After listening to the cry of his old subordinates, Gongsun Xiong's face was heavy and his heart was indignant. Ziyu wasn't the first to report the chaos. Gongsun Xiong took out a piece of bamboo slips, heated the fire paint and dripped it on it, and stamped his own seal on it; He handed over some belongings and bamboo slips to Ziyu and said, "I'm afraid this is just the beginning, and more terrible things are still to come." You are still lucky, immediately take your family to Zheng Guo to join Dr. Meng Wu, I'm afraid you won't even be able to pass the border if it's too late! ”

Ziyu accepted the bamboo slip but refused the property, and said goodbye to the old Sima in tears.

In fact, long before Cao Boyang issued the order to defend the township, Gongsun Xiong already felt that the situation would develop in an uncontrollable direction. The reason why Gongsun Xiong fully supported Cao Boyang to establish the "New Deal" was because he also had the lofty ideal of "reviving the Cao State" in his heart; The reason why he agrees with Gongsun Qiang is because he is very knowledgeable and very good at impressing people with words.

Now that the new policy has been implemented for several years, Gongsun Xiong has not seen an extra piece of land in Cao State, nor has he seen any increase in population, and the grain harvest has been decreasing year by year; The taxes on the people are getting heavier and heavier, and the decree to help the widows and lonely is dead in name; The walls were built higher and larger, and the palaces of the magnates became more magnificent; But the people are living in poverty and fleeing a country full of high-sounding lies and robbers.

Gongsun Xiong got in touch with Meng Wu again and told him about the chaos that had occurred in the country. Meng Wu couldn't do anything but comfort him. Meng Wu also said that the one who destroys Cao must be Song; The reason why he came to Zheng from Qi was that he hoped to persuade Zheng Bo to come to the rescue when the Song army attacked the motherland.

When Gongsun Xiong read this letter, he couldn't help but tremble and burst into tears: "It turns out that the person who is most loyal to the national society is actually Meng Wu, who 'viciously curses' the national society!" ”

Gongsun Xiong wants to do something to save the situation, but he has been kicked out of the core of power; He was still nominally the commander of Cao Jun, but the tiger talisman was taken away by Cao Boyang. Without the Tiger Talisman, he couldn't move a single soldier. Now that the national army is in the hands of Cao Boyang and the local armed forces are in the hands of Gongzi Huang, Gongsun Xiong has to find another way.

Soon after sending Ziyu away, Gongsun Qiang ingeniously established a "Loyalty Alliance" in the capital, where any hooligan and villain could join the organization, but good people avoided it.

The Alliance's original mission was to flaunt its loyalty to the office, and to constantly praise Cao Boyang (and of course Gongsun Xiong was not left behind). Soon Cao Boyang said to Gongsun Xiong: "The world can only praise God and the ancestors, not the widow and the master." As a result, the villains could only praise Cao Boyang alone.

Those who sing hymns professionally are paid salaries, because they are profitable, and the organization has more and more members, and the expenses are getting bigger and bigger. Gongsun Qiang gradually couldn't afford to pay. He summoned several leaders and asked them to raise their own funds.

With Gongsun Qiang's permission, the creativity of the villains to do bad things has been greatly exploded: in the name of loyalty, they can steal and extort at will; In the name of loyalty, they can stop and rob at will; In the name of loyalty, they can even ruin innocent people!

Gongsun Xiong didn't want to be silent any longer, he angrily broke into the palace and strongly demanded that Cao Boyang disband the criminal gang that blatantly committed murder. Cao Boyang said slowly: "In the past six hundred years, there has never been an era in which so many loyal and righteous people have emerged like today, and the revival of Cao Kingdom depends on them!" Therefore, the oligarchy thought that the alliance should not be dissolved, but should be expanded to all parts of the country. At that time, Master, it is impossible for Cao Guo not to be strong! ”

Gongsun Xiong retorted: "If only those who claim to themselves are considered loyal and righteous, then the first doctor, the countrymen, and the vast majority of the people are all evil people? If loyalty needs to be bought with money, then what is loyalty without money? ”

Cao Boyang said with a smile: "So, Master, let the people of the entire Cao Kingdom join the alliance, this is the way to eliminate the evil spirits, and the way to hegemony!" ”

Gongsun Xiong returned home in a rage, and he wrote a letter to Meng Wu that day, in which he asked bitterly and solemnly: "What should I do?" ”

Soon, Gongsun Xiongtan heard that Cao Boyang had secretly summoned Gongsun Xiong into the palace again, and he couldn't help but have a hint of foreboding in his heart. Sure enough, the next day Cao Boyang summoned him into the palace and said: "The current big country has at least three armies, but my country only has two armies (the upper army and the lower army). The widow wants to gather another army, what does the master think? ”

Gongsun Xiong's heart suddenly arose a great fear: the consequences of the dictatorship of the army had been exposed; If the army continues to expand, the large and small clans in the country will undoubtedly lose their land again; Small clans will go bankrupt first, and then it will be the turn of medium and large clans; When the vast majority of the nobility is wiped out, the rude and fierce soldiers will ride on the necks of the people, and the state of Cao will become a kingdom ruled by a handful of villains.

This was by no means the outcome that Gongsun Xiong and the nobles wanted to see. Gongsun Xiong replied with righteous words: "The minister thinks it is not possible. The poem says: 'Whoever is today, Mo Ruo is a brother.' 'The most relied upon by every monarch is his brothers, but now the brothers of the monarch have become impoverished, and many nobles have to go to the fields and cultivate the land themselves to make ends meet. This situation is by no means a cause for joy for the office. So please don't issue this kind of order, if the country needs more troops, Junbo can completely recruit them from the major clans. ”

Cao Boyang looked very impatient, he didn't want to continue chatting with Gongsun Xiong, so he hastily ended the conversation. Gongsun Xiong left the room with his front foot, and Gongsun Qiang slipped out of the north side of the screen with his back foot, and the two conspired for a long time before ending the game that day.

A few days later, Cao Boyang took back command of Cao's army from Gongsun Xiong and handed it over to Gongsun Qiang. Gongsun Qiang spent months co-opting and bribing sergeants, luring them to break military discipline, and then began to use this degenerate army to do all kinds of bad things.

Gongsun Qiang's targets were the various clans that had lived in the Cao kingdom for generations, and he instigated the soldiers to find various excuses to clash with the lords. For a time, chaos broke out in various parts of Cao State, and group fights occurred frequently; However, the person who provoked the incident did not resist the beating, and was often beaten to the point that his head was broken and his tendons were broken. However, this was exactly what Gongsun Qiang wanted, so he ordered someone to carry the wounded and disabled sergeant into the palace to complain to Cao Boyang.

Cao Boyang was "furious" and ordered the eldest prince Huang to investigate the bloodshed. Gongzi Huang, as Cao Boyang's pawn, arrested the patriarchs of several families in one fell swoop, and finally executed or exiled them for "treason". Many families rebelled, but they were suppressed by Gongsun Qiang's army.