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"Brother Wei specially invited Meng De to talk alone today, and I hope that the virtuous brother can focus on the great cause of the thief, temporarily put aside personal grievances, regardless of previous suspicions, and work with this person to assist the brother to defeat the thief Li! I don't know what the virtuous brother thinks? After speaking, Yuan Shao looked at Cao Cao with a smile on his face, and his eyes showed a hint of earnestness.

"What the alliance leader said is extremely true."

Cao Cao bowed his head slightly, lowered his head, and responded in a low voice: "Since he is the one who took the initiative to come to the alliance, how can Cao not understand the general situation and ignore the overall situation?" It is all up to the leader of the alliance, and Cao has no objection! ”

Yuan Shao was overjoyed when he heard this, and laughed heartily: "Okay, so good!" Meng Dezhen is a person who understands the general situation and takes the overall situation into account, and he really didn't misunderstand you as a brother. Hahaha???"

"The leader of the alliance is overrated." Seeing Yuan Shao laughing, Cao Cao responded with his head bowed, grinning twice at the corners of his mouth, and laughing in agreement. It's just that he smiled very reluctantly, with lingering bitterness and guilt in his smile, obviously forcing a smile. Yuan Shao saw all of this, but he pretended not to notice it and turned a blind eye, the smile on his face became more and more happy and bright, and the laughter became louder and longer.

In addition to laughing, Cao Cao keenly felt another meaning in Yuan Shao's laughter, which made him feel ashamed and indignant in his heart. However, Yuan Shao is stronger than people, and now Yuan Shao's strength is strong, and his prestige is flourishing day by day, but he Cao Cao is the river is declining and on the verge of despair.

In contrast, Yuan Shao is now certainly qualified and has the strength to laugh and laugh at people and things that he thinks are ridiculous; And Cao Cao knew that Yuan Shao was laughing at himself. But he had to greet him with a smile, dare to be angry but not speak, and make a false promise. All he had to do now was to try his back. Waiting for the opportunity to seize the opportunity to develop and grow, in order to recover the strength as soon as possible, then whoever can have the last laugh is the real winner.

There are very few people and things in the world that are smooth sailing, and anyone who achieves great things will inevitably encounter failures and setbacks. Therefore, the person who can bend and stretch, persevere, and become more and more courageous is the person who can really achieve things, the brightest smile is the last laugh, and the final winner is the big winner. Earn a qiē power and reputation; The loser fell under the back of the victor, completely submerged in the torrent of history, and reduced to dry bones and dung in the vicissitudes of life.

"I wonder how the Alliance Lord is going to deal with the princes of the Ninth Town?" Taking advantage of Yuan Shao's smile. Cao Cao asked softly.

Obedient and listening, after Yuan Shao heard the voice, the smile on his face quickly rose, and he raised the wine bottle to invite Cao Cao to drink with him. A moment of drinking with your sleeves covered your face. A flash of brilliance flashed in his eyes, and his mind spun rapidly. He noticed that Cao Cao's understatement used the word "treatment", which contained a strong meaning of comparison and comparison; That is to say, there are princes who have come to join the alliance, and they have a deep dislike with me Cao Cao, how are you Yuan Shao going to arrange the new princes of the ninth town?

This simple sentence contains multiple deep meanings. One is the depth of friendship between the two parties, which is close and which is sparse; The second is to remind Yuan Shao not to favor one over the other. So as not to chill it. In addition, Cao Cao's words also have a bit of a sense of sowing discord; In the past, a weaver and a mat seller has now become a prince of a town. If the wings are gradually abundant, if it is not contained, I am afraid that there is a danger of raising tigers, and the future troubles will be endless.

In a hurry, Yuan Shao couldn't help but think of his original intention of uniting the princes of all parties. The original intention of the Princes' Alliance was to join forces to defeat Xiliang Li Li, which was undoubtedly the first purpose. In addition, Yuan Shao also had an intention, that is, to take the opportunity to weaken the strength of the princes of each town and clear the way for his subsequent domination of the Central Plains, which was the key to his willingness to provide a large amount of grain and grass to supply the allies. Therefore, this time the princes' alliance seems to be spending money to make money, but in fact, this is a real plan to kill two birds with one stone, fame and fortune.

Because there is only one winner in the end, this is his Yuan Shao Yuan Benchu, and the princes of the towns of the alliance are just snobs lured by him with grain and grass, and they have become substitutes for the defeat of the Xiliang army under Li Li. The reason why he was able to facilitate this was because Jizhou was rich and had plenty of money and food. This prompted him to have the capital and the courage to squander it, exchanging money and food for the dual purpose of striking at the strong enemy Li Li and weakening the strength of the princes of various towns, and then achieving his ultimate goal of dominating the Central Plains.

This is the true intention that has been buried in the depths of Yuan Shao's heart, he has never revealed a word to anyone before, even in front of his son, he is tight-lipped and does not leak a word at all. Once upon a time, Yuan Shao thought that he could hide it from everyone, and he was often complacent alone for this reason, and he admired himself very much. I don't think about it, there is never a shortage of smart people in this world, and smart people often get together; Therefore, any seamless scheme, even if it can be hidden from outsiders, cannot be hidden from the people around you, especially the confidants and friends who have been with you for decades.

The person in front of Yuan Shao was his former confidant and friend, and now they are friends and enemies with each other. And this person has already broken his plan, but he has been pretending not to know, until the matter is concerned about his personal interests, it is revealed, and he said it very implicitly, and he stopped at the point.

It goes without saying that this person who has already seen through Yuan Shao's intentions is Cao Cao Mengde, who is sitting opposite him at this moment.

Narrowing his eyes slightly at Cao Cao, the smile on Yuan Shao's face disappeared, replaced by a solemn expression, and his eyes became deep and cold.

Yuan Shao didn't believe this sentence before, thinking that this was the self-boasting of many small princes, and it was not enough to believe it. However, at this moment, he was convinced. Because in front of him sat a wise man who was not inferior to himself in strategy and scheming, but he had always regarded this person as the little brother who followed him in the past, and he almost never really paid attention to this little brother. But now Yuan Shao has to pay attention to this person, or this person's intelligence shocked him, and he was even very jealous, he couldn't pay attention to it if he didn't want to, and he couldn't ignore him like before.

"Don't hide what Meng De said, Brother Wei plans to temporarily conceal the whereabouts of the princes of the ninth town, and do not make it clear to the princes, and intends to use this road of people and horses as a surprise soldier, and give Li Thief a fatal blow at the critical moment, and lay the victory in one fell swoop. Therefore, for the time being, let them not cross the river and still stay in Hedong County, which is conducive to hiding their traces and avoiding the eyes and ears of Xiliang Xizuo. In addition, they can also assist Zhang Yang to protect the grain routes in the rear of our army and guard against the sneak attack of Zhou Yu's army; When the decisive battle between our allies and the army of the Li Thieves was officially decised, I secretly recruited them to cross the river, and then attacked the army of the Li Thieves by surprise and defeated them in one fell swoop. With such an arrangement, I don't know what Meng De wants? ”

"The leader of the alliance is wise, and this arrangement can be described as a double benefit, and there is nothing wrong with it. It's just ??????" Seeing that Yuan Shao finally stopped hiding it from himself, Cao Cao flattered him without hesitation, but then he stopped talking and stopped, as if there was something inconvenient to say directly.

"But what? Meng De might as well say bluntly, there is no need to be taboo between you and my brothers! Yuan Shao's expression changed slightly, and he asked urgently.

"Alliance Leader Mingjian. According to Cao's knowledge, Xuzhou has always been rich, the treasury is full, and the grain and grass are sufficient, which are all the family funds accumulated by Tao Qian's old thief for many years, and now all of them have fallen into the hands of Liu Bei. This time, Liu Bei led more than 45,000 foot cavalry to take the initiative to come to the alliance, presumably with sufficient grain and grass, and did not need the alliance leader to provide food and salary. What this means is clear at a glance, and Cao doesn't need to say more. It's just that since this is the case, how should the alliance leader restrain Liu Bei, will he be respectful to the alliance leader on the surface, but in private he is yang and yin?

Moreover, the leader of the alliance asked Liu Bei to lead the army to settle in Hedong County, and also took care of the grain and grass of our alliance and the grain road in the rear. If he has ill intentions or is dissatisfied with the alliance leader, the consequences will be unimaginable, directly endangering the life and death of hundreds of thousands of my allies!

Therefore, Cao thought that although the alliance leader wanted to use Liu Bei and his tens of thousands of horses, he couldn't trust him too much. It is a matter of life and death of the entire allied army and the success or failure of the battle of Si Li, how can we entrust all our lives to Liu Bei, who is not bound by the alliance at all, the matter is too big to be guarded against! ”

With Cao Cao's in-depth analysis and elaboration, the names of the princes of the ninth town finally came out of his mouth.

The uninvited princes of the Ninth Town were Liu Bei and Liu Xuande, who had taken over the six counties of Xuzhou for less than three months.

The reason why Yuan Shao didn't directly say Liu Bei's name before was because he took care of Cao Cao's face and didn't want to embarrass him; In addition, there are reasons for secrecy for the time being, fearing that the accompanying soldiers will hear a few words and then publicize the matter. But now Cao Cao took the initiative to say Liu Bei's name, showing his extraordinary heart and loyalty, and Geng Geng's loyalty for the sake of the allies.

"Well, what Mende said has a point." After Cao Cao finished speaking, Yuan Shao frowned and bowed slightly: "I didn't think too much about it before, anyway, the more soldiers and horses in the allied army, the better, and now after Meng De said this, things are really like this." According to the report of the sentry cavalry sent by Zhang Yang, Liu Bei brought a total of nearly 50,000 foot cavalry this time, accompanied by nearly 100,000 stones of grain and grass, complete weapons, and sufficient money and grain.

I had ignored this verse before, but now that I think back, there is almost no place where we can hold Liu Bei hostage, and he can come and go freely without any restraint. Moreover, Xuzhou is far away from Sili, even if he captures the city and occupies the entire Sili, it has little to do with him. Why, then, did he lead an army to join the Alliance? ”

"The alliance leader doesn't know. Liu Bei has always regarded himself as a descendant of the Han royal family, selling his reputation and reputation, and he has just taken Xuzhou, which is the time when he needs to establish prestige and then deter the Xuzhou scholars. In the past, Chen Liu's alliance and Liu Bei's war became famous, and today's Hanoi alliance is not another great opportunity to become famous in the world, how can Liu Bei miss the opportunity? ”

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