Chapter 188 Chapter 27 Wei Wu Ru Qiyong (12)

When Cao Cao saw it, he couldn't help laughing and said: "Sun Zhongmou didn't deceive me!" So he rewarded the envoy and ordered him to repay Sun Quan, saying that the southern expedition army would return to the court immediately.Come and leave with great joy. All the generals couldn't understand it, so they all came to ask for books to watch.After reading it together, I saw that in Sun Quan's preface and afterwords, there is a kind of reverence for Cao Cao on the surface, but there is even a feeling of a hero cherishing a hero and a hero, vividly on the paper, and I can't help laughing.Because of the following eight characters, everyone suddenly had a good impression of Sun Quan, and they all respected him for his coolness.

Therefore, Zhu Guang, the prefect of Lujiang, was ordered to guard Wancheng, and Lu Rou was to guard Jiangling on the western front. Back in Xudu in 189, Cao Cao went to the palace to meet Emperor Xian, told about the Southern Expedition, and mentioned the plan to attack Hanzhong.Emperor Xian agreed. A few days later, Emperor Xian issued an edict to merge the fourteen prefectures into Kyushu.The original fourteen prefectures were Sizhou, namely Gyeonggi Weiwuzhou, Yuzhou, Jizhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou, Qingzhou, Jingzhou, Yangzhou, Yizhou, Liangzhou, Yongzhou, Bingzhou, Youzhou, and Jiaozhou.After the merger, Sizhou, Liangzhou, Youzhou, Bingzhou, and Jiaozhou were revoked, and the counties and counties they belonged to were assigned to neighboring states.The purpose of doing this is to make the position of the world conform to the ancient theory of "Yugong Kyushu".

But at that time, many intellectuals believed that drawing this blueprint when Emperor Xian was in chaos and the country was divided would only make people more sad.However, Cao Cao believed that this blueprint of Emperor Xian could encourage his determination to dominate the world, so he was very happy. In this way, he stayed in Xudu until April, and often communicated with Emperor Xian, so as to live up to the instructions of the dead Er Xun.Then return to Yecheng. Soon, some people reconsidered the matter of making Cao Cao the Duke of Wei.Cao Cao didn't want to accept it at first, but after thinking about it repeatedly, he still couldn't help being tempted. He accepted the gift from Emperor Xian, proclaimed himself Duke in "Wei State", and added Jiuxi.

"Wei Guo" is actually a thing that is being speculated and sold now.On May 10th, Emperor Xian designated ten counties in Jizhou, namely Hedong, Hanoi, Weijun (ie Yecheng), Zhao Guo, Zhongshan, Changshan, Julu, Anping, Ganling, and Pingyuan, as the fiefs of Cao Cao, called It is Wei Guo.In addition to making Cao Cao the Duke of Wei, he was also appointed as the shepherd of Jizhou. "Jiuxi" refers to some extraordinarily glorious rewards: the first is chariots and horses, one golden chariot and one anti-stab military chariot, two fours of black horses, eight yellow horses; the second is clothes, the king's clothing and Zhulu Set; the third is Lexuan, which can play the music of the king in the palace; the fourth is Zhuhu, and the palace gate can be named and painted with red color; the fifth is Nabi, that is, the stairs in the palace can be made according to the imperial palace system; The sixth is the tiger and ben, that is, three hundred people are given to the imperial forest tiger and ben army; the seventh is the iron axe, that is, a special giant ax that can only be used by the guards of the palace; One hundred arrows; nine pieces of soap Guizan, that is, black millet, fragrant wine, and falling to the ground to pray for the gods in the yin, and wine bottles and ancestral temple sacrificial vessels to worship the ancestors—all rituals of the son of heaven.

Cao Cao has been in the prime minister, and has been awarded "Praise and explanation without fame, entering the court without tending, and walking on the sword". Shocking at home and abroad, no one can compare with it. Cao Cao was overjoyed, he accepted the conferment, and immediately rushed back to Yecheng to hold an unprecedented grand banquet on the Tongque Terrace, so that all the officials could celebrate for him. Although there are many people who strongly oppose Cao Cao's conferment, no one dares to speak out when they think of Xun Yu's experience.The scholar-bureaucrats kept silent, but Cao Cao was overjoyed, and led his officials to the high platform in a mighty way.

190 Today's Tongque Terrace is another scene.Cao Zhi loves flirtatious nature and longs for the scenery. In order to make Tongque Terrace last forever, he sent people to collect exotic flowers and fruits, and plant them in the hanging garden on the high platform.But I saw that the garden was full of purples and reds, full of flowers and colorful. When Cao Cao saw this scene, he was very happy. I can't help but drink a few more bottles and feel intoxicated.Suddenly Cao Zhi came over and reported that at that time, an official who went out to search for flowers, trees, fruits and plants in the north sent people to Wu to take the risk of buying forty loads of large oranges and send them to Yecheng at night.On this day, seeing the city of Ye in sight, the porters were exhausted, so they rested on the spot under the hill beside the road.Suddenly, a lame gentleman wearing a white vine crown and blue lazy clothes came to pay his respects and said, "You have been carrying burdens for a long distance and have worked so hard. How about the poor man carrying the load for you?"

Everyone was overjoyed and thanked one after another.When I looked closer, I found that the husband was not only lame, but also blind in one eye.Everyone was even more moved. The gentleman didn't say much, he picked up a load and left.He carried each load for two miles.But the strange thing is that once the burden carried by the husband was replaced by the porter, the burden became lighter.Everyone was amazed and asked Mr., but Mr. laughed and did not answer.In this way, it happened that when we changed to forty dan, we arrived in Yecheng. Because the porters wanted to pick the oranges directly to Tongque Terrace, they asked their husbands to go with them.The gentleman smiled and said: "I will come later. If anyone asks me, just say that I am from the hometown of Duke Wei. My surname is Zuo, my name is Ci, my character is Yuan Fang, and my Taoist name is Mr. Wujiao." Sitting down on the ground, he immediately started snoring.

The porters had no choice but to send the oranges directly to the Tongque platform immediately, and then presented them to Cao Cao, who was celebrating his conferment, through another official. When Cao Cao heard that the oranges were sent from the land of Wu by Xingye, he couldn't help laughing and said, "If Sun Quan knew that I ate the oranges from his land on the day I became the Duke, how would he feel?" One, with a halberd hidden in its sleeve, wanted to cut it open and eat it.At first glance, it turned out to be a tangerine with only an empty shell and no pulp.Shocked, he suddenly remembered the situation when he had given food to Xun Yu, and when Xun Yu opened it, it was also an empty box, and immediately felt a sense of foreboding.

He hurriedly asked, "What's going on here?" His voice trembled when he spoke, and at the same time, he threw the empty mandarin shell forward with both hands. All the generals saw that Cao Cao was eating the tangerines contentedly, but suddenly threw them on the ground, and they all sat up in shock.I saw a tangerine cut in half and discarded on the ground, but it was empty, and I was surprised again.