Mythic version of the Three Kingdoms

"Come to think of it, Old Song, you didn't marry the daughter of the Cao family, so why did you follow us here?" Jiang Dan turned his head to look at Song Ming beside him and asked curiously.

"I don't know where my father-in-law's house is, and God knows if he is buried somewhere. So be realistic and just follow you here." Song Ming said with a sneer.

Song Ming married the daughter of the Yong family. As a medium-sized family, and a medium-sized family that moved north, it would be somewhat unsociable for them not to participate in such a large-scale event. No matter how much the Yong family disliked communicating with humans, they would still participate in such things to some extent.

It's just that there were relatively few women of marriageable age in the Yong family at that time, so they married off two of them. One of them died while giving birth. Now only Song Ming's wife, Yong Fan, is still alive. Song Ming's wife told Song Ming directly that he didn't need to go to the Yong family. On the one hand, he couldn't find anyone there, and on the other hand, he wouldn't learn anything if he went there. So he should be more realistic and find another aristocratic family to learn from.

Song Ming and his wife have been getting along very well for many years. Since his wife said that she couldn't find it and there was nothing to learn, Song Ming found a reliable old brother and decided to learn with him. However, due to a momentary negligence, he forgot that his old brother married the daughter of Cao's family. However, when he arrived at this place, it was unrealistic to turn around and leave.

There is no way. Being able to stay happily with the Yong family, I am either a salted fish or almost a salted fish. I am somewhat slow in receiving external information, so when I get here, I have to bite the bullet and go in. Lao Cao is Lao Cao, what can Lao Cao do to me?

Several people glanced at Song Ming and roughly knew what this guy was like. Even if they didn't know much about Song Ming before, they could tell along the way that he was a useless person.

"Then let's go and take a look in Herat. I don't believe that Lao Cao can still be crazy. Oh, I heard that Lao Cao is dead after the craniotomy." Jiang Dan turned his head and spoke to the brothers around him. It was obvious that Jiang Dan's intelligence network was better and he knew much more than the other brothers.

"Never mind him, maybe things will be better without Lao Cao." Zheng Ke followed Jiang Dan with a gloomy face. His wife beside him glared at him fiercely, but if you marry a chicken, you follow the chicken; if you marry a dog, you follow the dog; if you marry a monkey, you run around the mountains. After being with Zheng Ke for so many years, his wife also knew that Zheng Ke actually had no bad intentions, he just said whatever was on his mind.

However, if Zheng Ke's wife Cao Pei thought about it carefully, she was not familiar with Lao Cao, her distant uncle. She was just an ordinary concubine's daughter of the Cao family. It didn't matter if Lao Cao died. After all, after passing the level of marquis, for a family like theirs, it was basically the same. One more Cao Cao or one less Cao Cao really didn't make any difference.

The Zhen family knows their own business. They are okay with doing business in their current situation, but they are really not good at engaging in war. Their combat effectiveness is far too poor. When they have Liu Bei and Chen Xi behind them, they can rely on rules to suppress others, but sooner or later Chen Xi and Liu Bei will fall. What will they rely on then?
They can only rely on themselves, so they cannot push Cao Ang's forces to the limit. Instead, they have to win over Cao Cao's forces. Relying on the peculiar characteristics of their family, they can bind with Cao Ang's forces, infiltrate into every aspect of Cao Ang's forces, and then rely on the other side to survive.

Although there are no clear high and low positions, as a circle exists for a long time, many people will naturally realize where they should stand.

After Cao Cao fled, life had to go on. Xun Yu, Chen Qun and others helped Cao Ang to clean up the internal situation. Although Liu Ba was no longer there to manage the economy, the economy was restored to normal. Xun Yu, who relied on Liu Ba's suicide note to develop the real economy, quickly stabilized his subordinates.

Therefore, when the Zhen family sent people to negotiate, they did not insist on those terms. Instead, they really followed business means, as if we are here to do business, and in business there are gains and losses. We can accept some losses, but we are optimistic about your future.

But such outrageous things always happen. Zheng Ke is one of them. He is similar to Jiang Guang and Su Zong. He mainly relies on combat effectiveness. Moreover, he has always been on the front line of the Ganges, doing the real sixth-level smelting and gaining merit by blowing up the opponents' heads. Over the years, with very average command ability, he has also reached the thirteenth-level title.

As for those centurions and thousand-man commanders whose father-in-law had died, those who could not accept it had already fled. Some returned to the Han Dynasty to retire, some went to join Sun Ce, some went to Eastern Europe to join the Yuan family, and some went directly to their father-in-law's relatives in Central Asia. Anyway, if they were not wanted here, they would find other places to stay.

With Media and the support of Cao Ang, even after Liu Bei and Chen Xi fall, the Zhen family will have no problem becoming a large business group.

However, Cao Ang, who was always very filial, did not express this thought. Instead, he went to his father to ask about his father's well-being. Cao Cao did not take over everything in Kandahar as soon as he returned, but only met with his important officials one by one.

"Oh, no problem." Zheng Ke nodded. His talent structure was very simple, which was speed and strength, lightning fast, body of steel, adaptability, muscle defense, and willpower. He had no shortcomings in all aspects. But to be honest, he had already reached the sixth level of smelting, so he basically had no shortcomings. Moreover, he had reached the sixth level of smelting, and basically brought out the ultimate special effects of a certain talent.

Although they had honed their strength when they were fighting on the front line earlier, and even when they were commanding thousands of people or even legion-level troops later, they did not neglect to hone their individual strength, but the average of this group of people was only at the third level of smelting, which was very different from true immortal veterans like Zheng Ke.

In addition, after the Zhen family came, they did not really take over Kandahar. Instead, they had a good negotiation with Cao Ang's forces, stating that they actually had no intention of occupying Kandahar, and that Cao Ang's forces could continue to stay here. They were just doing business here, and as long as the previous situation did not occur again, everyone could continue to cooperate.

"Something happened, Keke, remember to help." Jiang Dan said to Zheng Ke.

A group of people looked around, and everyone pointed at Zheng Ke with a clear mind, "Ke Ke has the highest fighting ability and is the best fighter. He is a very good fighter."

"Let's go and see what's going on with Lao Cao." Jiang Dan raised his hand and waved the group of people to go inside. The group naturally formed a line and walked inside.

Therefore, any veteran who has communicated with Zheng Ke knows that Zheng Ke is definitely the best fighter among this group of people. Maybe the remaining six or seven of them combined cannot beat Zheng Ke. There is no way. Although they are middle-level officers who have risen from the bottom and have some combat effectiveness, they can reach this position because of their command ability.

Those who came to Central Asia this time were basically middle-level officers from the Ganges. Their general titles were between 12th and 15th level, and they were basically commanders. There were very few centurions. Although there were cases where a centurion commanded 500 people, for most soldiers at this level, it was basically a dream to want to gain a foothold by relying on the rank of centurion.

"Let's go, let's go, stop talking nonsense." Kuang Ding said with a dark face, "Among us brothers, who is the best fighter? Help me keep an eye on him when the time comes."

Why did Chen Xi build such a complicated framework? Wasn't it also to take into account the diversity of choices?

Kandahar, Cao Cao's return was not a good thing. For a prince like Cao Ang who had truly experienced pain and then tried his best to settle everything and prevent his subordinates from exploding, his father's return was not a shot in the arm, but a trouble instead.

After all, after the supplies from Rome, the Han Dynasty, and the Zhen family arrived on time, even if there was an over-issuance, under the endorsement of several layers of credibility, the people under his rule had calmed down their original anger. In addition, this time the people under Cao Cao actually obtained the irrigation area that Cao Cao had worked so hard to reclaim and build. After their confidence was restored, although the people were a little angry, they did not dwell on the matter anymore because of the practical benefits.

"Gongda, why haven't you said a word since meeting the lord?" Chen Qun said to Xun You with a difficult smile on his face.

Relying on this trick, the Zhen family successfully intervened in Kandahar, and it was very smooth and there was no obstruction. Even a Pixiu like Cao Hong had to admit that the Zhen family did have a good reputation and had no intention of cheating money.

As for Xun Yu, Chen Qun, Xun You, and Mao Jie, these people who could see into the future, they had noticed some things to some extent, but to be honest, it was not that important. After all, only if they could pass this level could they have a future. If they couldn't pass this level, everything else was bullshit.

As a result, the Zhen family's actions should not only not be seen as taking advantage, but also must be recognized from the bottom of their hearts that the other party is indeed here to help, and even have to admit that without the Zhen family, there would be no Cao Ang's power. Oh, for this reason, Cao Ang had to sacrifice his younger brother and let Cao Pi marry a daughter of the Zhen family to ensure the relationship between the two sides.

To be honest, the Zhen family doesn't have much except daughters. Even if the legitimate family has no sons, such outrageous situations as all daughters are possible. Therefore, there is no problem in finding a legitimate daughter of the right age to marry Cao Pi.

In this way, Cao Ang's power was truly stabilized, and he no longer needed to go to war with Ardashir directly. Instead, he had to reorganize his legions. After all, so many middle and lower-level officers had fled, and if he didn't reorganize his legions, who knew how much combat effectiveness he would still have.

It was precisely because of the escape of lower-level officers in the Han army that Cao Ang had to increase the promotion of officers in the Northern Gui army. After all, fewer officers in the Northern Gui army escaped. Although there were some idiots who survived the previous turmoil, there were relatively few rich people in the Northern Gui army, and the losses were relatively small, so there was no large-scale turmoil. Therefore, the structure of the Northern Gui army was relatively complete.

With the arrival of Barak, the morale of some Beigui soldiers who had been wavering due to the internal turmoil at the time was stabilized. After all, Barak was Cao Ang's brother-in-law, and Cao Wan and Cao Ang were siblings, raised together by Madam Ding, so Barak was naturally closer to Cao Ang.

Relying on Barak's support, he successfully stabilized the Northern Guizhou officers and soldiers under his command, and then increased his reliance on the Northern Guizhou Corps. Cao Ang gradually stabilized the situation in Kandahar.

After all, the officers and soldiers in Beigui were basically Barak's subordinates before, and Barak could understand what these people were thinking. After taking Princess Qinghe around for a while, he calmed them down.

Of course, Kabechi's plan to be a county lord has failed, because Cao Cao has fallen, so Kabechi has recently been instigating Cao Ang to help him get a county lord. He doesn't have any ideals, he just wants these. He is a person with low tastes and is very vulgar, he just wants to be a princess or a county lord.

Cao Ang gave the guarantee in front of everyone else, and then the officers and soldiers of Beigui resumed their previous diligent state. After all, Barak was here, and Kabechi's ambition could be fulfilled, so even if they had any ideas, they couldn't do it.

It can be said that Cao Ang had been working hard to clean up the internal situation for the entire last year, and the cleanup was finally completed in the early spring of this year. As a result, his father came back to reap the benefits.

Again, Cao Ang's performance was indeed very good. His efforts over the past year had shown people the excellence of Prince Cao, and made those elders and peers fully recognize him. However, compared to Cao Cao, who had led this group of people to fight for more than ten years, Cao Ang's majesty was somewhat lacking. At least after Cao Cao appeared, he quickly summoned the officers and talked to them one by one, and these officers and civil officials did not show too obvious resistance.

Even though there were some sarcastic taunts from Liu Xian, no one turned hostile and said things like "I quit and I'm running away". Overall, this group of people were relatively respectful when they met Cao Cao.

Xun Yu and Xun You met Cao Cao together. After returning, Xun Yu found that Xun You had an expressionless face as if he was thinking about something.

"I was just thinking, is this really Cao Sikong?" Xun You had no fear of saying anything when facing his uncle, so he confronted Xun Yu directly.

"Does this matter?" Xun Yu looked at Xun You with great calmness, but those eyes like deep springs shocked Xun You a little. Was his uncle treating Cao Sikong like this before?

"Actually, it is somewhat important," Xun You hinted.

"If he can come back, he must have passed Chen Zichuan's review. Since Chen Zichuan agreed to let Cao Sikong come back, then Cao Sikong is Cao Sikong." Xun Yu said calmly, "So this problem is not a problem, but an established reality. None of us can stop it, and there is no way to stop it."

Upon hearing this, Xun You nodded somewhat dully. Indeed, who among you dares to say that the Cao Sikong sent back by Chen Xi is not Cao Sikong? Even if he is not, he must be.

"Gongda, do you feel that your intelligence is being constrained if you continue to stay here? In fact, we don't need so many counselors here. If you want, you can return to Chang'an." Xun Yu suddenly said, "With your intelligence and Chen Zichuan's generosity, you won't care about the past. The real power of Chang'an will be yours in two or three years."

Xun You looked up at Xun Yu with a frown. No matter what the situation was in the past, Xun Yu would not become like this, but this time, Xun Yu seemed to have given up on himself.

"Under the rule of Prime Minister Cao, there is actually no need for so many civil officials. You, Changwen, and Xiaoxian can all get good treatment if you move to another place. What Yuan Chang said back then has really come true. Chen Zichuan is strong in all aspects, especially after he merged with the country. His strength has penetrated into all aspects and it is impossible to resist." Xun Yu said to Xun You with a bit of dejection.

If Cao Cao had not returned, Xun Yu could still hold on. Under the leadership of Cao Ang, he could use his own talents to unify the civil officials under his rule, break through the Kabul Valley, and finally enter South Asia. But Cao Cao came back, and Xun Yu was tired, very tired, and he couldn't lead the army anymore, really couldn't lead the army anymore.

"Why do you want to change?" Xun You said calmly, "I don't have the same ambition as you. I just don't want to be noticed or expected. I just want to live a simple life. Whether in Chang'an or here, for me it's just living with Ah Wu."

Xun You is very strong. Even now he is only weaker than a few people. Moreover, this weakness is only due to being trapped in one place, unable to see the world, which leads to problems in his pattern and vision, rather than a pure problem of ability. Speaking only of ability, he is truly on the same level as Jia Xu, and is one of the top strategists who can truly make it to the end safely.

However, Xun You had no sense of existence at any time, not even when the Xun family was fighting for the position of head of the family. He had rebelled against the Xun family, but the rebellion failed, and then he just lay down. For him, it was the same wherever he was, he would live with Awu.

As for who to support and who to give advice to, that is just the job of the head of the family. Just hang around and it's fine under Cao Cao's rule. It's such a small place with so many awesome people. You don't need to say anything and just watch them operate. If any of those ministers cannot be led, even the most useless Cheng Yu has fighting capacity. Why bother to go to another place and work hard, right?

"Alas, if you stay here, you will just waste your knowledge." Xun Yu sighed and said, he was a little tired now.

The AI ​​Cao Cao created by Chen Gong was so ingenious that even Chen Gong himself suspected that Cao Cao had been resurrected, but based on some small details, he was able to determine that this was not Cao Cao.

It's just that Chen Gong thought that this was enough to deceive others, but in fact, none of these counselors under Cao Cao were easy to deal with. None of them gave their best, and most of the time their minds were on figuring out what was going on with Cao Cao. So after Chen Gong brought the AI ​​Cao Cao back and communicated with them one by one, the Xiahou brothers felt a little strange at most, but the top counselors under Cao Cao realized that this was not Cao Cao.

No, we can’t say it’s not Cao Cao, we can only say that the inside has changed.

But so what? Just like Xun Yu said, Chen Zichuan nodded to send Cao Cao back to you, and you said it was not him. Who do you think you are? No, I will replace you too!

It's the end of the month, please give me some monthly tickets for March. The author is almost out of money, sigh