Chapter 2: Encounter with Cao Cao
"This……"

For a moment, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were stunned: to break such a thick peach tree with bare hands, even for the two of them would have to accumulate strength and then strike with all their strength.

It can never be that easy.

As for Liu Bei, he did not believe in the saying of "direct lineage from the Yellow Emperor" at first. Over thousands of years, the blood of Yan and Huang had already been integrated into the entire Chinese nation. Who could be more special than who?

However, when he saw Ji Hao break the peach tree with one punch and heard the subsequent words, he became nervous.

Could it be that the Human Emperor really has a special bloodline?
"There are also some people with other surnames who are born with supernatural powers that are different from ordinary people. That is the return of the side branch bloodline, and they have also inherited some of the power of the Human Emperor!" Ji Hao said again: "You can take care of yourself!"

After saying that, he left quickly without saying another word.

These three sentences were a counterattack against Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei for looking down on him, and they were also paving the way for his future.

If I can’t board the Shu Han ship and can’t rewrite the regrets I’ve had since childhood, then what can I do?

Join Cao Cao? Join Sun Quan?
forget it!
Putting aside the admiration for the heroes of the Three Kingdoms and the resentment towards Shu Han, he is 1.8 meters tall and weighs 200 kilograms. 1.79 meters and 199 kilograms are both rebellious. The remaining one centimeter is the sole of his shoe, and the remaining one kilogram is the food in his stomach!
If you can't join the Peach Garden Oath of Brotherhood, then you can only declare yourself king and fight for domination of the world!

But others have families, fame, and wealth, but he, a time traveler, has nothing. If he wants to achieve great things, he can only establish a persona first, just like Liu Bei's "Han royal family relative".

His character is that he is a descendant of the Yellow Emperor and a direct descendant of his bloodline.

It doesn’t matter if it’s too long ago, and it doesn’t matter if there’s no evidence - connect the innate supernatural power with the bloodline of the Human Emperor, change the secular concept, and let people believe that people with great strength have awakened the bloodline of their ancestors.

Wouldn't that be enough?
As for whether this concept can be established.

He found it not difficult.

Everyone is narcissistic and wants to be more powerful. As for those who are born with supernatural powers, who wouldn’t want to be a descendant of the Queen of Humanity?
And those who are born with supernatural powers will not be mediocre.

As the celebrity effect takes effect, his identity as the "descendant of the Human Emperor" will be confirmed sooner or later!

"However, the most important thing at the moment is to get an official position!" Ji Hao returned to his grocery store, took out a locked small box, and put it in the package.

"I prepared it with great care to donate money to Liu Bei for an official position, but now I can only use it myself!"

After packing his luggage and carrying his spear on his back, he mounted his horse, went out and galloped along the official road towards the capital Luoyang, intending to first ask Emperor Ling of Han to buy an official position and then seek other options.

There is a saying that goes: The last generation of officials in the late Han Dynasty, once you buy a term, it’s permanent!
This sentence summarizes two chaotic phenomena in the officialdom in the late Eastern Han Dynasty: First, buying official positions was prevalent, to the point of being so crazy that the emperor established the "Western Garden" and sold them openly at a fixed price.

You can become an official by spending money.

From county magistrates and county governors to the three dukes and nine ministers, all can be bought.

This is partly why the aristocratic families control the world in this era. After all, the aristocratic families have a lot of money, and when money can be transformed into power, the boundary between officials and civilians becomes blurred.

The second chaos is the unlimited expansion of officials’ power.

After the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, the imperial court was unable to cope with it, so it allowed local areas to recruit militia. Both officials and gentry could directly recruit soldiers.

It is no longer illegal to have private soldiers, and privately manufacturing weapons and armor is no longer a rebellion.

Since local officials had military power, imperial authority could no longer extend to the countryside, so that after the rebellion was quelled, private armies in various places became too powerful to be controlled, and the ruling power of the court dropped to freezing point.

Warlords are in power, and whoever has the power becomes the lord.

The larger the territory you conquer, the higher the official position you can hold. Even if you are independent, you will be recognized!
"Gee!" After leaving the county town, we took the official road southwards and headed straight for Luoyang.

Originally there were many checkpoints along the way, and one needed a pass to pass through, but due to the Yellow Turban Rebellion, war broke out everywhere and all the checkpoints became useless.

On the contrary, there were many bandits robbing along the way.

Basically, there was a wave every few dozen miles. In one afternoon, they only traveled two or three hundred miles and killed dozens of bandits here and there.

He couldn't even imagine how ordinary people survive in this world!
"Hey, there are bandits ahead again, and it seems like they are a large group of bandits?" Ji Hao had been traveling for the entire afternoon and was planning to find a forest to rest for the night and set off again early tomorrow morning.

As a result, we saw hundreds of people in front of us, surrounding a convoy of more than a dozen people.

A general on horseback, whose attire was obviously different from that of the convoy, was resisting together with everyone in the convoy. However, his martial arts skills were average, and he had too few helpers, so he was outnumbered and was about to be defeated.

By then, the mounted general could run away and the bandits could not catch up with him, but the caravan would definitely suffer.

"This is a damn era!"

Although he did not consider himself a saint who had compassion for the world, he saw robbers robbing and killing people. He had the ability to rescue them but could not stand idly by, so he took off the spear from his back and rushed forward.

The gun moves skillfully, piercing a line.

With one shot, he pierced the head of the bandit leader on the spot, and then he threw it into the group of bandits, knocking down a large number of them.

"If you don't want to die, get out of here!"

The loud shout was like thunder out of the blue, frightening both sides of the war.

Then, the bandits retreated like a tide, and the convoy and the guards took the opportunity to ride away on horseback, leaving only the general on horseback standing there, shaking his head.

"Hey, you think we're here to steal your food!"

It turned out that the caravan did not feel grateful for his and Ji Hao's help. Instead, they were regarded as lone thieves with great martial arts skills, and they thought they were out to rob their fellow thieves.

So, when the bandits were repelled, they also ran away in a hurry.

"But we are not, otherwise how could we let them run away?" Ji Hao shook his head indifferently.

Only then did he take a closer look at the other person: he was a thin, dark-skinned middle-aged man with a big beard, about thirty years old.

Although he has an ordinary appearance, there is a special temperament between his eyebrows.

People can clearly feel his extraordinaryness.

"My name is Cao Cao, with the courtesy name Mengde. I am from Qiao County, Yanzhou, and I am the son of the former Grand Commandant Cao Chong!" The man clasped his fists and said to Ji Hao, "May I know your name, brother?"

It turned out that this was none other than Cao Cao of the Northern Wei Dynasty, one of the overlords who later divided the world into three parts.

"My name is Ji Hao, with the courtesy name Chengtian, and I am a wanderer in the mountains." Ji Hao thought for a moment and said, "I am a descendant of Emperor Huangdi and a descendant of the Zhou royal family! When the Zhou emperor abdicated, my ancestors retired to the mountains and lived in seclusion in a paradise. For five hundred years, I didn't know that the Qin Dynasty had unified the world, nor did I know about the later Chu and Han dynasties. Until a year ago, the last elder in my family passed away. I was really bored living alone in the mountains, so I came out for a walk."

After saying this, he deliberately put on a puzzled expression.

He added: "However, the Han Dynasty clearly unified the world, so why are the various places more chaotic than during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period? There are thieves everywhere, and tyrants and bullies everywhere. Could it be that rituals and music have already collapsed?"

(End of this chapter)