At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Cao Chun frowned and thought hard: "Although Zi Lian is rich and stingy, he has never intervened in government affairs. It is impossible to have grievances with others because of government affairs. People have disputes, otherwise, it is Man Boning."

There is a conflict between Man Chong and Cao Hong.

Back then, Cao Hong relied on his military achievements to do whatever he wanted, wantonly encroaching on land, annexing land, and infringing on the property of the farm, which caused incidents. At that time, Man Chong was in charge of the government affairs in Puyang. After learning about this, he directly confronted Cao Hong.

After that, Man Chong gained a great reputation, and was absorbed into the family circle by Guo Peng, married Guo's daughter as his wife, and became a prosperous.

On the contrary, Cao Hong was beaten to the end and beaten. Now Cao Hong's military achievements are not as good as the head general of the first echelon, and it was probably at that time that he started to fall behind.

Therefore, it can be said that there is no deep hatred between Cao Hong and Man Chong.

But Man Chong is far away in Yizhou now, so he can't travel across thousands of mountains and rivers to frame Cao Hong, right?

And even if something happened, it would be Man Chong who got the benefits, and Cao Hong would take revenge if he wanted revenge. How could it be that Man Chong wanted to take the initiative to frame Cao Hong again?

The logic doesn't make sense.

Was it framed because of financial disputes with certain people?

Cao Chun put forward the idea, Cao Cao thought about it, and felt that it was really right.

Cao Hong's family is very rich, and there are many properties and shops under his name. The business competition in Luoyang City is fierce, and every family has a backstage. If there is a conflict with someone, that is very possible.

But something always feels wrong.

After dinner, Cao Chun was sent away. After reading for a while, Cao Cao went to bed early, and decided to arrange for someone to investigate this matter thoroughly tomorrow, and sent someone to Sili Xiaowei's mansion to inquire about news.

The cabinet is busy with official duties, and he has to be distracted by Cao Hong's affairs, so he feels quite tired.

People in their 50s are not as energetic as before, and they can no longer sleep for a few days and nights without eating well, and they can still allocate food and grass for him to ensure logistics and help him with Guo Peng. Yuan Shao decisive battle.

At night, Cao Cao fell tired and fell asleep under Mrs. Ding's service.

Closing my eyes, I wanted to fall asleep as soon as possible, but I couldn't fall asleep well. There were always strange voices in my head, who was speaking, who was crying, and who was laughing.

After working hard for a while, Cao Cao still couldn't fall asleep smoothly, so he had to open his eyes and sigh slightly.

"What's wrong? Can't sleep?"

Madam Ding turned to look at Cao Cao.

Cao Cao took a deep breath, and then let it out slowly.

"Everything is complicated, and my head is also a mess. When I close my eyes, all those things come to me all at once. How can I sleep peacefully..."

"No matter how they come up, these things can't be solved by lying in bed at night. Go to sleep."

Madam Ding reached out and patted Cao Cao's chest lightly.

Cao Cao was silent for a while.

"That's right, go to sleep, no matter what you do, you can't do it in the dead of night."

With such emotions, Cao Cao closed his eyes again.

Suddenly, the scene of his conversation with Guo Peng during the day appeared before his eyes.

[Such a big manor is not well managed, and such a big incident makes people in the world suspect you, Cao. Is this something I want to see?where is the problem?Why Cao Hong?You go back and think about it seriously! 】

Guo Peng's words rang in his ears.

With such a shock, Cao Cao suddenly opened his eyes and sat up all of a sudden, which startled Madam Ding.

"Meng De, what's the matter?"

Madam Ding quickly sat up and looked at Cao Cao in amazement.

"I see, ma'am, I see, I see what it is! I see!"

chapter 1319 one thousand two hundred and twenty nine

After making a sound of epiphany, Cao Cao turned his head to look at Madam Ding.

Mrs. Ding was full of confusion.

"What's the matter?"

"The matter of Zilian, why Zilian was arrested, why something happened, I want to understand, I know what's going on."

"what happened?"

"Land, it is because of the land, there is no other reason, it is because of the land!"

Cao Cao took a deep breath: "Zi Lian was wrong on this point. If not, he would never have fallen to this point! I already understand what His Majesty means, I already understand everything!"

"land?"

Madam Ding was very surprised and didn't know what Cao Cao meant by that.

After Cao Cao made his considerations clear, Madam Ding covered her mouth in surprise.

"How could this be? His Majesty, he..."

"Your Majesty today is a person who will kill 10 people for the annexation of land."

Cao Cao took a deep breath: "Ma'am, Your Majesty is no longer the Xiaoyi of Qiao County. Forget all this, don't think about it anymore. Your Majesty is an emperor comparable to the First Emperor. Now, don't let me do it again." If you look at him that way, something will happen.

By the way, ma'am, what I said to you tonight, forget, forget all, don't mention it to anyone on any occasion, including everyone around us, even the children, and the elders in the family, no one can say rise"

Cao Cao took Madam Ding's hand.

Madam Ding felt Cao Cao's serious attitude, pursed her lips, and nodded with difficulty.

Although Mrs. Ding still remembers the appearance of Guo Peng when he was young, and the happy appearance when he married Cao Lan.

That child who was so young at the beginning has now turned into this, and has become the supreme being in the world.

As Cao Cao said, all of this should not come back, and Guo Peng will not return to his original appearance. The relationship between them is not just relatives, not just a simple relationship.

Therefore, I can only forget it and never mention it again.

But Cao Cao lowered his head, sighed deeply, and lay down on the bed with Madam Ding again.

"Meng De, do people really change so much and so fast?"

Madam Ding asked suddenly.

"Yes, there has never been anyone who will not change. Eight years old, 15 years old, 20 years old, and 30 years old, 40 years old, they are all different. Your Majesty is already at the age of forty. Anything, everything, is not the same. It would confuse him."

"But I feel that there is not much difference between you and the past. How you were at the beginning has not changed much now."

Madam Ding turned her head to look at Cao Cao.

Cao Cao pursed his lips, remained silent for a while, and then laughed.

"After all, I have never been a general, Duke of Wei, king of Wei, or emperor. He has been with him all the way, and I have been with him, but after all, I am not him. have experienced something."

Cao Cao turned his head and looked at Mrs. Ding: "Madam, what Zifeng has experienced is beyond my imagination. If I have experienced all this, maybe you will not recognize me now."

Madam Ding was taken aback for a moment, then smiled slightly.

"It's a good thing you didn't."

"Yeah, luckily I didn't, but..."

The smile on Cao Cao's face disappeared: "I don't know what Alan will think of the person next to him. After all, it is the Cao family. What will Alan think when he finds out, what will he think of Zifeng, and what will happen to their relationship? ?”

Mrs. Ding heard what Cao Cao said, thought about Cao Lan, and sighed helplessly.

This kind of thing is indeed beyond their ability to intervene and change.

After that, the couple had nothing to say all night.

In the early morning of the next day, Cao Cao went to work in the cabinet as usual, and all the officials he met along the way looked at Cao Cao strangely.

To this, Cao Cao didn't react extraneously.

He acted as if he didn't know this kind of thing happened at all, as if he had never encountered Cao Hong's arrest at all, and he didn't care at all.

He performed his duties in the cabinet as usual, dealt with the matters sent by the emperor as usual, and then wrote a summary report.

Around noon, when the officials were taking their lunch break, Cao Cao tidied up his desk, left the cabinet alone, and came to Sili Xiaowei's mansion to meet Cheng Yu.

The chief minister of the cabinet came to see him, and Cheng Yu had to see him.

In fact, Cheng Yu was interrogating the people in Cao Hong's family who were in charge of the field account books at that time, and conducted intensive interrogation on these people.

He felt that since the emperor wanted to dismember Cao Hong's property, it would be better to do it thoroughly, find out more evidence of crimes, punish more, and give more income to the treasury.

One person can control 20 mu of land and [-] hidden households, which can be compared with those small countries in the Spring and Autumn Period, and he can be his own king.

As Guo Peng said, Liu Jian exchanged the position of the Han Empire and emperor with him for the position of Lord Wanhu, and he accepted it because it was a political necessity.

But Cao Hong was very straightforward. He sealed himself as a marquis of ten thousand households and could continue to expand. Maybe by then there would be 40 mu of land and [-] hidden households.

In terms of merit and status, he is far inferior to Cao Ren, but his family property is even bigger and bigger than Cao Ren's.

This kind of thing can only be done by an extremely greedy guy like Cao Hong.

Cheng Yu could feel Guo Peng's unhappiness. He felt that dismembering Cao Hong's property must be a very wonderful thing, and he could get Guo Peng's approval and gain more power.

However, after interrogation and interrogation, there was really nothing worthy of attention. It felt like Cao Hong was really clean.

Except for the land, he really didn't seem to have any problems, and no matter how hard he checked, he couldn't find out.

According to the records in the land account book, all the land that Cao Hong got, the more than 20 mu of land, was really clean. They were all taken from the owner of the manor and were not involved in the Tuntian farm.

This made Cheng Yu very depressed.

Can't really find the slightest problem?

Ever since Guo Peng defeated Yuan Shao and Cao Hong was beaten up by Man Chong, Cao Hong has always been very timid, and he has never dared to make a move on the land of Tuntian Farm.

At the beginning, he was beaten half to death by Guo Peng because he attacked the land of Tuntian Farm, and was thrown into a small black room for three days and three nights, which almost caused something wrong.

So since then, Cao Hong has been very obedient in making money and merging land, trying his best to avoid conflicts with Tuntian farms, and resolutely refraining from infringing on state-owned assets.

However, he particularly likes huge assets.

He likes fertile land and huge manors, and he likes the feeling of counting money. The feeling of being rich and getting more money but not spending it outside makes him unable to stop.

The more the merrier, the more the merrier, the more the merrier!

Therefore, he set his target on those powerful manor owners.

They have a lot of land, which is very fertile, and there is a lot of property in the family. Everything in the manor is incomparable to the Tuntian Farm, and it is almost a complete small society.

As long as you get the ownership, you can immediately occupy it and increase your assets.

All of them are taken over, all of which are their own. What's more wonderful is that the land and property owned by these manor owners are not within the calculation range of the court, and the court will not pursue it at all.

Guo Peng does not allow anyone to do anything to Tuntian Farm.

If there is, it is death. He was lucky enough to avoid death once, and he was persuaded, so he found another way to beat the local tyrants.

He knew that Guo Peng never liked these powerful manor owners who owned a lot of land, so he felt that as long as he also beat local tyrants, Guo Peng would be very happy.

Once Guo Peng is happy, he will not care about the fact that he owns a large amount of land, and everything will be wonderful.

Chapter 1320 One thousand 230 Cheng Yu became excited quickly, then calmed down quickly

From the first year of Yande, Cao Hong, who served as the left general of the guard army and became one of the four leading generals of the central army, began to rely on his status and power to fight.

Luoyang, Yuzhou, and Yanzhou are not easy to do, because these places have been plagued by soldiers very simply, and there are no powerful ones.

Luoyang was devastated by the Dong Zhuo and Xiliang armies, Yuzhou was miserably devastated by the Yellow Turban Army and Yuan Shu, and Yanzhou was miserably miserably suffered by the Yellow Turban Army, Guo Peng, and Lu Bu successively. There are no areas to target.

But Jizhou and Qingzhou are different.

It has not been harmed much, and there are many remnants of the old era, and it has not been liquidated.

Guo Peng has changed many residences, including Qingzhou, Yanzhou, and Jizhou. Among them, Qingzhou and Jizhou stayed for a long time, and there are many civil and military people who own industries in Qingzhou and Jizhou. Cao Hong is one of the best.

He first built his own manors in Qingzhou and Jizhou. Before Guo Peng established the Dukedom of Wei, he acquired a considerable amount of land to establish Cao's manor by means of preemption and purchase.

After Guo Peng replaced Liu Jian as emperor, Cao Hong began to persecute the powerful manor owners in Qingzhou and Jizhou.