After making an epiphany, Cao Cao turned his head and looked at Mrs. Ding.

Mrs. Ding looked confused.

"What's going on?"

"What happened to Zi Lian, why did Zi Lian be arrested and why something happened? I figured it out, I know what's going on."

"What's going on?"

"Land is because of land, for no other reason, it is because of land!"

Cao Cao took a deep breath: "Zi Lian was wrong at this point. If it weren't for this, he would never have fallen to this point! I already understand His Majesty's meaning, I already understand everything!"

"land?"

Mrs. Ding was very surprised and didn't know what Cao Cao meant.

After Cao Cao explained his considerations clearly, Mrs. Ding covered her mouth in surprise.

"How could this happen? His Majesty..."

"Your Majesty is now a man who will kill 100,000 people for the purpose of annexation of land."

Cao Cao took a deep breath: "Madam, Your Majesty is no longer Xiao Yi from Qiao County. Forget all this and stop thinking about it. Your Majesty is an emperor comparable to the First Emperor. Now, don't look at him with that kind of perspective anymore, something will happen.

By the way, madam, forget what I say to you tonight, forget everything. Don’t mention it to anyone on any occasion, including everyone around us, even children, and elders in the family, no one can say it.”

Cao Cao held Mrs. Ding's hand.

Mrs. Ding felt Cao Cao's serious attitude, pursed her lips, and nodded with difficulty.

Although Mrs. Ding still has the same appearance as Guo Peng when she was young, and the happiness he looked like when he first married Cao Lan.

That child who was so young at the time has now become like this and has become the supreme emperor in the world.

As Cao Cao said, all this should not be back, and Guo Peng will not return to his original appearance. They are no longer just relatives, not just simple relationships.

So, I can only forget it and never mention it.

Cao Cao lowered his head, sighed deeply for a while, and then lay on the bed with Mrs. Ding again.

"Meng De, will people really change so much, so fast?"

Mrs. Ding suddenly asked like this.

"Yes, no one will never change. Eight, fifteen, twenty, and thirty, and forty are all different. Your Majesty is already at the age of 1980, and nothing will confuse him."

"But I feel that there is not much difference between you and before. How it was back then has not changed much now."

Mrs. Ding turned her head and looked at Cao Cao.

Cao Cao pursed his lips, was silent for a while, and then laughed out loud.

"After all, I have never been a general, a Duke of Wei, a King of Wei, or an emperor. I have been with him all the way, but in the end, I am not him, and I can't understand what he has experienced in that position."

Cao Cao turned his head and looked at Mrs. Ding: "Madam, what Zifeng has experienced is unimaginable. If I have experienced all this, maybe I will not recognize you now."

Mrs. Ding was stunned for a moment, then showed a slight smile.

"Luckily you didn't."

"Yes, fortunately I don't, but..."

The smile on Cao Cao's face was curled: "I don't know how Alan would view the person beside him. After all, it was Cao. What would Alan think after knowing it, what would her relationship be like?"

When Mrs. Ding heard what Cao Cao said, she thought about Cao Lan and sighed helplessly.

This kind of thing is indeed no longer something they can intervene and change.

After that, the couple said nothing all night.

The next morning, Cao Cao went to work in the cabinet as usual, and all the officials he saw along the way looked at Cao Cao with strange looks.

Cao Cao had no unnecessary reaction to this.

He seemed to have no idea that such a thing had happened, and he didn't seem to have encountered Cao Hong being arrested and didn't care at all.

He performed his duties as usual in the cabinet, handled the things he sent by the emperor as usual, and wrote a summary report.

It was around afternoon, when the officials were having lunch break, Cao Cao sorted out his desk, left the cabinet alone, and came to the Sili School Guard's Mansion to meet Cheng Yu.

The chief minister of the cabinet came to pay a visit, but Cheng Yu had to see him.

In fact, Cheng Yu was interrogating the tribe members in Cao Hong's family who were responsible for the land account books and conducting high-intensity interrogations on these tribe members.

He felt that since the emperor wanted to dismember Cao Hong's property, it would be better to do it thoroughly, find more evidence of crime, punish more, and give more input to the treasury.

One person has 200,000 acres of land and 10,000 hidden households, and can be compared with those small countries in the Spring and Autumn Period, and he can be his own king.

As Guo Peng said, Liu Jian exchanged the status of a Wanhu Gong with the Han Empire and the emperor. He recognized it and accepted it because it was a political necessity.

But Cao Hong was very direct. He was granted the title of 10,000 marquis to himself and could continue to expand. Maybe by then, there would be 400,000 acres of land and 20,000 hidden households.

In terms of merit and identity, he is far inferior to Cao Ren, but his family property is even more and more huge than Cao Ren.

Only Cao Hong, an extremely greedy guy, can do this.

Cheng Yu could feel Guo Peng's unhappiness. He felt that dismembering Cao Hong's property must be a very wonderful thing, and he could also get Guo Peng's approval and gain greater power.

But after interrogating, I really didn't ask anything worth paying attention to. It felt like Cao Hong was really clean.

Apart from the land, he really seems to have no problem and can't find it no matter how hard he checks it.

According to the records in the land account book, all the land Cao Hong obtained, the more than 200,000 acres, were really clean, and they were all taken from the owner of the manor and did not involve the farm farm.

This made Cheng Yu very depressed.

Can't you really find any problem?

Since the incident where Guo Peng defeated Yuan Shao and Cao Hong was beaten up by Man Chong, Cao Hong has been very cowardly and has never dared to attack the land of the farmland.

At the beginning, he was beaten half to death by Guo Peng because he attacked the land of the military farm. He was thrown into the small dark room for three days and three nights, and almost got a problem.

So since then, Cao Hong has been very well-behaved in making money and land mergers, trying his best to avoid conflicts with farm farms and resolutely not infringe on state-owned assets.

However, he particularly likes huge assets.

He likes fertile land and huge manors, and he likes to count money. The feeling of being rich and having more and more money but not spending it outside makes him unable to stop.

The more the better, the more the better, the more the better!

So he set his sights on the powerful manor owners.

They have a lot of land and are very fertile, and there are a lot of property in their homes. Everything in the manor is incomparable to the farm farms, and it is almost a complete small society.

As long as you get ownership, you can immediately occupy and increase your own assets.

The whole thing was taken away, all of it was their own. What's more wonderful is that the land and property owned by these manor owners were not within the scope of the court's calculations, and the court would not pursue it at all.

Guo Peng did not allow anyone to attack the military farm.

If there is, he would die. He was lucky enough to avoid death once, and he was afraid, so he took a different approach and beat the rich.

He knew that Guo Peng had never liked these powerful manor owners who possessed a lot of land, so he felt that as long as he beat the rich, Guo Peng would definitely be very happy.
Chapter completed!