Three Kingdoms: Stealing the Tiger Talisman and forcing Yuan Shao to become a monk

Chapter 223 Helpless Cao Cao, Greedy Family!
Not to mention that Yuan Tan locked his target in Shouchun City.

At this time, Yu Jin had led the defeated soldiers to the Yellow River Ferry, near Cao Ying's defense line.

Thanks to Cao Cao's deployment of defenses along the Yellow River.

Yu Jin didn't encounter any other attacks along the way, but arrived at the Yellow River camp safely.

However, when Yu Jin really had to face Cao Cao, he felt a little regretful. It would be better to be attacked.

Or when I met Yuan Tan, I rushed forward to fight.

In this way, at least you can make yourself miserable, and maybe you can add another reason of "do your best, it's not my fault" when you meet Cao Cao.

But this thought, Yu Jin only dared to think about it in his heart.

He knows Yuan Tan's martial arts very well.

If he really rushed up, it would probably be an ending with no return.

Taking a deep breath, Yu Jin led a group of cavalry towards the Yellow River Camp.

Before approaching the camp, the soldiers on the lookout post on the Yellow River Camp noticed this weird army.

The reason why it is described as weird.

It is because the territory behind the Yellow River ferry is under the rule of Cao Cao, strictly speaking, it is the same as the base camp.

Therefore, it should be Cao Jun's troops who can get close to the Yellow River camp.

But this army has been near the Yellow River camp for a while.

However, he neither raised the banner nor reported the name of his general near the camp.

On the contrary, it looks like the enemy's probing cavalry, probing around the Yellow River camp, but they just don't come in.

This made the sentry in charge of monitoring the movement around the camp suspicious.

"Hey, look over there, what's going on?"

On the watchtower, a sentry knocked on his companion and asked in a low voice, pointing to where Yu Jin was.

The sentry looked in the direction his companion was pointing, with a dazed look on his face.

what's the situation?
Enemy scouts?
Can there be such a large-scale exploration?
It can't be a surprise attack team...

The sentry looked up at the sky, it was the season when the sun was shining, no matter how you looked at it, it was not a suitable time for a surprise attack.

In this situation, there are still troops who want to touch them and attack them unexpectedly?

The general who came here to make a surprise attack is probably not a fool...

The two sentries looked at each other, but Yu Jin didn't know what they were thinking.

He hasn't been to the Yellow River Camp for a long time, and he doesn't know much about the situation at the Yellow River Camp.

How did you know that because of Yuan Tan's surprise attack on the troops, Cao Cao's rear was messed up.

There is no peace in Hebei either.

Although Yuan Shao scolded Yuan Tan for being careless, he still loved his child.

After dispatching Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang, he still felt that it was not enough, so he simply led the soldiers out of Yanzhou to the Yanjin area, and confronted Cao Cao across the Yellow River.

Anyway, the disaster victims in the Central Plains have been properly resettled under Yuan Tan's strategy of dividing people and relocating them.

All that was left was just time and effort, and the food pressure on the front line was relieved by most of it.

Yanzhou dispatched [-] soldiers and horses to station in Yanjin. Although there will be some pressure, it is not an unbearable pressure.

But in this way, Cao Cao would have a headache.

All these situations made Cao Cao and even the generals of Cao Ying recall the great battle a few years ago involuntarily.

It's just that the battlefield was at Guandu at that time.

But the current battlefield is just on the front line of Yanjin White Horse.

But compared to the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao's high spirits.

At this moment, Cao Cao only felt heavy in his heart.

Guo Jia ran around, contacting the princes everywhere, but in the end, with the defeat of Liu Zhang's coalition forces, Liu Biao, who was about to be persuaded by Guo Jia, was defeated.

He was also intimidated by the prestige established in the battle of Yuan Tan Wuxiang, and he became completely honest and dared not jump again.

As for Jiangdong Sun Ce?

Although Guo Jia tried to force Chen several times, he joined forces with Sun Ce to resist Yuan Shao in Hebei.

But Cao Cao was really unwilling.

Sun Ce is just a child, how could he be put in the eyes of Cao Mengde?

But he didn't expect that today, he would join hands with a child from the Sun family to fight against the enemy.

Although Guo Jia united with Liu Zhang that day, he was also uniting to some extent, the "children" in Cao Cao's eyes.

But first, Cao Cao never cooperated with Liu Zhang's father Liu Yan.

When Cao Cao rose up in Luoyang City and became a celebrity in the world, Liu Yan had long listened to the alchemist's persuasion that "Yizhou has the spirit of heaven".

I ran to Yizhou in Bashu.

How did you become familiar with Cao Cao?
But Sun Jian was different.

From the crusade against the Yellow Turban to the crusade against Dong Zhuo, Sun Jian was just a general who fought side by side with Cao Cao and Yuan Shao from the beginning to the end.

Although Sun Jian's identity at the beginning was just another department under Yuan Shu.

But in fact, everyone knows that Sun Jian's other department is just a name. To be honest, he is an independent army.

The kind that doesn't listen to Yuan Shu's orders at all.

But right now, Guo Jia is suggesting that Cao Cao and Sun Jian's son unite?
Although Cao Cao also knew that Guo Jia's suggestion was correct and quite operable.

After all, with Shouchun in hand, Jiangdong's navy can cross the river to support him at any time, and then start a joint operation against Yuan Tan.

only……

"Damn the Jiangdong family! It's really short-sighted to the extreme!"

Cao Cao squeezed the letter in his hand, threw it on the ground fiercely, and said through gritted teeth.

The reason for Cao Cao scolding his mother is very simple.

Although he was unwilling, he still listened to what Guo Jia said, so he authorized Guo Jia to handle the contact with Jiangdong.

Of course, Cao Cao still cares about face, so he didn't make it so obvious at the beginning, he just said that he wanted to borrow three thousand stones to alleviate the disaster in the Central Plains and fight against Yuan Tan.

If Jiangdong gives a more positive response.

Then this matter can be discussed.

But I never expected that the reply letter from Jiangdong was given, but the content of the reply letter made Cao Cao furious!

"These Jiangdong aristocratic families really deserve to be killed! Sun Bofu should have slaughtered the Zhang family and the Yu family when he slaughtered the Lu family that day!"

The content of that reply letter is very simple.

The Jiangdong family doesn't want anything else, as long as Cao Cao is willing to present them with an official position such as the governor of the state, the governor of the state, and the prefect of the county.

Don't say three thousand stones, thirty thousand stones of food, or even thirty thousand soldiers and horses are all negotiable!

But how could Cao Cao agree to such a request?

In today's Han Dynasty, the official positions of the princes of all parties are not strictly conferred by the Han Dynasty.

If he foolishly waited until Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty issued the official seal edict before taking over the official position, then the daylilies would probably be all lit up.

So what did the princes and them do when they added officials to the generals under their command?
That is "table".

Table is a verb, that is, table.

Normally, the local princes would send a memorial to the emperor and send it to the capital to wait for the emperor's reply.

If you agree.

This request to increase the rank and rank of the general under his command is considered to be granted.

But the problem lies in the place of this table!
With the decline of the authority of the emperor of the Han Dynasty, the above table has gradually become dispensable.

After all, not every prince, like Cao Cao and Yuan Shao today, directly raises the emperor at home as a mascot.

To put it bluntly, does the current emperor have his own independent will?

of course not!

Just like when Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty was controlled by Cao Cao, were the official positions submitted by the princes from all walks of life really approved by Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty?

Of course not, they were all approved by Cao Cao, the kind that Cao Cao didn't even read.

To put it bluntly, for example, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao went to war. In order to boost morale, Yuan Shao decided to promote several of his sons.

Biao Yuan Tan is the governor of Bingzhou.

After sending the memorial to the imperial court, that is, to Cao Cao's side, would Cao Cao be really stupid to approve this memorial and agree to Yuan Shao's application.

Then watch a buff with +30 morale emerge from the opposite army?

Of course not!

So in the end, the princes also knew that the above table was useless, so everyone simply ignored Han Xiandi, and closed the door to play their own games.

Of course, saving face still has to be done.

This face-saving effort is the watch.

Anyway, it was nothing more than writing a memorial, and then sending someone to send it to the emperor.

Then, no matter whether the emperor approves or not, I will directly announce on my side, ah, you have been promoted, and you are now the governor of Bingzhou, go and get your official seal.

This leads to a very strange situation.

He is also the governor of Bingzhou, Yuan Shao has Yuan Tan as his subordinate.

Under Cao Cao, there was also a governor of Bingzhou, but this governor of Bingzhou was served by Xiahou Dun.

There are many similar situations, but in short these are just false names.

For things like territory, you can't really take office if you are on the list, you still have to lay it down yourself.

But the Jiangdong family sent someone to send this letter, asking Cao Cao to write a letter for them, but the intention is self-evident!

Now Jiangdong is under the control of Sun Ce.

But there is a very important point, that is, strictly speaking, Sun Ce only controls the big cities he occupies.

Once they leave the city and go to the countryside outside the city, the ones who really hold the power are those Jiangdong aristocratic families!

These Jiangdong aristocratic families have a very high prestige among Jiangdong scholars and people.

The only thing they lack is that title!

If Cao Cao agreed to their conditions, with the titles of these prefects and governors, these aristocratic families can take advantage of it.

Overthrow Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, the Sun family regime, to the ground!
But how could Cao Cao agree to such a thing?
If he had defeated Yuan Shao and unified the Central Plains now, he would not mind giving Sun Ce some eye drops at this time.

It would be even better if it could stir up civil strife in Jiangdong.

But when is it now?
The princes of the world are in danger, Yuan Shao has the momentum to swallow up the world, and he is even more domineering than Dong Zhuo and Dong Zhongying back then!

(End of this chapter)