Three Kingdoms: Cao Cao and Liu Bei help me to ascend the throne

Chapter 16 Scholars, Lu in it
There is an endless stream of fragrant cars and BMWs on the street, and bursts of laughter from girls are heard from time to time, beauties and celebrities are secretly looking forward to each other, and the road is full of spring breeze.

Sitting in the carriage, Diao Xiuer looked around curiously. She followed her mother Ren Man to buy in the city. Today, the temple master Liu Yu is leaving for Bashu, and specially told them that there will be turmoil in Luoyang City recently... and ask them to prepare more food!
exactly…

The two sisters sitting in a carriage next door are pilgrims of Yulin Temple!

Ren Man is quite familiar with it.

"Ayi, Axiang? You are in such a hurry, where are you going?"

Ayi leaned over to the window and made a "shh..." gesture with her index finger. "A major event has happened. Empress Song was deposed because of witchcraft, and the residence of her younger brother Yinqianghou Song Qi was also confiscated. There are hundreds of officials' families involved here, and even Dahonglu Cao Song He was imprisoned in Dali Temple."

Ah Xiang added a sentence. "My father had some contacts with Cao Dahonghe, and was worried about being implicated, so he sent all the female family members out of the city to avoid rumors!"

what…

Empress Song?Witch?implicated?
Hearing this, Ren Man was taken aback... Could this be the turmoil Liu Yu Engong mentioned?

Without waiting for Ren Man to think about it...

Ayi's words continued. "In my opinion, don't go into the city, isn't the master of your Yulin temple on good terms with Cao Dahonglu's son? If you don't keep it together, you will be implicated, so get out of the city to avoid the wind!"

The voice just fell...

"What did you just say?"

Suddenly a voice sounded...

Immediately afterwards, a handsome young man drove his horse to the middle of the two carriages. This young man was very good-looking, not too old, about eighteen or nineteen years old, with a heroic look on his brows!
He is Xia Houyuan, Cao Cao's brother-in-law and brother-in-law.

Xia Houyuan has been Cao Cao's attendant since he was a child. Because he took the place of Cao Cao's crime in the dragon boat case at the Dragon Boat Festival, Cao Song adopted him as his adopted son, bought a house for him in Luoyang City, and even got Ding Xiang, the second daughter of the Ding family, as his wife.

He heard the news from the carriage that adoptive father Cao Song was imprisoned in Dali Temple, so he went to the carriage to ask what happened.

Ayi and Axiang were startled, and hurriedly ordered the groom to drive away.

Diao Xiu's children were not afraid of words, they opened their mouths and uttered a sentence. "Big brother, it was Empress Song who was deposed, and many people were implicated...including Cao Dahonghe!"

He could hear it vaguely just now, but this time he heard it clearly.

Xia Houyuan's brows frown instantly...

"Oops!"

With a soft moan in his mouth, he rode his horse and galloped towards Cao Mansion in the southeast of Luoyang!

Halfway through the work, I realized something was wrong. At this time, going to the Cao Mansion would not help the matter, so I immediately turned my horse and headed east of the city.

Xia Houyuan heard about it yesterday.

The adoptive father Cao Song kicked out the elder brother Cao Cao from the house, but the elder brother did not go to his mansion, so the elder brother will only go to one place, the Yulin Temple eighteen miles east of the city!
——Big brother, big brother, something big happened!

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Among the mountains and fields, beside the Luoshui River, the scenery is pleasant.

Although the state affairs of the Han Empire are full of scorpions, there are still gurgling streams in the mountains and rivers, fields are full of ridges, and wild flowers bloom spontaneously.

Both Liu Yu and Cao Cao were dressed in ordinary people's attire, walking slowly in the mountains.

At the end of the mountain is a carriage, and there are several strong men riding on the horses, as if waiting for something.

This is Liu Yu's horse team rushing to the land of Bashu, and Cao Cao is here to see him off.

But at this time...

In the fields among the mountains, Cao Cao noticed an old scalper.

The old scalper seemed to have lost all strength, his limbs were weak, and he was resting on the ground, but the tenant farmer behind him kept whipping him.

plowing...

Although the old scalper is very tired, he still has to plow the land and can't stop for a moment.

From the perspective of the tenant farmer, if he fails to pay the land rent and pay the poll tax at the time of harvest, he will be the one who will be whipped or even imprisoned at that time.

Seeing this scene, Cao Cao sighed: "What kind of world is this? Good people are bullied by others, good horses are ridden by others, old scalpers are bullied by tenant farmers, tenant farmers are bullied by landlords and heavy taxes, but if someone really wants to do something Son, no matter if it is a horse, a man, a scalper, or a tenant farmer, everyone bullies him!"

The voice just fell...

Cao Cao noticed that the old ox was looking at him with round eyes, his heart skipped a beat, and he sighed again with an "ah".

"It seems that Ah Man still cares about what I said yesterday."

Liu Yu spoke at the right time.

"Alas..." Cao Cao sighed again. "Brother Yu mentioned yesterday that emperors throughout the ages are willing to use eunuchs and traitors. Brother Yu tossed and turned, thinking all night!"

"Have you figured it out in the end?" Liu Yu asked.

Cao Cao pondered for a moment, then shook his head. "If one day, I am able to rule the world, I will definitely get rid of traitors, use capable people and virtuous ministers, and I will use the intelligence of the world, so that the common people in the world can have more hope."

The reason why Cao Cao thinks this way is still from Taixue...

When Cao Cao graduated from Taixue, in order to complete the last assessment, he needed to write a grand tour report.

As the saying goes, "travel thousands of miles, read thousands of books."

Of course, this so-called Zhuangyou developed to the end of the Han Dynasty, and it had its unique characteristics again.

That is to use the grand tour report to sing praises to senior officials in certain places or fields, so as to get the opportunity to be recommended and recognized, and to get a "passport for official career".
But what Cao Cao saw during his grand travels were thousands of miles of starved people, people who were waiting to die of starvation and death under the plague.

"Brother Yu, do you know what I saw during my Grand Tour five years ago?"

Seeming to be emotional, Cao Cao opened his mouth and said.

Liu Yu paused ten steps away from the carriage, intending to listen to Cao Cao's words.

"what?"

"I was resting by a water source, drinking horses, and suddenly found an old man lying not far away. I went up to see that the old man was not dead. It turned out that he had come to look for his daughter from a far away place and had already left. It took eighteen days, but when they arrived at the destination, they realized that their daughter’s family had already died in the plague. The old man was devastated, but he had no money, no food, and could not move, so he could only lie at the water source and wait to die. !"

"I gave him all my money, but... I know, he still can't survive!"

"Also, when I passed by Mianchi, I saw those poor people desperately reaching out to me for begging under the plague. I took out the fried noodle bag from the horseback and handed it to these dozens of pairs of skinny hands, but although they wanted to I asked for food, but no one came close to me. They asked me to put the food under my feet. I wondered at that time, but the words of an old woman made me remember my whole life..."

Speaking of this, Cao Cao paused.

Liu Yu opened his mouth and asked, "What did he say?"

Cao Cao narrowed his eyes slightly, "He said... good young man, let's go quickly, we have a plague on us, don't pass it on to you!"

Huo…

Needless to say, the first time Cao Cao told about his experience in the Grand Tour, Liu Yu trembled all over.

Indeed, the peasants and poor people of the Han Dynasty...had the most simple character, even if it was a plague, even if it was a crisis, they still had a conscience and responded with kindness.

Cao Cao suddenly raised his voice.

"Brother Yu, tell me? What's wrong with this world, can't the common people have some hope?"

All of a sudden, the atmosphere became grim.

at this time.

"Drive, drive..."

In the mountain road, a group of people and horses came from afar, and the sound of horseshoes shook the ground, and the smoke and dust covered the sun, chasing a person in the uniform of a messenger.

The dozen or so riders chasing behind were all in black soft armor, with brocade half arms covered on the soft armor, which was the uniform of the Xiyuan school lieutenant army, and they kept shooting arrows as they galloped!
Liu Yu was startled: "It's Xiyuan School's Weijun!"

Cao Cao's eyes widened in an instant.

"Then... I recognize the messenger who is being chased. It is... the servant of Song Qi's mansion, Yin Qianghou!"

That's right...

Wearing the uniform of a messenger, the one who was chased by the Xiyuan Army was the servant of the Song Mansion who had given the gift box to the Cao Mansion in the past.

Because it was the gift box returned by Cao Cao himself, he was extremely impressed!

And subconsciously, Cao Cao noticed a terrible thing, something that was expected but unreasonable.

——Something happened to the Song clan of the famous Fufeng family!

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(End of this chapter)