Chapter 11 Let's see how "mediocre people" make moves

Cao Song hoped to teach Cao Cao lessons, but with little success. Apart from being able to remember the stories he told, it was impossible for him to learn knowledge. Let Cao Cao practice writing calligraphy, but get ink everywhere; learn to carve bamboo slips, but hurt his fingers; learn to grind ink, but pose with a gun and stick.Then there is hard grinding without adding water, and the ink is ground into a dry paste. For Cao Cao's education, Cao Song felt that he had no energy to spare.For Cao Cao's future, he must return to Luoyang.However, although Luoyang is in the world, he hates not being connected by the ladder of heaven.

If Cao Teng had spent more time with Cao Song during his lifetime, he would not have had so many worries and uneasiness.He didn't know that this round tumbler-like adopted son with a mediocre appearance had more brains and will than he imagined. As for Cao Song's aptitude is still shallow, how to cultivate the city to be profound?To paraphrase a popular saying: It depends on who he grew up with. Maybe it was God's deliberate arrangement to give Cao Song, who was stupid on the outside and wise on the inside, a chance. The northwestern frontier is fighting, and the frontier residents have suffered heavy losses.Cao Song found it strange that although the eunuchs, scholar-bureaucrats, and foreign relatives in the court changed one crop after another, and they were jealous of each other, they were all internal conflicts in the court. The fortification and attack capabilities of the surrounding territories were still controlled by the surrounding ethnic minorities with ulterior motives. Those who fear.In the past, in Luoyang, every spring and autumn season, you can see a large number of envoys of foreign nationalities in strange clothes on the streets of Luoyang, leading horses and caravans, bringing offerings and souvenirs. , and the third is to get a large amount of rewards from the Han Dynasty to go back.Why did you lose so badly this time?When Cao Song was in the School of Economics, he heard his colleagues discuss that the eunuchs withheld border military salaries and constrained border generals.

Cao Song felt that the situation was serious, which would definitely affect the Han border defense and national security.Cao Song decided to write a memorial to the emperor, asking him to pay attention to the issue of border defense.As for whether he is qualified to speak to the emperor, Cao Song thinks this way: he is a genuine student of the imperial academy, and the emperor is the honorary chief of the imperial academy, so it is only natural for students to write memorials to the chief. However, Cao Teng once explained that "disasters are easy to happen in the pen, but disasters happen in the sword".Only when his heart, mouth, pen, and knife agree with each other can he make a certain decision.Cao Song struggled with himself until midnight before he thought that the four things had agreed.In the second half of the night, I finished the manuscript, and wrote an article "On the Frontier Defense of Our Dynasty" by burning lights.

Cao Song thought about the topic he chose.You can't tell the truth, you can't tell lies, you can't say things that people above don't like to hear, and you can't mention things that the emperor and eunuchs couldn't mention in front of them.Then say good things, say good things, and say things that make everyone happy. After he finished writing the article, he spent another two days engraving it on the bamboo slips.It can't be sent directly to the emperor. Of course he knows that the emperor spends more time playing and having fun than asking politics.A reliable person must be found to send it to the emperor when he is in court.Who are you looking for?

Cao Song thought for a long time and chose a person, Cao Teng promoted and forgiven Zhong Hao. If he wanted to return to Luoyang for an official position in the future, he might have a chance of winning by taking the road of Zhong Hao.Zhong Hao is a third prince, and he has the privilege of recommending. If he can remember Cao Teng's old love and support him a little, Cao Song can successfully become an official. Cao Song's heart was pounding because he could think of this person, but he didn't know that at this time, Zhong Hao, who was far away in Luoyang, the capital, was already seriously ill.

After Cao Song finished writing the above form, he rolled up the bamboo slips.Pack it with cloth and send it to the official station in Qiaojun.Add the seal of the official office, indicating that it will be sent directly to Da Situ Zhonghao.Set off on a fast horse, take away the official seal, take away Cao Song's hope, and leave behind expectations and desires. How is the court at the moment?What are the emperor, eunuchs, and ministers busy with?Can Cao Song realize his dream of returning to Luoyang and re-entering the official career?