Chapter 562

After Su Xuan took Lujiang and Jiujiang, Cao Cao, who had personally led his army to the northern border of Yuzhou and was in a standoff with Yuan Shu's army, also received the news.

"Boyuan's speed is truly fast!"

"It seems his troops have become stronger again?"

"This is truly giving me a headache; I don't even know how to deal with him in the future!"

Cao Cao rubbed his brow with some distress and said.

Zhong Yao, who was on the side, heard this and said: "My Lord! Now is not the time to consider these things. Taking Yuzhou, destroying Yuan Shu, and strengthening our own power is the key!"

"Besides, King Qian is indeed very strong, but because of his new policies, he has offended the vast aristocratic clans and even powerful families of the world, which is equivalent to offending everyone in the world. Such a warlord king still wants to unify the world? Isn't that a dream?"

In Zhong Yao's view, Su Xuan is completely courting death.

As the leader of the current generation of the Yingchuan Zhong clan, Zhong Yao naturally stands on the side of the aristocratic clans.

Therefore, he is very hostile and even hateful towards Su Xuan, so naturally, he would not say anything good about Su Xuan.

Cao Cao heard this, glanced at Zhong Yao, nodded noncommittally on the surface: "Perhaps! I hope what you say is right!"

But inwardly, Cao Cao loathed Zhong Yao: "Aristocratic clans! Aristocratic clans! Does your heart, Zhong Yao, only hold the aristocratic clans?"

"Where do you place me, your Lord?"

"In your eyes, are the aristocratic clans even above me, your Lord?"

"Then what do I need you for?"

"If I really take the world using people like you, then is this world still yours, the aristocratic clans? Do I still have to be controlled by you?"

At this moment, Cao Cao finally realized deeply why Su Xuan wanted to implement new policies to limit the disorderly development of the aristocratic clans.

This all has a source.

Even the fact that the Great Han is reaching its end is mainly the result of these aristocratic clans expanding excessively.

At the same time, Cao Cao also remembered his encounter when he served as the Chancellor of Jinan in Jinan Kingdom in the past.

Indeed, these aristocratic clans and powerful families should be dealt with properly.

Of course, he had actually realized this before and had already been carrying out small-scale reforms in his own territory, attempting to suppress the local aristocratic clans and powerful families.

Although this was not purely because the aristocratic clans were too powerful and had formed a constraint on him.

It was also related to the fact that the aristocratic clans led by Zhang Miao had begun to have disagreements with him.

But he had indeed begun to do so; the famous scholar Bian Rang was killed by him under these circumstances.

This also became a turning point in the relationship between Cao Cao and the Yanzhou aristocratic clans moving toward rupture.

However, at this time, the Yanzhou aristocratic clans were temporarily enduring it, and Cao Cao also thought that he had temporarily suppressed the Yanzhou aristocratic clans by killing the chicken to warn the monkey.

"Yuanchang, what you said is very right! The top priority is still to take Yuzhou and strengthen our power first!"

On the surface, Cao Cao still nodded affirmatively to Zhong Yao, and then continued to lead his army to fight against Yuan Shu's army.

The combat effectiveness of Cao Cao's troops was clearly a cut above Yuan Shu's side.

Moreover, Cao Cao had far more and stronger fierce generals than Yuan Shu, and with the help of the three Liu, Guan, and Zhang brothers this time, the war went even more smoothly.

Advancing like a hot knife through butter, in just one month, Yuan Shu had successively lost Pei Kingdom, Yingchuan, Huaiyang Commandery, etc., and was besieged in Runan City by Cao Cao's army of over 100,000.

And in this process, Yuan Shu's destiny was also quietly being swallowed in large quantities by Su Xuan's Golden Dragon of Destiny, a scene of being about to reach its end.

Under such circumstances, time brought the end of 191 AD and the beginning of 192 AD.

This day, in the Sima family mansion in Wenxian, Henei,

It was bustling with traffic and people coming and going, very lively.

A large number of Sima family descendants and relatives arrived at the Sima mansion in Wenxian to participate in this year's year-end grand sacrifice.

These were all seen by the secret guards sent by Jia Shijiu.

"Has everything been arranged properly?"

That evening, when the Sima family's dinner was about to begin, Jia Shijiu stood in a high building hundreds of meters away from the Sima mansion, checking the situation in the Sima mansion through his spirit beast while asking the secret guards beside him.

"Reporting to the Commander! Everything has been arranged!"

The secret guard replied hurriedly: "Three-Laughs Carefree Powder has been put into all the food and drink. We poisoned the water source directly, ensuring there will be no problems!"

It is said that this Three-Laughs Carefree Powder was personally developed by the Lord.

The medicinal effect can lie dormant for four hours before taking effect, and it is colorless and odorless, and almost impossible to detect by any means.

"That's good!"

Jia Shijiu nodded with satisfaction: "Then let the brothers below wait patiently! When the medicinal effect takes hold, that will be the moment for us to act!"

"By the way! When will the Bai Bo bandits arrive?"

This time, Jia Shijiu was not really prepared to take action personally.

Otherwise, it would be easy to leave traces and make people suspicious.

Even the poison was actually just a final backup plan.

Many people in the Sima family might not even wait for the poison to kill them before being hacked to death by the Bai Bo bandits.

In order to mobilize the Bai Bo bandits, Jia Shijiu used personnel lurking within the Bai Bo bandits to incite them early on to take advantage of this rare opportunity to come to Wenxian to plunder the Sima family.

After all, who knows how rich a family like the Sima family, which has been passed down for hundreds or even thousands of years, is?