Survival Three Kingdoms

Chapter 270 Guo Tu's Calculation (1)

The next day, as soon as Cao Cao woke up, his men came to report, and the two brothers Zhong Jin and Zhong Shen, who had just returned, bound themselves to see him.

"Why are you doing this?" Cao Cao looked at the two brothers who were tied up.

"Yesterday, the lord rewarded the three armies. My brother was drinking. Jushou came to us suddenly and persuaded us to flee back to Jizhou. How could we agree? He wanted to steal our horses again. We had a dispute with him and ended up killing Jushou by mistake." , Lord, punish me!"

"Ah?" Cao Cao was taken aback.After Jushou was caught, he was not under control, so Jushou could move around in the camp.Cao Cao repeatedly weighed how to deal with these two people in his heart. Jushou was still very famous in Jizhou. If Jushou died, if he killed these two people, he might not restore the reputation of killing Jushou. He will be timid when dealing with Jizhou people, which will be extremely detrimental to sending troops to Jizhou by himself in the future.

"Hey, the matter has come to this, and it's his fault that he wanted to run away. Sometimes he lost his hand during the dispute. What's the crime between you two? Get up." Cao Cao untied the two of them himself.The person is already dead, so what is there to pursue? As for whether the two of them really killed Jushou by mistake, or to present themselves with a certificate of honor, it doesn't matter anymore.Jushou's stubborn temper has long been heard. Since he is unwilling to surrender and wants to flee back to Hebei, he can kill him.

"It's a pity, a loyal man. You can bury him on the bank of the Yellow River!" Naturally, Cao Cao would not keep the infamy on himself, and made the Zhong brothers build a tomb for Jushou and cry.

Cao Cao personally wrote the tombstone: the tomb of Jushou, a righteous man in Hebei, and set up a sacrifice for Jushou himself.

The army set off after a three-day rest, Zhang Xiu stayed at Guandu, Cao Cao took Zhang Jai back to Xudu, and the two sons of Shenpei were also brought back to Xudu, and stayed with Cao Cao ever since.

Zhou Cang went back to Xuzhou with Qu'a listlessly. On the way Dianwei learned the whole story, screamed and yelled at Cao Cao for being ungrateful.

Cao Cao is beaming with joy here, so many people have died in Hebei, and there is a lot of mourning.After Yuan Shao vomited blood, he was ashamed and angry and fell seriously ill in Liyang. Yuan Shang personally took care of Yuan Shao's daily life in Liyang, and everyone praised Yuan Shang for his filial piety.

Guo Tu was anxious, Yuan Shang's weight in Yuan Shao's heart was getting heavier and heavier, and with the support of civil and military, that situation would be very unfavorable to Yuan Tan.

There were disabled soldiers released by Cao Cao one after another. After these people came back, countless people inquired about them, and they heard that Cao Cao was very powerful: No matter what methods Yuan Shao came up with, Cao Cao always smashed them, and Cao Cao is still like a god general Possessed personally led troops to surprise Wuchao, and it is estimated that only his own group will come back, and the others will not come back.As a result, people in Li Yang panicked, and when Cao Cao was mentioned, everyone showed fear.

Guo Tu suggested that all these soldiers should be arrested, and those who confuse the people with evil words and disturb the morale of the army should be executed directly.However, the commissioning suggested that these soldiers be isolated and circled together.Yuan Shang accepted the opinion of the trial and assignment, and locked all the soldiers who had returned and escaped in the same battalion, and released them when the time was right.

Yuan Shao heard Yuan Shang's actions on the sickbed and praised him greatly. He praised Yuan Shang for his overall view, kind heart, and his own demeanor.After those soldiers found out, they were very grateful to Yuan Shang, and Yuan Shang's popularity soared.

After Guo Tu found out, he felt even more uneasy, but he dared not say what Yuan Shang was right or wrong.He ran up to Yuan Shao: "Master, I heard that Shen Pei left his two sons in Wuchao. After Wuchao was broken, his two sons took refuge in Cao Cao."

"What? There is such a thing?" Hearing this, Yuan Shao was furious. He sent Guo Tu away and called Feng Ji to his side. "Feng Ji, do you know that the second son of Shen Pei has joined Cao?"

"My lord, don't listen to other people's words. Zhengnan is loyal to the lord, and he has never had a second heart since he took the lord into Jizhou. Wuchao fell, and his two sons may have been captured by Cao Cao and threatened, but they have nothing to do with Zhengnan. I I am willing to guarantee it with the lives of the whole family!" Feng Ji and Jian Pei are grasshoppers on the same rope, how can they not say good things to Jian Pei, and guarantee the ticket. "Zhengnan is definitely not Xu Ziyuan's kind of person."

When mentioning Xu You, Yuan Shao was a little bit blocked, because he listened to Guo Tu's words to run on Xu You and forced Xu You to Cao Cao.

"Besides, my lord knows that Cao Cao is a treacherous thief. He took Zhengnan and his sons away just to drive a wedge between our lord and minister. My lord, don't be fooled by Cao Cao!"

After hearing Feng Ji's advice, Yuan Shao felt a little more at ease, yes, how can I be fooled by Cao A again?He immediately called Shenpei to comfort him with kind words and rewarded him, and arranged an errand for Shenpei's nephew, Shenrong, in Jizhou.

The relationship between Shen Pei and Feng Ji became closer, and the two learned that it was Guo Tu's words to advance in front of Yuan Shao, and they hated him deeply.After Guo Tu heard that Yuan Shao didn't punish Yuan Shao for the trial match, but became closer, he felt that he couldn't stay with Yuan Shao any longer and had to leave quickly.

As worthy of being a wise man, Guo Tu frowned and thought about it, and he had another idea in his mind, he begged to see Yuan Shao full of confidence.

"My lord, today's complexion is still much better than the previous few days, and in a few days it will definitely be the spirit of the dragon and horse again."

"Hehe, that's true. I also feel that I have a great appetite these two days. What's the matter with you coming?" Yuan Shao is in a good mood these days, gradually getting rid of the shadow of Guandu's defeat.

"Although we lost this time, we still have the land of the four states. As long as we practice for another two years, we can still defeat Cao Cao. However, after thinking about it, the reason why we failed was that Ma Teng, Han Sui, Liu Biao and Jiang Dong failed Responding to the troops is one aspect, and Xuzhou Zhoucang's strong support for Cao Cao is also an important reason that cannot be ignored, especially the intervention of the Guangling Navy disrupted our plan."

"Then what do you think?"

"I recently reviewed Zhou Cang's resume carefully, and found that this person is not simple. He used the melee of the princes to develop his strength quietly. Every time he acts, he will gain something, and his power will expand once. It can be said It's useless to get up early."

Guo Tu studied the history of Zhou Cang’s family fortune, and went through three major promotions in total: Zhou Cang’s official position at the beginning was Sima of another department, which was appointed by Zhang Wen, but the recommender was Dong Zhuo, and the second appointment was General Dangkou The first time was recommended by Niu Fu and appointed by Dong Zhuo. The third time was the prefect of Guangling, which was recommended by Cao Cao and Yuan Shu and appointed by Li Jue.

"So I plan to start with Zhou Cang, whether it's to win over or form an alliance, in short, first break the relationship between Zhou Cang and Cao Cao! Without Zhou Cang, Cao Cao is a toothless tiger. If Zhou Cang forms an alliance with me, Cao Cao will have trouble sleeping and eating. install!"

(End of this chapter)