There are gentlemen in the Three Kingdoms

"Why are you two so anxious, so anxious early in the morning? Cao is in good health."

Dong Zhao breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words, bowed his hands and said, "Minggong, forgive me, the two of us just heard from the attendants that Minggong didn't sleep all night last night, and the water and rice were not exhausted, so I was panicking, so I came here to check on your situation. , the subordinates entered in a moment of impatience, and their behavior was presumptuous, please forgive me."

When Cao Cao heard this, he laughed a few times in embarrassment and guilty conscience, but said nothing.

Cheng Yu looked at Cao Cao suspiciously for a while, then lowered his eyes, only to find that there was a scroll of bamboo slips in front of a large box in front of Cao Cao's desk.

"Huh? Duke Ming, you lost your official document." Cheng Yu said while walking forward to pick it up.

Cao Cao was startled when he saw this.

Just now, in a moment of impatience, I actually left the first volume of Tao's strange book.

"Stop watching!"

Cao Cao was so frightened that he jumped up from the slump, and was about to grab it in a hurry.

If it were someone else, they might listen to Cao Cao, but Cheng Yu has a very strong character. He has contradicted Cao Cao many times and made a lot of noise. He is the kind of direct minister who is not used to his boss at all.

Cao Cao is also a lowly person, the more Cheng Yu treats him like this, the closer he and Cheng Yu become.

If things go on like this, Cheng Yu has somewhat let himself go in front of Cao Cao.

The old man's steps were extremely vigorous, he went up and picked up the bamboo slips, unfolded them in front of his eyes for a look.

"Cough, cough!"

Cao Cao stood where he was, looking up at the canopy, pretending he didn't know anything.

A little time

"This, Minggong! You wrote this?" Cheng Yu turned to look at Cao Cao in surprise.

Cao Cao trembled when he heard the words, and hurriedly waved his hands and said, "Nonsense! This matter has nothing to do with Cao!"

Dong Zhao was also curious, put his head on Cheng Yu's shoulder, and looked down.

Dong Zhao's reading speed was extremely fast. After looking at ten lines at a glance for a while, his eyes immediately became straight, and a shocked expression appeared on his simple and honest round face.

"This, how can I describe it, what a beautiful article!"

"Huh?" Cheng Yu squinted at him.

Dong Zhao coughed, and hurriedly changed his tone: "Vulgar! It's really vulgar! My lord, who sent this article?"

Cao Cao hastily explained: "This article is mixed in the poems sent to Cao by the potter! It has nothing to do with me, and the contents are all written by that little thief!"

Cheng Yu was stunned when he heard the words, he stroked his beard, frowned and said, "Young pottery merchant, what is the meaning of sending such strange writing?"

Cao Cao regained his usual sobriety, was silent for a while and said, "The little thief is cunning, is it because he wants to use this article to confuse my mind?"

Cheng Yu and Dong Zhao looked at each other, and then couldn't help laughing.

"If that's the case, then that little thief really underestimated Duke Ming! Duke Ming has a heart in the world and has the ambition to deal with the world. How can he be fooled by such small tricks? It seems that this little thief surnamed Tao also It's not as great as we thought, just playing tricks." Cheng Yu said confidently, stroking his beard.

Dong Zhao also agreed: "Who says it's not? People who can write such articles probably won't have any great prospects. They're just vulgar people. If they don't make a fortune, it seems that our previous guesses are really good. Tomorrow Lord, it seems that we can rest easy on the Xuzhou army for the time being, and deal with the rebellion in Yanzhou and the Xiliang generals first, and conquer Xuzhou in one fell swoop after the troubles are cleared away."

Cao Cao breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and said: "Good Dong Zhao, you stay in Jiyin County and continue negotiating with Tao Bandit on behalf of Cao. You must try to delay the time as much as possible, so that Tao Bandit can concentrate on transferring Liang Guo. Population, Cao and Zhongde will go to Yanjin in the next day, and after the civil strife is quickly quelled, they will return to conquer Xuzhou!"

"promise!"

After the order was finalized, Dong Zhao turned around and went back to arrange things, while Cao Cao left Cheng Yu behind.

Cheng Yu discussed with Cao Cao the details of how to deploy troops in the future, but suddenly he heard Cao Cao say, "Zhongde, do you know that Zhang Ji has a wife named Zou?"

Cheng Yu was taken aback when he heard the words, and shook his head: "I don't know."

"Then Lu Bu has a lieutenant named Qin Yilu?"

"I haven't heard of it, Mr. Ming, is there something?"

"Oh, no, nothing."

Chapter 342 Robbing the Emperor

Liang Guo.

The Jinling Army is now in Liang State, and its main task is to verify the household registration, check the number of people, and pretend to want to move all the population of Liang State to Xuzhou.

Although Liang Guo's population is also very attractive to potters, after all, population is productivity, but the most important thing for the current situation is the emperor who is near Puyang.

For this move, the Tao merchant put on a great posture, and even wrote "Dao's novels" for Cao Cao to read, in order to make Cao Cao think that he is a person who does not have enough mind and is happy to be heretics. Let Cao Cao shift his focus to the interior of Yanzhou and the generals of Xiliang with peace of mind.

As for the postscript of Dow's novel, the attached genealogy of women in the Eastern Han Dynasty is a foreshadowing bomb planted by potters for Cao Cao.

Although it is not known whether the bomb will go off, the potter feels that it is better to bury it than not to bury it.

Cao Cao is a hero of a generation, and this is understandable. If he was asked to choose hegemony and women, Cao Cao would definitely focus on hegemony.

However, potters believe that under the premise that certain conditions are ripe, or the hegemony is mature, Cao Cao will still be confused by women even if he is slack.

After all, Cao Cao is also a man, a man who can be made to lose his mind by women.

Isn't the Battle of Wancheng recorded in history a good example.

If there is no accident at the moment, Cao Cao will temporarily feel at ease with the Xuzhou army, and Du Shi of Qin Yilu's family and Zou Shi, Zhang Ji's wife, may be the catalyst for Cao Cao's rapid westward movement.

Curiosity killed the cat, Cao Cao must really want to kill Lu Bu and Zhang Ji right now, and then see if they are what the potter wrote.

After Sun Qian came back with Cao Cao's four conditions, the potter was not angry at all when he heard it, because he knew that these bullshit conditions proposed by Cao Cao were completely nonsense.

He used these conditions to confuse himself and let himself continue to negotiate with him, while Cao Cao seized the time to quell the chaos.

It doesn't matter, since you want to act, Tao will continue to act with you.

The potter cut off the last two unrealistic conditions from Cao Cao's four conditions, and then asked Sun Qian to go to Jiyin County to negotiate with Cao Cao.

Sun Gan ran back and forth twice, feeling like his legs and feet were about to break.

The potter now wants him to go on an envoy again.

It doesn't matter to Cao Cao as an envoy, but Sun Qian obviously felt that the pottery merchants were obviously not very sincere in the peace talks with Cao Cao, and Cao Cao was the same.

The two of them, as if they had made a deal, were gliding his grandson's legs together.

Although Sun Qian was very reluctant, but as a subject, the Lord asked him to do it, so he had to do it.

After receiving the general order, Sun Qian set off again in a hurry.