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On the top of the city wall, Dong Cheng saw the scene happening in front of him, and he could not help but have a clearer understanding of the deep-rooted power of the Sima family in Henei County.

In just Shanyang Town, these tens of thousands of people can be summoned and dismissed at the command of a small county magistrate under the command of the Sima family.

Perhaps the Sima family also used some dishonorable means to deceive some people and farmers, but the appeal of the Sima family still made Dong Cheng feel the horror of the Sima family.

This is something that even the emperor of the Han Dynasty cannot do now!

If it is just Shanyang Town, it is such a situation, then how terrible will the hundreds of thousands of people in the entire Henei County be?

Even if only half of the population can obey the Sima family, it is quite terrible.

Sima family's status in Henei County is like this. Then, Taiyuan Wang family has been operating in Taiyuan County for countless generations. As the local emperor of Taiyuan County, their influence and appeal may not be inferior to Sima family's status in Henei County.

In the world, there are more than a dozen states, hundreds of counties, and more than a thousand counties. There are more than just Sima family and Taiyuan Wang family.

There are dozens of well-known aristocratic families in the world. There are probably hundreds of them who have produced officials or court officials of more than 2,000 stones for generations.

Add to that the small and medium-sized aristocratic families that depend on them, and it is even more unimaginable...

For example, a large aristocratic family has more than 10,000 servants and controls a population of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands. A small aristocratic family often controls a county, has more than 100 private soldiers, more than 1,000 tenants, and controls a population of more than 10,000.

If all the aristocratic families, big and small, and the private soldiers they control are added together, it is definitely a force that can shake the world.

Compared to the Yellow Turban Rebellion led by Zhang Jiao and his three brothers, the momentum is only stronger.

After all, which family that can be called an aristocratic family does not have the accumulation and savings of three or five generations?

Thinking of this, Dong Cheng couldn't help but feel more confident about cooperating with the Sima family.

In the final analysis, it is because after 400 years of the Han Dynasty, the aristocratic families have long formed a trend of being too big to be eliminated, and the population and resources of the world are almost controlled by these people.

So many generations of emperors in the Han Dynasty have tried to take back power from the aristocratic families through eunuchs and relatives, but they all failed.

Things that Emperor Huan of Han and Emperor Ling of Han failed to accomplish.

Although the father and son of the Cao family are now in charge of the central government and hold the power of the army, they do not have the title of emperor, and it is not legitimate.

Now, Cao Ang is greedy. After pacifying the princes of the four directions, he wants to take action against the noble families in the world. How can these noble families cooperate obediently?

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Before this, Cao Ang pacified the princes of the four directions by making a feint to the east and attacking in the west, so that the princes were almost wiped out one after another when they fought on their own.

But now it is different. The princes come and go, but the aristocratic families remain forever. The reason why these aristocratic families in the world can be deeply rooted is that they have been operating for hundreds of years and have become intertwined. They are not like the princes in the four directions who fought each other.

Cao Ang wanted to attack the Sima family of Henei County and the Wang family of Taiyuan County first, and the Sima family made their choice and counterattack at the first time. Such an attitude shows that the Sima family must have been well prepared and confident.

This also made Dong Cheng curious about the Sima family's actions and countermeasures.

Already impatient, he wanted to know their plan from the second son of the Sima family who had become famous.

Following the footsteps of the magistrate of Shanyang County, Dong Cheng soon came to the woods outside the city.

Of course, before this, Dong Cheng found a reasonable reason to keep all the soldiers sent by Cao's father and son in the city, under the pretext of preventing the chaotic army from attacking the city and letting them guard Shanyang. Dong Cheng went alone to negotiate. .