Cao Cao walked to the pavilion where Lu Yan and the other two were brisk.

He glanced at Xiahou Lan, who seemed a little panicked, and then sat between Lu Yan and the other two without hesitation. He took the wine pot and filled himself with a glass.

After Xiahou Lan conveyed the news, she originally wanted to arrange the old Cao. At this time, the master suddenly appeared. He felt guilty and had to escape quietly.

After picking up the wine glass, Cao Cao finished his "sheep!" and then he let out a long breath and asked, "Three, I just seemed to hear you talking about me?"

Lu Yan and the other two looked at each other, then stood up and bowed to Cao Cao, "Congratulations to Mr. Cao (lord) for becoming the Prime Minister!"

After Lao Cao stood up, waved his hands repeatedly to let everyone sit down, he replied: "Oh, it's all the intentions of the ministers and your majesty, and I dare not refuse to accept it!"

Lu Yan smiled in his heart and said, "Pretending! Keep pretending! If you, Lao Cao, don't want to be the prime minister, I, Lu Yan, twisted my head off and kicked you as a ball!"

But why do Dong Zhuo, Li Jue, Cao Cao and others want to become prime ministers? This is what we need to talk about the official system of the Han Dynasty.

The three dukes, namely the Taiwei, Sima, and Sikong, were all officials from the outside court, while the generals were officials from the middle court.

The office location of the Chinese and Korean officials is closer to the emperor than the foreign officials, and can even directly affect decision-making to a certain extent, and has a very high authority. However, the foreign officials have no power to pre-heard political affairs and basically simply become executors, which is in line with the trend of expansion of imperial power.

Therefore, this is also why the position of the general is higher than that of Taiwei, Sima, and Sikong.

However, the prime minister in the early Western Han Dynasty had both administrative power, decision-making power and even military power, which was greater than the power of internal and external officials after the formation of the Chinese and Korean official system. Restoring the prime minister system was actually the first step to undermine the imperial power.

However, Cao Cao in this life was not as domineering as in history. He did not enjoy the treatment of "not worshiping in the court and bringing a sword into the court."

But in Lu Yan's opinion, if these two treatments are missing, it is actually better for Cao Cao at this stage.

At least, Cao Cao, who lacked these two treatments, was completely different from Dong Zhuo and others.

You should know that when Lao Dong came up, he said that he would "receive the prime minister, not the court, but bring his sword to the court." That was arrogant.

If Cao Cao was treated the same as Dong Zhuo, it would be difficult for all the people in the world to think about it.

Cao Cao's prime minister was elected by Kong Rong, and the emperor finally agreed to the proposal. He never said anything from beginning to end, basically avoiding misunderstandings and questions from the world to the greatest extent.

In addition, Cao Cao also promised to rebuild Luoyang City, which made many scholars and people who were interested in the Han Dynasty have a higher acceptance of Cao Cao becoming the prime minister.

Why did Kong Rong and many officials elect Cao Cao as prime minister? This involves complex interests of all parties.

Simply put, if the brothers under Cao Cao want to do better, Cao himself must go further.

The incident in the court today may be that Cao Cao had already discussed with the officials who secretly surrendered to him, or that some officials hoped to attract Cao Cao's attention and gain the greatest attention after surrendering to him.

The greater the power Cao Cao has, the more benefits the people under his command can get. The allusion of the yellow robe is well explained.

Anyway, it's all for the benefit.

The three here, Lu Yan, Guo Jia, and Xi Zhicai, are not the kind of people who hold on to the Han Dynasty. On the contrary, their class makes their thinking more likely to accept new things.

Cao Cao went further and the greater the space they could use, so why not do it?

Lu Yan glanced at Cao Cao, but suddenly asked, "Duke Cao, what do you think Yuan Shao will react?"

When Cao Cao heard this, he was about to raise his glass to drink the second glass of wine, but he paused for a moment.

"What else can it be? Yuan Shao will definitely be furious and will even use this as an excuse to challenge Cao's alliance..." Cao Cao said self-deprecatingly, then raised his head and killed the wine in the glass.

"Very good, Cao Cao is not yet floating, and his self-awareness is still quite clear." Lu Yan was very pleased and said in his heart: "After Yuan Shu falls, Cao Cao's biggest opponent is Yuan Shao... As long as he takes Yuan Shao, Cao Cao will have the momentum to sweep the world!"

Lu Yan nodded. Since Cao Cao knew the possible risks in the future, he would not have to talk more.

After Lu Yan stopped talking, the scene fell silent for a moment.

In order not to be in a bad mood, Cao Cao took the initiative to ask: "Fengxiao, I heard that you said last time that you would not drink anymore, why did you start drinking again today?"

When Guo Jia heard Cao Cao’s question, his face turned red and his heart was not beating, "By lord, Jia said that he would no longer drink alcohol... Today, we are drinking health wine."

Cao Cao twitched his mouth and asked subconsciously: "There is still such a saying?"

Seeing Cao Cao's face full of belief in you, Guo Jia pointed at Lu Yan with his jaw and said, "If you don't believe me, ask Changsheng. This wine was made by him and Hua Tuo, and it said it would be of great benefit to the body."

"Oh?" Cao Cao became interested in an instant and asked, "What is the difference between this wine and ordinary wine?"

When Lu Yan heard this, he pointed to the brown wine with his fingers and said, "This is called tiger bone wine. A medicinal wine made of tiger bones and other Chinese herbal medicines and white wine. It has the effects of strengthening muscles and bones, strengthening the waist and feet, and eliminating wind and cold. It is mainly used to treat kidney deficiency and weak bones, cold pain in the lower abdomen, weak walking, and pain in the shoulder and arm. It is suitable for treating wind pain, cramps in the limbs, as well as liver and kidney deficiency and cold waist and feet, etc."

"Treat kidney deficiency?!" Cao Cao moved his ears and keenly gave the most important point among the many benefits. "This wine sounds good! Changsheng, how much is left there?"

Lu Yan recalled for a moment and replied, "It's probably less than three kilograms... These are just gadgets that Hua Tuo and I have nothing to do when we are free. If you want it, take it when we leave later."

Cao Cao smiled and said, "Then Cao is more respectful than obedient!"

"Lord, when will you go to see Miss Cai?" Guo Jia suddenly asked suddenly. In fact, they all knew that Cao Cao's purpose for coming here was probably not simple.

When Cai Yan was fourteen years old, his literary talent was already shining, and he was well-versed in poetry, books, rituals and music. Even to the point where he knew Zhao Ji, he knew that Cai Yong was.

Such a strange woman, even when Cao Cao faced her, she felt a little ashamed.

However, Cao Cao was also young and energetic at the beginning. The more inferior he felt in his heart, the more he wanted to show a heroic, grand and awesome look in front of Cai Yan.

Therefore, when Cao Cao was studying under Cai Yong's school, he brags a lot in front of Cai Yan.

But now I look back and see that Lao Cao’s bragging at the beginning was really awesome!

Not only did he even make it happen, his current achievements are far beyond what he said: killing Dong Zhuo, supporting the Han Dynasty, and becoming the general of the Han Dynasty to fight against the West.

I'm afraid Cao Cao himself never expected this result.
Chapter completed!