Chapter seven hundred and eighty-eight Cao Pi goes to office
For Cao Pi now, his biggest wish is to become an official as soon as possible.
After all, his eldest brother Cao Ang has entered the core range of Cao Cao's forces, which makes Cao Pi jealous to some extent.
They were both sons of the Cao family, and he felt that his father seemed to favor his eldest brother too much.
It's no wonder that Cao Ang was trained by Cao Cao as his successor, and his treatment was naturally different from his younger brothers.
But Cao Pi was not born a person willing to accept his fate. He had a strong comparison mentality since he was born.
Although on the surface he always pretends to be humble and filial, that's just the surface.
To a certain extent, he is more like Cao Cao than the heroic and generous Cao Ang...for example, his character is suspicious.
However, due to Cao Pi's age, they did not have Cao Cao's ability to suppress his character weakness. After all, he was young, and young people are very impulsive.
Suspicion is not scary, jealousy should not be thrown away, and impulsiveness is even more forbidden... But a suspicious, jealous, and impulsive person, plus this child is very good at pretending, is a bit dangerous.
Cao Cao doesn't give Cao Pi a chance to become an official now, so Cao Pi will go find one on his own.
Cao Hong's invitation is obviously a good opportunity.
But Cao Pi sighed and said: "Uncle Zi Lian, it's not that my nephew won't help you, it's just that my nephew is a white man, and at most he has the title of Mr. Sikong. What ability do I have to help you, Uncle Zi Lian?"
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Cao Hong patted his chest and said boldly: "What's the big deal about a trivial matter? Cao was ordered by your father to guard Xuchang City. The military and political affairs of Xuchang City are now controlled by Cao! I will appoint him
How about you join the army and assist Cao?"
After hearing this, Cao Pi was immediately elated.
If you can take advantage of the opportunity given to Cao Hong to join the army and make great achievements in Xuchang City, how can your father not look at you with admiration when he comes back in the future?
It is inevitable that by then his status will far surpass that of his eldest brother Cao Ang!
As for what this great achievement is... what other achievement can be greater than uncovering the biggest traitor in the city?
What to say about this matter has to fall on that Xun Yu!
Cao Pi stood up, cupped his hands in front of Cao Hong and said, "My uncle trusts me so much, so I have no shirking responsibility. For Xuchang and for my father's foundation, my nephew will do his best to assist my uncle."
Cao Hong nodded with satisfaction and said: "Okay! It's rare that you have such a heart! In the days to come, it depends on you, my uncle and my nephew."
Cao Pi received Cao Hong's appointment and went back to report to Mrs. Ding and Mrs. Bian very excitedly.
The two women didn't say much. They just told Cao Pi not to let down Cao Cao's foundation and Cao Hong's trust.
Immediately afterwards, Cao Pi went to find his two younger brothers.
Cao Zhang and Cao Zhi.
These two people are younger, especially Cao Zhi, who has just turned ten.
But even so, they were considered precocious among their peers. When Cao Pi had something happy, he usually had no one to talk to, so he went to these two brothers.
As soon as they entered the inner courtyard, they saw Cao Zhang, who was only thirteen years old, holding a big cauldron and walking with difficulty in the courtyard step by step, sweating like raindrops all over his body.
Cao Pi grinned at this.
Although this boy is only thirteen years old, he is already taller and taller than his peers, a little taller than his older brother, and he has this innate supernatural power that he doesn't know who to follow.
Cao Pi had a very dark psychology, and sometimes he even secretly speculated that his third brother was the child of his Aunt Bian who stole from Hanzi and Dian Wei.
And on the steps not far away, there was a thin child sitting, reading the book in his hand seriously.
There is no doubt that it is Cao Pi's fourth brother Cao Zhi.
"Second brother, are you back? What did Uncle Zi Lian tell you?" Cao Zhi saw Cao Pi coming in and hurriedly stood up to greet him.
Cao Zhang also made a "bang" sound and threw the cauldron in his hand to the ground, almost making a big hole in the ground of the mansion.
"Second brother! What happened?"
Cao Pi looked at the two of them back and forth and said, "Uncle Zi Lian asked me to join the army to help him deal with various matters in Xuchang City."
"oh?"
Two brothers, you look at me, I look at you, and then they both hold hands and say, "Congratulations, second brother!"
Cao Pi waved his hand and said: "What congratulations are there? Now that foreign enemies have entered the country and the Jinling Army has stirred up trouble in the state, it is not a good thing to be entrusted with important tasks at this time... and this Xuchang City has the potential to be breached at any time.
Maybe, as my brother is young, the burden on my body... is quite heavy!"
Cao Zhang laughed and said carelessly: "It's just a trivial matter. When the potter led his troops to conquer Dong Zhuo, wasn't he seventeen years old? The eldest brother is two years younger than when he first became an official. In the future,
It’s become a big deal, your reputation will be above that of the pottery merchants, and you’ll have both of us helping you, right?”
Cao Pi's eyes lit up when he heard this and said, "You two brothers, are you willing to help me?"
Cao Zhang patted his chest and said, "That's natural, we are brothers! If we don't help you, who will?"
Cao Zhi also nodded vigorously: "My younger brother is too young and has no other skills, but he can still write and write. My second brother has decided to join the army. I will leave matters such as writing official documents to my younger brother. I will definitely do my best."
Cao Zhang said: "I will act as a bodyguard for you, second brother, so that you can take care of you."
With these two younger brothers, especially Cao Zhang, Cao Pi felt relieved.
At least this can be considered as having two helpers.
Although these two people are young, their literacy and martial arts are far from ordinary, especially Cao Zhang, who already has power comparable to that of a tiger and a leopard.
In this way, he could safely collect evidence of Xun Yu's rebellion.
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At the same time, Tao Shang ordered the army under his command to siege Puyang City and send troops to attack every day, which made Cao Ang miserable.
Even Hao Zhao was overwhelmed by such an offensive and had not had a good night's sleep in the past few days.
After Puyang City was besieged, the pottery merchant began to order people to imitate Cao Ang and write a letter asking for help according to the words in the book that Cao Ang had left for him.
After much deliberation between him and Chen Deng, the letter finally took shape.
Then the pottery merchant asked You Luzi to find an extremely capable craftsman in the school affairs office, who acted as a general who broke out of the city and asked for help from Xuchang City.
Xi Zuo, covered in blood, rushed to Xuchang City.
After Cao Hong received the letter from "Cao Ang", his expression immediately changed.
The content of the letter made Cao Hong extremely angry.
Cao Ang said that he was attacked repeatedly by pottery merchants and repeatedly sent people to Xuchang for help and asked Xun Yu to send troops, but Xun Yu always defended the city and did not move at all.
Cao Ang was already disheartened, but when he received the news that Cao Hong had returned with troops to replace Xun Yu in Xuchang City, he ignited his last glimmer of hope and wrote to Cao Hong, asking him to send troops for support.
Otherwise, his own death would be a minor matter, while the fall of Dongjun and the fall of Puyang would be the top priority.