Three Kingdoms: Cao Ying's mastermind, from nine to five

Chapter 290 Ask Jingzhou scholars, do you know this young man?

"What do you mean?" Cao Cao approached with a smile that was not a smile. He knew that Xu Zhen's words had other meanings, and he didn't care about Cai Mao...

It's not that simple when you think about it carefully. The two looked at each other and smiled, and Xu Zhen asked: "Actually, my lord wants to kill Cai Hao, right? At least I want him to resign."

"Yes, Not Bad."

Indeed, Cai Mao owns 10,000+ Jingzhou naval forces, and these soldiers have been under his leadership for ten years and have been constantly changing.

No matter how many years you have followed, it is inevitable to hear Cai Mao's reputation and be affected by the military spirit set by Cai Mao. This is something that cannot be replaced immediately by changing the commander.

What's more, most of Cao Cao's subordinates are northern generals, and there are no navy generals, so he has no way to take over Cai Mao's current position. It is not easy to take over 10,000+ troops.

"I want to change, but it's not easy to change. The generals under his command don't have such talents. Those who are good at water warfare, except for Cai Mao and the generals of Jingzhou, I am afraid that all of them have been taken by Jiangdong in recent years."

Cao Cao sighed, a little frustrated. In the north, only Qingzhou has waters, so there are not many good water fighters, and it takes years to train. "Does Bowen have any recommended talents?"

"No," Xu Zhen shook his head resolutely, "A good scholar in the army, among Yu Jin, Li Dian, and the Cao clan, elder brother Zixiao can lead the army, and Zidan can learn the art of war. He is still young and talented. You can try to cultivate it first."

Half of a son-in-law?

Who are you not?Have you lost all kinds of talented people in this big Han territory these years?

This young scribe's beard is neatly trimmed, and he is fair and brave with a heroic temperament. He is only about [-], tall and handsome, with a strong body, and he is either rich or noble.

When Xu Zhen saw it, it was another finely carved and very luxurious long sword crafted from the eight-faced sword of the Han Dynasty.

Liu Xian said something casually, and looked at Cai Mao apologetically, he really didn't know him.

"Liu Cong, let me ask you."

"Okay, madam," Cao Cao laughed, "I'm just curious to ask, you have 30 soldiers in Jingzhou, why don't you dare to fight?"

"This man's name is Zhou Buyi," Xu Zhen explained, "Your Majesty, you'll find out as soon as you arrive in Xiangyang. His uncle's name is Liu Xian. His father and I used to be good friends."

"Really have this confidence?"

The name of this sword is Yitian, and it relies on the emperor to act. Compared with the Qingzhi sword, it has a more powerful texture.

Ask me to catch up on the old days?

"I know," Xu Zhen smiled, "There are still many talents among these people."

"Okay, hey, it's okay..." Cai Mao was stunned for a moment, and then he was ecstatic in his heart.

Xu Zhen knew it was a good sword at a glance.

At that time, he didn't have a prime minister to back him up, nor did he have 30 elite troops to back him up.

"Really? You still have old friends in Jingzhou? Why don't I believe it?" Cao Cao's complexion changed slightly, and he leaned back with suspicion.

Cao Cao cleared his throat, and said in a deep voice, "He is General Xu Zhen, a chariot and cavalry general."

"This is..." The more Cai Mao heard it, the more something was wrong.

"Oh, like this……"

After accepting the surrender, Cao Cao sat in the seat of the Lord of Jingzhou. He watched Mrs. Cai scrutinize for a long time with brilliant eyes, but remembered some things in Wancheng, so he held back.

Cao Cao nodded slightly.

"You must first make a plan to suppress all these gentry before anyone is willing to do things."

The texture is exquisite and gorgeous, and one can tell that it is extremely luxurious at a glance. The blade is very sharp, and it is no exaggeration to blow hair and break hair.

"Tsk, am I this kind of person?" Xu Zhen immediately leaned back after hearing this, her face full of discomfort.

Standing high and powerful, standing beside Cao Cao...

The promise that Cao Ren promised back then will definitely be fulfilled, and now as long as he is obedient, the Cai family can prosper and survive.

Of course Cao Cao understands why Xu Zhen wants this official position to govern the territory. This kid still holds grudges, and he has always had a bad relationship with the gentry.

He shouted thunderously, as if shouting, this is very strange, like an elder teaching a junior.

Cao Cao gave him a blank look, "So I only dreamed in the first half of the night, and couldn't sleep in the second half of the night."

The next thing to do is bide your time.

Cao Cao stretched out his hand to the left, making everyone look at Xu Zhen. Of course, no one present had seen him.

"Understood, understood!" Madam Cai immediately nodded in agreement after being stunned for a moment, and bowed to Liu Cong by the way.

"This is Xu Zhen? Isn't Xu Zhen over 40?"

But after thinking about it, everyone has already said that, so I don't need to pretend that I don't know each other.

Cao Cao looked back quite proudly, and was about to let Xu Zhen figure out how to explain it himself. They all said they didn't know each other, so what's your excuse?
"Why don't you know each other? Zhou Buyi's father was an old friend of mine," Xu Zhen asked Liu Xian directly, "Did he never mention me!? He also said at the beginning that if he came to Jingzhou in the future, he would let Buyi recognize me. I am an uncle, and I personally took his written records."

From this point of view, it is Guo Jia, the counselor of Yingchuan that people describe. Although he doesn't know him, he can boast a few words.

Cao Cao burst into a hearty laugh, "That's good, that's good, please give me a few more compliments, just a few more compliments."

Liu Xian was taken aback for a moment, and countless gazes looked at him at this moment, "I don't know... I've never met before."

Anyway, keep this in mind.

The corner of Xu Zhen's mouth twitched violently, and he raised his head and asked helplessly, "Are you...prepared for a long time?"

"No problem, I'm sure it's well arranged."

"Your answer is outrageously wrong. Of course, it's not that you dare not fight with Cao Jun, but that you love the people and benevolent. You don't fight the enemy with benevolence, because once you fight, the people will fall into war. For them, Jingzhou surrendered. Xu Du, return to the command of the Great Han Emperor, do you understand?"

"Hey! Wait!" Cao Cao was taken aback suddenly, "You won't take the opportunity to recruit a lot of talents again!?"

"It should be noted that Liu Bei only has [-] in his hand, and he blocked my vanguard for several months!"

Afterwards, Xu Zhen mentioned a few more people, let Cao Cao keep it in mind, and slowly had a list to think about.

Then donate a large piece of land, hills and other places outside the city to Cao Cao privately as a gift.

Liu Xian hesitated for a moment, then cupped his hands again and said, "Reporting to Prime Minister, I really don't know each other, but I feel that this young man is very familiar..."

Talking about this, Cao Cao is still very keenly aware of this, and Xu Zhen does this kind of thing a lot.

……

"Yes, yes! Here he is!"

"Liu Xian, do you know Xu Zhen now?"

so happy?Could it be Cao Ang?

Yitian.

"Well, it's good to understand, Cai Mao!"

Cao Cao took out a sword from the crotch where he was sitting, and put a sword on the case in the carriage.

Of course, if you don't go out, there won't be too many southern scholars interacting with each other, and it's rare to see the two of them socializing.

"Tsk, half a son-in-law," Xu Zhen reminded abruptly.

Great, this is great.

I hoped that Cao Cao would stop persecuting the mother and son, but it was a pity that Cao Cao didn't turn his head to look at him, and went straight to Cai's mother and son, and said with a smile, "Wrong."

Cai Hao, who followed Cao Cao's footsteps, also breathed a sigh of relief at the moment. It turned out that he was not threatening, but was teaching his sister, the mother and son, to say a few good words to the people. From this point of view, Prime Minister Cao is not a person who backtracks on what he says.

Cao Cao nodded immediately, and said flatly, "Are you not familiar with it? You Jingzhou scholars call him a post-eunuch, and some say he is my illegitimate son."

No matter what the identity of this person is, to be able to stand by Cao Cao's side must not be an ordinary person.

"Okay, that makes sense."

Naturally, he didn't know him. Liu Xian even squinted his eyes and stared at it for a long time, but he still didn't have the slightest impression.

"Keep them still."

Xu Zhen was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said yes, not to refute, and then said to the topic just now: "I can't be really idle if I stay here, I must have a job, and I can't be taken advantage of by others."

Mrs. Cai was also stunned, and looked at Cai Mao, both of them were stiff and dull.

"I didn't force you to stay. I don't care if you leave, but military orders cannot be violated," Cao Cao explained without changing his face.

"do not know."

Sure enough, what he said in the letter was not nonsense, he really still remembered some of the friendship from that year.

In the land of Jingzhou, there are several governance strategies, not to mention there are Kong Ming, Yang Xiu, Jia Ji, Huang Xu and other young people around to help discuss.

"Well, you are Liu Xian, okay, do you know this one?"

"If I can give birth to such a son, I can wake up laughing from my dreams, hahaha!"

"Since I'm not leaving," Xu Zhen changed the subject and slowly talked about another matter, "Then govern Jingzhou for the Lord, at least in three years."

Walking in front of Cao Cao, he bowed and saluted, then glanced at Cao Cao rather timidly, and said, "Prime Minister, I'm Jingzhou, don't drive Liu Xian."

Speaking of which, Cao Ang and the others have never met before. Xu Zhen and Cao Ang have always been in the north. When they were in Shucheng, they either went to the fields or farmed every day, or they were always in charge of government in the government office.

There are many similarities with me.

Cao Cao glanced back at him, his face suddenly full of smiles, "Oh, you have done a great job in capturing Jingzhou this time, and you have time to catch up on the old days."

Liu Cong was startled, his body trembled for a moment, and he didn't dare to speak.

The young man was scolded by the scholars of Jingzhou.

"Not bad! It's rare to see!"

Cai Hao also echoed casually, although he was in a hurry, he was able to round things up.

Liu Xian's eyes lost their luster on the spot, but after careful recollection, he never mentioned Xu Zhen as a person, but at this moment, thinking that Xu Zhen is now a big man riding a horse and leading two states, he has no doubt that if he follows him, In the future, he will surely flourish.

This, this is the real value!

Dang bang.

"Ah yes, how do we know each other... This must be the high-achieving students around the prime minister, who can be so handsome and young, and have meritorious deeds."

It didn't matter if it was thousands of miles away.

Cao Cao glanced at him unexpectedly, then examined with a smile, "Numbers? This is the land of Jingzhou, it's not that simple."

"Don't worry, I just need that few people, absolutely not too many, and I just want an eleven or twelve-year-old doll, who is the son of an old friend before me, and I haven't seen him for many years. When I arrive in Jingzhou, how can I Don't take it away?"

Xu Zhen smiled and said, confidently patted her chest and leaned against the back wall, feeling like it was nothing to worry about.

This is too obvious.

"Prime Minister, may I ask..." Liu Cong didn't dare to speak, Madam Cai could only speak, "Please, just ask..."

Now that Xu Zhen is coming to rectify the gentry, Cao Cao can't think of anyone in Jingzhou who would dare to stand up and say no.

"You are really young, and you still look like a strategist, like a nobleman from some family."

You can still get a lot of benefits, and you can fight for a little more.

"Okay, I remember."

What's the meaning?Why do you ask this kind of question, wouldn't it be good for us to surrender without a fight?
Would it be better to have a fight with you?
Now that we have surrendered, are you going to blame us here?It can't be said...you, Prime Minister Cao, sent troops south to fight us on purpose, wanting to fight a civil war as ancient as it is today, right?
"I, we..."

"Hahaha……"

"I originally planned to go to Bingzhou to start the important tasks of governance as soon as possible, but I was forced to stay."

From the crowd, a man with a beard near the chin and a serious face came out. His face was relatively flat and his chin was naturally slanted down, so he appeared to be full of a sense of paranoia.

In Xiangyang City.

Cao Cao said with a cheerful smile, making the young Liu Cong tremble immediately when he lay on the ground.

I muttered in my heart.

"Well, I heard that Jingzhou's name is Liu Xian, isn't it?"

I don't know how many talented people there are in Jingzhou, if he really took a few more, there would be one less in his own Cao family, he would definitely be able to do this kind of thing.

Cai Hao and Mrs. Cai led Liu Cong out to surrender, donated the city seal, private seal, official seal documents, and tidied up more than [-] mansions in the city to the Cao family.

"It should be in his early thirties."

Xu Zhen didn't think so. If I came to manage it, even if no one moved according to the original distribution of personnel, I could still raise [-]% of the income, not to mention that I might be able to make some arrangements.

Thinking of this, Boss Cao recalled that in the old days, when he was fighting with the gentry and eunuch factions, he beat countless powerful people with five-color sticks. , sad for a long time.

"This one must be the adviser next to the prime minister..."

At this time, the surrender and handover in Jingzhou is still in progress, and the matter of sending Liu Cong and Mrs. Cai to Qingzhou cannot be said directly for the time being.

"Tsk, you're too young..."

"Here is the sword, plus I will give you the next letter of appointment. With your position as a chariot general, Cao's soldiers and horses are at your disposal. The same is true for Fengxiao's school office. You can take people at will in Jingzhou city. But one thing," Cao Cao looked at Xu Zhen solemnly, "don't kill all these gentry."

"No, Yitian is originally a saber, of course I carry it with me, and it just happens to sit down where I sit, so why don't I just take it out and give it to you?"

"Hmph...don't dare to fight," Cao Cao pondered a few times, then slowly got up and came forward. Cai Mao stared at him with a very sincere expression the moment he walked out.

The old man blushed slightly and looked away, instead of looking at Xu Zhen, feeling that his voice was quieter, Wei Wei turned around to take a small look.

"There's no need to exaggerate," Cai Mao said with a sneer, "This is a young and promising person at first glance, he should be a scholar, and he will surely rise to the top in the future."

Cai Mao glanced out, waved and shouted: "Shizong! Come, come, the prime minister is looking for you! Shizong!"

Mrs. Cai didn't know what to say, so she could only open her mouth and said, "Return to the Prime Minister, we dare not fight."

Scolding is all right, but when Xu Bowen is standing in front of you, it's a bit ignorant to scold again.

"Yes, yes, when I think about it next time, I have indeed heard from my brother... No doubt, now at home, is Che Qi going to see it? He must still remember you."

Xu Zhen nodded, "Okay, just think about it."

Standing beside Xu Zhen, Cao Cao didn't believe a word, but he didn't intend to expose it, Xu Bowen just took it away if he liked a doll of eleven or twelve.

I don't know how many years to teach, and for a person like Xu Zhen, it's the same for everyone.

(End of this chapter)