Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 142 The End of a Generation of Kings
"Prime Minister Cao, we surrender."

Lu Su saw Cao Cao for the second time, but at this time Lu Su looked haggard, without any energy.

Not long after, in Tangyi City, the city gate was slowly opened, and countless surrendered soldiers came out of the city gate hole, they did not carry any weapons or armor.

In front of these surrendered soldiers were the civil servants and generals under Sun Quan.

"I have met Prime Minister Cao." Seeing Cao Cao, these people all saluted.

Now, as the surrendering party, when they saw Cao Cao, their attitude was naturally inferior.

"Excuse me, everyone." Cao Cao motioned for everyone to excuse themselves.

Facing the enemy generals and officials who surrendered, Cao Cao did not act with negligence or contempt, but instead warmly accepted everyone.

At this moment, no matter how much Cao Cao hated some of these people and wanted them to die without a burial, now, he has no reason to do anything underestimated.

Half an hour later, Cao Cao entered the city with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and he came directly to the most prosperous building in the city.

At this time, there was only one corpse in the building.

The owner of this corpse was Sun Quan who committed suicide by taking poison.

This well-known figure in history changed his fate because of the arrival of Zhang Qingfeng. He could have been emperor, but it's a pity.

"Buy him with the ceremonies of a prince!" Cao Cao ordered his subordinates in front of everyone.

On this day, with the surrender of Sun Quan's forces, Cao Cao's forces completely occupied Tangyi City.

With the occupation of Tangyi City, the entire Jiangbei area of ​​​​Sun Quan's forces fell into Cao Cao's hands.

The next day, Cao Cao led his troops across the river. On that day, Moling City surrendered, and more than 1 soldiers in the city were tied up.

Afterwards, Cao Cao began to spread his appeal to all parts of the south of the Yangtze River. Wherever the appeal went, all the places surrendered one after another.

Just a few days after Cao Cao attacked Moling City, the Youzhou fleet led by Zhang Chao finally arrived at the Moling section of the Yangtze River waterway.

On this day, Cao Cao personally led his generals to greet him at the ferry.

"Zhang Chao has met the prime minister."

Disembarking from the Youzhou, when he saw Cao Cao greet him personally, he hurriedly brought a group of brothers to pay a respect to Cao Cao.

"Zhang Chao, you are doing well."

Cao Cao personally stepped forward and patted Zhang Chao on the shoulder.

The battle report from Wancheng had been sent to Moling a few days ago.

Cao Cao laughed for several minutes when he learned that Wancheng not only defeated the [-] army led by Zhang Fei, but also captured thousands of Jingzhou naval forces, and even Guan Yu.

After Cao Cao received Zhang Chao and his party, he met Guan Yu again after many years.

At this time, Guan Yu lived in Wancheng for a few days, and stayed in the Youzhou fleet for a few days. Although no one abused him, he didn't seem to have the slightest energy.

During this time, Guan Yu was thinking about the current situation.

It's just that the more he thought about it, the more he realized that his lord seemed to have no chance.

Once Sun Quan was defeated, his elder brother Liu Bei would be the next to face Cao Cao's troops. With Liu Bei's strength, can he fight against Cao Cao?
Obviously not possible.

Whenever he thinks of this, Guan Yu's mood will drop a lot.

At this moment, the general situation of the world is already very clear,

"Yun Chang, you and I have not seen each other for more than ten years!" On the ferry, Cao Cao looked at Guan Yu with a sluggish face, and said in a rather emotional tone.

"I didn't expect the prime minister to still remember me. I'm so lucky." Guan Yu cupped his hands towards Cao Cao and said.

"When we parted at the beginning, you and I were on our own side. Now that we meet again, I will not let you go again. If you want, you can still hold a certain position in the imperial court. If you don't want to, you can also settle in Youzhou. I will make things difficult for you." Hug Bao said to Guan Yu.

Cao Cao has always admired Guan Yu's talent. Now that Cao Cao has defeated Sun Quan, Liu Bei is next. He no longer has such an urgent desire for talents.

For Guan Yu's talent, Cao Cao at this time has been able to ignore it.

On this day, Cao Cao held a banquet in Moling, and personally hosted Zhang Chao and his party who had returned from victory.

The next day, Cao Cao began to award meritorious ministers wantonly.

Whether it was Zhang Chao, or Lin Yongsheng, the commander of the Youzhou Fleet, and many others who had meritorious deeds, they were all rewarded by Cao Cao.

Lin Yongsheng was awarded the title of Fourth-Rank Navy Youlang General, the same level as Ding Ruchang who had made meritorious service in the Battle of Tongguan.

Zhang Chao, on the other hand, was conferred the title of Admiral Zuo Lang, a fourth rank, the same rank as Lin Yongsheng.

At the same time, many brothers who followed Lin Yongsheng and his party also received awards, ranging from seventh to fifth rank.

In addition to being appointed officials, there are also a lot of rewards in terms of money and land. This time Cao Cao spent a lot of money.

For example, each of the five thousand Youzhou Musketeers was rewarded with fifty thousand dollars and dozens of acres of land.

There are also gunners and crew members in the Youzhou fleet, etc., who have also received generous rewards.

Of course, Cao Cao was also generous to others. Most of these property and land rewards were deducted from the land in the south of the Yangtze River.

Just when Cao Cao rewarded meritorious ministers wantonly in the south of the Yangtze River.

Youzhou.

After several months of raids and attacks, the Xianbei people finally couldn't bear it, and were driven out of the east of Daxing'an Mountains by Youzhou soldiers and horses, and entered the territory of the Mongolian Plateau.

Youzhou soldiers and horses did not chase out to the west of Daxing'an Mountains. Except for most of the troops who withdrew to Youzhou, there was also a army of soldiers and horses stationed in Kebineng Xianbei's former royal city, the later Chifeng City.

After driving the Xianbei people out of the east of Daxing'an Mountains, Zhang Qingfeng had to consider how to control this territory.

After much deliberation, he planned to build such a concrete road from Youzhou to Rehe (Chengde) and then to Chifeng.

Only when such a road is built can the territory here be firmly controlled.

The road is expected to be built for three years, using tens of thousands of Xianbei captives and spending billions of dollars.

When Zhang Qingfeng was preparing to build such a concrete road, if it was before, he only needed to discuss it with Li Bai, but now, he encountered some obstacles.

"Teacher, I heard that you want to build a concrete road from Youzhou to the capital of Xianbei? Do you want to spend billions?"

It was Cao Pi who had come back from Liaodong to find Zhang Qingfeng.

"What? What do you think?" Zhang Qingfeng asked Cao Pi.

"It's not that I have an idea, but that many court ministers disagree with spending such a high price to build this road."

Cao Pi said: "Many people also believe that Youzhou's taxes should be collected by the imperial court."

Hearing Cao Pi's words, Zhang Qingfeng asked, "Then what do you think?"

"I, this, of course I don't support this statement, but the imperial court's finances have been quite tight these years. It would be great if we could distribute more to the imperial court." Cao Pi said.

Youzhou has now become the state with the most tax revenue.

After several years of development, Youzhou's tax revenue has risen from hundreds of millions a few years ago to billions a year now.

The degree of increase can be said to be geometric growth, and the rapid development of Youzhou in recent years can also be seen from the taxation.

Youzhou's annual tax revenue is so large that some people are naturally jealous.

Zhang Qingfeng guessed that it was false to take it back to the imperial court, and it was true that many people wanted to harm the public and gain their own interests, and only after all the tax revenue of Youzhou was collected by the imperial court, those powerful ministers could use their hands to reap the benefits.

(End of this chapter)