Suffering from extremely backward news delivery, one month after Cao Cao's death, there was still no news from Youzhou.
Not only that, Cao Pi was also working intensively to increase his strength and add fuel to his ambitions.
After arriving in Youzhou, the four Cao Pi brothers took the lead in arriving at Ji County, the seat of Youzhou.
After taking out Cao Cao's handwriting, Tian Yu had no objection and handed over all the power of the Youzhou military formation to Cao Pi.
After all, Tian Yu was just the governor of Youzhou, not the shepherd of Youzhou, and there was no legal reason to refuse to return his rights.
Therefore, Cao Pi easily obtained the power of Youzhou.
But before he could be happy for a moment, great trouble enveloped Cao Pi.
Barrenness, poverty!
The entire Youzhou is horribly poor!
The total number of soldiers in the state and all the county soldiers is less than 10,000.
This is still the result of not sending many troops to support Yecheng.
Cao Pi was very confused and couldn't understand.
Normally, soldiers in border states and counties like Youzhou cannot be so sparse.
Cao Pi will understand after absolutely in-depth understanding.
It’s not that we don’t want to gather heavy troops, but that we don’t have the conditions.
There was so little food and grass!
Even in the current situation, it is still difficult to make ends meet, let alone recruit troops.
After recruiting soldiers, what should we eat and drink?
It is very difficult to raise the existing troops and maintain the current military strength.
Cao Pi was very angry and yelled at Tian Yu crazily, asking him how he became the governor of Youzhou and turned Youzhou into this state.
Tian Yu did not get angry with Cao Pi, but explained the reason calmly.
It turns out that half of the responsibility lies with Liu Zhang and half of the responsibility lies with Cao Cao!
Before explaining the reason, Tian Yu gave Cao Pi some basic knowledge.
Youzhou is already barren and is known as a bitter cold land. This place is synonymous with poverty.
Therefore, it is naturally incomparable with the Central Plains states and Hebei Jizhou.
If Youzhou was powerful, why did Gongsun Zan lose to Yuan Shao?
The reason is that Youzhou's upper limit of power is very low.
The only advantage is that they have been at war with foreign races for a long time and their military strength has become stronger.
But with the death of Gongsun Zan, Youzhou's military strength was destroyed.
The only advantage of soldiers was completely gone.
After Cao Cao took over Youzhou, Youzhou was already at the bottom.
This bottom is the bottom of bottoms!
Originally, Cao Cao planned to vigorously develop Youzhou and try his best to restore the vitality of Youzhou.
As a result, after the Southern Expedition started, things in Youzhou could only be left alone.
If the Southern Expedition returns with a great victory, Cao Wei's power will become stronger, and Youzhou will develop along with it.
As a result, the southern expedition was defeated, with hundreds of thousands of casualties and countless losses of food, grass and baggage!
This loss was no less than making Cao Cao shed a layer of his skin!
The failure of the Southern Expedition shocked the entire Central Plains of Hebei.
One mistake could even overturn Cao Wei's rule.
This is definitely not a lie, Cao Pi feels the same way.
At that time, Cao Cao was often worried that Liu Zhang would take advantage of the situation.
It can be said that Cao Wei at that time was in a precarious state.
Fortunately, Guo Jia worked hard and changed his destiny and came back to life.
Only then did Cao Cao, who was on the edge of the cliff, be pulled back.
But there is a price for changing one's destiny against the will of heaven, and Cao Cao was forced to use many of his powers.
It was a breath of relief, but the development of Youzhou had to be postponed indefinitely.
At the same time, instead of helping Youzhou, Cao Cao continued to suck blood from Youzhou, which made the dilapidated and barren Youzhou even more miserable.
Without the careful management of Tian Yu and others, Cao Pi would not even be able to see what he is now.
But manpower is limited after all, and no matter how strong Tian Yu is, he can't turn sand into gold.
The foundation is here, and the room for improvement is limited.
As for Liu Zhang's reasons, it was not blame, but helplessness.
Youzhou originally faced two major threats, one was Wuhuan and the other was Xianbei.
Wuhuan Xianbei Tadun was defeated when he helped Yuan Shao against Cao Cao.
Not only was he beheaded, but all Wuhuan's elite were beheaded.
Wuhuan fell and no longer had the power to intrude outwards.
After Xianbei experienced 200,000 people dying in Guanzhong and 100,000 people being buried alive in Xiaoguan, their roots were shaken and their vitality was severely damaged.
Moreover, Xianbei was already in a split stage and was divided into three forces.
The first defeat in Guanzhong put Xianbei, which had just been somewhat peaceful, into riots again.
Not only was Xianbei in a frenzy of internal strife, but in order to increase its strength, it also directly destroyed Wuhuan.
Therefore, the external threat to Youzhou miraculously disappeared.
As for the Liaodong Gongsun family, they were already on good terms with Cao Cao, had never been harassed, and were not in danger at all.
The internal powerlessness and the absence of external crises made Cao Cao even less anxious about the affairs of Youzhou.
For his own needs, he keeps sucking blood from Youzhou.
Tian Yu just had some energy, and Cao Cao drank some.
To put it bluntly, Tian Yu was indispensable to the fact that Youzhou did not collapse.
Based on all kinds of confidence, Tian Yu could face Cao Pi's questioning and anger without changing his expression and speak with reason.
Cao Pi was not qualified to blame Tian Yu at all. On the contrary, he wanted to thank Tian Yu on behalf of his father Cao Cao.
Without Tian Yu, Youzhou would never be like this.
Maybe they have rebelled a long time ago, maybe they have changed their sons and cannibalized each other, and it has been a purgatory!
After learning the truth, Cao Pi immediately put away his anger and fell into silence.
In a very short period of time, he adjusted himself to apologize to Tian Yu, saying that he had wrongly blamed Tian Yu.
Sincere and sincere, Tian Yu will naturally not blame him too much.
This is Cao Pi.
He is able to bend and stretch, and looks humble on the surface.
Regardless of whether he is pretending or not, he can always show it at critical moments.
Just like Liu Bei's benevolence and righteousness.
Being able to show it at critical moments and gain everyone's recognition is benevolence and righteousness.
Not only did Cao Pi sincerely repent, he also firmly believed that Tian Yu was a talented person and discussed important matters with him.
Cao Cao and Liu Zhang were fighting to the death in the front, and Cao Pi in the rear naturally couldn't be idle.
He must use limited resources to continuously strengthen himself.
Yes, it's not about supporting Cao Cao, but about strengthening yourself.
His limited strength will not have any effect on the battle ahead.
Doing so also serves two purposes.
