Chapter 466: Guest
Huang Yi went to Cao Cao's camp, and our Lord Yuan Yao was not idle.
Yuan Yao is writing a letter, or a handwritten letter, and the owner of this letter is none other than Yuan Yao's cheap uncle Yuan Shao, who is far away in Hebei.
The rhetoric on the letter is so intense that it could even be said that it is not a letter at all, but a letter of accountability.
In order to ask why Yuan Shao wanted to meet Cao Cao's envoy, and why did he make peace with Cao Cao in private?
Yuan Yao put himself on a very righteous face, and even wrote that even if he Yuan Shao and Cao Cao made peace, he would carry it to the end with Cao **, and he would save Emperor Han from fire and water.
In Yuan Yao's letters, except for him and Yuan Yao, everything else is not good.
even threatened Yuan Shao, if he was obsessed with it again, he Yuan Yao would take Yuan Shao to crusade together.
"Crusade against Yuan Shao?" Yuan Yao didn't avoid Lu Bu when he wrote this letter, Lu Bu also saw this letter, he looked at Yuan Yao suspiciously, the reason why Yuan Yao was able to pinch Cao Cao and escape to heaven really dragged Yuan Shao's blessing.
Is Yuan Yao really going to break with Yuan Shao?
"Father-in-law, you may have a hand in marching and fighting, but you don't understand this political matter!" Yuan Yao smiled at Lu Bu and said, Lu Bu was followed by Chen Gong before, he was a good hand, he could plan state affairs at the top, and he could coordinate money and food at the bottom. It's an all-round talent.
Even Cao Cao regretted letting Chen Gong go,
But it's a pity that Lu Bu didn't know how to cherish it, and wasted such a talent in vain, so that Chen Gong died early in Cao Cao's hands.
"Although Yuan Shao and I are uncles and nephews, we don't actually have any feelings, and we are polite to each other, so I Huainan is in such a situation, and half of it is due to my good uncle!" Yuan Yao snorted coldly.
He Yuan Shao is really not a thing, although he Yuan Yao is greedy and cheap, but how to say that it also helped him Yuan Shao sent troops, but Yuan Shao ran to Huainan to trick Yuan Yao into sending troops.
Yuan Yao sent troops and provoked Lao Cao, don't you Yuan Shao say help, at least don't make trouble, I didn't expect this Yuan Benchu to deliberately get out of the way, so that Cao Cao could send troops to deal with him Yuan Yao.
This kind of uncle, he Yuan Yao didn't dare to admit it.
"If I don't make a noise this time, he Yuan Shaoke will really treat me as Yuan Datou!" Frustration and Tian Feng were obtained by Yuan Yao from Yuan Shao, although Yuan Yao knew that he had earned it, but he couldn't swallow this evil breath.
There is another sentence that Yuan Yao did not say, that is, Yuan Yao is also ready to pit Yuan Shao, and if he doesn't tell him about this incident, how can he Yuan Yao have an excuse to stab Yuan Shao in the back.
After all, he and Yuan Shao still have the name of uncle and nephew, and this big nephew is not good to listen to, so it would be much better with this excuse.
It's you Yuan Shaoxian who is unkind, don't blame me for being unjust.
Lu Bu didn't seem to understand, Yuan Yao continued to lower his head and began to write his letter of accusation.
At this time, news came from there that Cao Cao had agreed to his request of Yuan Yao and was ready to live in Lujiang for two days. "Hahaha!" Yuan Yao immediately laughed when he heard it, Cao Cao was soft, and he was willing to come to Lujiang, which showed that Cao Cao really admitted it, and the occupation of this battle between the two thieves was won by him, Yuan Yao, a thief.
In fact, Yuan Yao and Cao Cao are the same kind of people, that is, real villains, he can admit cowardice and accept softness, but there is one point, that is, revenge must be avenged.
Cao Cao confessed in front of Dong Zhuo, and later led a group of Kwantung princes to take Dong Zhuo's lair.
Cao Cao confessed in front of Yuan Shao, and the battle of Guandu made Yuan Shao cry and cry his mother.
And he, Yuan Yao, also confessed in front of Cao Cao,
If you are not afraid, you are afraid that you will be uneducated, but he Yuan Yao personally went to Xu Du to sit in class, during that time, he was really trembling on thin ice, because his life was in the hands of others, could he Yuan Yao not admit it?
So after coming back from Xu Du, Yuan Yao didn't want to take revenge all the time, he had to let Cao Cao come to him as a guest, and now he Yuan Yao has done it.
"Father-in-law? Do you want to come with me? Yuan Yao looked at Lu Bu with a smile and asked, he also saw an expression in Lu Bu's eyes that he wanted to speak and stopped. This Lu Bu Lu Bu Fengke was also a guest in Yanzhou, but his guest was even more ugly than Yuan Yao's.
"It's good, it's good!" Lu Bu was seen through, and what he thought in his heart was also red.
"Someone, open the atrium for me, and welcome guests with me!" Yuan Yao shouted loudly, he invited Cao Cao to be a guest, but this minimum etiquette still has to be there, after all, he Yuan Yao does not have the ability to exterminate Cao Cao now.
Yuan Yao walked out of the mansion and looked in the direction of the city gate, and sure enough, with the appearance of Huang Yi's horse, a team of people and horses followed him.
"My lord, has the city gate been built?" The frustrated professor on the side asked Yuan Yao.
"Nope!" Although he was ordered to do the construction of the city gate, he has not yet received an answer for repairing it.
"Then where did General Huang Yi's war horse come from?" Fu Zhu continued to ask Yuan Yao over there.
Only then did Yuan Yao realize that Huang Yi over there had actually come in on a war horse.
"War horses?" Yuan Yao reacted at this time, the city gate has not been repaired yet, they all came in as hanging baskets when they entered the city, where did this Huang Yi come from.
When I got closer, I saw that this was a horse, it was a donkey! Yuan Yao looked at the way Huang Yi waved to the sergeants of the people over there while walking, and Yuan Yao had the black line on the steamed bun.
Do you think you've come back triumphantly, even if it's triumphant, please find a war horse, find a donkey?
This Huang Yi doesn't dislike being embarrassed, he Yuan Yao still dislikes being embarrassed.
"Brother Yao!" Huang Yi also saw Yuan Yao in the distance, waving his hands brightly towards Yuan Yao.
Yuan Yao could only pretend not to see it.
Waiting for Huang Yi and the others to get closer, Yuan Yao's attention was completely attracted by a person beside Huang Yi.
He often wears black hair, is short, has a dark complexion, and looks like he has no sense of existence at all, but Yuan Yao does not dare to underestimate this short black fat man at all, because this black fat man with a very low sense of existence is none other than our Cao and Cao Mengde.
There are also two acquaintances on the side, one is Xu Chu, and the other is our General Xiahou Chun
"Prime Minister Cao Cheng hasn't seen him for a long time? Don't come unharmed? Yuan Yao was the first to speak.
"General Yuan Yao, everything is fine, General Lao is worried!" Cao Cao saw that the two people who were supposed to stir up the war were indeed extraordinarily calm.
"Cao Mengde hasn't seen him for a long time!"
"Lu Fengxian?" Cao Cao also saw Lu Bu, who was standing behind Yuan Yao dressed as a guard.
"You?" Cao Cao looked at Lu Bu's appearance, and his evaluation of Lu Bu and Cao Cao was a tiger, since it was a tiger, he naturally wanted to put it in a cage, and now Yuan Yao actually released Lu Bu, either Yuan Yao himself was looking for death, or Yuan Yao had found a way to tame this tiger.
Obviously, the latter is a little more reliable.
"I have already prepared a banquet in the mansion and am waiting for Prime Minister Cao Cheng, Prime Minister Cao Cheng, invited!" Yuan Yao didn't want to stay outside with Cao Cao, and was pointed at and pointed at the mansion over there.
"General Yuan Yao is polite!" Cao Cao nodded.
In order to show his attention to Cao Cao, Yuan Yao asked his soldiers and horses to form a formation at the door, waiting for Cao Cao to enter the mansion.
Looking at the formation of Lujiang, Cao Cao hesitated for a moment, and then became free and easy, what about the Hongmen banquet? Yuan Yao can still take his life.
Yuan Yao and Cao Cao entered the mansion together, and then Lu Bu, Xu Chu and others also followed.
Our general Huang Yi over there delayed for a while because he wanted to take his war donkey away, and when Huang Yi returned to the door of the mansion and wanted to enter the mansion, he was stopped by several Yuan Yaojun's soldiers.
"Why are you holding me back? Do you know who I am? I am the hero of our Huainan, and I am the general Huang Yi above ten thousand people under one person! Get out of the way! Huang Yi pushed the guards over there.
"The lord has an order, Huang Yi and idlers are not allowed to enter!" Although several guards were pushed by Huang Yi, they didn't have the slightest attitude to do anything, and spoke bluntly.
"What!?" It turned out that Yuan Yao was afraid that Huang Yi's-stirring stick would cause another incident, so he stopped Huang Yi at the door.
Regardless of the episode of our General Huang Yi, in the Lujiang Mansion, everyone has slowly entered the table.
"There is nothing to entertain Prime Minister Cao Cheng, just some coarse tea and light rice, please don't dislike Prime Minister Cao!" Yuan Yao said to Cao Cao over there.
"It's not easy to have a full bite of food in troubled times, how can you choose it!" Cao Cao shook his head.
The food over there was served.
Cao Cao didn't dislike it, so he started immediately, and the meal suddenly stopped in his mouth, because the meal actually had a bloody smell.
Only then did I find that many rice grains in this rice bowl were blood-red.
Cao Cao frowned.
"The general said, please don't dislike Prime Minister Cao, this continuous battle, the Lujiang River is about to become a ruin, those blood flows into the river, all the grain is dyed red, and it can't be washed away, and it can't be wasted, so you can only eat like this!" Yuan Yao looked at Cao Cao, stopped his mouth, and said to Cao Cao.
A river of blood? Although the battle of the Lujiang River was fought fiercely, it could not reach the point of a river of blood.
How can the grain be stored in the granary, with blood?
But what kind of person is Cao Cao, not to mention this bloody rice, even if it is that human flesh, Cao Cao has tried it, so he is not afraid, and directly pulls it into his stomach, "In the troubled world, human life is like grass mustard, and the living beings are stained!" ”
Cao Cao was inspired by it, and his Cao Cao's initial point was to become a character like Wei Qinghuo's illness, but who knew that a troubled era made Cao Cao a hero.
"Then what about Prime Minister Cao Cheng ending this troubled world?" Yuan Yao asked tentatively.
"End troubled times?" Cao Cao looked at Yuan Yao over there, and suddenly laughed, "With you, with me, and those heroes in the world, this troubled world will be difficult to end!" ”
Cao Cao's meaning is very clear, that is, he, Cao Cao, Yuan Yao, and those princes in the world are all the same, they all want to sit in the world, as long as any of them is still alive, it is impossible for the world to be peaceful.
There is no room for two tigers in one mountain, and there is destined to be only one person left.
Yuan Yao's words were stopped, he didn't expect Cao Cao to give him a philosophical thing, "The general trend of the world, if you divide it for a long time, you will be together, and if you divide it for a long time, you will divide it for a long time!" ”
"Huh?" Yuan Yao's words suddenly made Cao Cao's eyes light up, and his mouth couldn't help but read it.
"Whether it's you or me, or the heroes and heroes of this world, they won't be able to end this troubled world for a while!" Yuan Yao said to Cao Cao: "But what we can decide is a temporary peace!" ”
"A moment of peace?"
"Prime Minister Cao Cheng, don't you want the people of Huainan and Prime Minister Cao Cheng of your Central Plains to no longer hate each other and no longer attack each other?" Yuan Yao said to Cao Cao.
Cao Cao is not a stupid person, how can he not know Yuan Yao's thoughts, "I also have this intention, since your father, you and I have been attacking, and it is time to pause for a while, everyone is tired of fighting!" ”
"The truce is not enough, the people on both sides do not know each other enough, or because they have found a place for the people on both sides to interact with each other to promote understanding!"
"Mutual exchanges?"
"The world is bustling with interests, and the world is often for profit, and only by communicating with each other can we promote understanding!" Yuan Yao: This means to trade.
"What do you want?" Cao Cao looked at Yuan Yao and asked.
"War horses, iron ore, wood!" Yuan Yao said to Cao Cao over there.
Huainan iron ore is not without but there are only some small mines, the big Yuan Yao can't find it, even if it is found, it is difficult to mine, but in the Central Plains it is different, there are many mining areas, and there are also many large open-pit mines.
War horses, Huainan does not produce wood, although Huainan has wood, but it is not as strong as the wood in the north, because there is water and gas all year round, the wood in the north can make a high-quality warship.
"What do you have?" Cao Cao continued to ask.
"Money, and Prime Minister Cao, the food you lack the most. Even weapons and armor! Yuan Yao said to Cao Cao, and asked the soldiers and horses over there to take out the weapons and armor made by the Huainan Army.
Huainan because Yuan Yao has Liu Ye and Ma Jun, so their iron-making technology has risen sharply, if Cao Cao's iron-making technology is still around the second stage, then Yuan Yao's steel is the fourth section of steel, and even the better ones can hit the fifth stage, and the worse ones are also three sections. Of course, good steel is just in the Xuanjia Army, the Modao Battalion, these elite troops are dressed up, and the others are ordinary weapons.
Cao Cao also saw Yuan Yaojun's weapons and armor, which were much better than his Yanzhou army.
"I want the technology to make iron!" Cao Cao also saw the key, knowing that this Yuan Yao must have a method of iron smelting, because everyone's iron ore uses similar raw materials, why is yours better than me?
"Impossible!" Yuan Yao refused without thinking about it.
Although Cao Cao belongs to the economic and practical tyrants, he is also better than him, a self-made child who was cheated by his father.
Once the iron-smelting technology was given to Cao Cao, what would he do to fight Cao Cao? Also, he didn't want to strengthen Cao Cao too much and cause Yuan Shao to be weak.
"Gold, grain, cloth, as long as Prime Minister Cao Cheng lacks, you can say it!"
Seeing that Yuan Yao didn't let go, Cao Cao had no choice.
The two sides soon negotiated several deals while eating and drinking.
Yuan Yao asked for 5,000 carts of iron ore, 10,000 gold, and 300 ships of fine wood, in exchange for Cao Cao's order for 3,000 war knives and 50,000 stone of grain and grass.
Cao Cao stayed for a few more days, during which Huang Yi came five times, and each time he deliberately dangled in front of Cao Cao, and said as much as he wanted.
What is Prime Minister Cao, have you eaten? The food here is delicious and your Xu Du compares to how much.
What is Prime Minister Cao, how about you have a daughter who is promised to give me one.
Why, if Prime Minister Cao Cheng is your son-in-law, will your oath of cutting off children and grandchildren be broken?
was so angry that Cao Cao bluntly said that even if Cao Cao had a daughter, it would be impossible to marry Huang Yi if he could kill him.
This is Cao Cao's, if it was Yuan Shao, he would have killed Huang Yi with a knife.
In the end, Yuan Yao threw Huang Yi out of the mansion for him, otherwise Yuan Yao was really afraid that Cao Cao couldn't help but cut Huang Yi.
Cao Cao's soldiers and horses had already left the border of Huainan.
Yuan Yao personally sent Cao Cao to the edge of Yingshui.
"General Yuan Yao doesn't need to send it anymore!" Cao Cao said to Yuan Yao over there, after Yingshui, he Cao Cao will hurry up, because the battle situation ahead cannot be delayed any longer.
With Yuan Yao's send-off, he Cao Cao will be one point late.
"Have you reached the edge of the water? So Prime Minister Cao Cheng take care all the way! Yuan Yao said to Cao Cao over there, to tell the truth, if it weren't for Huang Yi, the relationship between Cao Cao and Yuan Yao in Lujiang would have gotten along quite well these days.
"Take care!"
"By the way, Prime Minister Cao Cheng, I once said, as long as Cao Gong you come to my Lujiang, I will give Cao Gong you a gift! Someone coming" Yuan Yao asked his subordinates behind him to fetch a wooden box.
Cao Cao asked Xu Chu on the side to take the gift, "This is a gift?" Xu Chu took it and felt that this box didn't have the slightest weight at all, and couldn't help pouting, this Yuan Yao is really too stingy, such a small box is not worth a lot of money even if it contains gold and jewelry.
"Cao Gong, this gift Cao Gong has to be kept, and when Cao Gong has nothing else to do, this technique may be able to help Cao Cheng break through the predicament!"
"Huh?" Cao Cao didn't expect Yuan Yao to say so mysteriously, Cao Cao still didn't believe it, but this was Yuan Yao's intention, he Cao Cao couldn't throw this thing away in front of Yuan Yao, so he could only hug his fists at Yuan Yao and thank him.
Cao Cao said goodbye and left, but Huang Yi on the side was very puzzled and asked Yuan Yao, "Brother Yao, what did you give Cao Cao?" ”
"It's nothing, it's just a trick!" Yuan Yao smiled indifferently.
"Tricks?" Huang Yi didn't believe in it at all, "If you are stingy, you will be stingy, and you will have a clever plan?" It's up to you, cut! Huang Yi was very disdainful. Yuan Yao has to ask people everything, and a person has what tricks he has.
"What's wrong with me?" Yuan Yao's face darkened,
"Nothing, nothing!"
"My General Huang Yi, my good brother-in-law, if you don't explain to me what's wrong with me today, you won't want to go back to the city!"
"Brother Yao'er spare your life!"
Huang Yi didn't take Yuan Yao's words seriously, and neither did Cao Cao, so he asked Xu Chu to put them away for the time being, and quickly forgot about them.