When the vanguard of Cao's army rushed into the south gate of Yecheng, Cao Cao himself stopped hundreds of steps away, and watched the battlefield from a high place through the tower, and was still a little nervous.

After all, before seizing the city gate and completely controlling the city tower, no one can guarantee whether there is any fraud. Especially for a big city like Yecheng, the depth of the city is not short.

Fortunately, the height of the tower that Cao Cao climbed far exceeds the city wall, so you can see clearly the situation of the urn on the inside of the outer city wall.

If there is any fraud, it is inevitable to lose hundreds of pioneer elite cavalry who are snatching the door and snatching the door. If it is handled improperly, the losses will be even more.

But the benefits of success are even greater, and no one can withstand this temptation, so almost individuals will accept such bets, and those who are cautious will not enter the city in person.

"Yang Xiu was the key to betraying Yuan Shang. I really didn't expect that. Shen Pei was wary of so many generals who colluded with us, but he could not have thought of guarding against Yang Xiu. This is probably God's will."

Seeing that his soldiers had approached the inner gate of the city and the battle had not erupted, both sides were very restrained, Cao Cao's uneasiness was relieved, and he couldn't help but tremble slightly with excitement.

However, at this moment, he saw some white flags erected on the top of the city, and some people hung a tied captive with hanging baskets. Dozens of Yuan army soldiers and servants of the Yang family shouted in unison. Then the Cao army in the distance became slightly confused.

Cao Cao was too far away and couldn't hear clearly. He quickly asked his left and right, and immediately inquired. After half a cup of tea, he returned the left and right, saying that Yang Xiu had successfully tied up Shen Pei, which was the success of the city.

Cao Cao was stunned for a few seconds, and patted his thighs several times in annoyance: "The old thief of the Yang family! I'm trapped! They clearly knew that the city was broken, so they pretended to bind Shen Pei to sacrifice the city to stop me from slaughtering the city!"

Cao Hong, who was following Cao Cao, was also deeply upset when he heard this:

"How could those thieves in the Yang family surrender to the Yuan family? They knew that they would be about to destroy them, so they wanted to survive! Brother, I can't let them succeed!

Our army has been besieging Yecheng for four months, with 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers killed or injured, and countless losses in the rest. It is just because Yecheng is the place of the imperial court and there are many wealthy families. It has promised that the soldiers will not be sealed for three days after they break the city, and whoever grabs them will be the one who will be killed.

If you are a soldier who is untrustworthy, who will fight with Liu Bei in the future? In my opinion, don’t worry about Yang Xiu, and kill him without stopping. Just pretend that he has not received surrender. He is the one who fought with force!”

Cao Cao slapped Cao Hong on the shoulder with his backhand:

"Bad! This Yang Xiu is so smart! He sent someone to Yuan Tan's place to surrender first. Although Yuan Tan is already a puppet, after all, we are still counting on Yuan Tan's face to transition and conquer Yuan Shao's old place.

If the Qingji people would be distorted today, the Qingji people would be resentful. In a few years, Liu Bei would come and hope that the Qingji soldiers and civilians would fight to the death for me? With Yuan Tan as a witness, Yang Xiu and Yang Biao would be unable to kill for the time being.

It will always be put aside for a year or two to find another reason for the crime. It cannot be seen that it is related to today's battle, and it cannot be killed because they support the Yuan family!

The imperial officials in Yecheng were sentenced to Ming Zhengzhu because of collusion with Shenfu, deceiving superiors and concealing subordinates, and usurping their elders for their young... not for other reasons! Our army only opposes Yuan Shang Shenfu, not Yuan Shao!"

Among the generals of the royal family around Cao Cao, Cao Hong is indeed known for his liking to rob. He was the happiest person in history who robbed Yecheng after destroying Yecheng.

So he was taught a lesson by his cousin at this moment, and he didn't dare to say anything, realizing that his ideas for doing things were indeed too rough: "Brother has taught me a lesson! Then will the three-day agreement for robbing Yecheng in the three-day city be carried out by the soldiers?"

Cao Cao closed his eyes in pain. He was indeed too big of a financial gap now.

Although Liu Bei has not fought, it is just because it is in the cold winter. The northern battlefield is not suitable for large-scale combat, and it is not that Liu Bei has changed his mind.

It will be warmer next year and after production recovers, the war will definitely rekindle.

Yecheng had been fighting for so long, and Youzhou was defeated in a crushing situation before. So many people were filled with the losses. At best, he only had 300,000 veterans to deal with Liu Bei and had no chance to defend.

The most important thing at this time is to expand the army immediately and prepare for war without caring about the long-term. If you try your best to loot military resources, steel, fabric, and food, you will not harm the morale and cohesion of the military.

After this wave, there is still hope. And it is best not to harm the sustainable competitiveness of the Kanto regime. You cannot be as weak as Dong Zhuo and Xiliang thieves like Dong Zhuo and Xiliang thieves.

It's hard.

As for giving up, it is impossible. First of all, Cao Cao is known for his perseverance. He has always had a good mentality and will not be defeated by a defeat or difficulties.

What's more, he is just a small defeat at Yishui now, and this year he is still expanding his territory.

Secondly, after all, after Cao Cao had nine states in history, Sun and Liu had only three southern states. So, have they not competed for decades? Sun and Liu did not surrender in history.

Cao Cao now has at least five states in the fertile area of ​​the East Plain. It can only be said that he took the initiative to attack Liu Bei and fought a tough battle. He must have no hope. But if you want to stick to it, Cao Cao thinks he can still try it out, and the key is to persevere.

In history, Sun and Liu dealt with Cao Cao, not every time they used the premise of "waiting for changes in the world". Zhuge Liang had to wait for changes in the world to go north and join the Wu family every time they went north and joined the country, and even waited for civil strife in the Cao family such as "Three Rebellions in Huainan".

It's just that the current situation has changed. Cao Cao knew that he was weak, only half of the other party's population and military strength, so he dared not take the initiative to provoke him. But he thought to himself why his life span was still 10 or 20 years, and he would not give Liu Bei a chance. Wait until he saw if there were any conflicts within Liu Bei broke out, and he might have a chance.

What if Li Su rebelled? What if Guan Yu rebelled? What if Zhang Fei became independent? What if Zhao Yun became independent...

On my side, Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Dun, Cao Ren and Cao Hong are all brothers with flesh and blood. The internal unity of the Cao family is not as reliable as a group of foreigners with different surnames on the opposite side?

Although the possibility is slim, Cao Cao would subconsciously imply this psychologically in order to comfort himself, and then he found the perseverance and courage to persevere and wait for change.

Cao Cao seemed to be stunned for a while, and calculated the key points of the future stalemate competition with Liu Bei in his mind, realizing that it was impossible not to rob, and military capital and morale must be stable.

And just a few days ago, he also heard that Liu Bei was carrying out industrial and commercial taxes there, opening up various state-owned monopoly industries to the business community in exchange for support from the business community and paying more taxes.

The new technologies and new productivity equipment produced by the upper levels of the Kansai pseudo-democratic dynasty in recent years was also opened to ordinary industrial and commercial owners in exchange for patent fees, loom taxes, and water energy fees...

I heard that the wealthy businessmen and powerful people in the five states of Kanto also colluded with Liu Bei and switched to mobile production and bet on both ends! The strength of the business community on the Cao family's territory is rapidly losing blood!

Cao Cao didn't know how many families who had been involved in his rule had participated. He did not dare to kill them without clear evidence. He just killed several households with conclusive secrets and confiscated their property.

However, because Liu Bei also showed up to kill some industrial and commercial tax officials who leaked secrets, the rich people in Guandong did not stop their yearning for Liu Bei, and their fear seemed to be relieved.

Everyone secretly agreed that "the powerful and wealthy business families in Kanto who were killed by Cao Cao were indeed accidentally spied by Cao Cao's meticulous actions to transfer their property. Liu Bei cannot be blamed, and Liu Bei has also learned his lesson and strengthened his confidentiality."

If Cao Cao expanded the attack, the remaining industrial and commercial classes would completely flee to Liu Bei.

Only when a landlord-type powerful family that does not operate industry and commerce and is mainly based on pure land wealth cannot escape. After all, land is real estate and cannot transfer property.

Unless you find that some powerful families suddenly sell land on a large scale and cash out the manor, you have to pay close attention to it. You must be rebellious and surrender to the enemy. If you arrest them, you will not be wronged.

Cao Cao actually thought about these joints thoroughly in the past few days. Today, Yang Xiu threw the problem of "not being able to rob Yecheng without distinction" to him, and he combined the two problems and thought for a long time, but suddenly realized.

Cao Cao thought to himself: "No wonder in Han Fei said that in the world of great struggle and in troubled times, we should be wary of Confucianism, heroes, speech, and business.

Now I only have talents to promote my country by farming and fighting. When talking about Confucian and heroic words, my recruitment is not as good as the original one. When talking about industry and commerce, my recruitment is not as good as Liu Bei.

Since they are given benefits, they cannot keep their people's hearts, at least they are not as good as Liu Bei. Then they simply ignore the aristocratic families, industry and commerce, and only accept the hearts of farming and fighting.

Anyone who has a powerful family dares to sell land and manors will be regarded as a crime of transferring wealth and cooperating with the enemy. He will kill his whole family and divide his land and provide for the people to station.

Especially Jizhou still has a large population, and the powerful families under Yuan Shao's rule have never been able to be calmed down, and land annexation has never been resolved. It is better to investigate the enemy's property sellers and cooperate with the disciples, which may allow four million poor farmers in Jizhou to have their own land.

These people are not literate or understand Liu Bei's attraction to industry and commerce. We just go all the way to the black, fight against workers with agriculture, and focus on one another, which will help?"

Under heavy pressure, Cao Cao actually went to extremes. He thought of completely giving up the interests of the industrial and commercial class and giving up his attraction to the aristocratic families.

Anyway, can he show good things about aristocratic families to surpass Yuan Shao? Can he show good things about industry and commerce to surpass Liu Bei? No, he can do it! Then just go to extremes, not at all!

Grasp the core class you want to unite!

Of course, it must be pointed out here that Cao Cao had this idea, which did not mean that his philosophy was so advanced, and he even began to "equalize the rich and the poor, and those who farmed had their own fields."

He was forced because others took the other path first, and he could not follow others if he wanted to imitate it, so he could only find another way. The three major routes in the world, including winning over scholars, industry and commerce, and farmers. The first two points were blocked by Liu Bei and Yuan Shao, and he had only the third one left.

After all, there is only the best way in the world, and you can follow your own preferences. Second and third, if you want to "overtake on a curve", you can only avoid your predecessors.

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Cao Cao was forced to become a ruler who seemed to stand on the peasant's side.

After having this determination, Cao Cao also had an idea about how to deal with the endgame in Yecheng.

He waved his hand decisively and ordered Cao Hong: "The promise of allowing the soldiers to rob and reward remains unchanged, but the city cannot be slaughtered without distinction.

We only arrested all the officials who were Afu Yuan Shang and Shen Pei, as well as the rich and powerful families behind them, and killed all the people who could be arrested and confiscated them, and rewarded the soldiers with money.

As for those poor people, don’t slaughter or rob them. There is not much money. It’s not worth killing them. They even pointed out that they got the benefits and continued to pay food and fight against Liu Bei.

The land without owners obtained by killing powerful families can also be distributed to the poor without land to farmland. As usual, half of the tax is enough. Although the tax is heavy, they have no owners of the manor and no powerful families exploit them. All the money will be paid to the court in full."

Cao Hong was overjoyed when he heard this and immediately organized troops to search the house in the city. Although the number of killings in this wave was estimated to be reduced from the estimated killing of hundreds of thousands of people at the beginning to only killing thousands or tens of thousands of rich people, the wealth that can be robbed should be less than a hundred percent less.
Chapter completed!