Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 1085 Writing letters and killing people

   "...My lord father has learned from you, Your Majesty will return to Luo soon..."

  Yang Xiu wrote this sentence squarely on the scarf, couldn't help showing a smile, and shook his head in a slightly smug manner.

When Yang Xiu and his father Yang Biao said goodbye before, the father and son sat down and had a good talk. At that time, Yang Xiu deduced that it was impossible for Liu Xie to live in Bingbei for a long time, and even deduced that after Liu Xie left Bingbei, he would definitely return. Luo Yang. But now, these two inferences were successfully fulfilled, which naturally made Yang Xiu feel good and at ease.

The emperors of the Han family, except for Liu Bang, who founded the country, stayed in Shu for a period of time. The rest of the emperors were either in Chang'an or Luoyang. Basically, they did not consider other cities. It was not that these emperors were too lazy to move, but In the Han Dynasty, Chang'an and Luoyang were the administrative centers located in the center of the territory, and they really played an irreplaceable role in this era of extremely poor communications.

  Unless Liu Xie has put down the great Han world and is planning to linger in the fringe areas for the rest of his life, as long as Liu Xie has a little heart of emperor, Jiu will definitely find a way to return to an administrative center like Chang'an or Luoyang, and the center of gravity of the territory will come.

  As for Chang'an and Luoyang, Liu Xie must also prefer Luoyang more.

   It’s not that there are any other special feelings, it’s just that Chang’an is like a nightmare for Liu Xie. Dong Zhuo took Liu Xie to Chang'an, and experienced so many things in Chang'an. He watched Dong Zhuo give the head, but ushered in the death of a minister jumping off the city. The extremely difficult life in Chang'an left Liu Xie with only endless impressions pain, but no joy.

Such a city, even though it was the earliest capital of the Han Dynasty, even though it may be more organized and perfect in the palace city than Luoyang, which was burned by Dong Zhuo, but in Liu Xie's heart, it is like a desperate situation, and he does not want to stay for a moment Yes, so when Zhong Shao wanted to take Liu Xie out of Chang'an, Liu Xie didn't hesitate much.

  Liu Xie chose to join the North at that time, perhaps because of General Zhengxi...

Yang Xiu put the tip of the brush in his mouth, licked the tip of the brush, squinted his eyes, pondered for a while, and then continued to write: "... sent eight hundred cavalry to the west, two thousand infantry, three generals, guarding Your Majesty Going south... to Luo, I'm afraid I'll be your majesty's northern army..."

   General Fei Qian who was conquering the west, but Yang Xiu couldn't see through it. When it is obvious that it can be very strong, it is very weak, and when it is obvious that it can go further, it shrinks back.

  What is General Zhengxi thinking?

  Yang Xiu frowned tightly.

   Can't figure it out.

  For example, this time, if Zhengxi General Fei Qian followed Liu Xie back to Luoyang, I am afraid that at least one Wei General would be indispensable, and even a step further was possible, but this Fei Qian and Fei Ziyuan refused.

   Said that Fei Qian was afraid of competing with the Hongnong Yang family. At the beginning, no matter whether it was in Pingyang or Guanzhong, he had no intention of giving in at all;

  Could it be that this General Zhengxi is really just a big Han official who only wants to stabilize the country and the border?

  But it's not very similar...

  Yang Xiu clicked his tongue, and then wanted to write something several times, but after thinking about it, he finally hung the pen on the pen holder, stood up, and turned around in the hall with his hands behind his back.

  Since General Zhengxi withdrew from the fight for the center of the court, now it is the Yang family who has been stabbed on the table.

Although the two thousand troops that Fei Qian gave to Liu Xie were not many, they were not too big or small for the current Luoyang. What's more, many of these soldiers and horses were old soldiers who had fought in battle. , if His Majesty has the heart, it is not impossible to use it as a skeleton to build an army of ten thousand people...

  In addition, due to the reason of seeking talents, some noble children who defected to Liu Xie during this period...

  Invisibly, Liu Xie has transformed from a bare emperor who has soldiers but no soldiers, and no one but people, to a serious emperor who has more or less controlled some power.

   Moreover, he is still an unstable little emperor. One moment, he strongly agreed with General Zhengxi's opinion that he should restrain General Zhengxi, but the next moment he was in the same car with General Zhengxi...

   What does this mean?

  However, the future is long. If Liu Xie wants to grow after returning to Luoyang, it will naturally take a certain amount of time, so he can slowly find the writing flaws and think of some countermeasures.

Yang Xiu sighed, shook his head, returned to the table, sat down, and continued to write: "... General Zhengxi, in my opinion, I don't worry about it for now. There are three reasons, and there are few people in the north. , conquering the vastness of the western land, there is more than enough to defend, but not enough to advance, this is one of them..."

  Fei's current land, in Yang Xiu's eyes, is really big, but just like the land in Bingbei, it's big and unreal. Regardless of whether it is east, west, north, south, soldiers are required to be stationed. If we are to deal with the enemy soldiers on one side alone, it may not be a big problem according to the strength of the current general Fei Qian, but what if the two sides are attacked at the same time?

  Yang Xiu paused, and did not continue to write in detail, but began to write the second reason. Because he believes that his father will naturally understand the unfinished meaning that he did not write when he saw this.

  "...Conquering the west and going up and down, the soldiers are fine and armored, and they are unstoppable. However, it is expensive. If things go on like this, if there is any damage, it will be difficult to recover. This is the second..."

  That’s right, the impression that Fei Qian’s cavalry left on Yang Xiu was so strong that he still has lingering fears. But after a period of observation, Yang Xiu also keenly noticed the problem in Fei Qian's current soldier structure, that is, the number is small and it is difficult to replenish. This means that once it reaches the stage of a war of attrition, a model like Fei Qian's will definitely be defeated once and for all, and there is no way to recover.

  The reason is very simple. Can this kind of equipment and such elite soldiers be fully supplemented by adding them at will when the two sides are engaged in a war of attrition?

   In other words, if you want to defeat the army of General Fei Qian who conquered the west, you just need to drag it into continuous consumption...

"...Third, apart from Pingyang in the north, farming and mulberry are weak, there is no savings for a long time, people have no permanent residence, and the land has no permanent property. With such a force in the west, it is already at the limit. Therefore, within three years, there is no need to spend too much money. Worrying about…”

  Yang Xiu wrote here, stopped writing, and let out a long sigh.

  Although it is said that there is no need to worry within three years, Yang Xiu's face is full of worries. It might be as Yang Xiu expected within three years, but what about after three years? If Nongsang, the land that merged with the north, grows substantially and the population increases steadily, how will the supply of soldiers after such an economic reserve, coupled with the extremely refined armor and equipment in Yang Xiu's eyes, how will they compete?

   Fortunately.

   Fortunately, there is this trip to the north.

  Yes, Yang Xiu came to Bingbei this time, of course, also included the purpose of stabbing Fei to hide the truth, but what he saw and heard did not make Yang Xiu feel much relaxed.

Yang Xiu sighed softly again, shook his head, and finally wrote a few words on the towel, held up the towel, and dried the handwriting lightly, then took the small bamboo tube on the side, and folded the towel Well, stuff it in, seal it with wax paint, call a confidant attendant, hand over the bamboo tube to him, and order him to send it to Hongnong immediately...

  ………………

   "Someone is going to kill someone!"

  Cao Cao frowned his two thick eyebrows together, as if they were going to be connected between the brows, and there was a cold light in the small eyes, flickering.

Because of Cao Hong's mistake, all the gentry in Dongping Fan County were massacred. After the news spread, there was an uproar. .

  Although Tao Qian may not be very good, at least he won't let the chicken and the dog stay behind, right?

  So where Cao Cao’s soldiers died, all the nobles with money and food ran away. In the end, Cao Cao had no choice but to withdraw his troops from Xuzhou and return to Yanzhou while he had some food and grass on hand.

   However, I am back, but there are still many worries...

   "Duke Ming, please calm down... I don't know what made Duke Ming so angry?" Xun Yu asked.

  Cao Cao snorted, but didn't speak, but asked the attendant to give Xun Yu a piece of wood on the table.

  Xun Yu took a look and found that some things about Bian Rang, a native of Junyi County, were written on the wooden tablet. Among them, there are words that are written side by side, such as the words "after castration and erection", etc., which really made Cao Cao not angry.

   "...Madness and nonsense, it's really abominable..." After pondering for a moment, Xun Yu said, "...But some commoners talk nonsense after drinking, just for a moment...Ming Gong has always been tolerant, and some nonsense, just ignore it..."

   While letting this person go, Xun Yu also heard a little about it. Speaking of it, he can be regarded as a celebrity to some extent, good at debate and Fu, and he was famous when he was young. Back then, He Jin conscripted Bian Rang many times, and even asked Bian Rang to serve as the prefect of Jiujiang County, but Bian Rang thought that he was not capable enough, so he resigned and returned to his hometown.

   Such a person is more or less a well-known person in Yanzhou, so he is naturally in the attention of Cao Cao, but he did not expect such a result under this attention.

"Insulting someone and bullying someone, how can you be magnanimous, and how can you ignore it?!" Cao Cao said in a deep voice, "Being so crazy, self-confident, and lying so many times, I have endured it all the time, and now I want to let him know what it is. Misfortune comes out of your mouth!"

"...Well, Duke Ming, if Zhizhi is so mad, Xu Tuzhi..." Xun Yu saw that Cao Cao was really resentful and gave in, so he suggested, "...If you send someone to mess with his reputation first, then you can pay the jailer. ..."

Cao Cao pondered for a while, but slowly shook his head, stared at Xun Yu and said: "The madman is seeking his own death, how can he allow him to live for a while? If the people of Yanzhou follow this madman, the governor of Yanzhou will not If you just hang the crown and go!"

  If he said bad things about Cao Cao in normal times, or before that, he would get angry to some extent, but he didn't care so much.

  However, things are a little different now. The incident about Wei Ke made Cao Cao think a lot, but the problem is that we can't immediately take down Wei Ke, or all the suspects, and finish the matter with a single click...

On the one hand, because the current strength is not enough after all, we can't rashly show the appearance of breaking with Yuan Shao. After all, if Yuan Shao really turns his back on him now, he may not be able to bear the three melons and two dates; I also feel that there are some signs of instability under the current rule, and I want to use such a move to suppress the impetuous emotions of the gentry in Yanzhou.

  In Cao Cao's mind, he has been agitated by all kinds of annoying things for a while, and his original reason has been swallowed up. In Cao Cao's mind, he just thinks that killing a son of a noble family who is not in power is such a big deal? What is an aristocratic family, isn't it just a group of guys who gather in one place to gossip? What is a rich family, isn't it the family of officials whose ancestors have given birth to two thousand shi?

   Now that I am the boss of Yanzhou, you guys should listen to me. I can let whoever I want to be an official be an official. What is there to beep?

  Believe it or not, I really turned my face, so that several generations of you can't be officials, and you have changed from a wealthy family to a poor one?

  Believe it or not, I really did it, not only killing you alone, but even cutting off the roots of your whole family?

   With 300,000 Qingzhou soldiers in hand, just ask, are you afraid?

   In Cao Cao's heart, apart from resentment, his patience with the gentry's lack of cooperation for this period of time has also reached a limit. Before, Cao Cao's strength was relatively small, so no matter how dissatisfied Cao Cao felt in his heart, he endured it. As time went on, the anger became more and more serious. In fact, it was true that he was not guilty of death. What has accumulated is detonated.

  Who hasn't taken a few mouthfuls of horse urine?

  Who hasn't patted his chest and was not afraid of bragging?

  But if Bian Rang really jumped out and led the soldiers to confront Cao Cao head-on, in fact, most of them would not dare. So it's just a talkative person who just takes advantage of the verbal advantage, just like a taxi driver in the later generations of Kyoto. Lost the face of Kanye in Kyoto!

Cao Cao may not be clear in his heart, but firstly, his anger is hard to dissipate, secondly, he feels that the gentry in Yanzhou are mediocre, and thirdly, in addition to deterring the gentry in Yanzhou who have nothing to do, Cao Cao also wants to take this opportunity Intimidate the unstable elements in your team and tell them that it would be terrible if you make my old Cao angry. You should think clearly about things...

"kill!"

  So although Xun Yu tried his best to dissuade him, Cao Cao didn't listen at all, and ordered people to arrest Bian Rang's family and children, and then ransacked the house and executed them all.

  The head fell to the ground, and the news spread, Yanzhou's impetuous voice suddenly fell silent, the Taoist looked sideways, and the officials in his team seemed to be conscientious and cautious in doing things.

  Cao Cao felt that the effect was very good, so he was naturally very satisfied. At the same time, he killed someone to vent his anger, and there was a smile on his face, but this smile did not last long...

  (end of this chapter)