After arranging Mao Jue's work, Su Yunqing had to face another problem.

What to do next?

In other words, it was Su Yunqing who wanted to go next.

Now that Sizhou and Yongzhou have basically stabilized, Su Yunqing must set a new goal for the next action.

At present, Su Yunqing can have three choices, one is to continue westward from Yongzhou and solve Ma Teng, Han Sui, and Liangzhou, and from then on, there will be nothing to worry about in the rear. Another option is to go south to attack Liu Biao, Jingzhou is a very important strategic place, and at the same time, Jingzhou Liu Biao may be incompetent as a prince, but simply to govern a place, as a local state pastor, Liu Biao can be said to be very good.

Jingzhou has avoided the war in the north under the governance of Liu Biao over the years, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, which can be said to be a safe haven in this troubled world.

At least under Liu Biao's rule, Jingzhou was still peaceful, and a large number of scholars gathered here to escape the war in the north.

If Su Yunqing can obtain Jingzhou, it will be of great benefit to her military, economically and for her talent reserve.

So whether to fight Jingzhou or Liangzhou has become a question.

Of course, Su Yunqing has a third choice, to fight Cao Cao.

So can Su Yunqing beat Cao Cao at this time?

Today's Cao Cao is still vigorously tearing up with Yuan Shu, the battlefield is Runan County, Runan is also the last piece of territory in Yuan Shu's hands now, if Runan is lost, then needless to say, the entire territory of Yuzhou belongs to Cao Cao, and Yuan Shu may have to retreat to Yangzhou.

If Su Yunqing chooses to destroy Cao Cao first, of course, it is not bad, and it is also a good plan to unify the north first and then move the army south.

And Su Yunqing must make a choice among these plans.

It's a hard choice!

It should be said that every choice has its own advantages and disadvantages, it just depends on what Su Yunqing wants.

Is it important to settle the rear and never have worries again? Obtaining Jingzhou, a strategic place, and then taking Yizhou to the west and Yangzhou to the east, is this a good future? So what about completely defeating Cao Cao and unifying the north?

It seems that each one of them is very good.

Su Yunqing needed someone to make this decision for her.

Of course, analyzing the pros and cons of their own lords and weighing priorities is what strategists should do, otherwise what are they doing with strategists?

Strategists, they should straighten things out, analyze them in detail, and then give their own suggestions and ideas, as for how to decide, it has to be the lord's business.

So Su Yunqing convened a meeting of his advisers.

Anyway, this matter is not in a hurry, Su Yunqing has just won the division, and the division is still being rebuilt at this time, even if Su Yunqing has any ideas and plans, it is not necessary to implement them immediately, even if the next goal is clear, Su Yunqing has to govern the division area first, and this will take at least a few years.

Su Yunqing is not worried about other people developing in the past few years, although Cao Cao has obtained Yuzhou, but if you zoom in, you will find that Cao Cao has no room for further expansion, to the north and west, it is Su Yunqing's territory, once Cao Cao wants to expand to these two places, he will have to fight with Su Yunqing.

And to the east...... Not to mention, the sea is to the east! What did Cao Cao do in the east, to be a dragon king?

So Cao Cao can only go further south, to the south is Yangzhou, Cao Cao has been exhausted from Yuzhou, and Yangzhou is also the territory of Yuan Shu for many years, Cao Cao wants to go south I am afraid it is not easy, oh, the most important thing is that Cao Cao has no naval army, and if you train troops temporarily, this is not a matter of one or two days, especially if you want to train the northern soldiers on horseback into the southern navy by boat, it takes a lot of time and cost.

In other words, after taking Yuzhou, if Cao Cao wants to expand again, then there are only two choices, either to find Su Yunqing to tear up, or to train the navy to fight Yangzhou.

In addition, Cao Cao really can only choose to be a dragon king_(:3ゝ∠)_

Hey? Thinking about it like this, Cao Mengde, the Dragon King of the East China Sea, seems to be a little emotional?

However, in any case, everyone is starting to get nervous at this time.

Su Yunqing convened a meeting of his advisers, but Liu Biao, Ma Teng and others were not ambiguous, Liu Biao immediately sent Zhang Xiu to garrison Wancheng, Liu Biao knew very well that if Su Yunqing wanted to do something to him, then the first target was Wancheng, if Wancheng lost Nanyang County, it would almost be lost, and once Nanyang County was lost, the gate of Jingzhou would be completely open.

At the same time, Ma Teng of Liangzhou also sent his son Ma Chao to lead troops to garrison the Yongliang border.

Cao Cao finally took Runan three months later, and it is said that it was Cao Cao's subordinate named Liu Ye who invented a new type of catapult that pit Yuan Shu out of his face, and Cao Cao Shun captured Runan.

And Yuan Shu can only flee to Yangzhou, of course, Liu Bei also went with him, it is said that Yuan Shu entrusted Liu Bei with a heavy responsibility, after all, he has no more useful people under him now, and Liu Guanzhang and the three are all talents, if Yuan Shu wants to continue to resist Cao Cao, then he can only rely on Liu Bei.

After Su Yunqing received the news that Yuan Shu's soldiers were defeated and fled to Yangzhou, he raised his chin to the strategists under him: "How is it?" What I'm saying is right, Yuan Shu will definitely lose. ”

Dare to take Liu Bei, a professional boss, with him, if Yuan Shu doesn't lose, it will be really unreasonable.

Of course, the power of technology is also great.

Su Yunqing's words made everyone think of what Su Yunqing said when Liu Bei took refuge in Yuan Shu before, and at that time Su Yunqing said that when he saw Liu Bei, he knew that Yuan Shu was going to lose, and now it is true.

Xun You felt that his lord was simply too far-sighted!

Su Yunqing had long been accustomed to Xun You's consistent look at my father-in-law, so he didn't care.

However, Xu Shu asked at this time: "What about Yuan Shu and Cao Cao, we can ignore it for the time being, just see if the lord has already made a decision." ”

These days, their group of strategists have collectively held a meeting to discuss the pros and cons of various plans in detail, it can be said that no matter which one Su Yunqing chooses, it cannot be said that it is completely fine, it should be said that several choices have their own disadvantages, but at the same time, they also have their own advantages, it can be said that it is not wrong to choose whichever one.

Of the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, Su Yunqing occupies five of them (Sizhou Yongzhou counts as one), which is close to half, it can be said that as long as Su Yunqing does not die with his brain, he will dominate the world in the future, but there is no problem at all with self-preservation.

At present, the strategists of Bingzhou are still very confident in Su Yunqing, at least Su Yunqing will definitely not be as blind as Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu.

Lu Su agreed with Xu Shu's words, and he also had the same thoughts as Xu Shu.

Cao Cao and Yuan Shu can't turn the sky over no matter how much they jump, and the general trend of the world today depends on how Su Yunqing chooses.

Su Yunqing has listened to so many words these days, so she naturally has her own ideas.

"Kill Cao Cao first."

Su Yunqing decided not to wait.

In fact, she should have killed Cao Cao after solving Yuan Shao, but it was all delayed because of various things, and this time Su Yunqing didn't plan to wait any longer.

In Su Yunqing's opinion, it doesn't matter if others are jumping for ten or eight years longer, but Cao Cao is different, if Su Yunqing dares to let Cao Cao develop and become strong for ten or eight years, then she will wait to be destroyed by Cao Cao.

Therefore, since it has come to this point, a battle of life and death with Cao Cao is inevitable, and this war is inevitable.

Obviously, Cao Cao also knew this, so he stopped after taking Yuzhou and stopped chasing Yuan Shu.

Cao Cao knew that if he wanted to take Yangzhou, he would have to fight for at least a few more years, and Su Yunqing would not wait for him for so long, if he insisted on chasing Yuan Shu, then it was very likely that when he was exhausted from fighting Yuan Shu, Su Yunqing just came up to pick up a bargain, and it was not good that Su Yunqing could not only pick him up, but also pick up Yuan Shu, who had been consumed by him, by the way.

It's better to stop at this time and regain his strength with peace of mind, and at the same time, he just won Yuzhou and needs time to digest.

So in the midst of this mutual defense, the world ushered in a strange period of peace.

It is said that it is a time of peace, but Cao Cao does not think so, in fact, Cao Cao feels that this is a period when the knife is on the neck and it is not good to cut it down.

Cao Cao was unprecedentedly nervous.

When facing Su Yunqing, Cao Cao didn't have so much self-confidence, his pressure was very great, purely from the perspective of strength comparison, Cao Cao lost more and won less, and there was not much way to live at all.

Cao Cao's state obviously affected his usual behavior, Cao Cao was very tolerant of his subordinates in the past, even if Guo Jia's waves flew up, he could laugh it off, but Cao Cao's temper has been a lot more irritable in recent times.

Cao Cao's advisers all know why Cao Cao is this, Cao Cao's pressure is too great, this pressure is still life and death pressure, and whoever changes his temper will not be good when facing this kind of pressure.

At this time, Guo Jia found Cao Cao, Guo Jia knew why Cao Cao was under pressure, but he couldn't let Cao Cao withstand this pressure like this.

The next few days are not a day or two, if Cao Cao continues like this, I am afraid that in a few more years, Su Yunqing will not need to fight, and Cao Cao himself will not be able to hold on.

"What the lord is worried about is just Su Yunqing."

But...... Nothing more......

Cao Cao, who Guo Jia said this, couldn't help but look at him: "Isn't Su Yunqing worried?" ”

If there is anyone who poses the greatest threat to him in this world, it can only be Su Yunqing.

In Cao Cao's opinion, Su Yunqing's terrible thing is not how much territory she has, not how many troops and generals she has, in fact, these are secondary, Su Yunqing's biggest advantage is her main power max!

Damn, hiding a sword, this is just hanging!

Cao Cao seemed to understand why the ancestors said that those who are big things can't underestimate anyone, because even if they are stupid, they only need to tune in. If the direction of teaching is right, then his potential is also huge!

Isn't Su Yunqing the best example?

When they first met, Cao Cao felt that Su Yunqing would be a military general in his life at most to fight the world for others, as for saying that he was the lord or something, don't mention it, Su Yunqing didn't have that IQ or that ability.

However, the reality slapped him in the face, Su Yunqing just wants to be the master, and he does better than ordinary people, and fools have stupid methods, and once fools find the right way, he can even do better than most people who think they are smart.

Su Yunqing obviously found the right way.

Now Su Yunqing is powerful, but what does Guo Jia say?

Guo Jia actually can't use it, that's it, such a word to describe Su Yunqing, Cao Cao thinks this is too arrogant, right?

But Guo Jia said: "The lord thinks that Su Yunqing is strong, but I don't think so, so if Su Yunqing is strong, where is she strong?" ”

After that, Cao Cao didn't want to answer, Guo Jia said himself: "First, speaking of territory, Su Yunqing sits on the land of six states, which seems to be powerful, but in fact? In the bitter cold land of Youzhou, you have to face the incursion of foreign tribes from time to time, but what about Sizhou Yongzhou? It's just a wasteland, even if Su Yunqing is now well governed, but will the lord and Su Yunqing have to wait for ten or twenty years to fight? Definitely not, but within three or five years, Sizhou Yongzhou may only be able to throw money into it, and even the population will have to move from other places, how much does the lord think these two places can bring to Su Yunqing? Grain and grass? Population? Money? None of them. Su Yunqing won these two places, I am afraid that these benefits will have to wait for many years before they can be slowly reflected, and the current Sizhou Yongzhou is a place that only swallows money but does not pay money, and the only benefit that can bring Su Yunqing is probably its own superior geographical location. ”

In fact, if you calculate it this way, the only ones under Su Yunqing who really have better conditions in all aspects are Jizhou and Qingzhou.

And what about Cao Cao? Cao Cao has Yanzhou, Xuzhou, and now Yuzhou, which seems to be much smaller than Su Yunqing's territory, but Cao Cao does not have the burden of Sizhou and Yongzhou, and does not have the alien troubles of Youzhou and Zhou, on the contrary, he has a rich economy and a large population, as well as fertile land and strong cities.

After comparing the territory, let's compare with my subordinates, this is simply not comparable, Guo Jia only needs a few words Cao Cao understands.

Compared with the strategists, Cao Cao's strategists do not lose to Su Yunqing, the competition generals, well, the competition will be won by Su Yunqing, but so what? Could it be that Su Yunqing could still send all his generals to attack Cao Cao at one time? It would be good if Su Yunqing really sent it, who doesn't know what kind of temper the generals are, a group of people gathered together to attack, I'm afraid that before Cao Cao was defeated, this group of martial artists would tear themselves up for various reasons.

Guo Jia talked for a long time, and finally came to the conclusion that Su Yunqing is indeed stronger than Cao Cao, but Su Yunqing is not invincible, and she is only stronger than Cao Cao.

Listening to Guo Jia's words, Cao Cao suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, the tension that had been suppressing him all these days had finally dissipated a lot.

didn't allow Cao Cao Cao to relax for long, he followed Cao Cao since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and it can be said that Cao Cao's first and most important strategist in his life was sick.

Xi Zhicai's health has always been bad, and Xi Zhicai is actually similar to Guo Jia, so that Xi Zhicai has to get sick from time to time.

Xi Zhicai's physique gave Cao Cao the nanny skills to take care of his sick and weak strategists, but this time, Xi Zhicai was not the kind of disease that he got sick from time to time every day, but was really critically ill.

When a bunch of doctors shook their heads at Xi Zhicai's situation, saying that they could only take medicine to survive, Cao Cao realized that this strategist, who had been with him since he started his business, was probably about to leave him.

However, Cao Cao not only has to worry about Xi Zhicai's affairs, he also has to worry about Mao Jue's affairs.

"Still can't contact Xiaoxian?" Cao Cao frowned and looked at Xun Yu: "It's just a day or two, how can you not be in touch all the time?" ”

Xun Yu shook his head very honestly: "Xiaoxian has indeed never heard from there. ”

Now Cao Cao didn't understand: "Didn't you say that the state no longer works overtime?" What else do you say that the civil officials of the state have a very easy life, and Xiaoxian didn't have time before, so he doesn't have time now, right? ”

Speaking of this, the corners of Xun Yu's mouth twitched: "Lord, the others are not working overtime, but he is still working overtime." ”

Cao Cao: "...... He's still working overtime? ”

Mao Jue, this is too dedicated, right? In order to gain Su Yunqing's trust, he actually did this kind of process?

Thinking of this, Cao Cao couldn't help but sigh: "Xiaoxian is really a real person." ”

Xun Yu: "...... No, my lord, he doesn't want to work overtime. ”

It is said that those things were specially arranged for him by Su Yunqing.

Distressed.

Of course, working overtime is a bit hard, but at least this shows that Mao Jue has Su Yunqing's trust very much, Su Yunqing trusts Mao Jue very much, otherwise why are so many important things not handed over to others and handed over to Mao Jue to deal with?

This is the greatest trust and importance of a lord and his subordinates!

So Cao Cao and Xun Yu discussed it, and soon made up that Mao Jue was very good in Bingzhou, and won Su Yunqing's trust, so he entrusted Mao Jie with a heavy responsibility, and many things that he didn't worry about doing for others were handed over to Mao Jue.

Cao Cao nodded again and again: "Xiaoxian did a good job, let him continue to work hard, the more Su Yunqing trusts him, the better." ”

So when Mao Jue, who had been on a business trip to Jizhou at this time but still couldn't escape the fate of overtime, received a message from Cao Cao, to the effect of 'work hard to continue working overtime', Mao Jie was about to cry.

Of course, Mao Jue can only think about it, he is so busy now that he doesn't even have time to cry=v=

Mao Jue was forced to do it, Su Yunqing's little life in Bingzhou was much happier, even if a guy named You Heng appeared and scolded people all day long, it couldn't change Su Yunqing's good mood.

Speaking of which, You Heng was recommended by Cui Yan, it is said that You Heng was very talented during the interview, but he was not very good, his temper and personality were not very good, especially his mouth was particularly poor, but Cui Yan felt that since his task was to select talented people, then he should recommend You Heng, because You Heng met this standard.

So Su Yunqing saw You Heng.

However, I don't know why, You Heng started to curse when he saw Su Yunqing, oh, in fact, it can't be simply said to be scolding, You Heng is mainly owed.

He seems to look down on everyone, and ridiculed all the civil officials under Su Yunqing, what Xun You can only be a meat seller, Xun Chen can only be a mourner, Lu Su can be a gatekeeper, oh, Cui Yan's image is better, and he can do the thing of serving tea and pouring water...... In short, the people used by Su Yunqing's subordinates are not very good people.

This was originally when Su Yunqing met with outstanding talents, if it weren't for Youheng being specially recommended by Cui Yan, Su Yunqing would not have seen him in person, it should be said that there are only a few people with this treatment this time, Youheng is one of them, but Youheng came up to show his arrogance, it is completely undesirable and arrogant.

You Heng's excessive words made everyone present very angry, and someone immediately angrily accused You Heng of not understanding the rules and being too presumptuous, but he was stopped by Su Yunqing with a look.

Su Yunqing simply let You Heng scold like that, and when You Heng continued to ridicule for nearly a quarter of an hour, when it was almost finished, Su Yunqing finally raised his head to look at him.

You Heng was ready for Su Yunqing to reprimand him, but Su Yunqing looked at him like that, and then said very calmly: "...... Oh, I see. ”

After that, regardless of You Heng's face, Su Yunqing turned to Cui Yan: "Call the next one." ”

You Heng: "......"

Oh, what a reaction! What does it mean! Don't you have anything to say other than that?! And what the hell do you know?

You Heng wanted to see Su Yunqing angry, but in the end, he couldn't get up and down, and he was stuck there, uncomfortable.

It's like You Heng is full of anticipation, and he uses all his strength to punch out, but in the end he is beaten in the air, can this not be uncomfortable!

So You Heng stood still.

Originally, he should have gone down at this time, but he just stood still, Su Yunqing waited for a long time and didn't see him go, and finally asked again: "...... Why are you still here? ”

You Heng: "......"

I'm waiting for you to get angry and scold me!

However, he was embarrassed to say this_(:3ゝ∠)_

So Su Yunqing didn't care about Youheng, and directly asked Cui Yan to let the next one come up.

The people who came below are much more reliable than Youheng, Cui Yan is indeed very reassuring to do things, the talents he recommended to Su Yunqing are very suitable and excellent, Su Yunqing has also made arrangements, only Youheng is still next to him, but this time with previous experience, everyone knows that as long as you ignore him calmly.

Now there are not many people who can see Su Yunqing in person, but a few people, and they will all be seen in a while, Su Yunqing said that he could disperse, and then took the lead and walked out, completely ignoring You Heng who was behind her.

Cui Yan walked a few steps quickly and caught up with Su Yunqing, he looked a little self-blaming: "That You Heng, I thought he was just a little uninhibited, but I didn't expect him to be so presumptuous when facing the lord, and I didn't recommend a person without being able to review it clearly, this is my fault." ”

Su Yunqing shook his head: "No need, this is called You Heng very well." ”

You Heng is indeed talented, but this temper and character need to be sharpened again.

If you are too arrogant and arrogant, no matter how talented you are, you can't use it.

At least the world is not afraid that you are stupid, but afraid that you think that others are stupider than you.

The former can still be saved, the latter can only be sent to death, in fact, those who think others are stupid are really stupid themselves.

But Su Yunqing and Cui Yan hadn't walked far before they saw Xun You, who had already taken another road, hurriedly running over: "Lord! Lord! Something is wrong! ”

Su Yunqing blinked blankly: "What's wrong?" ”

What big things can happen at this time? Could it be that Cao Cao has really become Cao Mengde, the Dragon King of the East China Sea?

As soon as he saw Su Yunqing's dazed appearance, Xun You knew that Su Yunqing's thinking had gone to a strange place again, but at this time he didn't care so much.

Taking a breath, Xun You said eagerly: "Lord! The news just came, Wancheng Zhang Xiu surrendered! ”

Su Yunqing: "...... Just kidding, right? ”

They haven't fought yet! Even Su Yunqing has not expressed his intention to fight Jingzhou at all recently, what kind of surrender does Zhang Xiutou have!

If Wancheng falls, it is actually equivalent to the entire Nanyang County being given to Su Yunqing for nothing.

However, Zhang Xiu's surrender was not without reason.

Xun You had to remind: "That Zhang Xiu said, he is your senior brother, so ......"

Oh, now Su Yunqing remembered that Zhang Xiu was indeed Tong Yuan's disciple, and if she counted it like this, she was indeed her senior brother.

Well, unlike Wang Yue, Zhang Xiu is a senior brother.

So, let Zhang Xiu garrison Wancheng or something, Liu Biao, you are 484 stupid? _(:3ゝ∠)_

Liu Biao cried and fainted in Jingzhou.

How did he know that there was such a relationship between Su Yunqing and Zhang Xiu! (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻