This time, what happened between these powerful bosses was the Cui Qu case initiated by Mr. Guo.

In June of the second year of Yande, Guo Peng ordered some members of the cabinet to connect with the Ministry of Works led by Tian Feng to discuss the possibility of building a canal from the south of the Yangtze River to connect to Luoyang.

Cao Cao and Tian Feng were still suspicious at first, thinking that Guo Peng was a bit too fierce to do this. Now that all major projects across the country are being launched, they still have to do such a large project. Is it a bit too hard?

And the finances cannot keep up.

Then Guo Peng took out the data on the beginning of spring and winter that he had counted for eight years.

According to vertical comparison, Guo Peng told Cao Cao and Tian Feng that the weather was gradually getting colder, and the spring and winter time in the second year of Yande fluctuated significantly compared with the data eight years ago.

Spring is later than the previous year every year, and winter is earlier than the previous year.

This means that over the years, the time from spring to winter has been shortened, which means that the time for food growth will become shorter and shorter.

This trend has not changed for eight years, which proves that such a situation is highly likely to continue to deteriorate in the future.

The temperature will get lower and lower, while the grain output in Hebei and Central Plains will experience a significant decline.

There is a major connection between the production of grain and the cold weather.

This statement made Cao Cao and Tian Feng stunned. In their cognition, such knowledge was very vague and unsystematic. They just knew that cold weather would freeze the food to death.

But what Guo Peng said was concise and sounded very reasonable. Although they didn't know whether they should believe it, Guo Peng only asked them to discuss the possibility and take a charter to see it, so they did as they did.

At that time, Cao Cao and Tian Feng had a relatively harmonious relationship. After more than three months of hard work, the two initially discussed a possible plan.

The preliminary plan is to take advantage of the Northern Expedition of the Sun Wu regime.

That is, from the Yangtze River, use Ruxu water to enter Chaohu, then from Chaohu Lake to enter Shi water, then enter Feishui, enter Huaihe River along Feishui, enter Yingshui from Huaihe River, and go straight to the vicinity of Xu County, Yuzhou.

This will basically complete half of the journey.

Cao Cao and Tian Feng respectively sent officials from the Cabinet and Ministry of Works to Jiangdong to conduct field investigations along the planned route, and initially determined that such a plan was worthy of adoption.

Make full use of natural waterways to reduce labor consumption, widen and unblock the slushing water, water application, water and Yingshui to varying degrees, and create a canal from the Yangtze River Basin to the Yellow River Basin.

This plan was recognized by Guo Peng, and then Guo Peng asked Cao Cao and Tian Feng to continue to add details to the plan.

For example, how to widen and unblock natural river channels, how to connect water supply and purified water, how to partially divert Yingshui and connect it to the waterway leading to Luoyang, so that it can truly become a usable canal and a waterway that can transport a large amount of food and fodder.

At that time, Cao Cao and Tian Feng really didn't expect that Guo Peng would really want to build a Grand Canal, communicate with the north and south, and prepare for things that are still invisible.

This is an unimaginable project.

Once it is really going to be done, from Yangzhou to Yuzhou to Yanzhou to Sili, the Grand Canal connecting the four states is not known how much manpower and material resources it will take to mobilize, and how many years it takes to complete the repair.

Is it really meaningful to carry out such a huge project?

You can use these waterways directly, so you don’t need to widen them, right?

Tian Feng wrote this idea into a memorial and handed it to Guo Peng. Guo Peng issued an order to scold Tian Feng, saying that he was short-sighted.

Once a grain harvest fails, is it just a place where the harvest fails?

It must be a bad harvest in the entire Central Plains and Hebei, or even a bad harvest in the North China level. What role can a canal with insufficient transportation capacity play?

What if the land transportation capacity is far less than that of water transportation?

Can the transportation speed keep up with the consumption of food in various places?

Now we have to start planning the worst!

Build up the canal and increase the amount of grain stored in various places to form a practice, and regard the reserve of grain as the top priority of the country.

Guo Peng said that if a country wants to be stable, it must be prepared to ensure the supply of food for the whole year under extreme circumstances of non-income harvest.

If you cannot achieve this preparation, you will not be able to hold on to the country's foundation. Once a real disaster comes, it will inevitably cause millions or even tens of millions of hungry people!

At least twenty years, and as long as thirty years, we may all be alive, but we will have to face such a tragedy!

Cao Cao and Tian Feng were so scared that they had no idea whether Guo Peng was a prophet or crazy.

Guo Peng didn't plan to tell them anything, and directly ordered Tian Feng to work with Cao Cao to complete the matter, otherwise he would be severely punished.

Tian Feng had no choice but to continue to send someone to join forces with Cao Cao to conduct detailed local investigations and repairs to find the real feasibility.

How to choose a starting point, how to broaden the river channel, repair supporting facilities, recruit local residents, how to connect local waterways to form complete transportation capacity, etc.

This matter was done in the third year of Yande, and it was not resolved when the Cui Qu case broke out.

When the Cui Qu case broke out, Guo Peng Leiting was furious, the court officials were frightened, and Cao Cao and Tian Feng were both unable to escape from the whirlpool in the middle of the case. How could they continue to work like this?

Fortunately, more than a month later, the major case was settled, and Cao Cao and Tian Feng passed the crisis without much impact.

But the key to the problem is not here, but the relationship between the two.

Once upon a time, Tian Feng and Cao Cao were both relatives of the royal family and their relationship was pretty good.

Tian Feng hoped that Cao Cao could ask Cao Lan to take care of Tian Rou more and not let Tian Rou be bullied, so he didn't care whether Cao Cao was a eunuch or not, and he got very close to Cao Cao.

However, in the Cui Qu case, because of the explosive point of the Cui family, Cao Cao used Cui Qu as a typical example when he counterattacked the anti-trade tax group, and found Cui Qu's super cancer, which immediately implicated countless people, such as Tian Feng.

Tian Feng was the leader of Cui Qu and the relatives of Cui Yan. While getting close to Cao Cao, he was also a scholar and a scholar's family circle, and he was very close to Cui Yan, who was also from Jizhou.

The Cui family was almost wiped out by Guo Peng who was furious. As an important relationship player, Tian Feng certainly did not avoid it and was also implicated and hit.

Not only was he held accountable by the emperor, he lost face in front of his subordinates, lost his reputation greatly, and also offended Cheng Yu.

Cheng Yu is Tian Feng's boss and has a great desire for power. He has always had no good face to Tian Feng. For Tian Rou's sake, he did not mess with Tian Feng.

As a result, Tian Feng's subordinates actually made Cheng Yu lose face and his face swollen. It is said that he was even scolded by the emperor. It is conceivable how angry he was.

In the more than a year after the end of the Cui Qu case, Tian Feng felt the malice from Cheng Yu several times.

Cheng Yu's malice and suppression of him was no longer normal, but a special concern.

Cheng Yu always pays special attention to the official affairs of the Ministry of Works and likes to strictly review the economic expenditure issues of the Ministry of Works.

Whenever the Ministry of Works proposes how much money is needed to do, Cheng Yu always pays attention to it to a considerable extent and has an extremely meticulous review, and personally sends his confidants to stare at the Ministry of Works.

No matter what the Ministry of Works needs to do, Cheng Yu always needs to get the audit results from Cao Cao as soon as possible, and then get his own money-use plan from the Ministry of Works, and track it from beginning to end.

He widened his eyes and checked over there whether the Ministry of Works had tampered with various payment issues.

It seems that Cheng Yu is not preventing the Ministry of Works from letting the Ministry of Works do things, but is hoping that the Ministry of Works will do things and find problems from it so as to use Guo Peng's severe punishment measures for corrupt officials to severely crack down on Tian Feng.

He tried to destroy the Tian Feng family in one breath and ensure that his status was not affected.

It is obvious that Cheng Yu seems to have understood the previous incident as Tian Feng and Cui Yan joining forces to develop their own power in the Shangshu Desk, thus fighting against him and then replacing his political plans.

It can be said that Cheng Yu has already treated Tian Feng as an enemy.

He did not regard Tian Feng as a simple subordinate at all, but regarded Tian Feng as an enemy who could compete for power with him, and as an enemy that must be eliminated.

In order to deal with Tian Feng, Cheng Yu felt that his power was not enough and his chances of winning were not high, so he even took the initiative to ease the relationship with Cao Cao and make friends with Cao Cao, even if Cao Cao was the one who pressed the explosion switch of the Cui Qu case.

But in Cheng Yu's opinion, it seems that Cao Cao is not as hateful as Tian Feng.

Moreover, as the queen's elder brother and the prince's uncle, Cao Cao has a very special identity. Cheng Yu, who was a retainer of Guo Peng, really did not have the courage to become enemies with Cao Cao.

Moreover, in the previous commercial tax struggle, Cheng Yu actually supported the imposition of commercial tax, and his position was no different from Cao Cao.

So Cheng Yu unilaterally forgave Cao Cao, eased his relationship with Cao Cao, further had close contact, and tried to reach a political alliance with Cao Cao to fight against the resistance forces in the Shangshu led by Tian Feng in his fantasy.

In Cheng Yu's opinion, as long as Cao Lan is still the queen and Guo Jin is still the crown prince, Cao Cao is simply invincible.

Although Cao Lan did not express any relevant opinions in the previous storm and did not discuss any related issues in front of Guo Peng, this is also Cao Lan's cleverness.

As long as Cao Lan is still there, the Cao family will not be shaken.

Even if Guo Peng and Cao Lan are gone, the prince Guo Jin also has the bloodline of the Cao family, so it is impossible to really target Cao family.

The existence of Cao's family is really a bug.

So in order to fight against the advantage of half of the relatives of the Tian Feng family, Cheng Yu chose to take the Cao family route.

Cao Cao led the cabinet to connect with the Shangshutai. If there is anything to do, it will be difficult without the cooperation of the Shangshutai.

The deterioration of his relationship with Tian Feng had already made him very embarrassed. The Grand Canal matters that were connected with the Ministry of Works have reached a deadlock and were unable to promote them normally for a long time.

Guo Peng asked about this several times, and learned that the progress was limited and he was already blamed, and felt that Cao Cao had not tried his best.

Cao Cao was so helpless in his heart.

He was very annoyed that Tian Feng did not cooperate, but felt powerless. At this moment, of course, he was unwilling to continue offending Cheng Yu. If he offended Cheng Yu again at this time, wouldn't he have lived a life?

Therefore, the friendship between Cao Cao and Cheng Yu seemed natural.

Both of them are in love, so it is normal for them to have a good relationship. Now Cheng Yu and Cao Cao are very close, and their relationship has greatly eased.

After hearing these rumors about the path, Tian Feng felt deeply afraid and alert.

For more than a year, Tian Feng has been struggling to cope with the attacks and threats of Cheng Yu.

He felt that the reason why Cheng Yu had not yet attacked him was because he was worried that his family had someone in the harem and gave birth to a daughter, which was quite favored by Guo Peng.

He had reason to suspect that Cheng Yu took the initiative to win over Cao Cao in order to compete with the advantage of the Tian family in Guo Peng's harem and offset the advantages of the Tian family.

In Cao Cao's case, because of the queen Cao Lan, Tian Feng was particularly wary of this matter.

Not to mention Guo Peng's attention to Queen Cao Lan, just talking about his power in Tian's family, after losing the support of scholars led by Cui, it is impossible to confront Cao, let alone add Cheng Yu.

This is equivalent to Shangshutai and the cabinet jointly attacking him. Can he survive?

Tian Feng thought about it over and over again, and thought that Tian Rou had once told her family that she had a good relationship with the sisters of Daqiao.
Chapter completed!