The Collection of The End

——AD 186——

Qingzhou, Jinan official road.

Since Cao Cao had effectively controlled the entire territory of Qingzhou and was accompanied by a thousand Cao family members, Dian Wei and Xu Chu, there were no accidents on the way back to Jinan from Beihai.

After entering Jinan, Cai Wenji finally no longer had to hide in the car, so she rode an alpaca equipped with pieces of armor to pretend to be a war horse and ran around the convoy.

Cai Wan had no choice but to find an opportunity to grab the alpaca and threaten her, saying, "If you fall over her, I'll make you into mutton soup." Then she handed the carriage to Xu Chu, who followed him all the way and finally started to sweat a little. , and got into Cao Cao's carriage.

"It seems that you have decided to follow the 'Legalist' way?" Cai Wan pinched Cao Ang's little face and asked Cao Cao.

"Let go of my son," Cao Cao said: "If you think there is anything wrong with the current approach, just say it. It's easy to change the problems in just one state."

"[The implication is that this situation in the world cannot be changed anymore?]" The "substitute" was standing nearby, staring at Cao Ang's slightly red cheeks that had been pinched, as if he also wanted to take advantage of him.

With a wolf in front of him and a tiger behind him, Cao Ang could only stand there motionless.

"Currently, there is indeed no problem," Cai Wan pointed to a green farmland outside the window: "The 'Green Crops Law' you formulated has had immediate results after being promoted across the state."

"But." "[But]?" Cao Cao and the "substitute" asked in different tones respectively. Of course, Cai Wan could not hear the latter sentence.

"But, Meng De, you should know that the pre-Qin Dynasty was destroyed because of their unkind and harsh laws." Cai Wan continued.

"[Hey, how did the great man who 'deposed hundreds of schools of thought and only respected Confucianism' die?]" the substitute laughed.

The big man is not dead yet! Cao Cao glared at the "substitute" covertly.

"Oh, Zhenji, are you talking about Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's 'Death is also a death, and a great plan is also a death'?" Cao Cao shook his head: "It seems that the shortcoming of being knowledgeable is that it is easy to overlook details."

"Speak humanly." Zhenji took out the log of the harp and made a gesture to unfold it.

In front of his son, Cao Cao naturally couldn't show his timidity, and just continued calmly: "Aside from fleeing and committing crimes, why didn't they 'continue to march to the border as originally planned'?"

"Huh? Isn't it 'if you miss the deadline, all laws will be cut off'?" Cai Wan thought about the relevant books. However, Cai Yong's collection may have history books, but it is impossible that there are also law books from previous dynasties.

"As the former Qin Dynasty governed the country according to Legalism, how could it be possible to have such a simple and crude decree without any additional clauses? 'Anyone who fails to meet the deadline' is a punishment that they deliberately delayed without any hindrance. However, according to It is mentioned in the history book that it will rain heavily, which itself is applicable to the additional clauses that can reduce or even exempt the punishment." Cao Cao responded.

"I haven't seen this in any books, but it sounds very reasonable." Zhenji said with some doubts.

"There is only one real reason why they had to flee or cause trouble: more than four of the soldiers they escorted took advantage of the heavy rain to escape, and there was no possibility of recapture. In this case, the escorting officer wanted to 'kill them all' Or someone who 'pays off his crime with his position'." Cao Cao shook his head: "Chen Sheng and Wu Guang were 'captains' at the time. If they were to be exempted from punishment, their positions would be reduced to 'Guizhou Chief', that is, civilians. This is unacceptable to them. Combined with the previous article His words, 'The sparrow knows the ambition of the swan', it is not surprising that he follows the trend."

"So Mr. Sima's books need to be read backwards..." Cai Wan sighed and put away the combined harp: "But how did you know?"

"[Of course I went to the place where the historical files are stored in the palace and read them myself~]" the "substitute" responded proudly.

"How should I put it? If someone swears to tell me a certain 'truth' that I don't know the cause and effect of,

No matter how authoritative he/she is, I can't help but doubt and verify, for example-" In order to prevent himself from rolling his eyes at the "substitute", Cao Cao turned his head and looked out the window at the busy farmers and field soldiers: " ——This strategy for governing the world. "

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Jinan, County Sheriff's Mansion.

Although Cao Cao was promoted to governor, he still used Jinan as his seat of government. Liu Kang, the leader of Jinan, had no intention of finding a new prime minister. He still handed over the power of Jinan to Cao Cao, seemingly intending to express his respect for him. support.

In this regard, Cao Cao is really grateful. No matter how he counts, the only counselor he has now is Xi Zhicai. Although he and Cai Wan can help, it is not a long-term solution, so he would rather Liu Kang quickly come from somewhere It would be nice to find a minister of state, as long as he is not too bad and can share the work.

As for generals, the tiger and leopard cavalry trained by the Xiahou brothers have begun to show results. Zhang Jue and his Qingzhou soldiers can also be regarded as elites. Li Dian and Le Jin, who lead ordinary soldiers, are also very popular in the army. Cao Chun's subordinates Qingqi scouts traveled throughout Qingzhou, capturing Xiao Xiao and at the same time popularizing the laws formulated by Cao Cao to the people, while Cao Ren took charge of the defense of the whole state.

Although it seems that there are many talents and prosperous development, their actions themselves have also produced many jobs that only civilian personnel can handle.

Even though it was specifically stipulated that the lower-level and middle-level officials such as clerks, chief clerks, managers, and chief historians had the right to handle some work within the scope of their authority, when Cao Cao returned to the county governor's office, Xi Zhicai had a case on the table in front of him. The books are still piled up.

"Lord, you came just in time. There are two good news and two bad news. Which one do you want to hear first?" Xi Zhicai put down his feet on another chair and turned around as if nothing happened. , said to Cao Cao.

News discovered while working on official documents? Cao Cao thought for a while and asked: "If it's good news... but the 'Recommendation Order' has achieved results again?"

Due to the lack of talents in Jinan - especially civil servants, Cao Cao originally planned to issue a "seeking talents order", but was stopped by Xi Zhicai, and the reason was very good: this kind of allowing talented people to consider themselves "virtuous" has to be done. According to his previous temper, he would never come to the government order in person.

But the "Recommendation Order" is different. It only targets the neighbors who know the "great talent". As long as the person recommended by the recommender is indeed "virtuous", he will be given a certain reward. If someone is recommended by many people at the same time, If recommended, then this person can be called a "great sage". After being gathered to Xi Zhicai, senior officials of the corresponding level in Qingzhou will go to invite him depending on the situation.

The reason why it is "again" is because there was a response soon after the order was issued. A wise man who was good at political affairs was invited, named "Du Ji"... and the "substitute" laughed intermittently for two hours because of this name.

"I know the person recommended this time," Xi Zhicai said: "His name is Xu Shu. He is a classmate of mine in Yingchuan. His hometown was originally in Sili. Recently, his family moved to Qingzhou to avoid chaos."

"Oh? Since you are a student of Yingchuan, you don't have to worry about Wisdom," Cao Cao responded, "Wherever his home is, I will go and visit him right now."

"Well... the bad news is that I went to find him and he refused to apply," Xi Zhicai spread his hands: "There is an old mother in his family who thinks that the governors of various states are the 'dog emperor''s 'legs' and Qingzhou is well governed. It’s all the work of middle- and low-level capable officials, so he’s not allowed to serve as an official—dog or something, that’s the exact word.”

"This..." Cao Cao was in a daze: "If Zhenji is allowed to go..."

"[Wenji is pretty much the same,]" the "substitute" said: "[Old ladies with sons like little girls who are about the same age as their sons.]"

"No!" Cao Cao blurted out.

"Well... it really doesn't work," Xi Zhicai, who thought Cao Cao was talking to him, responded: "If we don't agree with each other, Miss Cai might just kidnap the mother and son back."

"[Are you really planning to use her to catch Zhao Yun?]" the "substitute" said again: "[Although...I quite like Zilong, the beauty trap is still too much.]"

This time Cao Cao refused to respond and asked Xi Zhicai again: "I have written it down. So, what about the other bad news? Which great sage refused to recruit?"

"No," Xi Zhicai opened an official document: "My lord's father, Mrs. Cao, was attacked by unidentified troops on her way to Qiao County to visit relatives——"

call--

With Cao Cao at the center, the temperature in the governor's office suddenly rose, even causing the bamboo slips and books to smell slightly mushy. Cao Cao's clothes and cloak moved automatically without wind, while his originally empty hands were filled with smoke. A strange long sword with a red base and green embellishments, shaped like a flame, appeared out of thin air.

As the instigator, the expression on Xi Zhicai's face was a combination of "as expected" and "as expected", which seemed quite strange.

"[You didn't report this kind of thing immediately?!]" Cao Cao took a step forward and shouted at the same time as the "stand-in" who had rushed in front of Xi Zhicai and was flexing his teeth.

"Uh... this..." Xi Zhicai was still in a daze.

No... After a slight loss of composure, Cao Cao quickly reacted. If something really happened to his father, even if it was a minor scratch, Xi Zhicai would never have this attitude. Considering that he still had good news to share, he Playing some kind of trick.

"Hmph," as Cao Cao became calmer, the high temperature and the flaming sword also disappeared: "Tell me, what is the good news?"

"The good news is..." He was only slightly startled, and now he began to look at Cao Cao's show with curious eyes before replying: "We may have discovered a move that the emperor used to save himself. If we make good use of it, It can make Princess Wannian’s succession justifiable.”

"..." Cao Cao said nothing and continued to stare at Xi Zhicai.

"In addition..." Xi Zhicai felt that the air temperature had increased a bit, so he wiped his sweat: "Old Madam Cao was rescued by [the most handsome one-eyed man in Kunlun Mountain with the most gorgeous moves]."

"speak English."

"Rescued by Xiahou Dun."

"..."