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

Chapter 268 I have collected so much money, I dare not spend any of it
People's hearts!

Driven by interests!

Jian Shuo's words made Liu Hong fall into deep thought.

After the feather-like "fight against Wuhuan", Liu Hong suddenly realized a lot.

Those descendants of fallen generals?He will only hold on to the achievements of the past and be content with the status quo... Are you powerless to change the Han Empire?Don't have energy?
No... nothing attracts them!

Those Yellow Turban Army who rose up, those Montenegrin Army, must they resist the big man?Can't they become the help of the big man and help the big man resist the Hulu?
No... It's because their family members are not properly arranged and cared for... It's because they dare not wear clothes when they are cold, and dare not eat when they are hungry.

Those original frontier soldiers, when Xianbei invaded the border for years, pulled their hips year after year. Is this because they are not brave enough?No... it's the corruption of the upper and lower military systems!It's a raging army, it's a raging nest of generals!
But these... seemingly unconnected forces, seemed to be gathered together by Yu'er with an invisible thread.

"Interesting."

Liu Hong said with emotion: "It can be seen from this that in the past, it was not the state affairs of the big man who could not be governed, but that I was incompetent and could not cure the big man!"

"Your Majesty is right..." Jian Shuo hurriedly said, "Besides, the birth of the eldest son of the emperor... is also due to His Majesty!"

"Heh..." Liu Hong smiled slightly, "My credit, what credit do I have!"

He turned around and stepped onto the dragon chair step by step. When he reached the dragon table, he paused.

Immediately afterwards, a sentence came out, "From now on, you don't have to talk about the eldest son of the emperor. He must be my big man's prince and the future emperor of the big man!"

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Jinan country.

Cao Song fell into confusion again.

He has been in Jinan for more than ten days... Zhang Rang sent two more little Huangmen, urging Cao Song to be impatient all day long.

Cao Song had just stopped the eunuchs who came to urge him during the day. They threatened Cao Song that they would hand over the evidence of ink corruption to the emperor... Cao Song begged for mercy, and gave him a few more days, using the excuse that he was afraid of offending Cao Cao and the matter would be difficult to deal with.

anyway…

Cao Cao was very busy, Cao Song felt distressed, and simply offered to help Cao Cao to check the warehouse.

Cao Cao readily accepts...he just doesn't have time for this.

It was only during the few days when it rained a while ago that Cao Cao sent people to take over half of the warehouses. Since Cao Song wanted to help, it would be great.

When Cao Song came to the official warehouse, he saw that most of the goods in the warehouse had been sorted out by Cao Cao. According to the variety and quantity, they were stacked squarely and in good order.The roadway reserved in the middle is just wide enough for two people to carry goods.In addition, the positions of all goods are recorded and numbered sequentially from south to north.As long as you hold the list, you can find the exact location of the goods according to the records in the list, which looks like a military material warehouse.

Cao Song reluctantly nodded in satisfaction, not to praise Cao Cao's work, but to feel that this kid really has his heritage.

Cao Song spent several days sorting out some agricultural supplies and supplies necessary for floods according to the way Cao Cao determined to stack the goods. The rotten goods were registered and sorted as waste.

The little yellow gate sent by Zhang Rang finally found the warehouse, saw Cao Song's sweat and mud stains, and sarcastically said: "Cao Da Siong, it's thanks to you that you figured it out, hide here!"

Cao Song hastily flattered him: "Chang Shi is joking, where am I hiding here? I'm helping organize the official treasury."

Xiao Huangmen raised his head to the upper left and rolled his eyes: "I don't want you to worry about this official business. Someone will take care of it later. You just need to persuade your son to resign, and you and I will be upright. Otherwise, don't blame the imperial city Your Zhang Changshi is welcome!"

Cao Song spread his dirty hands and explained to Xiao Huangmen: "Elder-in-law, I am not here to help him with work, so I can find a chance to talk to him?"

Xiao Huangmen stared at Cao Song... thinking that what Cao Song said was reasonable, and said: "Then please hurry up, Cao Dasinong, or else..."

Happens...

This time the conversation between the two was clearly heard by Cao Cao.

After Xiao Huangmen left, Cao Cao stepped into the warehouse, while Cao Song was still busy in the warehouse.

The warehouse in summer is extremely hot and sweltering, and he is playing with something in the warehouse with his butt pouted...

Cao Cao sighed "Ai", and was about to speak, but saw that Cao Song was sweating profusely, and his clothes were half wet with sweat.

Cao Cao hurriedly asked someone to bring a basin of water to Cao Song, and asked him to wash his face and sit in the wind for a while.

Sitting on the threshold, the father and son seemed to have something to say, but they didn't know how to say it.

It was Cao Cao who spoke first: "I didn't expect my father to do Kuguan very well."

Cao Song rolled up his sleeves, took a sip of the bitter tea that was placed on the grain bag, and was very satisfied: "Ah, that's... isn't it bragging, I've been a Dahonglu, a Dasinong for so many years, and I'm just a living book!"

Cao Cao suddenly thought of something... "Then why was my father threatened by that little yellow gate? Who is behind him? Is it Zhang Ren, the first ten servants?"

After blurting out these words, Cao Song was at a loss for words.

Cao Cao's ability to ask this step proves that...he has already guessed something, but... this topic, Cao Song doesn't know how to explain it.

"Father, look... you have been here for so many days, and I don't have time to accompany you. Your body has almost recovered, so why not... go back early."

Cao Cao issued an order to expel guests... no, it was an order to expel fathers.

Cao Song looked embarrassed: "I said, I will go back with you when you resign."

Cao Cao was also in a dilemma: "Do you think I can leave Jinan? Before I came to Jinan, I asked my third brother if it was meaningful to come here this time. But the third brother replied... There is no place more suitable than Jinan. I have experienced it...now...the child has made some achievements and has been praised by His Majesty, why does the father..."

Cao Song nodded and shook his head, his brows were gradually furrowed...but he still didn't say a word!

Cao Cao said earnestly, "Then you still want me to resign?"

Cao Cao stared at Cao Song closely: "Father, do you have something to hide from me?"

Cao Song shook his head as if waking up from a dream: "How come?"

Cao Cao stood up against Cao Song's sigh, and he said loudly: "If not, I can't resign. Jinan still has a lot of things to do! Investigate the sale of smuggled salt, investigate and deal with major corruption cases, investigate years of murders, and punish smugglers. Casting and raising the embankment of the Yellow River, dredging the waterways of the Qinghe River, re-measurement of the fields, helping the people build winter houses, building schools and nursing homes, clearing the roads..."

Cao Song didn't interrupt Cao Cao this time, and he couldn't hear Cao Cao's "Guankou" commentary like a cross talk.

He knows what Cao Cao wants, the opportunity to do things, and the platform for self-realization.

As Liu Yu said, Jinan country...is the best place for him to practice.

If you can manage this side well, then in the future... you will be able to assist the emperor to manage the entire empire.

"Ugh…"

Cao Song sighed again...

He knew that what Cao Cao valued was not official position, let alone money, but doing things for the people would make him happy. As a father, he didn't know what his son needed in the past. Now that he understood, how could he have the heart to take away what he wanted most.

Thinking of this, Cao Song became more silent.

Cao Cao looked at Cao Song who was still sitting stupidly, looking very preoccupied. "Father, I'm going to the Yellow River embankment to measure the dam, calculate the earthwork and workload, and lead the people to build the dam this autumn."

Cao Song said absent-mindedly, "Yes, ah."

Cao Song was able to appreciate from Cao Cao that he was so busy that he didn't even have time to sleep... the son's spirit of shouldering the responsibility of doing things for the people and shouldering his shoulders.

That kind of mentality of being able to enjoy it no matter how hard or tired it is... All these made Cao Song understand why Cao Cao likes to be an official, is "obsessed" with being an official, and is determined to be an official.

And Cao Song spent most of his life, but he only understands it until now.

The sage said, "A gentleman loves money, and he has the right way to get it." If there is no way, the sky will not tolerate it, and the earth will not bear it.Cao Song, as an imperial student who has read the sage's legacy, should have thought of today from the first time he reached out.

Cao Song is determined not to persuade Cao Cao to resign...

Whether you are Zhang Rang or Zhao Zhong, come here!
He has "endured" half his life and "waited" half his life. How should he know what commitment is?What is strong?What do you mean never give in?
These... are all taught by his son Cao Cao!

"Ahhh..."

"father…"

"If one day, you know that Dad has done something wrong, and you see Dad being punished by the emperor, don't blame Dad..."

"How did dad say these things?" As if, Cao Cao still couldn't understand...

Hehe... Cao Song laughed, and finally patted Cao Cao on the shoulder.

"Let's go... Dad will leave tomorrow morning!"

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Speaking of...

In the eyes of Cao Song, Cao Cao used to be a person with such and other irreversible flaws.

But after spending so many days with his son Cao Cao, Cao Song felt that compared with his son, he had lost his original intention of being an official.

It's just a living dead man who is greedy for money, not worthy of being an official, not worthy of being a saint's disciple, and even less worthy of learning the eight big stone characters beside the single-plank bridge.

Ha ha…

Cao Song smiled, he really felt that people...will be changed by the people around them.

It was because I met Liu Yu... that I became the integrity I am now?Is not it?
Cao Song no longer worried about whether Cao Cao would live well after his death...

Will their family be ransacked by Zhang Rang?
Even though Cao Cao's life and official career were short and full of thorns, at least he did things for the people sincerely and treated the people under his rule with a clear conscience.

Even if Cao Cao died on the road of being an official and serving the people in the future, Cao Song would have no regrets.

What's more, the emperor is protecting him now, as long as Cao Song doesn't compromise, how can the eunuch survive!

In the early morning of the next day, Cao Song mustered up his courage, raised his head, raised his chest...

He was going to the Yellow River, and Zhang Rang's eyeliner, the little yellow gate, was going to make a final fight.

The aged Cao Song staggered all the way to the bank of the Yellow River...

He shouted to himself in his heart: "Live a real life! In order to protect the son who sincerely works for the people, even if he dies, he will never regret it!"

No wind, very quiet...

Except for the sound of huge waves from the rolling of the Yellow River, there is no extra sound here...

only…

Who would have thought that at this moment Cao Song was like an old rooster about to be slaughtered, flapping its wings and realizing the final madness.

Cao Song walked all the way under the scorching sun, which surprised Xiao Huangmen who was enjoying the cool air on the boat at the pier.

Originally, they were the ones who chased after Cao Song and asked him... When will Cao Cao be persuaded to resign?

Cao Song hadn't been seen for several days, why did he take the initiative to board the boat today?

"Sinong Cao probably hasn't succeeded in persuading your son to resign, right? The weather is so hot, you should go back first, we will wait for your letter tomorrow morning!"

One of them, Xiao Huangmen, was arrogant.

"Take this back!"

Cao Song handed a document to Xiao Huangmen...

Xiao Huangmen was taken aback for a moment, then took the document, and suddenly... there were three words "Letter of Confession" written on it.

Cao Song at this moment is fearless...

In order to protect his son, what is he like an old corrupt official!He deserved to die long ago, he pleaded guilty, and he obeyed the law!Just please don't implicate the Cao family, don't implicate your son!

never thought...

The moment Xiao Huangmen opened the "confession", they were stunned for nothing... because there was not a single word in the confession...

Blank, nothing.

"Sinong Cao is joking with our family, isn't he?"

Xiao Huang presents the confession to Cao Song...

Cao Song was taken aback...

Obviously...

"Father..." At this moment, a crisp voice came from behind.

It's Cao Cao's voice...

Cao Song turned around quickly, but saw Cao Cao was frowning, staring at him intently...

Cao Song understands... It seems that Ah Man is smarter than he imagined, this confession... I am afraid that his son stole it first.

"You know it all?"

Cao Song murmured...

"Father... let's go back and talk about it!" Cao Cao pulled Cao Song up...under the dumbfounded eyes of Xiao Huangmen, the father and son walked away.

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The wind blows through the candles in the house.

The lights are flickering, flickering, flickering...

Sitting on the left and right of the copy are Cao Song with tears all over his face, and Cao Cao with his lips clenched.

The father and son looked at each other speechlessly... and it seemed that they had already spoken a thousand words.

Cao Cao put the real "confession letter" on the table, which is a criminal "document", on which Cao Song recorded all his corruption over the years.

Among them, the greedy figures... can only be described as shocking.

If you have to add a symbol... it's tens of millions, no... to be precise, it should be billions!
It is recorded in "Sun Tzu Suan Jing": "For the method of large numbers, tens of thousands are called billions, tens of thousands of trillions are called trillions, and tens of thousands of trillions are called Beijing!"

Numbers like Zhao and Jing are basically insulated from ordinary people... But even "[-] million" makes Cao Cao feel terrified...

Cao Cao spared no effort to do things for the people of Jinan...

But who ever thought...

The number one corrupt official in the big man turned out to be his own father!

Cao Cao picked up the confession, read it again, and asked more questions.

It turned out that the official experience taught by his father made him confused, and now that something like this happened, it made him even more confused.

He was extremely shocked, and looked at Cao Song's face full of guilt, annoyance, and mortal determination under the oil lamp: "Ever since you came to Jinan suddenly, I have doubts in my heart, no matter how many bad things I thought about, this is not included... Do, for what?"

Cao Song wanted to speak, but seemed to have a thousand thoughts and didn't know where to start.

Cao Cao sadly said to Cao Song: "My dear, you and I are both disciples of the emperor. You were a Ph.D. in the Confucian Academy of Taixue and had been taught by a sage. How could you have the face to do such a thing and face the emperor?" ?When I come to the underworld in the future, how can I explain to my grandfather? "

Cao Song raised his hand to stop Cao Cao, his shoulders twitched and he choked up...

"Ah, do you believe it? Dad has collected so much money, but dad...but a penny... dare not spend a dime!"

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(End of this chapter)