Chapter 79 5. Remember to bring pancakes to His Majesty

Cao Cao held a meeting and asked his subordinates to speak to discuss the feasibility of the commercial project of "holding the emperor to order the princes". At the beginning of the meeting, all the participants cast a veto.Everyone discussed and quarreled: "Boss, don't listen to the emissary fooling around, this project of 'holding the emperor to command the lords' is not feasible at all, don't do it, but if you really don't have enough heart , then there is nothing we can do.” Cao Cao asked: "You think this project has no future, what's the reason?"

Everyone said: "This project is not feasible. There are three reasons: First, Shandong is not yet stable. To be clear, you don't even have a territory. Don't look at us now gathering together to eat and drink in Gunzhou, but last time, boss, you wanted to grab Xuzhou. As a result, you walked forward, and even lost Gunzhou on the back. You ran back to grab Gunzhou, but Xuzhou still didn’t grab it. The current situation is obvious, boss, as long as you leave Gunzhou, no matter where you go, you will definitely be homeless in the future It’s time to go, you can watch it yourself. Second, boss, you are thinking about going to the emperor’s side and putting a knife on the emperor’s neck. From now on, the world is up to you, but boss, how can it be so easy in the world What? Let’s not talk about the emperor, he will not allow you to ride on his neck. The purpose of the emperor’s letting you go is just to ride on your neck. Besides, there are several people with soldiers around the emperor, all of them are vicious , if you go, they will blame you if they don’t kill you. You are our boss, if you are slaughtered, who will pay us? So we don’t want you to go. There is also a third rule, what is this third rule? Come on... In short, boss, you can't go, if you go, you will be taken over by others. In this world, only the most heartless people believe in the so-called "coercing the emperor to make the princes."

Cao Cao: "...Is that so, do you all think it is impossible to 'take the emperor to command the princes'?" Everyone: "Yes, this is the conclusion we have studied repeatedly." Cao Cao's eyes fell on the counselor Xun Yu: "Xunzi, why don't you speak?" Xun Yu: "I completely agree with everyone's opinion." Cao Cao: "You also think it's not feasible to coerce the emperor to command the princes, don't you?" Xun Yu: "I didn't say that." Cao Cao: "Then what's your point of view?" Xun Yu: "I think what everyone said is very correct. It is easy to say that it is easy to say that the emperor is used to make the princes, but it is very risky to do it. It is best not to try it lightly."

Cao Cao: "What do you mean, we abandon this project?" Xun Yu: "I didn't say that." Cao Cao: "What do you mean, can you make it clear?" Xun Yu: "In a word, coercing the emperor to order the princes is easy to say, but extremely difficult to do. But if you don't do it, some bastard will do it first, what will you do then?" Cao Cao: "Damn, that's the sentence. That who, Cao Hong, is you. You set off immediately and lead your troops westward to find the whereabouts of the emperor..." History is like this. Cao Cao coerced the emperor to make the princes, and later generations commented that he was a great talent.But in the eyes of the people at the time, this was an act of top-level brain damage.

Whether it is brain damage or talent, what depends on the final result.