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There is a reason why Cao Cao hated the intelligence organization of the Han army in Cao Wei so much. During the War in Hefei the previous year, the Xianbei envoy came to Cao Wei and proposed to exchange cattle and sheep for pig iron. Later, there was no news again.

It was not until the Xianbei sent someone to question him that Cao Cao knew that the envoy was missing in Youzhou. He ordered Cao Zhang to search everywhere. Finally, the body of the Xianbei envoy was found in an abandoned water-dang path. After careful investigation, he learned from the inn manager that someone pretended to be Cao Zhang's cavalry and deceived the Xianbei envoy. This was undoubtedly a posing as a Han army's invasion.

The Han army probe was so powerful that Cao Cao felt the threat. The Han army probe was no longer as simple as spying information, and there would be organizational assassination and destruction. If it was not eliminated in time, it would cause great trouble.

Seeing that Cao Cao seemed a little absent-minded, he snorted again, "Did you hear me speak?"

Cao Pi was indeed a little distracted. He was thinking about how to tell his father about Ding Ling. His father's scolding made him shudder and he quickly lowered his head and said, "When the child hears it, he will immediately start to arrange it."

Cao Cao looked at her for a moment, and saw that her son had something to do, so he asked, "Do you have anything to say to your father?"

"Boy... originally had something important... I want to report it to my father."

"Don't hesitate, what's the matter?"

Cao Pi had no choice but to bite the bullet and take out his report and submit it to his father, "Please take a look at it!"

Cao Cao took the report and read it, his brows frowned, "Have so many people resigned?"

"Father, this is just Hebei, Bingzhou and Central Plains. My child is worried that the wave of resigning from office will become more and more intense."

"Hmph! Can this threaten me?"

Cao Cao looked at him disdainfully and said to Cao Pi: "There are many people who want to be officials, so they can choose young talents from them, and take this opportunity to replace the local governments controlled by these aristocratic families."

Cao Pi was stunned. How could his father be so careless? He hurriedly said: "Father, things are not that simple. They will provoke the people's rebellion..."

"You're confused!"

The anger that Cao Cao had just suppressed started to burn again. He slapped the table and scolded: "Didn't you just want me to compromise and give up Ding Ling? I am a dying person, I still need to do such offending things? Isn't it all for you, for the Sun Sheji of Cao Wei!"

Cao Pi knelt down again, "Don't calm down, please calm down, the child is not that bad!"

Cao Cao felt dizzy when he leaned against the screen behind him and slowly closed his eyes. After a long time, he asked slowly: "How much is the government tax in a year now?"

"Reporting to my father, it's about 50,000 stones."

"Then we now have 100,000 troops. According to the calculation of each soldier consuming twelve stones of grain per year, our military rations will require 600,000 stones per year. We also need to consider the destruction of rats and insects. After the 50,000 stone of official grain is replaced with military ration, how much grain will be left to pay the salaries of officials, and daily consumption, and relief to the victims. Have you calculated this account?"

"Father, we can use military garrison."

Cao Cao sighed softly, "Pier, the Han army has no military garrison. Military farming has a great impact on training. I estimate that war will break out next year. If the military training is not strengthened, what can we use to fight the Han army? If there is not enough food storage, how long can the war last? Pier, have you forgotten the lesson of the Hefei war?"

"The child will never forget it."

"You are in charge of government affairs and should understand why I am eager to implement the Ding Order. Without self-cultivated farmers, there will be no enough food. These gentry stored a large amount of food. We can get military rations reserves in the short term and have stable financial resources in the long term. As for their resistance and dissatisfaction, it is inevitable and there is nothing to discuss. If they want to resist, suppress them. If they want to surrender, they can surrender. If they want to surrender, they can do whatever they want. As long as they support our foundation, they don't matter."

Cao Pi originally wanted to suggest that his father should implement the Ding Order among the powerful to balance the dissatisfaction of the gentry, but his father's last words made him dare not say it again. After a while, he had to say helplessly: "Father, the child is not worried about the vacant officials in the local area. As his father said, it can be appointed as a young scholar, but the child is worried about the officials in Yedu. After the New Year, Yedu officials generally did not achieve the set goals, and the government affairs were slow. He felt that the officials were very dissatisfied and just had to pass. The child was very worried that after the official position was adjusted in April, it would cause a wave of resignation from Yedu officials, which might be difficult to deal with."

"Do you know why this happens?"

Cao Cao sneered: "Last autumn, the officialdom was cleaned up harshly, and the consequences gradually became exposed. If I hadn't tried my best to protect Zhong Yao, I wonder what else would have caused?"

Cao Pi originally planned to slowly lead the Ding Ling to the Ding Ling. After all, many officials were from gentry or students from several major families. The local governments were far away. He wanted to use Yedu officials to explain things, but his father brought up the seventh case of Jian'an last autumn, which really made Cao Pi a little embarrassed.

"Father, it's not true!"

"What does it mean? People's hearts are flesh. Do you think others will forget so many innocent people who died unjustly? Everything that happens in Yedu now is related to the cleanup of the officialdom last year."

Cao Pi did not dare to refute it. He secretly hated him. It was obvious that the Jian'an seven cases were acquiesced by his father, but now his father put the blame on him again, which made him very depressed.

At this time, Cao Cao was silent for a moment: "Last year, many officials died innocently. Someone must come out to take responsibility. I want to give an explanation to the officials of Yedu. I suggest that Yang Tian be attacked. Many people hate him. He will push the blame to him, which can also alleviate the dissatisfaction in the hearts of the officials of Yedu.

A sentence suddenly popped up in Cao Pi's mind, "The cunning rabbit dies, the lackeys are cooked." Now Yang Tian is the lackey to be cooked and killed. Although Yang Tian is his capable general, his father has decided to attack him. Cao Pi no longer wants to stop him. He nodded slowly, "Abide by his father's order!"

"Go! Dig out the Han army's intelligence points for me as soon as possible."

Cao Pi bowed and slowly retreated. Cao Cao's eyes fell on Jiaozhou intelligence again. He sighed deeply. He now deeply realized that the Han army had not left him much time to conquer Jiaozhou. He either made a compromise on the order of detention or implemented more violently. In any case, he would store 20,000 shi of military rations before the end of the year to deal with the war risks next year.

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The thing that Yang Tian feared the most was still happening. That night, several elite Hu Ben guards surrounded his mansion and captured Yang Tian from the quilt. The servant Hua Xin read out the investigation order to him, impeach him for committing corruption and abuse of power, and removed him from his position as the chief censor on the spot. Without waiting for Yang Tian to call for justice, the tiger-and-wolf-like guards captured him into an iron cage carriage and drove towards the Dali Temple Prison.

The news that the cruel official Yang Tian was arrested was spread the next morning. The court and the country were thrilled, and the whole Ye capital was also boiling. The families who had been harmed by Yang Tian ignited firecrackers to celebrate the proud day.

Cao Pi did not expect that the arrest of Yang Tian would have such a huge effect, which forced him to admire his father's etiquette and arrest Yang Tian to save the scene at a critical moment, thus greatly eased the depressed atmosphere in the officialdom.

However, Cao Pi was not relaxed. Yesterday, his father suppressed two tasks. One was to investigate the truth about the Han army's demise of Jiaozhou. He had sent his confidant guards to Fanyu. This was not a big problem. His father did not give him a deadline, but the other task made him a little difficult to deal with, and he dug out the intelligence organization of the Han army in Cao Wei.

Of course, Cao Pi knew that the Han army had secret probes in Yedu and other places, and had formed a huge intelligence network, but it was not easy to dig out this intelligence network. He had been trying to find the intelligence points of the Han army, but he had never found anything.

Last summer, his subordinates discovered a secret organization. They thought it was the intelligence point of the Han army, but unexpectedly it was the remnant of the Yuan family, which disappointed him. Now his father wants him to dig out the Han army intelligence network again, where should he start?

Cao Pi was walking back and forth in the official room with his hands behind his back. He turned out to be the task to Yang Tian. Now that Yang Tian has been arrested, he has to change someone else, so who is more suitable to change?

While thinking, the guard's report came from outside the door: "Qi Shi, Dali Chief Zhou Yuan has urgent matters to ask for a meeting!"

Zhou Yuan was the second person in Dali Temple and one of Cao Pi’s capable generals. He was about fifteen or sixteen years old and was born in the army. He served as Cao Ren’s marching Sima. He was smart and capable. Even Cao Cao praised him. This time, he was responsible for the trial of Yang Tian’s case.

Cao Pi was excited and quickly ordered: "Take him in!"

After a moment, Zhou Yuanfeng, dressed in official uniform, walked in in a hurry, bowed and said, "See the world!"

"What good news does Zhou Envoy have?"

Zhou Yuan stepped forward and whispered a few times, Cao Pi was stunned, "Can you take this matter seriously?"

Zhou Yuan nodded, "He admitted it himself."

Cao Pi immediately gritted his teeth with hatred, "This damn guy who is trampling inside and out should be cut into pieces!"
Chapter completed!