We all evaluate Cao Cao as a capable minister in troubled times. Here is a collection of Cao Cao's Yellow Scarf Army. The yellow turban insurrectionary army has been rampant in the cold pavilion for more than eight years, and there have been repeated rebellions.
Zhu, Huang Fusong and others, you can let them lead troops to fight, but you can't let them run the country. They are military commanders, not politicians. They all wiped out the uprising of the Yellow Scarf Army with the help of military force, but they didn't fundamentally think about the origin and destination, but Cao Cao fully considered this. In the third year of Chuping (192), more than one million men and women of the Yellow Scarf Army surrendered to Cao Cao. Among them, tens of thousands of able-bodied men were incorporated into the relatively independent "Qingzhou soldiers" by Cao Cao. Those who are not merged go to be farmers and farmers.
Under the management of Cao Cao, they were very obedient and believed in Cao Cao. They are no longer a single refugee armed group. According to the characteristics of these people, Cao Cao selected people who were good at fighting and compiled elite Qingzhou soldiers. In particular, the way Cao Cao treated this Qingzhou soldier was to treat them as mercenaries. That is to say, Cao Cao regards them as professional soldiers, so that they can get the salary given by Cao Cao every month as long as they are in front of the soldiers, and if they win the war, they can get more rewards.
In the Yellow Scarf Army, Cao Cao brought some women into his own territory and let them engage in agricultural production. In addition to a kind of protection, it is also a kind of monitoring. Qingzhou soldiers are famous for their loyalty in the next 30 years, which is undoubtedly Cao Cao's management means. Cao Cao is a real lean man.