Jagged hegemony of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 567 Bargaining
"Then I wonder how many horses King Wu wants?"

Xu You asked.

Sun Ce lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then said, "If it's an uncastrated stallion, I'd like a thousand stallions!"

Before Xu You could speak, Zhang He directly refused: "This is impossible, the war horses we sell in Liaozhou have no stallions!"

In ancient times, especially in the war years, it was impossible to sell stallions when selling flattery. It is better to teach a man to fish than to teach a man to fish. Everyone knows this. You give him a bucket of fish, and he eats it. Nope, but you teach him to fish and he keeps getting fish.

This is also the case with war horses. If you sell a castrated war horse, the buyer will use it for about ten years, but if you sell the stallion, they can breed it and let the war horse breed.

Sun Ce also had the attitude of giving it a try, and didn't think that they would agree to give it to the stallion, so he continued: "Then if it's a castrated horse, then I have to ask for [-] horses!"

As he spoke, Sun Ce stretched out five fingers.

Xu You chuckled, and said, "Wu Wang must be a bit of a lion!"

Immediately afterwards, Xu You stretched out three fingers and said seriously: "Three thousand horses, no more!"

"Three thousand horses are a bit small, how about four thousand five hundred horses?"

Sun Ce said again.

Xu You gritted his teeth and said, "Three thousand and five hundred horses, one more horse will not do! Otherwise we will have nothing to talk about!"

"This! No matter, [-] horses are [-] horses, but I still need two top-quality horses on the grassland! Even Liu Wei can get them from his own stable, and you can't refuse them. Me!"

Sun Ce said.

"Okay, then I'll go to the lord with this old face!"

Xu You said.

After the two discussed the matter of the war horse, Sun Ce asked again: "Then how does the King of Liao want me to help him contain Cao Cao?"

Xu You came to Sun Ce, pointed to the map and said to Sun Ce: "King Wu, my lord wants you to attack Xuzhou. Once you attack Xuzhou, Cao Cao appoints Mazhu, because Xuzhou does not enter Jizhou, and it will take a while for him to withdraw his troops. , and my lord said, as much as you can take down in Xuzhou is yours, and no one else can take it away. If you look down on Xuzhou, plunder Xuzhou's population and materials, and bring them back to Jiangdong, then you will not lose. !"

Sun Ce nodded: "That's the reason, but Cao Cao's old thief is extremely shrewd. Since he dared to lead the army northward, he must have made a complete plan. The Xuzhou guards seem to be Cao Cao's brothers Cao Ren and Cao Hong. Two people are not easy to deal with!"

"That's up to you, King Wu. As much territory as you can win, King Wu, is yours. Our King Liao can't take half of it!"

Xu You smiled at Sun Ce.

"Hmm! That's a good point! But if I attack Xuzhou, if Cao Mengde doesn't return to the army, then I can't blame me!"

Sun Ce spoke again.

"Ok?"

Xu You frowned, and thought, this Sun Ce is not such an upright person, he meant to cheat and play tricks. After a while, he said again: "It depends on whether the King of Wu will use his strength to attack Xuzhou or not." , if you take Xuzhou and threaten Cao Cao's Yanzhou, how can Cao Cao not return to the army?"

When Sun Ce heard that he was going to attack Xuzhou with all his strength, he felt a little displeased, and said, "When the horse arrives, I can just make up my mind. There is no need to provoke Cao Cao. I don't care whether Cao Cao withdraws or not!"

Xu You is the best at observing words and expressions. Seeing that Sun Ce wanted to take money and do nothing, he said, "King Wu, if you join forces with us, you must write down the covenant. You will be ridiculed by the people of the world, presumably the King of Wu would not do this! Right?"

...One of these two people wanted to work hard, and the other wanted to make people fight to the death. The two of them lingered for a long time before they settled down. Sun Ce raised a hundred thousand Jiangdong troops to attack Xuzhou, at least to Pengcheng, even if it is possible to fight to Mangdang Mountain, or if Cao Cao resists tenaciously and the Soochow army loses more than half, then it can retreat.

"Okay! Then ask King Wu to sign the covenant!"

Xu You took the covenant that the two had just drawn up from a civil servant next to Sun Ce.

Sun Ce took the seal of King Wu from the table and stamped it on the covenant.

Xu You put away a covenant with satisfaction, and then said: "King Wu, I will leave for Liaozhou tomorrow. I wonder if King Wu will send an envoy to go back to Liaozhou with me?"

Sun Ce pondered for a moment, then replied, "That's unnecessary. As soon as your horses arrive, I will send troops to attack Xuzhou. Remember, we will send troops when we arrive first!"

"Hehe, King Wu really doesn't do business at a loss!"

Xu You smiled, and then, led by an officer under Sun Ce, walked from the dense forest to Wu Jun.

On the way, Zhang He asked in confusion: "Will he, Sun Ce, really abide by the agreement and send troops to attack Xuzhou?"

Xu You shook his head and nodded again, and said: "He will definitely attack Xuzhou. Cao Cao led the army out. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I don't know when I will have this opportunity next time, but I don't know if he will be able to attack Xuzhou." No matter how far you fight, you must know that if Cao Cao doesn't get hurt, he won't withdraw his troops!"

"But, didn't Sun Ce say that Xuzhou has the Cao brothers, the generals under Cao Cao!"

Zhang He asked again.

"This is just Sun Ce's bargaining chip. Cao Cao has already taken away 30 soldiers. No matter how many soldiers there are in Xuzhou, there are at most 5 soldiers, and they will be scattered to various counties. If I were Sun Ce, Instead of attacking large county towns, attack small county towns and villages to plunder the population!"

After finishing speaking, Zhang He didn't ask any more questions. It was already dark when they returned to Wu Jun. After dinner, they went to bed and planned to go to find Pang Tong again the next morning.Back to Liaozhou together by sea.

In Sun Ce's big account, just as Xu You and Zhang He left, a person flashed out from behind the screen.It was Zhou Yu, the governor of Soochow.

Zhou Yu asked Sun Ce, "Bo Fu, what are you going to do?"

Sun Ce lazily said, "What else can I do? Naturally, I'll put on a show and just send Cao back!"

Zhou Yu hurriedly said: "No, now that Cao Cao is going north, Xuzhou is empty. Even if we can't take Xuzhou, we have to plunder a large number of materials and people from Xuzhou to expand our strength. Don't forget, Bofu, Liu Bei has already taken Xuzhou. Let’s go to Jingzhou, Liu Bei looks harmless to humans and animals, but in fact he has great ambitions, if we don’t think about making progress, this person will definitely endanger Jiangdong!”

"But Jiang Xia hasn't got it back yet!"

Sun Ce said somewhat unwillingly.

"Jiang Xia can't get it back!"

Zhou Yu said sadly.

(End of this chapter)