Cao Cao's envoy was received by his eldest brother Zhang Shiyuan, after all, the two sides still maintained the honeymoon period, and the specifications of the reception were one level higher.

Cao Cao's envoy was the most important advisor under him, and he came with Cao Cao's purpose of maximizing profits.

"Liu Bei pretended to be in the name of the Son of Heaven, carried out his ulterior purposes, and crusaded against my lord, hindering the pace of my lord's unification of the Han Dynasty, making the world more chaotic, and the lives of the people were miserable, and he was a sinner for the ages.

This is the opening remarks of Xi Zhicai, using the strategy of attacking and defending, not to ask you not to drag me back, but to invite you to join me in crusading against Liu Bei.

Zhang Shiyuan smiled slightly: "Mr. is eloquent, everyone knows it, and there is no need to engage in this kind of excuse to advance and retreat." In fact, your father-in-law doesn't know that my father-in-law and Liu Bei originally had an old relationship, and I'm afraid that when your father-in-law goes south to crusade against Liu Bei, my father-in-law will send troops to pull your hind legs. ”

For directly touching his own scars, Xi Zhicai was not embarrassed at all, and said frankly: "Invite your lord and my lord to crusade against Liu Bei together, this is my lord out of sincerity, Xuzhou is the land of four wars, the heart of the Central Plains, and the fertile field is densely populated, as long as you master here, you can oppress Jiangnan in the south, attack Yuzhou in the west, connect the Beijing division in the north, and have the benefit of fish and salt in the east. So this crusade against Liu Bei, I hope that your lord can send troops to cooperate, and then we will divide Xuzhou together. ”

What he said was impassioned and generous, and although he digressed, the huge temptation really made Mr. Big feel excited.

When Mr. Big reported to Lu Peng in the evening, Lu Peng smiled: "Let me play with Xuzhou, this temptation is indeed too great." ”

Mr. Big also immediately said: "If we can unite with Cao Cao to take half of Xuzhou, even if we plant a nail in the Central Plains, the benefits to us will be huge, so what I mean is to accept Cao Cao's invitation and send troops to attack Liu Bei." ”

Lu Peng shook his head with a smile, and said to himself, a shrewd businessman who didn't understand politics: "Big brother, your idea is too naïve, at this time, we can't attack Liu Bei, first of all, everyone in the world knows that Liu Bei and I have worked together and had a comrade-in-arms friendship, if I attack him at this time, I will be laughed at and despised by the heroes of the world." ”

When Lu Peng said this, his civil and military officers looked embarrassed and disdainful.

Just you, kid, when your father-in-law and Yuan Shao were fighting for life and death, you hid directly in the grassland, and didn't help at all, what else did you say about the comradeship with Liu Bei?

Lu Peng didn't look at the expressions of his subordinates, and continued to patiently explain to his eldest brother: "Even if he led the troops to help Cao Cao annihilate Liu Bei and got half of Xuzhou, but big brother, look at the location of Xuzhou, we got half of Xuzhou, but we are separated by a Cao Cao force, that is, an enclave, surrounded by Cao Cao at any time, once we turn our faces in the future, Cao Cao will cut off our road to transport grain and grass, and my army stationed in Xuzhou will be Cao Cao's bag." ”

Mr. Big looked regretful.

Looking at the unwilling eldest brother, Lu Peng smiled and persuaded: "Big brother, you are too kind, you will be deceived in just a few words, you don't understand it at all, they are here to beg us this time, not to give us gifts at all, I now doubt that you were able to go so far in business that you were not deceived and ruined, this is indeed a miracle in the world." ”

Mr. Big immediately expressed his dissatisfaction with his brother's doubts about his IQ: "Businessmen pay attention to integrity, profiteers and profiteers, that is, a slander against businessmen by villains, where are you who play politics like you?" A honey-bellied sword, full of benevolence and morality, with male thieves and female prostitutes in his belly, what he did was simply outrageous, I don't care about this matter, let's get along with my gang of profiteer brothers. With them, it's safe. ”

Lu Peng also knows the temperament of the eldest brother, it seems that this kind of thing in diplomacy still has to be done by Liu Chu, let the eldest brother come forward first, he has already given face to Cao Cao's envoy, and Liu Chu came forward to talk about it in detail, and it is also in terms of etiquette, there is no rudeness.

Liu accepted the task and immediately asked Lu Peng for the lord's bottom line.

Lu Peng said with a smile: "This time, our strategy of splashing dirty water and turning three people into a tiger has now completely shown its huge power, our emperor's jade belt edict has indeed provoked Cao Cao, and now Cao Cao is eager to use the minimum price to eliminate Liu Bei's hidden dangers when his foothold in Xuzhou is not stable, and the main thing is to show its strong strength to the world, and play the role of knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger, so we came to us, and we just took advantage of this opportunity to bite him to death." ”

Then confessed to Liu: "Your personality is similar to mine, take advantage of people's danger and fall into the well, this is what I am most willing to do, go ahead, see how much you can bite off this bite." ”

Liu Chu asked again: "Then please make it clear to the lord, are we sending troops to help Cao Cao this time?" Or is it to send troops to help Liu Bei? ”

"Taking advantage of people's danger to fall into the well, sometimes there is no need to move bricks and bulldozers by yourself, what does it matter to me that a few of them fight to the death? I just want to sit by the well and watch the excitement, and follow him with a well rope bucket or something. ”

Liu, who understood the meaning of the lord, met with Xi Zhicai, an old acquaintance, and after some greetings, he got to the point.

Liu Chu didn't give the other party any chance to detour at all, and bluntly expressed his opinion on his own side: "You also know that my lord and Liu Xuande have an old relationship, and now Liu Xuande's envoy lives in the east courtyard of this pavilion, and I don't need to explain his purpose to you in detail, everyone understands people." There is also Yuan Shao, your lord is just afraid that when you are attacking Liu Bei, Yuan Shao will send troops behind him, and he wants my lord to send troops to contain him, but Yuan Shao also sent envoys, and his envoys live in the West Courtyard, everyone is an old acquaintance, you haven't met. ”

Xi Zhicai's face turned dark. Lu Peng's play is indeed too bad, put the envoys of the three sides in a courtyard, everyone is familiar with each other, in and out every day, looking up and not looking down, this feeling is very disgusting. But at the same time, it has also caused huge psychological pressure on all three aspects. Lu Peng, this kid, just made it clear that the carriage and horses were clear, and let the three families fight in their hearts to see who had a higher bid.

Seeing that he hit the other party's vital point so straightforwardly, Liu Chu secretly sneered, Mr. Big is kind and can be bullied, but I, Liu Chu, is a villain, and wants to play off-topic with me, you want to be beautiful, and then I think that when I went to your Yanzhou, you guys made a group of difficulties against me, which made me very embarrassed, and I was the happiest in playing.

This time the feng shui takes turns, and when you should beg me, you want to play tricks to get benefits, you think beautifully, if I don't cut off a piece of meat today, I won't call Liu Chu.

was directly revealed the purpose of his coming, and there was no need to pretend again, so Xi Zhicai and Liu Chu started a patient tug-of-war negotiation, Liu Zhi is a lion's big mouth, and Xi Zhi is a boiled frog in warm water, anyway, war is a slow-paced thing in this era, and it doesn't matter if it takes an extra day or two to negotiate.