Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 825 Death of Cao Cao
Cao Cao's loud shout also allowed Zhu Weijun's archers and crossbowmen to spot the target.

So when Zhu Wei spoke out, Cao Cao had already been pierced by thousands of arrows, and his whole body was shot like a hedgehog by feather arrows and crossbow arrows. Naturally, he lost his life.

However, the people who followed Cao Cao this time were really not afraid of death. Even if many people fell off their horses, they would still charge forward as long as they could move, but what they wanted was not to kill the enemy, but to seek death.

"Whoosh whoosh..."

There was no sound of sword-to-hand fighting at all. The nearly [-] remnants brought by Cao Cao just fell to the ground one by one under the rain of feather arrows and crossbow arrows. Gradually, no one could stand up again.

On the main street in front of Puyang East City, there was blood everywhere for a while, both the horses and the human bodies were covered with arrows, and they almost all fell under the feather arrows and crossbow arrows shot from the city wall.

However, Zhu Wei, who was watching this scene on the city wall, did not change his expression. Even if Cao Cao, who was famous in the history of the Three Kingdoms, died here, Zhu Wei seemed to no longer feel that there was anything to be surprised or happy about.

For Zhu Wei, what is Cao Cao today.

Zhu Wei, who has already occupied nearly ten of the thirteen states in the world, is almost in control of the world, and the rest is just Yuan Shao in the north.

However, under Zhu Wei's previous arrangements, Bingzhou had already fallen into Zhu Wei's hands, and Yuan Shao's remaining Yizhou, Qingzhou, and Youzhou were also taken over by Ma Teng's Fubo Camp, Zhang Xiu, Zhang Liao's Huyi Camp, and others. Cai Mao's navy infiltrated.

It can be said that Yuan Shao is already a half-dead fish and turtle on the chopping board, waiting for Zhu Wei to draw a knife to break his stomach.

So Cao Cao's death in Puyang City today, to Zhu Wei, just means that Zhu Wei's conquest of Cao Cao has been successfully concluded, and it is not worthy of Zhu Wei's excitement.

Unfortunately, judging from the current situation, it seems that many of Cao Cao's important civil servants and generals died here, which made Zhu Wei a little helpless.

However, Zhu Wei didn't care anymore. Since they were willing to die with Cao Cao, they would be regarded as being captured by Zhu Wei. I'm afraid they wouldn't easily serve on Zhu Wei's side, so they would die if they died.

So Zhu Wei just ordered people to find out who followed Cao Cao to die, and then the army entered the city to wipe out the remnants of Cao's army, and completely took the Puyang City into his pocket.

The battle in Puyang City will end in this way, which is both unexpected and expected.

However, Zhu Wei received nearly [-] soldiers from the Cao army, and it was a problem to deal with them. Among them, the newly recruited soldiers of the Cao army were easy to deal with. Basically, they directly selected the young and strong, and sent the others back home. up.

As for the other original Cao Jun second-line troops and local garrison troops, they still had to be eliminated and screened before being reorganized.

So Zhu Wei simply temporarily settled in Puyang as the government affairs center for a while.

Zhu Wei wanted to thoroughly adjust the newly occupied lands such as Yanzhou and Yuzhou, but this time Zhu Wei attacked Cao Cao and did not actually have a few battles. Counties and towns in many places basically surrendered voluntarily.

Then Cao Cao moved the central court of the Han Dynasty in Xudu to Puyang. Although at this time, except for a few ostentatious idle positions, most of the other important official positions were occupied by Cao Cao's people, but at least Cao Cao was in control of the central court of the Han Dynasty .

Now that Zhu Wei has occupied Puyang City, he has officially accepted the Central Court of the Han Dynasty.

In this way, Zhu Wei simply held a court meeting in Puyang City to issue government orders as the regent Mingwang, and then gave formal official positions to his subordinates, so the officials in the central court of the Han Dynasty were basically all Zhu Wei. people took control.

At the same time, Zhu Wei also abolished Yuan Shao's so-called general title and all other official titles, saying that all these were false orders originally issued by Cao Cao holding the emperor hostage, and now Zhu Wei naturally would not admit all of this.

In this way, Zhu Wei completely branded Yuan Shao as a first-class rebel against the party in terms of righteousness, and made it clear to the world that Yuan Shao and Cao Cao were colluding to harm the court, and they should be rebels against the court. .

Of course, after Zhu Wei eliminated Cao Cao in the Battle of Puyang and took over the so-called central court of the Han Dynasty, there was a lot of public opinion in the world.

In particular, the news of Zhu Wei's regent Ming Wang spread, and everyone in the world knew that the Han Dynasty was about to perish and a new dynasty was about to be established, and then almost everyone in the world was talking about Zhu Wei.

Among them, the most concerned ones are naturally the noble families of the largest local forces in the world today, and they must also express their views at this time.

In order to continue their family, they often wait and see the situation for the first time, so as to throw an olive branch to the new lord of the world, so as to gain the approval of the new lord of the world, and then maintain their family power and continue their control over the place.

However, before Zhu Wei used all kinds of methods on Jiangnan, in the eyes of many noble families, they can naturally see some mystery. They can't help but worry that if Zhu Wei ascends to the throne of the emperor, he will promote Jiangnan these things in the world. Policy systems will have a great impact on them.

For example, Zhu Wei used the land as the subject of taxation, which made the noble families who actually controlled a large amount of land feel a little uncomfortable. They originally occupied a large amount of land, but they could not pay much tax. Now they have to pay a lot. of taxes.

This is an unprecedented thing. It is not only a matter of paying a lot of money and food, but more importantly, it has a great impact on the root cause of their use of the gentry status to accommodate the hidden population.

In fact, these gentry families know very well that population is the greatest wealth.

Originally, many common people could not bear the tax, so they attached themselves to the family of the noble family as slaves, so that the noble family controlled a large number of hidden population and became their hidden strength.

They can turn the hidden population into military power at any time, and recruit tens of thousands of private soldiers at any time, but if the common people will not be taxed because of their heads, why should they attach themselves to the family of the gentry.

Who would be willing to be a slave if he could be a free citizen?

And if the gentry family loses the population they control, it will greatly weaken their foundation, and their influence on the local area will become weaker and weaker.

In addition, Zhu Wei used the government to organize schools to admit people from poor families and common people, which can also change the situation where the noble families dominate and monopolize knowledge channels. Then the original advantages of the children of noble families in official positions will be weakened, and their official influence will become smaller and smaller.

Therefore, many noble families are actually not willing to accept Zhu Wei as the new master of the world. The methods implemented by Zhu Wei are better than some of Cao Cao's previous methods, which can dig into their foundation and put them in more danger. feel.

But now Zhu Wei's general trend has been established. Although they still maintain a certain degree of local influence, Zhu Wei's rise is too fast, and it is no longer something they can control...

(End of this chapter)