In May of the first year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty, more than two months had passed since the day of Cao Cao's sacrifice to the heavens, and within more than two months, Cao's army, which was able to fight well, not only pacified the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, but also captured the Beihai Kingdom of Qingzhou and the entire Xuzhou.

Today, compared with the seventy-eight counties of the three kingdoms and four counties of Yanzhou at the time of the expedition, Cao Cao's territory has been extended to Xuzhou until the Beihai of Qingzhou, with a total of three states, seven countries and six counties under his command, a total of 158 counties, nearly 500,000 soldiers, and the ministers are like rain, and the fierce generals are like clouds, and they are powerful in the world.

At the gate of Xuzhou, at this time, a few days have passed since Cao Cao entered Xuzhou, and within a few days, Cao Cao in addition to continuing to strengthen his rule in Xuzhou, is to marry Mi Zhu's sister Mi Huan, which has won the initial trust and support of the big and small families in Xuzhou City.

At the same time, Cao Ren, who led the troops to occupy the Xiapi State, and Tai Shici, who occupied Guangling County, both sent back good news that Guangling County and Xiapi did not resist when the Cao army's army was coming, but directly surrendered to the Cao army.

Among them, the surrender of Xia Pi Xiangrong was the fastest, and there was no resistance as Cao Cao imagined, and the reason why this was so was actually not unrelated to Tao Qian's betrayal.

After Xuzhou was initially settled, Cao Cao was ready to lead nearly 200,000 Cao troops back to Yanzhou, and in Xuzhou, nearly 100,000 Cao troops were left to garrison Xuzhou.

"Yuan Rang, come here."

At the city gate, with the original Xuzhou large and small civil and military came out together, Xiahou Dun, who sent Cao Cao back to the division, after hearing Cao Cao's summons, unloaded the weapons on his waist, came to the chariot where Cao Cao was sitting, bowed his head and hugged his fists and said: "What does the lord command." ”

"After you became the pastor of Xuzhou, the focus was on supervising Cao Bao, this person must have resentment in his heart at this time, if he wasn't too cautious, I would have put him to death a long time ago, but with his character, such caution will not last long, once he has any changes, as long as it does not cause large-scale chaos in Xuzhou, I promise you to act cheaply!"

"The last general commands!"

Xiahoudun didn't ask much, and Cao Cao didn't say much, because they all knew in their hearts what this cheap act looked like, to put it bluntly, as long as Xiahoudun could ensure that Xuzhou would not cause turmoil, then Cao Bao could be directly executed without going through normal procedures.

"There is one more thing, that is, the so-called Dafutu Temple built by Tao Qian during his reign, I want you to lead the troops and eradicate them for me one by one, there is no need for Buddhism in my territory!"

In the end, whether to leave Buddhism, Cao Cao thought about it at the beginning, and the final result of consideration is to completely eliminate Buddhism, whether Buddhism has any good places, that must be there, not to mention the rest, it is very good to lead people to goodness, but compared to the danger brought by Buddhism, this small benefit is not very important.

Not to mention the impact on the country's finances, population, soldiers and other aspects after the great revival of Buddhism, just the Buddhism advocates this life and the next life, the suffering in this life, the next life will inevitably enjoy blessings, and the hidden obedience in the Buddhist teachings, these are enough for Cao Cao to make up his mind to eradicate them all.

What is suffering, if the invasion of foreign enemies is also considered suffering, wouldn't it be advocating that they should not resist, but to suffer such suffering, in exchange for the blessings of the next life, Buddhism with such teachings, Cao Cao will not eradicate him unless he is stupid.

Later generations believed that the unification of Confucianism in China was a great catastrophe for China, but in Cao Cao's view at this time, he was very glad that it was Confucianism, not Buddhism, that ruled Chinese thought in ancient times.

Take a look at India, which was unified by Buddhism, from ancient times to the present, almost all under the rule of foreigners, from the Persians and Greeks at the end of the sixth century BC, to the Cypriots, Anxi, and Dayue people in the second century BC, and then the Arabs, Turks, Portuguese, Dutch, British, etc., these foreign peoples, have ruled India for a short time, during this period, the uprisings set off by the Indians are almost equal to zero.

The hidden dangers brought by Buddhism coupled with the experience of India on top of history made Cao Cao make up his mind, taking advantage of the fact that Buddhism has not yet flourished in the Central Plains at this time, and the people of the world do not care about Buddhism, he will directly eradicate it.

For Cao Cao's eradication of Buddhist temples, Xiahoudun was eager to do so, after all, with Tao Qian's great development of Buddhist temples, the population in Xuzhou, household registration, taxes, etc., were almost affected, and it was no wonder that Xiahoudun was unhappy if such a black sheep could be eradicated.

Almost after the order, Cao Cao asked Xiahoudun to retreat, called Cao Ren, who had already led the troops back to Xuzhou, and ordered the whole army to return to Yanzhou!

"The prime minister has an order, the whole army will be pulled out, and return to Yanzhou!"

"The prime minister has an order, the whole army will be pulled out, and return to Yanzhou!"

"The prime minister has an order, the whole army will be pulled out, and return to Yanzhou!"

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With the order of Cao's soldiers, the Cao army, which lined up in a long line, like a huge black dragon, began to move, and in the rumbling sound, the huge chariot that Cao Cao was riding slowly drove through the Xuzhou city gate, and the Xuzhou civil and military forces waiting on both sides of the carriage bowed down and bowed down as the frame arrived: "Congratulations to Prime Minister Cao!" ”

Among the Wenchen who stayed in Xuzhou, Mi Zhu raised his head slightly, looking at a frame closely following Cao Cao's chariot, his eyes flashed with relief and reluctance, the person in this frame was none other than Mi Zhu's sister Mi Huan, who Cao Cao had just married, of course, with marrying Cao Cao, Mi Huan at this time should be called Mi Shi by outsiders.

The capital of Yanzhou, and at the same time the capital of the Han Dynasty at this time, Chen Liu, or known as the Chen capital, was busy with the ceremony of Cao Cao's victory and return under Cao Cao, who stayed in the Chen capital, in the palace in the center of the city, Dong Cheng stood in front of Emperor Han Xian with an anxious face and said: "Your Majesty, Cao thief returned from this victory, not only pacified the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, but also occupied the Beihai Kingdom and the three counties of Xuzhou Siguo. ”

"Aiqing, Cao Aiqing quelled the rebellion, what's so annoying, it's worth Aiqing dragging me!"

For the meaning of Dong Cheng's words, Emperor Han Xian didn't know if he didn't understand or what, in short, he was very impatient, without waiting for Dong Cheng to continue to say, he yawned directly, and waved his hand impatiently: "Okay, okay, Aiqing doesn't need to say more, I'm a little sleepy at this time, Aiqing should step back first, come on, send Aiqing out of the palace!" ”

"陛xià, 陛xià!"

Dong Cheng, who was stopped by the two Yulin guards, looked at Emperor Han Xian who walked into the rear with a look of despair and helplessness, sighed heavily, waved away the two Yulin guards in disgust, and turned his head and left the palace.