Chapter 1444: Touch the gold captain
Chapter 1444: Touching the Gold Captain
Chapter 1442: Touching the Gold Captain
In a time of great strife, not taking the initiative to fight is tantamount to committing suicide slowly.
If Cao Cao wants to avoid being annexed by other princes and participate in the subsequent struggle for world hegemony, he must restore Yanzhou to its vitality as soon as possible, and this will require a large number of talents to govern Yanzhou.
However, the Yanzhou family was too weak and could not provide so many talents, so Cao Cao had no choice but to rely on poor families.
Cao Cao was born into a wealthy family, so he was naturally afraid of offending the wealthy family. However, after discussing with Cheng Yu, Xun You, Chen Gong, and Bigan for a long time, Cao Cao came to another conclusion, that is, it was Yang Guang who set the precedent. Even if he If Cao Cao imitates, the family will never hate him to the extent that Yang Guang hates him.
As expected by everyone in Cao Wei, although Cao Cao implemented the imperial examination after Yang Guang, its impact was much greater than that of Yang Guang. However, because Yang Guang was in front of him to attract hatred, the family did not transfer the hatred to him. On the contrary, it attracted many children from aristocratic families to defect to him.
Chen Qun, Mao Jie, Lu Qian, Dong Zhao, Jiang Ji, Man Chong, Jiang Qian, Yang Xun, He Kui, Li Tong, Yan Ming, Zheng Hun, Linghu Shao, Kong Xiu, Han Fu... and many more Civil and military elites, either from aristocratic families or from poor families, all gathered under Cao Cao's command because of the imperial examination.
Among the civil servants, the most outstanding talents were Chen Qun, Mao Jie, Lu Qian, Dong Zhao, Jiang Ji, and Man Chong. Chen Qun, in particular, was a member of the "nine-grade Zhongzheng system" in the official selection system of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. As well as the main founder of Cao Wei's law "Wei Lv".
As for the generals who came to invest, there was only one super first-rate master, Li Tong, and the rest were either second-rate or first-rate. However, for Cao Cao, who was thirsty for talents, having these people was already very good.
Cao Cao gained a large number of talents through opening up schools and recruiting scholars, and he also knew how to make good use of people, dispatching talented talents to various places, and at the same time started business with the Qin army.
Yanzhou, under the blossoming of business and politics, has developed very rapidly as a result, and its vitality has gradually recovered. Of course, it is definitely impossible to fully recover.
After unifying Yanzhou, Cao Cao started an all-out construction mode, and even gave up the fight for Jianghuai.
Although Cao Cao also coveted the Jianghuai granary, his family was not rich enough and he did not have enough confidence to compete with Zhu Yuanzhang.
In addition, Yanzhou is the place of the Four Wars, and there are no princes around it to mess with. If we expand our strength so quickly, it will only arouse the vigilance of the princes, and eventually they will end up being strangled together.
So, since he is destined to lose Jianghuai, Cao Cao might as well keep an open mind and sit back and watch Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhao Kuangyin, and Yuan Shu fight among themselves.
Seeing that Cao Cao did not intervene in the Jianghuai War and was carrying out various construction projects in Yanzhou, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately saw that Cao Cao was strong on the outside and cadre on the inside, and wondered whether he should deal with Cao Cao first?
Since Zhu Yuanzhang had already sent troops to Jianghuai, using troops against Cao Cao would be equivalent to a two-front war. Naturally, he could not commit such a taboo as a military strategist, so he could only wait until he captured Jianghuai before turning his guns.
When that time comes, Zhu Yuanzhang still wants to join forces with the Ming court in Jizhou to send troops from four directions: Jizhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, and Jianghuai. The troops will be divided into four directions to attack Yanzhou at the same time. Cao Cao will be able to take care of the head but not the tail. He will definitely be defeated by the Ming army. Completely destroyed in one battle.
Cao Cao, who was concentrating on building Yanzhou, didn't know that he had been targeted by Zhu Yuanzhang. If Zhu Yuanzhang's plan could be implemented, even if he had an army of 200,000, it would be impossible to resist the Ming army without external interference. Three-way attack.
Of course, Qin Hao was already preparing to incorporate Ming Ting, so Zhu Yuanzhang's plan was destined to fail, and Cao Cao also saved his life because of Qin Hao.
Although Cao Cao temporarily gave up on Jianghuai, he would not give up the opportunity to profit from it. He thought of selling military supplies to Yuan Shu and getting several times the income from Yuan Shu in money and food, thus feeding back to the construction of Yanzhou.
Anyway, Yuan Shu is probably so poor now that he only has money and food left. Jianghuai's military strength will definitely be inexhaustible. It is better to exchange it for supplies to fight against Zhu Yuanzhang. But there are only a handful of people who are willing to support Yuan Shu. After all, he offended Qin Hao to death when he attacked Nanyang, and Qin Hao now represents the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty. Yuan Shu has been labeled as a traitor. Helping Yuan Shu is tantamount to being in trouble with the Qin army, so there is no way. No prince dared Yuan Shu to provide support.
Although the relationship between Cao Cao and Qin Hao was good, they did not dare to help Yuan Shu openly. They could only conduct transactions secretly in exchange for precious construction resources for Yanzhou.
Although Cao Cao's deal with Yuan Shu was to take advantage of the situation, he was the only one who was still willing to help Yuan Shu. Therefore, Yuan Shu had to take the blame whether he wanted to or not.
In order to develop the internal affairs of Yanzhou, Cao Cao also took great pains, even at the risk of offending Qin Hao, to obtain money and food from Jianghuai Yuan Shu.
In addition, Cao Cao also did another crazy thing, which was to set up gold-touching captains to rob tombs and use the grave goods of the dead in exchange for money and food needed for development.
In fact, as early as the outbreak of the Yanzhou War, Cao Cao had set up a gold school captain.
At that time, Cao Cao was under the siege of the four major princes of Yanzhou and the five forces of Li Zicheng. After being completely cornered, Cao Cao could even use human flesh as military rations. What else could he do? Not coming out? Tomb robbing is already considered low-level.
It is said that the first tomb stolen by Cao Cao's Captain Mojin was that of Liu Wu, King Xiao of Liang in Mangdang Mountain, Yongcheng.
Liang Xiaowang Liu Wu was the son of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty and the younger brother of Emperor Jing. He had a land of 300 miles and could be said to be extremely wealthy. However, the biggest regret in his life was that he did not reach the Ninth Five-Year Plan.
Since he could not "fulfill his dream" in this life, Liu Wu planned to complete it after his death, so he built a huge mausoleum so that he could enjoy the emperor's pleasure after his death. The majestic shape of his mausoleum and the richness of the burial materials were simply breathtaking.
The reason why Cao Cao was able to persist in shooting Li Zicheng and even unifying Yanzhou despite almost running out of oil was largely because he robbed Liu Wu's tomb and relied on the rich burial objects in Liu Wu's tomb. I went through the most difficult period of my life.
Of course, once word of tomb robbing spreads, the Taoist priests will definitely criticize them, and even Qin Gong Qin Hao will be 'alarmed'.
Seeing that Qin Haoxian's envoy came to hold him accountable, Cao Cao also knew that the matter was serious, so he could only temporarily dismiss Mojin Xiaowei to avoid the limelight first, and then wait for the limelight to pass, depending on the situation.
Now that Cao Cao has unified Yanzhou, Qin Hao will definitely not offend him for robbing tombs. After all, there are many tomb robbers in troubled times, and Cao Cao is not the only one to do this. Many princes have a team dedicated to robbing tombs. Team.
Cao Cao felt confident that he could rely on him, so he returned to his old business. This time he targeted the tomb of Liu An, King of Huainan.
Second update...this one is from October, the update in November is counted separately.
(End of this chapter)