At this time, the stiffness techniques on Zhao Yun and the others were also lifted, and seeing this, the spears in their hands stabbed at Xu Rong's corpse one after another, stabbing several holes in his body, and Cao Ren even directly cut off Xu Rong's head with a knife.

Cao Cao escaped from death, although he was forced to calm down, his face was still a little pale, he coughed dryly, and asked, "Axi, what happened just now?" ”

"I don't know how to explain it to you." I retrieved the kitchen knife from Xu Rong's chest and said with a smile: "This is a Dao technique, and Xu Rong is a Dao master. ”

"Daojutsu? What's that? Everyone immediately asked.

After roughly telling them what was going on with the next Dao technique, Cao Cao frowned: "I didn't expect Dong Zhuo to have such a talent, if there are seven or eight such masters, who in the world can be Dong Zhuo's opponent?" ”

I laughed: "Brother Cao, you are a little too worried, there are definitely no more than ten masters like Xu Rong in the world today, and they restrain each other, it is absolutely impossible for them to defect to Dong Zhuo in one go." ”

Cao Cao relieved himself a little and ordered the soldiers to continue walking.

Along the way, Li Dian told me with a black face, Cao Cao's pursuit this time can be said to have lost his wife and broken his troops, originally more than 10,000 subordinates, an ambush battle, only more than 500 soldiers ran out, if it wasn't for me and Zhao Yun to break Xu Rong's ambush, maybe they would die here.

I was speechless for a while, Cao Cao, the most awesome in the Three Kingdoms, also had such a down-and-out time?

Originally thought that Cao Cao would return to Luoyang, but Cao Cao took us directly to Hanoi, in his words, now more than 500 soldiers go to Luoyang, any way the princes show their teeth, can make the Cao army annihilated, the most important thing at the moment is to develop their own strength.

In the troubled times, powerful people are masters!

After returning to Hanoi, I left myself a box of gold for my private money, and gave the rest of the gold to Cao Cao for recruitment.

With money, Cao Cao's confidence suddenly increased greatly, and a large number of conscription notices were posted inside and outside the city, saying that the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband and the like, and noted that the food as a soldier is very good, and the salary is very high...... However, the effect is not very obvious, the notice has been posted for more than ten days, and there are only dozens of people who come to apply, and they are all yellow-faced and thin-skinned, and they look like they want to eat together.

Cao Cao was quite depressed, thinking that as long as there would be brave men under the heavy reward, he didn't expect that only a few dozen sick men came.

Bad news followed, and Cao Ren and Cao Hong, who were in charge of purchasing weapons, reported to Cao Cao in frustration, saying that the weapons suppliers in the vicinity had signed long-term contracts with other princes for many years, and they had to work overtime every day to complete the orders, and there was really no surplus weapons outflow. And Li Dianlejin, who was in charge of purchasing grain and cloth, also returned empty-handed, saying that the surrounding grain, cloth and other strategic materials were all bought by other princes.

Fortunately, the harvest of Xiahou Yuan brothers is okay, they know a Hun horse dealer, with a price that is one percent more expensive than the market, bought more than a thousand war horses back, don't think that the Xiahou brothers are eating kickbacks in it, the sale of this war horse is not divided into wholesale and retail, and even, the more you buy, the more expensive the price, after all, in the troubled times, it is not easy for people to gather more than 1,000 war horses.

It's okay to say that as long as you have money, you can go to other places to buy it, but soldiers, weapons and food are a big problem, if you don't recruit people, you will be beaten, and if you recruit people, you have to give him weapons and food.

Cao Cao deserves to be the number one awesome figure in the Three Kingdoms, and actually came up with the method of tuntian, the so-called tuntian, that is, the soldiers and the peasants work together to reclaim wasteland to grow grain, after harvesting, collect part of it as military food, and distribute the rest to the peasants, so as to solve the problem of military rations, but also solve the problem of peasant displacement.

However, this tuntian system will not be effective for a while, after all, so many people have to eat now, in desperation, Cao Cao on the one hand set up a special hunting team, what flies in the sky, runs on the ground, swims in the water, all become food in our mouths, on the other hand, send Cao Ren Cao Hong to the south to buy grain and cloth, and told the two of them, no matter what means are taken, or threats or lures or kidnapping, in short, to get back a hundred blacksmiths, at the same time, along the way, you can buy all kinds of rotten hoes and rotten iron pots at a high price.

Since you can't buy weapons, you can build them yourself.

At the moment, Cao Cao's biggest headache is the recruitment of personnel, and I have seen him several times looking at the burly men on the street with green eyes, as if he wanted to snatch them to the barracks.

He's going to be a! I think I should help him.

At this time, I was dressed as a standard successful person, with a kitchen knife scabbard made of pure gold hanging from my waist, a thumb-thick gold chain around my neck, a gold bracer on my wrist, a small gold toothpick in my mouth, and a bright bald head, I smiled at Cao Cao: "I said Brother Cao, seeing that you are so anxious, leave the matter of recruiting soldiers to me to deal with, after all, in these years, recruiting soldiers is also a technical job." ”

"Do you have a way?" Cao Cao was overjoyed.

"That's natural, but you have to promise me that among the people recruited, I have to pick out a hundred people to be my personal team." I laughed.

"No problem." Cao Cao didn't think about it, and agreed directly.

Zhao Yun looked at me with slanted eyes: "I don't know if you can recruit a hundred people, be careful of blowing the cowhide!" ”

I laughed, looking unfathomable.

Two days later, I took Zhao Yun to a restaurant near a notice board in the city, and found a window position on the second floor, where I could have a panoramic view of the situation on the opposite notice board.

However, it's a pity that there is someone in this position, a fat man who is fat and fat is leisurely drinking tea after dinner.

"How long will it take for that man to leave?" I asked the man in a low voice.

The guy said with a sad face: "I don't know, he ordered a bun, but he drank seven pots of tea, and the ghost knows when he left, I hinted at him several times." ”

Yo ho, don't while occupying the pit, I suddenly pointed at the fat man and said unceremoniously: "Hey, why don't you leave after eating?" Let me sit down. ”

The fat man's gaze swept over me and sneered: "In this era, there are only two kinds of people who can make me give up my seat, one is the person who is on the master list, and the other is the person who is richer than me. Excuse me, what kind of person are you? ”

Richer than you? That's not easy to say, I smiled and showed the thumb-thick gold necklace around my neck, rolled up my sleeves again, revealing the yellow gold bracers, and finally, I took out a kitchen knife from behind my back and slapped it on the table with the gold scabbard: "I'm richer than you!" ”

Sure enough, the fat man showed a respectful expression, and immediately ran away, asking the guy who was standing on the side to clean up the table, and I beckoned Zhao Yun to take a seat.

"What did you tell me to do here?" Zhao Yun was a little puzzled.

"It is said that the stir-fried beef here is very famous, and I specially asked you to try it." Turning his head to the shopkeeper, he said, "In addition to stir-fried beef, what other delicious foods do you have here?" ”

The shopkeeper looked at the golden scabbard on the table, and was a little dumbfounded, and only came back to his senses after I asked him a second time: "Overlord chicken, orchid tofu, and braised carp are also good dishes in our store." ”

"Then let's have a portion, by the way, let's have a jar of wine first, and then some appetizers such as peanuts, rice, and dried tofu." I commanded with a grin.

The shopkeeper went down as soon as he smoked, and after a while, the good wine and food were quickly moved up.

"What the hell did you call me for?" After Zhao Yun drank two sips of wine and ate a few pieces of beef, he asked me again.

At this moment, there was a commotion downstairs, and I immediately pointed out the window and smiled: "Come, watch the play first." ”

Looking out of the window, there were two tall men arguing on the opposite bulletin board.

"Hey, you're unreasonable, why did you tear this conscription notice off?" A horse-faced man grabbed the hem of a bearded man and shouted loudly.

"I'm going to join the army, so naturally I have to tear down the notice." The bearded man struggled to pull the horse-faced man's fingers: "Don't tear my clothes, I still have to sign up."

"This is not an emperor list, how can there be any reason to tear up the notice, show it to me, I haven't seen the registration address yet."

"You can't go with me, it is said that the first 100 people who sign up will not only send silver, but also wives, let's hurry up!"

"Then what are you doing in a daze, hurry up."

After the bearded man and the horse-faced man walked away, everyone in the audience was buzzing and talking, and I could even see the confusion on their faces.

"You arranged it, right?" Zhao Yun looked at me with disdain: "Do you think you can make others believe in this?" They're not stupid. ”

I laughed and booed: "Light, this drama is not over yet!" ”

After a while, a soldier came out with a new notice, and after pasting the notice, he said loudly: "My lord said that the first 100 daughters-in-law who joined the army are pure rumors!" ”

Everyone was stunned, all saying how could there be such a good thing.

The soldier coughed lightly and said, "However, my family said that a blind date meeting will be held in a month, and we will introduce the girl with the most beautiful face and the largest ass to the soldiers who sign up first." If the blind date is successful, the cost of marriage will be paid by the adult. At the same time, if the registration number is 88th, 188th, 288th and other auspicious numbers, a house in Hanoi will be rewarded with a house in Hanoi on the spot, and five taels of gold. ”

Hearing this, an old lady in her fifties turned around and walked back, and said loudly: "My family has no daughter-in-law yet, I have money, a house and a mother-in-law, how can such a good thing be missed, I have to hurry up and let him sign up for the army." ”

As soon as she left, two more old men left in a hurry, and the rest of the people immediately dispersed, and they all ran home quickly to inform their relatives and friends.

"Haha, what a rich, housed and mother-in-law, damn, if this can't make them tempted, then it will be unreasonable." I smiled and drank my wine.

Zhao Yun looked at me with slanted eyes: "I seem to have seen this old lady outside your tent yesterday." ”

…… R1058