This was Guo Jia's plan, and he felt that He Yan's "high ambitions" were a bit outrageous.

He Yan disagreed: "Uncle Miao Cai and Zhang Wenyuan are both famous generals in the world, and now there is no pressure from Yuan Shao. Isn't it easy to get Chang Xi?"

"Why are you so confident?"

Guo Jia told He Yan about Chang Xi's achievements: "Last year, Sikong sent Liu Dai and Wang Zhong to lead troops to attack Chang Xi, but they were defeated by Chang Xi, so Sikong had no choice but to lead the troops himself. How could such a person do it?

Can you be underestimated easily?"

He Yan also argued with reason: "It's not that I underestimate Chang Xi, but Fengxiao underestimates Zhang Wenyuan."

"Furthermore, as you said just now, Feng Xiao, Chang Xi rebelled last year and rebelled again this year... If we don't deal with this person properly, Donghai County should not think about living in peace in the future."

If He Yan remembers correctly, after Zhang Liao forced Chang Xi to surrender, Chang Xi rebelled again a few years later...

This is why Zhuge Liang wrote in "Later's Discipline" that "Cao Cao could not attack Changxi five times, and he could not cross Chaohu four times."

It's not Cao Cao's food, simply because Chang Xi is so disgusting.

Guo Jia did not continue to ask He Yan whether Zhang Liao could defeat Chang Xi, but turned around to help He Yan analyze how to deal with Chang Xi.

"Changxi? Interesting..."

Guo Jia suddenly realized that this seemed to be an extremely difficult matter.

"If we kill him... Chang Xi was a Taishan bandit in the past, and he has some friendship with Zang Ba and others. If we kill him, it will inevitably make Zang Ba feel sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox, thus alienating the relationship between Sikong and Zang Ba."

"If we let him go... then it's true as Marquis Shen said, this Donghai County may not be able to live in peace in the future!"

Donghai County Unicom Qingxu, putting a jumping chess piece like Chang Xi in such an important position is undoubtedly asking for trouble.

"Does Marquis Shen have any good ideas?"

He Yan scratched his head: "If I knew what I said just now!"

Guo Jia thought carefully and then suddenly slapped his thigh: "How about letting Zang Ba and General Xiahou Yuan send troops together? And then promise Zang Ba to hand over Donghai County to him after he defeats Changxi?"

Anyway, except for Guangling County, Xuzhou is basically in the hands of Xuzhou scholars. Who is in charge of Donghai County is not that important to Cao Cao.

Putting Donghai County under Zang Ba's management would naturally eliminate the barriers to killing Chang Xi and even make Zang Ba more loyal to Cao Cao.

"This is a good plan."

He Yan was not very familiar with Xuzhou, so he felt relieved after hearing Guo Jia's suggestion.

A Chang Xi may be considered big or small, but if he is left to cause trouble to the people in Xuzhou, it will always feel uncomfortable.

After finishing the meal, everyone took care of the remaining government affairs before leaving one by one.

Only He Yan was left in Sikong Mansion by Cao Cao, which made He Yan a little surprised.

"What? I can't even let you have a meal?"

Cao Cao saw that the look in He Yan's eyes became a little dissatisfied: "As you get older, don't you want to stay home? I haven't seen you stay in Sikong Mansion for a few days after I've been back for so long!"

He Yan became embarrassed.

It's not that he doesn't want to stay.

He was afraid that Cao Pi and Cao Jie would really fight him this time...

"My child, you will stay for dinner tonight! Definitely!"

Seeing that He Yan was quite well-behaved, Cao Cao snorted arrogantly: "This time I want to eat fried food!"

"The child will make it for his father himself!"

"This is so true!"

Seeing that he had appeased Cao Cao, He Yan was about to resign when he was pulled back by Cao Cao: "What? You don't even want to stay with your father for a while?"

He Yan:???

Didn’t you ask me to cook???

Seeing He Yan's helpless look, Cao Cao smiled happily: "Come here!"

He Yan immediately came to Boss Cao quickly and said: "Father, tell me."

"I'm about to go on an expedition again. There shouldn't be any big war this time. You should take good care of your mother and other people in the house at home! Don't keep thinking about running to Mrs. Wu Hou!"

He Yan's eyes widened: "How does father know?"

"Haha~~"

Although Cao Cao was a good wife, there was no need to argue with He Yan. He just told He Yan: "The Marquis of Wu has a special status. He also has Sun Ce's posthumous son with him. You can control it yourself."

"Father, don't worry! Children have no standards!"

"..."

After reminding He Yan, Cao Cao talked about business with He Yan.

"Do you know why I appointed you as Xu Changling?"

"Dad, there's someone you don't like and you want your child to kill him?"

"Almost, but I didn't let you kill anyone."

Cao Cao was very satisfied with He Yan's ability to get things done at a glance.

"Since the last spring plowing meeting, Kong Rong and others have been holding on to Yang Biao and Xin Xue. After all, you are responsible for this Xin Xue. Wipe your own butt and don't bother others."

In the past, Xin Xue became famous because of the solar eclipse, but at the same time, conservative scripture families like Kong Rong also completely became enemies with Xin Xue.

Fortunately, with Cao Cao suppressing Xuchang, Kong Rong and his gang could not overturn the situation.

But now that Cao Cao is going on an expedition, he naturally has to leave someone behind to help him keep an eye on Kong Rong.

The position of Xuchang Ling is very special, with low authority. Cao Cao can rest assured that He Yan is sitting in this position even if he leads his troops and leaves.

"Also..."

Cao Cao stroked his beard: "As a father, I also want to test the attitude of some people by giving you the title of Xu Changling."

He Yan, a general, was suddenly promoted to Xu Changling, which was actually against Han law.

Well, even though He Yan still has the official position of "Zhonglang", he is still a military general.

Even if He Yan is the Marquis of Shen, this still does not comply with Han law.

After all, He Yan did not come from the Chaju system, and did not have the status of "filial piety" or "maocai", so he could not be regarded as a "clear stream" of normal official career.

Promoting He Yan to "Xuchang Order" was actually Cao Cao's test of the aristocratic family.

An attempt to reform the talent promotion policy.

"My child understands!"

He Yan knew that Cao Cao had begun to dream of "Dream of Zhou Gong" again.

The so-called "Dream of Zhou Gong" is to change the current decadent rules and re-establish an order that is in line with the current world.

The problem is...Boss Cao seems to have gone in the wrong direction.

Before the people's wisdom was enlightened, trying to use the power of poor families to suppress the gentry was undoubtedly an attempt to kill the gentry with an egg.

He Yan just wants to ask why he wants to destroy hundreds of thousands of years of accumulation of other families with just one or two poor families?

The truly sure way is to use quantity to defeat quality, and then boil the frog in warm water. Either lower the distance between the gentry and the poor, or directly reduce the size of the gentry group to prevent them from occupying too many resources.

So He Yan suggested: "It's all a trial anyway, why not wait until the child takes office as Xuchang Order and build a few Xiangxu?"

Cao Cao became interested: "Yulang, please tell me carefully."

"The background of the aristocratic family is undoubtedly far better than that of the poor family. It is impossible for my father to support the poor family just to support the poor family."

At present, scholars from aristocratic families are overwhelming the children from poor families in almost all aspects.

Even if Cao Cao wanted to support the poor family, he couldn't use his wine bag and rice bag to support him, right? Not to mention that he was a crouching dragon and a phoenix chick when he debuted. At the very least, he was a talented person who could govern a county.

When there are enough "talented people from hundreds of miles away", and then implement the policy of "counties surround counties", "counties surround states", and "states surround the center", then the poor families can stand up.

After becoming independent, these poor families can unite to kill the old family and become a new family...

There is only one way to really change this situation, and that is to make material resources infinitely more abundant and personal morality infinitely higher.

So far, apart from Xinxue, He Yan has not been able to find a banner that can achieve this goal.

"educate."

He Yan finally just spit out these two words.

"Father must have enough time to provide a real education, so that the 'poor family' can completely defeat the 'aristocratic family'."

"Otherwise, no matter how high the 'Hanmen' goes, they will still be like waterless ducks and cannot achieve great things."

Cao Cao looked at He Yan strangely: "Why is Yulang different today?"

"Have it?"

He Yan touched his face: "Maybe the child has become handsome again?"

Cao Cao:......
Chapter completed!