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After a while, Cao Cao asked, "Where did this get the information?"

Cao Pi bowed to report: "Does my father still remember the report of the incident between the Child and Dong Shizhong a few days ago about the Chengdu Intelligence Station?"

Cao Cao nodded. He still remembered that it was the intelligence station who led Zhao Ting to the Han army and confessed to the Han army, causing the Chengdu intelligence station to be destroyed. As a result, Yang Tian, ​​who was sent by Chang to destroy Chengdu's federation, rescued most of his subordinates during the crisis, allowing the intelligence station to be rebuilt. Although Yang Tian was the one sent by Chang, Cao Cao was a little displeased, when he urgently needed people, he accused Yang Tian of replacing Zhao Ting.

"I still remember, does it have anything to do with this?"

"Reporting to my father, when Yang Tian exchanged gold, he met the secretary Lang Lin Jin, who had been a secretary of Liu Jing. He had a large amount of red gold and Wuzhu coins in his hand. He secretly exchanged it into gold on the black market and was recognized by Yang Tian's subordinates. Yang Tian immediately followed up on the background of this person and found that when he was a warehouse officer, he was suspected of embezzling the logistics money and property of the Han army. Yang Tian used the evidence of his exchange of gold to force him to submit. This record of the Pingzhang platform was a copy obtained by this person using his position. Yang Tian paid him two gold for this."

"well"

Cao Cao said hello twice in a row, and he asked with relief: "I have never heard of who Lin Jin is."

Cao Pi took out another document and submitted it, "This is his background, please check it out."

Cao Cao nodded to Cao Pi with appreciation. His meticulous and thoughtful consideration made Cao Cao like it very much. He opened the information and read it carefully. He couldn't help but say in surprise: "It turns out that he was the first Cao army doctor in Licheng."

“It’s right”

Cao Pi was secretly proud of his heart. Until now, he couldn't even insert a word, and he would not give Cao Zhi any room to intervene. He bowed and said, "This person has a relative who is Licheng's tooth general. He became a military doctor in Licheng through this relationship. After Licheng City was broken, he fled to Qishan to live in seclusion. As a result, his wife and children were killed by Dihu. When the Han army destroyed the Dihu cavalry, he joined the Han army. Later, Liu Jing found that he had strong calculating skills, so he promoted him to a warehouse manager, in charge of logistics and material accounts, and gradually became Liu Jing's secretary, and he had the opportunity to get in touch with some confidential books."

Cao Cao nodded repeatedly, "This Yang Tian seems to be very capable. He actually instigated the people around Liu Jing so quickly. It's rare."

At this time, Cao Zhi interjected: "Since Yang Tian met Lin Jin when he exchanged gold, why didn't he instigate him to rebel before? He didn't take this person out until now."

Although Cao Zhi was weak in scheming, he immediately saw the key to the problem, which was Yang Tian’s selfishness. It was obvious that he had discovered Lin Jin a long time ago, but he refused to give the credit to Zhao Ting. Cao Zhi was hinting at the Chengdu Intelligence Station in the internal strife, and maybe Zhao Ting was the secret betrayal of Yang Tian.

Of course, Cao Cao knew what the problem was. Yang Tian was sent by Chang, and Zhao Ting was sent by Dong Zhao, and Dong Zhao supported Cao Zhi. It would be strange if there was no internal struggle here. Cao Cao also knew that this was actually Chang was secretly fighting with Dong Zhao for intelligence rights, but as a ruler, Cao Cao would not care about this power struggle. As long as he did not violate his bottom line, he could tolerate it.

When it comes to dealing with the power struggle of his subordinates, whether Cao Cao, Liu Jing, or Sun Quan, they have the same attitude, that is, allowing the power struggle of his subordinates to exist. This is the essence of the imperial balance technique, but their bottom line is different.

Liu Jing allowed the dispute over interests between the Jingzhou faction and the Yizhou faction, and he would also balance the dispute over the Pingzhang platform's phase arrangement. However, in the principle of unifying the world, Liu Jing did not allow the differences between the two factions, and at the same time he would never tolerate the dispute over regional factions within the military. Liu Jing handled the dispute over the interests of factions well and was able to restrain and reschedule them freely.

The factional struggles Cao Cao faced were quite complicated. In the early stage, it was a struggle between scholars and common people, and a struggle between Confucianism and Legalism. At this point, Cao Cao did not play a balance of interests. He was very distinctive. He supported poor Legalists, suppressed the gentry Confucianism, killed border rally, killed Kong Rong, demoted two Xuns, threatened Yang Biao, and caused a heavy blow to the Confucian gentry who supported the Han Dynasty.

To this day, the famous gentry in the court has been almost completely wiped out, and most of the remaining ministers are his loyal followers, and the remaining famous families have been neglected and silent. Now the factional disputes Cao Cao faces are a struggle between the ministers who support the Chang and support them. In this kind of factional interests struggle, Cao Cao played the balancing technique and handled it better.

Compared with Liu Jing and Cao Cao's balance of factional interests, Sun Quan's factional struggle failed to control. Sun Quan could no longer control the internal factional interests struggle, and as a result, serious military and political consequences occurred, which eventually led to the split of Jiangdong and was in a slump.

Therefore, Cao Cao tried his best to balance the two factions of Pi Zhi. He asked Cao Zhi to inspect various places on his behalf, in a certain way, in order to balance Cao Pi's excessive government power, and Cao Pi wanted to seize a certain amount of intelligence power from Dong Zhao, and Cao Cao finally agreed.

Cao Cao waved his hand to Cao Zhi and smiled, "Don't worry about these minor issues. The key is that Yang Tian can instigate the secretary around Liu Jing and get a confidential book like Pingzhangtai Deliberations. This is very encouraging. This is a major victory in the intelligence department, and Yang Tian must be highly praised."

He also said to Cao Pi: "Yang Tian made great contributions and could be granted the title of Chief Censor of the Censor, with a reward of five kilograms, and he was fully responsible for the information of Bashu."

Cao Pi did not expect that Yang Tian was promoted to two levels in a row and was appointed as the chief censor. This was the position of real power of the supervisor. This was actually the opportunity of Yang Tian to make contributions after his father removed Hua Xin's censorship and gave him some supervision again. He was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "I thank my father for his reward on behalf of Yang Tian."

Cao Cao nodded with a smile, "Today is the second day of the first lunar month. If you don't talk about state affairs, everyone is already anxious. Let's go out."

At night, Cao Zhi returned to his mansion with concern. Cao Zhi's mansion was located in the south of the city, covering an acre of land, with deep courtyards and lush trees. There was a ten-acre lake water in the mansion. Various pavilions and towers were built around the lake. They were elegant and unique, but the materials were exquisite and luxurious. Not only did Cao Zhi's family live in the mansion, but many people who depended on Cao Zhi also lived there.

Cao Zhi had just returned to the mansion, and a guard came forward to report: "Mr. Yang is here, waiting for the duke in the study."

Mr. Yang who could wait for Cao Zhi in the study was only Yang Xiu, Cao Zhi's confidant adviser. He was about to discuss with Yang Xiu, but Yang Xiu came by himself. Cao Zhi nodded and went to the study without going back to the room to change his clothes.

In the study, Yang Xiuzheng was calm and tea. At the beginning of the year, Yang Xiu assisted Chen Qun as a deputy to organize the militia. Half a year later, the Qingzhou militia and the Xuzhou militia were established one after another. Yang Xiu was immediately transferred back to Yedu and was named the Censor of the Attorney, accompanying Cao Zhi to inspect various parts of the Wei State.

He only came back for two days. Today is the second day of the first lunar month. According to custom, he should not go out. However, Yang Xiu received news from Dong Zhao in the afternoon that Duke Wei had appointed Yang Tian as the chief censor. Yang Xiu knew that Yang Tian was originally a Shu Zuo in Cao Ren's army and a native of Hongnong. He had a little distant relative of his family. He had come to ask his father for office several times, but his father despised his people and rejected him.

Later, when he heard that this person defected to Hua Xin and became Cao Pi's confidant, he was promoted to the Chief Censor and held the power of supervision. Yang Xiu's father immediately realized that there must be a reason for this. Although today is the second day of the first lunar month, Yang Biao still asked his elders to come and inquire about the news.

Footsteps came from the yard. Cao Zhi was back. Yang Xiu stood up and bowed to Cao Zhi who walked into the house and said, "I'm so sorry to come and disturb the husband so late."

"Dear Dezu, don't be polite. If you don't come, I will send someone to invite you tonight."

Cao Zhi sighed and waved his hand and said, "Please sit down."

Yang Xiu was surprised, he sat down and asked, "Master, what happened?"

"A strange thing happened today. My brother's confidant who was inserted in Chengdu actually got a copy of the meetings from Pingzhang Platform."

Cao Zhi told Yang Xiu in detail what happened today, and finally shook his head and said, "Then Yang Tian was promoted to the Chief Censor of the Censor. He had no qualifications and no talent, but was able to become such a high-ranking official. It was really not what my father thought."

Yang Xiu pondered for a moment and said, "There is indeed something strange here. Not to mention that he received such a secret book, it was a bit incredible that Mr. Wei promoted him to an extraordinary promotion. I guess he wanted to give him a face to the eldest son and give him some supervision."

"You're right. After Hua Xin was transferred from the position of the Censorate, there was no one in the Censorate. My father always liked to play balance. Dong Zhao became the Censorate. Then the elder brother had to take a position in the Censor Taichung. This Yang Tian happened to be the time and was lucky."

Speaking of this, Cao Zhi glanced at Yang Xiu and asked, "I heard that this Yang Tian has something to do with your Hongnong Yang family, but it's true."

Yang Xiu sneered and said, "It seems that he is from the same clan. I heard from my father that he had been apart from several generations of people. He came to ask his father for an official position, but his father thought others were inferior and ignored him. This person is very skilled, likes to be greedy, and he can't accomplish anything big. The official doesn't have to take him to heart."

"But he made great contributions"

Cao Zhi suddenly realized and hurriedly said, "Justice Dezu said just now that he was a bit incredible to get this secret book, what does it mean?"

Yang Xiu smiled and shook his head, "This is just my guess. I suspect that he has surrendered to Liu Jing. With Liu Jing's shrewdness, how could the people around him be bribed? How could such a high-secret book such as Pingzhangtai's discussion record be easily leaked? So I think there must be something strange about this matter."

Cao Zhi frowned, "I'm here to think, is this Yang Tian surrendering to Liu Jing and being used to deal with us? If this is the case, the brother will not be able to eat and leave. I hope it is true. Since Dezu also said this, then the possibility is very high."

Yang Xiu laughed, "Since the public suspects, I will send my confidant to Chengdu for investigation. Once we have the evidence, we can take the opportunity to counter the eldest son. This will be a heavy blow to the eldest son."
Chapter completed!