Chapter 185: Passing on the Imperial Seal and Desiring to Become the Emperor [Subscription Request]

Changyi, Yanzhou.

Cao Cao returned home surrounded by people.

He returned to the inner house first. He hadn't seen his wife and children for two months and missed them very much.

As Cao Cao walked towards the inner house, a thought flashed through his mind: It seems that I have to go to some events tonight. After being separated for so long, I need to get some work done.

As he approached the backyard, he suddenly quickened his pace and heard crying from the inner house.

The little girl is crying.

Yu Qing was dressed in a light yellow dress and a light green palm-wide belt. She was tall and slender, and looked gorgeous.

She was originally planning to go and meet Cao Cao.

But when the daughter started crying, she stayed to comfort the child.

Seeing Cao Cao, Yu Qing's peach blossom eyes flickered, showing her joy at seeing him, but also a little grievance of taking care of the child at home: "Your daughter wants to sleep, but it's hard to coax her. She cries when she's not happy, and no one can do anything about it."

She held the chubby girl, who was almost half a year old, in her arms and rocked her gently. Her chest also trembled slightly, and her heart was quite turbulent.

The little girl in her arms stared at Cao Cao with her big round, dark eyes, and slowly stopped crying.

"Give me."

Cao Cao took his daughter from Yu Qing, supporting her neck with his left hand and her waist with his right hand, and wrapped his outer arm around the child's legs in a professional holding position.

"The child is very easy to coax. He can fall asleep in twenty breaths at most." Cao Cao boasted.

Yu Qing curled her lips. She and several wet nurses had to serve the child every day but there was nothing they could do.

This little girl is full of energy and it is not easy to coax her to sleep.

Cao Cao looked at his daughter in his arms and suddenly began to chant: "... Hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, neon, sodium, magnesium, aluminum, silicon, phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine, argon..."

Cao Cao spoke very quickly, and all the words were connected together, like chanting a sutra.

Occasionally, one or two long sounds are mixed in, making it sound more and more like reciting scriptures.

This method of coaxing someone to sleep has a basis and was later called white noise.

To the baby, it is similar to listening to the sounds of the outside world in the mother's womb when she was pregnant. The baby feels safe, as if returning to the mother's body.

When the fat girl heard Cao Cao reciting the second sentence, she felt so sleepy that she couldn't control herself. It felt like there was glue between her eyes, sticking them tightly together.

She opened her eyes wide, trying to confront her father.

But she was obviously no match for her father, so she closed her eyes!
call--

Cao Cao recited thirty or forty scales, then turned back to recite them a second time. However, his daughter could no longer bear the sound and fell asleep.

Yu Qing was stunned and said in awe: "What is your husband thinking? It's so powerful."

"The Great Dream Curse, you are also very powerful if you recite it."

Cao Cao gave his daughter to the wet nurse next to him, asked everyone else to step back, approached Yu Qing, and took action directly.

Yu Qing said shyly, "In broad daylight." But her voice was sweet.

When Cao Cao came back, he went to the inner house to find her first. She felt very favored and happy.

Cao Cao dragged her into the room and pressed her onto the couch. Sometimes being as fierce as a wolf or a tiger is also a kind of fun...

Half an hour later, Cao Cao felt refreshed, changed his clothes, and returned to the front hall to handle affairs.

Inner house.

Yu Qing looked lazy and sat up lazily on the couch, "You're making trouble as soon as you come back."

In fact, she was so happy that she walked briskly with her long legs to the back hall to bathe and change clothes.

study.

All the civil and military officials of Yanzhou are here.

Everyone looked delighted. Cao Cao's power was growing day by day, which meant that everyone in Cao's camp had a chance to be promoted. Who wouldn't be happy?

Jia Xu was responsible for gathering information from all parties. When he saw Cao Cao take a seat, he handed him several scrolls.

The first scroll is about Yuan Shu.

He is actively seeking to seize Xuzhou.

The three-party melee in Xuzhou continued.

Yuan Shu was busy expanding his power and defeating Liu Bei.

Jia Xu intercepted a letter of amnesty from Yuan Shu, which he wrote to a governor of Xuzhou, hoping that the governor would surrender to him:
Yuan Shu wrote in the letter: "In the past, during the tyranny of Qin, heroes fought against each other, and in the end, the world was won by a man who was both wise and brave."

"The world is in chaos now, just like the Qin Dynasty. It will tend to disintegrate."

"The emperor is like a puppet, now is the time for heroes to act. In this world, who else can do it but Shu? And you and I are old friends, are you willing to assist me?

If I can achieve great things, you will be my confidant. "

When Qin lost its power, the whole world chased after it. Yuan Shu compared himself to Emperor Gaozu in the letter... Cao Cao handed the letter to Xun Yu and others to read.

Wen Ji will then be responsible for recording and archiving.

Jia Xu: "This letter Yuan Shu wrote was very pompous, but in fact he secretly kidnapped his son and threatened him to surrender to him, in order to seize the county of Xuzhou."

Cao Cao was just as expected.

Among all the armies of various parties, Yuan Shu was the most arrogant and incompetent, and his name must be among the top three on the list of fools.

The second piece of information Jia Xu found out was still related to Yuan Shu.

When Cao Cao pursued Yuan Shu and drove him to Yangzhou, he was playing a big game of chess, pushing the situation in a direction that was beneficial to him.

The second piece of news said that Sun Ce of Jiangdong, Sun Jian’s eldest son, was nineteen years old this year.

The message said that Sun Ce had recently borrowed troops from Yuan Shu.

Given Yuan Shu's personality, he actually agreed.

Not only did he lend troops to Sun Ce, he also happily hosted a banquet for his civil and military officials.

During the banquet, Yuan Shu boasted that he was the man chosen by heaven.

After reading the news, Cao Cao guessed that Yuan Shu was planning to become emperor.

Cao Cao thought to himself that it seemed that the imperial seal had fallen into his hands.

Regarding the Han Dynasty's imperial seal falling into Yuan Shu's hands, which led to his claiming to be emperor, the Book of the Later Han records that when Sun Jian led his army to attack Luoyang, the soldiers saw a glow in a well in the palace.

Sun Jian then sent someone into the well and obtained the imperial seal.

Sun Jian secretly hid the imperial seal in the hands of his wife, Wu.

Later, Yuan Shu detained Sun Jian's wife and seized the seal.

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms says that Sun Ce handed over the imperial seal left by his father as collateral in order to borrow Yuan Shu's troops to establish his own regime.

It doesn't matter what the real situation is.

This national seal is obviously in Yuan Shu's hands.

So he wanted to become emperor and felt that he was the man destined to succeed.

Once he became emperor, his death would not be far away.

Historically, this national seal was later taken into the hands of Cao Cao. At this time, he looked at the third message handed over by Jia Xu.

Yuan Shao was in Jizhou and actually had an emperor's seal.

Although it is not the official seal of the country, it is also an imperial seal.

The current emperor has a total of six seals.

Including private seals, director seals for stamping memorials, imperial seals for handling state affairs, etc.

The reason why the imperial seal is precious is that it carries the destiny of the country.

In name, it was granted by heaven and earth.

The emperor only has the right to hold power, which is passed down from generation to generation, but he does not have the right to change it.

The other imperial seals can be replaced.

Yuan Shao obtained an official seal of the imperial court, which was brought out of the palace by Yuan Wei at some unknown time and opportunity and given to Yuan Shao.

The two brothers of the old Yuan family are ambitious and each holds a royal seal.

At the end of the dynasty, the situation in the country suddenly deteriorated. The princes fought wars year after year, the land was not cultivated, and in some places there was no grain for hundreds of miles.

Take Nanyang, which Cao Cao had just occupied, as an example. A few years ago, it was the richest place in the world, but now half of the arable land is abandoned and the place is barren everywhere.

Before Cao Cao returned, he went north from Nanyang, passed through the vicinity of Luoyang, and took a detour before finally returning to Yanzhou.

He made a special trip to see Luoyang, once the best place in the world and a huge city with a population of one million.

But now there is a mass grave outside the city, with piles of bones. They are the remains left by Dong Zhuo and the Liangzhou army when they killed people during the Luoyang Incident.

The population of surrounding towns and counties migrated in large numbers, and the city became as quiet as a dead city.

There is no trace of farming in the area of ​​a hundred miles, which is particularly touching when compared with its heyday.

In late spring, March is the time when the grass grows, the warblers fly, and the green willows are like smoke.

The mountains and fields should be picturesque in the green shade, accompanied by the murmur of swallows.

However, as Cao Cao and his companions traveled along the way, they saw dead bodies in the wasteland beside the road.

It’s such a beautiful spring day, but there isn’t even a clump of weeds to be seen.

After the chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty, statistics were taken and the world's population dropped by nearly three-quarters.

The natural disasters and man-made disasters over the years have caused tens of millions of deaths and injuries.

While Cao Cao was away, he asked people to collect relevant data on population, cultivated land, etc. from various places to investigate the scope of the famine.

Wen Ji immediately took it out and circulated it in the study.

After watching this, everyone fell silent.

When Wen Ji and Diao Chan first saw the news, they almost cried.

Cao Cao paused for a moment, picked up his pen, and wrote in cursive on the paper in front of him:
"There are righteous men in Guandong who raise an army to fight against the evildoers... The army is not united, and they are hesitant and move in a line..."

The strokes are continuous, and the writing flows like flowing water:

"Snobbery makes people fight, and then they kill each other... Lice grow on armor, and thousands of people die..."

The poem ends with: "Bone bones are exposed in the wild, and no rooster crows for a thousand miles. If only one out of a hundred people survives, the thought of it breaks one's heart."

Finally, he was promoted and wrote the name "Song of Haoli".

This poem by Cao Cao is still mentioned by people thousands of years later.

The entire poem records the scenes of warlords fighting and the withering of all things, and can be called a "true record of the late Han Dynasty."

The style of the poetry is simple, yet gloomy and tragic.

Cao Cao used poetry to point out the chaos in the world. The beginning was straightforward, the middle part was narrative, and the end was the finishing touch. In just three or four words, he deeply portrayed the tragic conditions in various places.

Bones are exposed in the wild, and no rooster crows can be heard for thousands of miles.

Wen Ji was standing behind Cao Cao and saw the last few sentences written by him. She felt an indescribable emotion rising from the bottom of her heart, and recalled what she had seen and heard on the way back from Luoyang with Cao Cao.

There are bones everywhere with no one to bury them, and there is no smoke from cooking fires after walking a hundred miles.

The tears in her eyes rolled down uncontrollably.

"Send this poem to the many nobles waiting outside, and let them read it before coming to see me."

Cao Cao had "Song of the Haoli" sent to all the noble families to read, with a hint of meaning in it.

The warlords' infighting, including his position in Yanzhou, was supported and even promoted by the gentry.

When the world was in turmoil, tens of thousands of people died every day.

However, the people from the aristocratic families are still talking big, fighting for power and profit, and monopolizing the local area.

They are one of the sources of unrest in the world, and it is time to slowly make adjustments to some things.

The gentry controlled and enjoyed the best and most resources, which was a long-standing malpractice that had lasted for thousands of years.

This is why Cao Cao in history cracked down on the powerful, strengthened centralization, and opened up channels for the promotion of talents.

It is impossible to cut off the gentry at the root.

But we can influence and adjust it to reduce its harmfulness and try to push it in a beneficial direction.

The main reason these nobles came to Yanzhou was to establish relationships early and plan for the future.

Cao Cao had already taken control of several states and had become a powerful force that could not be avoided.

All parties must have trade relations in the area under the jurisdiction of Yanzhou.

The nobles came here to discuss related matters with Yanzhou, and cooperation would be beneficial to both sides.

study.

Cao Cao met with various parties and was busy until the sun went down, when things finally came to a conclusion.

See you tomorrow, the rest of the nobles.

The sky is full of stars and the moon.

He left the study and prepared to return to the inner house. As he was walking, he suddenly reached out his hand and saw a halo of light seeping out from under the ground in front of him. The ground rolled like water, pushing an ancient silk scroll out from the ground.

This is the house-guarding map that was previously excavated from the tomb.

Cao Cao used his thoughts to guide his own luck, poured it into the map, and performed rituals to increase its power.

The scroll unfolded, revealing many spells.

There seems to be the sound of dragons roaring and tigers roaring in the picture.

After the infusion of good fortune, the house-guarding map and the Cao Mansion became further integrated, and the spell patterns on the surface became denser, which deepened the refinement of the scroll.

There is also a wisp of energy in the scroll, which blends and flows with the dragon python of luck behind Cao Cao.

He loosened his hand, and the scroll sank back into the ground, disappearing into the house.

Cao Cao walked into the inner house with his hands behind his back, ready to go and have fun.

One show…two shows…and the evening work was busy too.

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