Three Caos fighting for a bride? Zhen Ji, I, Cao Zhi, will take her!

Chapter 187 The Limitations of History

"Two...brothers, please do me a favor!"

Cao Zhi laughed.

"Help???"

Seeing Cao Zhi suddenly ask his two brothers for help.

The Yuan Xi brothers couldn't help but feel nervous.

But since Cao Zhi had said so, it was difficult for the two brothers to refuse.

Yuan Xi smiled and said:

"Brother, if you have any requests, just tell me. It would be awkward to ask for help!"

Yuan Shang quickly added:

"That's right, that's right. My brother and I both gave our lives to each other. As long as my brother says so, even if we face mountains of swords and seas of fire, my brother and I will not blink an eye!"

After Yuan Shang said this, he patted his chest generously.

"It's really a sea of fire and a mountain of swords, and you didn't even blink an eye?"

Cao Zhi teased.

"This... a mountain of swords and a sea of fire, I won't blink an eye!"

Although the Yuan Xi brothers grumbled in their hearts, they remained firm on the surface.

"Haha, I was just kidding. There's no need for you two to be nervous now!"

Cao Zhi smiled and comforted the two.

Then he asked someone to find a clean piece of white paper, and using the blood on the battlefield, Cao Zhi quickly wrote two letters.

After sealing these two letters.

Cao Zhi handed the letter to the Yuan Xi brothers and said sternly:

"You two, in my heart, I also want to keep you two. After all, the Yuan family and the Cao family are old friends. But you may not know that in today's court, my father is just a minister and cannot make decisions arbitrarily!"

"I've thought about it. If you two want to survive, you must prove your worth to the court. How can you prove your worth? Naturally, by performing meritorious services for the Han Dynasty!"

"I have two letters here, one for Su Puting, the leader of the Wuhuan tribe in Liaodong, and the other for Gongsun Kang, the governor of Liaodong. I'd like to trouble you two brothers to deliver them for me!"

"Send, send a letter?" Yuan Xi said in a trembling voice.

"And it was given to Su Puting, the leader of the Wuhuan tribe in Liaodong, and Gongsun Kang, the prefect of Liaodong County!" Yuan Shang was in tears.

At this point, they suspected that Cao Zhi wanted to deliberately kill his two brothers.

Both Su Puting and Gongsun Kang are currently ruling their own territories and are not under the control of Cao Cao.

Asking the two brothers to deliver the letter at this time, what's the difference between this and asking them to die?

"Brother..."

Yuan Shang wanted to struggle, but before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Yuan Xi, who said sternly:

"Don't worry, brother. We two brothers are sure to complete the mission!"

"Well, good brothers, I wish you both great success!"

Cao Zhi laughed.

As he spoke, Cao Zhi asked someone to find four war horses.

At the same time, he asked Zhang Liao to provide the two brothers with dry food and drinking water.

It won’t take long.

Under the gaze of Cao Zhi.

The figures of the Yuan Xi brothers quickly disappeared from the sight of Cao Zhi and others.

……

Time flies.

An hour passed in the blink of an eye.

On the vast grassland thirty miles away from Cao Zhi.

Yuan Shang finally couldn't help but said:

"Second brother, do we really have to deliver a letter for Cao Zhi? Who are Su Puting and Gongsun Kang? When father was alive, they were naturally respectful to us. But now father is gone, and Jizhou and Youzhou are gone too. Will they listen to us?"

"Whether they listen or not is none of our business. We are just messengers!"

Yuan Xi retorted.

"You, do you really want to work for Cao Zhi? Don't forget your sister-in-law..."

Yuan Shang reminded.

"She's just a woman. Cao Zhi can give her to him if he wants, but it's nonsense to say she'll work for him. I just agreed to Cao Zhi's request just now just to save my life. As for now, the world is so big, whether we leave or stay, can Cao Zhi control it?"

Yuan Xi laughed.

"Second brother, that's a great idea!" Yuan Shang's eyes lit up and he said excitedly:

"So where are we going next?"

"Of course, I'll go deliver the letter first. If the contents of Cao Zhi's letter can convince Su Puting and Gongsun Kang to surrender to him, then my two brothers will surrender as well!"

"But if the contents of Cao Zhi's two letters anger these two and turn against him, we can then use the power they hold to fight back against Youzhou!"

Yuan Xi sneered.

"Okay, okay, I'll do everything you say, brother!"

Seeing that Yuan Xi had already made a plan, Yuan Shang was overjoyed.

……

the other side.

Accompanied by the departure of Yuan Xi brothers.

The remaining soldiers were cleaning up the battlefield.

At this time, Cao Zhi was standing alone on the hill, gazing into the distance, bored.

"******!"

Somehow, the name of the poem "Qinyuanchun" suddenly popped up in Cao Zhi's mind.

"The Fourth Young Master has a great plan. With just a few words, he has completely stabilized Liaodong!"

Behind Cao Zhi, Jia Xu walked over with a smile.

"Haha, Wenhe, you're too kind. I'm just a little tricky person, but I can't compare to you!"

Cao Zhi laughed.

In fact, the reason why Cao Zhi asked the Yuan Xi brothers to deliver the letter for him was...

This was because Cao Zhi thought of the scene in the film and television drama "Guo Jia's legacy to conquer Liaodong".

In film and television dramas, in order to highlight Guo Jia's power, this scene was deliberately made to look incredible.

But in fact, Guo Jia's strategy essentially saw through the current situation and people's hearts.

That is, Guo Jia was certain that Gongsun Kang would not offend Cao Cao for the sake of the brothers Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang.

To others, this tactic might seem like magic.

But for Jia Xu, who was responsible for [The Trouble in Chang'an] and [The Love Story in Wancheng], this was just basic operation.

Therefore, Cao Zhi said that this was "a little bit of a trail".

Cao Zhi knew that Jia Xu's visit at this time must not be due to this matter, so he turned to look at Jia Xu and said with a smile:

"If you have anything to ask, just say it!"

"Why does the Fourth Young Master want to govern the grasslands?"

Jia Xu went straight to the point.

"Isn't it right to manage the grasslands?"

Cao Zhi asked back.

"It's not that it's wrong, it's just that it's not worth it and not cost-effective!" Jia Xu said.

"The grasslands are freezing cold, and produce little. Crops can't be grown here, nor do they produce salt, iron, silk, or gold or silver. The only things they have are war horses and cattle and sheep. Gansu and Longnan are self-sufficient in these things. The Qilian Mountains pastures provide countless war horses, cattle, and sheep every year, and the weather there is much better than here..."

"The reason why the previous emperors of the Han Dynasty chose to conquer the Western Regions rather than the grasslands over the near ones was not because they could not see the grasslands, but because the cost of conquering the grasslands was too high and the returns were too little. Therefore, they did not include the grasslands in their scope of strategy!"

"As for the so-called threat from the Xiongnu and Wuhuan, they might have existed at the beginning of the pre-Han Dynasty, but since Emperor Wu appointed Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, the offensive and defensive situation has changed. Therefore, I really don't understand why the Fourth Prince attaches so much importance to the grasslands, to the point that he would rather sit back and watch Cao Yi and his men become more powerful!"

Jia Xu's words came from the bottom of his heart.

Cao Zhi was not surprised that he said this.

After all, it is the Han Dynasty now.

In the eyes of the upper class of this era.

Our Han Dynasty is the best in the world, and the surrounding tribes are all barbarians.

This is indeed the case!

Not to mention Dou Xian's great feat of engraving the stone tablet at Yanran.

Gongsun Zan alone was able to roam the grassland with just a few dozen cavalrymen.

It is enough to prove the strength of the Han Dynasty in this era!

Countries are often destroyed because of their weakness, but the Han Dynasty alone perished because of its strength!

In this historical context, Jia Xu was very puzzled by Cao Zhi's behavior of writing the Jinglüe Draft.

Looking at Jia Xu who was looking puzzled, Cao Zhi smiled without saying anything.

He can't always tell.

In the history books of his time.

After the Sima clan's Rebellion of the Eight Princes, only one in ten Han people in the Central Plains survived, which then led to the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China, and the Han people in the north almost faced the crisis of genocide!

Even if Cao Zhi told Jia Xu at this time, Jia Xu would not believe it.

There is no other reason. The Han people’s confidence was earned by generations of border troops!

"Sure enough, even someone as intelligent as Jia Xu cannot escape the limitations of history!"

Cao Zhi couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Moved by Jia Xu's willingness to persuade him, Cao Zhi lied:

"I just think the reason why the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out wasn't just because of Zhang Jue and the Taiping Dao!"

"In my opinion, the main reason is that the Han Dynasty has developed to a point where the population is too large and the arable land is too small. In addition, the nobles plundered without restraint, causing countless people to lose their land and homes..."

"People who have lost their land and homes have no choice but to rebel, except to wait for death!"

"Taking all this into consideration, I want to seize this precious grassland and use it as a pasture for the Han people. With this pasture, those people who have lost their land will have a third option between rebellion and waiting to die!"

"This...Fourth Young Master Gao Yi!!!"

Hearing Cao Zhi say this, Jia Xu was shocked!

Although he didn't believe Cao Zhi's reason.

But when I think about it, every time Cao Zhi led the troops, he never allowed the soldiers to harass the civilians.

Jia Xu suddenly felt that Cao Zhi's reason was very reasonable!

……

Seven days later.

A vassal state of Liaodong.

Wuhuan tribe in Liaodong.

When the brothers Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang arrived at Su Pu Ting's tent.

At this time, Su Puting was eating mutton with big mouthfuls of mutton while holding a lamb leg in one hand, and hugging a young-looking Han woman with the other hand, enjoying the wine she fed him.

Under Su Pu Ting.

The Wuhuan nobles were the same as him.

Eat meat and drink wine in big mouthfuls.

Life is so pleasant!

See the brothers Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang come in.

Su Puting was stunned at first.

Then he quickly pushed the woman in his arms away.

He wiped his greasy right hand on his clothes, then bowed and said:

"So it's you two gentlemen. What brings you here?"

As early as two days ago, Su Puting learned that Tadun, Nanlou, Wuting, Louban and others had killed all the elite Wuhuan troops of his tribe.

Just when he didn't know what to do next.

Just in time.