Lord Yuan

Chapter 6 Purpose
The sky is getting darker, and the faint glow of the dusk is falling little by little.

Cao Mengde didn't care at all about the surprised looks of others, and walked straight to Yuan Shao, who was half-kneeling in front of the coffin.

"But brother Yuan Shao and Yuan Benchu?"

Yuan Shao nodded and said: "I'm right, I wonder if Meng De has any advice?"

Cao Cao smiled when he heard this. Along the way, he had heard a lot about Yuan Benchu's deeds.

He has a rare reputation, but he is courageous and resourceful. He became an official and served as the magistrate of Puyang County with the help of his family background, which is quite famous.

Moreover, Yuan Benchu ​​had a similar experience to himself.

Yuan Shao was born a bastard and had a low status. He wanted to get rid of his status as a bastard.

However, he was born as a eunuch, and his relationship with ordinary scholars was not very close. He also extremely hated the eunuch's exclusive power, and he had no place to express his passion.

As for how he knew that Yuan's family was holding a funeral now, he had to go through Yuan Shu, a tough guy on the road who liked to be a ranger.

Cao Cao and Yuan Shu were each other's knights, and they often paired up in pairs. After going back and forth, the two naturally became familiar with each other.

Cao Cao is not just a knight-errant. On the contrary, he does not like classics on the surface, is dissolute, and always interacts with knights. But in fact, all of this is a cover-up for Cao Cao, used to confuse the ears and eyes of the eunuchs.

After all, in the current Han Dynasty, even Cao Mengde, who will be powerful in the future, is obedient to the eunuchs of the current dynasty.

Cao Mengde's identity is indeed a bit embarrassing.

The scholars were not happy. Among the aristocratic families around Qiaojun, there were often people who would tease and ridicule him because he was a eunuch and had no roots.

Cao Cao once naively wanted to use his status as a wealthy family in Qiaojun to make friends with those scholars, but he was refuted with various humiliating words.

Facts have proved that eunuchs and scholars are two completely opposite forces after all. After Cao Cao learned that his family was actually descended from eunuchs, he was depressed all day long, showing a heaviness that was incompatible with his age.

But his father could bear the political advantage brought by his adoptive father with peace of mind. After all, there are a few people in this world who can walk on the edge of the tightrope like Cao Teng, get along with both sides, and become the strongest weakling in history.

Cao Cao's clan rose to prominence from Cao Teng and has now become a local power. Although it has not passed down the family classics, causing scholars to ridicule them, there are always people who will choose to put treasure on Cao's head.

The Cao family in Qiao County not only has Cao Song, who is good at amassing money, in a high position, but also married Song Qi, the powerful queen in the past few years, and became Cao Cao's brother-in-law. He suddenly became a member of the powerful family from a powerful family.

Cao Cao often thought that the Cao family was already extremely powerful and powerful, so why should he pursue fame and fortune excessively and get rid of his official status?

It is not a shame to honestly go through the process under the arrangement of his father and become a lieutenant general.

But Cao Mengde is Cao Mengde after all. If he had compromised Cao Song like this, Zhang Rang, the leader of the ten permanent servants who later went to Beijing to assassinate the father of the Ling Emperor, would not have had the heroic feat, nor would he have been able to serve as the Northern Lieutenant of Luoyang. The political stance of Uncle Jian Shuo of Xiaohuangmen, who was afraid of power and killed him with a stick.

Speaking of which, Cao Cao actually always harbored some kind of strange envy, jealousy, and hatred towards Yuan Shao.

Jealous of the fact that he was born with a golden key in his mouth and grew up with the support of the Yuan family. Most of the scholars in the world will follow the opinions of this old leader, even if it is just verbal.

Therefore, in order to get rid of his status as a eunuch as soon as possible and to see the power of the Yuan family in Runan, Cao Cao deliberately set out from home half a month in advance.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Shao's mother passed away just in time. As a result, Cao Cao was naturally happy to see the outcome. When he was still worried about how to make friends with Yuan Shao, someone gave him a pillow when he fell asleep.So, he came.

As for Yuan Shu, he actually looked down on this real dandy from the bottom of his heart. It was just because of the Yuan family's prestige that he was conceding the favor.

"I've seen your servant. I'm in a hurry today and I'm sorry for bothering you. I hope you don't blame me." Cao Cao did not forget the etiquette and saluted Yuan Feng in the distance.

Yuan Feng nodded and then went to do other things.

Cao Cao was not surprised by this. He was a junior, and it was considered a success to attract the attention of one of the nine ministers.

Naturally, Yuan Shao didn't know that Cao Cao came here with the purpose of making friends. As the saying goes, don't hit someone with a smiling face, not to mention that they are polite.

He just glanced sideways and saw the servants struggling to carry a pile of boxes of unknown items. At a glance, there were four or five boxes.

This old man Cao Song really has a business acumen, and he is very proficient in using his official position for personal gain.

No wonder Cao Cao was able to fish him out even after he was imprisoned when he killed his uncle Jian Shuo with a stick. Although the Song family was behind the scenes, Yuan Shao knew that Cao Song had spent 50 yuan to fish for his son. Come and take care of things up and down, and this is how Cao Cao returns safely.

Yuan Shao admired Cao Song for this.

As for the generous gifts brought by Cao Cao, after thinking for a while, he understood some of the reasons and did not refuse.

This place is far away from the Luoyang court, so far that the court's hands can't reach here. This place in Runan has long been run by the Yuan family.

And Cao Cao wanted to use his own line to get rid of his status as an official in the eyes of the world's scholars.

Isn't it possible that he has a plan to recruit Cao Cao?

Cao Cao was in the prime of his youth. At the age of fifteen or sixteen, he still had no plans for the future king of Wei. All he had was loyalty to the Han Dynasty. How could Yuan Shao miss such a talent.

Now, let's make a familiar face first, and when the time is right, he will be included under his command, and then there will be many scheming and wise people to deal with. I think there should be no more incidents of coercing the emperor to order the princes.

As for what will happen in the future, no one can guarantee it. Even a small butterfly flapping its wings can cause the butterfly effect and great changes in the times, not to mention that he has almost intervened to change the progress of history.

The funeral ended smoothly, except for Yuan Shu who came out to cause trouble and escaped with thirty sticks from the family.

Yuan Shao not only made friends with Cao Cao, but also learned that the two people who asked him before were the two brothers Xu Xuan and Xu Jing, so he was naturally very satisfied.

Everything was going step by step. If I had to find a fault, it would be that I failed to completely make my uncle Yuan Feng give up on Yuan Shu.

In fact, Yuan Shao already knew this well. After all, Yuan Shu was his legitimate son. The eldest brother, Yuan Ji, was far away on duty in Luoyang and would not be able to come back for a while. However, since he had only given birth to an heir from a concubine and adopted him, Yuan Shu was naturally dismissed. My uncle had great expectations, but he really didn't live up to expectations.

Yuan Shao has learned that his uncle Yuan Feng has written a letter to his other uncle Yuan Wei who has not returned from the court, asking him to operate in the Luoyang court and promote Yuan Shu as a filial and honest official in Beijing.

A legitimate son will always be a legitimate son, and he, as the adopted son of the Yuan family, will not be able to live with it.

(End of this chapter)