Three Kingdoms: From Yinlin to Great Wei Xiongzhu

Chapter 501
Xu Capital City, Prime Minister's Mansion, outside the study courtyard.

"The prime minister has an order that no one is allowed to enter."

Two tiger and ben soldiers blocked Cao Pi's way forward.

"It was my mother who ordered me to deliver porridge to my father! I woke up this morning and my father hasn't eaten yet."

The grandmother Cao Pi was talking about was not his biological mother, Mrs. Bian, but Ding Hui, Cao Cao's first wife.

In ancient times, even if a child was born in a concubine's room, the object he could call "Amu" was still the official wife, but, out of human relations, the official wife would often allow the child to be raised under the concubine's knee.

Otherwise... it is easy to cause the infamy of "envious".

It is a very shameful thing for a wife to be jealous of a concubine's room, at least in the Han Dynasty!
"So it was Mrs. Ding's order, Second Young Master please."

The tiger ben soldiers get out of the way...

Obviously, Madam Ding held a very high status in Cao Cao's mind, and Cao Cao also gave an order that if Madam Ding belonged to her, she could enter directly at any time without passing through.

Cao Pi nodded slightly, and immediately walked into the courtyard of the study with the food in hand.

The servants cleaning the courtyard outside the door have dispersed. The courtyard is clean and spotless...

"Tap"

Cao Pi took very light steps, for fear of disturbing his father, but... as he approached the study, the voices of his father and elder brother could be heard inside.

"Yuan Shao abolished the elders and established the younger ones. That is the way to bring disaster. Yuan Shao left the eldest son with military power, which laid the groundwork for disasters in the northern region. Therefore, the child feels that within three years, his father's armor will be trampled everywhere. The Northern Territory, after Si, Xu, Yan, and Yu... will bring Qing, You, Ji, into the bag, and become the overlord who dominates the world!"

For Cao Cao's question, Cao Ang's answer can be described as a perfect answer.

Of course, this issue...Lu Yu talked about it in Taixue, and Guo Jia also talked about it...Cao Ang is naturally clear.

only…

Cao Cao's next words were harsh and meaningful.

"Ziyou, let me ask you again, if your father follows Yuan Benchu's example, you, the 'eldest son', are not allowed to compete for the position of the eldest son? What should you do?"

what…

This…

Cao Ang subconsciously felt that he had heard it wrong, but Cao Cao's stern and cold eyes told him that his father was serious, especially serious.

This time... he was shocked, shocked.

You know... In the past, Director Lu always told him that he was the only one who could inherit his father's ambitions. Cao Ang has always used this to demand himself, improve himself, try his best to live up to his father's reputation, and to live up to Mr. Lu's cultivation.

Can…

But this time, his father's words made him stunned for a moment. Was he wrong?It can't be... President Lu is wrong, right?
"Baby...baby..."

Cao Ang paused for a moment, then knelt down with a "click", "I will do what the father says, and if the father thinks that the child is not qualified, the child will never hold grudges, let alone do the same thing. The child will ...will help Brother Chong well!"

Cao Ang has always been benevolent and filial, and has a good relationship with Cao Chong.

In his opinion, if Cao Chong belonged in his father's heart, he...he would definitely help him with all his might, without any second thoughts.

certainly…

What Cao Ang didn't know was that in Cao Cao's mind, Cao Ang wanted to assist his older brother Cao Yu, not his younger brother Cao Chong!

Cao Cao stepped forward and helped Cao Ang who was kneeling on the ground.

"Since childhood, you have been too benevolent and filial. This is an advantage, but it is also a shortcoming of becoming a hegemon. The so-called kindness does not control soldiers, righteousness does not control wealth, love does not establish affairs, kindness does not serve as an official, and benevolence does not govern politics!"

Speaking of which...

Cao Cao clenched his fist and hit Cao Ang on the chest. "You are a talented Wang Zuozhi who can rival Xun Lingjun in the future, but you are not a monarch who expands the territory! This world is a world of great controversy, and the son chosen by my father in the future will inherit my ambition and rule the world!"

"From a father's point of view, I don't want you to be involved in the disputes of this world. As a father, I hope you can gallop in your own world! Gallop with brilliance!"

"Gudong..."

Cao Ang was dumbfounded. He understood what his father said, and he understood his own temperament best...

Compassion does not command soldiers, affection does not stand for action, benevolence does not engage in politics, he understands all of these!
"Father, don't worry, my son...don't dare to have any unreasonable thoughts! The next thing, my son will know what to do!"

Cao Ang bowed his hands...

In his opinion, since his father is interested in younger brother Chong, his position as the "eldest son" is a bit embarrassing. He wants to show Cao Ying that he is not a "first son", and to do this...just...

"Father, my son intends to pay homage to his dead mother tomorrow, I don't know..." Cao Ang said.

The word "dead mother" is sensitive, extremely sensitive, too sensitive...

Normally, according to the consensus of the Cao and Xiahou clans.

There can only be one mother of Cao Ang, and that is Mrs. Ding, the adoptive mother.

And Cao Ang's biological mother, Mrs. Liu, was Mrs. Ding's maid. On the night of Cao Cao's wedding, she went back to the wrong bed after getting up at night, and Cao Ang was born!
In ancient times, the house of the personal maid was connected with the master and the hostess, which was convenient for the maid to serve at any time.

Of course, how unreliable Cao Cao was when he was young, this... everyone knows, the devil in the world, the stunned youth... it is not surprising that he really went to the wrong bed on the wedding night.

Of course... Cao Ang's birth was an accident.

But... because Mrs. Liu is Mrs. Ding's maid, Cao Ang has been raised by Mrs. Ding's side since she was a child, and even recognized Mrs. Ding as her mother. Even... after Mrs. Liu died, Mrs. Ding treated Cao Ang as her own.

More than ten years have passed, and almost everyone has forgotten who is Cao Ang's biological mother?The subconscious feeling is that he is Cao Cao's son...the absolute heir!
But... what Cao Ang proposed, this memorial service to the dead mother is undoubtedly a reminder to everyone.

His biological mother is Madam Liu, the Madam Liu who has been forgotten by everyone. There is no "concubine son" among the princes, and the rule of having a concubine and establishing a concubine does not apply to Cao Ying at all!
Of course, there is also the establishment of a head without a direct lineage, which is not something that Cao Ang can control. Of course... Cao Cao likes to see this long-term without a direct lineage.

call…

Hearing this, Cao Cao exhaled.

Then, he said earnestly.

"Madam Liu can have a son like you, which is enough for her to rest in peace under Nine Springs."

"Tomorrow, you must not only worship your biological mother well, but also do so in a grand manner, so that your mother will know that the son she gave birth to now has a face for her."

this moment…

Cao Cao recalled Mrs. Liu, the woman who became his wife by accident.

only…

There is also a secret hidden in the middle. In fact, Madam Liu met Cao Cao before she became Madam Ding's maid.

It was the year when he graduated from Cao Cao Imperial College. As the old saying goes, "travel ten thousand miles, read ten thousand volumes of books". The ancients believed that men should travel far before and after they reach adulthood.

The first is to exercise courage, the second is to cultivate the ability to live independently, and the third is to gain knowledge of the customs of different regions;

Fourth, you can visit private schools and pay homage to different famous masters in different places, so as to learn skills from different scholars and experts and enrich your personal life experience.

Fifth, you can make a name for yourself. You can make your mark in a few private schools and scholar-bureaucrats, and you will gradually become famous. Six, you can make new friends and weave a network of relationships. During the grand tour, if you meet famous talkers and scholars who appreciate you, and get their approval and boast, you can easily stand out among the scholars.

That year, Cao Cao bid farewell to Prince Xuanqiao of Qiao and embarked on a grand tour.

Cao Cao's route is very simple, go to Henan first, go to Hangu in the west, then go to Hebei, and return to Luoyang in the east.

In Cao Cao's imagination, he single-handedly...going westward from Luoyang, as long as he walks two or three hundred miles, he will reach the Hangu Pass that Lao Tzu once walked through. safety.

There is also Hongnong County, where there have been many literati in the past dynasties... The scenery is surprisingly beautiful, the primeval forest is dense, and there are thousand-year-old trees everywhere.

Then head north, passing Shouyang Mountain on the way back, where Boyi and Shuqi used to live in seclusion.

Along the way... Just when spring is coming, the scenery and spring scenery all the way.

These are all Cao Cao's imagination...

only…

After walking out of Luoyang, Cao Cao discovered that this was not the case at all!

There were poor people everywhere, refugees everywhere, and the poor stretched out their hands to beg him desperately. Cao Cao took out a bag of fried noodles from his horseback and handed it to dozens of pairs of skinny hands that stretched out.

Although these poor people really wanted food, they didn't dare to approach them, and asked Cao Cao to put them under his feet. Cao Cao was puzzled... An old man shouted with great difficulty: "We have a plague on us, good young people, you should leave quickly!"

original…

That year, that is, in the spring of 173, a great plague occurred around Luoyang, and most of the victims were poor people who had no money to treat.

The chain reaction is that the population trading market is bleak. One is fear of infection, and the other is that under the plague, even officials' families have to reduce unnecessary expenses and save money to help clan relatives and friends.

The bones of the dead are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles...

When Cao Cao recited this poem later, in his mind... probably he also thought of the spring of 173, and the special coming-of-age ceremony he experienced when he was about to reach the crown, right?

plague!

The situation is so critical, but the people still have a conscience and have goodwill towards him, Cao Cao.

That was the first time Cao Cao looked back at Luoyang, looking back at the tall city head, and he was thinking, what are the rulers in Luoyang doing?Intrigues, struggles with each other, and competition for interests have made the people miserable.

The people have no food, no clothes, no shelter, but they are still living in poverty. How can I find such good people in this world!
They watched as they were devoured by hunger and disease, but there was nothing they could do.

At that moment, Cao Cao was heartbroken, and looked back at Luoyang again. The emperor was close at hand, but he did not care about the sufferings of the people. The common people in heaven and earth are the most important, and the ruler who is next to the state is the least!"

pity…

The sage is no longer, and these principles are left behind by today's scholars, just like discarding garbage and dross.

The Grand Tour journey continues.

Afterwards, Cao Cao left Luoyang and headed to Mianchi. At this moment...the planned spring blossoms did not come.

On the contrary, it is cold spring, and the willow trees stand bare and gray, as if their lives have been wiped away by the severe cold.

Cao Cao went to visit and was expelled from Liang Heng's private school in Kyoto because of the disaster of the party.

Cao Cao remembered that when he said goodbye to Liang Heng, he held his hand and spoke earnestly.

——"Meng De, it's good to be at home. It's hard to go out. You can come to Zhuangyou to see the situation of the world. It's very good. I hope you can reflect the people's sentiments in the Zhuangyou report when you go back, so that the emperor can wake up!"

Cao Cao nodded... His heart was even heavier.

I feel that the burden on my shoulders has become heavier.

Not long after he left, he encountered people peddling in the street with their children. There were voices of begging for sales, and miserable cries. There was a fourteen or five-year-old girl who was crying sadly on the body of an old woman who had just died. .

This woman named "Chun" was surnamed Liu, and she was Cao Ang's biological mother, Mrs. Liu. She knelt down to Cao Cao with tears in her eyes, and begged Cao Cao to buy her and bury her grandmother.

Cao Cao saw that she was crying pitifully, so he took her grandmother to the wilderness to bury her on a horse. Cao Cao said goodbye, but the emaciated girl knelt down and begged. Suicide, so that I can reunite with my family as soon as possible.

Cao Cao saw that she seemed to have read books and knew how to call advance and retreat, so he couldn't bear it, so he took her on the road.

certainly…

The future is the literal future!
When Cao Cao returned home, Cao Song was so angry that he and the Ding family had already set the wedding date, but Cao Cao was lucky, because he brought back a scrawny, unfeminine "sangmen star" from a grand tour.

Cao Song was about to curse on the spot.

Want to buy a maid, where can I find it?You can buy three for a hundred dollars, you can choose your appearance or body shape!

Cao Song had to go all the way to pick up such an "ugly" woman, Cao Song felt that Cao Cao was "face-blind"!
Fortunately, the elders of Ding's family were also there, so it was not good to make Cao Cao too ugly, so he took the girl back to Ding's family and asked her to be Ding Hui's maid, which was considered a favor to Cao Cao.

This is also one of the reasons why... Cao Cao always treats the Ding family with great courtesy and respect no matter what time it is!

Cao Cao's mother belonged to the Ding family, Cao Cao's wife also belonged to the Ding family, and even the concubine he picked up was also from the Ding family!

The following story is what I like to hear. Cao Cao married the right wife and went to the wrong bed...

By chance, Cao Ang was born...

By coincidence, Cao Shuo and Cao Mu were born.

All in all, it was a coincidence... This also brought the relationship between Cao Cao and Ding Hui to a freezing point.

The turning point came when Cao Ang was six years old.

Mrs. Liu died of dystocia, leaving her eldest son Cao Ang, eldest daughter Cao Mu, and the newborn baby Cao Shuo.

Cao Cao rushed back from thousands of miles away and saw Liu Chun lying quietly in the coffin.

Because of the midsummer, in order to prevent the corpse from rotting, a lot of lime and large grains of salt were put in the coffin. The coffin was parked at Tianning Temple outside the south gate of Luoyang, and made a special trip to wait for Cao Cao to come back to deal with it.

This time, Cao Cao didn't cry, he just looked at Cao Ang with emotion.

The fate of the eldest son Cao Ang was so similar to that of Cao Cao when he was a child. Cao Cao's mother also died of dystocia, but even the fetus in the womb died together.

recall here...

Cao Cao couldn't help stretching out his hand to caress Cao Ang's cheek.

Faint tears rolled in the eye sockets.

"Father doesn't need to do this, my son..." Cao Ang still wanted to speak, but Cao Cao stretched out his hand to signal that he didn't need to speak.

Cao Cao's thoughts are still immersed in decades ago. He remembers... when Mrs. Liu was alive, Mrs. Ding and her were enemies, but after Mrs. Liu died, all the resentment and grievances disappeared.

Mrs. Ding calmly told Cao Cao that when Liu Chun had a difficult delivery, she strongly demanded to keep the child, and she said that she would let the child repay the Cao family instead of her!
Recalling this, Cao Cao, who was almost 50 years old, couldn't help it. He hugged Cao Ang, and two lines of tears rolled down.

The second son Cao Shuo, Cao Cao did not keep it!
At that time, Cao Cao lost his love, was disheartened, and lived in seclusion in frustration.

He told his father Cao Song that Liu Chun hadn't been to his hometown Qiaopei since he married into Cao's family. When Cao Cao told her about how colorful Qiaopei's life was, Liu Chun once proposed to visit her.

Cao Cao has been an official abroad for several years, trying to change the current situation in the world with meager efforts, but he still failed to realize his revenge and ideals.

At that moment, he just wanted to take Liu Chun back to Qiao County and let her rest in the family cemetery as the Cao family.

only…

Cao Song did not agree, nor did the members of the Cao and Xiahou clans. Letting a concubine into the clan cemetery is not worth it, and it is not in accordance with the etiquette!

At that time Cao Cao was powerless to refute...

But now.

"Snapped…"

Cao Cao gently patted Cao Ang on the back.

"Ang'er, I plan to move your biological mother's grave to the clan cemetery in our hometown of Qiao Pei. You can do it!"

"From now on, your biological mother will also be able to accept sacrifices from our tribe!"

It kills two birds with one stone!
pat...

Cao Cao blurted out these words, and Cao Ang subconsciously shed a line of tears.

Over the years, many uncles told him that the idea instilled in him was to forget his biological mother.

But... Cao Ang, who has always been benevolent and filial, how can he be cruel?Let his biological mother leave the last trace in the world and disappear?

How tormented he was!

He has never had any fantasies about the position of the son, it was just others fantasizing and planning for him...

He just purely, purely wants to fulfill his filial piety!
This is Cao Ang, the benevolent, filial, and kind Cao Ang!

Today... finally came true.

"Father, baby, thank you for...for mother!"

call…

Cao Cao let out a long breath. "go Go…"

He told Cao Ang, "Leave tomorrow, I will let Zixiao go with you, and finish this matter before Juan'er and Ziyu get married, Dad will wait for you to come back!"

"Yes Yes!"

Cao Ang agreed and walked out of the pavilion.

Looking at the back of Cao Ang leaving, Cao Cao murmured in a low voice: "Ziyou, your temperament is really similar to your mother's, the same benevolence and filial piety, and the same kindness!"

Speaking of which...

Cao Cao paused for a moment, then his eyes froze for a moment, and he looked at the map on the table. This time, he didn't use his finger to swipe a certain place, but... but to swipe each place. one place.

"Ziyou, Ziyou, it's great that you can understand dad!"

In a word...

After that, Cao Cao didn't speak again, but just sighed in his heart.

"Unifying the world, it is easy to subdue this country, but it is very difficult to change the evils of this big man! It may take two generations to achieve it!"

"The son needs to do too many things, and it's too dangerous... It's more than ten times more difficult than conquering the mountains and rivers!"

At this moment, what Cao Cao thought of was the "abolition of poll tax" mentioned by Yu'er;
It is "spread into mu";
It is to nationalize the land in the hands of wealthy clans;
It is to let the tillers have their fields, so that every common people in this world can have a bite of food and wear a suit of clothes!

all of these…

Isn't it just the fantasy in Cao Cao's mind when he was on a grand tour in the past?Is it the longing in your heart?
He will never forget that poor starving man, he will never forget that sentence.

——"We have a plague on us, good young man, you should leave quickly!"

call…

Cao Cao let out another long breath.

He is not a person who is easily sentimental, but... at this moment, a resounding voice is floating in his mind.

--"reform"!
——Fundamentally and thoroughly reformed!

This is difficult... not only requires courage and courage, but also requires great wisdom.

It is even more difficult than unifying the world, and only Yu'er can do it.

Only him, the eldest son, the future heir.

"Liu Chun, look well! The era you want to see will come and come true one day!"

"Perhaps, it will be realized in... the joint efforts of Yu'er and Ang'er!"

pattern!

Cao Cao's pattern...

It opened in no time!
...

...

ps
Push a book, "Reincarnation of a Hundred Times, I Revolutionize the World"

shit.

It turned out that it was written by his uncle, a bastard like milk candy!

Look for the starting point of the Chinese website for the first time.

(End of this chapter)