It’s not that Dong Hu couldn’t kill Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Cao Cao, Sun Quan, Liu Bei and others before they rose. He had this confidence at this time, but the consequences of doing so would not bring more benefits to the world. The world would still be in chaos. Even if the Han Dynasty could barely be maintained, it would definitely not last longer.

The Han Dynasty accumulated too many bad policies, and it was not something that could be solved by any wise monarch or a virtuous and loyal minister. A thorough reform must be carried out, and it is impossible to not shed blood in this level of reform.

If Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan were killed, there would definitely be other ambitious princes to replace them. Heroes came from troubled times. It was not how powerful the heroes were, but provided them with a platform to achieve hegemony in troubled times.

Cao Cao is powerful. Could it be that there are no more powerful civil officials and military generals under Cao Cao? Anyway, Dong Hu doesn't believe this argument, but Cao Cao became the lord first. If he dies, another person in the Cao Wei family will definitely be replaced, such as the Cao family and the Xiahou family. Who dares to say that those people will definitely not be able to maintain the unity of Cao Wei team?

Maintaining a team without breaking is not benevolence, righteousness, but political interests. As long as you give others enough benefits and benefits, you can naturally maintain the team.

He did not believe in benevolence, righteousness and morality at all. People in this era did not have the ideological awareness of the people's army in later generations. In the era before "family" was in "country and the world", if all the princes really cared about the people, they would not have slaughtered tens of thousands or captured tens of thousands of prisoners every time, and Huangfu Song would not have put up the 100,000 Yellow Turban Army heads.

The country and the world are in the world, and family interests are in the forefront. Isn’t it too hypocritical to talk about benevolence and morality with Dong Hu?

Therefore, he never thought that after killing the princes, the world would be peaceful and healthy. He did not think that after they died, there would be no Zhang Cao, Sun Cao, and Li Cao. He said benevolence, righteousness and morality. As long as he gave his generals and counselors enough benefits, a brand new prince would naturally form.

Without killing all the princes in his memory, he could roughly judge what those guys were thinking and take the opportunity to make use of it. But if he replaced some guys who didn’t know the truth, he would become blind.

A powerful enemy is not scary, what is scary is the unknown!

No matter how chaotic the world is, he has already gone to Liangzhou. As long as the princes of all walks of life do not take the lead in causing trouble for him, he does not want to take the initiative to take action. He is more willing to take the opportunity to rest and recuperate. He is more willing to have the granary of the people of Luoyang and increase his ability to resist risks.

While fighting with various princes, Dong Hu suddenly thought of the "pressure well". When the wars continued, he didn't care about doing these things. But after running to Liangzhou, he seized the opportunity to do this.

In my memory of the previous life, water pressing wells were very common in rural areas, especially before tap water became popular, and water pressing wells were also very simple, only a 10 or 20 meters of iron pipe and a water pressing well head were enough.

It is somewhat difficult to turn the iron pipe into a barrel with a quality like a gun, but if it is just a water-free iron pipe, the difficulty of casting will be much smaller, and it is not hindered by a little thicker. The only problem that the craftsmen of the Han Dynasty could solve this problem is the water-pressing well head, which is not the appearance of the water-pressing well head that cannot be cast, but the internal water-absorbing gasket.

The gaskets used by the people in later generations were made of rubber, which was wear-resistant, corrosion-resistant and soak-resistant, and could be used for a long time. However, the rubber tree was far away from the American continent thousands of miles away in the Han Dynasty, so it was unrealistic to use rubber trees to extract rubber, but this does not mean that there was no such thing as rubber grass in the Western Regions.

I have been a human being for two lifetimes, and some memories are blurred and I can’t even be buried in my heart. Only when I need it in an urgent situation can I remember it occasionally.

It’s not that Dong Hu really forgot about the water pressing well, but that he has never really experienced the difficulty of water withdrawal since he was a child. Even if he encountered water withdrawal difficulties, it was because there were stones everywhere. For example, Lintao, which has lived since childhood, even if he was given a water pressing well, he would not be able to dig a water. The soil layer is shallow and there are stones below one meter. How to dig a well? Even if he used the method of the Song people digging a salt well in Sichuan and Shu, he made a large cone-shaped iron head and kept smashing the stones under the soil layer, it would definitely not be able to dig a well in a year or two.

He couldn't use it and had no urgent need. Even if there was a water well in memory, he didn't think about it in this way. Until he ran to Luoyang to fight with various princes and encountered difficulties in obtaining water, he remembered the water well.

It is easy to get water from a water pressing well. The army marched and carried it. No matter where it ran, as long as it was a thicker soil layer in the plain, soldiers could dig out the well in one or two hours. It didn't matter if the water was turbid at the beginning. Just use charcoal to make some filtered wooden barrels. This is not very difficult.

It takes some time to find rubber grass, and the refining method also requires a little experiment. These cannot be completed in a short period of time, but it is not impossible to temporarily replace rubber gaskets with other things, such as using leather armor on soldiers to temporarily replace them. But no matter what, after the demand is required, Dong Hu will try to do this.

After Dong Zhuo returned to Chang'an, the world entered a relatively peaceful stage, and the waves were surging under the water. The counties and states of Ji, Qing and Yan began to wipe out the Yellow Turban Army that occupied the mountains and became kings, and began to solve the hidden worries behind it. But where did the money and food consumed by the soldiers come from?

Last year, there were many wars. From January last year, after all the princes vowed to join forces, until Dong Zhuo returned to Chang'an from Hanoi. No matter how many soldiers and horses were lost during the period, all the princes always had 200,000 to 300,000 soldiers and horses. The consumption of so many soldiers and horses was extremely terrifying.

Last year, people spent tens of millions of stones of food to eat horses. Such a huge amount of materials was consumed. The countless families who were originally passionately calmed down. They were dissatisfied and were unwilling to continue to support 100,000 or 200,000 soldiers.

The two sides were quarreling and their faces were red and their necks were thick, but the Yellow Turban Army, which occupied the mountains and became kings in various places, must be wiped out?

The two sides quarreled for two months and finally reached an agreement. All the princes greatly reduced their troops. They originally recruited 30,000 to 50,000 soldiers and horses to fight Dong Hu, but they could only save 10,000 soldiers and 20,000 soldiers and 20,000 troops. After the reduction, they only had 30,000 to 5,000 soldiers and horses.

The sucking of others' mouths and short hands. The wealthy families took out a large amount of food and the family members who were supported by the family, but returned in a defeat. Anyone would think about how to stop the loss. But after all the princes tasted the taste of the right to hold countless soldiers and decide the life and death of countless people with one word, how could they be bound by others everywhere?

If you don’t want to be tied up, you can only try to kill countless families, only by holding countless fields, tenants, and only by holding the wealth of supporting tens of thousands of soldiers, can all princes become the right to live and kill.

On the surface, the world seemed to be peaceful, Dong Hu was in Liangzhou, and Dong Zhuo enjoyed endless gentleness in Chang'an. The princes from all walks of life were busy going into the mountains to suppress bandits, but the waves were rolling under the water, and they fought with the families below for money and food.

All the princes were either provincial governors, governors, prefects, and prime ministers, without exception, and had real power to "military, government, and civil laws" granted to them by the Han Dynasty. These guys were using the rights given by the court to fight against various major families in order to obtain more money, grain and support soldiers. However, one of them was almost scratched his scalp and did not get money, and this person was Cao Cao!

After Cao Cao escaped from Luoyang, he became a commoner, but his son Cao Song did not give him money to spend. If he had no rights, he had no family background, how could he support three thousand soldiers?

After returning to his hometown Qiao County, Cao Cao did not seek help from others, but he visited various major families in Pei State, but in the end he still found nothing...

A group of people sat in the hall and stared at each other with big eyes. They stared at each other for a quarter of an hour but couldn't think of any way. But it's not a problem to remain silent like this?

"Oh, Dong Xining is right. If the old thief Dong Zhuo did not plunder the wealthy families in Luoyang, he would not be able to support the soldiers. If Yuan Shao and Wang Kuang did not rob, it would be difficult to support the soldiers..."

Cao Cao smiled bitterly, and all the generals looked at each other, and Xi Zhi stood up to object.

"This matter must not be done. Once the lord uses his troops to charge the bandits, the Pei Kingdom will have no place to stay!"

Cao Cao sighed and said, "Achievement is relaxed for the time being. How can Cao do such a stupid thing? But... where does the money and food come from?"

I have used all the methods I can use. I have been begging my grandfather and grandma to ask for much money and food. Although I have some land at home, I can't afford to support three thousand soldiers!

Xi Zhicai frowned and hesitated. In recent days, whenever Cao Cao mentioned the way Dong Zhuo made money, he knew what Cao Cao wanted to do.

Dong Zhuo’s way of making money is simple and crude. One is to steal the wealthy families in Luoyang and Chang'an, the second is to let Lu Bu dig up other people’s graves, and the third is to change the big money to small money that is being made.

Among the "Eighteen Princes", Cao Cao could not do it. The other princes were provincial governors, governors, prefects, and prime ministers. They had the power of "military, government and civil laws" granted by the Han Dynasty. They could use some means to force wealthy families to take out money and food, such as using the excuse of "large family hiding people privately to avoid taxes", such as slandering others to collude with Dong Zhuo, colluding with the Yellow Turban Army, and even arbitrarily charged them with false charges... But Cao Cao was a civilian, and no matter how "crime" others were "injured", he would not care about his nothing. If he wanted to loot the rich, there was only one way, which was to pretend to be a bandit and massacre the family.

It would be fine if the matter was not exposed. Once it was exposed, not only would Cao Cao's reputation be over, but he would also face revenge from the major families of Pei... and even the entire Yuzhou, and it would become a bandit that everyone would call for beating. Not to mention that Cao Cao was unwilling, his group of generals would not do it!

He cannot blatantly plunder wealthy families, and he is not qualified to change money from big money to small money. Even if he has this qualification, he does not have enough big money to change money from small money. There is only one way left, that is, to dig other people's graves.

Over the past few days, Cao Cao kept mentioning the pickled matters that Dong Zhuo did. Can he not guess what he wanted? He can dig out his graves...

Xi Zhicai thought about it over and over again, but in the end he couldn't come up with a better way and sighed in his heart.

"The lord has no land to support three thousand soldiers, and no one else helps to support the soldiers. For the sake of the present... there is only one way to find gold."

Cao Cao was excited and sat upright, but Xi Zhicai looked bitter.
Chapter completed!