Return to the Three Kingdoms with the Empire System

Chapter 214 Going to Hangu
Ye Mo called Cao Bao and Cao Bao into the study and just talked about the situation in Xuzhou.Although Xuzhou is not in the middle of a war, the situation is extremely complicated.Even Tao Qian cannot completely control every county in Xuzhou.

If the imperial court wants to take back Xuzhou, the resistance will not only come from Tao Qian and those aristocratic families.It can even be said that since Tao Qian came out, there has been almost no resistance.Tao Qian is old, but his two sons are incompetent. If Tao Qian's two sons are allowed to inherit his inheritance, the Tao family's bloodline will end here.

Therefore, as long as Tao Qian doesn't burn his head, he will definitely hand over Xuzhou to others.In Ye Mo's previous life, Tao Qian handed over the foundation of Xuzhou to Liu Bei, but now Liu Bei has defected to the Huns and become a national thief.If no other forces intervened in Xuzhou, Ye Mo guessed that Tao Qian would probably hand over Xuzhou to the Chen family.

If it is handed over to the Chen family, then the Cao family must have no good fruit to eat.The reason why Tao Qian reused Cao Bao was because Cao Bao could train soldiers and fight wars, but he didn't have much ability.When Tao Qian can recruit a good general, he can take back the military power from Cao Bao at any time.But Chen Deng was different. Although Chen Deng was a scholar, he was also a Confucian general.

Chen Deng's ability to lead troops to fight is much better than Cao Bao's.But Chen Deng was just a lieutenant of Diannong, who was in charge of agricultural production.It can be seen that Tao Qian is indeed wary of the Chen family.

Ye Mo and Cao Bao were chatting in the study, and finally learned some about the situation in Xuzhou through Cao Bao, which was also very helpful to Ye Mo's plan.With Tao Qian agreeing to introduce churches and newspapers, Ye Mo could minimize the influence of the Chen family on the people of Xuzhou.

The reason why the aristocratic family can control the vast number of people is because the people have no source of information, and can only know the affairs of the world by attaching to the major aristocratic families.For example, a small merchant in Xiapi wants to go to Guangling to do business, but he doesn't know what to make money, so he can only prepare goods based on the news from the Chen family.When the trader made money, he would follow the Chen family wholeheartedly, and besides the Chen family, he had no other channels to obtain such news.

But now it is different. The imperial court first opened the church, and the children of poor families can read and write.In this way, the Xuzhou aristocratic family's monopoly on cultural knowledge was broken.Afterwards, through newspapers, those common people were able to obtain more authentic information.Moreover, this newspaper is personally supervised by the current emperor, that is to say, the things in this newspaper represent the words of the emperor, who dare not believe it?

As a result, those families that rely on cultural monopoly to profit from the common people will face a developmental winter period. If they want to survive, there are only two options, one is transformation, and the other is relocation.It's just that the homeland is hard to move, and no one will leave if nothing happens, so these families will face a problem of how to transform.

If these families want to transform, they will definitely have an impact on some established families in this field.For example, if the Chen family in Xuzhou wanted to do business, the Mi family would secretly make trouble no matter what.After all, we are not very familiar, why should I give you a certain market share?
Of course, even if these families do not transform, they can survive well by relying on a large amount of grain fields hoarded.However, Ye Mo will not be soft on this type of family.Relying on the system's monthly crops, the Luo Family Chamber of Commerce controlled by Ye Mo will have an unprecedented impact on the food prices of the entire Dahan.Moreover, if Ye Mo remembered correctly, within the past two years, there must be a large-scale plague of locusts.And that locust plague was the opportunity for the Luo Family Chamber of Commerce to enter the grain market.

It's just that Ye Mo thought about this in his heart, but he wouldn't say it to Cao Bao.If Cao Bao knew about Ye Mo's plan, it would be strange that Cao Bao would still be on Ye Mo's side.

After the two talked for nearly an hour, Cao Bao left from the study of the State Shepherd's Mansion.

After dawn the next day, Sun Jian led his army to Jiangdong, and Cao Bao also wanted to return to Xiapi.This time, Cao Bao not only completed the task, but also hugged a thigh. Not to mention how comfortable he felt.

Han Siam, on the other hand, led a total of [-] troops under his command, and tens of thousands of Huai County supported Lu Bu.Li Feng accompanied Han Xian to Huai County. As long as Lu Bu can take Jizhou by then, Li Feng should go to Pingyuan City to take office.

As for Ye Mo, he took Dian Wei, Ye San, Sun Ce and the two hundred experienced two-handed swordsmen to Hangu Pass.So many things happened at Hangu Pass, and Ye Mo was extremely worried about Ye Hua's situation when Ye Yi still had no news.

After Ye Hua withdrew from Tongguan, he went to Qinling.Ye Mo once walked through the Qinling Mountains, so Ye Mo knows how difficult it is to walk through the Qinling Mountains, not to mention that Ye Hua is still seriously injured.

There are Qu Yi and Xu Rong in Hangu Pass, so it is not easy for Yuan Shao to break through, but Ye Mo also knows that the counselors in Yuan Shao's hands are really too powerful.Wei Zhongdao just went to Yangzhou as an envoy, and he persuaded Yuan Shu and Sun Jian to send troops, and Ye Mo felt lucky to be able to solve the crisis along the way.

As for Han Fu, this person has great aspirations and few talents, no, he doesn't even have a high aspirations.Han Fukong occupies the fertile land of Jizhou with a population of one million.If Cao Cao is Jizhou Mu at this time, Ye Mo can guarantee that there are few princes in the world who can compete with Cao Cao.It's just that Cao Cao now has [-] soldiers in Qingzhou, but these soldiers are basically the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army, and their combat effectiveness is better than that of ordinary people.

Ye Mo didn't understand whether Cao Cao hadn't expressed his opinion until now, whether it was because Cao Cao's heart was towards the Han Dynasty or because he was not yet fully prepared.Cao Cao is now surrounded by uncles and nephews of the Xun family, the Xiahou brothers, and a large group of generals and civil servants from the Cao family. His talent pool is no less than that of the imperial court.Even now there are still many vacancies in the imperial court, because no good alternate officials have been found.

But when Ye Mo was thinking about these things, Sun Ce interrupted him. "Brother, let's go to Hangu Pass, should we defend the pass or take Tongguan?"

Ye Mo was brought back to reality by Sun Ce's voice, and replied with a smile: "Since your eldest brother went to Hangu Pass, how could it be just to defend Hangu Pass? Then Tongguan Pass will naturally be captured by your eldest brother. "

After hearing Ye Mo's words, Sun Ce's eyes were filled with little stars.When Ye Mo saw this, he thought it was Sun Ce's great admiration for him, and he felt a little bit of color in his heart.However, what Sun Ce said next gave Ye Mo a slap in the face. "Brother, when we capture Tongguan, can you let my younger brother be the vanguard?" It turned out that Sun Ce was only excited because he saw a battle going on, but Ye Mo was just narcissistic.

Ye Mo looked at Sun Ce with an unhappy expression, and said: "On the battlefield, swords and guns have no eyes, how can you be a pioneer? Besides, if you only rely on force to win Tongguan, how can you show your elder brother's ability? After finishing speaking, Ye Mo ignored Sun Ce and rode his horse to the side.

It's just that Sun Ce didn't know that Ye Mo didn't let him be a pioneer because Ye Mo was angry at that time.Very angry, Sun Ce didn't praise him, how could it be?

(End of this chapter)