As tens of thousands of Cao troops entered the city and controlled all parts of Yecheng, Cao Cao himself finally rode a tall horse and took Yuan Tan to enter through the south gate.

Outside the south gate were four or five "bundled and surrendered to Cao Yishi" represented by Yang Xiu, and lined up to welcome him.

"Yang Xiu, the Great Master, paid a visit to the Prime Minister. His father was old and weak, and he has not listed the government affairs in recent years. I also asked the Prime Minister to forgive him for not being able to come out to welcome him." Yang Xiu saw Cao Cao from afar, and he respected him carefully.

The wording is also very accurate. Calling Cao Cao the prime minister obviously recognized the official position that Cao Cao had accepted before and promoted by Guo Tu and Kong Rong. In addition, Kong Rong was also on the side at this moment, Cao Cao became increasingly difficult to attack Yang Xiu.

The friendship between Kong Rong and Yang Xiu's family has always been good.

In history, when Ni Heng was in Xuchang, he often joked that all the court officials in Xuchang were almost despised by Ni Heng. Only two talented and virtuous people could catch his eyes, so-called "the eldest son Kong Wenju and the youngest son Yang Dezu."

Although Ni Heng had no official relationship with them in this life, as early as four years ago, Ni Heng was humiliated because he tried to make a big fuss in Li Su's imperial examination during his exile in Jingzhou. In the end, he failed to pass the exam, which was ridiculed by the world and could be called a super club death.

However, the friendship between Yang Xiu and Kong Rong has been there and has not changed.

Cao Cao was quite unhappy with Yang Xiu, but he pretended to laugh on the surface and said kindly to comfort the people who came to surrender.

Then, Cao Cao turned to Shen Pei and whipped Shen Pei a few times: "There are many men in Wei County, and they are talking about people who are slandering and confusing the master, and those who make profits for their own selfishness and the villagers!

When the general was alive, there was no loss in the government. Only the Jizhou family led by you Wei County people killed dissidents and excluded heroic spirits! It hurts the general to be virtuous and wise!

The court was not well prepared for its military preparations, and the talented people could not be loyal to the country, so they were defeated repeatedly by Liu Bei on the battlefield, which was all the sins of you! What else can you say now!"

This time, Cao Cao did not persuade Shen Pei to surrender like he did when he captured Shen Pei in the Romance. Instead, he directly said a few words of high-level and righteousness to squeeze Shen Pei's position.

Even if he was given a happy and dignified way of death in the end, it would only praise him for his loyalty to the Yuan family and let everyone know that "loyalty is always good, it is advocated by the court, and no matter who is in power, it will be the same."

However, the charge of "forming cliques and seeking personal interests and harming the overall situation" by Shen Pei must be criticized clearly, so that it can be easier to clean up the officialdom.

Unexpectedly, Shen Pei had been waiting for this opportunity to express his ambitions in front of the soldiers of the two armies. He believed that he had heard so many people. Even if the historians controlled by Cao Cao did not record them, there would always be someone circulated. Maybe he could be recorded by the historians of Liu Bei's court in Guanxi, and then he would be considered to be dying vigorously.

Shen Pei didn't bother with Cao Cao, and stared at Yuan Tan and cursed: "Hmph, the Han Dynasty is in decline, and the way of heaven is slowly coming. Although he still respects His Majesty, it is because the people in the world are used to it.

But since the Han Dynasty has been peaceful and obedient, it has been in conflict with Huan Ling and has been in the six or seven emperors. None of them have taken turns to favor foreign relatives and eunuchs, without virtue or conduct. The number of days changes, and the ruler loses virtue, resulting in chaos in the world. How can one follow the old system and change an emperor to cure it?

We followed the general just to restrict the tyrant monarchs and robbers and traitors. As the general, we supported the third prince instead of the eldest prince, because the third prince had ambitions, could inherit the ambitions of the general and boost our efforts for the scholars of the world.

Young Master, you are willing to do even Cao Cao’s puppet, and how much perseverance can you have to inherit the will of the general? Ask yourself if you deserve it!"

Shen Pei's words are a bit illogical, but when a person shouts slogans before his death, he must be shouting loudly.

Some clues can be seen from the many of them - what are the aristocratic families who support Yuan Shao the most strongly, pursuing?

I hope that Yuan Shao could lead them to establish a world that was more restrictive than the Han Dynasty, delegated power to the aristocratic families, and everyone ruled together.

As for what kind of world will be built in the end, they don’t know, but it’s okay to have a fantasy of the future in their hearts.

In this regard, Yuan Tan is relatively conservative, and Yuan Shao himself has seen it. He thinks that Yuan Shang is "a heroic and martial arts person". This is not only because Yuan Shangshuai or has good martial arts skills, but more because his talent is similar to Yuan Shao's character. Both Yuan Shao and Shen Pei think that Yuan Shang will inherit his political line.

To put it bluntly, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shang are absolutely consistent at least in terms of "reusing Hebei families". The basic structures of the father and son overlap, and Yuan Tan's basic structure and the reused faction no longer overlap with his father.

Shen Pei's last words can be regarded as a temporary extra layer of gold for himself and those loyal to Yuan Shang.

Cao Cao also knew that he wanted to make face, but since he had already asked the other party to speak, it would be useless to stop him even if he was angry and angry. He had finished all the words, but Cao Cao seemed to be ungraceful.

Well, give him a reputation of being "foolly loyal but seeking personal gain" and kill him to avoid causing trouble.

Cao Cao pointed with a horse whip and said, "I still hope to express my clever words and despise me? Because you are a minister, you are allowed to choose a way to die yourself!"

Shen Pei raised her neck: "I was born as a minister of the Yuan family and died as a ghost of the Yuan family, why bother to say too much!"

After saying that, Shen Pei saw Cao Cao following Xu Chu, carrying a big knife. Although his hands were tied up, he could jump and bump into Xu Chu.

Xu Chu thought that Shen Pei wanted to assassinate suddenly at this time, but of course he instinctively swung his sword and directly swung Shen Pei into two sections.

Cao Cao was stunned for a few seconds and was secretly unwilling to accept it: "This guy was captured alive and died in the end, so why would he be assassinated by Yang Xiumou and offered his head to the position! Before he died, he even gave him a chance to pretend to be loyal and righteous!"

Cao Cao drove those messy thoughts out of his mind, rode his horse straight into the north of the city, passed by the General's Mansion, and saw the blazing fire, he realized that it was Yuan Shangju who died in the city.

However, the soldiers had been in for a long time and only found the bodies of some wives, concubines and maids, plus a burnt corpse with Yuan Shangxi and ribbon. Of course, the color of the clothes was not visible. The clothes had been burned long ago, and only the golden seals and other accessories could not be burned.

Although Cao Cao was puzzled, he felt that Yuan Shang would definitely not be able to make trouble. Even if he wanted to commit suicide, he would probably have to hide his identity for the rest of his life without any threat.

No matter who the world will be in the future, Yuan Shang will never be emptied. He must be really dead.

Cao Cao ordered the soldiers to speed up the fire and rescue the property of the General's Mansion, first register and then distribute rewards.

After all, if we failed to massacre the city directly this time, we would definitely not let the soldiers divide the spoils according to whoever got it, so that the spoils would be unevenly divided. We could only pay them back first and then the government would distribute them again.

Of course, some things are definitely not distributed, such as women.

Cao Cao has a habit of this kind, and Yuan Shao has been suppressing Cao Cao in this life, forcing him to admit defeat and be a younger brother. Now he finally has the opportunity to retaliate. How could Cao Cao not take the opportunity to vent his depression?

He personally brought Xu Chu and other guards to the back house of the General's Mansion. The women of the Yuan family, father and son, had already been controlled and bound. Moreover, other Cao family members arrived first. Cao Cao looked closely and found that it was his eldest son Cao Ang.

There is no way, objectively speaking, it is only Cao Ang. Who made Cao Cao destroy Yecheng in this life three and a half years earlier than the original history? According to the original historical trajectory, Cao Pi should have been sixteen years old and seventeen years old when he broke Yecheng, but now Cao Pi is only three years old.

Cao Pi wanted to go to war with the army, or even lustful, but his body didn't support him.

However, Cao Cao's eldest son Cao Ang survived until now because he did not have the battle of Zhang Xiu. He is twenty-five years old this year. Moreover, because he lived for three more years, Cao Ang has now married and even has a child. After entering Yecheng today, Cao Ang also came to the General's Mansion to investigate the situation.

Of course he is not as lustful as his second brother in the future, so he just inspected and did nothing else.

When the female family of Yuan Shao's family saw Cao Cao coming in, they beg for mercy. The leader was Yuan Shao's second wife, Yuan Shang's mother Liu: "Prime Minister! You and your deceased husband are also a friend of life and death. It would be fine if you are with Tan'er, why bother to leave your deceased husband's family? Shang... Yuan Shang is dead, and the rest of the women are innocent."

Not to mention, Liu's words made some sense. Cao Cao wanted to deal with Yuan Shao's rebellious son Yuan Shang. He could not even blame Yuan Shao's whole family, otherwise he would place Yuan Tan.

Unfortunately, Liu was too vicious and mean. Cao Cao took a look at Liu's appearance and felt disgusted. He then looked at the other wives, concubines and female relatives left by the Yuan Shao family. There was nothing worth seeing.

Cao Cao couldn't help but subconsciously asked: "Benchu ​​is not lustful, so he is so 'poverty' and has few desires."

There were a few young maids and concubines next to Liu. Seeing that Cao Cao seemed to be dissatisfied with Liu, they were often threatened by Liu, and they had long been disliked. At this time, they quickly turned against each other and exposed:

"When the general was alive, there were many beautiful concubines. The mistress disliked them and lured the general and killed them all."

Upon hearing this, Cao Cao couldn't help but feel a bad thought in his heart: It's a waste! Brother Benchu's beautiful concubines actually died at the hands of this poisonous woman!

When Liu saw Cao Cao's expression changed, he could not tell that Cao Cao was a lustful person, especially his wife and concubine. He quickly tried his best to protect himself, so he directly pulled a daughter-in-law next to him and begged for mercy:

"Prime Minister! This is the wife of the second son Yuan Xi, and these are all Yuan Shang's maids. The sinful woman is willing to give up everyone and ask the Prime Minister for forgiveness!"

Cao Cao glanced at Yuan Xi's wife who stayed in Yecheng and felt that she was just a little pretty and was not worthy of apologizing for a poisonous woman like Liu. He waved his hand and ordered: "Hand the mother of Yuan Shang to kill him and abandon the market! Pay memorial to Benchu! Warning for the disaster of Xiao Wall in the inner robbery! The crime is not as good as the rest!"

Liu was immediately dragged away by Xu Chu as if he was catching a chicken. After carrying a hemp rope, he hanged it directly like a towel.

After inspecting the General's Mansion, Cao Cao entered the palace in Yecheng and checked the recent situation of Emperor Liu He.

Liu He was a complete puppet, and there was no need to repeat what he could do to rely on his father Yu Ze in history.

Although Cao Cao's coercion became more and more severe than Yuan Shao, Liu He had no choice. Moreover, in the months when Yuan Shang was in power, he had been isolated from the inside and outside, and the royal authority became increasingly declining and his appeal was completely lost.

Even the orthodox emperor like Liu Xie was snatched away by warlords in exile, his orthodoxy declined to the extreme, let alone Liu He today.

Cao Cao took out the list directly and asked the emperor to admit it, reward all the meritorious ministers, and put all the "Jizhou Family Group that colluded with Shen Pei" on the list, and settle the accounts after the autumn.

After receiving the order, Cao Cao immediately began to rectify the order in Yecheng and restore post-war stability.

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Within just a few days, Yecheng fell into the bloody storm of "Investigation and Rebellion" on the surface, but actually pronounced "Torture and Pay".

However, Cao Cao was still principled and had a sense of responsibility. He agreed to kill big households and rob the rich, but only kill big households and rob the rich. He did not slaughter the poor people, nor did he plunder any wealth of civilians.

Moreover, the rich and the noble families are also divided into steps. Rich people in Jizhou are all polite and are famous for killing them.

If someone from other places has a good relationship with Yang Xiu and is an old minister, he must keep one. If the Yingchuan faction has a good relationship with Guo Tu, he must keep one. The same is true for the Qingzhou faction, which was brought to the old Qingzhou faction, which was related to Kong Rong and King Xiu.

Cao Cao himself left only half of the money he received, which was used to expand the army and prepare for war and deepen reforms in the future.

More than half of them were actually issued as rewards to appease the soldiers' dissatisfaction because they could not rob.

The amount of wealth income was really amazing. Only more than 20,000 people were killed. In addition, the treasury left by Yuan Shao was completely taken away, and the imperial treasury was secretly plundered. The three parts together took up nearly 10 billion wealth!

If you have no idea about the income from robbery, you can look at a comparison reference number:

That is, when Dong Zhuo robbed and burned Luoyang, asked the supervisory team to "rob the property and kill people on the road", and let Lu Bu dig out the imperial tombs of the Eastern Han Dynasty and buried them, the total income was only about 20 billion yuan.

Today, Cao Cao was able to kill the rich and not the poor in the face of the poor. He could have one-third of the economic gains of the Luoyang disaster ten years ago. It was already very amazing.

Yecheng is worthy of being the largest city in Guandong today. In history, it was listed as one of the three capitals in the north for hundreds of years of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and ranked alongside Luoyang, Chang'an.

However, considering that more than half of the wealth was distributed to more than 100,000 Cao's soldiers who participated in the civil war, and to send comfort and comfort to Zhang He and other Yuan's soldiers who surrendered in advance, Cao Cao distributed more than 5 billion yuan.

Gold, silver and copper coins are the minority of them, and they are mainly physical wealth, and they are given to soldiers, silk cloth, iron tools, and livestock and food.

After conversion, at least nearly 200,000 people need rewards, and each person has only given two or three thousand coins of supplies. In fact, those who contribute less can get less, maybe a few hundred coins, and those who are injured can get more, and those who are injured may get nearly ten thousand coins.

The cost of serving for a month is 600 yuan, and ten thousand yuan is only one and a half years of military pay plus service expenses. Buying a life of those who died in battle is not expensive.

Cao Cao himself only spent 4 billion, which could be used to expand his military and prepare for war. Compared with Liu Bei's next door, the issue of industrial and commercial tax bonds was at least three times worse.

Moreover, Cao Cao's development is unsustainable. After all, robbery is just a matter of one's business. If productivity is not restored, it will be like Dong Zhuo, Li Jue, Guo Si, and there is no way to grab it in the future.

Fortunately, Cao Cao, Dong Zhuo, Li Yu, and even Li Zicheng in the future in history are different.

Like Li Zicheng, he only robs rich people and not poor people. At the same time, Li Zicheng blindly beats the slogan "The King of Breakings will not pay food when he comes". The boast is too great and the cost of ruling is unsustainable.

Cao Cao was at least "when Prime Minister Cao came, he didn't have to pay grain to the landlords, but he just paid half of the grain to the court." For landless farmers who had no place to stand, Cao Cao did moderately reduce the burden.
Chapter completed!