Chapter 6751: Take revenge!
Chapter 6751: Take revenge!
Not long after Cao Zhang and his brothers rushed into Kandahar, he realized that he seemed to have done something stupid. He originally brought only about 1,800 people with him, but not long after rushing in, it felt like there was a response from all directions and the people were following him. Soon, people everywhere were carrying his banner to save Cao Ang. Later, Cao Zhang couldn't even suppress the situation, as someone actually shouted out Cao Zhang's voice - to help the prince ascend the throne!
There is nothing much to say. Cao Zhang was dumbfounded. He had been shouting so loudly before, but actually it was more to build up momentum so as to get his elder brother out of prison and ask his father not to cause trouble for him and his brother. He didn't expect that there would be such a momentum now!
Anyway, I can't control it anymore!
"Cao Cao is unkind and should be chased away!" Cao Zhang led his team into the gate of Kandahar. Within five hundred meters, the slogans of the younger brothers around him had gathered together to form a complete slogan.
Cao Zhang realized that things were not going well, but the trend had already been set and he seemed unable to stop it. Considering what Han Xin had taught him not to go against the trend, Cao Zhang, who thought turning around was basically equivalent to turning around, decisively led his troops forward. He was not going to charge to the Kandahar secret prison, but to rush to the government office, to talk to Cao Cao in the name of the trend and put forward his own correct demands.
As for letting these people go, to be honest, even if Cao Zhang was not very smart, he knew that if he just let this group of people attack the government office, without him leading the team in front, there was a high possibility of bloodshed. Once things got to that point, his own father might be gone today.
Cao Zhang just wanted to save his elder brother, not to kill his biological father. After all, his biological father was the one who gave birth to him and raised him. It’s just that what he did in recent years was not in line with the ideological and moral things Cao Zhang learned in Chang'an.
To be honest, if young children are allowed to study away from their parents, they will easily be influenced by certain perceptions spread by the school, and their three views will be close to the three moral views that educators want to convey.
In this era, no more than five people are aware of this kind of educational method, and Chen Xi is one of the best among them. Compared with Ji Xiang's violent brainwashing, Chen Xi's subtle and silent methods are more effective. At least as these elite children of princes and families study the textbooks selected by Chen Xi, some of Chen Xi's universal morals, right and wrong, and national cultural concepts are naturally passed on.
Liberal arts knowledge will naturally carry the author's social cognition and moral concepts. This is an inevitable natural expression of the author himself. Many times, the author is unable to check for such cognitive and moral flaws in what he has written.
Therefore, many times, the person who is so-called showing off is unaware of it, because he himself lives in this logic and thinking concept and cannot discover such problems in himself. Even if they are pointed out by others, if he can operate self-consistently within the knowledge and logic he possesses, such guidance will become a so-called nitpicking.
Such is the arrogance of knowledge!
On the other hand, Chen Xi himself cannot find out where the loopholes are in the society he is currently running. This is because the knowledge and logic that Chen Xi possesses are self-consistent. After combining with this era in some strange way, they can naturally proliferate and operate smoothly. Unless Chen Xi spends a lot of time analyzing it from the root, he may not realize that there are problems with those structures.
Chen Xi himself does not have so much time to analyze these things from the root. On the other hand, Chen Xi actually follows the logic of not interfering with many things as long as they can run smoothly, because any reorganization of things at the social level will bring about overall turmoil.
Every order requires trade-offs, because there will inevitably be beneficiaries and victims. The early days when there were almost no losers and only beneficiaries are long gone. Now every step needs to be carefully evaluated, and even field investigations and confirmations can be made before we make up our minds to move forward.
Chen Xi has described this kind of thinking pattern and this logic of social cognition in the books he wrote at the Imperial Academy. All the young people who have studied at the Imperial Academy will inevitably be influenced by this kind of thinking and cognition. The sense of belonging to the national culture is also briefly described in the book.
After such an education, although the next generation of elites will still fight with each other over various messy things, they at least have a complete understanding of the Han world, that is, who we are and what we are doing.
As for the older generation, Chen Xi has given up. People over 30 have their own understanding of the world and have complete values. No amount of education can change their most basic cognition.
So Chen Xi allows the older generation who can talk about ideals to talk about ideals, such as Liu Bei and a small number of people from top families, and allows those who can talk about material things to talk about material things, such as most of the families and the vast majority of ordinary people. As for those who have basically nothing to talk about, such as Cao Cao, he can only seek common ground while reserving differences. If that doesn't work, just leave it alone. Maybe time will prove everything.
In short, all the young people who followed Wang Lie, Sima Hui, and Chen Ji in the Imperial Academy to learn the classics distributed by Chen Xi basically inherited Chen Xi's teachings. After all, in addition to being powerful, Chen Xi's morality is also recognized by people. Even if he is teased as a sesame dumpling, what Chen Xi did and the morality he practiced can match the virtues of a saint.
Even in another world, everything Chen Xi has been promoting can be described as that of a moral gentleman. After all, listen to what he says and watch what he does. Compared to what Chen Xi brags about, what Chen Xi does is the truth.
People like Cao Zhang, who witnessed with their own eyes in Chang'an how Chen Xi pushed forward social development step by step until the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, would naturally agree with Chen Xi's ideas.
To put it more bluntly, if Cao Zhang had always been by Cao Cao's side and learned Cao Cao's ways, he would never have done something so outrageous as leading troops into Kandahar to rescue Cao Ang today!
What Cao Cao was playing against was the people's hearts, but beneath the people's hearts flowed Chen Xi's legal principles and morality, which was the social moral system rebuilt after twenty years of continuous efforts. Without this, there would be no current scene, and without Cao Zhang, there would be no soldiers' active participation.
"Cao Cao is unkind and should be executed!" Cao Zhang led his men to run another thousand meters. In the middle, half of the people in Kandahar who were interested in the plan had gathered. During the process of joining, it was not known whether the call was wrong or someone did it on purpose, but the situation changed from being expelled to being executed.
Even with Cao Zhang's efforts to correct it, the slogan was still not changed. The punishment of execution gradually surpassed the punishment of expulsion, and Cao Zhang's face turned green.
"Take your men through the small road and inform General Dian first. Ask him to protect the government office and never let my father out." Cao Zhang quickly notified a centurion from the Cao family. At this time, even for Cao Zhang, he only dared to let the servant son of the Cao family go to notify.
"Brother, what are you doing?" After receiving the message from Cao Zhang, Cao's centurion found an opportunity and sneaked into the alley. However, before he could rush in, he was trapped by two old soldiers on the left and right.
"I advise you to use less fancy tricks." A middle-aged man who was holding Cao's centurion said coldly. Cao's centurion wanted to struggle, but found that the power gap between the two sides was huge.
"Who are you!" Although Cao Ying was held hostage by two people, he was not afraid. Kandahar was Han territory after all. If he killed people casually, there would naturally be people to hold him accountable.
"I'm from Xuzhou." A hint of indifference appeared in the sturdy man's eyes.
Cao Ying was shocked and instantly understood why the decision changed from expelling him to executing him!
"What are you saying to this small fry?" Another sturdy man glanced at Cao Ying. The moment they looked at each other, Cao Ying felt that he had lost his balance and then the world was spinning.
"I thought you would kill this guy." Hua Ben looked at Gao Yi beside him. In Hua Ben's impression, his buddy had a strong murderous nature.
But think about it, Gao Yi was originally a wealthy man in Xuzhou, with his parents all alive and his brothers respectful to each other. But when he came back from hunting, more than a dozen members of his family were dead, and even their ancestral graves were dug up. Isn't the killing too severe?
"Killing such people is meaningless. I have figured it out over the years. If you encounter such soldiers on the battlefield or in a rural massacre, just kill them. At other times, they are just driven by Cao thieves, so there is no need to kill them." Gao Yi said relatively rationally, "What's more, for me, soldiers below the fifth level of smelting are meaningless unless they are used for a large-scale siege."
Hua Ben glanced at Gao Yi and found it somewhat unbelievable. This guy was an elite when he retired from the army. He had already reached the sixth level of refinement a few years ago. Could he be at the seventh level now?
"You've reached the seventh level?" Hua Ben looked at Gao Yi in disbelief and asked.
"No, I just talked about some things with my brother who came back from Northern Europe, and created my own finishing move." Gao Yi shook his head and said, "If the Tiger Guards want to stop us, leave it to me. The thickness of the armor is meaningless to me."
"You shouldn't have retired from the army. If you hadn't, you might have already reached the seventh level or fifteenth grade of nobility." Hua Ben said with some regret. This brother is really gifted.
Gao Yi was silent for a while. The reason why he retired from the army was very simple. To put it bluntly, it was because the country was truly unified in the first year of Yuanfeng, and he had no way to kill Cao's people on the battlefield to vent his anger.
In addition, the matter of Cao Cao's massacre in Xuzhou had not been settled yet, and Gao Yi was unable to come to terms with it at the time. He did not understand why his boss Liu Bei did not avenge him, so he retired from the army in anger.
By the way, when Chen Xi was going on a blind date, the special rule that did not allow people from Xuzhou to marry into the Cao and Xiahou families was actually aimed at these guys.
After they got married and had children, Hua Ben and Gao Yi's mentality improved a lot. They could understand the behavior of Liu Bei and Chen Xi back then, but understanding is one thing and revenge is still needed.
These guys worked hard for the noble families to earn money, and with their amazing fighting ability, they had saved enough money for their offspring to eat and drink for a lifetime by the time their children were five years old.
To be honest, at that time Hua Ben and Gao Yi had already gathered dozens of veteran soldiers to prepare to attack and kill Cao Cao. Compared with killing ordinary Cao soldiers, it no longer made sense for these people. They really came to eliminate the main culprit, that is, to get rid of Cao Cao.
However, they were stopped by their wives. After all, they were all married men, so it was impossible for them to go out so casually. Hua Ben, Gao Yi and others were very dissatisfied with their wives' obstruction, but considering that the reasons given by their wives were indeed very reasonable, they did not set out.
After all, my family members have been dead for more than ten years, and I have a new family and a son. From being alone, I have returned to a small group and become a parent. I need to consider my family. I am no longer single and think that I can die at worst. My responsibilities are increasing as my family expands.
It can be said that if Cao Cao did not make any mistakes, successful people like Hua Ben and Gao Yi, who served as county lieutenants and prefecture lieutenants in their local areas, would basically not have fought against Cao Cao until their children came of age, due to their family situation and current social status, even if they had a grudge against Cao Cao to exterminate their entire family.
After all, these people are no longer barefoot as before, they now wear shoes, and sometimes, wearing shoes means a burden, which means they can no longer be as indulgent as before.
On the other hand, once you are bound by social constraints and choose to succumb, it will be very difficult to escape.
Of course, this is the normal situation.
What is abnormal is that Cao Cao's mistake at the end of the previous year, that sudden change, gave old soldiers like Hua Ben and Gao Yi who had a grudge against Cao Cao hope - my wife thought it was too dangerous for me to assassinate Cao Cao in this way before, but this time Cao Cao has caused such a big mess, and Kandahar is in internal turmoil. If I rush over, I might really be able to kill Cao Cao, as a sacrifice to the spirits of the people of Xuzhou!
This time even the wives of these people could not be convinced. Hua Ben and Gao Yi, with the Xuzhou brothers they met on the battlefield, rushed to Kandahar as soon as they received the news. In order to take a shortcut, this group of people even went directly through the snow-capped mountains and forced their way over.
When they arrived, they found that Lao Cao had been carried to Chang'an. The person in charge was Cao Ang. Cao Ang's mother and brother were also chopped to pieces by Liang He. If they rushed into Cao Cao's family and killed people indiscriminately, it seemed that it would cause big problems, which made these people from Xuzhou very uncomfortable.
So the rational people who came with them dragged this group of people back, and then a year later, they heard that Cao Cao had returned to Kandahar, so Hua Ben and Gao Yi came again with a few reliable brothers.
Some things will be fine if you don't do them, but once you start doing them, resistance and so on will no longer matter. This is the case with Hua Ben and Gao Yi. They were considering this and that before, but after they got the chance to kill Cao last time, this time after receiving the news, they directly let their younger brother take charge and led the team to kill Cao personally, just to see when they can get the chance to kill Lao Cao directly.
However, after they arrived, they never got the chance. Lao Cao was always escorted when he went out, but this was normal. There were some old soldiers in Xuzhou who thought that their sons had grown up, and all the arrangements for their families had been made. They were almost of age, and it was not a loss to live to the age of fifty. So they came to find Lao Cao with weapons. This was just like the old man in Luoyang going to find the three idiots.
Even though the three idiots are much more powerful than Lao Cao, they still need to bring guards with them when they go out, because some veterans can really kill any one of the three idiots during an assassination attempt.
Especially since assassination is different from legionary combat, there is no need to consider the problem of accidental injuries. When Li Jue went down from Congling, he encountered the most outrageous assassination and almost died.
When the fifty-year-old brother from Luoyang appeared in front of Li Jue, he was determined to die. He swallowed a blood bead of internal energy out of the body in front of Li Jue, and then used his talent to violently squeeze out all the internal energy, forcibly integrating it with strength, gathering the essence, breaking the limit of will, super model suppression, and iron body. Before he was blown to pieces, he made a ultimate attack.
Li Jue was nearly beaten to death on the spot. From then on, the Three Idiots always brought at least five or six hundred people with them when they went out.
By the way, since then, the Lanling Xiao family has stopped selling internal energy and blood beads, and they have stopped casually recruiting elite veterans to capture strange experimental animals.
The three idiots were so cautious when facing assassinations, so Lao Cao was naturally even more cautious. He was protected by Dian Wei the whole time he went in and out. The only time he was not protected by Dian Wei was in Chang'an.
The problem was that Chen Xi didn't want Lao Cao to die in Chang'an at all. It would be fine if he died anywhere else, but he just had to die in Chang'an. So during that period of time, the old soldiers in Xuzhou were either on vacation, or received recuperation missions, or had some special public office to perform.
After all, Cao died in Chang'an, which is like a toad on the foot. It doesn't bite people but it makes people sick.
If not for this, given the enthusiasm of the people of Xuzhou to deal with Cao Cao, it would be fine if they didn't meet him, but if they did, they would really give him a fight with two swords. For the people of Xuzhou who have a grudge against their entire family, rationality is more likely to not exist.
Hua Ben and Gao Yi came this time to continue what they did last year and the year before, with the intention of wasting two months to see if there would be any opportunity. As a result, this time the opportunity really came.
"The thief Cao is cruel and must be killed!" Under the leadership of the people of Xuzhou, the slogan was finally twisted into this. Although the local veterans also noticed the change in the slogan, they did not feel too deeply about it.
As for Mao Jie, who was aware of the problem and was hiding in the crowd trying to reverse it, he couldn't set the pace at all. After all, people's hearts were divided. Although most of the veterans did not have the idea of killing Cao Cao, they would not deliberately stop others from killing him. As a result, Cao Zhang, who was walking in the front, sweat broke out on his forehead. Did he really want to kill his own father?
Cao Zhang's head was covered in sweat and rain, and his steps were extremely heavy. Although he had the ability to cultivate internal energy, he looked extremely tired.
After finishing the journey, Cao Zhang arrived at the government office. The Tiger Guards were arranged in a defensive formation blocking the front. As for his old father, Cao Zhang did not see him, but Dian Wei was here, which meant that his old father was still in the government office. After all, the current situation has made Cao Zhang understand why Dian Wei always stood next to his father.
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