The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 460 The third step to interrupt the monopoly of knowledge
Zhang Wu's persuasion of Cao Zhi and building momentum for him was actually just a small trick arranged casually, and he didn't have much hope at first. After all, a hero like Cao Cao is not an old fool like Yuan Shao and Liu Biao, unless Cao Zhi behaves too much better than Cao Pi. Many, so that most people are convinced.

If Cao Zhi is really that kind of unborn genius, even if he has half of Cao Cao's ability, Zhang Wu will not help him secretly, no one wants to have a strong opponent.

In Zhang Wu's plan, if Cao Cao really went crazy and chose Cao Zhi as his successor, civil strife would be inevitable after Cao Cao's death, because Cao Pi had many supporters, such as Jia Xu, Sima Yi and others.

It doesn't matter if Cao Cao chooses Cao Pi in the end, he can continue to deepen the conflict between Cao Zhi and Cao Pi in the future. Even if Cao Zhi can't be allowed to rebel, it will create some chaos within Cao's army and restrain their energy.It would be even better if Cao Pi could kill Cao Zhi in a fit of anger. A lord who even killed his own brother would definitely make his subordinates a little wary.

In any case, as long as Cao Cao dies, Zhang Wu's chances of winning will be greatly improved. There are too many examples in history of the death of the second generation of many powerful groups. The main reason is that the successor does not have as much prestige and ability as the entrepreneur. , can't suppress the contradictions in all aspects.

The envoy Zhang Wu sent to Xudu to meet the emperor was Kan Ze. After learning that Cao Cao had made Cao Pi his son, he immediately sent someone to send the news back to Xiangyang.

Zhang Wu said to Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang with a smile: "Cao Cao is not foolish, he still chose Cao Pi."

Zhuge Liang shook his fan and said with a smile: "In today's troubled times, abolishing the elders and establishing the young is the way to bring disaster. Yuan Shao perishes because of this, and Liu Biao gets into trouble because of it. The failure of the previous car, the lesson of the latter, with Cao Cao's wisdom, it is impossible Don’t think about it.”

Zhang Wu looked at Zhuge Liang's fan, but thought in his heart, it's a pity that only the first fan in Zhuge Liang's hand is regarded as a treasure. Given his age, he probably won't see Kong Ming riding a four-wheeled cart!
Or, another day I personally make one for him, and then grab it back?

Pang Tong said: "My lord, Cao Cao's birth of a son may mean that his health is not as good as before. Could it be that Cao Cao's condition has worsened?"

Zhang Wu ordered Liao Li to check the recent intelligence about Cao Cao. From various signs, it can be inferred that Cao Cao's condition has not improved at least, and famous doctors from all over the north have been recruited by Cao Cao.

Zhang Wu thought for a while, and said to Liao Li: "Have someone send a letter to Kan Ze, asking him to tell Cao Cao, if Cao Cao is willing, I can have the genius doctor Hua Tuo treat the King of Wei."

Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong looked at each other, the lord is really calculating, this is not going to let Hua Tuo treat Cao Cao, this is clearly stimulating Cao Cao, making his condition worse!
Sure enough, when Cao Cao heard Kan Ze say that if the king of Wei agreed, Chuhou would send the genius doctor Hua Tuo to treat him, his heart moved at first, and then he refused.

Cao Cao also has a spy organization under his command. Now who doesn't know that Dean Hua is a nine-star poisoned milk, and if he comes to treat me, I think he wants to poison me, right?Zhang Wu wished that I would die early, how could he be so kind as to exchange Hua Tuo's life for mine?

But after refusing, Cao Cao still felt a little uncomfortable. His headache was so terrible that every time he had an attack, the pain was unbearable. He really wanted to split his head open with a knife to see what was going on inside.

Now I have searched all the doctors I can trust, but no one can cure him. Hua Tuo was known as a miracle doctor in his early years. When Sun Ce was assassinated and almost died, it was Hua Tuo who cured him. Maybe Hua Tuo Tuo can really cure his illness.

But Cao Cao didn't dare to take risks. Ji Ping, the imperial physician back then, also wanted to poison him in the medicine. Now the whole family of the doctors who treat Cao Cao are under control.

Who doesn't want to get better from their illness?It is uncomfortable to have no hope, and it is even more uncomfortable to have hope but dare not try. Cao Cao felt that his health was getting worse and worse in this torment.

In fact, it's not like Zhang Wu never thought of finding someone to assassinate Cao Cao. There have been assassins since ancient times. Nie Zheng, Zhuan Zhu, Yao Li, Jing Ke and others assassinated big shots. The little overlord Sun Ce eventually died in the assassination.

Moreover, a team of Zhang Wu's hidden guards had assassinated Cao Cao several times, but the difficulty was really too great. After losing a lot of manpower, Zhang Wu stopped this kind of thing.

Cao Cao is really too careful. There are many guards who are good at martial arts, and it is difficult for ordinary people to approach.

Of course, Zhang Wu is more difficult to assassinate. Which time traveler doesn't put his own safety first?
After the personnel adjustment was completed, Zhang Wu started another big project.

In order to break the aristocratic family's monopoly on knowledge, Zhang Wu invented white paper and printing. After so many years of development, basically everyone can afford books.

But the content in the book is a bit profound. Without a teacher to teach and explain, I can't understand what it means, what kind of life principles are in the book, and what is the concept of governing the country.

Therefore, Zhang Wu printed the book with annotations, so that he could understand it without a teacher's explanation.

There is another most important question, what should I do if I only have books but cannot read?I don't even know how to read, and I can't read. The literacy rate in this era is too low, and how many people are literate?

Normally speaking, Chinese is relatively difficult to learn. Children need at least three to four years to learn to read and write letters. The cost of these three or four years is not small. How can ordinary families have spare money to let their children go to school.In the past few years, Jingzhou has been relatively stable, and Zhang Wu has tried his best to reduce the land rent, so the people in Jingzhou can basically eat enough and wear warmth. Not to mention the places where wars are frequent in the north.

Due to Zhang Wu's vigorous development of commerce and trade, he implemented many measures to restrict land mergers and encourage major families to reduce land rents. In several states under Zhang Wu's rule, the lives of the people generally improved a lot.Due to the development of industry and commerce and the prosperity of trade, many people went to work in workshops and saved some money.

Therefore, Zhang Wu decided to take the last step to break the knowledge monopoly and improve the literacy rate of the people.

It is impossible for all employees to be literacy. The national literacy rate was less than 20.00% until the founding of the People's Republic of China.Besides, no matter what time it is, there will always be a large number of hard workers in society, Zhang Wu is not a real saint, and all he does is not to maintain his own rule.

In Zhang Wu's plan, apart from the rich and poor families, as long as 5.00% of the ordinary people can read and write, relying on the huge population base, it is enough to break the monopoly of the rich and powerful families on knowledge , and then gradually broke their monopoly on officialdom.

As long as the people can eat, there will be no rebellion in the world, as long as ordinary people can be given a way to climb up, there will be no careerists like Huang Chao.Half of the people in the officialdom are from poor families or ordinary people, which is enough to maintain political stability, and the country that Zhang Wu has brought down will not perish soon.

Zhang Wu didn't expect the new dynasty he established to last for thousands of years, as long as it could exist for a few hundred years, at least it wouldn't be as short-lived as the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and it would cause so much damage to the Chinese nation.

(End of this chapter)