Cao Cao called Wei Gong, this event was no less sensational than Zhou Yu's death earlier this year.
Even compared to Zhou Yu's death, Cao Cao suddenly proclaimed himself Duke and founded the country, which made people feel even more stressed.
The first ones to bear the brunt were naturally Sun Quan and others from Jiangdong.
Sun Quan, who knew nothing about it, and Zhang Zhao, who was still wrestling with Liu Bei, seemed not to have expected Cao Cao to call the guild so quickly.
The key is that he happened to be stuck at the time after Zhou Yu's death.
Then the taste behind this matter is worthy of many people's careful appreciation.
It only took half a decade for this incident to spread from Yecheng to Lingnan.
Because this incident was so shocking, it was difficult for people not to imagine what Cao Cao would do next.
Claiming justice is only the first step, what happens next?
Be king?
In the early Han Dynasty, there were actually many kings with different surnames, but everyone in the subsequent history also knew that a truly powerful dynasty and a truly sensible ruler would never completely divide their power.
He could have openly separated them out at that time and left the matter of taking them back to his descendants.
The founders of the country relied on fame and accumulation.
But the continuation of the dynasty depends on stability and unity.
The establishment of the Duke of Wei may be just an attempt by Cao Cao, but more people believe that this is actually a statement by Cao Cao.
It means "I, Cao Cao, have not thought about giving up, and my end will never be just the prime minister of the Han Dynasty. The Wei Kingdom has been established. This is just a small step in the beginning."
As for what those who were warned by Cao Cao would think, Cao Cao naturally didn't care much.
Because for him, the first thing he deals with is still domestic matters.
The founding of the country is not for other people, but for one's own people. This truth is very simple.
As the surrounding team grew larger, the prime minister alone was no longer enough to meet the merit requirements of those around him.
This is a very real problem.
There is no title - in the final analysis, Cao Cao's appointment as an official and being an official around Cao Cao are all about fame and fortune. Except for a very small number of people who are loyal to Cao Cao, even a person like Xun Yu who comes from a famous family does not do this.
It is often a matter of fame.
So in order to solve this problem, in order to give people around me more motivation and more direction for their efforts.
Founding a country is the most direct and effective solution.
So you can see that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, for nearly half a month, Cao Cao did nothing but recruit officials to the court and did nothing else. He was just giving rewards.
It can't be sealed in one day, it will have to be sealed for many days.
They can range from Shangshuling, Shizhong, Weiwei, to miscellaneous generals and captains.
It can be said that this time when Cao Cao founded the country, the chickens and dogs around him ascended to heaven.
This is also another rule to control people's hearts - that is, as the lord, once successful, you will have the highest benefits, and even in the end, you can become the king who founded the dynasty and established the country, leaving his name in the annals of history, comparable to the Qin Emperor and the Han ancestors.
With such an opportunity, the people who follow him naturally need the same treatment.
The ruling group is also an interest group. A group of people are bound together by strong interests and work towards the same goal. However, problems arise in the distribution of interests in the middle.
It could easily lead to a miserable end like Yuan Shao or Yuan Shu.
Finally, it can be said that all the big things in the recent past have been settled, some went well and some went unsatisfactory, but in the end there was a solution.
There is a beginning and an end, and after that, no one bothers to think about how to deal with the accident.
Accidents are accidents after all, and individual incidents must be treated with special care by dedicated personnel. The next thing Cao Cao thought about was only one thing, and that was——
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Jiangdong.
The names of Jianye and Yecheng are very similar, but if someone has lived in both places, it is easy to feel the difference.
Compared with the solemn and majestic Yecheng, it is also quiet, but the desertedness of Jianye is so real that it makes people feel that this city is about to die.
For nothing else.
Just because the people's riots that originated in Poyang finally began to spread to the prosperous Wuhui area.
Although Jianye is the political center of Jiangdong, there is no doubt that Wuhui is the core of Jiangdong.
If Jianye was breached, the worst possible outcome would be that some of the people within it would just run away. Earlier, before Sun Quan moved his base to Jianye, wouldn't they have been doing well in Jingkou?
The problem is that Wuhui is the birthplace of Jiangdong's prosperity and the most important core supporting Jiangdong's economic framework and talent pool. Something went wrong here, and Zhang Zhao couldn't laugh even if he wanted to.
But the Wuhui area, which has always been stable and has a large number of aristocratic families, was disturbed by the riots of ordinary peasants.
Well, asking Zhang Zhao may only make him more annoyed. After all, a full month has passed since the agreement was reached with Liu Bei. In this month, both sides have conducted unimaginable things even regarding the location of the alliance.
of pulling.
A letter came and a letter went, and in the end, both parties just talked a lot of nonsense.
Some people take action and others rebuttal.
The reason why Zhang Zhao is so tired is because he still needs to see who his opponent is.
On Liu Bei's side, there are three top military advisors and a bunch of high-quality assistants working 24/7, who are always ready to refute and push back on all the conditions that Zhang Zhao may propose. Just look at Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong and Fazheng.
Their lineup - even if Cao Cao actually has a military of their level around him, there are only a handful of them.
Jiangdong is still in chaos. In addition to dealing with the alliance with Jingnan, Zhang Zhao also has to be wary of Lu Xun's counterattack at all times.
Yes.
This brings us to the point.
Of course, Zhang Zhao did not fight against Liu Bei alone.
Gu Yong, Bu Zhi, Zhuge Jin, Yu Fan, Zhang Hong, etc. are actually his helpers.
But Zhang Zhao really didn't have time to care about them when he was busy. As time went by, he suddenly discovered that many of these people seemed to be paddling.
This gave Zhang Zhao a headache.
How to treat people who are paddling? Can’t it be cured? You can’t even find evidence that others are paddling.
Ultimately, it was because Zhang Zhao and his so-called old school simply lacked someone who could completely control the situation.
Who is Zhang Zhao?
When it comes to saying that everyone knows him - Oh, Mr. Ge, he is a veteran of two dynasties, but when it comes to what he has done, no one knows.
The key point later is that Zhang Zhao is also very close to the Zhang family of Wu County, who is extremely disgusted by many people.
During the Battle of Hefei, the aristocratic families provided countless funds and manpower, but in the end they were left empty-handed.
If Zhang Zhao takes the lead, there should be no problem.
Although now they are actually in power.
But the lack of popularity is not just Sun Quan's problem - in comparison, Sun Quan, who is now in decline, is actually missed by the people of Jiangdong even more.
