I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 395, Cao Cao's plan, unlucky Yuan Shao

So after Kong Rong left, Cao Cao said to Guo Jia and Xun Yu in the novel: "Now in the entire land of Qingxu, only those powerful people in Xuzhou can get food! Xuzhou has not suffered from military disasters for 3-4 years since the late emperor died of illness. And Tao Qian went to Xuzhou for reclamation for 4-5 years. The land for reclamation helped Tao Qian to accumulate a large amount of grain, but because of the war in the Central Plains, the money and grain were not turned over to the state treasury. Now these grains are not in Xuzhou treasury, they must be in the treasury In the hands of the local aristocrats!"

Guo Jia excitedly held his hand to his throat and said, "My lord means to slaughter the nobles in Xuzhou like pigs!"

Guo Jia saw a lot of nobles being killed by Lei Gong in Hebei, and now he doesn't care about such things. What he really cares about is whether this behavior can strengthen Cao Cao's power!
But Xun Yu said in a hurry: "It must not be done. The nobles and nobles in the world are united and married with each other. If the master does such a thing, he will definitely offend the nobles of the whole Han Dynasty. I am afraid that the nobles in Qingzhou will also oppose the master. At that time, I am afraid that the world will be so big that there will be no place for the lord!"

Xun Yu is really not worrying about the sky. In history, Cao Cao killed celebrities and made the whole Yanzhou rebel. This group of people would rather accept a warrior like Lu Bu than a butcher like Cao Cao.

In history, the nobles in Qingzhou had a deeper connection with Cao Cao. If they rebelled, Cao Cao would really flee.

Guo Jiaman said indifferently: "How can there be no place to stay, the worst is to seek refuge with Lei Gong!"

Xun Yu said angrily to Guo Jia: "Do you want to help the lord or harm the lord? If you really like killing gentry, why didn't you join Lei Gong in Hebei!"

Guo Jia was angrily reprimanded by Xun Yu, and then he woke up from his excitement. After calming down for a long time, he said: "I lost my temper just now, but my lord's idea is not wrong. Now our territory is only half of Xuzhou. The powerful clans have food, if the food is not taken out of their hands, will the people of Qingzhou starve to death, or else they will watch them flee to Hebei and continue to strengthen Lei Gong's strength. With these refugees, it is indeed possible Stop Lei Gong from attacking the Central Plains, but all the people in the Central Plains have escaped, so we can keep an empty Central Plains to resist Lei Gong?"

Seeing that the two of them were about to fall out, Cao Cao immediately relieved and said, "Feng Xiao's thoughts are too extreme, and we are not Lei Gong, so how could we do such a thing, but the only ones who can save Qingzhou now are the nobles of Xuzhou. We have to find a way to get them to take out these grains to help the victims in Qingzhou! I will leave it to Wen Ruo to borrow grain in Xuzhou!"

Xun Yu said helplessly, "I'm afraid it will be difficult!"

Cao Cao said: "There is nothing difficult in the world. As long as we tell them about the situation in Qingzhou, they will definitely borrow it as long as they are loyal!"

But Cao Cao said with a serious face: "But if they don't borrow it, it means that they don't care whether Qingzhou will be captured by Lei Gong, or whether the Dahan's society exists. Such an unfaithful and unfilial person, why should I stay with the Dahan?" use!"

Apparently what Cao Cao meant was that if the text is not good enough, it will be the martial arts!

Xun Yu could only end up with this task in a difficult situation. I hope that the nobles in Xuzhou will be more sensible and lend food to help Qingzhou tide over the difficulties!
Guo Jia looked at Xun Yu who was leaving and said thoughtfully: "Wen Ruo will definitely get nothing if he goes here. The nobles in Xuzhou did not face Lei Gong. Hebei is also thousands of miles away from Xuzhou. The powerful nobles in Xuzhou don't understand the power of Lei Gong at all. , and people who know it also feel that Lei Gong is still far away from them. It is impossible for them to take out their own food to help Qingzhou. Selling high and low is what they like to do. I am afraid that many of them want to take advantage of it. Get rich from this drought!"

Cao Cao said with a sneer: "The nobles in Xuzhou have no force, but they have piled up food and money, and we and Benchu ​​have exhausted their wealth in order to deal with Lei Gong. What Wen Ruo said is correct. The nobles are on the same ground Lianzhi, married to each other, back then the prestige and power of the first emperor could not do anything to the party members, let alone me Cao Cao! But there is a difference, now the entire Central Plains clans have exhausted their wealth to deal with Lei Gong, but there are a few people But he is unwilling to join in, even unwilling to help the leader when everyone is suffering from drought, Feng Xiao thinks that everyone will still regard Xuzhou's elites as their own!"

After hearing this, Guo Jia laughed and said: "Yes, now the elites in the Central Plains have become generals, and everyone is practicing martial arts to fight against Lei Gong, but the elites in Xuzhou are unwilling to do such a thing. They really cannot be regarded as their own. Already!"

Guo Jia thought for a moment and said: "The lord can't stand alone in this matter. We have to find a way to arouse the resentment of the entire Qingzhou clan against the Xuzhou people. As long as they join in, they won't feel sad. Rise up and devour the property of the Xuzhou family!"

The annexation between the powerful and powerful is also very common among the big men, and this kind of thing will not cause their sorrow.

Cao Cao nodded and said: "This matter can only be done if Kong Rong and the others nod! We need money and food, and the land can be distributed to the people of Xuzhou, so that we can take care of people in Xuzhou, and the extra official positions can be handed over to Kong Rong and their disciples." The old officials are here to take over! I think Kong Rong and the others won’t have too much of an opinion.”

Cao Cao's big pie plan meant that all the forces in Qingzhou benefited, and only the nobles and nobles in Xuzhou were harmed. However, as the defeated people, it is normal for them to be divided up!

Guo Jia thought for a while and wanted to help Cao Cao fill in the loopholes in this plan, and said: "My lord, I still need to prevent Xuzhou's elites from jumping over the wall. They are not our opponents, but if Xuzhou is handed over to Yuan Shao or the imperial court, then we will be in trouble! Subordinates I thought that the nobles who want to carve up Xuzhou can't do it like our family, Sili and the Central Plains are the most severely drought-affected places, and Yuan Shao raised 30 soldiers with the land of the three states. Now he is afraid that his life will be more difficult than ours. Now Yuan Shao is also looking for food everywhere, with the goal of Xuzhou's elite, Yuan Shao will definitely be tempted!"

Cao Cao laughed and said, "Please send Feng Xiao to Luoyang to convince Benchu! Cao stays in Qingzhou to persuade Kong Rong and others!"

So Cao Cao sent Guo Jia to persuade Yuan Shao, and he himself convened the entire Qingzhou family to discuss how to deal with the drought!
And Kong Rong helped Cao Cao with a divine assist. Since the last time he discussed with Cao Cao, he found that Xuzhou's aristocrats lived ten times better than them. When they tried their best to fight the drought, Xuzhou was like this The least affected place this time, I don’t need to say anything, this matter is in the hands of God!

But they are about to run out of family wealth to deal with Lei Gong, and even their own children have to go to the battlefield to fight Lei Gong, but Xuzhou's aristocrats have nothing to say, and even want to take advantage of this drought to make a fortune. It's unbearable, especially now that they have become poor ghosts, but Xuzhou's aristocrats still have a lot of wealth, as if they lived in the late emperor's time. This is simply unbearable for Kong Rong and the others to envy and hate!

How can I become a great Confucian and become a vulgar martial artist, but Xuzhou's nobles can still talk about metaphysics, and they have to do their best to survive under the pressure of Lei Gong!

So when all the patriarchs gathered, Kong Rong was the first to say: "At this moment when the great man is in danger, our generation of loyal men all practice martial arts to defend the country. Even the once-in-a-hundred-year drought in Qingzhou is unwilling to support us. My big man has raised these disloyal and unfilial people for a hundred years. Rong proposed to expel Xuzhou's family members. My big man's soldiers membership!"

Cui Yan followed up and said loudly: "The clans of Xuzhou are our defeated generals. There is no defeated soldier in the world who is better off than us victors! It is Meng De who is so kind that the clans of Xuzhou don't know where they are. , They are not willing to pay for the severe drought in Qingzhou this time, so we will use force to put them in their place!"

Cao Cao summoned them, Cui Yan heard what Kong Rong said, and quickly figured out why?
Now the severe drought in Qingzhou has made it impossible for the State Shepherd's Mansion to continue. Cao Cao wants to slaughter a pig to tide over the difficulties, and the merchant class of the Han Dynasty has been slaughtered by Dong Zhuo once, and their vitality has not yet recovered. The mud legs have no money and food at all. We need mud legs to defend Qingzhou, so naturally it is impossible to take them down now.

Now the only people who have money and food are them, the aristocrats, and now Cao Cao is obviously targeting the richer but weaker Xuzhou aristocrats!

A dead fellow is not a poor one, so of course Cui Yan will follow Kong Rong's words and point the finger at the nobles in Xuzhou!
The clan masters present are all foxes who have been around for thousands of years. From the words of Kong Rong and Cui Yan, they naturally understand that Cao Cao is staring at the money and food of the clan clans in Xuzhou. top of the head.

Not only can they not exploit Qingzhou's mud legs now, but they have to rely on them to resist Lei Gong, to buy people's hearts by pushing their clothing and food, and even spending a huge price to build expensive armor for these soldiers. It can be said that Cao Cao The army is supported by the entire Qingzhou gentry family. Although they have accumulated, it has exhausted their family property to support hundreds of thousands of troops that are more elite than the northern and southern armies!

Now that they hear that the clans that can annex Xuzhou, the first thing they think of is not the sad death of the rabbit, but how much the clans of Xuzhou can supplement their wealth!

Cao Cao was happy when he heard what they said, but he still said seriously: "After all, the clansmen in Xuzhou were once loyal to the big man. I have asked Xun Yu to ask them to borrow food. If they spend 1000 million yuan in this drought Stone's food, which shows that they are still loyal to the big man, but if they refuse to take it out, then don't blame us for attacking them. After all, now we want to defend the big man's community. For some people who are not loyal to the big man, we only I can give up!"

Kong Rong shouted: "Meng De didn't say anything, so they should be asked to provide 1000 million shi of grain. Since they are unwilling to practice martial arts and soldiers, they will help us with logistics. Stone grain, but also to spend 1000 billion yuan, 100 sets of iron armor to solve our equipment problem!"

The Patriarchs of the Qingzhou clan applauded when they heard this, so their pressure would be much less!As for whether Xuzhou's aristocrats can afford it?
Of course, they can get it, and there are people who know more about the wealth of the powerful families than they do!
In this way, after the meeting, it was not Cao Cao's idea to attack the nobles in Xuzhou, but the Qingzhou clan represented by Cao Cao suppressed the nobles in Xuzhou!

Divide the words!

After Guo Jia came to Luoyang City, he found Xu You, Yuan Shao's first adviser, and offered him the idea of ​​annexing the Xuzhou clan to protect the Central Plains!
This made Xu You's eyes shine. This is an excellent solution to Yuan Shao's predicament, so he immediately went to Yuan Shao and told Guo Jia's thoughts!
At this time, Yuan Shao was not having a good time. Not to mention the drought in the entire three states, starting from April, Guanzhong actually started to suffer from locust plagues. Seventy percent of the food can be recovered, but the locust plague completely devoured the only little food in Guanzhong. This is simply a way out for the people of Guanzhong!

But even if Yuan Shao is so unlucky, God will not let Yuan Shao go!

Although Guanzhong was the center of the Han drought, Xiliang suffered the worst drought. The fields in Xiliang were already deserted. The drought began in Xiliang last year, but at that time the entire Central Plains tried their best to deal with Lei Gong. The purchase of war horses from Xiliang last year brought millions of shi grains to Guanzhong. These grains ensure that everyone can still fill their stomachs even if there is no harvest in Xiliang.

But since this year, everyone has been short of food, so the input of food has been reduced, and the drought in Guanzhong has made the whole big man try to save himself. Naturally, it is impossible for anyone to exchange food for war horses in Xiliang!

So Ma Teng and the others were miserable. Originally, the drought made them lose their crops, but now they even cut off the business of exchanging war horses for food. This made it impossible for the people of Xiliang to survive.

In order to survive, Ma Teng and Han Sui, the two Xiliang rebels, united again. Even Dong Zhuo's generals Li Jue and Guo Si joined forces with Ma Teng and they led 4 Xiliang cavalry to attack Chang'an City!I want to collect food from Guanzhong to feed myself!

At this time, Guanzhong did not have a strong defensive force at all, and it was not expected that the Xiliang Army would attack when Guanzhong was starving and starving. A negligence in defense caused Ma Teng and his coalition forces to directly attack Chang'an City!

However, their military front is over. Chang'an has 2 troops on guard. The drought also helped Chang'an's defenders to complete the action of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness. Moreover, Yuan Shao also mobilized 5 troops from Hongnong City to encircle and wipe out the Xiliang rebels in Guanzhong. among!
(End of this chapter)