"Secondly, let's start with the Yellow Turban Army."
Chen Zhou sorted out his words and then said: "Actually, everything between Cao Cao, Zhang Miao and Tao Qian is inseparable from the Yellow Turban."
The first aspect of the analysis involves the Yellow Turbans' attack on Yanzhou, and Cao Cao became the shepherd of Yanzhou. Cao Ang understood it thoroughly, but the second aspect, why is it still related to the Yellow Turbans?
"Could it be that someone among the surrendered Yellow Turbans is stirring up discord?" Cao Ang asked.
"No!"
"Master, do you still remember how many people in the Yellow Turbans surrendered?"
Chen Zhou asked rhetorically.
Of course Cao Ang remembered it and blurted out: "More than 300,000 soldiers were surrendered, including more than one million men and women."
"Are there many people?"
"many!"
"As much as possible."
Chen Zhou continued his analysis: "With a population of one million, how huge is it? So many people suddenly poured into Yanzhou. Can it be tolerated?"
Before Cao Ang could respond, Chen Zhou asked and answered: "It must be too much. If Cao Cao wants to recruit so many people, he must use Yanzhou's internal resources. This leads to conflicts of interest and makes the distribution of interests in Yanzhou extremely unbalanced. Zhang Miao They don’t want to use their own resources to support Cao Cao’s soldiers.”
"Yes!"
After hearing this, Cao Ang suddenly realized.
Cao Cao secretly thought that there was nothing he could do at that time. If Yanzhou's interests were not affected, the surrendered Qingzhou Yellow Turbans would not be able to be used by him, and they might even cause rebellion.
"As mentioned in the first aspect, Cao Cao used Yanzhou's foundation to attack Xuzhou, which actually falls into the category of conflict of interest."
"The emergence of anti-Cao sentiment within Yanzhou can be traced back to the return of the Yellow Turban Army."
"Cao Cao understands military affairs and can fight. His strength is not weak."
"Another 300,000 Yellow Turban descendants were recruited, and they became full-fledged. They were able to speak for themselves within Yanzhou. This not only caused an imbalance in the distribution of interests, but also became the ruler of Yanzhou's interests."
"Zhang Miao and other local nobles will be dominated by Cao Cao."
"Can they be willing to do it?"
Chen Zhou asked again.
"If it were me, I wouldn't be willing to do it!"
Cao Ang gradually wanted to understand how much pressure Zhang Miao had endured from Cao Cao at that time.
Being forced to this extent, even Cao Ang wanted to rebel.
Cao Cao thought to himself that at that time, he only thought that when he became the governor of the state, he had great power and could do whatever he wanted. He really lacked consideration for Zhang Miao and the others.
If he hadn't overheard Chen Zhou's analysis, he wouldn't have thought of so many reasons now.
But everything that didn't happen happened, and it was useless for him to regret it.
"Conflicts of interest, that's not all!"
"Not long after Cao Cao took over the Yellow Turbans, Yanzhou began to rebel against Cao Cao. Are the officials in Yanzhou very uncooperative with Cao Cao?"
Chen Zhou asked Cao Ang again.
Cao Ang said: "Occasionally, we cooperate, but more often than not, we are both obedient and disobedient."
Chen Zhou asked again: "So Cao Cao reused the Yingchuan nobles, right?"
Cao Ang nodded, this is the truth.
Since the nobles in Yanzhou did not cooperate and Cao Cao could not touch them, he would of course use those who were willing to cooperate with him.
"In the second year of Chuping, Xun Yu took his nephew Xun You to join Cao Cao."
"At that time, Cao Cao said, this is my ovary."
"Later Xun Yu recommended Xi Zhicai to Cao Cao."
"In the third year of Chuping, the scribe Zhong Yao also came to seek refuge with Cao Cao."
"They are all from Yingchuan, Yuzhou."
"Cao Cao's heavy use of the Yingchuan gentry to govern Yanzhou will weaken the local power of the Yanzhou gentry. This is also part of the conflict of interest."
"The conflicts of interest between Cao Cao and the Yanzhou nobles were not just once or twice, but also many times. Even if Zhang Miao and Cao Cao were brothers, they would not be able to accept this. Betrayal of Cao Cao is bound to happen. The Yanzhou nobles must unite to resist in order to protect themselves. Interests."
Chen Zhou said and looked towards Cao Ang.
If we put it in a modern society, the process of Cao Cao taking over Yanzhou can be seen as various small shareholders with certain forces within Yanzhou, who jointly elected Cao Cao to be the legal representative of Yanzhou Group.
However, Cao Cao was brave and capable and turned the Yanzhou group into a company solely owned by him.
Those Yanzhou shareholders were going to be kicked out by Cao Cao one by one. If the shareholders were dissatisfied, they could only rebel.
"After listening to what you said, I actually sympathized with Zhang Miao and the others."
Cao Ang sighed.
Chen Zhou quickly corrected him: "Now the imperial power has fallen, the Han Dynasty is scattered, the princes are divided, and the world is in chaos. In troubled times, having such sympathetic thoughts will kill you sooner or later. This is just a normal way for princes to annex each other. There is no need for sympathy.”
Cao raised his head and saluted: "Thank you sir for the reminder."
Cao Cao, who was eavesdropping outside, couldn't help but feel very complicated when he heard that Chen Zhou had finished analyzing the second aspect.
If he could recognize these problems in advance, Zhang Miao would not necessarily betray himself.
But he thinks Chen Zhou is right. Sympathy in troubled times will only kill him. To be a traitor and a tyrant, you must be ruthless!
Zhang Miao is dead as long as he dies, there is no need to sympathize with him.
"Brother, when are we going to get him over?"
Cao Ren admired Chen Zhou more and more and felt that Chen Zhou was the hope of their Cao family.
"There's no rush yet!"
Cao Cao was suspicious and would not formally win over Chen Zhou, let alone release him, unless he investigated Chen Zhou thoroughly.
They soon fell silent again and continued to listen to the conversation inside.
"Sir, I still have a doubt."
Cao Ang said.
"Say it!"
Chen Zhou said.
Cao Ang scratched his head and said: "As far as I know, Zhang Miao had conflicts with Yuan Shao as early as when he was attacking Dong Zhuo. It was at that time that Yuan Shao first asked Cao Gong to kill Zhang Miao. According to Mr.'s analysis, Zhang Miao was the earliest It was at that time that the estrangement between him and Duke Cao arose, but as Duke Cao was a vassal of Yuan Shao, and Zhang Miao and Yuan Shao were at odds, why did he still obey Yuan Shao's arrangement and let Duke Cao take over Yanzhou? To save Yanzhou, Duke Cao was the best choice, but it is not the only choice, you can also ask the court for help."
Chen Zhou pretended to be angry and said: "Young master, you are so quick to ignore my words? I have analyzed it in the first aspect. Cao Cao is capable, and it is not easy to offend the fourth and third princes of the Yuan family. As for asking for help from the imperial court, that is looking far away. , not to mention that the current imperial court is still capable of saving Yanzhou?"
The Han court itself could not be protected.
"I know I was wrong!"
This was the first time that Cao Ang saw his husband angry.
"But... you are right to raise your doubts."
Chen Zhou thought for a moment and added: "Cao Cao is indeed the best choice to resist the Yellow Turbans."
"When Cao Cao launched an army to attack Dong Zhuo, he only had five thousand men around him. By the time he reached Yanzhou Mu, he had about seven or eight thousand."
"Zhang Miao did not prevent Cao Cao from taking control of Yanzhou. He actually wanted Cao Cao to lead seven or eight thousand people to fight against the Yellow Turban Army. It would be best if Cao Cao could die at the hands of the Yellow Turban Army and follow Liu Dai's footsteps..."
After a pause, he continued: "Then Cao Cao is dead and the Yellow Turban is disabled. After Yanzhou is safe, Zhang Miao can nominate another person to be the state pastor. This state pastor is completely controlled by their Yanzhou nobles, and at the same time it can weaken Yuan Shao. With his strength, Yuan Shao lost Cao Cao, who knew military matters and could fight."
Chen Zhou finally said: "Zhang Miao may have wanted Cao Cao dead a long time ago."
"It's actually like this!"
Cao Ang exclaimed, greatly shocked.
"Zhang Miao!"
After hearing this, Cao Cao suddenly trembled all over and muttered Zhang Miao's name viciously.
I wish I could drag Zhang Miao out and whip his corpse!
