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

Chapter 86 Broken!This kid wants to mess around? !

"If so, who would you choose as your wife?" Cao Cao asked again.

Xu Zhen was stunned for a moment. After asking this question, he naturally understood why he came to this banquet today.

When the Son of Heaven first arrived in Xudu, the Cao family naturally wanted to order someone to be close to him, and the best thing was to send his daughter to the palace as a concubine.

If I remember correctly, Cao Jie is a staunch daughter who is most observant of women's morals. Although she is still young, she will be sent to the palace after marriage in the future.

And Xu Zhen remembers that she is the only one who is intelligent and wise, and who is on the side of the emperor.

He even said that his elder brother Cao Pi said "the emperor will not be Zuo Er".

It can be called a woman's integrity, but she can't go against the general trend, but she ended up so miserable...

The most important thing is that Cao Jie's chubby face and cute smiling face appeared in Xu Zhen's mind, and he couldn't bear it.

She is so icy and cute, how could she not be saved.

"That depends on who chooses." Xu Zhen looked normal, and glanced at Cao Cao and Cao Song. "If it is an ordinary family or a hero of the gentry, we need to check his character."

"If you want to enter the noble family, you must choose someone who is smart and sensible, and who knows the purpose of relatives and estrangements, so that you can do something."

"What if you choose?"

Cao Cao frowned, why do you talk so much today, I don't see you being so meandering on weekdays, and you speak so crisply and neatly.

"Of course I'm all—"

"What!?" Cao Cao's eyes widened, and he stood up straight away, as if he had heard something incredible.

"Uh, no, if I'm next, just wait for Jie'er, I have the best relationship with Jie'er."

Xu Zhen chuckled and almost spoke his mind.

"Okay, then it's settled."

Cao Cao put a smile on his face and looked at Xu Zhen squarely, "My father is here today, so I will take my father's place and my wife's decision to betroth Jie'er to Xu Bowen."

"When Jie'er reaches the age of marriage, he will be sent to your mansion, and then the ceremony of husband and wife will be done."

"what?"

Xu Zhen was shocked immediately, it was broken, how did it come to my house, you, aren't you choosing a concubine for the emperor?
Aren't these people sent to the palace in the future?

"As for Ning'er and Xian'er... Bowen doesn't have to be too greedy."

"This, isn't this..." Xu Zhen couldn't speak for a while, are you betrothed or are you hurting me?

We have to wait at least seven or eight years, so what the hell.

Cao Cao immediately said: "Liu Bei will arrange the marriage for you, you just marry it, but the first wife must be a festival."

"If you still want Ning'er Xian'er, unless you can save my life, hehe, don't even think about it! Don't be too greedy, kid."

"I only have a few daughters, and there may be more in the future..."

Xu Zhen sat up a little bit, and muttered in a low voice: "In history, seven people are going to be sent into the palace."

However, since he doesn't interfere with the rest of the marriage and only wants to occupy the name of the royal family, it couldn't be easier, it's nothing more than to win over.

And want his daughter to occupy an important position in the backyard.

Then I definitely did not choose the wrong person. Although Cao Jie is young, he will definitely be loyal to her husband's family in the future.

As for age, it doesn't matter.

No matter how old a man is, his preferences are all in his twenties, which is extremely specific.

This matter can only be accepted.

After all, Xu Zhen really didn't intend to rebel against the Cao family. He felt that he might live beyond the realm of human beings in the future, but in troubled times, he had to rely on one side. If he could gain a noble status in the future, he would live a more comfortable life.

"In this way, Bowen can become a noble family by himself in Xudu."

Cao Cao laughed out loud, and looked more expectantly at Xu Zhen.

"Bowen, what official position do you want?"

"Censor."

Xu Zhen immediately cupped his hands.

Cao Cao frowned, "I'll ask you again, what kind of official position do you want?"

"That's right, Yushi...or General Diannong Zhonglang..."

"I will marry my daughter to you, and you ask me for a censor?! Do you really or falsely don't understand?!"

Xu Zhen immediately smiled wryly, without making a sound, "Then, Captain Xu?"

The corner of Cao Cao's mouth twitched, wishing he could throw the wine cup in his hand onto Xu Zhen's face, his lips moved wildly a few times, but he didn't say anything.

I bring the rice to your mouth and feed you!They refused to open their mouths!
I still have to chew for you, right? !
I've never seen such a foolish person in my life!
The censor, Diannong Zhonglang Jiang, and Xu Duwei are all unpromising officials, and the censor doesn't even have any real power. To put it bluntly, he is an arrangement and supervision official.

Just impeach the unclean.

The other two are even more thankless, General Dian Nong? !You're addicted to farming, aren't you? !
Captain Xu is better... At least he can govern the legal affairs of Xudu, but this is not what you, a person who has made such great achievements, should do!
If you become Captain Xu, Yuan Shao will laugh at me, Cao Cao, for being narrow-minded and unable to give me an official position. Those who don’t know will think how jealous I am of you!

"you you……"

Cao Cao stretched out his hand and tapped Xu Zhen a few times, "Say it again, what kind of official position do you want!"

Xu Zhen tactically leaned back, seeing that Boss Cao's face was flushed with anger, and at this moment, he looked left and right at many confidantes and relatives sitting here, and sighed: "Zhi Jinwu."

"Okay! Just hold Jinwu!!"

Cao Cao immediately slapped the table, stared at Xu Zhen, and said directly on the table, "Follow me to meet the emperor tomorrow!"

He was afraid that Xu Zhen would go back on his word, and asking him to get an official position was harder than killing him.

Is it so difficult to speak? !To be an official under my Cao Cao, no!Is it embarrassing to be an official under the emperor's feet?After being forced for so long to ask for a Zhijinwu, do you know how many people outside have stepped through the threshold and wanted a county magistrate!

Even if it is two thousand stones, people will search for treasures everywhere, ask celebrities to bring them to my house, talk with me all night long, and then offer advice and strategies.

Some people even wanted to hug me and make me the ancestor of the family. Generations of people dare not show any disrespect!
You have met me in this life, and I would have been strangled to death by someone else!
Cao Cao gritted his teeth, stared at Xu Zhen fiercely, and strangled his neck fiercely in his heart.

It was finally a little more comfortable.

At any rate, he asked for an official position, but the prefect Chen Liu couldn't let him run away, this man was like a toad, if he poked and moved, he would have to press him to death.

Otherwise, in the future, if my daughter marries a hard-working man, she will suffer all her life, and she will help the world, and she will have a good reputation, and she will be useless!

Xu Bowen!Stupid as a pig!

Waiting for Zhijinwu to work for a few years, Bo Wen will be older, and then throw him to Xuzhou as a state shepherd.

Others are rushing to ask for it, this bastard, it's actually me chasing him to feed him.

I am so angry that I feel uncomfortable...

Cao Cao gave Xu Zhen a blank look again, seeing that he was still willing to raise the wine, his lips moved a few times quickly.

Zhi Jinwu is responsible for the safety of the guards in the imperial city. His camp can be fully settled, and he can patrol day and night. After meeting the emperor tomorrow, he can basically settle down.

This official position must be one of your own.

In the future, when Bo Wen leaves, give this position to Ang Er or Pi Er.

Cao Cao was like a bright mirror in his heart. In this position, Xu Zhen could accumulate a lot of fame in the Zanying House and many celebrities, which would be of great benefit for him to go out to be a state shepherd or prefect of a large county in the future.

On weekdays, apart from arranging on-duty, there are not many complicated matters, mainly in the face of emergencies.

And arrange the guard of honor for the emperor to travel and so on.

Also idlers, but eminent idlers.

How lazy you are... Cao Cao suddenly muttered in his heart.

He suddenly realized that Xu Zhen might not be stupid.

Bad, this kid wants to mess around!
……

Coming out of the government office, Dian Wei and Xu Chu were muttering all the way.

"Why not?"

"The prefect, you just want it, and the lord chased after him. I just saw the look in the lord's eyes, and I almost want to eat you."

"Ouch……"

Xu Zhen was bitter immediately, "The greater the official position, the greater the responsibility."

"Zhi Jinwu is already an idler among high-ranking officials, and I have to also serve as Chenliu's prefect. It's too difficult...Who wants to do such a thing?"

He looked at the two people on the left and right, spread his hands and said helplessly: "What a good censor, I... I didn't know that I would not even give a censor, such an idle job!"

Xu Chu and Dian Wei were dumbfounded, unable to close their mouths.

You are going a little too far.

When this word spread, the rest of the counselors would probably be pissed off.

Your marriage has also been personally arranged, and you will definitely have a share of power in the future, and now you have the good job of guarding the emperor, holding both civil and military positions, and your status can be described as the mainstay.

Don't want it yet?

so difficult?How helpless can it be? !
"Prefect, it's almost done!"

Dian Wei's face was pulled together.

"You know what a fart! Hurry up and finish this year, sneak out and become a state shepherd!"

Xu Zhen understood the path Cao Cao had paved for him. Although he was not as good as his real son, he might be one of the three princes in the future, and he might even get a title and allow him to open a mansion.

But Zhou Mu can still accept it, let alone the three lords and nine ministers, even if the nobles are dead, they will not do it. It will be inconvenient for the emperor's side.

Now I can still bargain with Cao Cao, but in the future, it will be difficult for the Duke of Jin and Wei to be foolish, and we have to take care of the issue of majesty.

"Oh, I'm so annoying!"

Xu Zhen walked ahead with hands behind his back, with an irritable expression on his face, and hurried back to the mansion.

Xu Chu sighed and shook his head from behind, and said in a deep voice, "The eunuch is really a strange person in the world."

"He's always been like this," Dian Wei also imitated Xu Zhen's appearance, with his hands behind his back, shaking his head and saying, "The smoother he is, the more he will spur himself."

"And often the prefect's judgment is always very accurate, maybe he thought of something we don't know about."

Xu Chu nodded approvingly. Indeed, there are too many civil and military forces in Xudu today, and it is not as simple as stationing in a county.

Almost all of them are our own people.

There are mixed fish and dragons here, although there is no distinction between people, but their status is clearly distinguished, if one is not careful, he will be plotted against by others, by someone with a high-ranking official position.

Here, just now is the center of the vortex, but it is always right to keep the prefect.

……

Jingzhou Nanyang.

Outside the city.

After a great battle, blood flowed from the city gate of Yancheng, boiling water and smashed boulders were all over the gate, and there were countless corpses lying in a pool of blood.

The city walls were mostly incomplete, and the arrows were scattered in front of the city gates like feathers and fallen leaves.

The exhausted soldiers who came forward were still leaning on the city wall and gasping for breath.

They've just been through a big fight.

The gate of Yancheng was never breached, but it was Zhang Ji's soldiers and horses who invaded.

Also taking advantage of the lack of defense in the city, the march suddenly came to fight, and the city gate was almost caught by surprise.

However, almost all the cities in Jingzhou are preparing for the battle of defending the city, and there are too many devices on the city walls to defend against fortifications.

Moreover, there are actually more than [-] soldiers and horses in the city, which can be replenished continuously.

This is when Liu Biao learned the news that Zhang Jinan had gone to Nanyang, he urgently mobilized troops and marched secretly to garrison in places such as Yancheng and Fancheng.

Its purpose is defense.

With enough reserves in the city, the situation was naturally stabilized quickly, but for some reason, the opponent failed to charge many times, and even kept attacking without withdrawing their troops.

It was not until the main general Zhang Ji was shot by the arrow and fell to the ground that he gradually dispersed.

And the guard above the city gate still doesn't know what happened.

All they know is that the city is a place where food and grass are stored near Nanyang County, so the city wall has been built higher and higher over the years, just to prevent food hoarding from being disturbed.

Because of this, it is estimated that Zhang Ji's soldiers and horses may have run out of food and wanted to come to Lucheng to plunder, so there was such an attack.

In the jungle where the army retreated outside the city.

Zhang Ji was dead, and before he died, he handed over the military power to his nephew Zhang Xiu, entrusted his family to him, and ordered him to follow Jia Xu's advice in all his future strategies.

It is not disrespectful to treat Jia Xu as a teacher.

Zhang Xiu cried for half the night, buried his uncle, and settled his uncle's concubine.

His first wife died of illness on the way, and the rest of the concubines did not follow, only Zou had nowhere to go, and was afraid of being married off to a different family to have children.

He had been following Zhang Ji all the time, and was crying heartbroken in the carriage at this time.

At dawn, Zhang Xiu counted the soldiers and horses, and there were more than [-] soldiers. Thousands of soldiers were lost in the siege, and many soldiers escaped on the way.

Now there is no food.

What to do, he himself has no idea.

Zhang Xiu, who was as tall and straight as a pine, was standing by the lake with a gun at this time, wearing a silver armor and blood-stained battle robe, staring at the reflection of the moon on the calm lake with a serious expression.

Difficult to make a choice.

And what always emerged in his heart were the words of that same young prefect Xu Zhen at that time.

"Liu Hengjiang is definitely not a kind person. He must be on guard. General, please don't be careless."

"This sentence can be called good words of gold and jade."

Zhang Xiu looked up to the sky and sighed, his eyes were full of remorse, he was careless, so he attacked the city, who knew that there were already soldiers and horses in it.

There is a steady stream of soldiers and horses replenished on the city gate, how can they be attacked, but now that there is no food, is it true that they can only go to the mountains to be bandits next.

And then make a living by plundering past traders in Jingzhou? !
"I'm a majestic Xuanweihou! How can I live on meddling like this?"

"Just ask!"

Zhang Xiu immediately turned around and walked back to the military tent from the lake. At this time, morale was low, and only his confidantes were still on duty.

At this time, Jia Xu was sitting by the fire, with a wet giant tree lying on its side, in a daze.

"Military teacher, please ask the military teacher to teach me what to do next!"

Jia Xu came back to his senses, he was still thinking about Xu Zhen's words at that time, and he didn't hear what Zhang Xiu said for a while.

"Major General, are you asking for a strategy?"

"That's right, what should we do now? Military division, now that the morale of the army is low and food and grass are running out, how can we gain a foothold? Please teach me, sir!"

Jia Xu gave a wry smile, "It's easy to get a foothold..."

(End of this chapter)