Chapter 34: Faith

In late April, the Prime Minister's Office received a report from Deputy Prime Minister Cao Pi. He had found out where the military rations were going. Most of them were robbed by Xianbei people on the way to Macheng, Daijun. None of the soldiers and civilians were spared. Therefore, the whereabouts of them were not found for a long time. A small number were corrupted by illegal officials. Cao Pi was vigorously pursuing them. At the same time, a batch of grain and grass was mobilized from Jizhou to personally escort to Daijun and handed them to Cao Zhang, the general of Zhenbei, to solve the urgent problem.

Two days later, an emergency military newspaper was delivered to the hands of Prime Minister Cao Cao and General Cao Chong. General Cao Zhang of Zhenbei seized the fighter opportunity and took advantage of the situation where Bu Dugen and Kirby were in disagreement and attacked Danhan Mountain in the Xianbei royal court, burning Danhan Mountain King Ting. Bu Dugen fled to the north in a hurry, and won a great victory in the northern border. At the same time, Cao Pi also reported a message that Cao Zhang did not listen to the persuasion of the crowd and wanted to learn from Li Xin. He did not give up until he caught Bu Dugen. He led his ten thousand elite cavalry to go deep into the north and chased him north.

Cao Pi told the military newspaper about his persuasion of Cao Zhang's rejection, and he was crying. He was very worried about Cao Zhang, but he was just the deputy prime minister and had no military command and could not interfere with Cao Zhang's military operations. He had already issued a document for the former general Xiahou Dun and the left general Cao Ren, asking them to send troops to support him. At the same time, in order to prevent the situation, he urged the general, and the General of the Cavalry immediately ordered two troops to send troops immediately, so as not to encounter unexpected accidents, and things on the grassland would change rapidly and not be delayed.

When Cao Chong received the battle report, he smelled the smell of blood. Although Cao Zhang was brave, it was possible to attack Tanhan Mountain. After all, Tanhan Mountain was only 200 miles away from the border and could be reached in a day and a night at the speed of a cavalry. It was entirely possible to catch Bu Dugen in a misguided manner, but it was impossible for a lonely army to pursue the Xianbei people in deep pursuit. Cao Zhang had no idea that he did not understand this common sense. He used the cavalry of the surprise attack to conduct long-distance pursuit? The surprise attack was a surprise attack and the food and supplies it brought were limited, which could not meet the requirements of long-distance pursuit at all.

But it was too late to say this. Since Cao Pi said that Cao Zhang had gone to chase him, no matter what the reason was, it was certainly true that Cao Zhang went to chase him. He was still in Jinyang City, Taiyuan County. It was obvious that it was too late to ask the entire army to rush to support Cao Zhang. In desperation, he ordered Chen Dao to lead the 10,000 knights in the Northern Army and the 3,000 long-term army under Xun Yun, one man and two horses, to quickly rush to Yunzhong. At the same time, the fast horses ordered Zhang Liao, Cao Ren and Xiahou Dun's troops to attack, not to go deep into the grassland to cooperate in combat, but to create a illusion for the Xianbei people to launch a large-scale operation, disperse their troops, and reduce pressure for Cao Zhang, hoping that in case.

After the cavalry set off, Cao Chong was about to set off with the remaining soldiers, mainly infantrymen. At this time, Wu Qiu Jian, who sent the letter to the Prime Minister's Mansion, came back and brought Cao Cao's orders. Cao Cao said that the army in the northern border was enough, not to be limited to the Northern Army for one or two thousand people, and that Cao Chong should be stationed in Jinyang, and should not act rashly. Then the two million stones of military rations issued by the Prime Minister's Mansion would set out from here and send them to the northern border. Cao Chong had to make arrangements along the way and not make any mistakes.

Wuqiu Jian was the soldier who ran from Liaodong for six days and six nights to send the news of the victory in Liaodong to Xu County. He was from Wenxi, Hedong, with his courtesy name Zhonggong. His father Wuqiu Xing was now a military officer under Zhong Yao, the captain of Sili. Wuqiu Jian was good at literary talent and eloquence, but he was unwilling to be a literati. He was determined to gain fame immediately. General Cao Pi of Zhendong recruited famous scholars into the mansion, and he also went, but his Weiqiu family was just a small clan in Wenxi, Hedong, and he didn't get any good seats. He could only be a soldier in the general's mansion. In the battle of Liaodong, he fought with the chief secretary Zhang Cheng, but he did not get the chance to fight the first battle. He was unwilling to give up and got the opportunity to deliver the letter again. He never expected that he would run for six days and six nights without changing horses. The good news was delivered, but he almost lost his life - if Cao Chong had not saved him.

Wu Qiu Jian was extremely disappointed with Cao Pi, so he turned to Cao Chong's disciple and worked as an entrepreneur. Because of his good knowledge, Cao Chong stayed in Xu County this time and asked for relevant news. Therefore, in addition to bringing Cao Cao's orders, he also brought the latest news about Xu County.

Cao Zhi returned from Guangling with a group of people. After verifying Cao Chong's idea on the sea, the royalists led by Wei Feng and others were hit hard by the fact that they saw with their own eyes. Although they could not imagine how people stayed on a big ball, they had to admit that the results of the sea experiment proved that the earth was not square, but was round, at least not the kind of big square that I thought before. The impact of this result was not just a question of whether the earth was round or square, but broke the foundation of the celestial phenomena used by Confucianism to become the system. Since the sky was round and the place was not established, it was impossible to explain the sky without two days. Zhou Buyi followed the trend and began to emphasize that although some of the countries he had been through were relatively small, most of them were not as big as the Han, there were not many empires similar to each other. They all had kings, that is, the sky had no two days, and there were also several days, which was probably much more than the emperors on the earth.

"Zhonggong, is the situation in Xu County still lively?" Cao Chong asked with a smile while looking through the letter written by Zhou Buyi.

Wu Qiu Jian bowed with a smile on his face and replied, "General, Xu County is still lively now, but it's not like the quarrels like the ones in the past few days. Mr. Zhou and others have the upper hand. Those people are studying the Journey to the West written by Mr. Zhou, looking for Mr. Zhou's loopholes. Recently, when talking about the system of the Great Qin State and the one in Egypt, they were all refuted by Mr. Zhou. Mr. Zhou's article was printed, and Xu County was robbed crazy. As long as you know a few words, you can watch it. I also brought a copy, General, please read it."

As Wu Qiu Jian said, he took out a neatly stacked newspaper from his arms and carefully opened it to Cao Chong. The front page headline was an article written by Zhou Buyi: Learn from strengths and weaknesses, carry forward the past and open up the future - on the advantages and disadvantages of the Great Qin State's politics and the inspiration for our great Han Dynasty.

Cao Chong read the article quickly and enthusiastically. Zhou Buyi said in the article that studying the gains and losses of the Qin Dynasty does not mean copying the national affairs of the Qin Dynasty. Facts have proved that although the Qin Dynasty has been glorious for nearly a thousand years, it has now been sunset. The people of the Qin Dynasty have become corrupt parasitic classes. They cannot pick their shoulders and cannot hold their hands. They do nothing all day long, relying on robbing other countries' wealth to live, and even lazy to rob, they need to use mercenaries. It is hard to imagine how far such a country can go. What we need to do is to compare the rise and fall of the Qin Dynasty with the rise and fall of our Han Dynasty, learn from our strengths and weaknesses, find some useful things from it, correct the crux of the national affairs of our Han Dynasty, revive the Han Dynasty, and open peace for all ages.

"Yes, Yuan Zhi's vision has indeed become higher and higher." Cao Chong praised and smiled with satisfaction. It seems that it is worth it to let Zhou Buyi go out for a trip. Others are smart, but now they have increased their knowledge. They can be said to be able to learn from the inside and outside. Once the original rules and regulations are broken, he will think about problems at a higher level. Compared with Xun Yu, he may not be as deep as Xun Yu, but his vision is not comparable to Xun Yu. He did not advocate the overall westernization like the literati of later generations, not only because the Han Dynasty has not been trampled under his feet like the Qing government in later generations, but more importantly, he still retains the bloodline of the Han people. The fire of the Han people has not been completely destroyed, and scholars have not become weak scholars who only know poetry, songs and essays and talk about politics.

"Mr. Zhou is so famous now." Wu Qiu Jian said with some envy, and his eyes showed a ray of desire.

"Zhonggong, you only know that Mr. Zhou is famous now. I believe you would never have thought that he had suffered after six years of traveling abroad." Cao Chong rolled up the newspaper and returned it to Wu Qiu Jian, and said with a smile: "The so-called accumulation of strength is the result of Mr. Zhou, now it is the result of his accumulation. How many people know when he accumulates? Zhonggong, if a young man is not working hard, he will only be sad. Don't envy Mr. Zhou. With your intelligence, as long as you calm down and do things, why worry about not becoming famous in the world in the future? My great man's reputation is about to be promoted with the help of young people like you and me."

Wu Qiu Jian was good at everything, but he was too anxious to make achievements. He heard Cao Chong like this, and immediately understood that Cao Chong was using Zhou Buyi to advise him. He was very grateful and hurriedly bowed his greetings.

"Apart from this, what else is there to do in Xu County?" Seeing that he had some understanding, Cao Chong stopped talking.

"In addition? It is probably the method of reforming the election proposed by Lord Wang." Wu Qiu Jian thought about it and said what he thought was the most important. Wang Su further revised the ninth-rank official law proposed by Cao Pi, proposing that talents should not be limited to the aspects of Confucianism, mathematics, and heavenly science. The sages also pay attention to the six arts. Shooting and imperial are all contents of military science. At least one subject should be added. According to the achievements of Xiangyang's new policy, he also suggested adding engineering, agriculture, business, law and other contents to broaden the career of official career, make full use of various talents, and develop balancedly. Furthermore, he suggested removing family background from the method of determining the character, and the moral examination was also divided into levels, and putting forward different instructions. To be a person of the three ministers and nine ministers, of course, one must be both moral and talented, and the lower class does not have any official, and has its own system to supervise. There is no need to ask for full blame. The requirements are too high. Instead, the assessment standards should be mainly set on specific content that can be implemented.

Cao Chong smiled. This was Wang Su using the contents of the new policy draft to start cutting off the firewood of Cao Pi. Since we need to reform the selection of official methods, of course we have to go to the end. Xiangyang College has trained so many workers and farmers, and we cannot let them work and farm for the rest of their lives. Of course, they should mainly do technology, but they cannot block their desire to be an official. Some official positions with relatively high technical requirements still need professional people to do so that they will not play the piano randomly.

Wu Qiujian had a good memory and told Cao Chong one by one about Xuxian that he could see. Of course, his experience was limited to these. If he talked deeper, he could not see them. Only Zhang Song's subordinates could provide the information. Zhang Song would have a summary of information almost every day, and Xiaoshuang would be responsible for it. When Cao Chong was talking to Wu Qiujian, Xiaoshuang was flipping through the documents. After Wu Qiujian finished speaking, he took the leave. Xiaoshuang walked out of the back tent and sent a piece of paper to Cao Chong.

Cao Chong glanced at him and frowned: "Is Meizhuer dead?"

"Strange?" Xiaoshuang glanced at Cao Chong, covered his mouth and sneered: "Are you still reluctant to let it go?"

"What are you thinking?" Cao Chong glared at her and put the paper in his hand onto the lamp. The light licked the paper and suddenly lit up, illuminating the doubts on Cao Chong's face: "The beautiful pig was obviously slandered, so his father believed Zihuan's one-sided words?"

After Xu Qian's torture, Meiji admitted that she looked through the new policy plan preserved by Song Ji, and she only saw it, and she had not told anyone anything. However, Cao Pi said that he knew about it. Meiji came to him and revealed the content of the new policy to him.

This is obviously a lie, at least not a sure thing. Now Cao Cao executed Meiji, severely punished Song Ji, and Wang Zhaoyi was responsible for his daily life. Cao Chong felt that this matter was too outrageous and mentioned it to Cao Cao obscurely, but Cao Cao did not listen and executed Meiji the most.

"My father executed Meiji but did not deal with Zihuan. Such a big thing was revealed lightly. What was he thinking?" Cao Chong was a little puzzled. He turned his head to look at Xiaoshuang: "Xiaoshuang, do you think my father changed his mind and did not plan to follow my method, but decided to pave the way for Zihuan?"

Xiaoshuang smiled and shook her head. Her slender and white neck was particularly conspicuous against the backdrop of a black hair, which made Cao Chong's eyes float continuously. Four of his five wives had babies, and his figure was more or less deformed. However, Xiaoshuang is now getting better and more charming.

"If my father really wants to guard against you, he will put so much military power in your hands and keep you away from Xu County? This military order is just a matter of time, but even the left general and the former general are under your command. If he really wants to support Zihuan, why should Zihuan conquer you after he dies? Just an imperial edict? Could you give up your authority because of an imperial edict?" Xiaoshuang said in a delicate voice. Cao Chong smiled, and when he reached that point, he would definitely lead his troops to take Xu County directly. Even if Xiahou Dun would not hold on to his troops, Cao Ren and others would not hesitate at all.

"But the situation is too weird now." Cao Chong hugged Xiaoshuang, sniffed on her neck, and sighed. Xiaoshuang was itchy with his breath, and couldn't help but chuckled, twisting in Cao Chong's arms, and said while laughing: "You, you say that your father has little confidence in you every day. In my opinion, it's because you have little confidence in your father."

"How do you say this?" Cao Chong was a little surprised.

"If my father is not confident enough in you, would he put so much force in your hands? Aren't you a general now? If your own new policy had decided that you could not hold two positions, why would your father have to let Zihuan be the deputy prime minister?" Xiaoshuang sat up, took a wisp of hair on his cheeks, and then said, "Think about it again, although Zihuan became the prime minister, the Xun family's father-in-law became the governor of Jingzhou, which was equivalent to controlling three-quarters of the world's financial power. Recently, he has been working hard to build roads in Jingzhou. What do you think he is doing? My father won't see it? But did he say something? He didn't say anything, and asked the Xun family's father-in-law to repair it quickly, saying that he would go to Xiangyang to take a look. He is cheering you up, you are so suspicious of his father everywhere."

Cao Chong smiled and felt that he was in a situation. Xun Yu became the governor of Jingzhou, contacted the four prefectures of Jiangnan, and then used his relationship with the Sili Prefectures, Zhong Yao, and Liu Ba, the Yin of Henan, who actually had more than half of the strength of the Han Dynasty, and was more like the deputy prime minister than Cao Pi, the deputy prime minister. He listed investment plans for the past ten years. On the one hand, of course, he wanted to deepen the new policy and lay a solid foundation for further development. On the other hand, he was also telling the court that I was spending money here, and I gave it to you for free without money. If you have some things, you will be exempted from asking for money and food at any time. Most of this sentence was said to Deputy Prime Minister Cao Pi, because Prime Minister Cao Cao no longer cared about the affairs, and the officials of the Prime Minister's Mansion were basically handed over to Cao Pi to call.

"My military teacher's wife, what should I do now?" Cao Chong smiled with a pride.

"We will be in charge of military preparations. The Xianbei war will be fought sooner or later. This hastily launched, mostly to relieve Ziwen's pressure, but can we seize the opportunity and truly become a decisive battle against the Xianbei people?" Xiaoshuang smiled and said, "We are a temporary move, and the Xianbei people are also caught off guard. They were also suffering from disaster last year. Now it is the time to be weak, and they can just seek death with one stick. Even if they cannot kill them, they can push the front line to the north of Yinshan and force them to the north of Mobei.

They would not be able to survive. When Huo Piqi seized the Qilian Mountains, Yanzhi Mountains, and the Huns sang tragically, "Losing my Qilian Mountains will prevent my livestock from surging; losing my Yanzhi Mountains will make my women look uncolored. If my army occupied Yinshan, then the Xianbei people would not be able to disturb the borders anymore, but their cavalry advantages would also be lost. Don't be too much. As long as you defend for five to ten years, the Xianbei people will be the second Xiongnu. If they do not surrender, they will wait to starve to death."

Cao Chong looked at Xiaoshuang who was talking in surprise, and an idea came up. Is this woman not having children because she had too many tricks and could see so far? When he discussed with Pang Tong and others, he thought so, but why did she think so too?

"Husband...why do you think of me like this?" Xiao Shuang was just talking. Seeing Cao Chong staring at her intently, he stopped explaining in confusion, and looked at Cao Chong shyly.

"Wife, if your father had a military advisor like you, I wouldn't be able to deal with him." Cao Chong regretted it as soon as he said that. Sure enough, Xiao Shuang's face turned dark, lowered his head, and was speechless for a while. Cao Chong laughed apologetically: "I don't mean that..."

"Husband, I know." Xiao Shuangqiang smiled: "Not to mention that my knowledge is obtained by following my husband in the battle. Even if I have this ability, my father will not listen. His subordinates have never had great talents like Yin Konglin and Zhuge. How could he really hear it? What's more, I am a woman. Not to mention him, who treats women as clothes, even the entire man, who values ​​women as his husband, not only has Sister Sun Chengjun, but also let Sister Sun become the commander of the car."

"Don't be jealous, and you will be a female chief at that time." Cao Chong smiled and said, "I won't talk about this anymore, how is A Dou now? Is there any news about Wen Qian?"

"Thank you for your concern, A Dou is fine." Xiaoshuang said about A Dou, and she felt much better. She frowned and said with some concern: "Husband, you can't spoil him anymore. She is an eleven-year-old child and still doesn't want to study. She knows that she is having fun with Niuer, Hu Zi and the others every day."

Cao Chong laughed: "What are you afraid of? Maybe he will be enlightened one day, so don't worry. Wait for another two years and be deceived with Niuer and the others. Maybe I will be over the war and teach him at home.

"Who do you teach?" Sun Shangxiang stepped into the tent and glanced at them curiously. After hearing Xiaoshuang talk about the whole story, Sun Shangxiang exaggeratedly advised: "Sister Xiaoshuang, don't blame me for not reminding you. You can't let him teach Adou to study. I don't know what to read. I can tell you, the song "Little Girl, get up early in the morning" was taught by him, and you can't let him harm Adou anymore."

"You are here to slander me?" Cao Chong raised his eyebrows and started to attack first. Otherwise, Xiaoshuang should be upset. The nursery rhyme he taught Adou was not a good nursery rhyme, it was just a third-rate joke that misled people's children.

"Of course not." Sun Shangxiang stubbornly said: "Master Xun said that the army is ready to stop, should we set off immediately?"

"I can't get off the journey." Cao Chong shook his head and handed her the military order from the General's Mansion to her. Sun Shangxiang glanced at him and returned it to him: "We won't go to the northern border?"

"I won't go for the time being." Cao Chong nodded and said, "We must be on guard against the Huns here and protect the capital. Tell Xun Jiewei that although we don't go to the northern border, we cannot train. The twenty-mile cross-country every morning cannot be lost in a day, and a mile cannot be lost." Cao Chong said, and his face turned cold and said to Sun Shangxiang seriously: "You tell him, just say what I said. If he wants to keep in the infantry battalion, he will follow him every morning from tomorrow, even if he doesn't have to bear armor first, he must persist. The infantry battalion is full of tough guys. If he doesn't have the ability, he might as well come to me to work as a military chief, or go back to become his Tiger General."

"You're so ugly. After all, my brother-in-law of the Xun family is a literati. How could he eat so well?" Sun Shangxiang gave him a blank look, but didn't say much. After Xun Yun became an infantry captain in the Northern Army, he soon discovered the problem. Most of the infantry battalions are now arrogant soldiers and generals brought out by Cao Chong. Many low-level officers were still transferred from the Iron Armor and Tiger Soldiers camp. They screamed when they started fighting, and their tempers were more arrogant. If you can't accept him, he wouldn't bother looking at you with your eyes, usually either the nostrils or the back of the head. The former infantry captain Wei Yan was a general who was fought on the battlefield, and their original leaders, so they naturally didn't dare to stumble, but Xun Yun was different. He just arrived at the infantry battalion and could not stand firm at all. If it weren't for Cao Chong's face, those people would almost bombard Xun Yun on the spot.

Xun Yun was a little worried that he didn't have this ability, so he secretly said to Cao Chong, wanting Cao Chong to come out to suppress those people. Cao Chong ignored him. He pointed to the tiger camp led by Sun Shangxiang and said, "The female soldiers in my camp are stronger than your Tiger Benlang, let alone the infantry camp. You said that there is no way to win the world with such a team. It is just a matter of making achievements. It is reasonable to be a marquis and generals. However, if you want to be their head, you have to show off your ability. From now on, follow them every day, there is no need to spend more time. In a month, you can follow them fully and let them see your ruthlessness. Even if you still can't beat them, they can still obey you. If you want to rely on me, then can I command them on your behalf when you arrive on the battlefield? Finally, he quoted an advertisement in his previous life to warn Xun Yun: Men should be more ruthless to themselves.
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