tired. When this group of families failed to implement orders properly under Cao Cao, they ended up executing an order that no one from Chen Xi knew why and saw no benefit. They are all so positive.
"And the dowry is slightly higher than the normal level." Xun You said half paralyzed. "Although it is not up to the average level of uncle and Changwen, we still gave back jade, bows and arrows, and swords, and after all the betrothal gifts were discounted, I returned it with gold, pearls and silver leaves."
Jade articles, bows and arrows, and swords are the things that gentlemen wear these days, and they are things that are carried all year round. In other words, no matter how shady these people are, they really don't mess around when it comes to marrying their daughters. Come on, even if you scold their son-in-law, you will give them what is due.
This is embarrassing. The so-called stability of Chen Qun and others is based on the fact that these people have a bad attitude towards the lower-level soldiers, look down on their son-in-law, do not interact with them, etc. But now this situation...
If you don't communicate, you won't communicate, but you can tell just by looking at Lin He. Lin He married Liu Xian's daughter and never came to the Liu family, but this does not prevent him from helping Liu Xian when something happens to him.
These centurions never thought about relying on their wives' natal family, let alone climbing up dragons and attaching themselves to phoenixes. The other party had a tugging expression on his face, not wanting to be with him.
They communicated and didn't pay much attention to the New Year gifts, but this didn't stop them from helping to save the brother-in-law when he was really about to be hacked to death. There was no need to mention any laws and regulations, it was pure. Human nature!
"The question now becomes, how should we deal with these centurions?" Mao Jie said extremely tiredly, "Don't tell me such nonsense as killing them or locking them up. I don't want to refute it. Anyway, who If you mention it, whoever will execute it will be fine."
"What should we deal with? Although there are not many people, there is no reason to suddenly deal with the backbone of the grassroots, which will lead to turmoil in the army." Chen Qun leaned on his back, feeling a little tired all over. What is this? Chen Xi took a leisurely step Chess, forcing these people to sit together and think about how to live tomorrow?
"But things will be exposed sooner or later. As I said, even if the family is at fault and they are all killed, there must be something wrong." Liu Xian is now considered an outsider, and he does not speak too politely.
"So sooner or later, these people will connect in tandem."
"Let's talk openly and honestly with those people." Cao Ang, who had been sitting silently watching the exchanges between the advisers, said, "I think hiding it will only make the chaos worse. Without communication and making random decisions, you will only fall into more trouble. It’s such a big dilemma, the best way now is to bring them together and have an honest talk.”
"Even if we talk, we can't solve the problem. We are in the wrong." Chen Qun shook his head and said, "To be precise, we have no reason to convince them."
"But if you let them investigate on their own, it will only make the chaos worse, so inform those centurions. If we talk about the matter, at least it won't make it worse." Cao Ang said firmly. Cao Cao has already sent him away. As the crown prince, Cao Ang The entire force must be shouldered.
"That's right." Xun Yu nodded, "Let's talk about it. The situation won't get worse. Since it has already happened, hiding it won't solve the problem."
"Yes, tell them the truth and the reason." Cao Ang nodded.
"We can't tell the reason. If we tell the reason, our current insufficient supplies may suffer a new round of runs, leading to an overall collapse." Xun You shook his head and said, "I can only tell a part of it so that they can Things you know.”
"That makes no difference." Cao Ang shook his head, "Inform those centurions. We have cleaned up so many aristocratic families and recovered so many land deeds and documents. They are enough to withstand a round of exchanges, so we must be honest. Tell them why, and maybe we can solve the problem, after all, there are more tickets than these things."
Xun You nodded. He agreed more with Cao Ang's thinking. He also hated falsification, and if you lied about some things, it would be easy for loopholes to appear, causing the original trivial matter to completely get out of control.
"There are a lot of exchange notes but little real objects, and those aristocratic families use exchange notes to exchange these things from their hands. Even if it is indeed because some soldiers are greedy, as long as those people understand what is going on, some of them can be curbed to some extent. Anger." Cao Ang picked up a land deed for the Helmand River Irrigation Area and said that the family must have exchanged the promissory note with someone they knew well.
So based on the principle of proximity and trust, in fact, there is a high probability that this thing will be handed over to his son-in-law for exchange. After all, only these people can exchange enough land deeds from their own soldiers and soldiers' township parties, and In order to digest the promissory notes in their hands.
"But this promissory note is going to be cancelled." Cao Ang picked up another promissory note and said, "So let's talk openly and honestly. They should understand what situation they are in, even if there are still centurions who are dissatisfied with us. His behavior, at least, is no longer focused on seeking revenge on us.”
"Allow severance later, with severance pay." Cao Ang sighed and said, "Even if this doesn't solve all the problems, at least it won't completely ruin it."
"In this case, there will probably be a lot of centurions leaving." Mao Jie frowned, "This level of backbone represents the organizational strength of the legion. If too many leave, it will affect the combat effectiveness. I don't think Aldashir is Blind man, he must know the chaos we are in now."
"We need foreign enemies now." Cao Ang said seriously
. Unlike Cao Cao, who is grounded in earthly energy, Cao Ang is grounded in earthly energy.
