Chapter 676 Now that I have gained Long, I will look back at Shu Ye?
Chapter 676: Now that we have captured Long, how about returning to Shu?
Here in Lingling, Jingnan, Zhuge Liang, who had a bad start, seemed to have encountered pressure comparable to that of Yi Xiaotian when he faced off against him. For a time, he mistakenly thought that Yi Xiaotian had come to Lingling, but in fact, Yi Xiaotian was now in Lingling.
Xu Ducheng is busy with other things.
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In Xudu, there is a villa.
Different from the Youjian Villa in Suanzao County, the Youjian Villa in Xudu was built for Yi Xiaotian in one fell swoop by Master Bao. Both in terms of structure and scale, it is more impressive than the progressive Youjian Villa in Suanzao County.
But unlike the atmosphere in Suanzao County, this villa outside Xudu City is actually more deserted.
Perhaps because they knew that Cao Cao was related to Youjian Villa, many officials avoided this place.
Everyone knew that Cao Cao used the emperor to control the princes, but the civil servants and generals who were loyal to Liu Xie in Xudu City knew that without the owner of Youjian Villa, Cao Cao would not have caused them such a headache.
In their eyes, the owner of the villa named Yi Xiaotian was also guilty of heinous crimes.
But obviously... they were just talking about it, and no one had the guts to stand at the door of Youjian Villa to challenge him.
Apart from these - Yi Xiaotian felt that Youjian Villa outside Xudu City would allow him to calm down and do some things.
After all, there is a private school with several of his good students——
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After returning from Xiangyang, apart from holding Liu Xie accountable, Cao Cao seemed to have fallen silent.
In addition to handling trivial official duties every day, he and his ministers would go out for tea, hunting, playing music and writing poems, making him look like an idle old man.
This... is actually just human nature.
Regarding the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao really regretted that he did not keep the tips Yi Xiaotian left for him, nor did he listen to the advice of people around him, such as Jia Xu and others - he was so proud that
At that time, he even had the illusion that he could easily defeat Soochow and Liu Bei without Yi Xiaotian.
As a result... one mistake caused eternal hatred, the soldiers - probably the strong military strength accumulated by the entire north in the past few decades, were gone; the people, it seems that Zhang Liao, Yu Jin, Zhang He and many other civil servants and generals were spared, but... But his
Dianwei…
These two things happened together. Although Cao Cao endured the entire Battle of Xiangyang, no matter how beautifully the subsequent battles were fought, one fact could not be erased——
Cao Cao is old and his troops are gone...
This year is the 14th year of Jian'an, 209 AD, and Cao Cao is fifty-five years old.
In another time and space, after the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao rarely carried out major military operations. He seemed to have come to the edge of the river twice since then, but he didn't do much at all. He seemed to just look across the river and look at the place where he once lived.
The land of Jiangnan where his dreams were buried.
Eleven years later, Cao Cao died of illness in Xudu. He was sixty-six years old that year.
Cao Cao knew very well that whether it was here or in another time and space, he understood that the Battle of Chibi ended his dream of unifying the world. It is unlikely that he would be able to gather such a powerful force again in his lifetime.
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Later, there were rumors that Cao Cao had taken the opportunity to invade Western Shu after persuading his subordinates to capture Hanzhong. However, Cao Cao just borrowed an allusion from Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty to answer:
"People are miserable and have no satisfaction. Now that we have gained Long, how can we look back at Shu?"
Of course, the authenticity of the story is difficult to ascertain, but this rumor basically reproduces Cao Cao's mentality at the time.
I looked at Wu Gou and took pictures of the railings, but no one understood me. When I came here——
At that time, Cao Cao no longer had the courage to think about how to plot the world.
He was the King of Wei at that time, a king under one person and above ten thousand people. There were countless problems behind him, such as how to inherit his descendants after his death, and how to arrange his subordinates after his death. He was
To be the Duke of Zhou, or to be the Wu of Zhou——
There were countless problems waiting for him to deal with. Cao Cao was originally a family man. No matter how heroic and arrogant he was, what he said before his death was nothing more than short-sightedness——
So after this Red Cliff, even if Yi Xiaotian put out the fire in three ways, he still couldn't save Cao Cao's heart.
By the way, Cao Cao has always met Yi Xiaotian as a hidden master, but at this time, it became an obstacle that prevented Cao Cao from talking.
Perhaps Yi Xiaotian didn't even know how much Cao Cao's mood had changed in just one or two months.
For Cao Cao, perhaps his biggest goal now is not to conquer the south, but to help Yi Xiaotian build his own villas all over the world during his lifetime.
In this way, he might feel better.
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But apart from these subtle changes, Yi Xiaotian's stay in Xudu was of course because of a major event that had been weighing on Yi Xiaotian's heart.
It was getting early that day, but Liu Ye, who was used to getting up early, still went to the Prime Minister's Mansion in the dark to do some work.
The workshop has been put on hold for now. After all, there is no need for large-scale military supplies. It is certainly not a good idea to maintain a large number of temporarily recruited craftsmen.
In today's workshops, there are only some craftsmen who like to study and make inventions, and they don't know what they are researching all day long.
In addition to his duties in the workshop, Liu Ye is also an important adviser to Cao Cao. Since there is no major event, he will naturally not go to the workshop to supervise every day.
However, after arriving at the Prime Minister's Mansion early today, he found that Cao Cao simply gave everyone a holiday. On his way home with nothing to do, Liu Ye suddenly thought of a visit to the workshop.
"I haven't seen you for two or three days. I wonder if they will come up with something weird again."
Thinking like this, Liu Ye went straight to the workshop.
However, what Liu Ye didn't expect was that before he reached the workshop door from afar, he saw the workshop door slightly closed——
"So early, someone is here?"
Liu Ye was puzzled and wanted to find out more. He moved a lot faster. As he explored the situation inside the door, he heard someone's voice exclaiming from time to time in the workshop.
"This, this, this, this..."
"Um?"
"Is this sound a little strange?"
I don’t know who was marveling. Liu Ye opened the door of the workshop with doubts, and saw a group of craftsmen gathered around a table. On the table was an extremely neat and exquisite drawing - but what attracted Liu Ye the most was
What caught my eye were the two rare visitors to the workshop in front of the table.
I should say one is a rare visitor, the other...
"Master Yi? Why are you here?"
"And...this little brother is..."
Yi Xiaotian was standing in the center of the crowd at this moment. It seemed that he was the one who brought the drawings, but next to him there was an extremely young and fair-looking young man standing at the table with a shocked look on his face.
Not only that, he kept mumbling something.
When Liu Ye heard this, he thought, okay - it turns out that the exclamation he heard from outside the workshop was coming from this young man?
