Chapter 116

The battle for the Zhen family has caused the Yuan and Cao families who were originally separated to break up publicly. Yuan Shao's war against Gongsun Zan has also come to an end. Gongsun Zan's passive defense was defeated by Yuan Shao and could only hide in Yijing Tower. Seeing that the situation was not good, Liu Bei and the other two had disappeared from the land of Youzhou.

So Yuan Shao could already rely on his own life experience to almost cover the forces of You and Jizhou. The forces of the three prefectures began to coerce Cao Cao, asking him to hand over the Zhen family and a large amount of property taken away from the Zhen family.

Under Guo Jia's reminder, Cao Cao did not reply a fiercely worded letter in a tit-for-tat way, but submitted a report to Liu Xie, saying that the Zhen family wanted to return to His Majesty, but Yuan Shao was embarrassed halfway through. He believed that Liu Xie praised the Zhen family's "loyalty" while issuing an imperial edict to scold Yuan Shao. However, given the power of the Yuan family, he was given a false title of general.

Then, Cao Cao, who was worried about it, held a huge wedding for Cao Ang and Zhen Luo, which caused a sensation in the entire Yan, Yu and Qing. In the endless stream of gifts from officials from all over the country were pulled to Xudu by carriages, and even Liu Xiedu issued an order to celebrate, and then appointed Cao Ang as the Xuchang Order.

The raw rice was cooked, and no matter how angry Yuan Shao was, it would be useless. However, he also realized that he had the advantage of having the emperor in his hands and began to slowly arrange his defense system against Cao.

The disappointment with Yuan Xi also caused the second son of the Yuan family to completely lose favor. Tian, ​​Ju, Xun, Guo, Feng, Xu, Shen and other major strategists either stood by Yuan Tan or Yuan Shang's side. Yuan Xi became a complete lonely man, losing his wife and his army.

After Cao Ang's wedding, Cao Cao began to prepare for revenge on Xuzhou. With his personality, he bullied his father, which was even more shameful than Cao Ang's own life. If it weren't for a series of things that influenced his plan, he would have ordered all his troops to kill him.

What's more, Lu Bu is still there, and he is like a tiger with wings.

Maybe God thought Tao Qian could live longer, or someone felt that he wanted to die first after his life was long. Yuan Shu in Shouchun suddenly held up the jade seal that had been hidden in the world since the fire in Luoyang, and announced that he would be the emperor and named the country Chen.

In fact, Yuan Shu has a strong foundation, and I don’t know how strong he is than Lao Cao who started from scratch.

Yuan Shu occupied Nanyang because of the recommendation of Liu Biao, the new governor of Jingzhou. Then the two joined hands with Sun Jian to become the prefect of Yuzhou. Although Yuan Shu later moved to Shouchun because of fear of Dong Zhuo's power, and with the help of Sun Jian, the vanguard and the secret support of Liu Biao, he started a series of struggles with his concubine Yuan Shao, and successively occupied most of Yangzhou and a small part of Yu and Jing. However, he was conceited and began to fan the flames everywhere after he gained power, making enemies everywhere. Even Liu Biao turned against him, so Yuan Shu, who was angry, sent Sun Jian to turn around and beat Liu Biao again.

Unfortunately, this powerful general who fought Dong Zhuo, Lu Bu and Hua Xiong in the official history eventually died and died on Mount Xian just a knife that gave him a handle. Sun Jian's son Sun Ce was almost a powerful general carved from the same mold as his father. The family background of only 3,000 people, plus the more than 4,000 people of his brother Zhou Yu, swept across the entire Jiangdong.

Sun Ce was originally dissatisfied with his father always helping Yuan Shu to fight, but he died in an unknown way. He possessed Jiangdong and was still under Yuan Shu's subordinates on the surface, but he knew from top to bottom that Yuan Shu was the next target to deal with.

However, Yuan Shu himself felt that the situation was very good, and with the jade seal in his hand, he was so angry that he ran out in an impulse to seek death.

It was hard to imagine that it was a different surname to be emperor in the Three Kingdoms era. Why did Cao Cao manage his business for decades and never become emperor until his death? Because he felt that the quality was not enough, and the people's hearts were not all aimed at him. It was far from enough to have an army that could only conquer and fight well. Yuan Shu, who was unvirtuous and incompetent and specialized in doing dirty things, was obviously too confident. People in the world still felt that this Han man should have a surname of Liu.

In the second week when Yuan Shu became emperor, Yuan Shu was depressed by Cao, Liu Biao, and other great princes including Sun Ce of Jiangdong.

Liu Xie, who was full of confidence and tantrums for the first time, felt that it was tolerant, but who was unbearable. Under Cao Cao's remarks, he also announced the imperial edicts to several major officials, demanding to jointly attack Yuan Shu. Whether it was open or secret, these people agreed, even Tao Qian and Lu Bu, who had a grudge against Cao Cao.

This is how politics is. There are no eternal friends, and no eternal enemies. A qualified politician will never blind himself by personal grudges.

Yuan Shu became a celebrity, Cao Cao, Lu Tao, Sun Ce and Liu Biao formed the "Yuan Shu Surrounding Net" from four aspects: southeast, west and northeast (Do you have any friends who know Nobunaga Surrounding Net?), and everyone in the world looked up at this hangman who dared to take the first step and pushed himself to the forefront.

But people understand that they are all going to see how he dies.

Yuan Shao didn't dare to deny that he was a minister of Emperor Nan of Han. After a reproach of the edict came out, he immediately responded respectfully and defended himself. Yuan Shu was probably like Mussolini of World War II. He thought he was very arrogant and nothing happened when he fought.

Cao Cao was in the Prime Minister's Mansion in Xuchang.

Liu Xie personally drew this newly built Prime Minister's Mansion. As the new branch of Cao Cao Group, it is built with grand and majestic. Needless to say, the walls are as thick as the city wall. Although the ground inside is covered with whole pieces of bluestone, it looks magnificent; although the pond is raised with koi and mandarin ducks, it looks elegant and luxurious; although the willows are hanging by the pond and people are walking by the corridor, and thin maids like flowers pass by the willows, there are eight secret sentry points near the gate where four carriages pass side by side, and behind the rockery, the shade of the trees is as alert as the CIA.

Because although it seems that Yuan Shu is the only one who has to deal with at the moment, everyone knows that Zhang Xiu, Lu Bu and Tao Qian, who are dependent on Liu Biao, and Yuan Shao, who are only short of being beaten, Cao Cao is not much better than the Yuan Shu surround net.

So the precautions are quite tight.

When he attended a military meeting of this level for the first time, Cao Ang, who had just become a man, was obviously a little restrained. His springy face and slightly sunken eyes made an old man like Guo Jia and Zhang Feng who rolled over from a pile of women understand that this kid must have been going home to work hard.

But no one will work hard if such a good field is replaced.

In addition to Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong or Wang Zhen, Wei Zhongxian and others... Oh, there is also Sister Dongfang.

"Lord, I am foolish to defend Yuan Shao first, and Lu Bu is the second. Although Zhang Xiu is mostly under his command, he is old subordinates of Xiliang and has extraordinary combat power, after all, Liu Biao is personally a member of the Han clan and will definitely not attack us rashly. Yuan Shao lives in Hebei, and Gongsun Zan's career is also weak. It is still hard to say whether he can survive this year. Although Lu Bu is likely to lead the army to personally encircle and suppress the rebel Yuan Shu, he must be wary of Tao Qian taking advantage of the situation and robbing him again."

Everyone looked at Zhang Feng. That time he almost gave him more than 100 kilograms in Nanwuyang, so he nodded one after another.

The second seat on the right is Xi Zhicai, who has just recovered from his illness and has not seen anyone for a long time. Because he has been lying in bed for a long time, Xi Zhicai's face is even whiter than Zhang Feng.

In order to prevent Xi Zhicai from recurring, Zhang Ji even sent a student to follow him, never leaving him.

"If they want to be humble, we might as well be humble first." Cao Hong and Zhang Feng have known each other for so long, and they will have some ideas.

But every time I don't seem to be very tuned...

"With Lu Bu personally leading the army, we are from behind..." Cao Hong raised his thick eyebrows and made a chopping gesture with his right hand.

"Hahaha!" A burst of laughter. When there was no outsider, Cao Cao was quite democratic and the atmosphere was very lively, as long as it was not too much.

If you go to court and wait for an occasion, Cao Hong would be the one who would not even dare to let go.

"What's so funny!" Cao Hong stared at Gan Ning beside him with wide eyes.

"No, I just think the general has a good idea." Gan Ning tried hard to prevent his gums from being exposed, and his hands shook, causing the leaves of the chain mail on his body to make a rumbling sound.

"Hmph, that's natural!"

"Oh, General Zi Lian's idea is good, but I don't think it's so direct." Guo Jia has a big hobby, which is like Zhang Feng to tease Cao Hong.

This guy is so cute.

"Then Lu Bu is very good to his wife and children. It is better to let General Zi Lian attack Yanya while Lu Bu is away and take over Lu Bu's wife. Then Lu Bu must have bowed to the general and obeyed the order."

"This..." Cao Hong stopped talking. Although he was not very smart, he also understood that as Lu Bu's base camp, he could not get in with just talking, let alone Lu Bu's house with strict defense.

"Oh, you prodigal son!" Cao Cao couldn't stand it anymore. Cao Hong was always in the hands of Zhang Feng and Guo Jia. "Tell me seriously!"

"Lord, it's actually very simple. Although Lu Bu and Zhang Xiu clearly endowed Tao Qian and Liu Biao, they all had their own ulterior motives in their hearts, and they all wanted to borrow chickens to lay eggs and occupy the magpie's nest. Liu Biao and Tao Qian were not just a fool. As long as they sent people to Xiangyang and spread rumors in Yanya, they would suspicion and chaos, so why do we use our army to take action!"

"A clever plan! A clever plan!" Everyone praised Guo Jia's idea. They could achieve the goal of dividing the enemy without killing one soldier. Why not do it?

Cao Ang pricked his ears, widened his eyes and listened, and secretly put together the ideas that everyone had come up with in his heart. In Zhang Feng's words, this is learning and digesting experience to facilitate the growth of personal abilities.

"It's just that Jia Xu from Zhang Xiu's office and Chen Deng from Tao Qian's office are all wise men. I'm afraid that this plan can't be hidden from them. I'm afraid that it will only arouse their alertness." Liu Ye said out loud.

Liu Ye's talent is indeed not a big deal. Unfortunately, because he is a relative of the Han Dynasty, he has never been valued by Cao Cao.

Zhang Feng sighed in his heart, which was a pity.

"This is not difficult." Xi Zhicai, who had never given a speech since the beginning and end, finally spoke.

Cao Cao smiled and said, "Oh? What's the trick? Tell me quickly."

"Since they will see our plan of disagreement, we will disagree with them first." Xi Zhicai had just recovered from a serious illness, and his voice was as low as a mosquito courting.

"Hey, I'm talking about old opera. Can you guys who know how to shake fans as food all day long can change this bad habit? Can you say it in one go if you have something to say? It's so anxious!" Cao Hong was the most shameful person who said half of the words and left half of them. This guy is probably of type A blood.

"General Zi Lian, I have not shaken the fan for a long time."

"Well……"

"Lord, why not say that these two people have great talents and become officials in the court? Zhang Xiu and Tao Qian will definitely be suspicious. Even if they see through our plan, they will still be suspicious. How could Zhang Xiu and Tao Qian listen to them?"

"Um... OK!" Cao Cao squinted his eyes and thought for a while, slapped the table, "It's settled."

Seeing that the general direction was settled, the rest of the people said, for example, each giving a generous gift to these two people with great fanfare, just for Zhang Xiu and Tao Qian to see. Whether they accept it or not, it will still make their master feel irresistible.

At this time, Cao Cao's newly recruited Xu Chu, one of the two generals, shouted outside the door with a loud voice: "Lord, Liu Bei is asking for a meeting."

Oh? I heard that Liu Bei saw Gongsun Zan being silly and ran away from Youzhou, but he didn't expect to come here.

Even Xi Zhicai stood up and stretched his neck curiously and looked out, but was covered by Xu Zhu, who was wide and fat. If they stood together, they would be like Yao Ming and Iverson.

"Come on, everyone will go with me to meet Liu Bei and Liu Xuande." Cao Cao also became interested and walked down with his robe. Cao Ang hurriedly lowered his head and followed behind him.

Everyone rushed out in chaos, squeezing the pitiful and weak Xi Zhi. Who is Liu Bei, who dares to claim to be a relative of the Han Dynasty?
Chapter completed!