Chapter 1445: Three major camps
Chapter 1445 Three major camps
Chapter 1443: Three major camps
Human flesh is used for food supply, tombs are robbed in search of gold, new imperial examinations are held, and Yuan Shu is supported...
Nothing Cao Cao did was trivial, but Cao Cao's reputation among the people was not one-sided scorn, but polarization.
There are people who say good things about Cao Cao, and there are also people who call him a devil. In short, everyone has their own reasons.
Everything Cao Cao did was highly controversial. He used human flesh to provide food and robbed tombs in search of gold in order to suppress the Ming thief Li Zicheng. Although the methods were a bit extreme, the purpose was good.
As for the new imperial examination system, Cao Cao was not the first to propose it. He secretly supported Yuan Shu in order to govern the broken Yanzhou...
All in all, although Cao Cao did a lot of things to seek criticism, the strange thing is that the world's tolerance for him is extremely high.
Even Qin Hao did not dare to touch any of the things Cao Cao did. If any other princes took advantage of it, they would be scolded half to death.
But as for Cao Cao, not only was everything done, but nothing happened. Instead, his title was getting higher and higher, and his overall strength was getting stronger and stronger.
I have to say that this is definitely one of the wonders of this era.
Although the bad things Cao Cao did have earned him a lot of notoriety, his achievements cannot be erased. After all, he killed Li Zicheng.
Who is Li Zicheng? He is a giant bandit who has been active since the Yellow Turban period and is one of the three giants of the Ming Dynasty.
It is precisely because of this meritorious service that the people have such a high level of tolerance for Cao Cao. After all, his flaws cannot be concealed.
When Yuan Shu rebelled, Qin Hao's court was not recognized by the princes. In order to contain Yuan Shu, he even directly made Zhao Kuangyin the Duke of Song Dynasty.
Nowadays, it is naturally not easy for the major princes to become princes. They must have sufficient merits.
Cao Cao had the merit of killing Li Zicheng and unifying Yanzhou. If there were not those ruinous things, his merits for making him a prince would actually be enough.
But after things like using human flesh to supplement food, Cao Cao became too controversial. With the merits and demerits balanced, it was naturally not difficult or easy to make him an official.
Although there were numerous voices in the court opposing Cao Cao's granting him the title of Duke, Qin Hao still granted the title to Cao Cao.
After all, Cao Cao stole the tombs of the Liu family kings. As long as he was not sanctioned for a day, it would be a blow to the imperial power of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, Qin Hao not only did not suppress him, but also granted him a title.
Soon after Cao Cao unified Yanzhou, Qin Hao granted him the title of Duke of Wei, General of Chariots and Cavalry, and granted him the title of 100,000 households.
Since then, in addition to Zhao Kuangyin's Song Dynasty, there was another Wei State in the Central Plains, Cao Cao's country.
Cao Cao was the third prince conferred by the orthodox court represented by Qin Hao. However, there are more than two feudal states in the world, and the camps can be divided into two, namely: the Han camp, the rebel camp, and the neutral camp. .
Liu Ji of Shu, although he proclaimed himself the king of Shu, he produced the imperial edict of the late emperor, and the court had to recognize his legitimacy;
In order to confront Liu Ji, Liu Yu claimed to be the King of Chengdu without the permission of the court. However, his title was not recognized by the court, so it is not an exaggeration to say that he was rebellious.
Li Shimin, the Tang king of Guanzhong, and Yang Guang, the Sui king of Liangzhou, are the pseudo kings left over from the pseudo dynasty represented by Dong Zhuo.
Zhu Tianpeng, the king of Qi in Qingzhou, inherited the position of Huang Chao, and Huang Chao accepted Dong Zhuo's canonization.
Therefore, Li Shimin, Yang Guang, and Zhu Tianpeng were all false kings who were not recognized by the orthodox court and belonged to the rebel camp.
Hong Xiuquan of Jiaozhou was a Yellow Turban rebel, but he established himself as the King of Heaven and became a thorn in the side of the imperial court. Although Yuan Shu of Jianghuai was proclaimed king, he raised troops to threaten the imperial capital, so he was naturally classified into the rebel camp.
To sum up, King Liu Yu of Chengdu, King Zhu Tianpeng of Qi, King Li Shimin of Tang, King Yang Guang of Sui, King Hong Xiuquan of Heaven, Marquis Yuan Shu of Yu, and the Ming Dynasty who suffered from cholera in Jizhou and Xuzhou all belong to the rebel camp.
The princes belonging to the Han camp include: Qin Gong Qin Hao, Shu Wang Liu Ji, Song Gong Zhao Kuangyin, Wei Gong Cao Cao, Wu Hou Sun Jian, Liang Hou Song Jiang, and Liao Hou Gongsun Xuanyuan.
Of course, many of the princes ostensibly agreed with the imperial court, but in fact they followed the instructions but did not listen to the announcement. The imperial court did not have any binding force on them, but they all dealt with the rebel camp.
As for the neutral camp, it is neither biased towards the Han camp nor the rebel camp, it is only for itself.
The princes belonging to the neutral camp include: Yuan Shao, the Marquis of Zhao, Han Fu, the Marquis of Han, Liu Che, the Marquis of Yan, Liu Xiu, the Marquis of Chu, Ma Teng and Han Sui of Liangzhou, and Shi Xie of Jiaozhou.
Chu Hou Liu Xiuben also belonged to the Han camp. After all, he was also one of the thirty-six princes who fought against Dong. However, Qin Gong Qin Hao suppressed him too hard. He could not develop at all in the Han camp. Instead, he was restrained everywhere. , so that he was forcefully forced into the neutral camp.
Of course, this was also the fundamental purpose of Qin Hao's malicious suppression of Liu Xiu. Qin Hao even wanted to force Liu Xiu into the rebellious camp, but Liu Xiu was not fooled.
The Han camp, the rebel camp, and the neutral camp, these are the three major groups in the world today.
Among the three major groups, the Han camp is the strongest, occupying more than 50% of the land and population in the world. The neutral and rebellious camps are equally powerful and divide the other 50% of the land and population.
In the future, the game among the major princes will also revolve around the three major groups.
Shortly after Cao Cao was granted the title of Duke, Liu Che, the Marquis of Yan from the neutral camp, wanted to move closer to the Han camp, so he applied to the imperial court for the title of King of Yan with his contribution to repelling the Manchus.
Youzhou is Qin Hao's target for the next round of expansion, so it is naturally impossible for him to let Liu Che join his camp like this.
The Luoyang court, headed by Qin Hao, believed that the person who had the greatest credit for repelling the Manchu invasion was Gongsun Xuanyuan, and Liu Che only played a supporting role. However, considering that Liu Che was a clan member of the Han Dynasty and inherited Liu Yu's political legacy, so He was renamed Duke of Yan, and Gongsun Xuanyuan was granted the title of Duke of Liao.
Liu Che's request to be crowned king failed, which meant that Qin Hao's Han camp refused him to join. Of course, what made him even more annoyed was that Qin Hao attributed the main credit for repelling the Manchu Qing to Gongsun Xuanyuan.
If he hadn't led the Yan army to support him, Gongsun Xuanyuan would have been defeated by Wanyan Agu long ago.
Although Liu Che was extremely angry, he had no choice but to take back the rightful Qin Hao, so he wanted to take back the title of orthodoxy from Qin Hao. At the worst, it would destroy the legitimacy of the Luoyang court.
Under the banner of Qin Hao's threat, Liu Che secretly contacted other neutral princes and Han clan clan members in various places, hoping to break Qin Hao's monopoly on the Han camp and achieve the purpose of splitting the Han camp.
Of course, there are many difficulties in this. Qin Hao's threat has not yet appeared. All the major princes only care about themselves and cannot take into account Qin Hao's potential threat for the time being.
It was not until Qin Hao used troops against Hebei that the princes in the neutral camps felt threatened that Liu Che completed his goal of splitting the Han camp.
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