Anyway, war cannot start in winter, so the war between Cao and Yuan is not very urgent, and you can slowly bargain for one or two months.

After Xun Yu got Cao Cao's decision, he didn't say much, but just silently retreated and then arranged for execution.

Cheng Yu was responsible for arranging counter-espionage before and was messed up. Today, he was very quiet and dared to talk about some revisions. When Xun Yu left, he left immediately, indicating that he had no intention of staying in private to communicate with his lord.

In the lobby of General Zhengdong's Mansion, besides Cao Cao, there was only one Guo Jia, and some other confidant servants and maids.

Cao Cao was also depressed. He glanced at Guo Jia and knew that Guo Jia probably had something to say, but he didn't point it out, so he asked the servants to bring two pots of wine and some side dishes for entertainment, and then asked them all to retreat.

As for the maids, they could not stand within ten steps, and they were all beaten to dance to the hall to make fun of them.

"Fengxiao, I was in a bad mood today when I was surprised, so I had a few drinks with me." Cao Cao waved his sleeves and pulled Guo Jia to the side.

This was Cao Cao's initiative to "retreat the left and right", ensuring that even the servants and maids could not hear the chat content between him and Guo Jia for a while, and at the same time, it did not seem that Guo Jia was avoiding Xun Yu's alone to make suggestions.

Cao Cao and Guo Jia's acting skills are also very good, so it is natural. I know how to make even the dancers who are ten steps away look like they think they are talking about gossip while drinking, and absolutely not talking about national affairs.

Even though they were talking about serious things, their expressions were still as frivolous as if they were enjoying singing and dancing and talking dirty jokes.

Guo Jia was not polite, and let Cao Cao pour wine for him by himself. He also took out a small celadon bottle from his arms and poured something into the wine glass.

Celadon is produced in Yizhou and was sold to the Central Plains by wealthy merchants from Shu. The medicine bottles used by Guo Jia are naturally as green as jade, and are the best product of Yizhou celadon.

The medicine inside has nothing to do with Yizhou. It is Wushisan, a local drug dealer. Guo Jia is a person who is indulgent in love with sex and is addicted to women and likes to be unrestrained.

Cao Cao often compared Li Su's lifestyle around Liu Bei with Guo Jia, but the two still had essential differences: Li Su just likes beauties, but never indulges in lust to harm her health. As for the harmful things like Wushisan, he even asked Liu Bei to completely ban them in Yizhou, and the government would investigate and deal with people who were banned from banned.

"Add a little less! Don't bring this kind of thing to my mansion in the future!" Cao Cao scolded Guo Jia, but did not stop it completely. After the two drank a few drinks, Cao Cao asked about the serious matter with a dirty joke, "Is there anything I want to say when I avoid Wen Ruo today? Do you think there are still some shortcomings in Wen Ruo's persuasion?"

Guo Jia took a sip and said, "Xun Sima is loyal to the country and has meticulous thoughts. How can there be any gaps? I just saw that Gong Ming never considered anything. I wouldn't be happy if I don't ask today."

Seeing that Guo Jia did not mean to belittle Xun Yu, Cao Cao was also very satisfied. When he heard about the mistake, he asked happily: "I would like to hear about it."

Guo Jia looked at Cao Cao sincerely: "Don't Ming Gong have ever thought that if Zi Funing today, in the next few years, we and Yuan Shu will be the princes who are in the heart of the world. Without the emperor's clear edict, they will attack the prefectures and counties and expand their territory, which will be like a great rebellion. Unless the remnants of the Yellow Turban thieves rekindled around them, they can naturally attack and seize the land.

In contrast, in addition to us and Yuan Shu, Liu Bei could attack the thieves of Xiliang and Hetao, and Yuan Shao could also expand the territory of the Xianbei in the northern part of Bingzhou to erode several counties, or further win over the grassland Hu. Liu Biao and Sun Ce could plunder the population of Shanyue to enrich military and financial resources.

If we don’t do anything, the situation will be even more unfavorable to us after a few years. Our only advantage is that we have implemented a one-year military farm system this year and will continue to be promoted in the next few years. The official warehouse treasury will have more money and grain than Yuan Shao and Yuan Shuzhou County with the same population.

However, military farming can only make up for part of the gap between us and the two Yuans, but cannot make up for the gap between us and Liu Bei. Yuan Shao's land was destroyed by war and was relatively small. Even if we learn from the same military farming system in the future, the potential for recovery is small. Liu Bei's new patrol of Guanzhong, and the population of Liu Bei's territory is equal to Yuan Shao, but in fact, Guanzhong is extremely destructive. Liu Bei's manpower is still equal to Yuan Shao after it has sharply reduced.

Liu Bei still has so many undeveloped remote areas to farm, and the right general Li Su is very good at exploring people's strength. If we only compare the growth rate of national strength of military farming, we are far inferior to Liu Bei. Even if the world is peaceful for five years or ten years, when the time comes, Liu Bei will only be stronger! Therefore, the long-term peace of the world is not good for us, so it is better to fight quickly!"

Cao Cao raised his hand and signaled Guo Jia to stop first, and then reminded: "But you said just now that without the emperor's decree, how can you fight quickly and decide quickly?"

Guo Jia's face became a little cold and he didn't care about his acting skills: "To break this situation, we can only... be slightly disloyal to Your Majesty. Of course, Ming Gong is definitely always loyal to Your Majesty, but there are naturally thieves in the world who are not loyal to Your Majesty. We will not do evil in person, but we just make some thieves unable to help but jump out."

Cao Cao creaked, almost pinched the bronze wine jue, and took a deep breath: "How to do it?"

Guo Jia also took a deep breath: "To the north, I secretly show my kindness to Yuan Shao and ensure harmony with Yuan Shao. Under this premise, our army may change its development direction and build merchant ships and warships in Donghai County, Xuzhou, and expand outward, enriching national and civilian power on the one hand, and diverting the outside world's hostility towards us."

Cao Cao frowned: "What are you thinking about inseparable things in Fengxiao? Is this totally okay?"

Guo Jia stretched out three fingers: "My method seems irrelevant, but in fact there are three benefits. First, our army is not now in the heart of the world, and the emperor is still there, so we cannot expand. But in the past two years, I have also observed what Liu Bei and Li Su did in Shu and realized a truth - improving national and civilian combat power may not necessarily rely on exploring land to reproduce the population. Proper development of industry and commerce and discovering the per capita production of the people is also a way.

Liu Bei's success in the Northern Expedition has benefited a lot from this. In the past two or three years, many of the wide-formed Shu brocade, celadon, high-quality steel and iron forged secret methods, high-quality salt, and rare goods in the south were not available several years ago. How much money, grain and weapons had been seized for Liu Bei and how much combat power had he converted? Otherwise, the difficulty of Shu Road would be due to Li Jue's failure, and it would have to take Liu Bei several years.

Although we do not have a genius who are good at craftsmanship, we may not be able to gain something by moderately encouraging industry and commerce and rewarding people with ingenious ideas. Moreover, even if we cannot build wealth and goods by ourselves, at least we are in the heart of the world. As long as shipbuilding is developed and goods are connected to the north and south, and earning the difference from the profits of trade can also improve national strength.

Originally we felt that sea trade was dangerous and difficult to have a huge amount, but in recent years, Mi Zhu, the prefect of Liaodong, had a cargo all over the world. There were more than a few hundred merchant ships on the East China Sea? When he killed Tao Qian at the beginning of last year, Mi Zhu even transported hundreds of thousands of Xuzhou people in Xuzhou who were afraid of slaughtering the city to Liaodong. Recently, I heard that there were even those who went to Sanhan, or even to the extreme east. Although Mi Zhu's sea ship was kept confidential, it has been used for several years. As long as we pay enough attention to it, we may seek talented people to dig ships, or reward the wreckage of the sea ships that were crashed by Mi Zhu's caravan, as long as we are careful, we will always gain something, it depends on whether Ming Gong attaches importance to it.

This is what I said about encouraging shipbuilding and paying attention to industry and commerce. Once successful, we may still go to Sanhan to plunder the population and obtain precious goods. This will not only benefit the trade, but also benefit the combat power of Yan and Xuzhou."

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Cao Cao then felt that the messy suggestions just now were gradually gathering his eyebrows. He touched his beard and commented: "This is a long-term method. However, the initial investment in shipbuilding and encouraging industry and commerce was huge. Since last year, I have also noticed that Liu Bei sold Shu brocade porcelain and made huge profits. He also secretly visited and inspected Shu merchants, but I heard that the method Li Su used cost hundreds of millions and tens of millions of dollars.

If we invest more in production expansion by making profits, we may occupy less money in the early stage, but it will not be effective without five or six years of success. If we invest a large amount of money and grain into this national policy, and the situation in the world will suddenly change, and it will not be lost for a moment, what if it does?"

Guo Jia: "Then invest less in the early stage, and see Ming Gong's determination. At that time, we will make profits and expand shipbuilding and maritime business by relying on the money we earn, so as not to affect the money and food needed to fight for the country.

Moreover, this involves the second and third benefits of my method - I advise Ming Gong to practice this method, in addition to making profits, the more important thing is to make both Yuan and others careless.

As for Yuan Shao, this time he nominally condemned us for blocking the Wang Road, so he insisted on seizing Dongjun and Chenliu. But in fact, what Yuan Shao's plan was, hasn't Ming Gong seen yet?"

Cao Cao really didn't see it. He was slightly stunned and asked subconsciously: "What? I didn't see it. Yuan Shao was greedy for a small person, didn't he just want to get a few pieces of land in vain?"

Guo Jia shook his head: "It's not just about wanting two pieces of land! I think the key to Yuan Shao's move is to hope to directly border Yuan Shu's territory. Shortly after Liu Bei secretly formed an alliance with Yuan Shao, I gradually thought about it. Yuan Shao and Liu Bei did not want the emperor to live in the world for a long time. Liu Bei had a conflict that was suspected by the emperor. He just ran away when he recovered the former emperor of Chang'an. His Majesty was afraid that his surname was Liu, and he was always afraid that neither side could face it. Yuan Shao had the old account of supporting the old King of Yan, and was afraid that he would settle it today.

Yuan Shao knew that you were the most suspicious prince in the world, so he was afraid of you and knew that you would definitely not do anything that was unfavorable to the emperor. Therefore, I guess that at the moment when Yuan Shao and Liu Bei formed an alliance, they were already taking advantage of the point that "the more the princes in the world waited, the more unfavorable they would wait", and secretly made Yuan Shu's ambitions expand and he would commit the big mistakes in the world!

Yuan Shao wanted to border Yuan Shu, and hoped that one day Yuan Shu would really take action. Yuan Shu, the rebel territory, would not be cheaper than the three princes who bordered Yuan Shu. Yuan Shao himself wanted to seize one from his brother under the banner of drawing a clear line to fight against the thief.

In this case, the "giving up the six counties blocking Wanglu Road, and both sides use Guandu as the boundary" is simply not enough for Yuan Shao! Because with Guandu as the boundary, Chenliu County, Chenliu County, and even Yongqiu and other places, are still under the hands of our army, and Yuan Shao will still have no borders with Yuan Shu at that time!

If our army adopts a more stable contraction attitude on the west side and poses an expansion attitude on the east side facing the sea, this is also a kindness for Yuan Shao. The envoy sent by the Ming Gong to negotiate with Yuan Shao could secretly express his attitude of continuing to follow the leader of Yuan Shao, and it means that at that moment, it will not stop Yuan Shao's army from transiting, or even control Chenliu and Yongqiu. At the same time, let Yuan Shao know that our ambition is in the East China Sea, and Yuan Shao may not regard Ming Gong as the main opponent in the future to compete for Yuan Shu's jurisdiction.

The third point I said is that our development towards the East China Sea can help the layout of Yuan Shu, which is also similar, but the manifestation is slightly different - the current situation is that we and Yuan Shu are in the hearts of the world. The longer the emperor exists, the longer we suffer losses with Yuan Shu.

Once we find the need to expand overseas and make profits, then we still have a way out. At that time, only Yuan Shu and his family had no way out. All the princes in the world still had room for expansion, and only Yuan Shu and his family suffered the only loss. Wouldn't Yuan Shu become more and more anxious? If Yuan Shu was really anxious, his Majesty would have a bad situation. The area bordering Yuan Shu was the largest. Even if Yuan Shao, Liu Bei and Liu Biao took a share of the pie, we would still get the biggest. In this way, the Ming Gong could break the deadlock!"

Cao Cao's eyes lit up. With his understanding of Yuan Shu, he knew that things had really come to that point, and Yuan Shu might not be able to hold it in for a year.

Originally, there were only two hardships in the world. Now, even the only brother-in-law, Cao Cao, has found a way out and said, "I can build a sea boat to expand my power in the Three Koreans, and I will not accompany you to die slowly." How devastating is Yuan Shu's mentality?

It’s like the only student who failed the course with you, and you are the only one who failed the course in the class. At this time, Yuan Shu must have even killed the teacher.

The reason why Yuan Shao was anxious to get along with Cao Cao was because after listening to Yang Xiu's analysis, Yuan Shao knew that Cao Cao wanted the emperor to live forever, and believed that Cao Cao could not be in the same mind as him on the issue of whether the emperor survived.

Now Cao Cao also acted as if he could not hold back his anger, which was a secret submission, indicating that he was also in the same position as Yuan Shao on this issue. In that case, the possibility of Yuan Shao letting him go and not making things difficult for a few years would greatly increase.

From then on, Yuan Liu instigated Yuan Shu to self-destruction, to Yuan Liu Cao instigated Yuan Shu to self-destruction together.

Even though Cao Cao had extraordinary IQ, it took him a long time to realize the viciousness of Guo Jia's calculations.

However, he immediately realized why Xun Yu never proposed this plan.

Cao Cao calmed down for a while and sighed with a desolate expression: "No wonder Wen Ruo never said this. When Yuan Shao proposed to support the King of Yan, he felt that Yuan Shao was not loyal to the court, but I was 'Lord to the north, I went from west'. When Yuan Shao needed someone to come to me for undercover, Wen Ruo volunteered and helped me wholeheartedly.

Although I can break the deadlock, I have to silently see the emperor being in trouble, and even indirectly lure Yuan Shu to take action, causing the emperor to be in trouble. How could Wen Ruo teach me such a vicious plan... Alas.

However, Wen Ruo has Wen Ruo's difficulties and his perseverance cannot make me pioneer, but it can help me keep the name of the world's number one Han minister who is loyal to the present. If I really want to avoid being attacked by Yuan Shao, I will be shaken by such great trouble. If Your Majesty really encounters an unexpected surprise in the future, with my current attitude of relying on Yuan Shao, I will definitely express my support for the puppet King Yan established by Yuan Shao.

In this way, our army's current advantages in Tianjuan have completely become a disadvantage - in the current suspicion of the current emperor, I am a person who has kindness with the current emperor, and Yuan Shao is a person who has suspicion of the current emperor. After the King of Yan ascended the throne, Yuan Shao was the first to advocate support, and he became more and more powerful at that time, but I became the one who once dissuaded Yuan Shao to support the King of Yan. I am afraid that within a few years, Yuan Shao took the new king's order and relying on the will of the "Court" alone, he could take away a lot of my authority! Now the territory that has been defeated by the sword's blood and fighting to death..."

Once the legacy brought by political stance is changed, it will be gone and even a complete turnaround will be made.

The reason why the Guandong scholars and officials could not tolerate Dong Zhuo's abolishment was actually another reason - they all expressed their support for He Jin at the beginning! He Jin took advantage of the death of the late emperor and immediately killed Jian Shuo after he established Liu Bian. After Dong Zhuo established Liu Xie under the original intention of the late emperor, once Liu Xie grew up, if the world was peaceful, he might not have been liquidated.

If there was one day, Yuan Shao and others might end up with the "Liang Ji party members" when Emperor Huan killed Liang Ji. Even if He Jin was already dead, he might be regarded as the second person in Liang Ji to liquidate his family.

Perhaps Liu Xie will still be kind when he grows up, but those people dare not use their lives to bet on a benevolent king. They can only say that the suspicion chain of Chinese civilization's plan is too cruel. They will never stop until one side completely kills everything, and the other side will be completely relieved.

Cao Cao was still very clear. He knew that Xun Yu and Guo Jia were both right and wrong, and were helping him with advice and had no selfish intentions, but their focus was different.

Guo Jia is more flexible, but he is more compromised because of this.

Xun Yu didn’t have so many strange plans, but Xun Yu had principles.

Guo Jia did not answer the conversation immediately. He quietly drank a few more drinks. When the lord figured it out, he finally said: "The situation is like this, our army has no complete plan, so Ming Gong can only choose on his own. Moreover, if we follow my plan, even if we show kindness to Yuan Shao or even show kindness to the King of Yan, as long as we don't let Jin Shang know, then we will not lose for the time being.

On the other hand, who would say what happened a few years later? Even if we tempted Yuan Shu to become more and more irritable, our agitation was the most obscure and secret among the three families of Yuan, Liu and Cao.

If things change at the moment, such as Yuan Shu was not sure when he took action, or when he was serving the king against Dong Cheng, the emperor left Dong Cheng again, and he could not be killed by Yuan Shu using Dong Cheng's hands, then we still have a chance? If we have the opportunity, we will seize it and rescue the emperor. We will use the emperor to command the world, and we can adapt to the situation.

If there is no chance in the end, at most, he will act like a willing to attach himself to the horse's tail and temporarily surrender to Yuan Shao, expressing his willingness to help Yuan Shao deal with Liu Bei. If there is any change within Yuan Shao, we will also have the opportunity to assist King Yan. However, King Yan will definitely not be as reserved as the King of Ming like today. When it comes to that point, he must be mentally prepared to hold the emperor and isolate the inside and outside, and also be prepared to be found by other princes and once again as attacked by the lord."

The last sentence touched Cao Cao deeply: even if he was a member of Yuan Shao's show of goodwill, he could at least not let Liu Xie know that he had shown goodwill to Yuan Shao for the time being. There is also a secret standard of riding a fence to grasp.

This overwhelmed Cao Cao's last hesitation and finally deteriorated his loyalty to Liu Xie.

"What I say about Xiaoxiao is not without reason... We should do our own things first, and we can follow this layout, but I only have one principle: we can do it slowly, but we must do it secretly, and we must not be exposed in the light of ulterior motives. We must make sure that we have the opportunity to look back at any time and adapt to changes!"

It is impossible not to do things, not to do things is to wait for death. Since that is the case, multiple paths are the best choice.

Cao Cao's camp was very decisive and decisive. A few days later, Guo Jia had already begun to look for specialized talents, planning maritime business and shipbuilding matters, and paying a lot of money to poach Mi Zhu's professional craftsmen or searching for ships. Everything was based on "farming eastward" as the layout direction - and personnel was not his job, but Xun Yu and Mao Jie's job.
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