Three Kingdoms: I Have a Showdown, I Am Cao Cao

The dignified Han Empire that once attacked the Xiongnu in the north and restored the style of the Western Regions, who could say, "Those who offend my great Han will be punished even if they are far away, and all the people of my great Han will be saved even if they are far away"?How did it become today's state affairs poach?Is the river going down?Is the Son of Heaven lonely?The court has no prestige...

simply put?Just a nice guy?How could one hand of Tianhu's cards be smashed to pieces, and it was stunned that it went to the feudal feudal lords, and the imperial court was on the verge of no return?

Questions are good questions, and the students who ask them are even better students...

Cao Cao couldn't help but glance at the young student. It seemed that the student was only fourteen or fifteen years old?The eyes narrowed slightly, looking quite sharp, and the whole pupil was as sharp as the eyes of an eagle.

Being able to come up with such insights at a young age, this child's future prospects are limitless.

"What's your name?" Yi Xiaotian didn't rush to answer the question, but instead asked the student's name first...

He and Cao Cao saw the same thing, and both felt that this student was not simple...

But at this moment, the student with sharp eyes bowed his hands. "The student is from the Sima family in Hanoi. The surname is Sima, and the single name has the character Yi..."

Huh... Sima Yi?

Yi Xiaotian was stunned for a moment, dare to love this Shuixie study, open the altar to teach, and invite the second son of the famous Sima family in Hanoi?

Thinking of this, Yi Xiaotian nodded.

"You asked a good question, enough for me to talk for a long time."

After a compliment, Yi Xiaotian raised his hand slightly, cleared his throat, and started his lecture today——

- The Han Empire?Exactly how did it go from being majestic to being in decline, and what happened in the middle?What did the court and the emperor ignore!

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Chapter [-]: The Han Dynasty, from prosperity to decline

"Fifteen years ago, that is Guanghe six years! This is the sixteenth year of the late Emperor Lingdi's reign!"

In front of the Shuixie study, on the high platform, Yi Xiaotian started his lecture.

This feeling is very familiar, after all, in his previous life, he was not only a master of time management, but also a good professor who taught and educated people...

"Teaching students" made him feel happy. Of course, it was easy for Yi Xiaotian to solve a problem like Sima Yi that others struggled to understand.

"Guanghe six years? What happened this year?" Yi Xiaotian asked himself. "Summer, severe drought! In autumn, the Jincheng River overflowed; the Wuyuan mountain bank collapsed! In winter, the East China Sea, Donglai, and Langxie Wells are more than a foot thick in ice. The drought, flood and ice disasters are all coming, causing the entire Han Empire to encounter an unprecedented crisis!"

Speaking of this, Yi Xiaotian waved his hand, and there was an "ordinary taste!"

"However? Is this phenomenon strange? Unremarkable, unremarkable. In the past fifteen years, this kind of natural disaster happened almost every day!"

"In the third year of Jianning, there was a famine in Henan and Hanoi, and the couple ate each other; in the fourth year of Jianning, the sea overflowed and the river was clear; in the fifth month, the east of the river cracked, rain and hail, and the mountains and rivers burst; in the fifth year of Jianning, the first month, the great Epidemic!"

"In the second year of Xiping, Luoshui flooded; in the third year of Xiping, the land of Sanfu was plagued by insects! In the sixth year of Xiping, in the sixth year of Xiping, there were locusts in Qizhou in the summer and April, and the capital earthquake in Xinchou in August; in the first month of the seventh year, there were twice in April earthquake;"

"In the second year of Guanghe, there was another big epidemic in spring, the Jingzhao earthquake; in the third year of Jiuquan earthquake; in the fourth year, in the hot summer, the hail was as big as a chicken..."

Yi Xiaotian took the big man to decline for fifteen years in one breath, and the situation of each year is described in a eloquent manner...

These vivid facts are in front of us.

For a time, all scholars and scholars, including Sima Yi, including Cao Ren, including Cao Cao, were fascinated.

They only know that the big man is declining and the river is declining, but they don't know that natural disasters play such an important role!Even a harvester!

At this moment...

Yi Xiaotian asked. "Tell me? Is it difficult for a big man under natural disasters? Is it difficult for a big man's court?"

"Disaster…"

in unison.

The big man is too difficult, the court is too difficult...

For a time, all the scholars were infected by Yi Xiaotian's words, and even felt the same, and couldn't help but shout for the big man in their hearts - "I'm too difficult!"

Yi Xiaotian looked around and saw that they all showed constipated expressions. It seemed that the atmosphere was well set.

His voice came out of nowhere.

"According to Dong Zhongshu's remarks, the arrival of natural disasters must wake up the emperor, so our late emperor changed Yuan three times, and amnestyed the world up to [-] times, but unfortunately things backfired. The river is going down!"

"This is just a natural disaster! There are also foreign troubles!"

Yi Xiaotian turned his head and glanced at the sky in the northwest direction, which seemed to indicate that he was going to talk about the northwest border.

"The northern border and the Hexi Corridor have been in a state of emergency for years. Ever since the emperor ascended the throne, the Xianbei people who occupied the north have shown their welcome. Every winter they gather to hunt in the south... They say hunting is actually robbery, and the frontier guards of Dahan have no trace of Emperor Ming. To attack the Xiongnu in the north and restore the style of the Western Regions? Even in the sixth year of Xiping, more than [-] people died outside Yanmen Pass, and they returned after a great defeat!”

"In addition to external troubles, there are also internal worries! The more natural disasters, the poorer the people will be.

The poorer the people are, the more people will rise up. The barbarians in Jiangxia, Yizhou, Berkshire and other places will riot at every turn!Our imperial court wants to send troops, but wants to allocate funds for disaster relief and pacification, but the natural disasters have caused the national treasury to run out of money for a long time, and even the people have become poor ghosts, and there is no oil or water to squeeze. "

"Under internal and external troubles? Our court is impoverished? What can we do?"

Exuberantly, Yi Xiaotian read out every word, sonorously and powerfully, and every sentence was pressed with rhyme.

The most important thing is that the arguments in each sentence are clear and powerful, and people have to be convinced...

Cao Cao's brows furrowed at an unknown time. From this to the other, he thought of the difficulties and challenges encountered in the process of governing Yanzhou, let alone governing an empire, which must be more cumbersome.

Brother Yi's words, as expected, are still so thought-provoking.

"If you were the emperor at this time? What would you do?" Yi Xiaotian threw another question...

When he spoke, his eyes looked directly at Sima Yi...

As if curious about his answer.

"I...I..." Sima Yi's throat choked for a while. At a young age, he could not solve this natural disaster, internal and external troubles.

"Yeah? It's an unsolvable problem!"

Yi Xiaotian didn't embarrass Sima Yi either, his tone was a little lower, and he continued to preach.

"The operation of the imperial court needs money! It also needs money to quell the rebellion! And our emperor was only in his twenties at the time. It doesn't seem too much to find some beauties to fill the harem and build some gardens to relax?"

"But where does the money come from?" Yi Xiaotian asked...

"Selling the official Vendor..." Sima Yi blurted out, and he knew what happened next, and he hated it even more.

Yi Xiaotian nodded.

"Yes, it's selling officials and vassals. A Guannei Marquis can be sold for [-] million yuan, and a public official can be sold for [-] million yuan. Even our Yanzhou Mu Cao Cao, his father, Cao Song Bu, took out the small goal of 'one hundred million' and bought a three What is the rank of the Grand Commander?"

Uh…

Cao Cao was stunned for a moment. He had a feeling that he was also shot while lying down. Of course, he still felt a little distressed. One hundred million, what could he do?What's the use!Unexpectedly, my father was a prodigal when he was young!

After wiping off his sweat, Cao Cao pricked up his ears and continued to listen.

"Now, there is money in the operation of the imperial court, and there is money in quelling the rebellion. There are so many beautiful women in the harem, and gardens are built one by one..."

Yi Xiaotian continued. "There is a saying that is full of warm thoughts and lustful desires. Speaking of which, our spirit emperor is still very imaginative. When he is rich and prosperous, he begins to think about spending money. He inherited the generation of Han emperors. A habit passed down from generation to generation - building gardens. In order to build gardens in Luoyang, a large number of houses were demolished, and countless people were homeless and displaced..."

Yi Xiaotian showed this history and this story to all the students emotionally.

Impressive picture...

Even, many students and Confucian scholars can feel the arrogant and extravagant expressions of the previous emperors, from the emptiness of the treasury to the richness of the treasury.

"gentlemen…"

Sima Yi stood up abruptly, and he interrupted... "Sir, if this is what you said? Your Majesty's actions are so unpopular, can no one be able to persuade them?"

advise?Ha ha…

As soon as this question was raised, Cao Cao shook his head.

Sure enough, even if this student is a little smart, he is still young, stupid and naive...

To persuade the emperor?Who got kicked in the head by a donkey?

Since the rejuvenation of Guangwu in the great Han Dynasty, the ruling court has always been a foreign relative, which also heralds the rise of aristocratic clans.

These aristocratic families only care about the development of their clan and the rich food in their farmland?

Where would it be risky to persuade the Son of Heaven?Is it unpleasant to provoke a thing?Isn't it worth it!

Cao Cao thought of this and let out a sigh.

Sure enough, Yi Xiaotian on the high altar waved his hand. "This little friend Sima, let me ask you? Your Sima family in Hanoi is also a famous family, with students and former officials all over the world? Why don't your family go to persuade the emperor?"

uh... this...

Suddenly, Sima Yi's cheeks turned red.

advise?How to persuade?If the persuasion is not good, and the emperor is disgusted, what can be done?

It's not as good as it is, to cooperate with the emperor in such a strange way, he repairs his garden, and the Sima family develops the Sima family's contacts and relationships.

call…

It turned out to be the case.

Sima Yi understood, and immediately bowed his hands, "Students have been taught!"

Seeing how Sima Yi is so knowledgeable...

Yi Xiaotian was very relieved, and even liked Sima Yi a little bit. This guy was still very cute when he was a child. Children who like to ask questions are very smart and can be taught by children.

Yi Xiaotian nodded to him, and then continued.

"I have said so much, nothing more than to tell everyone that from the prosperity to the decline of the Han Empire, there are only four issues ignored by the court and the emperor - grassroots governance!"

Seems to be the key point...

Yi Xiaotian was shocked and said loudly.

"When disaster strikes frequently, the wealthy family is sitting on resources, and the commoners who are dependent on them are barely able to rely on it? But what about the common people outside the wealthy family farm? What about the commoners under those who bought the officials? Those who were squeezed by the eunuchs, paid for What about the empty Li Shu? What about the poor people who have been displaced because they want to build gardens? Have they ever appeared in the eyes of emperors, clansmen, and eunuchs? Their lives...isn't their lives?"

"Civilians have the most simple characters. As long as they can live on, they will never revolt, but what? They watch the drought, flood, ice, locust, and plague continue one after another! , but he was adrift and had nowhere to go.”

"On the other side, the emperor who takes his own destiny eats, drinks and has fun, the sectarian who is full of poetry and books has a thousand hectares of land, and the eunuchs who take power are still exploiting the people unscrupulously!"

"The grassroots governance of the Han Empire is completely out of order, out of balance, and a large number of desperate and hungry people, 'the cold dare not wear clothes, the hungry dare not eat, the people have Si'e, but Mo Zhixi'""

"...At this time of despair...if you were one of them, and you heard someone say that as long as you join us, you will have food, you will be able to heal, and if those people tell you that there is only a way out if you rebel, would you not will follow?"

"That's why, in the year of Jiazi, when Brother Zhang Jiao rose up with a yellow turban on his head, so many people followed, and so many people shouted the slogan 'The sky is dead, the yellow sky stands'! The disorder of grassroots governance , out of balance, so that they can only find life in this way!"

"Grassroots governance, these four words are full of countless energy. This is what the Han Dynasty ignored, and it is also the turning point from prosperity to decline, and the root cause of dilapidation!"