Lu Dynasty

Chapter 380 Meng De Said Yuan
Yuan Shao felt that the plan proposed by Man Chong was very reasonable. After all, Qingzhou was close to Yanzhou, even if it was all given to Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao would not be able to control it.Since Cao allocated the area close to Jizhou to Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao was satisfied.However, in order to show that he has more brains than Cao, Yuan Shao dragged Man Chong for half a month before agreeing to Cao's proposal, which made Man Chong quite helpless.Now that the covenant has been signed, Cao and Yuan Shao will send troops to carve up Qingzhou, but it takes time to send troops. By the time Man Chong returns to Xuchang, I have been back in Luoyang for more than a month!

In just over a month, more than half of the people in Qingzhou and the Yellow Turbans have left, and the rest are young and strong who need to be transported by Gan Ning, people who have not received food, and of course some old people who cannot leave their homeland.Gan Ning travels between Qingzhou and Sizhou every five days on average.In just over a month, Gan Ning ran nearly eight times.I ordered Xi Zhicai to mobilize another thousand ships of all sizes from Sizhou to transport the young and strong. On average, each time Gan Ning brought back 3 to [-] people.Cao and Yuan Shao signed the covenant to carve up Qingzhou, and when they agreed to send troops, the yellow scarves and people in Qingzhou were almost emptied by me.

Cao was waiting in Xuchang very anxiously. It has been almost two months since Man Chong went to Yecheng, but no news came.Recently, Cao received a report that a large number of refugees from Qingzhou poured into Yanzhou and went in the direction of Liangzhou and Sizhou.Cao really wanted to stop these refugees, but he didn't dare.If I stop them, but I don't have any rations for them, and when these refugees rebel, and I send troops from the tiger prison, Yuan Shao doesn't agree to the alliance, then Cao Ke will be miserable!

Just when Cao was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, Man Chong returned to Xuchang, and Cao almost cried excitedly when he saw Man Chong.Cao shook Man Chong's hand and said excitedly, "Bo Ning, why have you been away for so long? I thought you didn't want to come back! What did Yuan Shao say?"

"Yuan Shao agreed to the alliance, and there is also a plan to divide Qingzhou fairly!" Man Chong said with a smile: "Don't worry, my lord, as a prince like Yuan Shao, I really look down on Man Chong!"

Seeing Manchong complaining about Yuan Shao, Cao said with a smile, "I knew about this person at the beginning, but why did you come back after being away for so long? Since he agreed, you should come back sooner! You don't know, Lu Feng took in the refugees in the three prefectures of Sibingliang and Liangzhou, and many refugees from Qingzhou rushed to Lu Feng's rule, and even kidnapped some people from our second prefecture of Yanxu!"

"I don't want to either!" Man Chong sighed, and told Cao everything he had encountered in Yuan Shaona.In the end, Man Chong said angrily: "Just such a fool, even if I am blind, Man Chong would not like it!"

Cao laughed and said, "Don't be angry, Bo Ning! Since Yuan Shao agreed, it's a good thing! Yuan Shao's character, I know, he is ambitious but small in wisdom, fierce but timid, restrained but less powerful, many soldiers divided The painting is unclear, the generals are arrogant and the government orders are inconsistent, although the land is vast and the food is abundant, it is only for others!"

"Sure enough!" Man Chong asked suspiciously: "Since my lord knows that Yuan Shao is not someone who can achieve great things, why do you still ally with him? If he drags down our army, what should we do!"

"Boning thinks I want to form an alliance with Yuan Shao?" Cao said dejectedly, "Look at the princes in the world, Liu Biao and Liu Zhang are just housekeeper dogs, while Zhang Lu and Ma Teng have long since been powerless. Only Sun Ce is still a hero, what a pity He is beyond reach in Jiangdong. Now the only ones facing Lu Feng head-on are me and Yuan Shao. If I don’t ally with him, I will be wiped out by Lu Feng sooner or later!” In fact, Cao didn’t say a word, he knew that I would definitely attack first Him, because he is stronger than Yuan Shao.

Man Chong can be regarded as a rare wise man, he can see that Cao is very helpless.Man Chong said depressedly: "It's all because of my incompetence. If I could get high-yield grain seeds from Lu Feng last time, my lord would not have to worry about the lack of military rations!"

Cao sighed: "It's no wonder you! Lu Feng was very afraid of me, how could he give me the grain seeds. Even if he gave me the grain seeds, I would not dare to plant them. Didn't Gou Jian, the king of Yue, just steamed If Lu Feng also came to this trick, I would be finished! Unfortunately, our spies cannot enter Sizhou at all, and the people of Bingzhou and Liangzhou, unexpectedly No one grows that kind of food!" Cao Jing, I am not stupid, when I arranged the grain seeds, the grain seeds such as wheat and millet were allocated to Bingzhou and Liangzhou, and the sweet potatoes were only registered in Sizhou. The common people and the Qiang slaves planted it. Although the rations I distributed to the Bingliang people included sweet potatoes, they were all processed. Even if Cao's spies stole them back, it would be useless.Besides, with Guo Jia and Jia Xu in control of the intelligence department, Cao's spies are simply not enough!
"My lord, why didn't you let the emperor issue an edict to order the princes of the world to challenge Lu Feng!" Man Chong asked: "At the beginning, the eighteen princes failed to challenge Dong because of the idiot leader Yuan Shao. If the lord is the leader, Lu Feng Even if Feng is not dead, his skin will peel off!"

"I also want to gather the power of the world's princes to get rid of Lu Feng just like how the princes begged Dong back then!" Cao said embarrassingly: "But Lu Feng is not Dong Zhuo, you don't know what he has behind him! Think about it, after Dong Zhuo's death, Where Lu Feng is, you know what's going on!"

At this time, Xun Yu, who had finished handling the government affairs, came in. He saw Man Chong and said with a smile: "Bo Ning is back! What are you talking about with the lord? You made the lord look helpless!" Man Chong didn't understand why Cao asked that , so he told Xun Yu what Cao Wen said.

Xun Yu is much more powerful than Man Chong. He muttered to himself: "After Dong Zhuo died, Lu Feng should be in Chang'an. But he never showed up. He didn't officially occupy Chang'an until we took His Majesty to Xuchang, and announced Li Jue and Guo Si surrendered to him!" When Xun Yu said this, his eyes widened, and he said loudly to Cao: "My lord is saying that Li Jue and Guo Si have probably surrendered to Lu Feng a long time ago. We can learn from this point. Confucianism can be seen under Lu Feng's command. Then your majesty was given to us by Lu Feng intentionally!" Cao nodded, and Xun Yu asked in puzzlement: "If Yuan Shao doesn't understand the benefits of coercing the emperor to make the world good, I believe it. But Lu Feng is such a wise man, how could he not understand and send His Majesty to the Lord?"

"This is what I don't understand!" Cao said with a bitter face: "The biggest possibility is that Lu Feng thinks that Liu Xie is not a person who can assist. He even thinks that Liu Xie's ambition is too big, so he threw him to me !" As soon as Cao's words came out, Xun Yu and Man Chong stared at him with wide eyes.

(End of this chapter)