Chapter 497
With a "whoosh" sound, the arrow target 100 paces away from the school field outside Chang'an City cracked in response, and the onlookers applauded in unison: "Great Sima is mighty! Great Sima is brave!"
The person who controls the strings is the great Sima Li Yan, he did not get hot-headed because of the cheers of the soldiers, but dismounted and threw the bow and arrow to the others and said unhappily: "Sure enough, the years are not forgiving, and ten years ago, Lone could shoot through the arrow target with one arrow!"
"People are old!" Jia Xu came over with a smile and saluted Li Wei, "People can't disobey the old!"
"But I don't want to be old yet!" Li Wei looked at his fairly strong body self-deprecatingly, and said to Jia Xu with a smile, "In this life, I have been fighting and killing people for a while, and I am almost forty people in a flash!"
Jia Xu lowered his head and chuckled, then raised his head and looked at Li Dao and said: "People always have to die, and they have begun to die from the moment they are born, this is an irreversible destiny!"
"What an irreversible destiny!" Guo Yan's voice came from behind Jia Xu, "Da Sima, do you think we will become the ones who change our lives against the sky?"
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"I've seen the general!" Jia Xu immediately saluted Guo Yan.
"Don't be polite, Mr. Jia!" Guo Yan saw Jia Xu saluting himself, and stepped forward to help him up in fear, "How many times have you said it, in the future, Mr. will not have to salute in front of the two of me, you always don't listen!"
Jia Xu said with a straight face: "How can the etiquette be abolished because of me? If everyone does not follow the etiquette system, I am afraid that this troubled world will only become more chaotic!"
"Sir is a very good man!" Li Dao sighed and said, "Actually, you can go, but why stay, although you don't say it, but we already know, you are ridiculed by the princes and celebrities in the world because of the two of us?"
Jia Xu smiled: "They are all pedantic people, I don't need them to teach Jia Wenhe to do things!"
"Does this pedantic man also include the old man?" Yang Biao's voice also came from afar.
Li Dao Guo Yan looked at Yang Biao who came over curiously, and looked at each other in surprise: What happened to this old boy today?
"Hehe, Lord Situ will be here in person today, I don't know what you are doing?" Li Dao said in a cold voice.
When Yang Biao heard Li Dao's tone, he couldn't help but change color, but he still couldn't help but say with unhappiness on his face: "If you have nothing to do, you won't go to the Three Treasures Palace, the old man came today because Cao Cao had a letter naming him and wanted to hand it over to the great Sima and the general in person!"
As he spoke, Yang Biao took out a letter from his sleeve and showed it to Li Dao and Guo Yan.
Li Wei motioned for Xiao Bing to take the letter, and Jia Xu took it and opened it and whispered a few words in the ears of Li Wei and Guo Yan, Li Wei was surprised: "Really, fake?"
Guo Yan also shook his head and said, "Is Cao Cao playing some conspiracy?"
Li Wei looked at Yang Biao suspiciously: "After Zhang Yang escaped from Yu Fuluo's control, didn't he gather the old troops to entrench himself in Hanoi and block the correspondence between Cao Cao and the imperial court in Dongjun?
Yang Biao seemed to have expected Li Dao to say this, and said unhurriedly: "Da Sima doesn't know, a few days ago, there was a strategist named Dong Zhao who defected to Zhang Yang, this Dong Zhao was originally a great talent under Yuan Shao, and successively served as the Taishou of Julu and the Taishou of Wei County, and he was quite meritorious, just because Dong Zhao's younger brother was in Zhang Miao's army. And Zhang Miao and Yuan Shao had a disagreement, and Yuan Shao listened to the slander and wanted to blame Dong Zhao. So this Dong Zhao wanted to come to visit the Son of Heaven to get an official and a half-job, and when he arrived in Hanoi, he was left by Zhang Yang and worshiped the captain, Zhang Yang was obedient to this Dong Zhao, and he didn't know what Dong Zhao said to Zhang Yang, so that Zhang Yangken was no longer embarrassed Cao Cao and the imperial court!"
"Is that true?" Li Wei still didn't quite believe in Cao Cao's letter about wanting King Qin and forming an alliance with the Xiliang army.
Jia Xu said: " It can't be fake, it can't be fake, although Cao Cao often doesn't tell a few words of truth, but the status quo is there, he is surrounded by strong enemies on all sides, Yuan Shao in the north, Sun Jian in the south, Tao Qian in the east, Yuan Shu in the west, and now he has just pacified the Yellow Turban forces in Dongjun, and he must also be seriously injured, now as long as Yuan Shao wants to, he can send troops to take Yanzhou at any time, although he and Cao Cao are allies, but no matter what the nature of the alliance is, it is based on the premise that each other's strength is quite equal, but now Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's strength is each other's rise and fall, the situation is very different, Cao Cao must be aware of his sense of crisis, so come and befriend us!"
Guo Yan frowned and said, "What does Cao Cao mean by this? According to what Mr. said so, now our strength is on the same level as Cao Cao?"
"Of course not!" Jia Xu said, "Cao Cao is groveling, but he is not well-intentioned!"
"Go on!" Li Dao said, "Cao Cao must not be able to hide any conspiracy from Mr., right?"
Jia Xu looked at Yang Biao with a complicated face, turned to Li Dao and Guo Yan and smiled: "There may be a conspiracy, but we don't have to worry, but at least the meaning of Cao Cao's letter of friendship is very simple, the princes who have always formed alliances are of equal strength, or big alliances, or small alliances, if you have to say that there are other intentions, that is, the small princes want to use the offensive and defensive alliance with the big princes to prevent and attack another big prince, and judging from the situation around Cao Cao, this big prince must refer to Yuan Shao!"
"I knew that this Cao Cao wouldn't have any good intentions!" Guo Yan snorted.
Yang Biao still didn't believe it, after all, he didn't see the content of the letter, so he muttered to Jia Xu: "Meng De and Ben Chu have worked together for many years, so they won't break up so easily!"
"Maybe not at the moment!But it will definitely be in the future!" Jia Xu said, "There are many disagreements between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, and this is not a matter of one or two days, such as their political opinions on the rectification of eunuchs, such as Yuan Shao and Han Fu's plot to make Liu Yu the Son of Heaven, and for example, what happened recently, Cao Cao secretly sent someone to Yangzhai to recruit a talent named Guo Jia!"
"It's the power of every prince to recruit talents, what's all the fuss about?" Yang Biao still puzzled.
"The important thing is not this, the important thing is that this Guo Jia has served under Yuan Shao's account for a period of time, and he once swore to Yuan Shao's advisers Guo Tu and Xin Ping that he would not go out to serve others again, just imagine, if this Guo Jia took refuge in Cao Cao, Cao Cao would definitely not know about this poisonous oath, knowing that he still accepted Guo Jia, his relationship with Yuan Shao would definitely undergo subtle changes, right?" Jia Xu gushed.
Li Dao was a little dizzy: "Then Mr. Jia, do we agree or not?"
Guo Yan also asked: "Yes, Cao Cao has such a bad intention, just refuse him!"
"No, we should promise Cao Cao's friendship!" Jia Xu said.
"Why?" This time, even Yang Biao was included, and the three of them asked together, Yang Biao has actually always been optimistic about Yuan Shao, although Cao Cao is also very good, but his background is not very good, no one will be optimistic about a eunuch, right?
Jia Xu said: " Cao Cao is not stupid, we are not stupid, first, Yuan Shao is disrespectful to the Han family, has not paid tribute, although Cao Cao's loyalty to the Han family is actually not clear, but at least on the surface of the kung fu he has been increasing unabated, so politically, if we reject Cao Cao's kindness and befriend Yuan Shao, we will put ourselves in a disadvantageous embarrassing situation, second, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's territory are bordered in many places, and we do not border with Yuan Shao, and Cao Cao is also separated by Zhang Yang, so as long as we guard well, it will not let Cao Cao earn any benefits, on the contrary, we can also use the alliance to turn Cao Cao into a tool for us to deal with Yuan Shao!”
After Jia Xu's explanation, Li Dao and Guo Yan suddenly realized: "Mr. Jia is still powerful, he can't help but see through the essence of the matter at a glance, and he can also think of such a thorough way to deal with it!"
Jia Xu smiled: "This is just the duty of a strategist, no matter how wise the strategist is, he must be willing to obey Mingjun, otherwise even if there is a good plan but it is shelved, how can he play the most brilliant performance?"
Yang Biao said: "So the Ming Lord and Zhichen are indispensable, right?"
Jia Xu suddenly turned to Li Wei and said: "It seems that the misunderstanding between Lord Situ and Da Sima and the Great General has been eliminated, otherwise such an important confidential matter would not have been discussed together in such a heart-to-heart manner, but the three of them can't pull each other apart, in my opinion, there will be no need to speak coldly like this in the future, everyone is doing things for the imperial court, isn't it?"
Li Dao and Guo Yan sneered: "Maybe it's as Mr. said, but after all, we are from martial arts, and we can't match Master Situ of a scholarly family!"
"Hmph!" Yang Biao also said coldly, "Wenhe, it seems that the old man is really self-inflicted, and now that I think about it, I really regret that I bought the assassin to assassinate Fan Chou!" After saying that, Yang Biao turned around and left, but Li Dao stopped him suddenly:
"Stop, what did you just say?"
Yang Biao paused: "Da Sima, let's ask Mr. Jia, who you trust the most, right?
Li Dao and Guo Yan looked at Jia Xu suspiciously: "Mr. Jia, what did Situ mean by what he said just now, did you have something to hide from us?"
Jia Xu sighed and said, "Do you remember General Fan Chou's death?"
"En!" Li Wei nodded, "A month ago, Ma Teng Han Sui invaded Chang'an, I ordered Fan Chou to lead the troops to retreat from the enemy, but I forgot that Fan Chou had an old relationship with Han Sui, and sure enough, the two of them set up a banquet in front of the battle, regardless of the enemy and me, in order to prevent changes, I ordered Zhang Ji to go to exterminate Fan Chou, but this Fan Chou was very capable, and he was even equal to Zhang Ji, at the critical moment, it was Mr. You recruited assassins to assassinate Fan Chou before he incorporated his troops to solve a big trouble, why, this matter still has something to do with Situ?"
Jia Xu nodded: "Yes, this assassin is the guest raised by Yang Situ!"
"Huh?" Li Dao and Guo Yan were shocked together, "Is there such a person under Yang Biao?"
Jia Xu smiled: "Speaking of which, the two of them also know each other, it is Xu Huang, the sworn brother of Yang Feng, the subordinate general of the Great Sima who once showed his courage in Hongnong!"
"He?" Li Dao Guo Yan was surprised, "What the hell is going on?"
"Grass people Xu Huang greets the Great Sima, the Great General!" From a distance, Xu Huang, who was dressed in a strong suit, walked here, came to Li Dao Guo Yan's side, and leaned down to worship.
Li Wei drew his sword violently and pointed at Xu Huang: "Didn't you kid take refuge in Zhang Yan?
Jia Xu immediately stopped in front of Xu Huang and said to Xu Huang: "Explain it yourself!"
"No!" Xu Huang lowered his head and didn't dare to raise his head, and said with a trembling look, "I voted for Zhang Yan that day, but he was just a reckless hero after all, not the master in my heart, so I abandoned him, but Dong Gong was killed, and I was at a loss, I wanted to find Brother Yang Feng directly, but I was afraid that his subordinates would laugh at me, so I had to wander in Chang'an, fortunately Yang Situ appreciated me, and raised me as a guest, so I took this opportunity to assassinate Fan Chou as a gift to meet Da Sima, and I hope that Da Sima will not give up!"
"Er!" Li Wei put away his sword in embarrassment, and immediately said with a pleasant face, "Xu Huang, strong man, please get up!"
It was Guo Yan's voice that came sourly: "You kid, can't you see me standing here as big a person?"
Xu Huang immediately bowed again: "The grass people are guilty, General Xie appreciates it!"
"Okay, okay!" Li Wei patted Xu Huang on the shoulder and said, "I'll just say, Fan Chou's martial arts are on par with Lu Bu's subordinate Gao Shun, how can ordinary people assassinate him, well, Xu Huang's strong man looks dignified and majestic, you will be my guard in the future, see who can still threaten me?"
"Fool, have you forgotten how Lu Bu killed Dong Zhuo?" Jia Xu thought secretly on the side.
"Damn, Li Dao, do you want to even guard against me?" Guo Yan also thought unhappily on the other side.
Only Xu Huang replied to Li Wei's "grace of knowledge" loudly: "No, thank you for your appreciation!"