sweeping the world

Chapter 187

The Cao family once ruled Qingzhou, and Guanggu City was expanded and built during the period of Caoyi's separatist regime, and replaced Linzi as the capital of Qingzhou.

Shi Le's elimination of the Cao family's separatist forces caused an incomparably great massacre in Qingzhou, almost killing ten rooms and nine empty spaces.Later, Shihu cleaned up Qingzhou again and again, making it difficult for Qingzhou's population to increase.

It was only in recent years that the population of Qingzhou has slowly increased. Most of them moved to Qingzhou from other places, causing the aborigines of Qingzhou to actually become a minority.

The desolation that Liu Yan saw in Changguang County, Dongmou County, and even the newly occupied Donglai County is due to the two generations of rulers of the Shi family. There is also a natural connection with Qingzhou, which is basically a foreign immigrant.

Most of them migrated to Qingzhou not long ago. After the contradiction of occupying land at the beginning, this family and that family are blood feuds. Like some states and counties, when there is turmoil, local forces will unite for warmth or rise.

Cao Yan has been working hard, he wants to restore the rule of Qingzhou in the Cao Yi era, but in the first ten years of his life, he has been avoiding pursuit and killing, waiting for the situation to improve, but he found that Qingzhou is no longer that Qingzhou.

In the true sense, it is no longer that Qingzhou. For people, once the relationship between people and communication changes, even if the mountains and rivers have not changed, whether there are connections or no connections, for those who want to make a difference, especially for those who have ambitions, then It is still a change like the vicissitudes of life.

"Young Master, Mr. Gong Tao and a group of people are not trustworthy."

"Stop talking."

Cao Yan never intended to trust anyone during his long life on the run. He only needed people who would be helpful to him or who could be used.

Under the control of Cao Yan, the remnants of the Cao family joined forces with Mr. Gong Tao and others to spread the reputation of Donglai Academy, all for the sake of a big layout.

Mr. Gong Tao has too many identities, and almost everyone knows that he is a multi-faceted school, but as long as Donglai Academy can provide enough talents to the counties and counties of Qingzhou, no one intends to expose it.

As long as the chief official of a place always needs some talents who can help in governance, it is probably because it is impossible to do everything by himself.Officials from the Jin Dynasty may be better. There are a group of people trained by ethnology, and no matter how talented those people are, they can at least help with some things.Officials of Hu people's origins don't have any ethnology. In the absence of talent reserves, the administrative system can only be established if they can obtain scribes from Donglai Academy.

In fact, Donglai Academy relied on exporting literati to counties and counties in Qingzhou to gain a firm foothold, and because it continued to absorb outstanding children from various families from the people, it was inextricably linked with most small and medium-sized families.

There is no mistake, Donglai Academy is only related to some families in Qingzhou, it is not considered a group, it is more like a cooperative relationship, which may make Donglai Academy look extremely "huge", but it encountered absolute force The suppression will lack sufficient self-protection ability.

It's not that Mr. Gong Tao is unwilling to turn those cooperative relationships into a group under the upper and lower levels, it's that he simply can't do it. It has something to do with the establishment of Donglai Academy, and it is the pattern that Donglai Academy has decided from the moment it was established.The position they stand in is an auxiliary position, not a dominant position. Mr. Gong Tao himself is not from one of the five major clans, nor is he a county or state chief official. He doesn't even have a powerful family of his own. How can he stand in a dominant position? ?
Cao Yan was also unable to dominate Donglai Academy. He was a shady person in Shijie Zhao State, and he was destined to lurk in the dark and do some shady things.

As long as you have studied politics, you can definitely understand how bad it is if you can't put it on the bright side, and you are destined to only do some shady activities.However, whether it's a mess~official~world or wanting to compete in the world, hiding in the dark is never a good thing. Throughout the long history, who can only hide in the dark, who has really succeeded?It is possible to stand in a sufficiently eye-catching place to shine, to achieve the minimum banner benchmark, and to attract more like-minded people.

The Cao family thought about standing in front of the stage again, but without exception, they were immediately chased and culled, suffered several heavy losses in succession, and their strength was weak to a certain extent, so they could only manage in secret.

It is not easy to enter Beihai County from Gaomi County. That is because there are a lot of mountains in the eastern peninsula. If you want to go from Gaomi County to Beihai County, especially to Duchang City, unless you make a detour, Really need to go through a mountainous area.

Cao Yan didn't bring many people, and luckily there weren't too many people. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been greeted with a wave of warning arrows, and then surrounded by hundreds of soldiers. The mouth of the mountain stream in the valley.

"Liu Yan's troops?" Cao Yan didn't feel any nervousness. He looked at the troops surrounding him for a while, and then told his followers: "Report your name, please see the chief officer here."

The person in charge of this checkpoint was Dou Ah, who was watching the twenty people who were surrounded not far away.Hearing what the Cao family was, he didn't know which green onion the Cao family was because of his lack of identity, so he planned to capture all of them and lock them up.

"..." Cao Yan encountered a person who didn't know his identity, and he couldn't even try to maintain his composure.When he passed Dou'a, he stopped and said without any nonsense, "I have something important to report to Governor Liu about the life and death of the Han tribe."

As soon as Dou Ah heard this, he signaled to bring Cao Yan over, with a serious face: "Do you know that if it is not as serious as what you said, my life will be lost?"

Cao Yan originally came to the Han Dynasty to find a place to stay, and planned to put his bargaining chips on Liu Yan, so why hesitate?
Dou'a handed over the defense here to his deputy, and personally led a team of people to escort Cao Yan away.

There are no peaks that are too high in this mountainous area, but there are indeed a lot of hills.If you don’t want to go through this mountainous area, you need to detour about 130 miles and march from the town near Pingshou, the capital of Beihai County.

Cao Yan was not blindfolded along the way. He regarded this as Han's self-confidence, the kind of self-confidence that he would not want to reveal if he saw it. It meant that what he wanted to say would not impress Liu Yan, but it was true To be killed.

There are not many troops in the mountainous area, they are just passing through the main roads. It took them nearly a whole day to get out of the mountainous area. When they arrived outside, they saw a huge camp.

Cao Yan had enough experience to guess how many soldiers the camp would accommodate based on its size. Seeing that Liu Yan had arranged at least 4 people here, he had mixed feelings in his heart.

The current situation is relatively simple. The Han tribe can choose to attack proactively or defend passively. So whether it is the army from Gaomi County or the Yao family army coming from Dong'an County, they always need to advance to the Han tribe. , only then can a war take place.

Someone had already notified Liu Yan of the news of Cao Yan's arrival in advance, and because of the importance of Cao Yan's identity, Dou'a could be regarded as taking advantage of it.

What is cheap?Probably it was the routine level operation, and then a credit that could be promoted to a rank fell from the sky, which made Dou'a's indifference towards Cao Yan at the beginning become enthusiastic.

Cao Yan must have studied the Han Dynasty before he wanted to bet. Whether it was the strategy of farming and warfare, or the restoration of the [-]th rank, what he saw was the foundation of the rise of a local power.

right!It is the foundation!From a certain perspective, it can be more clearly shown that Liu Yan's conspiracy is not a force that is willing to be in the small mountain and the eastern peninsula. Whether it is willing or not, since those systems are established, only the demise of the Han Dynasty can stop it. department continued to expand.

When Cao Yan saw Liu Yan, he couldn't help feeling like many people who saw Liu Yan for the first time, "You are younger than you think!", and then doubted whether his bet was real. correct?
It is often said that if you have no hair on your lips, you will not be able to do things firmly, and young people are unstable. It is difficult to stick to one thing for a long time, and it is easier to be affected by some influence and change your original intention.Therefore, generally speaking, only people who have passed the age of [-] will give people a sense of stability.

"Oh!?" Liu Yan thought that Cao Yan was more agile, and he almost finished what he had to say without procrastinating.He looked at Cao Yan with great interest, and said, "I already know about the Yao family's dispatch of troops to Beihai County, that is... this is the first time I've heard that Mr. Gong Tao is from Jin."

Cao Yan always had a smile on his face, but because of the way he looked at Lang Gu, his smile was quite gloomy.

"What do you want?" Liu Yan never judges people by their appearance, but there is not so much time for nonsense: "You think about it before you talk. Also, don't forget, there has never been any taboo in the Han Dynasty for what you want to get, just look at the meritorious service you have made Is it approved by me?"

Cao Yan knew that Liu Yan didn't mean to be joking, but he was very hesitant. He couldn't say that he wanted Qingzhou when Liu Yan hadn't captured Qingzhou.What's more, even if Liu Yan has more than one territory of Qingzhou one day, it is impossible to accept Qingzhou as someone's hereditary territory.

"How much credit, how good treatment do you have?" Cao Yan thought for a long time, and said: "Then let's take the capture of Qingzhou as the criterion, and see how much merit I can make."

Liu Yan waved his hand, indicating that Cao Yan could go down and rest first.

After waiting for Cao Yan to leave, Lu Yi said: "Your Majesty, this man looks like an eagle watching a wolf, and the Cao family has been operating in secret for decades, so we have to guard against it."

Liu Yan must be on guard, especially Cao Yan did not express his allegiance, but only said that meritorious service should be judged according to merit. It is very clear that such a person is either arrogant or unwilling to be inferior, anyway, he will not be a good thing to be with.

(End of this chapter)