The World of Yellow Sky

Xu An turned his attention back to Cao Cao and asked his own question.

"Although I know the answer, I still want to ask a question."

"Cao Shijun is willing to join me in the way of peace for the peace of the people in the world."

"If Cao Shijun is willing to submit, I can guarantee that the Cao family and the Xiahou family will be treated like the Shen family, keeping [-]% ​​of the land and [-]% of the wealth."

"However, the public trial of Eagle Wolf Guards will still be held. If a case is involved, it will still be impartial and strictly investigated and dealt with."

Xu An's eyes were stern, he looked at Cao Cao, and his voice was low.

"The one who hurts dies, the one who hurts and steals pays off, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."

The merit of surrender can offset part of the guilt, but there are some things that cannot be easily forgiven.

"Peace in the world?"

Cao Cao didn't avoid Xu An's eyes, his eyes showed a hint of sarcasm.

"Isn't it your Excellency who stirred up the situation and caused the war?"

"If it wasn't for your intrusion, our army would have already defeated Yuan Shao and revived the Han Dynasty."

"If you hadn't conquered Taihang Mountain and Bingzhou, the world would have been stable."

Cao Cao sneered.

"The great virtuous and good teacher who is all on the Taiping way, his mouth is like a river, and his tongue is like a sharp knife. When I saw him today, it really is like this."

"The appearance of a bear and a tiger and the voice of a wolf, if there is no Your Excellency, the world is now stable, the people enjoy their work, and the world of peace has been restored."

Cao Cao's sneer did not disturb Xu An's mood in the slightest.

"Then do you want to add the sixteen words of bewitching the crowd, bewitching the good, gathering bandits and thieves, and wreaking havoc on Shenzhou?"

Cao Cao's expression changed slightly, and his eyes flickered. The sixteen characters Xu An said were exactly what Zhang Liang said before he died outside Quyang.

The scene of Zhang Liang's execution was 13 years apart, but Cao Cao couldn't forget it.

The victory in Xia Quyang was originally a great joy, but what happened that day made many people silent.

"When you have enough food and clothing, you think this world is like this? It's ridiculous!"

"In today's day when people are indulging in pleasure and enjoyment, the world is suffering from severe drought, and taxes and taxes are increasing day by day. What is wrong with us as ordinary people who want to live forever!

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At that time on the school grounds, Zhang Liang was wearing shackles. He was forced to kneel on the ground, but he kept his head held high and refused to lower his head. Even the executioner did not lower his head in the end.

In the first battle of Changsha, he defeated Bocai, soldiers against soldiers, generals against generals, and the life-and-death fight did not shake him in the slightest.

But what happened in Guangzong and Xiaquyang made him shake.

Cao Cao closed his eyes, and he saw the women, children, old and weak in Xiaquyang City again.

It is said that the yellow turban thief, the yellow turban thief, but those women and children, old and weak, are well protected...

Guangzong was besieged for several months and ran out of ammunition and food.

When the city of Guangzong was breached, most of the Yellow Turban soldiers who died inside and outside the city were skinny and described as dry.

However, although the old and weak women and children in the city were malnourished, they were obviously in much better condition than those soldiers.

Guangzong City was destroyed, and Huangfu Song learned that the families of the Yellow Turban Army were captured, burned a large number of luggage, and built a Beijing temple outside Guangzong City to show the world.

Xia Quyang made a loud noise, and Huangfu Song built sixteen "Beijing Temples" outside the city, broke Zhang Jiao's coffin and slaughtered his body, transported his head back to the capital, and passed it on to Bianjun as a sign of rebellion.

Zhang Bao, the general of the underground palace, died in battle, and Zhang Liang, the hero general, was captured alive and publicly executed.

"Without me, this world will only be more chaotic."

"Could Mr. Cao forget the old things in Xingyang?"

"There are more than [-] allied troops of the Kwantung princes, but they are stationed in Huai County and Suanzao. Only you and Bao Xin lead the army forward, while the rest of the princes sit on the sidelines and watch you be killed by the west. Liang's army was besieged and defeated."

"There are righteous men in the Kanto region, and they raise troops to fight against the gangsters."

"At the beginning of the meeting with Tianjin, the heart was in Xianyang."

"The army is not well-aligned, hesitating and flying geese."

"Snobbery makes people fight, and heirs kill each other."

"If it weren't for Sun Jian, Dong Zhuo would still occupy Luoyang City, control the Han Dynasty, and control the world."

"Sun Jian led the troops to Hangu, not because I sent troops to harass his rear, so Sun Jian had to withdraw and return, but because of your internal strife and ambition."

Xu An's tone became a little more serious.

"The Xiongnu invaded the border, and it is not any of you who avenge the soldiers and civilians who died in Bingzhou because of the military disaster, but me."

"The person who killed Dong Zhuo was not any of you, but me."

"The person who put down the Qiang chaos and recovered Liangzhou is not any of you, but me."

"You have been fighting with Yuan Shao for many years, attacking each other, implicating millions of people, looting, massacring, plundering, turning thousands of miles of land along the north and south of the Yellow River into a piece of scorched earth, making millions of people People are displaced."

A fierce killing intent circulated in Xu An's eyes.

"Bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles."

"I, Xu An, started my army in Taihang. In the past 13 years, I have restricted the army and strictly prohibited looting. I have never committed burning, killing, or looting."

"Tell me, is it you or me who is causing trouble in this world?!"

Xu An stared at Cao Cao and asked in a cold voice.

Cao Cao's expression changed, he raised his head to look at Xu An, wanting to refute.

But he found that he had no way to refute Xu An.

Apart from treason, Xu An didn't seem to have done anything truly treasonous.

For a long time, Xu An has indeed tried his best to restrain the army and prohibit looting.

Attack the Xiongnu in the north, regain Wuhuan, capture Liangzhou, and conquer the Western Regions, open schools, reform official administration, and the Ming court has clear politics.

Even those embroidered envoys lurking in the Ming court had active volunteers, which made the embroidered envoys sent into the Ming court later have to pass strict inspections, confiscate their family records, and only dare to let them go after they have completely guaranteed their loyalty. It enters the territory of the Ming Court to perform tasks.

On the contrary, it was them. Thousands of miles along the north and south of the Yellow River were indeed turned into a piece of scorched earth, and millions of people were implicated.

"If there is no self, the world will only be more chaotic. The heroes will divide their rule, and the princes will stand side by side and attack each other. I don't know who will be the emperor and who will be the king!"

"You said that if there is no self, the world can be stable, the people can work happily, and they will return to the world of peace?"

"What a joke!"

Xu An's heart gradually became angry, and he once again thought of the old things in Jizhou.

The past events of Jizhou were deeply buried in his heart, which was the scar in his heart.

Precarious, living in fear every day and night, starving and freezing, and enduring hunger and thirst are just commonplace.

"Have you ever tasted what it's like to go hungry? Do you know what it's like to wear only a single piece of clothing in a world of ice and snow?"

"The rice noodles grow out of the ground. I planted them with my own hands. I faced the loess and my back to the sky. I worked hard all day long and didn't dare to neglect anything. But why do we only eat chaff and swallow vegetables, and you have never worked in the fields? , but you can eat meat and rice.”

"Why is this big man's world so big, but there is no place for us?"

"It is said that God's favor is mighty, but we knelt down and begged for our lives, but no one gave us even a way to survive."

"If we can have a full mouthful of food, why should we risk our lives and genocide to gather together?"

"Why are you angry?"

"Why do you dare to question me!"

"You have anger, don't we have anger in our hearts?"

"Is our life not our life?"

"Are we different from you?"

"Aren't we ordinary people also human?!"

Xu An made no secret of his murderous intent, looking at Cao Cao.

"correct."

"I forgot"

"You never regarded us as human beings, as your kind."

"The so-called people, the so-called people, and the so-called common people are actually just referring to you family members."

"We are nothing but ants, goods, not people at all..."

Xu An's words were like sharp knives.

Cao Cao closed his eyes, he could feel Xu An's anger, but he didn't keep his mouth shut.

"You can't win."

Cao Cao did not avoid Xu An's gaze.

"Now we've won."

"I'm not talking about this battle."

"Even if you kill the Han, you still haven't won."

"Now you are just repeating the old ways of your predecessors."

Xu An's expression froze, he knew what Cao Cao was referring to.

"The old family has perished, but soon the new family will rise."

"These things happen whether you want it or not."

Cao Cao looked at Xu An who was sitting opposite, his expression was calm.

"Your clan will become the most powerful family in the world in the future."

"And these generals and advisers who followed you and captured the world for you will replace us and become a new family."

"The country you have built will also fall apart after decline, corruption, and decay like Shang, Zhou, Qin, and Han, and go to perish."

"This is the general trend of the world, this is inevitable..."

Xu An stood up, looked down at Cao Cao, and said in a deep voice.

"The age of the yellow sky will eventually come and last forever, and the present era will eventually come to an end."

"Maybe I can't succeed, but it doesn't matter, because I have successfully planted seeds in the world."

"Although this seed is only in the bud now, one day it will grow into a towering tree with the power to change the world."

Education is popularized, and people's wisdom is opened.

Everything is actually different.

Even if Taiping Dao will perish in the future, the influence left behind will still exist forever.

"If the country I built with my own hands declines, becomes corrupt, becomes rotten."

"Then I wish it to die."

Chapter 871 Mingxiu Plank Road

In the fourth year of the Ming Dynasty and the second year of Zhangwu 197, on October [-]rd, the rooster crowed.

The Battle of Qingzhou in the Han and Ming Dynasties officially broke out on September [-]th. On September [-]th, the vanguard of the Ming army crossed the Yellow River and went all the way south, attacking Qingzhou in two ways.

The Southern Expedition issued by Xu An has spread all over the world in a short period of time, drawing everyone's eyes and attention to Qingzhou.

In this battle, the Ming army marched by sea, with 7 troops in the army and 3000 in the navy, mobilizing nearly 20 troops, out of the best of the best, requisitioning more than [-] civilians, and mobilizing [-] people on the front line. The number of civilian husbands transferred from other places will be even more, which can be described as unprecedented.

Whether it was attacking Liangzhou or Guanzhong, or other major wars, Xu An had never mobilized such a large army at one time.

But this time, Xu An used practical actions to show the world how terrifying the mobilization power of the Ming army was.

There are 7 soldiers in the army, all of whom are soldiers, and there are no auxiliary soldiers. Civil servants are not included in the sequence of the army at all.

In this battle, the Ming army widely used mules, horses, and four-wheeled trucks to transport supplies and armaments. The massive use of mules and horses also made the Ming army no longer need so many auxiliary soldiers and civilians to share the pressure of transportation, and further streamlined army.

On the side of the Han army, the Qingzhou Han army reached a terrifying scale of 20 on paper, twice the number of Ming army troops in the southern expedition this time.