Chapter 464 Extra 8 (End)
In front of this straightforward and somewhat sarcastic map, the emperor slowly turned around and looked at the person who came.
The moment their eyes met, Cao Cao finally understood how the other party could seize the supreme power in the world as a woman.
There is no need to use any words to describe her, it is not difficult for people to give an answer in their hearts, this is an absolutely qualified iron-blooded emperor, and also a truly powerful emperor!
Qiao Yan continued, "I don't know if there are other people who have exchanged with me in another world. From Chang'an to Luoyang to where you were before, the only people I can find during this period of time are the five of you present here."
After these words were spoken, Cao Cao finally realized that perhaps it was because Qiao Yan's aura was too strong that people subconsciously ignored that when they arrived here, the people accompanying them had already left one after another.
Only five people were left.
Cao Cao, Cai Zhaoji, Guo Jia and Zhuge Liang who were brought here from Chang'an by Qiao Yan, and another person who was also an acquaintance to Cao Cao.
At least much more familiar than Zhuge Liang.
Just because in the time and space he was in, this person was once his subordinate.
After Liu Cong surrendered to him, Liu Ba, as a representative of the famous scholars of Jingxiang, did not choose to follow Liu Bei. Instead, he went north to visit Cao Cao and was sent by Cao Cao to the three counties of Jingnan to solicit surrender. However, the Battle of Chibi forced Cao Cao to withdraw from Jingnan. Liu Ba was unable to report and was forced to flee to Jiaozhou and then to Yizhou. After Liu Bei entered Shu, he became his subject.
Liu Ba was an expert in economic strategies, and Cao Cao knew his abilities very well. He was often upset that this talented man had fallen into the hands of the enemy for such a reason, but he never expected that he would appear here at this time.
Seeing that the other party bowed to him and sat at one end with Zhuge Liang, while he sat at the other end with Guo Jia and Cai Zhaoji, Cao Cao sighed silently in his heart.
Then Qiao Yan, who was at the head of the group, said, "According to the words of the gods, you can all return to your positions in ten days or so. It is fate that you have come from afar. As the ruler of the country of heaven, I still have a few words to say to you."
Her gaze turned back to the vast map behind her for a moment, and then returned to the people present.
"You can listen or not, but I think that after nearly twenty days of coming here, what you have seen will not make you make a wrong choice."
Due to the special nature of the participants in this brief conversation, not even Ren Hong made any record of it, so naturally no one knows the specific content.
The officials in Chang'an City did not know why His Majesty made a special trip to Chang'an, but he did so just to gather these people together, and then divided them into different rooms and sent books of different categories into them.
But to be precise, there were five people in the room, but only four went in.
"Why did Your Majesty ask me to pretend that I was replaced by another me?" After seeing those people disappear from his sight, Qiao Yan called him to follow his pace. Liu Ba quickly caught up and asked.
"For balance." Qiao Yan replied. "Although the combined territory of the three parties has not yet covered the entire territory of the former Han Dynasty, let alone our Great Yong, they are mostly ignorant of the outer sea and the wider areas in the west. It seems that it is easy to achieve the outcome of one party occupying the Central Plains and the other two retreating to the outside. However, the greatest thing in the world may not be the land you can stand on, but human ambition."
"When one party has the opportunity to directly swallow up the other two parties, do you think he will still abide by the rules of the game?"
Liu Ba replied: "Probably not."
"That's why I brought you here."
Ignoring what Guo Jia said, two against two is always better than two against one, right?
Liu Ba smiled and said, "I thought that Your Majesty would help Cao Mengde in this world because of the friendship between him and him."
Qiao Yan asked, "Do I look like someone with an overflowing heart of compassion?"
Liu Ba thought for a moment and replied, "If it is based on the gains of the people of the world, then of course Your Majesty must count it, but if it is based on the way of political games, then Your Majesty certainly does not count it."
Anyway, according to Qiao Yan’s own statement, it definitely doesn’t count.
She hoped that that world could avoid the events of the Three Kingdoms returning to the Jin Dynasty and the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China as much as possible, but she did not want this knowledge that surpassed the original world to be packed up and stuffed into Cao Cao and become a unique weapon to help him make further progress.
She didn't even include the formula of gunpowder and its related products among the materials available for them to study. Instead, she encrypted it along with some other materials and handed it to Zhen Mi, who kept it for them. She gave the method to crack it to Cai Zhaoji, asking her to give it to Zhen Mi when necessary.
Anyway, even without gunpowder, she was able to complete the attack on Yecheng when she conquered the world. If the enemy wants to unify the world, they should not need this thing.
This seemed unfair to Cao Cao, but just like the error of the system did not fairly send the leaders of the three opposing parties here, things in this world have never been fair in every case. How could one blame her for holding back?
Anyway, in the last few days of this month, Cao Cao and Guo Jia from another world had the opportunity to reminisce about the past, which made Qiao Yan feel that he was a kind person.
"Where will Guo Fengxiao in another world return to?" Qiao Yan asked the system.
His situation was different from that of the others. In the 23rd year of Jian'an, as he said, he was already a handful of dry bones in the grave. It was really funny that he was dug out. If he were to return to his original place, he should also go back there?
The system replied: [Anyway, I won’t stay here, so you can enjoy the benefits of having one subordinate serving two people! Don't think I don't know what you're thinking. 】
"Then I won't ask any more questions. For him, although he knew that his lord suffered a defeat at the Battle of Red Cliff, he also got such an unexpected gain. He should be able to rest in peace in his grave."
[Speaking of which, I saw Cao Cao came to you once, saying that he wanted to ask about the outcome of Cao Ang's punishment. Why didn't you tell him? 】
"Didn't I say that?" Qiao Yan replied, "This is an educational issue that Cao Mengde of this world and I want to discuss. It has nothing to do with him."
If Cao Cao had not heard that the attitude in Qiao Yan's words was far from the point of punishing Cao Ang, he would not have been so confident in continuing to carefully study the political essays that were implemented by the three provinces and six ministries.
As everyone's mood gradually calmed down, the news that the system error was about to be corrected finally reached Qiao Yan's ears.
During the last bit of time left, Qiao Yan met Cai Zhaoji alone again.
It was a short conversation consisting of only one sentence.
Qiao Yan said to her, "I hope you will be yourself first, then Cai Yong's daughter, and then Dong Si's wife."
She heard this sentence clearly and then lost consciousness.
Looking from Qiao Yan's direction, the moment this sentence fell, there was a momentary blankness in Cai Zhaoji's eyes.
The moment her emotions were filled again, the Cai Zhaoji, who was most familiar to Qiao Yan, had returned to her.
Qiao Yan didn't even have time to say welcome back. Cai Zhaoji was already in her thirties when she started to cry. "Your Majesty, she really suffered so much."
Zhao Ji never imagined that the "foreigner" who suddenly occupied her body was actually another herself. She was exiled to the Xiongnu for more than ten years. When she returned to her homeland, not only had her father passed away ten years ago, but she was also implicated because of her husband who was given the marriage.
In the world she described, a woman cannot live a decent life relying solely on her own hands.
Qiao Yan patted her shoulder and said, "So, in order to prevent such existence from happening again on the territory of Dayong one day, we still have a long way to go."
Cai Zhaoji wiped away her tears and said firmly: "Yes, we still have a long way to go."
She was able to take a different path from her other self because of His Majesty's support, but His Majesty was alone and could not lift up the millions of people who were still confined to their boudoirs. The future could only be rewritten step by step by people like her who served as role models.
At the very least, we must allow more female officials to gain a foothold in the court with dignity.
Before that, there is a little unexpected ending.
Guo Jia was punished to abstain from alcohol for a year. According to Qiao Yan, she was forced to watch the relationship between the monarch and his subjects for a long time, but the monarch was not her. Never mind whether this was a vent of anger or not, it was up to Guo Jia to decide the punishment.
Zhuge Liang, who was also punished to not drink alcohol, didn't care about the punishment. After all... he didn't like drinking anyway.
The last order was given by Qiao Yan to Cao Cao, "Now that the Tibetan Plain has been conquered, Tang Mao and the Fa Qiang, Yak Qiang and others have surrendered and taken over Qinghai County. The territory has exceeded that of a state, so it will be named Xizhou, and Meng De will be the governor of Xizhou. But——"
"After three months, I want Zixiu to resign from his position as governor of Hanzhong and go to Leping Academy to be a teacher."
Qiao Yan said it casually, but Cao Cao heard it clearly. This was an order with no room for turning back, and it was also her punishment for Cao Ang for not reporting the situation as soon as possible during this incident.
Compared with the prohibition order that Guo Jia received, this is a real punishment!
But Cao Cao knew very well that this was not so much a punishment for Cao Ang's inappropriate choice as it was a life-saving strategy for the Cao family one step ahead.
Cao Ang put filial piety first, which made Cao Cao, who was observing the whole situation, feel very relieved. However, this was definitely not the behavior that a person at the helm of the Cao family should have.
On the great ship of Dayong, among all the forces loyal to His Majesty, the Cao and Xiahou clans have the most prosperous population and the most talented people. But this may be the capital that will enable the family to make further progress, or it may be the reason for their annihilation.
Rather than causing the entire clan to face the danger of sinking because the helmsman is trapped by kinship and makes wrong choices, it is better to reorganize as soon as possible, weaken the roots, and thoroughly identify a way for long-term survival while he is still in good health.
Was Cao Ang's dismissal really a disaster? Not necessarily.
Having been a prefect for ten years, he had already made some achievements in politics, and once he went to Leping Academy, it was equivalent to getting another stable job.
This position may be more suitable for this passionate person than the political center.
On the contrary, it is Cao Pi who should shoulder heavier responsibilities after being completely trained as Qiao Yan's direct descendant.
Cao Cao gave his answer without hesitation, "It's all up to your Majesty's orders."
"Speaking of which," Qiao Yan thought for a moment and asked again, "In Meng De's opinion, what will the other world of the late Han Dynasty look like?"
Cao Cao did not want to answer such a troublesome and troublesome question, and only said: "I wonder what your Majesty thinks?"
Qiao Yan smiled and said, "Who knows? Maybe it can be used as a test question for Leping Academy some year."
Anyway, she can't see the follow-up, because the system said it doesn't include after-sales service.
She never imagined that the seed she buried would finally appear on the world's stage in a real way four hundred years later in that time and space.
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During the Daye period, Yang Guang, the second emperor of the Sui Dynasty, committed atrocities, levied heavy taxes and collected excessive amounts of money, and the people repeatedly revolted.
In the first six months of the ninth year of Daye alone, peasant uprisings broke out in Pingyuan and Lingwu. Even in June, Yang Xuangan, who was a senior official of the Sui Dynasty, also raised an army in Liyang. Unfortunately, Yang Guang had just withdrawn the Sui army from Liaodong, and Yang Xuangan committed suicide after his defeat.
Even so, the signals of uprising are still spreading uncontrollably.
The more bloody suppression they faced, the more these desperate people tried to fight for a way of survival.
In May of the 13th year of Daye, Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang, took advantage of Yang Guang's march south to Jiangdu and raised an army in Jinyang.
Yang Guang's grandson Yang You and Sui Dynasty general Qu Tutong were stationed in Chang'an at the time, and they immediately issued an arrest warrant for Li Yuan's family members who remained in Chang'an.
Li Yuan's son-in-law Chai Shao went north to Taiyuan to join him, while Li Yuan's third daughter Li Xiuning secretly sold her property, contacted the anti-Sui army in Huxian County, and raised an army by providing relief to disaster victims. ①
In just over three months, she had four or five large-scale rebel forces under her command, and even conquered Meiyang, Wugong and other places under her leadership.
In the Han Dynasty, this place was under the jurisdiction of Youfufeng, and in the late Sui Dynasty, it was the border between Jingzhao County and Fufeng County.
After some consideration, Li Xiuning decided to temporarily set up base camp in Mei County.
"At the end of the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo built Meiwu here with a strong fortress in order to live out his days, but the high walls of Meiwu could not last forever. Later, Emperor Ming of Wei built a temporary palace here for his mother, Empress Wen Zhao, but it was abandoned. In the 18th year of Kaihuang, Emperor Wen of Sui built Anren Palace on the site of the old palace, but it was abandoned again because Yang Guang had a drunken dream in Jiangdu."
She rode her horse around the city wall and stared at it for a long time, then said, "But if we repair the high walls and deep ravines, we can still use them. We can use them as a place to store military equipment to support Wugong, Zhouzhi and other places. If things are impossible, we can retreat here temporarily and wait for my father to cross the Yellow River into Guanzhong to join us. Then we can attack Chang'an from both directions."
"If Xue Ju of Lanzhou shows signs of rebellion, we can also send out an army to stop his troops from advancing to Jiankou."
Ma Sanbao, the servant who was traveling with her, could tell that although their Third Lady said "it's impossible", she dared to subdue the Hu merchant He Panren, who was more powerful than herself, and her intention was definitely not just to defend the city and avoid disaster!
She said, "Come on, follow me into the city and take a look."
It has only been twenty years since the construction of Anren Palace, one of the twelve palaces of Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty, but as the Sui Dynasty was in turmoil under the rule of Yang Guang, Anren Palace was not spared.
The only things left that were of a decent size were the library and the treasury.
Thinking of what Yang Guang, who was nominally his cousin, had done, Li Xiuning couldn't help but shake his head.
After ordering people to start repairing the city wall, she went into the treasury and library to see what was left.
However, there were obviously not many supplies left from Guanzhong, otherwise they would have been requisitioned back to Chang'an long ago. What remained were only a batch of defective weapons, and the amount in the library was even more pitiful.
Since the new type of paper came out under the auspices of Cai Zhaoji in the 23rd year of Jian'an in the late Han Dynasty, the copying and printing of books has been on the right track.
The collection of books, which was already few in number, looked even more pitiful after being converted to paper version.
Thanks to the fact that this place was once the royal library and was taken care of by someone, it has been properly preserved.
Li Xiuning's eyes swept across the innermost bookshelf, scanning the Book of the Later Han and the Book of Wei, and finally stopped on a hardcover book on the corner.
What seemed somewhat out of place with the various books around it was that what was written on it was actually "Women's Notes on Physical Fitness."
For some reason, when she saw this book, she felt a sense of destiny.
And when she pulled this book, which was rarely taken away from the bookshelf, she saw that the person who wrote this book was named Zhen Mi.
"Zhen Mi..." She frowned. "The word Zhen seems to be the surname of Empress Wen Zhao?"
However, although this place was once the palace of Empress Dowager Zhen, there is no guarantee that there won’t be another Zhen who writes a book and leaves it here.
Li Xiuning made this guess, but did not take it to heart. Instead, he casually opened the book.
This is not just a random exercise method, but a book based on the actual physical training experience of female soldiers in ancient Liangzhou and Yizhou.
Li Sanniang dared to lead the troops and was quite brave. It was not difficult to judge by just flipping through a few pages whether this book was made up by a bored person or someone really put a book here that met her needs.
However, when she turned to page 40, she suddenly stopped what she was doing.
Starting from this page, although the font and page texture were the same, there was a sudden and drastic change in the content, which made Li Xiuning's face suddenly change when she saw it.
"Mrs. San?" Ma Sanbao saw that she looked strange and thought she was in some trouble, so he spoke quickly.
This woman, called Sanniangzi, who was later known as Princess Pingyang Zhao, continued to stare at the letter in front of her and did not answer the words of her entourage.
The reason why she was surprised was that this previously sealed notebook not only recorded the training and martial arts training methods of female soldiers, but also recorded a...
A story that seems to only appear in dreams.
In this story, Empress Wen Zhao, who wrote the book and frankly disclosed her identity, used extremely detailed writing to outline a prosperous dynasty ruled by a female emperor, and also mentioned the great gains she had made from her visit here.
He even...left behind a map showing how to hide treasures here and bury more information and documents underground!
The story of the female emperor and another ending that emerged during the chaotic times at the end of the Han Dynasty simply sounds like an absurd story.
But for some reason, just as she felt a sense of destiny when she reached out to this book, she also had an intuition when she saw the things recorded on it -
This is definitely not a notebook written by Empress Wen Zhao of Cao Wei to pass the time!
Besides, if she really wanted to write a storybook, why would she write it in a place like this?
Emperor Ming of Wei respected his mother very much, and there was no need for her to speculate such a completely different ending in the storybook, turning her and her son from "kings" into "ministers."
You have to know that there are very few people who would open this book called Women's Physical Fitness Handbook. How could Empress Wen Zhao deliberately choose such a book as a joke?
Just by looking at the title of this book, it is not difficult to guess that the audience she has selected will definitely not be people who are content with the status quo!
After figuring this out, Madam Li San immediately held the book tightly and walked out.
Regardless of whether what is said in this book is true or false, it never hurts to give it a try.
The outer wall of Mei County has not undergone any major changes in the past four hundred years, and it is not difficult to confirm its location based on the directions recorded in the book.
So half an hour later, a dug cellar entrance appeared under the thick loess and appeared in front of her.
"It really exists..." she murmured, with a flash of surprise on her face.
Although we have not yet seen what is hidden in this cellar, the appearance of this book storage confirms what is said in the book, and people can't help but believe it more in the other information!
Facing this pitch-black cave entrance, Li Xiuning's heartbeat suddenly became much faster than ever.
If everything Zhen Mi said was true, then what was hidden in the cellar was most likely a gain that she had never dared to imagine before arriving in Mei County!
She looked up at the sky, took a deep breath, and walked in resolutely.
We have also entered a road full of unknowns.
The author has something to say:
①The name Li Xiuning was made up in a later novel. I am incompetent at naming, so I just used it directly.
The main reason is that no name has been passed down to later generations.
Because of this setting, there is no need to let the original history watch the Dayongguan film separately.
Zhao Ji and Zhen Mi alone could not bring about a fundamental change in the situation. They came here to make themselves stand up and to leave a seed of record for Princess Pingyang Zhao and Emperor Wu.
No matter what the future will be like, at least for another world, the situation of the Five Barbarians Invading China did not happen, and there is another hope.
Anyway, this extra chapter ends here.
Why did they quarrel over Cao Ang? (He holds his head with his hands.
There are too many people in the Cao family, especially too many talented people. It is necessary to clearly select a helmsman who is truly loyal and has high political vision, otherwise there is no guarantee that a situation like Sima Yi will not occur.
Taking this opportunity to remove the eldest son from his official position is the most merciful means for Qiao Qiao, who has become an emperor.
Otherwise, Cao Ang would have to move up as the prefect of Hanzhong, Cao Cao would have to be the governor of Xizhou, and Cao Pi would still be fighting for a position in the political arena. If Cao Ang, as the heir, did not have enough self-preservation ideas, he would definitely fail.
The historical Cao Ang was not alive...and he was willing to sacrifice his life to be filial to his father, which is consistent with the character setting that only has historical materials.
I originally wanted to write it in a more cruel way. After all, given Cao's situation, it would be easy for him to get out of control. But after thinking about it, I decided not to.
The next extra chapter is the system exchange meeting.
Then there are some miscellaneous extras (Qiao Huaixu's journey of secondary creation, Leping Academy's note board, etc.). Maybe I won't be working nine days a week in the next few days, so there won't be so much to write. I will just finish the word count on the list and call it a day.
See you tomorrow morning at 9:30.
Ah, this year, including the previous book, I have written 3 million words, and the KPI has been met. I feel like I can just sit back and relax in November and December. OVO
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