After Cao Cao received 10,000 surrendered troops and a large amount of food and grass, he was proud and was about to attack Lu Zhi and others. He tasted the vitality of Xuzhou. When he was preparing for the attack on Xuzhou later, he was stopped by Xun Yu's letters.

After reading the letter, Cao Cao realized that Lu Zhi not only brought Liu Bei's military power to Zhang Fei, but also brought Chen Deng the intellectual power to Chen Deng.

Although Chen Deng did not see Cao Cao's plan to reduce troops and add stoves, he saw that Cao Cao did not really want to join forces with the Xuzhou army to save the emperor. Chen Deng learned through his network of relations with the gentry in Yanzhou that the reason why Cao Cao proposed to jointly save the emperor was because of the suggestion of Xun Yu, the second-in-chief of Yanzhou army, that Chen Deng judged that Xun Yu really had the intention to save the emperor.

Therefore, Chen Deng ran to Juancheng alone to meet Xun Yu. Chen said that the two armies were so powerful that the most critical point was that Chen Deng proposed the proposal of Yan and Xu to join forces to fight against Hebei.

Seeing Xun Yu's letter, Cao Cao had to admit that this was the feeling of being moved!

Cao Cao's strategy has always been to unify the Central Plains of Henan and then compete with Hebei. Now that Hebei has been unified, he has already left the backlash, especially after Ma Qiang defeated the Wuhuan, the Xiongnu, and the Xianbei. He was even anxious about this day and night, and he couldn't sleep at night, and even had a headache that was worse than before.

Cao Cao believed that as long as he fought against Xuzhou, Hebei would inevitably go south.

But if he didn't conquer Xuzhou, he would think he wouldn't have the strength to fight Ma Qiang.

But now, Chen Deng gave another plan, that is, Yan and Xu joined forces to fight Yuan Shu first and divide the land in Yuzhou. If Guanzhong has the chance, he will jointly send troops to attack the remnants of Dong's family. The land will belong to Cao Cao, and then he will divide some land in Yuzhou to Liu Bei.

Once the Hebei troops move south, the two families will also join forces to fight against the horse in order to find a glimmer of hope.

Cao Cao sighed to Xi Zhong next to Cheng Yu, "What kind of virtue is Liu Xuande? He has to be the two generals of Guan and Zhang, and Xuzhou, and now he has the help of a wise man like Chen Yuanlong. I am deeply envious of it!"

Since then, Cao Cao began to seriously discuss the alliance with the Xuzhou army. One of the two sides was Lang Youqing and the other was concubine Youyi. He quickly divided Yuzhou and determined that the Liang State, Pei State, Lu State, and Chen State, which were bounded by Wo River, east of Liang State, Shansang County, Runan State, belonged to Liu Bei, and most of the Chen State belonged to Cao Cao.

This incident was called the Woe Water Alliance in later history, laying the foundation for the subsequent Central Plains War.

Don’t think that Liu Bei seems to have taken advantage of it. In fact, this is basically the sphere of influence of the two sides now, but some places are still occupied by Yuan Shu.

At this time, Yuan Shu, who was in Shouchun, sneezed violently.

He never expected that when people were sitting at home, the pot came from the sky, and the two families of Cao and Liu were about to fight. Why did they make a fuss when they were making trouble? It turned out to be a hit by me, Yuan Shu.

Is Yuan Shu easy to bully like this? Woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo

Not to mention that Cao Cao and Liu Bei, the happy enemies in history, have begun to be good friends hand in hand, the Ma Qiang convoy on the other side is almost over the inspection in Qingzhou.

Speaking of Ma Qiang's inspection in Qingzhou, we have to start more than a month ago.

——More than a month ago

"I said...Linzhi, you come with me and want to do news materials, why are you here too?"

Ma Qiang looked at Mi Zhen, Zhen Mi and Lu Lingqi sitting next to him with a well-behaved and sensible look, and felt that there was a place on his forehead thrust.

Don’t look at these girls who are obedient now. As long as they are studying in high school in Guangzong City, who wouldn’t know that these guys are just a group of demons in the world. Last time, a Confucian journal published an article saying that they should read the saints’ books and oppose miscellaneous studies to enter the government. As a result, the newspapers were almost smashed by these demons in the world. If it weren’t for Zheng Xuan’s suppression, they would almost trigger a big melee in the ideological circle in Hebei.

You should know that the Journal of Confucianism is the third newspaper in Hebei. After Ma Qiang basically unified Hebei, he began to relax the regulations on the newspapers and allowed the public to set up newspapers on their own. Soon, some people who had long seen the power of newspapers began to form a society. Now, Hebei has successively established the "Hebei Business Daily", "Journal of Confucianism", "Journal of Confucianism", and "Agricultural Daily". Some have official shadows behind them, while others are purely private forces. Of course, the establishment of these newspapers requires filing with the Commercial Supervision Bureau of the General's Office, and the Commercial Supervision Bureau has specially established a department of the News Supervision Department for this matter.

"Brother Ma~ Isn't this for our Women's Business Research Club? We are all students and don't know which industries are easy to make money. How to make money? You can't walk around?" Linzhi smiled and Ma Qiang looked at these little girls and shook his head. Forget it, do whatever you want.

"Ming Gong, Pingyuan City has arrived, Prime Minister Lu and Pingyuan King Liu Shuo are waiting outside the city."

"Okay, organize the team, and the soldiers camped outside the city, bringing only one hundred musketeers into the interior."

After Ma Qiang finished speaking, he walked out of the carriage and said it was a carriage, but there was no horse in front of his car. Instead, it was a huge machine, which was squirting black mist and white smoke.

That’s right! Ma Qiang did not take a carriage on the tour this time, but took a steam locomotive carefully handmade by Zhang Ning and others - the Red Flag!

Why is it called the Red Flag? Look at the front of the car, a huge metal red flag logo stands on it, which looks extremely majestic.

Ma Qiang believes that after decades, this logo will become a symbol of luxury and status like the later generations of winged little flying man, the double-winged letter B, and the triangle double-M logo.

Not to mention, when they saw a steam locomotive without horses but could walk by themselves, the officials, soldiers and civilians who came to greet Ma Qiang widened their eyes, and many people knelt on the ground with a thud and started to bow with a whisper.

Liu Shuo, the nominal king of plains, was actually a borer borer, and stammered and shouted "Monster! Monster!!"

"Pingyuan Wang Jinyan! This is the car of the general, how could it be a monster? It should be called a divine object!"

Lu An was a little disdainful. He had known for a long time. This car was called a steam locomotive and was driven by a steam engine. He just didn't know what kind of breed this chicken was. He grew up like this and was still sucking in mist. It should be correct to say that it was a divine beast.

Although Ma Qiang is now a general, he still gives Liu Shuo, the brother of Emperor Huan Zhi, some face, and takes the initiative to get out of the car and help Liu Shuo up.

"What is your Highness doing? Get up quickly!"

I am not the emperor, why are you kneeling down and worshiping me!

"General...What kind of magical thing is this?"

Ma Qiang helped Liu Shuo to the boiler machine in front of the car. Since it was the first mechanical car, the car was still very simple and the boilers in front were exposed. Although the exhaust gas displacement would not meet the national standards in later generations, it doesn’t matter if it is just this car now.
Chapter completed!