Chapter 458: Take the initiative to come to the door, everything is ready [Subscribe]

As winter approaches, the temperature in Yecheng drops sharply.

After Cao Cao came back, he received a message from Huang Zhong from the Western Regions.

Earlier, the great Buddha leader participated in an ambush on Cao Cao in Wusun and was nearly killed.

He relied on the Buddha's relics to escape from the pursuit of the Taoist Master, and after returning, he discussed with the Little Buddha Chief.

The little Buddha suggested that they pretend to join India's oldest native religion, Brahmanism.

Introduce Brahmanism to fight against Cao Wei together.

When Buddhism wanted to develop in India, it was forced by the more powerful Brahmanism. Some forces were swallowed up, and the remaining ones went away and sought other ways.

When the Buddhists failed to encircle and kill Cao Cao, they thought of instigating and borrowing the power of Brahmanism.

Soon afterwards, the little Buddha sent a letter of reconciliation to the Brahmanism as a test.

But the Brahmans never responded.

People within the sect were also gathering to discuss.

"The Buddha's followers wanted to reconcile with us and offered to help our Brahmins enter Kushan to preach as a condition for reconciliation."

"This is their trick."

"I heard that Moduoha (the Great Buddha Head) was at war with the Great Wei Kingdom in the east and was seriously injured."

"After Wusun was conquered and taken away, even the Great Yuezhi were forced to make peace with the Wei people."

"The Buddhists proposed reconciliation with us at this time, hoping to use us to deal with the powerful Wei people."

"I think the Wei people are a better ally and can stop the Kushan invasion of us."

“We defeated the Buddhists, the Wei defeated the Wusun, and suppressed the Kushans.

Our alliance with Wei is a union of victors and is in accordance with God's will. Together we will expel the Great Yuezhi who invaded us."

This was a high-level secret meeting within Brahmanism.

The Buddhists wanted to use them to fight against the Wei people, while the Brahmans wanted to do the opposite and unite with Wei.

Because they saw Wei attacking the Kushan capital and defeating the powerful army of Wusun.

Several months after the Wei Dynasty defeated the Wusun, the Brahmans sent people to travel thousands of miles and quietly come to the Western Regions.

Huang Zhong sent a message to Cao Cao in the Western Regions, saying that there were envoys from India who wanted to establish diplomatic relations and become a friendly country with Wei to form an alliance.

Boss Cao doesn't have a good impression of Indy.

But don’t refuse the bootlicker who comes to your door.

The Indian envoys asked that if Cao Cao allowed it, they would be willing to travel thousands of miles to Yecheng to meet the emperor.

Cao Cao thought to himself, it's just like my journey of 18,000 miles to obtain the scriptures.

He told Huang Zhong that people didn't need to come, but they could establish diplomatic relations.

You can just talk to Huang Zhong about the rest of the things. There’s no need to travel thousands of miles. It’s not a very important matter.

Yecheng.

Cao Cao put down the communication bead that was used to contact Huang Zhong, sat on the dragon chair, and thought for a while.

The framework he designed for the Wei Dynasty was not simply about internal governance and external military expansion, or blindly expanding territory.

It is an ideal structure to treat Japan and Goguryeo as consumables, constantly draw on their resources and provide support for one's own war consumption.

India, Cao Cao had never thought about it seriously before, because it was separated from India by the roof of the world, and it was too inconvenient to travel between them in this era.

But if Indy comes to us, it’s not impossible to accept him.

The early winter sunshine shines in through the window of the study, bringing warm warmth.

At this time, Jia Xu and Guo Jia came in from outside the door.

"Your Majesty, the woman who came from Anxi has indeed come into contact with Your Majesty. The two of them 'ran into each other' by chance in Fuping County and have met several times during this period."

A beautiful woman went through great pains to get in touch with the Crown Prince of Cao Wei.

The purpose is obvious, a beauty trap.

Cao Cao thought that this was a change of strategy. If hard tactics didn't work, he would try soft tactics.

However, it was too difficult to deal with Cao Cao, so they set their sights on Cao Ang.

They may not reveal their true purpose for a long time, but hope to marry Cao Ang peacefully.

This was another form of marriage alliance, and they even hoped to give birth to offspring. After Cao Wei had gradually gained a firm foothold, they would then make plans little by little for the forces behind it.

A further extravagant desire might be to inherit the throne as the descendant of Cao Ang.

This was an act of stealing the country with great ambition.

To take a step back, even if he failed to steal the country, at least he could have driven a deep nail into Cao Wei's interior.

Cao Cao was sure that the woman's identity was definitely fake.

But it must be carefully arranged so that no problems can be found on the surface.

After Jia Xu finished his report, he left. It was Guo Jia's turn to discuss military arrangements with Cao Cao.

Some time ago, after pacifying Goguryeo, Zhang Liao continued to use troops on the northern front.

But there was no fight.

With the lessons learned from Buyeo and Goguryeo, Yiluo chose to surrender.

After several months, the situation in Goguryeo was initially stabilized.

Within Goryeo, the king issued two imperial decrees to mobilize manpower to join Cao Wei in building the canal.

In the current Wei Dynasty, all parties have no worries.

The surrounding small and medium-sized forces were pacified one after another, and it was time to turn the military force directly towards the Xianbei.

When this cold winter is over, there will be a decisive battle between the Han people and the northern nomadic peoples.

It is early winter now. If we want to send troops to the north next year, we must make preparations now.

The opportunity to bring peace to the Great Wei and future generations has come.

After Cao Cao returned, he discussed with Guo Jia, Xun You, Cheng Yu, Jia Xu, Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Xu Shu, and even Lu Su, who had just returned from Japan, and formulated a detailed strategy.

Several people were in charge of their own tasks and began to gather baggage, prepare for war, and transfer supplies to the northern line.

In winter, night falls early.

After the meeting in the study ended, Cao Cao returned to the inner house.

But I found the house quite lively.

The tigress gave birth to three cubs not long ago. They were fat and cute.

At present, the tiger cub has not opened its eyes yet. It lies in its mother's arms, sucking milk desperately.

Family members rushed to watch.

The eldest princess and the second prince squatted beside the tiger's den with sparkling eyes, wanting to reach out and touch the tiger cubs.

But as soon as they raised their hands, Yin used his claws to push them away and prevented them from touching him.

Then push the cub to the other side of its mother.

Inside and outside the Cao family, there are only two people who can touch the tiger cub, namely Cao Cao and Diao Chan.

Yin is very good at protecting his calf. If the calf gets a little closer, he will stare at them closely with a vigilant look.

When Cao Cao came in, Yin immediately let out a low tiger roar, meaning: Your cub always wants to touch my cub and wants to take it away, but you don't do anything about it.

The eldest princess and the second prince wanted to take the tiger cub back to the bedroom to sleep together.

The brother and sister had a fight yesterday over the naming rights of the tiger cub.

The Second Prince's ears were almost torn off by his sister.

"His Majesty."

When Cao Cao came, all the concubines were there.

Zou Yuan, Zhen Yan, Yao Jing, Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao.

After the sun had set, the concubines returned to their respective courtyards.

Before leaving, the wives and concubines all gave Cao Cao a look, which was probably an invitation that showed they knew each other well.

Cao Cao just happened to be preparing to test the effect of historical level +1.

……

Night is falling.

Xu You felt frustrated and was assigned to the Qingshui Yamen, where he was in charge of a group of clerks and was responsible for receiving and sending records and archiving some information related to the state affairs of the Wei Dynasty.

Sometimes he had to go to local places to compile county chronicles. He had historians under his command who would use them as a basis for writing history books.

At this moment, Xu You was in Qiu County, east of Yecheng, bringing people to sort out the county annals.

The county lieutenant of Qiu County was a fellow townsman of Xu You.

The two have a good relationship.

After Cao Wei unified China, it was Xu You who recommended this county lieutenant.

He was a man of considerable talent and learning, and Xun Yu had met him personally, and had assigned him to be the director of Qiu County.

Xu You has restrained himself a lot since he was caught embezzling gold and silver last time.

It was also after that that he was transferred to his current position.

After Xu You finished his official business, he stayed in the county overnight.

The county lieutenant from the same hometown invited him to drink.

"Brother Ziyuan, you hold an important position at the core of the government and see His Majesty day and night. If anything good happens, please remember me, your neighbor." County Magistrate Wu was thirty-six years old, with a pale complexion, a thin face, and a short beard on his chin.

"I am just a clerk, not an important official."

Xu You, dressed in an official robe, said self-deprecatingly:
"People like Xun Wenruo and Guo Fengxiao are the ones who hold important positions and are in charge of military and political affairs."

He drank a few more cups. Since he was a fellow countryman recommended by himself and there was no one around, he spoke without reservation and spoke directly from his heart:
"When I first met Your Majesty, we were close friends. How could there be any Xun Wenruo or Guo Fengxiao?"

"I have known him since childhood and have been friends for more than 20 years. To be honest, Cao Aman has been rude to me and treated me badly."

"He has gained power, he holds the authority over the world, he is so high up that he no longer recognizes me."

Xu You was so excited that he said, "Cao Aman feels bad for being a good friend and I feel bad for him."

Cao Aman... County Magistrate Wu didn't react at first.

In the Han Dynasty, calling someone by his name instead of his courtesy name was considered disrespectful, let alone calling him by his nickname, A'man.

This is extremely disrespectful to ordinary people. No one has dared to call him by his nickname Cao A Man for many years.

The grass on the grave of Yuan Shu, whom I once called a traitor, is now nine feet high.

County Magistrate Wu's face turned green with fright, his hands trembled, and the wine in the glass spilled out.

It is a serious sin to hear such things.

"Why are you afraid of him?"

Xu You laughed loudly and ridiculed the county lieutenant for being cowardly.

After he finished his drink, he staggered away.

The more County Magistrate Wu thought about it, the more frightened he became.

He wrote a self-examination letter overnight, saying that he had drunk too much, listened to things he shouldn't have listened to, violated taboos, called the emperor by his nickname, and sold out Xu You.

But Xu You returned to his place of residence that night.

He got up to relieve himself in the middle of the night, and when he came back he suddenly saw a small bag placed on the low mat next to his couch.

There was a faint golden light inside.

Someone gave him gold again?
Xu You shuddered and immediately sobered up a little.

He hesitated for a while, but finally stepped forward and picked up the gold.

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