In a short period of time, these northern businessmen have constructed a network of interests in collusion between officials and businessmen through money, and after that, they can be said to be even more unscrupulous!

Han! The Han people in the northern region were forcibly made into Han people in Liaodong by these merchants through the hands of officials, and then sold them!

Because there is almost no difference between the early grassland slaves, the recent Liaodong, the slaves on the Korean Peninsula and the Han people in the Central Plains, their actions have not been discovered at all.

Time flies, two months have passed in the blink of an eye, it is already June of the second year of Hongwu, the courage of the merchants in the north has been completely bigger, the action is getting bigger and bigger, the Han people, the Han people of Liaodong, the people of all countries on the Korean Peninsula, in six months, they have barbarized nearly 300,000 to 400,000 slaves and all parts of the northern Wei Dynasty, and at the same time, a huge network of relationships has gradually begun to spread.

It's just that a sudden incident completely exposed them!

In June of the second year of Hongwu of the Great Wei Dynasty, Zhang San, a native of Changping, Guangyang County, Youzhou, was on a mine, and a riot sounded, and then it turned into a riot and an uprising!

The slave rebel army led by Zhang San, in just half a month, successively captured the four counties of Guangyang, Changping, Jundu, and Anci, which were out of reach, although they were then reacted to, and the Wei army stationed in Youzhou was quickly eliminated, but the news of the unprecedented slave rebellion in the Great Wei Dynasty had already reached the Great Liang!

In the Deyang Hall of the Great Liang Palace, all the civil and military forces were silent at this time, and no one dared to say a word, just because of Cao Cao above. His face was so gloomy that anyone who wasn't blind could see it.

"Zhang San, Guangyang County. A native of Changping County, there is an old mother at home. It was originally an honest peasant, but because of the Changping County Order, and the family was broken, I was demoted to a slave, sold to various states and counties in the north, and finally couldn't bear it anymore, and Hongwu set off an anti-flag on the eighth day of June in the second year, good, good. These situations in the north really opened my eyes. ”

Cao Cao said that he actually laughed out loud at the end, but all the civil and military officials in Deyang Hall were even more frightened, and everyone understood that when Cao Cao laughed angrily, things were not good.

Sure enough, after laughing, Cao Cao's face changed. The case was slapped, and he roared angrily: "The collusion between officials and businessmen has led to Zhang San's uprising this time, and those people in the north." When I am blind, am I a fool?! ”

This time the slaves revolted, and Cao Cao was not only angry. At the same time, there was some shame and anger, because of Zhang San's rebellion this time. In fact, it can be said that Cao Cao caused it single-handedly!

If it weren't for the slave arrest order he issued earlier, the slave trade would not have been possible on the land of China. If he hadn't taken it so lightly and had issued some policies to restrict those merchants, it wouldn't have caused them to become more and more emboldened and excessive.

The culprit of Zhang San's uprising this time is on the surface those northern merchants and officials, but the real person is actually Cao Cao, so Cao Cao is ashamed and angry!

"Okay, those merchants and officials in the north want money, then I give them to them, but they don't dare to do anything if they have a life to spend it!"

After the outburst, the voice immediately turned cold, making the bodies of some of the officials present tremble, they understood that a major earthquake was about to usher in the north!

At the end of July of the second year of Hongwu, the northern officialdom ushered in a major earthquake, the imperial court machine turned, and almost all the countless officials in the north were dismissed.

This purge did not end until September of the second year of Hongwu, which was also the first case of such a large collusion between officials and businessmen in Wei, which shocked Cao Cao and even those ministers in the court.

Holding in his hand the network of official and business relations that has been formed in the north for nearly a year, Cao Cao's face is not as angry as in the court in the past, but very calm and even indifferent.

Why is Cao Cao's face so so, the dark one kneeling behind him, can not be more understood, maybe this time Zhang San's uprising, in the eyes of the world and even the hundreds of officials and ministers in the court, is completely caused by the collusion of officials and businessmen in the north, but as Cao Cao's shadow in the shadow, it is very clear, maybe this matter was like that at the beginning, but later, it was completely led by Cao Cao!

That's right! Whether it was Zhang San's uprising, or the rapid fall of the four counties afterwards, it was all caused by Cao Cao, otherwise, with those slaves who did not have much physical strength and almost all the weapons in their hands were hammers and wood, they could break through the county town guarded by the Wei army?

They were able to break through completely because as early as the beginning, the four Wei soldiers received the highest order from the Privy Council, issued by Cao Cao himself, if there was a chaotic army to attack, after a little resistance, immediately retreat!

Needless to say, the obedience of the Wei soldiers and soldiers, and with the Privy Council, an institution that is almost invisible to everyone, Cao Cao almost controlled the entire north from the beginning!

Whether it is Zhang San or those officials and businessmen, after the initial stage, they have become Cao Cao's pawns and Cao Cao's pawns to clean the north!

The north can be described as a cancer in the territory of Wei State, and the hidden dangers after Yuan Shao's rapid elimination did not get better with the passage of time, but became worse and worse, which can be seen from the fact that the entire northern officialdom was corroded this time!

It is precisely because of this that Cao Cao made up his mind to use Zhang San's rebellion to directly carry out a justifiable purge, and purge all the cancerous officials left in the entire north and replace them with others!

After this purge, the hidden dangers of the entire north can be said to have been swept away, which is naturally good for the Great Wei country, but for Zhang San and those slaves, it is bad!

The emperor is ruthless and affectionate, and Dark One once again fully understood the meaning of this sentence, Cao Cao felt guilty about Zhang San and them, otherwise, it would be impossible for the Secret Guards to take good care of their families, but this does not mean that Cao Cao will give up this good opportunity to be able to clear the northern officialdom in one fell swoop because of this!

Affectionate and ruthless, the way of the emperor!

Dark Yi sighed in his heart, but he didn't know that Cao Cao had spent so much energy and time this time, and his goal was not only to clarify the north, but to have some other plans, if he knew, he would understand more clearly, what is called the Imperial City. (To be continued......)