Chapter 14: Eight Thousand Soldiers and Horses
If it were a different time and a different place, Yan Bei would definitely not be so rash with Chen Qun. Not to mention Han Fu's previous praise www.biquge.info for him and the prominence of his clan, just because he was humble or arrogant after seeing Yanbei, and showed a little revelation of his overall situation of the military strategy in a few words, which was enough to make Yanbei value.
He is a greedy man, he wants wealth, he wants land, he wants warriors, he wants army, and talent...... How could he not want to?
Now he is in the north of the border states, and there are many generals and warriors under his command, but only the wise men who can be alone are extremely scarce. It took a whole year for Liaodong to make up for the talents needed in the county. Although it has been able to make the county government act efficiently, it is mostly the credit of one person.
The rest of the county towns under the jurisdiction of his old brothers who fought against the Han Dynasty, like Sun Qing, were able to not cause trouble to the frustrated princes and caused trouble, as if they had won the merit of fighting for the sky.
Fu Zhu is a great talent in governance, and in Yanbei's opinion, it is more than enough to be a state, but his talent does not lie in governance. The art of war and strategy is the strength of the frustration, if it is said that the way of governing the government is frustrating and the talent of a state, but compared to his art of war, it is not worth showing.
In Yanbei's eyes, the talent of frustration is enough to be strong in the north!
It's like Yanbei can be a good businessman, but the talent and achievements in stepping on the way of businessmen are not as good as taking his brothers to make a fortune.
Therefore, Yan Bei very much hopes that there can be a real talent for governing politics around him, and he can liberate Fu Zhu from the position of Liaodong Taishou and become a partial general by his side. There are a lot of scholars in the Five Classics of Liaodong, and aside from the frustration, Zhaozhao, Tian Yu, Yandong, and Zhen Yao are all learned. It's just that they have less scripture and experience, and it is difficult for anyone to carry the banner of governing a county.
Tian Yu is both civil and military, but he lacks experience. Yan Dong has two horse bandit brothers, and they are also bloody but not much use, and they are all all-rounders but they are all worse, after all, even if they were born in the county school, even if they have been Zhang Chun's pseudo-Taishou, they are still a little worse, which is far worse than Han Fu. As for Zhen Yao, he has knowledge, but just like Yan Dong, who has never had proton training, he is much worse than his brother when he comes from a famous family.
In fact, it seems that several officials in the county are thunderous in Liaodong, but no one's ability is as good as Han Fu, who is despised by everyone in the world.
Although Han Wenjie was submissive in front of Yanbei, and the princes and alliances also sat with their tails between their tails and pretended to be quails, they stabilized Jizhou after the chaos in just a few months, and the displaced and hungry people were dealt with in an orderly manner, and more than 10,000 soldiers and horses were also pulled out to be led by the practitioners. Even when Yanbei supported the 3,000 soldiers and horses of the Lu Yi Department to deter the coveted people, his talent lived up to his origin.
It's just that the cowardly and aggressive character is too weird, and it is difficult to attract others.
Therefore, Yanbei is too eager for talents, before the expedition, he visited Duowenli, hoping to persuade those few great Confucians who avoided the disaster in Liaodong, but the result was prevarication, as if Bingyuan Wang Lie was still good, and he was very satisfied with the rectification and education of the officials of a school, and he did not want to change to the position of a big official in the government, and he didn't want to be a county official. Guan Ning, who was known as the dragon's tail, was so powerful that he directly rejected Yanbei's single-minded study, and even closed the door of the courtyard to prevent Yanbei from entering.
also asked the little boy at the door to say something, if it was Yan Zhongqing who came to discuss the scriptures, he would open the door, and if it was General Yan from Liaodong...... He didn't know.
Damn, aren't Yan Zhongqing and General Yanbei alone?
In the final analysis, it is Yanbei's virtue and reputation that are not enough, not to mention that he cannot get an official position worthy of the status of a celebrity.
Therefore, when Yanbei traveled to the Central Plains this time, he used the brains of abducting talents. He doesn't have to think about the older generation of scholars, those who are high have achieved the three princes and nine kings, even the low ones are not worse than him...... But these young people of his age still have some chances of moving.
Now Yanbei knows that Chen Qun has the ability, so naturally he will not let the duck fly away, it is just that he doesn't know how great Chen Qun's ability is. Not even Chen Qun, just like those people Han Fu said before, even Zhong Yuanchang and Han Bin, he wanted to hug them back to Liaodong and drive them to do things for themselves.
Now that the imperial court is controlled by Dong Zhuo, these young scholars who have inherited their careers have lost their room for growth, and maybe, his small broken boat in Yanbei can carry a few great talents!
It's just that the timing was too coincidental, and he couldn't say anything to Chen Qun, so Cao Cao led the remnants of the defeated army back, which made his heart go up and down.
Cao Cao is more important than Chen Qun, even if Chen Qun turns his head and leaves today, he can still visit the door another day, even if it is an apology, it doesn't matter, but Cao Cao was defeated, only once...... Yanbei wanted to see what Cao Cao would do in the face of his lone alliance that was deep but did not move!
When Yanbei ascended the high platform, Cao Cao was looking at everyone with his neck bent and did not speak, which made Yanbei feel a little disappointed...... He thought that Cao Cao would make a big fuss, but he didn't expect to just stare like this.
Cao Cao was angry, but he couldn't get angry.
"Mengde, you're finally back!" When the Kwantung princes who set up the wine and banquet saw Cao Cao's return, they were suddenly silent, but Yuan Shao reflected the fastest, and was pleasantly surprised that his whole body seemed to bounce up from the couch, and he strode towards Cao Cao with two wine bottles, and handed a wine bottle to Cao Cao first, and then served the wine to everyone: "Gentlemen, General Cao started the volunteers, although he was outnumbered by the enemy, but he thwarted the edge of Dong Thief, and greatly boosted the morale of our coalition army, everyone, please drink, this bottle ...... To Mengde! β
Yan Bei walked around from behind Cao Cao to the couch between himself and Han Fu, patted both sides to signal Sun Qing Chen Qun behind him to sit down, and also picked up the wine bottle and looked at Cao Cao. Cao Cao's appearance at this time is not miserable, even the armor on his body has traces of arrows, even if the arrows are pulled out, the iron leaves still have holes pierced by arrow clusters, plus the bun that is randomly pulled up after being draped and the beard that has not rested for many days, he is so depressed!
There is a way to reach out and not hit the smiling person, Cao Cao's belly fire was extinguished by Yuan Shao's action of raising wine to celebrate.
Yuan Shao is always like this, when he is wrong, he will make such a virtuous appearance that makes people angry; When others are at fault, he is also such a virtuous appearance, which is heartbreaking. This scene is reminiscent of when they were young, when their brothers, the children of high-ranking officials and nobles, spent their days outside Luoyang City messing around with some stupid things that they now want to do extremely naΓ―ve stupid things to pass the time.
Yuan Shao was seventeen or eighteen years old that year, and Cao Cao was just ten years old, although he couldn't even climb the horse, he had to run behind Yuan Shao's ass all day long. Once robbed someone else's bride for pleasure was found by the villagers, chasing Cao Cao at night, although he was young, he was about to be caught up by the five big and three rough villains in the township, Yuan Shao in front happened to fall in the ditch, Cao Cao was afraid that he would be caught, and shouted loudly when he passed Yuan Shao, "The thief who stole the bride is here!" β
was so frightened that Yuan Shao couldn't care about the pain in his feet, jumped up and ran away.
Cao Cao was very scared afterwards, he was worried that Yuan Shao would blame him, and he would never take him to play again, but Yuan Shao didn't.
At that time, the expression of the original brother was the same as it is today, and it has not changed for twenty years. At that time, Yuan Shao praised his quick wit to everyone, and did not despise him for his timidity. Since then, the old people often say that if you are over ten years old, you will be a brother, and if you are over five years old, you will be a brother...... Entering the office, raising a name, begging for yellow scarves, and killing eunuchs.
Cao Apu followed the original in this way, he treated people and things as a person, and learned the original.
How could he blame his brother?
Maybe he hadn't drunk water for two days, Cao Cao picked up the wine bottle and drank it all, but he saw Yuan Shao laughing happily, and heard him say softly with a joke: "Ah Pu, you are the general of Fenwu." β
Cao Cao's eyes widened in astonishment, eager to spit out all the wine he had just drunk...... Does my brother think he's doing it for an official position? led the army westward alone, fighting with Dong Zhuo's elite soldiers and horses, if it weren't for Cao Hong's sacrifice of his life to save him, he wouldn't have been able to come back alive at all! Is he Cao Mengde such a short-sighted person, just for such a miscellaneous general who claims to be a hypocrite?
Cao Cao didn't answer, his eyes swept over the crowd, except for the general next to Han Fu on the right hand who he didn't know well, the others, which one was not sealed outside by Dong Zhuo to be the Taishou assassin Shi Zhou Mu to raise troops? But how is he Cao Mengde?
He was worshiped by Dong Zhuo as a lieutenant, but he ran out and risked his life to fight Dong Zhuo, is he for an official position! Cao Cao laughed coldly, if he was willing to stay in the imperial court to serve Dong Zhuo, it would not be Xu Rong who sent troops to the east now, and he Cao Cao could also lead the name of the general to attack the Dong coalition army!
But he didn't say anything, he just suppressed his annoyance for the time being, and said to Yuan Shao anxiously and enthusiastically: "Originally, I heard Bao Yuncheng say on the road that you were elected as the leader of the alliance by everyone. Listen to me, although Dong Zhuo's soldiers and horses are strong, they are shocked by our momentum at this time, and they have not been able to block the pass at the moment. We will take this opportunity to seize the key passes of troops and horses from all walks of life, and divide troops to attack and disturb Guanzhong, which will definitely make Dong Zhuo tired and unable to take care of the beginning and the end! β
Cao Cao's voice was not small, but the princes from all walks of life pretended not to hear it, and they all exchanged their heads and ears, as if the people who had just paid attention to Cao Cao were not them.
Yuan Shao looked at Cao Cao, looked around again, and did not answer.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is true! After Xu Rong defeated me, he did not continue to march, but led his troops back. Now there are no other enemies east of the revolving gate pass, it is a godsend, the monarchs lead troops to guard the pass, and they can trap Dong Zhuo in the pass, gentlemen! Cao Cao was so anxious that he almost burst into tears, but no one from all walks of life took his words seriously, and in the end he could only look at Yuan Shao in front of him helplessly, threw down the wine bottle and put Yuan Shao's arm and said: "Brother Benchu, Yuan Alliance Master!" I, I really don't have any soldiers and horses, you advise, you persuade you to send troops to save the emperor and save the world! β
The only answer to Cao Cao was silence.
On the seat on the right side of Yanbei, the voice of Yuzhou Thorn Shi Kong Ling's chuckle penetrated into his ears, and Yanbei heard Kong Ling snort disdainfully, and said in a strange manner: "The general of the defeated army is especially dissatisfied with being a general of Fenwu...... Isn't this the Zhao Kuo of the Great Han? β
As soon as these words came out, the deliberately suppressed laughter of everyone made Cao Cao's dark cheeks almost red, which was not shyness but anger. He no longer looked at others, but just grabbed Yuan Shao's arm tightly and looked into Yuan Shao's eyes.
He was waiting for his brother to help him.
But Yuan Shao didn't.
Yuan Shao just sighed softly, these Kwantung princes didn't want to send troops, how could he force it even if he was the leader of the alliance? He could only gently break away from Cao Cao's hands like grasping a life-saving straw, slowly patted his broken shoulder armor and said, "General Meng De is tired from fighting for a long time, so let's rest first and wait for ...... Tomorrow we will talk about the military. β
Cao Cao clenched his teeth, since he was a child, he had been looked down on too much because of his background, but he never felt sad and powerless. He does not mourn for himself, but the world and the Han family...... How can a great family that has eaten Lu for generations raise such a group of rats?
He no longer pinned his hopes on others, and it was more difficult step by step, but he also left Jiangtai step by step.
If you don't help me, I don't want you to help me.
There are no soldiers, I'll recruit Cao Cao myself! A group of rats will teach you to sit here with wine and crusade against Dong Zhuo and sweep away the chaotic party...... I have Cao Mengde to bear it alone!
But when he was embarrassed to go down to the second step, there was a loud noise behind him, Cao Cao turned his head suddenly, but saw that it was the young general next to Kong Ling, who was not familiar with a red armor, kicked over his desk, and the wine and food knocked over Kong Ling's body, and his face was terrified at this time.
Yan Bei twisted the iron shoes slightly, and as his body moved, the armor made a crisp collision sound, and he didn't look at Kong Ling, who was so frightened that the six gods pointed at him, raised his chin and said disdainfully: "Hmph, coward!" β
"Hey, Mengde!" Yan Bei raised his eyes to look at Cao Cao who turned around, the two of them met in one place, and he asked loudly: "With your eight thousand soldiers and horses, do you dare to go to Xingyang with Yan again?" β