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    When July entered, Cao Cao hurriedly sent troops from Hebei back to Yanzhou, temporarily slowed down his offensive against Yuan Shao, and turned to consolidating the territory he had gained.  The reason why this happened suddenly was that Zhang Xiu, who was stationed in Runan, sent an envoy to report to Cao Cao that Sun Ce had recruited thousands of new troops in Jiujiang and Guangling. However, as this was still not enough, he sent nearly 10,000 troops from Jiangzuo and divided them into villages.  Yu Shouchun and Anfeng seemed to have the intention to invade the north.  If Sun Ce wanted to cross the Dabie Mountains and attack Huangzu in Jiangxia by land, he should not station his troops so far north. He would then draw troops from Jiangzuo and stop harassing and suppressing Liu Biao in Changsha. Unless he wanted to take advantage of Cao Cao to send the main force to attack.  Hebei, want to invade Runan and the entire Yuzhou area?  Cao Cao was eager to swallow up Yuan Shao. While guarding Sizhou in Chenliu and Yingchuan, he also ordered his army to cross the Yellow River to fight against Qingzhou and Jizhou. However, Yanzhou was empty inside.  In fact, Sun Ce discussed with Lu Su and Zhou Yu to suspend the attack on Liu Biao and send troops northward. His ambition was not only to occupy Runan, but also to march straight in to attack Dingtao, and then wait for the emperor to go south and settle in Jiangzuo.  Firstly, it can replace Cao Cao's implementation of the Nine-Rank Law, and secondly, it can attract Han people to Nantou in large numbers to replenish the population of Jiangzuo.  Because of this, Liu Biao's pressure on Changsha dropped sharply a few months ago. He still carefully investigated and found out. When he heard that the Sun family had indeed mobilized troops to go north, he dared to send troops to secretly attack Nanyang, hoping to destroy Deng Ji's navy first.  It was not easy for Sun Ce to mobilize his troops. Zhang Xiu finally detected him and reported it to Cao Cao. After hearing the report, Cao Cao urgently stopped the war in Hebei and turned to defend Sun Ce.  Cao Cao was prepared, but the Northern Expedition was no longer feasible. Sun Ce did not send the soldiers back to Jiangzuo for the time being, and just stayed put. Cao Cao wanted to take advantage of Yuan Shao's defeat and weakened his forces, and rushed to send troops to Hebei, but Sun Ce was not in a hurry.  , it would be more beneficial to continue the confrontation. Maybe we can squeeze some benefits from Cao Cao?  This is how we got Jiujiang and Guangling before!  For Sun Ce, it was time to seize the opportunity to threaten. If he could get another favor from Cao Cao, he would lead this army to cross the Dabie Mountains and attack Jiangxia Huangzu by land and water.  The odds of winning are still high.  But for Cao Cao, he can still rely on the Huaihe River to defend. If Huainan is given over to Sun Ce, Yan, Yu, and Xu will no longer be in danger.  All states will be under the threat of his Sun family, making it more difficult to defend.  One of them still wants to ask for more, but the other doesn¡¯t dare to give anymore.  After Deng Ji, Sun Ce was watching from the side, which prevented him from completely destroying Yuan Shao and seizing Ji and You. A deadlock had arisen.  The trapped army was unable to move. Cao Cao was very angry, but he had nothing to do. When discussing the matter, he sighed to the ministers: "You have just conquered Huainan, and you also hope that I will be in Yanyu. Why is your heart lacking? Sun Bofu is really a tiger!" This sentence is true!  I admire him, but I also secretly hate Sun Ce for being greedy.  It was not until one day at the end of August that his minister Fanqin presented the four books "Yin Wenzi", "Guiguzi", "Qincao" and "Xinyu". Meng De was happy to receive them, and his worries were relieved a little.  After the political affairs were over that day, I sat in the study and read books.  After taking a closer look and figuring out the method of printing the book, Cao Cao couldn't help but sigh and said loudly: "Young people from a poor family will benefit from this method!" Meng De is also a book lover, and he has to collect the books of his teacher Cai Yong, sighing  After printing the book for a while, he asked people to prepare more candles and read in the study all night.  He was full of energy and acted as usual the next day.  However, at noon, Dong Zhao came in holding a copy of "Excerpts from Shuoyuan".  He said anxiously: "My lord, the printed books that are being sold in large quantities in this period are all secretly affiliated with the Yuan Dynasty. I am afraid that they are the envoys of Deng Mu'an!" The back cover of the book has been opened by him.  There were more than a dozen articles in it. Dong Zhao held the back cover and handed it over. Cao Cao looked at it carefully. The content above was a detailed introduction to the Yuan system.  Printing a book?  Made by Deng Muan?  Cao Cao suddenly realized this and went back to the study with a livid face to get the four books presented by Fan Qin. He tore open the back covers and looked at them.  Sure enough, there are hidden pages.  In the early stage, Cao Cao was a man who focused on practical benefits, and false reputations did not matter. After he found out, he became furious and went out to issue an order: "Order Liu Ziyang to quickly arrest and kill the incoming booksellers and confiscate all the printed books!" Not long after the order was conveyed, Xun Yu's uncle and nephew,  Guo Jia and others had already learned about it and rushed to persuade them. Xun Yu said worriedly: "Now it is too late to stop him! If Chen Changwen's method of the ninth grade is implemented, the family will become more stable. Although the Yuan Dynasty is praised as a virtuous person, it has lost the ambition of a wealthy family.  The government is talking about the Yuan system, and the failure of the government is nothing to worry about! If you hunt down the booksellers, it will show your narrow-mindedness; if you force the printed books, you may lose your reputation even more!" Cao Cao said bitterly: "But Deng Mu'an took this opportunity.  The great spread of the Yuan Dynasty will lure Han scholars to join Sizhou, and the printing of books will make huge profits, and it will become more difficult to control in the future. How can we just let it go?" Xun Yu and Xun You couldn't answer, Guo Jia shook his head.  : "The matter has spread, and arresting and punishing the bookseller can only vent anger, but not cure the root cause!" Guo Jia usually doesn't talk much, but there must be something behind his words. Listening to him talking like this, do you think he has something in mind?  Cao Cao immediately cheered up: "Feng Xiao has a plan to cure the root cause?" Guo Jia thought about it and saluted: "Please enter the secret room!" This is Cao Cao's house. There are no outsiders here.Hearing that Guo Jia still thought it was not confidential enough, Cao Cao was even more happy. He hurriedly led the three of them into the study and asked someone to guard them from a distance and not allow anyone to come near.  Entering the study, Cao Cao asked anxiously again, and Guo Jia said: "The initial power of this book has greatly declined, and it will be difficult to regain its old appearance. It is no longer a concern for Yecheng to survive for the time being. However, in addition, the Deng family relied on elite soldiers, and the Sun family relied on the natural dangers.  It is difficult to wipe out the heroes of the moment, and this is a great danger for the Duke! Deng Ji and Sun Ce both achieved their ambitions at a young age, and the rulers only rely on their power, and it is difficult for others to match them. Their sons are young, and their heirs are unknown. If they die suddenly,  , I don¡¯t say whether his government can be continued, the successors still need to settle down, and they will not dare to compete with the public for several years. I look at the results carefully, Sun Ce is unprepared, and always bravely goes out alone; even though Deng Ji came out,  There must be guards, but they also love to show kindness to the people. Although they hold millions of people hostage, if they are ambushed by assassins, they will all die at the hands of ordinary men!  Assassinating two people? Even if they fail, they will only lose a few dead men, and the overall situation will not be harmed. "Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, assassins have been doing assassinations. Although such things are dark, they are not done by gentlemen, and they are not the ones who take advantage of the country's death to raise troops."  "Righteous teacher" is to be reviled by scholars, but it does have the effect of taking things by surprise and seizing opportunities.  Moreover, the military and national affairs are important, so he should not imitate Song Xianggong and act like a gentleman in everything.  Hearing Guo Jia's words, Cao Cao was stunned. Xun Yu and Xun You also frowned, thinking about the feasibility and deducing the aftermath.  Guo Jia said again: "If Deng Ji dies, I will take the opportunity to march into Nanyang. Wait until the Sizhou army dares not go out, and then go north to destroy Yuan Shao in the hope of merging the state and Sizhou. If Sun Ce dies, I can seize the two counties of Huainan, then annex Lujiang River, and drive them away."  The Sun family returned to the left side of the Yangtze River. With the ambition of helping the world, they must have naval forces under their command. They only thought that the navy would be rare for a while. If they assassinated Deng Ji, they could occupy Nanyang and seize its naval forces and docks for their own use. If they assassinated Sun Ce, they would annex them.  In Lujiang, we can prepare our own navy in Chaohu. If one of these two people is killed, the deadlock will be broken. If both of them are killed, the world will be greatly changed, and there will be no one to compete with the public! Wait for Yuan Shao, Pang Zhen, and Deng in the north!  If the power of the clan is destroyed, and the navy and land forces are driven to compete with the Liu Biao and Sun clan for the land of Jingchu and Soochow, then only Yizhou, Jiaozhou, and Liaodong will be left undecided. The construction of the navy cannot be achieved overnight.  It was necessary to march south of the Yangtze River. It was too late for Cao Cao to start preparations at this time.  Cao Cao also felt sorry for the Beihai shipwrights and ship materials that Deng Ji had replaced, but the only place where he could build a naval force now was the Huaihe River waterway.  Not to mention that the south bank of the Huaihe River belongs to the Sun family, in this era, the Huaihe River had its own outlet to the sea, and Hongze Lake was still a group of small shallow lakes called Pofutang.  In the early Southern Song Dynasty, in order to prevent the Jin soldiers from going south, Kaifeng guard Du Chong dug up and cut off the south embankment of the Yellow River to divert the Yellow River. Most of the Yellow River water flowed through Si River and merged into the Huaihe River, seizing the Huaihe River channel and entering the sea. Later, as time went by, silt accumulated,  The outlet to the sea was blocked, and the Huaihe River could not compete with the Yellow River. In the end, it had no choice but to change its course to the south, soaking the Pofu Pond into the wide Hongze Lake of later generations. Not to mention, it broke through the south embankment and continued southward. Finally, it merged with the Yangtze River at Sanjiangkou, and along with the Yangtze River  Entering the sea, during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, the Yellow River changed its course and moved northward, but the Huaihe River flowed into the Yangtze River until later generations.  The Huaihe River has its own outlet to the sea. Even if Cao Cao could build a navy on the Huaihe River and use it to compete for dominance in the world in the future, the navy would have to sail into the offshore first, go along the coast to the outlet of the Yangtze River, and then turn back, which would be time consuming.  It is said that it is difficult to grasp the fighter plane.  After listening to Guo Jia's words, although it is difficult to assassinate the two masters and capture their full power, it should not be difficult to seize the opportunity to swallow up part of their areas. It would be great to capture Nanyang and Lujiang, giving Cao Cao the opportunity to develop a naval army. Xun Yu,  Xun You's uncle and nephew Fang Dawu looked at each other and sighed: "This is a sincere plan for the country!" Cao Cao also flashed his eyes and slapped the table and said: "If Deng Ji and Sun Ce are killed, who else can stop me?  The idea of ??filial piety is excellent, but this matter was planned in a secret room. No one else should spread it outside the four of us!" "After all, sending assassins and spreading the word will damage Cao Cao's reputation. The less people know about this matter, the better, Xun Yu and Guo Jia both said.  Promise.  After agreeing to go out, Cao Cao ordered to recall Liu Ye, canceled the previous order, allowed booksellers to sell books within the territory, and allowed scholars to discuss the system of the Yuan Dynasty to show his generosity.  However, Cao Cao was also jealous of the huge profits from printing books. He also sent city officials from various places to levy high taxes on booksellers, and at the same time recruited craftsmen to prepare the same plate-printing books for sale.  On the other side, we secretly searched for those from the Cao family, Xiahou family, Xun family and other clans who had received great kindness and were willing to die without regrets. Within a few days, a total of seventeen people were found who were proficient in swords and bows, alert and courageous.  Cao Cao also looked for something highly poisonous, and asked him to wait for it to be concealed, and ordered it to be smeared on the blades of swords and arrows before proceeding.  Before the seventeen dead men left, Guo Jia Shang warned them: "This can only be done once, and there will be no chance again. When entering the place, be steady first, don't rush, take your time, and be sure to explore carefully from left to right.  Don't make a mistake and hit the side car. However, when you act, be decisive and don't retreat. Make sure to hit it with one blow! If you sacrifice your life, you will be kind to me. Sooner or later, you will write a letter to make sure.  Everyone in the world knows the names of all the princes!" Deng Ji was accompanied by guards when he came in and out. Twelve of the seventeen assassins went to Luoyang, and the leader was called??Hou Jin; the leader of the five people going to Shouchun was named Xunzuo.  (~^~)Mobile phone users please visit http://m.piaotia.net
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