Since mid-February, the clouds of war have spread over Yanzhou. Both sides are nervously preparing, but until early March, the two sides have not really started a war, and it seems that they are waiting for something. The more this happens, Cao Cao is becoming more and more nervous. The families in Jiyin and Shanyang are becoming more and more dissatisfied. Cao Cao was extremely worried that Zhang Miao, who was frequently in and out of the prefect's mansion, had to take people back to Dingtao from the frontline Yinju County.

As soon as he walked into Dingtao City, Cao Cao noticed something wrong. The general guarding the city did not even take the initiative to come forward to greet him. When he came to Zhang Miao's mansion, the butler outside the door asked him to wait outside the door. Cao Xiu was so angry that he wanted to draw his sword to chop people. But Cao Cao was still waiting outside the door without any abnormality...

Zhang Miao was still the same, hurriedly taking his younger brother Zhang Chao out of the mansion to greet him, and even scolded the housekeeper in public. However, after entering the mansion, he sighed all the way along the way, while Cao Cao was in another scene, confident and relaxed.

"hehe……"

Cao Cao stroked his beard and laughed as soon as he sat down.

"Meng Zhuo doesn't have to worry too much. Although there are many thieves in Liangzhou, if our army only defends but does not attack, the thieves will not be able to do anything to us."

Zhang Miao was not as confident as Cao Cao and sighed: "After that being said, Meng De also knew about Yingchuan County back then. Although the walls of Yanzhou were tall and strong, it would be... But if he threatened with summer grain, wouldn't we all starve to death in the city?"

As he said that, Zhang Miao said solemnly again.

"Meng De, tell the truth to me. Can we just stop the thief army outside the city?"

Cao Cao frowned, and a relaxed smile still appeared on his face.

"Then Dong Hu is actually a thief in the world. It's March now, and there are nearly two months left before the summer harvest. If he cannot defeat us quickly, the court will definitely inform the whole world to attack the thieves in Liangzhou. Why should Meng Zhuo be too worried?"

Zhang Miao was about to speak, but Zhang Chao, who was standing beside him, pulled him away.

"According to what Meng De said, Meng De could not defeat Dong Hu? The court announced the world that the two princesses were in Chenliu because Meng De led the troops..."

"Dang!"

Before Zhang Chao could finish his words, Cao Xiu suddenly became furious and drew his sword. When he was outside the door, he was extremely dissatisfied with the rudeness of the Zhang brothers. He heard Zhang Chao pouring sewage on Cao Cao in public and was immediately furious.

"Old thief, say another word--"

As Cao Xiu was furious and drew his sword, several people in the hall stood up in panic, and Zhang Miao accidentally knocked over the wine bottle, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense...

"Bang!"

Cao Cao slapped the small table and pointed at Cao Xiu furiously.

"Get out!"

"Master, he..."

"Get off—"

Cao Cao stood up in anger. Then Cao Xiu then angrily pushed the sword back to his waist, but his eyes stared at Zhang Chao who had taken a step back...

"well……"

With a sigh, the atmosphere in the hall suddenly relaxed a little. Everyone saw him coming to Zhang Miao with a wine jar, and they all looked at each other inexplicably...

"Although Meng Zhuo has never seen Dong Hu, he thinks he knows his cunning and cunning."

"In the first year of Zhongping, he made a fuss and created the illusion of tens of thousands of riders with thousands of riders, forcing the bandits in Yuzhou to withdraw from Yingchuan County. He also deceived Yingchuan County under the name of a princess, and the whole country of Yuzhou. If these are not counted, the Meiji Xiongnu were deceived by him and all his clans were destroyed..."

"Meng Gao!"

"How can Dong Hu believe it?"

"You and I have been together for 10 or 20 years. Do you not believe in the truth and believe in the traitor?"

"After the alliance, we signed the alliance under the city with him. When he fought with Li Jue and Guo Si, we abide by the contract and did not take back Chenliu County. Today, he came to attack our Yanzhou by traitors. How can such a traitorous person be trustworthy?"

Zhang Miao opened his mouth, and he didn't know who to believe in him?

As Cao Cao said, Dong Hu would do unexpected things before fighting with his opponents. As early as when Beigong Boyu rebelled, he ran to Yuzhong Pass to farm in a very brainless way, and even scared Yuzhong and the Warriors and the two cities were deceived. After that... Dong Hu had even more things to deceive others.

But Zhang Miao did not dare to believe Cao Cao at this time. Even if Cao Cao put the heads of hundreds of Yellow Turban Army's large and small Qus in front of him, Zhang Miao could not believe it. The reason was that Dong Hu had said early, "Yuan Shao, Cao Cao would attack all the wealthy families." Moreover, when Cao Cao and Qingzhou thieves confronted Shouzhang, they repeatedly asked for money and food. After suing millions of Qingzhou thieves, they repeatedly urged and even threatened them...

In this way, how can the entire Yanzhou family believe that Cao Cao did not deliberately plunder the troops?

Yanzhou has only four million people, and after deducting the population of Chenliu County, there are still three million left. Before the millions of Yellow Turban Army invaded Yanzhou, Yanzhou had confronted Dong Zhuo for a year, regardless of whether Dong Hu was present. In addition, the Black Mountain Army in Lucai Mountain invaded Dongjun and was consumed continuously, how could Yanzhou withstand the entry of millions of refugees?

The Han Dynasty had a population of 50 million, and the 13 governors had 103 counties. On average, each county was only 500,000. Once a refugee occurred in one county or several counties, it would be a disaster. Not to mention this era, even in later generations, a small country with hundreds of thousands of people suddenly rushed into hungry people with more than their own body, it would definitely cause economic, political, public security... crises in all aspects. For these reasons, the Han Dynasty did not allow refugees to run around. Once discovered, the first person to punish local officials were all over the place, and then... he drove the refugees back to their original place.

Yanzhou cannot afford the food for millions of refugees. Even if countless families of all sizes can afford it, they will not give the food to outsiders for nothing. The local hungry people in Yanzhou caused by millions of Qingzhou troops have not been rescued, let alone outsiders.

There are only two choices left. One is to send millions of refugees back to Qingzhou according to the rules of the Han Dynasty; the other is to kill them all as thieves, and they will be eliminated.

There seems to be two choices, but in fact there is only one "kill". There is no other reason. It is because Cao Cao was not the Qingzhou army that he really defeated, but the Qingzhou army voluntarily surrendered. Once Cao Cao makes such a suggestion, the million Qingzhou army will definitely rebel immediately!

Killing a million in ten thousand seems a bit irritating, but if you kill 100,000 young and strong people among a million people, and if you kill 30,000 elite Qingzhou troops among a hundred thousand young and strong people, it will be much easier. You just need to trick people into an empty city and shoot them all.

The people of Yanzhou were unwilling to take out money and grain, and were more willing to kill all the Qingzhou thieves, but Cao Cao was unwilling!

The two sides quarreled for several months, and Cao Cao could not use his verbal words to make the wealthy families in Yanzhou take out their money and grain, and in the end there was only one way.

Even if Dong Hu doesn’t have a big mouth and has been passed down for a hundred years, how could a family that has been passed down for hundreds of years be really stupid?

Zhang Miao's Zhang family is a native tribe in Yanzhou. He could not convince himself, and could not believe that Cao Cao did not plunder and slaughter the wealthy families in Yanzhou. Both sides also fell into strange silence...

"Meng Zhuo, you come to be the governor of Yanzhou, and you are willing to be a general of Yanzhou..."

"Master..."

"Shut up--"

When Cao Cao heard that he wanted to give up his position as "Governor of Yanzhou", before a group of Cao generals were shocked, Cao Xiu was the first to exclaim to stop him. Cao Cao was furious and pointed his finger outside the hall.

"Get out--"

Seeing Cao Cao furious, Cao Xiu opened his mouth repeatedly, and finally left with great striking storm...

The incident was too sudden. Not to mention Zhang Miao, the Zhang Chao brothers did not expect Cao Cao to say such words. Xun Yu and Guo Jia did not expect it, but they were just stunned for a moment.

It was not until Cao Xiu left angrily that Zhang Miao seemed to have reacted and waved his hand in a hurry.

"Meng De must not be. The enemy is in front of me and I am not engaged in military affairs. How can I be the governor of Yanzhou? This matter must not be done!"

Cao Cao grinned and said, "Meng Zhuo does not need to worry. Although the thief is strong, as long as my Yanzhou is united, it is not impossible to defeat the thief. Just when our Yanzhou is in danger, Meng Zhuo must not refuse! Never be fooled by that thief!"

Zhang Miao was about to continue to refuse, but Zhang Chao suddenly stepped forward.

"What Meng De said is reasonable. When the people are uneasy, the elder brother has always been kind and famous. At this time, only if the elder brother succeeds to the governor of Yanzhou, can the people be safe and secure, and only if our Yanzhou can we block the Lintao child."

"For the safety of Yanzhou, my brother should not refuse Meng De's kindness."

Listening to Zhang Chao's words, Cao Cao's pupils suddenly shrank, but his face was nothing unusual. He walked forward and pulled Zhang Miao to sit in the main seat, and even knelt on one knee.

"The last general Cao Cao is willing to obey the military orders of the Lord!"

"Sir" and "Lord" are a thousand miles apart. Zhang Chao glanced at Cao Cao who was bowing his head, but didn't say much.

"This...this..."

"Meng De gets up quickly..."

Zhang Miao hurriedly stepped forward and pulled Cao Cao up, with a little bitterness on his face.

"well……"

"I believe in Meng De's character, but you also know... All families are angry that Meng De surrenders to the Qingzhou thieves..."

"Forget it, it's better not to talk about this."

Zhang Miao pulled Cao Cao's arm and sighed. Cao Cao's heart was like a mirror. He had not figured out why Dong Hu did not attack when he had the best chance at the two best chances, but he attacked at this time.

He didn't think it through before, and it was not until the whole of Yanzhou was in turmoil that he really understood it.

The Qingzhou army was instigated to plunder wealthy families in Yanzhou, seize money, and kill people from all over the world. The wealthy families in Yanzhou had reason to be angry and dissatisfied. In addition, wouldn’t the local people in Yanzhou be angry?

At any time, when a large number of outsiders enter the local area and squeeze out the living space of local people, the first thing they are dissatisfied with is not the officials, wealthy families, but the lower-level people!

Cao Cao used millions of Qingzhou troops to intervene in the fields, where did the fields come from? The original owner of the landlords of wealthy Yanzhou was gone, and they could change the owner, but the tenant who ploughed the fields and farmed the fields were still there!

At this time, it was not that Cao Cao slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people in Xuzhou, nor that Cao Cao killed nearly 100,000 prisoners in the Battle of Guandu. Dong Zhuo and Dong Hu's uncle and nephew had not yet fought fiercely on Yanzhou territory. Whether it was the Heishan Army of Lucai Mountain or a million Qingzhou thieves, they were just refugees who had no food and hungry people. Although they would also slaughter in the process of robbing grain, they rarely slaughter the lower-class people. Otherwise, when Dong Zhuo and Wang Kuang competed for Hanoi, 100,000 refugees in Hanoi ran to Lucai Mountain, and there would be no 300,000 Qingzhou troops who were defeated in Bohai County, and millions of people came out in just a few months.

Dong Zhuo and Dong Hu's uncle and nephew did not engage in a large-scale war in Yanzhou, and the Yellow Turban Army did not slaughter the people at the bottom of Qingzhou. Cao Cao wanted to use the Qingzhou Army to farm. What should he do if the original tenants on the fields?

Refining the land?

Jizhou, Yanzhou, and Yuzhou are not desolate Liangzhou, Bingzhou, and Jinghu that has not been developed. They are the heart of the Central Plains and are a place where families of all sizes have been operated for four hundred years. The best farmland has basically been occupied, and the military farmland must be a large piece of land connected together. If this mountain is open to the land and farmland, and if Cao Cao is coming to the mountain, can he still become a overlord?

Recruiting millions of Yellow Turban Army will not only anger countless families of all sizes, but also disgusting the local people of Yanzhou.

Of course, Cao Cao had no choice. If he did not surrender the Qingzhou army, he would not be able to suppress the dissatisfaction of the upper and lower dynasties in Yanzhou and would not be able to become the overlord of one side.

Cao Cao and the local family in Yanzhou have irreconcilable conflicts, at least at this stage, but Dong Hu did not expect that Cao Aman would retreat as an advance and give up the Yanzhou master to ease the conflicts between him and the various families in Yanzhou.
Chapter completed!