.Chapter 84: In one thought
After Cao Cao was appointed as the governor of Yanzhou by the court, Guo Jia followed closely and submitted a letter to Chang'an. Li Jue and Guo Si were stunned when faced with this unexpected situation. They were always guarding against the princes, but unexpectedly, the princes seemed to have a completely different attitude towards the Chang'an court than before.
At least it means that the princes admitted that the court they controlled did not treat them like they were as they were in the attack on Dong Zhuo. This was a surprise, and for them, it was always a good thing.
Cao Cao was a staunch supporter of the Dong Alliance, but at this time he nominally asked the court to entrust him to the governor of Yanzhou and got what he wanted. Guo Jia had never participated in the Dong Alliance and had some friction with Dong Zhuo, but he had never had a head-on conflict with Li Jue and Guo Si. He also helped them kill the Bingzhou army under their lord Lu Bu's command. It was reasonable. Li Jue and Guo Si were both grateful and afraid of Guo Jia.
There is a Sizhou between the three auxiliary places in Guanzhong and the princes of Guandong. If Guo Jia sends troops to attack Chang'an and invades Chang'an from Hanzhong, it will be a matter in the blink of an eye. Therefore, Li Jue and Guo Si are afraid that Guo Jia will start from reality. Therefore, in response to Guo Jia's request, he appointed Guo Jia as the governor of Yizhou, and they can only follow the flow.
The people from the court who came forward to the court went quickly, and the people sent by the court to issue edicts also came quickly. The Huangmen Minister Zhong Yao personally came to Chengdu to convey the edict to Guo Jia.
Zhong Yao and Guo Jia are also fellow villagers, both from Yingchuan and became famous at a young age. However, due to their different backgrounds, Zhong Yao became a filial and honest official in his early years. Compared to now, he was just a Huangmen Minister. Later, Zhong Yao was more powerful and had two sons. One of them was very famous in the late Three Kingdoms period, named Zhong Hui.
Zhong Yao was nearly twenty years older than Guo Jia. After coming to Chengdu, he was humble. After reading the imperial edict, the gentle middle-aged man personally handed it to Guo Jia and said to Guo Jia gently: "I will be able to share your worries for Your Majesty and make outstanding contributions to the revival of the Han Dynasty."
Guo Jia, who is often praised and has heard a lot of beautiful words, has long been immune. After a faint smile, he said, "You are here from afar, and the car is exhausted, so I'd better take a rest first. I'll hold a banquet in the mansion later to welcome you."
Zhong Yao was taken to the guest room by his servants to rest. Guo Jia walked to the side of the main seat with the edict, threw the edict to the table, and looked around the Chinese civil and military officials in the hall, with a somewhat ridiculous tone.
"Zhong Yao is here, what do you think is your idea?"
Guo Jia was appointed as the governor of Yizhou, so there was no need to send a serious official, especially since the first sight of Zhong Yao, Guo Jia knew that Zhong Yao would have something to come this time.
The counselors in the hall could not guess Zhong Yao's intentions. Anyway, the soldiers came to block the water and soil, and just one Zhong Yao was not enough to make them feel like they were facing a great enemy.
When Zhong Yao was hosted, all the civil and military officials from Chengdu were present. Zhong Yao spoke freely and talked freely, talked about the local feelings with Guo Jia and talked about current affairs. He stopped and never raised taboo topics. He was a wise person who could distinguish what to say in the occasion.
Logically speaking, Zhong Yao's mission was completed, and Guo Jia also gave a full thank-you gift, but Zhong Yao was reluctant to return to Chang'an and visited the Hundred Schools with great interest.
Guo Jia, who was expected to have other intentions, would not drive him away. He would let him do whatever he wanted. If something went wrong in the plot, Guo Jia would just ask him for a crime. He would be polite and then fight.
After confirming his position as the governor of Yizhou, Guo Jia did not care about his official position. For him, whether it is the current governor of the prefecture or the general of the Taiping Army he led himself, there is no difference in essence. He has always been the supreme ruler of Yizhou. But the key is that he was both a thief and a bandit before. Now he is a real Han minister. Who in the world can still call him a rebel? The court issued an edict to designate him as a governor of Yizhou. Screaming Guo Jia does not mean scolding the court or the emperor. Screaming heroes who are Han ministers like Guo Jia are all rebels?
This is Guo Jia's political strategy and a great progress in his journey of hegemony.
Whether it is recruiting talents or managing local areas, Guo Jia can do what he wants to do with just a legitimate reason, and the differences between the two are completely different.
In the palace, Xianting and Zhen Jiang were playing chess, but a noise sounded outside the courtyard. Guo Jia's hand holding the chess piece stopped and frowned.
Because he heard the voices of Cai Yan and Cai Yong.
"Dad, don't go, my daughter, please do you? Don't worry about the affairs of the court."
"Being a father is a Han minister. If the king is worried and working hard, how can he sit still? If you stop being a father again, don't blame him for not thinking about the father-daughter relationship and expelling you from the house."
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After Zhen Jiang packed the chessboard, he returned to his yard silently. Guo Jia walked over and came outside the courtyard gate. He saw Cai Yan kneeling in front of Cai Yong and blocking Cai Yong. Xiao Ren was in a dilemma. If Cai Yan was not present, he could block Cai Yong mercilessly.
"Get up, don't you feel embarrassed? Mr. Cai, you are highly respected and countless talents respect you. Are you treating your daughter like this? Daughter-in-law, you are the same. What does your father want to do? Forget it, why bother crying and kneeling?"
Guo Jia looked helpless, Cai Yan, who was crying, turned his head and sobbed with red eyes: "Husband, I will advise my father to go back now."
"Don't all be here, can you persuade me to leave? Get up and go back to your room. Since Mr. Cai is here to find me, it must be not a trivial matter. I have no reason to turn him out."
After saying that, Guo Jia turned around and walked back to the courtyard, sat down at the stone table, and asked Diao Chan to pour two cups of tea again.
Diao Chan, who was silent, was frightened and turned around and left in a stiff manner. She carefully held the tea and placed it on the stone table. Guo Jia ordered her: "Go down, don't let the servants disturb me and Mr. Cai."
Cai Yong came to the stone table in the courtyard and sat opposite Guo Jia. Cai Yan was with her tears and was planning to sit down, but Guo Jia said to her: "You go back to your room."
Cai Yan wanted to speak but stopped, and looked anxious, but Guo Jia had already said that, so she could only do it.
If Cai Yan loses his composure to this point, it is probably important that Cai Yong’s conversation with Guo Jia is about to be of great importance. Cai Yan stopped Cai Yong, because Cai Yong would anger Guo Jia. Guo Jia understood this simple reasoning in an instant.
"Mr. Cai, before you express your intentions, I would like to ask, do you represent yourself or Zhong Yao?"
Guo Jia's tone was light, not tepid.
Zhong Yao and Cai Yong are both great calligraphy masters. They used to be colleagues and friends in Luoyang. When they met in different places, Zhong Yao probably did it intentionally. He stayed in hundreds of schools for several days, mostly for Cai Yong.
As for the fact that he had given Cai Yong a soup or a tactile talisman, Guo Jia didn't know, but some principled questions need to be asked clearly.
Cai Yong looked calm. He was angry with Cai Yan, not Guo Jia. He was calm before. At this time, he had to be more clear-headed because he knew that he could not act irritably in the next conversation.
"Fengxiao, I am here as a personal identity and has nothing to do with others. I don't hide it from you. Zhong Yuanchang has indeed found me and has had a secret conversation with me for many days. You will definitely know about this."
In Yizhou, Guo Jia wanted to deliberately keep an eye on someone, and he knew everything about Zhong Yao.
Nodded slightly, Guo Jia signaled Cai Yong to be honest.
Cai Yong always looked solemn and stared at Guo Jia with sincere eyes. His speech was slow and his words were clear.
"You have now cleared your status as a rebel, and you are an important official in the Han Dynasty. I know that you have the people and are determined to govern the country and pacify the world. This is the blessing of the people and the country. If you are trapped in the mouth of a tiger and are controlled by the rebel Li Jue and Guo Si, at this time, you must make a decision, go to Chang'an to rescue the emperor, and then wipe out the world for Your Majesty and clarify the world. You have this ability. If you refuse to do this, even if you are the legitimate governor of Yizhou, the unjust heart will be revealed to the world. Everyone will despise and disobey you. You will be trapped in a place of doom. I hope you can see the situation clearly. A thought of a thing may last forever or be infamous for thousands of years."
Cai Yong stared at the son-in-law in front of him. Guo Jia did do a lot of things that violated the law before the rebellion, but what Guo Jia did at that time was his own selfishness, but Guo Jia is now enough to influence the general trend of the world. Before the Qin Dynasty, Guo Jia, who owned Yizhou, was the monarch of the vassal state. He mobilized his whole body and stood on the stage, the world was the world.
Cai Yong knew that it was an opportunity for Guo Jia at this moment, a good opportunity to achieve success and fame. As long as Guo Jia led his army to capture the land of the Three Auxiliary, rescue the emperor, and then loyal to the emperor, and become the powerful arm of the emperor to revive the Han Dynasty, then Guo Jia not only did not have to be cursed, but could also be remembered forever.
Cai Yong doubted whether Guo Jia could save the emperor in the past, but in the battle, Guo Jia lost less than 5,000 troops and ruined Lu Bu's 40,000 troops. Although there were complex factors behind the victory, Cai Yong was convinced that the less than 100,000 troops in Chang'an would definitely not stop Guo Jia from rushing north.
Guo Jia sighed softly, looked at Cai Yong calmly, and said, "Mr. Cai, I want to tell a story."
Cai Yong was shocked, but before he could speak, Guo Jia started speaking.
"There is a family with nothing. They are hardworking and intelligent. They built a good house that can shelter from wind and rain. They live in it very safely. They have reclaimed countless fertile land and hired farmers to farm for them. So, the family began a carefree life without worries about food and accommodation.
The descendants of this family naturally also inherited the family business of their elders and lived a safe and sound life, but the good times did not last long. It was windy and rainy, and the house was disrepaired for years and began to leak rain and air. The farmers who cultivated the land gradually became unhonest and kept a lot of their farming income. The descendants of this family did not know how to be prepared for danger in times of peace. If the house was broken, if they did not repair it, they would have less harvests. As a result, the house became more and more broken and the harvests were less and less.
Suddenly one day, the broken house caught fire, and people inside ran out and asked the farmers to come to put out the fire. The farmers came to put out the fire with dry firewood, shouting to put out the fire while throwing the dry firewood into the house where the fire was burning so that the fire could become more prosperous.
A big fire burned the house into ruins, and the descendants of the family began to direct the farmers to help them build a new house. The farmers agreed, but ignored them in their actions.
In the midst of hunger and cold, the family could only shout to ask the farmers to build their houses and to send them food and drinks. But the farmers always just agreed with their mouths, but they were gloating in their hearts. Then, the farmers began to build their own houses, intending to live the life of the family's ancestors."
Chapter completed!