The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 86 Cao Cao Unifies the North

When Tian Chou led Zhang Liao to Bailang Mountain, he happened to meet Yuan Xi and Yuan Shanghui and Tadun came with tens of thousands of cavalry, intending to take revenge.After Cao Cao learned about it, he went up to a high place and looked around. Although there were many cavalry in Tadun, they did not know how to line up. They were uneven and chaotic.

Cao Cao immediately ordered Zhang Liao to lead the army to attack. Zhang Liao led Xu Chu, Yu Jin, and Xu Huang down the mountain in four directions.

Seeing that something was wrong, Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang fled with thousands of cavalry and went to Liaodong.When Cao Cao returned to Yizhou, Guo Jia had already died of illness for several days. Cao Cao went to pay a memorial service in person, and cried heart-rendingly again. This time he must have cried for real.Before Guo Jia died, he left a plan for Cao Cao to destroy Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang without a single soldier.

Cao Cao then stood still, and all the generals were puzzled, and they all advised Cao Cao to go after Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi quickly, otherwise it would be a trouble for the future.

Cao Cao said with a smile: "Don't bother everyone, Gongsun Kang will send Er Yuan's head in a few days!"

All the generals refused to believe it, but a few days later, Gongsun Kang of Liaodong beheaded Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang, and sent envoys to send their heads to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao laughed and said, "It's not as expected by Fengxiao!" Cao Cao rewarded his envoy, and made Gongsun Kang the Marquis of Xiangping, General Zuo.The rest of the people didn't understand, and they asked what happened?
It turned out that Guo Jia predicted that Gongsun Kang would definitely not tolerate Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi, so he advised Cao Cao not to enter the army to put pressure on Gongsun Kang, otherwise Gongsun Kang would unite the two Yuans to resist.Later, Gongsun Kang saw that Cao Cao was standing still in Yizhou and had no intention of annexing Liaodong, so he killed Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi.

Everyone praised Guo Jia for his foresight and foresight, and Cao Cao took all the officials to pay homage to Guo Jialing.

Guo Jia was 38 years old when he died. He fought with Cao Cao for 11 years and made many contributions. Later generations praised him in poems: "Guo Fengxiao was born, and the hero is the best among all heroes. The scriptures and history are hidden in the belly, and the armor is hidden in the chest. The strategy is like Fan Li, The decision is like Chen Ping. It is a pity that he died first, and Liang Dongqing of the Central Plains."

Cao Cao led his army back to Jizhou and sent people to transport Guo Jia's coffin back to Xudu for burial.Cheng Yu and others suggested: "Now that the north has been pacified, we should return the army to Xudu, and plan the strategy for the south of the Yangtze River as soon as possible!"

Cao Cao smiled and said: "I have had this plan for a long time. What you all said is exactly what I want!"

That night, Cao Cao was on the east corner of Jizhou City, leaning on a railing to look up at the astronomy, and Xun You was with him at that time.Cao Cao pointed to the south and said, "The momentum in the south is bright and bright, I'm afraid it will not be easy to calm down!"

Xun You said: "With the might of the Lord, who would dare to disobey?"

The two of them were looking at the south when they suddenly saw a golden light rising from the ground, Xun You said: "My lord, there must be treasures in the ground!"

Cao Cao asked Xun You to dig in the place where the light was shining, and a bronze sparrow was dug out from the ground. Cao Cao asked Xun You, "What is the sign of this thing?"

Xun You said: "In the past, Shun's mother dreamed of a jade sparrow in her arms and gave birth to Shun. Now the lord has a bronze sparrow. This is an auspicious sign!"

Cao Cao was overjoyed and ordered people to build a Tongque Terrace according to Cao Zhi's design to celebrate.Therefore, Cao Cao left Cao Pi and Cao Zhi to build the Tongque Tower in Yecheng, and sent Zhang Yan to guard the North Village. He commanded the original soldiers and horses and the soldiers who had surrendered the Yuan family, totaling 60 million, and returned to Xudu.

After returning to Xudu, Cao Cao named him a hero and bestowed upon Guo Jia the title of marquis. He raised Guo Jia's son in the mansion, and then summoned his advisers to discuss the crusade against Liu Biao.

Xun Yu said: "The army has just returned from the northern expedition, and the soldiers who surrendered have not yet been trained, so don't send troops lightly. The subordinates thought that they should wait for another half a year to recharge their batteries, and then Liu Biao and Sun Quan can go down at once."

Cao Cao followed Xun Yu's suggestion and stationed the army in various places to garrison the fields and reorganize and train them for deployment.

Cao Cao in the north was satisfied and was waiting to rule the world, but Cai Mao in Jingzhou was extremely anxious, and his mood was the same as the weather outside, it was cold and windy!

It turned out that Liu Biao began to gradually weaken Cai Mao's power after he realized that Cai Mao had done many plots behind his back.At first, only a small transfer was made, and then gradually reduced the number of officials of the Cai clan in Jingzhou, weakening the influence of the Cai family in the army.

When Cai Mao learned that Liu Biao was planning to remove him from the position of commander of the Xiangyang Navy and let him be a military adviser with a position but no authority, he finally understood that Liu Biao was trying to get rid of his military power and cut off the Cai family. The root of power!Cai Mao knew very well what would happen if he lost his military power, and that would be to let others slaughter him.

The Cai family has been in power in Jingzhou for so many years, and they have close ties with many big families. Of course, they are not willing to sit still, so Cai Mao went to his sister Cai to discuss countermeasures.

The siblings dispatched their servants and conspired for a long time, but they didn't find one of Cai's close servants hiding outside the window to eavesdrop.

After listening to Cai Mao's talk about the crisis facing the Cai family, the Cai family realized that Liu Biao might pass the throne to Liu Qi, and finally made up his mind to make a vicious plan with Cai Mao.

However, after Kan Ze and Han Dang returned to Jiangdong from Jiangxia, although they did not dare to tell Sun Quan what Zhang Wu said, there were still many Jiangdong soldiers present at the time, so Zhang Wu was slow to say that Sun Quan was not as good as Zhou Yu. Word spread slowly.When Sun Quan happened to hear it, he was naturally very angry, and resented Zhang Wujiang for extorting his father's relic, the ancient ingot knife, so he thought of attacking Jiang Xia for revenge.

Before there was time to convene civil and military officials for discussion, a rebellion broke out in Danyang County.The governor of Danyang County is Sun Quan's younger brother Sun Yi. This guy has a bad temper and likes to drink. He also has the same problem as Zhang Fei, that is, he likes to whip his soldiers when he is drunk, especially the attendants around him. Beaten.

The governor of Danyang County, Gui Lan and the governor of the county, Dai Yuan, had also been insulted by Sun Yi, and they had long wanted to kill Sun Yi. Later, the two colluded with one of Sun Yi's attendants named Bian Hong, and plotted to assassinate Sun Yi.

During a party, Sun Yi went home at night after drinking, but was hacked to death by Bian Hong.But GUI Lan and Dai Yuan immediately arrested Bian Hong and killed them, pushing everything to Bian Hong.Then GUI Lan and Dai Yuan robbed Sun Yi's family assets and concubines. Seeing that Sun Yi's wife Xu was beautiful, GUI Lan wanted to take it for himself, but was delayed by Xu's design.

Xu secretly summoned Sun Yi's old confidantes, Sun Gao and Fu Ying, and sent people to deliver letters to Sun Quan at night, while planning to get rid of Gui Lan and Dai Yuan.

Sun Quan quickly rushed to Danyang with his troops and horses. By the time Sun Quan arrived, Xu, Sun Gao, and Fu Ying had already killed Gui Lan and Dai Yuan.Sun Quan then appointed Sun Gao and Fu Ying as generals of the Yamen, ordered them to guard Danyang, and took the Xu family home to retire.

Although Gui Lan and Dai Yuan had been killed, many bandits appeared everywhere, and the Shanyue Department also came out to make trouble from time to time, and Sun Quan had no time to attack Jiangxia again.

(End of this chapter)