Uncle Emperor, I am really not Wolong Zhuge!

Chapter 198 Prime Minister
Chapter 196 Prime Minister

"If the Prime Minister wants to rely on the wisdom of himself and mediocre people like you and me to fight against Zhuge Ming, I'm afraid he will only bring humiliation to himself..."

I don't know when it started, but the counselors had been subconsciously feeling that the shock and dissatisfaction towards Zhuge Ming at the beginning gradually turned into fear and sincerity, and they completely lost the confidence to fight against him.

But this is just a sympathy between the masters, and the onlookers will naturally not notice it. Otherwise, with Cao Cao's character, if he knew that they were so afraid of their arch-enemy Zhuge Ming in private, they would probably be cooked even if they were not cooked. The family was confiscated and distributed, and they were driven out of the capital!
Seeing the three people gathered together, Zhong Yao also stretched his head over and said with a wry smile: "Now the generals are saying that they are calling for war, but it seems that we civil servants and counselors are greedy for life and fear death and dare not speak of war!"

"It is the brave and foolhardy who are most likely to ruin national affairs. We still need to work hard to persuade the lord that it is best not to stay here too long and give Jingzhou a good opportunity."

Xun You looked up and saw Cao Cao standing in the middle of the generals. He was enjoying the vindictive speeches of the generals with a smile. He shook his head helplessly: "My lord is full of fighting spirit in his heart at the moment. How can he listen to our advice?" What? I have to wait for another day to find a good opportunity and risk my life to remonstrate."

"Ha ha!"

"it is good!"

"My officers and soldiers of the Han Dynasty should face the enemy head-on without fear of life or death!"

Just when civil and military forces are separated and their emotions are different!
"Report!"

"Is this a great victory for Hefei?"

He always believed that the main reason why Hefei's army and horses were magnificent but failed to win was that Hefei's army and horses could not be in place. Jiang Ji, who was in charge of the temporary general charge, was just a civilian official and could not fight.

Cao Cao's eyes lit up!
"A letter so soon?"

"Xu Gongming?"

A messenger from Hefei came in a hurry like fire and prostrated himself at the foot of the steps!

"Report to the Prime Minister!"

"Although Xu Huang's resourcefulness is not as good as Zhang Liao's, he is still second only to Zhang Liao in my account! He really lived up to my trust. Not long after arriving in Hefei, he made a decisive attack and achieved something!"

Cao Cao was so excited that for a moment, he felt that his ambition to reach the sky would be realized immediately, and Jingzhou in Jiangdong was already within his grasp!

"The letter from Xu Gongming of Hefei has arrived!"

If Zhang Liao had not been captured unfortunately, Hefei's troops might have already invaded Chaisang and captured Sun Quan alive.

Cao Cao opened his hands and made a stop motion in the air!

Cao Cao hung the Yitian Sword on his waist, freed his hand to receive the scout's letter, and opened it with a smile!

Xu Chu, Xiahou Dun, Cao Hong and other generals heard this and hurriedly stopped their mouths, and the whole hall immediately became silent.

"Send it up!"

"quiet!"

"Your Majesty Xu Huang, please pay your respects to the Prime Minister again!"

"The soldiers and horses of Hefei have now been assembled, but because of the shortage of food and grass, they dare not act rashly. They are afraid that once the war starts, even if they win, they dare not lead the army to advance. Why? When the three armies are moved, the expenses will increase day by day. If the food and grass are not available, we will not take any action. The way to destruction!"

"Hefei's army rations are urgent now. If we can no longer help, I'm afraid the army's morale will be restless and the day of mutiny is not far away!" "Xu Huang is stupid and frightened. He only hopes that the prime minister will think about the lives of Hefei's 350,000 soldiers and send troops to guard the rations as soon as possible. Come. Xu Huang is very lucky, and all the officers and soldiers are very lucky!"

"Xu Huang, a humble minister: Say goodbye to Weeping Yan again!"

When Cao Cao had only read half of the letter, his whole face had changed from a cloudless blue sky to a cloudy one, and the wind was howling!
"Snapped!"

Cao Cao slammed the letter on the table, pressed the fist of his right hand hard on the letter, opened his eyes angrily, and stared at the letter angrily.

"That's unreasonable!"

"I have already shipped half of China's food to Hefei!"

"How come Hefei's 300,000 soldiers and horses are better than my army of one million?"

Boss Cao's forehead veins popped out: "Push for food! Purge for food! Hefei has not made any progress, but how many times has it been called for food in the past month?"

"Xu Huang, you are so ignorant!"

The generals were shocked. They had never seen Prime Minister Cao so angry.

But the content of the letter has been understood from Cao Cao's words.

Xu Huang's Eastern Route Army is again pressing for food!

"You haven't even fought a battle yet, you've already consumed so much, and now you come to tell me that you don't dare to act rashly. Is it because you don't have food in your hands and you don't dare to win the battle?"

The more Cao Cao thought about it, the angrier he became. He pressed the letter hard with the fist of his right hand and rubbed it on the table, as if he wanted to crush the letter into powder!
“Am I, the Eastern Route Army, a general or a loser!!!”

Seeing that no one spoke, Xun You pondered for a while, then bowed and began to say: "My lord, although Xu Huang's plan is not as good as Zhang Liao's, it is similar. He can be called brave and wise. Now that he has just arrived in Hefei, he wrote a letter to urge food supplies." , if the matter had not been urgent and had to be like this, I would never have written a letter to criticize..."

Jia Xu always thinks more and speaks less. He is the first sultry counselor in the army. At this moment, he also came out and said: "Prime Minister, Xu Huang's letter must have profound meaning. I'm afraid the situation in Hefei is far worse than we imagined. It’s much more complicated, I hope my lord will treat it carefully, an army of 350,000 is no small matter!”

As he spoke, his brows were furrowed and his face was full of worry!
Why?

Since Chen Qun left, the army's food and grass management has fallen on him. Although he made suggestions, he was very handy. However, his ability to manage grain channels and allocate dispatches was far inferior to Chen Qun's. The distribution of grain among the generals was a complete mess. Now that Hefei was short of food, his heart felt even more empty, like a penniless man facing the checkout from the landlady in front of him.

Wancheng's grain and grass supplies are already too busy to take care of themselves. How can they be allocated to support Hefei! !

Zhong Yao calculated for a long time, then handed over his hand and started to read: "Prime Minister, according to the time, when Xu Huang came to write, Cao Ren's 50,000 soldiers and horses and 300,000 stones of food and grass should still be on the way and have not been delivered. Therefore, I I thought there was no need to panic, as soon as the food and grass arrived, Hefei soldiers and horses began to lead the troops to advance, and once they entered the land of Jiangdong, they could support the war with war and plunder the money and food of Jiangdong for their own use, instead of just waiting for food, all relying on the supplies from the Central Plains!"

After hearing the advice of the counselors, Cao Cao's face softened slightly. He picked up the letter under his fist again, unfolded it and read it carefully again.

"Father, I think there will be an accident in Hefei!"

Suddenly, the Crown Prince Cao Pi, who was hiding in the back row, came to the steps, bowed and said.

The whole house was secretly surprised when they heard this!
The prince is only twenty-one or twelve years old, but he is so talented. Can he see the clues in this complicated situation?
All eyes were focused on Cao Pi, as quiet as death!

"Oh? What happened? You should tell me!"

(End of this chapter)