Cao Cao hid in the house at first and did not see outsiders, but he was indeed pretending to be sick.

But in the past two days, his head has really begun to ache faintly.

Although he never asked the Manchu Pet to investigate the details, the surging resentment of the Manchu Dynasty kept reaching his ears.

And he has never received the news that full of favors came to report the good news, and he will not make any progress in the future.

Now that Kong Rong has come to preach the message, Cao Cao has already guessed the content without opening his mouth, and it must be that the Son of Heaven can't withstand the pressure and asks him to withdraw the investigation of the Manchu Dynasty.

Not long after, Kong Rong was led by his attendants into Cao Cao's mansion.

"Oh, Cao Gong works hard for state affairs day and night, and now he is so sick, it's really hard to feel at ease."

Kong Rong shook his wide sleeves and walked quickly to Cao Cao's couch, with great anxiety on his face, but the corners of his mouth grinned imperceptibly.

Load, load!

Who doesn't know you're hiding from the Purity? But it can make us miserable.

"Hey!"

A maid put a wet cloth towel on Cao Cao's forehead, and Cao Cao lay on the couch and sighed and said, "There is Lao Kong Shaofu to worry about."

If there is a big chaos today, and the etiquette is broken, although Cao is exhausted and determined to save the people from fire and water, there are still people who are puzzled, and Cao is really cold when he thinks about it.

I heard that Kong Shaofu came to pass on His Majesty's message......"

Cao Cao struggled to sit up and receive the emperor's dictation, which required a certain amount of etiquette.

Kong Rong did not stop him, and waited for Cao Cao to tidy up his clothes and stand bent before he spoke: "On the instructions of Your Majesty, Cao Sikong is ordered to stop investigating the Manchu Dynasty Ministers, change from open inspections to secret visits, and not to harass the Secretaries." ”

When Cao Cao heard this, what he expected was not bad, but fortunately, he had already thought of the interface on the couch just now.

"The spy has not been caught, and it will endanger the safety of Xu Duzhou and His Majesty, which is a great matter for the minister, so Your Majesty has this edict, and the minister does not dare to seal the edict for the period."

Cao Cao wasn't completely lying.

He is a strong-willed person, and that spy directly threatens whether the Cao family's military operations can be kept secret in the future, if he doesn't catch out and break the corpse into thousands of pieces, how can he sleep peacefully?

He will never revoke the search warrant for Xu Du, and the Manchu ministers are dissatisfied......

If you are dissatisfied, you will be dissatisfied, which is more important, he knows very well in his heart.

"Gong Cao, you didn't even seal the edict?"

Kong Rong's eyes widened, he looked at Cao Cao who was bowing in front of him, and said angrily: "Gong Cao, you have been lingering on the sickbed these days, do you know that the city of Xu has already been full of favors, and the people are full of grievances, and there are many complaints?"

The world said that Cao Gong's move was borrowed from the hands of cool officials, in the name of investigating the case, to crack down on the power of the scholars, in order to prevent the scholars from sharing power with Cao Gong.

Originally, scholars from all over the world came to vote, and the Zhaoxian Hall was already overcrowded, and now there is no one left.

After these scholars left Xudu, Cao Gong's reputation for harming the virtuous and virtuous was probably going to become famous all over the world. ”

"Huh?"

Cao Cao grinned, his face suddenly froze, he bowed and was stunned, the words had been passed on, and he forgot to straighten up.

"The situation is more than that," Kong Rong continued: "The lower officials have heard that many ministers in the court are discussing in private and preparing to secretly flee to Jingzhou or Shudi.

If it really causes the Manchu Dynasty to flee, the good situation of Cao Gong's management of Xu Du will be completely buried by that full favor. ”

"Huh?"

Cao Cao couldn't help but lose his voice again.

He originally thought that although the search was more severe, it was all for the purpose of catching spies, and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty and the scholars of the world could understand.

However, he never expected that the situation had reached such a serious level, and it had already been nonsense that he used the hands of cool officials to fight against the forces of the Shi clan.

Now those scholars who have fled will inevitably spread the news of what happened in Xu Du like this, and everyone in the world may already know about it.

If the situation is allowed to continue to deteriorate and the Manchu Dynasty ministers escape again, then it will be true as Kong Rong said, the Cao family's good situation will be lost, and they may have to bear the notoriety of blocking the king's road and not allowing the ministers.

That's serious.

"Kong Shaofu, please take a seat,"

Cao Cao politely let Kong Rong sit down on the cushion, and said calmly: "Kong Shaofu can know that in fact, Cao's move is really helpless, and if this spy is not removed, it will be a big hidden danger after all." ”

"This matter can be understood by the Manchu Minister, but what the Manchu Pet did was too rude, and now all the Ministers have endured it to the limit, and Cao Gong must know."

Cao Cao raised his head and thought about it, and finally said helplessly: "Don't hide it, Cao gave the ten-day period of full favor, and tomorrow is the deadline."

If the full favor still hasn't caught the spies, Cao will take the full favor and apologize to the public. ”

Now Cao Cao really has no other way, it is serious that he can't catch the spies, but he has forced away the Manchu ministers and literati, which is even more serious.

He gritted his teeth, and he had already scolded Man Pet thousands of times in his heart.

This full of favors has been tossed for more than a month, but it just made Xu Du a chicken feather.

The good situation of the Cao family's "serving the Son of Heaven to obey the people's popularity" was about to be collapsed by him, but he didn't even see the shadow of the spies, what is the use of such an incompetent official?

……

At the same time, Xuzhou, in the study of the Thorn Mansion.

Liu Bei sat in the middle, Guan Zhang Er will stand on both sides, and Chen Qi, Chen Deng, Mizhu and others sat on the ground.

All present here are the leaders of the Xuzhou Shi clan, among which the Shi clan is headed by the Chen father and son, and the Hao clan is headed by Mi Zhu.

The reason why Liu Bei was able to sit firmly in Xuzhou was precisely because of the strong support of these two forces, so Liu Bei introduced them as henchmen and used them more heavily.

As for the Danyang faction where Tao Qian was located, it had long been suppressed.

"Liu Yuanjun is strategizing, and the decisive victory is thousands of miles away, and the real ovary is alive."

Chen Deng smiled and bowed to compliment: "A little trick has made the Cao family angry and resentful, and the people's hearts have been lost.

Hearing that the entire Xu Dushi people were unbearable and fled one after another, the court was about to fall apart, and look at what face he Cao Mengde still stood on top of the court. ”

"Hey!"

Liu Bei didn't have the slightest smile on his face, shook his head and sighed: "Bei is a Miao descendant of the Han family, if it weren't for him Cao Mengde coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, insatiable, wanton and reckless, in the name of the imperial court, raising unrighteous teachers, and destroying other people's cities, and taking it for himself, Bei would not have done this thing that is not conducive to the imperial court." ”

"This chess piece is so important, so Jun Ke must be careful not to let it fall into the hands of Cao Mengde."

Although Chen Deng didn't know who the spy was, Xu Du's arrest of Liu Bei's spy had already been rumored all over the world, and since this spy was so important to them, of course they had to act safely.

"Don't worry," Liu Bei said indifferently: "Even if he Cao Mengde has a plan to reach the sky, he will never catch the person who was planted."

Not only can't Cao Mengde catch it, but I also have to burn another fire. ”

Liu Bei didn't expect that a mere work would have an unexpected effect.

Since there is such an unexpected gain, you might as well use this chess piece to mix up Xu Du's water even more to expand the results.

At this time, Chen Jue suddenly stroked his beard, shook off a stack of papers, and said with a smile: "The old man came in and got an occasional gain, and he wrote an article, please take a look at it, but there are shortcomings." ”

Mi Zhu stepped forward, took the paper and glanced at it, then laughed and said: ""Quan Rape Fu"? Just look at the name to know who Han Yu's official book is. ”

Everyone gathered around to appreciate Chen Qi's article.

Chen Qi is the leader of Xuzhou's literary circle, and he is not famous among the world's corporals, and his articles will surely be praised.

"'It's like an old thing in Gengwu', this sentence is wonderful," Mi Zhu shook his head, amazed.

This move confused Guan Yu and Zhang Fei next to them, and couldn't help asking, "What is the old thing in Gengwu?" ”