The revival of the Han Dynasty must start with Dong Zhuo

Chapter 355: Man Conquers Heaven
At this moment, the emperor and Guo Jia and his entourage were standing on a stone wall that looked as if it had been split by a knife or an axe, staring at the dangerous river below.

Guo Jia stood here and looked down following the emperor's gaze.

But just one glance made me feel dizzy.

The cliffs are majestic and the work of nature is amazing!
This place is really as steep as the legend says, as if it was split open by the divine power of King Yu.

In terms of danger, Guo Jia considered this place the most dangerous.

But he still didn't understand how the emperor was going to transport this large army from Henan to Hebei.

Could it be that the emperor wanted to come and pray to the gods to send the army to the other side of the river?
"Your Majesty, I still don't know what method Your Majesty is using, and I don't know why Your Majesty chose to send troops in winter."

Liu Xie pointed downwards and said, "Fengxiao, look carefully there."

Guo Jia suppressed his dizziness and looked down.

He saw nothing except the river, which kept flowing.

But since the emperor asked him to look down, he had no choice but to obey.

Guo Jia squinted his eyes and searched for a long time, and finally his pupils shrank!
At the bottom of the stone wall, and on the land closest to the river.

There is actually an extremely narrow plank road!

If you don't look carefully, you can't even find this plank road.

If the big river next to it is a majestic dragon, then this plank road is just a timid little loach, which can be said to be insignificant.

"Your Majesty, there is a plank road below...but what is the function of this thing?"

Liu Xie was wearing golden armor at this moment and standing with his hands behind his back.

"Fengxiao, what do you think of Cao Cao?"

Hearing the emperor bringing up the topic of Cao Cao, who had nothing to do with this, Guo Jia could only suppress his curiosity and answer the emperor seriously:

"I wonder what the emperor is asking about?"

When it comes to military strategy, Cao Cao is undoubtedly the best of his time, and there are very few people who can compete with him.

If it comes to political checks and balances, Cao Cao would be a rare wise minister who is capable of governing the country and pacifying the world.

But Guo Jia knew that this was not what the emperor was asking.

"I want to ask you, how come Cao Cao, who dared to forge five-colored sticks and eliminate the violations of discipline by the powerful people in Luoyang, has become a traitor to the Han Dynasty now?"

"..."

Guo Jia thought for a while and said, "Maybe it's because of current events that Cao Gong has no choice but to do so?"

"What are current events?"

"..."

"Since the Later Han Dynasty, the central government has been in chaos, and the prefectures and counties have prospered. The local tyrants have controlled the local areas to the point of being omnipresent... At that time, if you didn't have a prominent family background, you had to curry favor with the powerful and join a famous family; or spend all your family wealth and become a disciple of a great scholar. There was no other way!"

"As for the rest, even those with military exploits like the former Grand Commandant Duan Xing, once they return to the court, they will be suppressed by the nobles and forced to participate in factional struggles, let alone others?"

"Although Cao Gong has the ambition to reform the accumulated evils and purify the world, once Cao Gong arrives at the place and discovers the local conditions, he will have no choice but to go along with the crowd, right?"

Guo Jia is worthy of being the person Cao Cao considers to be the one who best understands his mind.

After all, there are still some differences between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao had basically given up on the common people... or in other words, ever since he relied on the power of the nobles to seize Jizhou out of nothing, he no longer had the capital to change the rules.

But Cao Cao was able to struggle somewhat thanks to the support of the Caos and Xiahou, but his struggle was not very obvious...

Liu Xie nodded, agreeing with Guo Jia's words.

"Fengxiao, according to you, Cao Cao is probably a coward who gave up halfway instead of completing his mission?"

The emperor's words are unpleasant to hear.

But it is indeed the case.

But Guo Jia still wanted to argue for Cao Cao: "Your Majesty, this statement is actually biased."

"Not everyone can be like Grand Tutor Dong Zhuo, who directly carried a butcher's knife and slaughtered the nobles until the blood flowed like a river."

"And even the Grand Master actually tried his best to win over Yuan Shao and other nobles at the beginning..."

Guo Jia was trying to excuse Cao Cao, but Liu Xie was full of disdain.

"Feng Xiao is right. When the Grand Master first arrived in Luoyang, he was actually trying to win over Yuan Shao and other nobles."

"But in the end, they managed to gather a coalition of princes to fight against Dong?"

Liu Xie shook his head.

"So the Grand Master understood at that time that the sins of the world were the fault of the aristocratic families! And I also understood at that time that compromising with the aristocratic families is always the stupidest way."

"They are like gluttons who can never be satisfied."

"Give him one portion of meat today, and he will dare to ask for ten portions tomorrow."

"Once all the meat is eaten, they will pounce on the master and start devouring him."

"What Cao Cao did was nothing more than drinking poison to quench thirst."

Liu Xie was even willing to bet with Guo Jia——

"Even if Cao Cao really conquered the world, within three generations, a new family would replace the Cao family!"

Guo Jia was very courageous. When he heard the emperor belittle Cao Cao again, he also wanted to argue.

"But if Your Majesty is Lord Cao, what can you do?"

"Does Your Majesty have any better way than Lord Cao?"

It feels good to be bold.

Always be bold and always feel happy.

Guo Jia didn't notice that just as he finished saying this, even Yang Xiu couldn't help but look over at him.

No matter from which angle you look at it, Guo Jia's words were a bit presumptuous. But the emperor was not angry, but laughed happily.

"Fengxiao, if I were Cao Cao, I would definitely do better than Cao Cao!"

"Do you know why?"

Guo Jia was dissatisfied: "Why?"

"It's not because I think I must be smarter than Cao Cao, but..."

At this moment, the morning sun slowly rose in the east, and the fiery red light gradually filled the sky and pressed towards everyone's heads.

"Because I trust the people more than Cao Cao! I trust the people more than anyone else!"

"As long as they are willing, nothing can stop them! Not to mention the noble families, even this day can't stop them!"

Guo Jia didn't understand what he meant.

But at this moment, there was a sudden noise from the river below!
Guo Jia looked down in horror, only to find that the source of the shocking sound was not the dragon-like river, but the loach-like plank road next to it.

"If you don't go against the wind, the waves won't rush! Pull slowly and keep your steps in sync!"

On the plank road that made Guo Jia afraid, a group of young and strong men wearing short clothes and carrying hemp ropes on their shoulders gradually appeared!

They walked in unison on the plank road with their backs bent, and their exposed backs looked like the endless battlements of the Great Wall.

"Three feet of white cloth, hey! Four ounces of hemp, ho hey!"

The big river next to them seemed to be enraged by this scene. It didn't understand why anyone dared to walk under its majesty. It immediately created huge waves, and used the waves like steel whips to hit the backs of these trackers.

"Step on the stones with your feet, ho-ho! Dig the sand with your hands, hi!"

The trackers were not defeated by the huge waves. Instead, they shouted slogans, worked in a unified and orderly manner, avoided the waves, found the right pace, and continued to move forward!

No matter how terrifying the waves are, as long as you find the right pattern, they are still just a paper tiger!

The waves of the river did not scare these pioneers, but instead gave the trackers behind them endless courage to continue moving forward steadily.

Just after a dozen people passed by, a huge ship followed the footsteps of the trackers and appeared on the river!

Building ship!

Guo Jia opened his mouth in shock again!
These trackers actually managed to pull a ship through the terrifying Sanmenxia Gorge!
Not just a building ship.

As more and more trackers walked on the plank road, more and more boats appeared in the river!

Building ship!

Fighting ships!

Warship!

Go boat!

More and more boats, pulled by trackers, densely covered the entire river surface!

The river that was so unruly just now has completely lost its magic.

Now it is no longer as ferocious as before, and can only be trampled under the feet of countless ships, and serve the ships above obediently. It is no different from an ordinary river!

The river was actually tamed by human power!

Guo Jia stared at the rare scene below in amazement, and the part of his heart that agreed with Cao Cao silently shattered.

"The reason why I chose to send troops in winter is not just to avoid delaying spring ploughing."

"More importantly, only at this time will the river enter its dry season, exposing the stone wall below and allowing the plank road to be built."

Liu Xie patted Guo Jia on the shoulder.

"Because you only took one look at Luoyang's deployment and guessed my intention of deploying troops, so I have kept this matter secret."

"The only people who knew the news were Zhong Yao in Hedong, Xun You in Luoyang, Wenhe, Zhongda, Dezu and others."

"They started building a plank road on the riverbed in the winter of the year before last."

"My early deployment of troops actually disrupted their plans, so I can only wait until they have repaired the plank road before I can transport ships from Guanzhong and Hedong."

"But now, there is no need to hide it anymore."

"From today on, I will publicize this matter so that everyone in the world will know what they did! And let Cao Cao understand a truth -"

"Man can conquer nature!"

"Someone else always insists on what he didn't insist on!"

"There are always people who trust the people he never trusted!"

"His so-called blending in with the world is nothing more than another way of saying cowardice!"

Liu Xie took his hand away from Guo Jia, regardless of the fact that Guo Jia was trembling at the moment.

"You go."

Guo Jia was confused at this moment: "Where are you going, Your Majesty?"

"Go back to where you came from."

Liu Xie said lightly: "I kept you here before just to prevent you from leaking secrets."

"But there is no need for that now. You can just tell Cao Cao everything you see and hear in Guanzhong."

"I no longer have any secrets to hide from the world."

"From this moment on, I will officially declare war on those noble families who have been thieving and living happily in Kanto for hundreds of years—"

"Their doomsday has come!"

Coincidentally, at this moment, the trackers below shouted the end of their chant.

"Go through the backflow, keep your legs straight! Bend down and get through!"

Keep your legs straight! Push through!
This is the only secret to being invincible in this world!

(End of this chapter)