As the emperor of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xie went out of the city to greet the Bingzhou army and talked with Li Shushi, the head of the Bingzhou army, and the news was very happy, and soon flew to the north and south banks of the river like wings......

Well, the island, which is now given a shallow strait with the mainland, is still a paradise for the natives, and the place that is only the size of a palm but has only flourished due to special historical reasons is now only an inconspicuous place in Boluo County in Nanhai County.

But how much of a stir did this news cause?

It doesn't seem like it's going to be a big storm.

When Li Shushi decided to adopt a policy of non-interference and let go of the two major forces in Yizhou, Liu Zhang and Zhang Lu, the two sides also ignored the hand of the Bingzhou army that stretched out to the edge of Yizhou, in addition to Li Kang's need to keep an eye on the movements in the southeast of Wudu from time to time, Wu Ze, with the help of Li Ru, had officially begun to integrate the Qiang tribes that roamed in and around Yinping County.

A group of scattered sand and remnants of the soldiers who were taught a good lesson by Dong Zhuo before, and were washed by Zhang Ren's blood a while ago.

On the one hand, there is the fierce Yizhou Army, and on the other hand, the No. 2 person of Dong Zhuojun who is still Yu Wei, plus good conditions, and then the strength of each department is at a low level, Li Shushi believes that Wu Ze's actions should not have too many problems.

Of course, too much shun may bury some hidden dangers for the future, but with Li Ru staring, as long as it is not a big problem, even if it is buried, it will not be a big problem, it will be the price of growth, and the state army can afford it.

It's like Lin Feng, the traitor who once cornered Zhao Yun and Zhang Xiu in the north, isn't it also a mistake made by Li Shushi?

However, because of this incident, the Tuoba Force, who was released into the grassland, slightly increased his loyalty. It's not a loss.

Jingzhou Liu Biao and Jizhou Yuan Shao will do what they should do. The former is now concentrating on fighting Zhang Ji, even if Li Shushi has obtained the position of Nanyang Taishou appointed by the emperor, Liu Biao will not admit it; The latter was eating away at Gongsun Chan with the help of Karasuma Xianbei and other Hu Qi, Tian Feng, Xu You, Feng Ji and others seemed to have given up the fight for the time being, they seemed unwilling to see what variables appeared in the goal to be achieved, and the strength of the state army also gave them a sense of urgency that had never been seen in the history of another plane.

In other words, the power caused by the sincere union of this group of strategists who should not be underestimated is definitely not just a simple addition, not to mention that they command fierce generals like Yan Liangwen Chou and murderous troops like Hu Qi of different races.

However, it is rumored that Yuan Shao also seems to have some interest in Gongsun Du in Liaodong, and intends to use the momentum of Gongsun Chan to sweep away Liaodong in one fell swoop - this is probably a rumor released by the dying Gongsun Zhan, Li Shushi will not believe that Yuan Shao will give up the opportunity to turn around and go south because the road is difficult to move in Liaodong, which is almost isolated from the Central Plains.

Which is more important, the strategists of the Yuan family should be very clear.

It's just that for Li Shushi's judgment. Guo Jia, who temporarily replaced Jia Xu and was responsible for handling intelligence work, had two names. These two are actually not very eye-catching, but both Li Shushi and Jia Xu have a high evaluation of them, but they have lost their voices recently.

Yuan Fang, Yuan Xianmou, Xun Rui, Xun Binruo.

What does the future hold? Facing this world that has become more and more out of Li Shushi's grasp. Li Shushi can only wait and see. But whatever the outcome. Li Shushi feels that he should at least have the confidence to face it calmly now.

Perhaps it is difficult for a guy like him to develop such self-confidence, who always has an inferiority complex like a small person. Even the advantage of having a lifetime more than others doesn't help much in this regard, but Li Shushi feels that he has finally been accumulating progress.

The only thing that reacted a little big to Li Shushi and Liu Xie's incident was Yuan Shu and Yuan Highway, who were personally threatened.

Although Li Shushi only brought 5,000 people, and Cao Cao's target was only Xuzhou. It seems that he has no intention of going south, but Yuan Shu obviously does not think so, he is more inclined to think that Li Shushi's move is to merge the state army and Cao Cao's army and even Yuan Shao behind Cao Cao has reached a partition agreement - Yuan Shao is naturally going all out to attack Youzhou and Qingzhou, Cao Cao will get Xuzhou and Yuzhou, and Li Shushi's target is likely to be the western region of Xuzhou. Although it is not very clear how to divide it, it is not good for Yuan Shu anyway.

Perhaps Yuan Shu suddenly reacted at this time, due to a mistake in his previous calculation, Yuan Shujun made a mistake in strategy that did not seem to be a big deal, but if he was not careful, it could cause extremely serious consequences - his forces were too scattered.

Although the battlefield in Xuzhou has not yet begun, tens of thousands of people have been invested; Yangzhou had to invest considerable energy because of Lujiang's fierce resistance to Lu Kang's extremely surprising strength; In order to pursue Liu Xuan, the state assassin appointed by the imperial court, the Jiangdong region also sent a lot of power in the past; At the same time, although Yuzhou and Yanzhou turned into a strategic defensive, this reflects what it means to "fight the tiger without dying but suffering from it", and in the face of Cao Cao's army, which began to try to counterattack, it is necessary to leave enough soldiers and horses to deal with it.

This was still Yuan Shu's belief that the Bingzhou army would not be able to attack him for a considerable period of time, and at the same time, Liu Biao in the west had a tacit understanding with Yuan Shu's army because of the contradiction with the Bingzhou army, so that Yuan Shu could draw men and horses from the west to join the war on the eastern front.

As a result, Yuan Shu had to hastily stop supporting Jiangdong, giving Liu Shu a rare respite, and at the same time ordering the troops stationed in Yuzhou and Xuzhou to prepare for a preemptive strike.

As for what Liu Bei and Zang Ba in Xuzhou think, what Mi Zhu and Chen Si in Tancheng City think, what Liu Xie and Cao Cao in Puyang think, and what the chickens, ducklings and geese in Jinyang City think, probably Yuan Shu will not consider it.

"So Meng De, looking at these gold bricks and silver ingots, I really can't help but want to knock you again."

"Li Shushi, don't force me, just give me something secretly, why do you have to release the news in advance and let everyone know."

"I just want to raise a little military money, so naturally I want to maximize the benefits. And the ones used for auction are not included in the batch delivered to you, so what kind of urgency are you? ”

"Huh...... It's not included in this shipment. But the problem is that you have a surplus to put up for auction, and those goblins don't know that I have inventory, and even if I can't take them all, they can annoy me to death. ”

"Hehe, that's none of my business, you should be considered a 'happy trouble'."

"Happiness ...... 'the son wants to raise but the parent is not there', how well the sentence is said. I, Cao Mengde, don't think I'm a child who makes my father worry-free, and I can't get used to my father's style, but he is really my father, my own father! Using my father's death in exchange for a Xuzhou, I guess many people are talking about it now. But I'd really, really rather not do it.

Xuzhou is not easy to get. But give me five years, whether it is Yuan Highway or those beam-jumping clowns in Xuzhou, they will not be my opponents. Even if there may be great changes in the world in five years, how can I Cao Mengde be an easy person! ”

Even at home. Cao Cao still wears linen and filial piety. The banquet with Li Shushi was also replaced with coarse tea and light rice. And it's not much.

In private, he has no kinship with the Cao family, just because he has a little bit of a friendship with Cao Cao, and Li Shushi doesn't need to abide by any funeral etiquette. But for Cao Cao. As the eldest son of the deceased Cao Song, he had to abide by a set of quite strict procedures, and even Cao Cao had been asked to resign, hoping to return to his hometown to keep filial piety for three years.

The appearance of this performance is not surprising, when Lu Zhi passed away, although Li Shushi's identity determined that he could not support his soul like an ordinary Lumen student, but he also enshrined Lu Zhi's spiritual position in his own mansion, and he respectfully implemented the various etiquette and customs taught to him by Cheng Yu within three months, which can be regarded as a dedication to Lu Zhi, who had taught and guided him.

It's just that keeping filial piety for three years or something, of course, is just acting, Cao Cao can't stay away from the center of power for three years, and Cao Jiaban can't let his boss take his boss in the countryside for so long. Liu Xie can certainly gain some power according to the information obtained by Li Shushi, but in terms of relatively core military power, Liu Xie still has not much room to interfere.

Therefore, Cao Cao's above table was quickly rejected by Liu Xie, the reason is that, like Li Shushi, he thinks that Cao Cao is an important minister of the imperial court, and he can't leave aside the affairs of the court at will but do his own business, which is not right, and I am sorry for the trust of the imperial court. In the end, however, Cao Cao was allowed to temporarily leave his position in the imperial court and escort his father's coffin back to his hometown for burial.

Hehe, for Liu Xie's resolution, Li Shushi can only say: High, really high!

At first glance, this resolution doesn't seem to be too problematic, at most it makes people feel that the imperial court seems to be a little too indulgent Cao Cao, after all, according to the customary habits of this era, filial piety for close relatives is to be kept for three years. Even some people who chase fame and fortune will find various reasons to keep filial piety for those famous celebrities for three years in order to raise their worth.

But here's the problem, the excavator ...... Ahem, no, what's so good about this resolution?

It was on the order that Cao Cao escorted his father's coffin back to his hometown for burial - where is Cao Cao's hometown?

The famous Peiguo County is in the southwest of Peiguo.

In whose hands is Peiguo now?

The northern part is controlled by Xuzhou, while the southern part is naturally controlled by Yuan Shu, who swallowed most of Yuzhou and Yanzhou a while ago.

Well, I'm afraid that everyone has already come back to the taste. On the surface, it seems that the emperor sympathized with Cao Cao and asked him to take someone to protect his father's coffin to be buried in his hometown in Qian County, which was controlled by Yuan Shu.

Will Yuan Shu let Cao Cao lead his troops into his defense area? Cao Cao is worried about bringing fewer people, and Yuan Shu is naturally not at ease when he brings more people, and he is not still in an alliance with Cao Cao like Li Shushi, so he can still bring some people to come over and walk around if he says hello in advance. But even so, if Li Shu told Cao Cao that he would take 50,000 horses to Cao Cao's territory to "wander around", he was afraid that Cao Cao would also be congested by Qi's brain, so it was obviously impossible for Yuan Shu to give Cao Cao the opportunity to "grab territory" so blatantly.

As a result, Cao Cao had a reasonable and legal excuse to attack Yuan Shu. In other words, although the emperor's order is roundabout, it is actually to let Cao Cao send troops to attack Yuan Shu~

As for whether this is a bit too troublesome, after all, the two forces are already in a state of flux, and there is no need for a reason to fight or anything.

But Li Shushi also knows very well that whether it is in this year or thousands of years later, people always have to find a bunch of reasons to make their side seem more righteous before going to war, and they can fool the support of more "ignorant people". Especially in the era of cooking in the future. If you can't find a better reason, you will definitely be sprayed to death by those so-called "anti-war people".

In order to get a little more votes in the next election, don't make it like a certain Booth dad won the war but lost the election, it is estimated that the defeat will definitely become an unavoidable lesson in the family's elite education.

"By the way, Shushi, I have two questions I want to ask you, and it is His Majesty who asked me to ask you privately."

"It just so happens that I also have a question for you, and it happens to be related to Majesty."

"I know your problem. Although His Majesty has been in the hands of thieves for many years, he is young and intelligent, benevolent and courteous, but he is not ignorant of changes. I may see many things in this troubled world more clearly than you and me.

But. His Majesty may have the ambition to help the world, but whether he has the ability to match his ambitions, I, Cao Mengde, still need to carefully observe. Whether to be Zhou Gong or Qi Huan, I'm afraid that even if I make a guarantee now, you won't believe it. ”

"It's a hard road."

"Difficult. It's not hard either. If His Majesty can be in harmony with us. Then this matter is not difficult. If His Majesty hesitates and changes. I'm afraid that there will be more accidents. ”

"If you and Your Majesty do a good job, maybe I'll surprise you."

"Haha, could it be that you gave us a lot of your Li Kee's unique 'fruit package'? Then I'm going to thank you first. ”

"No problem. Take the general in exchange~"

"You want? Do you really want to? ”

"Actually, I really don't want to, it's too high, I'm afraid of falling. It hurts to fall off a horse, and if you just climb higher than the horse, it will hurt even more. Moreover, the generals of this dynasty are probably not Dou Xian, Liang Ji, He Jin and others, and I can only be regarded as the emperor's son-in-law at most, and I am not in line with the etiquette. You can't just find a woman to think of as a daughter or sister and join the palace, wouldn't that be a big joke in the world. It's not appropriate, it's really inappropriate. ”

"According to what you say, I can't be this general, well, it's okay if this general is not right, let Yuan Benchu be fine."

"Well, I knew Meng De, you must have dug a pit here waiting for me to jump into it."

"Your Majesty has this intention, I, as a courtier, always have to run errands for him, anyway, if it is about merit, who else will you be."

"Haha, Meng De, don't put a high hat on me, Dong Zhuo's four generals, it's enough to give one to conquer the north or the west, and by the way, give me the right to open the government and the right to command the five states under my rule, so that I can go all out on the Northern Expedition with peace of mind."

"General Zhengxi will definitely not give it to you, I have coveted this position for a long time, even if it is for selfishness, I will never give it to you. But what happened in the north can make you so jealous? The current Xianbei people have long been tossed by you. ”

"There's no way, there is an opponent in Xianbei who is even more terrible than the original Tanshi Huai, not only is his personal strength no less than Feng Xian, his mind is probably not inferior to Cheng Zhongde, and his mind is even more ambitious than that of Tanshi Huai, who didn't understand anything until the later stage, do you think I should be nervous. Really, I always feel that I was born to work hard, and I can't always be idle. ”

Raising his eyebrows, Cao Cao felt that he almost couldn't help but shoot the case, but considering the meaning of Li Shu's truth, he endured this impulse again, after all, his ears are not deaf, his eyes are not blind, and he has heard some things.

In other words, Cao Cao has mastered some of the actions on Yuan Shao's side, and naturally understands another meaning in Li Shu's truth.

"I'm telling you the truth, how long did you say we would stay calm with Yuan Shao."

"It probably won't be long, unless you don't want Xuzhou, obediently be a pawn, and I don't want to realize my ambitions, and I am willing to bear the counterattack of those powerful families who have been ploughed by me. There are some roads that you probably can't turn back on. ”

"And what about us?"

"Guess?"

"Hahahaha......" ×2.

"So one last question." After laughing for a long time, laughing so much that tears flowed, the two of them gradually calmed down, and Cao Cao even raised a finger, well, it's really good not to be the middle finger.

"Why do you want to disrupt the thirteen states divided by the first emperor, aren't you afraid of causing criticism?"

"It's just convenient to manage, but with the current means of transportation, the area is obviously not conducive to the flow of information, causing the government to respond to various events slowly. However, in today's form, we cannot let each county fight on its own, and it is necessary to set up a coordinated and linked body. This is also the purpose of the first emperor to set up the state pastor, and the first emperor also had the old practice of dividing the state into the current two states, so I am just Xiao Gui Cao Sui. ”

Of course, there are some other reasons, Li Shushi did not intend to talk to Cao Cao in detail, although he knew that with the keen Cheng of the elite of this era, it was definitely not to be underestimated, but it was also excellent to be able to delay a period of time to consolidate himself.

"I'm done with my question, you pampered guy should get out of here, look at the way you ate just now, it doesn't look like I was feasting you, but it looks like I tortured you, it's really infuriating!"

"Even if you don't drive me, I must leave, my family's person who makes a green dish is better than your family's meal, hum~ Don't be unconvinced."

For Cao Cao's attack, Li Shushi naturally couldn't help but resolutely fight back. As for Li Shushi's counterattack, Cao Cao, who had eaten the private dishes of the Li Mansion, naturally knew that he was powerless to refute, so he could only cry secretly, secretly hating why he was not lucky enough to marry a Lori who was a supernatural cook.

"Let's hope we don't become rivals."

Looking at that casual back, the smile on Cao Cao's face gradually turned into a faint vigilance and strictness.

The next day, Li Shushi received a message from his temporary residence that it seemed that the emperor planned to give large-scale rewards to the meritorious officers of the Bingzhou army after the victory of this war, so Li Shushi needed to provide a list in advance. (To be continued......)