At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Therefore, they consulted the relevant departments of the inner court one after another to understand the most important things for merchants at sea, so that the merchant ships could return victoriously, loaded with gold and silver, and let them make a lot of money.

There were quite a few people who set off in the first wave, and they were all famous figures in the imperial court.

Take out the money at home and set off with the emperor's merchant fleet. I don't know if it's for making money or to please the emperor and show that he stands with the emperor.

Wouldn't the cost be too great if it was just to show that he was standing with the emperor?

Some officials are puzzled by this.

To believe that they can make money, there must be enough samples for them to believe that it is not enough for the emperor to make a lot of money alone.

These people's going to sea is also a proof for everyone, so that other people who have the capital to go to sea believe that they can indeed make money by going to sea, and it is still blood.

Guo Jia asked the Guo clan to borrow a lot of money, because Guo Jia did not have much money himself.

Cao Cao also asked Cao Ren to borrow a lot of money, because Mrs. Ding was unwilling to let Cao Cao take risks with her family, so Cao Cao had to ask Cao Ren, the richest man in the Cao family, to borrow money.

Cao Ren was generous, and lent a lot of money to Cao Cao, so Cao Cao made a lot of trouble, and after a lot of tossing, he managed to get five large ships and a lot of goods, and joined the sea-going team.

Cao Cao originally planned to send a member of the Cao clan with some prestige to be the leader of the Cao clan, but he thought that would be enough.

But Cao Cao didn't expect his young son Cao Chongzhi to take the initiative to invite Ying, saying that he hoped to go to Rome with the merchant fleet to increase his knowledge.

Cao Chongzhi's original name was Cao Chong. Although he was a concubine, Cao Cao loved him very much and often took him by his side, and his treatment was no worse than that of several legitimate sons.

In the early years of Yande, in response to Guo Peng's policy of removing the second name, Cao Cao changed Cao Chong's name to Cao Chongzhi.

On the one hand, this is a response to the policy. On the other hand, Cao Cao also has the idea of ​​​​changing his son's name and changing his destiny.

When Cao Chongzhi was young, he was in poor health and often fell ill. This made Cao Cao very worried. He thought that changing his name would bring about a good change, but he never thought that Cao Chongzhi fell seriously ill not long after changing his name and almost died. .

Fortunately, Hua Tuo, the owner of the Great Medical Center, acted in time and spent several months curing Cao Chongzhi's illness.

Since then, Cao Chongzhi seems to have changed his body, and his body has become stronger day by day.

Everyone said that this is a blessing if you survive a catastrophe, but Cao Cao felt that this had nothing to do with changing his name.

Cao Cao likes Cao Chongzhi because he is smart and active in thinking. He often gets full marks in exams since he was a child, and he always gives Cao Cao a face, which makes Cao Cao very happy.

Guo Jia's sons were not as good as Cao Chongzhi, and they were completely crushed by Cao Chongzhi academically.

Cao Cao often mocked Guo Jia with this, and Guo Jia always blew his beard and stared angrily, but there was nothing he could do.

If someone gave birth to a good son, what could he do?

The older he got, the better Cao Chongzhi became, and he seemed to be the top student among the students of the same period. Guo Jia, who was envious, didn't know how many lemons he ate. Of course, Cao Cao loved Cao Chongzhi more and more.

This trip to sea, Cao Chongzhi originally finished his studies ahead of schedule, completed the crown ceremony, and was preparing for the imperial examination. When he heard the news, he immediately took the initiative to invite Ying, hoping to go to Rome to increase his knowledge.

Cao Cao didn't want to agree to this.

"The risk at sea is extremely high. Once there is a storm at sea, the ship is very easy to capsize. If one is not good, even the people and the ship are gone. It's okay for others to go. Even if the ship capsizes, the father will recognize it, but you have to go , how can you rest assured as a father?"

Cao Cao was not at all willing to let his beloved youngest son do such a risky thing as Hai Hai.

But Cao Chongzhi is not. He is young and energetic, and he thinks it is admirable to experience things that no one has experienced before. It is very wonderful to experience the vastness and danger of the sea, as well as exotic civilizations.

Cao Cao tried his best to beg, but Cao Cao finally couldn't bear this kind of soft and hard talk, so he nodded in desperation.

But for this, Cao Cao had to pay an extra sum of money, and arranged some guards to board the boat to protect Cao Chongzhi, and ensure Cao Chongzhi's safety.

He was also worried about Cao Chongzhi's food and drink, so he equipped him with a lot of things for him to eat and drink alone, as well as pickled meat and so on.

Although he knew that such equipment was meaningless in the event of a shipwreck, Zhang Liao and Xin Pi vividly described the sense of powerlessness and despair when the shipwreck happened.

A general like Zhang Liao, who has experienced many battles and is on the verge of extinction, feels that the storm at sea is even more terrifying, let alone Simpi.

At that time, Zhang Liao was still able to stand still to stabilize the army's morale, while Xin Pi shrank in a corner, pale and shivering, and his legs were still weak when he got ashore.

Of course, Zhang Liao didn't say this kind of thing, but Xin Pi said it himself to laugh at himself, saying that he was timid, and that the storm at sea was terrible, etc.

It can be said that Cao Cao is not completely ignorant of storms at sea.

After much deliberation, he still came to Cao Chongzhi's room on the eve before Cao Chongzhi's departure, hoping that he would not go.

"My father has heard a little about the horror of storms at sea. Once encountered, there is no chance of surviving. It's okay if you don't encounter them. Once you encounter them, you... how can you live as a father?"

Cao Cao held Cao Chongzhi's hand and refused to let go.

Cao Chongzhi just laughed.

"Father, a son is going to grow up after all, and he wants to become an independent family and leave his father. If he can't leave him for a while, can he never leave him for the rest of his life? Can a father raise his son for 18 years, can he continue to raise his son until he dies?"

"Others can't do it, but I can do it."

Cao Cao occasionally wanted to be willful.

Cao Chongzhi couldn't help laughing.

"Father, a man stands upright, and shouldn't just hide in a corner. If he only lives in a corner for the rest of his life, wouldn't he be watching the sky from a well? My son heard that the state affairs, military affairs, folk customs, and production of Lomo Kingdom are very different from mine. .

So my son wants to go and see how the Loumo Kingdom, which is thousands of miles away, came into being and how it became a great country. The son wants to communicate face-to-face with the talents of the Loumo Kingdom, and discover their differences and similarities. . "

Cao Cao looked at his proud son, and thought that he was going to go out on his own and set up his own family. It was impossible for him to stay by his side forever, so he sighed deeply and patted the back of Cao Chongzhi's hand.

"My mother is worried when my son travels thousands of miles, so why isn't my father worried? Your elder brothers are in different places now. Zi Xiuyuan is in the Zhenxi Duhu Mansion, Zihuan is in Xuzhou, Zijian has gone to Pingzhou, and Ziwen is in Mo Zhou joined the army, as a father, there is only you by my side."

"Father……"

Cao Chongzhi couldn't bear to look at his aging father, but just as he was about to say something, Cao Cao let go of his hand.

"That's all, that's all, you go, see more of the outside world, and see things that people in your father's generation have never seen before. It will be of many benefits to you. After all, you have to establish your own family, start a family and start a business for yourself. Father can't control you for the rest of your life."

Cao Cao stared deeply at Cao Chongzhi's face: "However, there is only one requirement for being a father, pay attention to safety."

"Father... son understands."

Cao Chongzhi held back his emotion and nodded.

After all, Cao Cao did not stop the little eagle who wanted to fly alone to go out to sharpen his wings. He let go of his hand and gave the little eagle a chance to grow up. He hoped to see the little eagle come back safely, and he had already learned it when he came back. fly.

Because after all, they want to be independent, stand on their own, and become the head of the family by themselves.

After the Qingzhang land policy was fully implemented, the Wei Empire formulated a very strict household division plan, stipulating that sons must go out and become independent after they get married and become adults, set up their own households, and re-register on the government household registration, no one is exempt.

Of course, people like Cao Cao are no exception, or rather, they cannot be an exception.

What Guo Peng is particularly concerned about is the division of households of high-ranking officials and dignitaries.

After becoming an adult, you must get married. After you get married, you must set up your own family and live by yourself. Strictly put an end to such behaviors as three generations living under the same roof and four generations living under the same roof.

After the Wei Empire’s allotments were divided into mu, although the basis of taxation became land, in terms of corvee and military service, it was mainly determined according to households.

When something happened, every household had to give out a man. If there were too many people in a family but only one man, it would be tantamount to weakening the mobilization ability of the Wei Empire in disguise.

Guo Peng paid special attention to this point, especially in the families of high-ranking officials and dignitaries. If the children were not allowed to stand on their own in time, the career of the parents would be in serious danger.

Even for the sake of official career, after the son gets married as an adult, he must immediately go out to set up his own family and re-register.

Cao Cao also knew that he couldn't keep Cao Chongzhi for a long time.

Even so, as a father, it is impossible not to worry about his son. He always feels that his son has not grown up yet, and it is too early to go out and start his own family.

The next day, Cao Cao bid farewell to Cao Chongzhi.

Watching Cao Chongzhi set off to Qingzhou with the mighty Cao family team, he was going to board the ship in Qingzhou, and then went to Yangzhou Merchant Shipping Base to join the large troops, and then headed west.

chapter 1410 one thousand 320 doomed

While Cao Cao bid farewell to his beloved son and left the court, in Luoyang City, the strict military system review has produced many results.

The investigation team led by Cheng Yu spent almost two months, mobilized more than a thousand people, and read countless documents.

During the work period, not only the entire vacant space of the Sili Xiaowei's Mansion was filled, but even seven or eight classrooms of the Taixue were requisitioned, as well as a barracks of the Wei Army.

Repeated verification of large amounts of data, repeated investigations, and repeated calculations made many officials of the investigation team and Tai students tired of doing four arithmetic operations in their dreams.

At first, the civilian government thought that they had escaped a catastrophe, that they could be punished as members of the official army system and watch the show by themselves.

As a result, the investigation team needed the support of the Ministry of Finance and the Cabinet Audit Division to help them verify the data.

According to the financial accounting requirements stipulated by Guo Peng in the early years of Yande, any place involving the use of money by the imperial court requires three sets of data.

One is kept by the money-using department itself, the other is kept by the Ministry of Finance, and the other is kept by the Cabinet Audit Department.

Once it needs to be verified or investigated in the future, take out the three data for comparison.

Three sets of data, three divisions will review to see if there is any department tampering with the data.

So the Ministry of Finance and the Cabinet Audit Department had to send people to help with the review, and they had to be interrogated by the investigation team from time to time to see if there was any possibility of collusion.

The army is outside, but the Ministry of War is inside.

Dong Zhao, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, set a record of being "invited" by the joint investigation team to assist in the investigation 48 times within one month, which made him exhausted physically and mentally.

As soon as I had a mouthful of hot food here, I was called over to assist in the investigation.

Before I had a sip of hot tea, I was called over to assist in the investigation.

This side is preparing to go home to rest after get off work, yes, I have to assist in the investigation again.

Dong Zhao didn't get a good night's sleep, and sometimes he dreamed that he was interrogated by Cheng Yu, and his wife said that his sleep talk was all about defending himself.

There's no way, Cheng Yu's investigation team is not just for accounting.

The investigation team is going to really find out the problem, clean up the pests in the army, and find out those bastards who eat the flesh and blood of soldiers.

Guo's own political purpose is second, the main purpose is to engage in anti-corruption work, to clean up the corruption problems accumulated in the army over the years.

The army was the cornerstone and reliance of the centralized autocratic monarchy of the Wei Empire. As long as the army was still there, the emperor would be in possession of nuclear weapons.

The emperor held real power, big or small, and he always had the ability to turn the table. He didn't have to be too restrained in doing things, and the civil government didn't dare to infringe on rights.

If there is a problem with the army, if it is corrupted, and its combat effectiveness and organization are greatly reduced, the imperial power will also decline accordingly.

If one day the relationship between the emperor and the army is severed, and the emperor cannot directly contact the army to control the army, and cannot directly command the army, then it will herald the decline of imperial power.

Corruption in the military is the catalyst for the decline of imperial power, and it is something Guo absolutely cannot accept.

Anyone who tries to mess around in the army, tries to make a fortune with military purchases, and wants to eat the flesh and blood of soldiers, then don't blame Mr. Guo for being ruthless.

The Grand Canal project is just short of people!

Not long after the funerals of the Supreme Emperor and the Supreme Empress were completed, logically speaking, it is not suitable to do such a thing at this time.

But Guo Peng is not.

He wants to show his great talent and strategy in unexpected places.

Cheng Yu's investigation first solved the few corruption problems in the Weijun. The Weijun had a total of seven quartermasters disposed of, and there were only seven who could engage in extreme challenges under Zhao Yun's nose. able man".

They themselves were killed, and the whole family was demoted to coolies. They were dispatched to Yizhou to repair the Shu Road, and basically they would never come back.

The logistics system of the guard army was completely cleared up, and the operation mode advocated by Zhao Yun for a long time was implemented, and it became clean and spotless, becoming the cleanest and purest army in the Wei Empire.

Once the problems of the Central Army are solved, the problems of other armies will also be solved.

The Northeast Corps under Yu Jin’s long-term implementation of the plow court sweeping policy requires a large amount of military equipment and living materials, and the flow of funds is very large. Moreover, the sky is high and the emperor is far away. In various senses, it is a breeding ground for corruption.

When Cheng Yu investigated the material and financial transactions of the Northeast Corps, he found many problems. A considerable part of the funds and materials were not accounted for. It seemed that someone had made fake accounts to try to profit from it.

Cheng Yu immediately interrogated the officials of the Ministry of Finance and the Audit Department of the Cabinet, but got nothing. He then interrogated the officials in charge of the Ministry of War. He cried and said that he really didn't know anything.

All the evidence at hand pointed to the insiders of the Northeast Corps. After much deliberation, Cheng Yu went to Guo Peng and asked to send a working group to the Northeast Corps on business. If necessary, he should also hold the commander Yu Jin accountable.

Guo Peng agreed, and authorized Cheng Yu to send capable experts to form an investigation team to go to the Northeast Corps on business, conduct on-the-spot inspections, and on-site interrogation.

The leader can hold the emperor's talisman to interrogate the commander-in-chief Yu Jin, and Yu Jin must cooperate, otherwise he will be guilty of conspiracy.

Later, similar incidents happened in both the Southeast Corps and the Southwest Corps, proving that Guo Peng's judgment was correct.

After not investigating the logistics system for a long time, some people felt that they were really far away from the sky and the emperor, and couldn't bear their claws, so they extended their claws to the army's logistics.

This time, all these claws must be cut off, so that those bastards who try to be latecomers can see clearly whether they are really far away from the emperor!

At Guo Peng's order, in addition to the Northeast Corps, the two main Corps of the Southwest and Southeast were also dispatched to investigate.

Carrying the questions they investigated and the emperor's token, they rushed to the army station to investigate the questions and interrogate the relevant personnel.

During the whole process, local officials and the military are not allowed to intervene. Once a problem is found, the military and local officials will also investigate if they are involved.

Chiefs at all levels in the army are obliged to accept interrogation and interrogation, and they are not allowed to resist. If they resist, they are guilty of conspiracy and should be executed.