Back at his residence, Liu Bei was still thinking about Feng Ji's conversation just now.

Liu Bei has been tossing and turning all these years, and it is true that he has not received any help from famous strategists. In the early days, the soldiers destroyed the Yellow Turbans, but unfortunately the Yellow Turbans were too weak and were soon destroyed by everyone. Mainly, like Liu Bei, there are too many people who come out to destroy the Yellow Turban, too many people with ill intentions, and too many people with different aspirations, all of whom feel that the Han is about to change the sky and want to take the opportunity to fish in troubled waters. Liu Bei was not too outstanding in the Yellow Turban of the Quelling Rebellion, and in the end, the court rewarded him with just a county lieutenant. Later, he offended the superintendent from the county, so that even the county lieutenant was not saved. Later, the general He Jin sent Biqiu Yi to Danyang to recruit troops, Liu Bei joined on the way, and when he arrived in Xiapi, he fought with thieves and made meritorious contributions, and was appointed as the Cheng of Xiami County, and soon resigned. Later, he served as Gao Tang Wei and Gao Tang Ling. Soon Gaotang County was broken by thieves, and Liu Bei went to Gongsun Zan and was listed as Sima of other departments. Later, he went to the plains and served as the plain minister. Liu Bei has been mixed for more than ten years, and it is true that there has been no strategist to guide the way, and he has always been crawling and rolling, Xuzhou is Liu Bei's highest achievement for so many years, so Xuzhou will be very sad if he loses him.

Liu Bei talked to Feng Ji, and then he felt that he had basically been in vain in the past ten years, and he was obviously like a headless fly, and he was simply a fool.

Now that he was being pointed out, Liu Bei finally woke up.

Now he desperately needs a guide.

Around Liu Bei, there are also some scribes, such as Sun Qian, such as Mi Zhu, but their level is very average. Liu Bei felt that the strategist who sent the message to Feng Ji today must be a powerful person, and the upper, middle and lower strategies were well-organized, but unfortunately he didn't know who it was, and he might not have taken a fancy to himself when he saw the meaning.

As for Chen Deng, Liu Bei also felt a little difficult.

Chen Deng has a good impression of himself, but Chen Deng is a celebrity, and the Chen family in Xuzhou is a big family, Chen Jue, Chen Deng, and Chen Qun are all famous people in the world, and it is difficult to let others leave their homeland and follow themselves around.

As for Chen Gong, it was even more difficult.

Now Liu Bei is facing two major problems, one is how to leave Xu Du, and the other is how to find the real mastermind who can guide him.

When you want to leave, you will find that it is really not so easy to leave.

The entire Xu Capital is full of Cao Cao's eyeliner, and it is impossible to leave secretly.

Besides, Liu Bei's three brothers, the goal is so conspicuous.

Therefore, if you want to leave, you can only go through the right channels, and you must have Cao Cao's consent.

That's going to be very difficult.

How could Cao Cao easily let Liu Bei go.

If you want to leave Xu Du, you must first let Cao Cao relax his vigilance.

Liu Bei thought about it and finally decided to grow vegetables.

A vegetable patch was specially cultivated in the backyard, and I was very busy with fertilizing and watering every day. He no longer continued to harass Cao Dada, let alone the matter of Xuzhou. As for the upper court, I didn't go either.

The external saying is that after many years of fighting, I can finally relax, grow vegetables and flowers, and cultivate my self-cultivation. I also want to leave an impression on Cao Cao, that is, I, Liu Bei, don't ask about political affairs, don't form gangs, and am a person with no ambitions and ambitions, so you don't have to be too defensive of me.

While planting vegetables, Liu Bei secretly contacted Chen Deng, hoping to persuade Chen Deng to come out to assist him.

Liu Bei planted vegetables, Xu Du was a joke for a while, Cao Cao listened to it, but he just laughed and did not delve into it. For Cao Cao, it doesn't matter if you are growing vegetables or training soldiers, as long as you don't jump out against me, as long as you don't escape from my Wuzhi Mountain, it's all right.

However, at this moment, something happened.

When the New Year came, the Son of Heaven rewarded him for his hard work in sympathy for the ministers.

However, the Son of Heaven is also poorer, and the rewards are more festive things, such as clothing and jewelry.

Liu Bei is the general of Zuo who leads Yuzhou Mu, the uncle of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, and the elder of the Son of Heaven, so he is naturally no exception, and there are many things. And it was Uncle Dong Cheng who came to present the reward.

Liu Bei's rewards include a number of brocade silks, a number of fine wines, and a set of auspicious clothes.

auspicious clothes are the clothes that are passed down during festivals. Including coats, hair crowns, hairpins, belts, obscene clothes, shoes and socks, etc.

What made Liu Bei very strange was that when the award was awarded, Dong Cheng kept glancing at him.

Liu Bei was puzzled.

Especially when Dong Cheng was leaving, he deliberately pulled Liu Bei's belt while people were not paying attention.

Clearly hinting at something.

For the sake of caution, Liu Bei still specially asked people to inquire outside, and the result of the return was that the officials of the imperial court in Xudu, those with good rank, were rewarded. Liu Bei was relieved.

After Dong Cheng and the chamberlain left, Liu Bei took out all the reward items and inspected them in detail for a long time, especially the belt, focusing on the inspection.

finally let him find the clue.

There was something in that jade belt. After cutting the silk thread with a short blade, a secret edict was sewn inside.

After discovering the secret edict, Liu Bei's heart was about to jump out.

The secret edict is also written on a brocade silk, so it is sewn into the jade belt, whether you look at it or touch it, it is difficult to find. Come to think of it, Cao Cao's people must have also checked these rewards, and they must have found nothing. If Liu Bei hadn't been hinted at by Dong Cheng and carefully examined and studied for a long time, otherwise it would have been difficult for him to find out.

This is a secret edict from the Son of Heaven.

The edict said:

I have heard that the people are great, and the father and son come first; The difference between respect and humility, the monarch and the minister are the most important. The nearest powerful ministers are thieves, from the cabinet gate, and they are guilty of deception. Linking up with the party, corrupting the government, and rewarding and punishing are all not unintentional. Worried all night, I am afraid that the world will be in danger. Qing is the elder of the country, my closest relative, can remember the difficulties of the high emperor to start a business, entangled the martyrs of both loyalty and righteousness, annihilated the traitorous party, restored the society, and eliminated the violence before it sprouted, and the ancestors were very fortunate! Panic broke the fingers, wrote the edict to Fu Qing, and then be cautious, don't let it be negative! The first month of the spring of the second year of Jian'an

Liu Bei didn't know if anyone else had been given a secret edict, and having this secret edict would have advantages and disadvantages for him. The advantage is that in the future, you can hold high the banner of crusade against Cao thieves and call on the righteous people in the world. The disadvantage is that now that he is in Cao Cao's base camp, if the incident is not confidential and the East Window incident happens, he will be finished.

Liu Bei read it twice, hid the secret edict, and then carefully sewed the jade belt as it was, and after confirming that there were no traces, he breathed a sigh of relief.

After the Jade Belt Edict incident, Liu Bei became more careful, and even the door did not go out of the door, and even his subordinates, including Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, repeatedly told them to show up as little as possible.

In this way, after a while, even Liu Bei himself thought that Cao Cao might have forgotten him, on this day, suddenly Cao Cao sent his guard commander Xu Chu with dozens of guards to personally come over to ask Liu Bei to come over and talk.

When Liu Bei heard that Cao Cao suddenly invited him, he immediately thought of the matter of the secret edict.

At that time, Liu Bei was planting vegetables in the vegetable field.

At that time, it was spring and March, and the spring flowers were blooming, but Liu Bei felt that the sun was like fire, and his body began to sweat.

In order to hide his nervousness, Liu Bei accidentally got a body of dung, and then confessed to Xu Chu repeatedly, and after bathing and changing clothes, he followed Xu Chu to see Cao Cao with fear.

"Xuande is doing a great job at home!" As soon as they met, Cao Cao gave Liu Bei a dismissal. (To be continued.) )