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

Chapter 2 This is a disease that can be cured, simmer slowly, and adjust slowly

It was accidental and inevitable that Liu Yu got acquainted with Cao Cao.

It was accidental, because Cao Cao looked very unreliable when he was young. He was willful, chivalrous, bohemian, did not cultivate moral character, and did not study studies. He was simply a prodigal image of a dandy!

As for his father Cao Song, he was the Dahonghe of the dynasty, in charge of the affairs of the princes and vassal states.

The Han Dynasty is a parallel system of prefectures and states, and it is a fat job to be able to control princes and vassal states!
Of course, Cao Song did not rely solely on himself to become a high-ranking official of the Jiuqing from the captain of Sili. To put it bluntly, he relied on his faction...

He belongs to the eunuchs!

Cao Jie, the head of the eunuchs, colluded with him internally and externally, coveting money from the vassal states of Mo.

To this...

Cao Cao scoffed at it. The so-called willful and chivalrous, bohemian, and unrefined character are his silent resistance to the eunuch faction that his father belonged to.

After being educated by Taixue, Cao Cao firmly stood on the side of the "scholar" who was the opposite of the eunuch.

Can be…

How could scholars accept this eunuch to raise their grandchildren?Scholars even wondered if the eunuch's adopted grandson was a spy sent by the officials!
Under this premise...Liu Yu meets Cao Cao!

That was their first meeting, when Cao Cao and Yuan Shao stole the bride.

At that time, the seven-year-old Liu Yu broke the goal of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao with one sentence!

Where did they come to steal the bride!

They were obviously practicing how to sneak into the manor and steal the confidential letterhead.

As for the purpose, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were planning to infiltrate the mansion of Zhang Rang, the head of the ten permanent servants together.

Cao Cao needs this action to let the scholars accept him!
Yuan Shao also needed this action to get rid of the shackles of his status as a bastard!

Unexpectedly, Liu Yu at that time saw through it at a glance, and Liu Yu helped them carefully plan this action, and Cao Cao and Yuan Shao benefited a lot from it!

Since then…

Cao Cao and Yuan Shao often came to the Taoist temple on the outskirts of the city, and the three of them became close friends.

"Brother Yu, Zensheng sighed today, who provoked you? I'll cut him for you!"

Cao Cao stood beside Liu Yu...

Three years ago, he dared to cast a five-color stick to beat the powerful...

Now that he proposes to stand up for Liu Yu, Cao Cao can really do this.

"Ah, let's not talk about my side, I just heard you talking about Dunqiu? What happened to Dunqiu?"

Liu Yu asked Cao Cao back.

You know, only very good friends, Cao Cao would allow him to call him by his nickname—A Man.

However, judging from Cao Cao's smiling expression, Liu Yu is already his best friend!

Speaking of it, because Liu Yu is quite tall, with a handsome and handsome face, just like the audience masters in front of the screen, standing next to the dark, small-eyed, low, short, and frustrated young man Cao Cao, there is nothing wrong with him. Violation!

You know, they are 11 years old apart...but they are about the same height!

And Cao Cao was 21 years old this year, so it's no wonder Yuan Shu nicknamed him "Big Half"!
"Dun Qiu over there, haha..."

Mentioning Dunqiu, young Cao Cao laughed heartily.

His current official title is Dunqiu Ling, an official title of a thousand stones!
The big Han set up counties below the county level, big counties set up county magistrates, small counties set up county magistrates, the rank of county magistrates ranged from [-] shi to [-] shi, and county magistrates ranged from [-] shi to [-] shi!
Dunqiu is a large county, but it is also an extremely difficult county to manage. It is located along the banks of two rivers. Everyone is martial, everyone is brave, and the people love fighting!
Of course, this is not the point. The point is that in the 30 years before Cao Cao served as the order of Dunqiu, a total of 42 county magistrates were transferred and replaced here, four of whom died unexpectedly, 22 applied for transfer, ten were dismissed, and six were in the middle of the night. Hang India to escape.

As if, this Dunqiu Ling is a hot potato...

"What? That group of powerful local gentry convinced you?"

Liu Yu asked Cao Cao...

"The five words you mentioned are really useful!" Cao Cao smiled and recited the five words: "Use heavy codes in troubled times"

"Using heavy codes in troubled times is easy to say, but it is very difficult to implement." Liu Yu shook her head lightly.

"Haha..." Cao Cao smiled heartily, with the corners of his mouth cracked, and replied with a smile. "This is about to mention, another trick you taught me!"

"Well…"

Liu Yu raised her eyes.

Cao Cao put his hand on his shoulder. "Your trick is really good. I wrote to my father and said to borrow 'a hundred catties of gold, 300,000 money, or I will be in danger of life'! Guess what, my father really has so much money? He sent it to me !"

Ha ha…

Hearing this, Liu Yu went "hehe".

He muttered in his heart, who is your father Cao Song?That is the number one corrupt official of the big man!

Where is Ah Hang, how much your father is, I am afraid that you do n’t know if you are your son. Do n’t look at it, Cao Song is extremely harsh on you ... But in his bones, he cares about you very much!

Just like Liu Yu thought.

It is true that Cao Song colluded with Zhongchang Shi Cao Jie and was greedy for countless money, but what Cao Cao wanted was just a drop in the bucket.

But Cao Song is not a greedy master after all. He has money...he dare not spend it. These years, he dare not change the house, dare not change the carriage, and even raising Cao Cao is extremely poor!

That's why...

When Liu Yu proposed to let Cao Cao cheat money from his father Cao Song, Cao Cao questioned it for a while!
But a letter passed, and Cao Song sent all the gold and coins directly. Cao Cao felt that his outlook on life had been subverted.

And Cao Cao directly used the money to recruit more than a hundred village braves, and personally went out to teach them how to fight and fight!
From this day on, Cao Cao began to practice the "heavy codes for troubled times" mentioned by Liu Yu.

First, the "Ten Crimes of Punishment" was promulgated in Dunqiu County, and the severe punishment law was launched with great momentum!

The unjust, false and wrongly decided cases over the past 20 years have been overturned. Countless wealthy gentry were turned into criminals and beheaded by Cao Cao in public... The land of these families was redistributed to farmers, and the people of Dunqiu County survived.

even…

Cao Cao felt that Liu Yu's trick was perfect.

I asked my father for money several times, without exception, and the words in the letter were true - Dad, if you don't give the money, your son will die!
Sure enough, every time... the money asked for was exactly the same.

And Cao Cao used the money to open a school in Dunqiu, build water conservancy, and won infinite reputation.

What's more, because of the abundant grain harvest, Dunqiu County took the initiative to pay a large amount of grain to the emperor!
This is enough to cause a sensation in the entire empire in this era when the local states and counties are crying for poverty everywhere. Cao Cao himself has been rewarded by the emperor and praised by the world!
Cao Cao told Liu Yu what happened here...

While talking, he didn't forget to pat Liu Yu on the shoulder. This is the gratitude from the bottom of his heart. Of course, there is also such a slight embarrassment.

"Ah Man, take it easy...it hurts me!"

Liu Yu rubbed her shoulders...

Cao Cao is good at everything, but his strikes are neither light nor heavy.

Never thought, at this moment...

Cao Cao scratched his head. "Brother Yu, I still have one thing to ask you!"

It seems that these years...Cao Cao has become used to it. When he has problems, he can always find a solution to Liu Yu, and the results are remarkable!

It can be said that Cao Cao is inseparable from Liu Yu!
This time back to Luoyang, I just need to ask for advice!
"How about... you can go to Dunqiu with me, county commissioner, county lieutenant, county assistant, five sense doctor... you can choose whatever you want, and I will go to the court to invite officials for you!"

Uh…

The words blurted out.

Liu Yu rolled her eyes and waved her hand. "Come on, if I go to Dunqiu, who will take care of this Yulin temple for me? Besides, have you ever seen an official before reaching the crown? Besides, we Taoists are not liked by the court!"

What Liu Yu said is correct. When the Han Dynasty founded the country, it pursued a policy of recuperation, so the Taoist thought of inaction dominated the mainstream...

However, since Emperor Wu's reign, Confucianism was overthrown by a hundred schools of thought, and Confucianism gradually became dominant, and Taoism gradually declined!

During the period, the Taoists also resisted... trying to get close to the emperor again and step into the core of the imperial court!
But in the final result, without exception, they were defeated by Confucianism and returned home in defeat!

It is precisely because of this that there is no way to go above, and the Taoist school can only choose to go below.

Zhang Daoling, the patriarch of Zhengyi, chose to go to Bashu to preach...

That's living elsewhere!
And the famous Taiping Road Yellow Turban Uprising also followed the common people's route from below!
Damn, your court doesn't respect Taoism, then I will overthrow you and establish another court!
For example, Taiping Road!
Don't the big man believe in the Eastern Emperor Taiyi?Well, our Taiping Dao believes in the Emperor Taiyi, doesn't the big man worship the sky?Taiping Dao worships Huang Tian!
In the final analysis, whether it is the Five Dou Rice Sect or the Taipingdao Yellow Turban Uprising... these are essentially the product of the hundreds of years of Confucianism and Taoism that have run through the Han Dynasty!

Liu Yu understands this very well...

These days, if Taoists want to be officials, they have to be suppressed by Confucianism to become scum...

Therefore…

Liu Yu never thought of joining the imperial court at all.

According to his plan, he will honestly develop the Five Dou Rice Sect in the Central Plains. On the surface, he runs a Taoist temple, but secretly, he focuses on making money and developing low-level intelligence lines!
Then he hugged Cao Cao's thigh tightly, and when Chen Liu raised his troops in the future, Liu Yu would go to him with money and the Five Dou Rice Sect in the Central Plains.
After that, watching Lao Cao grow bigger step by step in Cao Ying, Liu Yu can lie flat and open... Marry a beautiful woman and live a happy life!
certainly…

During the period, Liu Yu needs to reform Lao Cao a little bit. No one is born suspicious, and no one is born willing to be the number one butcher of the Three Kingdoms!

Lao Cao's suspicion in the later stage is because he has been betrayed a lot, and he has seen a lot of betrayals!

Lao Cao's massacre of the city has nothing to do with it.

If he hadn't slaughtered Xuzhou, Zhuge Liang, Lu Su, Zhang Zhao and others wouldn't have gone south to avoid disaster, and they would have been unified long ago.

According to Liu Yu's thinking, these are all diseases, and they must be cured... Slowly simmer on low heat, and slowly recuperate!

Now Cao Cao is only in his early 20s, so there is still a lot of room for plasticity.

Thinking of this...

Liu Yu once again looked at the young Cao Cao in front of him.

"Ah Man, don't hide it anymore, tell me, what problems did you encounter in Dunqiu County?"

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(End of this chapter)